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Battle

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	14	Periodically the shrill notes of alarm bugles would pierce the air, as forces from Ar emerged to do battle on the plains before the city.	10
16	23	All hope of lifting the siege by battle was gone.	10
18	173	The thought flamed through me in the violent delirium of battle that in those moments I was many men, an army, that no man could stand against me, that it was not my blade or my heart they faced but something I myself only dimly sensed, something intangible but irresistible, an avalanche, a storm, a...	10
19	75	In an instant they would join the battle raging in the streets.	10
19	178	The horde, taken by surprise, was disorganized, unformed for battle.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	102	It is said that if one sees one's visage black and wasted one will die of disease, if one sees oneself torn and scarlet one will die in battle, if one sees oneself old and white haired, one will die in peace and leave children.	10
7	9	Though they were four and I was one I had carried the battle to them.	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10
24	76	"If she again ascends the throne, our battle will have been lost.	10
26	26	Most of the silver masks however, when it was understood their battle had been lost and the laws of Tharna were irrevocably shattered, came of their own free will into the streets and submitted themselves in the traditional fashion of the captive Gorean female, kneeling, lowering the head, and lifti...	10

Book 3. (15 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	102	I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.	10
7	66	I am a warrior of Ko-ro-ba and I issue the challenge of a warrior to the Priest-Kings of Gor! Let us do battle! Let us make war!" My voice echoed for a long time in the vast chamber, but I received no response to my challenge.	10
8	114	A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai.	10
14	89	I did not even have a sword, and I was sure that, in any battle with Priest-Kings, I would constitute but a moment's work for their fierce mandibles and the bladed, hornlike projections on their forelegs.	10
23	54	How was it that she had been captured only so recently by the creature? And if it were true that she had been captured only recently how would she have managed to live in the caverns for those days? Perhaps she might have found a sump of water but what would there have been to eat, I wondered? Perha...	10
27	164	In the frenzy of the battle I had apparently failed to note the injury to the leg.	10
27	337	"But their cities fell to warring," said the withered ancient one, "and these men in battle slew one another and with them died the secret as far as it was known among men".	10
28	10	On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium.	10
28	163	The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...	10
28	170	In the third week of the War, equipped with the armored transportation disks, we began to carry the battle to the forces of Sarm, though they still outnumbered us greatly.	10
28	238	To be sure, a smaller dome would make the craft more maneuverable in the tunnels, but I think Misk did not trust himself to do battle with his former brethren.	10
28	244	Accordingly it seemed to Misk, and I concurred, that an ultimatum should be issued to Sarm's troops and that, if possible, the ship should not be used in battle.	10
30	51	He would occasionally loom above me, gloating, informing me of the success of his battle plans and strategies.	10
32	81	I looked up into the huge, peering golden eyes of Misk, the left one lined with a whitish seam where Sarm's bladed projection had once torn it open in the battle in the Chamber of the Mother.	10
33	2	It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl...	10

Book 4. (13 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	5	But later, shortly after the completion of their journey, in a war between their cities, each had in battle slain the other, and thus among men, save perhaps for some among the Wagon Peoples, the secret had been lost.	10
2	49	I hoped that I would be granted death in battle, if death it must be.	10
13	120	"Such a slow beast," said Kamchak, "might in battle cost a man his life".	10
13	122	The kaiila and its master fight in battle as one unit, seemingly a single savage animal, armed with teeth and lance.	10
23	1	The Battle at the Wagons Kamchak had had his flying columns followed by some two dozen of the wagons, mostly containing supplies.	10
23	81	The escaping Paravaci could now, on their kaiila, easily outdistance the herd and I did not wish the animals to be strung out over the prairie, at the mercy of the Paravaci when they should at last turn and take up the battle again.	10
23	84	When, on the whole, the long-term balance of battle would seem to lie with them, there would be little point in their undertaking the risk of darkness.	10
23	101	The battle was joined at the seventh Gorean hour and, as planned, as soon as the Paravaci center was committed, the bulk of our forces wheeled and retreated among the wagons, the rest of our forces then turning and pushing the wagons together.	10
24	3	The morning after the Battle at the Wagons I had mounted a rested kaiila and set forth for Turia.	10
24	137	"I gathered not," said Harold, "seeing that you apparently spent the night after the battle comfortably resting on the floor of Kamchak's wagon—I looked around for you that night—but didn't find you".	10
24	163	I had taken, as a share of battle loot, a hundred and ten bottles of paga and forty bottles of Ka-la-na wine from Tyros, Cos and Ar, but these I had distributed to my crossbowmen, with the exception of one bottle of paga which Harold and I had split some two nights ago.	10
26	54	"Beware," I warned, "the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel—they might yet turn the brunt of battle against you".	10
26	431	"The two men," I said, "are dead—their cities warred upon one another and in battle they slew one another".	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	355	"Even in the ships," he said, "killing is not discouraged except under conditions of battle or when the functioning of the vessel might be impaired".	10
9	127	"Normally the agent of a Ubar who has been victorious in battle will purchase one, for his high officers, to be brought to the victory feast".	10
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...	10
17	146	The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd...	10
21	296	The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ...	10
21	309	No longer did they wish to press the battle.	10
22	400	It seemed to me that combat on kaiilaback, and combat on tarnback, had much in common; I suspected that the small bow, though it had never been proven in battle on tarnback, might prove that it had worth in the Gorean skies as well as on the dusty, southern plains; I had further, in many nights of t...	10
22	563	The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...	10

Book 6. (32 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	201	I was willing to spend one ship to draw two or three enemy ships from the battle, if battle there was to be.	10
14	271	I had removed him from the battle, if battle there was to be.	10
14	472	The seventeen ships are not to enter battle unless accompanied by the Dorna, and under no conditions, if battle ensues, are any of my ships to move more than four pasangs from the fleet".	10
10	144	On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero...	10
10	145	A war ship going into battle, incidentally, always takes its mast down and stores its sail below decks.	10
10	193	I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m...	10
11	90	These are the arrangements when a galley moves through the city, or when she enters battle.	10
13	433	From my point of view the battle was now over.	10
13	526	We are going into battle".	10
14	328	The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men.	10
14	475	Battle preparations were underway on my ships.	10
14	480	In a quarter Ahn my vessels were aligned for battle.	10
17	4	In the hurrying of our formations and the drawing of battle plans, I was not even certain of the numbers of ships engaged in our various ventures.	10
17	75	In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea.	10
17	77	Coming on the heels of the round ships, with their masts high, these, I assumed, might well be taken for more round ships, for the mast of a tarn ship is always lowered before battle.	10
17	79	These ships would then, when free to do so, support the round ships in their battle, destroying tarn ships which might, unaware of the new danger, be attempting to close with them.	10
17	81	I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value.	10
17	84	I hoped that Chenbar might assume that many of the ships which had fled from Port Kar might have come about and decided to join the battle, or he might infer that he had, before he could ascertain the ships involved in the flanking attacks, seriously misjudged our numbers.	10
17	92	I would wish to use its height to observe, as well as I might, the battle.	10
17	124	I examined the state of the battle.	10
17	131	I turned my attention again to the battle.	10
17	153	Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk...	10
17	176	In the turmoil of the battle I had little doubt that they would be taken, at first, and perhaps until it was too late, as a second wave of round ships.	10
17	193	* * * * For better than three Ahn I had sat in the basket at the masthead of the Dorna, whipped by the wind, my fingers numb on the glass of the builders, observing the battle.	10
17	230	It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.	10
17	365	In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros.	10
18	43	I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh...	10
18	51	Would this battle be sung as had that one? Not in England, I knew.	10
18	62	I also knew that the blockade about the last major holding of Sevarius had been lifted, that its ships, arsenal ships, might participate in the day's battle.	10
18	69	Port Kar had not lost the battle.	10
18	71	But in the meantime I knew that the two Ubars and Claudius, confident but ignorant of the outcome of the battle, would be attempting to rid the city of those who stood against them.	10
18	80	In the belt of his tunic he had thrust the sword that I had had the officer give him before the battle.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1096	The element of the tarnsman is not the green glades, and the branches; it is the clouds, the saddle and the sky; his steed is the tarn, his field of battle, strewn with light and wind, higher than mountains, deeper than the sea, is the very sky itself.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	30	We were not intending battle.	10

Book 9. (28 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	222	"Do battle! Do battle!" But no man dared to move.	10
2	169	In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ...	10
3	41	"The battle is done!" The giant, with the grayish face and shaggy hair, stood suddenly, unnaturally, quiet, the great, curved blade lifted over a weeping man.	10
3	43	"The battle is done!" called out Forkbeard.	10
4	81	The battle of the 25th of Se'Kara had taken place in 10,120 C.	10
5	18	If there was to be battle, they would be utterly helpless, completely unable to interfere in the least way.	10
5	19	They would await the battle's result, and their disposition; they were females.	10
5	118	"No battle now," said he, "Rollo.	10
5	121	"No battle now," repeated the Forkbeard, shaking the giant's head.	10
7	301	"The battle is done!" The giant lowered his ax and, slowly, returned to his couch, to sleep.	10
10	80	A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod...	10
13	327	"Once in battle," said Svein Blue Tooth, "I wounded Thorgard of Scagnar".	10
14	220	"On your feet! Do battle!" But even those who stood seemed numb with terror.	10
16	119	He shall then lead us in battle.	10
18	136	"The battle turns against us!" cried a man.	10
18	143	"To the battle," said he.	10
18	145	"To the battle!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
18	146	"To the battle!" "They cannot be held!" cried a man.	10
18	147	"They will sweep the camp!" "To the battle!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
18	591	There seemed to be now little doubt as to the outcome of the battle.	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
18	664	I looked about at the field of battle, under the dark sky.	10
19	1	The Note The Kur came that night, the night of the battle, in the light of torches, ringed by men with spears.	10
20	79	It had been he who had rallied the Kurii in the raid on their camp, in the ensuing battle.	10
20	103	In my way, to use concepts you may grasp, I am a prince among my people, not only in blood, but by battle, for in such a way only does one become prince among the Kurii.	10
21	248	But I had felt, after the battle, again in my body the effects of the poison, though briefly.	10
22	79	For more than a day I had lain in fever, in delirium, while in my body had been fought the battle of poison and antidote.	10
22	95	Here, with the Forkbeard, with the sea, the wind, in his hall and in battle, I had become, somehow, much different.	10

Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	330	Not much to my surprise the men of the escort of Aretai rushed forth to do battle, but, seeing the numbers of their enemy, which indeed seemed considerable, sweeping down from the hills, wheeled their kaiila and, abandoning the caravan, rode rapidly away.	10
11	173	"The oasis of the Battle of Red Rock," said Hassan to me, "is one of the few outpost oases maintained by the Aretai.	10
11	215	"Does the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock have, at its northeast rim, a kasbah, with four towers?" "Yes," said Hassan.	10
11	287	The oasis which we were entering is named for the Battle of Red Rock, which is a large shelf of reddish sandstone behind the oasis, north by northeast from its lowest point, and center.	10
11	288	It was used as the vantage point for the Aretai commander at that time, Hammaran, who also launched at a crucial point in the struggle, his picked cavalry, and bodyguard, from that height, turning the battle's tide.	10
11	305	The battle of Red Rock, for which the oasis is named, took place more than seventy years ago, in 10,051 C.	10
11	334	When the battle was lost to him, Ba'Arub tried to reach him.	10
11	409	This was irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded dune country; there are oases in the dune country but ...	10
12	20	"Hurry!" Four days ago, at dawn, Tarna, at the head of her men, left the Oasis of the Battle of Red Rock in flames.	10
23	68	"It should be a magnificent battle," said the man.	10
23	75	"Will you ride to battle leading pack kaiila?" asked the man.	10
24	1	I Bind a Girl, Reserving Her for Myself; I Then Address Myself to the Duties of Steel The outcome of the battle, some twenty pasangs from the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, had never been in doubt.	10
24	9	I did not see Tarna in the battle.	10

Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	470	Why did they not flee in terror from such blades? Why did they not flee? But they met one another, and did battle.	10
2	494	He gestured with his blade, indicating that now they might do battle.	10
2	674	I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons.	10
16	191	Some years ago Tyros and Cos joined fleets for war on Port Kar, but in a significant naval battle the two ubarates were defeated.	10
22	167	Ramships enter battle under oar power.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	254	It is said that if one sees oneself black and wasted in the blood, one will perish of disease; if one sees oneself torn and bloody, one will perish in battle; if one sees oneself old and gray one will die in peace and leave children.	10
4	141	Such a simple gesture might weaken his intensity, the height of his hatreds, his readiness to do battle.	10
35	1214	He had, when the battle had turned against him, freed his Kurii and his men to flee or surrender as they would.	10

Book 13. (17 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	468	This was the date of a naval battle which took place in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar.	10
1	472	On the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, in the naval battle which had taken place on that date, the joint fleets of Cos and Tyros had been turned back from Port Kar.	10
4	90	The masts of round ships are usually permanently fixed; those of long ships, usually single-masted, are removed before battle; most Gorean ships are lateen-rigged; this permits sailing closer to the wind.	10
16	151	There is nothing in these terrains which is likely to be able to meet it in open battle".	10
16	169	"To meet and defeat in battle the rebel forces of Kisu, former Mfalme of the Ukungu villages".	10
16	187	"Five days ago," said Ayari, "the askaris went east to engage him in battle".	10
16	188	"Perhaps, by now," said the man to my left, "the battle has taken place".	10
16	194	He would choose his time of battle with great care".	10
16	207	"The forces of Kisu have been met in battle and defeated," said Ayari.	10
18	22	When I entered the court Bila Huruma had just finished accepting the reports of his officers on the battle with the forces of Kisu.	10
18	23	This battle, interestingly, had occurred in the marshes well west of Ngao, indeed, only a few pasangs from the work lines.	10
33	43	"I could not in battle beat Bila Huruma," said Kisu.	10
49	118	In your battle with the Ubar it is you, Kisu, who seems to have won".	10
52	105	"Prepare to do battle," said Kisu to Bila Huruma.	10
52	109	"Do battle with me singly, if you dare," called Kisu to Bila Huruma.	10
52	145	"I do not choose to meet you in battle," said Bila Huruma.	10
53	1	The Battle; Blood and Steel; We Survive "I had hoped that you would follow," said Shaba.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	17	Women grow excited when men are to do battle.	10
27	121	They are determined, it seems, having won their sovereignty in battle, even in street-to-street bloody frays, never to relinquish it again.	10

Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	14	"We have been successful here," he said, "defeating in battle both the forces of Vonda and those of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus of Cos.	10
6	24	The battle had been sharp but indecisive.	10
29	231	"The battle has been fought," I said.	10
33	1	Battle Horns "We welcome your sword," said Callimachus.	10
33	224	"I thought there might be no battle".	10
33	243	"Sound the battle horns!" called Callimachus to the men on the ship.	10
33	244	"Sound the battle horns!".	10

Book 16. (46 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	138	We could hear battle horns, now, from not only the forces of the Voskjard moving towards us, off our bows, but we could hear, too, the notes of battle horns drifting across the water towards us from astern.	10
1	4	Battle horns sounded about me.	10
1	157	I could hear battle horns to port and starboard.	10
2	36	"In the press of battle," said Callimachus, "it is sometimes hard to be aware of all that transpires".	10
2	187	"In a free battle, on the river, we will stand little chance against the swift ships of the Voskjard".	10
3	172	"Sixty, a hundred?" "We can never match such ships in open battle," I said.	10
3	179	"We of Ar's Station and of the independent ships must support her in her battle".	10
4	213	He would not risk open battle, not even on even terms, with ships such as those of the Voskjard.	10
4	273	"Sound the battle horns," said Callimachus.	10
4	274	"Sound the battle horns!" called the officer beside him.	10
4	275	The bronze horns of battle then smote with their shrill trumpeting the air of the Vosk.	10
5	26	They did not even realize, in the heat of battle, in the confusion, that I was not of their number.	10
5	106	We then heard again battle horns.	10
5	200	At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open.	10
5	212	"It was an infantry battle," said a man beside me, in awe.	10
6	1	We Await Support from Callisthenes; It does not Come; The Third Fleet of the Voskjard; Again We Sound Our Battle Horns We saw the Leda of Port Cos taken full in the hull.	10
6	51	On her starboard side were the Talender, of Fina and the Hermione, a prize taken in battle, manned by soldiers of Ar's Station.	10
6	76	The sound of battle horns drifted across the water towards us.	10
6	82	Again we heard the sounds of battle horns.	10
6	161	He must, perhaps feeling battle fruitless, have retired to Port Cos.	10
6	162	Battle horns, then, from off our bows and astern, shattered the air of the Vosk.	10
6	164	Notes of answering battle horns, from our stern castle, and from the stern castles of the Olivia and the Tais, almost lost in the din of enemy signals, gave response.	10
7	54	One of the Voskjard's ships, in the press of battle, had struck her fellow.	10
7	66	A ship of the Voskjard, a hundred yards away, back from the immediate press of battle, was aflame.	10
8	23	Surely Reginald himself, captain of the Tamira, would be above decks and forward, presumably on the stem castle taking note of the course of the battle.	10
8	90	"Are you aware that there is a battle going on outside?" I inquired.	10
8	145	I recalled that in open battle the Tamira had been supported, and, indeed, convoyed, by two heavy galleys.	10
8	355	"Is the battle nearly over?" We could hear the occasional sounds of fighting outside, from some hundreds of yards off, across the water.	10
8	362	"The battle must be nearly over," she said.	10
8	368	I was curious to know how the battle outside waged.	10
9	99	We heard battle horns.	10
9	116	Using this as a diversion the Tina and the Tais, with Aemilianus, and the crew and men of the Olivia, with captured pennons from prize ships taken earlier from the Voskjard, had permitted other ships, like sharks, to pass them, following the light of the Olivia, taking that light for the locale of b...	10
9	135	Yet, in the rolling and wash of battle, it had sufficed, at the time, to produce a shippage of water sufficient to produce listing.	10
9	345	One ship, in oared battle, cannot well defend itself against two.	10
10	220	"This battle," I said.	10
12	56	The Voskjard, I suspected, during the battle, would have contented himself with reigning in his holding.	10
12	57	He would not have seen fit, I conjectured, to concern himself with the travail of personally conducting the immediate and pedestrian affairs of an unimportant battle which, in his opinion, would have had a foregone conclusion.	10
12	190	But, later, when the southern fleet of Port Cos did not support us in the battle, continually denying us her succor, in spite of our desperate need, I became at last fully confident of the justice of my suspicions.	10
12	205	"Captain," said an officer, coming up to report to Callimachus, "in the marshes the battle is done.	10
16	194	I heard battle horns.	10
16	205	I heard more battle horns, from both upriver and downriver.	10
16	224	They must needs be the fleet which Callisthenes had commanded, and had withdrawn to Port Cos, not permitting them to engage in the battle at the chain.	10
16	277	More battle horns sounded.	10
16	392	* * * * The battle, I gathered, was muchly over.	10
20	31	I watched Shirley, the blond, voluptuous slave whom I had taken from Reginald, of the Tamira, in the battle on the river.	10
20	341	The citadel of Ragnar Voskjard had been fled by its defenders, after the news of the battle at Victoria reached them, they knowing themselves too few to defend it against a concerted siege.	10

Book 17. (21 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	1200	I had seen Corn Stalks do this, after his account of the battle, if battle it had been.	10
1	805	The gathering of tribes, friends and foes alike, for such a battle is said to be a splendid sight.	10
1	1063	The most highly regarded battle exploit among most tribes, for which the highest honors are accorded, is not to kill an armed enemy but to touch or strike one with the open hand.	10
2	133	, Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar, a sea battle took place in which the fleet of Port Kar defeated the fleets of Cos and Tyros.	10
14	1069	"It is like men breaking out of columns," I said, "fanning out, to take up positions for battle".	10
16	278	"They were lost in the battle".	10
16	305	"You must have been marched here long before the battle," I said.	10
16	307	"Did you see the battle?" I asked.	10
16	435	Thirdly she could doubtless be persuaded, in one way or another, to give me a first-hand account of the battle, at least in so far as it had swept in its courses about her.	10
17	128	"Describe to me, in brief compass, the course of the battle," I said.	10
17	147	"Describe to me the course of the battle, as you understand it," I said to the stripped, blond captive, giving her once again my attention.	10
17	214	In particular the placement and timing of the attacks showed a fine sense for what might be the likely directions and phases of a battle's development.	10
17	215	Tactical instructions in a melee, incidentally, are normally administered to the red savages, in their units, commonly warrior societies, or divisions of such societies, by blasts on a whistle, formed from the wing bone of the taloned Herlit, or movements of a long, feathered battle staff.	10
17	248	"When the battle began they emerged from their wagons," she said.	10
17	262	Some perhaps pursued the escaping column but most, I think, remained to finish their battle with the infantry, with which they were then, following the escape of Alfred, much embroiled".	10
17	278	"They found me later, in the afternoon, after the battle.	10
17	629	"They are only standards and flags, carried into battle," she said, "stimulatory to the rabble, useful to the elite".	10
18	2	I joined my party on the crest of a small rise, at the eastern edge of the field of battle.	10
19	7	In a moment it was following the line of withdrawing warriors, led by their war-party leader, he followed by the banner-bearer, carrying the crooklike, feathered staff, used in giving directions in battle, and then the others.	10
19	59	Too, because of the recent battle, this area would be, for a time, truce ground.	10
19	777	Several of them had departed from the scene of battle unharmed.	10

Book 18. (28 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	2	"The Kinyanpi! They are coming!" Several times in the afternoon had the battle whistles, formed from the wing bones of taloned Herlits, blasted in the air, and the feathered battle staffs raised and lowered, communicating their signals to the combatants, not only to the Kaiila but to the Yellow Kniv...	10
1	148	The Fleer, eventually, had left the scene of battle, feeling the cost of obtaining a victory over such men would be too high.	10
4	12	Prior to that, even on the field of battle, weeks ago, he had shortened it, and ripped it at the left thigh, to give himself greater freedom of movement.	10
14	80	"The blond woman, given to you by the red savages after the battle," I said.	10
14	299	"We met," I said, "a few weeks ago, in the vicinity of the field of battle.	10
14	303	"It was you," she said, "who struck me with a quirt and forced me to give you an account of the battle".	10
15	251	"In battle," I said, "surely some warriors are more successful than others".	10
20	77	"I am going to fetch the battle staff".	10
21	62	This was the same lance which had been fixed, butt down, in the turf beside Cuwignaka near the scene of battle several weeks ago.	10
26	37	Some men have bled to death from wounds of which they, in the heat of battle, in the excitement and press of combat, were scarcely aware.	10
27	3	I did not know the codes, nor, for the most part, did Cuwignaka, as he had not been trained in the whirling, shifting tactics of his people, but Hci, and others, knew them well, much as Gorean soldiers know the meaning of the movements of standards, the blasts of battle trumpets and the beating of t...	10
27	5	Not once had Mahpiyasapa, communicating his will by the whistles and battle staffs, permitted his brave, ragged lines to pursue retreating Yellow Knives.	10
29	32	The battle, I saw, at an instant's glance, was hopeless.	10
29	50	The battle became a tangled, bloody melee.	10
30	6	Mahpiyasapa and his lieutenants, with their cries, the movements of battle staffs, the blasts of war whistles, had succeeded in forming fresh lines, constructing a defensive perimeter.	10
32	54	I did not think that any one Kur, singly, would be likely to look forward to meeting Zarendargar, Half-Ear, in a battle to the death.	10
34	442	Never before had I seen the shield of Kahintokapa outside of its shield cover, even when I had first seen him, long ago, with Canka and the members of the All Comrades, near the site of the battle of the wagon train, near, too, where the mercenaries had fought, and Alfred had escaped with a continge...	10
40	391	It was one of two which the Waniyanpi had retrieved in the area of the battle, some weeks ago, between the soldiers and the savages.	10
41	70	Later, in battle, my shield betrayed me.	10
42	19	She, with three others, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla, had been taken from Grunt by Yellow Knives in the vicinity of the field where the battle had taken place between a coalition of red savages and the soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni.	10
44	469	I saw the movement of battle staffs.	10
44	580	"You are finished!" In the way of defenders we had only some two hundred men, what we had been able to gather of the remnants of the Kaiila bands after the battle of the summer camp.	10
44	883	"The business of battle is to be first concluded," he said.	10
47	191	The outcome of such an arrangement was surely a foregone conclusion unless some new ingredient might intervene, something unexpected or different, which might drastically alter the balances of battle.	10
47	197	Due to lack of competition their battle skills, originally developed in connection with the kaiila, would presumably have declined.	10
47	305	I then, regally, imperiously, pointed to the chieftain of the Kinyanpi, he most prominent among them, he next to the bearer of the feathered staff, the battle staff.	10
54	121	They were the four girls who had been taken from Grunt long ago by Yellow Knives, near the scene of the massacre of the wagon train, and the battle between the soldiers and the coalition of red savages, Lois, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla.	10
56	93	"In this fashion I sought to draw the Death Squad into the Barrens where they might be dealt with and sought, too, to enlist your aid in my battle with them".	10

Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	972	Much of the naval power of Tyros had been destroyed in the battle of the 25th of Se'Kara.	10
1	995	The Cosian infantry, meeting her on land in open battle, in force, would be crushed.	10
8	71	I really doubted that Petrucchio's huge, clumsy wooden sword, no more than a comic theatrical prop really, would be likely to turn the tide of battle.	10
16	43	One has seldom met them in battle.	10
16	710	"Against one such as you, doubtless they will be of small avail," said Chino, meditatively, "but against lesser warriors, war generals, high captains, pride leaders, battle chieftains, instructors in swordsmanship, and such, they have proven more than adequate.	10
16	1102	The informed slave, perhaps once a free woman who has some comprehension of the game, may thus observe fearfully the careful processes that will determine her disposition; and even the uninformed slave, such as Bina, who in her fearful, agonized observation of the board may understand next to nothin...	10
21	150	If there is a battle of the sexes, or war of the sexes, which must inevitably be the case amongst competitive pseudoneuters, or dimorphic partisans culturally engineered to repudiate one of most obvious facts of nature, the complementarity of sexualities, it has been resolved on Gor, at least amongs...	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1669	Some warriors enter battle with no more than their battle straps, and their shield, helmet, and weapons.	10
4	50	When the Alars ride forth to do battle they normally have their laager behind them, to which, in the case of defeat, they swiftly retire.	10
4	271	The glare from the sun, even if it is not blinding, can be wearing upon an enemy, particularly if the battle persists for Ahn.	10
21	87	"They would never dare to meet us in pitched battle," he said.	10
29	127	"It appears," said Hurtha, unshouldering his ax, "that a battle to the death is in order".	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	132	In the third a fearful battle was in progress.	10

Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	57	It takes great courage, incidentally, to climb such a rope in daylight under battle conditions.	10
16	113	The results of the battle were a foregone conclusion.	10
17	1	Battle; We Will Withdraw to the Landing The bridges of the towers were still raised.	10
17	29	The second great pole was tied on two crosspoles and, by ten men on each crosspole, was thrust in place as soon as that bridge fell, and was held at an angle, like a railing, its sturdy barrier diverting the stream of attackers, causing many on the outside edge to be buffeted by their comrades to th...	10
17	113	There are in battle, I have found, often oddities, which seem inexplicable, and yet they occur.	10
17	313	She must have heard the tumult of battle about her, the trumpets, the alarms, the shouting, the clash of weapons.	10
19	31	In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of casualties, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself.	10
19	32	In the late Ahn of a battle, however, an even more common cause of casualties, interestingly enough, is the simple inability to lift, control and maneuver the shield.	10
19	36	When one understands these factors, and that battles often last several hours, and are sometimes renewed for two or three days, it is easier to understand certain things which might otherwise seem anomalous in this form of warfare, for example, the respites between assaults, the fluctuations of line...	10
20	91	Its name is battle.	10
20	117	These are preparations of galleys for entering battle.	10
20	214	The fellow, incidentally, had given the year of the aforementioned battle as 10,127 C.	10
20	410	I heard a battle horn sound, from the stern castle of the Tais.	10
23	181	Some use their slave girls, before battle, to relieve their tensions.	10
24	3	Others, too, were about, such as the young warrior, Marcus, who had come days before to Port Cos, to obtain succor for the besieged of Ar's Station, and the young crossbowman and his friend, so young, and yet men by battle.	10
24	329	They do not realize it is battle hardened, that it has been in action for months".	10

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	148	That is not the mood in which to enter battle, even the battle which one knows one cannot win, even the ultimate battle in which one knows one is doomed to defeat.	10
3	23	It was said that once, long ago, there had been a battle there, more than two hundred years ago, the battle of Teslit, fought between the forces of Ven and Harfax.	10
1	369	There had been no attempt, at least as yet, for the fine forces of Ar, in all their power, to cut them off, to pin them against the Vosk, or meet them in battle.	10
1	1286	The tracking of routed enemies, now fugitives, after a battle, for example, is an art in itself.	10
3	25	They have heard only of the battle.	10
3	26	Yet it is from the nearness of the village that the battle took its name.	10
3	313	Needless to say, such casual devices may be swiftly changed, the colors sometimes alternating with the tides of battle.	10
12	100	There had not been a major engagement since the battle of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the sovereignty of the Council of Captains in Port Kar, or, to use the chronology of Ar, 10,120 C.	10
12	102	In that battle the forces of Port Kar had defeated the combined fleets of Cos and Tyros.	10
13	218	Similarly, of course, there are occasions in which a fellow, victorious in his purview, learns only later, and to his dismay, that his side is in retreat, that the battle, as a whole, was lost.	10
17	65	I supposed that by now a trophy had been erected by Cos on the site of the battle, such as it had been.	10
40	57	Meanwhile, Myron, at Torcadino, girded himself for battle and led most of his men near the point at which the tunnel was to open.	10

Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	201	These were warriors in serried ranks, many of whom had doubtless seen battle.	10
8	953	He who has been on the field of battle knows the misery, the terror, the tenseness, the racing of the blood, the pounding of the heart, the exhilaration, the meaningfulness.	10
11	230	"You have met men of Ar in battle?" I asked.	10
22	164	Various "modes" are supposed, as well, to elicit and express various emotions, some being appropriate for love scenes, others for battle scenes, etc.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	326	Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...	10

Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	368	The tarnsman's bird, doubtless a war tarn, scenting blood and battle, almost on its back on the sky, ripped upward with its talons at its wild brother.	10
26	833	To be sure, in raids, in battle, red is not always worn.	10

Book 28. (14 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	158	Humans must believe it is their battle, a battle waged to win their own freedom, a struggle to claim what has been denied to them, and is rightfully theirs, Gor".	10
1	1247	He was of the Warriors; he knew battle; he knew the sea; he knew the great bow, and the blade.	10
21	142	"It seems," said Cabot, "he is not pleased with the outcome of the battle".	10
21	202	"They would think otherwise of humans did they meet them in the field of battle," said Cabot.	10
21	276	If the battle is team war the speeched side has an advantage".	10
21	618	"Agamemnon himself will do battle, Kur to Kur," said Peisistratus.	10
47	197	We expected to battle through legions of guards, in a venture in all likelihood foredoomed".	10
60	65	"At the arsenal, dear Grendel, you spared two agents of Agamemnon, allowing them to return to their base with weapons, in the Vale of Destruction you permitted a tending of enemy wounded, after the battle you freed four hundred prisoners".	10
69	90	It is quite another for what are in effect no more than armed brigands, concealing themselves like vermin amongst beasts, to suddenly, unexpectedly, rise up to slay a single, unarmed foe, one not set for battle".	10
74	22	Such groups, for example, might be tactically divided, to accommodate themselves to the exigencies of terrain and battle, and then seamlessly rejoin, as though by magic, when desired.	10
74	26	In actual battle, in the great formations, there is an almost inevitable drift to the right, as soldiers attempt to obtain some protection under the shield of the man to their right.	10
74	27	As a consequence, it is common for each formation, as the battle continues, to be overreached, and outflanked, on the left.	10
74	31	In actual battle, of course, with the press and crowding, the buffeting, the noise, the shouting, the screaming, the shedding of blood, the dying, the rightward drift is seldom arrested.	10
77	289	She turned her head aside, against the dust, and then, tears streaming down her face, turned again, to look with terror and horror upon the battle.	10

Book 29. (37 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	103	A skirmish can be won and a battle lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost.	10
2	176	In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi...	10
2	213	On the 25th of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains, a great naval a battle was fought between Port Kar and the fleets of Cos and Tyros.	10
2	215	In the chronology of Ar, this battle took place in 10,120 C.	10
5	279	The masts of the common Gorean warship are commonly lowered before entering battle.	10
5	393	This game is intended to intensify and heighten the intuitions of battle.	10
5	594	The cry of battle, 'For Glorious Ar,' was all about us.	10
5	765	"When the fighting began, and it became clear how desperate it was," said a fellow, "and how the city would be lost to us, we sought, in a brief surcease of battle, to sack up what coin we might, and other valuables, and prepared to fight our way toward the pomerium".	10
10	64	For example, the daughters of a Ubar defeated in battle, now the slaves of the conqueror, may be so displayed, as trophies attesting to the victor's might and skill.	10
12	208	"But what if the safety strap is cut in battle?" "One then seizes, as one can, if one is in danger of falling," I said, "one of the saddle rings".	10
12	357	He who writes poetry and sips tea, and waits expectantly for a flower to blossom, may, in a frenzy, on the field of battle, take head after head.	10
14	81	One cannot not well, in the midst of battle, dismount and retrieve it.	10
14	175	That is merely a name for a battle sword, one to be used in the field".	10
16	50	These devices may be used for a variety of purposes, identification of location, often important in the confusion of battle, signaling charges, retreats, maneuvers, rallying scattered troops, and so on.	10
16	159	A change of wind, a rising of dust, a prolonged battle, in which the angle of the sun changes, the loss of a commander, the loss of a standard, an unexpected, unpredictable wave of alarm in the ranks, an unfounded rumor of entrapment, the failure of a wing to hold, the hesitation or confusion of res...	10
16	253	The intellect of battle must guide its brawn.	10
16	291	A hundred maneuvers we had planned and practiced on the field of the sky, feints and encirclements, and sallies and lures, massings and dividings, but these maneuvers were untested in battle, and our men were for the most part new to the saddle.	10
17	1	The Battle I had no doubt that the cavalries ranked against us, which would intend to confront us and engage in the traditional modalities of Gor's aerial warfare, consisted of veteran tarnsmen.	10
17	80	But presumably such a cavalry as we engaged, massive, overconfident, and clumsy, would not think in terms of reserves, certainly not for turning the tides of battle.	10
17	88	We held the sky, the high battle was at an end, our men, our training, our tactics, had been vindicated.	10
17	101	Often one thinks a battle is won because one is successful in one's own narrow corridor, on one's own plot of ground, while a few hectares away it has been overwhelmingly lost.	10
18	140	Body armor was rare, and doubtless expensive, and, it seems, many warriors, even by preference, went into battle nude, save for helmet and shield.	10
18	143	Even much later Gauls encountered by Caesar's legions, at least occasionally, seem to have gone into battle with little but a golden neck band, these being prized as loot by victorious legionnaires.	10
18	153	Few Gorean warriors, incidentally, go into battle nude, but male nudity is not as uncommon on Gor as it is on Earth.	10
19	35	The issue of more than one battle had turned on this seeming oddity.	10
22	378	That is not unusual, of course, after battle.	10
22	380	Are they not the prizes of battle? Are they not flesh loot? Are they not, so to speak, lovely morsels, to be seized, to be aligned, to be examined, to be selected forthwith, to satisfy the appetites of masters? After the suppers' desserts, surely then the slaves who served it.	10
26	201	More than one battle was lost when an infantry took advantage of heavy rainfall to attack a foe, a foe temporarily deprived of the support of its tarn cavalry.	10
30	11	In a fighting ship this mast is lowered before battle.	10
30	93	Then, in battle, I had released them with riders, primarily to cast vessels of fire upon the ships of Cos and Tyros.	10
32	17	It is sometimes used in Pani warfare as a battle horn, a signaling device to regulate the movements of troops.	10
32	46	One of the Pani, of the entourage of Lord Okimoto, advanced before the platform and addressed the assembled, massed pairs, reiterating the terms of the contest, that each pair would do battle to the death, and the survivor would receive a tarn disk of gold.	10
33	80	"It was the night before the final battle," said Lord Nishida, "when we were to be swept into the sea".	10
35	20	"This is Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, victor at the battle of Tarncamp, of whom I have spoken," said Lord Nishida.	10
38	238	Such cohorts tend to reduce risks, at least in battle.	10
39	11	I gathered that few tarnsmen cared to meet with the cavalry after the battle of Tarncamp.	10
40	13	And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle.	10

Book 30. (23 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	248	In battle they help to prevent boardings, keeping another ship at bay until grappling hooks might be dislodged.	10
3	248	We avoided, as we could, the avenues and boulevards, and sought small streets, away from the shouts of men and the sounds of war, the ferocity of rude battle, and made our way to the pomerium, no longer marked by walls and towers.	10
3	630	I heard the ringing of an alarm bar, the sounding of battle horns.	10
3	1335	Sometimes an item which appears promising in the exposition cage may prove less interesting on the block, and sometimes an item scarcely noticed in the exposition cage will enflame a battle of bids, much to the pleasure and profit of the house.	10
4	150	That battle, of course, once the fires have begun, cannot be won.	10
4	152	And, interestingly, it is a battle the woman does not want, truly, to win.	10
7	52	Too, such ships may enter battle, and the female slave, who surely has her value, such as it is, no more than other goods is to be put at risk.	10
8	42	Some men had been lost in this battle with Thassa, men who, for the most part, had been careless, and lost their footing, or beneath whose weight an unexpected edge of thinner ice had given way.	10
8	116	But most of the slaves, by far the greater number, being well apprised by now of the meaning and import of their neck encirclements, and radiant with collar joy, knowing they had irrevocably lost the battle with men which they had never, truly, desired to win, addressed themselves with a light heart...	10
9	72	If they were not known at the World's End, then their judicious application in battle, reconnaissance, raids, and such, might indeed prove formidable.	10
9	135	Most of the weaponry, spears, swords, crossbows, longbows, javelins, glaves, maces, axes, Anango darts, gauntlet hatchets, edged battle weights, bladed chains, and such, was gone.	10
9	232	Then the battle near the door began.	10
9	389	The figure was in battle gear, and it removed from its head a large, winged helmet.	10
9	456	Never had there been such a battle.	10
9	494	I had understood little or nothing of that of which Tajima, the rider, had spoken, that about night, a battle, the waiting at the beach, and such.	10
9	496	In battle each man on one's side is precious.	10
9	508	The battle on the open deck had surged back and forth, for more than an Ahn, but then, obviously, in the end, the ship's forces had triumphed.	10
14	69	This is sometimes done in battle, when shearing is imminent.	10
22	171	That these particular men were where they were was, I supposed, as much an accident of battle as anything else.	10
23	44	Proportionately the Pani, unflinching, ever foremost in battle, underwent the greatest loss.	10
26	21	On the other hand, as far as I could tell, there was a serious likelihood that we might be seriously outnumbered in any pitched battle.	10
27	78	"Probably most died in battle," said Turgus.	10
27	86	"It is no disgrace to be defeated in battle," I said, "if one is outfought, if one has done one's best".	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	217	"Titanic forces could be locked in battle," said Desmond of Harfax, "forces compared to which men are small, weak, and fragile things, little more than field urts scampering about in the grass, amidst the tread of trampling tharlarion".	10
41	19	As indicated, men had been recruited, or impressed, by each faction and some, forced into battle, had been slain in the fighting.	10
48	230	Rather he had abided the outcome of the battle.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	37	They may function much as drums or battle horns.	10
14	519	"Gods battle with gods," I said.	10
31	17	He may now organize and dispatch a small, chosen force, perhaps only two hundred men, to move with speed, and in secrecy, to emerge from the forest, burn the ship, and then withdraw, their task completed, no battle given.	10
43	218	"That battle is now over," said Genak, as he surveyed the kneeling slave.	10

Book 33. (34 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	117	"Yes!" It had originally been hoped that a major land battle with the forces of Lord Yamada, a battle decisive for the outcome of the war, might have been brought about, a battle which might turn profitably on the unexpected appearance of the tarn cavalry, a military arm new to the islands.	10
1	85	How had it been that several men, perhaps altogether some eight hundred or so, had managed, by various routes, undetected, to converge simultaneously on a supposedly secret camp? And it seemed that these men must have been especially trained, or warned, about what they would find once the battle was...	10
1	112	"The effect of exhibiting tarns in battle, dismaying troops, and such," I said, "would presumably be temporary".	10
1	181	It sees it in terms of what might be done, and not done, and how easily, sees it in terms of movement, columns, the marshaling of men, the arrangement of troops, the order of battle, in terms of passage, heights, time, concealment, attack, marches, and tactics.	10
1	307	"Lord Temmu," said Lord Nishida, "hopes to cloak the tarn with secrecy, that its appearance in battle may surprise and disconcert the enemy.	10
1	421	"The emotive impact of the tarn on battle must, of necessity, be brief," I said.	10
2	118	Here, I thought, in a belated moment of honor, I might prolong the battle, and allow the enemy a fit completion of his endeavor.	10
6	15	They had prepared themselves for what portended to be their last battle.	10
9	51	And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reckless men who h...	10
9	118	It had been hoped that its entry into the battle, aside from what might be its contribution in terms of fire power, might induce consternation into the masses of a largely ignorant and superstitious enemy.	10
9	121	First, no major land battle had occurred.	10
11	13	Beyond that, signals were conveyed by battle horn or drum.	10
11	135	"The ultimate judge and lord of battle is men afoot, common men, marching, disciplined men, men who breach walls and force their way through gates, who can explore streets and enter rooms where desperate enemies lurk.	10
11	199	The point at the time, at least in terms of strategy, was to conceal the cavalry until its appearance, presumably at the turning point of a crucial battle, might have a devastating psychological effect on a startled, superstitious enemy, and turn the tide in favor of the house of Temmu.	10
12	201	"No longer can it turn a flank in a decisive battle," he said.	10
14	65	You formed these men into an arm of war, a cavalry, trained it, and led it, even in a great sky battle across the sea.	10
21	71	Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into t...	10
21	75	It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far...	10
27	11	It can take a man's head off, but, in the thick of battle, shoulder to shoulder with one's fellows, one would seldom have the opportunity to employ it with such an end in view.	10
27	13	It may be thrown but in battle this is seldom done.	10
27	25	In battle, if troops are massed, the kaiila can be penned in, and immobilized, this rendering it susceptible to a common form of attack, being stabbed from beneath in the belly, by a crouching, lunging foe, following which the animal becomes unmanageable, is likely to throw the rider, and may eventu...	10
30	31	It was a culture with a place for both the blossom and the glaive, a culture where one might, a sword within reach, unroll a painting and, bit by bit, meditate upon its elements, where a warrior might attend sensitively to the delicacy of his calligraphy and a general might compose poetry on the eve...	10
44	62	In the distance we could hear drums and battle horns.	10
44	227	The sight of this thing, the noise, the smoke, and flames, the spillage of rocks and the spumes of dust, brought the tarn cavalry wheeling about, to do battle, to protect the holding.	10
44	246	Ichiro on the summit winded his battle horn, and the ranks of the tarnsmen seemed to erupt about, as though cast by an invisible hand into the wind.	10
44	248	Ichiro blew, again and again, the horn of battle.	10
45	129	And are not battle and contest, too, their own lures? For a warrior, surely.	10
59	29	One was Yasushi, whom I knew from the battle of the inn, before we were taken into custody by Kazumitsu, the special officer of Lord Yamada, who had been searching for Sumomo and her abductor.	10
60	230	He must not succumb to the dark hunger, covet the zest of battle as he may.	10
60	309	The matter is done! We had held the bridge well, our narrow, wooden field of battle giving our smaller number the equalizing advantages of height and narrowness of access.	10
61	268	"They would not have been committed in battle," I said.	10
61	424	Once I had arranged the peasants, and set them about their diversions, and had arrested the progress of Lord Yamada, in such a way as to suggest he was fully ready for battle, but hoped to lure the invasion force farther south, perhaps deeper into a trap, I had contacted Lords Nishida and Okimoto un...	10
61	430	Inquiries were made of Eito, the rich peasant who had unclaimed her in the village, and it was learned she was a scion of the nobility, in this case of a fallen house, defeated in battle, and had been sold, with other children of the house, years ago.	10
61	531	"Perhaps I was curious, perhaps it suggested adventure, perhaps the daring of Thassa, the seeking of the World's End, and such, riches perhaps, perhaps the challenge of forming, equipping, training, and testing in battle a new form of tarn cavalry".	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	108	Warriors might sing battle hymns while moving to engage the enemy.	10
15	189	There are, for example, racing and hunting tharlarion, and tharlarion bred for battle, some of which, ponderous, and armored, can shatter lines and topple siege towers.	10
27	22	Those of war galleys, the long ships or knife ships, are commonly raised and lowered, depending on wind, and battle conditions.	10
49	109	Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f...	10
49	112	After that, the truce standards were returned to their racks, and, the next day, the battle was joined, one that was fought with unusual ferocity.	10
50	31	I did not think, given the depth of the lowest basement, and the floors above, a battle trumpet could have been heard outside, far above, on the street.	10
54	137	"But we do have a weapon," said Lord Grendel, "a most fearsome weapon, one that I, in their place, would not care to encounter, particularly on this narrow field of battle".	10
61	344	"They are not free persons, enemies to be met in battle, enemies who would kill you, enemies who must fear your blades," cried Drusus Andronicus.	10
61	742	"If I were you," she said, "I would choose a different field, and a different battle".	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	28	This makes the ship, when the mast is lowered, more difficult to detect, and, in battle, the mast and sail down, the ship is less vulnerable and more maneuverable.	10
11	59	Later a great sea battle took place.	10
11	60	This battle is recalled, and celebrated, each Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara.	10
43	31	"Let others do battle, for the spoils you seize," said the man.	10

Book 36. (38 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	32	Most commonly, cyphers are involved, as opposed to signals for words or commands, such as 'enemy sighted', 'prepare for battle', 'convene', 'withdraw', 'return to port', and such.	10
5	74	In battle conditions the mast is lowered.	10
5	79	A ship with two or three rowing decks favored speed over maneuverability, but, in battle conditions, would be likely to find it difficult to turn and close with smaller ships, lighter and more responsive to their helms.	10
5	81	Larger ships are most comfortable and successful when doing battle with vessels in their own class.	10
7	128	"I can almost hear the battle horns," said Nicomachos, drily.	10
7	154	It is your concern, rather, to encounter the enemy and do battle".	10
13	102	You cannot hope to meet them in battle.	10
20	92	It is commonly used with troops which have behaved in a cowardly or dishonorable fashion, failed to engage under orders, fled the field of battle, and so on.	10
21	129	Maneuverability and armament are not the only ways to win a battle at sea.	10
26	10	A smooth beat, however it is timed, is important, particularly in battle, as an awkwardness or mixing of oars can lead to an impairment of maneuverability.	10
30	19	"They will learn it soon enough," said Thurnock, "in open battle".	10
30	20	"Thus," I said, "there will be no open battle".	10
32	1	The Battle of the Road "They are coming now," said Thurnock.	10
33	124	"Only if in broad, open battle," I said.	10
34	58	"Surely it, and other paths, given the battle of the road, the fighting near Zeuxis, and such, would be under surveillance".	10
41	159	"Better," I said, "to finish remaining stores at once, with a great feast, and then, in the morning, hardy and nourished, in the sunlight and open air, scorning the enemy, singing, go forth to die in battle".	10
44	39	These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle.	10
45	18	Significantly, the battle horns, pounding drums, and flourishing standards, so prominent in their thunderous sound and bold array, were not advanced beyond the outer ditch.	10
45	44	Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril.	10
48	1	The Field of Battle; The Feasting of Jards; Tarchon; The Lyre; We Prepare to Leave the Vicinity of Mytilene Three days later a small party, of which I was one, examined the battleground about Mytilene.	10
48	20	The battle of Zeuxis proved the marauders could be not only withstood but defeated.	10
48	62	When a battle has been successfully fought, and the enemy driven from the field, it is not uncommon for the victors to mark the field in such a way as to commemorate their victory.	10
48	64	Such displays, if not destroyed, stolen, or removed, sometimes in later battles, for certain places and fields, given their location and favorable properties, have been the scene of more than one battle, can remain in place for years, even generations, until wind, rain, ageing, heat, cold, and rust ...	10
51	199	"You would save a fellow whom in battle you would think nothing of driving a sword into his heart?" said Sakim.	10
52	12	The mast is always lowered when battle is imminent.	10
52	138	The Gorean warship lowers its mast before entering battle.	10
53	5	I was on the stern deck, the common position of command when battle is imminent or in process.	10
54	17	A good keleustes, like good helmsmen, is invaluable, particularly in battle.	10
54	60	"Then let us then turn about now and do battle," said Thurnock.	10
55	26	"One may then, in battle, by means of a single platform, apply men as needs be," I said.	10
55	31	"You will fight a land battle at sea," said Sakim.	10
57	27	Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart.	10
57	81	Surely they did not think that an enemy would expend all his ammunition so early in battle.	10
58	1	The Arithmetic of Battle "Take in the sail, lower the yard and mast," said Sakim.	10
58	33	"In battle," I said, "there are many turns and twists".	10
58	41	"Captain Tab," said a seaman, from below us on the steps of the stem deck, "as he deems battle is imminent, has signaled for permission to lower his mast and sail".	10
58	62	"The battle clearly lost," said Clitus, "we might fire our ships, and charge the enemy.	10
60	169	In this lacuna of battle, Clitus drew his net about and emptied it into the water.	10