Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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169
"He has his hands full these days with Cos and his troubles in the valley of the Vosk".
21
170
There was a reference to the rivalry of Ar and Cos for the markets and resources of the broad regions drained by the Vosk.
21
171
Both states desired to extend their hegemony into these areas.
21
172
Small cities and towns, usually ruggedly independent, even belligerently so, along the river, such as Ven and Turmus, found themselves, to their discomfort, half coerced by armed might, half enticed with alliances and treaties, embroiled in the struggles of major powers.
21
173
"Hah!" laughed Barus.
21
174
"How clever you scoundrels are! You engage me in conversation, and then, you shirkers, you dally in the performance of your fitting and lowly labors! Do you think you are free persons who may stop to pass the time of day? No, you are collared brutes! Now work, you neck-ringed sleen, if you would live to see the sunset, work! Work!" Laughing, with a will, we turned again to our labors.
21
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"Away!" cried Barus, waving his cloak at a tharlarion, browsing near the posts.
"He has his hands full these days with Cos and his troubles in the valley of the Vosk".
There was a reference to the rivalry of Ar and Cos for the markets and resources of the broad regions drained by the Vosk.
Both states desired to extend their hegemony into these areas.
Small cities and towns, usually ruggedly independent, even belligerently so, along the river, such as Ven and Turmus, found themselves, to their discomfort, half coerced by armed might, half enticed with alliances and treaties, embroiled in the struggles of major powers.
"Hah!" laughed Barus.
"How clever you scoundrels are! You engage me in conversation, and then, you shirkers, you dally in the performance of your fitting and lowly labors! Do you think you are free persons who may stop to pass the time of day? No, you are collared brutes! Now work, you neck-ringed sleen, if you would live to see the sunset, work! Work!" Laughing, with a will, we turned again to our labors.
"Away!" cried Barus, waving his cloak at a tharlarion, browsing near the posts.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter )