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Book 1. (47 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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19 100 On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled out for the flame death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire, so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame.
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2 210 "It is flame death merely to possess a weapon of the interdicted sort.
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2 211 Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the flame death, but sooner or later they are struck down".
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19 95 "Die the flame death," he said.
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19 96 I had heard of the flame death from my father and from the Older Tarl—that legendary fate which overtook those who had transgressed the will of the Priest-Kings.
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19 101 "Die the flame death," repeated the old man, once again jabbing that long finger in my direction.
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20 72 Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the flame death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challeng...
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14 118 "The tarn death is an ugly death".
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1 173 I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back.
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1 176 I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll.
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1 184 The thought came to me that the ring, which I had dropped in my pocket, might similarly burst into flame, but, unaccountably perhaps, I doubted it.
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2 107 It had been roasted over an open flame.
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2 208 "From time to time they are, but their owners are then destroyed, bursting into flame".
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14 9 He was a gigantic man, larger even than the Older Tarl, and in his eyes, wild and green, I saw the masterful flame which had, in its way, also burned in the eyes of Talena, his daughter.
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19 113 Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind.
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20 12 Perhaps the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountai...
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2 137 "Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
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2 168 "Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet.
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2 188 My own speculation, which I judge as likely or unlikely to be true as the more popular superstitious stories, is that it is death to learn the secret of the Priest-Kings".
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4 14 I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death.
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5 135 If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.
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6 45 I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
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6 114 "I was tricked by her I supposed to be the daughter of the Ubar, thrown from my own tarn, and saved from death only by your web.
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6 215 She shuddered at the memory, and I pitied her for what must have been a horrifying experience, lashed helpless to the saddle of a giant tarn reeling in a death struggle for the mastery of a flock, high over the trees of the swamp forest.
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7 12 Perhaps your death will be made easier in consequence".
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7 113 She was screaming wildly, all control lost in the face of the slow, ugly death awaiting her.
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8 24 "Do not fear—though there are many in Ar who rejoice in your deed, your death will not be pleasant or swift".
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9 12 It would be death for us both.
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9 149 Hooded, she cowered there, the prize, her ears filled with the sudden violent ringing of blade on blade as two warriors fought to the death to possess her.
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12 34 "And you will die the death of a fool," he said.
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12 45 "It was her wish that you die the death of a villain," he said, "on the Frame of Humiliation, unworthy to stain our weapons".
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12 58 The death would not be a pleasant one.
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12 69 The image of the treacherous, beautiful Talena, in her dancing silks, as she had lain in my arms, tormented me—she who would gladly give her kisses to the cold Pa-Kur for a place on the throne of Ar, she whose implacable hatred had sent me to this terrible death, not even permit...
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13 57 With a convulsive shudder, the great head rolled to one side and the eyes half closed, leaving a milky slit of death between the lids.
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14 1 The Tarn death Shackled in a kneeling position, my back open and bleeding from the lash, I was thrown before the Ubar.
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14 18 I did not expect that I would be granted a swift death.
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14 67 I felt numb, even my back, which presumably would have been a riot of pain if I had not felt myself near death.
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14 101 "Has this warrior not earned his right to the tarn death?" "He has indeed," said one of the tarnsmen, who held a wadded lump of tunic over his slashed rib cage.
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14 113 "No man can escape the tarn death," said one of the men.
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15 248 "You are the only man who has ever escaped the tarn death," he said, something of wonder in his voice.
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16 33 Above them, tarnsman met tarnsman in battles to the death.
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16 95 I felt a choking sensation in my throat and asked myself if I had sent my friend to his death.
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18 78 I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the c...
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19 91 "If it is the will of the Priest-Kings," I said, "to bring about the death of an innocent girl, then I challenge their will".
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19 104 "I have decreed the death of the girl," cried the old man wildly, his robes fluttering around his bony knees.
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20 22 The sentence of death passed upon him by the usurping government of the Initiates was rescinded, but because his imperialistic ambition was feared, he was exiled from his beloved city.
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20 24 Accordingly, the Ubar, tears in his eyes, was publicly refused bread and salt, and, under penalty of death, was ordered to leave Ar by sundown, never again to come within ten pasangs of the city.
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Book 2. (25 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 17 The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous flame death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as m...
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6 63 It would be to invite the flame death of the Priest-Kings for one or the other, perhaps both of us.
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6 64 I had seen a man die the flame death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
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14 8 Hideous though the death might seem to the silver masks of Tharna, they did not know that I was a tarnsman, and knew these birds, their power, their ferocity; that in my way I loved them; and that as a warrior I would not find a death by tarn ignoble.
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9 65 On each side of the door, in a small niche sheltered from the drizzle, there sputtered the yellow flame of a small tharlarion-oil lamp.
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24 17 Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the ...
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1 45 I knew that I had been an instant from death.
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1 130 How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?" "You're drunk," I said, smiling.
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3 29 One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.
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4 40 It glided away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone, a young animal ready to neglect and overlook those slight traces that can spell the difference between death and survival in Gor's brutal and predatory world.
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6 129 Such relationships are not entered into lightly, and they are normally sundered only by death.
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11 211 I gathered the sentence to the mines was equivalent to a sentence of death.
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11 228 Should I have thrown them away?" "These coins," said Lara, holding the tiny sack in her hand, gloved in gold, "were to buy my death".
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11 240 "Someone is apparently willing to pay highly for my death".
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11 241 "Not your death," I said.
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12 76 He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and 6
12 88 Nine cities, long after his death, claimed the man who, centuries ago, had called Ko-ro-ba the Towers of the Morning.
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13 153 I wondered if my death would be quick.
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14 7 Perhaps the Amusements of Tharna were not spoiled at all; perhaps the best was yet to come? Surely my death beneath the beak and talons of a tarn would provide a gratifying spectacle for the insatiable masks of Tharna, adequate compensation for the disappointments of the afternoon, for...
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14 10 Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...
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14 114 I knew that the warriors of Tharna would have to kill two of us, for the tarn would defend me to the death.
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19 55 Cell after cell was emptied of its wretched chained occupants, only to be refilled with shackled guardsmen and Whip Slaves, men who knew that the least sign of resistance would bring only a swift and bloody death.
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19 156 Yes, I knew that the power of the Priest-Kings—rumored even to extend to the control of gravity—could lay waste cities, scatter populations, separate friends, tear lovers from one another's arms, bring hideous death to whomsoever it might choose.
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20 29 Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men.
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26 62 Also it should be noted that it was not realistic to offer the silver masks the alternative of exile, for that would simply have been to condemn them to violent death or foreign enslavement.
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Book 3. (45 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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16 79 For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the flame death Mechanism".
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16 80 I had once seen a man die the flame death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
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17 83 "I once saw a man die the flame death," I said.
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17 85 "The projection points for the flame death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room.
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27 35 Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by flame death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous m...
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27 111 I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the flame death.
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28 3 These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the flame death Mechanism.
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33 36 Perhaps they expected me to be cut down by the flame death before their very eyes.
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33 50 He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the High Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former High Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the flame death years earlier.
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15 3 There seemed to be very little heat from the bluish flame of the Mul-Torch but, considering the size of the flame, a surprising amount of light.
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14 186 He broke the end of the rod off and it began to burn with a bluish flame.
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16 131 "It was saturated with flame Lock, and its combustion index was set for twenty Ehn following opening".
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24 24 The creature did not fear me nor the flame.
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29 56 While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the...
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31 143 As I climbed, to my elation, I saw the tube's flame sputter and stop and knew the weapon was at last discharged.
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32 268 At last he wadded enough in for the pressure to hold it tight and, using the silver lighter, sucked a stream of flame into the bowl.
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1 51 If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.
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1 61 Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities.
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1 67 The contests at the fairs, however, I am pleased to say, offer nothing more dangerous than wrestling, with no holds to the death permitted.
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1 99 He had disobeyed and he had been destroyed, immediately and with grotesque dispatch, but the important thing was, I told myself, that he had disobeyed, that he could disobey, that he had been able to disobey and choose the ignominious death he knew must follow.
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1 102 I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.
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2 85 I advanced, my spear ready for its cast, my shield ready to be thrown over my body to protect it from the death throes of the thrashing beast should the cast be successful.
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2 125 For some reason I did not fear death but felt only anger that these beasts might prevent me from keeping my rendezvous with the Priest-Kings of Gor.
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8 5 I had meant to scare her half to death and I was pleased to see that I had.
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12 185 Had it been combat to the death in that brief instant I would have finished him, leaping over him and gouging my heels into his stomach, rupturing the diaphragm.
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14 148 "It seems to me," I said, "that you should not blame yourself for the girl's death, but Sarm".
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14 155 To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
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15 128 "Do Priest-Kings believe in a life after death?" I asked.
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18 99 With one brush of a foreleg he might have sent me hurtling to my death some hundreds of feet below.
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18 124 I wondered if hurling my weight against Sarm I might have tumbled him from that platform to his death far below.
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20 185 "You will not go to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "because it is death to do so".
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22 40 "In the lower abdomen there is a dorsal organ which serves to circulate the body fluids but since our tissues are, on the whole, directly bathed in body fluid, injuring it would not produce death for some time, at least not for a few Ehn.
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23 16 Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected.
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23 35 I found nothing that could have caused her death unless perhaps a small puncture on her left side, through which some poison might have been injected.
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27 33 I supposed my best way of serving Misk might be to abandon him to his death and try to protect the young male, but these were matters in which I had little interest.
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27 151 I knew the unusual strength of Priest-Kings and I could well imagine the stresses and pressures that throbbed in the frames of those locked creatures as they rocked back and forth, to one side and another, each pressing and seeking for the advantage that would mean death to the other.
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27 195 Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "death to the Mul".
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28 2 After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest-Kings for he was First Born, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes.
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29 61 In a moment there would be no avenue of attack which would not mean sure death.
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31 51 Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born.
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31 176 I could not leap to the sides, for there was only the smooth sheer curve of the blue globe and I would slide to my death and fall like one of the stones from the roof above to the dusty, smoking rubble below.
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31 215 More rock dust drifted between me and the pair locked in the embrace of death.
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31 224 Priest-Kings, I knew, had few pleasures, and now I guessed that foremost among them might be death.
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31 229 Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height.
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35 133 "But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Ki...
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Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 49 I hoped that I would be granted death in battle, if death it must be.
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17 9 Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more be...
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2 37 Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to c...
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2 53 It is said they remove the hood only when the sentence is death, so that it is only condemned men who have seen whatever it is that lies beneath the hood.
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7 188 Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
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7 208 Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.
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9 173 Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.
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9 311 "It is one thing to order the death of a Tuchuk," he said.
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9 435 I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most b...
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10 182 For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty Tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle.
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10 475 "I want him slain," she cried, "cut into tiny pieces, the death of a thousand cuts!" "Withdraw," I advised Kamchak.
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10 530 "Better, my friend," I said, "that than death".
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10 531 "No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".
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12 254 It would not have been wise, of course, for even were she successful, her consequent hideous death at the hands of the Clan of Torturers would probably, all things considered, have made her act something of a bad bargain.
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12 257 Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon.
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13 106 The punishment of a runaway slave is often grievous, sometimes culminating in death.
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15 57 Since the death of Kutaituchik, Kamchak had turned ugly in manner.
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16 241 I wondered what death he might have in mind for me.
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17 62 I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia.
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18 19 The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia.
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21 55 It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean c...
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21 117 In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death.
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23 191 Already the bosk were growing uneasy at the smell of death and already the grass about the camp was rustling with the movements of the tiny brown prairie urts, scavengers, come to feed.
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25 158 "Yes," she said, "I will reveal myself, but know that I will fight you to the death".
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26 390 Kamchak grinned at me, the first time since the death of Kutaituchik.
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27 187 "It was after her death," said Harold, "that Kutaituchik first tasted the rolled strings of kanda".
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Book 5. (20 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 71 Only a bit of wood now, here and there, missed by the chilled wine, clung to flame; some of the logs, however, still smoked, and others held as though within themselves the redness of the fire they remembered; but most were simply charred, now dead, stained with the oil, wet from the w...
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2 187 It was argued that the citizens of Ar could scarcely remain strong and fearless unless accustomed to the sight of blood, of danger and death.
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4 93 He had come to the allied city of Ko-ro-ba, and had there found his death, for no reason that was clear to me other than the fact that he had had the misfortune to resemble me.
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5 524 "Forgive me!" When one who is slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
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7 77 "To speak of what you see is, of course, death," said he.
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10 120 "Do not be curious, Killer," said he, "for commonly those who look upon the beast do so only in death".
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12 78 Marlenus, because he had lost the Home Stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death.
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13 182 "When he was publicly refused bread, salt and fire on the height of the central cylinder, when he was exiled from Ar, not to return on pain of death, do you know what he said?" "No," I said, "I do not".
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15 79 I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...
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15 97 Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets.
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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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16 231 Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...
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18 173 "There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death".
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19 136 "Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the spor...
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21 245 With a cry of rage he threw himself at me and the cry died in his throat, he sprawling in his astonishment, his death and his blood, crosswise in the sand.
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22 73 Do not approach the tarn now or it will mean your death".
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22 86 The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
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22 376 I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings.
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23 238 "What is death?" I asked him.
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23 241 "If death is nothing," I said, "then the little that life is must be much indeed".
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Book 6. (21 results) Raiders of Gor

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11 420 Bemused, I had burned it in the tiny flame of the candle on the table near me, now little more than a twig of wick in a puddle of clear, melted wax, and then I had, with the palm of my hand, snuffed out the tiny flame.
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4 172 A small flame was kindled into which she thrust a bit of rence stem, like a match.
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5 187 She, like the other, spit then in my face and turned away, now moving fully, enveloped in the music's flame.
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5 223 In this tiny flame I thrust a bit of rence stem, from a bundle of such, and, with it, lit the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp set in its copper bowl.
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11 533 I scratched with my fingernail in the wax, breaking up the bits of charred paper that had been the note I had burned in the candle flame.
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16 311 We heard the cry about us sweeping the city, like a spark igniting the hearts of men into flame, that now in Port Kar there was a Home Stone.
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3 295 How could I face myself, or anyone? I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 301 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 340 "I should have thought," said he with the headband, formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, "that you might have preferred a man for a slave, one who is proud and does not fear death".
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3 346 I had feared death.
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4 78 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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8 160 I knew myself for one who had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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8 169 My last thought before the sweet darkness of sleep was the remembrance that I was one who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death, and that I was alone.
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8 338 I had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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9 70 And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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15 311 And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
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17 155 What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ig...
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18 121 "At what age," asked he, "is a man ready for death?" "To go where I am to go," I told him, "and do what I must do, is the action of a fool".
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18 614 There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them.
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18 893 "We anticipated," said Samos, "that your humanity would assert itself, that faced with a meaningless, ignominious death in the marshes, you would grovel and whine for your life".
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18 896 "You chose," said Samos, "as warriors have it, ignominious bondage over the freedom of honorable death".
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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10 498 The flame from the match was but an inch short of the cigarette.
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13 176 How pleased I was when I saw the small, pointed stick whirling in its wooden pit, and saw the dried flakes of leaves suddenly redden and flash into a tiny flame, which we then fed with leaves and twigs, until it would burn sticks.
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13 254 "Hurry!" Then, at last, a tiny flame appeared, eating at the flakes of dried leaves wedged about the pit.
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15 505 "Splendid!" Now the melody became more swift, and it burned like flame in the girl's slave body.
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9 111 "One of these," said Verna, "or myself, you will fight to the death".
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13 103 Such an exile, commonly for a Gorean, is equivalent to enslavement or death.
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17 68 And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons.
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17 143 "Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded...
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17 270 death by ost venom is among the most hideous of deaths.
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17 307 I had been told there was enough there to bring a hundred men to an excruciating death.
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18 47 I knew that I was one who had once chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 18 The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game.
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18 196 In a moment, like a wind-torn explosion, flame leaped in a breadth of a dozen feet on the still shores, on that lonely beach, of Thassa.
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22 112 What had seemed a dim sun, a flame in darkness, became a ship's lantern, swinging on its iron ring.
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1 99 I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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22 223 "Is there any among you," she said, "who wish to fight me to the death?" They shook their heads.
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22 227 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" demanded Verna.
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22 828 "You are to fight to the death," I told her.
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Book 9. (29 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 99 The invisible barrier about the Sardar is evidence of that, and the policing, by flame death, of illegal weapons and inventions.
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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 Por...
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9 386 I had intended to permit her to smolder for a time, she much aroused, and then later, when she had been much heated with need and desire, when, cruelly deprived, she had been aching to break into flame, throw her to my furs, but, unfortunately, I had forgotten about her.
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16 9 This tinder flared immediately into flame.
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1 25 I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea.
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1 28 After the death of Surbus, the woman had been mine.
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1 31 To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall,...
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1 106 There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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1 141 Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarr...
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1 383 "You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.
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2 28 Sometimes those who insisted on retaining the old ways, or were caught making the sign of the fist, the hammer, over their ale, were subjected to death by torture.
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2 54 It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.
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2 55 It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his ways and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of Priest-Kings.
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2 56 Such a conversion, even though it be in death, would be a great coup for the Initiates.
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2 120 For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
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2 236 Ivar Forkbeard, in death, if not in life, was making pilgrimage to the temple, that his bones might be anointed at the hands of the High Initiate, would he so graciously deign to do so.
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2 241 Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings.
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2 293 He comes in death to the temple of Priest-Kings, that his bones may be anointed with the grease of Priest-Kings.
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2 313 It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar.
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2 330 But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.
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3 152 I shall first choose death!" "Very well," laughed the Forkbeard.
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6 58 They did not leave the fields; such a departure, without permission, might mean their death; they were thralls.
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10 42 Immersion in the waters of the Ax Glacier country, unprotected, will commonly bring about death by shock, within a matter of Ihn.
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11 114 "Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction".
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13 373 For a bondmaid to speak in such a situation might be to invite a sentence of death.
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13 419 Never in the north had there been such a coup of honor! Though it might mean the death of us all, those who followed the Forkbeard, and that of perhaps hundreds of the men of Svein Blue Tooth, we cheered.
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17 219 As slaves, they were commanded; as slaves, did they fail to comply, they would be put to death.
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21 254 "If he dies," he said, "your death will be neither swift nor pleasant".
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22 195 As a note, it might be added, that the slave female, in her master's arms, must, if he so commands, under the threat of the whip or death, vocalize her sensations, thus ventilating and reinforcing, multiplying, deepening, and increasing and intensifying them.
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Book 10. (21 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 290 The Tahari would, from east to west, flame with war.
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5 228 Before Suleiman, now, there lay five stones, three sereem diamonds, red, sparkling, white flecked, and two opals, one a common sort, milky in color, and the other an unusual flame opal, reddish and blue.
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10 219 "The desert will flame".
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13 117 It might have been in the design of a stylized lance, or flame or leaf.
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1 476 It would not have been a pleasant death.
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3 11 In thirty-two I had been adjudged victorious, nineteen times to the death cut.
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7 300 So struck, four times, I found it not difficult to believe that the animal, even if unfound, would have sought a dark place, and there, in silence, bled to death.
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7 428 "The message collar," said Ibn Saran, "failed to bring about your death, the termination of your quest for the last egg of Priest-Kings".
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7 659 "And Hamid," I said, "by intent, did not strike Suleiman to the death, but feigning clumsiness, wounded him only".
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10 190 I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it.
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10 294 They will, presumably, be put to death".
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11 314 The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death.
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14 252 "Your death would be swift".
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17 32 How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe...
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18 16 "In return, you ask only your own death?" "No," I said.
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19 98 The alternative to the gamble was not security but certain death.
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21 142 It would be madness and death to enter them.
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23 44 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked him.
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23 82 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked.
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24 316 "No such honorable death would be yours.
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25 637 Your death would surely be one of the deaths of a slave girl, who has not been pleasing".
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Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
12 784 Slowly then I made my way, inch by inch, through encumbrances, through the close, flame-lit darkness of the basket, the flickering light from outside oddly in small moving patches illuminating the flesh, the gold, within, to the edge of the basket, so that I might see out more easily t...
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13 15 It now fell below my shoulders, and swirled behind me, shaped into the "slave flame".
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7 1348 "I must yield, Master! I cannot help myself! I cannot help myself but yield to you!" "Must you yield," he asked, "even though it might mean your death?" "Yes, Master!" I cried.
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9 1518 Were she not so she would be subject to severe punishment, including even torture and death, should it be the master's wish".
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20 302 To be caught looking upon a free woman could mean death for them.
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27 145 Rather than permit himself to be seen in tavern work by Thurnus, Caste Leader of Tabuk's Ford, I thought he might choose death.
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Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 105 "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" I knew then I had won.
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4 707 We could hear the flame of the lamp, tiny, soft, in the silence of the tent.
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23 153 It takes some time to get water boiling over an oil lamp, though, to be sure, the flame can be elongated and enlarged by manipulating and trimming the wick moss.
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33 28 I thought of the melting of copper, the flame of sulfur, the structure of salt, of jagged Eros in its orbit, of the crags of Titan, of the interactions of compounds, the stirring of molecules, the movement of atoms, the trajectories of electrons.
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3 9 When a male is forced beyond the wall he is removed from the competition and may not, upon pain of death, re-enter the area for the duration of the contest.
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3 478 She is subject to the whip, and torture, and even death should the master please.
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3 1145 As hunters they live with blood and death.
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6 176 There is a swiftness, a sorcery, a savageness in his steel which in a hundred fights to the death I have never encountered.
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9 53 death was too good for her.
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20 198 "There is no one in the feasting house who is of my people, who is not a child," he said, "who has not seen people starve to death.
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23 244 "Their information was not so precious to them that they preferred to retain it in the face of death by torture," said Ram.
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26 308 "Imnak," said Poalu, "does not fear the sleen of death".
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26 348 A sleen can kill itself in this manner, licking at the blade until it bleeds to death.
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26 350 But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur.
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29 61 The recognition and comprehension of a detail, sometimes subtle, can sometimes make a difference between life and death.
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33 7 If I was found, it would be conjectured that the death, violent though it might have been, was not one unnatural for the Gorean north.
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35 59 Not only was dispatch of tactical significance but exposure to the arctic winter could bring a swift death on the summit of the ice island.
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36 269 "In the disruption consequent upon this place's destruction," I said, "his death would be hideous".
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Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

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19 10 "Askaris might see the flame through the walls of the room," he said.
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1 571 In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found".
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18 82 The askari was ordered to be speared to death by one of his own kin.
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44 143 They wished me, for some reason, to leave her there, helpless, unable to free herself, lying there at the mercy of the jungle, surely either to starve or thirst to death, or, more likely, to fall victim to some new predator.
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47 62 There is no quick death for those who fail to escape the column.
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48 87 "Insubordination," I said, "will be punished with death".
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48 228 Surely death is a thousand times more preferable".
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53 159 "When I fled there would be no reason for Msaliti to plot his death.
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Book 14. (22 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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11 152 She then shook the straw, extinguishing it and, with her fingers, moved the bit of moss about, spreading it, and the tiny flame there dissipated into scattered glowing points which then, rapidly, disappeared.
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12 44 The wooden cubes sprang immediately, briefly raging, into flame.
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12 425 I saw the last of my clothing burst into flame.
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21 11 "Taphris," said Barus, "put more sticks in the flame ditch".
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21 16 Her flesh, in the light from the flame ditch, it almost encircling the buried clutch before us, glowed reddishly.
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21 32 We watched Taphris, on her hands and knees, carry a stick to the edge of the flame ditch and, shutting her eyes, drop it in, then quickly draw back.
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21 49 She was crawling about, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying sticks in her mouth, feeding the slow fires in the flame ditch.
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21 395 When I turned about Taphris, again, had been set about her homely duties, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying the sticks in her mouth, of feeding the fires in the flame ditch.
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22 556 The music began to swirl and flame.
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23 150 There was a shower of sparks and then a tiny flame.
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27 22 I had then taken her by the arms and thrown her, in a kneeling position, onto the blackened sticks and gray ashes of the flame ditch.
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27 30 I scuffed away my tracks back to the flame ditch.
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2 341 "The termination of his miserable existence," said one of the men, "death".
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2 344 "Let the sentence be death," said another one of the men.
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7 729 Disrespect in a slave can be punished by death.
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12 181 She, and those who were masters, held the power of life and death over me.
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14 48 To so much as touch one of the mistress' slave girls without her permission could be punished by death.
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15 39 "I could have you beaten to death," she said.
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15 53 "I could have you beaten to death, or tortured, and slain," she said.
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18 140 She held over them, of course, the power of life and death.
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18 152 On the other hand he knows that such an act can be punished by death.
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19 41 One might kick but holds to the death were not permitted.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 197 "Of course," she said, "they hold over me the power of life and death".
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23 250 Such men, of course, held over her the total power of life or death.
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25 228 Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently...
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
20 1475 How could I not be hot in my collar? My belly burns! My thighs flame! My heart calls out to you!" "Perhaps I should now kennel you for the night".
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15 72 I feared I might bleed to death.
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Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 247 Samos, carefully, held the tiny flame to the wick of the now-unshuttered dark lantern.
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13 601 And she wants to flame with passion in his arms.
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13 1760 To be sure your needs will flame regularly, and thus you will continue to be much at his mercy, rather as in the matter of food and drink".
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2 269 "The death Squad is already on Gor," I said.
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2 314 "He may not know that the death Squad has landed on Gor," I said.
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4 10 "It can be death to enter them".
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14 61 It is death to a slave, incidentally, to remove such a collar without permission.
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14 682 In the camps, and among the tribes, our red masters keep women such as I in our collars, to remove one of which without permission is death".
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16 10 "Much death might lie about in the grass".
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16 54 "death," I said.
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16 55 "But no common death".
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16 193 "Are you so brave," I asked, "that you faced the beast so calmly?" "What is life? What is death?" he asked.
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16 271 "death holds few terrors for those who have never known life," said Grunt.
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16 272 "What is life? What is death?" asked the fellow.
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17 299 Better death! I refused.
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Book 18. (20 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
47 5 This beacon, whether used for the emission of smoke in daylight hours, or for its flame at night, could be seen for pasangs across the prairie.
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1 326 It is death, incidentally, for a slave to remove such a collar without permission.
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11 90 For too long had I been inactive in my true mission in the Barrens, that of attempting to contact the Kur war general, Zarendargar, Half-Ear, and warn him of the death squad, determined remnants of which still survived, that was hunting him, that commanded by Kog and Sardak, the latter...
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12 432 He may then decide whether or not your least difficulty or disobedience is to be punished by death.
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14 72 She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.
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22 73 "Yes," I said, "but death will not.
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26 37 Some men have bled to death from wounds of which they, in the heat of battle, in the excitement and press of combat, were scarcely aware.
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27 28 Many sang their death songs.
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29 125 "It is fortunate that you did not bleed to death," I said.
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30 113 It was Sardak, the leader of the death squad from the steel worlds.
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32 35 This gave me a figure of seventeen Kurii in the original death squad, including its leaders, Sardak and Kog.
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32 54 I did not think that any one Kur, singly, would be likely to look forward to meeting Zarendargar, Half-Ear, in a battle to the death.
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35 151 It takes a long time to starve to death, weeks.
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39 165 "That we may, at our master's whim, be subjected to miseries or terrors, even to torture and death, if he wishes, makes clear to us that we are truly slaves, that we are truly owned, that the domination to which we are subject is truly total and absolute".
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40 707 "Claim her, and then punish her with death," said a man.
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41 155 "Sing my death song," he said.
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50 61 "This being a slave," said Mahpiyasapa to the members of the council, standing about him, "clearly it is not fitting that she be subjected to the honorable death of a free woman".
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50 92 "No longer is it fitting that they be subjected to the honorable death of free women".
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56 64 The sentence of death, according to the beast, had been rescinded against Zarendargar.
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56 93 "In this fashion I sought to draw the death Squad into the Barrens where they might be dealt with and sought, too, to enlist your aid in my battle with them".
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
24 248 Slave fires, once kindled in her belly, cannot be extinguished; if not raging, they smolder; or lie dormant, ready to be conveniently and quickly reawakened into flame.
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24 249 Indeed, often they seem of their own accord, like a force of nature to burn and flame anew in the slave, and she then will find herself crawling even to the feet of a hated master, begging for his caress.
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27 55 * * * * "And this cut," said the woman, herself a slave, though permitted a brief tunic, "is called the slave flame.
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36 236 I had seen to it, many times, that passions would flash and flame in Drusus Rencius, which I would then, haughtily, refuse to satisfy.
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36 1118 Still my back seemed to burst into flame.
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31 142 Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I ...
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Book 20. (15 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 668 Predictably, periodically, these fires burst into open flame.
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2 974 The flame of the tiny lamp had flickered, too, in this shifting of air.
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7 348 Things which the male may not regard as sexual, or particularly sexual, might flame for a woman.
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20 308 Instantly a torrent of flame blasted upward from the vat.
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20 317 For one terrible moment it had seemed as though the air itself had burst into flame.
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1 295 "In spite of the fact that I am willing to accord you the dignity of a swift and honorable death, one fitting for a free woman, you would choose instead, and prefer, the degradation of slavery?" "Yes," she said.
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2 1183 "I wished to warn him of the death Squad searching him out.
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11 59 Such a behavior would be likely to be followed by hideous punishments, if not death by torture.
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12 691 If intent is involved in such an omission, it can be an occasion for death by torture.
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12 698 "death? A thousand lashes?" "I beg to be permitted to become a perfect slave, in all things!" she wept.
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12 720 "What punishments, in lieu of death, then, do you suggest for her?" asked Boots.
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16 132 "Do you doubt my capacity to defend these damsels to the death, against even armies?" asked Petrucchio.
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16 689 "Then," said Chino, "we must substitute a duel to the death".
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16 690 "To the—death?" inquired Petrucchio.
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16 703 I have never yet lost a fight to the death with them".
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Book 21. (21 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
16 646 Smoldering fires have not been set in your belly, never far from the surface, ready to leap into flame at the smallest touch.
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26 622 Goreans do not smoke, of course, but, as they commonly use natural flame for cooking and light, they find such a device, and others like it, utilizing springs and pyrites, with cartridges of oil-saturated tinder moss, and such, of great utility.
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27 190 They, too, of course, can exert their spell upon a property girl, and they tend, as do many other forms of bonds, to prod and kindle the ever-smoldering embers of her slave fires into open flame.
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2 98 "It would be death for you to be found".
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3 196 It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.
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3 268 She had just escaped death or crippling.
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5 266 "That would be a fate a thousand times worse than death".
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9 63 The choice between riches and death is one that few men will ponder at length.
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15 177 I suspected it might be death to cross his will.
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15 234 In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them.
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16 778 It is punishable by death".
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19 491 Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them.
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19 493 He had sought to steal protection but had purloined only death.
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25 189 I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live ...
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25 2237 Who knows what conflagrations and explosions may be consequent upon the denial of nature? Or will the end be only a continual weakening, a sickness, and then death? Only one thing seems reasonably clear.
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26 234 "It is a matter of life and death".
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26 776 Their message, according to the fellow who had been on the right, had been a matter of life and death.
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26 780 But it had turned out to be a matter of my life and their death.
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26 1049 "You have saved me from an unspeakable fate," she said, "one worse than death, that of a man having his way with me, against my will".
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29 127 "It appears," said Hurtha, unshouldering his ax, "that a battle to the death is in order".
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29 134 He enjoyed being on good terms with fellows he was preparing to fight to the death.
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Book 22. (11 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
32 126 It made me flame between my thighs.
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33 315 I attended also to the few remaining tiny flares of flame about, those left from the scattering of the fire.
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34 484 The slave fires in my belly had now burned low, but I knew they could be stirred into flame at a touch.
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3 232 I danced for some time, lost in my delights, and I danced, or tried to, as would have, as I had planned, a mere slave, needful and fearful, before those who held over her the power of life and death, before her masters.
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6 55 Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and proud, so muc...
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11 1608 And failure to obey, and be pleasing, can be cause not only for grievous punishment, but death.
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13 76 Some free women, captured, when such stuff is thrown to them, profess to prefer death to putting it on, but when this choice is that which is actually offered to them they put it on quickly enough.
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13 874 When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death 6
13 875 In short, as deception is impossible, the girl must either choose death or the reality of true bondage.
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19 23 "Better death in the streets, or a collar, than that I should so demean myself, and my station, as to avail myself of your generosity".
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28 102 In the case of a master's death the slave, like other property, passes to the heirs, or, if there are no heirs, to the state.
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Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 166 Fires have occurred in the city, from saboteurs, from fire javelins, from flame baskets catapulted over the walls.
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9 30 She blew on the small flame, encouraging it.
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9 36 She added sticks to the small flame.
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21 985 One view is that the slaver who marches his lovely beasts naked is doing this as a form of advertising of wares; the other view is that the slaver who marches the girls sheeted is interesting men in what they cannot see, allowing their imaginations to flame with speculations.
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24 755 Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w...
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 11 I lowered the flame so it was little more than a flicker.
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19 222 Let it meet then, I thought, one of man's most dangerous allies, the mystery of flame.
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19 243 In a moment, though it would be only for an Ehn or so, the rence about me burst into flame.
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28 54 At night the flame of a tharlarion-oil lamp can be seen hundreds of yards away, even the flash of a fire-maker.
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32 26 She seemed quiet now, but somewhere within her those fires lay smoldering, ready to spring again, persistently, predictably, mercilessly, into flame.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
13 79 "But how are we to explain the Weapons Laws, the flame death?" he asked.
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8 516 The infant touches the pretty flame, and is burned.
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21 232 'I should burn it in the flame of one of these tiny lamps.
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Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 349 They were fanned into flame, until we found ourselves their victims and prisoners, frequently, helplessly, profoundly, periodically, recurrently dependent upon men for their quenching.
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7 656 Rather one might as well scold helpless, oil-drenched straw for bursting gratefully into flame at the touch of the torch.
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11 1707 It was almost like waves of flame.
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13 316 The brunet slave held the torch back that its flame might not be extinguished by the drenching water.
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13 1353 The monster, bent over, picked up the tiny lamp, its flame long lowered, from the table, and, moving slowly, went to the kennels which, one by one, lifting the lamp a little, he checked.
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13 1536 He blew out the tiny flame of the lamp.
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28 76 We watched as the clerk struck a fire-maker, one used to melt wax for seals, and set the flame to the necklace.
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31 735 flame flickered in the damp straw, then disappeared.
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31 738 The flame did not take in the damp straw.
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Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
27 3501 "As I understand it," said Mirus, who now joined the group, "the Priest-Kings enforce their laws by the flame death".
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8 222 Tutina's eyes flashed like blue flame.
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12 330 In her heart, it seemed, there had begun to burn, even then, in a small way, small at first, like a tiny glowing flame, not fully understood, the longing to know the deepest and most profound of loves, the most complete of loves, the most helpless and self-surrendering of all loves, a ...
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27 1346 It is little wonder that slaves hope for a private master, one who will notice them, who will speak with them, who will care for them, who will be kind to them, one who will stoke their slave fires and force them to flame with helpless ecstasy, but, in all, one who will well rule their...
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 657 Surely the flame death does not explain itself, but simply strikes.
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69 107 The steps of the palace were gouged with flame, chips of stone showered aflight, exploding from the steps, dark lines of flame laced them, the very air was smoking and burning, and Lucullus and Crassus, and several others, those who could, fled in rout back to the shelter...
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1 692 Several times she had awakened in her bed, from such dreams, twisted in the covers, heated and thrashing, tormented by sensations that seemed to enliven and enfire every cubic inch of her, and turn her skin into a mottled sheet of living flame.
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11 141 Once the slave fires flame in the belly of a woman her freedom is behind her.
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19 2 The trunk did not bleed as the flame had seared shut the avenues of blood within that large body, and the head, or the parts of it which remained, slid slowly downward, descending from the rock wall behind him.
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26 126 "An ally," said Peisistratus, "but I have no intention of dying on a flame rack to convince you of my position in these matters".
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53 114 At that moment a burst of flame erupted in the grass near them, and Cabot and Grendel quickly slipped away, amongst rocks.
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63 157 The remains of Agamemnon's Kurii then raised their rifles, but were almost immediately cut down in a withering torrent of flame.
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72 16 Some of it blackened and burst into flame just over his head.
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78 60 "I flame," wept the brunette.
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80 176 And surely she knows it is she, ready to flame alive in its exposure, as much as any other aspect of her, her mind, her features, her emotions, the needs of her belly, all such things which constitute the wholeness of her.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 218 "If you possessed such a weapon, you would be in violation of the weapon laws of Priest-Kings, and liable to the flame death".
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18 178 They do enforce them, however, mercilessly, with the flame death.
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33 65 That would be the flame death.
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26 46 Commonly the price of a death is another death, or more.
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5 184 It had burst suddenly into flame.
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22 676 The slave fires were always ready to spring into flame in her belly.
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25 267 And, too, when the slave fires, long ago ignited, and then never far from the surface, begin again to flame in her fair belly, as under the cruel and shameful imperatives of biology they frequently must, earning her the contempt of free women, her seductiveness is then, soon, far less ...
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34 43 "He sees you at his feet," I said, "scarlet and braceleted, illuminated in the flame of his lust".
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36 12 The wrapped form in the canvas, sail canvas, was consumed in a torrent of flame.
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Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
21 200 The Priest-Kings, on the other hand, by various manifestations of their power, doubtless the flame death, and such, had made clear the wisdom of retaining Gorean.
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3 1216 'death by the impaling spear,' she said, 'is a terrible death.
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3 1507 "death by impalement," I said, "is doubtless a most miserable death, and not the swiftest.
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30 6 "On the continent the desertion of a single man is usually punished by his death, the desertion of a unit, its impermissible flight from the field, not routed, its refusal to engage, or such, by decimation, putting to death every tenth man, this determined by lots".
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24 161 On the other hand, when a city falls, when walls crumble in flame, and the streets run with blood, the free woman, unlike the slave, has much to fear.
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24 264 Her reddish hair, like a flame, burned to her very calves.
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32 19 Suddenly the entire width of the trail, within its walls, for better than forty yards, began to roar with flame.
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33 91 How helpless she will be, now the property of men, once they flame in her belly.
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37 500 "I am heated! I flame! Please, please, Master!" With a great cry, he seized her in his arms, turned her, and flung her beneath him, across the scrap of tunic which had been brought to the room earlier by Captain Nakamura.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
35 64 Their power makes clear their existence, for example the flame death, selectively used, usually to enforce the weapon and technology laws, the policing of the skies, to seek out and destroy intruding ships, the inability of tarns to fly over the palisaded Sardar, and such...
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8 1135 And I did not realize at the time that already such things, such fires, slave fires, had been kindled, subtly, in my belly, but, merely, had not yet leaped into flame.
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8 1192 Violations of their weapon, transportation, and communication laws are often, when discovered, followed by sanctions of fearsome import, the destructions of cities, the seizures and flingings of tides, the melting of mountains, the geysers and floodings of fiery magma, inexplicable bursts of f...
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27 143 We flame, in need.
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Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
14 386 "There is the flame death.
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21 166 "You have heard of the flame death of the Priest-Kings?" asked the first beast of Tyrtaios.
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40 28 A cofifle of a hundred naked, neck-chained beauties from the Polluted World might be marched openly between cities, whereas a small communication device, or a weapon small enough to be held in one hand, capable of emitting small metal projectiles, would court the conflagration of the flame...
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43 942 When I lower it, a wind of death will spring from the forest, a raging blast of feathered death.
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39 427 Let us suppose a city has fallen, buildings are roaring with flame, blood is in the streets, walls collapse, the air is thick with choking, stinging smoke.
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50 702 When she had exited the kennel I had seen that the hair, despite its length, had been cut in the "slave flame".
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50 704 The "slave flame" is usually used with medium-length hair, just behind the shoulders.
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52 198 Behind us the stockade was raging with flame.
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Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
50 136 Indeed, a version of the blasting flame death itself might be linked to such an unauthorized inquiry.
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1 239 "That is a death for heroes, a noble death, scorning life, preferring honor.
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19 146 "If her slave fires have been lit," I said, "she would flame in your arms".
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32 94 The sleeping loft, once the fire reached the straw matting, would erupt with flame.
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44 234 A burst of flame rushed forth from what seemed the maw of the thing and the bird and rider, in a flash of fire, were incinerated before our eyes, and, blackened and smoking, enridged for a moment with lingering fire, a scattering of remains tumbled to the valley below.
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52 75 I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes.
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57 65 Who would choose to hold ground or counterattack under a sky in which might suddenly appear the stern, beating wings of fate's implement, a gigantic dragon sprung alive from legend and myth, capable of palpable arson and destruction, appearing in a world where the canvas over one's head might burst ...
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57 75 Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity.
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61 36 It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, free...
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Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
54 116 There have been several well-documented instances of the flame death.
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51 56 "It can be death to a slave who is not a serving slave to touch them," I said, "and it can be death to any slave who dares to wear them".
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2 145 You can no more hold a promise than a sieve water, you can no more resist the temptation to gossip than straw, seeking one excuse or another, can resist flame".
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16 178 My belly began to flame.
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19 59 In the darkness I heard the snap of a fire maker, and, a moment later, by means of its tiny flame, the tharlarion-oil lamp was alight, and I saw the room about, flickering, yellow, eerie, and empty.
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33 591 The three beasts, now illuminated from the side by the fallen lantern, it inert but still burning, to our left, the flame oddly vertical, the lamp horizontal, shuffled a pace closer.
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33 695 A sheet of flame then obscured the area.
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33 728 "Is voracious flame not stimulating? Does it not excite and stimulate, does it not, in all its brightness and heat, speak of violence and power, does it not rage as it wishes, go whithersoever it will, devour as it chooses, destroy what it pleases without heart, qualm, or conscience?" ...
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34 18 Gratefully I imbibed the fluid, a wine, a ruby wine, how it purred in one's mouth and throat, like a soft, stirring, liquid flame.
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39 68 "Master!" I cried, and I ran to the door at the top of the stairs, and seized the handle, which was hot, and threw open the door, and then staggered back, shielding my face with my arms as a burst of flame and smoke roared into the room.
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39 174 I heard not only a crackling of flame, nearby, but a snapping sound, almost beneath my feet.
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39 211 At this point there was a cry of awe, and alarm, from the throng, for, with a great crash, the roof of the building we had just abandoned collapsed, and a torrent of smoke, sparks, and flame roared upward.
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44 182 It then bent down, and whisked my tunic from the floor, and cast it into the brazier where, for a moment, it smoked, and then, a bit later, the dampness steamed away, and the cloth dry, the tunic disappeared in a bit of flame.
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
22 141 It seemed to me as though I must be enveloped in a blaze of flame, but there was no flame, only, apparently, a sudden, fierce interaction of substances, freed or precipitated, I supposed, by the administration of water.
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3 456 My body, I fear, was a scarlet sheet of flame.
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18 32 "Their bellies flame; they become more pathetically needful; they become more desperate to please; they improve".
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22 133 The air about me shuddered, trembled, and fled, as if from flame.
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30 89 It was red like flame, but parted with a broad band, or stripe, of blond hair on the left side.
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46 574 How wild, sensuous, exciting, and provocative are the dancing melodies of Gor! How they swirl and flame! The lash had not yet fallen.
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Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 239 The rumors of responsibility spread from village to village, from port to port, from island to island, spread like the wind, spread like raging flame through straw.
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2 79 "Bosk of Port Kar has red hair, like flame and blood.
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20 57 "Next," cried Aktis, "will it be you who hears axes on the gate? Will it be your fields which will smoke to the sky, your homes which will be consumed in flame, your blood upon the hearth?" "Summon guardsmen!" cried a man.
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43 136 I was about to turn, and make my way to the second catapult, that which had been assigned to Thurnock, when I saw it spring, almost in an instant, into flame.
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58 135 "Ready oil and flame," I said.
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61 5 A trembling of the lip, a blinking of an eye, a trickling tear, will speak of crumbling walls, of cities in flame, of cosmic conflagrations, of ruined, lost, and dying worlds".
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