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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	164	I unslung my longbow and fitted an arrow, yanking my tarn in an abrupt wing-shuddering arc.	10
5	181	As we neared the fleeing warrior, I fitted a second arrow to my bow.	10
5	182	Rather than kill the warrior, I loosed the arrow into the wing of his tarn.	10
6	39	I cursed as an arrow creased my shoulder, as the tarn's great wings smote the air and the monster took to flight.	10
18	2	I thought of Marlenus who, if he survived, might be able to see much of the same sight from the arrow ports of the Central Cylinder.	10

Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	215	The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon.	10
3	73	But no arrow was set to the string.	10
5	62	The sides of the wagon box, incidentally, are, here and there, perforated for arrow ports, for the small horn bow of the Wagon Peoples can be used to advantage not only from the back of a kaiila but, like the crossbow, from such cramped quarters.	10
10	98	An arrow swept over my head.	10
15	12	Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius.	10
22	14	I had no wish to be brought down with a Tuchuk arrow in the streets as a Turian civilian.	10
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.	10
26	180	Yet did he try still to stagger forward and then another arrow and another pierced his body until he fell at Kamchak's feet.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	146	Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...	10
22	558	Like an arrow, a black torrent, Ubar of the Skies flashed toward the side rings.	10
22	572	I saw one of the four crossbowmen fall, an arrow from the stands transfixing him.	10

Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	243	Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last.	10
8	10	The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length.	10
1	35	Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...	10
3	140	Then he took, from the unwrapped roll of arrows, now spilled on the leather, a flight arrow, and this, to my admiration, he fitted to the bow and drew it to the very pile itself.	10
3	141	He held the arrow up, pointing it into the sky, at an angle of some fifty degrees.	10
3	142	Then there came the clean, swift, singing flash of the bowstring and the flight arrow was aloft.	10
3	144	The arrow seemed lost, as though among the clouds, and so far was it that it seemed vanished in its falling.	10
8	35	The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh.	10
8	57	My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting...	10
8	125	When the torch first flickered I put the arrow into the heart of the man who held it, and he and the torch, as though struck by a fist, spun and reeled off the far side of the barge.	10
8	130	And then I heard one cry out "They are aboard! We are boarded! Fight!" Telima had poled us some thirty yards out into the marsh, and I stood there, arrow to string, in case any should bring another torch.	10
8	198	I had Telima pole us back away from the barge and I stood regarding it, for some Ehn, the great bow quarter-drawn, arrow to string.	10
8	231	I knew, further, that she could not, even were the weapon strung, draw it to the half, but further I knew that, at the range she might fire, the arrow, drawn even to the quarter, might penetrate my back.	10
12	22	One of the men, hit by the arrow, spun away, rolling across the tiles, snapping the shaft.	10
12	36	I heard an arrow flash into the water near me and heard a high-pitched pain squeal from one of the web-footed canal urts.	10
18	605	Protruding from his forehead, its pile stopped by the metal helmet in the back, was the long shaft of an arrow, one that could be only from the peasant bow.	10

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1392	She had captured me, and sold me for a hundred arrow points! How humiliating, and insulting! I was worth gold! Gold! Perhaps Marlenus, her captor, would choose to put her on the block! Perhaps she would sell for a hundred arrow points! But I would bring gold, much gold! I looked about at the slave f...	10
9	428	It contained steel arrow points.	10
9	499	"A hundred arrow points," I pouted, "is not enough!" I was startled that I had said this, and more with how I had said it.	10
9	526	But only a hundred arrow points! It was not enough! The door to the hut swung open.	10
10	326	"You cost only one hundred arrow points".	10
10	529	"I am a slave! A slave!" "A hundred arrow points is too much for such a slave," he said.	10
17	475	My price could have been an arrow point or a copper tarn disk, but his answer would have been the same.	10
18	88	"No!" I said to Thurnock, putting my hand on the arrow, thrusting it to one side.	10

Book 8. (41 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	160	Another arrow struck near me, with a quick, hard sound, followed by the tight vibrating of the arrow.	10
8	246	I found a black temwood arrow, a sheaf arrow, and fitted it unsteadily to the string of the great bow, the yellow bow, from the wine trees of Gor.	10
13	88	I did not need, as with the broad arrow or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, to thrust the point through in order to free it.	10
1	215	"Do you recall your price?" "Two steel knives," said the man, "and fifty steel arrow points".	10
2	463	"A steel knife for each," I proposed to Sheera, "and twenty arrow points, of steel, for each".	10
2	464	"Forty arrow points for each, and the knives," said Sheera, cutting at the sand.	10
2	477	When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chai...	10
2	479	Sheera, and her girls, watched carefully, not trusting men, and counted the arrow points twice.	10
4	197	I was sold for one hundred arrow points.	10
6	121	"It is not uncommon for panther girls to first make contact," said Rim, smiling, "with a hunting arrow in the back".	10
6	259	Then I sat down, cross-legged, and withdrew an arrow, for the great bow, from its quiver and, with thread and a tiny pot of glue, bent to refeathering its shaft.	10
6	307	I finished with the arrow on which I was working.	10
6	314	I rose to my feet, the arrow well refeathered, and set it to one side, across two rocks.	10
6	433	They had been told to sit together that an arrow loosed into their midst could not but find a target.	10
6	470	"We will take four arrow points for her," said the girl, "for returning her to you".	10
6	475	I indicated that one of the girl's companions might remove four arrow points from the pack of trade goods.	10
6	534	"It is well for you," said the girl, lifting the four arrow points she had received for the return of Sheera, "that we have done business".	10
7	133	The arrow struck the trunk of a tree not inches from my face.	10
7	143	In moments I had come to the place whence the arrow had been loosed.	10
7	158	At the hemp string, whipped with silk, was a temwood arrow, piled with steel, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
7	200	Some six inches of the arrow, five inches feathered, protruded from her shoulder.	10
7	210	I strode to her and, as her eyes cried out with pain, snapped off the arrow.	10
7	213	Now, the arrow gone, her two wounds began to bleed.	10
7	216	I snapped off the rest of the arrow, and, with a knife, shaved it to the tree, that it might not attract attention.	10
8	251	The arrow fell from the string.	10
8	280	An arrow swept past us.	10
8	302	An arrow struck near me.	10
11	457	"I will give you a steel knife," said Marlenus, "and forty arrow points for her".	10
11	459	The knife and the arrow points were brought, and Hura took them.	10
12	200	I removed an arrow from the quiver.	10
12	201	I set the arrow to the string.	10
13	40	My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body were at right angles to the target line; my head was turned sharply to the left; the first sheaf arrow was drawn to its pile; the three half feathers of the vosk gull were at my jawbone.	10
13	42	He was under my arrow.	10
14	344	The steel-piled arrow, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull, had pierced his heart.	10
15	473	Their arrows, their bows being smaller, are not as long as the common sheaf arrow of the long bow, but they would be satisfactory.	10
16	20	The first man, felled at the conquest circle, had been felled with a pile arrow from the great bow.	10
16	202	I removed a pile from one of the temwood arrows and capped the arrow with a wadding of fur.	10
16	211	I loosed the padded arrow.	10
16	219	I found the arrow, removed the wadding and replaced the steel pile.	10
16	269	"If any man of Tyros falls," he cried, "ten slaves will die!" Scarcely had his words been uttered when he, himself, fell, an arrow from the great bow lost in the yellow of his tunic.	10
22	799	"She had a bow," I said, "with an arrow to the string.	10

Book 9. (27 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	25	It had been carried to the Inlet of Green Cliffs, to Thorstein Camp, from Ax Glacier to Einar's Skerry; it had been carried to the high farms, to the lakes, to the coast; it had been carried on foot and by swift ship; a thousand arrows, each touched to the arrow of Torvald, had been carried, and whe...	10
1	528	Such a device, like the poisoned arrow, was not only against the codes of the warriors, but, generally, was regarded as unworthy of men.	10
5	152	An arrow cleft the air, passing over the gunwales.	10
5	315	Suddenly an arrow struck the side of the ship.	10
6	427	Beyond this his heralds could carry the war arrow, it was said, to ten thousand farms.	10
10	82	When the war arrow is carried, of course, all free men are to respond; in such a case the farm may suffer, and his companion and children know great hardship; in leaving his family, the farmer, weapons upon his shoulder, speaks simply to them.	10
10	83	"The war arrow has been carried to my house," he tells them.	10
16	1	The War Arrow Following the Forkbeard, on hands and knees, I crawled down the narrow passage, at one point turning to my left side to slide through a narrow aperture.	10
16	191	From among the weapons at the foot of the couch, from one of the cylindrical quivers, still of the sort carried in Torvaldsland, I drew forth a long, dark arrow.	10
16	196	I lifted the arrow.	10
16	198	"It is a war arrow," he said.	10
16	201	"Why do you think this arrow is in this place?" I asked.	10
16	204	He reached out and put his hand on the arrow.	10
16	206	"Send the war arrow," I said.	10
16	207	The Forkbeard looked down on the arrow.	10
16	210	Here they would find not Torvald, but themselves, themselves, Ivar, alone, and an arrow of war".	10
16	220	Here, hoping for others to do our work, we find only ourselves, and an arrow of war.	10
16	227	"Lift," said I, "the arrow of war".	10
16	229	Slowly, his visage terrible, the Forkbeard lifted his arm, the arrow in his fist.	10
16	230	I am not even of Torvaldsland, but it was I who was present when the arrow of war was lifted, at the side of the couch of Torvald, deep within the living stone of the Torvaldsberg.	10
16	231	Then the Forkbeard thrust the arrow in his belt.	10
17	24	The war arrow had been carried.	10
17	33	Thralls are not permitted to touch the war arrow, but they are permitted to kneel to those who have.	10
17	69	He had been the third, after Ivar Forkbeard and Tarl Cabot, a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, to lift the arrow of Torvald.	10
18	641	The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th...	10
22	38	I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i...	10
22	231	Hrolf, from the east, had agreed to return the war arrow to the Torvaldsberg.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	749	I looked back and noted, high, lofting in the moonlight night, an arrow, with a silver pennon attached to it.	10
11	467	The innkeeper turned to face me, his face white; he fell rolling to the floor, snapping off the shaft of the arrow.	10
11	471	Two arrows struck the wood, splintering needles of wood into my cheek; then the shutters were pulled closed, fastened; another arrow burst half through one, hanging on our side.	10
11	497	I saw a fire arrow loop in the sky over palms.	10
11	507	An arrow had fallen within the stable yard, striking through the straw in the storage stall at the right.	10

Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	62	"I was voyaging upstream on the Laurius," he said, "to see if panther girls had caught any new slave girls, whom I might purchase from them for arrow points and candy, for use in the tavern as paga sluts.	10
11	22	Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges and knives.	10
11	57	The arrow flighted from a diving tarn, allied with gravity and the momentum of the winged beast, can sink a foot into solid wood.	10
11	346	I fitted an arrow, of black tem-wood, with a pile point, to the string of the yellow bow.	10
11	348	The arrow was winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
13	2	I followed Imnak's example, crawling on my belly, after him, the horn bow in my hand, an arrow loose at the string.	10
15	620	"Be pleased that panther girls are not selling you for arrow points and a handful of candy," I said.	10
24	489	The word 'Karjuk', incidentally, in the language of the Innuit, means 'Arrow'.	10
35	1088	Karjuk stood near the entranceway, his strung bow of layered horn in his hand, an arrow at the string.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	7	Too, it is similar to the loosened arrow, which has its greatest swiftness, and maximum striking power, immediately after being sprung from the string, immediately after leaving the bow.	10

Book 16. (13 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	26	One arrow struck into the stem castle behind me and to my left.	10
1	28	The other arrow with a flash of sparks struck the mooring cleat on the bulwark to my right and glanced away into the water.	10
1	162	Then he was reeling back, an arrow in his chest.	10
4	147	He set an arrow to the string of a short ship's bow.	10
4	265	Another fellow, near me, lifted his bow, an arrow fitted to the string.	10
4	266	He bent the bow, drawing the string back, the arrow at a sharp angle.	10
5	16	The bowman, below me on the deck, and to my left, unleashed an arrow, at point-blank range across the gunnels.	10
5	50	I saw a man on the Tina plunge backward, his hands clutching at an arrow protruding from his forehead.	10
5	59	An arrow struck into the deck at my feet.	10
6	20	I saw one of our archers, his chest transfixed with an arrow, tumble from the stern castle.	10
6	77	I watched one of our archers, with a knife, removing an arrow from the wood of the stem castle.	10
7	6	An arrow pierced the water near me, then bobbed to the surface.	10
16	24	I saw a pirate fall over the body of another pirate, who had been struck with an arrow.	10

Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	946	The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound.	10
1	947	The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow.	10
1	940	From kaiilaback, riding beside the stampeded animal, however, the skilled hunter can kill one with a single arrow.	10
1	942	At this range the arrow can sink in to the feathers.	10
1	944	The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft.	10
1	945	This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target.	10
1	949	Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards.	10
1	958	The reason for these different orientations is particularly telling at close range, before the arrow begins to turn in the air.	10
1	1059	"The man, on his snowshoes, descends the slope between himself and his enemies," said Kog, "his arrow to the string".	10
1	1068	Killing an enemy with a bow and arrow from ambush, on the other hand, might be counted as only a fifth or seventh coup.	10
16	45	Here and there I saw an arrow in the grass.	10

Book 18. (46 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	140	An arrow then, say, may be identified not only as Kaiila, but, within the tribe, or band, as the arrow of a particular warrior.	10
17	37	"The arrow is the arrow of Canka," said Akihoka, almost chanting in grief.	10
1	89	One must be that close for the lance thrust to be made or for the arrow, from the small bow, to strike with sufficient depth, to the feathers, either into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, resulting in large-scale internal hemorrhaging, or behind the left shoulder blade, into the heart.	10
2	179	The lad turned swiftly, seeing the movement with his peripheral vision, and fired a small arrow expertly through the rolling object.	10
4	267	Hunters pride themselves on making single-arrow kills.	10
4	272	"If you use more than one arrow in any beast," she said, "I will tell everyone".	10
4	275	"And no more riding after the animal, to pull out the first arrow.	10
4	291	"Do not use more than one arrow," she said.	10
4	292	"I never use more than one arrow," he said, "almost never".	10
4	294	"If I use more than one arrow, you will not tell anyone, will you?" he asked.	10
4	377	"Have you seen an arrow of mine?" asked Canka.	10
17	23	"They have the arrow which was shot at Mahpiyasapa," said Akihoka, rocking back and forth.	10
17	24	"It is the arrow of Canka.	10
17	36	"No one shoots an arrow at his chief, and then just rides off hunting".	10
17	41	"Does this seem likely to you," I asked, angrily, "in a crowded camp?" "It was the arrow of Canka," said Akihoka.	10
17	42	"They have the arrow.	10
17	43	It is the arrow of Canka.	10
17	49	"Clearly it must have been Hci himself who fired the arrow," I said.	10
17	66	In the openness of the living of the red savages, where things are not hidden and locked up, and where theft is not expected, and is generally regarded as almost unthinkable, it would not be a difficult matter, provided one was a bit careful, to take an arrow.	10
21	1	Yellow Knives One of the Sleen Soldiers, rising to his feet, spun awkwardly, kicking dust, the arrow having entered through the chest, its point protruding above his left hip.	10
21	12	An arrow struck near us, sinking almost to the feathers in the dirt.	10
23	7	I then fitted another arrow to the string.	10
24	2	The Yellow Knife behind them, the arrow in his chest, slipped back, awkwardly, turned, and fell heavily into the dust.	10
24	9	I fitted another arrow to the string.	10
24	12	Needless to say the arrow may be moved much more swiftly from the bow hand or the mouth to the string than from the quiver to the string.	10
24	35	The rider spun the kaiila about, to his right, keeping his shield between himself and my arrow.	10
28	303	I saw another man toward the rear, an archer, discharge an arrow, and leap to the side, to avoid a rider.	10
29	43	My shield lifted, I deflected an arrow from above.	10
31	6	"It was I who took the arrow of Canka," he said.	10
39	262	"Perhaps he is wounded," said Hci, fitting an arrow to a bow.	10
42	81	I put one arrow to the string.	10
44	600	"Sometimes," I said, "there is little to choose from, between ten men, each with one arrow, and one man with ten arrows".	10
46	140	Arrow screens were broken and dropped.	10
46	158	Then, into this trapped mass, its arrow screens no longer in position, and many of them scattered and lost, sped hundreds of arrows.	10
46	175	Some of them rode about a bit on the trail but then, under sporadic arrow fire, they withdrew.	10
47	229	As soon as I had entered the clouds I whipped out my small bow and put an arrow to the string, and held two in the bow hand, and, reseizing the reins, brought the tarn about, and yet it seemed it needed no guidance.	10
47	273	I fitted an arrow to the string of my bow.	10
47	280	The arrow, fired from not more than fifteen feet away, entered the body of the rider on the right below the left shoulder blade and almost at the same instant Ubar of the Skies, screaming, with those hooklike, terrible talons tore the body of the rider on the left from the girth rope.	10
47	281	I seized the reins of the tarn whose rider I had struck with the arrow.	10
47	284	I jerked free, from the front, where it protruded, the arrow, drawing it through the body.	10
47	288	I returned the bloody arrow to the quiver.	10
47	378	I fitted an arrow to the string of my bow.	10
47	399	I loosened the arrow from my bow into the heart of Kog.	10
47	454	An arrow was fitted to the string.	10
47	465	The arrow, from below, was aligned on her heart.	10
47	467	Hci interposed his shield, and the arrow, deflected, caromed off a hundred feet in the air.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1425	The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	134	Could an arrow, or the quarrel of a crossbow, not be sped between the bars, into my heart, even here in the pen? I lay back, frightened, holding the blanket about me.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	495	In the covered way, like an enclosed hall between the gates, there would doubtless, both above and to the sides, be arrow ports.	10
2	222	The common fire arrow, for example, usually burns itself out in place.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	303	Then he stood very still, and then fell forward, among the tharlarion, the arrow of temwood, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull, in his back.	10
14	304	I saw another fellow, too, hesitate, confused, then struck by an arrow.	10
15	10	Then an arrow would dart forth from the rence, the bowman unseen, his presence perhaps not even suspected, and another man, perhaps silently, would sink into the marsh.	10
15	75	The shields were now to be shifted to the right arm, for that was the direction from which had come the arrow.	10
30	10	Rencers sometimes, incidentally, trade for the arrow shafts and points separately.	10

Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	369	The lead tarnsman loosed, as he could, arrow after arrow into the body of the attacking bird, and then, drawing his sword, for he carried no lance, tried to close with it, to strike it somehow, across the back of the neck, in that tumbling tangle of rage and hunger.	10
20	359	"It is coming again!" cried the leading tarnsman who had freed the rope from his pommel, swung about, and set an arrow to a small saddle bow, used for clearing the saddle, firing to either side.	10
27	1023	Ellen saw an arrow hit the turf not a yard away.	10
27	1031	An arrow transfixed his throat.	10
27	1037	Ellen heard an arrow strike into the wagon bed above her.	10
27	1084	"The arrow struck away, not lodging in the flesh".	10
27	1614	An arrow she sensed sped past, like a whisper in the wind.	10
27	2100	"See the arrow," said one of the soldiers.	10
27	2101	Ellen had never seen such an arrow.	10
27	2113	"The arrow has pierced the heart," said Fel Doron.	10
27	2991	One of the soldiers tried to fit an arrow to his bow.	10
27	3183	"Even an arrow would have to pass this barrier!" said Tersius Major.	10

Book 28. (25 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	2	Cabot was working with the missile, or arrow, straightener, a short wooden tool, some eighteen inches in length, with a small, round hole cut in one end.	10
35	17	The string for this launching device, or bow, the string from which the missile, the arrow, is flighted, was easily obtained from remnants of the raft's rope, parted, unraveled, and rewoven, those remnants by means of which Cabot and the slave had been enabled to survive the storm, by means of which...	10
35	28	Each of these putative pendants later, of course, might be fitted into the leading end of a missile, or arrow, held in place on two sides by the slit wood, and lashed firmly in place, by means of the indentations, and a stout cord.	10
36	41	"The arrow is swifter," said Cabot.	10
36	42	"It is not for nothing the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the bird of death.	10
36	43	In Torvaldsland, the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the jard feeder".	10
36	78	"Perhaps then," said Cabot, "the arrow is not less noble than the spear".	10
36	79	"The arrow can strike from cover, the archer unseen," said Grendel.	10
38	2	Cabot had an arrow to the string.	10
39	91	He put another arrow to the string.	10
39	92	Then, suddenly, and Cabot had not seen it, another of the Kurii spun about and rolled in the dust, scratching at it, an arrow through its neck.	10
41	13	He bent his bow, and set an arrow to the string.	10
43	25	Cabot would not have time to activate the bow, to loose it from his shoulder, arrow it, and draw it.	10
43	85	Cabot, by now, had freed his bow and handed it, with an arrow, to Lord Grendel.	10
47	108	He took the bow from Statius, and the quiver, and grasped four arrows and the bow in his left hand, and set an arrow to the string.	10
47	124	By the time he could free it from its holster another arrow had found its mark and the weapon seemed to float away, as might an object in water.	10
47	150	Cabot aligned an arrow.	10
48	23	The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont...	10
48	24	Indeed, the arrow, loosed from the great bow, remained a not unformidable tool, even against foes equipped with a more sophisticated weaponry.	10
49	4	Set an arrow to your bow".	10
53	8	"We have brought arrow points," said Cabot, "a great many of them".	10
55	226	Cabot then, bow strung, an arrow to the string, a quiver at his hip, laden with the birds of death, emerged from the forest.	10
67	25	Too, they would wear body armor, capable of turning an arrow at point-blank range.	10
67	102	Such would have been intended for an arrow straightener.	10
68	1	An Encounter in the Forest "Do not loose your arrow, if you are so armed!" called the Kur.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	498	Miss Wentworth would strike two targets with one arrow, so to speak, a transitory purpose of interest to my primaries in the north and the satisfaction of an order from a new and valued client, currently in the same area".	10
12	141	Even his flight might well be a ruse, for one of his favorite tactics was the backward flighted arrow, loosed from the platform of the smooth-gaited kaiila.	10
14	65	Given the size of the tarn, the beating of its wings, and such, there is no simple way to protect it from arrow fire, either aerial fire or fire from the ground.	10
14	113	For defense, primarily, a light buckler might defend against the spear, and, possibly, some arrow fire.	10
16	33	On the ground, in extensive training, I had practiced the men with their weapons, the arrow, the dart, the lance, the edged buckler, the net.	10
16	77	The war horn's blast burst out from beneath me and I saw the cavalry, in its diving, wedgelike, suddenly widening, formation, to allow for a broad front of arrow fire, rank behind rank, deploy.	10
16	128	On the other hand, with the short bow one could fire an arrow every five Ihn.	10
16	199	An arrow was lodged in his shoulder, and the white kimono was spotted there with blood.	10
16	206	I heard a cry of misery from the platform, and the wound dresser stood up, the bloodied arrow in his grasp, held with two hands.	10
17	58	Too, many fell victims to the backward-flighted arrow, in which I had trained my men.	10
17	59	The enemy, to his relief, would often assume the danger past as the bird passed, only to be struck from behind by the backward flighted arrow, a device familiar to the Tuchuk.	10
23	317	It seemed unlikely the enemy, whomsoever, or whatsoever, it might be, would have placed its entire wager on a single arrow fired from tarnback, would have placed the outcome of a large and bold enterprise on a single cast of the marked stones.	10

Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	44	That is just as well, of course, for the bulwarks provide some protection from arrow fire, certainly from most long ships, which, like us, unlike many round ships, are low in the water.	10
9	98	The arrow had been broken in the fellow's fall, against the stairs.	10
9	99	"It is a Pani arrow," said a fellow.	10
9	100	The Pani arrow is long, rather like that of the peasant bow, but the Pani bow is unlike the peasant bow, as it is longer, and lighter.	10
9	128	The arrow had been sped from somewhere.	10
16	91	At that moment there was a long whistle, and I picked out a shaft, an ascending arrow, fired from somewhere on the ship below.	10
16	93	Almost at the same time, another arrow, trailing a spume of smoke, ascended from the ship, paused at the height of its trajectory and then, trailing its tail of smoke, descended, falling into the water.	10
16	203	I saw more than one man, trying to free the hold of a grapnel, felled by a long arrow, fired from one of the small boats.	10
16	338	Over the next four days, men, with small files and vessels of caulking, were fastened in the boarding nets, which were moved from port to starboard, and along the hull, and these fellows cleaned and repaired the timbers, removing hundreds of blackened arrow shafts, and sealing fissures and clefts in...	10
16	339	The arrow points, worked free, were saved, in small bags, worn at the belt.	10
22	78	Many, we had later learned, had perished in the defile, from concealed arrow fire, but arrows, now, save at short range, a yard or two, given the proximity of the combatants and the confusion, could scarcely find congenial targets.	10
22	79	The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death.	10
22	218	The original ambush in the defile had begun with a rain of arrow fire, which had taken a heavy toll on our fellows, Pani and otherwise.	10
22	232	I heard, for the first time at this range, the sudden, unmistakable sound, so solid, so quick and frightening, of an arrow striking a body, and then its repetition, again, and again.	10
22	250	There was a sudden cry from Lord Nishida and our fellows cast aside the bodies, bristling with arrows, and leaped upon the startled, disconcerted archers, only feet away, few of whom could train or loose more than a single arrow before dying.	10
22	251	I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust.	10
25	14	From each station arrow fire might rake the side of the plateau.	10
29	62	Arrow fire would flow from the ship to the wharf, and from the wharf to the ship.	10
32	48	An arrow sped past.	10
36	8	For example, exquisite Pani ceramics, intricate carvings, and dyed silks, produced in the castle shops of Lord Temmu might bring silver in Brundisium, and be sold for gold in Ar and Turia, and the silver from Brundisium, in Brundisium, of course, might be exchanged for sinew, arrow points, fletching...	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	57	The spear and sword, the bolt and arrow, speak to them as well as to us".	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	401	Each held a strung, but not drawn, bow, a large bow, with an arrow, a long arrow, light at the string, as though it might be ready for flight.	10
15	140	I would later learn that records were kept, as each arrow could be identified as that of a given bowman.	10
15	146	Almost every arrow fired had struck a target.	10
46	73	If I were not killed, I would be beaten for my beauty, if it were that, and then sold, if only for a sack of arrow points.	10

Book 33. (51 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	12	Indeed, an arrow with the left-turned fletching is often spoken of as the first arrow, and an arrow with the right-turned fletching as the second arrow.	10
59	66	"One must care for the arrow, understand the arrow, think as the arrow, and be as the arrow," said Nodachi.	10
47	266	The final arrow, the twelfth arrow, was handed to him, and the shogun set it to the string.	10
47	281	The blade had caught the arrow behind the head, and, as the arrow slid on the blade, pressed to the side, the blade had caught in the wood and shaved the long, graceful missile lengthwise leaving behind it two almost equal parts, even to the fletching.	10
61	102	Sometimes the arrow must rest on the string; at other times, the bow is to be drawn, and the arrow loosed.	10
1	80	The large arrow quivers, saddle quivers, one on each side, could carry fifty to a hundred arrows.	10
1	227	There is occasionally the danger of arrow fire.	10
1	289	"There will then be less danger of arrow fire," said Lord Okimoto.	10
1	294	"There is little danger of arrow fire when one departs from the holding," said Lord Nishida.	10
1	296	"Arrow fire," said Lord Okimoto, "need not issue from without the holding".	10
1	503	I supposed they were kept largely indoors, where they would be in little danger, should a storming take place, or an occasional stone or looping arrow fall into the courtyard space between the walls, and the buildings and the castle itself.	10
2	58	May a track in the snow not be a long, lingering arrow, one pointing to its unseen target? I must now be near the first encampment, that decimated weeks ago by the forces of Lord Yamada.	10
3	41	It is not wise to draw a weapon when one may be beneath the point of an arrow.	10
6	236	The quarrel and the arrow are akin, as are the glaive and the spear".	10
10	234	"When the enemy is nearly within arrow range, eagerly near, ready to put arrows to the string, you may sound assembly and one-strap.	10
15	19	"I am sure it would turn aside a thrust, an arrow," I said.	10
15	62	"Surely, given its shape it would lack the penetration of a blade," I said, "and, given its shape and weight, it would lack the distance and accuracy of an arrow".	10
17	5	The arrow is released well below the center of the bow.	10
17	8	Given the length of the draw, a consequence of the bow's construction, the arrow is correspondingly long.	10
17	41	Lord Yamada lifted the grip of the bow, with arrow to the string, slowly carefully, above his head, and then slowly, carefully, evenly, considering the target, paralleling it to that objective, lowered it gracefully.	10
17	48	"But the arrow can kill".	10
17	49	"Why can there not be grace and beauty in all things," he said, "the curve of a spoon, the touch of ink on silk, the arrangement of flowers, such things?" "Perhaps even," I said, "in the flight of an arrow, the stroke of a sword".	10
17	55	The grip is not clutched to waver, but the arrow, as it descends, is gently brought into harmony with the target.	10
17	96	The arrow, had the target been a man, would have pierced the forehead.	10
17	214	I noted he had withdrawn one arrow from the stand and put it to the string of the bow.	10
23	206	The procedure, of course, is to relay a message by a number of flighted arrows, the message secured from one arrow, and affixed to the next, and so on.	10
31	253	At that moment he whom I had taken to be an innkeeper, staggered back, and fell, a long Pani arrow, thrice-fletched, buried in his heart.	10
32	10	Another arrow struck the door jamb, quivering in place.	10
32	117	I heard an arrow splinter into the door.	10
47	130	"Nor, I suspect," said the shogun, "the arrow".	10
47	163	Several paces behind us, some forty paces, for it had been paced out, was an arrow stand.	10
47	180	"No one survived more than the second arrow".	10
47	186	We then arranged ourselves in the vicinity of the arrow stand and the bow rack.	10
47	192	"The arrow is known to him.	10
47	197	"He is as the arrow," said Tajima.	10
47	205	The Ashigaru nearest the arrow stand then handed him one of the long arrows.	10
47	208	Lord Yamada then put the arrow to the string.	10
47	211	"It is my hope that he will survive the first arrow".	10
47	218	The arrow flashed from the bow.	10
47	222	He had struck the arrow away with a tiny flick of the companion sword.	10
47	223	Lord Yamada extended his hand, in which the Ashigaru placed another arrow.	10
47	226	"Superb!" called Lord Yamada, clearly impressed, as the parts of the second arrow skittered to the side.	10
47	246	Again, at the closer range, an arrow flashed from the bow.	10
47	251	No longer did Lord Yamada extend cordial greetings to the subject of his test, nor did he accord him any longer a pleasant commendation, but merely extended his hand, that a new arrow be placed within it.	10
47	255	But the shogun's attention was on Nodachi, bound, hands free, the companion sword in hand, awaiting the tenth arrow.	10
47	263	I think that these two inhabited a world alien to that of better than a hundred observers, a world shut away from other worlds, a world in which each stood at an opposite end, a narrow world, the two poles of which were linked by a wirelike, invisible path no broader than the breadth of an arrow.	10
47	265	"Arrow!" cried Lord Yamada.	10
54	23	"There was no arrow fire".	10
60	316	"We cannot resist the flighted arrow," said Pertinax.	10
60	328	One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t...	10
61	121	Various camp wagons were also brought toward the perimeter, that ensconced defenders, when not resisting intrusion, might be sheltered from arrow fire.	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	84	At the edge of the walkway, by the canal, I saw a short, narrow, pointed, metal-finned, metal, cylindrical object, an arrow or missile of some sort.	10
41	164	Light entered the corridor from narrow arrow ports in the wall.	10

Book 36. (22 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	60	First, the column would not understand the likely meaning of the arrow, and, accordingly, would not come to arms at its first note, and, second, the men of the column, detecting the arrow, would be likely, in fascination, to follow it in its flight, however apprehensively.	10
32	62	Well before the signal arrow had begun its descent, Thurnock had set a fresh arrow to his string and no sooner had the missile begun its descent than one of the corsairs, one in a crested helmet, knelt in the road, perhaps unclear as to what had occurred, and then collapsed.	10
3	80	"Thurnock has promised me an arrow for each extra shift I row, to the filling of a quiver".	10
4	68	The arrow, or quarrel, as the case may be, is designed to whistle and smoke.	10
4	73	Occasionally a colored ribbon was affixed to the arrow to make it even easier to mark its passage.	10
4	100	"What woman could fire an arrow to such a monstrous height?" "There is scarcely room for the three crowded women," said Clitus.	10
13	5	I heard the quick, heavy impact of an arrow off to my right, presumably into a body, but no cry of pain.	10
13	139	"Demur, attempt to flee," urged Aktis, putting an arrow to his bow.	10
15	32	"Not every time is the time to draw an arrow from the quiver".	10
20	77	I noted that he had now strung his bow, and had an arrow fitted to the string.	10
20	143	Those unfamiliar with the bow have little understanding of the force it imparts to the string, and the released string to the freed arrow.	10
20	146	If I were to release the string, I doubt that even you, my fraudulent, unwelcome, intrusive friend, could follow the flight of the arrow to your heart".	10
23	2	"We have done what we could," said Aktis, fletching an arrow with the feathers of the sea kite.	10
32	55	He fitted a signal arrow to his bow, an artifact whose nature and use I had learned from the high warriors of the Pani, the men of two swords, at the World's End.	10
32	57	The arrow, with its shrill whistle, sped upward, farther and farther.	10
32	63	Then another corsair spun about, turned by the blow of an arrow.	10
41	7	The tactic is for contingents of the invasive force, in the "box formation," shield walls to the sides and a shield roof or ceiling overhead, to protect against arrow fire and cast stones, to approach under artillery fire so as to be able to enter a new breach almost instantly, before defenders can ...	10
44	25	Near me, Thurnock fitted another arrow to his string.	10
46	120	"An arrow," said the man, reaching within his cloak.	10
47	11	These boats were few and overcrowded, and largely exposed to arrow fire.	10
54	154	"Thurnock," I said, "we will need screening which, when brought into play, will be capable of shielding bowmen and resisting arrow fire".	10
57	66	Across the water, the speaking tube fell to the deck and Thurnock refitted another arrow to his string.	10