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Book 1. (19 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 207 The moon came out, and the mountainside was suddenly lit with its cold beauty, white on the snow in the trees and on the side of the slope, sparkling on the rocks.
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5 142 During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback.
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5 144 At first even the countryside was depressing, for the men of Ar, as a military policy, had devastated an area of some two or three hundred pasangs on their borders, cutting down fruit trees, filling wells, and salting the fertile areas.
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5 146 I was more pleased on the second day and made camp in a grassy veldt, dotted with the Ka-la-na trees.
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5 154 But an hour before midnight, on the day I knew was the Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna, I climbed again to the saddle of my tarn, drew back on the one-strap, and rose above the lush trees of the swamp forest.
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6 70 When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.
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6 138 Without thinking, I leaped from the back of Nar, seizing one of the long, tendril-like vines that parasitically interlace the gnarled forms of the swamp trees.
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6 215 She shuddered at the memory, and I pitied her for what must have been a horrifying experience, lashed helpless to the saddle of a giant tarn reeling in a death struggle for the mastery of a flock, high over the trees of the swamp forest.
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6 218 "I slipped free and ran under the wing and hid in the trees.
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7 85 About three or four pasangs distant, through the thinning swamp trees, I could see the verdant meadows of Ar's Sa-Tarna land.
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7 128 Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees.
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7 144 "Over there," I said, "are some Ka-la-na trees.
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7 156 "Do as you please," I laughed, and set out for the Ka-la-na trees.
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7 158 We were near the Ka-la-na trees when I heard a slight rustle of brocade behind me.
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7 170 With both hands I wrenched the veil back from her face, thrusting my hand under it to fasten my fist in her hair, and then, as if she were a common tavern girl or a camp slut, I dragged the daughter of the Ubar of all Gor to the shelter of the Ka-la-na trees.
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7 171 Among the trees, on the clover, I threw her to my feet.
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7 181 In anger I had dragged her, helpless, mine by all the Codes of Gor, to the shelter of the trees.
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7 196 But then, shamefacedly, I admitted to myself that I had, while dragging her to the trees, intended to take her and that it had only been the sudden spell of her beauty which, paradoxically enough, had claimed my respect, forced me to recognize that selfishly I was about to injure or dominate what Na...
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8 46 She stepped from the pile of filthy garments at her feet and stood proudly among the trees, the wind slightly moving her long dark hair.
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Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 43 I could see the shadows of tall Ka-la-na trees bending against the darkness of the night, their leaves lifting and rustling on the long branches.
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4 48 The wind gathered force, seeming to tear at the trees.
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6 15 I supplemented my diet with fresh fruit picked from bushes and trees, and fish speared in Gor's cold, swift-flowing streams.
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14 177 Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning.
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20 37 I had only reached the shelter of a line of trees when I saw, some thousand yards behind me, descending on the Compound of the Mines, like clouds of wasps, the tarnsmen of Tharna.
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20 140 I had not walked more than a pasang when, from a cluster of trees to my right, on the other side of a thin, swift stream that flowed from the Sardar, I heard the terrified scream of a girl.
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21 1 I Buy a Girl Out from my scabbard leaped the sword and I splashed across the cold stream, making for the grove of trees across the way.
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21 3 Now I was among the trees, moving rapidly, but cautiously.
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21 6 Through the trees I could see tent canvas, a tharlarion wagon, the strap-masters unharnessing a brace of low tharlarions, the huge, herbivorous draft lizards of Gor.
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21 223 Angrily Targo led the way to the grassy clearing among the trees.
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21 225 The girls now knelt, each in the position of the Pleasure Slave, in their camisks on the grass, in a line between the two trees to which their chain was fastened.
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23 93 The tarn's shadow glided over the blackened frames of buildings, over broken pens from which livestock had been driven, over orchards that were now no more than felled trees, their leaves and fruit brown and withered.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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6 12 The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ...
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17 98 It was merely a scene of a road, bordered by some trees, which seemed to slowly approach the lens and then pass behind it.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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19 36 Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o...
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19 37 Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks.
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2 148 The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees.
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17 10 Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo...
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18 117 I could see, here and there, on the inside, the tops of graceful flower trees.
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18 121 I now saw him leap to the wall and, scarcely looking about, run along and then leap to the swaying trunk of one of the flower trees and descend swiftly into the darkness of the gardens.
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19 35 I knew that the clusters of flowers which, cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues.
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19 61 I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool.
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 14 There were hundreds of them, trimmed and squared, mostly of Ka-la-na wood, from the sweet-smelling wine trees of Gor.
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9 70 There were various hues of grass, some secluded pools, some small trees, a number of fountains and curving walks.
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Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 16 I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
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10 290 There are wardens who watch the trees, guarding against illegal cutting and pasturage, and inspectors who, each year, tally and examine them.
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10 293 They are also responsible for bending and fastening certain numbers of young trees so that they will grow into desired shapes, usually to be used for frames, and stem and sternposts.
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10 294 Individual trees, not in the preserves, which are claimed by Port Kar, are marked with the seal of the arsenal.
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10 295 The location of all such trees is kept in a book available to the Council of Captains.
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10 296 These preserves are usually located near rivers, in order to facilitate bringing cut trees to the sea.
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10 297 Trees may also be purchased from the Forest People, who will cut them in the winter, when they can be dragged on sleds to the sea.
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10 300 Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; Ka-la-na serves for capstans and mastheads; Tem-wood for rudders and oars; and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking.
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18 147 In the distance we could see rocky beaches, and grass and brushland beyond, and beyond that, a woodland, with Tur and Ka-la-na trees.
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18 148 We took the shuddering bird down among the trees.
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Book 7. (37 results) Captive of Gor

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9 16 To reach the high trees of the forest, the great Tur trees, would be perhaps better than another hour's trek.
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9 220 * * * * Then, after perhaps another hour, we came, almost abruptly, suddenly, to a stand of the high trees, the Tur trees, of the northern forests.
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11 779 Sometimes I ran between the great Tur trees, on the carpeting of leaves between them, sometimes I made my way through more thickset trees, sometimes through wild, moonlit tangles of brush and vines.
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3 327 I thrilled to their pursuit, and would elude them! Finally, when I was more than two hundred yards ahead of them, on a cruelly winding road, I switched off my headlights and drove off the road into some trees.
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3 473 I switched off the lights on the Maserati and whipped off the road, moving toward some patches of trees in the distance.
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3 488 I reached the trees.
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3 489 In the trees, terrified, I saw the dark disklike shape hover over the Maserati.
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3 508 I ran from it, forcing my way through the brush and trees, scraped and torn.
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3 509 Time and time again it seemed on the verge of illuminating me, yellow on the trees and brush only feet from me, but it would pass by, or I would turn away from it and run again.
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3 518 Then I saw some small lights beyond the trees and brush some fifty yards in front of me, in a sort of clearing in the woods.
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5 23 I was in a field of some sort, but there were trees, tall and dark, in the distance.
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5 27 In the distance, away from the forest, I could see a yellowish thicket, it, too, of trees, but not green, but bright and yellow.
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7 67 In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl.
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7 80 Others he commanded to cut loose the great bosk that pulled the wagons, and drive them, too, into the brush and trees.
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7 85 Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,...
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7 88 Nineteen of his girls, separately, taken deep into the thicket, had had their wrists bound together, either before their body or behind their back, about small trees.
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9 5 The girls moved swiftly, single file, through the brush and small trees at the edge of the forest.
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9 15 It had been difficult making our way through the brush and thickset trees.
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9 104 The light of the three moons filtered through the trees, speckling the glade.
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9 176 The file continued its journey through the trees and brush, threading its way through the darkness and branches.
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9 203 And they could fight with knives and knew the trails and trees of the vast forests.
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9 225 They contain great numbers of various species of trees, and different portions of the forests may differ considerably among themselves.
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9 232 We found ourselves now in a stand of the lofty Tur trees.
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9 234 The trunks of the trees were almost bare of branches until, so far above, branches seemed to explode in an interlacing blanket of foliage, almost obliterating the sky.
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9 237 Between the lofty, widely spaced trees there was little but a carpeting of leaves.
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9 250 One by one, with her eyes, Verna released the girls, and each ran lightly, eagerly, through the trees.
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9 278 I straightened my body and, tears in my eyes, walked between the trees, in the moonlight.
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9 280 It was some twenty-five to thirty yards in diameter, ringed by the lofty trunks of Tur trees.
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9 407 I could see nothing but the darkness of the trees, and the shadows.
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9 413 I looked again into the darkness, the trees and shadows, to the right.
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11 778 I had run madly away, through the dark trees, stumbling, falling, rolling, getting up and running again.
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11 780 I even found myself, once, when passing through the high Tur trees, at the circle, where the panther girls had danced.
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11 798 The prevailing northern winds, carrying rain and moisture, had coated the northern sides of the high trees with vertical belts of moss, extending some twenty to thirty feet up the trunks.
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11 802 I pretended not to see them and, heart pounding, turned to one side, walking through the trees.
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12 259 In a hunting camp such a pole is commonly lashed in the branches of trees, and is used to dry skins, display catches and such.
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13 322 I slipped from the soft, gentle, green path between the trees and brush, and fell to my stomach, concealed among the brush and grasses.
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14 119 It was a war camp, lying in a remote, hilly area, covered with trees.
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Book 8. (42 results) Hunters of Gor

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7 1 Grenna Softly, stealthily, the long bow of yellow Ka-la-na, from the wine trees of Gor, in my hand, I moved through the brush and trees.
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2 737 From this tree, travel generally north, seeking similarly blazed trees, a quarter of a pasang apart.
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2 738 There are fifty such trees.
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2 741 Again the trees are blazed, but now, at the foot of the trunk, by the mark of a sleen knife.
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2 742 Go twenty such trees.
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2 744 A pasang north by northeast from that tree, again look for blazed trees, but now the blazing is, as before, high on the trunk, and made by a girl's spear.
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2 745 Again go twenty such trees.
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6 24 We heard, as is not uncommon, the screams of forest panthers within the darkness of the trees.
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6 356 I looked at the sun, it was now low, behind the trees, well below them.
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7 4 When I did not move, did I stand among the brush and light trees, in the sunlight and shadows, it was difficult to detect my presence, even from a distance of some yards.
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7 14 The forest, for the trees were more widely spread and the brush thick, was hot.
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7 72 I continued on, through the brush and trees.
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7 106 I continued on, through the brush and trees.
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7 135 Some seventy-five yards through the trees I thought I saw a movement, furtive, the flash of a thigh.
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7 171 I lifted my head to the trees in the thicket ahead, the tangles of brush and undergrowth.
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7 188 I lifted the great bow of yellow Ka-la-na, from the wine trees of Gor.
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7 267 It was low now, sunk among the trees.
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8 246 I found a black temwood arrow, a sheaf arrow, and fitted it unsteadily to the string of the great bow, the yellow bow, from the wine trees of Gor.
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8 272 "Two! They are escaping!" Thrusting Arn along beside me, holding his arm, we found a trail among the trees.
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9 4 I could see lofty Tur trees surrounding the clearing.
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9 5 We were deep in the forest, somewhere within one of the stands of the mighty Tur trees.
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9 8 But through the leafed branches of the trees I could catch only glimpses of them.
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9 179 I could now see them beginning to emerge from behind the leaves and high branches of the encircling Tur trees.
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9 228 The moons were now over the trees.
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9 308 I looked up, and saw the bright moons, now beyond the foliage of the Tur trees.
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13 37 They ran toward me as I had wanted them to, near the edge of the river, in the shortest line, away from the trees.
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13 80 The girls had tangled themselves in the brush not twenty yards into the trees.
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14 98 The reflections of the firelight, intermingled with the intense, soft black shadows, illuminated the trunks of the surrounding trees, and their lower leaves and branches.
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14 148 They now stood well over the trees.
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14 212 Then, not bidding them farewell, I turned and disappeared among the shadows and trees.
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15 721 I could see the edges of the trees quite clearly against it.
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18 2 "The sea!" He stumbled forth from the thickets, and, behind them, the lofty trees of the forest.
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18 12 He did not see me, among the darkness of the trees.
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18 55 On the other hand, on the orders of Sarus, the seventy-five men had been chained in a large circle, about some ten large trees.
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18 57 The long set of chains and collars, securing them, had been fastened about several trees, in a great circle.
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18 64 Either the chains must be broken or the trees cut.
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18 76 I heard the cries of gladness of Hura's girls as they emerged through the trees and came to the beach.
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18 112 If necessary, all might have been, in a moment, abandoned, secured perhaps about trees or rocks, save Marlenus, their chief prize, the central object of their endeavors, their expedition of abduction.
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18 288 They fled to the darkness of the trees and began to break and gather wood.
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18 474 In the legends of others they appear as blond giants, breathing fire, shattering doors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears and eyes like fire and hands like great claws and hooks; they are seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with killing, with braided hair, clad ...
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21 166 They had come prepared, though naked, to make war, though it be with but the branches of trees and the stones of the forest.
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22 130 In a moment, from the trees, emerged Hura.
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Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 197 "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which ...
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2 17 Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward.
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6 3 Here and there, clinging to the rock, were lichens, and small bushes, and even stunted trees.
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6 52 I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work; in others fish might be dried or butter made.
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6 311 Upon reflection, however, it seemed to me not so strange that this should be so, in a bleak country, one in which many of the trees, too, would be stunted and wind-twisted.
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7 97 On the way back to the hall, cutting through the tospit trees, we had passed by the sul patch.
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10 567 Since the Nest War the probes of aliens had grown more bold, even on Gor; they had little difficulty in taking female slaves on Earth; gold, exchangeable for materials essential to their enterprises, was well guarded on Earth; it could seldom be obtained in quantities without attracting the attentio...
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11 94 "As many as the stones of the beaches," said the Kur, "as many as the needles on the needle trees".
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11 153 "As many," said the Kur, "as the stones on the beaches, as many as the needles on the needle trees".
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 56 About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves.
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1 236 They lay in the shade of trees, concealed from the air.
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2 41 They are usually muddy ponds, with some stunted trees about, centered in the midst of an extensive radius of grassless, cracked, dry earth.
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10 47 I counted eleven palm trees, date palms, cut down, their trunks fallen at an angle into the dust, the palm leaves dried and lifeless, the fruit unripened.
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11 206 It is thus not unusual that, in a desert situation, a calm, normal person may, misinterpreting physical cues, make an oasis, complete with buildings and trees, out of energies reflected over a heated surface from rock and brush.
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Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 815 Bordering these streams was brush, and some trees.
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2 816 The fields were broken now, with occasional trees, many of them flat-topped.
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2 817 In what I conjecture would have been an hour or so before dawn he stopped in a thicket of trees, near a small stream.
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2 819 I fell to the grass between the trees.
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2 835 It was warm, and the sun, high, filtered through the branches of the trees.
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2 972 It was darker now, through the trees.
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2 1039 Contrary to yesterday, he had not this day traveled in the light, but had spent the day in this tiny glade, only a few feet wide, concealed by trees about, and, overhead, by their interlacing branches.
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2 1044 I looked about myself, with apprehension, at the shadows of the trees and branches.
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2 1129 He lifted his head, and looked away from me, out through the trees.
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2 1140 In the glade, in the darkness, among the trees, so much his, I had almost compromised my identity and integrity! I, a girl of Earth, had wanted to yield to him, a harsh barbarian! Was I not a free individual, a person? Had I no pride? How furious I was with myself.
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2 1146 We stood at the edge of the trees.
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2 1160 The man in whose power I was slipped back more deeply among the trees.
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2 1166 The line of march approached the trees.
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2 1228 Then the men, the torches, disappeared in the distance, through the trees.
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3 16 Within the camp itself and about it were several trees, some of them rather large.
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3 795 The tenting was striped on the inside; the small lamp was ornate; on the outside, interestingly, the tenting was a dull brown; among brush and trees it would be easy not to notice it, even if it were pitched but a few yards away.
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5 104 I watched the guards, through the trees, make their rounds.
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5 122 Several animals, those called bosk, ten or more, hobbled, browsed among the trees on the other side of the camp.
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5 292 From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts.
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5 306 "Run," said my master, indicating a path through the trees, past the far end of the camp.
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5 321 I was now among the trees, out of sight of the camp, but I was being pursued, by how many men I did not know.
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7 256 In a few moments he, not looking back, strode away, through the trees, followed by the majority of his men, in single file.
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7 289 We hurried on then, swiftly, through the mixed shadows and moonlit trees, following the men, our masters.
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9 2458 One could scarcely see the trees and road.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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9 221 We do not grow excited about the growth of trees, and Goreans do not grow excited about the growth of people.
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11 249 Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water.
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12 106 * * * * Perhaps I was struck most by the absence of trees.
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Book 13. (29 results) Explorers of Gor

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26 25 The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.
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32 25 Trees surrounded us.
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32 38 They had located sensible geodesic contours and, in traversing the area, had, because of their larger vessels, cut away various trees, vines, and obstacles.
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32 57 Kisu, sitting, was looking down through the trees at the swift, churning water of the river.
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32 160 One searches for wood beneath rock overhangs or under fallen trees.
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32 161 One may also, with pangas, hack away the wet wood of fallen trees, until one can obtain the dry wood beneath.
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32 172 One does not make one's camp in the jungle near tall trees.
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32 173 Because of the abundant amount of moisture the trees do not send down deep tap roots, but their root systems spread more horizontally.
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32 174 In the fierce winds which often lash the jungle it is not unusual for these shallowly rooted trees, uprooted and overturned, to come crashing down.
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32 176 There is an incredible variety of trees in the rain forest, how many I cannot conjecture.
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32 183 In the rain forest some trees grow and lose leaves all year long, remaining always in foliage.
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32 192 The highest level or zone is that of the "emergents," that of those trees which have thrust themselves up above the dense canopies below them.
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32 211 In their feeding they break down and destroy the branches and trunks of fallen trees.
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32 237 Looking about among the slender, scattered colonnades of trees, exploding far overhead in the lush capitals of the green canopy, one is often exposed to vistas of one to two hundred feet, or more.
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32 489 There is more concern on Earth for the health of trees than humans.
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34 17 Even in the open, as I was, in a clearing among trees, it is hard to use one's spear to its best advantage, the animal stays so close to you and moves so quickly.
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34 126 * * * * I looked upward, through the trees.
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38 11 "It was there," said Ayari, a moment later, pointing to a space between trees.
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43 7 It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints.
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43 25 The trees were thick, the brush, near the river, heavy.
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43 107 "I am, too, made uncomfortable by the thickness of the brush and trees in these areas, both before and now.
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44 22 Immediately I spun about and ran to the edge of the trees.
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44 51 I then retreated backward, into the trees.
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44 52 It followed me to the line of trees, and then stopped.
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46 59 "They will be like the leaves on the trees, like the bits of sand at the shore," he said.
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47 30 They, rustling and black, moved over fallen trees and about rocks and palms.
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53 350 Again and again, then, the trunks of small trees struck at the barrier fending us from the main forces of the attacker.
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55 10 We felt a shock wave of great heat and saw trees falling.
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55 14 In places the tops of standing trees still burned.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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33 6 We stood at the top of the hill, in the grass, in the shade of some Ka-la-na trees, the yellow wine trees of Gor.
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13 144 There are many trees planted at the sides of this avenue, and there are frequent fountains.
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13 192 The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.
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18 80 She looked about, but did not see us, as we were some distance away, at the corner of the house, and shielded by trees.
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25 374 I did not look back again until I had attained the refuge of an extended, linear terrain of trees and brush bordering a small stream.
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32 2 We lay together on the soft dirt and leaves, in a small clump of trees in a meadow.
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32 3 I was on my back, looking up at the moons through the branches of the trees.
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33 83 I went to the crest of the hill and stood among the trees.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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29 20 The three moons were high over the trees, bordering the shadowy inlet.
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32 351 I gasped for breath, and then submerged, and swam underwater for the brush and trees, half sunken, which bordered the channel leading to the gate.
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32 356 I then swam again underwater for a time until I emerged in the spongy terrain north and west of the holding, shielded from sight by trees from her walls.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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19 443 For example, it can be useful in leading her about, either because of its ring, if it has one, to which a leash may be attached, or in connection with a leash with a snap lock, which can be placed about the collar itself; similarly it is useful, in connection with various forms of hardware, in faste...
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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11 10 These collars had then been fastened about two small trees, thus confining the girls, other than Ginger and Evelyn, to the line between the two trees.
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11 3 I stood at the edge of our small camp, in a few trees, nestled beside a small stream.
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11 24 It was of wood, a flexible branch, about a yard long, cut by Grunt from one of the trees amongst which we camped.
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13 751 Then we were driving on dirt roads, dark and lonely, lined with trees.
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13 756 'Slow down here,' he said, 'and pull into those trees, and stop.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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34 376 I scarcely glanced into the shallow valley, at the trees along the stream, the lodges hidden among the trees.
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34 389 "There!" On that rise there were two trees, white-barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves.
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3 23 A man was now riding slowly forward, alone, toward some trees a few hundred yards away.
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3 24 Lines of such trees, in the Barrens, and low, sloping geodesics, watersheds, tend to mark, often, the location of the tiny streams which occur in the country.
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5 221 The bulls polish them, themselves, rubbing them against sloping banks and trees.
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12 206 "You have been very helpful!" I then led the girl from the vicinity of the herd, to a place I had picked out, in the shelter of some trees, near a small stream.
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12 212 "Here we are," I said, entering among the trees.
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12 723 I looked at the sun through the trees.
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34 373 "There," said Cuwignaka, standing on the crest of the small hill, in the deep grass, "below, is the camp, nestled in the trees, by the small stream.
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34 392 I stared, tremblingly, at the lonely pair of trees.
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34 393 "The trees," I said.
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34 394 "The trees".
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34 395 They were Hogarthe trees, named for Hogarthe, one of the early explorers in the area of the Barrens.
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34 397 Their shape is very reminiscent of poplar trees on Earth, to which, perhaps, in virtue of seeds brought to the Counter-Earth, they may be related.
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34 398 "It is from those trees," said Cuwignaka, "that this place has its name".
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35 95 Torrents of cold rain descended in diagonal sheets, pounding at the rocks, tearing at the leaves of nearby trees.
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35 138 A small fire, of sweet-brush and needles, from needle trees, is then built.
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35 146 There are some trees about.
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35 175 How absurd that I lay here, on these stones, daubed with white clay, in a vision place, alone with the trees and stars.
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38 8 We had transported the bird to this grove of trees on a travois, drawn by two kaiila.
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41 6 The girl, near the lodge at Two Feathers, amidst trees, knelt, trembling.
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41 9 Leaves were torn from the trees in its passage!" "It is gone now," I said.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 892 It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth".
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3 893 "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked.
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6 360 I knew few of the flowers and trees.
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6 365 How few children of Earth, I thought, are taught the names and kinds of the trees and shrubs, the plants, the insects and birds, which surround them constantly.
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6 589 I could see, among trees, the various theaters, and the stadium.
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6 623 "There, where you see the trees," said Drusus Rencius, "is the garden of Antisthenes".
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6 631 Men are such brutes! How helpless are the slaves! "There, where you see the trees," said Drusus Rencius, again, "is the garden of Antisthenes".
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22 12 The wagon, unhitched, was drawn among some trees.
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30 75 Then I was running along the western edge of the concourse, under the trees.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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5 26 The "work chain," heavily chained, secured between two trees, had not been guarded.
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22 22 The wagons of the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit were drawn up on the height of a hill, amidst trees, overlooking Thassa.
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22 29 I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above Thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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21 233 Stately Tur trees, appropriately enough, line its walks.
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25 790 At last, as we entered among the trees of the woods of Nina, he gave me respite.
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25 805 They were on a common neck chain, stripped, fastened between two trees.
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Book 22. (17 results) Dancer of Gor

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29 80 There were more trees rather behind us, and to the left, trees which, from their size, had probably been there for years, antedating, and surviving, the structure, now in ruins, before which we were tied.
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7 92 I found almost everything I saw different, and interesting, the men and women, the children, the clothes, their accouterments, the streets, the buildings, the tents, the stalls, the trees, the flowers, everything.
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10 26 His forearms and arms, too, were frighteningly thick, and sturdy, like the trunks of small trees.
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27 3 I had feared they might not have a pen here, but only a chain, perhaps stretched between trees, that we might be attached to, by the ankle or neck.
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27 100 In a moment we were among trees, on a path.
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27 202 It was shortly after that, when we were again on our way to the pen, that I had thought I might have detected a movement among the trees.
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27 334 Outside the bars, on the dirt, it lifted me in its arms and, half crouching, carried me into some trees.
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29 79 The meadow, which was very beautiful, sloped gently down and away from us, mostly to the right, and was generally bordered by trees.
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29 81 The whole place, judging from the condition of the meadow, where the grass was sometimes very high, and the trees across from us, smaller and wilder, had probably been abandoned for years.
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29 90 "And meat, much more meat!" He had been very angry, almost from the moment these five fellows had appeared, coming through the trees, for they had not simply completed the transaction, according to the terms which, I took it, had been previously agreed upon, but, it seems, had chosen to have, or app...
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29 207 "I have three more waiting with a closed slave wagon on the other side of the trees.
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29 1613 In this time he had walked Callisthenes and Sempronius before him, back toward the trees, in which direction, it seemed, lay the slave wagon.
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30 8 The tharlarion, unhitched, but tethered, browsed among the trees, pulling at herbs in the grass, lifting its neck to nibble at wide leaves.
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30 134 Tela was then freed of the cords on her ankles, holding her between the trees.
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30 136 I was then freed of the ankle cords which had kept me in place, between the trees.
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33 4 Closer to me there were some trees and brush.
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33 187 "Accordingly," he said, "if someone did not wish to be observed in approaching the camp, he might come from that direction which lies more behind you, where there are trees and brush".
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 803 They may, however, together with those of the feet, enable the creature, in suitable environments, to cling, batlike, to surfaces, such as rock faces and trees.
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30 1 The Tor Shrub I looked off, through the shrubbery and trees, behind Titus.
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30 5 Trees, generally not common in the marshy delta, were more common now, as we were approaching its southern edge.
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30 24 "Look behind Titus," I said, "some thirty to forty yards back, in the shrubbery, where the two trees are close together".
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30 31 "Shrubbery," he said, "some grass, some rence, two trees".
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37 232 The chains just mentioned, as stated, were fastened to rings in the wagon bed, but sometimes such chains are fastened outside the wagon, for example to stakes or trees.
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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6 140 "They are like the leaves of trees, like the sands of the sea," said a man.
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8 62 It is lined with Tur trees.
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13 130 "But it is here I am," he exclaimed, looking about himself, at the street, the avenue, the buildings, the trees, the fountains, the sky.
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28 34 And then, too, sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple, because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of water, a grain of sand...
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Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

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1 24 There are trees in the garden, of course, but they are not placed in proximity to the wall.
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1 61 It was set among the trees, and its spill fed into the pool.
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1 65 It was my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the tiny, lovely trees of the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain.
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3 4 It was my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the trees of the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain.
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5 111 It had been my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the tiny, lovely trees in the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain.
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7 5 I could hear some birds, among the trees.
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8 209 Here I was free to be what I was! Here I might feel, truly feel! Here one need not live as if indoors, sheltered from sunlight and rain, here one might look upon truth as it was in itself, not as it might be distorted in the labyrinths of prescribed protocols, here one might touch real things, like ...
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18 48 In a sense, I suppose, we are part of the beauties of a city, an aspect of its scenic delights, part of the attractions of the area, as might be her flower trees and brightly plumaged birds.
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18 53 Think of the flower trees, the brightly plumaged birds! Surely, in some way, we not only characterize, but adorn, a city.
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19 309 But how would you know it was a Priest-King? How would it establish its identity? Perhaps it could uproot trees, or kill people, or something.
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31 729 Suddenly the pit master, with a great cry, with a great surge of strength, like a moving mountain, like a pain-crazed, maddened bull, threw from him the black-tunicked men who held him, as the mountain might have uprooted trees and tumbled boulders to the valley below, as the bull, rearing up, tossi...
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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20 199 Before dawn the tarn train once more landed, this time amongst a cluster of small hills, covered with needle trees, evergreen trees, and took its shelter in a narrow ravine.
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4 485 It seemed a strange landscape, in its way, with gentle yellow trees nestled in a valley, and, in the distance, a range of scarlet mountains.
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15 671 "From the wine trees of Gor," he said.
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20 186 During the day the men, concealed among the trees, took turns watching the skies.
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20 216 She had great difficulty in sleeping for a time, but, late in the afternoon, in the warmth, the sunlight descending gently, lazily, amongst the trees, she fell asleep.
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20 635 The boat was rowed, or maneuvered, with its back oar, to a different point on the shore, and, when the area had been sufficiently reconnoitered by the two lads, she was lifted from the boat, and led into the trees.
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21 82 The group was directed toward a narrow trail, one winding its way gently downward among deciduous trees.
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21 83 In a few Ehn, between trees, she saw a small stream.
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29 2 "Masters!" she called, delightedly, emerging from between the trees.
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29 32 She is afraid of her master! She is well mastered! Let them all be well mastered! Eyeing the guards then, one of whom, as though to frighten her, turned his kaiila toward her, Ellen retreated to the trees at the edge of the road.
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29 66 Selius Arconious turned about, and made his way back through the trees.
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29 98 And I hope she has a master who knows how to master her! Then she turned and made her way back through the trees, to where the men would have made the camp.
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Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

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5 16 It seemed strange to him to see above him, so distant, what he took to be trees, and dwellings, viewed as though from overhead, and yet he was clearly below them, or, perhaps, equivalently, above them.
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8 33 Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees.
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12 8 Cabot could see trees, as though from above, far over his head.
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12 10 He could see, far above him, amidst the trees, what appeared to be a lake.
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13 2 He had not proceeded far into the forest when he became aware that they were about him, amongst the trees.
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13 32 Behind the men, in the trees, Cabot could detect several female figures, also clad in skins.
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13 122 At this point a cry, as of a bird, came through the trees.
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13 124 Archon gestured to Cabot, and the others, and then turned about, and disappeared amongst the trees.
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18 153 Cabot then saw the other Kurii emerge from the trees.
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19 19 On several of the translators of the hunters, almost simultaneously, Cabot heard, "No!" Through the trees into the clearing emerged a machine, slowly, menacingly, in the form of a gigantic larl.
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19 54 He then saw it, as must have the Kurii, as well, tawny and sinuous, amongst the trees, half crouching.
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19 124 The machine then took up the huge body of the Kur in its jaws, held it dangling for a moment, while looking about itself, and then it shook it as though it might have been no more than a handful of rags, shook it viciously, and then flung it away, until it struck against trees, and fell to their fee...
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21 489 The blow might have shattered walls, felled small trees.
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32 251 "Perhaps we should withdraw into the trees," said Grendel.
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32 257 "In the trees," said Cabot, "we have a small camp, and there are edible leaves there, some gathered roots, and berries".
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32 261 "Yes, Master," she said, and hurried toward the trees.
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32 274 The three of them then proceeded toward the trees.
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35 15 One gathers that ka-la-na wood, common on Gor from her wine trees, would have been preferable for the launching device, or bow, which Cabot had prepared, carved into its gentle arc with a sharp stone, but such are not found in the world.
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39 41 Immediately several of the Kurii began to scan the shrubbery and trees about.
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52 5 "I do see several bodies, rotted, no longer of interest even to birds, dangling, hanging from trees".
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55 38 "But stay back, in the trees".
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55 213 Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury...
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59 1 A Rendezvous Takes Place "I see," said Flavion, stepping forth from the trees, "you have not brought weapons".
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63 9 Lord Grendel howled in rage, his eyes raised to his far sky, where one could see the heights of the trees descendent, so far above him, visible through wisps of clouds.
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67 34 Overhead Cabot could even see it on the trees which, from his vantage point, though so far away, seemed to be growing downward.
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67 74 He could see branches of trees reflected in them.
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68 56 "Why are you here, alone? What are you doing, here, alone, in the forest?" But the two Kurii had then disappeared into the darkness, amongst the trees.
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70 48 Ramar padded away, amongst the closely set trees.
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Book 29. (51 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 67 To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...
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7 69 Needle trees, too, come to maturity more rapidly than Tur trees, and may thus be the sooner and the more frequently harvested.
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7 144 "These seem to be Tur trees, all Tur trees".
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12 187 These cots were mostly improvised, walled with rope nets strung between trees, and, too, large, heavy poles, doubtless from local trees, trimmed of bark and branches.
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28 421 From the trees there was a hideous wailing and four Pani, glaives ready, slipped amongst the trees.
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1 543 "Tal," said the fellow, standing back, amidst the trees, in the shadows.
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2 78 On the other hand the environed trees, and, in particular, those marked or badged, tend on the whole to be left unmolested, in the various precincts.
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2 385 "Come back, into the trees," said Pertinax, anxiously.
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2 435 "Hurry! Hurry!" called Pertinax, back amongst the trees.
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3 117 "Transients, like yourself, a coastal peddler, the arrival twice yearly of an inspector and scribe, to review the trees, to inventory the reserves".
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3 133 "I saw no track amidst the trees, no road," I said.
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3 508 They cannot hunt in them, for the closeness of the trees".
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4 1 A Sail I stood back amongst the trees, looking out to sea.
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4 49 Or had such things to do with Priest-Kings, and their plans? And were Kurii here intent on turning something to their own advantage? From the shelter of the trees, I looked across the water.
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4 61 In approaching the shore, I had left an easy trail leading to the beach, but had then doubled back, and waited in the shelter of some trees, a few yards back, and to the side, from which point of relative concealment I could both survey the beach and monitor my original trail.
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4 110 I then drew her by the right arm, she stumbling, to the edge of the trees, at the border of the beach.
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4 435 She then cried out in misery, and disappeared into the trees, presumably to warn Pertinax.
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5 1068 I could see some fellows amongst the trees.
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5 1094 Behind them, back in the trees, I saw seven or eight briefly tunicked slaves.
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5 1140 In moments the leader of the fellows from the forest had set out amongst the trees.
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6 8 This was obvious, for the reserves are gardened, or nearly so, shrubbery cleared, trees spaced, and such, that they may grow exuberantly upward, muchly straight, and tall.
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6 13 Here the trees were muchly together, each challenged by the others, leaves competing for sunlight, roots engaged in their subterranean contests to absorb water and minerals.
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7 61 The trees were spaced, yards apart, and were lofty.
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7 63 They were Tur trees.
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7 65 Needle trees, of which there were none here, are usually used for masts.
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7 141 "It says 'These are the trees of Port Kar.
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7 145 I went to one of the trees a few yards back and to the left.
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8 43 In the neighborhood of dawn I had seen him through the trees.
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8 63 He then awakened the girls and freed their rope leashes from the respective trees to which they had been fastened, and approached me, followed by the girls, still bound, but the leashes now dangling from their necks.
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9 191 The camp seemed to be, more than anything, a lumber camp, for logging was in process in the vicinity, and one, not unoften, heard the striking of axes, the crash of falling trees.
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9 192 These logs were trimmed, sawn, harnessed, and dragged by grunting, hissing draft tharlarion to staging areas where, skinned of bark, and piled, they awaited hoisting by weights and pulleys onto wagons, which were then drawn by tharlarion down a narrow, muddy road, soon disappearing amongst the trees...
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11 1 Cecily and I Look In on the Former Miss Wentworth A few days after her interview with Lord Nishida in his pavilion, curious, I decided to look in on the former Miss Wentworth, and so, after an inquiry or two, I made my way, heeled by Cecily, to one of the large stables in which draft tharlarion wer...
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18 36 Some of the enemy then turned about, to flee back to the shelter of the trees and, momentarily, the housing area.
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19 159 I could see the trees through which he had disappeared.
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22 294 "Into the trees," I instructed him, indicating the direction.
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22 338 He then turned and disappeared into the darkness, between the trees.
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22 395 Beast by beast, over the past Ahn, several of the stampeded tharlarion, now slowed or milling, even grazing, many hemmed in by trees, and snared by brush, had been gathered in.
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25 214 Who would have it otherwise? Through the trees, looking up, I saw the unshuttered lantern of an aflight tarnsman.
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26 53 Soon, much at my own level, some four hundred yards above the trees, I saw what I had anticipated, the brief unshuttering of a lantern.
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26 306 We could see some three or four lanterns, perhaps four hundred yards away, over the dark trees.
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27 29 Then the wagon had disappeared amongst the trees.
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28 8 Sometimes trees were felled to widen the road, to avoid the miring.
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28 9 Twice the road was washed out and a bridge of felled, roped trees must span it, a bridge that would sometimes break and be swept away, given the current and the weight to which it was subjected.
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28 68 It was toward evening, and the light, in the rain, and within the looming trees, was poor.
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28 229 It might be fifty yards or more, back in the trees.
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28 414 There was suddenly a rush from my left, and something emerged from the darkness, from the trees, and I knelt down, on my right knee, heard the scrape of a blade on the metal, and, almost simultaneously, rose up, swinging the edged buckler up, violently, to the left, and it met resistance, and there ...
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28 416 At the same time, from within the trees, I heard a screaming, and a shaking and a tearing, as though an arm might be being torn from its shoulder.
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28 444 "The beast must have carried it away, into the trees, to feed".
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28 475 "May I have a lantern?" I asked one of the Pani, and, given this artifact, I moved back, between the trees.
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29 71 We moved toward the head of the column, it now arrested, as most of the drovers, and others, had abandoned the wagons to hurry forward, to see at last before them a vista, and not the gloomy, enclosing walls of a seemingly endless corridor of trees.
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29 80 We came then, at last, to an opening in the trees, and stood upon a rise, from which a road led gently downward through the valley toward the river.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 747 The terrain seemed to change, and there were now trees here and there, sometimes groves.
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3 879 We withdrew a way from the camp, amongst the trees.
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16 282 It burns longer than softer wood, such as that of needle trees, but it is harder to ignite".
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21 160 In a quarter of an Ahn, we began to see more detail abeam, a steep, sandy beach, with hills and trees beyond it.
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22 206 A similar danger is to pursue a broken foe, or an apparently broken foe, while the foe's marshaled reserves, ready at hand, or even hidden at hand, as in trenches, or amongst trees, are ready to strike from the flank.
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28 199 Does she truly wish to conceal her beauty? Does she not rather, in her heart, desire to reveal it? How different is it, truly, from that of a thousand other beauties, that of grass and wine trees, that of tabuk, of sleen, or kaiila? Is it not a thing with which to be pleased? Let the slave, brazen i...
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33 152 For example, there is often much misery, much grief, even lamentation, in the pleasure garden of a rich man, who is assuredly a private master, where slaves may often constitute little more than another adornment, much as the colored grasses, the trimmed shrubberies, the beds of flowers, the exotic ...
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36 254 The buyers and sellers, and lookers-on, the dealers, the idlers, the porters, the curious, the men in the warehouse, I think, noticed nothing of what was passing amongst them, no more than trees, or rushes bending in the wind, might have noticed the passage amongst them of some silent, patient, sinu...
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36 281 The trees, the rushes, so to speak, had suddenly become aware of what might be amongst them.
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37 1321 At night, in camps, we were chained in the open, to trees or the wagon wheels.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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16 289 "A single chain, run through their shackle chain, and fastened between trees, will secure the lot.
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17 98 In this camp it was strung not between two trees, but between two heavy posts, to which it was bolted, the posts some twenty paces apart.
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22 76 There might be avalanches, suddenly flooding streams, dislodged boulders, tumbling, fallen trees, trails might be lost, faded or washed away.
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23 155 Too, with the men they have they could fell trees, bridge gaps, smooth passages, widen trails".
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26 170 Accordingly the masters had made use of small trees as slave posts, about which we would be ankle-shackled.
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37 189 Your eyes do not throw nets out and draw trees and mountains into your head.
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52 76 There were trees, and grass, in the small courtyard, and flowers, mostly talenders, and dinas, some veminium.
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Book 32. (56 results) Smugglers of Gor

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33 125 The word itself, which is generic for several wines, derives from the ka-la-na trees, or wine trees, of Gor.
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6 13 Do they hate it so? If not, why do they neglect and injure it? Have they another world at hand, a secret one, better and more convenient? Would they not insult and despoil it, as well? What is so terrible about trees and grass, white clouds and blue skies? Perhaps they do not care for such things.
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9 146 "Felling trees, shaping and smoothing timbers, transporting them to the east, such things".
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9 160 The armsman looked warily toward the trees.
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9 162 At this point there was another roar in the forest, but this one seemed mighty, as though it might have torn leaves from the trees.
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9 396 We then began to leave the beach, and approach the trees.
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9 397 Before we entered the trees, I looked back, briefly, at the cold beach, and the restless, shimmering expanse of Thassa, and the horizon beyond it.
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9 398 As we entered the trees, I saw two fellows.
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9 402 A few moments later, I heard again, this time far to my right, the mighty roar which I had heard before, that roar which seemed it might have taken leaves from the trees.
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10 130 Two men, Pani, in their short, unusual robes, white, with red sashes, each with two swords thrust within the silk, one with the strange banner, waited for us by the trees.
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11 44 At night the coffle rope was tied between two trees, and our hands were tied behind us.
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14 25 It is much easier to fell Needle Trees.
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14 351 The sun was muchly blocked by the trees.
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15 157 We lay in the leaves and grass, as usual, our hands bound behind us, our coffle rope tied between two trees.
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16 234 "Oh!" I then, pack in hand, drew her to the side, away from the trail, between the trees.
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21 21 Branches and trees were about.
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21 208 Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in...
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23 6 I had conducted a similar inquiry each morning, following the great storm "There is a large stand of Tur trees, west of the dock, near the wands, well twined with Tur-Pah," said Relia.
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25 9 I looked up, through the trees.
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25 12 They are taught to estimate the time of day by the position of Tor-tu-Gor, Light- Upon-the-Home-Stone, rather as they are taught to recognize fruits and blossoms, trees and flowers, and a thousand small things within their environment, things which children of my world seldom notice, and in which th...
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25 25 Indeed, I sped amongst the trees.
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25 26 I was joyful! I was free, I thought, at last, free! Free! Then I paused amongst the leaves, the trees, and shade.
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25 27 I stood there, still, small between the trees.
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25 51 The sunlight was bright where it fell between the trees.
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25 53 Sometimes the trees were separate and tall, and there was little but a leafy space between them.
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25 60 I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit...
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25 156 It has its thousand rises and falls, its heights and valleys, its fallen timbers and rotting wood, its scarred, blackened trunks and scorched, lightning-fired wastes, its scattered boulders, its bare places, its flowered meadows and blossoming thickets, its crags and cliffs, its rills, and streams a...
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25 165 I climbed to a dry place, a small clearing amongst the trees, sat down, and, with grass, dried my feet and calves.
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25 322 It disappeared amongst the trees.
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25 406 It seemed almost over my head, at the crest of the trees.
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27 67 Looking about, gathering my bearings, I noted Tur-Pah clinging about nearby Tur trees.
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27 68 The Tur tree is tall and hardy, and the common host to Tur-Pah, but Tur-Pah, interestingly, does not thrive on all Tur trees.
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27 96 Further, far off, through the trees, I could see a river which must be the Alexandra, but it was to my right, and it should have been to my left! I ran forward a little bit and saw, anchored in the soil, supple, clearly visible, easily marked in the vegetation, a path on one side of it, about a yard...
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29 11 I could see four or five bodies through the trees, approaching, afoot.
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29 12 Shielding myself in the trees I remained absolutely still.
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29 15 I moved back in the trees.
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29 129 I preceded her through the trees.
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33 32 Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t...
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37 275 There seemed much motion behind her, rapidly moving shadows amongst the trees.
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38 255 Smaller nets can be cast; larger nets may be spread between poles or trees, to intercept driven game.
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39 4 We had then heard a wild cry from our right, from amongst the trees.
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39 45 Mila, Tula, and I had been, I am sure, in the first moment or two, as startled, and frightened as the mistresses, the woman's cries, the men like rapid shadows amongst the trees, moving toward us.
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39 172 It would be easier to slip amongst the trees here than at Shipcamp.
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39 486 Did they not know we might bolt as quickly as graceful tabuk, disappearing amongst the trees? I must wait my chance.
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42 16 Thus neither Tula nor I could free the rope of the two trees to which it was tied.
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44 7 The leaves of the Tur trees had begun to turn.
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44 8 Once there had been a dusting of snow, the specks bright in the sunlight between the trees.
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44 27 I looked up, through the trees.
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44 80 I paused amongst the trees, listening, looking back.
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46 45 Amongst those dark trees and shadows might lurk life forms, prowling and hungry.
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46 128 The trees about were like lofty, isolated, living columns, separated by wide corridors of leaves.
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48 51 I had occasionally sensed I might have shared the forest with some unseen companion, like a shadow amongst the trees, but I had dismissed this apprehension as, Ahn after Ahn, even following investigations, I had detected nothing.
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48 62 Its mottling would have rendered it almost invisible in the lights and shadows amongst the trees, its common background.
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50 32 "Look there," he said, "through the trees".
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52 285 From the trees and brush nearby an armed figure had emerged.
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54 200 He then turned about, and strode through the trees, and I hurried behind him, carrying the pack.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 94 The beating of its wings could lash the leaves from trees.
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7 393 I strode to a large framed screen, of painted silk, one bearing the images of mountains and needle trees, at the side of the room, and thrust it back.
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15 31 There there were unusual stones, brought in from the coast, shaped by centuries of tides; and all about were varieties of trees, large and small, some fruit-bearing, some ablaze with blossoms.
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15 32 From the limbs of some of these trees hung lanterns, now unlit, but swaying in the breeze.
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15 44 No trees I noted were near enough to the walls to afford access to the summit of a wall.
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20 374 I heard rain gently falling on the leaves of the trees in the garden.
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21 2 I sat in the shade, on a bench, near the small bridge which spanned the tiny brook wending its way amongst the rocks, the tiny terraces, the shrubberies, the flowers, and trees of the garden.
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30 295 Yesterday, at our camp, he had had Nezumi precede him to a small pool he had discovered, amongst the trees.
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59 10 The images were of natural objects, such as trees, flowers, and animals, predominantly birds, and, amongst them, predominantly, of water fowl.
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59 87 "I think it would be a good place to die, amidst the flowers and trees," said Nodachi.
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60 458 Let them be glimpsed amongst trees and brush.
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61 91 "That his minions are as the sands of the shore, and the leaves of trees," said Lord Okimoto.
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 233 How can one help it? Do not rumors rustle about? Are not strange stories borne on surprising winds? Are not unusual thoughts found in green places, amongst trees? But I had never read a Gorean book.
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11 21 How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables, trees and fl...
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44 112 Such a thing, I would learn, could, in a single blow, fell small trees and shatter walls.
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49 96 Goreans, on the whole, seem to care for nature, for trees and green grass, for flowing brooks, and the blue sky, and, at the same time, seem to think little of the harsh selections of war, of long marches, of the clash of arms, of besieging, sacking, and burning cities.
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 36 The plant life of Gor is much like that of my former world, but there are many differences, as well, different trees, flowers, vegetables, and so on.
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8 193 There were rocky beaches, and behind them, in places, trees.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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15 50 "Wine trees," said Tab.
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