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Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 226 As I did so, a door in the side of the ship slid quietly upward.
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6 3 Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t...
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6 36 I leaped upward and seized the saddle-ring, inadvertently dislodging the mounting ladder.
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6 146 It snapped again, and I knelt, the jaws passing over me as I thrust upward with the sword, piercing the neck.
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7 118 Then the muck crept upward to her horrified eyes, and her head slipped under the greenish waters, her hands clutching wildly at the air.
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7 119 I frantically looked about, caught sight of a half-submerged log some yards away, protruding upward out of the marsh water.
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7 121 In what seemed like hours but must have been a matter of only a few seconds, it gave, leaping upward out of the mud.
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7 124 At last my hand clutched something—the girl's wrist—and I drew her slowly upward out of the sand.
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12 104 Falling, I twisted madly, unsupported in the air, a wordless cry of anguish in my throat, and watched in horror as the ground seemed to rush upward to meet me.
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13 20 As the tarn wheeled upward, I heard the wild, uncanny hunting cry of the larl, piercing the dusk from somewhere in the peaks below.
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17 19 Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense.
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18 74 The giant landed on the rock floor of the circular pit, and I looked upward, my glance climbing the sheer, artificially smoothed sides of the pit, which stretched perhaps a thousand feet above me on all sides.
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18 99 An enormous slab, perhaps fifty feet square, had slid upward and backward, revealing a great, dim, squarish tunnel beyond, a tunnel large enough for a flying tarn.
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18 143 One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak.
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18 147 Immediately the hunger-wild tarns surged upward, eager for flesh.
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18 169 I remember them pressing downward, so many, and my blade, terrible, moving as if wielded by a god, meeting their steel, cutting its path upward.
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19 118 From far below, the distant shouts of fighting in the streets drifted upward.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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10 29 On each side of the avenue was a gradually ascending brick wall, and as we trudged upward the walls on each side became higher and the avenue more narrow.
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10 76 I managed to get my knees under me, and then, painfully, heaved the yoke upward, struggling unsteadily to my feet.
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14 203 The stands of the arena, filled with its robes and masks, seemed to fly upward.
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18 147 The water was perhaps two feet high in the cell, pressing upward toward the low ceiling, when I followed Andreas into the tunnel.
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18 149 Andreas, Kron and I were in the tunnel, but what of the poor wretches on the chain behind us? I looked up the long shaft, at the line of slaves moving upward, inch by inch.
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19 47 They stared upward.
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19 48 The man who had boasted that he had drunk Kal-da three times in the mines of Tharna wept as he gazed upward and caught sight of one of the three hurtling moons of Gor.
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23 115 At several places in the city long ropes of smoke spiraled upward and then unraveled into vague, dark strands.
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25 145 The carrying basket remained a moment on the roof and then, attached by its long ropes, interwoven with wire, it slid for a pace or two and lurched upward in the wake of the tarn.
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Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 61 I wrapped my cloak more firmly about myself and using my spear as a staff I forced my way upward.
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3 43 I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square.
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4 50 He gazed up at the dome, so high above, and watched the smoke curl slowly upward.
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10 95 And then to my amazement the creature, resting back on its posterior appendages, began to shake, beginning at its abdomen and continuing upward through its trunk to its thorax and head and at last its antennae began to tremble and, curling, they wrapped about one another.
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14 8 Two circular metal plates in the wall beneath the shield had slid upward and suddenly long metal arms had telescoped outwards and reached for me.
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21 11 My eyes drifted upward and I froze for an instant and then, scarcely moving, touched Mul-Ba-Ta's arm.
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28 70 I hurled the plastic partition upward opening the case.
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28 246 We were considering this matter when suddenly without warning one wall of Misk's compartment seemed suddenly to blur and lift and then silently to vanish into powder, so light and fine that some of it drifted upward to be withdrawn through the ventilator shaft through which used air was drawn from t...
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29 150 Feeling what seemed to be a blank area of the ceiling of the control area I fired a blast upward, using the simple expedient of the tube to open a hole in the craft through which light might enter.
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32 39 "Look!" cried Vika pointing upward.
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32 86 Then together we watched the ship float swiftly upward like a small white star and disappear in the blue distance beyond.
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32 203 Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator.
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32 210 The door closed and the contrivance swiftly sped upward.
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32 295 Soon we had reached a steel portal and Parp threw back a switch and it rolled upward.
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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3 113 As I watched, the Tuchuk took his long, slender lance and thrust it into the ground, point upward.
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26 341 At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers...
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26 346 The golden droplets which Saphrar wore in place of eyebrows fell unnoticed into the sluggish fluid that slowly rose about him, inching itself upward, thickening itself about him.
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 18 With the key placed under the bolt, and pressed upward, the movable pins are lifted over the bolt, permitting its movement.
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17 5 Wringing wet I glared upward.
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21 410 I raced from the sand to the wall and, seizing a cloak lowered by one who wore the armband of imperial purple, scrambled upward.
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Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 5 One holds the stem of the plant in the left hand and, with the right, with a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke.
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6 151 I took it in my left hand and jerked him forward, at the same time moving my blade in a swift, easy arc, transversely and slightly upward, towards him.
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6 157 I crouched slashing upward in a wide circle and caught it before it could fall about me.
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15 581 He took her by the collar and turned it slightly upward in his large hands, forcing her head up to face his.
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Book 7. (15 results) Captive of Gor

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3 425 Noiselessly, to my relief, the window slid upward.
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4 130 A port in the large ship slid upward.
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4 194 The steel ramp swung upward and locked in place, shutting me in the ship.
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7 15 Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland.
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8 168 They were slaves, slaves! "Look!" cried Inge, pointing upward.
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8 181 Targo came forward on the barge, and, shielding his eyes against the early morning sun, looked upward.
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8 229 Life, even by Gorean standards, is primitive in the region of the Laurius, and northward, to the great forests, and along the coast, upward to Torvaldsland.
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8 332 They were girls taken by the raiders of Haakon of Skjern, in the villages to the north of the Laurius, and from the coastal villages, upward even to the borders of Torvaldsland.
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10 87 Smoke found its way upward through a rudely fitted stone venting.
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10 146 Again there was a shower of sparks, and the smoke climbing upward through the venting.
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12 638 The spaces between the wagons provide opportunity for the defenders to fire their crossbows upward at the attackers, and give some protection against the spreading of fire, wagon to wagon.
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13 576 I stopped, and turned, and looked back and upward.
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13 595 I felt myself being pulled, foot by foot, upward.
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13 864 Then my captor again had his sword in his grip, but the other dragged his tarn upward, cursing, and its long, curved talons raked downwards, clutching for us.
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13 866 My captor was thrusting upward, to keep the bird away.
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Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 8 They had splashed beneath the water and then, in a moment, their snouts and sleek heads had poked upward, shining and dripping, and then, they, all six of them, noses like compass needles, smelling the land, had turned in the water and, tails whipping, leaving snakelike curves in the water, had sped...
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5 239 Then their arms had been taken behind the bar and then pulled forward, and upward, tight against it.
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7 316 I eased myself upward into the branches of a tree, whence I might command a better view.
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7 322 The smoke, in a thin line, trickled upward into the sky.
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15 548 The window slid upward.
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18 14 Then he fell again to his knees in the water and, lifting it with his hands, hurled it upward about him, and I saw the sun flash on the droplets.
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18 427 I looked upward.
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19 451 I looked at them, and looked, too, upward at the stars of the Gorean night.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 230 Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas...
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14 154 I saw Ivar Forkbeard, his sword gone, lost in the body of a nearby Kur, his knife in his hand, one hand thrusting away and upward the jaws of a Kur, repeatedly plunge his knife into the huge chest of the beast.
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14 171 Kurii looked upward.
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15 148 The Kurii were now a pasang away, on the rocky, lower slopes, scrambling upward.
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18 68 Slowly I reared up, forcing the handle, now held in the two paws of the Kur, upward and backward.
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Book 10. (18 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 334 I blew her a kiss in the Gorean fashion, brushing it upward to her with my fingers.
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3 74 Unsheathed, followed through, of course, such a stroke would have taken off the top of his head, slashing upward through the hood of the burnoose.
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7 247 "Help!" Abruptly, horribly, had he seemed, from his feet, sideways, to hurtle upward.
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7 255 Then he cried out, a short cry, brief; there was a sound, exploding, velvet-soft, like a bubble of air being forced upward through water; the side of his neck had been bitten away; arterial blood, driven by the blind pump of the heart, pulsed.
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11 532 Alyena looked upward at Hassan, wildly.
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13 116 We had now stopped before a great portal, narrower at its bottom, then swelling, curving, gracefully expanding, outward and upward, then narrowing again, gracefully concluding in a point.
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14 597 The blade had penetrated below the helix and opened the ear, lifting and parting, in its upward movement, the helix.
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16 150 It came very suddenly, from beneath the water, not more than five feet from me, erupting upward.
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17 162 It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t...
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17 185 Then the raft lifted, to an almost forty-five-degree angle as the monster rose beneath it, thrusting it upward.
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17 252 We saw the Old One emerge from the water, rising up, more than a dozen feet of that great, mighty body rearing upward, water streaming from it, in its jaws the body of T'Zshal.
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17 266 Then the beast swept upward and I, clinging to the fin, erupted with it, eyes and nostrils stung with salt, half blinded, more than ten feet into the air.
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21 418 A large, square rock, near me, one of those which had held the tarpaulin, leaped upward, split in two, burnt black, and the slightest instant, almost simultaneous, afterward I heard the atmospheric concussion of the weapon.
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21 543 When it reached my level I tried to climb upward, clinging to piping at the ship's side.
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21 554 I looked upward, in the inclining cylinder of the ship.
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21 559 I began to climb upward, on projections, on spaced piping, on the remains of sundered bulkheads, toward the dials.
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21 589 It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...
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26 421 If the slave's heat is on her, she may tie the bondage knot in her hair, beg to serve wine, squirm a bit, dare to turn her palms upward a little on her thighs, and such things.
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Book 11. (19 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 443 The spear of him who was one of my captors seemed to leap upward and away, caroming from the oblique, lifted surface of the stranger's shield.
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3 575 Bound, I looked upward, into the eyes of my captor.
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3 758 The bit of blanket about my shoulders I went to the cliff wall and looked upward at the sheer cliff above me.
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5 291 My master looked upward, at the moons.
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8 196 The gate to my cage was unlocked, and flung upward.
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9 165 The cage was roofed, too, with planks; these planks were set flush with one another; they were fastened over the top of the bars, including some, sawed, over the upward-opening, barred gate.
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9 1698 Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f...
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9 1995 I looked upward, and saw dark clouds in the sky, racing across the faces of the moons.
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10 49 "Look, Dina!" said Tup Ladletender, pointing upward.
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12 752 Borchoff, below in the courtyard, looked upward.
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13 6 I looked at the worn stairs of solid wood, leading in their spiral upward.
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13 109 He thrust me upward.
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13 117 I looked upward.
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20 51 "Oh!" I cried, for his hand had suddenly, unexpectedly, thrust upward, beneath my brief silk.
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22 276 Sometimes, in the distance, I saw flares lofted from one ship or another, burning upward and then, their silken globelike chutes opening, burning steadily, descending, to settle into the water and be extinguished.
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24 329 I looked upward.
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27 326 One might, for example, linger, almost imperceptibly, in the placing of a plate of food before the master, that he may see our wrists in proximity, almost as though they might be braceleted; one might boldly, if fearfully, kneel a little more closely than is customary; one might, while kneeling, tur...
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28 199 She moved carefully, feeling the stairs, creeping upward.
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29 67 He dragged me upward to his pressing mouth, pulling me against the wrist straps which held my wrists at the shield's edges.
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Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 599 The assailant's hand, that bearing the object of his quest, some curio wrapped in fur, flashed upward, and I turned my head aside as flaming oil from the lamp splashed upon me, the lamp itself struck loose from its tiny chains and flying past my head.
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4 627 The heels of both hands drove upward and the head of the first confederate snapped back.
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6 405 I lay on my back, looking upward.
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11 26 Fluttering jards, covering many of the carcasses like gigantic flies, stirred, swarming upward as Imnak passed them, and then returned to their feasting.
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11 59 Defensive archery, directed upward from the ground, fighting against the weights of gravity, is reduced in both range and effectiveness.
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11 354 The winged monster screamed with rage and reared upward, wings cracking like whips at the air.
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11 367 The fellow whose tarn was tearing at mine drew back, too, on his six-strap, and the bird swept upward and away, from my right.
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12 196 Imnak cracked his whip over their heads and they threw their weight against the traces and the long, narrow, freighted sled eased upward, over the rocks, and then slid down onto the ice of Ax Glacier.
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12 227 Would a white trader not pay more to rent one if she could understand his commands? The nose of the sled tipped upward and then fell to the level on the glacial pebbles, and Ax Glacier, like the broad blade of a Torvaldsland ax, lay behind us.
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12 703 With my hand in her hair I pulled her head upward.
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18 25 Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale.
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18 29 The line, uncoiling, snapping, hurtled past me, upward.
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22 261 Suddenly with a great, exploding noise, expelling air, the sleen leaped upward.
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22 270 I thrust downward with the lance and was half pulled from the kayak, myself and the vessel lifted upward, as the sleen's impaled body reared up almost beneath the craft.
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25 29 Imnak pointed upward, back toward the south.
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26 286 One sped toward the shelter and leaped upward but I managed to meet its charge with the lance point and it, its face bloodied, twisted, the lance through the side of the mouth, and I managed to deflect its charge to the side and it fell, snarling, slipping free of the lance, to the side of the shelt...
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27 184 "Aiii!" cried Imnak, suddenly, pointing upward.
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30 242 Ram, on his side of the room, cut his way upward, buffeting and kicking.
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30 254 A moment later there was a burst from under the sand and sand and wood splinters blasted upward.
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30 283 I looked upward, at the impassive mirrorlike window in the wall.
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32 1 I Hold Converse with Zarendargar "You see?" asked the beast, pointing upward, it seemed at a starry sky above our heads.
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34 164 Fortunately I glanced upward.
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35 17 It had burst, after a long, parabolic trajectory, over a thousand feet below, showering ice upward more than two hundred feet into the air.
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35 48 "Aiii!" cried the first man, as I leaped upward, striking him aside with my right hand.
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35 89 The metal was broken loose and twisted crookedly upward.
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35 158 I looked upward.
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35 958 Thus, let us circle about and climb upward.
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37 5 Behind us, in the winter sky, looming, streaming hundreds of pasangs upward into the sky, shimmering and flickering, extended vast, subtle curtains of chromatic lights, yellows, and pinks and reds.
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37 104 There, steam roiled upward from the water.
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37 109 Smoke billowed upward.
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Book 13. (25 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 11 "Upward, upward!" said Kisu.
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34 470 Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...
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1 352 The two guards then, reaching upward, with some chains, attached above the door, lowered a heavy, wooden walkway to the surface of the water.
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2 145 Her head was struck upward and to the left.
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4 694 She twisted her head upward, toward the praetor's desk.
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6 37 He pointed upward, at the birds.
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13 302 "Have you never looked into the mirror, and seen a naked, lonely slave? Have you never knelt before the mirror, nude, and ready? Have you never longed for chains on your limbs, for binding fiber on your body? Have you never dreamed of lying naked, and helpless, locked in strong arms, mercilessly emb...
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15 99 Msaliti looked quickly upward.
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23 278 Suddenly the log splintered upward, the last remaining inches broken away.
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23 286 I looped the chain in my bloody hands, to strike at it if it should try to thrust its snout upward through the rupture.
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32 6 The canoe, on our shoulders, tilted upward at a twenty-degree angle.
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32 58 In a few minutes the girls, again, made their way upward.
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32 722 In the pool, clambering over one another, lifting their jaws upward were crocodiles, beasts like river tharlarion but differently hided and plated".
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33 1 What We Saw from the Height of the Falls; Tende Dances; We Enter Again Upon the River; I Anticipate the Surrender of the Blond-Haired Barbarian We thrust the canoe upward, Kisu and I at the stern, Ayari and the girls hauling on ropes at the forequarter.
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34 126 * * * * I looked upward, through the trees.
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34 459 The hands of the small, naked slave girl hidden in the dungeon, crouching on the damp, narrow, stone stairs, pressed upward against the iron door which had been bolted shut above her.
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34 460 It moved a quarter of an inch upward, and did not strike against its familiar bolts.
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34 466 Then again she thrust upward against the weight.
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44 148 I extended the shaft of the spear to Janice and she, seizing it with one hand, her free hand, was drawn upward, out of the net, to the safety of the jungle floor.
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50 33 At the back of the landing, leading upward were flights and levels of steps, extending the full length of the some four hundred yards of the landing.
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51 138 And, in the rear of the room, there was another broad flight of stairs, leading upward to another landing and walk.
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53 232 The table on which reposed the map case and notebooks of Shaba seemed to explode in two, wood splintering and flying to the sides, the map case and notebooks, scattering, showering upward.
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53 366 I wrenched the dagger free and as another Kur, suddenly seeing me among them, truly seeing me, reached for me I thrust the dagger upward.
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53 381 Another, finding footholds in the ancient stone, clambered upward.
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55 6 A great towering blade of fire stormed upward against the tropical sky.
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Book 14. (17 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 189 In a moment it began to ascend and I was lifted, feet upward, above the walkway encircling the sunken enclosure.
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3 195 I could sense the animals below me, their large size, the fetid smell, almost overwhelming, swirling upward, their energetic stirring, their twisting in and about one another.
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3 199 The first of the beasts leaped upward toward me, falling short by several feet, falling back, scrambling, among the others.
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3 216 The animals, then, began to leap upward.
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3 224 Then I felt my body, suddenly, swung to the side and drawn upward.
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6 3 I trembled, involuntarily, as the coolness of the leather of the woman's whip, its blades folded back against its handle, moved upward against my right side.
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7 62 I lifted it from the floor by one of the legs, lifting it slowly, directly upward, until I held it at an arm's length.
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12 178 Well did I recall the fearsome, curved fangs, the long, sinuous bodies, the claws, the lithe muscularity, the incredible swiftness and agility, of the sleen in the House of Andronicus, leaping upward, ferocious, eyes blazing, mouths slavering, to tear me from the rope which suspended me over their h...
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13 183 It slid a transparent membrane upward, covering its eye, as a broad-winged insect crawled on its lid.
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13 883 I lifted her sandaled foot upward, and she took her place in the leather seat at the side of the tharlarion's back.
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19 262 She struggled up and then, carefully, that her tunic not be drawn upward, put her legs over the edge of the wagon bed and lowered herself to the ground.
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19 313 "The note, the note, Master," said the girl, looking upward, pathetically.
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20 12 I clasped my hands, and flung them upward, catching him under the chin and he staggered backward.
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21 142 "Look!" had called Barus, pointing upward.
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25 141 He was thus not in a position to protect against the upward stroke with which I caught him.
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25 168 This time I stood to the right and, as he thrust forth his hands to seize me, I struck upward with my left fist.
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25 170 This brought his head into position for the upward stroke of my right fist again.
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Book 15. (11 results) Rogue of Gor

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29 260 I was pitched upward, the prow of the galley, the forward gunnels, seeming to leap upward.
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22 196 Then with the bottom of my foot I kicked the sword to one side and it slid upward, tearing through the tunic.
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28 280 But no sooner had the blades crossed then both seemed suddenly, inexplicably, in a flash of sparks, to fly upward.
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28 283 It was his blade which had struck both steels upward.
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29 253 I looked upward at the high gate, now hung almost above us.
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29 262 In that moment I had seen, through the closely set latticework of the gate, the chopped galley leaping upward.
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29 270 The men were now in the water, swimming from the scattered wood, darting arrows piercing the water about them, then bobbing upward.
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31 165 I looked upward, the collar slipping on my neck.
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32 267 He was off balance and I reared upward, close to him, within his guard, seizing him and half turning him in the crook of my right arm, the blade in that hand.
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32 346 I tore loose, kicking, of the mud, and pushed upward toward the surface, which, after some seconds, gasping, I broke.
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32 348 I looked upward, at the parapets, far above.
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Book 16. (27 results) Guardsman of Gor

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5 146 How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments.
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17 19 The Street of the Writhing Slave winds tortuously upward from the wharves, threading its narrow way through a commercial district upward towards a hilly residential district.
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1 135 We rode over the first longboat, shattering it, its bow and stern snapping upward, its crew screaming and leaping into the water.
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7 25 I got the knife from my teeth and, under the water, thrust it, edge up, into his abdomen, and then drew it, deeply in him, diagonally, upward and to the right.
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8 2 Then, lifting myself from the water, clutching at the rudder, I inched my way upward.
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8 12 I climbed upward, and swung on ornamental grillwork, toward the windows.
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8 246 She had lifted the bowl upward, off the shelf.
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10 115 I looked upward as we moved slowly, rowing, sail furled, mast down, under the great gate.
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10 217 He looked upward, toward the wall.
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12 23 A smoke bomb, trailing smoke, was lofted upward from a catapult on one of the lead ships.
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12 24 It arched gracefully upward and then fell into the marshes lining the channel.
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13 21 I looked upward and to the right.
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16 109 Then something wet and heavy, slithering, leapt upward out of the water, and splashed back.
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16 114 Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward.
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16 122 I tried to inch upward on the blade.
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16 123 Pressing my legs and arms against the blade I could move upward to my original position, but no further, because of the ropes on my ankles, catching on the bottom side of the blade fixture, and it was extremely difficult and painful to hold myself that high on the blade.
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16 208 I leaped from the blade mount to the port rail and, struggling, pulled myself upward.
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16 211 I dove under the blade and, seizing his ankles, utilizing his momentum, threw him upward and over my shoulders.
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16 316 Using the oar and thole port I drew myself upward.
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16 340 Instantly I was before him and caught him with a balled fist, driven upward into his gut.
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16 416 Then, when the ship was rammed, when the hold began to fill with water, you were forced upward, as an urt".
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16 525 "Did I hear someone beg for mercy?" grinned Callimachus, looking upward.
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17 974 I heard the long, horizontal shutters of a shop being flung upward, over the counter.
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19 200 Gently I slid the whip, the blades folded back, against her, moving it from her left thigh to her waist, and thence upward against her left side.
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19 462 She did so, this action bringing her body upward and forward, and bringing her knees more closely together.
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19 481 I took the hood with my two hands, and, keeping the edges under, getting a good grip on the sides, rolled it an inch or so upward on her face.
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20 1561 They were slim, her feet were small, her small calves swelled upward lusciously.
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Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

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4 5 The wheel moved and the wagon, groaning, creaking, lurched upward and rolled forward.
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8 841 With his foot he moved her bound hands a bit upward on her back.
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13 314 I moved my hand upward, to her hip, and to the sweetness of her waist at the hip.
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13 852 "Your palms," I said, "—keep them facing upward, to the moons of Gor".
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13 857 She now again, given my admonition, frightened, held her palms open and upward, correctly.
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13 905 Her palms were facing upward, opened.
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14 869 "Oh," she cried, eyes closed, squirming helplessly, rearing half upward, trussed, then falling back.
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14 986 He then put his first two fingers together and raised them upward, beside his face.
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14 1087 I held my hands near the ground, with my fingers curved upward and slightly apart.
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14 1088 I then swung my hands out in a small, upward curve.
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Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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21 2 Hci looked upward, wildly.
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21 9 Hci and I, from the dirt, looked upward.
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21 49 I looked upward.
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24 20 Cuwignaka's upward thrust, however, was easily turned by the Yellow Knife's stout war shield, of rawhide thickened and hardened by shrinking over heated stones, from the neck, between the shoulders, or the humped back, behind the head, bearing the trident of the bull kailiauk.
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27 88 Another perished similarly, lances thrust upward through the ropes and cloth, until, bleeding, wounded again and again, he could be pulled down, falling to the ground, there to die under knives.
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29 29 I thrust with my lance upward, through the netting, driving it through the body of a soldier, cutting at it.
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34 348 Cuwignaka and I trudged upward, through the grass.
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36 12 I cursed, looking upward.
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39 16 Its roof was gone, torn away and scattered when the concealed hobbling log had been jerked upward through it.
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39 254 "There!" cried Cuwignaka, pointing upward.
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40 15 Its roof is rounded and slopes upward towards the center.
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43 470 Bloketu, at what must have been a breathtaking acceleration, was jerked upward and away.
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43 476 The Yellow Knives, below, looked upward in consternation.
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44 366 Some were even now urging their kaiila upward, doubtless desiring to be the first to count coup.
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44 369 I did not think it wise that the Yellow Knives were urging their kaiila so speedily upward, and in such numbers, on so narrow a trail.
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44 447 On the trail below, only some twenty feet or so below the ledge, charging upward, Yellow Knives, four or five abreast, mounted on painted kaiila, swept toward the top of the trail, some hundred feet or so to our right.
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44 457 Still more Yellow Knives, not clear on what was ahead, were trying to force their way upward on the narrow trail.
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44 473 It was like an odd, upward-moving, arrested river of beasts and men, suddenly stopped, immobilized, in its flow.
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44 514 In some places the upgrade on this trail was some forty-five degrees and the kaiila, scratching and scrambling, lunged and fought his way upward.
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44 532 He ceased singing his medicine and looked upward.
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44 537 The warrior, looking upward, scarcely noticed Bloketu.
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44 563 The first fifty riders, not realizing they were cut off, continued upward.
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47 16 "It is nearly noon," said Cuwignaka, looking upward.
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47 23 "There is a Kinyanpi rider," said Cuwignaka, pointing upward.
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47 78 "Then," I said, looking upward, "I think we may soon expect the Kinyanpi".
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47 80 "You are finished!" "Look!" cried Hci, suddenly, pointing upward.
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47 177 Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope.
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47 311 Behind the soldiers who attained the ledge other soldiers, roped together, clambered upward.
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47 449 Threading his way among the fighting groups on the trail, slowly making his way upward, was he who had been the third of the three war chiefs at the summer camp.
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56 125 Toward noon I did look upward once, and behind me.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 340 I did so, with the palm upward.
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1 341 This is an extremely erotically charged gesture, of course, extending the delicate wrist, perfumed, to the male, with the tender, vulnerable palm upward.
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3 665 "Raise your right knee, and extend your left leg," he said, "palms of your hands at your sides, facing upward".
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4 178 "Down with Sheila, not Tatrix but Tyranness of Corcyrus!" cried the man, looking angrily upward.
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4 484 I then looked upward, into the humid night.
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4 489 They might indeed serve to keep others out, perhaps climbing upward, or descending on ropes from the roof above, but they surely served as well, and as perfectly, to keep me within! What is this room, I asked myself, is it truly my protected quarters, or is it, rather, my cell? I walked back to the ...
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8 413 We were then making our way upward from some of the lower pen areas.
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14 40 I lay back down then in my chains, on the small iron floor of the cage, my knees pulled up high, and looked upward at the hollow, conelike ceiling of the cage.
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14 82 I saw the golden sirik put back in the cage; it was not the sort of thing, I gathered, which these fellows would care to have found in their possession; I then saw the cage closed and the cover readjusted about it; then, together, the two men, with the rope, drew it slowly upward; in a few moments i...
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16 108 I tried again, inching myself upward.
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16 117 Gasping, holding at the grass, inching my way upward, I drew my body from the grass to the road.
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28 50 I then lifted the tray upward and toward him, proffering it to him, as though it might contain luscious fruit, at the same time lifting my body subtly to him.
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32 222 In a moment I felt myself, bit by bit, helpless in the sack, being hoisted upward.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 278 The fellow laid the edge of the blade gently on the back of her neck, and then he lifted the blade away and upward.
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5 348 Her wrists pulled upward, against the wrist rings, but her hands, chained as they were, could lift but a few inches from the floor.
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6 211 Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re...
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7 8 It was covered with an intense, irregular geography of scarlet patches, the capillaries near the surface of the skin swelled with blood, the red color suffusing upward as though from a light within her, as though fires raged within her, just beneath her exposed, yielding, eager softness, witnessing ...
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14 61 The side which had lifted before a bit, now, a little at a time, to my elation, with small sounds of loosening, breaking mortar, rose upward.
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18 344 Instantly, as men and slaves screamed and fled, a frightening torrent of sheetlike flames, like narrow, roaring, successive walls of fire, leapt upward and outward, surging, racing away from me, seeming for a moment to engulf the room.
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20 7 The Kur, with that agility seemingly so unnatural and surprising in a beast of its size, descended from the ubar's box and interposed itself between me and the pathetic figure, now staring wildly upward, fallen, twisting and shuddering, moved this way and that, being pulled and shaken, being torn by...
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20 26 The sleen had then been released, the iron grating slid upward which had opened the way for them into the pit.
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20 42 His eyes were still open, staring upward.
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20 242 The sleen, startling me, suddenly spun about, the five of them, six-legged, agile, sinuous and muscular, some nine or ten feet in length, and crowded about our legs, hissing, snarling, looking upward.
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20 308 Instantly a torrent of flame blasted upward from the vat.
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20 380 Suddenly, from the midst of those bodies, howling, the Kur, spears in its body, thrust upward clawing and raging like some force of nature.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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16 838 This is a technique occasionally used in slave management, though I had not utilized it fully or at length, to play with the lovely thrall, to carry her upward a way, and then let her subside, and then carry her upward, again, but further, and let her subside again, but not to the same extent as bef...
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3 32 Then, amusing himself, the driver tossed some bits of bread into the air and watched the desperate, anxious women crowd and bunch under it, pushing and shoving for position, and trying to leap upward, thrusting at one another, to snatch at it.
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3 298 I glanced to the right, and upward.
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3 437 The beast grunting, slowed, dragging the girl's weight; she clung fiercely to the halter; it moved its head about, pulling her about, from side to side, shaking her; it tossed its head impatiently upward, lifting her literally from the ground.
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4 278 He must be clear that I had not brought my handle back, under the blow, slashing upward to his neck, a blow that can, with the Torvaldsland ax, at least, cut the head from a man.
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4 452 For good measure I then, with the left side of the handle, swinging it upward, and then down, brought it down on the back of his neck as he, helpfully, expectantly, grunting, doubled over.
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16 1078 The guard had apparently, for his amusement, touched her with the spear blade, probably putting it between her legs and moving it upward, brushing it against the interior of her thigh.
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Book 22. (14 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 266 Hearing the man, or one of them behind me, I then fled to the other stairs, and thence upward again, to the main level of the library.
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3 623 Then I felt the metal chain at the back of the collar jerk upward, savagely.
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3 640 I was then jerked upward, and backward, half choked, but with the pressure substantially high on my neck, under the chin, doubtless by intent, and then lay before them on the low-piled, coarse carpet, so muchly trodden by our library patrons.
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3 762 I leaped upward but, cruelly, instantly, with an expert turn and throw of the leash, I was thrown twisting, gasping and choking, to my belly on the rug.
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3 899 Taurog jerked the chain upward, twice, gently.
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9 184 A double chain seemed to be extending upward, toward it, on a pulley system.
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9 187 The chain on her manacles extended upward in an inverted "V".
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9 203 Gloria had been sold! The chain moved a little, and my wrists were pulled upward.
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9 205 "No, please!" Then I felt the manacles drawn upward and my arms extended.
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10 572 Similarly, the foot leads to the ankle, and that to the lusciously rounded calf, and that upward to the thighs, and those, again, in their lovely softness, to the girl's exposed, hot, open, helpless, delicate intimacies.
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24 123 Then I stopped and looked wildly back, upward, toward the top of the rise.
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29 57 That had been a frightening ascent, crouching in the bucket, supported by it, swaying back and forth, clinging to the rope, while being drawn upward.
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29 161 Too, I had been a fine dancer, one of the finest, I suspect, in Brundisium! If they could have seen me curling about a man's feet in an alcove, licking and kissing them, then inching upward, piteously, hopefully, then kneeling beside him, looking up, kissing, licking, pleading, I do not think they w...
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29 1537 Then he stared upward, at the sky, but did not see it.
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Book 23. (20 results) Renegades of Gor

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10 404 I continued upward, sometimes climbing hand over hand, feverishly, as I could, the rope momentarily arrested, at other times then, the rope moving rapidly upward, doing little more than clinging to it, sometimes, again, both climbing and being drawn upward.
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1 65 They looked upward.
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1 493 It led upward to a covered gate, which, probably, had a covered, walled hall and another gate beyond it.
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4 14 For example, they were heated in the same room, and not in virtue of subterranean furnaces, heat from which would normally be conveyed upward through vents and pipes.
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5 524 If he approached me too closely, coming within a predetermined critical distance, I could dash the paga upward into his eyes and wrench the table up and about, plunging one of the legs into his diaphragm.
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8 758 He could do little more, however, than crouch, struggling, and pulling, at the ring, his head back, his face upward.
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10 347 The basket, on its rope, maddeningly, drew upward some yards.
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10 387 "Admit me!" I cried upward, from the foot of the wall.
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10 400 I swung wildly, kicking away from the wall, and was then, for a moment, half climbing, half being drawn upward.
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15 532 The fingers moved helplessly, but the palms remained facing upward, exposed.
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15 963 Some of the great stones tilted upward.
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16 30 A quarrel sputtered against the interior of an embrasure, chipping it and glancing away, upward.
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17 31 In the cleared angle of the bridge, the defenders mounted to the bridge itself and there, behind the barrier, and about it, stanched the flow of men upward, holding them on the planking of the bridge, between the tower and the wall.
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17 161 Sometimes Cosians and defenders, fighting, were on the very bridges being pried upward.
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17 274 I saw then that the roof of the ram shed sloped upward.
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17 278 What effort it must have taken to force the long ram shed up this incline, how much more arduous must be the labor of those within the shed, hauling on the ropes, swinging the great ram upward! I could hear, too, between the heavy, periodic strokes of the ram, the blows of hammers and axes, and the ...
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17 509 When I reached the bottom of the hill I turned and looked upward.
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18 194 Its passage upward through his head had been arrested by the back of his helmet.
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19 222 "Help!" cried the fellow in the water, grasping upward.
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24 6 It tapered upward, and was perhaps some twenty feet in diameter at the top.
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Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 1094 I had not been able to make out what he had been howling upward, crouching there, chained, what with the wind, and the beating of the tarn's wings.
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13 331 "Look!" cried a fellow, pointing upward.
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13 347 "It is not landing!" Men looked upward, puzzled.
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17 70 It came probably from a fellow on the lookout platform, or the ladder leading upward to it.
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17 292 I tried to hook the closure of the hood over the projection and tear the hood off that way, upward, but this cut at the side of my neck, and, once, half choked me.
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19 233 "Ho!" I cried, waving upward toward it.
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19 244 Smoke, too, billowed upward.
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19 295 From the narrowness of her waist, even more compressed by the thongs, her body with predictable but luscious subtlety flared upward to the maddening delights, the exquisite excitements, of her upper body, the softness and vulnerability of her bosom, the softness of her shoulders and throat.
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19 308 Indeed, if she had been branded and collared, I did not think that anyone would have thought twice about seeing her under a sun trellis in an open market, on a warm day, chained by the ankle to a ring, displayed in a booth, or being herded upward, with a whip, to the surface of a sales block.
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19 759 I leapt upward with the sword and the blade met the beating wing on its forward strike and the blade and my arm, too, given the force, penetrated it like paper, and the thing rose up uttering a wild, hissing noise, clutching the girl, I hanging in the rent wing.
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19 1534 "Force me upward," she said.
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19 1539 I then, as she wished, began again to carry her upward.
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31 278 Ina's hands, she blushing beneath our gaze, stole upward, crossed, to cover her breasts.
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47 262 I was vaguely aware of quarrels slashing into the dirt, streaking like plows in the dirt, throwing up a spume of dust like water, others darting wildly upward, some lost overhead, passing somewhere, some skittering about, turning head over heels, then some bounding twenty or more feet in the air, tu...
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Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 31 The lockers open outward, as opposed to the slave boxes, which open upward.
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4 77 "Look!" said a man, pointing upward.
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5 99 "Let us in!" cried a fellow, upward to the wall, where there were guards.
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6 227 "Look," I said, while still on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, pointing upward.
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17 113 "Oh, oh!" cried the ponderous fellow looking upward miserably and shaking his fists, helplessly, angrily, in the air.
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17 260 The ponderous fellow then looked upward and called out, "Oh, Saba Boroko Swaziloo, old chap, if you can hear me, and if it be you who has wafted away my little Litsia, perhaps for her instruction and improvement, please return her to me now!" Such names, of course, are nonsense, and are not really A...
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18 159 He then turned about and began to climb the flights of stairs upward, toward the least desirable, hottest, most dangerous levels of the insula.
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19 1036 "The palms of your hands are facing upward," I said.
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22 766 I lifted Lavinia upward.
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26 299 She looked upward, lazily.
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26 301 She had the palms of her hands facing upward, at her sides.
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Book 26. (44 results) Witness of Gor

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13 308 Then it left the water, rushing upward from it, erupting from it, and I saw its full body, shedding water, its neck extended, its jaws open, its forepaws down against its body, streamlining its shape, its hind legs extended, it leaping upward, then yards above the surface of the torn, dark pool, and...
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1 22 I looked upward.
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5 3 I had gone to the interior wall, the marbled wall, and touched it, and looked upward, to its height, and the incurved blades at the top.
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7 301 I looked behind me, and upward, to the wall.
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8 117 Not opening my eyes, frightened, I moved my fingers upward, little by little, toward my throat.
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8 205 These emotions, from the depths of me, burst upward, like light and lava, like the throwing open of shades and the risings of suns, like floods, like tides, like treasures, like hurricanes, like fire, powerful, irresistible, precious! No longer did I suffer the sense of loss.
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9 1 I lay on my stomach on the floor of the mountain cell, my head toward the back of the cell, my legs widely spread, my arms extended outward and upward.
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10 328 Then we were past the cells! I continued to climb upward.
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10 343 I was being herded! I was now being driven upward, like a pig, toward what I knew not! Then, gasping, trying to hold the gag in my mouth, I sank to my knees before part of the stone mountain, a sheer wall of stone, at the end of the trail.
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10 344 There was the mountain there, rearing upward, and, high above, perhaps a hundred feet above, seeming to rise out of the rock itself, were the walls of the citadel.
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10 370 I looked at the jailer, frightened, and at the beast, and, upward, toward the platform so far above me.
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10 379 I now saw the rope begin to move upward.
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10 397 The beast, below, looked upward.
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10 403 Foot by foot the rope moved upward.
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10 405 The rope swung a little, moving upward.
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10 429 I was drawn upward through the rectangular aperture and found myself suspended, a bit below the pulley, some ten feet above the platform.
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10 649 These dangling chains were such that they could be drawn upward.
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10 652 Two men then, by means of the rings and the chain to which I was now attached, hoisted me upward, foot by foot, until I was suspended some thirty feet above the floor, some two thirds of the way to the ceiling.
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10 665 I squirmed a little, but then noticed one of the guards looking upward, so, frightened, I stopped.
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10 838 I saw, in the bottom of the depression, some forty feet below, numerous upward-pointing knives.
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10 1001 He then, suddenly, without warning, jerked the leash upward, and its leather was tight under my chin and I was jerked up to my knees, and I looked at him wildly, helplessly held in place; he then, with ease, with flicks of the leash, flung me to one side and the other, bruising me on the stone and t...
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11 257 He was drawing me upward.
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11 456 Let Dorna fear then for her place on a chain! I would happily, eagerly, compete with her for the privilege of kneeling before such men! I lifted the wine a little upward and toward the man in the chair.
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11 1862 I saw one of the ends of the rope released and it whipped downward under my left arm, across my body, half turning me, back under my right arm and upward.
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12 539 I knelt on the floor, pressing upward.
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12 635 I felt the knife turn within my robes, its blade upward.
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12 637 With one upward diagonal movement I had little doubt it could part my garments, with one stroke revealing me from my lower belly to my throat.
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12 682 ' He then lifted my veil upward and bound it about my face.
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13 304 I saw some of these things now, their fur wet, their ears back against the sides of their heads, leaping upward, trying to reach the cage.
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13 307 I could see in the torchlight, a moment before it broke the surface, one of the beasts, swimming rapidly upward.
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13 313 They, gathering force, swimming swiftly in ever widening, preparatory circles just under the water, would plunge down, yards from the cage, and then ascend rapidly, spearing upward, snapping, from the water.
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13 325 Another beast leaped upward, falling just short of her, its snout actually within the opened cage.
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13 326 Some beasts did not leap upward but remained patiently, tensely quiescent in a wide circle in the water, a circle ranging about the cage.
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14 27 "Yes," I said, climbing upward.
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24 322 It was a tarnsman, aflight, undoubtedly a warrior of the city! The intruders, too, looked upward.
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24 458 Some of the great birds smote their way upward through the dislodged wire, to meet the newcomers.
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28 80 We watched smoke curl upward from the necklace.
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34 73 A panel slid upward.
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37 441 Certainly the cord on my neck, rasping, jerked upward.
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37 678 There was a sudden, half-strangled cry from across the pool as Herminius, clutching at his throat, legs kicking, seemed, somehow, to fly upward, into the darkness.
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37 951 The eyes were still open, staring upward.
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37 1064 But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro...
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38 21 The point then, with terrible slowness, as Gito squirmed like an impaled urt, moved upward, behind the ribs, until it entered the heart.
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46 648 He then carried me upward again, through it, and closed it behind him.
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Book 27. (24 results) Prize of Gor

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27 1047 Another, in frustration, sprang upward, again and again, reaching upward, as if it might clutch and tear the clouds themselves.
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2 104 Suddenly, unaccountably, before him, she felt strange, unusual sensations, which seemed to swell upward through her body, permeating, suffusing it.
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3 70 Then she drew the gown upward a tiny bit, the better to see the device, she told herself.
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12 159 She looked upward, apprehensively, at the poised ewer.
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16 657 She tried to lift the heavy collar on her throat, but, of course, it was stopped almost instantly, pressing upward against her chin.
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17 831 The water on the shelf became warm and began to steam upward in the heat.
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17 942 She could turn about, twisting in the chains, and she saw men pointing upward.
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17 943 Half closing her eyes against the sun, looking upward, she saw some five tarns in flight.
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17 1072 For better than an Ahn she was led through the streets, and alleys, and between buildings, sometimes with passages, many of them steep, downward and upward, and sometimes so narrow that she might strike her shoulders, first on one side, then on the other.
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17 1093 She was then steadied on the shoulder with one hand and he began to move upward, climbing, surely ascending a ladder or ladderlike device.
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17 1094 He stepped carefully, and doubtless utilized his free hand to steady them in their upward movements.
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17 1117 Then, a moment later, her bound hands were drawn upward and over her head, until she stood painfully on her toes.
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18 336 Sometimes, too, when the tarns were in the feeding area, she would throw the meat upward, between the bars to them.
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19 626 In another place, within a rectangle of canvas walls, on a small stage, as the music of flutes and a czehar drifted upward, she saw acrobats, jugglers and fire-eaters.
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20 368 The tarnsman's bird, doubtless a war tarn, scenting blood and battle, almost on its back on the sky, ripped upward with its talons at its wild brother.
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22 178 Yet if the fingers were snapped, or the hands clapped, or the gesture made, lifting the palms upward, she knew she must dance, dance as any slave, and as a slave must dance, for men.
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25 702 How many, she wonders, are dominated, stripped, belted in slave cuffs, and thrown to the bed, and from this surface look upward, into the eyes of masters? But let us put such speculations aside.
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27 945 Kardok stood up, his height expanding upward, almost as though he were slowly, somehow unnaturally enlarging, to something like nine feet.
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27 1025 In an odd almost still instant she saw the breeze ruffle its fletching, and then cried out as Selius Arconious dragged her to her feet by a bound arm and, looking upward, rushed her stumbling to the wagon, and hurled her savagely, she rolling, beneath it.
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27 1028 The sleen lifted their heads from their feeding, looked upward, and then, their snouts bloody, thrust their jaws again into the mass of blood, cloth and meat under their paws, between the riders and the back of the wagon.
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27 1044 Two men had dismounted and were looking upward.
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27 1613 He had a foot in the stirrup, and drew himself up with his left hand, retaining his grasp on the slave with his right hand, hauling her upward with him.
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30 193 "Please forgive me!" Then, as she dared to lift her eyes, clutching his calves, and looking fearfully up at him, she suddenly felt an almost uncontrollable cry of need in her belly, one suffusing upward and downward throughout her small body.
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30 250 Her master then tied her wrists over her head to a dangling ceiling ring in the hall, a ring for the use of the tenants, one not far from the door, and drew her up in such a way that she was stretched upward by the wrists, and standing on the tips of her toes.
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Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

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9 21 Cabot shaded his eyes and looked upward.
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9 45 "Do not become too friendly," said Peisistratus, pointing upward.
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18 89 She might hope that hunting humans might not look upward.
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18 264 They both looked upward at Cabot, their eyes alight with anticipation.
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18 269 The first beast leaped upward, gained a purchase on the slope, and joined Cabot on his narrow ledge, until it was thrust back, over the edge, bloodied, with the stick, to slide to the foot of the slope again.
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18 272 Both sleen were then at the foot of the small escarpment, turning about, tails lashing, each again then looking upward.
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18 294 This second Kur carried a spear, which he handed to the net holder, who then, grasping it some four feet behind the blade, lifted it, his hands high over his head, and pointed it downward, toward the heart of Cabot, who lay in the toils of the net, on his back, looking upward.
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19 8 There was another blast of fire below him, which was reflected upward, as though a small sun had exploded, casting an ignited chemical shower against the escarpment, and he saw the residue of one of the sleen smoking below him.
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19 99 Something was said to one of the Kurii, and it clambered upward, reached Cabot, and then lifted the net, with its prisoner, Cabot, and carried it down the slope to the level.
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20 113 "Kur to Kur!" cried Lord Pyrrhus, shackled, but mighty, looking upward, fangs bared.
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20 321 "Agamemnon awaits your answer," said Peisistratus, looking upward, after Cabot.
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28 77 "There," said Cabot, pointing upward, toward a shimmering patch of silver, seemingly small at the distance, amongst the forests above".
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29 107 Many a woman, in effect, was dragged upward, from the collar to the coronet, and in the master's bed were never permitted to forget the collar".
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29 255 He opened his right hand, palm upward, and lifted it, slightly, and the slave stood.
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33 82 She, that sinuous little Earth slut, now goods, now no more than salable, purchasable collar meat, was his! "Master!" she suddenly cried, pointing upward.
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33 83 Cabot and Grendel looked upward.
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33 131 Almost at the same moment the raft seemed to leap upward in the water, some great back beneath it, and then, with a mighty splash that drenched the occupants of the primitive vessel it struck back down into the water.
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33 166 He scrambled onto the bottom of the raft, now upward, and dragged the girl onto its surface beside him.
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34 262 The slave pulled her wrists a little upward, but they could not begin to reach her mouth.
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42 82 The cattle, those near him, regarded him dully, and then continued to plod upward.
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42 83 Cabot and the slave raced upward.
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42 137 The second Kur then turned about, suddenly, and fled, seized the ladder, and began to climb upward, rapidly.
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42 138 He had managed, despite the desperation and rapidity with which he clambered upward, to ascend only thirty or forty feet on the wide rungs, when he pitched backward, to the floor.
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44 164 Grendel seized her in one paw and dragged her to him, and, with his other paw, struck her head upward and back, exposing her throat, and he set his fangs across her throat, and Cabot knew well what might ensue.
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56 154 Here and there, on one side or the other, some Kurii, and some humans, perhaps some twenty or thirty, emerged from the trenches and, weaponless, arms lifted in surrender, began to climb upward, toward the perimeters of the vale.
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63 142 The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened...
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78 149 He then, with two blows of the ax, smote away the left foot and the right foot of Flavion, and then jerked him upward, that the two bloody stumps would be placed in the dirt, where the flow of blood might be slowed, if not staunched.
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80 152 He then raised his hand, lifting it toward the outer gate, well beyond the foot of the long, wide stairs leading upward to the dais.
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Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 445 These tended to buoy upward in the water.
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4 434 She tried to jerk down the hem of the shortened tunic, on both sides, but it sprang upward again.
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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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7 148 "This beauty," I said, looking upward, "has been marked.
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17 56 Hundreds of the enemy must have already alit in the plaza of training and set about their work, but even now others, newly arrived, startled, looking upward, saw birds diving, soaring in, and, in moments, were in the midst of sheets of arrows.
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17 106 Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.
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18 8 Smoke rolled upward from the housing area, from beyond the narrow track which led to the Plaza of Training.
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26 206 We held her, to make use of her, to use her as a counter, if necessary, in bargaining for our lives, our tarns ready, the crowds crying out below, the rebels climbing upward, on the height of the Central Cylinder".
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37 63 Elsewhere she would feel her way by multiple soundings, sometimes between bars, called upward from small boats preceding her.
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38 3 A sturdy, planked ramp led upward from the wharf.
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38 280 Then he was struck by the butt of the glaive, and thrust rudely upward.
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38 589 I think that in that clumsy, agonizing ascent, there was not one who did not fall, and more than once, upon the steps, thence to struggle frantically to regain its feet, only sometimes, drawn unexpectedly, off balance, by the chain again, to fall yet again, and some were unable to regain their feet,...
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38 590 One, unable to find its feet, was drawn upward, on its side, thrusting, scrambling, with its feet.
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38 591 At last some, mercifully, were lifted and carried upward by oarsmen, and set on their feet, on the wharf.
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38 662 Several docksmen freed the great ship from its moorings and, as the ropes were drawn upward, leaped to the ramp, and assisted in drawing it inboard.
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38 669 I made my way upward, from deck to deck, emerged onto the open deck, and went aft, to the stern castle.
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42 3 I kicked my way to the surface, and was thrown yards to my right by the wash of water, and went under, and came up, again, and gasped for breath, half blinded by the water, still clinging to that massive, furred neck, and the beast's head was then, too, out of the water and I heard an explosive exha...
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Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 114 At the same moment, the stranger bent down, seized up the small table, and flung it upward, and two quarrels splintered halfway through the wood.
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3 1051 ' 'No,' I said, 'of course not!' He then turned the collar on my neck, so that the lock was upward, at the front of my throat, inserted the key, moved back the bolt, and removed the collar from me.
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9 200 Whereas the tarn, in virtue of its strength, can take flight directly, interestingly, almost vertically, from a horizontal surface, they would usually, on the ship, as from a cliff, launch themselves through an arranged opening in the bulwarks, spread their wings, catch the air, and then strike thei...
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12 387 "Ho," called a voice from below, carrying upward, "noble Callias, do you do well?" "Yes," I called down.
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12 683 I glanced upward to the platform and ring, on the foremast, where Leros now stood his watch.
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13 6 At first, from several hundred yards away, we had thought them only inexplicable mounds in the sea, hills of flowers uncannily forced upward by the riot of growth, vines upon vines.
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14 133 I heard a man scream on the galley of Seremides, and he poked upward with his spear.
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14 136 It then, dragging its burden of sharks, its victim still struggling in its jaws, dove, and the snap of that great tail, striking upward, tipped us, and then, striking downward, propelling that enormous bulk, clove our galley, and we were plunged into the water.
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14 305 "Die, Sleen!" he cried, tearing himself upward, out of the vines, the right hand dripping with water, the sun flashing on the wet blade in its grasp.
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16 104 Some grapnels, on knotted rope, were slung upward from the galley, but fell short.
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19 92 Then the great ship rotated, buffeted, in the sea, and was washed upward, and she righted herself, and her bow, like a breaching leviathan, the northern whale, broke the surface and I fell back against the mast, gasping for air.
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22 187 I lunged upward and caught this darkly clad figure in the throat, below the black helmet.
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23 29 "There is a cove," said Cabot, "a harbor of sorts, protected from the sea, at the foot of a walled trail, leading upward, to the castle".
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24 1 We Have Made Landfall; We Shall Approach the Castle of Lord Temmu The stone-set walls were high, on both sides of the steep, winding, cobbled trail, some ten feet in width, better than a pasang in length, leading tortuously upward to the castle of Lord Temmu.
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24 15 Where would society be without the Builders, the Merchants, the Metal Workers, the Cloth Workers, the Wood Workers, the Leather Workers, the Peasant, with the great bow, the ox on whom the Home Stone rests? The trail upward was steep.
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24 336 I had turned about, finally, to join others, to make my way upward, when I heard my name called, "Callias!" I turned about, and, to my surprise, one not pleasant, I saw Seremides hobbling toward me, the crutch striking on the wharf planks.
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32 10 "Aii!" I said, as I felt the tearing jerk on my hands, anchored behind one of the knots, as I felt my feet pulled away, upward, away from the courtyard, and, for a sickening moment, I saw the ground dropping away below me.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 192 A moment later I felt my braceleted wrists being pulled upward, toward the ring.
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17 265 I felt my head pulled back by the hair, and I was then, head back, facing upward, toward the billowing, striped awning, which I could not see.
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23 83 I tried to peer upward, through the rain.
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45 149 I heard the scratching of claws behind me on the upward slope of rock.
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 125 They were the guards, or attendants, who brought girls down the steps, or escorted them upward, and beyond the gate.
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35 84 Tuza crouched like a panther, the blade of her knife at her knee, blade upward.
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50 418 But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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2 6 I buckled the safety strap, and snapped the reins, and my mount leapt from the wall, spread its vast wings, and, after soaring a few Ihn, struck against the air and surged upward.
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2 179 In the moonlight below I could see several figures, peering upward.
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9 10 Then, on the third day, word was brought to him that the great gate at the height of the wharf trail, leading upward from the sea to the holding, stood open.
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9 52 Whatever may be the case the trail upward was crowded with hurrying, jostling, panting men eager to make it through the gate at the summit of the wharf trail before it might be shut against them by their own officers.
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9 54 Some men apparently died in the climb upward.
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9 75 For some moments looters, unapprised of what ensued on the level; continued to hurry upward, and enter the courtyard, but, momentarily, there was confusion at the threshold as terrified men turned to flee back through the opening.
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14 5 "It is a tarnsman, against the moon," said Lord Akio, looking upward.
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