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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	27	The morphemes of the language of Priest-Kings, those smallest intelligible information bits, in particular roots and affixes, are, of course, like the morphemes of English, extremely numerous.	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	17	These bits of information were acquisitions not negligible in their value.	10
12	217	There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious...	10
15	87	"Leave me!" Kamchak, once a day, at night, the hour in which sleen are fed, would throw the girls bits of bosk meat and fill a pan of water kept in the cage.	10
26	500	"Even," I said, "did you dare to sit upon it!" "I shall hope," chuckled Kamchak, "that the Priest-Kings will take no offense, but understand that such little bits of acting—rather well carried off, I think—were important parts of my deception".	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	207	He ground the bits of the doll into the tile with the heel of his sandal.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	172	Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root.	10
7	39	Two wild gants alighted on the island, away from the men and their prisoners, and began pecking about the ruins of one of the rence huts, probably after seeds or bits of rence cake.	10
9	289	I knew he had also found some bits of bosk horn, and some leather, and some hemp and silk.	10
11	533	I scratched with my fingernail in the wax, breaking up the bits of charred paper that had been the note I had burned in the candle flame.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	176	In the two days since I had been captured, prior to our encountering the caravan, we had had only berries and water, and bits of small game, cooked by the guards and thrown to us in scraps.	10
11	1078	I mention two other bits of news, which, from the outside world of laughter and daylight, filtered into the straw-strewn, barred pens.	10
14	344	She began to move various bits of cloth about, lifting some, and putting them to one side.	10
15	1119	Ute went to the chest of silks and bells and brought forth five more slave bells, which she tied with bits of scarlet ribbon to my collar.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	48	The shadows were long and flickering on the boards, those of the watering pan, the bits of food, part of a loaf of bread, those of Sheera and myself.	10
7	323	The thigh of tabuk was tended by a squatting panther girl, who, from time to time, picked bits of meat from it and thrust them in her mouth.	10
11	357	He drew from it some bits of scarlet slave silk.	10
14	160	With bits of the raw flesh I fed them, thrusting pieces into their mouth.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	268	The fine candlesticks from the temple of Kassau, for example, I expected would be chopped into bits small enough for the pans of the northern scales.	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	706	Beneath our feet, smooth, polished, were hundreds of tiny, fitted bits of tile, mostly here, in this area, tan and brown.	10
1	707	The bits of tile seemed soft, lustrous, under the torchlight.	10
11	200	Beyond this, perception is largely a matter of interpreting a flood of cues, or coded bits, out of which we construct a unified, coherent, harmonious world.	10
13	224	Other girls, with bits of food, gave us to feed, with their tiny fingers placing tidbits, delicacies, into our mouths.	10
15	185	It was the snake, many fanged, tiny bits of metal braided within the leather.	10
17	211	Bits of oil burned briefly on the water, scattered from the struck lamp.	10
18	48	The pieces are commonly pebbles, or bits of verr dung, and sticks.	10
21	128	Bits of sand seemed to lie between the eye and the lid; I felt, too, the grit of sand in my mouth; I could not spit it out; my eyes would not form tears.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	562	I tore bits of slave silk from my garment and wedged them in the two bolt receptacles, that the door not shut behind me.	10
22	53	They can take only bits of garbage and small fish.	10
22	666	"I shall cut you to bits," he said, "and throw you, little by little, to the sharks".	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	704	Some cities give eight tarsk bits to the copper tarsk; others, most, I think, have the copper tarsk equivalent to ten tarsk bits.	10
1	250	I shared bits of the heart of the sleen with my men, and, together, cupping our hands, we drank its blood in a ritual of sleen hunters.	10
2	113	When the silk is unwrapped, of course, the message disappears into a welter of scattered lines, the bits and parts of letters; the coherent message is replaced with a ribbon marked only by meaningless, unintelligible scraps of letters; to read the message, of course, one need only rewrap the ribbon ...	10
2	718	And one who plays Kaissa may find it in the arrangements of tiny bits of wood on a board of red and yellow squares.	10
19	6	She continued to free the fur of the tiny bits of ice, biting and chewing.	10
31	168	It took a rib bone from the lart and began to thrust it, scraping, between its fangs, freeing and removing bits of wedged meat.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	300	Ayari then threw bits of fish into the water, where the tharlarion must swim to them, to obtain them.	10
28	19	In the box, jumbled, were rolls of wire, mirrors, pins and knives, beads, shells and bits of colored glass.	10
34	2	The tarsk, a small one, no more than forty pounds, tusked, snorting, bits of leaf scattering behind it, charged.	10
46	59	"They will be like the leaves on the trees, like the bits of sand at the shore," he said.	10
53	393	My back felt wet and bits of rock stung in my back.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	5	"Two tarsk bits," came a call from the crowd.	10
7	156	It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather.	10
19	67	In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which is valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits.	10
24	249	You did not take me in your hands and force open my mouth, to look for bits of metal in my teeth.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	539	In the darkness of the cabin, barefoot, stepping softly through the glass and bits of frame scattered on the floor, she went, as commanded, to the window.	10
18	520	And it is hard to find the bits of food on the floor.	10
18	543	"Yesterday," she said, "sent forth from the house as a Coin Girl, I made six tarsk bits for you, my Master.	10
20	2003	She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	138	"Our young visitor finds you of greater interest than some bits of molasses".	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	180	Too, I had thought that Canka had given her smaller bits and pieces, and had held on to them more tightly, than was necessary to merely feed her.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	518	I was plunged into darkness, save for the tiny bits of light coming through the two small, round holes on my right, near my face.	10
4	150	From these sacks, from time to time, they would fling coins, and bits of coins, to the street.	10
4	220	One of the soldiers, one of those who had had a bag of coins, and coin bits, about his shoulder, came forward.	10
20	9	For my services he received small gratuities, such as tarsk bits and swigs of paga.	10
33	643	Who but a slave would permit such delicious, delicate and silken things to touch their bodies? "But few barbarian girls, as nearly as we can tell, come to Gor clothed and, if they do, they are seldom permitted to retain their clothing, or the bits of clothing left to them at that point, past the sal...	10

Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	368	Some tarsk bits rattled to the boards.	10
2	420	"Four, five tarsk bits?" he asked.	10
2	627	"We have, so far tonight, taken in only ninety-seven tarsk-bits, not even ten copper tarsks".	10
2	629	In Port Kar, and generally in the Vosk Basin, there are ten tarsk bits to a copper tarsk and one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.	10
2	719	"That contains earnings accruing to your troupe, does it not, from your Kaissa booth?" "Alas, it contains only three tarsk bits," lamented Boots Tarsk-Bit.	10
2	734	"Three tarsk bits," said Boots, "—and five silver tarsks".	10
10	804	Doubtless next you will wish a scrap of blanket for the girl wagon, or next even, outrageous effrontery, a brief rag to conceal some bits of your beauty, at least provisionally, from the eyes of men".	10
12	187	"Perhaps that is all it is, after all," he said, "the meaningless movement of bits of wood on a checkered surface".	10
12	694	"Shall you be sold for sleen feed? Shall we contrive exquisite tortures for you, say, cutting off bits of your body and cooking them, and forcing you to eat them, until from the loss of blood and tissue, you die, or should we bind you and sew you in a sack, your head exposed, with rabid urts, or sha...	10
16	236	"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio.	10
16	263	"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re...	10
21	516	I then took bits of vulo from the bowl and held them out to the girl.	10

Book 21. (16 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	107	"There, there," she crooned to the child, putting bits of bread into its mouth.	10
3	32	Then, amusing himself, the driver tossed some bits of bread into the air and watched the desperate, anxious women crowd and bunch under it, pushing and shoving for position, and trying to leap upward, thrusting at one another, to snatch at it.	10
5	34	"About seventeen copper tarsks," he said, "and two tarsk bits".	10
5	84	"While we are traveling together," I said, "mainly because I do not wish to be impaled, or fed in bits to sleen, I would appreciate it if, as a favor to me, if nothing else, you would consider refraining from the exercise of certain of your Alar rights".	10
5	115	Some other bits of them he had cut up and she had fashioned them into a form of footwear, which she had tied on her small feet.	10
6	38	"This is a great deal of food," I said, "to have been purchased by seventeen copper tarsks, and two tarsk bits".	10
6	174	"In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits".	10
10	5	These inert, suspended, desiccated weights, now little more than skulls and the bones of men, with some bits of cloth, fluttering in the air's stirrings, and threads and patches of dried flesh clinging about them, had been arranged in a line along the Avenue of Adminius, the main thoroughfare of Tor...	10
11	233	"Something like two copper tarsks, and some four or five tarsk bits," I said.	10
11	324	After all, they had paid their tarsk bits.	10
24	417	"For three tarsk bits," he said.	10
24	460	"I was only going to offer two tarsk bits for you originally," he said, "a standard price for a female infant, but after I had seen your mother, seen her fully, and performing, and under the lash, you understand, and considered how you might have something of her beauty, I raised my offer to three".	10
24	464	"Had I realized how well you would turn out, I would have offered not three, but five, or even seven, tarsk bits for you".	10
24	618	"Who would have thought," he asked, "that that infant I bought for only three tarsk bits would have grown into something this marvelous.	10
25	632	They had tiny bits of blankets clutched about them.	10
25	634	Bits of blanket, too, floored some of the other cages.	10

Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	466	This might explain, too, the gags, which were perhaps not simply a way of men telling us that we are subject to them, and may be gagged, as we might be blindfolded, chained, tied or beaten, at their pleasure, but rather to keep us from speaking with one another, particularly the Gorean girls, perhap...	10
10	398	"Two silver tarsks," he said, "and fifty copper tarsks, not tarsk bits, but tarsks, whole tarsks".	10
11	569	I watched Mirus take tarsk bits from these men.	10
11	571	From the distention and apparent weight of the sack I gathered he had already taken in several tarsk bits.	10
11	931	I moved a little to my left, dancing before Mirus, who crouched there at the back of the floor, the sack of tarsk bits heavy at his belt.	10
16	96	Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.	10
19	47	"I have six tarsk bits with me," he said.	10
19	54	I took the two tarsk bits.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	36	This, given the height of the openings, revealed by the dropped bridges, made it possible to fire at point-blank range, the shovel of one catapult containing a thousand bits of rock and metal, the shovel of the other a large boulder, weighing perhaps fifteen hundred pounds, requiring five men for it...	10
24	719	Some cities have tiny, round copper "tarsk bits," but they are usually regarded as too small to be suitable in the sports of chance.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	115	She fell upon the bits of fish eagerly.	10
31	52	"Yes," said another, "and these," tearing the bits of shrubbery from him.	10
37	24	"Tarsk bits," he said.	10
37	460	Most women were being sold for copper tarsks, some even for a few tarsk bits.	10
43	15	The rental is a single tarsk bit but you give the keeper two tarsk bits, the second of which serves as a deposit, held against the return of the key.	10
43	88	"A few tarsk bits," said Marcus, "only that".	10
48	249	One pays two tarsk bits, one for the rental, one as a deposit against the key.	10

Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	100	Bits of meat were thrown to them, one after the other.	10
3	872	The stakes were small, only tarsk bits, but one would not have gathered that from the earnestness of the players.	10
3	937	One, presumably without the knowledge of the reader or a confederate, selects one coin from several on a tray or platter, usually tarsk bits, and then, holding it tightly in his hand, concentrates on the coin.	10
3	940	If the reader selects the wrong coin, one receives all the tarsk bits on the tray or platter, usually several.	10
6	230	"Coppers, coppers for the temple," called an Initiate, rattling some tarsk bits in a tray.	10
17	6	There were tiers behind us for those who wished to pay two tarsk bits, rather than one, for the entertainments.	10
23	373	This is regularly done with copper tarsks, to produce, usually, the eight tarsk bits equivalent in most cities to the copper tarsk.	10
27	346	It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half.	10
27	351	Accordingly, on this approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn.	10
27	352	On this approach there would be, literally, 8,000 tarsk bits in a single gold piece.	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	89	Even tiny bits of information can be significant, and a number of bits of information, each seemingly insignificant and unrelated to others, sometimes, properly organized and understood, like a suddenly assembled jigsaw puzzle, may yield a picture which is not only clear but meaningful.	10
10	199	In others there were unchained men, some men sitting cross-legged, playing some game with bits of cloth.	10
11	231	But are not such, in the final analysis, owned every bit as much as we? And is not one man's high slave no more to another than the least of his bond maids, laboring shackled in his stables, her use a perquisite for rude grooms, and is it not the case that even for the very same man she who is this ...	10
11	718	The feeding in the cell, and the watering there, that I had been fed and watered, and even that I had been given some bits of precious fruit were, it seemed, quite meaningless.	10

Book 27. (16 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	209	You should see how some of them lead naked, painted, bejeweled slaves about on leashes, put them through slave paces publicly, make them dance in the open for tarsk-bits, put them up as stakes in the dicing halls, and marketplaces, and such.	10
16	1295	"Ten copper tarsk-bits would be too much for you!" Ellen's body, lying on the shelf, was wracked with sobs.	10
17	192	"See," said the father, "those tiny bits of metal in the teeth.	10
20	925	That would be in most cities something like one hundred tarsk-bits altogether.	10
20	926	It would be something like fifty tarsk-bits for each lad.	10
20	947	If the market is glutted a beauty may go for tarsk-bits, and if women are scarce a pot girl might bring a silver tarsk.	10
22	492	Did he think she would go for tarsk-bits now? There had been twenty-one bids on her! Surely there had been no mistaking the admiration implicit in his scrutiny when he had so openly appraised her.	10
24	854	"Fifteen tarsk-bits".	10
25	63	"Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting.	10
25	203	Certainly that was among the bits of information which had been secured by 115.	10
25	813	He would be fortunate to be able to put together a handful of copper tarsk-bits.	10
25	895	I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, are a hundred tarsk-bits to ...	10
26	378	* * * * Surely, she thought, Selius Arconious knows something of these things! And he paid five pieces of gold, of gold, for me! Perhaps he had a hundred, and they were no more than tarsk-bits to him! What then does that make me worth? Must I not now reassess myself? Am I not again no more than a ch...	10
27	1519	Men bid silver upon me, silver!" "You are worth no more than a handful of tarsk-bits," said Selius Arconious.	10
27	3311	Some kindling, bits of wood, branches and such, was also carried, the larger branches bundled, in the wagon.	10
30	263	"He paid fifteen tarsk-bits! One for each blow! Thus, he spared me the blows!" "Yes," he said, "I purchased the strokes, but only, you see, in order that I might deliver them myself".	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	291	Cabot was chewing on a strip of tharlarion, to soften it, before tearing it into small bits, these then to be better chewed and swallowed.	10
34	105	"Coins, too," said Grendel, "even rubies?" "Yes," said Cabot, "worthless as they are, here no more than bits of metal, and pretty pebbles".	10
51	5	Some heads had been made from stone and bent, folded bits of metal, but such expedients were makeshift, at best.	10
54	123	"What would you give for her?" "If we were on Gor," said Cabot, "perhaps a handful of tarsk-bits, merely to bring her again to my feet".	10
66	99	"I see no cattle humans below," said Cabot, half shutting his eyes against the snow, the swirling wind, the pelting of bits of ice.	10
79	347	"Let us see barbarian collar-meat! Let us see the shapely she-tarsk! Five tarsk-bits for the slut! Six, if she is pleasing! Put her on her back! Kneel her, give her to us!" "You will dance," Cabot informed her.	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	292	She has tiny bits of metal in two of her teeth, and a tiny brand on her upper left arm.	10
15	16	Indeed, I had had her for a handful of copper tarsks, to be sure, not tarsk-bits, but tarsks.	10
16	162	Wars are often lost in wholes, and won in bits and pieces.	10
27	151	Indeed, whip-exhibited on a sales platform she might have brought a few tarsk-bits more.	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	954	The other slaves, too, then, importuned the men for bits of food.	10
25	375	"Writhing naked in your chains, to the prodding of a whip, on a cement shelf, I do not think you would bring more than four or five tarsk-bits".	10
37	657	We then left the back room, and, a bit later, Callias had exchanged one of the tiny beadlike golden tarsks for nine silver tarsks, ninety-nine copper tarsks, and a hundred tarsk-bits, at one of the changing tables maintained in the warehouse by the harbor administration, to facilitate trading.	10
37	666	I did have some tarsk-bits in my purse, and I had certainly volunteered to buy something to eat.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	65	At such times a copper tarsk was often put in my mouth, to be retrieved by the customer when done with me, a tarsk which might be redeemed for tarsk-bits, to be spent on the tables, tarsk-bits which might, soon, result in the loss of tarsks, even of silver.	10
7	489	"Barbarians, such as you," said another, "are even easier to detect, apart from the marks often placed on your upper arm, or the tiny bits of metal often found in your teeth.	10
8	1444	The second ostrakon, or the ostrakon of privilege, costs two tarsk-bits, and entitles the patron to a choice amongst a number of offerings, and a glass of ka-la-na.	10
8	1668	Menon fetched from within the pouch a handful of copper tarsk-bits.	10
10	905	Indeed, I will give you two tarsk-bits and you may later purchase some larmas which we may press for breakfast".	10
10	1089	Here and there below, on a lower bridge, and on the street, I could see bits of the laundry, cast about, scattered, and crumpled.	10
17	280	"Ten tarsk-bits for her," said another.	10
18	465	Here, a drink is five tarsk-bits, five! And for all I know, the girl is extra".	10
18	468	"But five tarsk-bits!" said Astrinax.	10
18	520	"An excellent choice, Kalligone," said a tavern's man, as the five tarsk-bits were placed in his hand.	10
18	614	He had, of course, paid his five tarsk-bits, and she, if wanted, would go with the drink.	10
21	90	It might be two or three tarsk-bits if one is going to keep a girl for the evening.	10
27	263	We then felt bits of cloth with tangles of thong thrown against our bodies.	10
49	439	"I would have supposed you should have brought twice that," she said, "two tarsk-bits".	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
52	755	For example, in some cities there are eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk, and in others, such as Brundisium, a major commercial port, a hundred tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.	10
4	193	None had sold for less than twenty- forty copper, namely twenty copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits.	10
4	194	In Brundisium there are 100 tarsk-bits to the copper tarsk.	10
4	197	In Brundisium a day's wages, for a docksman, is usually twenty to forty tarsk-bits.	10

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
58	235	But was this in virtue of an agreement between Priest-Kings and Kurii? Tiny bits of evidence suggested one interpretation, and tiny bits of evidence suggested another.	10
8	113	And, in better times, one might buy the common fukuro of rice, to its usual measure, for as little as one or two tarsk-bits.	10
42	249	The three slaves stood, and slipped into the bits of cloth allotted to them.	10

Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	144	I would later learn that there were several varieties of slave bits, which differ considerably, aesthetically, and in comfort, while being uniform in their efficiency, that with respect to rendering a slave incapable of speech.	10
3	145	A major difference amongst such bits is with respect to their closure.	10
3	148	Such bits are commonly used when one or both hands of a girl are free.	10
3	149	Most bits, however, indeed almost all I would become familiar with, are intended, like the common gag, to be used with a bound or braceleted slave who, given her securing, cannot reach the device.	10
3	157	The keyed devices in which Paula and I were placed were doubtless intended to make it impossible for us, should we attempt to do so, to dislodge the bits.	10
10	151	"Four tarsk-bits," said the man.	10
11	61	The fee for the milling was in tarsk-bits, but, most commonly, it was taken in kind, a portion of the flour going to the miller, who might then market it as his own.	10
26	184	"That is four tarsk-bits," he said, cautiously.	10
26	186	"Four tarsk-bits," he said.	10
26	189	"Four tarsk-bits," he said.	10
26	198	"Her switching cost him four tarsk-bits".	10
26	222	"Two tarsk-bits!" called another, "No, three," cried another, as I fled away.	10
40	188	A potter such as Epicrates, as many in the lower castes, would usually deal in tarsk-bits, or copper tarsks.	10
49	26	I had seen occasional scribes on the streets, at given corners, where they, for their fee, usually in tarsk-bits, would read or transcribe letters.	10
49	85	For example, a given merchant, such as Mintar, of Ar, may be the master of a thousand enterprises and another may be an itinerant peddler; and one scribe may be a city's most esteemed jurist, selling his advice for gold, while another ekes out a living on some street in the Metellan district, readin...	10
53	337	I would sell you, for a handful of tarsk-bits, or whatever you are worth".	10
62	70	Many barbarians are characterized not only by a vaccination mark, but by tiny bits of metal in the teeth.	10

Book 35. (28 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	204	"Is she not a splendid catch? Consider her! Regard the beauty of her face, the fineness of her features, her sweet throat, encircled closely with locked metal, the dark, brown hair, too short now, but it will grow, the loveliness of her shoulders, the softness of her bosom, the narrowness of her wai...	10
2	42	Bits of it can cling to one's ankles and calves.	10
3	36	"Too," continued the auctioneer, "this lovely toy, which for a few tarsk-bits could be your possession, has been administered, as is our practice, slave wine.	10
3	73	Men sacrifice the air and sky, the land and sea, as it were, for tarsk-bits.	10
3	95	"On her world she was worthless," said the auctioneer, "but here, on this world, for the first time in her life, she will be worth something, if only a handful of tarsk-bits".	10
3	217	"Twenty-one tarsk-bits of Brundisium!" called another voice.	10
3	219	"Twenty-two Brundisium tarsk-bits," called a fellow, laughing.	10
3	228	"Ninety copper tarsk-bits, coinage of Brundisium," called a man.	10
3	229	"I have a bid of ninety tarsk-bits, of Brundisium," said the auctioneer.	10
3	232	In Brundisium, a great mercantile port, there were a hundred tarsk-bits to the copper tarsk.	10
3	235	In many cities for example, there were only four or eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.	10
3	237	The tarsk-bits of Brundisium, however, were individual tiny copper coins, either small disks or tiny droplets of copper.	10
3	486	I was a slave, only a slave! "Three copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits, of Brundisium!" called a fellow from the tiers.	10
3	554	"You sold for three copper tarsks, and forty tarsk-bits, Brundisium," he said.	10
4	202	What did you go for?" "I went for three copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits," I said, adding, "of Brundisium".	10
8	781	How grateful we are to be permitted clothing! How we prize even the tiny bits of cloth permitted us, the tunic, the camisk, the ta-teera! And we, in our vanity, are pleased, too, I admit, once we understand our collar, with how well such garments reveal us, and set us off! What woman does not wish t...	10
10	68	If the crowd is pleased, tarsk-bits may be cast to rattle on the floor, usually to be retrieved by a taverner's man.	10
10	70	The tarsk-bits are sometimes retrieved by the dancer herself.	10
10	75	Occasionally a taverner's man will rake the sand, by means of which action the sand is smoothed and stray tarsk-bits may be detected and collected.	10
10	201	"I expect to make some tarsk-bits on you," he said.	10
11	27	The Rencers will then brand their foreheads and keep them as rence slaves, which, as I understand it, is a most laborious and unpleasant slavery, or, swathing them with ropes, return them to Port Kar for punishment, a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a...	10
13	120	"You, in particular, cost us more than we expected, three copper tarsks, forty, forty tarsk-bits".	10
24	184	I had had no cavities, but barbarians may also be recognized, if one knows what to look for, by tiny bits of metal in the teeth.	10
33	356	Do not cast away tarsk-bits, even so few".	10
33	688	In such a case, to whom would I be delivered? Rencers expect, as I once noted, to receive a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a more beautiful slave.	10
33	689	I did not know if they would ask one or two tarsk-bits for me.	10
33	691	If masters are unwilling to pay the tarsk-bit or tarsk-bits, the girl is taken back to the delta to be forehead-branded and made a rence slave.	10
47	218	A quarrel struck a wall not a foot from my head, scattering bits of stone, some stinging me," I said.	10

Book 36. (13 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	49	"I am destitute of tarsk-bits.	10
11	184	Men looked about, startled, curious, as the bits of metal began to rattle on the floor.	10
22	81	Why would Lurius interest himself in such unimportant, distant matters? The winnings of the corsair fleet, with its plundering of small villages, and the sacking and sinking of an occasional merchantman, could bring no more than tarsk-bits, so to speak, into the treasury of Cos.	10
27	10	"My ostracon cost me but a single tarsk-bit and I have won ten tarsk-bits!" "Well done," granted Thurnock.	10
27	17	"I merely chose a color and number," marveled Aktis, "and I now have ten tarsk-bits".	10
27	23	"Do you think he cannot read the signals from the cashier, particularly when more valuable ostraca are purchased? Have you not noticed that sometimes the wheel spins differently than at other times, that it occasionally slows earlier and so stops sooner?" "When I wager anew," said Aktis, "I shall ha...	10
27	84	Who would not be pleased to receive two tarsk-bits for one tarsk-bit, or two gold staters for one gold stater? "There seems no clue here," said Thurnock, "as to where the corsairs will strike next".	10
27	216	"You saw," said Aktis, "that for a single tarsk-bit I won ten tarsk-bits".	10
37	120	"We are mad to work for these wages," he said, "two tarsk-bits an Ahn! I have seen fellows whom I suspect turned down this work.	10
37	125	"Dear Thurnock," I said, "we are not working for tarsk-bits.	10
37	131	"Two tarsk-bits an Ahn is not enough," said Thurnock.	10
37	173	We must keep those tarsk-bits coming".	10
57	117	At the same time our men, bearing swords, axes, knives, and even clubs, rushed out from behind the screens, sure footed from the bits of nails fastened in their sandals and boots, and fell, like butchers on verr, on the numerous discomfited and often helpless foes, most unable to regain or maintain ...	10