| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 91 |
In the wagon there were some twenty girls, dressed in the slave livery of Gor, perhaps ten on a side, chained to a metal bar which ran the length of the wagon. |
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| 10 | 90 |
"I have a spare ankle ring," he said, and took Talena by the arm, thrusting her inside the wagon. |
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| 10 | 95 |
We had gone scarcely ten paces and Talena could hardly have been fastened in the wagon before we heard a female scream of pain and a bevy of howls and shrieks. |
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| 10 | 96 |
From the wagon came the sound of rolling bodies, slamming and cracking against the sides, and the rattle of chains on wood, pierced by squeals of pain and anger. |
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| 10 | 97 |
The attendant leaped into the back of the wagon with his strap, and there was added to the din the sound of his curses and the crack of the strap as he smartly laid about him. |
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| 10 | 98 |
As Kazrak and I watched, the attendant, puffing and furious, emerged from the wagon, dragging Talena by the hair. |
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| 10 | 99 |
As Talena struggled and kicked and the girls in the wagon shouted their approval and encouragement to the attendant, he angrily hurled Talena into my arms. |
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| 11 | 15 |
We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 6 |
Through the trees I could see tent canvas, a tharlarion wagon, the strap-masters unharnessing a brace of low tharlarions, the huge, herbivorous draft lizards of Gor. |
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| 21 | 15 |
I saw that the cover of the tharlarion wagon, which had been rolled back, was of blue and yellow silk. |
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| 21 | 78 |
Had I attempted to free her, it would have been as much an act of theft as if I had driven off the tharlarion wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 359 |
"Go to the Wagon Peoples, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," she said. |
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| 27 | 360 |
"Go to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 35 | 74 |
"She only said," I told him, "Go to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 35 | 76 |
"Then," he said, "it must be with the Wagon Peoples—or they must know where it is". |
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| 35 | 189 |
"Where," I asked him, "is the land of the Wagon Peoples?". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 314 |
Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the... |
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| 2 | 72 |
In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure... |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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| 7 | 4 |
The wagon itself was the largest in the camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these... |
10 |
| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 8 | 50 |
"The bosk are safe," they had cried, and the cry had been taken up by the women and carried from wagon to wagon, "The bosk are safe!" This year, perhaps because it was the Omen Year, the Wagon Peoples did not advance farther north than was necessary to ensure the welfare of the herds. |
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| 21 | 19 |
Slowly, wagon by wagon, the long columns of the Tuchuk retreat were formed, each wagon in its column, each column in its place, and, covering pasangs of prairie, the march from Turia had begun. |
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| 27 | 18 |
Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t... |
10 |
| 1 | 38 |
My business was with the Wagon Peoples, not the Turians, said to be indolent and luxury-loving; but I wonder at this charge, for Turia has stood for generations on the plains claimed by the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
10 |
| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
10 |
| 3 | 127 |
Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders. |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
10 |
| 5 | 46 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the... |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
The two axles of the wagon are also of tem-wood, which perhaps, because of its flexibility, joined with the general flatness of the southern Gorean plains, permits the width of the wagon. |
10 |
| 5 | 62 |
The sides of the wagon box, incidentally, are, here and there, perforated for arrow ports, for the small horn bow of the Wagon Peoples can be used to advantage not only from the back of a kaiila but, like the crossbow, from such cramped quarters. |
10 |
| 5 | 63 |
One of the most striking features of these wagons is the wheels, which are huge, the back wheels having a diameter of about ten feet; the front wheels are, like those of the Conestoga wagon, slightly smaller, in this case, about eight feet in diameter; the larger rear wheels are more difficult to mi... |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
But I did not enter the wagon, for Kutaituchik held his court outside the wagon, in the open air, on the flat-topped grassy hill. |
10 |
| 7 | 209 |
And finally, I reminded myself again, was I not now engaged in their work? Was I not now attempting to be of service to them? Was I not now among the Wagon Peoples, in peril perhaps, on their behalf? But, I asked myself, if this message was not from Priest-Kings, from whom could it be? Who would dar... |
10 |
| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
10 |
| 8 | 27 |
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ... |
10 |
| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
10 |
| 8 | 87 |
Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik. |
10 |
| 8 | 109 |
In the morning I awakened to find Elizabeth sitting, red-eyed, at the side of the wagon, leaning back against one of the poles that supported the wagon hides, wrapped in the pelt of the red larl. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
10 |
| 9 | 267 |
"How comes it," asked she, "that a Koroban rides in the stinking wagon of a Tuchuk sleen?" "The wagon does not stink," I said, "and Kamchak of the Tuchuks is my friend". |
10 |
| 10 | 450 |
The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill... |
10 |
| 10 | 451 |
I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold... |
10 |
| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 12 |
Yet I was hesitant to make the strike of a thief at the wagon of Kutaituchik—for the Tuchuks, in their bluff way, had made me welcome, and I had come to care for some of them, particularly the gruff, chuckling, wily Kamchak, whose wagon I shared. |
10 |
| 12 | 504 |
I was only about a quarter of the way through the bottle and was passing the side of a wagon when I saw a swift flicker of a shadow suddenly leap on the lacquered boards and by instinct I threw my head to one side as a quiva flashed past and buried itself three inches deep in the timber side of the ... |
10 |
| 13 | 125 |
At another wagon he haggled over a set of quivas, forged in Ar, and, obtaining his price, arranged to have them, with a new saddle, brought to his wagon on the morrow. |
10 |
| 13 | 126 |
We lunched on dried bosk meat and paga and then he trooped to the wagon of Kutaituchik, where he exchanged pleasantries with the somnolent figure on the robe of gray boskhide, about the health of the bosk, the sharpness of quivas and the necessity of keeping wagon axles greased, and certain other ma... |
10 |
| 13 | 129 |
After seeing Kutaituchik and the others, Kamchak stopped by an Iron Master's wagon, and, to my irritation, arranged for the fellow to come by the wagon that very night. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
The other Wagon Peoples regarded the problem of the slaying of Kutaituchik and the despoiling of his wagon as one best left to the resources of the people of the four bosk horns. |
10 |
| 15 | 42 |
Was it not for this purpose that I had come to the Wagon Peoples? I cursed the fact that I had waited so long—even to the time of the Omen Taking—for thereby had I lost the opportunity to try for the sphere myself in the wagon of Kutaituchik. |
10 |
| 15 | 63 |
When he returned that night from the wagon of Kutaituchik to his own wagon he strode angrily to the sleen cage where he had confined Aphris with Elizabeth during the putative attack. |
10 |
| 15 | 89 |
He would look at Aphris and then return to the wagon and sit cross-legged, not speaking, for hours, staring at the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 15 | 99 |
* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh... |
10 |
| 15 | 140 |
The wagon over his head was not his wagon. |
10 |
| 21 | 10 |
I had not returned to the wagon I had shared with him, but had come immediately to the wagon of Kutaituchik, where I had been informed he was to be found. |
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| 21 | 17 |
In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green... |
10 |
| 21 | 216 |
I looked down from the wall, and to my amusement, though I felt sorry for the distraught driver, saw that the right, rear wheel of the wide, heavy wagon had slipped the axle and that the wagon, obviously heavily loaded, was now tilting crazily, and then the axle struck the dirt, imbedding itself. |
10 |
| 21 | 218 |
Then, irrationally, he put his shoulder under the wagon box and began to push up, trying to right the wagon, surely an impossible task for one man. |
10 |
| 23 | 124 |
I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away. |
10 |
| 23 | 205 |
I was told by a Tuchuk woman that they had not been in the cage when the Paravaci had struck—but rather that Aphris had been in the wagon and the barbarian, as she referred to Miss Cardwell, had been sent to another wagon, the whereabouts she did not know. |
10 |
| 23 | 206 |
Aphris had, according to the woman, fallen into the hands of the Paravaci who had looted Kamchak's wagon; Elizabeth's fate she did not know; I gathered, of course, from the fact that Elizabeth had been sent to another wagon that Kamchak had sold her. |
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| 23 | 213 |
Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles. |
10 |
| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
10 |
| 24 | 174 |
Muttering I jerked loose the reins of my kaiila from the column to which I had tethered it, leaped to the saddle and raced after Harold, not wishing to be left behind somewhere in the streets of Turia or among the dark wagons beyond the gate, pounding on wagon after wagon to find which one might be ... |
10 |
| 26 | 292 |
I recalled Tolnus, for he had been one of the four Ubars of the Wagon Peoples, whom I, unknowing, had met when first I came to the Plains of Turia, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 26 | 474 |
"If I did not know better—I would expect to have found it in the wagon of Kutaituchik—the wagon of the Ubar of the Tuchuks". |
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| 1 | 14 |
"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 20 |
The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from gleaming Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 1 | 31 |
From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 36 |
No caravans, to my knowledge, make their way to the Wagon Peoples, who are largely isolated and have their own way of life. |
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| 1 | 46 |
Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 47 |
The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it. |
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| 1 | 52 |
The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. |
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| 1 | 56 |
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its ... |
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| 1 | 58 |
The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such. |
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| 1 | 59 |
The man who kills one foolishly is strangled in thongs or suffocated in the hide of the animal he slew; if, for any reason, the man should kill a bosk cow with unborn young he is staked out, alive, in the path of the herd, and the march of the Wagon Peoples takes its way over him. |
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| 1 | 63 |
The earth itself was shaking from the hoofs of the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here. |
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| 2 | 3 |
Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them... |
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| 2 | 5 |
But later, shortly after the completion of their journey, in a war between their cities, each had in battle slain the other, and thus among men, save perhaps for some among the Wagon Peoples, the secret had been lost. |
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| 2 | 7 |
Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see... |
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| 2 | 22 |
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 35 |
The object might not even be with the Wagon Peoples any longer. |
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| 2 | 36 |
And there were four Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Kassars, and the dreaded Tuchuks. |
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| 2 | 39 |
I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 2 | 40 |
The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers. |
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| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 2 | 46 |
There would be no question of night spying on the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 50 |
The Wagon Peoples, of all those on Gor that I know, are the only ones that have a clan of torturers, trained as carefully as scribes or physicians, in the arts of detaining life. |
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| 2 | 59 |
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the... |
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| 2 | 67 |
His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows. |
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| 2 | 71 |
The Wagon Peoples war among themselves, but once in every two hands of years, there is a time of gathering of the peoples, and this, I had learned, was that time. |
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| 2 | 75 |
The years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names, toward their end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish the year. |
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| 2 | 77 |
The Wagon Peoples do not trust important matters, such as year names, to paper or parchment, subject to theft, insect and rodent damage, deterioration, etc. |
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| 2 | 78 |
Most of those of the Wagon Peoples have excellent memories, trained from birth. |
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| 2 | 80 |
The Wagon Peoples, as might be expected, have a large and complex oral literature. |
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| 2 | 83 |
For example, every male of the Wagon Peoples is expected to be a warrior, to be able to ride, to be able to hunt, to care for the bosk, and so on. |
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| 2 | 84 |
When I speak of Year Keepers and Singers it must be understood that these are not, for the Wagon Peoples, castes, but more like roles, subsidiary to their main functions, which are those of war, herding and the hunt. |
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| 2 | 91 |
Little would be safe if the Wagon Peoples should march. |
10 |
| 2 | 96 |
The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 135 |
I knew, though, from the belt, though I first misread its purpose, that the owner was of the Paravaci, the Rich People, richest of the wagon dwellers. |
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| 2 | 145 |
The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not couched. |
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| 2 | 166 |
I was looking on the faces of four men, warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 174 |
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n... |
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| 2 | 178 |
The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else. |
10 |
| 3 | 3 |
So gambling all on the respect of the Wagon Peoples for the courage of men, I made no move to defend myself but, heart pounding, blood racing, yet no sign visible of agitation on my face, without a quiver of a muscle or tendon betraying me, I stood calmly erect. |
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| 3 | 7 |
The children of the Wagon Peoples are taught the saddle of the kaiila before they can walk. |
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| 3 | 25 |
"I come in peace to the Wagon Peoples," I said. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Once, long, long ago, Ko-ro-ba and Ar had turned the invasion of the united Wagon Peoples from the north, and the memories of these things, stinging still in the honest songs of camp skalds, would rankle in the craws of such fierce, proud peoples. |
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| 3 | 44 |
"What is your business with the Wagon Peoples?" demanded the Tuchuk. |
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| 3 | 49 |
"You are a fool," he said, "to flee to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 3 | 53 |
"A Koroban! And he flies to the Wagon Peoples!" Tears of mirth ran from the sides of his eyes. |
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| 3 | 83 |
"Have you heard," he asked, "that the Wagon Peoples slay strangers?" "Yes," I said, "I have heard that". |
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| 3 | 133 |
And it was in that instant that I sensed what the bosk might mean to the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 4 | 38 |
It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war. |
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| 4 | 57 |
I could hear the other three men of the Wagon Peoples, the Kataii, the Kassar, the Paravaci, striking their shields with their lances. |
10 |
| 4 | 81 |
"Yes," said the warrior, "come in peace to the Land of the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 5 | 9 |
The Wagon Peoples are fascinated with the future and its signs and though, to hear them speak, they put no store in such matters, yet they do in practice give them great consideration. |
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| 5 | 10 |
I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon. |
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| 5 | 11 |
Another time, over a hundred years ago, a wagon Ubar lost the spur from his right boot and turned for this reason back from the gates of mighty Ar itself. |
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| 5 | 13 |
The Tuchuks and the other Wagon Peoples reverence Priest-Kings, but unlike the Goreans of the cities, with their castes of Initiates, they do not extend to them the dignities of worship. |
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| 5 | 35 |
"At night," said Kamchak, "she is chained under the wagon". |
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| 5 | 47 |
For a male slave, or Kajirus, of the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather. |
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| 5 | 48 |
As Kamchak and I walked to his wagon, I saw several girls, here and there, clad Kajir; they were magnificent; they walked with the true brazen insolence of the slave girl, the wench who knows that she is owned, whom men have found beautiful enough, and exciting enough, to collar. |
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| 5 | 49 |
The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat. |
10 |
| 5 | 54 |
The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight. |
10 |
| 5 | 56 |
Each is drawn by a double team of bosk, four in a team, with each team linked to its wagon tongue, the tongues being joined by tem-wood crossbars. |
10 |
| 5 | 58 |
The wagon box, which stands almost six feet from the ground, is formed of black, lacquered planks of tem-wood. |
10 |
| 5 | 59 |
Inside the wagon box, which is square, there is fixed a rounded, tentlike frame, covered with the taut, painted, varnished hides of bosks. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
These hides are richly colored, and often worked with fantastic designs, each wagon competing with its neighbor to be the boldest and most exciting. |
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| 5 | 61 |
The rounded frame is fixed somewhat within the square of the wagon box, so that a walkway, almost like a ship's bridge, surrounds the frame. |
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| 5 | 64 |
These wheels are carved wood and, like the wagon hides, are richly painted. |
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| 5 | 66 |
The wagon is guided by a series of eight straps, two each for the four lead animals. |
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| 5 | 69 |
In the center of the wagon there is a small, shallow fire bowl, formed of copper, with a raised brass grating. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
She was not as the other women of the Wagon Peoples I had seen, the dour, thin women with braided hair, bending over the cooking pots. |
10 |
| 5 | 86 |
"She is Hereena, a wench of the First Wagon," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 89 |
"What does it mean to be of the First Wagon?" I asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 91 |
"You know little of the Wagon Peoples," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 93 |
"To be of the First Wagon," said Kamchak, "is to be of the household of Kutaituchik". |
10 |
| 5 | 97 |
"His wagon," smiled Kamchak, "is the First Wagon—and it is Kutaituchik who sits upon the gray robe". |
10 |
| 5 | 102 |
"I myself," he said, "must often go to the wagon of the Ubar". |
10 |
| 5 | 105 |
"To be of any of these wagons is to be of the First Wagon". |
10 |
| 5 | 108 |
"She is unrelated to him, as are most in the First Wagon". |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
To the Wagon of Kutaituchik Kamchak strode among the wagons, toward the sound, and I followed him closely. |
10 |
| 6 | 2 |
Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka... |
10 |
| 6 | 6 |
Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 6 | 180 |
"Take her to the wagon of Kutaituchik". |
10 |
| 6 | 190 |
"Come," he said, "let us go to the wagon of Kutaituchik". |
10 |
| 7 | 1 |
La Kajira The wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, was drawn up on a large, flat-topped grassy hill, the highest land in the camp. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
Beside the wagon, on a great pole fixed in the earth, stood the Tuchuk standard of the four bosk horns. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns. |
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| 7 | 77 |
What they were most interested in, of course, and what I was most interested in, namely, how and why the girl came to be wandering on the Plains of Turia—in the Lands of the Wagon Peoples—they, and I, did not learn. |
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| 7 | 190 |
Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die. |
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| 8 | 25 |
The Tuchuks, like the other Wagon Peoples, are intensely independent. |
10 |
| 8 | 33 |
The Wagon Peoples, though enemies of Turia, needed and wanted her goods, in particular materials of metal and cloth, which are highly prized among the Wagons. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The Turians, on the other hand, take in trade for their goods—obtained by manufacture or trade with other cities—principally the horn and hide of the bosk, which naturally the Wagon Peoples, who live on the bosk, have in plenty. |
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| 8 | 36 |
The Turians also, I note, receive other goods from the Wagon Peoples, who tend to be fond of the raid, goods looted from caravans perhaps a thousand pasangs from the herds, indeed some of them even on the way to and from Turia itself. |
10 |
| 8 | 39 |
It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city. |
10 |
| 8 | 43 |
Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals. |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
10 |
| 8 | 72 |
Elizabeth cried out again, with pleasure, for she was of the wagon of Kamchak and Tarl Cabot. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
It is not an easy transition to make, that from a bright, lovely young secretary in a pleasant, fluorescently lit, air-conditioned office on Madison Avenue in New York City—to a slave girl in the wagon of a Tuchuk warrior. |
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| 8 | 103 |
Kamchak said nothing, but then he got up and from a chest in the wagon he took forth a goblet and filled it with an amber fluid, into which he shook a dark, bluish powder. |
10 |
| 8 | 121 |
She leaned back against the wagon pole. |
10 |
| 8 | 128 |
He looked at her, her back tight against the wagon pole, clutching the pelt of the larl about her with her braceleted hands. |
10 |
| 8 | 144 |
She did not sew well and it amused me to hear her cursing at the side of the wagon, bound now only by a collar and chain to the slave ring, time after time sticking the bone needle into her fingers as it emerged through the hide, or fouling the leather-threaded stitches, which would either be too ti... |
10 |
| 8 | 158 |
I did not particularly mind the sight of the lovely Miss Cardwell moving about the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 160 |
She dropped her head shyly, and smiled, and sped from the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 174 |
Elizabeth Cardwell never again brought a half-filled dung sack to the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 8 | 190 |
Both were, doubtless, well skilled in the art of pleasing the fancy of warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 8 | 223 |
In the crowd, on the back of a kaiila, I noted the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon, whom I had seen my first day in the camp of the Tuchuks, she who had almost ridden down Kamchak and myself between the wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 239 |
He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names. |
10 |
| 8 | 247 |
He did not have his own wagon or his own bosk. |
10 |
| 8 | 262 |
Kamchak raced his kaiila over to the edge of the crowd, entering into swift negotiation with a warrior, one whose wagon followed ours in the march of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 8 | 268 |
Elizabeth, bound, could not resist and did she try, Tuka's companions, the others of her wagon, would leap upon her with their switches flailing. |
10 |
| 8 | 271 |
Elizabeth was clearly some sort of favorite in her wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 272 |
Indeed, she was the only girl in the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 279 |
That night, one of the hooded members of the Clan of Torturers would have come to her wagon and fetched her away, never to be seen again. |
10 |
| 8 | 358 |
Some girls of the Wagon Peoples in fact, incredible though it seems, are trained exhaustively in the art of evading the bola, and such a girl is worth a great deal to a master, who uses her in wagering. |
10 |
| 8 | 383 |
"He is not even of the Wagon Peoples," said Conrad. |
10 |
| 8 | 455 |
But, though the moment might have been amusing to those of the Wagon Peoples, even to Kamchak, I was not prepared to look on the event with such good humor. |
10 |
| 8 | 458 |
Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with... |
10 |
| 8 | 554 |
Save for armed combat, lance and tospit with the living wand is the most dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 8 | 623 |
"Tonight, Little Barbarian," said Kamchak, winking at her, "you will sleep chained under the wagon". |
10 |
| 8 | 625 |
Then Kamchak and I, on kaiilaback, made our way back to our wagon, leading the bound girls. |
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| 9 | 3 |
It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia. |
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| 9 | 6 |
The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act... |
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| 9 | 71 |
These were brought as gifts to the Turians, largely as a rather insolent gesture on the part of the Wagon Peoples, indicating how little they cared for such things, that they would give them to Turians. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
Turian embassies to the Wagon Peoples, when they occurred, naturally strove to equal or surpass these gifts. |
10 |
| 9 | 83 |
We did not attract as much attention as I had thought we would, and I gathered that every spring, at least, visitors from the Wagon Peoples must come to the city. |
10 |
| 9 | 85 |
I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 9 | 87 |
The average citizen worried about the Wagon Peoples, customarily, only when he was outside the walls. |
10 |
| 9 | 99 |
"If you like fat ankles," Elizabeth had said, turning about, perhaps inadvertently revealing the delightful slimness of her own ankles, and leaving the wagon. |
10 |
| 9 | 143 |
I have already delineated what it is, typically, for a female slave to be clad Kajir amongst the Wagon Peoples, the Chatka and Curla, the Kalmak and Koora. |
10 |
| 9 | 185 |
I had seen him use it several times while discussing the possible sale of little Tenchika to Albrecht in the wagon. |
10 |
| 9 | 198 |
"It is in the wagon of Kutaituchik," Saphrar was saying. |
10 |
| 9 | 202 |
I had learned now, if Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, undoubtedly the last egg of Priest-Kings, was in the wagon of Kutaituchik, said to be Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 9 | 209 |
Over the veil I could now see two dark, deep, almond-shaped eyes; her skin, what I could see of it, was lovely and clear; her complexion was not so light as that of Miss Cardwell, but was lighter than that of the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon. |
10 |
| 9 | 253 |
"The Tuchuk and his friend are guests, and ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples—they must not come to harm!" Aphris of Turia laughed merrily and Kamras, embarrassed, returned to his seat. |
10 |
| 9 | 309 |
"You are aware, of course," she said, "that if you were not an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples at this time I would order you slain". |
10 |
| 9 | 333 |
The girls that now stood before us, barefoot, in swirling Pleasure Silks, belled and collared, were wenches of the Wagon Peoples, now, as could be determined even beneath the silks they wore, the branded slaves of Turians. |
10 |
| 9 | 360 |
It was then clear to me why the Turian men so hungered for the wenches of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 9 | 364 |
Kamchak waited until the girls of the Wagon Peoples had performed their dances and then, when they had been dismissed, he rose to his booted feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 366 |
I nodded, and struggled to my feet, well ready to return to his wagon. |
10 |
| 9 | 384 |
She knew that the Wagon Peoples, plunderers of hundreds of caravans, occasionally possessed objects and riches as costly as any on Gor. |
10 |
| 9 | 436 |
"You recall, of course," Kamchak was saying, "that I am an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples and am entitled to the courtesies of your city". |
10 |
| 9 | 449 |
I wondered if Kamras knew the meaning of the word which he had dared to address to one who wore the Courage Scar of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 1 |
Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia. |
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| 10 | 4 |
The journey, even so, was not without its dangers, but they had been well recompensed, from the treasure chests of both Turia and the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 12 |
I could see, surprisingly near the forefront of their respective lines, the other three men I had first seen on coming to the Wagon Peoples, Conrad of the Kassars, Hakimba of the Kataii and Tolnus of the Paravaci. |
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| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 10 | 78 |
"The Land of the Wagon Peoples, you mean". |
10 |
| 10 | 101 |
When I had returned to the wagon Kamchak's first words to me had been, "I hope you got a good price for her". |
10 |
| 10 | 106 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been fixing the fire in the wagon, had been startled when I had returned without Dina, but had not dared to ask what had been done with her. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the Tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put the brand of the bosk horns on... |
10 |
| 10 | 120 |
Now she assumed that the disappearance of Dina from the wagon was to be similarly explained. |
10 |
| 10 | 127 |
I had now learned, if the information of Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, lay in the wagon of Kutaituchik. |
10 |
| 10 | 131 |
It was best that she understand herself for what she was, a barbarian slave girl in the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 10 | 149 |
I followed Kamchak out of the wagon. |
10 |
| 10 | 169 |
He even reeled about roaring as though he were drunk and slapped the wheel of a neighbor's wagon for a minute or two until his laughter turned into spasmodic gasps and, making strange noises, he wheezingly fought to get a mouthful or two of air under his shaking ribs. |
10 |
| 10 | 182 |
For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty Tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle. |
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| 10 | 199 |
Moving boldly now among the Wagon Peoples were vendors from Turia, selling their cakes, their wines and meats, even chains and collars. |
10 |
| 10 | 204 |
Among the Tuchuks, though dismounted, I saw the young man Harold, he whom Hereena of the First Wagon had so sorely insulted at the time of the wagering with Conrad and Albrecht. |
10 |
| 10 | 211 |
It might be mentioned, incidentally, that without the Courage Scar one may not, among the Tuchuks, pay court to a free woman, own a wagon, or own more than five bosk and three kaiila. |
10 |
| 10 | 228 |
To my astonishment the warriors of the Wagon Peoples seemed to be paying very little attention to the bestial avalanche that was even then hurtling down upon them. |
10 |
| 10 | 247 |
In a moment, to a thunder of kaiila paws on the turf, racing between the lines of stakes, scattering sand, there came a great number of riders, their black hair swirling behind them, who pulled up on their mounts, rearing and squealing, between the stakes, and leaped from the saddle to the sand, rel... |
10 |
| 10 | 248 |
They were marvelous, the many wild girls of the Wagons, and I saw that chief among them was the proud, beauteous Hereena, of the First Wagon. |
10 |
| 10 | 257 |
There were between a hundred and a hundred and fifty girls there from each of the four Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 259 |
Now the excitement of the throng seemed mostly to course among the warriors of the Wagon Peoples as they rose in their stirrups to see better the swaying, approaching palanquins, each reputedly bearing a gem of great beauty, a fit prize in the savage contests of Love War. |
10 |
| 10 | 260 |
The institution of Love War is an ancient one among the Turians and the Wagon Peoples, according to the Year Keepers antedating even the Omen Year. |
10 |
| 10 | 262 |
The games of Love War, in themselves, do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples, for normally the herds and the free women of the peoples do not approach one another at these times; only certain delegations of warriors, usually about two hundred from a people, are sent in the spring to the ... |
10 |
| 10 | 263 |
The theoretical justification of the games of Love War, from the Turian point of view, is that they provide an excellent arena in which to demonstrate the fierceness and prowess of Turian warriors, thus perhaps intimidating or, at the very least, encouraging the often overbold warriors of the Wagon ... |
10 |
| 10 | 264 |
The secret justification, I suspect, however, is that the Turian warrior is fond of meeting the enemy and acquiring his women, particularly should they be striking little beasts, like Hereena of the First Wagon, as untamed and savage as they are beautiful; it is regarded as a great sport among Turia... |
10 |
| 10 | 265 |
It might also be mentioned that the Turian warrior, in his opinion, too seldom encounters the warrior of the Wagon Peoples, who tends to be a frustrating, swift and elusive foe, striking with great rapidity and withdrawing with goods and captives almost before it is understood what has occurred. |
10 |
| 10 | 266 |
I once asked Kamchak if the Wagon Peoples had a justification for the games of Love War. |
10 |
| 10 | 268 |
And he had then pointed to Dina and Tenchika, clad Kajir, who were at that time busy in the wagon. |
10 |
| 10 | 275 |
The wagon girls, watching this, some of them chewing on fruit or stalks of grass, jeered. |
10 |
| 10 | 277 |
Judges were now circulating, each with lists, among the Wagon Peoples and the Turians. |
10 |
| 10 | 286 |
In her silks of white and gold, on cloths thrown before her, Aphris of Turia stepped disdainfully forward, guided by a judge, to the first of the stakes on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 287 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples, on the other hand, would stand at the stakes nearest Turia. |
10 |
| 10 | 288 |
In this way the Turian girls can see their city and their warriors, and the girls of the Wagons can see the plains and the warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 290 |
Thus, to interfere, a Turian would have to cross the space between the stakes, and so, too, would one of the Wagon Peoples, thus clearly calling themselves to the attention of the judges, those officials supervising the games. |
10 |
| 10 | 291 |
The judges were now calling names, and girls, both of the Wagon Peoples and of Turia, were coming forward. |
10 |
| 10 | 292 |
I saw that Hereena, of the First Wagon, stood Third Stake, though, as far as I could note, she was no less beautiful than the two Kassar girls who stood above her. |
10 |
| 10 | 296 |
"I, Hereena of the First Wagon, am superior," she was crying, "to those two Kassar she-kaiila!" But the judge was already four stakes below her. |
10 |
| 10 | 302 |
I hauled Kamchak out of the wagon before he began to bid on a chained-up little wench from Port Kar who had taken his eye. |
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| 10 | 304 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples stood proudly before their stakes, certain that their champions, whoever they were to be, would be victorious and return them to their peoples; the girls of the city of Turia stood also at their stakes, but with feigned indifference. |
10 |
| 10 | 332 |
"Let the women be secured," called the first judge, who stood on a platform near the beginning of the stake lines, this year on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 349 |
All along the lines of stakes I saw Turian warriors and those of the Wagon Peoples press into the area between the stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 353 |
At the request of any warrior of the Wagon Peoples, a judge would remove the pins of the face veil of a Turian girl and push back the hood of her Robes of Concealment, in order that her head and face might be seen. |
10 |
| 10 | 374 |
But already several of the other warriors of the Wagon Peoples were inspecting the unveiled Aphris of Turia. |
10 |
| 10 | 394 |
When more than one wish to fight for a given woman, incidentally, the Turians decide this by rank and prowess, the Wagon Peoples by scars and prowess. |
10 |
| 10 | 445 |
Fortunately, however, the warrior of the Wagon Peoples could withdraw from the combat any time before his name had actually been officially entered in the lists of the games. |
10 |
| 10 | 453 |
The fact that the saber is not a common weapon of Wagon Peoples is a reflection of the style, nature and conditions of warfare to which they are accustomed, a matter of choice on their part rather than the result of either ignorance or technological limitation. |
10 |
| 10 | 454 |
The saber, incidentally, is not only unpopular among the Wagon Peoples but among the warriors of Gor generally; it is regarded as being too long and clumsy a weapon for the close, sharp combat so dear to the heart of the warrior of the cities; further it is not of much use from the saddle of a tarn ... |
10 |
| 10 | 507 |
Kamchak picked his up as though it were a wagon lever, used for loosening the wheels of mired wagons. |
10 |
| 11 | 19 |
"You will take what abuse any free person of the Wagon Peoples cares to inflict upon you," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 127 |
When Kamchak reached his wagon, the poor girl, gasping for breath, legs trembling, fell exhausted to the grass, her entire body shaking with the ordeal of her run. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
"There are bosk to be groomed," he informed her, "and their horns and hoofs must be polished—there is fodder to be fetched and dung to be gathered—the wagon must be wiped and the wheels greased—and there is water to be brought from the stream some four pasangs away and meat to h... |
10 |
| 11 | 152 |
"So that there will be one higher than you in the wagon," said Kamchak. |
10 |
| 11 | 160 |
"Yes," roared Kamchak, throwing back his head and guffawing, "Aphris of Turia, in my wagon, will be a barbarian's serving slave!" The girl's fists were clenched. |
10 |
| 11 | 171 |
"Is a Tuchuk too poor," she asked, "to clothe a miserable slave?" "I have many diamonds in the wagon," said Kamchak, "which you may wear if you wish—but nothing else will you wear until it pleases me". |
10 |
| 11 | 173 |
After this Kamchak and I left the wagon and wandered about, stopping at one of the slave wagons for a bottle of paga, which, while wandering about, we killed between us. |
10 |
| 11 | 174 |
This year, as it turned out, the Wagon Peoples had done exceedingly well in the games of Love War—a bit of news we picked up with the paga—and about seventy percent of the Turian maidens had been led slave from the stakes to which they had been manacled. |
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| 11 | 177 |
We also heard that the wench Hereena, of the First Wagon, had been won by a Turian officer representing the house of Saphrar of the Merchants, to whom, for a fee, he presented her. |
10 |
| 11 | 183 |
Kamchak had circled around and we found ourselves back at the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 11 | 199 |
Singing Tuchuk songs, we managed to make it back to the wagon. |
10 |
| 11 | 234 |
When I had first seen this thing, heaped with other odds and ends in one corner of the wagon, some of the odds and ends being tankards of jewels and small, heavy chests filled with golden tarn disks, I had thought it merely a rock. |
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| 11 | 251 |
"You may sleep once more in the wagon". |
10 |
| 11 | 253 |
I gathered that the ground under the wagon was hard. |
10 |
| 11 | 257 |
I now began to understand why there were often problems in a wagon with more than one girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 259 |
Perhaps this was because Tenchika's heart was elsewhere, in the wagon of Albrecht of the Kassars. |
10 |
| 11 | 266 |
"Do not fret, Little Aphris," said Kamchak, "when I am finished with you I shall—if it pleases me—put you on the block in the public slave wagon". |
10 |
| 11 | 290 |
"The Little Barbarian does not wish to become second girl in the wagon!" He gave Elizabeth's head a rough, affectionate shake. |
10 |
| 11 | 300 |
Then she looked about herself, disdainfully at the interior of the wagon. |
10 |
| 11 | 315 |
Aphris had sprung to her feet and run to the side of the wagon where there lay the kaiila saddle with its seven sheathed quivas. |
10 |
| 11 | 338 |
He then got up and walked rather heavily over to one wall of the wagon and took a slave whip from the wall. |
10 |
| 11 | 347 |
Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 413 |
I followed him into the wagon where, in a short time, we had both fallen asleep. |
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| 12 | 1 |
The Quiva In the next days I several times wandered into the vicinity of the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 12 | 3 |
I knew that in that wagon, if the words of Saphrar were correct, there lay the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, which he had, for some reason, seemed so anxious to obtain. |
10 |
| 12 | 4 |
I realized that I must, somehow, gain access to the wagon and find and carry away the sphere, attempting to return it to the Sardar. |
10 |
| 12 | 27 |
If such were to be elected, I trusted, at least for the sake of the Wagon Peoples, that it would not be Kutaituchik. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
But, I then reminded myself even more strongly, there would be no choice—there had been no Ubar San for a hundred years or more—the Wagon Peoples, fierce and independent, did not wish a Ubar San. |
10 |
| 12 | 36 |
I turned and retraced my steps to the wagon of Kamchak. |
10 |
| 12 | 38 |
The little wench from Port Kar, whom Kamchak and I had seen in the slave wagon when we had bought paga the night before the games of Love War, was this night to perform the chain dance. |
10 |
| 12 | 41 |
Already a large, curtained enclosure had been set up near the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 42 |
For a fee, the proprietor of the wagon would permit visitors. |
10 |
| 12 | 48 |
When I returned to the wagon I saw the bosk had already been tended, though it was early in the day, and that there was a kettle on an outside fire boiling. |
10 |
| 12 | 50 |
I bounded up the stairs and entered the wagon. |
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| 12 | 77 |
"You may remain in the wagon," said Aphris. |
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| 12 | 82 |
I wondered casually why Kamchak was taking the girls, for the proprietor of the slave wagon would surely want his fee for them as well as us. |
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| 12 | 83 |
"Ho!" cried Kamchak, stomping into the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 132 |
As I did so I glowered significantly at the tankards of jewels and chests of golden tarn disks in the corner of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 134 |
Elizabeth and Aphris entered, carrying the kettle between them, which they sat on the brass and copper grating over the fire bowl in the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 194 |
Then, to my surprise, she walked a bit in the wagon and twirled twice before Kamchak. |
10 |
| 12 | 200 |
"I thought you were staying in the wagon," said Aphris. |
10 |
| 12 | 211 |
The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon. |
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| 12 | 221 |
Inside the enclosure, over against one side, I saw the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 246 |
I noted that, in spite of the fact that Aphris had now been in the wagon for several days, Kamchak had not yet called for the Iron Master. |
10 |
| 12 | 257 |
Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 359 |
"Permit her to return to the wagon," suggested Aphris. |
10 |
| 12 | 381 |
About that time the black-clad figure of a woman appeared on the steps of the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 390 |
The figure of the woman, swathed in black, heavily veiled, descended the steps of the slave wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 461 |
"Will you carry me over your shoulder to the wagon," she asked, lightly, "like Aphris of Turia?" "I'm sorry," I said. |
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| 12 | 484 |
She was of Earth and knew not the flames which her words might have evoked in the breast of a Gorean warrior—nor did she understand herself truly nor the relation in which she, slave girl, stood to a free man to whom she had been for the hour given—I could not tell her that another war... |
10 |
| 12 | 495 |
I supposed that, on the whole, she was perhaps distraught because she feared she might soon be supplanted as first girl in the wagon, indeed, that she might soon be sold. |
10 |
| 12 | 510 |
Angry I returned to the wagon and drew the quiva from the boards. |
10 |
| 12 | 511 |
By this time the owner of the wagon, who was naturally curious about the matter, was beside me. |
10 |
| 12 | 512 |
He held a small torch, lit from the fire bowl within the wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
I spied Elizabeth Cardwell approaching the wagon, two leather water buckets fastened to a wooden yoke she carried over her shoulders. |
10 |
| 13 | 25 |
The sleen were trying to get at her and she had backed away against the wagon, watching them warily. |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
Then Kamchak seemed sober and he said to the girl, "Go into the wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 36 |
Elizabeth and Aphris had gone into the wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 52 |
She then went to stand by the left, rear wheel of the wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 88 |
"No!" But Kamchak was pulling her by the bracelets toward an empty sleen cage mounted on a low cart near the wagon, into which, still braceleted, he thrust her, then closing the door, locking it. |
10 |
| 13 | 115 |
"There is a new kaiila I want to see near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers' Clan". |
10 |
| 13 | 117 |
He did not buy the kaiila near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers though it was apparently a splendid beast. |
10 |
| 13 | 123 |
After looking at the kaiila Kamchak visited a wagon where he discussed the crossing of one of his cows with the owner's bull, in exchange for a similar favor on his own part. |
10 |
| 13 | 127 |
While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 13 | 131 |
"There is work to be done about the wagon". |
10 |
| 13 | 139 |
I resolved to mention the matter to him sometime—but not this evening—for I was convinced this would not be a good evening for anyone in the wagon, except perhaps for Kamchak, who seemed pleased about the arrangements he had made with the herder pertaining to crossing livestock and the... |
10 |
| 13 | 143 |
The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples, who regard the Omen Taking, provided it results that no Ubar San is to be chosen, as an occasion for gaiety and festi... |
10 |
| 13 | 148 |
Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field. |
10 |
| 13 | 179 |
It was toward dark when Kamchak and I reached the slave wagon to buy our bottle of paga. |
10 |
| 13 | 181 |
She had been bound across a wagon wheel lying on the ground, her body over its hub. |
10 |
| 13 | 196 |
"Must the Iron Master be called," I asked, "to the wagon of Kamchak?" Kamchak looked at me. |
10 |
| 13 | 198 |
I glared down at the polished boards of the wagon floor. |
10 |
| 13 | 221 |
"Besides," said Kamchak, "the wagon grows crowded—and she must be readied for sale". |
10 |
| 13 | 224 |
I thought of the wagon of Kutaituchik and the golden sphere. |
10 |
| 13 | 231 |
I noted, too, the other Tuchuks in the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 1 |
Tarnsmen Outside, as Kamchak and I bounded down the steps of the slave wagon, the darkness was filled with hurrying men, some with torches, and running kaiila, already with their riders. |
10 |
| 14 | 3 |
Each warrior of the Wagon Peoples, and that means each able-bodied man, is a member of an Or, or a Ten; each ten is a member of an Orlu, or Hundred; each Orlu is a member of an Oralu, a Thousand. |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
Those who are unfamiliar with the Wagon Peoples, or who know them only from the swift raid, sometimes think them devoid of organization, sometimes conceive of them as mad hordes or aggregates of wild warriors, but such is not the case. |
10 |
| 14 | 7 |
Kamchak and I mounted the kaiila we had ridden and, as rapidly as we could, pressed through the throngs toward our wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
I heard a child screaming its disgust at being thrust in the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
In a short time Kamchak and I had reached our wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 15 |
Kamchak kicked out the fire at the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 23 |
It was better, I knew, for her to be secured as she was rather than chained in the wagon, or even to the wheel. |
10 |
| 14 | 27 |
Then he bounded from the top step of the wagon onto the back of his kaiila and sped toward the sound of the bosk horns. |
10 |
| 14 | 49 |
"Each to his own wagon and war!" cried Kamchak. |
10 |
| 14 | 55 |
Among the wagons the tarnsmen would have found only slaves, women and children, but not a wagon had been burned or looted. |
10 |
| 14 | 58 |
The sewn, painted boskhides that had covered the domed framework over the vast wagon of Kutaituchik hung slashed and rent from the joined tem-wood poles of the framework. |
10 |
| 14 | 61 |
They lay tumbled about, several on the dais near the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 63 |
Kamchak leaped from the back of his kaiila and, seizing a torch from an iron rack, leaped up the stairs and entered the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 65 |
Literally thousands of arrows had been fired through the dome into the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 67 |
Near the center of the wagon, alone, his head bent over, on the robe of gray boskhide, sat Kutaituchik, perhaps fifteen or twenty arrows imbedded in his body. |
10 |
| 14 | 70 |
The wagon had been looted, the only one that had been as far as I knew. |
10 |
| 14 | 73 |
Some others pressed into the wagon behind us, but not many, and those who did remained in the background. |
10 |
| 14 | 97 |
"Why else," asked he, "would you have come to the Wagon Peoples?" I did not respond. |
10 |
| 14 | 121 |
"It was for such a night as this that Kutaituchik waited in the Wagon of the Ubar". |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
There had been Kassars who had wanted to fight and some Kataii, but the calm heads of the Paravaci had convinced them that the difficulty lay between Turia and the Tuchuks, not Turia and the Wagon Peoples generally. |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia. |
10 |
| 15 | 50 |
There was much grooming of wagon bosk, checking of harness and wagons, cutting of meat to be dried hanging from the sides of the moving wagons in the sun and wind. |
10 |
| 15 | 76 |
"There both of you will wait for the Iron Master," he snarled, and turned abruptly, and went to the stairs to the wagon. |
10 |
| 15 | 90 |
Once he pounded the rug on the polished floor in front of him and cried out angrily, as though to remind himself of some significant and inalterable fact, "She is Turian! Turian!" The work of the wagon was done by Tuka and another girl, whom Kamchak hired for the purpose. |
10 |
| 15 | 124 |
"I know of it," said Harold, "it was stolen from the wagon of Kutaituchik". |
10 |
| 16 | 17 |
"Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag... |
10 |
| 16 | 29 |
Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade... |
10 |
| 16 | 152 |
"Who is the traitor to the Wagon Peoples?" asked Harold. |
10 |
| 16 | 310 |
And they might have learned, as well, that I had been in the War of Priest-Kings a lieutenant to Misk, the Fifth Born, Chief of the Rebels, and that I had now made my way to the southern plains, to the land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 16 | 315 |
The second objective, that of obtaining the egg for themselves, was already almost accomplished; Kutaituchik had been killed and it had been stolen from his wagon; there was left only to deliver it to the gray man, who would, in turn, deliver it to the Others—whoever or whatever they might be... |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
This suggested to me that possibly the Others had even followed the movements of the two men who had brought the egg from the Sardar to the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 16 | 319 |
The attempt on my life took place one night and the raid on Kutaituchik's wagon the next. |
10 |
| 16 | 320 |
Saphrar, too, I reminded myself, had known that the golden sphere was in the wagon of Kutaituchik. |
10 |
| 16 | 322 |
Tuchuks do not make good spies, for they tend to be, albeit fierce and cruel, intensely loyal; and there are few strangers allowed in the wagon of a Tuchuk Ubar. |
10 |
| 16 | 323 |
It occurred to me that perhaps the Tuchuks had made no secret of the presence of the golden sphere in Kutaituchik's wagon. |
10 |
| 19 | 101 |
It was, of course, Hereena, she of the First Wagon. |
10 |
| 19 | 126 |
"But I am Hereena," she cried, "of the First Wagon!" I feared the girl's voice might awaken the others, but they seemed still to sleep. |
10 |
| 20 | 160 |
Already fires had been lit and there was much activity in the camp of the Tuchuks, the cooking, the checking of wagons, the gathering and hitching up of the wagon bosk. |
10 |
| 21 | 4 |
I had found Kamchak, as I had been told I would, at the wagon of Kutaituchik, which, drawn up on its hill near the standard of the four bosk horns, had been heaped with what wood was at hand and filled with dry grass. |
10 |
| 21 | 5 |
The whole was then drenched in fragrant oils, and that dawn of the retreat, Kamchak, by his own hand, hurled the torch into the wagon. |
10 |
| 21 | 6 |
Somewhere in the wagon, fixed in a sitting position, weapons at hand, was Kutaituchik, who had been Kamchak's friend, and who had been called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 21 | 7 |
The smoke of the wagon must easily have been seen from the distant walls of Turia. |
10 |
| 21 | 12 |
Angrily they watched the wagon burn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 19 |
Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b... |
10 |
| 5 | 597 |
I kissed Elizabeth long one morning, and then, with Al-Ka, she, hidden in a wagon disguised to resemble a peddler's wagon, left the city. |
10 |
| 5 | 607 |
She would then climb into the wagon where, with two ankle rings, joined by a foot of chain looped about the central bar, she would be fastened in the wagon. |
10 |
| 19 | 284 |
Elizabeth had been clad in the brief leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl, simple, rough, sleeveless, the short skirt on the left side slit to the belt, so that the saddle of the kaiila, mount of the Wagon Peoples, would be permitted her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 165 |
Lana's wagon was the first wagon; my wagon was the second. |
10 |
| 7 | 334 |
The girl knelt in the shade of the wagon until the caravan moved, and then, getting up, leashed, walked beside the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 34 |
The back flap of the wagon was tied up and the back gate of the wagon swung downward. |
10 |
| 11 | 133 |
Much of the hides, the horn and leather which found its way northward came from Turia, obtained from the Wagon Peoples of the treeless southern plains, and many of the manufactured goods, and goods of price, which found their way to the far south, and even to the Wagon Peoples, were produced in, or ... |
10 |
| 12 | 73 |
He then slipped from the wagon, and lifted up the back gate of the wagon, shoving its bolts in place, securing it. |
10 |
| 12 | 78 |
The caravan, wagon by wagon, made its way slowly toward Ko-ro-ba's Street of the Field Gate, which is the southernmost gate of the city. |
10 |
| 12 | 451 |
One wagon at a time, for a given interval, Targo permitted his girls, in wagon sets, to enjoy freedom of movement. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 14 | 445 |
It is interesting to note that a woman who has fallen slave, particularly an urban woman, particularly from one of the proud "high cities," is extremely likely to be kept a slave, even if she should, eventually, sale by sale, handed from master to master, chained in wagon after wagon, find herself a... |
10 |
| 17 | 217 |
And there, too, were others, even he who had driven the slave wagon in which I had been often confined; even he who had first harnessed me to the tongue of Targo's one wagon, when I had first been captured by him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 412 |
As Thurnock, by her arm, led the girl down the stairs of the wagon, the other slave girls, who had moved the wagon, struck at her, spitting and jeering. |
10 |
| 22 | 864 |
Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 764 |
I thought it might be one laden with produce, but, as it later turned out, the treasure freight of the dowry wagon had been divided between two wagons, the dowry wagon itself and another, the produce in the second wagon discarded, to lighten the load and make driving swifter. |
10 |
| 5 | 133 |
The wagon which I had seen earlier, the supply wagon, was now almost empty, the food supplies perhaps being diminished as the peregrination neared its end, and the poles and tenting, of course, being used in the sheltering for the camp. |
10 |
| 9 | 817 |
Such a rope might easily be looped on the back of a wagon, and I would follow, naked, barefoot, behind the wagon, in the dust. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 301 |
The particular slave wagon in which I was fastened combined the features of the cage wagon and common slave wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 210 |
In such a wagon the girls are commonly chained by the ankles to a metal bar which runs down the center of the wagon bed. |
10 |
| 19 | 198 |
I then lifted her into the wagon, kneeling her on the boards, and followed her into the wagon, crouching near her. |
10 |
| 25 | 292 |
A central metal bar, hinged at one end, near the wagon box, and locked at the other, near the wagon bed's gate, usually occurs in such wagons. |
10 |
| 25 | 294 |
When the bar is freed and lifted they may then, still in their shackles, be removed through the rear of the wagon, the wagon gate being lowered. |
10 |
| 25 | 295 |
Another common type of wagon used generally in the transportation of women is the flat-bedded display wagon, with its mounted iron framework. |
10 |
| 25 | 300 |
Another common type of slave wagon on Gor is the cage wagon which, depending on the stoutness of its bars and security, may be used for either men or women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 6 |
I waded about the wagon and then attained the graveled surface and, running, caught up with the wagon, and drew myself up to the wagon box, beside the driver. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 190 |
I gathered that the cage would be suspended from the ring on the projecting beam on the wagon, that it would hang suspended over the surface of the wagon, some feet from the flat bed of the wagon. |
10 |
| 22 | 20 |
This cover was placed over a frame which consisted of five poles; two of these poles, braced, crossed and tied together near the top, were at the front of the wagon; a similar pair was fixed at the back of the wagon; between these two pairs of poles there lay, across them, parallel to the long axis ... |
10 |
| 6 | 187 |
"It is a slaver's wagon," he said, "a girl wagon". |
10 |
| 6 | 198 |
It has a hinge at the end of the wagon bed near the wagon box. |
10 |
| 13 | 183 |
At the back of this wagon was an arrangement of beams, with a projecting, supported, perpendicularly mounted beam that extended forward, some fifteen feet in the air, toward the front of the wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 11 |
Because of the width of the wagon bed and the height of the cage, some five feet or so above the surface of the wagon bed, I had been reasonably well protected from the blows of whips, the jabbings of sticks. |
10 |
| 16 | 328 |
In a moment they had put me on a blanket in the wagon bed of an open tharlarion wagon. |
10 |
| 21 | 52 |
Yesterday I had seen another open slave wagon, a long, wide wagon much like I had seen a few days ago. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 841 |
That would be far better than sitting on the wagon box of a theater wagon, urging on recalcitrant tharlarion, separated by several feet from such a slave, following, back-braceleted, chained by the neck to the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 17 |
"On a nail, inside of the door of my wagon, the large wagon with the red roof, on the left," said Boots. |
10 |
| 11 | 84 |
"May I present Tarl, he of the Plains of Turia, he of the Lands of the Wagon Peoples, master of the mystic quivas, the famed saddle knives of the southern barbarians, come to us at great expense and in spite of many perils by special arrangement with Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples!" "That's ... |
10 |
| 12 | 831 |
He looked at the door of the wagon, reached by climbing the flight of steps at the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 50 |
Then he turned away, and, stepping among the bundles in the wagon bed, went to the wagon box. |
10 |
| 3 | 256 |
She then knelt behind us, rather close to us, on some folded sacks in the wagon bed, the rope attaching her to the wagon still tied on her neck. |
10 |
| 5 | 169 |
He then took a length of chain from the wagon, that with which he had chained her to the wagon wheel last night, and, with a heavy padlock, fastened it on her neck. |
10 |
| 5 | 509 |
Boabissia, moving with the motion of the wagon, swaying with its motion, rode on the wagon box. |
10 |
| 9 | 42 |
Feiqa and Tula were on the floor of the wagon bed, their soft bodies on coarse sacking, which would leave its temporary print in their flesh, affording them some protection from the harsh planks of the wagon bed. |
10 |
| 9 | 112 |
In the back of the wagon Feiqa and Tula knelt small, trembling, their heads down to the coarse sacking covering the boards of the wagon bed. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
He sat on the wagon box, some yard or so below, and separated from, the high railed wagon bed, serving, with its benches, as the passenger area. |
10 |
| 21 | 261 |
There is more than one "wagon street" in Ar, incidentally, but the one I had in mind, that which led to the Street of Brands, was the one usually called Wagon Street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 278 |
I could hear various folks outside the wagon, as the wagon now moved slowly. |
10 |
| 6 | 492 |
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m... |
10 |
| 7 | 119 |
The canvas at the front of the wagon was opened, and a man, from the floor space before the wagon box, looked in upon us. |
10 |
| 8 | 15 |
The shackles usually stay with the wagon, particularly when the wagon does not belong to the dealer to whom delivery is being made. |
10 |
| 30 | 40 |
The slave wagon was little more in effect than a large iron box, secured on a wagon frame. |
10 |
| 30 | 221 |
I wondered if he were going to leave with the slave wagon in the morning, and I would be transported helplessly in it, or if he was going to stay here for a time, in the woods, and, if so, for how long? I wondered, too, for how long, whether it left the woods or not, I would be kept in the slave wag... |
10 |
| 31 | 382 |
I then relieved myself at the bucket in the other part of the wagon, and then lay down in the center of the wagon, on the blankets. |
10 |
| 32 | 11 |
Mirus had been on the wagon box, Tupita beside him, in a tunic fashioned of one of the blankets which had been inside the wagon. |
10 |
| 34 | 6 |
These were simple and had been earlier taken from the wagon box of the slave wagon, the lid of which forms the wagoner's bench, part of the loot which my master had divided between himself and Mirus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 |
I pulled my pack from the wagon I was trekking beside and, feeling about, locating the side of the next wagon moving south, felt around it, and went to the side of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 131 |
Ropes were found in the wagon and we tied them by the necks to the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 1 | 154 |
He moved about the wagon and climbed to the wagon box. |
10 |
| 1 | 187 |
Some other men, too, came to the second tharlarion, hauling on its harness, and others, too, seized the wagon sides and the forward wheels, lending their efforts to getting the wagon on the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 360 |
Applied with the brush it is used, as would be mineral grease, were it more commonly available, to lubricate the moving parts of the wagon, in particular the axles, and where the rare wagon has them, metal springs, usually of the leaf variety. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 179 |
The most common sort is a stout wagon with a central, locking bar running the length of the wagon bed, to which the girls are shackled, usually by the ankles. |
10 |
| 26 | 196 |
In the latter wars, fought amongst factions of the Wagon Peoples, the object, or principal object, was apparently the acquisition of the lofty, silken kaiila, the common mount of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 37 | 232 |
The chains just mentioned, as stated, were fastened to rings in the wagon bed, but sometimes such chains are fastened outside the wagon, for example to stakes or trees. |
10 |
| 43 | 54 |
One could not see under the wagon as some canvas had been stretched from the upper, far side of the wagon bed to the ground. |
10 |
| 43 | 144 |
"He is a Cosian," said Marcus, looking back, murderously, at the innocent Ephialtes, who was puttering about the wagon, tightening one of the back latches of the wagon bed, I believe. |
10 |
| 46 | 218 |
I stepped aside to let a cage wagon roll by, going to the wagon yard. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 685 |
How did she know he had not come to pick fruit, to pluck flowers? How did she know that he might not leap at her, and seize her, and gag her, and bind her, hand and foot, and carry her to the wall? How did she know that she might not, bound hand and foot, squirming, in a net, or bound on a rope, be ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3523 |
"No, Master!" she said, and, seizing the side of the wagon bed and, stepping on one of the spokes, supporting herself thereby, climbed hurriedly to the wagon bed, within which she knelt on the tarpaulins and supplies, and, looking out, clutched the sides of the wagon bed. |
10 |
| 20 | 700 |
Occasionally the wagon stopped and one of the lads would climb down from the wagon box. |
10 |
| 27 | 15 |
Her wrists were now crossed and thonged before her, and she was following Fel Doron's tharlarion-drawn wagon, a tether running from the wagon to her thonged wrists. |
10 |
| 27 | 282 |
Twice from her position in the wagon bed, as the wagon had rolled on, she had seen him standing to one side, his head lifted, as though testing the wind for some subtle scent. |
10 |
| 27 | 401 |
Portus Canio, standing on the wagon box, looked then to all sides of the wagon, to each barren, windswept horizon. |
10 |
| 27 | 882 |
The two crossbowmen at the wagon, their bodies muchly behind the wagon, shielded there, the quarrels at the ready, tensed. |
10 |
| 27 | 1571 |
How he hated her! Fel Doron drew Ellen, on her knees, to the vicinity of the left, rear wheel of the wagon, thrust her under the wagon, and then tied her leash about the rear axle. |
10 |
| 27 | 2088 |
There was suddenly a sound, a striking, as of a fist struck quickly, sharply, yet softly, into a chest, and the soldier atop the tharlarion wagon, he surveying the prairie, stiffened, stood unnaturally still for a moment, and then, half turning, knees buckling, tumbled from the surface of his post, ... |
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| 27 | 2286 |
And at the same time she heard a cry of rage from beneath the boards of the inverted wagon, and the entire surface beneath her, seemed to shudder, and buck, once, twice, exerting force upon the straining ropes fastened to the stakes, and then the wagon rose up, suddenly, the ropes tautening and drag... |
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| 27 | 2289 |
The wagon was then up, suddenly on its side, the open wagon bed momentarily facing the officer, and his mustering men. |
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| 27 | 2293 |
She clung to the wheel to which she was fastened, and it spun beneath her, and she turned with it, and then, to her misery, she felt the wagon rock backward, and it was falling away, toward the ground, and she nearly slipped from the wheel to which she clung, and then, as the wagon heavily righted i... |
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| 27 | 3534 |
Ellen, kneeling in the wagon, clutching the sides of the wagon, saw him, as they moved past the knoll. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 5 |
Finally some tharlarion were unharnessed from a given wagon and added to the team of another wagon, simply to free the wagon. |
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| 28 | 150 |
Too, whereas a tarpaulin and a wagon bed may be preferable to the mud beneath a wagon it is, in itself, as you might suppose, no prize lodging either. |
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| 28 | 153 |
Occasionally, in passing a wagon, I would hear a gasping and moaning, and a rolling and thrashing in the mud where, it seemed, some fellow, presumably a mercenary, had pulled a slave from under a wagon, to the end of her tether, and was in the midst of reminding her of her bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1319 |
"—were transported naked and collared in a closed slave wagon, with blue and yellow silk, our ankles chained to a central bar, it run the length of the wagon bed. |
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| 37 | 1324 |
Only three were left in the wagon when the hood was buckled about my head and I was lifted from the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 405 |
Indeed, the tharlarion of the second wagon, my wagon, was attached, by its nose ring, to the back of the first wagon, and the tharlarion of the third wagon was attached, by its nose ring, to the back of my wagon. |
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| 16 | 12 |
If one wishes to remove a girl from such a wagon, one either unshackles her, or, more commonly, that she remain ankle-shackled, for example, in a camp, one lowers the back of the wagon and unlocks the bar from the coupling at the rear of the wagon, which, lifted, allows the girl to leave the central... |
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| 18 | 786 |
Both Jane and Eve, in their brief tunics and close-fitting collars, were already attached to the back of the wagon, the last wagon, each by a chain looping up from their braceleted wrists to a wagon ring, bolted into the back of the wagon. |
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| 16 | 128 |
I, as yet alone, occupied the second wagon, and, in the third wagon, its covering drawn tight, I was sure, was the blind Kur. |
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| 16 | 156 |
I could see, over the wagon box, the broad, arched back of the plodding tharlarion which was drawing the wagon. |
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| 16 | 189 |
He dropped it inside the wagon, to the right of the central bar, just behind the wagon box. |
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| 16 | 201 |
I did not take it to the rear of the wagon, as it seemed clear its placement was meant to bring me, if I wished its comfort, to the front of the wagon. |
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| 17 | 60 |
It would have been easy enough to have left me in the wagon, in the fenced-in wagon lot, shackled to the central bar. |
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| 18 | 1007 |
Lykos was standing on the wagon bench of the first wagon, with a Builder's glass, scanning the horizon. |
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| 18 | 1117 |
I, and others, including Jane and Eve, went to the first wagon, where Lykos was again standing on the wagon bench, the glass of the Builders once more in his hands. |
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| 21 | 116 |
Then, emerging from under the wagon, half lifting the wagon with its passage, was a large, hairy, humped, four-footed form, shaggy and immense, and it sped past. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 31 |
The traces of the tharlarion, wagon after wagon, were suddenly slack, and some of the beasts squealed, frightened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 55 |
The slaves were now hitched where we had drawn the wagon, rather at the end of the wagon yard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 121 |
Several males may draw a rubble wagon or a wagon of cut stones in the quarries, or an ore wagon in a mining district, such things. |
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| 15 | 207 |
"Hold that wagon! Hold that wagon!" Instantly Tullius Quintus released the brake and struck the beasts forward, and the wagon, tipping downward, rattled down a slope and struck into the water. |
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| 15 | 215 |
Then the wagon, drawn, swaying and bobbing, was lifted by the water, and sheets of water drained from the wagon bed, and I lay then in no more than two or three inches of water, which quantity would remain in place, the wagon, as any wooden object, displacing water, having found its equilibrium in t... |
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| 63 | 441 |
There was then a creak of the wagon wheels, those of our wagon, and the wagon was turning toward the Viktel Aria. |
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| 15 | 154 |
I heard the unlatching of a wagon gate and then I was lifted and thrust, head first, onto the floor of the wagon bed, near the gate, and the gate was closed. |
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| 15 | 170 |
I heard the grunting, and hissing, of one large beast, and then that of another, and the sound of a blow, striking on a massive body, and the wagon lurched forward, and I was shaken on the boards of the wagon bed. |
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| 15 | 229 |
The gate of the wagon bed was unlatched, and I was dragged, apparently by the laces on the sack, near my feet, from the wagon bed, and placed on the ground. |
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| 24 | 38 |
The wagon ride, it was a fee wagon, took more than an Ahn. |
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| 43 | 2 |
I sat in the wagon, my back against the side of the wagon box, my legs drawn up. |
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| 43 | 9 |
I had heard canvas being drawn, so I supposed the wagon was a closed wagon. |
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| 43 | 22 |
It was, doubtless, a pay wagon, or fee wagon, such as might be hired about the city. |
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| 50 | 176 |
"She will have the good fortune," he said, "of finding a pay wagon at hand, driven by a bearded, cloaked driver, a closed wagon". |
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| 57 | 38 |
This had been done shortly after we had descended from the closed wagon, closed to conceal the presence of Lord Grendel, which wagon Kurik had rented to carry us to the feast. |
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| 63 | 213 |
What pursuit could it possibly elude? Too, two kajirae, afoot, were chained behind the wagon, and the wagon, thus, must monitor and regulate its speed, lest, secured as they were, they be dragged, and injured, perhaps their necks broken. |
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| 63 | 221 |
"And," said Paula, "two kajirae are attached by leads to two rings, behind the wagon, which assures that the wagon cannot move more swiftly than two secured, tethered kajirae, that they not be lost or harmed". |
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| 63 | 428 |
"Look! The wagon! The wagon we feared is not concerned with us, after all. |
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| 64 | 29 |
We noticed, shortly after our arrival, as our wagon patiently threaded its way amongst other wagons, on its way to our lot, the wagon we had wondered about earlier. |
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| 65 | 75 |
"There was a wagon," he said, "that soon followed us from Ar, a fine brown wagon, long-bedded and wide, lacquered, with two lanterns, drawn by two fine tharlarion, displaying the selling banner of itinerant cloth workers". |
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| 65 | 84 |
They would have a smaller wagon, or, more likely, a cart, not so fine a wagon. |
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