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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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5 131 As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs in width, which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Tamber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar.
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6 70 When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 36 The bundle reared itself at least a man's height above his bent back, and extended perhaps some four feet in width.
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10 32 The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height.
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12 29 She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain.
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14 27 No sooner had I reached the center than one of the sections of the wall rolled back, revealing a portal almost as high as the wall and perhaps thirty feet in width.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 33 At last there was a great creak and the vast portal parted a hand's breadth and then the width of a shoulder and the width of a man's body.
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21 50 Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal.
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5 103 I looked but I saw nothing other than the stone sides of the portal and on each side three rounded red domes, of perhaps four inches width apiece.
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7 96 Never before had I been so aware of the thin margin of reality admitted into the human nervous system, little more than a razor's width of apprehension given the multiple and complex physical processes which formed our environment.
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10 122 Its diameter might have been ten pasangs in width.
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12 1 Two Muls On a marble circle of some half pasang in width, in the bottom of that vast, brilliantly lit, many-colored artificial canyon the oval disk diminished its speed and drew to a stop.
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27 67 Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools.
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29 77 With satisfaction I noted the width of the tunnel did not permit them to turn.
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 57 The two axles of the wagon are also of tem-wood, which perhaps, because of its flexibility, joined with the general flatness of the southern Gorean plains, permits the width of the wagon.
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8 218 At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf.
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16 26 It was a rather wide well, perhaps about fifteen feet in width.
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17 4 The pool itself, around which there is a marble walkway some seven or eight feet in width, is roughly circular in shape and has a diameter of perhaps sixty or seventy feet.
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21 348 Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred.
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26 147 The floor of the passage had been dropped, by the release of a bolt, for an area of its width and for a length of about twelve feet.
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 54 Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves.
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12 43 On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race.
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12 133 In English measure the two sides of the track are each about seventeen hundred feet in length, and the measure at the corners would be something under a hundred and fifty feet in width.
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12 309 When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length.
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12 389 In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width.
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18 393 It, like the others, was about six inches in width and about an inch high.
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23 207 I saw the webbing on which the thing had apparently slept, judged its strength, noted its width.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 30 Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean.
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17 64 These resemble sturdy, heavy gangplanks, some five feet in width, with a heavy spike or nail, some two feet in length and some four inches in width, on the underside.
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2 32 "I want only as much of your marsh as the width of my craft," I said, "and that only for as long as it takes to pass".
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2 33 This was a paraphrase of a saying common on Gor, given by passing strangers to those through whose territories they would travel: Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more, and that but for the time it takes to pass.
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8 26 That path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars.
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13 280 I noted with satisfaction the width of her beam and the depth of her keel.
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14 32 Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup...
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17 230 It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.
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18 140 I did not know the width of the storm, but I hoped its front would be only a few pasangs.
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

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11 187 In his hand he held something which looked like a pair of pliers, except that the claws were extremely slender, and bent in such a way as to touch one another, at the tips scarcely more than a needle's width.
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13 1165 At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana...
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14 192 One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height.
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14 634 She had, in her hand, an eighteen-inch strip of purple binding fiber, about half an inch in width, flat, set with jewels.
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14 665 In his belt I saw that he had thrust an eighteen-inch strip of black leather, binding leather; it was not jeweled; it was common leather; it was about three quarters of an inch in width; it was supple, that it might well encircle limbs; it was flat, that it might well fit against them; it was of a s...
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15 813 I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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20 13 The heart lies but the width of a hand within the body, the jugular but the width of a finger.
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5 235 There was a bar set at the back of the compound, a metal bar, some two inches in width, fastened on stanchions.
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15 544 , by the clock on my dresser, a dark, disklike shape, not more than five feet in thickness and eight feet in width, black, appeared before the window.
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Book 9. (23 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 204 It is some one hundred and twenty feet in length, and forty feet in width and height.
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3 176 They consist of curved, hinged bands of black iron, three quarters of an inch in width and a quarter inch in thickness.
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3 177 On one of each of the two curved pieces constituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long.
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4 163 It is about six inches in width.
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4 228 The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width.
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6 212 The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height.
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6 337 The hall proper, the center of the hall, is about twelve feet in width.
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10 662 The target in the shooting was about six inches in width, at a range of about one hundred yards.
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11 10 I knew that, in darkness, they could swell, like dark moons, to fill almost the entire optic orifice, some three or four inches in width.
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11 13 Its head was approximately the width of the chest of a large man.
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11 49 Each, too, carried a great, double-bladed iron ax, which, from blade tip to blade tip, was some two feet in width.
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11 159 "We will take only as much of your land as the width of our march, and for only as long as it takes to pass".
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13 2 The interior hall, not counting rooms leading from it on various sides, or the balcony which lined it, leading to other rooms, was some forty feet high, and forty feet in width, some two hundred feet in length.
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13 23 The line, so to speak, imaginary to be sure, but definitely felt as a social reality, dividing those above from those below the salt, was uniformly "drawn" across the width of the hall.
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14 207 I observed the patterns; they were regular, linear, of narrow width; no body was missed.
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15 384 I saw, to my right, a small, dark opening, irregular, jagged, about a foot in width and height.
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15 416 Their tentacled paws felt the width of the opening.
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16 20 It was about eight feet in height and width.
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16 47 It was still squarish, some twenty feet in height and width.
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17 80 Each is little more than four or five feet high, with a comparable width, but is fifty or sixty feet in length, some being as long as a hundred feet in length.
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17 145 The human, pursued by such an animal, is not likely to be concerned about the width of its ears or the mottling of its fur.
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20 108 It was a Kur ax, its handle some eight feet in length, the broad head better than two feet in sharpened width.
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20 171 On the tiny rock promontory, footing the skerry, some eight or nine feet in width, I met Ivar Forkbeard, and his men.
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Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 32 At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere...
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2 200 She turned her head, briefly, to look at me; I saw her eyes, dark, through the tiny opening in the haik, through the tiny, black-lace screen, about an inch in height and four inches in width.
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2 555 In her hand she carried a long supple kaiila quirt of leather, about a half inch in width and a yard long.
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4 6 It was semicircular and about a yard in width at its widest point.
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7 14 There was a small window, high in the door, about six inches in height, eighteen inches in width.
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16 22 The raft is some twelve feet in width and some twenty-four or twenty-five feet in length.
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16 152 The head was more than a yard in width, white, pits where there might have been eyes.
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17 235 It almost encircled the leg and ranged from a half of an inch to two inches in width.
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19 139 It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched...
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20 56 I saw them indent the bag; the spread of the digits was more than fifteen inches in width.
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24 385 This was an allusion to the Gorean five-strap slave whip, commonly used on girls because of the softness and width of its lashes.
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Book 11. (20 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 627 My head came only to his chest; the width of my body seemed but half the width of that mighty, scarlet-clad chest.
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27 743 A yellow circle, in outline, narrow-bordered, the border some six inches in width, the circle itself some ten feet in width, was painted on the cement.
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1 81 It extended to a heavy ring and plate fastened in a great granite rock, irregular, but some twelve feet in width and depth, some ten feet in height.
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1 84 They may have passed through the entire width of the rock and been clinched on the other side.
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2 386 The loop was circular, and about two and one half inches in width.
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2 413 It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...
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2 767 I admired the width of his shoulders as he walked before me.
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2 1151 The length of their line of march was perhaps some forty or fifty yards, its width some ten yards.
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3 529 It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...
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6 145 The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width.
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9 158 The cage in its original attitude, when used for sleen, would have been some four feet in height, six feet in width and twelve feet in length.
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9 1463 The staff he held was over six feet in length and some two to three inches in width.
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13 192 "22 horts," said he, reaching across my body and placing his hand on my right hip, indicating the width of my body.
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16 85 Each girl, all in all, has a space private to her slavery of some twenty-five inches in width, by some eighteen inches in height, by some six feet five inches in length.
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18 11 Over the Curla in front, slipping under the body and between the legs, and passing over the Curla in the back, was the Chatka, or narrow strip of black leather, some six inches in width, some five feet or so in length; it was drawn tight; when a girl wears the Curla and Chatka, the brand, whether on...
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20 511 He slashed about him with the keys, long and heavy on their thick ring, some six inches in width.
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22 517 The hole in the hull was more than a yard in width.
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26 624 The brand with which she had been marked was the common slave brand for the Gorean female; incised deeply in her thigh, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, was the initial letter, in cursive script, lovely, of the expression 'Kajira,' the most common expression in Gorean for...
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28 35 It is semicircular and some forty feet in width.
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28 83 It was some eight inches in width.
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Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 632 Some of these are gigantic, pasangs in width, hundreds of feet high.
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3 1320 Over this string, in the front, there was thrust a single, simple narrow rectangle of vulgar, white rep-cloth, some six inches in width, some twelve inches in length.
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3 1321 She wore on her throat a high, gold collar, with, in front, a large golden loop, some two inches in width.
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7 213 Two woven canvas straps, some two inches in width, had been looped about the girl's throat and drawn close about it.
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12 238 It is thousands of pasangs in width, and hundreds in depth; it extends, beyond horizons we could see, to the southern edge of the northern, or polar, sea.
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28 42 The chatka, about four feet in length, folded narrowly, to a width of some six inches, was thrust over the curla in front, taken between her legs and thrust behind and over the curla in back.
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31 30 On a table to the side, toward what I took to be the front of the room, there was a dark, boxlike object, about six inches in height, and a foot or so in width and length.
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32 58 Clearly the complex was tiers in depth and pasangs in width.
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34 15 In width it was some four pasangs, I would conjecture, and in length some ten pasangs.
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35 640 I straightened the two layers of loose cloth in front; they were about six inches in width and fell beautifully below her knees.
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Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 11 The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of the expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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3 21 The walkway itself varied from some five feet to a yard in width.
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6 344 Its width, however, about two pasangs above Schendi, is constricted by the embankments.
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18 40 The room itself, a great round room, was a hundred feet in width.
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24 266 The fourth, jaws distended, more than a yard in width, attacked the side of the canoe.
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24 322 She then saw her clothing, with the exception of a silken strip, a foot in width and some five feet in length, ripped from an undergarment, dropped overboard into the marsh.
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32 169 In the night, in the darkness, one senses the almost indefinite extension of the jungle, thousands of pasangs in width and depth, about one.
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32 1047 I cut a length from the red bark cloth, about five feet in length and a foot in width.
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34 131 * * * * As the girl, on her knees, tended the roasting tarsk, I cut a long stake, some four and one half feet in length and some four inches in width.
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47 23 The column widens only when food is found; then it may spread as widely as five hundred feet in width.
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50 30 Before us, more than four hundred yards in width, was a broad expanse of stone, at the eastern edge of the huge lake.
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51 132 It was perhaps two hundred feet in width and depth, with tall columns.
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 939 The slot was about an inch in width.
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2 219 There were two small, round holes, each about a half of an inch in width, in the upper half of the side of the crate which had served as its door.
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12 262 "Note," she said, "the breadth of the chest, the width of the shoulders, the narrowness of the waist, the flatness of the belly".
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13 192 The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.
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21 112 The finished girth cloth is about ten feet in length and a yard in width.
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21 406 Its head was some eight inches in width.
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22 65 Between the tables there was a large, tiled scarlet circle, some twelve feet in width, with an iron ring at its center.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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29 274 Its iron posts were received by rounded holes, six inches in width, drilled in a flat, horizontal sill.
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33 100 The links of the chain were some eighteen inches in length and a foot in width; the metal of the links themselves was as thick as a man's forearm.
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Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 173 These heavy constructions were some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven or eight feet in width.
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5 11 Our starboard shearing blade, that great crescent of iron, some seven feet in height, some five inches in width, was bent oddly askew.
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5 199 These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.
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8 5 The tarred cables, some four inches in width, moved.
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8 249 There was a similar aperture, about a half of an inch in width, in the table.
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9 109 On either side of the bar, the Tina and the Tais, with stout ropes, four inches in width, strained, too, to free the Tuka.
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9 133 The splintered, gaping hole was easily a yard in height and width, the result not only of the ram's penetration but of the tearing and breakage in the strakes attendant upon its withdrawal.
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15 84 I could see the broad, lateral width of the concourse behind them.
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21 2 About her throat, over the slender, identificatory collar, a heavy, thick iron collar had been locked, with a heavy chain, leading to the stout loop of the slave ring, some eight inches in width, fixed in the foot of the couch.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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1 407 Their hind legs, some eight to ten inches in width, are proportionately shorter than their arms, which tend to be some eight inches in width at the biceps and some five inches, or so, in width at the wrist.
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1 420 Their heads were better than a foot in width.
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14 190 Grunt then drew in the grass, with the heel of his boot, a circle, some ten feet or so in width.
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14 260 She had been on the brink of yielding, a nerve's width away, but had been fighting her feelings and herself, apparently shamed to yield as a slave to another man in my presence.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 53 "It is some four or five pasangs in width".
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3 97 Its trunk was slim and polelike, and surely only some eight to ten inches in width.
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3 153 The three bands, each about four or five inches in width, and separated also by such distances, were painted in such a way that the bottom ring, or band, was about seven and a half to eight and a half feet from the base of the pole.
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3 186 He made three dark lines, about a finger's width each, on each cheek.
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12 27 In a few moments we had surmounted a small rise, and I was looking down into a wide, shallow, saucerlike valley, some half of a pasang in width.
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36 7 The pit is some ten feet in length, some five feet in width and some four feet in height.
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44 365 This trail ranges generally from about five to ten feet in width.
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 51 I fled to the window, which was narrow, about fifteen inches in width.
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14 11 Because of the width of the wagon bed and the height of the cage, some five feet or so above the surface of the wagon bed, I had been reasonably well protected from the blows of whips, the jabbings of sticks.
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31 224 He drew away the sheet and folded it, horizontally, again and again, until it formed, with several folds, a thick, long, narrow band, about six inches in height and the sheet's length, about seven feet, in width.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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2 702 Can they be ignorant of the igniting appeal of their particular configuration on a male? Can they not understand how he sees them, how he notes, and responds to, and relishes, the smallness of their feet, the slimness of their ankles, the curves of their calves, the sweetness of their thighs, the wi...
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2 1676 It was about a foot in width and five feet in length, and could be secured with its string.
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12 752 "Accordingly," said Boots, "you are herewith instructed to remove a panel of material, four horts in width, and curved at the top, near your waist, from the skirts of your slave tunics at the sides, thus well revealing both thighs to the waist, or almost to the waist.
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13 160 There, some thirty feet in width, was a shallow, iron-railed pit.
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14 72 These outcroppings, with their breaks and openings, encircled an area perhaps more than two pasangs in width.
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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26 7 There were leather-curtained alcoves here and there along the tunnel, the openings of which were circular, and about two feet in width.
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26 315 Reaching forth I took it by its hair that I might locate it and hold it in place and moved the point of the quiva, the blade held sideways, that it might slip between the ribs, a tiny bit into its side, about half the width of a drop of blood.
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27 7 The border of this circle, delineating it, was about seven or eight inches in width, and was formed of yellow stones set mosaiclike into the smooth scarlet flooring.
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Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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5 237 In the flattened, shaped part of the metal under my belly, about a quarter of an inch from my body, there was a curved slot about three inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in width.
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10 318 A broad belt then, perhaps some five or six inches in width, was put about my waist, drawn snug, and buckled shut.
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11 389 It was about a foot long, and an inch and a half in width.
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17 86 The street was about ten feet in width.
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29 1000 He had been probably protected by the width of his body, affording little place for the closing of jaws, and the sturdiness of his ribs.
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30 45 In the bottom of the door there was a larger opening, about three inches in height and a foot in width, through which pans of water or food could be slipped into the wagon, without opening the main door.
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Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 458 It was some forty feet in width.
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4 10 Each tub was some seven feet in width and some eighteen inches deep.
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8 45 The leaves of the gate were very large, each being some thirty feet in height and some twenty-five feet in width.
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15 750 "The spear, as I understand it," I said, trying to recall the words of our warder earlier to Lady Claudia, "is a solid piece of polished metal, very long, and less than a hort in width.
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16 32 Considering the arc, its width and height, I assumed it had been lobbed there by an engine.
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17 2 These bridges were each about eight to ten feet in width.
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17 3 The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width.
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17 32 At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall.
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17 288 The bulk of the Cosians stopped at this wall of flames some forty feet in width.
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18 1 The Landing "Hail, Captain!" called the young fellow with the crossbow, near the gate leading out onto the landing, from which a walkway gave access, across a stretch of harbor water, some two hundred yards in width, to the piers.
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Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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13 217 A fellow, for example, who has seen several fall near him, in his own tiny place of war, often as narrow as a few yards in width, has a tendency to suppose these losses are typical of the entire field, that they characterize the day itself.
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14 221 "The ring can be pasangs in width," said a man.
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14 318 This would narrow the width of my body.
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19 774 Then the jaws opened widely, perhaps four or five feet in width, and reached for me.
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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26 571 With these were recorded such data as the width and length of fingers and toes, the width of her heels, the lovely tiny distance between her nostrils, and so on.
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8 242 The roofed stage of the great theater, usually called that, though technically, it was the theater of Pentilicus Tallux, a poet of Ar, of over a century ago, best known for his poems in the delicate trilesiac form and two sensitive, intimate dramas, was over a hundred yards in width, and some twenty...
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8 431 A gigantic breach, over four hundred yards in width, had been made in the wall.
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21 204 Perhaps in one of these times, due to no fault of Mistress he was charmed by her voice, as by the songs of the veminium bird, or again, by her grace and manner, the consequences of a thousand generations of elegance and breeding, or again, once more through no possible fault of Mistress, perhaps in ...
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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8 371 It was in depth some twenty feet long, in width some fifteen feet wide, in height some eight or ten feet high.
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8 852 Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the f...
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8 932 The collar was at least a foot in width, with a dangling ring, and covered with spikes.
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10 804 This extended in the corridor, from side to side, for the width of the corridor, perhaps for some five to seven yards, until it terminated several feet before the farther door, at the end of the passage.
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10 805 Bridging this moatlike depression, running parallel to the sides of the corridor, there lay a narrow, retractable metal beam or plank, perhaps two inches in width.
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11 1515 It must have been twelve or fourteen inches in width.
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12 42 The cords are commonly of silk and the mesh is normally fastened in diamonds or squares, some two inches, or so, in width.
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12 617 Then, with a quick lateral motion, I crying out a little, it opened a slit in my robes, perhaps a mere hort or two in width.
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13 557 They must have ranged from twelve to eighteen inches in width.
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14 213 It was a comfortable cell, some eight feet in width and height, some ten feet in depth.
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16 86 It was some six feet in length and three to four feet in width.
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19 69 Beneath the protective, shielding casings of those stiff brocades were there not terrains and latitudes which, shorn of their armor, would prove as vulnerable and soft as mine? I was momentarily blinded by a flash of light, the sun reflected from a huge silver plate, perhaps a yard in width, held ov...
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19 440 She wore a long slave strip, some six inches in width, also of scarlet silk, secured by a cord, the strip put over the cord in front, taken between her legs, drawn up snugly behind and passed over the cord in back.
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24 354 It was some fifteen feet in width.
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37 6 They were leashed, the leashes going to rings on huge leather collars, four to five inches in width, an inch or two in thickness.
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Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

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2 164 How she hated that young woman for some reason, the blond-haired, simple, surely stupid-looking one, how could he be interested in her, and yet there was a certain something about her, in the fullness of her lush, painted lips, how frightful, she used make-up, the sweet width but suggested softness ...
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2 233 Small as she was, and slim as she had been, there had been no doubt about, in its lovely proportions, the loveliness of her bosom, the narrowness of her waist, the delightful, flaring width of her hips, the sweetness of her thighs.
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7 149 The first instructrix had fetched a supple, springy, flat stick, about a yard long, some two inches in width, and about a quarter of an inch thick.
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10 210 She was terribly uneasy then, stirred profoundly, these thoughts disturbing her deeply, by the sturdy legs, the width of the shoulders, the strength of the arms.
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12 238 This can be managed by pulling it down an inch or so at the waist, but then, of course, it can go only so far, being stopped by the width of the hips, which she had, more than once, abraded.
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16 304 Ellen realized, uneasily, that she might be included in the width of this sweeping reference.
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18 22 In an instant she had pulled the tiny tunic over her head, and pulled it down at the hems, as though this might conceal a thread's width, or more, of her muchly bared thighs.
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18 320 The leather was black, and glossy, some half of an inch in thickness, and some three to four inches in width, and there were buckles attached, for its fastening on tarns.
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18 453 Then from his pouch he drew forth a small message capsule, about a half inch in width and two and a half inches in length, with its screw lid and the loop of string by means of which it might be looped about, or tied to, a slave's collar.
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19 119 The gates are large, and heavy, and barred, some fourteen to fifteen feet in height, some ten feet in width.
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19 539 It was woven of stout fibers, generally an inch or better in width.
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24 438 But what shall I do now? Surely I am no more than the width of a strand of slave silk from the blows of the lash".
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27 949 His massive body was perhaps a yard in width, viewed frontally.
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Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

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1 1093 The hallway might be empty, and silent, but there were doubtless, somewhere, surveillance devices, cameras, microphones, or such, to them undetectable, perhaps no more than a few microns in width.
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2 46 Their ears, large, pointed ears, several inches in width at the base, were erected, ears which could rotate nearly 180 degrees without the head moving, ears so keen that they could detect the movement of an urt in the grass at a hundred and fifty feet.
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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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33 38 The slave crawled closer to the center of the large, rude raft, some yards in width, and lay there, supine, her left arm shading her eyes from the light, amidst the small store of supplies, one property amongst others.
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33 252 But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u...
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36 6 This garland was woven of shrub flowers, a white Lirillium, and was in width some seven or eight inches.
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41 22 "Its head," she said, "it is like a snake, a viper!" "Not at all," said Cabot, "but the width, the triangularity, is typical".
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44 160 Fur crackled outward, increasing his already massive stature; his large, pointed ears were flattened back like smooth knives against the sides of his head; his enormous jaws were open, and reaching forward; his fangs were spread in width better than a foot; his eyes were as kindled furnaces.
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53 247 They affect an area not more than a few inches in height and width.
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56 23 It was rather oval, something less than a half pasang in length, and little more than a quarter of a pasang in width.
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57 72 In the center of this tiny shelter two heavy stakes, some four inches in width, had been driven deeply into the ground, and attached to these stakes were heavy chains, one to each stake.
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67 123 It was better than eighteen inches in width at its widest point.
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80 20 This conversation, and meeting, was taking place outside the palace, on its broad porch, to which led a long flight of wide stairs, some fifty yards in width.
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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29 89 Its width could not begin to approximate that of the Vosk, in much of Vosk's length, but it was wide, wide enough, some hundred yards or so in width.
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43 162 Its width was the width of worlds.
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3 156 It is merely that the ratio of keel to beam is greater in the long ship, or ship of war, more length of keel to width of beam, than in the "round ship".
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12 170 About the edges of this area, which was better than a hundred yards in width, there were several structures.
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13 5 The structure was some twenty feet in width, and windowless.
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13 82 How like a stupid free woman was she still! Did the free woman not think there was nothing more to attracting a man than that she be a woman? To be sure, the hint of a bosom, the suggestion of the sweet width of hips, within the robes of concealment, was indeed attractive, and even free women unders...
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19 230 At that point the roll of netting, some six feet in width, cut from the cordage used for the repair of the improvised tarn cots, was lifted upright from the ground and formed a wall impeding the fugitives.
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22 609 I want one!" Too, of course, there are such obvious things as the natural feminine grace of the woman, the width of her love cradle, the betraying movements of her body within her garmenture, the noted movements of her thighs, and such".
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38 585 "Steps," cried the man, "did you not hear me call 'Steps'?" But the figures, of course, could not see the steps, nor know their height nor width, nor number.
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41 41 See the width of the head, the jaws".
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Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 195 The coils of the looped binding fiber, in their circularity and width, suggested the encirclement of a collar, one for a small throat, that of a female.
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9 193 The tarn areas occupied almost the whole of three decks, as noted, each being some seventy yards in length and some thirty yards in width.
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9 195 This, despite the width and length of each, gave each an enclosing, cramped aspect.
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12 780 One could now, in the light of the dawn, see the color about, yellow and purple, the myriads of blossoms, many a foot in width, opening to the morning sun.
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15 3 Seremides supported himself with a narrow, sticklike crutch, perhaps a hort in width, at the top of which, fitted over the shaft, was a small, rounded crosspiece.
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21 222 There was something rather deceitful or meretricious in all this, of course, as the Pani had surely not brought these goods across the vast width of turbulent, green Thassa without plans for their disposition.
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22 167 There were, facing the enemy, some seven or eight lines of our men, strung across an arc of the beach, some seventy yards in width, defending frontally and on the flanks.
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24 1 We Have Made Landfall; We Shall Approach the Castle of Lord Temmu The stone-set walls were high, on both sides of the steep, winding, cobbled trail, some ten feet in width, better than a pasang in length, leading tortuously upward to the castle of Lord Temmu.
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32 19 Suddenly the entire width of the trail, within its walls, for better than forty yards, began to roar with flame.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1813 They were of different widths, some ten feet in width, many four to five feet in width.
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9 46 Too, the girl is expected to stand erect, her shoulders back, which also accentuates the breasts, and her belly is to be sucked in, this calling attention to the width of her love cradle, the narrowness of a pleasant, trim waist, and the lovely flare of her body, as it rises to the beauty of her bos...
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9 365 A hairy, large, paw-like thing had come from under the cloak and brushed back the hood, revealing a broad, furred head, perhaps a foot in width, with large eyes.
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10 1054 Most were two to three paces in width.
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Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 131 These were perhaps something in the neighborhood of a foot and a half in width, and some six feet high.
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15 406 I looked across the Alexandra which, at this point, was some one hundred yards in width.
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15 439 The larger, northern camp was narrow, some half of a pasang in length, along the river, and probably no more than two hundred yards in width, extending back toward the forest.
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20 204 "I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against Thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of the world, to f...
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25 2 There was a scratch there, small, the width of two of my fingers, inside the tunic.
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25 219 Fortunately, having found the thick tangle, perhaps a foot deep and some yards in width, ugly, and repellant, I had chosen to wrest away from it, but, it seemed, not far enough.
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40 112 Consider the curves of her, the sweetness of the bosom, its small, but delicious amplitudes, scarce concealed within the tunic, the narrowness of the waist, the width of the love cradle, the softness of the shoulders, the rounded forearms, the small wrists, fit for bracelets, the slender thighs, the...
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43 1290 This has to do with the softness and width of the paws, like broad, velvet cushions from which knives might spring, curved knives, for anchoring prey.
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50 364 Then, to my unease, I realized the likely explanation for the width of the plankings.
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52 280 I supposed a keen ear could hear the whistle from across the width of the Alexandra, but those on this side of the river were apparently reading a flag signal, or such, informing them of the state of departure.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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13 50 I went to the side of the room, to a wardrobe chest, and withdrew a spool of ribbonlike silk, less than a hort in width, of the sort with which, measured and cut, one might fasten sandals.
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24 3 From where I was, in the stands, I could see both the platform of execution, far above and to my left, and the wide surface, some ten paces in width, of the deep, stone-encased pool of death eels.
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25 102 "The criminal is uncertain as to the length of the board, perhaps even its width.
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25 212 Then, as the crowd cried out, one foot was half off the width of the board.
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25 225 I supposed, assuming she had been psychologically capable of registering such things, even in a state of presumed terror and stress, she would have had a sense of the board's width before her blindfolding.
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50 199 In the background, leaning against the wall, was a Kur ax, its haft some seven feet in length, its socketed, double-edged blade some two feet in width.
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61 910 It was about two feet Gorean long, supple, of medium width, with a loop at one end, which might go about a master's wrist.
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Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

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26 93 This area is several yards in width, and, as it is open, it affords no cover to any who might approach the court, and its moat.
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27 40 But, too, my heart ached for the sight of him, his proud, splendid form, his easy carriage, the narrowness of his waist, the strength of his arms, the width of his chest, the breadth of his shoulders, his frank, piercing gaze before which, now, I feared I could not remain standing, even had I desire...
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32 11 The walkway from which the piers extended was heavily planked and broad, several yards in width, the piers and water on the one side and the maze of warehouses, and shops, separated by alleys, on the other, leading up to the higher districts.
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39 165 I was sure it was little more than an inch in width, if that.
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52 268 "Do you think I do not know the nature of slave girls, how they relish being looked upon, how conscious they are of their attractions, how they love it that a scarcely garbed flank is viewed with interest, that one observes the sensitivity and delicacy of their features, speculates on what would be ...
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 204 "Is she not a splendid catch? Consider her! Regard the beauty of her face, the fineness of her features, her sweet throat, encircled closely with locked metal, the dark, brown hair, too short now, but it will grow, the loveliness of her shoulders, the softness of her bosom, the narrowness of her wai...
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11 38 The walkway on the Thieves' Way was some ten feet in width, on both sides of the canal.
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Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

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6 26 Five men with arms outstretched could not have embraced its width.
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7 66 I gestured to its width, and complexity.
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16 211 "In many places there are broad, risen plateaus under the water, sometimes several pasangs in width, plateaus which are often no more than twenty or thirty feet under the surface of the water.
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41 1 Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge...
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42 21 In this way, as soon as the gate was open, they would presumably clamber forth in a thick column matched to the width of the opened portal, and hurry into the city.
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42 23 This distance and the likely width of the advancing column were both of interest.
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42 69 "When I order the gate opened, open it to the width of four men.
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53 44 But Tab, by oars and rudders, was already struggling to bring the prow of the Dorna toward the island, which maneuver would minimize the width of the expected impact.
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57 21 Ideally, from our point of view, the enemy vessels would be unable to attack our 'fort' at the same time, this permitting us to concentrate our forces in such a way as to match, or nearly match, the width of at least a first boarding party on one side.
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59 35 Further, the position of the Theran fleet cut the corsair fleet off from its base in Sybaris, and the width of its line prevented an escape to the side.
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