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"positions"

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 72 On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o...
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3 216 It had a switch in the handle, which could be set in two positions, on and off, like a simple torch.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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6 45 In all these kneeling positions, incidentally, even that of the Pleasure Slave, the Gorean woman carries herself well; her back is straight and her chin is high.
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20 8 Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta took up positions in front of me, but standing with their backs to me.
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 13 Most commonly, and doubtless unfortunately, it is only members of the five high castes who occupy positions on the High Councils of the cities.
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12 239 When the girl kneels, in any of the traditional positions of the Gorean woman, either slave or free, it is not uncomfortable.
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23 102 As soon as our men were through the barricade they leaped from their kaiila, bow and quiver in hand, and took up prearranged positions under the wagons, between them, on them, and behind the wagon box planking, taking advantage of the arrow ports therein.
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24 24 From certain positions on the walls we could see the stream of refugees fleeing the burning city.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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26 46 The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range.
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 52 Further, there is a harsh competition among themselves, for positions in certain streets and on certain bridges.
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3 54 These positions, or territories, are allotted by the outcome of games among the Players themselves.
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6 12 Judging from the pieces and positions it appeared to be late in the middle game.
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6 63 Now that the sport was done some Musicians filed in, taking up positions to one side.
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12 18 Many of them, too, were much involved in the race, for concealed in their trays or about their persons were doubtless the glazed clay tablets, purchased from the track merchants, redeemable at odds should their favorites finish in one of the four privileged positions.
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15 192 In her opinion, and perhaps rightly, the positions of both were subtle combinations of truths and half-truths; Phyllis seemed to regard men and women as unimportant differentiations off a sexless, neuter stock, whereas Flaminius argued for a position in which women were hardly to be re...
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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17 359 I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions.
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

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6 359 I saw the girl who had beaten me, Lana, some positions ahead of me.
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6 397 Another girl, a tall, blondish girl, some two positions ahead of me and on my left, smiled.
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8 1139 "Tie the men in sitting positions about the fire," ordered Verna.
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13 666 In both positions her hair is thrown forward, that it not be interposed between her body and whatever admonitory device it is to which she is to be subjected.
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13 991 She is to be clearly aware of, and respect and employ, the postures, attitudes, positions, and such required of her.
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14 223 I wondered, too, if those chests might contain the light, precious chains of silver and gold, wrought by slavers so cunningly, to hold a girl in given positions, while she was subdued at a master's leisure.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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18 401 I awakened only once before nightfall, to change the positions of Tina and Cara.
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19 17 Many of them took up positions about the palisade; others scouted the beach to the north, and the nearby forest edges.
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19 146 I did, however, as well as I could, note the positions of Sheera and Verna among the tied, prone slave girls.
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Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 64 Few people understand this; most view as natural motions and body positions which are the consequences of a subconsciously conditioned, mechanistic ballet, a choreography of puppets, imitating the models, the stridencies, in which they find themselves enmeshed.
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4 348 Indeed it was in effect in one of the positions of obeisance, that in which the slave kneels with her head to the floor, with her hands held behind her, the wrists crossed, or the right wrist held in the left hand.
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10 141 For more than four Ehn he put her through a swift, staccato regimen of movements, a set of slave paces, assessment paces, designed to exhibit, vulnerably, decisively and publicly, her beauty, in all of its major attitudes and positions.
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16 11 Harvesters and polemen, periodically, exchange positions.
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Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 1155 Some ten or twelve other armed men, here and there, occupied positions in the march.
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7 768 Most obviously, in an instant the girl may be thrown to his feet in a variety of positions, over which he exercises choice.
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11 407 "You seem to know nothing of the movements and glances, the positions, attitudes and postures, the expressions, of a slave girl, let alone the techniques, crafts and subtleties that may determine whether or not men permit you to live".
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28 21 You smile, you turn, you walk, you lift your arms, you kneel, you lie upon your back at the auctioneer's feet, your knee lifted, your arms over your head as though braceleted, you roll to your stomach, you look up at him, over your shoulder; you respond to him, instantly, setting forth for the view ...
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28 174 Each time we had moved one or two positions on the bench we knew that one or two of our sisters had been sold.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 177 Certain positions and platforms at the fairs are usually reserved for the black slavers, where they may market their catches, beauties of all races.
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4 148 On it, on their pegs, hung the pieces in their initial positions.
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 636 She knelt bound then, and naked, in one of several Gorean submission positions.
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23 355 The white feathers of the headdresses marked their positions.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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25 296 The girls chained and manacled in various positions within and to this framework, sometimes compellingly attractive positions, are then visible.
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1 206 They may use verbal formulas to manipulate the masses, but, in their own thinking, they cannot be limited in this fashion or they would not have come to their positions of power".
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1 282 "There is a variety of positions in those fields, in particular in psychology," I said.
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1 719 They do not wish to lose their positions".
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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2 144 In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions, and the joints, braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions.
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2 153 I then put her through a variety of positions, more experimenting with the possibilities of the apparatus than anything else, though the experiments had their aesthetic value, for the Lady Tima was a lovely woman.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 71 The bowmen took up their positions behind their wicker blinds.
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19 248 I removed the bracelets from her and, by means of the wheel, returned the bracelets and the chain to their original positions.
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20 301 She may also be chained, particularly in certain positions, to humiliate her.
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20 1783 Later, once they had clearly recovered their strength, the flocks were released to continue their migration, and the armies reassumed their original positions.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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12 103 More sophisticated spreaders have several positions.
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13 1725 And of course she may be used in her intimacies, in so far as her entire life is not in its way an intimacy, in a variety of situations, places, positions and ties.
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14 1069 "It is like men breaking out of columns," I said, "fanning out, to take up positions for battle".
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17 179 They had crawled to these positions through the grass.
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19 295 I noted that his men, too, took up positions either at his sides, in lines, or rather behind him.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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44 7 To be sure, she was not tied with her belly against the post and her hands over her head, out of the way of the lash, or kneeling, her hands tied in front of her, about the post, common whipping positions.
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 27 Then, for several minutes, the photographer moving about me, swiftly and professionally, sometimes almost intimately close, and giving me commands, the camera clicking, I had been posed in an incredible variety of positions.
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4 354 But why would one be brought here to rule a city? Surely such positions of privilege and power these Goreans would reserve for themselves.
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26 232 Most masters, I think, mix positions, not only with respect to the attitude of the head but of the arms as well.
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27 151 We were returning to various basics, almost as elementary as scales to the musician, such things as basic kisses, caresses, positions, attitudes and movements.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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1 815 I saw other girls moving closer to the tables, subtly taking more prominent positions, hoping perhaps thereby to be more visible to the men.
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2 1548 And then, in a few moments, she was trying to move her body beneath my mouth, trying to bring me to other positions on her body.
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12 395 "Doubtless you have reconstructed the positions, or some of them," he said.
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16 644 "Do not be beguiled by our brazenly bared flesh, our degrading positions, our neck chains, forced upon us by men!" "I wonder," mused Petrucchio.
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21 364 We had used it because it resembled a slaver's grid, to which slaves may be bound at a master's pleasure in an almost infinite variety of attitudes, and positions, ranging from quite standard to exquisitely exotic.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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5 365 "In lesser matters, of course," I said, "where lesser exactitudes and punishments might be in order, you may, as any free person, at your whim, and without consulting the master, subject them to typical disciplines, things useful in helping them to keep in mind what they are, enforced position...
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 378 We adjusted our positions, as we could.
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13 158 Too, of course, she may be tied in such positions.
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14 201 "Do you think that Tupita, were their positions exchanged, would behave differently?" he asked.
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29 894 It was hard even to tell them apart, or where one might be, so swiftly did their positions change.
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29 1648 He also specified the exact positions we would occupy in this coffle.
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 245 There were only five positions there for securing women, and they were all occupied.
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6 1 Some Things which Occurred One Night at the Crooked Tarn There were one hundred sleeping spaces, or positions, on the third level in the south wing, although no space was numbered "100".
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6 700 Similarly, it helps the woman to adjust to her helplessness and her condition, as, in it, she may be fastened in an incredible variety of attitudes and positions.
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11 174 "It gives the numbers, and positions, of the forces of Ar".
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14 96 I did not explain this to her, but from so small a detail I gathered some estimate of the straits of the defenders, and the numbers and positions of the Cosians, and the menace of their engines.
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17 44 At another bridge, Vosk fishermen, from the vicinity of Ar's Station, fought, perhaps men who had merely been trapped in the city when the Cosians had taken their positions, and, at another bridge, huntsmen, from the interior, perhaps similarly detained.
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17 440 It was important to me to coordinate the withdrawal of both wings, to keep balance in the positions, to prevent flanking movements.
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17 712 This tie, it might be noted, positions a girl's hands quite near areas of likely predation by a captor.
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21 920 Men adjusted the positions of the slaves, rudely, so that they knelt well, back on their heels, their backs straight, their knees spread.
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24 658 Naturally these arrangement are clear to the girls, and they often compete for what are regarded as the favored positions on the chain, vying with one another to improve their position, in kissing and caressing masters, and such, and sometimes bitterly disputing such locations with one...
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24 978 But she did not dare to lift her hands from her thighs where, in one of the common positions of the pleasure slave, they now reposed.
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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9 10 I, too, were our positions reversed, would presumably have taken similar precautions.
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15 11 The officer no longer cared to assign men to point positions.
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24 143 Then I looked about and found one of the pairs of long boards, each board with its matching semicircular openings long enough to cover the five positions on one of the benches.
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32 161 I signaled to Plenius that his fellows might take up positions in the brush, on either side of the likely path of the runner.
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33 3 There were five such positions, and a hut a few hundred yards to the back, where the bounty hunters kept their grisly trophies.
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37 42 I glanced at them, in their positions of obeisance.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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21 161 "Such knee positions become almost instinctive in a female slave, and I would not wish to complicate your training by punishing you for having failed to alter them in a particular case.
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Book 26. (6 results) Witness of Gor

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4 298 Men passed down the line, adjusting positions here and there.
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4 325 What did it mean, that my belly was beneath the chain? I would later become extremely familiar with such positions, but they were, at the time, quite new to me, and somewhat frightening.
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4 347 But there are various positions, kneeling and otherwise, and each has many significances.
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4 656 After a time the men returned and, here and there, took positions along the line.
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8 42 I was dimly aware of my limbs being placed in certain positions, and then being chained.
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14 606 Once she asked me, "What are slave paces?" "They are movements, attitudes, positions, poses, and such," I said, "designed to display a slave".
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Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

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10 15 And so she knelt before her master, in the one of the common positions of the Gorean pleasure slave, her knees spread widely, she vulnerably opened then, save for the tiny veil of cloth, before him.
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12 395 They could be turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a shar...
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15 576 But how vulgar had been his compliment! Yet could she deny that she was pleased? But in what a shameful position she had been placed! She thought of the rude, efficient, coital positions of many animals.
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20 90 Sometimes the positions are determined randomly, by lot.
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22 508 For example, genetically, she desired to render obeisance to men; on Gor she had learned certain conventional ways in which this might be done, such as the first and second positions of obeisance.
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23 37 It is one of the positions of brand display.
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25 870 It is, of course, easier to see a girl in the exhibition cage, where, if she is not restrained, one may even call her to the bars, than from most of the positions in the tiers, at night, as she is shown illuminated in the torchlight of the sales block.
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26 186 The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw...
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27 996 "There are no locked positions here," said Portus Canio.
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Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

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5 105 This was true, as she had been, for most practical purposes, reared by nurses, maids, and governesses, none of whom would have dared risk their positions by more than a suggestion or a gently reproving word, easily ignored.
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43 235 "She might run to the purple scarves, and seek to ingratiate herself once more with Agamemnon, swearing her fealty to him, perhaps bartering for power with our plans and positions," said Cabot.
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44 32 This intelligence then, usually by runners, would be communicated to rebel positions, from which countermeasures, engagements or withdrawals, might be contrived.
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60 77 Weapons were leveled at the gate, cover sought, defensive positions occupied.
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61 1 A Stability of positions; The Report of Flavion; The Accosting of the Lady Bina; A Reference to Omens "There," said Lord Grendel, pointing, "off there, in the valley, to the right, see the dome? That is the palace".
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61 8 "They have excellent defensive positions," said Lord Grendel.
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61 26 "They themselves were of course far removed from the fighting, secure in positions of safety, and thus had little to fear personally.
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61 121 "He might simply order a full-scale frontal assault on impregnable positions, and thus seem to many a courageous and audacious captain, one perhaps to be honored even in defeat".
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64 193 "As the positions are stable, it will do him little good, no matter how extensive it is.
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74 97 "Come back, Tarl! Come back, Tarl!" She then looked to the other slaves, and saw that they had now resumed positions of their choice, in their small, cramped quarters.
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Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 392 Gradually, however, from the adjudicator's reports, particularly if one has much experience of this version of kaissa, one begins to sense the positions and strategy of the opponent.
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16 2 There are six strap positions on the common tarn harness.
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17 67 Indeed, men tried to bring their birds into the center of the flock, to protect themselves from arrows, and the interior positions were then fought for, as the enemy competed with one another, and wounded and lacerated one another, to command this cover.
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22 98 At a snapping of the fingers, she must hasten to assume whatever attitudes or positions you wish.
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27 110 It is unwise to move in kaissa when the board is obscure, when the number of pieces, their nature, and their positions are uncertain.
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38 292 Many consecutive shifts at the oars, as free oarsmen exchanged positions, would doubtless be imposed on the wearied, aching body of Licinius Lysias of Turmus.
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Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

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5 346 "There are examination positions," he said.
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8 572 She did this in such a way that the view of her between the bars would not be much obstructed by the positions of the other girls.
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9 42 "Shall I put her in examination position?" There are various examination positions, but the most common is to stand the slave with her feet widely spread, and her hands clasped behind the back of her neck, or the back of her head.
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25 36 "Did Pausanias seem to you a skilled navigator, one who might read charts, lay out courses, determine positions by the stars?" "I would think not," said Astrinax.
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26 356 Display your limbs! Various positions.
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39 37 Master Desmond, though, with his fellows from the secret meeting, including Astrinax, Lykos, Trachinos, Akesinos, and Kleomenes, had worked his way through to the positions held by the adherents of Agamemnon.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 68 The bars, too, are widely spaced, though not so widely spaced that a girl may slip between them, to enable customers, passers- by, and others, to enjoy a relatively unimpeded view of the goods to be offered later in the day A girl may be called to the bars, for a closer inspection, and she must, if ...
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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13 396 "You are familiar with positions?" "Yes," she said.
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

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10 75 I had been taught two or three of the most common examination positions in the training house, one of which I assumed, a bit unsteadily, feet widely spread, hands clasped behind the back of the head, head up, and back, looking upward.
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10 76 A woman may be examined in any position, of course, and it is not unknown for a potential buyer to instruct her to assume a variety of positions.
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11 140 Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a Home Stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority, even to the occupancy of thrones, and who may ent...
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25 36 I had seen him enter the room, and the others, including my master, Tyrtaios, had stood, acknowledging his presence, and did not resume their positions until he had taken his place on his couch, a higher couch than the others.
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61 57 They might be formidable in Ar, with their connections, their positions, their influence, and such, but here they amounted to little or nothing.
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62 60 To be sure, a slave may be examined in any number of attitudes and positions.
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62 106 In a sense, the slave is helpless in such positions.
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Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 854 They are designed with various purposes in mind; instantly placing oneself in positions in which one is helpless and vulnerable; positions of abject submission in which one's bondage is made clear to all; positions of display; positions facilit...
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8 852 There are several Gorean slave positions, of which bara was one.
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8 853 I had, of course, been trained in these positions, which must be assumed instantly and unquestioningly upon the command of any free person.
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8 857 All of these positions, both symbolic and practical, have certain things in common; for example, in all of them, the slave is presented as, and is understood as, both by herself and by others, a slave, and only a slave.
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11 397 There are, in all groups, I suppose, various positions, values, and views which are expected to be shared, uncritically, unquestioningly.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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31 29 At the same time, small fires were lit in clay pans and arrows, the heads of which were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, were ignited and fired into the village, which shortly thereafter roared with flames, the heat of which jarred the air and carried even to our positions surrounding the ...
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