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Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 45 I trudged along for the better part of two hours before I finally yielded to the weight of the pack.
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1 99 I leaned on the can opener with both arms, pressing down with all my weight.
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6 38 The heavily robed figure was trying to climb the mounting ladder, but was impeded by the weight and ornate inflexibility of her garments.
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6 45 I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
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8 61 With all the weight of the heavy manacles on my wrist, I struck him across the temple, and he sank to his knees.
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10 117 However, their metabolism was slower than that of a tarn, whose mind never seemed far from food and, if it was available, could consume half its weight in a single day.
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12 2 The ropes sawed into my flesh as the weight of my body drew on them.
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12 59 Bound helplessly, without food or water, my own body would torture me by its weight dragging on the hand and ankle ropes, suspended a few inches above the roiling, muddy surface under the fiery sun.
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12 66 The oppressive, blinding glare of the sun, the heavy weight of its heat bore down on me.
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12 84 The sudden weight of the frame swinging against my roped wrists and ankles, while the talons of the bird gripped my body, almost tore me apart.
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12 85 Then, mercifully, the ropes, not meant to sustain the weight of the heavy frame, broke loose, and the tarn triumphantly climbed skyward, still clutching me in his wild talons.
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13 54 The spearhead disappeared from sight in the furry breast of the larl, and the shaft of the spear began to sink into it as the weight of the animal forced it deeper into its body.
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14 141 Then the birds would throw their weight again on the ropes, bringing another flashing wrench of agony.
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14 146 The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden.
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15 253 Mintar reached into the pouch at his waist and drew forth a golden tarn disk, of double weight.
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18 97 At the same time from the escarpment came a smooth, rolling sound as a great weight was effortlessly balanced and lifted by hydraulic means.
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19 157 I began to press forward in attack, exposing myself more, but beating back his defense by the sheer weight and number of my blows.
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Book 2. (27 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 62 It felt strange to hold it again in my hand, to feel its weight, the familiar grasp of the hilt.
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3 35 The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the Warriors.
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3 37 I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task.
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8 58 Moreover, in contrast to most cities, the cylinders of Tharna seemed excessively solemn, as if overcome by their own weight.
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10 73 I tried to rise to my feet, but the weight was too much.
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11 1 Lara, Tatrix of Tharna I passed through the opening, and painfully began to climb a small, circular passage, staggering with each step under the weight of the heavy metal yoke.
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11 34 Thorn kicked my feet from under me, and, under the weight of the yoke, I crashed to the floor, helpless.
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11 87 I could not understand her remark, and my back felt ready to snap under the weight of the yoke.
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11 88 My neck ached under its weight.
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11 94 Ost's yoke was much lighter than mine but, as he was a smaller man, the weight might have been as much for him.
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11 112 Slowly, every muscle straining to keep my balance, the cords in my legs and back like tortured cables, I reached out my hand to Ost's and, struggling in agony to keep my balance, added the weight of his yoke to mine as I drew him to his knees.
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11 260 My senses reeled, my body, tortured by the weight of the silver yoke, now wrapped in the flames of the whip, shook with uncontrollable agony.
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12 1 Andreas of the Caste of Poets I had been hooded and driven through the streets, stumbling under the weight of the yoke.
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12 11 Exhausted, my body aching from the weight of the yoke and the sting of the lash, I lay on the stones and slept.
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12 61 Suddenly it seemed I no longer felt the weight of the yoke.
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13 5 My back felt the jab of spears as I was prodded ahead and stumbled forward, unsteady under the weight of the yoke, my feet sinking to their ankles in the hot sand.
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13 134 Kron, still a captive of the yoke, now unconscious, slid down the wall, the weight of the yoke tumbling his inert body sideways in the sand.
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14 41 If it was the bird I thought it to be, it would not futilely contest the weight of the degrading hobble, would not provide a spectacle of its helplessness for its captors.
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14 117 It would be able to move, dragging that weight, but it could not fly.
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14 155 What I would have given for a tarn saddle and the broad purple strap that fastens the warrior in the saddle! As soon as it felt my weight, the tarn cried again and with an explosion of its broad wings sprang into the air, climbing in dizzy circles.
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14 181 And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...
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16 42 "I shall add," she said, "the weight of five tarns in gold, a room of silver, helmets filled with jewels!" "You truly love your Tatrix," I said.
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16 50 "Give him in addition to what he asks, the weight of ten tarns in gold, two rooms of silver and a hundred helmets filled with jewels".
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18 144 Then the first man on the chain supported his own weight, and the second, chains rattling, began to ascend the vertical tunnel, supported by he who was third, who now stood on the back of the fourth man, and so it continued.
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20 98 It seemed the very air itself refused any longer to bear his weight.
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22 172 Thus it was, gradually and unnoticed, that the gynocracy of Tharna came to be established, and honored with the full weight of tradition and custom, those invisible bonds heavier than chains because they are not understood to exist.
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26 30 The men of Tharna watched almost in disbelief as the great mask loosened, bolt by bolt, from the wall, leaned forward and at last, dragged down by its own weight, broke loose and plunged clattering down the steps of the throne, breaking into a hundred pieces.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 27 The slaves obediently pressed their weight against the timber spokes of the two windlasses and they creaked and the chains tightened.
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11 121 Scarcely had they placed their weight on the disk when it began to smoothly and silently accelerate down the long ramp which led toward the bottom of the canyon.
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14 178 The ease with which he did this astonished me for I am sure its weight must have been several hundred pounds.
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18 124 I wondered if hurling my weight against Sarm I might have tumbled him from that platform to his death far below.
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24 44 I hoped, considering the size and shape and probable weight of the creature, and the comparative tininess of its legs, that it would not be able to move quickly, at least not for a sustained period.
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27 6 The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their Priest-King Masters.
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27 80 Even with the abdomen empty her legs could not support its weight and she lay on the dais with her jointed legs folded beside her.
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29 114 I savagely hurled my weight against the controls but they remained unresponsive.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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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...
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4 10 Four times the point struck me drawing blood, but he did not have the weight of the leaping animal behind his thrust; he thrust at arm's length, the point scarcely reaching me.
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4 37 It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round, metal weight.
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7 13 There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla...
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8 395 They had withstood the shock of her body weight many times I gathered, in quick turnings, in leaps.
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15 13 I presume that the mercenaries, being tarnsmen—a proud, headstrong breed of men—made the Turians pay highly for the supplies they carried, the indignities of bearing burdens being lessened somewhat by the compensating weight of golden tarn disks.
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21 3 I had spent my last tarn disk to buy a couple of handfuls of tiny stones, many of them of little or no value; yet their weight in my pouch gave me some pretext for being in the city.
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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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22 65 By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped...
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23 151 "Kassars!" I stood dumbfounded on the planking and saw the two great wedges of the Kataii and the Kassars close like tongs on the trapped Paravaci, taking them in the unprotected flanks, crushing the ranks before them with the weight of their charge.
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Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 158 I took from my belt a tarn disk of double weight, and of gold, and gave it to the Player, who took it in his fingers and felt its weight, and then he put it between his teeth and bit it.
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1 68 Without speaking the man took twenty pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar, of double weight, and gave them to Kuurus, who placed them in the pockets of his belt.
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1 83 Yet he had in the pockets of his belt twenty gold tarn disks, and of double weight.
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3 154 "A tarn disk of gold and of double weight," said I, "to red, should red win".
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3 213 I then pressed into the hands of the Player the tarn disk of gold, of double weight, and the man held it clenched in his hands, and smiled and rose to his feet.
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7 49 At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...
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11 179 The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w...
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12 99 The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is narrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or a war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of the other tarns, permitting a swifter takeoff and providing a capacity for ex...
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12 100 Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...
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13 292 On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...
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14 151 "I want her," said Cernus, "to feel steel on her wrists, the weight of a chain".
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18 2 In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...
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18 4 "Ho-Tu, stop!" I pressed up and then, knowing his full weight was on the knife, I suddenly ceased resistance, removing my counter-pressure, and rolled from under him.
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Book 6. (17 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 10 I could sense the rence craft move as the girl shifted her weight in it, balancing it and maintaining it in position.
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8 41 * * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by...
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9 659 His lips moved, but then he coughed, and there was more blood, and he stiffened, and then, his head falling to one side, he was only weight in our arms.
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10 23 I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds.
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10 24 A Weight is ten Stone.
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10 25 A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight.
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10 26 The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
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10 233 I instructed Luma to discharge any such with a gift of gold, of half a stone's weight.
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11 38 Its great weight, to screams of horror, fell crushing upon men who, with shields and swords, were closely pressing the captains.
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14 33 The size and weight of the oars used will doubtless seem surprising, but, in practice, they are effective and beautiful levers.
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14 43 The length and weight of these oars would make their operation impractical were it not for the fact that each of them, on its inboard end, is weighted with lead.
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14 44 Accordingly the rower is relieved of the weight of the oar and is responsible only for its work.
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15 442 He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south.
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15 612 Each was of double weight! "Paga!" I cried and held back the goblet and Telima filled it.
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17 201 And yet, as I sat there, I felt that in time the weight of ships and numbers would be felt.
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18 544 Vina, with a shield, whose weight she could hardly bear, was trying to cover the boy, Fish, as he fought.
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18 603 Suddenly more than a hundred irons with ropes struck the delta wall, wedging in the crenels, and I saw the irons tighten in the crenels and strain with the weight on them.
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Book 7. (10 results) Captive of Gor

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6 416 I threw all my weight against the strap, sobbing, pushing with all my might.
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6 445 I threw my full weight against the leather, digging my feet into the grass.
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10 30 It was like a glistening, somnolent boulder of fur, alive, hundreds of pounds in weight.
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10 474 And well I did so, for I had begun to suspect what it might be to be so needful, so helpless, so vulnerable, what it might be to desire with all one's being, submitted in the complementarities of nature, to love and serve a master, and even if one feared the master, or hated him, what it might be to...
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11 1272 Rask of Treve, it seemed, now sought elsewhere for the weight of gold and the flesh of women.
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13 591 I was effectively imprisoned by the weight of my own body.
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13 876 When it spun onto its back, tearing upwards at its foe, I hung stomach downwards, my full weight on the lashings, seeing in terror the earth hundreds of feet below.
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14 426 Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almost guaranteed t...
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15 997 Laughing, bloody tarnsmen, with strings of pearls thrown about their necks, and cups and goblets tied at their saddles, and their saddle packs bulging with the weight of golden tarn disks, had brought their tarns down, wings beating, to receive the greetings of the camp.
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17 118 Even performing small, homely tasks for a master, such as polishing his leather, laundering and ironing his tunics, cleaning his domicile, bringing him his sandals, crawling, in her teeth, can be sexually stimulating to her; she licks humbly the confining loops of leather on her wrists; she humbly l...
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 11 Within each "A," her wrists bound by wrapped and taut leather to heavy rings set in the sloping sides, there hung a girl, her full weight on her wrists.
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2 112 I saw two seamen, one on the starboard bow, the other on the port bow, hunch their weight into the two, long, black temwood poles, which curved with the stress set upon them.
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6 520 The weight is ten Gorean stone.
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6 521 A Gorean stone is approximately four pounds in weight.
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6 644 "Do you think, within the Ehn," I asked, "that you could bring me a tarn disk, of gold, of double weight?" "I have no gold!" she cried.
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6 656 It was of double weight.
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11 196 Her weight was equally on the balls of her feet.
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11 205 Commonly the slave girl, when not facing her master, if she is right handed, as are most girls, will have her weight on the ball of her left foot.
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15 275 From one of the abandoned crates, discarded now because of its weight and its putative lack of utility, I spilled a quantity of chains to the grass.
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18 468 This is not simply because of their general small size, with consequent maneuverability, and speed, a function of oarsmen, weight and lines, but also because of this aforementioned capacity to rapidly reverse direction.
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19 200 "The weight of Chenbar in the sapphires of Schendi".
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Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

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4 123 Scholars weight the pieces equally, at three points in adjudications, but I would weight the Ax four points in the early and middle game, and the Singer two, and reverse these weights in the end game.
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2 51 But he had taken in fee from Chenbar Chenbar's weight in the sapphires of Schendi.
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2 132 Sometimes, in light raiding galleys, it is so attached, to remove its weight from the prow's height, to ensure greater stability in high seas; it is always, however, at the prow in harbor, or when the ship enters an inlet or river to make its strike; in calm seas, of course, there is little or no da...
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3 198 Several staggered under the weight of the riches they bore.
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3 303 This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt.
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5 248 It is only three-quarters weight".
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5 254 He changed his weight.
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5 256 "It is only three-quarters weight".
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5 319 Their weight, apiece, is not great, being little more than twenty-five Gorean stone, or about one hundred Earth pounds.
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6 441 "And the weight of a full-grown man in the sapphires of Schendi," said the Forkbeard.
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6 446 "It is well known," I said, "that you freed Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, Ubar of Tyros, from the chains of a dungeon of Port Kar, your fee being his weight in the sapphires of Schendi".
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6 452 "You have already," I said, "accumulated one hundred stone of gold and the weight of Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the sapphires of Schendi".
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7 37 "Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...
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11 29 The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds.
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13 126 It was one hundred stone of gold, the weight of a grown man in the sapphires of Schendi, and the only daughter of my enemy, Thorgard of Scagnar".
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13 253 "There is forty weight of gold here," said Svein Blue Tooth's man, almost as though he could not believe it, "four hundred stone of gold".
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13 274 The weight of the stones was more than that of a full-grown man.
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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14 261 The ring, through which the chain passed, unable to bear longer the weight of Kurii, splintered free of the wood.
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15 153 For their weight, they did not sink deeply.
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15 196 "The hand holds," said he, "are too shallow, their weight too great".
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15 240 "The hand holds," said Ivar, "were not cut to be deep enough to support the weight of a Kur".
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17 55 It had good weight.
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17 163 Kurii burden the males heavily; they can think of little more than the weight they carry, and the next step; furthermore, their wrists are usually tied to the straps of their improvised backpacks.
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18 69 It again thrust down, with its full weight and strength, certain that it could crush the puny strength of a human.
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18 568 I could tell the weight of the stroke by the way it fell on the blade, and how the Forkbeard's blade responded to it.
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18 572 Once the sheer weight of the attacker's blows had turned and driven, interposed, his opponent's sword half through the man's own neck.
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18 578 Too, of course, the weight of such blows, particularly with the long, heavy swords of Torvaldsland, take their toll from the striking arm, as well as the fending arm.
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20 72 His weight, I conjectured, was some eight or nine hundred pounds.
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22 71 "Hurry," said the girl behind her, "or we will be beaten!" The girl moaned, and staggered to the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying her burden, to the deck of the ship.
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Book 10. (26 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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21 589 It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...
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25 235 This time I moved toward her, letting her feel the weight of the steel, the weight of a man's arm.
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1 5 Her weight was on her heels, freeing her hips.
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1 320 It hurled itself, some eight hundred pounds of weight, to the length of the six chains that fastened it, each chain to a separate ring, to the wall.
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1 417 Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
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1 420 A poorly loaded kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed.
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2 30 A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds.
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4 5 She sat within, her knees to the left, her ankles together, her weight partly on her hands, to the right, on the small, silk-covered cushion of the frame.
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5 15 She bent her knees, weight on her heels, lifted her hands, high over her head, wrists close together, back to back, on her thumbs and fingers, poised, tiny cymbals.
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6 2 The ropes, slung, were pressed down with their weight.
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7 512 If he were appropriately placed, he might then requisition such a woman, who could then be picked up and delivered to him, perhaps a woman of such and such a figure, of such and such a height and weight, of such and such a hair color, and eye color, and complexion, of such and such a background, edu...
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7 742 One drinks alternately from the bags, to maintain the weight distribution.
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7 743 Such weight, of course, slows the kaiila, but, in the desert, one must have much water.
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8 17 These are long, rectangular bricks, weighing about a stone apiece, or, in Earth weight, about four pounds.
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11 381 Alyena waited for us, bent, face strained, bearing across her small shoulders the weight of the water.
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13 8 Our feet, to the knees, were wrapped in leather, but, in many places, in making our way across the crusts, the weight of our bodies forced us deeper than this into the crusts.
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14 111 She jerked with her weight against the chain.
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14 128 She gave some inches and again braced herself, throwing her weight back against the chain.
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14 174 I felt the weight of the chain.
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15 6 The cylinders are standardized at ten stone, or a Gorean "Weight," which is some forty pounds.
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16 16 The weight makes it easier to keep the pole, which is long, submerged.
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16 37 There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks.
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16 45 This is one of the reasons, too, it is particularly desirable, in this environment, to weight the raft poles, to help counter the unusual buoyancy of the saline fluid.
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21 481 I made certain that the Kur within, if he could hear aught, would be able to tell that someone ascended the side of the ship, dragging an inert weight, presumably a body.
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21 492 I let it be clear that I was outside the portal, that I had ascended the side of the ship, that with me, dragged, was an inert weight, presumably a body.
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25 223 I did not lay the weight of my own steel on hers, that I not tire her arm.
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Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 1130 I was eager to carry his shield, to have its heavy weight placed across my small back, that I might serve him again, as I had before, as his lovely beast of burden, heeling him, but he did not again stagger me beneath that ponderous weight.
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1 17 My neck seemed to wear a weight; I heard the soft clink, a tiny stirring, of heavy links of metal.
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1 20 Again I felt the weight, circular, heavy, on my neck; again I heard the small sound, the stirring, simple and matter of fact, of heavy metal links.
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1 59 My neck wore its encircling weight; the heavy chain, attached to the collar, dropped between my breasts and over my left thigh.
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1 62 The chain's weight depended from the collar, heavily, gracefully.
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1 72 Only my small finger could I thrust between its weight and my neck.
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1 144 There seemed a subtle difference in my body weight, my movements.
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1 168 Again the difference in the feeling of my body, its weight, its movements, intruded itself into my consciousness.
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2 390 My weight was as if nothing to him.
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2 714 I staggered under its weight.
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2 716 Staggering under the weight of the shield, the pouch and bota about my neck, I followed him.
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2 792 I would struggle to my feet, staggering under the weight of the shield, and run to catch up with him.
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2 800 I lay on my side, the weight of the shield upon my shoulder.
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2 1063 I supposed they might carry perhaps a slim blade, manageable to their small strength and weight, a poniard or dagger, but what if an assailant, such as the man in whose power I was, was simply to take it from them? I did not know it at the time but girls such as I was to be were not permitted to car...
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2 1074 It was perhaps twenty feet in length, perhaps eleven hundred pounds in weight.
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4 892 It would not support my weight.
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4 922 My weight was as nothing to him.
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9 131 Tied as I was I was the prisoner of the stock, its weight and constraint.
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9 647 It was not my fault! I was perhaps beautiful, but beauty availed nothing when one felt the weight of the plow at one's back and knew that behind you the master was lifting his whip.
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9 2428 I seized the handles and threw my weight against them, bent over, digging with my feet into the dirt.
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11 7 My weight was borne mostly by the wrist rings and chain.
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12 172 He stood proudly between the two beasts, bearing easily the weight of the two stirrup chains attached to his capture collar.
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12 726 In this way the weight is balanced.
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13 143 Her weight is 29 stones.
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19 43 I was led toward a dais on which a large, corpulent man sat, one of enormous weight, reclining on cushions.
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19 98 The corpulent man looked at me, and shifted his weight, rotund, immense and slack, on the cushions.
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20 152 It was a grim fate which awaited them, the confinement and pain of the benches, the weight of the long oars, the shackles, the whip, the drum of the hortator, the stench, the black bread and onions of the ponderous galleys.
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22 164 Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell.
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22 571 I could not see what it was, but could sense its weight.
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26 431 Bosk's weight, too, pressed upon her.
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Book 12. (31 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 198 The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated.
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2 732 It was a large urt, some forty pounds in weight.
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3 706 These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk.
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3 1137 It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.
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3 1200 Some girls even note with care the apparent weight of the purses slung at the belts of buyers.
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4 723 It was a carving, rather roundish, some two pounds in weight, in bluish stone, done in the manner of the red hunters, a carving of the head of a beast.
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6 576 It bore less weight.
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6 812 "What weight can the tarn carry?" asked Ram.
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6 945 The load was thus balanced on the tarn, the weight of the two beauties on one side, that of Ram on the other.
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9 118 Such an animal, charging, given its size, weight and speed, and the swiftness of its reflexes, is extremely dangerous.
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10 219 The garment, because of the hood, and the weight of the garment on the shoulders, tends to trap this warm air inside.
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10 237 It is warm, light in weight, and permits great freedom of movement.
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10 257 Sometimes, too, animals at the wall were forced against it, pinned against it, by the weight of animals behind them.
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12 196 Imnak cracked his whip over their heads and they threw their weight against the traces and the long, narrow, freighted sled eased upward, over the rocks, and then slid down onto the ice of Ax Glacier.
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12 216 They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...
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15 724 It would also be proclaimed, of course, in such a situation, along with her weight and collar size, and such things, from the block, during her sale".
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22 12 It was a medium-sized, adult sea sleen, some eight feet in length, some three to four hundred pounds in weight.
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22 188 It was some eighteen to twenty feet in length and perhaps a thousand pounds in weight.
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26 28 Imnak threw his weight back on the uprights.
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27 286 Yet it would be naive to underestimate the weight and influence of her beauty, her vulnerability and service.
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28 60 I threw my weight against the heavy bars.
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31 61 It sat there for a moment, and then, lightly, swung from one pole to another, and then returned, dropping lightly, for an animal of its weight, to the floor before the platform.
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31 65 I would have conjectured its weight at some nine hundred pounds.
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33 113 I leaned forward and, putting my weight against the traces, drew the sled over the steel plates and out onto the ice.
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34 9 Again I put my weight against the traces.
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34 40 "How can I draw the sled with such weight upon it?" I asked.
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34 52 I turned away, and, now struggling, put my weight against the traces.
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34 53 The beast was indeed heavy, and it was not easy to draw the sled, its weight upon it, over the roughness and jagged contours of the ice.
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34 65 The additional food, of course, is a weight burden and impairs performance.
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35 668 She would feel its weight.
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37 144 "On!" The sleen, clawing and scratching at the ice, threw its weight against the harness.
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Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 603 The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in weight, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone in weight, some twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.
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1 358 I heard tiny scratchings at the metal, small movements against the metal, as though by numerous tiny bodies, each perhaps no more than a few ounces in weight.
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4 669 The weight of her upper body was then on the palms of her hands, her arms stiff.
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4 671 This helped to support her weight.
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6 626 Then, to my amazement, the blond girl, though her wrists must have hurt her, her weight drawing against them, smiled back at Sasi.
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13 350 "Such chains," I said, "you will find far fiercer and far more obdurate than the links of these iron laces which now weight your limbs".
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22 37 I slashed down at the marsh with my shovel, gouged out a weight of mud and flung it to the mud raft.
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24 272 Ayari moved toward the bow of the canoe, half standing, to try to balance the weight.
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29 13 A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush.
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32 229 There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries.
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34 14 Again I diverted its slashing weight.
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34 122 She staggered under its weight.
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34 125 Gasping, behind me, stumbling, staggering under the weight of the tarsk I had killed, came my slave.
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34 466 Then again she thrust upward against the weight.
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34 1069 She stumbled a bit under the weight.
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43 5 The creature which had surfaced near us, perhaps ten feet in length, and a thousand pounds in weight, was scaled and had large, bulging eyes.
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49 13 Kisu had placed the finishing touches on the new paddles, making them fit, in grip and weight, for Turgus and the two new slaves, the blonde who had been the leader of the talunas and the dark-haired girl, who had been her second in command.
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53 194 Eight or ten more Kurii dropped inside the wall, lightly for their weight, and crouched there for the moment, pangas in their fangs, the knuckles of their paws on the stones.
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Book 14. (21 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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5 236 You have gained weight but look more trim, for the weight now is more that of muscle and less that of fat".
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1 998 I do not even think the driver could hear me, or well hear me, through its weight.
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3 26 A strong woman stood there, perhaps some five feet ten inches in height and one hundred and forty pounds in weight.
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3 68 "She is dark-haired and dark-eyed," I said, "very pretty, about five feet in height and ninety-five pounds in weight".
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3 382 But did you not, nonetheless, feel their weight? Are things so different here than there for you? There is, surely, little true difference.
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5 239 This accounted for the paradox of increased bodily weight coupled with a thinner appearance.
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7 162 "Let me relieve you of the weight of this slave whip," I said, reaching up to untie it from her neck.
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14 154 Her weight was nothing for me.
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16 340 My own weight then half pinned me in place.
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18 166 These are usually larger and more agile beasts than common saddle tharlarion and are smaller, of course, than either draft tharlarion or war tharlarion, the latter used almost exclusively in the tharlarion cavalries of Gor, huge, upright beasts, several tons in weight, guided by voice commands and t...
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19 14 The gunni, in weight, are similar to the heads of sledge hammers.
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19 22 This permits maneuverability and reduces the opponent's opportunities to take advantage of a misstep or a momentary clumsiness in the distribution of one's weight; too, it provides greater impact for the blows which one strikes.
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19 46 I was usually one of a team of five fighters, divided by weight.
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19 47 I was in the heaviest weight class.
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19 48 Some small men, as is well known, are extremely fine fighters, though, of course, they do not have the size and weight to consistently best larger men, assuming that the distribution of skills is similar.
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19 57 She returned to my side and, from my right fist, removed gently the heavy, curved weight with which it was clad.
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19 59 She placed the second weight beside the first on the shelf.
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21 335 They then looked at me, the weight of the chain dragging down their collars.
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22 579 The Lady Florence and Melpomene were of quite similar height and weight.
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28 63 "Such facts," I said, "about women such as yourself, like their height and weight, and the coloring of their hair, are usually made public".
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29 141 "Her height and weight, and the feel of her body," I said, "were not unlike yours".
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 26 Ar's committed infantry had been outnumbered but its mobility and its support by their tarn cavalry had compensated to some extent for its lack of weight as a striking force.
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14 376 Her weight was light for my strength.
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25 216 It was on her, though she could not yet feel its weight as I had not yet released it, that it might fall against the back of her neck.
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27 52 Besides such things the roughness of hemp, the weight of iron, the cruel, tight clasp of the closely encircling leather straps, are bonds as of gossamer.
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27 117 In virtue of the temporary commercial inertness of the stone, and its weight and cheapness, it had seemed to me to provide an ideal hiding place for the topaz.
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31 6 The gate is raised by muscle power, abetted by two heavy, drumlike weights which partially balance its weight, transmitted to the windlass by means of metal windlass poles, or bars, these being used to rotate the windlass.
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31 161 There are two counterweights, as I have mentioned, which partially balance the weight of the gate.
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Book 16. (13 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 48 "How else can we withstand the weight of such a wedge?" inquired the officer.
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9 119 We grunted, and pressed our weight against the hull of the stranded Tuka.
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9 125 The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, s...
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10 111 I was well aware of the force required to lift that weight.
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12 79 This time, in the room of the windlass, however, it was pirates who labored to lift that mighty weight.
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12 128 This signal was rapidly relayed to the west gate tower and, as the fellow below leapt into the water, to swim for the gate, it, with a thunderous rattle of weight and chaining, shaking and sliding, crashed downward, smiting and dividing a galley just aft of amidships, and then anchored itself in pla...
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16 114 Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward.
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16 163 The weight, thrashing and tearing, must have been some fifteen or twenty pounds.
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19 91 There was a sound from the links of chain above her head as they suddenly drew against one another, for a moment suspending her full weight.
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19 228 After the tenth blow she hung helplessly in the bracelets, her full weight on the chain.
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20 308 The contrast of the unbreakable, merciless, interwoven metallic links, with their tasteful shackles, or cuffs and rings, with the confined, helpless softness of the slave is aesthetically interesting, providing, as it does, a lovely study in surfaces, textures and materials; too, of course, it is on...
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20 1679 We may be much the same weight, be similarly complexioned and figured, and such, but we are different.
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21 11 Before this last having of her she had lain on her back on the furs crying out with joy, feeling the heavy collar on her throat, and the weight of the chain that fastened her by the collar to the slave ring.
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1036 With the weight of a hurtling kaiila behind the thrust such a lance can be thrust through the body of a kailiauk.
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1 1220 The shields, too, are made of the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck, where the skin and musculature are thick, to support the weight of the trident and turn the blows of other tridents, especially in the spring buffetings, attendant upon which follows mate selection".
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8 413 Her weight was nothing for him.
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8 708 "You will learn the weight of bonds, the lash of the whip," said Ginger.
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13 492 I recalled the tiles of a palace, the weight of obdurate, clasping chains, my nudity, the tiny movements of air upon my body, the feel of the flat, colored surface of the tiles beneath my knees, and, too, beneath my forehead, as I knelt, my hair spread upon them, betokening submission, humbly render...
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13 1397 I did so, with just enough pressure that she could feel its weight, and that of my body.
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14 300 Such a device, the poles crossing over the withers of the kaiila, reduces the animal's speed but makes it possible for it to transport a heavier weight.
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Book 18. (19 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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6 20 Almost at the same time, suddenly, about a bend in the draw, turning, lurching, its shoulder striking the side of the draw, its feet almost slipping out from under it, in its turn, in the soft footing, covered with dust, its eyes wild and red, foam at its nostrils and mouth, some twenty-five hundred...
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6 67 The force of even a single kailiauk, with its speed and weight, can be a fearful thing.
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12 58 It would be very difficult for a mounted warrior, even if he wished to do so, to overtake a boy, lighter in weight than he, on a rested kaiila, by the time the lad could reach the lodges, usually no more than two or three pasangs away.
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14 149 "But the trek is long, and the weight is heavy".
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24 31 I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...
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26 70 Their weight and length is designed to achieve a desiderated optimum.
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28 318 The archer, struck by the rider, was carried a dozen feet on the lance, before the blade, twisting, with the weight of the kaiila behind it, was dragged loose.
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30 99 Emerging then from the ranks of the enemy came a gigantic Kur, some nine feet in height, some nine hundred pounds in weight.
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32 19 It was squatting in a place of great honor, at the height of the large circle, its weight resting on its feet and the knuckles of its hands.
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33 381 She would then, of course, have been whipped, and made to draw more than her share of the weight.
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37 88 It may be strangled; it may be crushed beneath the knees, with the hunter's weight; or it may be put on its belly, its back to be broken by a swift blow of the foot.
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37 560 Struggling, wings beating, screaming, the bird, lunging and falling, and climbing again, fought the weight.
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39 526 I then, followed by Cuwignaka, threw my weight against the harness.
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43 315 I felt the tension in the ropes, on either side of the kaiila, as I entered into the long lane, some two hundred yards in length, the sacks, their weight negligible for the strength of the kaiila, being drawn lightly behind.
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43 369 When the young men set themselves to the development of such plans small slave girls in a camp, particularly white ones, tend to become afraid, for they know that they are not much weight for a kaiila to pull.
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43 417 I could not hope, of course, in the ordinary run of things, to outdistance pursuing Yellow-Knife kaiila, certainly not with so short a start and drawing the weight of two such deliciously packed slave sacks.
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44 569 Some of the men afoot, with their weight, throwing it against the beasts, even forced the beasts and their riders from the trail.
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47 527 How light and lovely, and honest, is the steel of slave bracelets, confining the beauty's hands behind her back, baring her ready, enflamed loveliness unimpeded to the view, and to the kisses and caresses, of a master, compared to the opprobrious, dismal weight of a negativistic culture's concealed,...
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54 217 They staggered under its weight as it was, for such a beast, a large one.
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Book 19. (12 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 102 The coin, in a sense, is an object whose worth or weight, in standardized quantities, is certified upon it, and guaranteed, so to speak, by an issuing authority.
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2 221 Because of its weight it was impressed, with sharp lines, into the rug.
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2 226 It appeared to me, indeed, that it might serve very well, in virtue of its strength and weight, for the securing of valuables.
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5 194 Even Claudius knows that behind us stands the might and weight of Cos".
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8 283 At that instant her weight was on the palms of her hands, her arms straight, and the sides of her feet, her body lifted from the block, her legs straight and spread widely behind her.
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8 561 Did they not know that? Why did they not enforce their power, their will on us? Could they not see what we wanted, what we needed? Were they so inattentive and insensitive? Were they so stupid, so blind? Could they not see that I, in order to attain my perfection, needed the weight of a chain, the t...
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22 100 I heard the boards of the wagon bed creak as they were subjected to additional weight.
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29 186 'Too, your figure would seem to be quite similar to what hers was conjectured to be, and you would certainly seem to be quite similar to her in general size, with respect to height and weight.
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30 176 My own weight held my hands against the wall.
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30 475 I could see many differences between us, but, still, the resemblances, in hair and eye color, in general coloring, in figure, in size and weight, and so on, were so close as to be almost frightening.
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30 515 Then he held her weight by the leash, and lowered her, gently, to the ground.
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33 686 Outside of Corcyrus, in a great field, have been found burned grass and three large, deep, geometrically spaced depressions, as though something of great heat and weight, perhaps some giant, heated steel insect or fiery mechanical bird, had alighted there.
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Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

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2 980 The blade that has only six inches to move, with a full weight behind it, other things being equal, effects a deeper penetration than a blade which must move farther and has behind it primarily the weight of a shoulder and arm.
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2 1055 "It has good weight".
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3 229 The richness of your garments in the piazza, the weight of your purse, suggests to me that you might have had experience in such matters, that you had the means to be intimately familiar with the doings in markets, and so on".
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6 1112 In such cases, it is important to properly support the weight of the slave or captive.
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6 1188 The girl, then, with great difficulty, struggling, bending under the weight, staggering, shouldered the three packs.
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6 1197 I am a slave now, and if I am not pleasing, I will be beaten!" She then turned about and, staggering under the weight of the packs, left the stage.
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6 1224 I had much more money, my own, and some more I had helped myself to at the camp of the Lady Yanina, before I had freed her prisoners and burned the camp, but I had no wish to advertise the current weight of my purse at the fair.
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8 261 The quiva itself, in its sharpness and weight, does the work.
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13 172 Then, clinging to my arm, and boosted by my hand, it seized the bars beside me, thrusting its forearms through and about them, clinging to them, using them to support its weight.
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14 474 I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments...
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16 1139 Even she knew this much, that her champion was to be categorically denied the privilege of the initial move, with its weight and influence in determining the nature of the game.
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20 386 Then it went down, bloody and terrible, again, beneath the weight or iron, and men.
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21 602 She could feel its weight drag against the chain.
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Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 212 Even mobile siege towers, pushed from within by straining tharlarion, pressing their weight against prepared harnesses, trundled toward them, their bulwarks swarming with archers and javelin men.
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3 437 The beast grunting, slowed, dragging the girl's weight; she clung fiercely to the halter; it moved its head about, pulling her about, from side to side, shaking her; it tossed its head impatiently upward, lifting her literally from the ground.
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4 46 Their most common mount is the medium-weight saddle tharlarion, a beast smaller and less powerful, but swifter and more agile, than the common high tharlarion.
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4 252 It had good weight and balance.
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4 416 But in a moment, struggling, unable to manage the weight, she twisted her body and the ax fell.
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13 313 The woman does not exist outside of herself, as a facade, empty within, fabricated according to the specifications of manipulators and self-serving strangers, interested in her only to the extent of adding the minim of her tiny weight to the progress of their dismal engines.
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15 88 "It is not like receiving the weight of your sword in gold coin".
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15 729 "Such letters may have their weight with those of Ar but would scarcely seem designed to impress Cosians".
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16 1482 I then crossed it, too, the plank bending under my weight, and was followed by Boabissia, and Hurtha, and Feiqa.
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18 35 "Such might be worth their weight in gold," he speculated.
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21 129 The folds of the purple cloak, the weight of the ubar's medallion, are of no interest to him.
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22 252 It was narrow, and moved with one's weight.
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25 1588 Certainly for her size and weight, she was well curved.
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25 2329 I then put my foot on her, and let her feel a little of my weight, but not much.
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Book 22. (20 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 195 I do not think this was simply a matter of a modest reduction in my weight and, connected with this, and the exercise, a noticeable improvement in my figure, helping me to a more felicitous and reassuring self-image, that of a female in clear, lovely contrast to a male, or of the dance's prosaic imp...
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3 611 I felt its weight on the attachment, or ring.
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3 827 I could feel its weight.
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3 936 I collapsed to the rug, unable even to bear my own weight.
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6 578 The plates, I conjectured, judging from the apparent weight and solidity of them, must be an inch thick, at least.
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6 786 I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t...
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8 1 The Platform; The Annex to the Sales Barn I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot above the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weigh...
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8 54 * * * * I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot from the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weight muchly on the palm of my right ha...
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8 205 * * * * I sat on the long, low wooden platform, in the annex to the sales barn, in the exposition area, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my right hand supporting most of my weight, the chain on my neck dropping down to the wood, to my ...
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8 353 I sat there, waiting, small, helpless, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, as though they might be held together by a small chain, my left hand on my left ankle, my weight muchly on the palm of my right hand, a chain on my neck, running to its ring in the platform.
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9 251 I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarl...
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9 498 No man could change that! "Aii!" I cried, suddenly, startled, squirming wildly, leaping in the manacles, twisting, with a movement of chain, then my weight on them, the chain taut, my knees lifted, almost to my belly, my eyes shut, my teeth gritted.
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11 414 "Her hair and eye coloring, and complexion, and height and weight, are as mentioned in the handbills," said Mirus.
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11 571 From the distention and apparent weight of the sack I gathered he had already taken in several tarsk bits.
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11 764 Surely those of you who have already purchased one or more ostraka can appreciate the weight of this consideration".
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21 63 Then he seemed only a weight in my arms.
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24 28 My body, and even my legs, ached from the weight of the water bag, slung on its strap over my shoulder.
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24 29 I was pleased when the contents were depleted, for the weight was less, but then, soon, I must hurry back to the wooden tank, to submerge the bag again and, as the bubbles streamed up to the surface, and broke there, refill it.
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27 175 Surely that was preferable to wearing chains and carrying water in a large, damp skin bag, struggling against its bulging, shifting weight, bent over, going back and forth, back and forth, wading in sand to the ankles.
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27 341 I was held by the back of the neck again, its grip, that of only one hand or paw, easily supporting my weight.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 109 To be sure, most of the coins there were small, such as would be likely to weight only a threadbare purse.
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1 137 "I doubt even two tharlarion can pull this grade from the ditch, with this weight, with the footing," said the driver.
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2 34 The weight of the purse, on its drawstrings, closed it.
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9 52 Too, her weight, slight as it was, might have made the difference between falling to pursuers and eluding them.
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14 47 They are held upon it, helplessly, by their own weight.
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15 956 "This filthy, treacherous little vulo's weight is nothing".
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16 284 To be sure, given the weight involved and the smoothness of the pole she will be unsuccessful.
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17 232 Others tried to throw their weight against it, to force it forward again.
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17 244 The spear, given the trembling of the ladder, from the movement and weight of the men upon it, and its twisting, slid loose from its precarious anchorage in the upright's edge, and the ladder, twisting, plunged forward again, again crashing against the wall.
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17 256 But then men were screaming and leaping from it, up and down its length, and I saw it turn on one upright, doubtless more from their movements and the shifts in weight than from anything of my doing, and then it fell back, and I heard it snap and break.
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17 676 I had relieved her of the burden of their weight in the cell.
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21 430 In the fields they are often put to the plow and must struggle and strain, aching and sweating, exhausted, pitting their small weight desperately against the traces of their harnessing, their feet slipping in the dirt, to turn the black, resistant soil under the lash of impatient peasants.
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21 486 It was on the basis of considerations such as these, and perhaps cumulatively, taking into consideration their conjoint weight, that a determination might be made as to whether or not it was fitting that she be made a slave.
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24 232 Although her weight was substantially borne by the harness her small wrists were pulled high over her head, and held in place there, close to the chain, by her wrist shackles.
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Book 24. (26 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 38 I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan...
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48 594 The yoke itself was not heavy, but its weight, together with the weight of the gear, and such, was not negligible for one such as Phoebe.
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3 555 Feel the collar on your neck, the weight of the looping chain.
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7 12 He could perhaps no longer bear its weight.
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9 20 I had been put before it, the rope on my neck, this morning, wading, that it need not bear my weight.
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9 125 Again I put my weight against the rope, once more moving the sodden craft forward.
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11 55 I then, in consternation, put my weight against the traces and, after a moment, my feet slipping in the mud, felt the raft move forward.
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15 21 As for myself I could concern myself with little but the weight of the raft, my footing, and the blows which drove me.
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18 71 I think he understood almost instantly the hopelessness of his position, from my weight, my leverage and grip.
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19 10 Its paddle I had retained but it was not of much use, given the weight of the raft.
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19 115 With a beating of the giant wings the creature ascended, struggling with the weight of the tharlarion, and then, after a moment, perhaps from a height of a hundred feet or so, dropped it into the marsh.
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19 119 I had not realized the power of the creature, or that it could lift that much weight.
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19 120 The weight of a man, then, or a woman, would have been nothing to it.
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19 760 Its flight was erratic and it climbed, and spun, and circled against me, the injured wing, air passing through it, burdened, too, with my weight, muchly ineffective.
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19 1323 Much of her weight was on her forearms, in the sand.
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19 1655 "Why should I pole your extra weight?" I asked, picking up the pole.
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19 1676 "It is not because of my weight, is it!" she cried.
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26 10 As her weight was negligible compared to that of the raft, this did not impede, or much impede, our advance.
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27 5 Then, instead of supporting one's weight, with a give of some inches, it seems, suddenly to grasp the ankles, and then gravity begins its slow work.
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29 232 We saw the fingers, like iron hooks, disappear into the hide of the fish, and then, he stood, rearing up in the sand, lifting that great weight, and shook it, and the fish spun and rolled, and fell again into the sand, the skin, in a swath a foot wide, excoriated.
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44 222 "Tarn disks of Ar, full weight," he said.
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46 198 There was no custodial need, of course, for the weight and plenitude of the restraints on her.
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47 75 "Give her to us," said one of the fellows, "and we will share the reward with you!" "We will give you ten pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar," proposed another, "full weight!" "That is more than she would bring on the block," said another.
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48 304 "But it is a hundred pieces of gold," I said, "tarn disks of Ar, full weight".
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48 307 If the amount had been short, in either number or weight, I would not have wished to be Octantius, dealing with his hirelings.
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48 595 She would carry weight and know it.
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Book 25. (20 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 857 To be sure, the differences in weight are slight and, given the forces on the dice, the differential is not dramatic.
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4 57 Tharlarion, and such transportation, were now said to be worth their weight in gold.
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7 83 These were the same ostraka, I supposed, which, a few days ago, would have been worth their weight in gold, permits, passes, in effect, to remain in the city.
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7 230 Myron, or he who was acting on his behalf, then, by means of a dismounting stirrup, not the foot stirrup, the rider's weight lowering it, descended to the ground.
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8 223 She had been slight but well curved for her size and weight.
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9 351 "Kill the Hinrabian! Death to her! Let her be impaled! Weight her ankles!" "And at night, do you serve your masters in the furs?" inquired Claudia.
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9 855 Then, in time, with the help of three or four other fellows, locating themselves along the coffle line, most of the weight being shortly borne by the wrist chains of the lovely "beads" themselves, we had doubled the chain, bringing it forward.
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9 856 In this way we distributed the weight of the unused length of chain over the wrist chains of the last forty women or so, this constituting no unusual burden to any one of them.
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13 74 In the end few things are real, perhaps the weight and glitter of gold, the movement and nature of weapons, a slave at one's feet, and, too, perhaps in spite of all, if we will have it so, defiant, honor, responsibility, courage, discipline, such things, such baubles, such treasures.
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17 18 "Alas," cried the ponderous fellow waddling about the stage, yet, if one noticed it, with a certain lightness and grace, considering his weight, "have I lost my slave?" "Find her!" cried a fellow.
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18 282 It was not that I could not do such things, depending on the weight of the wagon and the various ratios involved, those of the diameters of pegs and holes, and such, but I did not want Marcus to get the wrong impression.
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19 1297 She had to bend down, that its weight was on the ground.
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19 1318 The weight was considerable for her.
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19 1425 "The weight is really too much for her," he said.
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20 472 As an illustration, she becomes very much aware, as a free woman would not be, of subtleties of texture, little things, such as the softness of fur, the feel of rep-cloth, the corrugation and weaving of a mat, the knap of a rug, the smoothness of tiles, the movement of silk upon a body, how a camisk...
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21 212 I thought of her, struggling under the weight of the yoke and buckets, as had Lavinia, staggering to bring drink, herself a slave, to other slaves, the robust, bronzed field slaves, gangs of them, toiling in the fields of Appanius.
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23 222 "I permitted them to exert their influence, to add their weight, so to speak, to the scales".
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23 312 "The weight of this suggests a great many copper tarsks," said Boots, surprised.
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27 345 For example, a "double tarn" is twice the weight of a "tarn".
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28 117 The weight was now outside the door.
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Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

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4 369 I could feel its weight, and I could feel, at the back of the collar I wore, the weight of the chain there, leading back to the collar behind me.
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4 34 I knew that I had lost weight.
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5 29 The wall, in its way, aside from its height and thickness, its weight, its formidableness, its rearing terribleness, was mysterious to me.
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7 296 In this fashion one's hands are rather behind one, and rather held in place, by one's own weight.
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8 860 I could hear the gate creak as the beast pressed its weight against it.
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10 390 The rope now, with my weight on it, was taut.
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10 392 I saw the jailer, below me, put his foot in the stirrup, his left foot, and at the same time grasp the rope with his left hand, above his head; and then the rope, too, bore his weight.
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10 396 Too, I hoped the rope would hold our weight.
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10 399 The bag swung a little on the rope, but the weight of the jailer, below me, muchly steadied it, preventing what might otherwise have been a most frightening swaying of that stout strand.
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11 152 I was no longer capable of sustaining my weight on my arms.
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11 1520 I was a little uneasy, as the board seemed to move a bit under my weight.
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11 1786 My weight was as nothing to him.
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11 1891 The device had been closed, it seemed, by my weight.
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12 436 In such a way, I might make clear to him, he might hope to add some weight, some charm, perhaps even some persuasiveness, to his entreaties.
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16 432 My weight was as nothing to him.
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16 492 In this way, it was, in effect, as though the chain was mounted at the head of the divan, rather than at the side, the hook would carry the weight of the chain, preventing it from drawing against the collar, the length of chain between the hook and collar would rest on the divan, and the amount of p...
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31 573 Again the peasant threw his weight against the chains.
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31 606 Men leaped back, not to be caught in the trajectory of that jagged, ponderous weight.
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34 14 One had been pierced by a concealed spear, spring-released from the side of a corridor, another in crossing one of the narrow bridges over a crevice, it buckling as weight was placed at its center, another when an apparently solid portion of the corridor had fallen away beneath him, plunging him scr...
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37 628 Given its weight, it was unlikely that the slaves could have raised it, even if it had been unlatched.
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37 703 It moved only as the rope, and its weight, would have it.
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37 890 It had been moved by the weight of the bound, gagged free woman, dangling on the rope over the pool.
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38 144 Her weight was muchly on her right thigh and hip.
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44 147 "We could save the slave box," said the first, "and, at night, simply weight her and cast her into the carnarium.
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44 199 "Shall we weight her ankles and hurl her into a carnarium?" asked the second man.
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44 312 I heard the steps of the men, heavy with the weight they were bearing, cross the floor above, and then, in a moment, as they set themselves to a new flight of stairs, diminish.
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46 379 In an instant I might have leaned forward and, with all my weight, slight as it was, moved that thin blade deeply into his body, to the hilt, even through the heart.
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Book 27. (31 results) Prize of Gor

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17 1119 She then received ten lashes of the five-stranded Gorean slave whip, and she wept, and screamed, and protested, and begged, and pleaded, and turned, spinning, jerking, twisting, in the bonds, sometimes bending her knees, lifting her feet from the floor, her full weight then on the wrist tether, and ...
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11 1055 The gold will be waiting in the cell, all the twenty double-weight ingots of it, carefully stacked.
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12 87 Ellen was thankful for the device she wore, though sometimes she felt like crying out in misery, because of discomfort, its weight and heat.
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12 96 When she moved she was conscious of the padlock, its weight, and how it moved, against the three parts it secured in place.
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12 240 Oh, I hate it, for its weight, its clumsiness, its bulkiness, its embarrassment, its inconvenience, but does it not show that I am special to him? Is he not keeping my virginity for himself? Or, to use the vulgar Gorean expression, at least as applied to slaves, does he not wish to be the first to o...
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13 654 "This way, you can take some of the weight on your arms, if you wish, or use your head and spine, carrying your body erectly, gracefully.
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13 655 That distributes the weight nicely, and is easier on the back.
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16 67 The weight seemed to pull at the object on her foot.
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16 140 Such a collar, with its size and weight, perhaps four or five pounds, its discomfort, she was sure, in the house would have been used only as a punishment collar.
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16 695 She received only six strokes, and the blows, while sharp, had not been heavy, surely not delivered with the full weight of a man's arm.
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16 1247 "Then you want to remain here, in a weight collar, on the shelf?" he said.
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16 1373 She now wore a weight collar, as the others, and this collar, by its ring, was padlocked to a ring anchored in the stone floor.
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16 1393 The weight collars they wore, too, with the dangling rings, by means of which they were fastened to the floor rings, could not be removed either, except by tools.
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17 300 And then he put his foot gently on her body, not pressing with any weight, and moved it a bit, to let her have the feeling of a man's foot on her body, to let her feel herself, a female, beneath the foot of a man.
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17 810 "Guardsman! Search for an escaped slave in a weight collar, a high collar of thick, black iron, hammered shut about her neck, its two forward projections pierced, a dangling, two-hort iron ring threaded through the piercings!" So Ellen lay on the cement shelf, chained, closing her eyes, shuddering, ...
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17 1013 In order to remove the weight collar he unbuckled the hood, and thrust it up, a few inches.
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17 1015 She shuddered, kneeling, bent over, her head laid across the anvil, as Barzak then, with his tools, opened and removed the weight collar.
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17 1018 How good it felt to have the weight collar removed! The hood was then drawn fully down again, about her throat, and buckled shut.
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22 704 The crate, like the others, was apparently secured by two hasps and staples, each with their own gigantic padlocks, better than six or seven pounds in weight and six inches in diameter, some three or four inches in thickness.
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23 325 "Hurry! Harta!" She then, with Louise, put her small weight against the resistance of the wagon.
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24 123 When her attributes had been recorded, her height, weight, measurements, identifying marks, collar size, languages, literacy, skills and such, she had been asked about dancing but she had, of course, responded negatively.
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25 1030 Aloft, held so, it seemed to speak of weight and power.
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25 1043 "Five," said the plainly clad fellow, "five golden tarn disks, each of full weight, each from the Ubar's mint, at Jad, on Cos".
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26 260 "Much gold would it take to weight their purses!" "Thousands of gold pieces," said a man.
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26 464 "But men may seek you, for you possessed gold, coins which, it seems, may have borne the quality and weight certifications of Jad, on Cos!" "Do not concern yourself with such matters," he said.
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27 79 One might note, in passing, that the usual Gorean taste in women tends to favor the statistically natural or normal woman, the lovely, nicely figured woman of average height and weight, who as a slave fits nicely in a man's arms, as opposed to the more unusual "model types," who tend to be awkward, ...
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27 1340 She remembered incidents in the house of Mirus, many in her training, her sometimes almost hysterical despair of ever being able to please her instructors, their impatience with her, her deferent and lengthy serving of formally clad diners, she naked and in a collar, her abuse at the hands of Mirus,...
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27 1476 She feels the weight of the chains on her small limbs; how wary she must now be of men, and how she must now strive to please them! She? Please men? Yes, certainly, and for fear now not only of the whip, but for her very life.
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27 1628 As the tharlarion reared again she was aware of Mirus cursing, and a weight, a body, was hanging onto the bridle, pulling the animal down, fiercely, yanking downward, twisting its neck.
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27 2199 She nodded, pitifully, understanding, in acquiescence, her eyes wide over the weight and firmness of the oppressive hand by means of which she was denied access to articulate speech.
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28 353 "Feel the weight," said Portus Canio.
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

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74 20 On level ground nothing could stand against the weight of a thousand spears, of different lengths, bristling before the advance, rushed forward with the weight of a thousand running, screaming men behind them.
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1 216 Indeed, the figures of both were nearly, if not quite, at what merchants in these matters refer to as the optimum block measurements for their size and weight.
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1 420 Sometimes catchers, small Kurii, badly pelted, only four or five hundred pounds in weight, prowled the habitat, searching for loose humans, escaped or strayed, usually to be hamstrung and put back in the barred pens, then unable to walk, unable then to do much more than feed at the troughs, fatten, ...
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1 477 She wondered what it would be like to be put in them, to be locked in them, to feel them on her body, their weight, and that of their short chains, and to be aware of their close, unslippable clasp on her small wrists and ankles, then so helplessly confined in their designed encirclements, and then ...
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2 53 They were large specimens, even for their breed, having a width of three to four feet, and a weight, I conjecture, of some sixteen hundred pounds.
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2 262 To be sure, in a pleasure garden, in virtue of this lack of height and weight, as trifling as it might have been, she would have been subject to several of the other, larger girls, who might have beaten her when they wished, subject, of course, to the intervention of the attendants.
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19 23 The adult Gorean larl is usually in the range of seven feet at the shoulder and over a thousand pounds in weight.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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25 22 Why do you think runners train in heavy sand, and hurlers of the stone use stones twice in weight to those they will cast in the games? Why do you think that some, in training beasts, tharlarion, tarns, and slaves, weight saddles, and such things?" "This is a place of police," I said, "a barrack of ...
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