Results

"hearing"

Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 205 Once I saw two eyes in the darkness and screamed and ran from them, hearing the flap of wings behind me and the startled cry of an owl.
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6 64 I remember hearing for a moment, fading like the wind, her triumphant laughter.
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9 52 Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand...
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9 86 I listened carefully, hearing the distant clank of a shod tharlarion on the road.
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 190 The great sable tarn, upon hearing the cry of "Tabuk!", to my joy, began to describe its long, soaring hunting circles, almost as if it might have received its training yesterday.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 73 Now hearing the growl of such a beast, I threw back my cloak, lifted my shield and held my spear ready.
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10 8 Thus, if one wishes, one may speak of them not only as smelling but hearing through these appendages.
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10 9 Apparently hearing is not of great importance, however, to them, considering the small number of hairs modified for this purpose.
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10 10 Oddly enough, few of the Priest-Kings whom I questioned on this matter seemed to draw the distinction clearly between hearing and smelling.
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10 13 In fact, though I speak of hearing and smelling, I am not sure that these expressions are altogether meaningful when applied to Priest-Kings.
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10 14 I speak of them smelling and hearing through the sensory appendages, but what the quality of their experience may be I am uncertain.
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17 24 Literally what hearing the expression from Sarm meant was that he had had the item specially entered into his translator tapes and correlated with a random odor, much as if we had decided to invent a name to stand for some novel relation or object.
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27 14 I assured him I would give the matter serious consideration and departed, hearing him congratulate me on my good fortune in having been permitted to become a Mul rather than having to remain a lowly Matok.
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Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 191 Conrad, hearing the wager of Albrecht, snorted derisively.
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
6 112 It is good for them to get the practice, hearing and seeing men respond to them.
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19 46 I stumbled again, on one of the large, broad, flat stepping stones, and fell forward and was jerked by the chain tearing at the back of my neck, and struggled again to my feet, hearing through the thick layers of leather in the slave hood the laughter of the guards, as though far away.
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 168 And then, hearing still the cries, the alarms in the night, I fell asleep.
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8 170 * * * * I awakened stiff in the cold of the marsh dawn, hearing the movement of the wind through the dim sedges, the cries of an occasional marsh gant darting among the rushes.
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16 81 "Years ago," she said, "when I was so much younger, I recall hearing sing of Tarl of Bristol".
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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3 25 I continued to struggle, but after some moments, hearing men returning to the room, stopped.
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10 680 I, forgotten by the beast in its feeding, inched toward the door, and then, hearing the feeding of the beast behind me, fled, naked and bound, into the darkness.
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11 427 He clapped his hands and took a step toward me, and I turned and fled stumbling away again, hearing his laughter in the hallway behind me.
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11 829 I was like an animal without hands, a four-footed animal, save that I had no hide to protect me, but only the softness of my flesh, and I did not have the delicate senses, the smell and the hearing of such animals to protect me, and I did not have their swiftness, the fleetness of thei...
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12 370 I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please...
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 303 I plunged into the underbrush, hearing the sounds of pursuit.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 187 I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor...
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11 22 The hearing, similarly, is acute.
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11 24 There was little doubt that the day vision of the Kurii was equivalent to that of men, if not superior, and the night vision, of course, was infinitely superior; their sense of smell, too, of course, was incomparably superior to that of men, and their sense of hearing as well.
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11 117 I admired the acuteness of its hearing.
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12 14 The men of Torvaldsland, hearing the blasts on the bronze horns, were silent.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 467 hearing the bells of a guard's mount, he emerged from the shelter trench, and, attracting the man's attention, was rescued.
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4 37 I laughed as I spun the kaiila, hearing her utter a tiny cry of rage inside the kurdah.
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21 450 Kurii, like men, are visually oriented organisms, but their hearing and their sense of smell is incomparably more acute.
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21 461 It seemed likely then that the Kur must have been struck as it had framed itself, perhaps in an opening, the other Kur, smelling it, hearing it, firing when it had tried to enter.
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26 1048 It is a topic of casual conversation among men in the fora, the squares, the piazzas, the markets, even while they are walking the very slaves on leashes, who cannot, of course, help but overhear these assessments, and at their suppers, as well, even, again, within the hearing of the v...
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Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 135 My hearing, too, seemed acute.
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Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
10 109 "I cannot believe what I am hearing.
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Book 13. (3 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 70 The girl, hearing my approach, drew her legs up quickly under her, and rose to her feet, turning to meet me.
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12 121 Kipofu has unusually keen hearing.
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18 44 Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 442 I could scarcely believe what I was hearing.
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3 19 There was, attached to it, as I conjectured, hearing the tiny sound of its movement and its clink on the stone beneath my body, a smaller piece of metal, perhaps a ring of some sort.
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11 46 I heard her wring out a rag, hearing the water drip into a pan of water.
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12 537 I remember hearing the sound of the gong once more.
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13 238 I looked up, hearing tarn drums in the sky.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 264 "I shall enjoy hearing the words on the lips of a Vondan slut".
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25 144 In that way I might have precluded the disgrace of the hearing, the admonishment of my fellow officers, the embarrassment of being publicly relieved of my duties".
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
18 522 And I scream in the darkness, frightened, hearing them.
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19 1162 "Master!" she said, then hearing someone at the door.
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20 1093 It was little wonder, then, that, hearing her new name, she had trembled in terror.
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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1 672 I wondered, hearing this, if the beasts, either, had achieved species unification.
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14 196 She nodded her head, frightened, hearing the translation from Ginger.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
34 36 We had made remarks in their hearing to which they, if they had understood Kaiila adequately, presumably would have responded, probably by swift flight.
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40 499 "Ohhh," said one or two of the Waniyanpi women, softly, thrilled, hearing Radish's admission.
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47 320 The Yellow Knives, on the western side of Council Rock, prevented by the mountain from knowing what had occurred in the air to the east, and on the eastern faces of the rock, singing their medicine, their hearing throbbing with the beat of drums, had not desisted in their procession to...
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
20 131 How scandalized I was to hear these things! I was not used to hearing myself spoken about in terms of the graphic simplicities often applied to slaves.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
16 130 "What means this 'or so it would seem'?" "His hearing," said Chino to Lecchio, who was sticking his finger in his ear and shaking his head, as though to restore his sense of hearing after having been partially deafened, "is more acute than that of the prowling sleen!" The...
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5 279 "Indeed, if he grows weary of hearing it clacking, he may put it to other uses".
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10 88 '" The bound female groaned, hearing her own words.
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Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 171 Shall I kill her?" hearing this question Feiqa cried out in fear and shuddered uncontrollably on her belly before the free woman.
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11 183 "It was all part of the impact of the experience of hearing them for the first time, I suppose," I added.
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15 398 I became angry hearing this.
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16 390 A young girl, near her, gasped, hearing her mother use this word to a man.
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16 1090 She shuddered, facing away from me, hearing the draw of my steel.
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16 1550 The girl tensed in the cords, hearing us behind her.
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19 373 And certainly the mere reading of it could scarcely convey the impact of hearing it proclaimed in the living voice, and particularly in a voice such as Hurtha's.
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25 1414 If she were a slave, I would have enjoyed hearing her try to speak in that fashion, speaking of "giving her body" and for such-and-such a period.
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25 1437 Too, it could make it simple for guardsmen, acting on complaints, to bring her in for identification and questioning, these details doubtless, in her case, to be followed by a hearing and sentencing, an almost inevitable reduction to bondage and then perhaps, initially, while her dispo...
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26 403 I am not interested, for example, in hearing from you".
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26 714 "I am not looking forward to hearing a great deal of noise from you in the immediate future," I said.
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 266 hearing the man, or one of them behind me, I then fled to the other stairs, and thence upward again, to the main level of the library.
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6 627 I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
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24 542 "Do not do so within the hearing of masters," she said, "for I do not wish to have to sleep on my belly for a week".
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28 142 "It did not strike me unconscious in the tent, perhaps for fear of the master or you hearing.
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29 941 It had been the first of the beasts to approach Borko and Hendow, the one which had seemed amused upon hearing the warning of the small fellow.
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
21 509 "Perhaps this is more in the nature of a little hearing, a quite informal little hearing, or inquiry".
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1 391 I recalled that the brigands, after having descended to prey upon them, had been prepared to withdraw, hearing that the wagon carried a Home Stone.
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4 37 I opened one eye, hearing the outer door, that beyond the latticework, open.
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9 340 "How they must be afraid," she said, "hearing such alarms".
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11 165 "What are its contents?" I asked, not much pleased at hearing this.
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14 5 A few Ehn ago I had awakened instantly, hearing the movement of the observation panel.
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21 312 "Or," said he, "if you are a slave, you are being given a small hearing".
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21 537 hearing my voice she suddenly uttered a shriek of misery, flung her hands up in the wrist rings, until the chaining impeded their further movements, and jerked helplessly in the chains.
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24 582 It is to a Cosian, some Cosian, that she will be sold!" Men, hearing this, slapped their thighs with pleasure.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 1179 "Imagine them cast about the neck of a stripped free woman," I said, "and her then ordered to writhe in them at his feet, in fear of his whip, hearing them clack together, knowing they are strung on binding fiber and such".
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10 117 I lay there for a time, hearing the joviality of the men on the bar.
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19 546 She lifted her head, hearing the sound.
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27 509 I am fond of hearing it.
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27 510 Indeed, I am particularly fond of hearing it in female slaves".
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 218 In one place, hearing a jangling of bells, I went over to a large open circle of fellows to watch a game of "girl catch".
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18 57 "Whom are you looking for?" asked the fellow, who perhaps had excellent hearing.
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22 616 To be sure, some actors do, having the parts read to them, and they memorizing them from the hearing of the lines.
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 639 "What are you doing here?" demanded she who was first amongst us, Aynur, of the tall, long-haired fellow to whose lips, to whose face, to whose shoulders and body, but a moment before, I had been pressing kisses, only, in terror, hearing her approach, to try to draw back, but not being...
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8 44 I remembered trembling a little, and sensing the chains, and hearing them, and realizing that it was I who wore them, and not another, and then I had lost consciousness.
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10 355 The beast, whose hearing was doubtless acute, seemed discomfited by these sounds.
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12 233 Something below, perhaps, had surfaced, or approached, hearing the sounds above.
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13 933 Indeed, we must accustom ourselves to hearing it candidly discussed, particularly in situations in which our sale may be in question.
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24 712 I wondered if, sometimes in her kennel at night, hearing a sound, she might awaken, frightened, pulling the blanket about her, fearing that it might be he, her first master, who had come for her.
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37 95 The larger beast suddenly squealed, hearing these words.
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 973 Upon hearing this command, the slave immediately assumes a supine position, her hands at her sides, palms up, her legs open.
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13 707 "Yes, Mistress," whispered Ellen, scarcely hearing herself speak.
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20 217 She awakened once, hearing Portus inquire of Tersius Major where he had been, and, drowsily, heard his reply, that he had gone for water.
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26 353 Perhaps one might also note something further, but hope, as well, that this further observation will not be found disturbing, or disconcerting, to free women, might these recollections and reflections, however unlikely, come somehow someday within their ken, that of creatures so noble and refined, s...
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27 3084 Perhaps that was seeing, and hearing, too much.
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28 105 The slave, in her duties, could scarcely have avoided hearing the casual conversations of masters.
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28 403 At hearing the name of this city, the slave thought, naturally, of the slave, Melanie, whom she had met at the festival camp.
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Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

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4 149 The brunette, hearing this word, straightened her body a little.
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18 127 Too, Cabot supposed, correctly I believe, that the sense of both hearing and smell on the part of Kurii would militate against his making more than a first kill.
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21 29 But much of it, I fear, is simply unintelligible to a human, and much literally offensive to our hearing.
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21 32 How much is cultural, and how much is indexed to a different physiology, to a different hearing, a different speech, even a different sense of touch, is difficult to tell".
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21 48 "Certainly not silent to the hearing of the Kur," said Peisistratus.
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21 451 "His hearing," said Cabot.
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34 73 "Here!" cried Cabot, in response, trusting that his companion's hearing, equivalent to that of a Kur, might detect the sound amidst the wash and roar of the storm.
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73 207 On the other hand, despite the best efforts by masters, there is often, one fears, slave to slave, one overhearing something here, another hearing something there, and so on, often a rapid transmission of the most exquisite and detailed information amongst them.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
10 62 hearing the step of her master on the stairs, or beyond the door, she may suddenly become aware of the exact feeling of the collar on her neck, his collar, which she cannot remove, a sensation of which she had been heretofore totally oblivious.
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20 355 I wondered if, standing naked on the block, exhibited to buyers, hearing the bids on them, they realized their specialness.
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21 21 I thought it no accident that he had addressed Lord Nishida within the hearing of others.
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33 24 "For hearing your story," I said.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 539 I suppose few women of Earth had heard such commands, but, hearing them, and in such a tone, I expect there would be few who would not obey.
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15 7 Too, I had little doubt that my slightest footfall might be marked by the hearing of the beast.
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15 110 I suddenly stopped, absolutely, straining my hearing.
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15 301 Surely then one might be able to elude it! I kept hearing it behind me, and then I did not hear it, and, then, suddenly, it was almost at my side, reaching out.
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17 84 "Surely Master is not interested in hearing a slave speak," I said.
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20 181 "It is apparently easily gathered by an informant with excellent night vision and unusual hearing," said Astrinax.
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51 245 Then it was quiet outside the room, and, after a bit, after struggling a little, futilely, and hearing the light sound of the chain on the floor, which held me to the ring, I fell asleep.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
41 77 I had apparently lost consciousness shortly after hearing certain words, following which I had sensed, rather as though I might be somewhere else, that the sleen had not attacked me, that it might have been soothed, that it might now be gone.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
21 170 hearing this, I feared, the rendezvous with Ichiro would not be met.
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46 133 The two officers, hearing this, or sensing the crowd's reaction, turned back.
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61 34 Rumors abounded, normally spoken in whispers or hushed tones, for who knew the hearing of dragons.
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Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
20 205 You heard it without realizing that you were hearing it, and then, later, you recall what you were earlier unaware you were hearing.
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6 87 I could scarcely believe what I was hearing.
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24 73 I strained my hearing.
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33 168 And these linguistic aptitudes, favoring survival, like beauty and appetition, like the graceful fleetness of the tabuk, the hearing of the larl, the tracking capacity of the sleen, are transmissible.
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33 456 I had not taken the beast's hearing to be so keen.
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44 51 To the hearing of a Kur, or Lord Grendel, however, I had little doubt that they were clearly audible.
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44 52 In the dark history of the high ones I gathered that evolution, in virtue of whatever considerations, had tended to favor keenness of hearing.
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46 10 Perhaps, I thought, Kurii, given their fangs and claws, their seeming night vision, and, as my master had averred, their keenness of hearing, were originally night hunters.
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49 466 "We shall look forward to hearing from you, and trust that the response of Lord Grendel to our proposal will be favorable".
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50 8 Still, it was terrifying, to see the wildness in her eyes, the glistening saliva at her fangs, the outstretched limb with its clawed tentaclelike digits scratching in the air, reaching for me, hearing that horrid bestial noise, half shriek and snarl, of rage and hatred.
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61 352 hearing it, I was well reminded not only that I was a woman, but that I was, on this world, aside from the obvious biotruths of a species, a particular sort of woman, that here I was, in full and complete legality, naught but a property, a vendible, purchasable object.
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65 366 We kept our heads down, hearing the movement of the keys in the locks, and the rattle of chain.
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67 8 hearing my cries, Drusus Andronicus stopped, and turned about.
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68 354 "I have no doubt that it is an urt, fishing in a garbage can, doubtless half starved," said Kurik, "but it is a foolish urt who will make a sound within the hearing of a free person".
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Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
13 259 hearing this, I was pleased.
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26 105 I was hearing silence.
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33 635 "Please, help!" I whispered, hoarse, scarcely capable of hearing my own voice.
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35 203 "It was you who addressed me in the alcove in the Golden Chain, when I knelt before you, chained and hooded!" "The hood can affect hearing," he said.
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40 98 hearing this I drew back a bit.
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40 300 There, chained by the neck to a ring, I had waited while hearing the noises of the feasting, the songs and shouts of men, the glad cries of slaves, rejoicing in their sharing of the feast.
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41 223 I recalled hearing that intruders were in the vicinity of the canal gate, presumably to guard against Adraste's being slipped from the holding to safety.
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46 427 I shuddered, hearing the whip cracking.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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20 86 The hearing of the name of Lurius visibly dismayed several of those in attendance.
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31 47 His cohorts near the beach, not hearing from him, will presumably investigate in the morning.
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