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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 116 The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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20 132 When I had said Ubar of the Skies, the bird had lifted its head, now more than a yard above my own.
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23 186 No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock.
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25 9 My spear had been driven a yard through it and the head had passed over his left shoulder as he crouched behind it.
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 111 It was about a yard wide and hugged the side of a cliff, and to my left there was a sheer precipice.
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5 152 When she was within perhaps a yard of the exit the small red domes began to glow.
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9 233 It was not more than a yard wide but its head nearly touched the top of the portal and so I would judge that, standing as it did, it must have been nearly eighteen feet high.
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10 70 At that moment to my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, its eyes weaving on stalks.
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24 3 It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincerlike extensions that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body.
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25 25 Its tiny mouth on the underside of its body touched the stone flooring here and there like the poking finger of a blind man and the long, whitish, rubbery body gathered itself and pushed forward and gathered itself and pushed forward again until it lay but a yard from my sandal, almost under the she...
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27 258 And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw...
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 303 He held in his teeth a boskhide thong, about a yard in length.
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16 73 We were in an enclosed well yard, surrounded by walls of about sixteen feet in height, with a defender's catwalk about the inside.
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16 75 There was an archway leading from the circular well yard, and the two halves of the timbered, arched gate were swung back and fastened on both sides.
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16 115 Arm in arm, Harold and I strode under the archway leading from the well yard.
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23 133 Then again we heard the bosk horns and the Paravaci, in vast ranks, like sweeping crescents, like steel scythes of men and animals and arms, far extending beyond our own lines, began to move slowly towards us, gaining steadily in momentum and speed with each traversed yard of stained prairie.
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 149 They were fastened together on a common chain, each by wrist rings, each by both wrists, each ring separated by about a yard of chain.
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14 149 The two bracelets were joined by a light, gleaming chain of perhaps a yard in length.
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18 396 The key box was about a yard to the left of the keyhole; and about four feet from the observation panel; it is a small, heavy metal box bolted to the stone of the wall; it opens and shuts to the left, by means of a round-knobbed screw, which must be turned several times before the small metal door o...
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Book 6. (17 results) Raiders of Gor

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13 316 Both were lateen rigged, the yard of the foresail being about half the length of the yard of the mainsail.
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1 48 I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its padlike feet, daintily picking its way across the surface.
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7 94 I saw, thus, her bending down and taking up of the broken shaft of a marsh spear, about a yard long, its three prongs intact.
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8 10 The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length.
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10 201 The triangular lateen sail on its single sloping yard is incredibly beautiful.
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11 88 Her mast, with its long yard, was lashed to the deck.
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13 524 Lash it and its yard to the deck.
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14 9 She carries a single, removable mast, with its long yard.
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14 299 When the mast, with its sail fastened to its yard, had been set in the mast well, and stayed fore, aft and amidships, I climbed to the basket myself, carrying the glass of the builders.
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17 99 Soon seamen were clambering out on the long sloping yard and, assisted by others on the deck, hauling on brail ropes, were tying in the long triangular sail.
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17 133 The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re...
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17 341 I drew again on the one-strap and again the bird's wings snapped, and he was on the long, sloping yard on the round ship's foremast.
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17 348 His talons clutched the sloping yard.
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18 30 The yard had been lowered and the small, triangular storm sail was attached to it.
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18 31 The anchors were raised and the yard, on its ropes and pulleys, began to climb toward the masthead.
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18 40 The tiny storm sail, swollen with the black wind and sleet, tore at the yard and the brail ropes.
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18 815 We found cloaks, I that of the admiral, and we followed Samos from the room, across the tiled yard behind the great hall, and into the now-opened keep, and climbed behind him to its height.
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Book 7. (13 results) Captive of Gor

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3 326 Once, grinding and spurring about graveled side roads, they were within forty yards of me, but I increased the lead, yard by yard.
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8 312 The compounds are formed of windowless log dormitories, floored with stone on which straw is spread; the dormitory then opens by one small door, about a yard high, into the barred exercise yard.
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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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7 475 The feet of the flanking guards passed within a yard or two of us.
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7 500 Our only fetter was a length of binding fiber, fastening us together, at intervals of about a yard.
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8 313 This yard resembles a large cage.
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8 315 The roof bars are supported at places in the yard by iron stanchions.
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8 316 There had been rain recently in Laura and the yard was muddy, but I found it more pleasant than the stuffy interior of the dormitory.
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8 317 We were not permitted our camisks in the compound, perhaps because of the mud in the yard.
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12 302 Its diameter was no more than a yard.
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12 568 Ute had put her bucket behind her and was picking berries about a yard ahead of it.
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13 661 In peasant villages there is often a horizontal pole, set in its uprights, rather like a fence railing; it is usually either about a yard from the dirt, or some seven or eight feet above the dirt.
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15 815 The box itself was square, with dimensions of perhaps one yard square.
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Book 8. (24 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 357 "Ready oars!" Seamen began to pull on the yard ropes to raise the yard.
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6 187 I saw her yard being lowered, its sail left slack, to be removed from the yard and folded.
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2 23 Men scrambled on the long yard of the lateen-rigged light galley, a small, swift ram-ship of Port Kar.
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2 26 We would not remove them from the yard.
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2 27 The yard itself was then swung about, parallel to the ship and, foot by foot, lowered.
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2 64 Her first hold is scarcely a yard in height.
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2 115 Another yard and we would have heard soft sand rub beneath her keel.
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2 509 With a creak of ropes and pulleys, seamen were hauling the long, sloping yard up the mast, its sail still secured in the brail ropes.
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2 537 Seamen now climbed to the high yard, loosening the brail ropes, to drop the sail.
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2 542 Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...
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2 547 In changing a sail, the yard is lowered, and then raised again.
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2 550 The brail ropes serve little more, in the lateen-rigged craft, than to raise the sail to its yard, permitting its being tied there, or to drop the sail, opening it to the wind.
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2 551 On the other hand, the lateen-rigged galley, with its triangular sail on the long, sloping yard, has marvelous maneuvering capabilities, and can sail incredibly close to the wind.
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2 563 Each was given a yard of chain.
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2 688 The girls, chained on the sanded deck of the stern quarter, fastened by their yard of chain, blocked by the kitchen area and behind crates and lashed boxes, could not see what transpired.
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5 365 Men were aloft on the long, sloping yard.
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6 6 A heavy chain, about a yard long, padlocked about her throat, dangled to a ring, where it was secured with a second padlock.
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15 280 Third, to the front of the ring, fastened through another closed loop, is about a yard of chain.
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15 314 There was, seemingly left over, the yard of chain, coiled on the grass, attached to the front of her ankle ring.
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15 713 At my feet, to one side, a yard or two away, lay Ilene.
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17 7 They were thus double chained and separated by about a yard.
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18 459 They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low...
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18 548 He thrust her from him, a yard or so, and examined her.
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20 58 I felt myself, briefly, illuminated in the glare of a torch, not more than a yard from me.
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Book 9. (14 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 344 I ran to the yard of a tavern near the docks.
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5 175 At the same time the sail, with its red and white stripes, in its full length, fell snapping from the yard.
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6 185 It was something in the neighborhood of a yard in thickness.
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10 12 The rope between us, a yard in length, pulled taut.
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10 460 The chain itself was about a yard long.
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10 630 She stood on the thick, rounded block; it was about a yard high, and five feet in diameter; she was dark-haired, long-haired; she had a short, luscious body, thick ankles; her hands were on her hips.
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10 632 She was naked, except for the Torvaldsland collar of black iron on her neck, with its projecting ring, and the heavy chain padlocked about her right ankle; the chain was about a yard long; it secured her, by means of a heavy ring, to the block.
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14 45 Many fled into the axes of the Kurii in the yard of the hall.
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14 152 A man not more than a yard from me was cut half in two, from the head to the belt, in one stroke.
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15 15 We slipped behind the hall, keeping, where possible, buildings between us and the yard.
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15 28 Once a Kur passed within a yard of my hand.
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15 371 Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across.
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16 192 It was more than a yard long.
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17 166 Should any individual, either male or female, depart by so much as a yard from the line of march, or attempt to close the gap between himself and a fellow prisoner, the sleen prevent this.
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Book 10. (31 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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11 538 "On my signal," said Hassan, "have them throw open the gate to the stable yard, and ride!" I went to the edge of the roof overlooking the burning yard.
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17 162 It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t...
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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2 224 The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares.
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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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9 24 The man who had held the stake then took a snap collar, with chain and snap lock, about a yard in length, and secured the girl, on her knees, by the neck, to the stake.
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11 493 "To the stable yard," he said.
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11 494 We ran across the roof to the walled stable yard.
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11 501 Below us, in the stable yard, holding the reins of kaiila, came Hassan's men.
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11 507 An arrow had fallen within the stable yard, striking through the straw in the storage stall at the right.
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11 508 We saw a man climbing over the gate to the stable yard.
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11 510 The interior of the stable yard was now well lit, by the blazing straw.
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11 526 "Tarna!" Hassan went to the edge of the wall looking down into the now-blazing stable yard.
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11 528 They vaulted the edge of the roof, striking below in the stable yard.
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11 549 "Hassan!" One must watch, to see when the escape might best emerge from the yard, another must convey the signal.
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11 564 The bars were withdrawn; the gates swung wide; the burnooses were thrown from the heads of the animals, and the kaiila bolted from the blazing stable yard into the suddenly illuminated street.
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11 610 Hassan and I leaped from the roof, which was now partly aflame, to the stable yard.
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11 612 By the reins we led them from the yard, once outside removing the saddle blankets.
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12 44 They were marched this way that the residents and the garrison of the kasbah, in the great yard, behind the gate, regardless of the side on which they stood, might, with unimpeded vision, see the flesh loot well displayed.
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13 293 She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba...
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16 15 One of the poles, released in deep water, will stand upright in the water, about a yard of it above the surface.
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16 23 Each raft contains a low frame, within which are placed the retaining vessels, large, wooden salt tubs, each approximately a yard in height and four feet in diameter.
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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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17 228 T'Zshal thrust the long lance, almost head-on, toward the monster, and it cut, slicing, a long wound, a yard in length, along its side.
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19 185 Once, briefly, I lost sight of Hassan, then again saw him, no more than a yard from me in the darkness, in the pelting, driven sand.
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22 88 He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w...
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24 744 Men began to appear in the yard below.
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24 746 But to their horror riders were already within the yard, fighting with defenders.
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25 106 Hassan and I went down to the yard of the kasbah.
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26 497 I fear that many felt the strap that day, and I understand that he was forced more than once to lay about him vigorously, but still, shrieking, crying out and clustering about, as I understand it, they would rush in, to strike their small blows, or, sometimes at a distance of no more than a yard or ...
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Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 702 This time he approached me, and stood about a yard from me.
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3 153 There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...
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3 233 They wound thongs, more than a yard in length, closely set with small bells, about her tanned ankles.
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4 390 Eta lifted up a stout whip, with long handle, which might be wielded with two hands, and five dangling, soft, wide lashing surfaces, each about a yard long.
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4 426 One of the men nearby readied a large opaque cloth, soft, black, folding it in four pieces, so that, folded, it would be about a yard square.
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4 529 Then I would hear one not a yard or more from me, and I would wheel, and run from him.
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4 881 At no point could I crawl more than a yard up its surface.
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20 178 A long ship, I could see, was moving into its wharfage, its lateen sail furled on the long, sloping yard.
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22 7 The single lateen sail, stretched from its yard, swelled with a clean, slow wind.
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22 13 The water was only a yard or so below the railing, as the ship, shallow drafted and freighted, plied the sea, sunlit and sparkling.
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22 79 He stood, barefoot, on the lookout platform, high on the tall, single mast, well above the long yard and the billowing, triangular sail; the lookout platform is a wooden disk, fixed on the mast; his hands were on a ring, also encircling the mast.
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22 126 They did not even take the time to lower the yard and drop the mast, which is commonly done in such vessels before an engagement.
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22 177 I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming...
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22 517 The hole in the hull was more than a yard in width.
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29 12 The ring was mounted on a post, about a yard high.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 163 I saw two men of the Wagon Peoples pass by, and, not a yard from them, evincing no concern, a fellow in the flowing robes of Turia.
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3 756 There was about a yard of chain between the collars, fastening them in a four-girl coffle.
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3 1022 Before they had been back about a yard or so on the platform.
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9 117 On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one-half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length.
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10 378 They were led by a magnificent animal, a giant buck, fourteen hands at the shoulder, with swirling horn of ivory more than a yard in length.
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21 19 A yard of height can make a difference of several degrees of temperature inside a typical dwelling of the red hunters.
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22 104 The sleen had risen up under the kayak and it lifted a yard from the water and tumbled from the surfacing back of the glistening, wet mammal.
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22 176 I thrust the lance point into the rushing, extended, double-fanged jaws and it penetrated through the side of the mouth, tearing, the animal's face a yard up the shaft.
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26 3 I did not know if he could even hear me, and yet he was little more than a yard away.
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27 146 The roof of the exit tunnel was about a yard high, at the inner end.
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30 9 There was an upright iron post, about a yard in height, on each platform, behind each girl.
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Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 326 In a bit of yellow slave silk, backed into a corner, belled and barefoot, a collared girl danced, swaying slowly before the five men who loomed about her, scarcely a yard away.
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1 382 The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water.
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3 21 The walkway itself varied from some five feet to a yard in width.
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11 304 They looped it about a slave ring, set there in the wall, one of four, about a yard above the floor, and tied it there, the long, free ends falling loose, coiling, to the floor.
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12 369 "Kneel there," said Msaliti, indicating a place about a yard from the table.
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12 384 A rope, looped through her collar, tied her to a slave ring behind her, about a yard off the floor.
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12 444 It was, like the others, about a yard from the floor.
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13 113 She knelt back, about a yard from the table.
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13 191 The chain is about a yard long and runs to a ring bolted in the floor.
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14 540 She came from a culture which requires a significant distance, usually a yard or more, between male speakers and as much, or more, between speakers of the opposite sex.
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16 6 The jaws distended, more than a yard in height, with the rows of backward-leaning fangs.
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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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47 17 The column of the marchers was something like a yard wide.
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Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 217 I heard jaws snap not more than a yard or so below my head.
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7 617 She then rolled from my feet a yard or so away in the straw.
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18 3 We knelt in the sunlit, central stable yard of the mistress' stables, which were extensive.
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18 161 The homely smells of the stable yard and the barns, with their straw-filled stalls, are not really objectionable, when one grows used to them.
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19 1 Taphris The training beam, about a foot Gorean square, sunk a yard deep in its wood-lined well, braced, too, within the wooden-floored, high-roofed barn, shook with the blows struck against it.
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19 362 I watched the wagon departing, its wheels leaving tracks in the soft dust of the stable yard.
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19 426 I looked to the tracks in the dust of the stable yard, left by the wagon which had borne Telitsia away.
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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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24 27 "Oh!" she said, and stopped, not more than a yard or two from me.
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34 20 I took up some of the slack in the leash, until I dragged her about a yard behind me.
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Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 110 In the log walls, at various heights, but usually less than a yard from the floor, there occur slave rings.
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11 480 At dawn I wished to be in the hiring yard.
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12 35 The amount of money earned varied from day to day, depending on the galleys in port and the need for men from the hiring yard.
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13 28 "I must go to the hiring yard," I said.
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20 101 In the morning I went as usual to the hiring yard.
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27 118 Also it lay no more than four hundred yards from the hiring yard on the wharves, to which I often went in seeking work.
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32 228 "There is no Callimachus to rescue you now, Dolt," said Kliomenes, measuring me, the point of his blade moving subtly, a yard or so from my chest.
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33 101 The chain, in places, lay submerged a foot or so below the water; in other places, and near the pylons, it would range from a foot to a yard above the water.
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Book 16. (28 results) Guardsman of Gor

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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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9 138 The ropes strained again and the Tuka slipped back another yard.
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9 151 The Tuka slipped another yard back, toward the water.
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10 119 Then, following the Tuka, the Tais behind us, we were within the holding's sea yard.
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10 187 I saw two pirates, cut from the steps, fall twisting and striking against stone to the sea yard below.
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10 201 I saw, to my alarm, pirates in the water, in the sea yard, swimming toward the gate.
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10 207 "Loose the gate! Loose the gate!" Cries of dismay rose from the water below, within the sea yard.
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10 216 From the wall, looking down and across the sea yard, Callimachus and I saw Aemilianus emerging from the holding.
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11 55 Among them, too, we had placed Shirley and Lola, who had been at the prows of the Tuka and Tina when we had entered the sea yard.
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12 8 "How many ships will the sea yard hold?" inquired a man.
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12 10 The Tuka, the Tina and the Tais had been removed from the sea yard.
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12 82 I was much pleased that we had removed the Tuka, as well as the Tina and Tais from the sea yard.
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12 91 I saw the lead galley drawing alongside the walk near the fortress wall, across the sea yard.
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12 99 I saw Reginald and Alcibron wave to him, from the walk across the sea yard.
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12 105 In a short time the sea yard, if all went well, would be almost filled with vessels.
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12 106 In such close harborage it would be possible to walk across the sea yard, moving from deck to deck.
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12 112 "There must be twenty ships in the yard," I said.
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12 124 Shouts of alarm now arose from the sea yard, though, I think, most were more perplexed than alarmed.
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12 125 Another vessel entered the sea yard.
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12 134 Vessels of clay, spreading broad sheets of flaming oil, shattered on the decks of the vessels in the yard.
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12 136 Our men emerged through the iron door of the holding to command the walks lining the sea yard.
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12 233 Too, smoke from burning ships, from the sea yard, and in the channel, climbed skyward.
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16 150 The ship moved backward a yard.
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16 220 I thrust the sword into the wood above me, where I could seize it, and, putting my feet and hands into the ornate carving of the stem castle, climbed a yard and a half from the deck.
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17 34 It was about a yard above my head, recessed in a small niche.
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17 194 "On your feet, Slave," said the girl with the leash, giving her a yard of strap, that she might rise.
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17 313 They are usually mounted in a wall, a foot to a yard above the walk or pavement.
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17 317 If the slave is braceleted to the ring and the ring is in the neighborhood of a yard high her hands are braceleted before her face, and her belly faces the wall, or behind the back of her head, and her back or side faces the wall; with the lower ring her hands are braceleted before her lower body if...
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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1 337 "The original contact was made by a pointed, weighted message cylinder, found upright two days ago in the dirt of my men's exercise yard," said Samos.
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1 941 He rides close to the animal, not a yard from its side, just outside the hooking range of the trident, to supplement the striking power of his small bow.
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6 58 Adjoining it there is a barred, roofed pen, or exercise yard, as well.
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7 8 In his hand there was a long, supple kaiila quirt of black leather, about a yard in length.
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8 16 They are about a yard high and five feet in diameter.
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11 24 It was of wood, a flexible branch, about a yard long, cut by Grunt from one of the trees amongst which we camped.
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17 74 This consists of a long, peeled branch drilled at intervals, usually of about a yard or four feet.
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19 397 "A yard or two of cloth," I said, "does not determine manhood in my country".
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Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 112 Five last blows were struck, cutting the last fibers and wood, and the trunk, freed, laid level, a yard above the ground, held in place by branches and foliage.
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3 123 It was set in two stout tripods of branches, about a yard above the ground.
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4 147 The top yard or so of their length is tapered, to facilitate their clustering, and being tied in position.
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32 174 She retained the slave's leash in her hand, looping it, shortening it, so that it was only about a yard in length.
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40 948 I saw that Tuka, at least, would not be tied by the neck, out in the yard for the night.
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Book 19. (35 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 43 One was mounted in the wall about a yard from the floor and the other, about a yard to its left, was mounted in the wall, about six feet from the floor.
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2 554 It was unlikely that even her fiercest and most desperate signals would be audible more than a yard or so from her tiny prison.
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3 190 I looked at the rings on the couch, at the ring in the floor, and the two rings in the wall, one about a yard from the floor and one about six feet from the floor.
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8 331 It resembles the common sirik but the wrists, to permit work, are granted about a yard of chain.
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8 415 We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were litt...
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13 166 The height of this cage was about seven feet; its rounded floor was perhaps a yard in diameter.
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16 27 No sleen patrolled the inner yard, probably because of the danger to guests.
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16 130 I slipped back a yard or so down the grassy slope, and then, clinging to grass, held my position.
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19 6 It had a common wall with a small stable, beyond which was a small stable yard.
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19 7 His tharlarion was in the stable, and his wagon, outside, in the yard, chained.
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19 14 We had then returned to the small dwelling in the complex where I, over a small grill in the yard, cooking not allowed in the shacks, had cooked for him.
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21 66 I was little better off than when I had escaped from the yard of the inn several days ago.
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22 22 The tarpaulin was rolled up and tied about its poles in such a way that there was a gap of about a yard between itself and the side of the wagon.
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23 277 Similarly the mills had their own sleen, both for patrolling the yard at night and, if need be, trailing slaves.
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24 3 We were in the yard of one of the linen mills of Mintar, of Ar.
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24 5 I looked back, and about me, across the yard, at the high walls, with their guard stations.
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24 211 He came walking towards us, across the yard.
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24 277 He then lashed her, and she, in a moment, sobbing and gasping, disbelief in her eyes, was on her belly in the yard, a whipped slave.
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24 331 "I love Borkon!" In another moment or two we were following Borkon across the yard and toward one of the buildings.
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25 38 Ever since he had whipped and conquered her in the yard she had been very possessive about him.
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25 130 Indeed, she had been so since that first day in the yard, some five months ago.
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30 395 The beasts with the hunters, and others, the crowd, entered the yard.
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30 397 "Hurry!" Shaking, scarcely able to stand, I followed Claudia, and Crystal and Tupa, into the yard.
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30 399 "Move back!" The crowd, some two hundred of us, perhaps, pressed back around the interior walls of the yard.
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30 400 We looked across the yard.
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30 401 The dwelling within, which fronted on the yard, was a two-story building of dark, fitted stone.
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30 404 There were no windows on our side of the house, that fronting the yard.
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30 405 This was unusual, given the yard.
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30 407 Apparently one was not to be permitted to see into the dwelling even from the yard, which, one supposed, would normally be private to the dwelling.
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30 416 In the yard, here and there, were patterned areas of grass, and plantings.
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30 442 Rather she was thrust, half stumbling, down the stairs, to the yard.
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30 493 He then took her by the upper arms and conducted her, half carrying her, to the table in the yard.
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30 500 He stopped, just within the ruined gate to the yard.
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30 557 Only now, in a yard in Ar, did I fully realize how duped I had been.
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30 654 "Thank you, Master," I said, and, with tears in my eyes, fled through the gate of the yard.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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2 396 I paused only a yard or two from the end of the stage, before a Kaissa booth.
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4 7 I then withdrew a yard or two and knelt in the grass, holding the vessel of light Ka-la-na.
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7 16 The chain was about a yard long.
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7 20 It was placed about a yard within, and to the left of, facing outward, the entrance to the small, striped tent.
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17 1 What Occurred in the Prison Courtyard In the light of the three moons I made my way across the prison yard, through the sand of the baiting pit.
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Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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13 52 It was fixed in the side of a building, fastened to its bolted plate, about a yard above the level of the street.
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15 356 She was kneeling on the platform, about a yard high, on which this "T" was fixed.
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18 2 He sat on the wagon box, some yard or so below, and separated from, the high railed wagon bed, serving, with its benches, as the passenger area.
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19 388 It had then been drawn down the pole better than a yard.
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22 45 Some of them did, however, have some provision for slaves, such as basement kennels or chaining posts in the yard.
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26 788 We emerged into a yard, where the slaves presumably could get fresh air and be exercised.
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26 790 Beyond this yard was the narrow alley behind the buildings.
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26 791 The gate to this yard also latched behind us.
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27 56 The slave block, on the other hand, is normally about a yard to five feet high, and is designed to raise the girls above the crowd, so that they may be more easily seen by the bidders.
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

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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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8 160 It seemed to lead to another yard.
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10 649 It exposed a low opening, only about a yard in height.
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24 310 Their grasping hands were but a yard or two from me.
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30 11 My ankles were tied at the insides of two saplings, about a yard apart.
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30 22 She was secured identically as I was, a few feet to my right, her ankles fastened with cords, on the insides of two saplings, about a yard apart, her wrists braceleted behind her.
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34 11 It fastened me to a nearby tree, a yard or so from our blankets.
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Book 23. (17 results) Renegades of Gor

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20 113 "Where is a glass," I cried, "a builder's glass, a glass of the builders!" Even as we watched we saw the sail of the first ship furled to its sloping yard and the yard swung, parallel to the keel, and lowered.
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1 447 I felt the gravel of the turn yard beneath my sandals.
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4 3 These were all large, shallow, round tubs, of clay, covered with porcelain, mounted on open-bricked platforms, each platform about a yard high.
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6 24 The keeper was probably balancing out the advantages of reasonably sized sleeping spaces, a yard or so wide, in keeping with his concept of the first-class inn, for the area, with the largest number of them he could put in a given area.
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8 26 There were puddles here and there on the stone flooring of the inn yard, itself leveled from the living rock of the plateau.
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8 36 I went about the shed and cot, and crossed the yard, moving between buildings.
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8 51 The sloping ramp, of course, makes it easy to take the tarn basket, on its leather runners, no longer harnessed to the tarn, down to the yard.
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8 327 It was in this fashion that I had had her kneel earlier, in the inn yard, before me, when I had assumed she was slave.
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9 54 I had then tied a rope on her left ankle, looped the rope about another tree, a yard or so away, before the first tree, as she faced it, and brought it back, to tie about her right ankle.
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13 276 She crawled a yard or so away from me, and there, in the straw, on all fours, the moonlight on her back, faced away from me.
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16 72 Perhaps, ideally targeted, launched from within a yard or so, one might cause a fellow to lose a grip on a ladder.
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17 229 The ladder leaned out, a yard or so from the wall.
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18 235 Then he struggled up, again, unsteadily, to guard his yard of wall.
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19 21 Sometimes we could see, too, less easily, the long dark shapes, a yard or so beneath the water, conducting them, and the movements of the powerful, vertical tails.
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20 407 Too, the river galley, for those whom it might interest, is normally shorter masted than a Thassa galley, seldom has more than one mast, and seldom carries the varieties of sails, changed on the yard according to wind conditions, that are carried by a Thassa galley.
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20 416 Water lapped high on the hulls; the rams were now at least a yard under the water; even the lower tips of their shearing blades were submerged.
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24 230 There was a sound of chain, pulling against the beam ring, the links suddenly growing taut, and Publia, suspended from the beam, in her chain-and-leather harness, hung at the port side, out, about a yard from the rail, her feet now slightly below the level of the bow deck, over the water.
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Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 809 It opened its wings to try to climb again, perhaps some fifty feet or so, above the marsh, and did climb, yard by yard, as though it would ascend to the clouds, but then it fell slowly, its wings beating, toward the marsh.
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1 1090 The last time I had seen him, before this evening, I aflight, astride his tarn, hovering the bird, preparing shortly to make away, he had been in the yard of the Crooked Tarn, chained naked there, still soaked wet from the bath, to a sleen ring.
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1 1095 Several of the fellows at the Crooked Tarn had intercepted him, rushing through the yard, I suppose on his way to inquire after me.
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4 20 The creature then submerged, and turning, struck against one of the barges, lifting it up a yard, from the water, then was under it, the barge sliding off its back, half turned, and was moving away, under water, through the reeds.
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14 322 I heard one drop into the sand a yard or so from me.
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17 173 The zarlit fly is very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings, with a span of about a yard.
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19 52 Toward the bottom of the pole, about a yard from the sand, there was a rounded crosspiece, about a foot in length.
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19 54 Above this crosspiece, something like three and a half feet Gorean above it, also inserted through, and fastened within a hole in the pole, there was another crosspiece, a longer one, about a yard in length.
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27 439 "Otherwise it would be much like carrying a tray of steaming, roasted viands into a yard of trained, but starved sleen".
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28 8 In binding her hands I left a yard or so of fiber loose, wrapped about her left wrist, that it might serve, at my discretion, as convenient ankle binding.
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29 5 Where we were was about a yard deep, a few feet from a sand bar.
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33 12 I was no more than a yard from the fellow.
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46 48 None of the others had come forward more than a yard or so, and they had then stopped.
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46 218 I stepped aside to let a cage wagon roll by, going to the wagon yard.
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47 418 In a bit I knelt her before a horizontal bar, about a yard above the dirt, and tied her wrists to it.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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9 501 "Master," whispered Claudia to me, standing about a yard behind me, and to my right.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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4 367 He was perhaps a yard from me.
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8 86 The basket must have been something like a yard square.
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8 361 It was surely no more than a yard wide.
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10 439 The rope descended another yard or so.
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11 1854 I was then suddenly, without warning, thrust forward, and, as I cried out with alarm, I descended, in which descent the hood, by my motion downward and the grip on the hood, was removed from me, which descent, after a yard or so, was arrested by the rope.
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11 1858 I was within some sort of sectioned metal tube, perhaps a yard in diameter.
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16 503 I was then chained by the neck to the divan, held about a yard from the slide-ring at the head of the divan, and held, ultimately, by the lock clip, to the side ring.
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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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31 535 The bowmen were no more than a yard from the peasant.
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31 630 He stepped out a yard from the wall.
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Book 27. (16 results) Prize of Gor

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3 39 The ropes, fastened to the posts, would have to lead to, say, a yard away in each case, the wrists and ankles of their captive.
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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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16 75 "Buy me, Master!" she heard, the soliciting, piteously begging call of a woman, from not more than a yard or two away.
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16 95 It was about a yard high.
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16 1404 Perhaps that window opened to a narrow passage between the tenements, or to a small, narrow yard, concealed from the street.
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18 100 "Do not kill me, Master! Forgive me, Master! Please forgive me! Please, Master, show me mercy!" He drew her back a yard from the edge and released her.
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19 471 It is useful, it seems, in their dangerous work, where a lost grip might be the prelude to catastrophe, a fall from a yard, a plunge into cold, stormy seas.
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20 207 Given the narrowness of the sheltering ravine, and its various physical limitations, boulders and such, they were only a few yard away.
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20 383 Ellen cowered back, as pieces of the basket were torn away, flung out into the water, the wicked, bright eyes of the bird near her, not a yard away, the beak slashing at the wicker.
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20 599 The rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash.
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21 96 It was there she saw the first of several small, sunken, shallow, walled pools, each a yard or so deep.
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21 144 In this case that presented her with no anxiety as the bridge was little more than a yard or so above the waters of the shallow stream.
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22 250 Suddenly she heard a fierce movement in the air, behind her, an unexpected but unmistakable swift hiss, and, almost at the same time, below the small of the back, she felt a stinging stripe, the swift, sharp blow of a supple switch, a yard in length.
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26 1348 Or perhaps he will keep her confined to the house, in shackles, or perhaps give her the run of a chain in the yard.
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27 949 His massive body was perhaps a yard in width, viewed frontally.
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27 1023 Ellen saw an arrow hit the turf not a yard away.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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1 17 Are they truly so unaware of their small place in the yard of existence, so ignorant of the length of space and the breadth of time, of the flight of galaxies, of the journeys of streaming light, perhaps touching nothing for a hundred thousand years; are they unaware even of the patience of stone, c...
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29 310 In the tiny bit of light remaining she detected a large head, perhaps a yard across, wet, glistening from the water, on a long, thick neck, wet, glistening, the head some fifteen feet away, moving on the neck, weaving almost as might have the head of the giant hith, Gor's mightiest constrictor.
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29 327 The head of the beast was something like a yard from them.
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33 192 He saw a stirring in the water, as of a large body but a yard or so below its surface, approaching smoothly, unhurried.
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60 81 Two Kurii hurried forward, and opened the gate a yard, and assisted a Kur within.
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74 7 It was something like a yard square, and the slave could not stretch her body within it to her full length, even her small, deliciously curved female body.
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 29 The Gorean pace is very close to the English yard, but the stone is well over a pound and the hort is somewhat longer than an inch.
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5 280 This makes the ship more amenable to her oars and less vulnerable to flaming missiles, which might ignite a sail on its long, sloping yard.
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5 316 At the same time the lateen sail was unfurled from its yard, and, swelling, took the wind, and the ship, like a stately bird, was aflight.
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7 66 They are a softer wood, and, less rigid, more flexible, are more inclined to bend with the wind and the yard, and so, under certain conditions, violent conditions, less likely to snap.
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7 149 It is selected, marked for the arsenal, for the yard of Cleomenes".
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7 154 The yard of Cleomenes was one of the yards under the aegis of the arsenal of Port Kar, of which yards there were several.
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13 8 These mats were some three to four inches in thickness, and something like a yard wide.
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30 12 Usually the Gorean ship carries three or more sails, to be fastened, as needed, to the long, sloping yard, depending on wind conditions.
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30 16 The lateen-rigged galley can sail closer to the wind, but, for a given length of yard, it exposes less surface to the wind.
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41 22 In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl.
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Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 32 The single yard was lowered, and the storm sail furled.
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2 33 The mast and yard, with its furled sail, were then lashed down, parallel to the deck.
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3 947 Its auxiliary buildings, its stables, its stable yard, and such, like the main building, seemed similarly fallen into a state of forlorn desuetude.
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3 1089 ' "I was freed of the rack by the two young men, and, each holding an arm, they assisted me, half carrying me, for I could barely walk, back through the shop, and the private quarters, toward a rear entrance, from which one might approach the stable yard of what had been the Inn of Ragnar.
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3 1098 "Shortly thereafter the two young men brought me to one of several slave posts, thick, sturdy stakes, some four feet high, fixed in the abandoned stable yard behind the closed Inn of Ragnar.
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3 1115 What was to occur then? Clearly it must have to do with me! "So in the moonlight, in the abandoned stable yard, kneeling, tied to a slave post, I waited".
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3 1144 At that point, we heard the hovering beating of a tarn's wings, and, looking up, I saw a tarn, with tarn basket, preparing to alight in the stable yard.
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3 1148 'I am not the Lady Flavia!' The tarn, controlled by a tarnster from the basket, had alit several yards away, across the yard.
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3 1150 The tarnster remained in the basket; the warrior lifted the woman from the basket and set her in the yard, and then leapt from it to the ground.
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3 1232 By now, the leader of the fellows into whose power I had fallen, alerted by one of his men, had emerged into the stable yard.
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3 1364 "This deprivation," she said, "caused much distress to some of our number, who might weep in their kennels, scratch at the logs in the yard, beseech guards for their touch, and roll in the dirt, in frustration".
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12 477 She made tiny, futile noises, scarcely audible a yard or two from the mast.
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14 10 That would bring the sharks lurking beneath the vines, which extended some yard or two beneath the water.
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22 78 Many, we had later learned, had perished in the defile, from concealed arrow fire, but arrows, now, save at short range, a yard or two, given the proximity of the combatants and the confusion, could scarcely find congenial targets.
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32 40 I heard a flood of canvas loosed from a yard, with a great, snapping noise, and then another.
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Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 107 Another chain, something like a yard in length, run from the belly chain, held me to the wall behind me.
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17 157 Far below, on the broad, level area, inside the rail, I saw two girls, in tunics of yellow and blue, the Slaver's colors, back-braceleted as other slaves, but also, interestingly, joined together, neck to neck, by a yard of chain.
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17 523 At the end of the day we were making our way from the tiers, descending toward the broad open area between the rail and the stands, from there to exit toward the wagon-and-cart yard, some adjacent inns, and some of the closer camps.
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Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

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50 405 Does that not make me more a slave? As I entered the gate, I could see, toward the rear wall of the stockade, something like a barracks or kennel, not unlike my kennel at Shipcamp, and, before it, within the palings, a clearing, which I supposed might function as an exercise yard, an inspection yard...
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8 400 From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
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8 502 Four mariners stood ready to hoist the small yard, with the now-folded sail.
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8 523 I saw the yard being raised, foot by foot, tackle creaking, followed, foot by foot, by its increasing expanse of unfolding canvas.
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9 112 The yard was being raised.
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14 158 These were slender wands, a yard or so in height, planted in the soil, with a bit of cloth tied upon them.
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15 449 He, I take it, is the master of these works and the yard.
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27 96 Further, far off, through the trees, I could see a river which must be the Alexandra, but it was to my right, and it should have been to my left! I ran forward a little bit and saw, anchored in the soil, supple, clearly visible, easily marked in the vegetation, a path on one side of it, about a yard...
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50 408 In the yard, too, I saw what I took to be several kajirae.
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54 140 He then threw me to my knees, again, and, with the free end of the thong, tied it about the base of a tree, a yard or so away.
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Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

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8 98 "Perhaps they will note cages, a pen, a slave yard, a coffle".
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15 101 Not a yard or so from where he stood there was a sturdy sapling of five or six horts in girth.
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43 55 The slaves were now hitched where we had drawn the wagon, rather at the end of the wagon yard.
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43 91 Near the wagon yard we had removed the slaves from the coffle and relieved them of the bracelets which had secured their hands behind their backs.
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43 155 The camp was large, and the wagon yard lay near its center, by the market.
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47 7 "It was not thought so," said Nodachi, not moving within the ropes which held his body bound to the post, his hands free, in the exercise yard.
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47 153 There were several in the exercise yard, a length of which served as an archery range.
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53 19 "There is the courtyard, the exercise yard, the archery range, the barracks, the work sheds, the stadium," said Pertinax.
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59 15 It was supplied by small lamps, some of which were mounted in the walls, and some of which hung from the ceiling, descending, in some cases, to within a yard or so of the floor.
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Book 34. (32 results) Plunder of Gor

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7 249 The chain from my collar ring, about a yard long, ran to another ring, a heavy ring, which ring was fixed in the stone couch.
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9 308 A free woman would understand me, and my helplessness! Alas, how little I knew of such women! I should have considered more carefully a matter of possible relevance, that several of these visions held, in their small, gloved hand, an object, about a yard in length, of supple leather, and though of a...
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11 51 There were, about the yard, smaller stones, as well, some of which could be turned by a single girl, kneeling near it.
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11 80 We were apparently camisked because the gate of the mill yard was usually open in daylight hours, and free women might pass by.
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11 101 She was first girl in the mill yard.
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11 128 What is wrong with slim ankles? Are they not attractive? Would men not bid well for such a girl?" And then I recalled she was only another slave in a mill yard.
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15 137 "It is in the stable's wagon yard," said the man.
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20 38 It is famous for its canals and "Arsenal," which is actually a depot and naval yard.
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27 61 The collar is locked about one's neck, and the stick, rigid, and more than a yard long, is held by the individual supposedly being guided.
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28 230 The ring itself was about a yard high.
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40 60 "Does it appear to be the shop of a master potter? Where is the yard, the dozen ovens, the jars of pigments and glazes, the slaves and apprentices at their wheels?" "He will not trust work to menials," said Lady Delia.
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46 49 There was a stone block in the center of the room, a cube of a yard square, and, on this block, within a meshwork of wire, was a metallic box.
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59 149 I could feel the heat a yard away.
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61 599 But what are the verr, and parts of verr, doing here? One would think this was a slaughter yard".
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61 652 Decius Albus drew back a yard in the box, turning white.
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64 61 Each wagon yard had its tiny corral, or pen, for the housing and feeding of draft animals, whether tharlarion, kaiila, or bosk, and a bricked fire pit.
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64 63 Of special interest to Paula and myself was the fact that our wagon yard, which bordered on the periphery of the caravanserai proper, was adjacent to one of the slave pools, these located about the periphery of the caravanserai proper, away from the road.
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64 81 The bathing pool in which Paula and I were put to clean ourselves had a circular foundation of brick, and had a depth of a yard, or so.
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64 105 I was certain the masters could have rented a yard much closer to the center of the camp, the shops, and such.
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64 319 He then turned about, and moved away, into the darkness beyond the yard.
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65 31 It was dark about, but we could see into the yard, illuminated by the fire pit, now containing a smaller fire, see the Lady Bina, still seated, and, closely behind her, the wagon.
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65 94 He then turned about and went across the yard, and began to busy himself about the wagon.
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65 105 We saw torches approaching through the wagons, approaching the yard where we had camped.
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65 121 The Lady Bina remained as she had been, sitting, near the fire, the wagon a yard or two behind her.
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65 149 At that point, Lucilius, bearing his ax, entered the yard.
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65 152 The yard was well illuminated.
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65 210 And, in a moment, the yard was in darkness, save for the light from the fire pit.
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65 252 Something like a quarter of an Ahn later the first voice called out from the right, in the far darkness, from outside the yard.
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65 264 "Stop, stop!" cried Lucilius, as men rushed about him, in the darkness, hurrying from the yard.
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65 265 Then he was alone in the yard, save for the Lady Bina, who had resumed her seat.
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66 50 Occasionally, when the masters stopped at an inn, they resided within, and we were chained in kennels, in the inn yard.
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69 190 "And," he said, "if, when you are worn and neglected, when you are scorned and humiliated, when you are chided and berated, when you are derided and mocked, when you are tired of sleeping on a rug or mat with only a sheet to cover you, when you are tired of slave gruel, lapped from a pan, in the sha...
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 69 I loved the sound of the timbers of the ship, creaking, the sound of the long yard, responding to the wind, the occasional snap of the canvas.
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8 557 Then you would have a miserable slavery, a rural slavery, worked from dawn to dark, often whipped, chained at night, in the open, in the cold and rain, to a stake in the yard, penned with tarsks, housed in a cramped, damp, log kennel".
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8 724 "Hear the drum! Sweat! Be strong! Be patient! If they will have us, they must work for it!" The long, inclined yard, creaking, swung about.
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8 758 To the helmsmen he called, "Come about!" To the mariners he called, "In sail, down yard".
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8 955 "Raise the yard, free the sail!" called the captain.
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8 956 The long, slanting yard turned on the mast, and the open, dropped sail, with a snapping of canvas, responded, swelling and tautening, curving, and was filled to the "brim," as the mariners sometimes put it, with the "wine of the wind".
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11 119 So I kept a yard or so of the walkway between me and the edge of the canal.
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26 121 Its neck and broad head, glistening in the moonlight, shedding water, was lifted a yard from the water.
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33 362 Something else sped past me and entered the water not a yard away.
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33 618 I had no idea how high the tide might rise, inches, a foot, a yard, several feet? Tides vary considerably, even to the number of tides a day.
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Book 36. (19 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 34 Once we were another Ahn from the coast of Chios, in the open sea, I would have the mast raised, with its long yard, and let the fore-and-aft rigged sail, the swelling, triangular sail, a lateen sail, now the fair-weather sail, take the wind.
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5 75 This protects the mast, yard, rigging, and sail, and minimizes any possibly adverse effect the wind might have on maneuverability.
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18 227 "Lower the yard," I said.
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18 228 Down came the yard, the canvas folding and crumpling.
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26 97 "Then, after the fall of night, we will raise the mast and yard, resting our fellows, making our way back to Thera and the Cove of Harpalos".
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43 1 How the Remainder of a Busy Night Was Spent "I do not care for this," said Thurnock, a yard or so behind me, crouched down.
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50 108 "Raise the mast and yard," said Clitus.
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51 3 We had been under sail, the sail now limp on the long, sloping yard.
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51 203 An Ahn later, shortly before sundown, oars inboard, we brought the long, sloping yard into the wind.
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52 120 Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on.
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53 54 Several, here and there, fought, and slew one another, to attain a place, sometimes no more than a yard high and wide, on one or another of the modest prominences in the flesh of the beast, a footing on certain irregularities, corrugations, blemishes, sealed lesions, and layers of twisted, knotted s...
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53 283 At the second Ahn, we raised the mast, lowered the yard, loosened the sail, relieved the helmsmen, and rested the oarsmen.
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54 2 At dawn we had lowered the mast and yard, thereby decreasing our visibility.
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57 166 The two ships, the corsair ship and the Tesephone, were literally against one another only briefly, but the gap between them, ranging from a few inches to a yard, held for almost an Ehn; then it widened to four to five feet, and then, once more, was such that it could be easily bridged.
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58 1 The Arithmetic of Battle "Take in the sail, lower the yard and mast," said Sakim.
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58 7 It is for just such reasons that knife ships lower the mast, yard, and sails before entering combat.
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58 169 Thurnock gestured to the sail, loose on its yard.
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58 193 "She is raising her mast, her yard, unfurling her sail," he said.
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60 53 The slender, serpentine body, a yard long, surfaced for a moment, eyes beady, drawing air, and then slipped beneath the surface, the water raked by its double array of brightly colored spines.
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