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"plants"

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 18 Normally such plants are cleared from the sides of the roads and from inhabited areas.
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20 51 Perhaps she would have had her thrown naked into the clutches of the insidious leech plants of Gor or have had her fed to the giant urts in the dungeons beneath her own palace.
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22 47 "Now that you know," she asked, "what will you do with me? Will it be the oil of tharlarions? Will you throw me to leech plants? Will you stake me out for your tarn, use me to bait a sleen trap?" I laughed, and she looked at me, bewildered.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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27 103 I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling ...
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28 144 Some men from the Fungus Chambers carried on their backs great bags filled with choice spores, and others labored under the burdens of huge baskets of freshly reaped fungus, slung on poles between them; and those from the Pastures drove before them with long pointed goads huge, shambling gray arthro...
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31 197 The mane hairs on its back were lifted like antennae and they moved as strangely, as softly, as underwater plants might lift and stir in the tides and currents of the cold liquid of the sea.
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 429 There were cries on all sides, "Slay the Tuchuk sleen!" "Torture for him!" "The oil of tharlarions!" "Leech plants!" "Impalement!" "Tongs and fire!" But Kamchak seemed unmoved.
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17 7 Besides the designs there were also, growing from planting areas recessed here and there in the marble walkway, broad-leafed, curling plants; vines; ferns; numerous exotic flowers; it was rather beautiful, but in an oppressive way, and the room had been heated to such an extent that it...
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19 39 From where I sat I could see two lovely pools, in which lotuslike plants floated; one of the pools was large enough for swimming; the other, I supposed, was stocked with tiny, bright fish from the various seas and lakes of Gor.
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Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 117 The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range; the walls, the columns, even the bottom of the pool, were decorated with representations of Veminium, and many of the plants 10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 11 It was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead; sometimes I could see no further than the lifted prow of my small craft, as it nosed its way among the rushes and the frequent rence plants.
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1 50 On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...
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1 51 I noticed that one of these rence plants had, tied about it, below the tuft of stamens and narrow petals, a white cloth, rep-cloth.
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3 2 They are formed entirely from the interwoven stems of the rence plants and float in the marsh.
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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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6 63 Then I stepped warily, for I saw, to one side, a patch of the dark, tendriled vinelike plants.
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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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7 45 Then, in the warmth of the spring, in the softening soil, the plants, hardy and rugged, again assert themselves.
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7 112 She, holding her kirtle with her left hand, angrily scattered the dung about the sul plants.
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7 113 It would be left to a thrall to hoe it in about the plants.
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Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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20 84 Like most desert plants it is deeply rooted.
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Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 136 * * * * I cut again at the soil with the hoe, chopping down, loosening the dirt about the roots of the sul plants.
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Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

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9 213 Too, the whip is cruel, the teeth of sleen are sharp, and leech plants blossom.
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12 367 Almost all of the plants of this nature are perennials, as the growing season is too short to permit most annuals to complete their growing cycle.
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12 368 In the winter buds of many of these plants lie dormant in a fluffy sheath which protects them from cold.
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12 369 Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole.
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12 371 During the summer plants and flowers will grow almost anywhere in the arctic except on or near the glacial ice.
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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

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11 359 Against the background of jungle growth, blending with plants and shadows, it would be difficult to detect.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 365 How few children of Earth, I thought, are taught the names and kinds of the trees and shrubs, the plants, the insects and birds, which surround them constantly.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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6 279 The jungles of the Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to do with strange races, mysterious plants, and fabulous animals.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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22 77 I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...
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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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17 213 Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants.
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26 101 "Too," I said, "if even a slave's most secret thoughts harbor the least hint of recalcitrance, such an absurdity being inevitably revealed in subtle bodily clues and such, they might be summarily given to leech plants, cast to pond eels, thrown to sleen, such things".
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37 168 Too, some people seem to think that is good for plants, and the way they should be, miserable, neurotic, unfulfilled, tortured, lonely, sick, and so on.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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21 242 If such a letter fell into the wrong hands it was not unlikely he would find himself keeping an appointment with leech plants or sleen.
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Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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11 1119 Or, more quickly, you might be cast to sleen, or fed to starving urts, or be flung to the fangs of dry, thirsting leech plants".
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24 537 I saw a heavy, bootlike sandal, the sort worn by warriors, which can sustain long marches over stony soils, which provides protection from the slash of coarse grasses and the strike of leech plants, nudge Dorna.
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42 174 She would then be punished, perhaps by being thrown to leech plants, perhaps by being fed to sleen.
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44 200 "Shall we throw her to leech plants? Shall we stake her out to be eaten alive by insects?" I was silent, disconcerted.
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Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

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6 61 Too, they spoke to her of animals and plants, and their properties, and values and dangers.
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10 152 I might, if I wished, for example, feed you to sleen, or cast you to leech plants".
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10 153 She did not believe that the animals called "sleen" existed, thinking them part of the mythology of the world, and she had not heard of "leech plants," but the tenor of his remarks was sufficiently clear.
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20 603 In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence.
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20 613 There is not a great deal of danger from such plants provided one can remove oneself from their vicinity.
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22 506 The genetic template had always been there, fastened in her by eons of evolution, part of what made her what she was, a woman; the training, and the Gorean milieu, had merely, so to speak, freed her to be herself, had encouraged her to be herself, had required her, she willing or not, to be herself,...
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Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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21 305 "—to those who would kill her with needles, a corpuscle at a time, who would inject her with slow, agonizing poisons, who would feed her to urts or sleen, who would cast her to leech plants, who would roast her alive and eat her, and so on".
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29 313 It is herbivorous, probably a grazer on lake plants, perhaps a threat to small fish".
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Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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41 33 Still we were far from shore, and the sea sleen, as other forms of predatory sea life, tends to range the fishing banks, so to speak, shallower waters closer to shore where sea plants can get sunlight, these plants then forming the basis of a rich marine ecology.
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5 829 "'Loathsome she-urts, detestable profiteers and traitresses,' we cried, 'remain behind, be hurled to eels, be cast amongst leech plants, be weighted and thrown into carnariums, view the city you betrayed from the height of high impaling stakes!'" "'No, please!' they wept.
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12 31 The word of such men might be as the rustle of the wind amidst leech plants.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 414 "May she be cast naked, bound, amongst leech plants," said another.
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3 754 I heard the hideous noise of the pulsating pods sucking blood, pumping it to the roots, and, screaming, I tore the fangs from my leg and fled away, and then stopped, afraid to move, lest there be more such things about, lest I stumble and fall into a writhing patch of such plants.
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11 48 The Parsit, as many similar fish, require vegetation, and vegetation requires light, and thus, typically, such fish school off banks, in shallower water, where light can reach plants tenaciously rooted, say, some dozens of yards below in the sea floor.
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16 141 Buckets of sea water were still being spilled over the starboard side of the great ship, where small, scattered red plants of fire sought to grow.
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Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 989 "Throw her to leech plants!" called a man.
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8 991 I knew nothing, at the time, of leech plants, and I had not yet beheld a sleen.
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8 1003 Now, it seemed, there was no more talk of leech plants, of sleen, or such.
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13 49 I knew the penalties which might be inflicted on a fugitive slave, the lashings, hamstringing, being cast amongst a foliage of leech plants, being butchered for sleen feed, even being cast alive to such beasts.
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18 187 They might lose a hand for doing so, if not be cast to leech plants or sleen.
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20 272 Too, one did not care to be hamstrung, fed to sleen, or cast to leech plants.
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51 207 "A dark cell filled with hungry urts, a garden of leech plants, smearing her with honey and staking her out for insects, ants, jards, or such".
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51 247 Knowing that Desmond of Harfax was a decent and honorable man, though he might be a fearsome and demanding master, I was not afraid that I would be fed to sleen, cast to leech plants, or such.
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Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

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25 60 I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear op...
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25 227 She might be fed alive to ravenous sleen; and sometimes she might be stripped, bound, and cast alive to leech plants.
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25 228 These things I had encountered were, I did not doubt, leech plants.
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25 253 I looked back at the thick tangle of vines and pods, which I was sure was a thick stand of leech plants.
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27 5 I did not wish to die under the jaws of sleen, nor writhe bound amongst leech plants, while a thousand eager thorns drew the blood from my body.
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28 6 "Beware," I said, "there are leech plants".
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28 32 It did not even know enough to avoid leech plants.
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41 113 "You are very pretty to be put to leech plants or fed to sleen," said Mila.
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46 86 I carefully avoided a patch of leech plants.
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52 86 Was this my punishment, I wondered, to be left behind, alone, chained, without food and water? Better, I thought, the brief attentions of sleen or, more lingeringly, those of leech plants.
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Book 34. (15 results) Plunder of Gor

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11 32 Gorean sharks, in their several varieties, of course, are much more common in the waters of Thassa herself, particularly near the shallower banks, where sunlight encourages the growth of plants, and the plants attract several varieties of smaller fish, the parsit and othe...
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7 307 Perhaps leech plants would be preferable for you, to be cast naked and bound amongst them, and feel them swarm over you, fasten their tendrils and vines about you, and puncture you with their fangs, and draw out the blood, noisily, minim by minim".
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9 371 "I want her fed to eels," she said, "flayed, cast to sleen, honeyed and bound down for urts! Let her sleep this night with leech plants!" "Is it true, girl," asked the dealer, "you spoke to this fine lady?" "Yes, Master," I said.
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9 393 "What will it be," she asked, "urts, sleen, leech plants, nailing to a slave board, the flaying knife?" "Perhaps you would care to buy her?" he asked.
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11 21 How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables...
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11 24 Such eels, as other eels, are omnivorous, but, free swimming, are accustomed to feed on small fish and plants.
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11 41 A free woman, stripped and bound, watches the water, and then, when the large, narrow, triangular, dorsal fins of the sharks cleave the water, men lift her, to cast her into the sea; on other occasions, she might, suspended by the wrists, be lowered, bit by bit, into a pit of starving urts who will ...
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17 95 "You should be boiled alive," she said, "sleen for you, cast you naked and bound amongst ravenous leech plants".
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26 112 How heavy then would be her chains, how cruel the stroke of the lash! Too, the recovered slave girl risks at least a severe beating, but perhaps, as well, a hamstringing, or being disposed of, perhaps being fed to sleen, or being cast, naked and bound, amongst writhing, ravenous leech plants 10
42 229 As a lying, displeasing slave you may well be cast naked to leech plants or fed to sleen, or, more mercifully, perhaps, to save time, be simply, swiftly, bitten to death".
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45 171 The plants from which its seeds are obtained apparently grow favorably, perhaps even most favorably, on the slopes of the Thentis Mountains, an area under the jurisdiction of the mountain city of Thentis.
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45 173 For example, it is forbidden to take viable black-wine seeds or plants from the vicinity of Thentis.
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45 176 Where such plants are found, illegitimately planted, at least from the point of view of the Thentis "vintners," they are uprooted and destroyed.
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45 182 Whereas the plants from which the seeds, or beans, for black wine are brewed may have been native to Gor, I rather suspected that their world of origin might have lain far away, perhaps on another world.
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68 342 I do not want to be thrown naked to eels, or leech plants".
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Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 175 Cast them to eels, feed them to urts, throw them to leech plants!" He then handed his whip to one of the other men, and stormed away, leaving the chamber.
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3 86 "Throw her to leech plants!" cried another.
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3 87 No animals graze on leech plants.
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3 88 Leech plants grow in thick, matted patches and bristle with hollow, fanglike thorns.
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3 89 These plants, triggered, can strike like a snake, and suck blood into distendable pods.
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8 126 I did not wish to be cast to blood-hungry plants.
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38 136 "Do you not know who I am? I am Dorna, Dorna the Proud, first of the Silver Masks of Tharna! You will be roasted alive on spits, and your flesh cast to sleen! You will be thrown alive to leech plants! You will be fed to tharlarion, boiled in honey, caged with starving urts!" "Take her ...
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40 194 "We could throw her to leech plants," said Florian.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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16 209 "The richest fishing is in shallower water," I said, "where light can nourish plants, and fish come to feed on the plants, and larger fish come to feed on smaller fish".
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16 220 "Some soil, some seeds, some plants.
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51 131 Sharks will follow food wherever it may be found, as in following a ship for days, to feed on discarded garbage, but most tend to stay in shallower water, where sunlight can nourish rooted, aquatic plants, which can nourish small fish, which, in turn, can nourish larger fish, such as s...
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