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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	205	She cooked for us, kneeling by the fire, her hair bound back so as not to catch the sparks, her face sweaty and intent on the piece of meat she was most likely burning.	10
15	173	"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher...	10
16	28	It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	10
7	133	She looked at me, tears of hatred burning in her eyes.	10
9	68	I did not care much for this mouth-burning concoction, but it was popular with some of the lower castes, particularly those who performed strenuous manual labor.	10
9	109	I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh.	10
10	78	Amidst the burning of the lash wounds I felt the cold air of the dungeon on my back.	10
10	90	By one wall there was a large bowl of burning coals, from which protruded the handles of several irons.	10
13	135	My sweat and the tears from the burning irritation of the sand had now cleared my vision.	10
20	92	What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and...	10
21	92	In theory, if not in practice, when the girl finds herself branded like an animal, finds her fair skin marked by the iron of a master, she cannot fail, somehow, in the deepest levels of her thought, to regard herself as something which is owned, as mere property, as something belonging to the brute ...	10

Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	113	Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be la...	10
14	104	Choking, my mouth burning, I spat it out in the booth.	10
17	4	In fevered sleep it seemed I saw Sarm's great head with its powerful, laterally moving jaws hovering over me, that I heard the cry of larls and saw the burning pupils of Parp's eyes and his reaching toward me with instruments and a golden net, and I found myself chained to the foot of Vika's couch a...	10
18	89	Within that dome, burning and glowing, emitting a bluish, combustive refulgence, was a huge, crystalline reticulated hemisphere.	10
20	116	She was now contained precisely as she had been originally save that she had exchanged the thick, multitudinous, ornate Robes of Concealment, the proud, cumbersome insignia of the free woman of Gor, for the simple garment of a Chamber Slave and a burning wound on her left thigh.	10
24	17	It occurred to me then that the light of the Mul-Torch burning in the invariably dark tunnels of its domain may have temporarily blinded or disoriented the creature.	10
25	68	I shut my eyes but to no avail against the burning universes that seemed to float and explode before my eyes.	10
29	56	While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a...	10
31	124	He fired at me, burning a hole in the dome near him, exposing the power source, and the same flashing burst of fire tore at the area of the dome behind which I stood.	10
32	27	Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin...	10
32	89	To one side, high in the domed wall some energy bulbs burst, emitting a cascade of sparks that looped downwards burning themselves out before striking the floor.	10
32	199	I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun.	10
33	14	Even from where we stood I could smell the innumerable fires of their sacrifices, the burning flesh of bosks, smell the heady fumes of the incense they burned in brass censers swinging on chains, hear the repetitious litanies of their pleas, observe their continual prostrations and grovelings by whi...	10
33	138	I could smell the smoke from the burning thigh of the bosk as it hissed and popped on the sacrificial fire.	10

Book 4. (17 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	58	I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.	10
1	44	There, some pasangs distant, I saw columns of smoke rising in the cold air, where fields were burning.	10
8	42	The animals began to die and the keening of women, crying as though the wagons were burning and the Turians upon them, carried over the prairies.	10
10	271	It was only then that it had occurred to me that both girls might have been acquired in the games; as a matter of fact, however, I later learned that only Tenchika had been so acquired; Dina had first felt the thongs of a master beside the burning wagons of a caravan in which she had purchased passa...	10
12	393	To the music, beautifully, it seemed the frightened figure ran first here and then there, occasionally avoiding imaginary objects or throwing up her arms, ran as though through the crowds of a burning city—alone, yet somehow suggesting the presence about her of hunted others.	10
14	2	War lanterns, green and blue and yellow, were already burning on poles in the darkness, signaling the rallying grounds of the Orlus, the Hundreds, and the Oralus, the Thousands.	10
21	355	Another wall, on the other side of the avenue, tumbled downward, two Turian warriors leaping from it, being ridden down by Tuchuks, leaping over the burning debris on kaiilaback, lance in hand.	10
22	36	At last it was night and we were making our way through the streets of Turia, sometimes between burning buildings.	10
23	56	Hundreds of the wagons were burning and fighting was taking place among them.	10
24	2	For days it had been burning.	10
24	24	From certain positions on the walls we could see the stream of refugees fleeing the burning city.	10
25	458	Again she slapped me and my head leaped to the side, burning.	10
26	144	The passage was on the whole dark, but where it branched there was often set a small, burning tharlarion-oil lamp.	10
26	377	The pool then attempted to dessicate itself and retreat into its hardened shell-like condition but the fire within the closing shell burst it apart and open and then it was again like a lake of burning oil, with portions of the shell tossed like flaming chips upon it.	10
26	381	Outside the compound of Saphrar, which was now burning, we mounted kaiila to return to the wagons outside the walls.	10
26	414	We turned the kaiila from the courtyard of the burning House of Saphrar and, abreast, rode from that place.	10
27	5	Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as escapes from ...	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	43	After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood.	10
5	182	The great compound eyes, on which Priest-Kings so seldom depended, were radiant; in that moment they glowed like diamonds burning in wine.	10
17	225	Strangely, with perhaps one exception, each of the Hinrabians had had his throat cut, even the women; this was unusual, for the women of a captive caravan, regarded as portions of its booty, are almost always enslaved; the one Hinrabian whose body was not found among the dead, scattered on the plain...	10
17	604	I dropped the doll, spun and managed to catch her wrist as she struck downward with the burning goad.	10
17	607	I hurled her some feet across the room and retrieved the goad; it had stopped rolling and now, burning, had begun to sink through the stone.	10
18	22	It passed to the left of my head, struck the wall with an explosion of sparks and lay burning on the stones.	10
18	301	His remark kept burning its way through my brain.	10
21	233	I laughed, the keen ring of the fine steel still burning in my ear.	10

Book 6. (27 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	267	I lowered my head, burning with shame.	10
4	24	At noon, in the marshes, with the sun burning at meridian, she had taken another handful of rence paste from a wallet worn at her waist and thrust it in my mouth, again not permitting me the dignity of feeding myself.	10
5	90	I looked away, burning with shame.	10
5	208	Torrents of barbaric music swept about us, and there was the clapping and the shouting, and the turning, and the twisting and swirling of rence girls, the passion of the dance burning in their bodies.	10
6	78	Everywhere about us there were shouting men, screaming women, running, crying children, and everywhere, it seemed, the men of Port Kar, and their slaves, holding torches aloft, burning like the eyes of predators in the marsh night.	10
6	95	In the marsh, some yards away, rence craft were burning on the water.	10
6	212	I had torn loose six when I heard the shout, "Stop!" The nearby island was now burning ever more rapidly and wildly in the night and soon the entire area would be illuminated.	10
7	1	I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo...	10
7	5	Then the tetherings on the two burning islands were cut away with swords and they floated away, free, afire into the marsh.	10
7	7	Then these two islands, too, were cut free and floated burning into the marsh.	10
9	57	I threw down another burning swallow of the paga.	10
10	144	On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero...	10
11	17	A small fire was burning to one side, where a lamp with candle had been knocked to the floor, in the rush toward the door.	10
11	26	I indicated the small fire burning to one side, that which had been caused by the fallen lamp with candle.	10
11	65	We could see burning ships.	10
11	116	I, and the three other captains, stood on the sloping roof of the hall of the council and watched the ships burning at the wharves.	10
11	130	I looked out over the city, at the arsenal, at the burning wharves on the west and south.	10
11	137	I pointed to the burning wharves.	10
14	128	A javelin, with tarred, burning blade, fell hissing into the water, some hundred yards away.	10
14	144	I watched a burning javelin from the lead ship of the pursuers arc gracefully and smoking through the air and drop hissing into the water some fifteen yards to my right, abeam of the stern.	10
17	58	Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts.	10
17	203	I could see numerous ships burning in the dark, windswept afternoon.	10
17	230	It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.	10
17	382	I did not expect a great deal of damage to be done by these shattering bombs of burning oil, but I was counting on the confluence of three factors: the psychological effect of such an attack, the fear of the outflanking fleets, whose numbers could not yet well have been ascertained, and, in the conf...	10
17	408	"Hold your fire!" Then the first of the tarns returned to the flagship, having cast down its flaming bombs of burning oil.	10
17	428	I could see ships burning in the distance.	10
17	434	A crossbow bolt dropped past me, striking into the burning deck.	10

Book 7. (19 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	442	I slammed on the brakes at the entrance to the highway and skidded onto the cement turning, and then with a scream of rubber, and the burning smell of it, roared down the highway.	10
5	240	Never before had I seen stars look so beautiful, so bright and burning in the blackness of the night.	10
7	66	This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle.	10
7	178	I was famished and, burning my fingers, I clutched at it, and, half-choking, thrust it half into my mouth, tearing at it with my teeth and hands, the juices running at the sides of my mouth.	10
8	228	Seldom will one find there Torian rolls of gold wire, interlocking cubes of silver from Tharna, rubies carved into tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs and cloves, spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous, dia...	10
9	360	The moons fled across the black sky, burning with its bright stars.	10
10	637	Wildly the man bent down to the fire and picked up a piece of wood from the fire, burning, and thrust it toward the sleen.	10
11	9	I felt the second pain, sharp, followed by an unpleasant burning sensation.	10
11	225	I felt acute pain for an instant, and then a prolonged, burning, stinging sensation.	10
12	655	The girls huddled under the wagons, many of them burning.	10
12	658	Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons.	10
12	691	Then, suddenly, from under the burning wagons, across the fields, there fled dozens of girls, running in all directions.	10
12	701	"I'll come!" I now saw the tarnsmen returning from the burning wagons, racing to their tarns.	10
14	213	And, within, from extensions of certain of the tent poles, there hung, on hooks, burning tharlarion-oil lamps of brass.	10
15	760	My thigh felt as though it were burning.	10
15	794	Again the leather fell and I gasped and twisted, hanging burning from the pole.	10
15	1430	I, my eyes closed, my head held painfully back, throat burning, swallowed it.	10
16	129	I threw myself against the chain, running toward his tent, and fell in the grass, my ankle burning, scraped, from the steel that obdurately clasped it.	10
17	118	Even performing small, homely tasks for a master, such as polishing his leather, laundering and ironing his tunics, cleaning his domicile, bringing him his sandals, crawling, in her teeth, can be sexually stimulating to her; she licks humbly the confining loops of leather on her wrists; she humbly l...	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	99	I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.	10
2	718	Had they heard movements in the darkness? Had they seen the gleam of tiny eyes? Burning at them from the blackness? Had one of them heard the breathing of tiny lungs near her face in the darkness? Had another felt fur brush against her calf, or tiny feet scamper unexpectedly over her bound body? Bot...	10
6	381	That we kept the fire burning would indicate that our intentions were not hostile, and that we wished to make contact.	10
18	226	To my satisfaction I saw that the great beacon was burning low.	10
19	95	"Keep the beacon burning," he said.	10

Book 9. (24 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	70	I looked about the hall, at the great walls of stone, the long table, the tiles, the narrow apertures through which I could glimpse the far stars, burning in the scape of the night.	10
1	681	I took the goblet, filled with burning paga.	10
2	200	The furnishings of the temple were quite splendid, gold hangings, and chains of gold, and lamps of gold, burning the finest of imported tharlarion oils.	10
2	209	They made the air even closer, burning the oxygen.	10
3	94	Ivar Forkbeard, in the light of the burning wall of the temple, quickly examined the line of women.	10
3	113	The nineteen girls regarded him, terrified, eyes wide, their faces lit on the left side by the flames of the burning wall.	10
3	213	The people of Kassau, within the burning temple, cried out, startled.	10
3	258	Hysterically, crowding, those citizens of Kassau who had, weeping, terrified, been lying on their stomachs in the dirt, beneath the burning roof, leapt to their feet and fled through the door.	10
3	402	Behind us we could see the smoke of the burning temple.	10
4	69	In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to...	10
13	28	Salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or from the burning of seaweed.	10
14	169	A beam fell, burning, from the roof at the southeastern corner of the hall.	10
14	197	"Red Hair," he cried, "the lamps!" Another beam from the roof, burning, dropped heavily to the floor of the hall.	10
14	251	Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...	10
14	257	Part of the roof fell away, tumbling burning to the ground below.	10
14	274	After him, I squeezed through one of the smoke holes in the roof of the burning hall.	10
15	8	We had climbed down from the roof of the Blue Tooth's burning hall, using the projections and relief of the ornately carved corner beams.	10
15	10	In the light of the burning hall, here and there, scattered in the dirt of the courtyard, we saw sprawled, scattered bodies, and parts of bodies.	10
15	127	In the distance we could see burning tents.	10
17	103	Hundreds of sorties had penetrated the hills and valleys, burning farms, and gathering goods, generally tools and weapons, and livestock.	10
17	325	It had touched me, and I stood then within its grip, in that red, burning world of rage.	10
18	55	Its head half to one side it rose to its feet and ran for a dozen yards before it slipped, falling sideways, rolling into the fur and burning leather of one of their lodges.	10
18	283	Dust, like smoke, like the earth was burning, rolled into the air.	10
18	303	Ivar and I strode through the burning camp, axes in our hand.	10

Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	285	Girls are often sent trembling, burning with passion, to the block.	10
1	828	In the dune country, by day, if one were so unwise as to go barefoot, the bright sand would quickly cripple a man, abrading and burning the flesh from his feet in a matter of hours.	10
6	130	He then, roughly, burning the side of her neck, slid the catch about her collar, to the front; there he jerked it against her collar; the chain then, which fastened her, like the other girl, to a ring in the floor, ran to her collar, under her chin.	10
11	83	During the day it seems menacing, whitish, shimmering with heat, blinding, burning; men must shade their eyes; some go blind; women and children remain within the tents; but, with the coming of the evening, with the departure of the sun, there is a softening, a gentling, of this vast, rocky harsh te...	10
11	86	Then, it seems suddenly, the sky is black and wide and high and is rich with the reflected sands of stars, like clear bright diamonds burning in the soft, sable silence of the desert's innocent quietude.	10
11	538	"On my signal," said Hassan, "have them throw open the gate to the stable yard, and ride!" I went to the edge of the roof overlooking the burning yard.	10
11	593	The roof was hot; the inn, below, was burning; to our right, through the roof, flames licked upwards.	10
12	30	Before the sun was high and the sands burning we reached her loot wagons, kept in the desert.	10
12	66	After a quarter of a pasang she let me regain my feet, then, cantering, I bloody and stumbling, body shaking, neck burning, vision black at the edges, returned to the head of her column; I sank to my knees in the dust below her stirrup; "Look up," said she, "Slave"; I looked up; "I will make you cra...	10
13	5	I fell, unable to break my fall because of the manacles confining my wrists at my waist, fastened to the loop of chain, burning in the sun, about my waist.	10
13	15	I lay still for a precious moment in the burning crusts.	10
13	61	Whereas salt may be obtained from sea water and by burning seaweed, as is sometimes done in Torvaldsland, and there are various districts on Gor where salt, solid or in solution, may be obtained, by far the most extensive and richest of known Gor's salt deposits are to be found concentrated in the T...	10
14	437	I held my hands, my neck, as still as possible, for the least movement would shift the collar, the manacles, the chain at my waist, and stir burning iron in the raw, abraded flesh.	10
16	181	There was now but a single lamp burning, on the port side, aft.	10
17	75	Perhaps if they touched it, they would die, burning in its flames.	10
25	93	We had shared salt at Red Rock, on a burning roof.	10

Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	276	Sometimes, in the distance, I saw flares lofted from one ship or another, burning upward and then, their silken globelike chutes opening, burning steadily, descending, to settle into the water and be extinguished.	10
2	1070	Its eyes caught the light and flashed like burning copper.	10
3	408	It was literally in my body, inflexibly, burning.	10
3	412	Not only could I feel the iron, but I could hear it, hissing and searing in the precise, beautiful wound it was relentlessly burning in my thigh.	10
3	413	There was an odor of burning flesh, mine.	10
3	414	I smelled burning, as of a kind of meat.	10
3	424	It was lodged there, submerged, hissing and burning.	10
5	682	I supposed not, for the glow of the burning silk and canvas in the night sky might too soon apprise the camp's soldiers of what had occurred.	10
12	450	"It seems there was a distraction, a burning field some pasangs to the south.	10
22	553	I was not fifty feet from a burning ship.	10
22	558	The burning ship seemed dim in the gray fog.	10
22	563	The burning ship sank beneath the water.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	176	The girl watched, horrified, as one of the guardsmen took the clothing and, piece by piece, threw it into a wide copper bowl of burning coals.	10
3	136	I stepped to one side to make way for a procession of initiates, who, with a ringing of bells, and shaking of bowls on chains, containing burning incense, passed me on their way to the palisade.	10
4	585	Light in the booth was furnished by a tiny lamp, dim, burning tharlarion oil, hung from one of the booth's ceiling poles.	10
10	75	"It is difficult to defend against tarn attack, the sheets of burning oil to the sails".	10
11	439	As I stood before the burning edifice I turned once to look at the platform.	10
26	277	Poalu threw oil from the lamp, burning, into the face of another animal.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	The hall was lit with burning torches.	10
12	500	Her body, sensitized by the first stroke, helpless, raw, aware, expectant, exposed, felt the second, as was intended, mingling with the burning echoes, the searing, throbbing wounds of the first, a thousand times more cruelly.	10
18	47	Men might then become, as many wished, as cattle and flowers, and be free to spend their days in placid grazing, until they died beneath the distant, burning, unsought suns.	10
40	2	I listened to the jungle noises, and the small, quiet crackle of the burning wood in the campfire.	10
47	111	One of the huts was burning.	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	151	This straw, burning then at one end, served to light the wick of a small, clay oil lamp.	10
12	50	He threw it into the dish of burning, oil-soaked wood.	10
12	51	He then removed, similarly, my jacket, which, too, he threw into the dish of burning wood.	10
12	52	I looked at the coat and jacket, burning.	10
12	203	She then walked to the side of the platform and discarded the tie in the shallow bowl of burning wood.	10
12	259	I placed the T-shirt I had removed from my body in her hand and she went to the shallow bowl of burning cubes of wood and discarded it.	10
12	411	I saw the Lady Tima throw what garments I had just torn from my body into the shallow bowl of burning wood.	10
22	771	"Have no fear, Lady Florence," he said, "her thigh will soon know, and well and deeply, the kiss of the burning iron.	10
25	375	I saw the wagon burning.	10

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	3	"Do not hurt me!" The night sky was red with the glare of the burning city.	10
6	33	In burning and sacking Vonda Ar had, for most practical purposes, satisfied its sense of military propriety.	10
14	158	She moaned, and then was shaken five times, encircled in the burning lashes, being repaid for her insolence.	10
22	188	I had seen the insolence of the pirates, the burning of buildings.	10
30	185	"Beware," said Policrates, "there are tortures in this holding to which you might be subjected other than the caresses of slave girls—the twisting of chains, of burning irons, of knives".	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	67	"Be ready with the catapults! Bowmen to your stations!" In a moment I smelled the smell of burning pitch.	10
1	103	A clay globe, shattering, of burning pitch struck across our deck.	10
1	156	Burning pitch spattering and exploding out of a clay vessel skidded across the deck.	10
4	101	Burning pitch and arrows rained upon their decks.	10
5	57	Burning pitch flamed upon the deck.	10
5	152	The smell of burning pitch was in the air.	10
9	330	I remembered, then, the ship I had heard of, shortly before entering the hold of the Tuka, that which had been identified as a derelict, one presumably drifting downriver, lost from the confusion of the night, illuminated by our diversion of the burning Olivia, a pasang or so to the east.	10
12	233	Too, smoke from burning ships, from the sea yard, and in the channel, climbed skyward.	10

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1358	"Guards!" Burning oil was adhering to the ruined wall to our right.	10
1	1370	The flames from the burning oil on the wall to my right leaped almost horizontally backwards, torn and lashed by the wind.	10
2	16	We had retrieved it from the burning complex.	10
2	18	We had left the burning complex behind us in the marshes, its smoke ascending in the gray light of the morning.	10
8	67	It takes time to bring an iron to branding heat and the iron, of course, its head sinking and searing, burning, into the girl's flesh, marking her, loses heat rapidly.	10
8	425	It approached the circular aperture in the vise, through which, deeply into her fair thigh, it would be thrust, and held, burning and hissing, until its work was done, until the girl was marked, and well, as slave meat.	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	351	More broadly, of course, it can refer to any piece of burning wood.	10
21	26	Lodges were burning.	10
39	185	"Suppose you were a conqueror and found me in a burning city," she whispered.	10
45	92	These flaming bundles, on their ropes, were then hurled over the edge, to hang burning against the rocky face.	10
47	502	Lodges were burning.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	154	"Master?" "That beneath the hauteur and cruelties of her office might lie the longing, burning heart of a slave".	10
34	130	Sheila was on her side, her body flaming with burning stripes; she was gasping and sobbing; she looked wildly up at Ligurious, a Gorean master.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	156	"Look at a man as a slave, feel your helplessness, feel burning heat between your thighs".	10
5	377	If you see a light in the sky later, it may be your camp burning".	10
16	123	"Not even the burning of a few fields, the seizure of a piddling harvest or two?" "No," said Petrucchio.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	209	From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares.	10
13	47	Sometimes, when a town is taken, you can feel the heat of burning buildings even blocks away.	10

Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	816	I dared not meet those fierce eyes which so frightened me, which seemed somehow to look through me, burning through me like fire, bringing unwelcome, frightening torches to my secret darkness, penetrating to my deepest and most closely guarded secrets, to what lay in the most secret belly and heart ...	10
3	932	I knew its burning line, that intense beam or blade, could divide me, fluids hissing, boiling, in an instant.	10
4	29	But I knew that I was in pain, sharp, miserable pain, fiery, burning pain, put on me by a man, and that that was real.	10
6	687	It was as though a narrow path had been cut into it, and left raw, and burning, on it.	10
11	963	My belly, hot and burning, seemed to beg to be touched.	10
17	16	Some visit the temples, paying coins, buying incense and burning it, petitioning Priest-Kings for favors, such things as better crops and success in ventures, such things as luck for themselves and calamities for their enemies.	10
20	190	Sometimes, it is said, that cruel and unfair pressure is applied to farmers, or villages, such as threats, or the burning of crops, and such, but I would think that this would surely be the exception rather than the rule.	10
24	280	Sometimes a woman is permitted, even a free woman, among the fires of a burning city, the glare of the flames red upon her flesh, to dance before masters as a naked slave.	10
31	307	I did not expect to be given much more consideration than a free woman taken in the streets of a burning city, subjected to hasty loot use, thence to be dragged away stripped after her captor, her hands bound behind her, a rope on her neck.	10

Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	92	In a few moments the chips were burning well.	10
10	406	More quarrels struck about me, bursting chips from the wall, some striking me like stinging pebbles, then, at last, after a seemingly endless ascent, hands burning and raw, I was at the height of the wall, some eighty feet above the embankment, and hands reached out, seized me, and pulled me inward,...	10
16	421	Perhaps later, when the citadel is burning, when resistance is ended, when the blood lust has to some extent lessened, you may receive an opportunity to strip yourself for captors".	10
17	165	I heard the bellowing of an agonized tharlarion from below, and saw some led from burning towers, their harnesses cut.	10
19	52	Much of the walkway was now gone, or burning.	10
20	435	The citadel was burning.	10
21	759	"I determined then in the cell," I said, "to take action, not merely, of course, for her sake, but for mine as well, as I could not know for certain what you would eventually decide in my case, nor could I count on being released from a burning citadel by Cosians.	10
24	470	Why would it not stop hurting? Would its flames consume her? Much would she do now, I saw, to avoid any repetition of the burning terror of its kiss.	10

Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	277	Survivors of Ar's Station, which had been Ar's major bastion on the Vosk, including many women and children, had been rescued from the piers of the burning port by a fleet of unidentified ships, ships with which the Cosians in the north had not had the forces to deal.	10
1	875	Many is the woman who has survived by dancing naked before conquerors in the hot ashes of a burning city, who, perhaps ostensibly lamenting, but inwardly thrilled, sensing the appropriateness and perfection of her imminent bondage, has put forth her fair limbs for the clasp of chains and her lovely ...	10
13	525	I turned about and, my feet slipping in the mud, my back burning from the blows, wet with blood, turned the raft.	10
17	289	Then, my cheek burning, even beneath the gag strap, I began to saw the leather against the wood.	10
17	291	I could feel the friction, the burning, on my face.	10
19	453	"The burning of the village, vengeance, their hatred for those of Ar," I suggested.	10
21	21	"Perhaps," I said, "when the rencers took you, after they had stripped and bound you, they permitted you to witness the burning of your barge?" She whimpered once.	10
26	180	"In many critical situations," I said, "such as the burning and sacking of cities, raids on caravans, and such, she, as she is a domestic animal, like the sleen and tarsk, is much more likely to survive, to be permitted to live, to be spared, than the free female.	10
29	129	The matter would have been somewhat different, of course, if it had been deeply and clearly imprinted in her flesh, say, high on the left thigh, just under the hip, with a burning iron.	10
31	449	I had done these things to her, of course, not only because I, personally, like most men, relate most powerfully, deliciously and rewardingly to women in the mode of nature, as master to slave, but because I thought this might prove to be in Ina's best interests, should the burning iron ever be pres...	10

Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	594	The women were then, outside the tavern, on the bridge of twenty lanterns, forced to witness the burning of their garments.	10
7	27	Marcus and I, and Phoebe, had watched the burning of the great gate for a time.	10
7	84	After the burning of the gates, of course, one need no longer concern oneself with ostraka and permits.	10
15	93	"I plan on burning the entire building," I said.	10
15	103	"You are not planning on burning down the Central Cylinder, are you?" he asked.	10
16	172	There had apparently been concerted action in the burning of the house of records, but that did not necessitate the existence of a "Brigade".	10
18	102	"This will quite possibly save me burning down the building".	10
18	503	"On the rack, and under the fiery irons and burning pincers, should such be my fate, I shall derive much comfort from it".	10
22	598	The threat, however, had been sufficient to speed her on her way, and had she not leaped up and departed with suitable dispatch I did not doubt but what her lovely face in an instant, flashing and burning scarlet, might have suffered the sting, and perhaps more than once, of that ready, harsh mascul...	10
25	438	"It was I who, in effect, brought the cruel, burning iron to your thigh, I who in effect had you marked, who saw to it that your lovely neck would be ringed with the indisputable, locked circlet of bondage, who had you, a noble free woman, reduced to no more than meaningless goods, merchandise to be...	10
28	88	Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood of their fath...	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	326	Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...	10
12	1028	Burning tears forced themselves from between my tightly pressed eyelids.	10
13	1139	"Are you not, too, a slave?" I asked, my eyes burning with tears.	10
24	342	I did not think they would be above pillaging and burning, but I would not have expected them to behave in this fashion.	10

Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	6	She looked about the room, frightened, tears burning in her eyes.	10
7	173	When it came time to return her to her cell she was muchly returned to normal, and the pain, though still there, as a burning when she put the soles of her feet down, was not excruciating.	10
7	178	Then, laughing, pursuing her, running behind her, taking turns, striking one calf and then the other, the other two joined in the sport, and she fled weeping before them, on burning feet, crying out in misery, in shame, frequently and muchly stung.	10
10	17	She looked up at him, tears burning in her eyes.	10
10	195	She stood, her eyes burning, tears streaming down her face.	10
11	306	What are these strange feelings, she wondered, which I am beginning to feel, these enticing, delightfully tormenting feelings? Will I be able to resist them? Will they take me over, will they conquer me, will they put a rope on my neck and drag me zealously, helplessly, eagerly, panting after them? ...	10
11	780	Let those of Earth denounce and castigate straw for burning when it is set afire.	10
16	700	These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash.	10
16	711	Ellen then lay there, on her stomach, by the ring, still grasping it, sobbing, in misery, her body rich with bright, burning stripes, a whipped slave.	10
19	14	"They are arresting, and burning, almost as though on whim.	10
20	1	Coffled Ellen, choking in the dust raised by the clawed feet of restless saddle tharlarion, stirring, grunting, snorting, coming and going, seemingly all about her, miserable in the heat, shutting her eyes against the dust and glare, the sun burning on her back, weeping, the tears mixing with the g...	10
27	115	Doubtless there were subconscious depths and mysteries here which eluded superficial explanations, which eluded the facile, at-hand, convenient, shallow categories of the ideologically conditioned understanding, which defied political mockeries of human nature, a reference to realities which lay dee...	10
27	1374	Are they not special? Were they not, would men bid upon them and buy them with such eagerness? A new slave, of course, might feel, at least at the beginning, what free women would like them to feel all the time, embarrassment, burning shame, acute mortification, and such.	10

Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	445	Animals, such as she, and others, were incapable of such things, just as they were incapable of building pens, making rooms light and dark, burning objects at a distance, and such.	10
19	75	The larl did not understand of course the menace of the power weapons, and their scope, so unlike single arrows, weapons which might have transformed him in a moment into a little more than a mound of burned meat, like a small mountain, smoking and bubbling, beneath a descending, gentle scattering o...	10
28	55	"It is strange," said Cabot, "but while it is so quiet here, elsewhere, amongst the darknesses separating the worlds, fleets may be locked in dire, fearsome war, a thousand vessels exploding and burning, casting about debris and crews, fleets maneuvering, calculating, firing, escaping, dying, withdr...	10
55	328	Have I not seen them, in burning cities, strip themselves, and kneel, and grovel, and belly and squirm, and kiss and lick fervently at the feet and legs of conquerors, begging to be spared, begging to live, begging mercy, begging desperately and with their whole heart to be granted the collar of a s...	10
64	3	For four days she had been unconscious, and had then awakened raving, in delirium, her body burning with fever.	10
68	26	They clutched it, hot and burning, and crammed it into their jaws.	10
69	107	The steps of the palace were gouged with flame, chips of stone showered aflight, exploding from the steps, dark lines of flame laced them, the very air was smoking and burning, and Lucullus and Crassus, and several others, those who could, fled in rout back to the shelter of the palace".	10
79	499	I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port Kar, having b...	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	91	"You are dismissed," I informed my pantherine associate, and he bowed, briefly, and hurried away, toward the area of Lord Nishida's still-burning pavilion.	10
18	368	Screams emanated from the burning hut.	10
19	229	Shortly, even before the third fire was burning, there was movement within the stable as I had hoped and several foes, concealed within, realizing their danger, and the greater danger of morning, rushed outward, to slip away before the entire area might be illuminated.	10
22	370	Indeed, when a city falls, amidst its burning and sacking, free women will often strip and collar themselves, to escape the sword.	10
27	50	Some smoke hung in the air, from the burning.	10
27	115	Part of the camp was even then burning.	10
38	506	The great frame in which the ship of Tersites had been formed suddenly collapsed in a shambles of burning timber.	10
40	11	There would be no boarding, no escaping of hundreds of men from a grounded, caught, foundering, sinking, burning ship, men to be cut down as they tried to elude the small boats and clamber to shore.	10
40	23	The enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	246	This was no simple riot, spontaneous and disorganized, as one protesting the burning of a shop, a scarcity in the markets.	10
3	377	I wondered if she knew that that ruse, feigning bondage, was not unprecedented amongst free women in straits, for example, in a burning city, being sacked, and such.	10
3	958	Then he drew on my leash and I followed him, and found myself brought into a small building, one of those few in which a lamp had been burning, visible through the window.	10
5	365	"We witnessed his burning," said another.	10
9	23	Some tharlarion oil from a lamp, like spread grease, was burning on the flooring.	10
16	118	The great ship, sails unfurled to the wind, rudder turned, moved to port, away from the derelict, and our burning galley.	10
16	194	I also heard a striking at the sides of the great ship, like a rain of wood, and smelled burning pitch.	10
16	197	And behind the catapult was a vat, filled, from the odor, with burning pitch.	10
19	120	The cracking noises of the angry, burning mountains, too, like thunder at one's ear, almost deafened one.	10
19	141	This, I take it, may have been a result of the stifling, burning air ascending to the high, cold sky, familiar to jacketed tarnsmen, where, condensing, it fell as a soft, washing rain.	10
20	177	It is thin, soft, and sensitive!" I was pleased to hear this, for the body of such a woman can become a burning tissue of awareness.	10
24	38	So, too, might a kaiila be hooded before being raced through the flames of a burning forest, in which arrested, it and its rider would perish.	10
25	18	A lantern which ceased burning would be noted and investigated.	10
37	1107	The common submission of a free woman, usually rendered in terror of her life, as amidst the flames of a burning city, is to kneel before the male, and lift her crossed wrists to him, her head bowed between her arms.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	627	Burning with shame, but yet, too, eager for food, I crawled to the scraps and, head down, without my hands, fed.	10
7	18	It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves.	10
7	105	Following my marking, still blindfolded, my thigh burning, I was returned to my cell, but now, by means of a belly chain and bracelets, my wrists were fastened behind me, closely, at the small of my back.	10
10	152	My hopes of acquiring a suitable master had been muchly dashed after the burning of the gambling house, and my translation, with that of my chain sisters, to the Tarsk Market.	10
22	172	It was like a sweet, burning drop of liquid fire, flavored with flower herbs and, detectably, tospit and larma.	10

Book 32. (9 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	53	It was not as though one seized them as they fled from buildings in a burning city, and, even there, sometimes one simply stripped them and released them, assessing them as less than collar¬ worthy.	10
39	161	Then the knife continued its rude work and Emerald and Hiza lay at men's feet, no different from other free women, perhaps more refined, gentler creatures, who might, say, have been driven from sacked, burning cities, snared on bridges by soaring tarnsmen, netted on outings, lured into taverns, seiz...	10
47	81	A free person will retain the fire maker, and the slave, who has usually arranged the materials for the fire, will tend it once it is burning.	10
52	116	I could hardly keep my eyes open, for burning tears, for the stinging of smoke in my eyes.	10
52	118	A beam, burning, dropped from the ceiling to my right.	10
52	175	It was still burning.	10
52	390	On the hill, behind us, the buildings were burning, and the stockade.	10
52	442	The delight of my instructresses, in regaling us with accounts of its effects, had to do largely with its administration to free women, who might sip it discreetly behind their veil in some assignation or tete-a-tete, in their rich robes of concealment, and later awaken naked and in chains, perhaps ...	10
52	498	He had rescued me from the burning stockade, at no little danger to his own life.	10

Book 33. (18 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama...	10
1	437	"Who knows how fire could fall from the sky? Let there be a rush of air, an uncanny cry, and a roof is burning.	10
6	43	"We have spared the holding of Temmu," said Tyrtaios, "from the rain of burning arrows, because of our love for our wayward, misguided servitor, the glorious, honorable Temmu".	10
9	101	But in moments their cries were behind us, as was the smoke rising from burning tents.	10
10	39	Several days ago we had begun to disrupt the supply lines of the enemy, striking at supply trains, frightening away draymen, dealing with guards, overturning and burning wagons, seizing stores, and discarding what we could not carry.	10
11	139	"In seeking rice, in the time of hunger," said Tajima, "it seems Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, was wise, in not burning and punishing villages, and slaying men and women who withheld rice".	10
32	60	I could not see the fire, for the sleeping loft, reachable at one end of the eating hall by a ladder, but I could hear it, and, shortly thereafter, began to feel the heat, and the burning of the air.	10
32	154	I feared the ceiling, the floor of the loft, would soon crash down, with a blanket of showering, burning planks.	10
33	4	And four others appeared, too, two from behind each side of the collapsed, burning inn, and one of each of these two held a bow.	10
33	50	Kazumitsu went to within a few feet of the burning inn, and, for several Ihn, sometimes moving about, looked into the raging debris.	10
40	111	I must be about burning a tent".	10
42	306	They are not just chaining the women who flee from burning cities.	10
42	330	Is the political agenda here so difficult to determine? Can one not sense what lies concealed behind the veils of rhetoric? Is it so difficult to detect what the advertisements are out to sell, under a hundred false labels? But faraway, and never wholly forgotten, for it lies in the blood, and genes...	10
44	99	Sometimes, wild and distraught, frantic, in a sacked, burning city, free women will even disguise themselves as slaves, that they may be spared.	10
44	242	The maw of the thing was then aligned with another bird and rider, and another burst of fire was emitted from what seemed the maw of the thing, and another rider and bird seemed to discolor the sky as though burning debris might have been cast suddenly on blue tiles.	10
47	102	"Was it you who fastened the collar on her neck?" "And pressed the burning iron into her thigh," said Tajima.	10
54	289	After the attack on the south camp and the siege works associated with it, I had circled about the mountain of the holding, burning hundreds of tents, blasting earthen ramparts, and pouring fire into better than a hundred trenches.	10
61	172	I seized up a large, thick, burning brand from the nearest fire, and held it to a tent, and then, to another tent, and another, until there were four tents afire.	10

Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	232	What was there to do but feel the pain? It was like a thousand tiny, burning daggers thrust into my scalp.	10
13	100	How helpless we were on Gor! How much here, on Gor, were we at the mercy of men, our masters! How cool and superior to us were the exalted, refined, proud, serene, aloof free women! How they despised us for our needs! But did they not know we were collared? Would they be different, stripped and chai...	10
19	28	Do free women scorn us for our needs? Do they despise us for our vulnerability, our helplessness? Let them then wear the collar and strive to resist the flames burning in their own bellies! And will they not be successful until, at last, overcome, they crawl to their master, they, too, begging, whim...	10
30	257	He then finished his dinner with several swigs from the bottle, the contents of which proved to be, judging by the apparent fire of its taste, and the apparently satisfactory burning in his mouth, some special paga.	10
33	591	The three beasts, now illuminated from the side by the fallen lantern, it inert but still burning, to our left, the flame oddly vertical, the lamp horizontal, shuffled a pace closer.	10
33	683	I watched, in horror, as the beast spread this oil like a fuse about the floor, and into the midst of crates and bales, which fuse, a moment later, took fire, and, ignited, coursed its way like a swift, burning snake through the stored wealth it would claim as its tinder.	10
49	96	Goreans, on the whole, seem to care for nature, for trees and green grass, for flowing brooks, and the blue sky, and, at the same time, seem to think little of the harsh selections of war, of long marches, of the clash of arms, of besieging, sacking, and burning cities.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	256	The searing brand had muchly stung, burning as it was applied and lifted, so routinely, so unmistakably and efficiently, but, in my weeping, there were mixed tears of joy.	10
11	6	The roofs are commonly flat, and equipped with stones, debris, and covered vessels of pitch which, uncovered and ignited, might be cast down toward the water, and, in places, leaders are found through which, suitably adjusted, burning oil might be directed with what, from the point of view of those ...	10
17	6	A judicious burning or destruction of bridges can also isolate portions of the city, which may trap, and deny retreat, to invasive, hostile forces.	10
22	163	The fire tray with its burning powder, and fumes, was held before me.	10
29	57	I recalled the miseries and tortures to which Addison Steele had brought me, the tunic of fire and the noxious fumes of burning powders.	10
33	41	I recalled what I had seen as we were returning to the city, those two, luminous, fiery disks, like eyes, burning in the darkness behind us, lifted over the scarcely disturbed, placid water.	10
33	410	He then straightened my body, shook my head, cruelly, roughly, burning my scalp with pain, and thrust my head under water.	10
33	539	You remember a tunic, the burning tunic, the tunic of fire, you remember the packets, the powders, and the fumes".	10
38	116	Another had him engaged in burning and raiding towns amongst the Farther Islands, west of Cos and Tyros.	10

Book 36. (19 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	52	Everything spoke of an attack, a ravaging, a hurried, ruthless looting and burning.	10
1	58	My eye roved the desolation, within and about the hut, the residue of carnage and burning.	10
8	23	"The very night we withdrew from the harbor of Sybaris," said Clitus, "an unconscionable event took place, a riot, a drunken mob, with torches, axes, and clubs, rushed blindly, meaninglessly, pointlessly, inexplicably, upon a large, well-known inn in Sybaris, looting it, tearing it to pieces, puttin...	10
13	167	We looked back at the still burning ships.	10
13	178	"It said," I said, "'Welcome to The Village of Flowing Gold, your ships are burning.	10
19	78	Given the looting and burning of the Inn of Kahlir in Sybaris, it did not seem wise for me to retain the Statercounter name, at least publicly.	10
20	43	"It became the scene of burning and looting, of slaughter".	10
26	18	It is a horrible death to be struck by, almost enveloped by, a descending, barrel-sized, clinging ball of burning pitch.	10
31	31	But no sooner had they freed the leaves of the gate and swung them inward than the brush, dried grass and straw which had been heaped up in the threshold was fiercely burning, creating a wall of fire behind which we could scarcely mark dark, moving figures.	10
36	160	"You have heard, I assume," I said, "of the hoax of The Village of Flowing Gold, the burning of corsair ships, and the near extermination of an entire force of raiders in a waterless, inhospitable region of Daphna".	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
43	141	Three catapults were burning.	10
43	147	I stood, for a time, looking back across the field, at the many burning tents.	10
44	89	"We saw no burning tents, no stormed redoubts, no impaled officers," said Thurnock.	10
49	97	"But what then of our project, our purpose and mission," said Clitus, "stopping the depredations of corsairs burning, slaughtering, and looting in the name of Bosk of Port Kar?" "I think that Tab and Sakim will return," I said.	10
53	34	Men with burning irons were thrusting them into the body of the island, while it, as if it would escape from the pain, was driving toward us.	10
53	35	I caught the scent of living, burning flesh.	10
62	112	"Should he have remained in Port Kar," asked Thurnock, "and permitted the continued burning of villages and the slaughter of hundreds?" "Intervention was imperative," said Clitus.	10
62	157	A pinch of burning oil can bring about the ruin of a warehouse, a brand of tinder the loss of a palace, a toppled candle the destruction of an impregnable fortress".	10