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Book 1. (93 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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19 130 He then began testing elsewhere, methodically, using his sword almost as a physician might use a stethoscope, applying it first to one area and then to another.
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3 201 I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases.
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15 129 A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; first Tarnsman took first Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing first Tarnsman, City neutralized Spearman, Assassin took City, Assassin fell to Se...
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15 2 Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharla...
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3 168 Indeed, the largest part of my education was to be in arms, mostly training in the spear and sword.
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3 183 My training in the short, stabbing sword of the Goreans was as thorough as they could make it.
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3 187 During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest.
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3 189 He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing.
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3 199 Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former.
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4 144 At his feet lay a helmet, shield, spear, and sword.
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4 156 About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head.
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4 161 "Is it to that city that you pledge your life, your honor, and your sword?" asked my father.
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5 2 My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder.
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5 161 sword and tarn-goad met in a ringing clash and a shower of glittering yellow sparks.
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5 171 I had no time to think, but somehow I was aware that my sword was now in my hand and the tarn-goad thrust in my belt.
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6 44 I drew my sword from its sheath, to cut the mounting ladder from the saddle, but stopped, and angrily drove the blade back into its sheath.
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6 139 In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised.
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6 146 It snapped again, and I knelt, the jaws passing over me as I thrust upward with the sword, piercing the neck.
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6 153 I bent down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade.
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6 154 Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.
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6 161 Exhausted, I sat with my back against the tree, my hand never leaving the hilt of my sword.
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6 166 I leaped to my feet, sword ready.
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7 10 She kept her eyes on my sword, as if she expected me to strike her down if she turned her back.
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7 110 I tried to reach her with my sword belt, but it was too short.
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7 220 The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt.
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8 1 I Acquire a Companion I lunged forward, but was checked by the point of the officer's sword.
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8 21 The officer prodded me with the sword.
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8 34 He jabbed me with his sword.
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8 49 The officer sheathed his sword, not taking his eyes from Talena, who drew back.
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8 64 He struggled furiously, his hands trying to pry apart my fingers, his sword slipping from the sheath.
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8 68 Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger.
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8 71 Talena, naked, still held the bloody sword, her eyes glassy with the horror of what she had done.
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8 72 "Drop the sword," I commanded harshly, fearing it would occur to her to strike me with it.
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8 75 I took the sword and approached the other soldier, asking myself if I would kill him if he was still alive.
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8 93 I decided to carry my own sword and the soldier's crossbow, which I unwound, relaxing the tension on the metal span.
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9 27 It would be generally assumed that the mysterious tarnsman who had stolen the Home Stone and disappeared with the daughter of the Ubar must long ago have reached whatever unknown city it was to which he had pledged his sword.
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9 50 When one keeps to the left side of the road, one's sword arm faces the passing stranger.
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9 146 "I challenge you for her!" "The sword," I said.
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9 152 Once I stepped back, gesturing to the ground with my sword, the symbolic granting of quarter should it be desired.
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9 153 But Kazrak would not lay his sword on the stones at my feet.
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9 156 At last, terminating a frenzied exchange, I managed to drive my blade into his shoulder, and as his sword arm dropped, I kicked the weapon from his grasp.
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10 2 "He is my sword brother, Tarl of Bristol".
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10 4 One who has shed your blood, or whose blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you formally repudiate the blood on your weapons.
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10 16 "And this is my woman, whom I claim by sword-right".
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10 24 One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan".
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10 26 "Tarl of Bristol," he said, "you have disabled my finest sword".
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10 30 "Can you pay the hiring price of such a sword?" "I have no goods other than this girl," I said, "and I will not give her up".
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10 34 "Her sale price would not bring half the hiring price of a sword such as that of Kazrak of Port Kar".
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10 41 "He has done me honor and is my sword brother".
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10 130 I argued with him to accept forty, on the ground that he was a sword brother, and at last convinced him to accept half of his own wages back.
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13 113 In his hand was a warrior's sword, and the point was at my breast.
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14 8 Before me, on a rough throne of piled rocks, sat Marlenus, his long hair over his shoulders, his great beard reaching almost to his sword belt.
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14 37 Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.
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14 38 "Do you know, Tarnsman," he asked, "that there is no justice without the sword?" He smiled down on me grimly.
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14 42 Without the sword there is nothing".
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14 43 "By what right," I challenged, "is it the sword of Marlenus that must bring justice to Gor?" "You do not understand," said Marlenus.
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14 44 "Right itself—that right of which you speak so reverently—owes its very existence to the sword".
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14 49 "Before the sword," he said, "there is no right, no wrong, only fact—a world of what is and what is not, rather than a world of what should be and what should not be.
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14 50 There is no justice until the sword creates it, establishes it, guarantees it, gives it substance and significance".
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14 56 "And yet," I said, "your sword has not yet found the strength to bring it into being".
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14 63 "With this!" The Ubar then rose and sheathed his sword.
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14 91 I seized the sword from his scabbard.
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14 149 Then the tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword.
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15 74 He came through the opening, dropped his helmet on the sleeping mat, and began to unsling his sword.
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15 100 "We are together again, Tarl of Bristol, my sword brother".
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15 204 "A Ubar," he cried, "answers such a question only with his sword!" My weapon, too, had flashed from its sheath almost simultaneously.
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15 205 We faced each other for a long, terrible moment; then Marlenus threw back his head and laughed his great lion laugh, slamming his sword back into its sheath.
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15 252 "And it was logical, was it not, to expect you to enlist the aid of your Kazrak, your sword brother?" "Yes," I said.
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16 93 With a heavy heart I watched Kazrak loop his sword belt over his shoulder and pick up his helmet.
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16 94 "Goodbye, sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days.
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16 155 Indeed, I was momentarily overwhelmed with the cunning of Pa-Kur and rejoiced that I had followed something of Kazrak's counsels of patience and caution, that I had not disclosed my identity, that I had not attempted to cut my way to her side and bring her out by the blade of the sword...
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17 9 Four times I eluded special patrols of Pa-Kur, led by men I had questioned at sword point.
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17 12 Yet nothing but the sight of my beloved would have brought me more satisfaction than driving my sword into the heart of the Assassin.
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17 99 I loosened my sword in its sheath, set my shield on my arm, and grasped my spear.
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18 157 Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn.
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18 159 It was not simply that my sword was drawn.
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18 171 I struck and parried and struck again, my sword flashing forth and drinking blood again and again.
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18 180 I wiped my sword, sheathed it, and climbed to the top of the barricade.
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19 57 "Who are you?" cried Pa-Kur, drawing his sword.
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19 70 "Are you truly the men of never-conquered, imperishable Ar? Or are you but slaves who will exchange your freedom for the collar of Pa-Kur?" "Down with the Initiates!" cried one man, drawing his sword.
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19 107 Then, before anyone could stop him, he seized a sword from the scabbard of an Assassin and rushed to Talena, holding it over his head with both hands.
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19 115 "The sword shall decide these matters," he said.
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19 122 Pa-Kur, without taking his eyes off me, gestured with his sword toward the men of Ar.
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19 153 In affairs of the sword, there is a place for outguessing the opponent, but there is no place for anxious speculation; it paralyzes, puts you on the defensive.
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19 158 Pa-Kur withdrew coolly, meeting my attack effortlessly, letting me weary my sword arm; hating him, I admired him; wanting to destroy him, I acclaimed his skill.
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19 171 I heard the joyous cry, "sword Brother!" It was Kazrak's voice! "Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried another familiar voice—that of my father.
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19 189 I gestured to the ground with my sword, offering quarter.
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19 198 "Or take your sword again".
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19 199 Like a striking cobra, Pa-Kur snatched up the sword.
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19 202 Suddenly Pa-Kur, who sensed this as well as I, hurled his sword.
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19 214 I sheathed my sword and went to Talena.
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19 222 My hand was on my sword.
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20 27 The free cities of Gor appointed Kazrak, my sword brother, to be temporary administrator of Ar, for it was he who, with the help of my father and Sana of Thentis, had rallied the cities to raise the siege.
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Book 2. (65 results) Outlaw of Gor

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16 82 The other warrior lunged at me with his sword and I side-stepped the stroke and seized the wrist of his sword arm.
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19 158 The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" But I knew then that I would not ...
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22 124 For the first time in my life my senses were kindled—for the first time I could feel the movements of clothing on my body, for the first time I noticed how an eye opens and what, truly, is the feel of a hand's touch—and I knew then that I was n...
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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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11 257 "I am a woman of Tharna," she screamed, "first in Tharna! first!" Then, beside herself with rage, holding the whip in both hands, she lashed madly at me.
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23 217 It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom.
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24 136 Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might st...
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2 13 From them, if this were true, I could gather my bearings for Ko-ro-ba, that city of cylinders to which, years ago, I had pledged my sword.
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2 55 My Home Stone was the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.
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2 57 In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans.
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2 81 I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder.
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4 89 Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free.
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4 90 Then, as sleen hunters do, for luck, and because I was hungry, I took my sword and cut through the fur of the animal and ate the heart.
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5 78 "Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said, "throw yourself upon your sword".
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5 81 "Throw yourself upon your sword," he begged.
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5 112 I stood beside the grave, and drew my sword.
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5 115 "No, I shall not throw myself upon my sword.
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5 117 I lifted the sword toward the valley where Ko-ro-ba had stood.
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5 118 "Long ago," I said, "I pledged this sword to the service of Ko-ro-ba.
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5 123 I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains.
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6 80 He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room.
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7 5 I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion.
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7 11 Now my sword stood between him and my body.
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7 72 My sword was free of its sheath.
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7 120 I felt my hand clench on the hilt of my sword.
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7 125 I replaced the sword in my sheath, shattered, helpless.
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9 106 I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait.
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11 159 He drew his sword.
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19 41 "To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind.
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20 1 The Invisible Barrier In my hand I held a sword, taken from one of the guardsmen in the mines.
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20 18 The sword itself, of course, was gone.
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20 23 I thrust my weapon into the empty scabbard, buckled the sword belt and, in the Gorean fashion, looped it over my left shoulder.
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20 63 But so far there has been no military victory of Ar over other cities and, accordingly, free of the sword, the Initiates of each city regard themselves as supreme within their own walls.
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21 1 I Buy a Girl Out from my scabbard leaped the sword and I splashed across the cold stream, making for the grove of trees across the way.
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21 17 I thrust my sword back in the scabbard and took off my helmet.
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21 169 My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant.
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21 172 He noted that my sword was at the belly of his master, but did not seem unduly disturbed.
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21 181 I resheathed the sword.
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21 194 I slipped the blade of my sword between the girl's cheek and the hair that was bound across her mouth.
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21 214 The sword itself I retained, knotting the scabbard straps and thrusting the blade into them.
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22 22 "Give me your sword, Warrior," said she, "and I will throw myself upon it".
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22 24 "Ah, yes," she said, "a warrior is unwilling to have the blood of a woman on his sword".
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22 147 He who had captured the girl would place his sword to her breast and utter the ritual phrases of enslavement.
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22 203 "I have no more slave whips," said Targo, shrugging his shoulders sadly, "but your sword belt will do as well".
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23 179 "Guardsmen," I said, drawing my sword.
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23 182 Losing not a moment I thrust my sword into my belt and seized Lara by the waist.
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23 207 I slowly drew my sword, and thrust the girl to the side of the street against the wall.
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24 71 "We need your sword".
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24 131 It was clear to the defenders of the palace, which formed the major bastion of Dorna's challenged regime, that the issue would be decided that day and by the sword.
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24 141 I motioned to the others to remain back and, carrying a shield and spear in addition to my sword, approached the rampart.
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24 206 He leaped down from the barricade and laid his sword on the stones at Lara's feet.
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24 207 "Take up your sword," she said, "in the name of Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna".
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24 210 "I take up my sword," he said, "in the name of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna".
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24 227 He leaped down from the wall and placed his sword also on the stones at her feet.
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24 265 He loosened the sword in its scabbard.
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25 7 Hardly had my shield been penetrated when my sword had leaped from its sheath and slashed through the shoulder straps of the shield, cutting it from my arm.
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25 10 His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.
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25 16 I kicked the sword from the hand and turned over the body with my foot.
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25 37 "You see," she said, "my master has defeated you, as he knew he could, not by the sword but by the purchase of time.
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25 78 The man with wrist straps had picked up the sword and with this, and his whip, circled us, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
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25 82 Then I turned so that it was my body that was exposed to the blow of the sword carried by the man in wrist straps.
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25 88 It now had its eyes fixed on the man with the sword, he who had struck this new blow.
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25 124 Resourceful as she was, even carrying riches as she must be, she was still only a woman and, on Gor, even a silver mask needs the sword of a man to protect her.
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26 107 But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and tower...
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26 126 I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip.
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Book 3. (74 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 91 Thus carrying her I climbed the sword belt and soon had attained the first ring.
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34 68 I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I ...
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34 167 I thought his sword might indeed have been welcome, but I knew his first duty lay to his city.
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1 31 There was indeed a Tarl Cabot, answering the description of these accounts, who was raised in Bristol, and who attended Oxford and taught in the small New England college referred to in the first book, and who subsequently rented an apartment in midtown Manhattan at dates congruent wit...
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2 91 Normally they do this in single file and he who leads the file is called first Spear, for his will be the first spear cast.
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2 102 first Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy.
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11 61 "They are the Anniversary of the Nuptial Flight," said Misk, "the Feast of the Deposition of the first Egg and the Celebration of the Hatching of the first Egg".
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27 120 I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the Priest-Kings, the first Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the first Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.
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27 316 "I wanted to be," said the brown, dying creature, "the only Mother of Priest-Kings, and I listened to my first Born who wanted to be the only first Born of a Mother of Priest-Kings".
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32 202 Then I found myself in the first Nest Complex, where first I had laid eyes on the Nest of Priest-Kings.
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2 98 Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword.
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2 130 I loosened my sword in its sheath and continued upwards.
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2 131 At last I came to the bend in the path and braced myself for the sudden bolt about that corner in which I must cry aloud to startle them and in the same instant cast my spear at the nearest larl and set upon the other with my drawn sword.
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4 82 "I shall keep my sword," I said.
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4 155 Then seized by an impulse I sat myself down on the great throne in the Hall of Priest-Kings, drew my sword and placed it across my knees.
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6 97 I buckled on my sword.
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7 73 I spun quickly about, drawing my sword in the same motion.
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7 79 Slowly, very slowly, I drew the sword, taking care that it made no sound as it left its sheath.
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7 100 And so I uttered the war cry of Ko-ro-ba and leaped, sword ready, to face what might follow me.
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7 107 Angrily I stood alone in the passageway in the dimmed light of its energy bulbs, my unused sword grasped futilely in my hand.
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7 111 Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would ...
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7 120 I resheathed my sword and returned to Vika's chamber.
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8 78 I drew my sword.
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8 80 She leaped from the stone couch and ran to me, seizing my sword arm, but with my left hand I flung her back and she fell stumbling back against the side of the stone couch.
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8 82 Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks.
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8 84 I resheathed my sword and wiped my face with the back of my forearm.
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9 230 I drew my sword and turned.
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10 51 The floor seemed to drop beneath me and my hand grasped my sword.
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10 53 I resheathed my sword.
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10 73 I reached for my sword.
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10 77 My hand left the sword hilt and I wiped the sweat from my palm on my tunic.
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11 77 I drew my sword and faced Sarm.
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11 106 "I'm sorry," I said to Sarm, resheathing my sword.
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12 19 "Is it your intention," I asked, "that I should be so shaved and clad?" My hand was on my sword hilt.
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12 43 * * * * "Your sword," said Misk, extending one foreleg down to me.
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12 46 For some reason I unbuckled the sword belt and reluctantly handed the weapon to Misk.
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12 51 I had been pacing back and forth in the long room, nervous without the feel of the sword steel at my thigh.
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14 89 I did not even have a sword, and I was sure that, in any battle with Priest-Kings, I would constitute but a moment's work for their fierce mandibles and the bladed, hornlike projections on their forelegs.
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16 14 "If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".
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18 174 "Then give me my sword," I said, "and take me to him".
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19 1 Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared.
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19 17 From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.
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19 20 Where would one strike a Priest-King? To my surprise Sarm then jerked at the door of the compartment from which he had withdrawn my sword.
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19 23 "I am making sure," said Sarm, "that no one will lock your sword up again in this compartment".
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19 68 It would be simpler, when I approached Misk with my sword in hand, to see if he would volunteer the information.
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20 54 My hand went to my sword.
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20 66 I did not draw my sword.
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20 141 My hand tightened on the hilt of my sword.
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22 157 I drew my sword, lifting it easily from the sheath.
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22 162 I liked the blade which seemed so simple and efficient compared to the manifold variations in sword steel that were possible.
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23 48 I held my sword in my right hand and the Mul-Torch in my left.
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23 49 When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come.
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23 64 With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor.
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23 70 I then took my sword and wiped the oil from one side of the blade and set the shining steel against the lips of the girl from Treve.
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24 12 I stood before her body, my sword drawn.
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24 31 I slipped my sword into its sheath and knelt beside Vika's body, not taking my eyes off the creature who stood about four yards distant.
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25 6 I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg...
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25 10 I did not wish to resheath my sword, for it was coated with the body fluids of the Golden Beetle.
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25 23 As I prepared to resheath the sword I heard a slight noise in the passage and, in the light of the dying Mul-Torch, without moving, I waited.
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25 29 I shook myself and resheathed my sword.
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25 40 When I had entered I had immediately marked my passage with small arrows scratched by the hilt of my sword at eye level on the left side of the passages.
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25 45 Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword.
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25 87 I took off my sword belt and, rebuckling it, made a loop which I managed to hook over the closest ring in the shaft.
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25 140 I knew that she was faithless, vicious, and treacherous, and because of her glorious beauty a thousand times more dangerous than a foe armed only with the reed of a Gorean spear and the innocence of sword steel.
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26 206 I could not understand why this assertion of mine should have troubled one of Vika's proud and treacherous nature but she seemed somehow more hurt than if I had administered to her when she had knelt the blows of a slave whip or the lashings of my sword belt.
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27 38 I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother.
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27 191 At that instant I kicked loose the grille on the ventilator shaft and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba sprang to the Platform of the Mother and in another instant had leaped between Sarm and Misk, my sword drawn.
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27 230 I gestured to him with my sword.
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28 10 On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium.
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29 134 I seized the sword which I had never ceased to wear and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba rushed forward but as I did so I suddenly threw myself to the ground beneath those extended projections and slashed away at the Priest-King's posterior appendages.
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29 137 I leaped between the bladed projections and cut halfway through its skull with my sword.
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30 52 I noted that the appendage which I had severed with my sword in the Chamber of the Mother had now regrown.
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31 37 "No," cried Vika, "I discharged it this morning!" The girl ran to my side in a swirl of many-colored silks and from beneath the Robes of Concealment she withdrew my sword and kneeling at my side lowered her head and placed it in my hand.
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31 131 I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword.
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Book 4. (9 results) Nomads of Gor

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10 579 In that time of the guards of Ar I became first sword".
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4 52 To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide s...
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10 455 The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, ...
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26 389 He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".
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8 223 In the crowd, on the back of a kaiila, I noted the girl Hereena, of the first Wagon, whom I had seen my first day in the camp of the Tuchuks, she who had almost ridden down Kamchak and myself between the wagons.
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8 488 I released the bola, risking all, hurling it not to the expected rendezvous of the second left but to a first right, unexpected, the first break in the two-left, one-right pattern.
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10 117 I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the Tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put th...
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12 259 Well did I recall the first day following the first night of Aphris as the slave of Kamchak.
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23 11 I had learned to my surprise that the Ubars of the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci were, respectively, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus, the very three I had first encountered with Kamchak on the plains of Turia when first I came to the Wagon Peoples.
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Book 5. (27 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
4 1 Cernus "Place your first sword before me," I said, "that I may kill him".
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4 11 "I am the first sword in the House of Cernus," said Cernus.
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16 12 Indeed, he was said to be, and I do not doubt it, first sword in the house.
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17 203 The first sword of the military forces of Ar, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, second in authority only to Minus Tentius Hinrabius himself, was relieved of his post.
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23 114 "Do not strike me!" "But," I laughed, "you are first sword of the House of Cernus.
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22 564 I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, th...
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15 113 For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to ...
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22 555 A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veer...
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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 Equino...
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21 229 I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had ...
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6 23 There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave.
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6 53 I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man.
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11 179 The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w...
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12 106 The winning perch, or the first perch after the race, is that closest to the stands, rather than that closest to the dividing wall, the inside perch, which is first with respect to the beginning of the race, most desirable at the beginning, least desirable at the end.
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12 136 Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" ...
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13 325 Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at th...
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13 326 Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak f...
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15 250 "And yesterday," laughed Elizabeth, rocking back, clapping her hands, "when Sura asked him to stand forth that one of us might approach him to administer the first Kiss of the Captive Slave Girl, it was you who first sprang to your feet".
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15 365 But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...
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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...
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17 168 He referred to a practice of handing out passes, dated ostraka bearing the print of the House of Cernus, outside the gate of the Slaver's house, which were dispensed on a first-come-first-served basis, a thousand a day, each day of the races.
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18 453 Then I said, pointing to the first scratch, "This is the first day of En'Kara before the last En'Kara".
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19 1 The Curulean The sale of Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with that of Cernus' other trained barbarians, did not take place on the first night of the Love Feast, though they had been transported to the cages of the Curulean early in the first day.
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19 79 Here in the area of the exhibition cages there were various citizens of Ar milling about, some meeting their friends, before taking their seats in the tiers; some seats in the tiers, the better ones, are reserved by number, but many are simply available on a first-come-first<...
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21 263 "Attack!" He died first, being the first to reach me.
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 339 Lysias, his body rigid with fury, his hand on the hilt of his sword, stood not speaking before Samos, first Slaver of Port Kar.
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13 421 I held out my hand and the officer placed his sword in it, hilt first.
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15 3 I wore at my side a jeweled sword, no longer the sword I had worn for the long years when I had served Priest-Kings.
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17 391 As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist.
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3 82 Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have 6
8 111 In this situation, then, it was natural, expecting an attack on either the first or the last barge, that the officer, he of the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, would concentrate his men in the first and last barges.
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8 344 I looked down to the slave at the starboard side, he at the first thwart, who would be first oar.
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15 36 And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, de...
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
17 484 When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba.
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8 438 On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence, and the first shot in the Stabilization Series.
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9 314 "Very well!" The first girl to leap to the center of the circle was she who had first held my leash.
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14 431 Some men, of course, not just warriors, tarnsmen, and such, find pleasure in obtaining a new girl, a new slave, and then initiating her into the ramifications and consequences of her condition, in seeing that she is well familiarized with, and is well inducted into, a variety of dimensions of her ne...
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15 33 "On the first day of my capture, at the first camp of my captors," said Ute, "I fell to Rask of Treve".
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17 217 And there, too, were others, even he who had driven the slave wagon in which I had been often confined; even he who had first harnessed me to the tongue of Targo's one wagon, when I had first been captured by him.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
18 54 No one, after I had felled the first who had dared to lift his sword to such a purpose, had dared to threaten a slave.
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2 98 In my hand I held my sword, in its sheath, the sword belt wrapped about the sheath.
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2 119 I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head.
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1 22 Indeed, he was first Slaver of Port Kar, and first Captain in its Council of Captains, which council, since the downfall of the four Ubars is sovereign in Port Kar.
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1 123 How could I not love Talena, the deep, and first love, the first beautiful love of my life? "Do you love her?" asked Samos.
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2 609 "Feed us first," said the first girl.
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12 87 Indeed, there were many important merchants who had daughters, for example, the first merchant of Teletus and the first merchant of Asperiche.
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14 157 I sat them about the tree, their backs to it, and fastened them in the star, the left wrist of the first girl bound to the right wrist of the next, and so about the tree, until the star was closed by binding the left wrist of the fourth girl to the last untethered wrist, the right wris...
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22 584 He had succeeded in the first objective but had magnanimously, after first forcing her to serve him as a helpless, obedient slave girl, after sexually conquering her, freed her.
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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11 90 He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double...
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1 26 He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not c...
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7 118 "How do you like it, Thyri," asked he, "to find that you are now a girl whose belly lies beneath the sword?" "It lies not beneath your sword," she snapped.
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21 143 I did not know, nor I suppose did others, outside the Nest, when the first contacts had been made, the first probes initiated, the first awareness registered on the part of Priest-Kings that there were visitors within their system, strangers at the gates, in...
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4 118 He exchanged, taking my Ax at Jarl Six, and I his first Singer with my first Singer.
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21 27 She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne...
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Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
13 432 On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; o...
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26 30 A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?...
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Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
5 769 "When we are to be raped, and must serve you as slaves," begged the first girl, she who had been in his arms, "let me be the first to be raped, the first to serve you as a slave".
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28 154 At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of t...
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4 91 As long as a male had taken the first bite, the first drink, at the meal, apparently there was little objection to our also partaking.
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5 672 Interestingly, the man snapping the wrist rings on the girls' left wrists did not put the first girl in the first ring, but the second.
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5 775 "Lehna is first," said the first girl.
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18 52 Below on the first level two men began to shout and fight, squabbling over first master rights to their waitress, Lyrazina, an exquisite little collared blond from Teletus.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
30 67 Laughing he put her to the side, and flung his sword down, blade first, to the hilt in the sand.
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3 323 Normally much betting would wait until it was known which player had yellow, which determines the first move, the first move, of course, determining the opening.
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6 257 One of the girls had lifted aside the first of the free woman's veils, and the other had brushed back the first of her hoods.
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14 386 She, I had conjectured, would be the first of the three girls to come to a full slavery, or, as the Goreans sometimes put it, she would probably be the first to lick her chains.
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26 150 Imnak placed the first block of the second row of blocks across two blocks in the first row.
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38 44 It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first gi...
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 73 The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally ab...
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1 156 "I think Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, has grown fond of a blond Earth girl".
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12 500 Her body, sensitized by the first stroke, helpless, raw, aware, expectant, exposed, felt the second, as was intended, mingling with the burning echoes, the searing, throbbing wounds of the first, a thousand times more cruelly.
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43 40 She, like the first, was dressed in brief skins and, like the first, was ornamented, with an armlet and necklace.
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50 86 Tende was first, for she was first girl.
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57 103 The fork of the first stick goes to the back of the neck of the first girl.
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57 109 The second girl in one pair, unless she is the last in the long line, and the first girl in the succeeding pair, unless she is the first in the long line, are fastened together by neck ropes.
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Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
32 339 Then, discarding the sword, I ascended the parapet and leaped feet first to the waters far below.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
10 40 When freed on the Tina he had first expressed his desire to be put ashore, when possible, to make his way to Turmus, but, upon learning that a certain slave, one called Florence, was confined within the high walls of the holding of Policrates he had begged instead to be granted a place...
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16 330 He reached for his sword, but the point of my sword was in his belly.
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9 349 "It was the first ship which left the line, the first ship to strike at us," I said.
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19 1191 "You are first girl, Mistress," cried the slave, "you are first girl!" "Have you ever seen your collar?" asked Lola.
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21 439 "And from the first moment I heard your name, my first thought was that it was a superb name for a slave, and that it should be the name of a slave".
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 368 "So," said I, "naturally they expect not to address us first, but to be first addressed".
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1 369 "I," asked Samos, "first speak to such as they, I, who am first captain in the high city of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa?" "Correct," I said.
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8 1101 Yet I think there seems a rather clear distinction between the first three girls and the last seven, and, if I may say so, between the first and the second two".
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15 97 It is the first time that they have found themselves in the order of nature, and as what they are, and it is the first time that they have found themselves being looked at, frankly, and honestly, within the order of nature, and as what they are, females, appropriate objec...
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17 358 "Yes," she said, "almost from the first moment I felt the warm grass under my belly, almost from the first moment I put my mouth to the paws of that beast".
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
9 575 "Yes, " she said, "from the first moment I saw him, I wanted to be his slave!" "And he," I said, "from the first moment he saw you he wanted you for his own".
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
4 268 "May I present to you Drusus Rencius, Lady Sheila, my sovereign, he who is first sword among our guards?" Ligurious had inquired several days ago.
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4 301 That Drusus Rencius was first sword among the guards, then, in this case, as his insignia made clear, was not a reference to his rank but a recognition of his skill with the blade.
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6 316 Most seating, however, in Gorean theaters, except for certain privileged sections, usually reserved for high officials or the extremely wealthy, is on a first-come-first-served basis.
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34 73 For example, in a slaver's house one of the first things a new girl is taught is to kiss the whip, and therein is conveyed to her a profound message; she therein receives, perhaps for the first time in her life, an inkling into the meaning of her beauty, her slightness, a...
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
20 278 I struck the first fellow a rude blow with my fist, my sword in it.
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16 780 I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles.
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12 435 "Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected.
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20 106 I considered the cleverness of Belnar, and the probable audacity and daring of such a man, one deviously implicated, I suspected, in the intricate and dangerous games of Gorean high politics, and how easily I had been earlier outwitted in my first attempt to close with him, in my 6

Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
26 227 With the sword drawn I did not think either would care to be the first to make contact with me.
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26 311 With the sword and quiva, protecting myself first with one and then the other, and probing about, using them alternately, and generally keeping away from the source of the sound, I determined to my satisfaction that the alcove was empty save for myself and the source of t...
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3 24 The first piece of bread he threw to the woman who had been the first to unhood and face-strip herself, perhaps thereby rewarding her for her intelligence.
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3 208 He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals.
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14 41 One depicted the laying of the first stone in Torcadino's walls, an act which presumably would have taken place more than seven hundred years ago, when, according to the legends, the first wall, only a dozen feet high, was built to encircle and protect a great, sprawling ...
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18 61 It is an unforgettable moment for a woman when she is first chained, when she is first shackled, usually when stripped.
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19 24 The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the l...
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Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
29 1487 You are first sword".
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29 1486 "Your sword is first.
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29 1583 Callisthenes, first, then Sempronius, hurled their swords, blade first, into the earth at their feet.
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29 895 "sword! sword!" said the leader of the beasts, near the fighting animals, beckoning to the bearded man, pointing to the fighting beasts.
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34 83 The legalities of simple slave claim, based on active proprietorship, had now superseded, with respect to that collar, the rights contestable by the sword under which I had hitherto been held, those of sword claim.
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11 400 "Sight unseen," called Mirus to the crowd, "who will try the luck of the first ostrakon? Only a tarsk bit each! Who is first? Who is for the first ostrakon? You, sir! Yes! And you the second! The third! Yes.
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3 296 Perhaps the first man, he I had first seen, he whom I knew, no longer blocked them! But he was still there! I cried out in misery and darted across the open space, past the information desk and the office, past the periodicals and into the reading area, toward the main-le...
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4 416 Oh, it might be amusing, as an act of imperious arrogance, to take it from you, to rend it, to be the first to force you apart, to be the first to open you for the uses of men, but it is even more amusing to show you my disdain for that worthless bit of fragile, temporary...
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8 103 As she had been the first into the first cage yesterday, and we had had, for the most part, to back out of the narrow enclosures, it was natural that she had been at the head of our group this morning.
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10 181 I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling...
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11 263 Doubtless I was not the first girl to be conducted out onto that floor, and probably not even the first Earth girl.
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13 616 "I beg it!" "Since first I saw you, when I had unroped the shipping blanket, and put its folds to the sides, revealing you, helplessly manacled, when you first came to the house from Market of Semris," he said, "I dreamed that you would one day be so hot and needful befor...
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20 257 A girl's first sale, at least her first public one, as mine was at Market of Semris, when she is exposed on a block naked to buyers, and such, is probably the hardest for her.
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24 444 She was not the "first girl" of the work slaves, nor even the first girl in our pen.
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29 1655 And Mina was first on the coffle! How proud she seemed! Look at her, so beautiful, so proud to be first! Callisthenes and Sempronius supported Mirus between them, and helped him toward the woods.
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33 272 From even that first day in the library when I had knelt at his feet, the first time I had knelt at the feet of a man, retrieving a book, and had opened it, finding a message, which, at his command, I had read aloud, the message—I am a slave.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
15 571 If selections were to be made, it then seems that surely she would be among the first chosen, not for the sword, but for the chain".
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15 473 Perhaps they learn it when first they carry the candles of their longing into the recesses of their being, hoping to free their deepest self and bring it into meadows of honesty and sunlight, when first they dare to open the doors of yearning, when first the...
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4 74 "I take the first of the first tubs," said the fellow.
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6 7 As the first line in Gorean writing moves from the left to the right, according to convention the numbers to the left would be first numbers designating the space.
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13 107 The first time I had used Lady Claudia, the first day I had been in the cell, flinging her to my feet in the straw, I had taken little time with her.
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24 661 The best selling point is usually regarded as the first position on the chain, for she is the first girl inspected, and is likely to be remembered, even after the others are examined.
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Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 334 "Who is first sword?" I asked the leader.
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3 341 Too, I suspected the leader would be himself first sword.
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3 348 "Who is first sword?" asked the leader.
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18 116 He looked down once at the sword in its sheath, lying to the side, where it had slipped, the sword belt earlier severed, when he had risen to his knees.
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19 777 The jaws snapped downward and the point of the sword emerged through the upper jaw and the lower jaw was tight under the hilt of the sword.
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25 203 When I held her back a bit from me, by the upper arms, I saw, as I expected, the mark of my sword belt, diagonal, across her body, and the print of two buckles in her flesh, that of the sword belt, and that of the pouch, or knife, belt.
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3 344 One sacrifices the first board, so to speak, and then has one's first player engaging the enemy's second player, and one's second player engaging the enemy's third, and so on.
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19 650 I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had per...
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26 227 The proceeds from the first sales of the girls, when they were first put up for auction, whether out of the city or within it, went to the public treasury of Besnit.
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31 268 "Serve first our guest, Ina," I said, correcting her behavior, for she was apparently preparing to serve me first.
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37 234 The girl may be entered into the sack either feet first or head first.
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 252 Seremides approached him and, drawing his sword from its sheath, extended it to him, hilt first.
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7 101 "He has his sword!" "Seremides retains his sword!" cried a man, calling back to those less near the platform.
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8 661 Indeed, if there is a large number of slaves, there are sometimes hierarchies of "first girls," lower-level first girls reporting to higher-level first girls, and so on.
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9 13 first with one hand and then the other, suddenly, frenziedly, first from one wrist, and then from the other, sobbing, she tried to force the obdurate iron from her wrist.
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10 243 Moreover I thought he could really reach at least three of them, the first with a thrust, and the second two, each with a slash to the neck, first to the right, the blade withdrawn, and then to the left, before they could adequately break and scatter.
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18 213 "When a wagon would be stuck in the mud, it was always he who would first discover it! When there wasn't enough to eat, it would be he who would be the first to notice!" I did have a good appetite, of course.
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27 367 I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, sa...
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Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

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13 700 Did they sense, tremblingly, how exciting they might seem to men if they were so adorned, how much this might increase the desire which they might provoke in masters? And were they not, all, slaves? Did they not want to be exciting, beautiful, and desirable? Did they dare to conceive of themselves, ...
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40 27 The officer of Treve, Terence, quietly removed the sword belt, the sheath and sword, from about his left shoulder, handing it to the guard, to his right.
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46 241 I had felt the first time I had seen him, the first time I had knelt before him, looking up at him, the first time I had kissed his whip, that I was somehow his, that it was to him that I belonged.
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6 119 "Are such things also of interest to you?" asked he who was first among those of the house, first, at any rate, among those present.
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6 185 I had found the way in which I was regarded by these men, almost from the beginning, as soon as I became aware of such things, almost from my first moments after having crawled from the corridor in line, with the others, chained by the neck, to the first processing area, ...
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8 26 But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl ...
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12 435 Let the necklace be but the first of a succession, I thought, of ever richer and more hopefully, more desperately proffered gifts, the first of many similarly tendered inducements.
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13 848 I had been well punished by the first nine strokes, I assure you, but that tenth stroke told me more than the first nine.
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19 620 It would be not only the second woman who had profited from the experience of the first woman, but the first woman, as well.
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24 134 It seemed clear that there were more tarns in this group than in the first group, perhaps considerably more, but by how much the numbers of this group might exceed those of the first group it would be very difficult to say, that for two reasons, their formation and orient...
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24 135 They were in single-file, like the first group, but they were not moving to the right, as had the first group, an orientation that had made possible a fairly exact estimate of their numbers.
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24 706 She had had apparently at least one other, he who had first captured her, he who had first put the collar on her neck, one from whom she had been stolen, one whom she feared terribly, with all the terror of her embonded heart.
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29 737 "In my house," he said, "it will be I who will first tie you to the whipping ring, who will give you your first public lashing".
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34 57 Who had first seen me, who had marked me out, who had first decided this? Who had speculated how I might look in a collar, who had conjectured my lineaments, who had read my body, and my heart? "The Turian opening?" asked the pit master.
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37 291 We were thrust a little down the passageway, the first group, that "cord" of five in front, the second group, the second "cord" of five, in which I was one, behind, and in the interstices of the first group.
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37 602 The first man and the lieutenant had come to the first gate, reached by going to the right about the pool.
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37 625 The first man, with the two slaves, who had gone to the left, was now well ahead of us, and had reached the first of the three opposite gates which was accessible from our side of the pool.
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43 79 "Do you think you are a first girl, and that you are now in the house of Appanius?" inquired the first man of Aynur.
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44 177 "No, Master! Please, no, Master!" "But she was first girl over the other slave," said the first man.
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44 179 "You were, as I understand it," said the first man to Aynur, who seemed now unable to rise even to her knees, "a poor first girl, one not only unpopular in the garden, but even one richly hated therein, one who ruled it strictly and cruelly, personally, arbitrarily, using...
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Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

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25 599 "Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first...
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22 454 It was he who on this world had been her first master, he who on Earth had arranged and executed her straightforward, flawless abduction, he into whose keeping and under whose mastery she had first come, he amongst whose toils she had first found herself ine...
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10 25 She had hated Tutina from the first, even from the moment she had first seen her at the opera, so long ago, probably because she had seemed simple, stupid and so beautiful, but, more likely, as she was, in fact, neither simple nor stupid, because she was beautiful and was...
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13 252 The first girl, she who had first alerted the slaves to the phenomenon in the distance, climbed down from the rack, and crouched near it, amidst the flapping clothes.
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15 117 Immediately she knelt in the first position before him, the first position of the pleasure slave.
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15 496 Why should some men want to be the first to open a slave? What difference does it make? The slave will probably have very little feeling the first time.
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16 182 Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position.
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20 173 When morning came, the first day, they had landed, taken shelter in a grove of ka-la-na, and made their first camp.
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20 301 Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, tha...
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24 50 Too, had it not been his whip that she had first felt as a slave? Certainly no slave is likely to forget her first whipping.
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25 992 In a moment she would again belong to Mirus, he who had first opened her for the uses of men, her first master.
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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36 76 "The knife," said Cabot, "outreaches the hand, and the sword outreaches the knife, and the spear outreaches the sword.
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36 77 Is the knife then less noble than the hand, and the sword less noble than the knife, and the spear less noble than the sword?" "No," said Grendel.
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24 149 The master takes the first bite of shared food; if he should be seated, say, on a bench or chair, the slave commonly eats at his feet, kneeling beside him; sometimes she is fed by hand, particularly the first bites of food; sometimes she must eat from dishes on the floor,...
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Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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14 22 These were surrogates for several weapons, in particular the short sword, or companion sword, and the long sword.
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18 210 I did note that his sword, the long sword, with its beautifully curved blade, and its tasseled hilt, suitable for a two-handed grasp, was bloodied.
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18 346 "He fights, he, sword to sword?" I asked.
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22 153 "The sword! The sword!" begged Licinius.
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23 282 A similar practice I would learn often obtains in houses and barracks amongst the Pani, a practice in which the long sword is often set to one side, stored or racked, in a hall or vestibule, but the companion sword is kept at one's side, even near the sleeping mats and bl...
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43 104 "How can his sword be of great value," I asked, "if it has cost you six men?" "Is such a sword not worth six men?" asked Lord Nishida.
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28 16 For example, the fourth month, that following the third passage hand and the summer solstice, is En'var or En'var-Lar-Torvis, the first Standing of the Sun; the seventh month, following the sixth passage hand and the autumnal equinox is Se'Kara or Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, The Second Turning...
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13 88 Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who ...
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16 121 I would expect the third sweep of each rank to be more successful than the first or second, certainly more so than the first.
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23 19 The favorite, incidentally, is not likely to be "first girl," that slave placed in charge of the others in the house, but she may nonetheless exercise considerable power, and candidates for "first girl" are likely to cultivate her favor.
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33 100 "Doubtless they have their sport, their interest in which drop of water will be first to reach a sill, which insect will be the first to cross a line".
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38 100 The first area was on the first deck below the open deck, and the second and third areas were on the next lower decks.
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38 101 Three ramps were involved, one leading from the third lower deck to the second lower deck, one from the second lower deck to the first lower deck, and one from the first lower deck to the top deck, or open deck, once a great hatch had been rolled back.
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Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

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5 121 Some men enjoy killing, and I did not doubt but what one of these was Seremides, formerly first sword amongst the Taurentians.
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9 118 We took him to be first sword amongst us.
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5 135 The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
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10 104 Today, I realized, was the first day of En'Kara, the first day of En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring.
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3 53 The first watch begins with the commencement of the day's first Ahn, the second with the sixth Ahn, the third with the eleventh Ahn, and the fourth with the sixteenth Ahn.
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7 161 Tomorrow would be the first day of the Ninth Passage Hand, at the end of which is the winter solstice, and the first day of Se'var-Lar-Torvis, the month of the Second Turning of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone.
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9 169 "The first, the first!" screamed a man.
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37 78 "Yes, Master," cried the slave, gasping, "that horrid stuff was forced down my throat shortly after my first collaring, and when I first came aboard the great ship, that of Tersites, and before I was landed, at the World's End, and again, here at Brundisium, before I was ...
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37 1485 We did, of course, take the first bite of the various dishes, the first sip of the various beverages, and such.
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Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

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21 26 In a house containing a hundred or more slaves, there may be more than one first girl, there being various groups of slaves, and these first girls, in turn, will report to the first girl of first girls, so to speak.
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21 28 In such a household the lower first girls will wear a talmit of one color, and the high girl, or first girl of first girls, she who reports to the master or his representative, the kajira sana, will wear one of a different color.
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7 49 Could my behavior, my promptings, what would satisfy me, what I would need, be wholly independent of my form of life, be unique amongst all living forms, merely accidents and oddities imposed upon me from the outside, beginning with the first flash of light, the first bre...
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8 1423 Had there been a "first girl," I might have assisted her in her tasks, done much of her work, flattered her, cultivated her, petitioned her, and so on, but there was no first girl.
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21 30 In any event, Jane, who was not first girl, as we had no first girl, had seemingly, without permission, arrogated to herself a talmit, commonly understood as a badge of authority.
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28 29 One expects a first girl to have her favorites, and those she least favors, but, I think, it was clear to all that for some reason I was very much in our first girl's disfavor, and indeed, unusually so.
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30 164 "We all are," I said, "even our first girl, Nora, though she is the last caged and the first released".
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31 72 The first compartment in the Golden Corridor was that of Lucius, putatively first in the Cave, the second and third were occupied, respectively, by Timarchos and Lysymachos.
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50 28 To my apprehension, particularly at first, I would deliver and receive these messages as I had at first, when I had been robbed on my way to the wine shop of Amyntas, that robbery which had placed false information in the hands of the conspirators, namely, with the sack t...
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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2 3 Secondly, supine, they were more conveniently positioned for their first lesson, namely, that they were subject to discipline, symbolized by kissing the whip, and, second, enunciating their first words in what would be their new language, appropriate words.
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7 39 I often thought of the man whom I had first seen in the store, before whom, for the first time, I had felt myself viewed as what I had secretly taken myself to be, a slave.
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7 46 I had had the strangest, shocking sense, when our eyes had first met, not only that I, a suitable slave, was before a master, perhaps for the first time, but that I might be before my master.
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14 182 Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits.
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29 32 The switch fell again, twice again, first on the second slave, and then on the first, hurrying them forward.
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41 350 Did his neglect of me in the camp seem too studied? Why was he here? How was it that he, who had first looked upon me, on a far world, and had looked upon me as a man looks upon a slave, the first time to my knowledge that I had been so looked upon, so obviously, and had ...
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Book 33. (17 results) Rebels of Gor

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47 64 "You slew Izo," said Lord Yamada, "the first sword in my guard".
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47 332 "My sword," said Nodachi, bowing, and handing his sword, hilt first, to Katsutoshi, the captain of the shogun's guard.
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60 193 The first two men who reached us, fell before the whipping, almost invisible, sword of Nodachi.
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1 515 "Of what use is a lance left forever in its rack," I said, "or a sword which fears to leave its sheath?" "The lance is to remain in its rack until grasped," said Lord Okimoto, "and the sword is to be drawn only by the proper hand".
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7 95 It was felt that each sword was needed; would not each sword, when the major onslaught came, if it would come, be important and precious? Given the honor and discipline of the Pani, and their sense of propriety, even privately owned slaves had been placed in the indoor ho...
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31 225 A decree without the sword is no more than a sword without a blade.
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46 176 But now, gripped in two hands, he carried a different sword, the heavier, longer of the two swords often carried by a warrior, the field sword.
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59 30 The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword.
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59 191 He was no master of the companion sword, nor would he have been of the field sword.
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60 328 One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping a...
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11 175 Following the disasters of the mutiny at sea, the ambush following the first landing, the fate of the exploratory force, the raid on the first encampment, and casualties of the siege, there were something less than thirty-five hundred men, Pani and barbarians, at the disp...
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11 265 "How else explain the massacre at the first encampment, and the ambush and decimation of the exploratory force?" Many lives, and tarns, had been lost in the massacre at the first encampment, and many more lives had been lost in the defeat of the exploratory force.
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11 266 The great sleen, lame Ramar, first encountered on a steel world, had been housed at the first encampment.
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12 179 I was not sure, at first, whether I should speak first, or Lord Temmu.
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12 181 Does not he who is less in status bow first? Indeed, does not the lesser officer, by word or gesture, first acknowledge the presence of the senior, or higher, officer? "Greetings, Lord," I said.
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35 48 first came Arashi, the bandit, swathed with ropes, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the grasp of a glaive-bearing Ashigaru, two of the foragers first met in the inn.
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54 14 And if the Kurii were unresponsive, who would be so rash, at least upon reflection, to reprimand so large, unpredictable, and dangerous a form of life? So, the first time we had opened the door, near the twentieth Ahn on the second night of our stay in the chamber, we had propped up th...
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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49 31 Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword.
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69 20 If one were a warrior, one might even issue a challenge, a challenge in virtue of sword right, the right of beauty to be claimed by means of the sword.
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33 633 What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might...
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6 282 The woman in the muchly torn gown cried out, "No, I am first, I will be first, me, me!" and began to strike at the rolling pair with her small fists.
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33 568 Almost at the same time I heard a shriek of dismay from the beast in the crate, and was aware, a moment later, of two other large, hirsute forms descending, forms in the darkness, away from the lantern, one leaping from the first level to the flooring, and the second swinging down from...
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34 212 "When the first monster was conceived and delivered," he said, "and sanguine hopes flourished, a mate for it was planned, the more to make it seem human, the more to endear it to men, the better that it might carry out its tasks, but with the debacle attendant on the failure of the ...
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45 39 The long-armed, red-robed fellow who had first lifted his cup to Lord Grendel, initiating this gesture of recognition and esteem, signaling out and honoring him, was the same as he who had first cordially saluted him upon his entrance into this house, apparently one of se...
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60 263 The first was swathed in chains, and the second, apparently the guard, or custodian, of the first, carried a large Kur ax.
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61 158 "I will kill the first who should so attack, the first who should so feed!" "They are humans," protested a Kur.
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Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

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42 158 Surely you recognize me, Seremides, once first sword of the Taurentians, your beloved servant, always loyally at the foot of your throne.
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43 118 "I was once first sword of the Taurentians in Ar.
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3 172 Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a m...
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3 291 Which of you would you like to be her first master? Which of you would like to be the first to teach this barbarian what it is to be a slave?" "One, ninety," called a man.
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8 752 An officer, departing the side of the captain, who held his position aft, came between the benches, and looked up, to the fellow at the height of the mast, the lookout, he on his wooden platform, standing within the waist-high metal ring, who had first seen the stranger, who had ...
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23 143 I was brought to him, rather, I gathered, because it was not clear what was to be done with me, and because Samos, aside from being first Captain in the Council of Captains, was also first Slaver of Port Kar.
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24 72 Some days ago I had been brought by two guardsmen to the House of Samos, of Port Kar, first Captain of the Council of Captains, and first Slaver of Port Kar.
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27 124 "No," said the first man, drawing his knife from its belt sheath, "let us attend to it first".
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33 333 I glanced upward and saw, briefly, this time silhouetted against the Yellow Moon, that fearsome shape which I had seen once before, long ago, silhouetted then against the White Moon, on our first venture into the marshes, when we had first happened upon this quiet, seclud...
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36 56 He was said to be a paga fellow of Samos of Port Kar, who was first Slaver of Port Kar, and first Captain, or High Captain, in the Council of Captains, which body, as earlier noted, was sovereign in Port Kar.
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38 179 The first bite, of course, the first sip, and such, will be taken by the master.
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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. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

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43 84 I had expected him to run, which would have been his best option, in which case I would pursue him for a pace or two and launch my sword with an overhand hilt cast, hoping, if all went well, to penetrate his back below the left shoulder blade, after which one would hope to draw out the...
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60 202 "Let us meet," he said, "sword to sword".
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32 31 "first," said he, "ideally, those who seem to be first, who appear to give commands, who seem to be obeyed, who seem to be leaders.
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32 60 first, the column would not understand the likely meaning of the arrow, and, accordingly, would not come to arms at its first note, and, second, the men of the column, detecting the arrow, would be likely, in fascination, to follow it in its flight, however apprehensively...
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36 55 "I understand, from Lais, your first girl," I said, "that on the very first day of our return from Daphna, you, perhaps not yet fully understanding your collars, doubtless conspiring, thought to shirk your tasks and were hesitant to obey commands instantly".
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