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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 181 The wine moved in the vessel.
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2 182 I saw my image in the wine, shattered by the tiny forces in the vessel.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 85 They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk.
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21 57 Many times was a golden vessel held for a Priest-King as it slowly yielded whatever had been stored in its abdomen to the Muls.
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21 59 The strange procession to and fro up the walls and across the ceiling to Priest-Kings and back down to the floor continued for more than an hour, during which time the Muls who stood below, some of them having returned with a full vessel, never ceased to chant their mournful paean.
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Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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19 139 I hoped that the girl would not burst a blood vessel.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 355 "Even in the ships," he said, "killing is not discouraged except under conditions of battle or when the functioning of the vessel might be impaired".
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17 179 "Bring paga!" called the disguised guard, summoning a belled slave girl to him, one carrying a large vessel of paga, that drinks might be dispensed yet once again.
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17 401 Then, to my horror, I saw Elizabeth, her back straight, her step determined, walk straight to Cernus and then, slowly, as his mouth flew open and he seemed scarcely to understand what was occurring, pour the rest of the contents of the vessel of Ka-la-na directly on his head.
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21 235 Elation, like Ka-la-na, suddenly flooded every muscle and vessel in my being.
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Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

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14 326 Vessel by vessel my men boarded the round ships, commonly meeting no resistance.
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8 153 Then I placed her lengthwise in the craft, her head at the up-curved stern end of the vessel.
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8 215 The slaves from the rence islands, lying between the rowers' benches, like fish, bound hand and foot, had their heads to the stern of the vessel.
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8 252 I was not much concerned with how those of Port Kar had determined who would be passenger on that fugitive vessel.
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8 345 As I, in the chair of the oar-master, faced the bow of the vessel, he, as slave at the benches, faced its stern, and the chair of the oar-master, that which now served me as Ubar's throne, in this small wooden country lost in the marshes of the Vosk's delta.
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10 196 One of the most common of naval strategies, other than ramming, is oar shearing, in which one vessel, her oars suddenly shortened inboard, slides along the hull of another, whose oars are still outboard, splintering and breaking them off.
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13 466 "It would ill repay the hospitality of a captain," said I, "for his passenger to refuse churlishly to return to him his vessel".
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14 5 The major difference, I would suppose, is that between the singly-banked and the doubly- or trebly-banked vessel.
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14 7 The Dorna, like most tarn ships, is a long, narrow vessel of shallow draft.
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14 59 To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu...
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14 76 The slaves, eager for the capture of the vessel by one of my ships, could scarcely be expected to row with their full strength, and the masters, knowing full well the ship might be taken, feared, under the conditions obtaining, to seriously abuse or slay the chained oarsmen.
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14 251 Doubtless this was reasonably clear, also, to the commander of the other vessel.
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14 316 And the flag she flew was bordered with gold, the admiral's flag, marking that vessel as the flagship of the treasure fleet.
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18 14 She, like most tarn ships, was a narrow vessel, long and of shallow draft.
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18 23 A vessel of hot paga was brought, too.
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18 32 Meanwhile, the starboard oars, under the call of the oar-master, began swinging the vessel about, to bring her stern into the wind.
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

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15 1199 I leaped up and, carrying the vessel, with a clash of slave bells, ran to serve him.
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15 1200 I tipped the vessel, but the wine was gone.
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15 1231 I dipped the wine vessel into the great stone jar, again filling it.
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15 1240 "Hurry!" With a cry of misery, spilling wine over the brim of the vessel, I slipped past the man in the doorway of the kitchen shed, and ran back to the firelight.
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17 275 "Take wine to the table!" Numbly, shaking, I took the vessel of wine.
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17 371 The vessel of wine I had dropped, and its contents now trickled among the tiles.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 137 A few yards away, on the tiles, in her brief silk, the two-handled, bronze paga vessel beside her, knelt the slave girl, waiting to be summoned.
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1 227 The slave girl, in her brief silk, stood, holding the two-handled bronze paga vessel, that she might look down upon him.
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1 266 She took a step backward, clutching the two-handled paga vessel.
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4 36 She carried a vessel of paga.
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4 55 In moments, the girl approached, carrying her vessel of paga.
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4 116 She put down her vessel of paga, and rose lightly.
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4 393 I noted, too, that, clad in yellow silk, belled on the left ankle, as another paga girl, the dancer, she whom Thurnock had sported with, too, carried a vessel of paga about.
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11 78 The slave girl came forward, from where she knelt to one side, and, kneeling, from a two-handled vessel, filled it.
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11 163 Verna, from where she knelt, looked at him, angrily, holding the two-handled wine vessel.
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11 168 The girl's fists clenched on the twin handles of the wine vessel.
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11 224 He then indicated that she should again kneel to one side, and take up the two-handled wine vessel, that she be ready, when we wished, to serve us once more.
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Book 9. (12 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 697 Another vessel was brought.
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2 311 Another Initiate, sleek, fat, his shaved head oiled, shining in the light of the candles, carrying a small golden vessel of thickened chrism went to each of the four men of Torvaldsland, making on their foreheads the sign of the Priest-Kings, the circle of eternity.
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3 229 "My serpent," said he, "is not a vessel on which one may book passage".
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3 396 Some were even attempting to rig a coasting vessel, to pursue the serpent.
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3 404 We could now see those at the dock, and even those who had been bestirring themselves with the coasting vessel, returning to the town.
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5 94 "It has a much higher freeboard area than this vessel," I told Ivar Forkbeard.
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6 13 Amidships, crowded together, standing, facing the starboard side of the vessel, were the bondmaids and Aelgifu.
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6 105 He carried, on a strap over his shoulder, a tall, dark vessel, filled with liquid.
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6 107 Attached to the vessel, by a light chain, was a golden cup.
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6 109 From a spout on the vessel, grinning, Gorm filled the golden cup.
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8 58 The perfumes I was displaying to her had been taken, more than six months ago, by the Forkbeard from a vessel of Cos.
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9 200 Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, as stripped as any bondmaid, from a large bronze vessel, poured mead for the Forkbeard.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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15 36 The "harvesting" vessel, not the retaining vessel, used is rather like a perforated cone with a handle, to which is attached a rope.
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16 28 If one is right-handed, one works with the retaining vessel to the left, so that one can turn and, with the right hand, tip the harvesting vessel, steadying it with the left hand.
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5 89 One in particular I noted, she who was charged with the silver vessel that contained the black wine.
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5 687 The girl in whose charge was the silver vessel, filled with black wine, knelt beside a tiny brazier, on which it sat, retaining its warmth.
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5 806 I glanced casually back to look upon her, kneeling beside the slender, silvered, long-spouted vessel of black wine, resting over its tiny brazier, she only one of a pair, a matched set, of slaves.
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6 73 She was the other girl of the matched set, the other white-skinned wench, she who had had in her charge the silvered, long-spouted vessel of black wine.
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12 330 I went to the wine table and, from the curved vessel, poured a small cup of wine.
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15 37 It is dragged through the sludge and lifted, the free water running from the vessel, leaving within the sludge of salt, thence to be poured into the retaining vessels, huge, wooden tubs.
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16 53 Then I lifted the cone and deposited the sludge in the retaining vessel, the large wooden tub behind me and to my left.
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17 18 He who had been steersman with us yesterday, during the attack of the Old One, held the sweep that governed the movements of that open, sluggish platform which constituted our vessel.
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17 37 They had been with the raft now for better than an Ahn, appearing some quarter of an Ahn after we had steadied the sluggish vessel in place.
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21 602 I had little doubt that the great vessel of its throat had been opened, if not severed.
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Book 11. (17 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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14 18 I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder.
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14 21 I rose and, carrying the vessel of paga, went to the door of the tavern, to step outside, to taste the air.
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14 180 I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap.
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14 182 He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it, filled, wet and dripping, to me.
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14 184 I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder.
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15 255 Too, I lit the tiny oil fire beneath the tempering vessel, on its iron tripod.
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16 214 The two men at the steering oars, one on each side of the ship, at its back, turned the vessel away from the left.
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22 82 The new vessel was abeam on our port side.
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22 130 The Jewel of Jad, like a living thing, leaped in pursuit of the fleeing vessel.
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22 148 "It is as I feared," cried the second officer, he who had not been sanguine about the vessel's pursuit.
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22 171 Now not only the flag of Port Kar but another flag, too, snapped on its line at the stem castle of the approaching vessel, hurling toward us, like a swift knife, its oars flashing.
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22 209 I was some yards from the sinking vessel when it slipped beneath the water.
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24 36 "Your vessel," said the man, grinning, "appears seaworthy but has clumsy lines".
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26 28 I had well judged the temperature of the water, mixing the water from the cistern with other water, heated in the tempering vessel on its iron tripod.
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26 673 She lifted the vessel of wine I had earlier brought and filled the goblet.
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27 280 He seized a cup and tore a vessel of paga from a startled girl and filled it himself.
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27 426 She did so, putting the paga vessel to one side.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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12 216 They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...
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2 338 Instead of two side-hung rudders, or oars, it carried a single oar, slung at the vessel's sternpost.
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10 99 He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman.
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22 106 I wrenched myself to the side and righted the light, narrow vessel.
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22 138 Normally, though it is swift to attack an object moving about in the water, like a swimmer, it will not attack a vessel.
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22 177 It reared six feet out of the water vertically beside the slender hide vessel.
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22 179 One of the large flippers struck me, buffeting me, spinning me and the vessel about, the animal then slipping free of the shaft of the lance.
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22 204 "It is running to the sea!" called Imnak, following me as he could in his own vessel.
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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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22 300 We tied the great beast between the two kayaks and then, one vessel on each side of the huge sea mammal, began to paddle toward camp.
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25 6 Karjuk stepped off the runners of his sled and called to his snow sleen, dragging back on the tabuk-horn uprights at the rear of the sled, by means of which he guided the snow vessel.
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35 198 She carried a bronze vessel on her right shoulder.
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35 205 At that point she knelt, putting the bronze vessel to one side.
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Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 33 On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it.
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1 34 On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on ...
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1 135 "After you have been locked in your kennel," said Samos, "ask for a vessel of warm water, oils and a cloth, and perfume.
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2 240 Doubtless he owned and captained his own vessel.
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4 73 If worse came to worse I could book passage on another vessel.
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4 929 The vessel moved slowly outward, into wider waters.
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6 156 I saw Ulafi, on his stern castle, raise his hand to a black captain, some seventy yards away, on the stern castle of his own vessel.
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21 30 It is common, of course, to use a tandem order in night rowing, the first vessel's untroubled passage marking the safe channel, its impeded passage marking the location of an obstacle.
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21 43 We saw two men, in the prow of a low, medium-beamed, bargelike vessel.
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21 44 One pushed down with a spear, forcing the broad head of the tharlarion away from the vessel.
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22 7 There had been, as far as I could tell, no convoy of askari canoes with him, nor askaris, as far as I saw, in the vessel I had seen.
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24 281 "Do not let them under it!" I thrust at the water with the paddle, and then, as the tharlarion began to surface under the slender vessel, pushed down at it.
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25 3 The two white slaves, kneeling one behind the other, before me, lifted their paddles from the water, laying them across the sides of our narrow vessel.
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27 43 "Where is he?" I asked, crawling dripping over the bulwark of the light vessel.
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28 3 We turned the light vessel a quarter to starboard.
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48 209 Janice, Alice and Tende, wading, placed the paddles and supplies in the canoe, and then, entering the narrow vessel, assumed their places.
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57 120 She might move back and forth, lengthwise in the galley, and to the benches, performing her labors, but could not leave the vessel or, indeed, even touch its bulwarks.
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57 205 He was on the stern castle of his vessel.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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5 3 I left the line of kneeling male slaves and approached the table, carrying the vessel of wine Tela had given me.
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5 87 "Pour the wine back into the vessel," said the Lady Gina, "and pour it forth again".
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5 104 In fury I went to the side of the room and put down the vessel of wine.
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5 138 Too, your hands, as they were placed on the vessel of wine, could not have struck the cup".
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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8 147 "Paga!" A blond girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man.
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14 237 In a few Ehn Lola returned with the tray, with the vessel of steaming liquid, the creams and sugars, the tiny cups, and the small spoons for mixing and measuring.
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20 98 "Yes, Master," I heard the slave with the wine vessel say, and heard the sensuous ring of the bells locked on her ankle as she hastened to comply.
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33 129 I looked over the starboard rail, and saw the great, curved shearing blade, fixed in the side of the vessel.
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Book 16. (50 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 6 Shirley, whom I had taken from Reginald, captain of the Tamira, said once to have been of Tafa, hung at the bow of our lead ship, the Tuka, that vessel said to be a well-known vessel of the Voskjard.
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1 17 "Set the catapults! Unbind the javelins! Bowmen to your stations!" I saw, amidships, opposite our galley, on the enemy vessel, two bowmen.
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1 29 I heard the snap of bow strings on my own vessel, returning the fire.
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1 85 The iron-shod ram slid, grating, over the chain and struck the enemy vessel amidships.
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1 89 I heard more wood breaking as we back-oared from the vessel, the ram moving in the wound.
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1 90 I heard water rushing into the other vessel, a rapid, heavy sound.
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1 101 Once more the ram struck deep into the strakes of an enemy vessel.
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1 117 Other men dove free into the river, swimming back about the bow of the nearest pirate vessel.
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1 156 Burning pitch spattering and exploding out of a clay vessel skidded across the deck.
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1 161 A man rose from behind the bulwarks of the enemy vessel, bow in hand.
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2 70 "Our vessel, even with the lanterns extinguished, cannot approach the chain as silently as a longboat.
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3 6 "Splendid!" The vessel continued to approach the chain.
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3 13 Every bit of sand in the lower hold must have been thrust to the stern of the vessel.
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3 16 Then the concave prow of the vessel had cleared the chain.
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3 50 There was a cheer from our vessel.
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3 64 There was a cheer on our vessel.
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4 117 I watched the Tais draw away from the disabled vessel.
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4 118 Then I saw the stern of the vessel swing eccentrically about.
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5 5 The other was on the railing of the pirate vessel.
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5 10 The port shearing blade of the pirate vessel was torn, splintering strakes, from its hull.
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5 20 I leaped onto the deck of the pirate vessel, slashing about myself.
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5 27 I nearly struck, by accident, an oarsman from the Tina, too on the pirate's vessel.
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5 36 We had ten or more men fighting on the pirate vessel in the vicinity of her stem castle.
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5 55 Behind me I could see another pirate vessel looming.
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5 63 The pirates, pressed by our defenders, and attacked now from their own vessel, fought for their lives.
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5 79 "That ship," I said, pointing, to a vessel less than some hundred yards away, engaged in war.
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5 205 Half turned toward the stem of the vessel and half to the stern.
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8 116 There have been occasions recorded when a free woman, usually one who has been haughty and troublesome, has been, by order of the captain, who is supreme on the vessel, simply stripped and enslaved on board.
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9 64 She was booty, as much as might be a bolt of cloth, a silver vessel, a kaiila.
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9 134 The strike had been well above the water line, when the vessel would ride on an even keel.
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9 449 A vessel, a lantern at her bow, nosed towards us.
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9 451 "Jason, is it you?" inquired a voice from the bow of the vessel.
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12 125 Another vessel entered the sea yard.
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14 42 "Two who were involved in this miserable business," said Policrates, "surmount now, as stripped and helpless prisoners, the shearing blades of my vessel".
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15 51 I then heard them, and the rest, leave the side of the moored vessel, moving down the wharf toward the concourse.
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16 88 There was another heavy, grating noise as the stern of the ship was struck again, by another pirate vessel.
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16 278 Not far off I could hear the clash of weaponry betokening yet another fierce ingress of boarders upon the deck of some vessel of hapless buccaneers.
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16 288 I dove to the port side of the vessel.
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16 304 Looking above me, up through the water, I saw the long, lean hull of the attacking vessel pass overhead.
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16 310 Oars were thrusting out from the attacking vessel, to force the ships apart.
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16 315 I gathered many of the crew of Spined Tharlarion had abandoned the vessel.
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16 320 I saw the attacking vessel moving backward, trying to maneuver.
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17 274 She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled wit...
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20 35 She, kneeling, poured wine from a narrow, long-spouted silver vessel into the cup of Aemilianus, of Ar's Station.
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20 363 The lovely little slave in bluish gauze, whom I had not yet named, holding the narrow-spouted, silver pouring vessel in a heavy cloth, to retain its heat and protect her hands, poured the scalding, steaming black fluid, in narrow, tiny streams, into the small cups.
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20 375 "Second slave," I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," th...
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21 193 I brought up from the kitchen, where I had been keeping it hot, a vessel of black wine, with sugars, and cups and spoons.
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21 218 "Do you wish me to hold your head back, my hand in your hair, your back almost breaking, and force the spout of the vessel between your teeth, pouring the wine as it is, black and scalding, down your throat?" I asked.
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21 281 "A Gorean lust," she said, "and I, a chained slave, know myself the helpless vessel upon which it will be vented".
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21 847 I then gave her the goblet, and she put it to the side, with the wine vessel.
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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2 108 It is sometimes judicious, as well as profitable, to occasionally overlook a vessel's likely port of origin.
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14 378 How odd it would be if man had no nature, but was unique in the universe, in being an empty vessel to be filled with ideology, an amorphous handful of clay to be molded into shapes, however bizarre, by the self-serving sculptors of society.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 124 Paint was brought forth, in a small clay vessel.
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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15 250 I wondered what it would be like to be helpless in the arms of such brutes, a cringing vessel for their pleasure, choiceless but to rhapsodically succumb.
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26 8 I hurried to the serving table and fetched a vessel of wine.
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26 21 I went then, at a sign from Teela, after replacing the wine vessel on the serving table, to the side of the room, where I knelt down beside Emily.
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35 51 I took the vessel of black wine, removing it from its warmer, and put it on its tray, that already bearing the tiny cups, the creams and sugars, the spices, the napkins and spoons.
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35 54 Afterwards I returned the tray to the serving table, and the vessel of black wine to its warmer.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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4 7 I then withdrew a yard or two and knelt in the grass, holding the vessel of light Ka-la-na.
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4 160 "Yes, Mistress," I said, rising and approaching with the vessel of Ka-la-na.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 1781 Louise carefully poured the wine into that lovely, widely opened orifice, that lovely, widely opened vessel that was the mouth of the Lady Tutina.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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11 1584 In the arms of the second fellow I had begun to feel incredible sensations but he had then, eager in his own pleasures, seized me helplessly to him, and, as I was held, startled, the helpless vessel of his pleasure, used me, and left.
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27 28 When I had knelt before a post, my hands behind me, chained back about the post, a helmet beside me, set in the sand, like a vessel, into which ostraka would be placed, men had come to look upon me.
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Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 287 The bird thrust its beak into a tall, narrow vessel.
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20 338 Certainly the fellow with me had seemed to have no difficulty in identifying the moored vessel.
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20 380 Women and children, and now men, were being taken aboard this vessel as well.
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21 157 I was awakened by the kicks of free women and conducted helplessly aboard this vessel".
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 276 A girl hurried to him, with her vessel of drink.
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1 285 The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure.
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1 333 I watched her waiting, to dip her paga vessel.
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1 356 Temione had now reached the vat, and was carefully dipping her narrow, high-handled serving vessel in the simmering paga.
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1 379 Temione had now filled her paga vessel.
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1 392 She poured me paga, filling the goblet she had taken from the rack, from the vessel she carried.
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1 635 "Let slaves present themselves!" called the fellow, lifting his vessel of paga.
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9 106 Such a vessel made a startling, unconscionable contrast with the meanness, that wretched, ragged, numerous miscellany, of other craft about.
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13 22 Even from a sober military point of view, of course, given the suppositions of the men of Ar, it was natural to associate the barge with the Cosians, conjecturing it to be, say, one of their transport craft or a vessel of their rear guard.
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13 137 "No," said he, "it is a vessel of the Cosian rear guard!" "Perhaps," I said.
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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19 39 We turned the tharlarion toward the fields where the girl was filling a vessel with water.
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19 338 She lifted the large vessel from the tank with both hands, and then, her head down for a moment, rested it on the rim of the tank.
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19 1298 Then I put the other vessel, too, on the yoke.
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20 349 "I beg it! I am your slave! Use me as the helpless vessel of your pleasure!" "Do not move," I said to the new slave.
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Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

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8 401 Of the two to one side, the yellowish vessels, one was a flattish bowl, which contained a crust and some meal; too, within it I was pleased to see what I thought were some slices of dried fruit; such things are often included in our diet; they are precious to us; in the other vessel, of the two to o...
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8 399 The yellowish vessels were to one side and the whitish porcelaintype vessel was to the other.
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8 402 On the other side of the room, to the right, as I faced the back of the cell, was the larger, whitish porcelaintype vessel.
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8 607 How would three rows of thonged bells look, jingling on the left ankle of a bare-footed Sandra? Wouldn't Jean look well, in a common camisk, carrying a vessel of water, balanced with one hand on her head, as we had been trained to do? And surely Priscilla would be fetching in a tiny bit of yellow si...
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8 1008 I had reached the vessel in time.
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8 1021 The straw is left in the vessel.
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9 7 When one reaches one thousand one may rise, and fetch the food and water bowls, and the clean wastes vessel, from just within the bars, where they have been left.
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9 9 At the signal one puts the empty bowls and the wastes vessel near the bars, and then assumes the indicated position, one of prone helplessness, facing the back of the cell.
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9 159 I then, too, took the wastes vessel, now cleaned, and put it back, and to the right.
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10 270 There had been straw in the cell, for my comfort and cleanliness! Even a vessel for wastes had been provided! Could it be that these men were weak, or, if not weak, that they were tolerant, understanding, and kindly? Then it would surely be easy to fool them.
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11 719 So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs o...
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14 215 She had a pallet filled with straw, a dish for food, a vessel for water, and a wastes bucket.
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24 721 Depending on the box, it may also contain ink, or powdered ink, to be mixed with water, the vessel included, or flat, disklike cakes of pigment, to be dampened, and used as ink, rather as water colors.
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24 905 He could no more bring himself to steal her than he could have brought himself to steal a silver vessel, a golden plate, from a house in which he had been accepted as a guest.
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34 94 The inflow devices add water to a container and the level in the container measures a unit of time; the outflow devices drain water, the time measured then by the level of water remaining in the vessel.
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41 17 I wanted to be there, where I might run through the streets in a tunic and collar, where I might drink water from the lower basins, where I might press through crowds, carrying a package or vessel upon my head, unable to defend myself against the touches of men, who might touch me as easily as one m...
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Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

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22 81 But Ellen knew she must now hurry back to the vat of ka-la-na, for her vessel was nearly empty.
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22 113 "I must fetch more, Master!" cried Ellen, and, turning about, seemed to hurry toward the vat of ka-la-na, that the vessel of her service might be replenished.
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22 277 She dipped her vessel into the ka-la-na, and returned to her work.
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22 281 She looked at the red-figured vessel she carried, the red image on it bright, fresh and exciting against the smooth, glazed, curved, black background.
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22 283 She found the vessel precious and beautiful, but here, of course, such things were thought little of; they were familiar, cheap and common.
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22 285 The figures on the vessel, two on one side, two on the other, were similar, rather as in a repeated design.
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22 290 Ellen held the vessel against her, to steady it, it feeling cool against her skin.
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22 421 Too, this sort of thing, a trickle of ka-la-na on the vessel, is not that uncommon in pouring.
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22 422 She put one finger to the side of the vessel and found the arrested trickle of wine.
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22 442 * * * * It was a few Ehn later when, making her way amongst the joking, roaring, laughing, colorfully garbed men, tunicked and robed, many sitting about the fires, some afoot, moving here and there, the firelight reflecting from the side of the red-figured pitcher, the side of her lit by one of the ...
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25 251 Following the passing along of the wastes vessel, over which the slaves must squat and relieve themselves in order, a girl brings a bucket and dipper with water.
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25 473 Between them he had then thrust a large, round, porcelain vessel.
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25 477 But then she noted that the porcelain vessel was moved to the right and the last slave in her own line must assume the posture and perform the expected behavior, as well.
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25 479 The vessel then began to pass back and forth between the two lanes, moving forward.
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25 480 Following the wastes vessel was the slave with the water.
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25 481 Each slave in the chain, following her use of the wastes vessel, must kneel and drink from the dipper, draining it.
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27 2278 He was mighty and she, slave, obediently receptive as she must be, welcomed him, bent back, fastened, over the wheel, as the yielding, helpless, collared vessel of his pleasure.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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2 31 His knees buckled, and he tried to brace himself against the slanting wall of the damaged vessel.
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4 45 When the next day he came again with food and water, and to replace the wastes bucket with a cleaner vessel, the brunette crouched down in the straw, but did not scream.
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12 108 Lord Pyrrhus then returned to the shuttle lock, accessed the automated vessel, and left the sport world.
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27 22 "It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...
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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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79 205 "Paga!" called a fellow, and a slave, with her vessel, hurried to him, to serve him.
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Book 29. (26 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 280 Had she not been so, in one way or another, in her dreams, on the smooth, scarlet tiles of a conqueror's palace, on the deep-piled rug within the tent of a desert chieftain, on the deck of a pirate's vessel? In a pathological culture, of course, many things are kept concealed, often those which are ...
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2 1 Pertinax; A Vessel Will Not Beach "Come forward," said the fellow, gesturing toward the forest.
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2 19 Had he been a slaver it was possible he might have been aware of the sky ships, so to speak, such as the disklike vessel of Peisistratus.
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3 334 In a moment she had removed the lid from the vessel, set it aside, and half-filled two goblets.
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3 369 The justification for this grasp is practical and aesthetic, practical in the sense of assuring greater control of the vessel, and aesthetic, having to do with symmetry, and a framing of the slave's beauty.
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4 382 I wondered if an agent, or agents, of Priest-Kings might be aboard that vessel, now so far off, now seeming so tiny.
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5 953 "It seems so," said a man, looking about the beach, after the departing vessel, then to the looming forest.
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18 14 I saw an Anangan dart lodge itself in a fellow's throat, who tried to pull it free, and, blood bursting from the neck, he sprawled into the dust, the vessel of the artery exposed, as it had caught behind the point of the dart, which point is broad, and barbed.
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23 2 She was some yards away, amongst the tables, clutching her vessel of ka-la-na.
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23 49 She had her two hands on the vessel of ka-la-na.
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23 109 She had a vessel of paga, on its strap, over her small shoulder.
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26 241 The smoke would conceal the abduction, simply enough, and the blazing light would be a shielding, concealing, bewildering, dazzling illumination emitted from a departing vessel.
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30 21 Too, they have a single rudder, the "steering board," which is located on the right side of the vessel, as one faces forward.
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30 23 The "port side," or left side of the vessel, facing forward, at least on Gor, and perhaps on Earth, may have received its name from keeping harbor buoys to one's left as the port is entered.
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30 42 I had the sense that this vessel had been designed with an unusual voyage in mind.
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30 43 "Such a vessel," I said, "might sail even beyond Cos and Tyros".
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30 48 Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two.
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30 54 It is not necessary for the ram to shatter the opposing vessel to guarantee its destruction.
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30 64 I supposed that any vessel so slow or unwary as to come beneath the bow of this leviathan would be shattered like kindling, crushed like a cache of vulo eggs beneath the tread of a tharlarion.
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30 99 "The size of the vessel," said my informant, "is such as to house tarns, their tarnsmen, their tarnsters, their gear, their provender, and such.
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30 112 It did seem to me that in a vessel of this size a double rudder might be impractical, and difficult to mount.
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30 113 Too, in a vessel of this size one would not, in any case, look for a delicate responsiveness to the helm, or helms.
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30 166 This vessel might venture far, might spend months at sea, with no sight of land.
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30 167 This, I feared, was no common vessel, and intended no common voyage.
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39 28 Lords Nishida and Okimoto, of course, were highest amongst us, but neither, surely, was fit to command a vessel of this size, might, and design.
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40 34 "It is a beautiful river," I said, "and one of the few this far north navigable by a vessel this deeply keeled".
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Book 30. (39 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 428 She took the vessel and rose up, backing away, head down, then turning and hurrying to the paga vat.
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2 2 One feared it was a ship of no mortal creation, but rather a vessel of Priest-Kings, come from the clouds over the Sardar, gone on air.
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2 16 No ship, no vessel, might ply these waters without papers, bearing the seal of either Tyros or Cos.
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2 21 We at the oars, free men all, for our vessel was a long ship, low in the water, knifelike, fit for war, were looking forward to our winter leave, and the paga and girls of the taverns, The Silver Chain, the Beaded Whip, the Pleasure Garden, the Chatka and Curla, the Ubar's Choice, and others.
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2 190 How absurd to have fired flaming javelins at such a vessel.
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2 260 A hand was outstretched, over the vessel's side, it rocking, toward me.
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3 34 And would they not view me as their enemy, for did our ship not fire upon their mountain of wood when it trod, however unwittingly, upon our vessel? I had heard the harsh crackings, marking the launching of sets of javelins, doubtless ignited.
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3 67 This suggested to me, but did not prove, that this mysterious, monstrous vessel in which I found myself encelled, despite its size, was not a round ship, or, better, not a round ship as one usually thinks of such ships.
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3 78 The vessel at sea, flight would be foolish.
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3 1373 It is their vessel.
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3 1482 What woman would not wish to be excitingly garbed, to be not only permitted, but to have no choice but to publicly exhibit her beauty? What woman would not wish to escape the inhibitions, the social demands, the conventions and pressures, the robes, veils, and proprieties which so control and confin...
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4 162 To be sure, the vessel itself would seem an impractical corsair, but I knew she sheltered at least one nested galley, which might plausibly exercise the dark vocation of the low, green ships.
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5 77 "And thus," I said, "they would not survive, perhaps to enlighten others as to the existence of a great ship, a mysterious, monstrous vessel, unlicensed in our waters".
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5 267 "Passage is dear on this vessel," said a fellow, "not free".
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7 59 There were two major keeping areas, for female slaves, off two long corridors, one on the Venna deck, and one lower, on the Kasra deck, these two corridors, as others, apart from them, leading fore and aft, the length of the vessel.
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8 67 Tersites, in his arrogance, his pride, and waywardness, had not deigned to give his vessel eyes.
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8 123 What do they need then, but the chain, the block, the auctioneer's cry? She turned about, frightened, the vessel of steaming black wine, wrapped in its thick cloths, from the wool of the bounding hurt, held in two hands.
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8 227 Beside her the vessel of black wine no longer steamed.
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8 462 "Then, rise," I said, "hurry to the kitchens, to heat the wine, or replenish your vessel".
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8 464 She retrieved the vessel, wrapped in its cloths.
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8 466 "Hurry," I said, "run, run!" She turned about, in misery, and, holding the vessel in its cloths, hurried away.
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10 90 Surely, any moment now the great vessel would settle, water pouring in through broken timbers.
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11 5 And how might one expect to see a sail this far at sea, for we had come farther than any vessel had formerly come, at least to our knowledge.
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12 181 The would-be assassin, perhaps discovering that she must keep both hands on, or, more likely, unwilling to keep both hands on, say, a vessel is reluctant, hesitant, or disconcerted.
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13 3 We had clambered aboard the vessel, from a small ship's boat, cutting through the masses of snarled, ropelike, blossomed vines which encircled it, covering it, almost obscuring it.
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13 13 It was a round ship, of sorts, a vessel not made for war.
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13 127 "And the ships are merchant ships, apparently, and, one supposes, would be crewed accordingly, with complements sufficient to the vessel, and perhaps little beyond that".
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14 116 Seremides grinned, stepped back, drew his blade, and set himself, easily, his body swaying a little, with the movement of the vessel.
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14 187 But I saw a swimmer clamber to his makeshift vessel.
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14 203 Seremides looked about, and then put the knife in his belt, and then, kneeling on the beams, pulled at some floating vinage, and his narrow vessel inched toward me.
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14 228 An occasional swell, lifting the circumambient vines and blossoms, moved his small vessel, and the raft of vinage to which I clung.
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14 249 There was then a swell of water, and I saw it lift his vessel two or three feet, and he cried out in triumph and I knew that, in its descent, sliding down the slope of that swell, it would be upon me, and I plunged beneath the water, dragged myself down, beneath the vines, swam what I could, some ya...
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14 361 I turned him on his back, and drew him through the water, and over the vines, to where I had departed the small vessel of nailed beams.
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14 363 I drew him onto the makeshift vessel.
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16 19 By the time the great ship drew near the drifting vessel, my watch was done, but I remained on deck.
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16 102 The enemy, I gathered, had not expected a vessel the size of the ship of Tersites, and many stood confused below, crying out, and shaking their weapons.
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19 40 Perhaps at first she might be terrified, or dismayed, to discover herself become so helpless, the victim and prisoner of needs so fierce and commanding, so uncompromising and uncontrollable, but later, though helpless in their throes, she, as her sisters, would rejoice in the thrashing ecstasies of ...
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24 55 I would later learn there had been a much larger number of eggs, but many had perished on the vessel, and been cast overboard.
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37 1509 Alcinoë, as she was Gorean, had the honor of bringing forth the vessel and cups, and my slave, as she was a barbarian, and thus subordinate, unless it was otherwise specified, brought forth the small pitcher of cream, the tiny spoons, and the small, flat bowls of sugars and spices.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1539 She was carrying a vessel of steaming kal-da.
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10 371 "I am a slave vessel for your pleasure!" I said.
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Book 32. (34 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 478 Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But Thassa, I supposed, vast Thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave her wrath where a hundred co...
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21 333 "Were you not entrusted with a vessel, a small vessel, constituting a celebratory draft, a gift, a reward and pledge, placing a seal on our business?" "Ah!" said Tyrtaios.
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22 113 Asperiche was a very intelligent woman, and in pretending shyness, a trepidation, an overt, too obvious unwillingness to speak, a fearing to speak, might have signaled her desire to speak, and, perhaps, thus call herself to the attention of a handsome fellow, if only for the nonce, as a vessel of in...
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6 265 It was now too late to make the rendezvous to the west, on Daphne, even were a vessel to leave this night, even had I the wherewithal to book passage.
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8 512 After the vessel was well underway, it seemed likely they would be taken to the base hold, the ceiling of which is waist high, which is floored with ballast sand, and there chained together by the neck, after which they would be freed of the wrist cords and blindfolds.
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8 521 I had had some interaction, in a tavern, with the fellow who seemed to be the high officer of the armsmen on the second vessel.
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8 524 As docksmen were at the mooring ropes, I assumed the second vessel was ready to clear the harbor.
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9 118 "Approach," we were told, and, gratefully, we then stood on the beach, beside the disembarked cargo of the small vessel.
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9 287 "But," said the newcomer, examining us, recently, rudely disembarked from the vessel, examining us as a Gorean examines slaves, "I do not find your own cargo inferior".
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10 2 Indeed, our vessel did not even beach at this point, but turned about, and rocked in place, parallel to the shore, some yards from the beach.
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10 3 I had some sense of the cargo of the first ship, tools, supplies, slaves, and such, but our vessel was clearly a transport for armsmen.
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10 42 "Prepare to disembark," called Tyrtaios to the more than a hundred men on the vessel.
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15 465 Would not a variety of galleys be more practical? For what is so large a vessel required? It is much larger, many times larger, I am told, than even the largest of common round ships, or cargo vessels, which, too, are apparently very different from the long, low, knifelike vessels of war.
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15 476 Why would tarns be needed? What purpose might they serve? Too, even though the vessel was large, it would carry hundreds of times the men required to manage it.
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15 479 Too, what an enormous store of supplies might be housed in so mighty a vessel, supplies which might last years.
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15 746 Surely I had been the choiceless vessel of his pleasure, and he was now done with me.
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16 160 I, pack in hand, looked down to the Alexandra, lovely, wide and shimmering, in the morning light, to the huge, partially dismantled framework of mighty Tur beams, to the long dock, with its many sheds, and the broad, towering vessel which was moored there, held in place by gently, strained lines, ag...
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19 37 "It must now be brought back, to the wharf, to be stowed aboard the great vessel".
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20 171 For what had it been built? For what waters had so mighty a keel been laid? What storms had it been framed to withstand? What broad, trackless, landless wildernesses might it hazard? What strange harbors might so monstrous a vessel seek, by what unfamiliar, far ports of call might it be lured? "No, ...
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21 341 "There is very little in the vessel," said Tyrtaios.
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21 356 I feared the two beasts were to pounce upon him, given the regard in which they seemed to hold the small vessel, but they stopped suddenly, angrily, apprehensively, for, having broken the seal and removed the bottle's stopper, Tyrtaios held it, as though to spill its contents on the ground.
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21 469 Tyrtaios, who was not a timid man, had been unwilling to keep even the wallet in which the vessel, closed as it was, had been carried.
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23 105 How strange I thought that such a vessel would be built here, in this wilderness, in this remote place, so far from the sea.
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23 147 It seemed less a ship than a fortress, or castle, which might for some mad reason have chosen to disguise itself as a vessel.
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23 158 I would never be put on that ship as a slave, another coffled beast, a shapely article on an inventory! How terrified had been several of my chain sisters even to think of being embarked on such a vessel.
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25 113 As he neared, and then loomed over me, I saw he carried a metal, narrow-spouted vessel.
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25 117 Then, as I opened my mouth widely, gasping, fighting for breath, I felt the spout of the metal vessel in my mouth.
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25 120 Then, before I could breathe again, the vessel was tipped, and fluid began to flood into my mouth, a repellant, gross, revolting fluid, and it filled my mouth like a pool.
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29 211 "We could trade her on the coast, for a vessel of ka-la-na," said one of the Panther Women.
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43 1061 I suppose you have marking irons, and collars, on your vessel".
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52 259 "Put her here," said the officer, unpleasantly, indicating the same vessel he had earlier suggested.
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52 267 "Seat her there, on a thwart there!" said the captain, pointing to the designated vessel, angrily.
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52 521 The large vessel was now in midriver.
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52 524 The vessel was six-masted but no sail was set.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 28 Men had been lost, too, in the boarding of an ambush vessel, a bait at sea, and in resisting the attacks of its associated marauders.
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9 106 At the encampment, the tarns cotted and fed, I called my high officers, Torgus and Lysander, to my tent, that a vessel of paga might be shared.
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12 8 The girl very carefully, holding her right sleeve back with her left hand, poured tea from the blue-and-white ceramic vessel into my tiny cup.
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12 282 These she filled from a small vessel.
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12 284 I noted, to my satisfaction, that she poured all three cups from the same vessel.
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12 300 I recalled that all three cups had been filled from the same small vessel.
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12 333 The sake was poured from the same vessel.
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20 38 They would kneel to receive their dishes or vessels from the table of the kitchen master, the serving table, toward the back and right of the room, rise, approach the guests' table, kneel, and, their arms extended, their head down between their extended arms, place the dish or vessel, held in two ha...
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30 3 Nezumi hurried to the table bearing the earthen vessel.
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30 674 Behind the dragon screen, with Haruki, I was annoyed, as the innkeeper seemed clearly interested in selling another vessel of sake.
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30 697 Nezumi then must have filled another vessel, and replenished the cups.
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56 32 They fell upon me, tore away my clothing, threw me to the tiles, and used me, several, like rutting tarsks, as a vessel for their pleasure".
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Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

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3 60 "There is coffee," said the second man, glancing into the kitchen, noticing the pertinent vessel.
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14 104 Also in evidence was the metal paga vessel, with two handles, from which the goblets might be filled.
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14 139 She then poured golden paga from the metal vessel into one of the goblets.
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40 47 He stepped back a pace, but did not return to the wheel, on which was fastened a vessel, half-formed.
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40 71 I saw no vessel there for which might be exchanged a dozen slaves or a tarn.
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41 160 "Rational life is not confined to a single vessel, or form.
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57 142 Its presence at the feast in more than one vessel bespoke the affluence of Decius Albus.
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59 127 "If we are prizes," said one of the women in the darkness, "why have we not been displayed?" I knew little of such matters, but I gathered that it was customary to publicly display at least some of the goods that might accrue to a victor, perhaps a vessel of silver, a buckle, pin, or armlet of gold,...
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60 120 Shortly thereafter, the vessel in his hand, he called out, "To glorious Ar," and then drank.
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68 141 Must he not then be thinking of ridding himself of her? Must he not then be thinking of giving her to someone, or taking her to a girl exchange or market? "Would you like a honey cake, and a small vessel of ruby ka-la-na?" he asked.
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68 207 Scales are particularly important if, say, a silver buckle, or a scrap cut from a gold vessel, should be in question.
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69 157 "I want to be owned, subdued, put to work, mastered, used as a vessel for your lust, a meaningless toy for your pleasures".
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Book 35. (18 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 14 The vessel, gently rolling, was moving well.
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8 98 Our ship was a merchant vessel, called a "round ship," though its beam was not that much broader than that of a long ship, as I now know, with its ram and shearing blades.
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8 619 "That is no cargo vessel, no round ship," she said.
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8 821 It seemed clear that such an object, moving with its ship, sped swiftly against the planking of another vessel, might inflict damage, perhaps considerable damage.
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8 890 I could hear water rushing into the vessel.
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9 66 She must have come on a faster vessel.
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11 2 In many places, a portal can be reached only by means of a vessel, commonly one of the small single-oared skiffs which ply the canals.
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16 4 "He spoke not one word on the vessel," said another.
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24 18 She was brought to Port Kar tied at the prow of the corsair which had taken her vessel.
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26 127 I suspected it was a vessel of sorts, or a weapon of war.
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33 68 The difference, I suspect, was in our vessel, the rence craft as opposed to a canal boat.
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33 137 But what of the monstrous thing in the water, a vessel, ship, engine of war, or such? I had no idea of its speed, power, or capabilities.
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33 661 I awakened in the early morning, half lying across my makeshift vessel, to the sound of marsh birds.
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36 71 This was the vessel which had engaged, and destroyed, the Cosian raider on the voyage north from Brundisium to Port Kar.
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36 147 "Your vessel is replenished," said Portia.
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36 148 "Coming, Masters!" I called, and, vessel steadied in two hands, hastened back to the dining area.
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43 46 "Soon lads," said Seremides, calling to the rowers, "we will be at the Southern Gate, and from thence to the Skerry of Lars, near which a swift, ready vessel, foreign and unmarked, awaits".
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43 123 Oars ready! We are going to shear the oars of the vessel which suspects nothing, coming alongside.
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Book 36. (48 results) Avengers of Gor

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50 18 This makes the vessel more responsive and agile than a single-ruddered vessel, a feature important in naval warfare, both in attack and flight.
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3 12 Few would take her as a "round ship," a cargo vessel, with its somewhat broader beam, higher gunwales, and capacity for freight.
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3 23 Indeed, in its capacity to outrun and elude patrol ships, it was the sort of vessel which is often favored by clandestine traders, or, say, to speak more frankly, smugglers.
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4 85 The fragment of their vessel lists, it takes on water, it sinks".
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4 118 Our vessel sinks!" "We are saved!" said the second, a wild, relieved, gladness in her voice.
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4 127 "It is fortunate that your vessel remains afloat".
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4 134 "Our poor vessel, the Doris," said the first, "was beset by pirates, two days ago, by the dreaded corsair, the merciless Bosk of Port Kar, rogue of Thassa!" "The crew was slaughtered," said the second.
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5 9 "Before the circle could draw tight about the decoy vessel," said Thurnock.
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5 13 But it is not likely that a vessel in its seeming condition could have remained afloat for more than an Ahn.
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5 16 I suspect that our supposedly pathetic derelict has been placed athwart the course of more than one vessel".
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5 21 "Such a vessel is not a holding, not a city," I said.
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5 93 "What is the likelihood," I asked, "that in the wide and open waters of mighty Thassa one might encounter a tiny, listing fragment of a shattered vessel, with three passengers, free women, in desperate need of succor?" "Little likelihood, indeed," said Clitus.
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5 97 "A trap is set, somewhere between Chios and Thera, and one then waits to see if an unwary vessel bound from Chios to Thera, or from Thera to Chios, will happen by".
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5 101 "Unless," said Clitus, "the corsair was informed, if it knew the vessel, the time, and course".
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9 17 A single vessel, and perhaps even two, would be unlikely to engage the Dorna and Tesephone".
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11 11 The attendant, with belt and coin box, having noted the delivery of paga, the vessel now before me, had arrived at the table.
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11 96 The attendant placed the vessel on the table, carefully, turned about, and took his leave.
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11 124 "I have had too much to drink," I said, reaching groggily for the paga vessel.
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13 3 On the other side of the beached vessel, I heard a cry of alarm.
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14 31 We had a fair wind, and, even if it were not so, the lateen-rigged vessel would be little dismayed, as it sails closer to the wind than its square-rigged fellows, commonly found in the north.
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14 32 The lateen-rigged vessel is said to be a brother to the wind.
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16 56 It was more like being afoot on a large vessel, platform, or raft.
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25 4 In the harbor there were several small boats, but only a single large vessel, a ship-of-war, one of fifty oars.
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26 28 The double rudder adds an increment of water resistance, or drag, to the vessel's passage, but this is regarded as a negligible disadvantage which is more than compensated for by the gain in maneuverability.
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39 57 "Consider the Tesephone," I said, "disguised now as a merchant's vessel, painted in white and gold.
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49 110 If all seemed safe, the larger vessel, the fifty-oared Dorna, would follow.
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50 20 Uncoupled, each is independent of the other, which feature, particularly should one rudder be damaged or destroyed, permits the vessel to proceed unimpaired.
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50 69 The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of...
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51 28 I looked at the three corsair ships, each a vessel of fifty oars, the coast of Chios behind them.
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51 126 One of them had put out longboats, four longboats, which were now approaching the scattered, splintered wreckage of the first vessel.
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51 127 The other vessel had declined to risk its longboats.
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51 143 One of the four lifeboats had now reached the wreckage of the first corsair vessel.
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52 67 "Surely the tiny Tesephone did not engage a fifty-oared vessel," said Tab, "let alone manage to sink such a foe".
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52 89 As a sleen, tenacious and swift, can follow scent on land, tenacious and swift, a living island can follow sounds, disturbances, stirrings, in the water, schooling fish, the wake of a passing vessel, and such.
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52 119 Whereas the typical shallow-drafted Gorean vessel, low in the water, mast down, as noted, can be difficult to detect, its presence is much more easily marked when its mast is raised.
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53 174 The ideal for an enemy contemplating boarding was clearly, if possible, to utilize two ships and draw alongside the target vessel on both the port and starboard side, thus permitting a simultaneous, coordinated attack, analogous to a land action in which an enemy can be attacked both on the front an...
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53 209 "At the first sign of hostility we shall cast it into the sea!" There seemed some confusion on the stem deck of the nearest vessel, which I took, mistakenly, as it turned out, to be the flagship of the corsair fleet.
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53 230 Doubtless that brave vessel is your newly designated flagship".
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54 20 They prefer a living keleustes who can see the benches and heed the action of the oars and, consequently, adjust the beat, subtly, as necessary, to optimize the performance of the vessel, subject to actual conditions.
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55 11 "No," said Sakim, "but it is easy for them to follow the beast while it seeks a different vessel, hoping to be fed".
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57 48 Some swam desperately to make their way to and about the prow or stern of the corsair vessel.
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57 56 "Pull," I heard from the corsair vessel, and then, again, "Pull!" The two hulls, rocking in the sea, approached one another, more and more closely.
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57 160 In a moment the length of the corsair ship, oars swiftly brought inboard, the vessel then obedient to inertia, would slide parallel to the starboard side of the Tesephone.
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57 183 Some thought that our ship was genuinely afire, either by accident or that we had deliberately fired the ship, certain that all was lost, to immolate our vessel and the corsair ship in a common conflagration.
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57 189 "Oars out, thrust away!" I heard from the corsair vessel.
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58 106 She would need a long, clear course to accumulate enough speed to break through the timbers of a fifty-oared vessel".
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58 175 I trained the glass on the oncoming vessel.
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58 186 I could see men busied amidships on the enemy vessel.
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