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Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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13 142 Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r...
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 132 She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...
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20 6 Roasted tarsks on long spits were borne to the tables on the shoulders of nude slave girls.
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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5 67 I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence.
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5 142 Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans.
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9 339 Clitus, after returning to our quarters, had left and returned with four musicians, bleary-eyed, routed from their mats well past the Twentieth Hour, but, lured by the jingling of a pair of silver tarsks, ready to play for us, past the dawn if need be.
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9 557 "Her price," said the proprietor, "is five silver tarsks".
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9 558 From his pouch Surbus placed five silver tarsks, one after the other, on the counter.
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Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

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8 1181 "You are tarsks and beasts," she told them.
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12 260 Only from this pole, supported by the crossed diagonal poles, there hung no snared birds, no gutted tarsks, no drying skins of panthers or sleen.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 308 I took two silver tarsks from the pouch I wore at the belt of the tunic and threw them to Arn.
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3 81 I gave them clothing, and two silver tarsks apiece.
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5 101 Where was there for her to run? In the forests there were sleen and panthers, and fierce tarsks.
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5 309 The house, if one may so speak of the compound at Lydius, had probably not paid more than two tarsks for her.
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5 310 "I will give you four tarsks," I said.
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5 325 "Three pieces of gold," I said, "and five tarsks".
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5 331 I paid the man his three gold pieces and his five tarsks.
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6 604 From the garment, to the sand about her ankles, there fell several small Gorean plums, a small larma fruit and two silver tarsks.
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6 608 "I am missing two silver tarsks," said one.
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6 609 He retrieved his tarsks from the sand.
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6 943 I paid three pieces of gold and five tarsks for you".
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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7 80 "Take these," said he, "to the stink pen and, with them, swill the tarsks!" "Yes, my Jarl," she wept, leaping to her feet, and fleeing away.
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10 552 "Doubtless you can learn to swill tarsks," he said.
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Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 73 Samos had purchased her for four silver tarsks on Teletus, with many others, for various amounts.
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2 473 "Eleven silver tarsks," he said.
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2 485 The usual buying price of the municipal office was two or three silver tarsks per wench.
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2 570 "She was bought for two tarsks, from a caravan master named Zad of the Oasis of Farad," he said.
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2 572 "She was sold for four tarsks," said the officer.
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5 449 "But does it not mean I am the most beautiful?" "Among tarsks," I said, "even a she-sleen looks well".
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24 878 Weapons are not for them, no more than for verr, tarsks, or kaiila.
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26 981 You may be used to swill tarsks and clean stables.
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Book 11. (45 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 241 On Earth I had been noted as a beauty, an unusual, even ravishingly beautiful girl, but on Gor, as I would come to understand, I, and others like me, could be acquired and disposed of for a handful of copper tarsks.
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7 899 "How many of the she-tarsks are still at large?" asked one.
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7 1149 "You can be bought or sold in any market," he said, "for a handful of copper tarsks".
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7 1344 I knew I could be bought and sold for a handful of copper tarsks.
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9 889 "I could get for her, at best," he conjectured, "only a handful of copper tarsks".
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9 922 "Yet," said he, "still I think I could get only tarsks for her".
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9 925 There are many beauties, many of them even formerly free, who find themselves upon the block these days, being sold for a pittance of tarsks".
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9 1135 "Two copper tarsks," he said.
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9 1141 Surely I would be worth at least four or five copper tarsks in any market.
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9 2299 Surely I was at least a few copper tarsks' worth of slave girl.
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11 1 Perfume and Silk "I will give you four copper tarsks for her," said the captain.
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11 28 I had been sold for six copper tarsks.
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11 56 All he had left behind was she who had been Judy Thornton, six copper tarsks worth of sold she-slave.
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11 327 But then I remembered I had cost only six copper tarsks.
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12 11 I was a different girl now from the one who had been sold for six copper tarsks to Borchoff, Captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus.
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12 14 "Six tarsks of copper," he had said.
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13 24 I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks.
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13 34 She brought her captor only twelve copper tarsks.
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13 196 "Two tarsks," called a man from the crowd.
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13 197 "I hear two tarsks," said the auctioneer.
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13 220 "Five tarsks," called a man, a gross, fat man, swathed in robes, sitting in a middle tier to my right.
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13 231 "Would you not like her in a tunic and collar of your choice, on her knees before you? Would you not like the owning of every inch of her, she your slave, yours to command, hers to obey? Would you not like her serving you, responding swiftly and perfectly in all things to the least whim of your will...
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13 232 "Six tarsks," repeated the auctioneer.
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13 240 For a few copper tarsks you can own her!" A tear ran down my face, over my left cheek.
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13 249 Consider her shopping for you and cooking! Consider her entertaining and waiting upon your guests! Consider her waiting in the furs for you!" "Ten tarsks," said a man.
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13 250 "Ten tarsks," said the auctioneer.
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13 265 "Fourteen copper tarsks," called a man.
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13 267 "But can the house let this little beauty slip its collar for a mere fourteen tarsks? Say, no, Noble Sirs!" "Fifteen," said a man.
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13 269 I knew I had been sold by Rask of Treve to a slaver for fifteen copper tarsks.
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13 270 The slaver who had purchased me had sold me to the house of Publius for twenty copper tarsks.
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13 292 "Eighteen tarsks," called a man.
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13 308 "I have a bid of twenty copper tarsks for this lovely little beauty," said the auctioneer.
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13 311 I knew the house had paid twenty tarsks for me.
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13 317 Twenty-one tarsks had been bid upon me.
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13 320 What is the cost of gruel and a whip? "I have heard a bid of twenty-one tarsks," called the auctioneer.
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13 330 "It seems," said the auctioneer, "that we must let this little beauty go for a mere twenty-one copper tarsks".
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13 371 "Forty copper tarsks," I heard call from the floor, "from the Tavern of Two Chains".
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13 372 "The Pleasure Silk bids fifty tarsks," I heard.
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13 381 "The Perfumed Rope bids eighty copper tarsks," I heard.
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13 392 And I knew that I was not being sold merely as a beautiful girl, for such a girl might have gone for twenty-one tarsks, but as something more, as a beautiful slave girl.
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13 393 "I have heard from the agent of the Silver Cage," called the auctioneer, "a bid of eighty-five copper tarsks.
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13 412 Before they had only looked upon me as merely another girl slave, to be sold from the block in her turn for a handful of copper tarsks.
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14 472 "I have sold you for two tarsks to these gentlemen," said Busebius.
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14 480 "We have paid two silver tarsks for you," said one of the men.
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27 442 "Five tarsks," said Busebius.
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Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 296 For five copper tarsks one may rent furs and a place in the tent.
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3 418 As a sidelight on the Gorean world it might be noted, in passing, that this sort of fellow, as he was working on a slave, who is an animal, would also be expected to be an expert in matters pertaining to the needs of other animals, as well, for example, bosk, kaiila, verr, tarsks, and such.
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3 706 These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk.
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3 1247 "Four copper tarsks!" was a bid called from the floor.
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3 1258 The girl was sold for fifteen copper tarsks to a metal worker from Tor.
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3 1269 She was sold for four copper tarsks.
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38 173 She should not now sell for copper, really; if men knew her, she should now bring silver, perhaps as much as three or four silver tarsks.
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38 174 But, untrained, and in an early sale, she would doubtless go for no more than a handful, though perhaps a double handful, of copper tarsks.
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Book 13. (43 results) Explorers of Gor

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2 23 "Do I hear two tarsks?" I suppose he may have paid two or three tarsks for her himself, to Bejar.
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1 409 "I would say about five copper tarsks, in a fourth-class market, perhaps even an item in a group sale.
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2 48 "Do I hear two tarsks?" asked the auctioneer.
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2 60 "Will not an urt hunter give me at least two tarsks for her?" called out the auctioneer good-humoredly, but with some understandable exasperation.
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2 70 "See if you can get two tarsks from the urts!" There was again general laughter.
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2 151 "Four tarsks," said a man.
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2 167 "Twenty-two tarsks," called a man in the crowd.
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2 172 "Twenty-seven tarsks," called a man.
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2 175 "Twenty-eight tarsks," called a man.
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2 179 "Twenty-nine tarsks," called a man.
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2 186 "Forty tarsks," said a voice, triumphantly.
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2 200 "Forty tarsks," repeated Procopius Minor, Little Procopius.
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2 214 "I have heard a bid of forty tarsks," said the auctioneer, Vart.
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2 221 He had never counted on getting as much as forty tarsks for the blond barbarian.
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2 254 We have already on the floor a bid of forty tarsks".
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3 24 The dark-haired, shapely girl from Tyros had gone for twenty-nine tarsks.
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3 28 She was hot and she had cost him not forty but only twenty-nine tarsks.
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3 38 The mother brought sixteen tarsks and the daughter fourteen.
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3 43 The peasant girl brought eight tarsks; the merchant's daughter, to her indignation, brought only six.
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4 125 A hundred copper tarsks make a silver tarsk.
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5 340 "Surely such a girl, a wench of only average beauty, a tense, tight girl, awkward and clumsy, one untrained, new to the collar, one who can hardly speak Gorean, a barbarian, is worth, at best, only two or three copper tarsks".
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5 341 "I can get two silver tarsks for her," said Ulafi.
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5 345 "How then will you get two silver tarsks for her?" I asked.
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5 365 "Does it not seem strange to you," I asked, "that Uchafu should offer two tarsks for such a girl".
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7 190 "Fifteen copper tarsks," he said.
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7 193 I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks.
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7 200 Further, I knew, from Ulafi, he would have paid two tarsks, of silver, for her.
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7 201 He would doubtless receive three or four silver tarsks from the awaited buyer.
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7 206 Much as I would love to sell her to you for sixteen tarsks I must let her go to a previous buyer for fifteen.
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8 73 What if he had not, really, received two tarsks from Uchafu for her.
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12 573 "Four copper tarsks," he said.
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12 614 "Five silver tarsks," he said.
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12 621 "I will take six tarsks for her," said he, "if you are serious in the matter".
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12 622 I gave Msaliti six silver tarsks for the girl.
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12 624 In the situation, as I assessed it, either she should have been given to me, upon my expression of interest, or I should have paid something for her in increments of silver tarsks, something over the price Msaliti had paid.
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12 627 Too, since he had paid for her in silver tarsks he would wish to sell her in the same denomination and, presumably, at some profit.
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12 630 Had I tried to obtain her for less than six tarsks or he tried to obtain more for her I think the situation could have become unpleasant.
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13 42 "I obtained one only tonight, for four tarsks.
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13 54 "I think," I said, "you will soon make back your four tarsks on her".
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15 318 The officer shook out gold pieces and silver tarsks into his hand.
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57 138 The entire lot had gone for only two silver tarsks.
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57 227 She had cost two silver tarsks.
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57 270 She cost me two and five, two silver tarsks and five of copper.
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Book 14. (29 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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11 693 "Four copper tarsks!" I heard a woman call.
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12 1 The Market of Tima "I have a bid of four tarsks!" called the girl in the white gown, it concealing the shameful Ta-Teera she had worn while pretending to be an Earth-girl slave.
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12 266 The bid, however, I gathered, was one silver tarsk, five copper tarsks.
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12 329 "I will get at least four tarsks for you," said the Lady Tima.
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12 330 I assumed she meant four tarsks of silver.
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12 333 I did not think she would manage to get four silver tarsks for me.
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12 418 'Two tarsks!" I heard.
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12 419 "Three tarsks!" I heard.
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12 430 "Five tarsks!" I heard.
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12 435 Has not your lovely auctioneer, the Lady Tendite, well prepared him for his sale?" "Six tarsks!" I heard.
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12 446 "Seven tarsks!" I heard.
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12 507 "Ten tarsks!" I heard.
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12 517 "Fourteen tarsks!" I heard.
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12 532 I was sold for sixteen silver tarsks.
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13 25 "I was insufficiently interested in the slave to bid sixteen tarsks," said the Lady Melpomene.
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13 87 "Sixteen tarsks," said the Lady Florence.
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13 89 Sixteen tarsks was actually a high price to pay for a male silk slave.
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13 90 Most would go from four to six tarsks.
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13 171 "Sixteen tarsks," I said.
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16 286 They were five silver tarsks.
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17 21 "Your mistress," she said, acidly, "insinuated in Ar that I could not have bid sixteen tarsks for you.
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17 23 It was rather that I did not think you were worth sixteen tarsks".
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17 104 "What did it cost?" "Five silver tarsks," I said.
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17 106 "Once," she said, "I could afford five tarsks for perfume.
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27 265 "He cost me twenty copper tarsks," said another man.
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34 123 "Ten copper tarsks," he said to a scribe at a small table nearby, with papers and a box of coins.
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34 124 The scribe counted out ten copper tarsks to a fellow at the table.
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34 201 "Five silver tarsks," I said, boldly.
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34 236 The scribe handed me ten silver tarsks.
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Book 15. (40 results) Rogue of Gor

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8 2 I had tallied my resources, prior to coming to the tavern of Tasdron, off the avenue of Lycurgus, and found them to amount to only seventy copper tarsks, including five tarsks which I had happily, and unexpectedly, received, the captain being a good fellow, for acting as an oarsman from Fina to the ...
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8 9 I had managed to accumulate two silver tarsks and some sixteen copper tarsks.
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1 133 I rose to my feet and placed two copper tarsks on the table.
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3 314 I retained five silver tarsks.
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4 11 "That is ten copper tarsks," had said the man last night, placing before me a bowl of sul porridge.
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4 187 I placed two silver tarsks on the counter.
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4 220 "Sul porridge," said Strobius, "is ten copper tarsks.
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4 221 I will charge you forty copper tarsks for the wine, two cups".
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5 4 "He wagers ten copper tarsks he can best any man in the house!" "It is true," I called, stepping to the sand, pulling off the tunic.
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5 21 I had, as a consequence, picked up only ten copper tarsks at Tancred's Landing.
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5 35 "Ten tarsks," cried another peasant, "that I can best you!" "Can you fight further, Jason!" anxiously asked the proprietor.
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5 60 My financial resources, the ten silver tarsks, obtained from the sale of my former Mistress, the Lady Florence of Vonda, to the slaver, Tenalion of Ar, had been severely depleted.
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9 5 The girl went for four copper tarsks.
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9 34 The blonde went for six tarsks.
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9 70 In this market, to her indignation, she had gone for only fourteen copper tarsks.
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9 73 She had gone for a mere fifteen copper tarsks.
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9 94 "Two copper tarsks," called a man.
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9 107 "Do I hear only sixteen tarsks for this exquisite little bargain?" inquired the auctioneer, incredulously.
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9 125 "Twenty-two tarsks!" called a man.
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9 134 "Twenty-five tarsks!" "Twenty-six!" "Twenty-seven!" "Twenty-eight!" "Thirty!" "Buy her," a voice seemed to say to me.
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9 202 "Ninety tarsks!" called a man.
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9 204 "I have ninety tarsks," he called.
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9 207 "Ninety-two tarsks!" called a man.
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9 209 "I have ninety-four tarsks," called the auctioneer.
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10 9 At the table I had paid ninety-eight tarsks.
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10 309 "There were girls who were sold for as much as two or three silver tarsks".
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10 314 "I am worth much more than ninety-eight copper tarsks".
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10 315 "I am not sure you are worth ninety-eight copper tarsks," I said.
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10 321 "I do not think you are worth two copper tarsks," I said.
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11 302 "I would say you are worth now at least two silver tarsks".
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14 40 "Ten copper tarsks," he said.
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16 29 "I received two copper tarsks for her," she said.
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16 31 "I will give you the two copper tarsks, if you wish," she said.
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16 40 "I will give you the two copper tarsks, if you wish," she said.
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18 54 "Ten silver tarsks is a considerable sum," said Tasdron.
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18 55 "The guardsmen from Ar's Station, also in Victoria searching for the topaz, are offering only six silver tarsks".
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19 29 "Two copper tarsks, one to each of you," said the merchant to two dock workers who stood nearby, "to apprehend and bind that fellow!" Swiftly the two dock workers set out after the thief.
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19 67 In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which is valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits.
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19 68 Ten silver tarsks, usually, is regarded as the equivalent of one gold piece, of one of the high cities.
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26 83 "I myself received only ten silver tarsks for you when I sold you to Tenalion".
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 157 "She is worth at least ten silver tarsks," speculated Tasdron.
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20 161 It seemed to me not impossible, upon reflection, that the voluptuous Shirley, put upon the block, exhibited by a skilled auctioneer, might bring the very fine sum of ten silver tarsks.
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Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

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8 389 This was a bid of three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks.
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13 621 "That is," I said, "seven silver tarsks and ninety copper tarsks.
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8 32 It was written on her back in lipstick, forty copper tarsks.
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8 46 "Is she worth fifty tarsks to you?" asked the slaver's man.
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8 54 "Fifty tarsks for this freckled, little she-tarsk," he said.
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8 305 Several of the girls had gone from the side blocks, for example, for prices ranging between thirty and fifty copper tarsks.
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8 306 In certain other markets these girls, in their current state of barbarity and ignorance, might have brought as little as seven or eight tarsks apiece.
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8 347 "Two silver tarsks," said a man.
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8 387 "Three tarsks," said a man.
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8 390 There are one hundred copper tarsks to one silver tarsk in Kailiauk.
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8 446 "I have a bid of five tarsks on this slut," he called.
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8 753 "Five copper tarsks apiece!" laughed a man.
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8 855 It was an even silver tarsk, or an even hundred copper tarsks, of the sort common in Kailiauk, figured in multiples of ten, over the earlier standing bid of six nine.
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8 1115 A robe of yellow kailiauk, even in average condition, can bring as much as five silver tarsks.
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13 676 "Kaiila?" "Yes," I said, "kaiila, tarsks, verr, slaves, and such".
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19 68 "Sleen, tarsks, all of them," said Grunt, in Gorean, looking after the retreating Yellow Knives.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 275 The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik, a substance developed by the Caste of Physicians to enhance fertility in verr and tarsks.
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Book 19. (24 results) Kajira of Gor

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36 1646 For that reason he paid fifteen tarsks for me, fifteen silver tarsks".
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3 469 "So, too, are tarsks and verr," she said.
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5 281 "I would think," he said, "that you would bring somewhere between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks".
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5 282 "Copper tarsks!" I cried.
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6 535 "Three tarsks, perhaps," he said.
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6 537 "Three silver tarsks, of course," said he.
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17 125 "It is not my fault that I share a sex with she-sleen and she-tarsks, and, lower than either, with she-slaves".
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24 100 Tenrak and Durbar, at the office of the man of Mintar, outside the gate, had received ten copper tarsks for me.
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24 102 I recalled that Drusus Rencius had thought I might go for something between fifteen and twenty tarsks.
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24 106 Some girls, Tenrak had assured me, go for as little as five copper tarsks.
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24 107 Ten copper tarsks, he assured me, was a good price for a mill girl.
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24 220 "So," he said, "it is the usual collection of she-urts and she-tarsks.
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26 33 Twelve copper tarsks for each of us had been transferred to the accounts of Mill 7.
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26 344 "They cost me only twelve copper tarsks each," said Aemilianus.
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26 436 A silver tarsk! I wished Drusus Rencius had heard that! He had thought I would only bring fifteen or twenty copper tarsks! And I was not even trained! "You did very well, Tiffany," said Aemilianus.
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31 649 "I paid fifteen silver tarsks for you," he said.
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31 697 "Fifteen silver tarsks," I said, "is a great deal of money to pay for a mere feast slave".
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31 698 "Yes," he said, "fifteen silver tarsks would be a great deal of money to pay—for a mere feast slave".
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31 700 "Do you really think," he asked, "that I would have paid fifteen tarsks for you, and had you brought here with your group, all the way from Ar, if you were only a feast slave?" "But that is all I am," I said, "only a feast slave!" He spun me about, to face him.
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36 86 It may usually be depended upon to add a few copper tarsks to her value, much like the ability to play a musical instrument or to dance, or to cook and sew.
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36 1629 "Who knows?" "You yourself," I said, slyly, maliciously, "in Corcyrus, as I recall, conjectured that I would probably bring only between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks".
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36 1650 "I paid more than fifteen silver tarsks for you," said Drusus Rencius.
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36 1655 "What did you pay!" "More than twenty tarsks," he said, angrily.
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36 1657 "How much!" "I paid fifty silver tarsks for you!" he said, furiously.
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Book 20. (29 results) Players of Gor

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7 188 Too, getting her for two silver tarsks, though perhaps somewhat more than Boots cared to pay, left him a full three silver tarsks, the residue of his profit from the sale of the Brigella.
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16 236 "Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio.
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16 263 "It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re...
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2 627 "We have, so far tonight, taken in only ninety-seven tarsk-bits, not even ten copper tarsks".
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2 629 In Port Kar, and generally in the Vosk Basin, there are ten tarsk bits to a copper tarsk and one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.
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2 653 "They are not even ten tarsks!" hissed Boots to me, his eyes bulging.
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2 668 I put three silver tarsks into the pot.
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2 734 "Three tarsk bits," said Boots, "—and five silver tarsks".
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2 735 "Three silver tarsks for licensing fees, present and past, one for interest, and one for the Master of Revels," said the officer.
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6 1288 "Two silver tarsks," said a man.
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6 1295 She had gone for five silver tarsks.
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6 1307 "I fear," said Boots, "that I may be indebted to you in the matter of five silver tarsks in Port Kar.
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6 1309 He held out his hand with the five silver tarsks, accrued but moments earlier from the sale of the Brigella.
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6 1313 "But six silver tarsks," he said.
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6 1360 I doubt that she would cost you, at the most, even given her beauty, more than two silver tarsks.
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6 1361 You would then have three silver tarsks left over".
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7 120 "Ten copper tarsks, to hold her until then," he said.
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7 132 "I will still give you back your tarsks".
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7 134 I then gave him the ten copper tarsks.
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7 136 Indeed, some of the girls in the market, I suspected, would go for as little as that same ten copper tarsks.
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7 184 In the end Boots got her for two silver tarsks.
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7 189 Three silver tarsks would surely tide him over, and his company, until the next performances, presumably to take place somewhere other than on the fairgrounds.
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7 198 "Two silver tarsks," said the slaver's man.
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7 200 "Could we not reconsider the matter?" "Two silver tarsks," said the man.
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7 215 I had no difficulty in recovering my ten copper tarsks, put down to hold the girl for Boots's later inspection.
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7 284 He had also, given the supposed gravity of his offenses, been fined three silver tarsks and publicly flogged.
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7 360 "Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high...
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7 364 "There are more than two copper tarsks in the coin kettle".
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16 759 It is time to herd these pretty little she-tarsks to market".
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Book 21. (26 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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6 174 "In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits".
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2 134 I had had it put on her two days after leaving the vicinity of Samnium, at the town of Market of Semris, well known for its sales of tarsks.
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2 147 It is as natural to look after them as it is to look after tharlarion or tarsks".
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5 34 "About seventeen copper tarsks," he said, "and two tarsk bits".
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6 38 "This is a great deal of food," I said, "to have been purchased by seventeen copper tarsks, and two tarsk bits".
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6 48 "Fourteen copper tarsks," he said.
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6 238 "Half of what I have is yours!" "That would come to about seven copper tarsks, as I recall," I said.
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7 42 "Men are beasts," she said, "tarsks, miserable drunken sleen!" Tula and Feiqa, too, however, if it had to be known, had not been feeling too well.
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7 58 "Drunken tarsks, all of you!" said Boabissia.
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11 104 "Surely you recall the four silver tarsks I gave you earlier in the evening".
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11 140 What a fool I was! My poems, gone! Sold for a mere four silver tarsks! Waste! Dishonor! Misery! Ruin! Tragedy! What if this story should ever get back to the wagons? I am unworthy of my scars!" "Hurtha, old fellow," I said, gently.
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11 233 "Something like two copper tarsks, and some four or five tarsk bits," I said.
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16 1369 "'Up, up, I say, inert tarsks, vile, loathsome, somnolent slimy urts!'" cried Hurtha.
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16 1748 "How often can one save a tarsk so adroitly? Had there been two fellows we might have saved two tarsks".
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18 7 "Rich tarsks," snarled a fellow on the road, moving to the side.
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23 212 He poured coins into my hands, copper tarsks.
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24 489 But I would think, even so, she might bring two silver tarsks".
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24 619 I am sure that I will be able to get at least two silver tarsks for her".
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25 874 "Three silver tarsks," said my hostess.
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25 921 "Two silver tarsks," said my hostess.
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25 930 "The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".
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25 1044 I then counted her out five copper tarsks.
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25 1216 True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women may be purchased.
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27 149 "Two silver tarsks?" he asked.
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27 172 The blonde saw Tenalion place two silver tarsks in my hand.
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29 158 I put the two silver tarsks I had received for the blonde in his hand.
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Book 22. (61 results) Dancer of Gor

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10 398 "Two silver tarsks," he said, "and fifty copper tarsks, not tarsk bits, but tarsks, whole tarsks".
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8 19 "But tonight tarsks are not being sold, not four-legged tarsks, at any rate".
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8 70 We had learned that that night tarsks were not to be sold, not "four-legged" tarsks, at any rate.
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29 28 "There is not one there who, stripped, would not bring high bids on the block! Is there one there whom a man would not dream of marching home naked before him, to fasten her to his slave ring! See those faces, those slave curves! There is not one of them who is not worth five tarsks!" "Three tarsks ...
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29 1136 Too, they had paid five tarsks for me, silver tarsks.
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34 754 And, of course, what was a slave worth? A few copper tarsks, or silver tarsks, in a market? Or everything to someone, perhaps everything in the world to someone? I looked at my master.
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8 8 In particular, it is famed for its sales of tarsks.
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8 67 "Those are tarsks," said one of the Gorean girls.
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8 84 Here we had to wait while a group of fifteen tarsks, one by one, herded up the ramp, plunged into the fluid and swam to the other side where, scrambling out of the container, they shook themselves, and hastened down the descent ramp.
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8 85 "Now you two-legged tarsks," said the man, waving toward the container with his stick.
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8 110 I plunged from the incline of the ramp, from my hands and knees, into the dark liquid, on my belly, as had the others before me, and the tarsks before them.
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8 211 He owned this complex and dealt also in the sales of livestock, in particular those of tarsks.
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8 212 This particular complex was, it seemed, one of the best-known areas in Market of Semris for the sales of tarsks.
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8 213 Indeed, in the very area where I now was, the platforms cleared away and pens put forth, projected sales lots of tarsks were commonly displayed, often prize lots, to be bid upon later in the sales barn itself.
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8 216 How like Teibar I had thought, to deal in both tarsks and women.
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8 218 He well knew how to keep us in our place, did he not? And what a rich joke, I had thought, this was doubtless supposed to be, that I would find myself here, his "modern woman," in a place where really, more appropriately, and usually, not women, but tarsks, were sold! It was this place, I had surmis...
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8 350 * * * * I sat, waiting, on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised a foot or so above the dirt floor of the exposition area, it located in the annex to Teibar's sales barn, he of Market of Semris, a dealer in tarsks, as they said, four-legged and two-legged.
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8 436 That made sense, as doubtless tarsks, those of the four-footed variety, those bristly, squat, grunting animals, as opposed to the two-footed variety, those soft, smooth, shapely animals, were often conducted through it.
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9 48 It was really made, like this facility, as a whole, it seemed, for the vending of four-footed animals, primarily, I supposed, tarsks.
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9 83 Tarsks were sold in this place, I thought.
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9 86 Tarsks were herded through it, with pointed sticks.
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9 88 Tarsks were sold in this place.
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9 125 On the ascent portion of the shoot, and where I lay, toward the end of that section, there were, every two feet or so, small crosspieces, these, I suppose, to aid tarsks in the climb.
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9 131 I supposed many tarsks had climbed this shoot, and many women.
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9 217 Doubtless, the large platform removed, tarsks would be sold there.
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9 311 The bid had been for twenty copper tarsks.
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9 323 I thought how amused Teibar might have been, to have thought of me, his hated "modern woman," as he thought, being sold, and being sold in this place, a place fit for her, a sales barn, where tarsks, four-legged, and two-legged, like herself, were sold.
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9 356 Why should I be favored in this respect? The bidding had been interrupted at eighty-eight tarsks, whatever that meant.
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10 468 "Are you pleased," he asked, "aside from questions of the price I paid for you, or my reasons for it, to learn that you are valuable, that you might well bring a price in the neighborhood of two silver tarsks in an open market?" I did not know, precisely, how to respond to this question.
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10 481 I was delighted, too, to learn that I might have, even had he not been there, brought as much as two silver tarsks.
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11 886 He had let me go! But I had sold for two and a half silver tarsks, on my first sale! I had been purchased by Hendow, of Brundisium, who, I had gathered, was noted in this city for having an excellent eye for the selection of slave meat! Certainly the girls in his tavern, Inger, and Tupita, and Ina, ...
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13 357 "One was for seven tarsks," he said.
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13 371 "I am not worth five tarsks," I laughed.
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13 380 "I will show you that maybe I am worth five tarsks after all!" "Perhaps I will summon Tupita," he said.
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16 79 "We agreed on five silver tarsks, five!" He held a single silver tarsk.
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16 82 Clearly she did not wish to acknowledge that I might, objectively, be of value, particularly of a value so high as five silver tarsks.
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16 87 But we agreed on the price of five silver tarsks, five!" "I thought it was one," grinned a fellow.
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16 96 Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.
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17 70 I had cost him only fifty copper tarsks, half a silver tarsk.
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17 99 Market of Semris is not a large town, and it is mostly famed, as I have earlier noted, for its markets for tarsks, "four-legged" and "two-legged," as it is said, but like most Gorean towns, its square, even as small as it was, was a matter of civic pride.
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17 344 "I will give you five silver tarsks for her," said the man.
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17 405 He had paid five silver tarsks for me.
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22 108 "I have received for you five silver tarsks, and one tarsk bit," he smiled.
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22 109 "I paid five silver tarsks for you, as you may recall.
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23 153 "I was told, Master," I said, "that I was sold to my master, Ionicus, for five silver tarsks and a tarsk bit".
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24 70 The agent in Samnium had purchased her, I had been told by another girl, one apparently sold at about the same time, and also purchased by the agent of Ionicus, for seventy copper tarsks.
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24 76 I was angry that I had sold for twenty copper tarsks less than she.
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24 79 Perhaps much depends on the individual man, and how much we interest him? Perhaps I had been sold before the agent had come to the market? Too, my former master, Gordon, had paid fifty copper tarsks for me, and that was undoubtedly a great deal of money for him.
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26 113 If it were not for such things I did not know what I would be likely to sell for, perhaps two silver tarsks.
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26 125 "Very well," said Aulus, "sixty-eight silver tarsks.
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28 278 "And so, too, do they with their tharlarion, their tarsks, and their other animals".
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29 22 "We are offering fifteen pieces of silver, fifteen solid, sound, unclipped silver tarsks," said the leader.
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29 29 "Good tarsks".
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29 184 For example, animals of all sorts, such as tarsks and verr, as well as slaves, do not have Home Stones.
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29 196 "Twenty-five silver tarsks for the women," said the small fellow.
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29 336 Similarly, we want only the five silver tarsks for each of these women".
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29 342 Each contained five silver tarsks.
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29 1082 "And surely they are worth at least five silver tarsks apiece," said the small fellow.
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29 1084 "Solid, unclipped silver tarsks," said the small fellow.
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29 1252 "I keep the five tarsks!" cried the small fellow.
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34 61 "A treasure," I laughed, "that may be purchased for something in the neighborhood of five silver tarsks!" "Not from me," he said.
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Book 23. (39 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 111 There must have been the equivalent there of seventeen or eighteen silver tarsks.
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1 482 The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women.
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2 263 "Your redemption fee," I said, "is forty copper tarsks, a considerable amount".
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2 270 "My bill is only thirty tarsks," said the second woman.
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2 322 I thought she might bring as much as sixty copper tarsks in a market.
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2 323 If that were so, and the inn sold her for that much, they would have made then, as I recalled, some twenty-five copper tarsks on her.
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2 366 "It costs only forty tarsks to redeem me!" she said.
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2 369 "I would cost only twenty-seven tarsks to redeem!" called the fourth girl.
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3 30 In many inns, depending on the season, to be sure, and the readiness of the keeper to negotiate, one can stay for as little as two or three copper tarsks a day, everything included, within reason, of course, subject to some restraint with respect to paga, and such.
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3 33 The prices, of course, were in terms of copper tarsks.
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3 56 "It is ten tarsks a night," he said.
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3 86 "What are the ten tarsks for?" I asked.
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3 124 On the other hand, we would charge you only three copper tarsks for the time".
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3 131 "Three tarsks seems a good deal for a quarter of an Ahn," I said.
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3 139 "That would be fourteen copper tarsks," he said.
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5 29 I recalled that he had told me that although the use of an inn girl would cost me, in these times, three copper tarsks for only a quarter of an Ahn, I might have the free woman working in the paga room for an Ahn for only a tarsk bit.
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5 233 The amount stated was a silver tarsk, five copper tarsks.
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5 292 "Paga and bread are two tarsks," she said.
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5 293 "Other food may be purchased from three to five tarsks".
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5 643 It was correct, bread and paga, two copper tarsks, the other food, an additional three.
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5 804 It totaled five copper tarsks.
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5 805 When I added that to my current bill, it would come to nineteen copper tarsks.
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5 814 He checked the tablet and added the five tarsks to my bill.
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6 46 I blamed the keeper as much as anything, three copper tarsks for a girl, for a quarter of an Ahn, was outrageous.
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6 198 "The price for an inn girl here," I said, "is three copper tarsks for the quarter of an Ahn".
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6 211 "Nine silver tarsks?" she asked.
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6 685 "Such she-tarsks are worthless," he said.
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6 865 "User of she-tarsks," he laughed.
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7 37 I had given him five copper tarsks.
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8 601 My own bill, for example, all told, had come to nineteen copper tarsks, and a tarsk bit, the latter for the use of the Lady Temione last night.
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8 790 per silver tarsk, the women had cost me two silver tarsks, 87 C.
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10 8 Her hair had probably brought the keeper as much as five copper tarsks.
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10 35 I had redeemed her, by means of Ephialtes, at the Crooked Tarn, for thirty-five copper tarsks, the cost of her bill, but I had sold her for forty, a modest, almost irresistible price, considering the value of women here, at least prior to the city's fall.
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10 107 "I was once well taken at the Crooked Tarn," said the first man, "by a wench whose redemption cost me three silver tarsks, plus travel money, supposedly to get her back to Cos.
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10 263 Klio, redeemed through Ephialtes, had only cost me thirty copper tarsks.
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16 304 This did not do the sheath any good, distending it, but then it was not one, I reminded myself, for which I had had to put out my own tarsks.
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18 313 Or perhaps it was simply a matter of taking possessions along with one, as one might, similarly, attempt to preserve one's livestock, as one might, in flight, say, herd verr or tarsks before one.
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24 731 In defense of the tarsk, however, it is a major Gorean food animal, and a disease amongst tarsks, or a driving off of such herds, has ruined many Gorean economies.
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24 738 Too, they had been forced to thank a free man for having been referred to as pretty little tarsks.
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Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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47 86 A standard price in an average market under normal conditions would run from a few copper tarsks for a nice kettle-and-mat girl to one to five silver tarsks for an average pleasure slave.
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1 28 Had I had a slave sent to my "space" it would have cost me three full copper tarsks, for only a quarter of an Ahn.
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1 1025 "Ten silver tarsks," said Borton, grinning.
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1 1234 There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins.
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12 298 "Do you not clearly understand," she asked, "that it is you, not I, who are the prisoner?" "I think," I said, "you would sell for an average amount of copper tarsks".
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12 349 "Probably an average number of copper tarsks," I said.
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26 191 Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values i...
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26 192 For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn.
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37 456 "I am prepared to offer you ten silver tarsks," he said.
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37 460 Most women were being sold for copper tarsks, some even for a few tarsk bits.
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37 464 "Fifteen silver tarsks," he said.
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47 87 It would have been my supposition that Ina, in many markets, at this time, might have gone for about ninety copper tarsks, up to a silver tarsk fifty.
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Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

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20 167 In such a market I thought that Phoebe would probably go for something like two or two and a half silver tarsks, and that the other girl, if her hair was grown out and her skin healed, for something like two silver tarsks.
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27 351 Accordingly, on this approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn.
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2 367 "She is a delicacy," I said, "worth at least two silver tarsks, in any market".
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3 953 "Think of the whole skin of wine for you and your friends!" A skin of wine might bring as much as four or five copper tarsks.
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6 161 "Last night, Cosian scouts, outside the walls," said a man, "distributed silver tarsks to the homeless, assuring them of the good intentions and friendships of the maritime ubarate!" "That is preposterous," said a man.
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7 261 Sometimes they are marched naked at their stirrups, in chains; sometimes they are marched similarly but among slaves holding other loot, golden vessels, and such; sometimes they are displayed on wagons, or rolling platforms, caged with she-verr or she-tarsks, and so on.
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7 343 On the platform Myron then, and the fellows with him, now reached into the second package, seizing out handfuls of coins, even silver tarsks, and showered them into the crowd.
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8 416 It had cost three full copper tarsks for our admission to the pageant, and one of those was for Phoebe.
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9 597 Slaves, incidentally, are not counted in population statistics, any more than sleen, verr, tarsks and such.
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16 221 "And we shall beat it well with our staffs," said a fellow, grimly, "as we tenderize the sacked meat of tarsks".
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18 198 "Inquiries, and a couple of silver tarsks, at the theater," I said.
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19 7 As one might suppose, the blood lines of the racers are carefully kept and registered, as are, incidentally, those of many other sorts of expensive bred animals, such as tarsks, sleen and verr.
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19 1408 "I would suppose that Appanius, who does not seem enamored of her, will let her go for a pittance, perhaps no more than a handful of copper tarsks".
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19 1409 "That is a curvaceous female to acquire for a few copper tarsks," he said.
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20 157 "Five copper tarsks, Mistress," said the girl.
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20 163 As she had come into the keeping of Appanius in virtue of the couching laws, she had had only one sale, that to me for a few copper tarsks.
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20 166 In typical markets, if it is helpful for purposes of comparison, an excellent woman, suitable, say, for the paga taverns, would sell for between one and three silver tarsks.
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21 521 "Perhaps two or three silver tarsks," I said.
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21 525 "And so I would conjecture," I said, "as such, simply that, she might bring, say, two or three silver tarsks".
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21 532 In most cities there are a hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk.
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21 533 It is not unusual to pick up an excellent female from twenty to eighty copper tarsks.
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23 312 "The weight of this suggests a great many copper tarsks," said Boots, surprised.
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23 329 You note the discrepancy between, say, ten thousand pieces of gold, or more, and one or two copper tarsks".
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23 348 "I would guess for something like two or two and a half silver tarsks," I said.
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23 373 This is regularly done with copper tarsks, to produce, usually, the eight tarsk bits equivalent in most cities to the copper tarsk.
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23 378 "The purse contains no copper tarsks," I said.
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27 317 You can buy one for as little as one or two copper tarsks".
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27 348 There are apparently something like one hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities.
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27 349 Similarly, something like ten silver tarsks would apparently be equivalent, depending on weights, etc.
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27 450 "Probably you would go for something in the neighborhood of two or three silver tarsks," I said.
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Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

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29 431 "Beg if you wish," he said, "to be the girl of a keeper of tarsks, to be the property of a sewer master, to be sold for the cleaning of tharlarion stables, but you are destined rather for the house you so defrauded, for the house of those you so wronged, for the house of your most dire enemies! You ...
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29 453 This site is analogous to that used on a multitude of other forms of domestic animal, verr, tarsks, bosk, and such.
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Book 27. (50 results) Prize of Gor

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25 886 "Two silver tarsks, fifty copper tarsks," said the assistant.
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25 1010 "The bid was of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "not twenty copper tarsks".
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16 646 "I bought you last night for ten copper tarsks," he said.
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16 1294 "Ten copper tarsks were too much for you," said Targo.
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16 1312 I am prepared to let any of these unparalleled beauties go for as little as a dozen silver tarsks!" "Shelf girls!" snorted a man, turning away.
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17 570 "I am prepared to let her go for as little as two silver tarsks," said Targo.
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17 575 "I meant to say three silver tarsks".
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17 579 "I might let her go, if pressed," said Targo, "for a mere two silver tarsks".
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17 611 But that was not true! That was not true! She could not be like that! "I am prepared to let her go, against my better judgment," said Targo, "for only two silver tarsks".
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18 63 "You do not earn your copper tarsks by amusing yourself with slave girls!" Selius grinned.
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18 359 Mirus had let her go, it seemed, for a mere ten copper tarsks, such as might be paid for a worthless girl.
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20 921 "Five copper tarsks each," said he.
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20 929 It was not much, but it was surely something, and Targo, a professional slaver, had paid it, and so, doubtless, had hoped to make a profit on her, perhaps of as much as five tarsks.
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20 941 A reward of ten copper tarsks for her seemed considerable.
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20 997 Perhaps she was "ten-tarsks beautiful," but more? Perhaps! Could she hope then, ever, to bring as much as a silver tarsk? She was convinced, of course, that she was a valuable, attractive slave.
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22 562 "One can scarcely scrape the bottom of the vat! These loafing tarsks drink like desert kaiila! Hurry to the sutlers! Tell them to trundle a new cask to the vat of Callimachus!" Ellen stood there, clutching her pitcher.
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24 180 "I was sold for ten copper tarsks," said Ellen.
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25 589 "Ten copper tarsks for this slut!" called the auctioneer.
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25 590 "Untrained! Never yet collared! Let yours be the first! Marked last night! Fresh meat off the iron! Fifteen copper tarsks! Seventeen! Had but once, and then as a free woman!" There was laughter from the crowd.
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25 599 "Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a...
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25 612 Fellow citizens, give me succor! I am in grievous distress! I call upon some noble, gallant citizen of Brundisium to rescue me! Please, please!" "Well," called the auctioneer to the crowd, "it will take at least thirty-five copper tarsks to rescue her!" There was laughter from the crowd.
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25 614 "Thirty-six tarsks!" "And I will rescue her for my pleasure gardens!" called a fellow.
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25 616 "Ten copper tarsks!" There was laughter.
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25 625 "Thirty-eight copper tarsks!" The woman cried out with misery.
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25 628 "Thirty-eight copper tarsks is too much for so stupid a woman!" called a man.
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25 655 "Forty copper tarsks!" called a voice.
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25 719 "Buy me, Masters! Please, Masters, I beg to be purchased! Buy me, Masters! Please buy me, Masters!" She went for two silver tarsks, surely a considerable sum for a new girl, an untrained slave.
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25 895 I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, are a hundred tarsk-bits to ...
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25 897 For the common silver tarsk, the smaller tarsk, the coin pertinent to the bidding in question, the ratio was one hundred such tarsks to the golden tarn disk, at least that of Ar or Jad, on Cos, and certain other major cities, including Brundisium.
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25 930 "We have a bid of five!" called the auctioneer, "a mere five tarsks for this exquisite little barbarian bauble.
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25 947 She scarcely realized that there was now a bid on her of ten silver tarsks.
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25 1028 "I have a bid of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "and I am preparing to close my hand!" "Wait!" cried a man, pointing to the plainly clad fellow.
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26 469 "Few tarsks go for as much as five gold pieces, Master," said Ellen.
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26 474 "There were silver tarsks bid for me!" said Ellen.
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26 476 "Perhaps you are worth a handful of silver tarsks".
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26 774 Slowly, as Ellen watched, delighted, Selius Arconious, angrily, reluctantly, removing them one by one from his purse, placed twenty-one silver tarsks, of Ar, in the hands of Portus Canio.
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26 786 "Here are your silver tarsks back.
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26 866 He was willing to pay twenty-one silver tarsks, of his own money, for this girl".
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26 886 "Twenty-one silver tarsks is a great deal of money," she said.
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26 1370 Too, Selius Arconious had been willing to pay twenty-one silver tarsks for her.
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26 1373 No tarnster casts aside twenty-one silver tarsks.
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26 1377 There were twenty silver tarsks bid on me in open auction.
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27 58 "But you are not worth twenty silver tarsks," he said angrily.
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27 682 Slaves, incidentally, as other animals, verr, tarsks, and such, are not permitted within the precincts of the temples, lest the temples be profaned.
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30 365 "Did he not pay something in the neighborhood of twenty-one tarsks, and of silver, for me?" "Doubtless I muchly, and foolishly, overpaid," he said.
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30 367 Many girls such as she, she knew, and excellent girls, quality shackle sluts, went for as little as one and a half to three silver tarsks.
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30 368 She recalled there had been a bid of fifteen silver tarsks on her even before Mirus and Selius Arconious had entered upon their competition for a slave, the shapely, gray-eyed brunette being displayed and auctioned.
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30 369 Fifteen silver tarsks, though, she thought, was surely excessive.
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30 376 "Master?" "I have received higher offers for you," he said, "even from men who have merely seen you on the streets, of twenty-five silver tarsks, and more".
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30 636 Slaves, of course, no more than tarsks and kaiila, have Home Stones.
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Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

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5 161 "Perhaps as much as three silver tarsks," he said, "perhaps as much as four, or five".
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11 2 "There is not one," said Peisistratus, "who would not bring three silver tarsks, even in Turia or Ar".
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22 150 "Perhaps as much as two silver tarsks".
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22 185 "Perhaps two and a half silver tarsks?" It is difficult to speculate on these matters, but it seems clear she was a beauty, given the limitations of her species.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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15 16 Indeed, I had had her for a handful of copper tarsks, to be sure, not tarsk-bits, but tarsks.
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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37 657 We then left the back room, and, a bit later, Callias had exchanged one of the tiny beadlike golden tarsks for nine silver tarsks, ninety-nine copper tarsks, and a hundred tarsk-bits, at one of the changing tables maintained in the warehouse by the harbor administration, to facilitate trading.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1111 The highest price, so far, had been brought by the former Lady Persinna, who had gone for three and a half silver tarsks, three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks.
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8 252 "She-tarsks! She-tarsks!" I heard the sound of more blows, cries of pain.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 191 I do not think that one item, to this point, had gone unsold, fortunately for the item, for otherwise it might be whipped, though several, in the first and second segments, had gone cheaply, for copper, from twenty to eighty tarsks, copper tarsks.
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Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 348 I would later learn that slaves, no more than other animals, had Home Stones, no more than tarsks and verr, though they, like tarsks and verr, would often find themselves the properties of those who did.
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10 158 In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.
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28 18 "Twenty-one copper tarsks then!" called out the fellow who had bellowed forth the supposed offer of twenty tarsks but a moment ago.
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