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Book 10. (202 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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13 106 As discipline, of course, what is routine for a girl not of the Tahari, in miserable Tahari enslavement, may be forced on a slave girl whose origin is itself the Tahari.
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5 68 Business in the Tahari is usually a leisurely affair, and the men of the Tahari enjoy having their senses pleased.
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11 269 "In the Tahari," said Hassan, "it is well to be of the Tahari, if one would live".
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11 411 Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi...
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13 75 Nominally a sheriff of the Tahari merchants, he, ensconced in his kasbah, first among fierce warriors, elusive and unscrupulous, possesses a stranglehold on the salt of the Tahari, the vital commerce being ruled and regulated as he wills.
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13 293 She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba...
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1 849 "The secret is there," said Samos, pointing to the map, "in the Tahari".
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1 872 "Do I understand," asked Ibn Saran, "that your path leads you to the Tahari?" "Yes," I said.
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1 903 "Perhaps I shall meet it in the Tahari," I said.
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2 20 Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand.
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2 68 The men of the Tahari do not fight on foot.
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2 73 Because of the irregular topography of Tor, however, which is a hilly, rocky area, like most of the Tahari terrain, many of the buildings, built on shelves and rises, seemed considerably higher.
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2 93 The owners of these cafes, usually, would bring with them a chain of their girls, stripped, as free women in the Tahari districts may not be, purportedly a typical selection of the stock available.
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2 181 There was another reason I had brought Miss Blake-Allen, as we may perhaps speak of her for purposes of simplicity, to the Tahari districts.
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2 182 Cold, white-skinned women are of interest to the men of the Tahari.
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2 185 Too, blue-eyed, blond women are, statistically, rare in the Tahari districts.
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2 188 We had little doubt that the men of the Tahari would pay high for the body and person of Miss Blake-Allen.
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2 195 The striping was that of the Teehra, a district southwest of Tor, bordering on the Tahari.
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2 203 The use of a light walking chain, tethering the ankles, meant to be worn abroad, accompanying the master, incidentally, is not uncommon in the regions of the Tahari.
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2 204 A beautifully measured gait is thought, in the Tahari, to be attractive in a woman.
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2 210 Free women, in the Tahari, incidentally, usually, when out of their houses, also measure their stride.
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2 239 I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells.
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2 240 Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head.
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2 253 Almost always, except in the greatest heat of the summer, between the fourth and sixth passage hands, when few caravans ply the wastes of the Tahari, there are many of these available.
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2 290 The Tahari would, from east to west, flame with war.
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2 292 Yet I did not look with pleasure on the prospects of a broad-scale conflict in the Tahari.
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2 383 The petals of veminium, the "Desert Veminium," purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water.
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2 430 They were bound for the brine pits of the Tahari, whence comes most of the caravan salt.
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2 486 I had learned that Miss Blake-Allen was valuable in the Tahari.
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2 523 An excellent name, not unknown in the Gorean Tahari.
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2 594 I had assumed the name Hakim, a Tahari name, one suitable for a merchant.
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2 613 Like most water in the Tahari the water of Tor was slightly salty and unclear.
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2 658 I was anxious to make the acquaintance of the Tahari scimitar.
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3 24 Silk, dropped upon the scimitar of the Tahari, divided, falls free, floating, to the floor.
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3 93 Such instruments were rare in the Tahari region.
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3 137 After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari.
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4 13 It is used to transport women, either slave or free, in the Tahari.
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4 23 The mouth of a woman, by men of the Tahari, and by Goreans generally, is found extremely provocative, sexually.
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4 44 In the Tahari there is an almost constant wind.
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4 45 It is a hot wind, but the nomads and the men who ply the Tahari welcome it.
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4 49 Prevailingly, the wind in the Tahari blows from the north or northwest.
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4 79 Too, she taught her skills useful to a Tahari female, the making of ropes from kaiila hair, the cutting and plaiting of reins, the weaving of cloth and mats, the decoration and beading of leather goods, the use of the mortar and pestle, the use of the grain quern, the preparation and spicing of stew...
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4 96 The movements of the men of the Tahari are, during the hours of heat, usually slow, almost languid or graceful.
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4 401 The opening of the Tahari tent usually faces the east, that the morning sun may warm it.
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5 37 Both sorts of stones were rare in the Tahari gem trade.
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5 70 Certainly the two slaves serving the black wine were lovely, and, interestingly, neither was a typical Tahari girl.
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5 72 The masters of the Tahari are fond of fair-complexioned slaves.
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5 227 In the Tahari men are patient.
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5 287 Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights.
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5 522 It was one of the larger oases in the Tahari.
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5 532 The men of the Tahari kill those who make maps of it.
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5 534 Without a guide, who knew the locations of water, to enter the Tahari would be suicidal.
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5 560 I supposed she saw in him her "rich man," who would guarantee her a life in which she might be protected from the labors of the free woman of the Tahari, the pounding of grain with the heavy pestle, the weaving of cloth, the churning of milk in skin bags, the carrying of water, the herding of animal...
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5 622 Her white skin, in itself, in the Tahari, would bring a good price.
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7 49 It was scratched in Taharic, the lettering of the Tahari peoples.
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7 68 Sand storms in the Tahari, incidentally, though upon occasion lengthy and terrible storms, may rearrange dunes, but they seldom bury anything.
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7 70 Further, of course, a body in the Tahari decomposes with great slowness.
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7 297 The animal, at least four times, had been struck, and with the razor-sharp scimitars of the Tahari.
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7 473 "It is no accident," I said, "that she was, her identity discovered, brought to the Tahari".
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7 522 As I have indicated, blond-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned slaves tended to be popular in the Tahari.
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8 170 There is an almost constant hot wind in the Tahari.
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8 318 In sharing their water I had made myself, by custom of the Tahari, their guest.
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9 1 Zina, a Beautiful Traitress, is Dealt With in the Fashion of the Tahari "Chain the two prisoners," said the leader of the raiders, to one of his men.
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9 12 "It was I, Zina," she said, "who, for a tarn disk of gold, betrayed the caravan into your hands, giving you its inventory, its schedule, its route!" Such matters, I knew, were usually carefully guarded in the Tahari, even in times of relative peace.
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9 86 "More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
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9 152 I had little doubt that it would be the Tahari brand which, white hot, would be pressed into the thigh of the new slave, marking her thenceforth as merchandise.
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9 157 The men of the Tahari are content to form their letters carefully and beautifully, being fond of them.
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9 159 The initial printed letter of 'Kajira', rather than the cursive letter, as generally, is used as the common brand for women in the Tahari.
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10 4 It was called the Silk War because, at that time, Turian silk first began to be imported in bulk to the Tahari communities, and northward to Tor and Kasra, thence to Ar, and points north and west.
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10 5 Raider tribute, it might be noted, is no longer commonly levied in the Tahari.
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10 11 Most of those in the Tahari who sit upon the rugs of office are those who are the descendants of men who ruled, in ruder days, scimitar in hand, from the high, red leather of the kaiila saddle.
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10 12 The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
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10 27 The soft interiors of the thighs of both girls were bloodied, stained reddish brown, to the side of the knee, but only one of them wore in her flesh, on the outside of her left thigh, high, under the hip, recently imprinted, the Tahari slave mark.
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10 58 "Aretai are sleen," said Hassan, "but yet are they of the Tahari".
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10 63 It is difficult for one who is not of the Tahari to conjecture the gravity of the offense of destroying a source of water.
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10 67 This act, perpetrated against the Bakahs at Two Scimitars, a vassal tribe of the Kavars, would doubtless bring full-scale war to the Tahari.
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10 179 He was of the Tahari.
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10 192 Rooms in private dwellings, in the Tahari, if rich, usually are floored with costly rugs.
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10 286 They are of the Tahari".
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11 11 I had now seen the Tahari in many moods.
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11 16 For two days the sand had hurtled about us, and we had waited, in the manner of the Tahari, patiently in the blasting half darkness of the sand.
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11 26 "You are not of the Tahari," he said.
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11 35 The men of the Tahari, however, led by Hassan, sought quickly the highest ground in the vicinity.
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11 36 There is little rain erosion in the Tahari, with the result that there are few natural and ready paths to convey water.
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11 53 "Men of the Tahari do not camp in such places.
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11 55 Many men of the Tahari, incidentally, and interestingly, can swim.
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11 58 The "bath" in the Tahari is not a matter of crawling into a small tub but is more in the nature, as on Gor generally, of a combination of cleaning and swimming, and reveling in the water, usually connected with various oils and towelings.
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11 79 "Surely in the Tahari there are no towers of steel".
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11 81 The Tahari is perhaps most beautiful at night.
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11 98 We were moving east in the Tahari.
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11 259 "I am of the Tahari," he said.
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11 264 "I am of the Tahari," he said.
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11 268 "Seeing it," I said, "one who was unwise, and not of the Tahari, might ration water unwisely, and die".
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11 270 "I will try to be of the Tahari," I said.
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11 284 There is almost always a constant, hot wind on the Tahari.
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11 293 It is difficult to maintain a lengthy siege in the Tahari.
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11 296 But, being of the Tahari, Ba'Arub, as it is told in the stories, related about the campfires, would not do this.
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11 310 The vassal tribe is bound, by its Tahari oaths, sworn over water and salt, to support the conquering tribe in its military endeavors, with supplies, kaiila and men.
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11 314 The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death.
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11 315 The conqueror, by his might and cunning, and victory, has won, by the right of the Tahari, a soldier to his cause.
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11 316 I am not clear on the historical roots of this unusual social institution but it does tend, in its practice, to pacify great sections of the Tahari.
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11 320 This was what was in danger of happening now, for the Aretai and the Kavars were the two high tribes of the Tahari.
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11 326 All in all, the relation of vassal tribe to conquering tribe probably contributes more to the peace of the Tahari than to its hostilities.
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11 327 It is fortunate that some such arrangement exists for the men of the Tahari, like Goreans generally, are extremely proud, high-strung, easily offended men, with a sense of honor that is highly touchy.
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11 330 A good fight, I have heard men of the Tahari say, licking their lips, justifies any cause.
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11 383 Saddles are prized on the Tahari and each man cares for his own, and sees to its safety.
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11 385 The water which we had brought with us would not now be wasted but, by Tahari custom, emptied into the cistern of the inn.
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11 409 This was irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded dune country; there are oases in the dune country but ...
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11 423 Abdul had been the lowly water carrier in Tor, a minor agent, presumably of Others, the Kurii, who had wished to keep me from the Tahari.
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11 442 Indeed, they would tend to avoid Aretai and Aretai-dominant oases, at least until they could come in force, paying the respects of the Tahari with steel.
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12 7 I was appreciative of this hospitality in the male seraglio of the kasbah of Tarna, bandit chieftain of the Tahari.
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12 33 The location of the kasbah of Tarna, bandit chieftain of the Tahari, her lair, was secret.
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12 289 Her complexion, her skin, was the light, lovely tan of the Tahari.
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12 290 She was a superb specimen of a Tahari female.
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12 300 "It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
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12 354 "Surely you must understand that, in this room, in this kasbah, in the Tahari, you are mine, to do with as I please.
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12 565 They contrasted nicely with the yellow of her gown, the light Tahari tan of her skin, the darkness of her hair, the red silken sheets behind her.
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12 664 I then, with her virgin blood, on her belly, traced the Tahari slave mark.
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13 61 Whereas salt may be obtained from sea water and by burning seaweed, as is sometimes done in Torvaldsland, and there are various districts on Gor where salt, solid or in solution, may be obtained, by far the most extensive and richest of known Gor's salt deposits are to be found concentrated in the T...
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13 62 Tahari salt accounts, in its varieties, I would suspect, for some twenty percent of the salt and salt-related products, such as medicines and antiseptics, preservatives, cleansers, bleaches, bottle glass, which contains soda ash, taken from salt, and tanning chemicals, used on known Gor.
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13 65 The major protection and control of the Tahari salt, of course, lies in its remoteness, the salt districts, of which there are several, being scattered and isolated in the midst of the dune country, in the long caravan journeys required, and the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining it without kn...
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13 68 The function of the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, thus, officially, is to administer and control the salt districts, on behalf of the Tahari salt merchants, primarily by regulating access to the districts, checking the papers and credentials of merchants, inspecting caravans, keeping records of the comme...
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13 73 The Guard of the Dunes, however, does not obtain the title of the Salt Ubar by virtue of his complacent magistracy of the salt districts, subservient to the Tahari merchants.
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13 74 There are those who say, and I do not doubt it true, that it is he, and not the merchants, who controls the salt of the Tahari.
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13 78 The Guard of the Dunes is one of the most dreaded and powerful men in the Tahari.
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13 97 * * * * Opulent were the halls and lofty chambers of the kasbah of Abdul, the Guard of the Dunes, he known as the Salt Ubar of the Tahari.
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13 104 The girls were not of the Tahari, and so dried the men's feet with their hair.
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13 105 To make a Tahari girl, even though slave, do this, is regarded as a great degradation.
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13 107 When the men's feet were cleansed, they were fitted by the girls with soft, heelless slippers, of the sort commonly worn indoors in permanent residences in the Tahari, with extended, curling toes.
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13 113 She was now only a Tahari slave girl.
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13 161 The man shrugged, a Tahari shrug, tiny, subtle, like a swift smile, acknowledging the compliment of Hassan.
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13 210 Among the upper classes in the Tahari, it is scandalously erotic, generally, that a female's mouth should not be concealed.
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13 304 Alyena, before us, in the chains of the Tahari, danced.
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13 351 He who had sent the message had doubtless been of the Tahari.
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13 353 In the historic sense, the planetary sense, there would have been only one likely "Abdul" in the Tahari at this time, the potent, powerful, dreaded Guard of the Dunes, the Salt Ubar.
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13 356 Further, his name is not often casually mentioned in the Tahari.
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13 359 I might have behaved differently in the Tahari had I earlier known the name of the Salt Ubar.
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13 405 "She is not of the Tahari," I said.
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13 451 I gathered that the lovely Vella, the former Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, though not of the Tahari, and only of Earth, must indeed be a high slave in the kasbah of Abdul, the Salt Ubar.
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14 29 Rocks on the desert, and the sheer walls of the Salt Ubar's kasbah, looming above us, shone with dew, common in the Tahari in the early morning, to be burned off in the first hour of the sun.
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14 97 Salt slaves, in the Tahari, are among the lowest of the male slaves.
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14 198 Mercifully, the hood tended to protect the head from the sun; one does not go bareheaded in the desert; secondly, the darkness of the hood, when the salt crusts were reached, prevented blindness, from the reflection of the Tahari sun off the layered, bleak, white surfaces.
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14 205 It takes weeks to starve, but only, in the Tahari, two days to die of thirst.
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14 384 These two precautions, the prone posture and the locking gate, are common in female seraglios in the Tahari.
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14 389 A girl cannot dart from a typical Tahari female-slave alcove.
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14 442 The sun was the sun of the late spring in the Tahari.
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14 445 The marches to Klima are not made in the Tahari summer, only in the winter, the spring and fall, that some will survive them.
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15 20 Some of these deposits are far below the surface of the Tahari.
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15 39 In places, the "open pits," the brine pits are exposed on the surface, where they are fed by springs from the underground rivers, which prevents their desiccation by evaporation, which would otherwise occur almost immediately in the Tahari temperatures.
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15 42 It has a salty taste like much of the water of the Tahari but it is completely drinkable, not having been filtered through the salt accumulations.
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15 43 It contains only the salt normal in Tahari drinking water.
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15 44 The salt in the normal Tahari fresh water, incidentally, is not without its value, for, when drunk, it helps to some extent, though it is not in itself sufficient, to prevent salt loss in animals and men through sweating.
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15 46 Sweating is dangerous in the Tahari.
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15 48 The heavy garments of the Tahari, too, have as two of their main objectives the prevention of water loss, and the retention of moisture on the skin, slowing water loss by evaporation.
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15 168 This was a precaution to maintain the salt monopolies of the Tahari, as though the desert itself would not have been sufficient in this respect.
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18 24 It was a saying of the Tahari.
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18 72 Under the Tahari sun some men last as little as four hours, even those who have made the march to Klima.
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18 80 It was the Tahari night.
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18 134 "You are truly of the Tahari".
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19 28 "Strange," said Hassan, "that I should imagine a Kur here in the Tahari".
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19 89 Beyond this, though Four Palms lay farther from Klima than Red Rock, its route, it seemed, would bring one sooner out of the dune country than the route to Red Rock, and into the typical Tahari terrain of rock and scrub, where some game might be found, occasional water and possible nomadic groups no...
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19 118 The wind felt much the same as the constant, whipping Tahari wind to me, no different, save for its direction.
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19 151 "It is spring," he said, shrugging, in the manner of the Tahari.
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20 35 It had been apprehended months before apparently enroute to the Tahari.
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20 39 That the Kur had been bound for the Tahari had been a portion of the mystery which had initiated my venture to the desert.
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20 40 What business had it in the Tahari? "It will die soon," said Hassan.
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20 132 There is soon to be war in the Tahari.
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20 135 Then he said, "I am of the Tahari.
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21 4 To my surprise, though the Kur had pointed to the dune country, he led me in a path parallel to the dunes, through more normal Tahari terrain.
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21 307 Though it was in the heat of the Tahari noon the beast did not pause.
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22 1 I Obtain Kaiila I crouched between thrust chambers, some seventy feet from the ground, on the height of the tall ship, half buried in the Tahari sand.
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22 14 They approached slowly, in the leisurely fashion of the Tahari.
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23 131 Tahari battles, at some time or another, almost always, the forces deeply interpenetrating one another, turn into a melee of individual combats.
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23 155 That man, I knew, must be Baram, a not uncommon name in the Tahari, Sheik of Bezhad, vizier to Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars.
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23 226 They are of the Tahari".
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23 228 "The Kavars, too," said Suleiman, slowly, clearly, "are of the Tahari".
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23 246 At his saddle hung a conical steel helmet, oddly fashioned with a rim of fur encircling it, bespeaking a tradition in armory whose origin did not seem likely to be the Tahari.
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23 287 Behind us, behind Haroun and myself, who rode alone, we leading, strung out, were the long lines of riders, the gathered tribesmen of the Tahari.
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24 99 Emptied of information she had been brought by Ibn Saran to the Tahari.
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24 100 Here she had, for him, identified me, when I entered the Tahari.
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25 118 He had once been of the Tahari, and then, with a scattering of sand, men following him, returned to the desert, again to supervise his men in their encircling ring of will, steel and kaiila flesh.
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25 163 The men of the Tahari are not patient with those who break wells.
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25 174 She wore the mannish garb of the Tahari, save that she did not wear the wind veil nor the kaffiyeh and agal.
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25 273 This is not an unusual fate for a captured Tahari female, but usually, of course, the garments removed are female garments, either those of free women or of slave girls.
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25 276 He no longer wore the white of the high Pasha of the Kavars but simpler garments, those which might have befitted Hassan, the outlaw of the Tahari.
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26 8 I held the light lance of the Tahari, its butt in the stirrup sheath on my right.
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26 21 Only some few hundred would journey as far as Tor, and those largely to conduct herded slaves to the fine markets of that city, which is the Tahari clearing house for slaves to be sold north.
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26 233 After that, no longer of use to the agents of Priest-Kings, he could be sold south, into the Tahari.
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26 259 Then he seized her by the hair and pulled her head up and flung her on her back to the depth of the luscious silk, and then, with the cruel exploitativeness of the Tahari master, he claimed her—as his own.
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26 325 She looked about, at the men in the room, clad in the garb of the Tahari.
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26 385 "In the fashion of the Tahari," I told her.
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26 482 This sort of thing is thought desirable in the Tahari, in encouraging the whip-bearing girl to be more dutiful in the future, and the girls of the gauntlet to resolve, too, to be more dutiful, that it not be they, next, at the mercy of their enemies and rivals, who carries the whip.
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26 483 The actual whipping in the Tahari, incidentally, is usually a matter between the girl and the master, or him and his men.
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26 563 I would use a standard Tahari tie.
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26 588 "You have put me in Tahari whipping position," she said.
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26 1020 "A pleasant thing for one of the Tahari to do with a white-skinned slave," I speculated.
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26 1175 "That is not a mistake which one of the Tahari would have made," said Hassan.
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26 1220 When this had occurred I had been at the steel tower in the Tahari, the half-buried ship which had housed the destructive device.
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26 1226 There was not a cloud in the wide, bright Tahari sky.
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26 1257 One of the men of the kasbah put the sheet over her, in her turn, fully, to protect her from the sun; her head was then completely covered as well as her body; the sheet was then fastened in place, that it might not slip, with a cord, twice looped, tied closely about her neck; thus she, as the other...
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26 1278 I had picked her up, and claimed her for my own, in what had been the kasbah of Abdul, Ibn Saran, who had been Salt Ubar in the Tahari, the Guard of the Dunes.
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Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 168 She had served the Kurii in the Tahari.
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1 172 I had brought her back with me from the Tahari to the house of Bosk, captain, and merchant, of Port Kar.
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3 158 Down the corridor between tents, now those of the carvers of semiprecious stones, came four men, in the swirling garb of the Tahari.
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28 170 I remembered the timing devices in the crashed ship encountered in the Tahari desert, devices set to control the detonation of the fearsome explosives housed within its steel hull.
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37 15 For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius.
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Book 13. (26 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 545 I had given the Tahari ring to Samos, long ago, shortly after returning from the Tahari, that he might send it to the Sardar for analysis.
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1 607 "What progress have they made with the ring from the Tahari?" "The Tahari ring never reached the Sardar," said Samos.
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1 447 "She betrayed Priest-Kings," he said, "and served Kurii agents in the Tahari".
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1 531 "Of course," I said, "it is the ring which I obtained in the Tahari, that ring which projects the light diversion field, which renders its wearer invisible in the normal visible range of the spectrum".
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1 541 One press on the switch on the Tahari ring had activated the field, a second press had resulted in its deactivation.
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1 554 The Tahari ring had a minute scratch at the corner of the silver plate".
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1 595 "One of them was doubtless the Tahari ring," I said.
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3 69 I thought these might bring him out of hiding, with the Tahari ring, if I could not locate him by means of the blond Earth girl who had been purchased by Ulafi, captain of the Palms of Schendi, merchant, too, of that city.
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5 661 If we could acquire once more, of course, the Tahari ring, the fourth ring, which had been brought to Gor by a Kur faction intent upon preserving the planet from destruction, we could, presumably, have it duplicated in the Sardar.
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5 666 Without it, given to me by a dying Kur warrior, I doubted that I could have survived to prevent, some years ago, the detonation of the explosives in the steel tower, in the Tahari, explosives that were intended to destroy Gor and the Priest-Kings, that the path to Earth might be cleared for conquest...
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6 783 She would lead me, too, not understanding it, to the Tahari ring.
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14 718 For the notes I, as a putative agent of Kurii, was to receive the true ring, the Tahari ring, which I would then return to Port Kar, that Samos might arrange for its delivery to the Sardar.
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14 723 My first priority was surely to return the Tahari ring to Samos as swiftly and safely as possible.
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15 206 I wished to see the minute scratch which would, for me, identify the Tahari ring.
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15 226 Shaba now had both the true ring, the Tahari ring, and the false ring, that which Kurii had intended to be delivered to the Sardar in lieu of the true ring.
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15 233 It was similar to, but it was not the identical marring which I recalled from the Tahari.
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15 259 He also had the true Tahari ring, which the ring in Msaliti's hand so ingeniously resembled.
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18 148 Such sheaths are common in the Tahari but, in the equatorial interior, where men are commonly bare-armed, I gathered that they were an interesting novelty.
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33 117 It is, for example, quite familiar in Port Kar and, far to the southeast of that port, and somewhere far to the north and east of our present position, in the Tahari.
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33 147 Some say that the finest dancers on Gor are found in Ar; others say that they are found in Port Kar, and others that they are in the Tahari, or in Turia.
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35 73 The first time, I had said to her, "Remember the Tahari".
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35 95 Later, long later, in the Tahari we had again encountered one another, she still, as was appropriate, a slave.
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53 37 "You have stolen the Tahari ring".
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54 53 Such a murder was to be only a method for removing an obstacle in the path to the Tahari ring.
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55 25 I tied the Tahari ring about my neck, where it hung, with the golden chain of Bila Huruma, on my chest.
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57 47 About my neck, on a leather string, inside my tunic, I wore the Tahari ring.
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Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

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1 798 Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk.
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1 635 We had learned this in the Tahari.
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1 1298 I had learned this, clearly, in the Tahari.
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12 134 The kaiila in the area of the perimeter, those ridden by white men, are generally controlled by a headstall, bit and reins, in short, by a bridle, not by a nose rope, as is cultural in the Tahari.
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13 13 In the Barrens, however, and in places such as the Tahari, probably because of the relative levelness of the terrain, horizon to horizon, these effects seem even more accentuated, even more stupendous, more spectacular, more unbelievable and astounding.
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18 41 I had seen this sort of thing in the Tahari.
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Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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12 220 "That hide," I said, indicating the smaller hide, "is about the size of a Tahari submission mat".
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12 708 "You told me," she said, smiling, "that this hide was about the size of a Tahari submission mat".
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12 713 A thousand memories rushed to my mind, of the vast, tawny Tahari, of its bleakness, and its dunes, of its caravans, of its oases and palaces.
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12 714 In the Tahari culture the submission mat has its place.
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12 715 "In the Tahari," she asked, "might not girls, such as I, kneel on such mats?" "Yes," I said.
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13 65 This preference for meatier, more amply bodied women, incidentally, is also common among the men of the Tahari.
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26 75 The scimitar of the Tahari, a useful weapon from kaiilaback, is an interesting exception to this general tendency.
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30 98 I had heard it on the rocky slopes of Torvaldsland, on the sands of the Tahari, in the jungles of the Ua.
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35 53 The high, hot sun of the Tahari burned in the sky.
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54 294 Red savages often, like many men of the Tahari, tend to find a special attractiveness in large-breasted women.
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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29 43 Why could he not have wanted Claudia, or Crystal, or one of the other girls? He was the guest of honor at this feast, a feast held by Eito, an Oriental, a member of the caste of merchants, a citizen of Ar, a dealer in salt, one with connections with some of the towns near the Tahari.
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29 44 Some of his salt was said to come even from Klima, somewhere deep within the Tahari itself.
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29 46 Kasra lies west of Tor, which lies at the northwestern edge of the Tahari, the great desert, the Wastes.
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29 48 He may have been Oriental, like Eito, but, too, he may have been a mix of Oriental and Tahari stock.
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36 44 In that city, near the Tahari, on the Lower Fayeen, I had little doubt she would learn her collar well, and love.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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1 875 It is important in the Tahari salt trade.
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10 520 In the Tahari a woman is often stuffed with food for days before her sale, even force fed, if necessary.
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10 521 Many of the men of the Tahari relish soft, pretty, meaty little slaves.
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Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 288 It is not unknown among dancers in the Tahari.
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25 430 "She was once a high lady in the Tahari, but, as you can see, her lips made it inevitable that she would be sold into slavery".
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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5 141 She was being readied for the "Tahari trade," we were told.
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 941 It is expected, too, that they will quickly become adept in the manifold labors of the Tahari woman, and, in particular, in their cases, those of the Tahari slave woman.
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24 925 "That is a Tahari name," said Marcus, looking at her closely.
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24 935 "But you are not of the Tahari, are you?" he asked.
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24 937 Her coloring, of course, did not suggest that of a woman native to the Tahari region.
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24 938 Many males of the Tahari, of course, are fond of fair-skinned slaves, and such, shipped south and east, bring excellent prices in their markets.
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24 940 In such places they learn the wearing of the garments of the Tahari, and, if the master pleases, the stride-measuring ankle chains of the area, worn even by many free women.
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24 944 "Why do you have a Tahari name?" he asked.
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24 947 For example, last fall, after accepting her as a slave, I had named the former Lady Charlotte of Samnium "Feiqa," which is a Tahari name.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 412 In the oasis towns of the Tahari, and in the vicinity of the great desert, sometimes even free women are belled, and wear ankle chains, as well, that the length of their stride may be measured and made beautiful, and perhaps, too, to remind them, even though they be free, that they are but women.
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1 679 I suspected she might be a Tahari girl, or one from that region.
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1 907 Some slavers, with certain markets in mind, such as certain of the Tahari markets, deliberately fatten slaves before their sale, sometimes keeping them in small cages, sometimes even force-feeding them, and so on.
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19 111 I fought my way forward, again, then, against the gusts, as though through a storm in the Tahari.
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19 1231 Does a thirsting man in the Tahari concern himself with the feelings of the water with which he at last slakes his thirst? Does a starving man in Torvaldsland concern himself with the feelings of the viands on which he at last feasts? I continued to hold her, tightly.
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21 100 But similarly, if you were being examined on a mat in the Tahari you might find yourself regarded as insufficiently fleshy, and find yourself forced, under the whip, to eat rich creams and such, being thereby fattened for sale like a she-tarsk".
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26 206 I knew a girl who wore the brand of the four bosk horns, and, above it, the cursive Kef, the common Kajira mark, for she was a common girl, put there when I had branded her in a kasbah in the Tahari.
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28 103 To find truly different cultures one might have to travel to Torvaldsland, to the Tahari, to the Barrens, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the interior, east of Schendi, and so on.
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39 122 The leader of the mercenaries, and several of them, astride their tharlarion, wore wind scarves, rather like those worn in the Tahari, protecting themselves from the dust of the journey.
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Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

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9 58 I had, accordingly, covered my head and, loosely, the lower portion of my face with a scarf, rather in the manner of the fellows in the Tahari.
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14 59 What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip...
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19 90 For example, in my holding in Port Kar I had a slave named Vella, a shapely brunette, acquired in the Tahari.
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19 218 It was not that he denied there was a place called "Earth" but he thought it must be somewhere on Gor, perhaps east of the Voltai Range or south of the Tahari.
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20 270 Did they really think that the excitingness of a slave could be reduced by such a triviality as the addition of a few horts of material to a tunic? Did they not realize it would still be the single garment she wore, the one piece of cloth she was permitted, and that it would have no nether closure? ...
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27 972 "If you were to be sold in a Tahari market," I told her, "you might find yourself forced to drink a large amount of water, like this, shortly before your sale".
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Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1334 Sometimes they are performed on a rug, say, a Tahari rug, before the master who, seated, observes, or perhaps in the center of such a rug, for the interest of the master's encircling guests.
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24 318 "Perhaps," said another, "in the manner of Schendi, or of the Tahari?" "I cannot even dance!" said Ellen, suddenly.
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26 1113 Do not peasants upon occasion hide their daughters? Do not the men of the Tahari order their slaves to the tents upon the approach of strangers, and so on? On Gor, it might be mentioned, that some of these things might be better understood, women tend to be regarded as goods and prizes, as loot and ...
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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32 90 In the Tahari region the veiling is often so complete that even the eyes cannot be seen, but must be surmised, as peering outward though a dark gauze.
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45 168 "Commonly," said Cabot, "save in the Tahari, it is only slaves who are belled".
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79 499 I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port Kar, having b...
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Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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11 163 I had encountered something similar, long ago, in the Tahari, where Gorean was written in a quite different script, a flowing, beautiful script common in the Tahari.
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3 207 I had encountered her again, later, in the Tahari.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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11 27 Who could concentrate on a single flake of snow in a blizzard, a particular grain of sand in a Tahari wind? The predator is distracted, and confused.
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21 201 It was written however, amongst the Pani, in an unfamiliar script, or set of signs, as it is, as well, I understand, in the Tahari.
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25 76 Not only would tarns be new to these islands, but they were unfamiliar as well, as far as I knew, with the swift, lofty, silken kaiila, common in the Tahari, on the southern plains, in the Barrens, and such.
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36 511 This misunderstanding was based on the fact that the Pani transcribe their Gorean in their own way, with their own characters, as do many in the Tahari region.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 263 To me the script, which was cursive, was unintelligible, little more than claw marks, but, affixed to the paper, there were two seals, one which seemed no more than a patch of hair, interwoven with silver thread, and the other was in the script of the Pani, in which they transcribe their Gorean, muc...
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38 154 "One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro...
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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16 120 It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the d...
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25 247 I recalled the flowing, lovely script of the Tahari, in which the phonemes of Gorean were also meticulously transcribed.
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59 7 The characters were in Pani script, in which they transcribe Gorean, rather as those in the Tahari transcribe Gorean in their own flowing script.
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Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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27 12 Many are the markets of Gor, and some are supplied by contraband merchandise, of dubious origins, and evasive of taxes and harbor fees, such as rogue silver from the mines of Tharna, to be exported to Cos and Tyros, and the Farther Islands, even to the World's End; the beans from which Black Wine is...
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61 263 This contempt, on the other hand, is not always justified, as Kurii have learned, in Torvaldsland, the Tahari, the jungles of the Ua, and elsewhere.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 176 "It is as on the Tahari, where air shimmers, rising from a heated surface".
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14 44 "In the vast Tahari," I said, "thirsting men have rushed upon the lances of foes, have tried to drink one another's blood".
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30 24 "Luring them into treacherous terrain," said Thurnock, "as in the debacle of Ar in the Vosk's Delta?" "Or leading them into the Tahari, where water is precious and scarce, or into canyoned areas where passes are narrow, easily blocked, and can be fired on from cover," said Clitus.
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