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Blades

Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.	10
4	167	Had they been armed, my caste brothers in the last tier would have struck their spear blades on their shields.	10
6	204	The mandibles began to close on her throat like the blades of giant scissors.	10
19	127	We met almost over the body of Talena, the tips of our blades touching alertly, once, twice, each sounding the other out.	10
19	133	While we touched blades almost as if involved in some bizarre ritualistic dance, there was the ringing, the clanging of fiercer swordplay around us, as the men of Pa-Kur engaged the men of Ar.	10
19	149	Our blades met again, this time in a flash of bright, clean sound.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	1	Thorn, Captain of Tharna With one sound three blades sprang from their sheaths, mine, that of the officer and that of the warrior who would first engage me.	10
7	6	Our blades had not crossed six times when he, too, lay at my feet, crowded into a knot of pain, clutching at the grass.	10
7	23	I felt that he would not cross blades with me unless he were convinced he could win, and that he was not altogether convinced, at least not yet.	10
19	54	No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham...	10
25	10	His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	85	I noticed the tips of his forelegs were inverted, unsheathing the two curved, hornlike blades which reposed there.	10
19	19	I calculated the distance between myself and Sarm and wondered if I could reach him and kill him before he could bring his jaws into play, or those formidable blades on his forelegs.	10
22	179	"Could you, Misk," I asked, "with those bladelike structures on your forelegs slay a Priest-King?" Misk inverted his forelegs and examined the blades.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	338	Now, to my satisfaction, another of the blades was poised in his finger tips.	10
21	257	In a moment I would be able to see the kaiila, the flash of light from the lance blades.	10

Book 5. (24 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	50	This was the evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast, the climax of the feast insofar as the sales of slaves was concerned; this was the night Cernus would put his barbarian beauties on the block; tomorrow would be the concluding races and games, wild, dizzying hours in the Stadium of Tarns and ...	10
21	1	The Stadium of Blades Outside, as though from a distance, I could hear the roar of the crowd packed into the tiers of the Stadium of Blades.	10
22	588	Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades.	10
2	145	Five blades leaped from the sheath with but one sound.	10
2	149	Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st...	10
15	79	I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...	10
15	84	The games in the Stadium of Blades finished their season at the end of Se'Kara, a month following the season of races.	10
15	100	Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl...	10
17	154	Equaling and perhaps exceeding the fame of Gladius of Cos was that of the swordsman Murmillius, of the cruel games observed in the Stadium of Blades.	10
18	251	"At the games on the second of En'Kara, in the Stadium of Blades," said he, "I saw the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus".	10
20	229	With hook knife in hand, against a dozen blades, Ho-Tu would probably have rushed upon Cernus.	10
20	549	"You will be free tomorrow," he screamed, "to die in the Stadium of Blades!" I threw back my head and laughed.	10
21	181	At the entrance to the Stadium of Blades the blaze of the sun off the white sand momentarily blinded me.	10
21	199	Obediently we unsheathed our blades.	10
21	324	Foe upon foe fell from those two fierce blades.	10
21	360	"Silence!" roared Murmillius and, obediently, we fought in silence, save for the crying of men, our breathing, the sparkling ring of blades tempered by wine and fire.	10
21	384	I saw Hup bounding and skipping on the tiers, crying out, and saw men throwing off cloaks, revealing blades, and rushing to meet Taurentians.	10
21	421	I hauled upon the one-strap and took the bird from the heights of the Stadium of Blades, streaking in a moment through the cylinders of Ar, leaving behind me men with whom I had fought, stained sand, and whatever we had together begun there.	10
22	309	I wondered if Cernus had yet received word of the events at the Stadium of Blades.	10
22	362	To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...	10
23	6	Word had apparently reached the House of the doings at the Stadium of Blades before it had come to the Stadium of Tarns, much farther away.	10
23	138	In an instant our blades had met in the swift discourse of flashing steel.	10
24	67	"Through the Steels we wished to have a faction that would, like Murmillius, in the Stadium of Blades, sway the imagination of men, and win the allegiance of thousands of those of Ar.	10
24	75	Men had been turned against Cernus in both the Stadium of Blades and in that of Tarns, and in both by the cruelty and treachery of the man they had honored as Ubar.	10

Book 6. (17 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	155	What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ...	10
7	63	Then, as the oar-master again cried out, they entered as one into the water; and then, as he cried out again, each oar drew slowly in the water, and then turned and lifted, the water falling in the light from the blades like silver chains.	10
10	194	Indeed, the galleys of Port Kar, medium and heavy class, carried shearing blades, which had been an invention of Tersites.	10
10	198	Recent galleys of Cos and Tyros, and other maritime powers, it had been noted, were now also, most often, equipped with shearing blades.	10
10	235	I do not think they cared to forsake their piracies, but, too, I think they felt a pride in serving one who was said, now, after the incident of the paga tavern, to possess one of the finest blades in Port Kar.	10
14	27	Shearing blades, too, of course, were a portion of her equipment.	10
14	28	These blades, mentioned before, are fixed on each side of the hull, abaft of the bow and forward of the oars.	10
14	248	Since the principal weapons of the ram-ship are the ram and shearing blades, she is most dangerous taken head on.	10
14	249	Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades.	10
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10
17	197	And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own.	10
17	202	I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.	10
17	239	Nigel, wise in the ways of sea war, had held back his ships, the wind pounding behind them, that the blades of the pincers might strike simultaneously, as though wielded by a single hand and will.	10
17	377	Our blades met.	10
17	388	There were blades clashing at my back.	10
18	108	Then, moving about, on the pitching deck, in the sleet, we matched blades.	10
18	163	Our blades were unsheathed, those of an admiral of the fleet and a slave boy.	10

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	721	Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields.	10
12	279	We now heard the snap of whips again, but this time the leather blades fell upon the naked backs of girls.	10
12	688	The sounds of blades carried to where we knelt.	10
13	871	Then the tarns swooped together again, side by side, saddle to saddle, while blades flashed over my head, in a swift dialogue of steel, debating my possession.	10
14	132	I watched two warriors practicing with their swift, short blades on a square of sand.	10
14	680	Some of the warriors smote their shields with the blades of their spears.	10
15	39	They then did not choose to draw their blades.	10
17	479	He is said himself to be a master swordsman, much feared, and his house is strong, and there are men here, some hundreds, who pledge their lives and their blades to him.	10

Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	32	The men drew their blades and rushed forward, charging me.	10
13	35	Shouting the war cry of Tyros, blades drawn, they ran toward me across the sand and pebbles of the northern shore of the Laurius.	10
19	106	Others' hands seemed well fitted to the hilts of blades.	10
20	33	The women of Hura, bound, naked, among the men and blades, screamed.	10
20	72	In their light I could see men of Tyros, blades drawn, back to back, eyes wild.	10
20	105	Several of them stood with blades drawn.	10
20	115	Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another.	10
20	157	"Stop fighting!" Still blades clashed.	10
20	225	But already two men, eager, blades ready, had sped toward Rim's voice.	10
21	1	My Business is Concluded in the Stockade The men of Sarus, one by one, hurled their blades into the earth.	10
21	3	They did so, in the yellow tunics of Tyros, sullen, ringed by the blades and spear points of my men.	10
22	536	I heard blades move in scabbards.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	515	The findings of Iskander of Turia matched those of the other physicians, but, to my astonishment, when he had replaced his instruments in the pouch slung at his shoulder, he said, "The wounds were given by blades of Tyros".	10
6	251	The men cheered, and struck their shoulders, and again, the spear blades smote upon the shields.	10
10	343	And it was Gunnhild who was thrown the pastry, to the delight of the crowds, shouting, pounding their spear blades on their wooden shields.	10
10	667	When I retrieved my arrows, to the shouting of the men, the lifting of bows, the lifting of axes, the pounding of blades on wooden shields, the girl had already been unchained from the block.	10
12	47	Spear blades struck the surfaces of the round, painted, wooden shields.	10
13	421	I heard swords clashing against the sides of plates, spear blades clattering on shields, and ringing, one against the other.	10
14	4	More than once the blades of the Kurii axes bit through the spines of men, reaching for their weapons, and splintered, gouging, in the beams of the hall.	10
18	185	Blades swiftly freed the prone, hysterical bondmaids.	10
21	92	Spear blades rang on shields.	10
21	147	"The poison," said he, "that which lay upon the blades of the men of Sarus of Tyros, lurks yet in your body".	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	640	Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls.	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	153	There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...	10
1	2	I could feel it, the warm, individual green blades, separate, gentle, on my left cheek; I could feel them on my body, my stomach and thighs.	10
1	9	My fingers touched the warm dirt between the grass blades.	10
1	47	I opened my eyes, seeing the grass blades not inches from my face, wide, blurred.	10
2	153	They had covered the area thoroughly, even turning aside long grass with the blades of their spears.	10
2	461	I had always had a fear of steel blades, even knives.	10
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
8	209	The butt of the sleen whip struck me heavily, driven downward, between the shoulder blades, felling me.	10
12	417	Blades were set at the throat of Borchoff.	10
15	163	She held the whip in her right hand, its blades folded in her left.	10

Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	61	Over her shoulder, across her body, was a second belt, from which hung, at her right hip, a pouch and, on a ring, a slave whip, its blades folded, and four coils of narrow, rawhide rope.	10
9	39	"Release him," said he to my captor, "that I may with blades, he, too, armed, dispatch him".	10
10	374	There would not be enough tabuk! The guards now crept more close, blades ready.	10
30	121	Our blades touched and parried.	10
30	123	Our blades touched one another.	10
30	130	Our blades swiftly met, a moment of testing.	10
30	238	We lifted our blades to one another, in salute.	10
30	250	I heard blades leaving the sheaths.	10
30	257	I met two men with blades on the sand, felling one and slashing another, who reeled away.	10

Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	84	The second officer now returned to the kneeling girl and, standing behind her, loosely, with a movement of the slave whip, looped the five broad blades of the whip about her neck.	10
6	42	Shoka, behind the girls, shook out the blades of the slave whip he carried.	10
6	94	The first officer, Gudi, did not preside over the issuance of blades and lances.	10
6	542	Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege...	10
11	185	The girl in the slacks and black, buttoned top swung loose the blades of the slave whip she carried.	10
11	186	She touched the blades to the body of the suspended girl.	10
12	445	Msaliti, standing, leaving the table, shook loose the blades of the slave whip.	10
14	455	Behind her, her hair came, falling, to the sweetness of her shoulder blades.	10
34	758	She then lay beside the thick slave stake, her shoulder blades in the dirt.	10
46	6	Some of the talunas lay upon the ground, tangled in nets, the spear blades of the small men at their throats and bellies.	10
50	62	Kisu struck Turgus between the shoulder blades with the butt of one of the spears.	10
56	12	Small leather strips customarily sheath the blades of the spears of Ukungu.	10
56	14	The edges of the blades gleamed.	10

Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	281	She hung the whip on her belt, folding back its blades.	10
3	283	The blades of the whip fitted under a clip, also on the belt.	10
6	3	I trembled, involuntarily, as the coolness of the leather of the woman's whip, its blades folded back against its handle, moved upward against my right side.	10
7	105	Also, tied about her neck, fastened there by its blades, dangling downwards, was a slave whip.	10
7	164	Her body, her back, too, her lovely shoulder blades, was pressed against them.	10
8	12	She shook loose the blades of her slave whip.	10
8	20	The blades, in their stroke, burned cruelly on my back.	10
11	673	She shook out its blades, and snapped them once.	10
12	132	"No! There must be true men on Earth!" The whip of the Lady Tendite, suddenly, its blades folded back against its staff, struck me on the side of the face.	10
12	396	The Lady Tima, suddenly, cracked her whip, the blades, loud, snapping in a staccato burst of leather, almost at my ear, the crowd instantly still, its attention arrested, stunned, alert.	10
12	528	The Lady Tima gestured to one of the attendants who then stood behind me, and shook out the blades of a slave whip.	10
13	281	On their right shoulders they bore spears, with long, bronze, tapering blades.	10

Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	19	Hissing, the beast crouched down, its shoulder blades still prominent under its excited, half-lifted fur, its four hind legs still tensed beneath it.	10
20	2	Two blades, his, and that of a companion, were leveled at my breast.	10
23	138	Obviously the consequences of even a moment's inadvertence in the dialogue of blades could be irremediable.	10
26	260	Before he could have reached me a dozen blades might have cut him down.	10
28	280	But no sooner had the blades crossed then both seemed suddenly, inexplicably, in a flash of sparks, to fly upward.	10
32	210	Two of the men with Kliomenes, I noticed, had their own blades drawn.	10
33	131	These blades were seven feet in height, like convex moons of iron.	10
33	132	It is said that such blades were an invention of Tersites, a shipwright of Port Kar.	10

Book 16. (23 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	257	I folded the blades of the whip back against the staff, and held out the staff and blades to her.	10
4	1	The Wedge; Rams and Shearing Blades "How many are there?" I heard an officer inquire of Callimachus, above and behind me, on the deck of the stem castle.	10
4	50	"We will not render our rams and shearing blades useless".	10
4	158	Some lacked even rams and shearing blades.	10
5	9	There was a screaming of metal as shearing blades, locked together, protested the stresses imposed upon them by the shifting ships.	10
6	119	Even soldiers of Ar, at our benches, crying out, seized up shields and bucklers, and smote them with the blades of spears and the flats of swords.	10
7	16	The ships of the Voskjard so pressed about our three ships that they could not use their rams or shearing blades.	10
7	56	They were protected from the rams and shearing blades of their enemies by the closeness of the quarters.	10
8	400	That the defenders had lasted this long was a function largely of two factors, first, of the crowding of the pirate fleet which made it difficult for them to bring their rams and shearing blades into play, and, secondly, the unusually large numbers, and skill, of the soldiers of Ar who had been tran...	10
8	417	The pirate ships now, sent forward judiciously, singly or doubly, supported as need be, no longer crowded together in useless attempts at boarding, could now bring their rams and shearing blades into play against the cornered, pathetically outnumbered barks of the defenders.	10
14	42	"Two who were involved in this miserable business," said Policrates, "surmount now, as stripped and helpless prisoners, the shearing blades of my vessel".	10
16	250	The shearing blades locked and we felt timber being torn from the sides of the ships.	10
16	301	The greatest danger to a swimmer, usually, is the grating together of hulls, behind the blades.	10
16	404	Ragnar Voskjard tried to rise, but my foot, thrust between his shoulder blades, pressed him rudely back to the deck.	10
18	259	"I kiss your whip, my Master," she said, gratefully, continuing to kiss the brutal, uncompromising blades and staff.	10
18	670	I took the whip from where it hung by its handle loop on the arm of the curule chair and placed it, its blades folded back against its handle, across my lap.	10
19	183	She sees the master shake out the blades of the whip.	10
19	184	Is she to be whipped, or raped, or both? But he folds back the blades and holds the whip before her.	10
19	200	Gently I slid the whip, the blades folded back, against her, moving it from her left thigh to her waist, and thence upward against her left side.	10
19	205	I shook out the blades of the whip, with a gentle loosening of the leather, so that she would know they were free.	10
19	499	I shook out the blades of the Gorean slave whip.	10
19	739	She saw now, on the tiles before her, gently swinging, the shadows of the five loosened blades of the Gorean slave lash.	10
21	156	I held the whip to her mouth, its blades folded back.	10

Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	60	Our blades had not crossed twice before the point of my sword was at the fellow's throat.	10
5	166	As soon as the two blades had touched, however, I had seen what could be done, and had done it.	10
8	98	The slaver's man then folded back the blades of the whip, under their clip, and hooked the whip, by its butt ring, on his belt.	10
9	42	Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives.	10
9	43	The knife blades and long nails are sometimes mounted in clubs.	10
9	44	The blades, of course, may also be fitted into carved handles, of wood and bone.	10
9	45	The rivets are useful in fastening blades in handles and lance shafts.	10
13	1215	I felt the blades of wet, cool grass cut at my ankles.	10

Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	"Who has counted the stars, who has numbered the blades of grass," said Cuwignaka.	10
1	335	They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads.	10
26	64	Such blades are, for the most part, unknown in the Barrens.	10
26	69	Such blades, of course, are infantry weapons.	10
28	300	I saw a woman, running, caught in the back with a lance, between the shoulder blades, flung to the dust, the lance then withdrawn.	10
32	163	Some of them merely laid the cold metal points of the lances, or the sides of the lance blades, on her flesh.	10

Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	404	He shook out the long, broad, pliant blades of the whip.	10
4	406	I looked at the blades, in terror.	10
4	524	I wrapped its blades back about the handle.	10
4	525	Then, humbly, my head down, submissively, near the point where the five long, soft blades join the staff, holding it in both hands, I kissed it.	10
5	76	I heard blades being returned to sheaths.	10
5	178	Blades flashed forth from sheaths.	10
5	180	In the small retinue of Miles blades, too, had leapt from sheaths.	10
17	256	I saw him recoiling the blades of the whip.	10
30	410	In a few moments the door was shattered, and, axes discarded, the five men, blades drawn, entered the building.	10
34	95	He shook out the blades of the whip and dangled them before her eyes.	10
34	110	How she had used him, and tortured him! How cleverly she had manipulated him, how insidiously and cunningly she had exploited him! He let the blades of the whip, idly, brush her back.	10
34	113	He drew the blades back, away from her body.	10
36	1115	I had been put in place as though I might have been anyone, any slave! Did I mean so little to him? Was I so unimportant? Then behind me, before I was fully set for it, I heard the hiss of the five supple blades.	10
36	1119	The blades had seemed, too, to encircle me, scalding and tearing at me.	10

Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1156	"We are friends and we have stood together with blades before enemies.	10
7	140	Some men place the whip where the slave can see it, noting its heavy-leather blades or coils, that she may understand its menace.	10
9	197	I drew one of the blades, and turned it in my hand.	10
10	18	Boots shook out the blades of a five-stranded Gorean slave whip.	10
10	21	"How proudly you said that," marveled Boots, swinging the freed lash blades loosely.	10
16	702	"Fearsome engines of destruction," said Chino, "the dreaded paired blades of Anango.	10
21	301	"And of how he fell at last, bloodied beneath the blades of frenzied, hostile brigades!" "Yes," I said.	10

Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	79	She must then have felt the touch of the grass blades on her ankles.	10
1	130	"I think it will do you good to feel this," I said, shaking out the five, soft, broad blades.	10
1	165	Then the blades hissed suddenly down upon her and again she cried out, sobbing, flung to the grass, which she clutched with her fingers.	10
4	234	"Let them then be blades!" roared Sorath.	10
8	37	"They were suddenly everywhere, all about us, crying out, with reddened blades," he said, "and merciless.	10
12	18	There is a dark mathematics in such matters, in the subtle equations balancing reaction times against the movements of blades.	10
19	246	I had met them in combat, as long ago as the sands of the Stadium of Blades.	10
20	38	I did not forget the house of Cernus, the Stadium of Tarns, the great tarn, Ubar of the Skies, the racing factions, the Stadium of Blades, the bloodied sands of the arena.	10
25	1918	I shook out the blades of the whip.	10
25	1922	I folded back the blades of the whip and inserted them in their clip, near the butt end of the staff.	10
25	1964	I removed the whip from my belt, freeing the blades.	10
25	1983	I let the loose whip blades brush her back.	10
26	682	I loosened the blades of the whip.	10

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	472	I felt the flooring on my shoulder blades.	10
29	549	The blades, too, for that matter, of the two slain fellows were also in the vicinity, one still in its sheath, the other half drawn.	10
29	785	Both were rough, grim-looking men, armed with blades.	10
29	1526	Blades clashed, briefly, ringing sharply, brightly, in the green meadow.	10
30	37	Their blades were hung on the side of the closed slave wagon.	10

Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	970	There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s...	10
16	521	Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging...	10
17	84	Blades rang.	10
17	119	I have seen, too, wounded men being carried to the rear, their bearers unmolested, through clashing ranks, and other fellows pausing to loot a body, blades flashing about them.	10
18	223	Cosians feared then to lower themselves into the waiting blades, like steel teeth, waiting for them.	10
20	416	Water lapped high on the hulls; the rams were now at least a yard under the water; even the lower tips of their shearing blades were submerged.	10
20	447	I could see the water fall from the lifted oar blades into the harbor.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1117	Slave girls seldom care to find themselves, helpless curvaceous obstacles, half naked, collared and silked, in the midst of men and blades.	10
3	417	It was only when the ground had shaken near me, and I had spun half about, almost buffeted by a saddle tharlarion, and saw the running mercenary caught between the shoulder blades with the point of the lance, thrown then to the dust, rolling and bloody, and saw the tharlarion trampling the body, the...	10
9	89	"Now soon, sleen," gloated he, "will you see your Cosian masters beneath our blades!" I stood unsteadily in the water.	10
13	410	"We did not come to the delta to return without Cosian blood on our blades!" said a fellow.	10
17	163	I think the two were forced apart by blades.	10
46	127	No more than two or three times the blades clashed and then he staggered back, a tiny bit of blood, little more than a line, on his tunic, over the heart.	10
47	211	"If you want her," I called to him, "let us do the game of blades".	10

Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	748	Then, the dance ended, men striking their left shoulders in Gorean applause, shouting their vociferous approval, some armed warriors striking their shields with spear blades, she sank to the ground, on her back, breathless, breasts heaving, covered with a sheen of sweat, before her master, her left ...	10
5	98	"They will be on us with blades in an instant!" said a man.	10
7	18	Some citizens had attempted to interfere with this, but were discouraged with clubs and blades.	10
7	203	Similarly, should the troops wheel to the sides, charging, blades drawn, they might have slaughtered thousands, harvesting the crowds, trapped by their own numbers, like sa-tarna.	10
8	529	"Exposing themselves to the blades of strangers?" he asked.	10
8	919	Our blades met perhaps three times and I was under his guard.	10
8	962	"Cos," he said, "can use blades such as yours".	10
9	197	Indeed, they had been ordered to report yesterday afternoon to the great theater, from whence, to their surprise, they had been transported in cage wagons, actually locked, to the Stadium of Blades more than a pasang away.	10
9	198	Beneath the stands of the Stadium of Blades were numerous holding areas, suitable for wild beasts, dangerous men, criminals, and such.	10
9	645	I did not know if the women were to be marched back to the Stadium of Blades or only to a rendezvous with cage wagons, to be thence transported to the stadium's holding areas.	10
13	227	Was it for this that they had done their duty, was it for this that they had faced the delta, the tracklessness, the tharlarion, the insects, the hunger, the arrows of rencers, the blades of Cos? "Some of these lads, former "Cosians" and others," I said, "are apparently little better, still, than va...	10
16	78	With our wind scarves in place, and our blades drawn, there would be little doubt who we would be, at least in general.	10
16	93	"Let us have it out with blades".	10
17	340	For example, you have unusual powers with tempered blades, with the steels of war".	10
19	756	Guards rushed into the room, blades free of scabbards, the doors bursting open.	10
23	72	"We must go back, and try with blades," said Marcus, suddenly.	10
26	9	They also carried their wands of office, which, I suspect, from the look of them, and despite the weapons laws of Cos, contained concealed blades.	10

Book 26. (26 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	29	The height of the wall, now that I backed from it, I could see was surmounted by incurved blades.	10
1	31	Presumably some similar arrangement, perhaps outcurved blades, characterized its exterior side.	10
5	3	I had gone to the interior wall, the marbled wall, and touched it, and looked upward, to its height, and the incurved blades at the top.	10
13	569	I had heard, too, of such things as blades and pits.	10
13	576	Within some of these devices, surrounded by the wire and blades, one cannot move without cutting oneself to pieces.	10
18	34	He shook out the blades of the whip.	10
31	354	Such blades are favored by those who prefer to work close to their men.	10
31	356	Their design is such, in short, as to overreach shorter weapons and yet, in virtue of the weights involved, penetrate the defenses of less wieldy blades.	10
31	570	He and the lieutenant, now that the pit master was restrained, had sheathed their blades.	10
31	597	"Blades!" I heard.	10
31	598	"Lanterns up!" A dozen blades must have left sheaths.	10
31	636	If he should strike a man, of course, that might stop the stone, or even tangle the chain, providing the others with the opportunity they needed, blades ready, to close.	10
31	654	"Blades! Close with him! Close with him!" cried the leader of the strangers.	10
31	675	The door was in front of him, but men with blades blocked his passage.	10
31	680	He could not defend himself, he substantially defenseless now, against these blades.	10
31	725	I think I heard blades cross seven or eight times.	10
37	186	But before blades could leave their sheaths the first animal scrambled forward, snarling, charging, its hind feet scratching and slipping, spattering urine back, just for an instant, on the floor of the passage.	10
37	189	The lieutenant and some five of the black-tunicked men, shouting, kicking, crying out with horror, crowded about the intent animals, cutting down at them with blades, trying to stab into those active, twisting bodies.	10
37	193	Again and again the blades cut and stabbed at them.	10
37	199	Then they drew back, almost as though in shock, their reddened blades lowered.	10
37	225	And the squealing and hissing, the snarling, the crying out, the cutting with the blades, had been so close to us that we might, had we not been bound, have reached out and touched the men, almost the bleeding, twisting bodies of the sleen.	10
37	238	"There is no blood on your blades," he said.	10
37	240	"Surrender your blades," said the lieutenant.	10
37	244	The two blades were surrendered to the lieutenant.	10
37	249	"There will be blood on your blades," said the lieutenant.	10
37	285	"Your blades are bloodied," said the lieutenant.	10

Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	67	His whip, on its staff ring, blades folded back, and clipped, against the staff, which is long enough to be held with both hands, was at his belt.	10
17	79	"Don't whip me, please!" she cried, seeing Barzak loosen the whip, removing the staff ring from the hook at his belt, and unclipping the blades.	10
18	529	It was rather dark in the room; it was lit only by narrow blades of light coming through cracks in the imperfectly shuttered windows.	10
21	81	She watched the rope move before her, that fastened to the left ankle of the girl before her, pulled forward, then dropping down, disappearing in the grass, then seeming to leap up, only to drop down again between the blades.	10
27	2585	She felt the moist, narrow blades upon her lips.	10
28	57	She felt the narrow, fibrous, cool, dawn-moist, living blades against her tear-streaked cheek.	10

Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1343	What has become of us? What have we done to the world? She felt herself touched then, you see, however softly, by the fingers of a world alien to her, a natural world of meadows and moisture, of damp rocks and blades of moist grass, a world rather like her own might once have been, unspoiled, a worl...	10
20	69	"If more than one out of ten do not unsheathe their blades?" "Then the defendant is acquitted," said Peisistratus.	10
26	88	"For use on Gor, of course," said Peisistratus, "to be used there, that we not attract the attention of Priest-Kings nor seem to violate their laws, crossbows, blades, javelins, spears, and such".	10
26	112	"A limited number, used and reused," said Peisistratus, "tridents, nets, blades, small bucklers, such things".	10
50	140	Cabot reached down and retrieved the whip, and then, slowly folding its blades back, against the staff, he touched it, gently, to her back.	10
56	185	Cabot could hear the sounds of fighting, of grappling, the hiss of weaponry, the striking of blades, axes, doubtless, into shoulders and flesh.	10
66	7	* * * * "Sharpen blades, and form lines," had said a Kur.	10
74	19	He was familiar with martial dances from Gor, of course, which are used not simply for public displays, and such, but in the training of infantry, the turns, advances, withdrawals, the liftings and lowerings of spears, the rhythmic clash of blades on shields, the stamping of feet, the glittering of ...	10
77	277	Too, it was of solid metal, and the blades were forged from the haft itself.	10
79	84	When he did return she could see that he carried a five-stranded Gorean slave lash, with broad blades.	10
79	104	I am from Earth and such things cannot be done to me! Do you think I am no more than a Gorean girl, some simple slave, to be put without a second thought beneath the lash? I am from Earth, from Earth!" "Do not fear," he said, shaking out the blades of the supple tool.	10
79	290	Yet, too, as noted, she mightily feared the whip, and would surely do much to escape the renewed kiss of the slashing leather blades.	10

Book 29. (27 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	689	And these fellows, I thought, were the very fellows from whom she might have hoped succor, for it had been blades such as theirs which had placed her upon, and protected her upon, the usurped throne of Ar.	10
10	8	Lord Nishida's countenance was refined, even delicate, but refined and delicate in the way a light, carefully edged weapon is refined and delicate, as, for example, the shorter of the two blades beside him.	10
13	269	We feared the slave would be instantly slain, and she was flung to the floor, under a dozen blades, and it was only the hand of her master, Myron, the polemarkos, interposed, which saved her.	10
14	23	Some glaives without blades were used.	10
15	364	He shook out the blades of the whip.	10
15	435	The purpose of the sword is not to fence, not to match blades, and not to exhibit skill, nor is its purpose to reach the enemy, nor even to cut him.	10
18	15	In two or three places men fought, interestingly, with blades.	10
18	54	"Bucklers and blades," I said to the mercenaries.	10
18	83	"It seems we will not need our blades," said Tajima.	10
19	76	In his belt, blades uppermost, were the two swords, the companion sword and the longer blade.	10
19	78	Some of it was spattered, and, in other places, he had apparently drawn his blades against the cloth, to clean the blade.	10
20	55	If a general melee was in store, involving close fighting with several men, taking and giving ground, even a frightened, bounding kaiila might suffer, terrified in the rush of men, the shouts, the movement of blades, the fending of strokes, the thrust of spears, the slashing of glaives, the flight o...	10
20	170	Both had their blades drawn, were ready to spring within.	10
20	176	There was then the clash of blades, briefly, fiercely, and I entered the stable, rushing within, followed closely by Tajima and Pertinax.	10
20	208	"Put down your blades," said he, "or she is a dead slave".	10
24	67	"That alone would guarantee he would not rush directly toward the tent, for he might be met by five blades in the darkness, and be surely thus delayed, if not killed".	10
30	47	"There are no shearing blades, at least as yet," I said.	10
30	48	Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two.	10
30	56	Shearing blades, incidentally, had been an invention of Tersites, many years ago.	10
32	55	"Begin! Fight! The gold, the gold!" Then a thousand blades were drawn forth, as though with a single flash of sound, from a thousand sheaths.	10
38	365	We saw the oars dipping, water falling from the blades.	10
40	13	And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle.	10
40	46	There was shouting, and the clashing of blades, and the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields.	10
40	58	It is only within the walls formed by the blades of men that their nobilities and privileges, their precious vanities and pretensions, can exist.	10
40	139	There had been shouting, the clashing of blades, the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields.	10
42	50	"Bring them inboard, blades out, close to the hull".	10
43	90	"I have a recruit for the cavalry," said Lord Nishida, "one who has demonstrated his capacity to ride, and one whose sword is a welcome addition to our blades".	10

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	196	Is the way of war not the way of men? Surely her spears were matched ever with spears, her blades with blades.	10
1	44	Her patronage was mostly that of ruffians, mariners between voyages, their coins now mostly spent, left in the higher taverns, drifters, wanderers, peddlers, exiles, some mercenaries, willing to unsheathe their blades for a bit of silver, or a fight.	10
1	116	The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ...	10
2	113	She was a light galley, and she, though fitted with ram and shearing blades, was built more for speed and reconnaissance than fencing at sea, the ship the weapon itself.	10
2	134	It had no ram, no shearing blades.	10
2	139	Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible.	10
2	176	There was no time, no time to even lift the blades from the water.	10
5	269	"At the ringing of steel, the laughter of blades, he would hide," said another.	10
5	356	"You would not have fought," said Lord Nishida, touching the unusual, curved hilt of one of the swords in his sash, "for I would have cut off your head, before the blades could touch".	10
9	180	"Fools," he hissed, "fools!" There were footsteps in the corridor and some seven or eight Pani, with their odd, long-handled, curved blades removed from their sashes, hurried past us.	10
9	373	They stepped back, and two others rushed forward, their curved blades lifted, grasped in two hands.	10
9	377	"Stop, in the name of Lord Nishida!" The two Pani stepped away, each to a side, their blades respectfully lowered.	10
9	410	The mutineers who had, at Cabot's word, discarded their weapons, and were now kneeling, bound and neck-roped, Pani about with drawn blades, looked at one another in apprehension, and surely to Cabot, as well.	10
13	14	Surely there was no ram, no shearing blades, no sockets for fixing catapults or springals.	10
14	32	And then, sometimes, he would rise to his feet, remove his two curved blades from his sash, and engage unseen opponents.	10
16	105	I heard weapons being spilled on the deck, brought from below, and men seized up blades, spears, axes, and pikes.	10
21	561	Few cared to perish beneath the blades of the Pani.	10
22	71	The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.	10
22	305	I think many fell, thrust from behind, and many may have been the wounds inflicted by exposed weapons, edges run against, points buffeted, blades fallen upon.	10
22	321	Some, escaping arrows, rushed upon us, to fall amongst our blades.	10
36	388	The two blades were soon cleaned and returned to their respective housings.	10

Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	7	On the other hand, I have here seen disputes resolved with blades, fleet tabuk felled with arrows, men confronting larls with no more than spears.	10
17	28	One sort of slave, however, is likely to be more visible in a stadium, a certain sort of stadium, a "stadium of blades," a more vulgar, violent milieu, the sort helplessly chained naked to a post, a sack of gold tied about her neck, she and it prizes to be awarded to a successful fighter.	10
18	920	I could not follow the movement of the blades, so sudden, so swift they were, but, a moment later, I realized they had crossed six times, from the sound.	10
52	122	I was pleased to see that he was folding the five blades of the slave whip about the staff, which might easily accommodate a two-handed grip.	10
52	138	I uneasily noted that he was slowly, thoughtfully, unwrapping the blades of the slave whip.	10
52	140	I saw him shake loose the blades of the whip, and they dangled.	10
52	141	I could see the shadow of the blades on the ground.	10

Book 32. (13 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	202	Some, crossed in the streets, had proved more than capable of defending themselves, with their unusual softly curved blades, one long, one short.	10
4	229	Who cares about such things in the case of a slave? Is the virginity of a tarsk or verr of interest? Who cares who is first to open them? Then casually, unexpectedly, the auctioneer, behind the slave, his left hand in her hair, holding her head back a bit, gently, but firmly, with the blades of the ...	10
6	152	I had the impression they were intent to fee men who could handle blades well and ask few questions with respect to their unsheathing.	10
6	231	"I, and others," he said, "are seeking blades, armsmen".	10
8	198	Sometimes it seems that the blades have lifted rainbows from the water.	10
15	473	What was the meaning of such a ship? For what work, what voyage, might it be intended? It was not a warship in any common sense; yet, interestingly, it nested six galleys, three to a side, which might be independently launched, and those galleys, I gathered, given their rams and large, crescent-like...	10
20	178	"And the objects of war," said another, "timbers, hurling stones, cordage, jars of pitch, finned darts, spears, glaives, javelins, varieties of blades, masses of shields, bucklers, wrappings in which are bound a thousand arrows".	10
23	142	And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars.	10
43	1119	A few javelins, and blades, harnessing, goods, and such, apparently of little interest, were removed from the camp, and, following Axel's instructions, left by the shore of the river, in the mud, some one hundred paces away.	10
50	135	But, occasionally, I knew exchanges took place by means of the negotiation of blades, particularly on the open road or in the fields, outside walls, beyond the jurisdiction of archons and praetors.	10
52	397	How swiftly, with so little sound, two blades left their sheaths! Tiomines began to growl.	10
52	826	"Fetch it," he said, "as a whip is fetched!" I crawled to the whip on all fours, and put down my head, and took the long handle, it is made to be held in two hands, just behind the blades, in my teeth, turned about, and returned to him, on all fours, and lifted my head to him, the whip between my te...	10
53	142	He strode to his pack, tore it open, and drew forth the whip, shaking its blades tree.	10

Book 33. (29 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	230	"Our people," said Lord Okimoto, "may unsheathe ritual blades".	10
1	236	"While strength remains," I said, "we might rush forth, if only to fall beneath the blades of greater numbers".	10
2	121	It seemed, for a moment, I heard the cries of rushing men, the clash of blades, the screams of tarns.	10
9	3	The blades of no glaives were visible, borne by patrols.	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
10	102	Hardly had the first notes rung out than we heard another sound, the war blast of the horagai, and blades in their dozens thrust up through the canvas of dozens of wagons, cutting and ripping, and, emerging from the shreds of rent canvas, were screaming, armed men, many of two swords.	10
10	118	Should they approach we might easily be away before we were within the range of their arrows, let alone their blades, and should they be so unwise as to approach en masse the wagons would be behind them, abandoned, and vulnerable.	10
14	11	I heard the metal blades of the war fan ripple briefly.	10
15	47	Anchored in the top of the wall were pieces of broken glass, shards of pottery, and blades, and, strung about the wall, were dangling strips of metal which would be difficult to elude, and which, if not eluded, would produce a jangling of disturbed metal unlikely to pass unnoted.	10
15	54	"Behold," said Lord Akio, with a snap flinging the fan into a circle, and then, with a thumb, locking the blades in place.	10
15	79	"Behold," he said, drawing back the circular artifact, its rippled blades locked in place.	10
23	61	Their crests are armed with glass, with blades and shards".	10
24	8	Even the blades with which the Pani kill are beautiful.	10
24	86	His colorful fan, with its heavy, edged metal blades, rested across his knees.	10
25	172	I suspected the eels well anticipated, by now, perhaps from the past, perhaps from a variety of cues, sounds, movements, and reflections, if not from the two token feedings earlier administered, designed to do little more than sharpen the ravenous blades of hunger, that food was in the offing.	10
31	6	With a miscellany of blades and clubs Haruki and I, after a bit, bound, were ushered about the screen.	10
32	68	Well did the young warrior recognize the imminent danger, which was not at all limited to the blades and clubs of bandits.	10
38	123	"Unsheathe your blades!" cried a voice.	10
46	244	It was over very quickly, the two blades did not even meet.	10
50	246	Tajima and Pertinax seemed shaken, numb, almost dazed; in the cry of the moment they had reacted almost reflexively, and were only now better aware of what had occurred; they stood near the fallen Kur, looking down, the blades of their glaives drenched with blood, oddly paled in the yellowish light.	10
59	163	Blades had not even touched.	10
59	176	Blades, under the lamps, flashed.	10
59	198	Blades struck smartly together.	10
59	250	There are styles of fencing, as well as variations in blades.	10
60	50	Sunlight flashed on swift blades.	10
60	239	"Lord Akio has spread his war fan and locked its blades in place," he said.	10
60	275	Blades of glaives thrust up at us, striking wood, splintering railings, tangling in the vinous blue climbers.	10
61	206	"In time," he said, "blades will be sharpened, and the two houses will be again at one another's throats".	10
61	749	Men climbed toward us, with brands of fire and blades of steel.	10

Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	361	From a peg there he removed an object, with a long leather handle, which might be grasped with two hands, and five broad, soft blades, which he shook free.	10
30	67	I saw, too, on their pegs, a long, supple switch and a whip, a slave whip, with its five broad blades.	10
30	261	He shook out the five broad blades.	10
31	111	He loosened the blades of the slave whip.	10
34	201	The ashes cooled, the blades were cleaned.	10
50	430	Kurik then, to my relief, folded the blades of the whip about the handle, clipped them closed, and hooked the handle at his belt.	10
52	6	I watched him unclip the blades of the slave whip.	10
52	8	He lifted the whip before me, the blades dangling.	10
52	200	"Please forgive me!" "What a petty, worthless slut you are," he said, shaking out the blades of the whip.	10
52	233	Kurik then, the blades of the whip loose, suddenly rent the air, with a blazing hiss, but a few inches from me.	10
52	254	I think he had returned the whip, the blades clipped, to his belt.	10
60	211	What is amusing in the slaughtering of verr? Surely it is entitled to a kill it can understand, an arena kill, as in the Stadium of Blades".	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	423	Could I have been so ignorant, so lacking in understanding? Did I not know that our only hope of survival lay in the blades of certain men, who might prize us as the goods we were? I was muchly uneasy.	10

Book 35. (18 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	98	Our ship was a merchant vessel, called a "round ship," though its beam was not that much broader than that of a long ship, as I now know, with its ram and shearing blades.	10
8	613	I did not know, at that time, the function of those mighty blades.	10
9	44	Similarly, the soft, wide blades of the five-stranded Gorean slave whip commonly used on kajirae, so different from the "snake" used on men, are designed to prevent any sign of permanent damage.	10
16	15	"You are well known in the dark contests, in the Gambles of Blades".	10
27	199	"I shall multiply these coins," he said, "wagering on the dark contests, the Gambles of Blades".	10
29	5	The heroes of blades come, and go, and seek out one another.	10
29	13	One need only feign insult, and blades leap forth from sheaths.	10
29	24	It was doubtless this northern custom which suggested not only the naming of this small islet in the Tamber gulf, so near to Port Kar, but, presumably, the enterprise for which it was best known, the Gambles of Blades, sometimes referred to as the "dark contests".	10
30	1	The Skerry of Lars; The Red-and-Yellow Enclosure; I Am Informed as to the Gambles of Blades Leashed, I heeled Bruno of Torcadino closely.	10
30	34	It is more expensive but one can utilize the commercial runners, almost to the inspection of the blades".	10
30	103	There are also, of course, as one would expect, contests of physical combat, such as those of wrestling and boxing, fists often wrapped in the dreadful cesti, and weapon combat, amongst which would be numbered the Gambles of Blades.	10
30	105	The Gambles of Blades, as noted, is a form of weapon combat.	10
30	124	The colors of the Gambles of Blades are red and yellow, red for blood, yellow for gold.	10
30	125	"Houses" often participate in, and are often featured in, the Gambles of Blades, which "Houses" are itinerant organizations which have no essential relationship to particular Home Stones, cities, regions, or districts.	10
31	163	This accession surprised me, but no quarrel was afoot, many were about, and there seemed a sort of fellowship, a kinship, or understanding, between these two, both of whom, I gathered, was a master swordsman, fellow citizens, as it is said, "in the city of blades".	10
33	212	"Not with blades, I trust," said the beast.	10
41	65	From somewhere, seemingly far off, I heard the shouts of men and the clash of blades.	10
42	88	Meanwhile, from the court of the outer vestibule, I heard the cries of men, the rending of wood, perhaps the collapse of a gate, and the clash of blades.	10

Book 36. (22 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	153	"Were you not here before, with blades and fire?" "No," I said.	10
2	10	"With blades, fire, and chains," I said.	10
3	11	The Dorna, even disguised, even temporarily divested of its ram and shearing blades, still appeared too much a ship of war, which, indeed, it was, a knife ship.	10
5	1	We have Eluded Pursuit; Two Bottles of Wine; Much Remains Unexplained; The Cove of Harpalos is Sighted "Would we had had our ram and shearing blades mounted," said Thurnock.	10
5	5	"A time may come when we will mount the ram and blades," I said.	10
6	27	It had teeth like shearing blades!" "Enough, enough," I said.	10
8	101	"Mount rams and shearing blades," I said.	10
14	5	Earlier, in the vicinity of Nicosia, on Chios, prior to beaching on Daphna, we had mounted shearing blades and rams.	10
15	62	"Her ram and shearing blades thirst for blood".	10
17	292	"The business of blades?" she asked.	10
18	95	"It had teeth like shearing blades?" I said.	10
19	8	Few blades in the islands can divide a loose, falling, unresisting net.	10
22	50	Indeed, I gather from an overheard conversation that the Dorna, recently lying near to the ruins of Nicosia, has a ram mounted, and shearing blades.	10
26	79	By now the enemy ship was uncomfortably close, so close one could see faces at the enemy's rail, but it was not close enough to bring either its ram or shearing blades into play.	10
37	10	"There to mount rams and shearing blades," said Clitus.	10
41	169	"It requires great courage to cling to a ladder with one hand and try to defend oneself with the other, against burning pitch, axes, jabbing blades, cast stones, and such.	10
48	157	There is dark work to be done, the work of blades, work to which we must address ourselves in Sybaris".	10
50	97	"Do not underestimate the effects of jabbing, pointed metal poles, serrated blades, and white-hot irons affecting the Brigand Island," said Sakim, "nor the willingness of the mercenaries to kill it in their attempt to overtake us".	10
51	69	Sunlight was reflected from helmets, from the metal bosses of rounded shields, from the blades of spears.	10
53	151	"I do not think the enemy wishes to use his rams and shearing blades," I said.	10
53	202	Clearly their oars were at rest, blades submerged.	10
58	93	This is most simply illustrated in swordplay in which two blades are set against one.	10