Flower - Blue ClimberTo The Top
"Your name is Haruki," I said.
"Yes, noble one," said the gardener, startled. He was standing, pinching off the tips of new branches on the Blue Climber, a vinelike plant with large blue bracts amongst its common leaves, and small yellow flowers, clinging to the railing of the small bridge in the shogun's garden. This minor pruning stimulates new branching.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 245
Did I not, through the Builder's glass, see one of your number adjust the vines of the blue climber on the railings of the garden bridge?
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 468
He had then knelt her down on the small bridge, that whose railings were entwined with the vines of the blue climber.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 577
The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow, one could see the slow movements of colorful fish.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 584
Blades of glaives thrust up at us, striking wood, splintering railings, tangling in the vinous blue climbers.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 586
"Let us inspect the state of the blue climbers," said the shogun.
"They are doing nicely," said Haruki.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 614
Flower - BrushTo The Top
Her gleanings of fuel from the grasslands near the camp, primarily cord and flower brush, had been supplemented with some of the wood carried in the wagon.
Prize of Gor Book 27 Page 651
Flower - DinaTo The Top
I had seen the design at the tip of the iron. It was a small flower, stylized; it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter; it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 52
my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequency, as the slave flower, it was burned into my flesh; in the south, below the Gorean equator, where the flower is much more rare, it is prized more highly; some years ago, it was not even uncommon for lower-caste families in the south to give the name 'Dina' to their daughters; that practice has now largely vanished, with the opening and expansion of greater trade, and cultural exchange, between such cities as Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and the giant of the southern hemisphere, Turia. In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products discovered; even of those Turians who did not return to their native city, many of them, remaining in their new homes, became agents for the distribution of Turian goods, and for the leathers and goods of the Wagon Peoples, channeled through Turia. That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in the northern, as a name for free women; those free women who bore the name commonly had it changed by law, removed from the lists of their cities and replaced by something less degrading and more suitable. Dina, in the north, for many years, had been used almost entirely as a slave name. The reason, in the north, that the dina is called the slave flower has been lost in antiquity. One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her. As he chained her collar to his stirrup, he is said to have looked about the field, and then named her "Dina." But perhaps the dina is spoken of as one slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Pages 61 - 62
I wore, incised in my thigh, resembling a small, beautiful rose, the dina, the slave flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 70
On my thigh I wore one of the most beautiful brands, the dina, the slave flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 79
"Dina," said the girl with the bruise to me. She had called me that because of my brand, the Dina, or Slave Flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 126
"What is your brand?" he asked.
"The Slave Flower, the Dina? I cried.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 179
Her brand is the Dina, the slave flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 284
"She wears the Dina," said the auctioneer, indicating to the crowd my brand, the slave flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 286
"I have heard Dinas are good," he said.
"We are fabulous, Master!" I laughed. "We are Slave Flowers."
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 357
Indeed, there is even a brand called the "Dina," which resembles the Dina, or slave flower, a tiny, roselike flower. Girls who bear this brand are often called Dinas, and often, too, have that name.
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 289
"Your nipples," he said, "are swollen. Your skin is like a field of scarlet dinas."
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 351
The dina is a small, roselike flower. It is popularly called the "slave flower." The dina brand, or slave-flower brand, is a common one on Gor.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 436
The most common types are the staff and fronds, and the Dina, resembling a small and common flower of that world.
Kur of Gor Book 28 Pages 50 - 51
She wore the tiny Dina brand, "the slave flower." The Dina is a familiar slave brand, but not nearly as common as the cursive Kef. The girls who wear that brand are often called "Dina," doubtless from the mark.
Conspirators of Gor Book 31 Page 57
There were trees, and grass, in the small courtyard, and flowers, mostly talenders, and dinas, some veminium. A tiled walk wound its way through the vegetation. Flowering shrubbery was about. Here and there, there were small, concealed nooks in the garden. In one corner, there was a small reservoir, with a slatted wooden lid.
Conspirators of Gor Book 31 Page 645
My master swirled the tiny ruby lake enclosed within its crystal shores, observed it, and then took its scent, as though it might have been a tiny bouquet of dinas. He then barely touched it to his lips.
Plunder of Gor Book 34 Page 445
"Welcome, noble friends," called out Decius Albus, hurrying forward, under the shading latticework through which the afternoon sun stroked the laden tables with a melody of light and shade. Certain streets in Ar, in certain districts, are similarly sheltered from the sun, though with vines clinging to the latticework, and then, usually, here and there are stands of fruits and vegetables lining the walls. I was familiar with one such street, the Street of Dinas, near the theater of Elbar, for I had shopped there. Frequently assignations take place in such streets, which, in their way constitute lovely, extended bowers, half lit even in the noonday sun. Some, such as the Street of Dinas, are fragrant with flowers.
Plunder of Gor Book 34 Page 525
"Here, friend Sakim," said Clitus, "are more free maidens, joyously dancing in flowing garments, casting flowers, mostly dinas, talenders, and veminium, before the wheels of the final float. Do not miss these."
Avengers of Gor Book 36 Page 392
Flower - ExoticTo The Top
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 seemed almost steamy; I gathered the temperature and humidity in the room were desirable for the plantings, or were supposed to simulate the climate of the tropical area represented.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 203
Flower - FlaminiumTo The Top
There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us.
He reached out with his large hand and took one of the flowers.
He held it in the palm of his hand. His hand began to close.
"If you were this flower," asked Marlenus, "and you could speak, what would you do?"
"I suppose," I said, "if I were such a flower, I would beg for mercy."
"Yes," said Marlenus.
"Verna," I said, "is strong willed. She is extremely proud, extremely intelligent."
"Excellent," said Marlenus.
His hand closed more on the flower.
"Such women," said Marlenus, "once conquered, make the most abject and superb slaves."
. . .
He dropped the flower back into the shallow bowl, among other, unthreatened, buds.
Hunters of Gor Book 8 Pages 154 - 155
I slipped from the tent. I looked back once. I saw, to one side, a bowl of scarlet, five-petaled flaminiums.
Hunters of Gor Book 8 Page 169
Flower - Golden CupTo The Top
"I think it will rain today," I said.
"No, noble one," he said.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"The petals of the golden cup are open," he said, "the zar swarm is not aflight, the lavender leaves of the scent tree do not curl."
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 220
Flower - LarmaTo The Top
I looked upwards, and about the room. The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, Veminia and Teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant. Lola had done well.
Guardsman of Gor Book 16 Page 240
Flower - LirilliumTo The Top
This garland was woven of shrub flowers, a white Lirillium, and was in width some seven or eight inches.
Kur of Gor Book 28 Page 375
About the slave's head was the wreath of blossoms, this of white Lirillium.
Kur of Gor Book 28 Page 379
Flower - RenceTo The Top
I cut again, dropping the tufted, flowered head of the rence stem into the water, and then I tossed the stem onto the raft of rence, with the piles of others.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 27
I cut another rence stem, cut away the tufted, flowered head, and threw the stem onto the raft.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 28
The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 30
On my head my Mistress, Telima, had placed a woven garland of rence flowers.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 40
Then, about the eighth Gorean hour, Telima had ordered me to the pole, where she bound me and placed on my head the garland of rence flowers.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 41
I stood numb at the pole, while Telima unbound me. "Do not remove the garland of rence flowers," said she.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 43
Then, throwing away the garland of rence flowers I had worn, she replaced it with a fresh garland.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 44
We had come now to the hull of the fourth barge, and we had come to her as silently as a rence flower might have drifted to her side.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 74
Flower - ShrubTo The Top
This garland was woven of shrub flowers, a white Lirillium, and was in width some seven or eight inches.
Kur of Gor Book 28 Page 375
We continued on our way, occasionally crossing a rivulet of water on a small, railed wooden bridge between flowering shrubs and patches of bright flowers, some of which were terraced amongst steps of rocks.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 159
Flower - TalenderTo The Top
In the distance, perhaps some forty pasangs away, I saw a set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talenders, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens. In their own quarters, unveiled Gorean women, with their family or lovers, might fix talenders in their hair. A crown of talenders was often worn by the girl at the feast celebrating her Free Companionship.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Pages 131 - 132
While I fed on the tarn's gift, the Tatrix stood near the edge of the rocky shelf, gazing out on the meadow of talenders. They were beautiful, and their delicate fragrance was wafted even to the harsh ledge. She held her robes about her and watched the flowers, like a yellow sea, roll and tipple in the wind. I thought she seemed a lonely figure, rather forlorn and sad.
"Talenders," she said to herself.
I was squatting beside the meat, my mouth chewing, filled with raw flesh. "What does a woman of Tharna know of talenders?" I taunted her.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Page 139
In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug being symbolic of blood, and perhaps of passion.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Pages 204 - 205
"I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros - but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 196
Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a patch of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Pages 218 - 219
I saw that Thurnock had had her put a flower in her hair, a talender.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 112
The talender is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talenders in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves. To put talenders in the neck ropes of the girl at the prow, of course, was only mockery, indicative of her probable disposition as pleasure slave.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Pages 216 - 217
A small yellow flower grew near me. I looked at it puzzled. I had never seen such a flower before.
Captive of Gor Book 7 Page 35
"And the flowers," said the girl, "are talenders. They are a beautiful flower. They are often associated with love."
"They are very pretty," I said.
"Some free women do not approve of slaves being permitted to wear talenders," she said, "or being permitted to have representations of them, like these, on their frocks. Yet slaves do often wear them, the masters permitting it, and they are not an uncommon motif, the masters seeing to it, on their garments."
"Why do free women object?" I asked.
"They feel that a slave, who must love whomever she is commanded to love, can know nothing of love."
Kajira of Gor Book 19 Page 48
There were trees, and grass, in the small courtyard, and flowers, mostly talenders, and dinas, some veminium. A tiled walk wound its way through the vegetation. Flowering shrubbery was about. Here and there, there were small, concealed nooks in the garden. In one corner, there was a small reservoir, with a slatted wooden lid.
Conspirators of Gor Book 31 Page 645
"Here, friend Sakim," said Clitus, "are more free maidens, joyously dancing in flowing garments, casting flowers, mostly dinas, talenders, and veminium, before the wheels of the final float. Do not miss these."
Avengers of Gor Book 36 Page 392
Flower - TeriotropeTo The Top
I looked upwards, and about the room. The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, Veminia and Teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant. Lola had done well.
Guardsman of Gor Book 16 Page 240
Flower - TorTo The Top
"I, too, think it is a tor shrub," I said. The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety. It is a very lovely shrub in bloom. It was not in bloom now, of course, as it flowers in the fall.
Vagabonds of Gor Book 24 Page 339
Flower - TreeTo The Top
About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden. I could see, here and there, on the inside, the tops of graceful flower trees.
. . .
I now saw him leap to the wall and, scarcely looking about, run along and then leap to the swaying trunk of one of the flower trees and descend swiftly to the darkness of the gardens.
. . .
I had no difficulty finding Harold. Indeed, coming down the segmented trunk of the flower tree, I almost landed on top of him. He was sitting with his back to the tree, puffing, resting.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Pages 215 - 216
And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the clusters of flowers which, cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues. Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree,
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 217
In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar of Turia.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 223
Making our way up the flower tree with Hereena, who fought like a young she-larl, was not easy. I went part way up the tree and was handed the girl, and then Harold would go up above me and I would hoist her up a way to him, and then I would pass him, and so on. Occasionally, to my irritation, we became entangled in the trailing, looped stems of the tree, each with its richness of clustered flowers, whose beauty I was no longer in a mood to appreciate. At last we got Hereena to the top of tree.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 224
The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.
Explorers of Gor Book 13 Page 282
Strangers will reprimand us, and even strike us, if we do not hold ourselves well. In a sense, I suppose, we are part of the beauties of the city, an aspect of its scenic delights, part of the attractions of the area, as might be her flower trees and brightly plumaged birds.
. . .
And suppose that we were not that rare. Think of the flower trees, the brightly plumaged birds!
Witness of Gor Book 26 Page 403
Flower - TundraTo The Top
The tundra at this time of year belies its reputation for bleakness. In many places it bursts into bloom with small flowers. 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. In the winter buds of many of these plants lie dormant in a fluffy sheath which protects them from cold. Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole. None of these, interestingly, is poisonous, and none possesses thorns. During the summer plants and flowers will grow almost anywhere in the arctic except on or near the glacial ice.
Beasts of Gor Book 12 Page 196
Flower - VeminiumTo The Top
The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wild flower 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 themselves were found in the chamber.
Assassin of Gor Book 5 Pages 163 - 164
I smelled Veminium oil.
The petals of Veminium, the "Desert Veminium," purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed into oil. This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk but is used in middle and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand, before and after the evening meal.
Tribesmen of Gor Book 10 Pages 50 - 51
"What about 'Veminia'?" I asked. The Veminium is a small, lovely Gorean flower, softly petaled and blue.
"That is a slave name," she said. "That is what I was called in the house of Oneander of Ar."
Rogue of Gor Book 15 Page 91
I looked upwards, and about the room. The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, Veminia and Teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant. Lola had done well.
Guardsman of Gor Book 16 Page 240
"It was more likely two Ahn," I said. There was little active fire now. Stalks of Veminium broken beside the road had now dried.
Mercenaries of Gor Book 21 Page 94
"Come to the Veminium!" said the second. The veminium is a delicate, five-petaled blue flower common in both the northern and southern hemispheres of Gor. "We are not so expensive!" The use of the veminium, as a name for the tavern, given the widely spread range of the flower was perhaps supposed to suggest affordable beauty. The second and the third girls were the ones who were bare-breasted.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 436
"It is a lovely day," he said. "Might I be privileged to accompany you? In the lower gardens the veminia are in bloom."
"Of course," she said.
Witness of Gor Book 26 Page 353
There were trees, and grass, in the small courtyard, and flowers, mostly talenders, and dinas, some veminium. A tiled walk wound its way through the vegetation. Flowering shrubbery was about. Here and there, there were small, concealed nooks in the garden. In one corner, there was a small reservoir, with a slatted wooden lid.
Conspirators of Gor Book 31 Page 645
"Here, friend Sakim," said Clitus, "are more free maidens, joyously dancing in flowing garments, casting flowers, mostly dinas, talenders, and veminium, before the wheels of the final float. Do not miss these."
Avengers of Gor Book 36 Page 392
Flower - WaterTo The Top
"Your name is Haruki," I said.
"Yes, noble one," said the gardener, startled. He was standing, pinching off the tips of new branches on the Blue Climber, a vinelike plant with large blue bracts amongst its common leaves, and small yellow flowers, clinging to the railing of the small bridge in the shogun's garden. This minor pruning stimulates new branching.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 245
The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow, one could see the slow movements of colorful fish.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Page 584