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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 22 In time I assumed I would be found out, but meanwhile I had my passage to America paid and a position for at least one year.
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1 36 Surely the administration of the college was curious, and angry at the inconvenience of having to replace an instructor in the middle of the year, for Tarl Cabot was never heard of again on the campus of that college.
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1 140 The third day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1640.
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2 8 It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University.
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2 211 Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the Flame Death, but sooner or later they are struck down".
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5 53 In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W...
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5 57 This year the honor of the grain sacrifice was to be accorded to the daughter of the Ubar.
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20 15 The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting...
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20 16 After their year of servitude, they were returned, weaponless, to the cities of their birth.
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20 70 Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world.
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Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

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20 60 Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was Administrator of the city.
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26 1 A Letter from Tarl Cabot Inscribed in the City of Tharna, the Twenty-Third Day of En'Kara in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Lara, Tatrix, of Tharna, the Year 10,117 from the Founding of Ar.
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1 1 The Statement of Harrison Smith I first met Tarl Cabot at a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire, where we had both accepted first-year teaching appointments.
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6 4 Four times a year, correlated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are fairs held in the plains below the mountains, presided over by committees of Initiates, fairs in which men of many cities mingle without bloodshed, times of truce, times of contests and games, of bargaining and marketing.
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13 33 Linna, in the dungeon, had told Andreas and me that a man of Tharna must attend the Amusements of Tharna at least four times a year, and that, failing that, he must take part in them himself.
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17 81 The only relief in their existence comes once a year, on the birthday of the Tatrix, when they are served a small cake, made with honey and sesame seeds, and a small pot of poor Kal-da.
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17 84 The life expectancy of the mine slave, given the labor and food, if he does not die under the whips of the overseers, is usually from six months to one year.
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20 65 One is the fairs at the Sardar Mountains, which occur four times a year and are numbered chronologically.
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20 69 The current year, according to the calendar of Ar, if it is of interest, is 10,117.
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24 219 You were first in the military games of En'Kara in the second year of my reign".
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24 221 "You are Tai," said she, "a tarnsman, wounded in the war with Thentis in the year before I ascended the throne of Tharna".
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 2 It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth.
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1 13 It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...
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1 24 Smith has had the pleasure of knowing Cabot personally, having originally met him several years ago in New England and having been able to renew the acquaintance briefly in New York City something over a year ago.
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1 75 The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ...
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2 71 Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs.
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6 56 "Only twice a year is the food brought," she said.
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8 113 Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be la...
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18 156 "After a time, perhaps a year," said Sarm, "when you were ready, I would free you on the condition that you would do my bidding".
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Book 4. (39 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 72 In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...
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8 4 The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac...
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2 76 The year names are kept in living memory by the Year Keepers, some of whom can recall the names of several thousand consecutive years.
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8 27 I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ...
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8 50 "The bosk are safe," they had cried, and the cry had been taken up by the women and carried from wagon to wagon, "The bosk are safe!" This year, perhaps because it was the Omen Year, the Wagon Peoples did not advance farther north than was necessary to ensure the welfare of the herds.
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8 52 It was the Omen Year, and not a year, apparently, in which to risk war with far peoples, particularly not those of cities like Ar, whose warriors had mastered the tarn and might, from the air, have wrought great destruction on the herds and wagons.
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10 260 The institution of Love War is an ancient one among the Turians and the Wagon Peoples, according to the Year Keepers antedating even the Omen Year.
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10 261 The games of Love War, of course, are celebrated every spring between, so to speak, the city and the plains, whereas the Omen Year occurs only every tenth year.
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28 56 "The years," said Harold, smiling, "were two—the Year in which Tarl Cabot Came to the Wagon Peoples and the Year in which Tarl Cabot Commanded a Thousand".
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28 58 These were year names—which would be remembered by the Year Keepers, whose memories knew the names of thousands of consecutive years.
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2 73 It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...
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2 75 The years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names, toward their end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish the year.
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2 77 The Wagon Peoples do not trust important matters, such as year names, to paper or parchment, subject to theft, insect and rodent damage, deterioration, etc.
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2 84 When I speak of Year Keepers and Singers it must be understood that these are not, for the Wagon Peoples, castes, but more like roles, subsidiary to their main functions, which are those of war, herding and the hunt.
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2 87 The members of these clans, however, like the Year Keepers and Singers, are all expected, first and foremost, to be, as it is said, of the wagons—namely to follow, tend and protect the bosk, to be superb in the saddle, and to be skilled with the weapons of both the hunt and war.
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5 65 Thick strips of boskhide form the wheel rims, which are replaced three to four times a year.
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8 3 "It is the Omen Year," had said Kamchak of the Tuchuks.
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8 22 Even in the time I had been with the wagons I had gathered that it was only the implicit truce of the Omen Year which kept these four fierce, warring peoples from lunging at one another's throats, or, more exactly put, at one another's bosk.
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8 28 I think that those of the Wagons who instituted the Omen Year, more than a thousand years ago, were wise men.
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8 245 There had been, fortunately for him, a Year Keeper who had recalled the family.
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8 630 There would now be the third phase of the Omen Year, the Return to Turia.
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9 19 Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains.
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9 27 "How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".
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10 3 These men, as in every year, I learned, had been guaranteed safe passage across the southern plains for this event.
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10 6 The fee for even one of their accompanying craftsmen was sufficient to support a man for a year in luxurious Ar.
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10 285 This meant that she was quite possibly the most beautiful woman in Turia, certainly at least among those in the games this year.
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10 332 "Let the women be secured," called the first judge, who stood on a platform near the beginning of the stake lines, this year on the side of the Wagon Peoples.
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10 379 "It's a sorry lot this year," he told her.
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10 444 Unfortunately for Kamchak, I knew that this was the year in which the Turian foeman might propose the weapon of combat.
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11 174 This year, as it turned out, the Wagon Peoples had done exceedingly well in the games of Love War—a bit of news we picked up with the paga—and about seventy percent of the Turian maidens had been led slave from the stakes to which they had been manacled.
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16 15 "How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup...
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16 30 Even so the rope and chain must be replaced twice a year.
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21 45 I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates.
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22 17 Do not take me wrong—I am rather fond, on the whole, of my hair—it is merely that one must, to be objective about such matters, recognize that it has, from time to time, involved me in various difficulties—beginning about my fourth year.
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23 21 He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples.
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23 22 I sensed, however, that he was angry when I spoke of the probable complicity of the Paravaci with the Turians, striking when and how they did, even during the Omen Year, presumably to draw the Tuchuks away from Turia.
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23 37 "What will you do," I asked, "if in another year the Paravaci and the Turians turn on the Kataii—and kill their bosk?" "The Paravaci," said Hakimba slowly, "would like to be the one people—and own the grass of all the prairie—and all the bosk".
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24 26 The time of the year was the late spring and the prairie's climate was not unkind, though occasionally long rains must have made the lot of the refugees fleeing toward other cities miserable.
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26 529 "The tumits run best this time of year rather toward the Cartius," observed Kamchak.
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Book 5. (34 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 611 Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by...
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2 279 Few go to the lesser houses to buy slaves this year in Ar".
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2 296 A caravan of common slave wagons would take a year to go beyond the cities and return".
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3 163 Such an amount I knew would not be likely to be earned in a year by a Player.
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4 6 The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year.
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4 87 We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...
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4 194 A year later, by slave wagon, I reached the fair of Se'Var near the Sardar, where I was sold to the House of Clark, from which house I and many others were fortunate enough to be purchased by the House of Cernus, in Glorious Ar".
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5 139 At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...
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13 132 She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...
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13 344 "Do you know of any," I asked, "of the Greens who were in Ko-ro-ba in En'Var this year".
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13 350 "I was in Ko-ro-ba in En'Var this year".
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15 102 Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges...
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15 147 The staff, incidentally, had been increased in the last month, largely due to the increasing number of slaves being processed by the House but perhaps also, in part, in preparation for the approaching spring, which is the busiest season on the Street of Brands, for then, after the winter, slave raid...
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15 360 The night that Phyllis Robertson, under the torches in the hall of Cernus, while we supped, performed the belt dance, was the last day of the Eleventh passage hand, about a month before the Gorean New Year, which occurs on the Vernal Equinox, the first day of the month of En'Kara.
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15 368 I gather his planning must have been successful, for sales generally in Ar during the first two months of the New Year were down somewhat from seasonal norms, as though Ar's gold for slaves was being held somewhat, in anticipation of the Love Feast.
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16 19 On the first day of the Waiting Hand, the last five days of the old year, the portals of Ar, including even that of the House of Cernus, had been painted white, and in many of the low-caste homes had been sealed with pitch, not to be opened until the first day of En'Kara.
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16 26 Then, at dawn, on the first day of En'Kara, in the name of the city, the Administrator of Ar, or a Ubar if it be Ubar, greets the sun, welcoming it to Ar on the first day of the New Year.
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16 34 On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel...
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16 214 This fee, incidentally, can be levied even against older factions if their last season is a very poor one; moreover, a number of substandard seasons, even for an established faction, will result in the loss, permanently or for a ten-year period, of their rights on the track.
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17 75 The long-legged girl, doubtless a miserable slave most of the year, seemed intent on humiliating me, taking revenge probably on her master, for whom I now stood as proxy.
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17 134 The Kajuralia, or the Holiday of Slaves, or Festival of Slaves, occurs in most of the northern, civilized cities of known Gor once a year.
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17 844 "In the last year," said Sura, "he left it only once for an extended period".
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17 846 "In last year's En'Var," she said, "when he was gone from the city on the business of the house".
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18 155 "In the fourth and fifth year of the reign of Marlenus," said he, regarding me evenly, "I was first in my caste in Ar".
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18 181 "For many years," said Flaminius, "and this was even before 10,110, the year of Pa-Kur and his horde, I and others worked secretly in the Cylinder of Physicians.
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18 253 "He does not know it," said Flaminius, "nor will he learn for perhaps a year".
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18 455 "Yes," he said, "the first day of En'Kara, 10,118, more than a year ago".
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18 496 "He was sent to Ko-ro-ba only to be slain, that you would be lured to this house, where in effect you have been my prisoner for more than a year".
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19 8 These games are among the most heavily attended and important of the year.
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20 462 "Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's Scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third year of the Administrator Heraklites?" Neither Cernus no...
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21 32 "Cernus," said I, "though a prominent patron of the Greens, must be disturbed that the Yellows have this year stood above them".
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22 329 "Menicius of Port Kar," I said, "was in the city of Ko-ro-ba during En'Var of last year".
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24 418 Why had this been done to me? Was this the reward for my services? And what of Elizabeth? Was it that Marlenus had looked upon her and so pleasing did he find her that he had decreed that she be reserved for the very Pleasure Gardens of the Ubar of Ar himself, to serve him as a silken wench, one of ...
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24 453 "In the year 10,110, more than eight years ago, a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba purloined the Home Stone of the city".
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Book 6. (20 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 14 In the calendar of Ar, for those it might interest, it was the first year of the restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, but, more usefully for the purposes of consolidating the normal chaos of Gorean chronology, it was the year 10,119 Contasta Ar, that is, from the founding of Ar.
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1 13 In the calendar of Ko-ro-ba, which, like most Gorean cities, marks years by its Administrator Lists, it would be the eleventh year of the administration of my father, Matthew Cabot.
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1 47 Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered; it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh water were plentiful.
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3 81 By that time most of the year's rence will have been cut, and great stocks of rence paper, gathered in rolls like cord wood and covered with woven rence mats, will have been prepared.
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3 84 With the year's rence sold, the communities do not care to lie too closely to one another; the primary reason is that, in doing so, they would present too inviting a target for the "tax collectors" of Port Kar.
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4 2 It was late in the year to cut rence, but some quantities of the rence are cut during the fall and winter and stored on covered rence rafts until the spring.
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5 179 It is often lonely on the rence islands, and festival comes but once a year.
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10 3 The Spring Equinox, in Port Kar, as well as in most other Gorean cities, marks the New Year.
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10 4 In the chronology of Ar it was now the year 10,120.
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10 28 Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it.
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10 73 He had not seen me before, though I had seen him, at the Curulean Auction House in Ar, something less than a year ago.
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10 149 The next matter for consideration was the negotiation of a dispute between the sail-makers and the rope-makers in the arsenal with respect to priority in the annual Procession to the Sea, which takes place on the first of En'Kara, the Gorean New Year.
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10 150 There had been a riot this year.
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10 153 I expected there would be a riot next year as well.
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10 168 I suspected that the sail-makers would, threatening desertion of the arsenal, this year or the next obtain their desired increase in wages.
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10 184 It was only a rumor, one which, it seemed, recurred at least every year in Port Kar.
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10 290 There are wardens who watch the trees, guarding against illegal cutting and pasturage, and inspectors who, each year, tally and examine them.
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10 298 If there is a light snowfall in a given year, the price of timber is often higher.
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13 520 It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn...
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18 435 One year after my enslavement I was certified to the house by the Slave Mistress as having become accomplished in such duties.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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13 100 Besides, she knew well that, some year, prior to her twenty-fifth year, such a journey must be undertaken by her.
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5 169 If this world had seasons, as I supposed it must, I would have guessed it was in the spring of their year.
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5 170 I wondered how long the year might be.
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11 97 One could tell a Turian because he insisted on celebrating the New Year at the summer solstice, for instance.
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11 312 It was said that a year ago in Ar, Marlenus, Ubar of that city, had created a sensation at a banquet given for his high officers, by presenting a slave-girl dancer before them who, though she was not in his private pleasure gardens or compartments, he had had put in earrings.
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11 313 Today, however, better than a year later, it was not uncommon to see a slave girl wearing, and insolently, such jewelry, even in public.
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12 16 In the chronology of Ar, that city for which we were bound, it was said to be the year 10,121.
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13 79 Her parents, the year before, had been slain by roving larls.
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13 90 It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year.
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15 525 "I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar".
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18 36 "More than a year has passed," she pointed out, "and you have not, together, repledged it".
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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22 447 If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of Port Kar's penal brothels.
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2 280 This time of year, Rim had told me, not too many ships pass the exchange point.
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8 179 "I," said Arn, grimacing, "have not, for more than a year, tasted Ka-la-na from Ar".
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11 22 In the past year, in Port Kar, I had grown muchly fond of the game.
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11 113 Long ago, more than a year ago, when he had first captured Verna on a hunting expedition, prior to her escape and acquisition of Talena, and her return to the forests, he had intended to bring her to Ar in triumph and there, in the great square before Ar's central cylinder, publicly enslave her.
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12 88 Indeed, the two latter individuals had already, in the past year, approached me with the prospect of a companionship with their daughters, but I had declined to discuss the matter.
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Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

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4 82 In that same year, in its spring, in Port Kar, the Council of Captains had assumed its sovereignty, thus initiating Year 1 of its reign.
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9 106 She had a fair throat, good shoulders; she was marvelously breasted; her waist was such that one could get his hands on it well; she might have been a bit broad in the beam but I had no objection to this; in the north it is called the love cradle; it was well adapted to cushion the shocks of an oars...
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16 53 Each year their paint is freshened, commonly on the vigil of the vernal equinox, which, in the north, as commonly in the south, marks the new year.
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21 166 They had fought against the united fleets of Tyros and Cos and, without their help, doubtless Port Kar could not have won the great victory of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the reign of the Council of Captains, in the year 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar.
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1 258 "I was kept in great honor in Ko-ro-ba," she said, "respected and free, for I had been your companion, even after the year of the companionship had gone, and it had not been renewed".
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4 78 In the chronology of Port Kar, it was early in Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains.
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4 83 Most Gorean cities use the Spring Equinox as the date of the New Year.
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4 85 The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the Rune-Priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland.
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4 87 In the calendars of the Rune-Priests the year was 1,006.
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6 448 Yet I admired the audacity of the man of Torvaldsland, though his act, in freeing Chenbar to act against me, had almost cost me my life last year in the northern forests.
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8 79 It took more than a year to distill, age, blend and bond the ingredients.
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10 449 It might have been more than a year since he had been permitted a female.
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10 568 I supposed that the governments of Earth, or some of them, were aware of the slaving; perhaps merchants of Middle Eastern countries were suspected; there were, however, delicate negotiations concerning oil to be respected; it would not be well to be too bold in pressing accusations; what were a few ...
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 595 It was currently in the late winter of Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar, the year 10,122 C.
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1 487 "A year?" In the desert decomposition proceeds with great slowness.
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1 594 The twelfth Passage Hand is followed by the Waiting Hand, a five-day period prior to the vernal equinox, which marks the Gorean New Year.
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1 825 It takes more than a hundred and fifty years for some of this water to make the underground journey, seeping hundreds of feet at times beneath the dry surface, moving only a few miles a year, to reach the oases.
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2 33 At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year.
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2 39 Smaller water sources are used in the spring, for these are the first to go dry, larger ones later in the year.
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2 342 It takes five girls more than a year to make certain of these rugs.
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2 399 "In another year," I told her, "you will kneel again on the stone shelf, beneath the awnings".
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2 610 At this time of year eight of the steps were uncovered by the water.
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4 500 Water, more than a century ago, had been struck there, during the fourth passage hand, in the third year of the Administrator Shiraz, then Bey of Tor.
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10 206 A gold tarn disk of Ar is more than many common laborers earn in a year.
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11 169 In a year or two you will be pretty enough for a collar".
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11 306 , or in the sixth year of the reign of Ba'Arub Pasha.
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13 426 To be sure, these almost generic cruelties to which Earth girls in Gorean bondage so often found themselves subjected, such strictures, have tended to subside somewhat in the past year or two, as Earth girls become less exotic, and become a more familiar commodity in the markets, are more visible on...
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14 133 The strength of a full-grown woman is equivalent to that of a twelve-year-old boy.
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16 110 The Old One had not been seen in the pit for more than a year.
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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6 120 The roof is rethatched and the walls rewoven every third or fourth year.
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7 632 Tais was too fine a name for a slave; accordingly the lovely seventeen-year-old Gorean girl had been sold in Ko-ro-ba under the block name of Donna, a slave name calculated to excite Gorean buyers.
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8 148 It mates once a year in the Gorean spring, and there are usually four young in each litter.
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9 886 In Ar alone, each year, thousands of such girls are vended and procured in the slave markets".
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Book 12. (20 results) Beasts of Gor

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15 468 "And a master, of course," she said, "is likely to own, from month to month, or year to year, several different girls".
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2 593 "It seems not to have occurred this year," he said.
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2 620 The sea in this area was frozen for more than half the year.
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2 653 There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migrations.
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3 41 This was the first year, incidentally, in which masks had been permitted to the young women in some of these contests.
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3 44 Still I suspected the innovation, next year, would be dropped.
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3 921 In a year or so, unless it was harvested, it would be of acceptable slave length, and one might expect it later to be suitably long, glossy, and attractive.
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4 179 Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...
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7 122 "Did the herd of Tancred this year emerge from the forests?" I asked.
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7 147 Yet, if reports could be believed, the ice of Ax Glacier had not yet, this year, rung to the hooves of the herd.
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9 205 Thus, after a year or two, a girl who now speaks a beautiful, fluent Gorean, one for most practical purposes indistinguishable from that of a native Gorean, is still likely, inadvertently, unbeknownst to herself, perhaps in so little as the shading of a phoneme, to reveal her Earth origin.
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12 202 These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of Thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters.
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12 365 The tundra at this time of year belies its reputation for bleakness.
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13 10 I had brought a longbow north with me but I wished to accustom myself to the horn bow, for the larger weapon, I knew, would be useless for most of the year in these latitudes.
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15 701 "Many women are auctioned from the block in a given year in a given city," I said.
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17 13 "Who other than you of the Innuit," I asked, "journeyed this year to the fair?" "Only I," said Imnak.
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20 106 In these camps the red hunters lived most of the year.
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20 177 When the sun dipped beneath the horizon it would not be seen again for half a year.
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27 106 It was unusual for it to occur at this time of year.
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Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 471 It was, currently, Year 7 in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, that year, in the chronology of Ar, which was 10,126 C.
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1 208 "That has been known to me for over a year," I said.
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1 259 "The next year," I said, "he mounted a new expedition, with eleven boats and a thousand men, an expedition financed, I now suppose, by Bila Huruma, to explore Lake Ngao, to circumnavigate it as he had Ushindi".
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1 468 This was the date of a naval battle which took place in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar.
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1 469 It had been, also, the year 10,120 C.
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1 472 On the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in the naval battle which had taken place on that date, the joint fleets of Cos and Tyros had been turned back from Port Kar.
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1 474 It was in that same year, incidentally, that Port Kar had first had a Home Stone.
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5 160 "A girl pushed me in the South canal a year ago," she said.
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5 570 "But in a year or two," I said, "I think you will be superb.
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6 559 The equatorial waters about Schendi, of course, are open to shipping all year around.
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7 100 Indeed, only this year Bila Huruma has demanded quotas of men from Schendi herself".
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18 103 She was then sentenced to a barrack of askaris for a year, that she might learn how to please men.
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32 183 In the rain forest some trees grow and lose leaves all year long, remaining always in foliage.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 313 "Thousands of planes and ships, year in and year out, safely traverse the Bermuda Triangle," I said.
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3 333 "Yes," she said, "a year and a half ago, in the service of my superiors, I spent several months on your world.
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19 142 The same girl who in her first sale was frigid is likely to be, by the time of her second sale, even should it be within the year, a wonder of lascivious appetition, needful of love and the touch of an uncompromising owner.
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23 75 In the last year heavy import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar.
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Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 67 It was now, in that chronology, the year 10,127.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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19 1015 They are subject to considerable variance, being functions of many factors, such as the girl herself, her intelligence, and training and beauty, the money in the economy, the conditions of supply and demand, and even the market in which she is sold and the time of year that she is put upon the block...
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19 1018 I have little doubt that there is some intensification of the slaving done on Earth at a certain time of year, that the captured girls may be brought to the spring markets.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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2 132 On the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, the year 10,120 C.
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2 136 That year, incidentally, is also regarded as significant in the history of Port Kar because it was in that year that, as it is said, a Home Stone consented to reside within the city.
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14 772 "I was taken from the enclosure when I was eight years old," she said, "taken home by a Kaiila warrior as a pretty little white slave for his ten-year-old son.
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14 831 My first year as the slave of my young master I was not even given a name.
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19 580 Last year when I was in the country of the Kaiila, he put in an order for such a woman.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 19 It is generally the hottest time of the year in the Barrens.
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1 333 In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles Dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection.
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1 485 Last year he had, in effect, put in an order for such a woman, an order which Grunt had agreed, to the best of his ability, to fill.
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2 432 "This year it is only three pasangs from camp," he said.
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2 434 "This year," Cuwignaka, "I am going to dance.
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2 446 "This year it is Cancega, of the Casmu".
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3 26 At this time of year, of course, they would be little more than trickles of water.
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3 27 Indeed, at this time of year, a man could wade the Southern Kaiila.
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3 28 Later in the year, in Kantasawi, many small streams would be dry altogether and even major rivers, like the Southern Kaiila itself, would seem little more than pools of water in a riverbed.
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4 140 I wondered why the kailiauk were early this year.
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4 194 To be sure, much time, most of the year, is spent outdoors.
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7 644 For the red savages the festival times in the summer, whenever they are celebrated by the various tribes, are the one time in the year when they are territorially and politically secure.
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9 74 Thus, by her own free will, she becomes a slave for a specific period, ranging usually from an evening to a year.
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13 12 He had ordered such a woman last year.
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13 14 The bargain was an old one, sealed last year.
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13 98 "The kailiauk, even, came early this year".
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13 192 This made feasible the delivery of produce, something which would be correspondingly impractical most of the year, when the tribes had separated into scattered bands, and sometimes even smaller units, with temporary, shifting camps.
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18 36 He had taken her home with him and given her, as a slave, to his ten-year-old son.
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19 163 "They were early this year," said Cuwignaka.
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39 111 "I lived in Ar for a year," she said.
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54 291 Grunt, of course, received his five hides and Mahpiyasapa received the rare, red-haired woman he had, in effect, ordered from Grunt last year.
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54 302 Yet the rent for the tenancy had been set at one ear of maize per year, to be delivered to the reigning chieftain of the Isbu Kaiila.
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 297 In the infantry of Corcyrus the fifth rank is commonly occupied for at least a year.
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6 357 Given the plantings flowers in them, of one sort or another, are in bloom almost all of the year.
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30 165 Once or twice a year, particularly when there are complaints, or they are becoming nuisances, many of them will be rounded up and taken before a praetor.
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Book 20. (24 results) Players of Gor

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1 32 , Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar, or in Year 5 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in Port Kar.
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1 39 It was now two days before the Twelfth Passage Hand, in the year 10,129 C.
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1 40 Soon it would be Year Eleven in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in Port Kar.
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1 42 Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as high captains, admir...
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1 79 All this changes, of course, with the arrival of the vernal equinox, which, in most Gorean cities, marks the New Year.
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1 81 This, in effect, welcomes the New Year to the city.
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1 165 "Surely you are aware of the time of year?" inquired Samos.
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1 172 Slavers remain active all year on Gor, but the peak seasons for slaving are the spring and early summer.
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1 551 Many women, after a year or two in bondage, become so beautiful that they can double or triple their price.
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1 925 I went to Torvaldsland in the Rune Year 1,006.
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1 929 , or Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar.
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1 973 This had taken place in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in 10,120 C.
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2 528 In that year the champion had been Terence of Turia.
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2 609 "Of course, it might have been last year," said Boots.
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2 610 "Or maybe the year before?" The officer was silent.
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2 867 Thus, even though she was very beautiful, she would probably not, in virtue of her inexperience, even be considered for a private-booth showing for several months or a year.
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6 161 "Last year I did not have one, admittedly, due to some fearful inadvertence," admitted Boots, "but I would not risk that twice at the Sardar Fair.
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6 1267 "It comes but once a year.
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8 144 "It is near the time of the year for their movements".
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8 145 Certain species of urts migrate twice a year.
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10 292 They seem quite suspicious of strangers the last year or so".
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12 583 The tournament he referred to was doubtless the one held at the Sardar Fair, in En'Kara of that year.
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12 587 In the chronology of Port Kar, it was now Year Eleven, of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains.
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16 726 "I was preparing to return a tarsk-bit to Chino from whom I borrowed it last year.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 315 Some masters keep their slaves naked for a year or more.
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19 243 "It was done only this year," said a man.
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19 251 The current year was 10,130 C.
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19 252 In the chronology of Port Kar, it was Year 11 in the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains.
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24 367 On it was a year number, one dating back twenty-two years, and two sets of numbers, separated by a span sign.
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 789 You have been on our scouting list for a year, on our consideration list for six months, and on our active list for some three months".
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5 282 "It is a good time of year," he said.
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5 286 He had "gathered" me, as he might have put it, so simple and unpretentious a verb, suggesting the casualness of his efforts, at a certain time of year pertinent to his own world, at a time when I would have enough time to be delivered here, trained, at least to some extent, and then, at an optimum m...
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11 277 In spite of this belief, however, or perhaps in deference to tradition, lingering from earlier times, in which, it seems, less reliable "slave wines" were available, doses of this foul stuff are usually administered to female slaves at regular intervals, usually once or twice a year.
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29 267 I met them outside of Corcyrus, last year".
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Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

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20 218 The same year, in the chronology of Port Kar, if it is of interest, would have been Year 8 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains.
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5 73 I thought of some of the young women who had been brought to Gor, young women whose attire seemed perhaps modeled on that of fourteen-year-old male siblings.
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20 214 The fellow, incidentally, had given the year of the aforementioned battle as 10,127 C.
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20 219 The reform of chronology is proposed by a small party from among the caste of scribes almost every year at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar, but their proposals, sensible as they might seem, are seldom greeted with either interest or enthusiasm, even by the scribes.
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24 695 An Earth-girl brought to Gor, on the other hand, might be in her collar a year or more and have had perhaps two or three masters before she comes to understand the potent symbolism of this, that such a humble coin is used.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 34 The land, its fall and lie, wells, watercourses, their breadth and depth, their swiftness, fords, climate, time of year, visibility, precipitation, footing, and such, provide the four-dimensional board on which are played the games of war.
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3 36 Certain routes, situations and times of year are optimal for certain purposes, and others are not, and might even prove disastrous.
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5 19 Its average depth, at this time of year, after the spring thaws upriver, is three to five feet.
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12 100 There had not been a major engagement since the battle of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar, or, to use the chronology of Ar, 10,120 C.
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31 64 They would understand, and correctly, that such a lad, large, strapping and strong, might even now be able to draw the great bow, and if not now, then in a year or two.
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 148 The month of Hesius is the second month of the year in Ar.
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8 150 In Ar, as in most cities in the northern hemisphere, the new year begins with the vernal equinox.
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8 675 Sometimes a ubar will even have his preferred slave serve in a low-caste hovel one day a year, under the command, and switch, of a low-caste free woman, performing her labors, and such, that she may be reminded that she is truly, when all is said and done, only a slave, as much as the lowest of the ...
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11 350 "But perhaps more so in a year or so".
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18 114 "The rogue last year pretended to have himself arrested and led away, but it turned out to be by members of his own troupe, and thus they all escaped without paying the rent!" "And you took him back in?" I asked.
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18 374 In the pageant we had seen earlier in the year, of course, hundreds of actors had been on the stage in the great theater.
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23 374 Every year at the Sardar Fair there is a motion before the bankers, literally, the coin merchants, to introduce a standardization of coinage among the major cities.
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25 329 "Perhaps a year ago, or two years ago".
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25 331 "So much money would pay the mercenaries of Cos for a year," I said.
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25 352 In certain cities, interestingly, the length of the Ahn depends on the time of year.
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Book 27. (16 results) Prize of Gor

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1 49 To be sure, these diverse years might be transformed into equivalencies, for example, the year of planetary body A being understood as being twice the year of planetary body B, and so on, but that is not really to the point one would wish to make.
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17 162 Yet what an incredible difference there is in maturity and sexual readiness between an eighteen-year-old girl, already beautifully developed and perfectly suitable for the collar and slave bracelets, and an eighteen-year-old boy! "Speak, in Gorean," said the father to Ellen.
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1 48 What is it, for example, to be of a given age? If one measures years, for example, by the peregrinations of a planetary body about its primary, then the year would obviously differ from body to body.
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1 73 But it is her impression that their doings, their functions or operations, if you prefer, are not limited to a particular city or town, or even nation, or hemisphere, or season, or year.
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3 11 But, after a bit, despite what would have been her choice, her deeper subjectivity, anxiously, frightened, seemingly more informed than she herself, calling out, began to make itself heard; it seems then that her consciousness, patiently, insistently, responding, began little by little to overcome h...
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4 432 The continuity of neural cells guarantees the viability of memory, extending back, beyond various seven-year periods.
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11 566 Theirs is not a clock-ridden culture; on Gor life tends to be genially paced, regulated more by the season of the year and the position of the sun; it is not conceived of in terms of metaphors drawn from factories, in material terms, in terms of input and output, in terms of units of product process...
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11 616 "I trust that Master is not disappointed with the body of an eighteen-year-old slave," she said.
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11 617 "You are a pretty eighteen-year-old slave, Ellen," he said.
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11 619 How strange, she thought, that I should have this eighteen-year-old body.
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11 632 "I should thank you for making me an eighteen-year-old slave?" she asked.
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11 633 "For pointing out that you are a pretty eighteen-year-old slave," he said.
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11 935 To be sure, what am I now, with my eighteen-year-old body, but a bright, pretty, little slave? It is true, true! That is what he has made me! "Thank you, Master," she said.
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12 448 "Perhaps a day, perhaps a week, perhaps a month, perhaps a year, perhaps ten years, perhaps the rest of your life".
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21 243 "There is more gold in my purse now than I would have earned from you in a year," said Tersius Major, angrily.
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27 2110 "The land here is dry most of the year.
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Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

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21 118 The female's egg, once fertilized, is deposited in the womb, and develops within it, the infant later to chew and claw its way free, that in something between a half year and a year.
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2 179 Even to produce a human, we note, takes most of a year.
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5 349 Thus we may have crops all year around in any fashion desired.
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34 213 "Lord Grendel speculates that Agamemnon trusts that cold is no longer necessary to his plans, and thus, one supposes, that the temperature of the world may be returned to an equable level, one suitable for this season of the cylinder year".
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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28 20 Every few years, as necessitated, an additional day is inserted into the calendar, at the end of the waiting hand, but, as the Gorean year is apparently somewhat shorter than the Earth year, and as its orbit seems to vary somewhat, from time to time, presumably due to the adjustments of Priest-Kings...
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2 213 On the 25th of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, a great naval a battle was fought between Port Kar and the fleets of Cos and Tyros.
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7 151 The time of year, now, as nearly as I could tell, from the vegetation, was late summer.
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15 404 "Much makes sense to me," said Pertinax, "the nature of the ground, the position of the sun, day and night, the season of the year, but much seems mysticism".
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28 12 My calculations, corroborated by those of Torgus and Lysander, placed us in the fourth day of the Eighth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the ninth month, on the last day of the passage hand of which occurs the winter solstice, the Gorean new year beginning when the world begins its own, on the...
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28 19 The Gorean year, as that of its sister world, Earth, is approximately 365 days in length.
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33 136 "The time of year is wrong," I said.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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10 31 It is the year's end.
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13 72 "But this lamp," I said, "has been fired, surely within the year".
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21 192 We had been nearly a year at sea and the discipline of the armsmen, now that land was near, hung by little more than a thread.
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21 509 I recalled her from Ar, in her ornate, sumptuous robes, one of which might have cost a laborer a year's wages, sometimes so casual about the hem, lifting it up a bit, as to examine the heel of a slipper, but exhibiting an ankle, or drawing back, against her, or smoothing, about her, a garment, in su...
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Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1193 The standardization of Gorean is accomplished largely in virtue of the meetings of Scribes four times a year on the neutral ground of the great seasonal fairs held in the vicinity of the Sardar itself.
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8 1253 Keep her nude for a year, if you wish.
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9 167 "What year?" he asked me.
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9 168 "This year, Master," I said.
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20 12 Water, on the other hand, if one is high enough, may be obtained easily enough from snow, which commonly lasts all year on the summits of many peaks.
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25 13 The higher elevations, as with many mountains in the Voltai, might be bright with snow all the year.
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33 84 Later in the year a camisked girl in the Voltai would presumably die of exposure, if she were not first devoured by beasts which, in the late fall, winter, or early spring, being half-starved, become unusually aggressive.
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48 55 "Perhaps it will take him a year to die," said the container on the left.
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49 3 A few days ago had been the vernal equinox, with which you begin your year, as Nature does.
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Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 375 "At this time of year there is already ice farther north".
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25 64 Its coloring deepens at this time of year.
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30 63 Last night had been lacerated by lightning, much thunder, and a lengthy, cold, soaking rain, to be sure, severities of a sort not that unusual in this latitude at this time of year.
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39 140 And when I learned of collars, stunned, startled, and almost fainting, almost losing consciousness, in my junior year in high school, that there should even be such things, I knew that I belonged in one, and wanted one.
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46 104 Other than Tur-Pah, I could recognize the leafage which betokened Suls, usually found in the open, in drier, sandier soils, and was familiar with a number of edible nuts and berries, such as ram berries and gim berries, the latter common at this time of year.
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Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

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14 39 In a year every fortress, castle, palace, barracks, warehouse, and humble shed of our house could be collapsed and charred wood, the ashes like dry fog, borne on the wind to the sea".
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15 2 It was my understanding that Lord Yamada's daimyos, despite their own lands and holdings, were expected to attend on the shogun several months of each year.
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15 37 I was sure it was no coincidence that Lord Akio had chosen the path he had, for the Pani garden is not merely designed to appeal to the eye, ear, and scent, but to do so in a certain progression, this progression depending on the time of year.
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23 28 "On clear nights, in this time of year," I said, "it is my understanding that the garden is alive with the songs of the Night Singers, songs of demarcating territory, of courting, and nesting.
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24 79 In settled times, a given daimyo, in his turn, will commonly spend half of the year in the palace, subject to the scrutiny of the shogun, and the other half in his own dominion, supervising his lands and retainers.
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61 766 The Gorean Companionship terminates in a year, unless renewed.
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Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 37 The subject matter of the ensuing accounts began better than a year ago, in another place, on another world.
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7 103 I had no way of conjecturing the vintage or year.
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40 191 Even amongst the lower orders of the high castes some of the Builders and Scribes might see a year's wages in terms of a handful of silver tarsks.
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40 212 "It is a petition from the master potter, Tenrik of Siba," he said, "he whom you well know by reputation, that I refrain from marketing my purple-and-white craters in the Vosk markets for at least one year".
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49 105 In any event, the winter, in the year in question, apparently set in early, and unexpectedly, and with ferocity.
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49 320 The En'Kara sales are associated with the time of the vernal equinox on Gor, which, too, is when the Goreans, rather as nature, begin their new year.
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62 41 "It would depend on the market, the supply and demand, the time of year, such things," said Kurik.
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62 42 "Well, this time of year, Ar, a typical market," said Drusus Andronicus.
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64 26 It is said that during the holidays, particularly those associated with the vernal equinox, at which point Goreans begin their year, as many as a thousand wagons might be quartered in the "Hogarth fields," which includes the compass of the caravanserai proper and, beyond that, an extensive overflow ...
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64 27 Despite the fact that we had arrived fairly early at the caravanserai, the masters had rented space rather at the edge of the caravanserai, bordering on the enlarged area, which now, at this time of year, was largely vacant.
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Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 245 Merchants may have access to this fortress four times a year, during the great Sardar fairs.
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12 58 On this day, in Year Eleven of the Council of Captains, the Palace of Captains, actually a rather fortresslike structure, had been completed by the men of the Builders, one of Gor's high castes, the caste color of which is yellow.
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38 246 You will receive your freedom, and a gold tarn disk, of Ar, of double weight! Many men do not see that in a year.
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46 21 The only exception is the five-day "Waiting Hand" which follows the Twelfth Passage Hand, and precedes the first day of the month of En'Kara, or En'Kara-La-Torvis, which is the vernal equinox, the first day of the Gorean New Year.
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Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

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18 148 Last year it was on Thera, at Sybaris, the year before on Daphna, at Pylos.
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3 101 "Last year," he said, "the Fair of the Farther Islands was held in Sybaris".
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15 45 "This year," I said, "it is being held at Mytilene on Chios".
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18 40 "I am prepared to leave you here to die, this month or the next, this year or the next.
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18 147 "One is held each year," he said, "and they alternate amongst the major islands, and amongst the larger towns on the islands.
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18 162 Indeed, a tiny population remains in place all year.
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18 172 "This year," said Sakim, "Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, is expected to be in attendance".
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25 13 "Next year," I said, "the fair is to be at Pylos on Daphna".
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36 203 "That is a town on Chios," said Margot, "where this year's Fair of the Farther Islands was held".
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37 145 "It is the time of year," he said.
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40 74 "We hosted the fair this year," said another.
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48 25 "They are tied to the cycles of the year and the seasons of custom.
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