• Home
  • Contact

Results

Carrying

Book 1. (14 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 177 I shuddered, thinking of what might have happened if I had been carrying it in the pocket of my coat.
Details
10
2 6 There was a tapestry to the right, a well-woven depiction of some hunting scene, I took it, but fancifully done, the spear-carrying hunters mounted on birds of a sort and attacking an ugly animal that reminded me of a boar, except that it appeared to be too large, out of proportion to the hunters.
Details
10
3 215 He entered my apartment, carrying a metal rod about two feet long, with a leather loop attached.
Details
10
5 59 According to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discarding the former in the swamp co...
Details
10
5 83 "In the carrying baskets, but not as a warrior rides".
Details
10
6 154 Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.
Details
10
7 126 I shoved the log back and finally, carrying the filthy body soaked in its absurd garments, made my way to a ledge of green, dry land at the edge of the swamp.
Details
10
8 19 Now she, like all other members of the household of Marlenus, slave or free, would be subjected to the vengeance of the outraged citizens, citizens who had marched in the processions of the Ubar in the days of his glory, carrying flasks of Ka-la-na wine and sheaves of Sa-Tarna grain, singing his pra...
Details
10
9 51 It seemed we had little to fear, and we had passed several of the pasang stones that line the side of the highway without seeing anything more threatening than a line of peasants carrying brushwood on their backs, and a pair of hurrying Initiates.
Details
10
9 71 Then, carrying the chain, which was still attached to her ankle, she walked to a nearby tree, bent down, and looped the loose end of the chain around the trunk.
Details
10
11 67 In a few minutes she returned, carrying a small package.
Details
10
12 31 Before the tarn disk could begin its fall, the quarrel pierced it, carrying it, I would judge, some two hundred and fifty yards out into the river.
Details
10
13 1 Marlenus, Ubar of Ar I set my course for Ko-ro-ba, carrying in my saddle pack the trophy that was now, at least to me, worthless.
Details
10
14 12 Around his neck he wore the golden chain of the Ubar, carrying the medallionlike replica of the Home Stone of Ar.
Details
10

Book 2. (14 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 139 Then without speaking he went into his closet and emerged carrying a strongbox.
Details
10
1 185 Dismal, I left the apartment, carrying the manuscript which was subsequently published as Tarnsman of Gor.
Details
10
2 24 The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked.
Details
10
3 24 They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes, each carrying back some fluttering ribbon of flesh to the recesses of whatever dark cave the swarm had chosen for its home.
Details
10
3 35 The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the Warriors.
Details
10
6 179 Approaching across the meadow, ankle deep in the wet grass, were four warriors, helmeted and carrying spears and shields.
Details
10
12 21 I turned, the momentum of the yoke almost carrying me into the wall.
Details
10
22 187 Targo burst into the tent carrying a small bundle and approvingly noted the girl's posture.
Details
10
23 178 Some six shapes, gray, carrying spears and shields were moving rapidly in our direction.
Details
10
24 141 I motioned to the others to remain back and, carrying a shield and spear in addition to my sword, approached the rampart.
Details
10
25 65 The two guardsmen were fixing a carrying basket to the harness of a large brown-plumaged tarn.
Details
10
25 92 The carrying basket had been attached and the woman stood in the basket, the reins in her hands.
Details
10
25 124 Resourceful as she was, even carrying riches as she must be, she was still only a woman and, on Gor, even a silver mask needs the sword of a man to protect her.
Details
10
25 145 The carrying basket remained a moment on the roof and then, attached by its long ropes, interwoven with wire, it slid for a pace or two and lurched upward in the wake of the tarn.
Details
10

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

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 87 If he were not carrying a missile weapon it would make little difference.
Details
10
7 88 And if he had been carrying such a weapon why had he not slain me before? I smiled grimly.
Details
10
17 128 Then, satisfied that he was alone, he returned to the cave and emerged once more carrying what resembled a hollow pipe.
Details
10
17 147 "He may have been carrying on forbidden experiments for years," said Sarm.
Details
10
21 56 While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the...
Details
10
21 67 When there several Muls flanked him on either side, still singing, and holding their torches and carrying their vessels which now brimmed with a pale, milky substance, something like white, diluted honey.
Details
10
23 44 I turned my back on Vika of Treve and, carrying the torch, left the cavern.
Details
10
25 91 Thus carrying her I climbed the sword belt and soon had attained the first ring.
Details
10
25 92 Once in the shaft I rebuckled the belt about my waist and, still carrying Vika as before, began to climb.
Details
10
26 266 I smiled to myself as I thought of the small things on my old world that at such remoteness perhaps reenacted the ancient ceremony of the caves, the carrying of the bride over the threshold, perhaps as a prisoner, the tiny wedding bands, perhaps a small reminder of the primitive thongs that bound th...
Details
10
27 300 At this moment two Priest-Kings carrying syringes pressed through their brethren to approach the platform.
Details
10
28 247 Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below.
Details
10
32 28 Misk, carrying Sarm, and the other Priest-Kings and humans, including Vika and myself, made our way from the Power Plant and back toward the complex which had been the heart of Sarm's territory.
Details
10
34 77 "The word will spread," said my father, "and they will come in twos and threes from all corners of Gor, singing, each carrying a stone to add to the walls and cylinders of their city".
Details
10

Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 4 She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
Details
10
1 5 Her man, carrying a mattock, was not far behind.
Details
10
1 10 Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage.
Details
10
1 16 Awkwardly, carrying his sack, the peasant turned and stumbled on, casting occasional terrified glances over his shoulder.
Details
10
1 18 In the distance, to one side and the other, I could see other human beings, running, carrying burdens, driving animals with sticks, fleeing.
Details
10
2 3 Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them...
Details
10
5 21 I was startled by the sound of slave bells and saw a girl, stripped save for bells and collar, carrying a burden among the wagons.
Details
10
6 2 Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...
Details
10
7 46 I turned to see a stout man-at-arms step to the dais, carrying in his arms, folded in the furs of the scarlet larl, a girl.
Details
10
9 75 He insisted on carrying that box with him and, indeed, it rested beside his right knee at the table now.
Details
10
10 223 As soon as the hundreds of ponderous tharlarion had been marshaled into an order, a lance, carrying a fluttering pennon, dipped and there was a sudden signal on the tharlarion drums.
Details
10
12 134 Elizabeth and Aphris entered, carrying the kettle between them, which they sat on the brass and copper grating over the fire bowl in the wagon.
Details
10
19 203 In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...
Details
10
20 49 A guardsman had emerged, carrying a crossbow, framed in the light of the threshold at the entrance to the bridge from the building.
Details
10
21 71 "Why are you carrying a sword beneath your robe?" he asked.
Details
10
24 5 The wagon carrying Harold's tarn and its guard accompanied it.
Details
10
26 64 It was now clearly light in the east, and I could see the faces of men below me, some of them carrying rope ladders with metal hooks at the ends, others scaling ladders.
Details
10
26 73 Rather, to my astonishment, a gate of the compound itself opened and wary men-at-arms, their weapons ready, each carrying a cloth sack, emerged.
Details
10
26 142 Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold.
Details
10

Book 5. (24 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 17 Then free women, veiled and in Robes of Concealment, each carrying a jar or canister, approached the structure.
Details
10
1 44 At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it.
Details
10
2 14 A woman carrying a market basket moved to one side, watching him, that she might not touch him, holding a child to her.
Details
10
5 666 "It is used for fastening a carrying basket to hooks on certain tarn saddles".
Details
10
6 107 Caprus, soon after, carrying the game pieces and board, left also, but he made his exit through a door other than that which had been used by the slave and his guards, and Cernus.
Details
10
7 11 On the roof there were eight tarns, beside five of which there were carrying baskets attached to tarn harness.
Details
10
7 48 Some, for example, are little more than flat cradles for carrying planking and such; others are long and cylindrical, lined with verrskin, for transporting beverages and such; most heavy hauling, of course, is done by tharlarion wagon; a common sort of tarn basket, of the sort in which I found mysel...
Details
10
7 103 Cernus returned to his carrying basket, holding the small box heavily before him.
Details
10
7 113 "Hurry!" called the man with the Thief's scar, and those of the staff of the House, including even the tarnsmen, stood lined before the panel and received various goods which they placed in the carrying baskets.
Details
10
7 135 The man-at-arms shrugged and took the rifle, or crossbow as he thought of it, and surely the stock resembled that of a crossbow, and placed it in one of the carrying baskets.
Details
10
10 33 I saw Elizabeth there, in the hallway outside, carrying an armful of scrolls.
Details
10
12 95 Some tarns are bred primarily for strength and are used in transporting wares by carrying basket.
Details
10
14 109 I could buy a tarn, with carrying basket, easily and in five days, with Caprus and Elizabeth, be in the black Sardar, safe with Misk, Kusk, Al-Ka, Ba-Ta and my other friends.
Details
10
15 30 A girl in a tunic of white silk, gracefully, carrying a large pitcher of diluted Ka-la-na wine, approached our table from the rear, and climbed the stairs, delicately, and as though timidly, head down.
Details
10
16 30 When the lanterns on the bridges must be lit the people return home, singing, carrying small lamps, and give the night over to feasting and love.
Details
10
16 42 The Greens came in second, carrying three of the eleven races.
Details
10
16 59 The other two guards, who arrived carrying slave bracelets and slave leashes, the latter of light, gleaming chain, were Relius and Ho-Sorl.
Details
10
17 179 "Bring paga!" called the disguised guard, summoning a belled slave girl to him, one carrying a large vessel of paga, that drinks might be dispensed yet once again.
Details
10
17 374 "Don't look so disappointed," said a Red Silk Girl passing near her, carrying Ka-la-na.
Details
10
19 134 In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher...
Details
10
21 296 The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ...
Details
10
22 231 He stretched out his hand toward the bird and I lifted him, carrying him to the side of the inert, winged beast.
Details
10
22 367 "Look," I said to the crossbowman, indicating Taurentians, carrying crossbows, slipping into the crowd.
Details
10
24 41 Slave girls, as is not the case with free women, may go almost anywhere in the city, gathering information, carrying messages.
Details
10

Book 6. (20 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
5 5 Another girl, dark-haired, carrying a folded net over her left shoulder, said, "No, he will be mine".
Details
10
6 42 Among them ran slaves, carrying torches, that they might see to their work.
Details
10
6 203 The rafts, the bridges, I thought, the rafts! Carrying Telima in my arms I sped about the periphery of the rence island, meeting no one.
Details
10
7 37 The slaves who were loading the barges would then gather up each new slave, carrying him to the barges, adding him to the others.
Details
10
7 83 I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting.
Details
10
8 148 We listened to the shouts and cries, the clash of weapons, the screams, carrying to us over the calm waters of the marsh.
Details
10
8 246 And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge.
Details
10
8 257 She went, carrying the great bow, with its arrows.
Details
10
9 329 There were tears in her eyes as she extended her arms to me, and I took her into my arms and lifted her from her feet, turning and carrying her back to our quarters.
Details
10
9 330 As we walked, Thurnock following, carrying Thura, and Clitus then, Ula weeping in his arms, Midice put her head against my left shoulder, and I felt her tears through my tunic.
Details
10
11 34 I turned and, step by step, carrying the great table, advanced toward the large door leading to the hallway.
Details
10
11 371 Then Nigel, with lofty disdain and measured tread, carrying his helmet, departed the chamber.
Details
10
12 10 They were carrying something in a large, tied sack.
Details
10
13 451 And I walked up the steps, carrying the officer's sword.
Details
10
14 94 I could hear, moreover, their war trumpets, carrying from one ship to the other, signaling fleet movements.
Details
10
14 299 When the mast, with its sail fastened to its yard, had been set in the mast well, and stayed fore, aft and amidships, I climbed to the basket myself, carrying the glass of the builders.
Details
10
15 134 It had been on one side, a land side, of that last remaining fortress of Henrius Sevarius, that Lysias, Henrak, and others had emerged from a postern, carrying the heavy sack which they had hurled into the canal, that sack from which I had saved the boy.
Details
10
15 702 Then they turned and left the room, he still carrying the unsheathed sword.
Details
10
17 78 Accordingly I hoped the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros, seeing the sails, would think their new enemies were single-masted round ships, of which there are some types, and either misjudge their speeds or rush on them unwarily, finding out, too late, that they were plunging headlong toward swift, maneuve...
Details
10
18 220 Then, from one side, from the passageway, from the door to the kitchens, a number of other men came forth, carrying torches and steel.
Details
10

Book 7. (16 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
5 189 Some of the men deployed themselves about the ship; others, carrying their weapons, entered.
Details
10
8 11 I saw some men, too, carrying burdens, sacks and roped bundles of fagots.
Details
10
8 389 There I would be leashed with the others again, the burdens would be redistributed, I would take up my share, and, carrying my burden as a slave girl, on the head, balancing it with one hand, I and the others, under guard, would return to the compound.
Details
10
8 489 I knew then that men wanted me, the leashed animal carrying her burden, Elinor Brinton.
Details
10
8 496 I suddenly realized, climbing the ramps of Laura toward the compound, leashed, under guard, carrying a jar of wine on my head, balancing it with my right hand, among my sisters in bondage, breathing the fantastic air of Gor, that I was happy.
Details
10
11 798 The prevailing northern winds, carrying rain and moisture, had coated the northern sides of the high trees with vertical belts of moss, extending some twenty to thirty feet up the trunks.
Details
10
12 721 It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one.
Details
10
13 290 Then, moving swiftly through the darkness, I following, carrying what food I could, Ute fled our camp.
Details
10
13 409 I hated her! I threw the piece of binding fiber, which I had been carrying for the snare, which I had not set, into the brush.
Details
10
14 430 Too, of course, the capture of a free woman of the enemy is regarded as quite a coup, certainly much more so than carrying off a mere slave, unless perhaps the slave is a high slave.
Details
10
15 954 Sometimes the other girls would trip me when I was carrying burdens, or dirty the work which I had done, that I must do it over.
Details
10
15 1001 Slave girls staggered under the plunder, carrying it to the tents of the warriors.
Details
10
15 1199 I leaped up and, carrying the vessel, with a clash of slave bells, ran to serve him.
Details
10
15 1416 I, carrying the wine crater, rose to my feet and approached him.
Details
10
17 33 After four Ahn, Raf and Pron, running lightly, carrying snare rope, left the camp.
Details
10
17 106 They now arose in me with the regularity and power of tides, carrying me, willing or not, upon them.
Details
10

Book 8. (17 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 185 The two guards, helmeted, threw him to his feet, and half dragging him, half carrying him, their hands on his arms, brought him before us.
Details
10
2 689 Had they been able to see, they would have seen men returning to the Tesephone, with water kegs, and Thurnock and Rim returning, too, Thurnock carrying an object on his back, bulky but apparently not particularly heavy.
Details
10
3 37 That the Tesephone, a ram-ship, was engaging in commerce was unusual, but not particularly so, especially considering the cargo we were putatively interested in carrying.
Details
10
4 55 In moments, the girl approached, carrying her vessel of paga.
Details
10
6 273 She would look well, when not carrying paga, dancing in the sand.
Details
10
6 342 Meanwhile, portions of the crew not engaged in such labors, would be carrying stones from the shore and cutting saplings in the forest, to build the narrow rectangular wall which shields such camps.
Details
10
6 590 "The little she-sleen!" I observed Tina, carrying a pitcher of water to two of the men working at the side of the Tesephone.
Details
10
6 717 I noted that Sheera, carrying a bowl, standing nearby, did not seem much pleased.
Details
10
7 12 Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae.
Details
10
8 241 Half-carrying Arn I regained the darkness of the hut.
Details
10
13 165 How many men she would be carrying below decks, concealed, I had no idea.
Details
10
15 401 The left leg of each girl moved in unison, the lovely left ankle of each locked in the clasp of the ankle ring, lifting and carrying the chain that bound them.
Details
10
16 230 I had had my slaves, captured panther girls, bring it along, carrying it in our slave caravan.
Details
10
17 26 Further, they did not elect to impede themselves and their chain by carrying them.
Details
10
18 433 What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui...
Details
10
18 475 It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,...
Details
10
22 136 Behind her, nude, proud, erect, golden rings in her ears, carrying a pointed stick, an improvised spear, came blond Verna, tall and beautiful.
Details
10

Book 9. (17 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 562 They entered, carrying torches.
Details
10
2 311 Another Initiate, sleek, fat, his shaved head oiled, shining in the light of the candles, carrying a small golden vessel of thickened chrism went to each of the four men of Torvaldsland, making on their foreheads the sign of the Priest-Kings, the circle of eternity.
Details
10
2 324 The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean, to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled Initiates, those within the railing originally and now, too, those twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt stree...
Details
10
3 49 He turned away, and walked slowly, carrying his ax, toward one of the doors of the temple.
Details
10
3 201 And at night, of course, they would serve the feasts of their masters, carrying and filling the great horns, and delighting them with the softness of their bodies in the furs.
Details
10
3 410 We could hear, clearly, carrying over the water, the ringing of the great bar outside the temple.
Details
10
6 491 Though the hall of Ivar Forkbeard was built only of turf and stone, and though he himself was outlaw, he had met me at its door, after I had been bidden wait outside, in his finest garments of scarlet and gold, and carrying a bowl of water and a towel.
Details
10
6 557 A bondmaid, passing him, carrying mead, brushed him.
Details
10
8 232 To one of the wharves of the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar, silently, like the serpent of the sea it was, carrying two lanterns at its prow, came Black Sleen.
Details
10
8 234 We saw men running down the boards of the wharf, carrying lanterns.
Details
10
9 194 Pretty Ankles hurried past, carrying a great trencher of roast meat on her small shoulder.
Details
10
15 13 Several Kurii, not feeding, carrying shields, axes, moved to and fro.
Details
10
21 27 She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne...
Details
10
22 1 I Take Ship From the North Slave girls, naked, carrying burdens, loaded the ship of Ivar Forkbeard, the Hilda, moored at the wharf of the Thing-Fields.
Details
10
22 59 She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it.
Details
10
22 71 "Hurry," said the girl behind her, "or we will be beaten!" The girl moaned, and staggered to the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying her burden, to the deck of the ship.
Details
10
22 205 Following the last of the girls, carrying the last of my gear, came Leah, who stood, small, beside me.
Details
10

Book 10. (22 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 108 A fellow walked past me, carrying several vulos, alive, heads down, their feet tied together.
Details
10
2 109 He was followed by another fellow, carrying a basket of eggs.
Details
10
2 173 Bent over, carrying a grossly woven bag of kaiila-hair cloth, filled with accouterments, I set foot on the cracked boards of the Kurtzal dock.
Details
10
3 99 The boy then, carrying the chronometer, took it about the circle of the small fire, on the sand of the tent; before each of his kinsmen, he stopped; into the hands of each, he placed the chronometer.
Details
10
3 195 In what could not have been more than two or three Ehn, men, carrying torches, some of them lamps, emerged into the street.
Details
10
3 225 Looking up, I saw, hurrying toward us, from the courtyard, carrying a torch, the small water carrier I had encountered several times.
Details
10
3 238 "I am not carrying water, Master," he said.
Details
10
3 241 Then he left, bowing, carrying the torch.
Details
10
4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
Details
10
5 99 She had been carrying a large bag of churned verr milk on her head.
Details
10
5 560 I supposed she saw in him her "rich man," who would guarantee her a life in which she might be protected from the labors of the free woman of the Tahari, the pounding of grain with the heavy pestle, the weaving of cloth, the churning of milk in skin bags, the carrying of water, the herding of animal...
Details
10
5 714 I had once had a chance to buy her, but, like a fool, I had not done so, carrying her in chains to my ship, to be taken to my house.
Details
10
11 379 It is pleasant to see beautiful women worked, at the command of men, carrying burdens, given leather to polish, put to the cleaning of floors, forced to launder and sew, ordered to the markets, sent to the kitchen to cook, such things.
Details
10
11 386 In this fashion the water is still used, and, to some extent, it saves the inn boys from carrying as much water as they might otherwise do, from the wells of the oasis, to the inn's cistern.
Details
10
11 388 Hassan then, carrying his saddle and other belongings, went into the inn.
Details
10
11 487 Beneath us, in the streets, people were running, some carrying belongings.
Details
10
19 184 Hassan and I turned and, stumbling, carrying the water, fled into the desert.
Details
10
24 666 Soon, Vella closely before me, her wrists bound, the tether looped about her forearm, I entered one of the long, tiled halls, carrying one of the lamps.
Details
10
25 26 "Come with me!" Followed by many men, carrying lamps, he descended to the pits and dungeons and storage areas below the kasbah.
Details
10
25 493 A drunken soldier, carrying a bottle, brushed against us.
Details
10
26 31 In the march were hundreds of pack kaiila, many carrying water.
Details
10
26 518 She had come through the corridors from the audience chamber on her hands and knees, carrying the whip, head down, in her teeth, between two lines, moving with her, of slave girls, girls running, when she had crawled by them, to be again at the head of the line, to have again their lashing stroke, t...
Details
10

Book 11. (21 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 293 Carrying the shield on his left arm, carrying the spear lightly in his right hand, the helmet hanging, too, by its straps, from his right hand, the newcomer approached casually.
Details
10
2 715 Then, carrying the helmet by its straps in his left hand and the spear, lightly, in his right, he turned and began to stride again through the grass.
Details
10
2 726 Carrying his shield, the pouch and bota, some eight or nine feet behind him, on his left, I followed him.
Details
10
2 765 I now, naked and bound, carrying his shield, followed him who had been victorious.
Details
10
2 787 But, as I followed the man, trekking through the glorious grass, under the bright, marvelous moons, carrying his shield, literally heeling him, as might have an animal, his captive, nude and bound, I felt, paradoxically, a fantastic sense of freedom, of psychological liberation.
Details
10
2 1207 Over the man's large hand, closing my mouth, making me helpless, I watched the palanquin carrying the women past.
Details
10
3 229 Yesterday evening I had been forced to aid Eta in serving the men, carrying meat to them in my teeth; later I had moved among them, as they had summoned me, pouring them wine and paga.
Details
10
7 835 Behind her, in a few moments, carrying a torch, came two boys.
Details
10
7 937 One did walk within two or three yards of me, carrying a torch, but I lay very still.
Details
10
9 2318 In a few moments Radish returned, carrying a switch, which she placed in the hands of Sandal Thong.
Details
10
11 350 In them I saw a lovely dark-haired girl, naked, in a Turian collar, myself, followed by a beautiful woman, dark-haired, in a wisp of yellow silk, carrying a whip.
Details
10
12 115 This afternoon I had been upon the heights of the keep, carrying water to the men on the parapets.
Details
10
14 18 I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder.
Details
10
14 21 I rose and, carrying the vessel of paga, went to the door of the tavern, to step outside, to taste the air.
Details
10
14 73 Bran Loort, who had once been of Tabuk's Ford, carrying a low table, entered the tavern.
Details
10
14 217 Raiders had struck the companion caravan, acquiring its riches and carrying off the Lady Sabina, and others.
Details
10
20 184 But when the men had disembarked, carrying their sea bags and weapons, none had stopped to stand before me.
Details
10
20 197 A man walked by carrying a long pole, from which dangled dozens of the eels of Cos.
Details
10
20 361 He was approaching from down the wharf, carrying a sea bag, in the guise of a sailor.
Details
10
26 801 He would take her to the roof and tie her over the saddle of his tarn, carrying her away to Port Kar.
Details
10
27 129 He leaped to his feet and he and Thurnus, who was carrying his great staff, met, embracing, among the tables.
Details
10

Book 12. (12 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 234 "Now you will, in your humble way, contribute, if only by carrying stone and wood, to our cause".
Details
10
10 263 Men, carrying stone, placed it against the wall.
Details
10
13 146 "That is the time for carrying girls off".
Details
10
13 155 "What if Kadluk does not approve of my carrying off his daughter?" I asked.
Details
10
14 185 Imnak had warned me that Naartok, his rival, might try to kill me, to prevent my carrying Poalu off.
Details
10
15 493 She may always dread, if she wishes, that in the night men will come again for her, hooding her, and carrying her to a distant city, to be again put on the block of a steaming market, that once again her throat will be encircled by a steel collar and that she will kneel at the feet of a new master.
Details
10
23 168 "It was not after the snow sleen, or the food you were carrying," I said.
Details
10
23 236 "Perhaps you are carrying information it did not wish me to receive," I said.
Details
10
23 485 The man then put his weapons near the rear wall of the feasting house and walked, carrying the sack he had brought with him, to the clearing on the dirt floor.
Details
10
26 144 This difficult trail to follow, little more than a waft of scent in the air, carrying over the ice, had now, however, because of Audrey's scream, been supplemented with a clear auditory cue, one supplying both an approximate distance and location to the pursuing pack.
Details
10
29 13 A comely slave girl, naked, carrying a roped bag of wine flasks over her shoulder, knelt to one side as we passed.
Details
10
35 954 We, together, I carrying the girl, made our way up another flight of stairs.
Details
10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 368 One of the guards, carrying a long, wooden pole, thrust it down, into the water.
Details
10
11 266 Too, an agent, carrying the notes, might be dealt with in Schendi not with gold but steel".
Details
10
13 784 I grow weary of carrying bodies to the harbor".
Details
10
15 161 "I think there is little point in carrying the false ring to the Sardar," I said.
Details
10
32 45 Approaching us, in single file, led by Tende, came the slaves, carrying supplies.
Details
10
32 48 The blond-haired barbarian, carrying her burden, balancing it, steadying it with her two hands, looked at me.
Details
10
32 86 "Carrying the burden, as you are," I said, and, of course, no option had been permitted her, or the other slaves, "lifts and displays the line of your breasts nicely.
Details
10
36 2 We put down the canoe we were carrying past the hurtling cataract.
Details
10
49 14 We had also, incidentally, cut an extra paddle, to go with the extra paddle we were already carrying.
Details
10
49 15 The carrying of an extra paddle, or paddles, as I may have mentioned, is a not uncommon precaution on the river.
Details
10

Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
10 12 Prodicus gestured to the carrying slaves and they set their poles again through the rings and, in moments, they, carrying the box, preceded by Prodicus, had exited through an iron door.
Details
10
5 3 I left the line of kneeling male slaves and approached the table, carrying the vessel of wine Tela had given me.
Details
10
7 794 She took it from the bench in her teeth and, carrying it in her teeth, crawled to me.
Details
10
8 54 On its top it had two sets of rings, each set placed along an edge of the top, through which long carrying poles might be thrust.
Details
10
8 55 To one side, behind Gron, and to the back, stood four carrying slaves, large, brawny, collared men, two of whom held the poles, like spears, butt down, on the tiles.
Details
10
9 2 The slave box in which I was being transported to the market of Tima had been placed on the stones near a trough at which the carrying slaves, now chained, were being watered.
Details
10
13 912 I accompanied her, carrying the packages, chained by the neck to that stirrup in which was placed her left foot.
Details
10
21 49 She was crawling about, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying sticks in her mouth, feeding the slow fires in the flame ditch.
Details
10
21 395 When I turned about Taphris, again, had been set about her homely duties, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying the sticks in her mouth, of feeding the fires in the flame ditch.
Details
10
27 313 "He was looking for me, and he was carrying slave chains".
Details
10

Book 15. (13 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 35 "Remember," I said, "you are not now carrying a whip and keys, clad in black leather, in a position of power, men at your mercy".
Details
10
3 318 Some of them had apparently been carrying refugees.
Details
10
7 54 He was followed by a stately brunette in a brief tunic, collared, carrying a bundle on her head.
Details
10
14 39 "What do you want for her?" I asked the slaver on the platform, carrying his keys and whip.
Details
10
14 80 Lola rose to her feet and padded softly, barefoot, carrying the dishes, to the kitchen.
Details
10
23 56 "It is common, Kliomenes," said Policrates, "for the courier, he carrying the topaz, to cover his features in foreign holdings.
Details
10
23 84 Policrates gestured again, to a table to the side, and the fellow, carrying the girl, went to the table.
Details
10
28 225 A tall man, carrying an unmarked helmet, entered.
Details
10
30 395 "Earlier," said he, "you hesitated, if only briefly, in carrying out a command".
Details
10
30 405 She had clearly hesitated in carrying out a command.
Details
10
32 82 "The Tamira is carrying the signs and countersigns, as you know," said Kliomenes.
Details
10
33 88 "Had she been," I said, "it would have been discovered that she was carrying loot from the Flower of Siba.
Details
10
33 89 More importantly, she would doubtless be carrying papers linking her with Policrates, such papers as the signs and countersigns whereby the actions of the joint pirate fleets might be integrated and directed".
Details
10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 156 "He would have been carrying an object, so precious that it would have been in his hands alone".
Details
10
17 908 In a moment, carrying the short ladder, he had returned inside.
Details
10
18 480 I remembered her, again, from the restaurant, so long ago, in the candlelight, in the svelte, off-the-shoulder, white-sheath dress, so chic and lovely, carrying the tiny, silver-beaded purse.
Details
10
19 60 Then I crossed the threshold, carrying her.
Details
10
19 1170 She entered, carrying my gear, that which I had taken to the other house.
Details
10
20 227 They approached, beautiful and enslaved, carrying their trays, that they might serve us, their movements, graceful and feminine, measured to the permissions of their chains.
Details
10
20 230 The girls, carrying their trays, knelt before the table.
Details
10
21 482 "Doubtless I shall be much admired at the laundry troughs, or when shopping, running errands, or bearing burdens, when heeling you, when on your leash, when wearing your bracelets, when happily carrying flowers in my arms behind you at the festivals".
Details
10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 779 Carrying such weapons they might be mistaken for beasts of their race who now, for all practical purposes, were native to Gor, beasts descended from individuals perhaps long ago marooned or stranded on the planet.
Details
10
2 382 In a moment he re-emerged, carrying the boxlike translator which we had brought from the tarn complex.
Details
10
14 1026 "They are fond of carrying off women of the enemy to make their own slaves.
Details
10
19 7 In a moment it was following the line of withdrawing warriors, led by their war-party leader, he followed by the banner-bearer, carrying the crooklike, feathered staff, used in giving directions in battle, and then the others.
Details
10

Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 74 Cancega repeated, over and over, carrying the medicine wand, and dancing, "It is the tree".
Details
10
11 62 When Cuwignaka had come up to me he had been carrying an oblong object, wrapped in rawhide.
Details
10
23 6 It must be made swiftly enough for the carrying force of the small bow not to be dissipated; it must be made from a distance sufficient, given the spacing of the riders and the sound of the kaiila's paws, to cover the sound of the string.
Details
10
39 536 "Perhaps the rider had found the feather and was carrying it, when Wakanglisapa came to reclaim it".
Details
10
46 51 "Tonight," said Iwoso, "I will be with my people, safe!" "What are they carrying?" asked Hci.
Details
10
47 452 The man was carrying a bow and arrows.
Details
10
54 253 Then, with a smile, shouldering again the roll of kailiauk hide she was carrying, she leapt up, and sped on her way.
Details
10
54 261 I heard then the hiss of a switch and a girl, carrying two skins of water, cry out in pain.
Details
10

Book 19. (8 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 194 The door opened and the girl, carrying a tray, smiling, entered.
Details
10
8 278 I watched her naked on the block, under the tutelage of a whip-carrying trainer.
Details
10
8 320 In the corridors, in our movements through them, particularly in the upper levels, we would sometimes encounter slaves, usually employed in domestic tasks, such as running errands, carrying burdens, dusting or cleaning.
Details
10
10 32 I now understood why he, though right-handed, had been carrying the torch in his left hand.
Details
10
15 170 He was standing on boxes, carrying a box.
Details
10
16 326 It is, of course, a common way of carrying female slaves.
Details
10
25 145 We then, naked, braceleted together, carrying our slave tunics, followed him down the long aisle between the looms.
Details
10
30 493 He then took her by the upper arms and conducted her, half carrying her, to the table in the yard.
Details
10

Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 716 "It is no use, kind sirs," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, returning, carrying the two empty coin bowls.
Details
10
2 927 Better surely to be the silked love slave of a private master about whose feet one learns to curl lovingly than to spend long Ahn over tubs of scalding water, or, yoked, bent over, again and again, miserable, carrying water to mine slaves, or standing aching, seemingly endlessly, at a loom to which ...
Details
10
2 1056 "He knew I was carrying gold," I said.
Details
10
5 31 "What are you carrying?" she asked.
Details
10
6 41 Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab...
Details
10
9 539 He was followed by his fellows, carrying various articles taken from the brigands' camp.
Details
10
12 620 Lady Telitsia, now unburdened and relieved of the carrying straps, their marks still on her body, lay in the shade near the wheel of his wagon, gasping.
Details
10
13 151 Flaminius then urged his tharlarion slowly forward and I, his captive, afoot, on his chain, carrying the burden, followed him.
Details
10
15 9 "Do not let him escape!" "Have no fear! He is in the keeping of Boots Tarsk-Bit," called Boots, "actor, promoter, entrepreneur and friend to the noble citizens of Brundisium!" He then approached me, carrying manacles.
Details
10
16 903 Even the numerous naked slaves who were serving the tables and, as men wished them, the banqueters, stopped serving, and, carrying their vessels and trays, stood still, looking, too, to the stage.
Details
10
17 7 Do not approach!" I slipped the robes from my arm where I had been carrying them.
Details
10
18 252 I had then, late at night, carrying suitable articles in a folded slave sack, located the quarters of the Lady Yanina in the palace.
Details
10
20 89 I was certain that Belnar would have been carrying that which I sought.
Details
10

Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 245 It would doubtless be amusing could some of their former male acquaintances, or friends, perhaps even dates, see their former friends or acquaintances revealingly slave-clad on Gor, marked, collared, more shapely now as a result of diet and exercise, kneeling in certain fashions, carrying their bodi...
Details
10
3 283 Also, he had not objected to my riding with him, nor to carrying Feiqa.
Details
10
4 42 A woman climbed into it carrying cloths and water.
Details
10
4 54 A woman now descended from the wagon, carrying a small object.
Details
10
5 312 At the least, you would be likely to be punished severely for the pretensions of carrying it".
Details
10
6 219 "Hereafter," I said, "before you decide to apply for a loan or consider accepting an unusually generous gift, particularly while carrying an ax, at least while we are traveling together, I would appreciate it if you would take me into your confidence, if you would consult with me about it first".
Details
10
16 874 She might profit from this lesson, carrying it to her advantage into slavery with her.
Details
10
16 1047 In a few moments I was descending the outside steps of the Semnium, Feiqa heeling me, carrying my pack.
Details
10
16 1688 Hurtha was, after all, carrying a large ax.
Details
10
16 1700 "What am I to do?" "Is this that poem about fellows who sleep late," asked Gnieus, "that one you have been carrying on about for the past ten Ehn?" "Yes," said Hurtha.
Details
10
18 38 "Are you carrying valuables?" he whispered.
Details
10
19 417 "Carrying false papers," he said.
Details
10
19 475 It seemed clear to me now that, in asking if I was carrying valuables, he had tricked me into inadvertently betraying their hiding place, by the incipient movement of my hand toward the sheath.
Details
10
19 480 I was now convinced more than ever of their importance, but also of the danger of carrying them.
Details
10
21 28 "If they do bother us," said Hurtha, "it is my hope that they are carrying coins".
Details
10
22 4 "I have told them, time and time again," said the proprietor, testily, carrying the small lamp, "that they should keep the lid on.
Details
10
22 273 I then, bending down, carrying the lamp, led the way to the room.
Details
10
23 43 "Are you supposed to be carrying the Home Stone in your pouch?" "There could be trouble," I said.
Details
10
24 137 On the way, following Feiqa, hurrying ahead of us, we saw a female slave, stripped, carrying a heavy yoke, tied on her, supporting buckets of water.
Details
10
25 81 One fellow was carrying a large sack over his shoulder.
Details
10
25 1570 She, the Earth-girl slave, nude and collared, hard to see in the flickering reddish light, carrying the tray over her head, was making her way back among the tables and mats to the bar.
Details
10
26 554 "I have no intention, at least at present, of carrying you into bondage.
Details
10
26 558 "Accordingly I reserve the right of carrying you into bondage later, if I wish," I said.
Details
10
26 596 She was carrying only her whip and some keys.
Details
10
29 28 I watched a free woman hobble by, carrying a sack of suls on her back.
Details
10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 466 "Come, sluts," said he, doubtless to Aynur and Tula, carrying their bowls.
Details
10
11 675 Ina then, gracefully, drew the sheet away and, carrying it, withdrew from the floor.
Details
10
20 81 I did have an errand capsule, a capped, narrow leather cylinder, such as may be used for carrying notes, messages, and such, on a string about my neck, the string over my collar.
Details
10
22 54 "It is my understanding that six days ago, on the streets," he said, "you exhibited a momentary hesitancy in carrying out a capture".
Details
10
23 39 Such are used among the chains largely for carrying water.
Details
10
24 138 She apparently worked very hard to keep her position with this chain, carrying water, sometimes double bags, frequently and uncomplainingly, and, in the evening, zealously, and desperately, and with subtle and delicious skills, well pleasing the guards.
Details
10
24 617 With difficulty, carrying the water bags, in our chains, we made our way up the sandy slope.
Details
10
27 175 Surely that was preferable to wearing chains and carrying water in a large, damp skin bag, struggling against its bulging, shifting weight, bent over, going back and forth, back and forth, wading in sand to the ankles.
Details
10
27 307 In venturing out into the night they were not unaccustomed to carrying lanterns with them, or torches, and that for so simple a purpose as merely to see their way.
Details
10
28 27 This supplied latitudes sufficient to facilitate such tasks as the carrying and serving of water, and, at the same time, provided suitable lengths, if placed behind the back, or behind the neck, or looped about the neck, to confine their hands at their sides, or shoulders, or throat, so that they co...
Details
10

Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 396 I wondered if the driver had actually been carrying a Home Stone or if his assertion had been merely a trick to discourage predation.
Details
10
4 62 On the other hand, I certainly did not blame him for carrying a blade into the baths, particularly in a place such as this.
Details
10
5 361 She appeared through the swinging door, carrying a bowl in her chained hands, desperately moving toward me in short, careful, frightened steps.
Details
10
6 138 I had scarcely arranged my blankets and put the pack down for a pillow when I saw an attendant enter the room, carrying a stripped female, her hands tied behind her, over his shoulder, her head to the rear, in slave position.
Details
10
8 48 It is always used, of course, by draft tarns carrying tarn baskets.
Details
10
8 59 Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets.
Details
10
15 655 In a moment Lady Claudia had rejoined me, carrying a good bit of cloth.
Details
10
15 797 "It is true," he said, "for example, in climbing the rubble, carrying stones to workmen on the walls, in tending the wounded, and such.
Details
10
17 90 I saw other fellows carrying bundles of flaming sticks and tar on their pikes into a tower.
Details
10
18 179 I then sent forth men from the shield wall singly, and in squads, to ferry the women and children, one at a time, or the women carrying children in their arms, beneath the cover of their shields, to the walkway.
Details
10
21 372 "In doing what you did," he said, "in going barefoot, in baring your calves, in not having your hair shortened, in carrying gold and such, you arrogated to yourself considerable advantages over other women in Ar's Station".
Details
10
21 429 Life is not easy for the slave girl in the laundries or mills, or in the quarries or mines, carrying water.
Details
10
21 1040 Doubtless as they served their masters in the halls, roasting meat and carrying flagons of mead, they heard warriors regale young men with the tales of the women of their native land.
Details
10
24 579 "Thus, by such means as provocative dress and habiliments, baring even her calves, hoping then to be taken for a lowly, beautiful, meaningless maid, by even refusing to cut her hair on behalf of the city's needs, an act by means of which she hoped to appear more attractive to strong men, more attrac...
Details
10

Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 187 'Well do I remember you in the fee cart moving rapidly away, laughing, carrying my purse with you, waving the redemption papers, signed for freedom!' 'It was not I!' she cried.
Details
10
1 499 "Some weeks ago," said the man near me, "before the fall of Ar's Station, Borton, carrying dispatches for Artemidorus, stayed at an inn on the Vosk Road.
Details
10
1 1128 I supposed, however, that dozens of men, perhaps some carrying torches or flaming brands, or lanterns, would be wading about, slipping in the mud, parting reeds, and so on, swords drawn, at the bank of the Vosk, looking for me.
Details
10
3 132 Not only are they useful in the fields, drawing plows, hoeing, carrying water, and such, but they, too, as they can, are expected to serve the pleasures of their masters, just as would be slighter, more beautiful damsels.
Details
10
3 136 To be sure, what many of the urban slaves do not understand is that the peasants who buy in the rural markets are seldom looking for their sort of woman, the normal type of beautiful slave commonly sold in the urban markets, but rather for a different sort of woman, one who appeals more to their own...
Details
10
3 304 Surely he did not seriously think I was going to encumber myself with a pack, not descending the hill, not regaining my balance at its foot, not carrying it to the road.
Details
10
9 30 Nearby was a barge, one of the larger craft in our makeshift flotilla, carrying perhaps fifty men.
Details
10
19 1341 "Oh!" "Aii!" I said, suddenly, and, in the grip of my reflexes, in my spasmodic tumult, spun about, twisting, rolling in the sand, carrying her lightly, helplessly, with me, as though she might be a doll, and sand scattered about, and she, too, gasped, and then again we lay in the sand as we had bef...
Details
10
27 439 "Otherwise it would be much like carrying a tray of steaming, roasted viands into a yard of trained, but starved sleen".
Details
10
31 560 One of the great pleasures in the mastery, increasing the sense of its joy and power, is forcing the female to experience, at your will, and convenience, incredible pleasures, carrying her up and down, and through, a series of slave orgasms, making her more and more helpless, until she is irremediab...
Details
10
35 15 "You insist upon carrying your uniform with you?" I asked Labienus.
Details
10
45 67 Interestingly enough, such labors, too, given their meaning and what was involved in them, were extremely sexually charged for her, rather like the carrying out of a specific task commanded by a master, except on a more regular, pervasive basis.
Details
10
47 202 A hundred pieces of gold, for example, is a great deal of money to be carrying about, particularly standardized tarn disks.
Details
10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 205 "Make way!" A house marshal was approaching, carrying a baton, with which he touched folks and made a passage amongst them.
Details
10
3 97 The two usual modalities in which such folks work are to cut the strings of the wallet from the belt, carrying it away, or to slit the bottom of the wallet, allowing the contents to slip into their hand.
Details
10
8 356 The carrying of weapons, and even their possession, was now illegal for citizens of Ar, exceptions being made for guardsmen and such.
Details
10
8 750 "Do you dally in the carrying out of a command?" I asked.
Details
10
11 195 The two fellows carrying the chest put it down.
Details
10
15 9 This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as i...
Details
10
15 166 "What is going on?" I called to a fellow hurrying past us, carrying a lantern.
Details
10
17 177 Two of the fellows who had borne out the palanquin, their turbans and plumes now removed, appeared on stage, entering from stage right, the house left, each of them carrying a trestle.
Details
10
18 373 "In my youth," said the fellow, "I was a one-man army!" In Gorean theater armies are usually represented by a fellow carrying a banner behind an officer.
Details
10
18 574 In a moment or two, as he was not carrying a light, he had disappeared in the darkness.
Details
10
19 876 She was, after all, a relatively new slave, and had been a house slave, apparently primarily consigned to domestic duties, serving table and such, and was now a field slave, whose primary services would presumably lie in such labors as the carrying of water and the hoeing of suls.
Details
10
22 8 Two palanquins, too, set down, the carrying slaves about, were behind the theater, their curtains partly parted.
Details
10
24 313 That was true enough, of course, as Lavinia, in the garment resembling that of a state slave, and in what seemed to be a state collar, had been in contact several times with the slave, carrying verbal messages, and arranging the details of the putative assignation of this morning.
Details
10
24 340 "Your slave, it seems, has been carrying on a shameless affair with her".
Details
10
28 125 There was no light beneath the door, so whoever was outside was not carrying a lamp.
Details
10

Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
4 268 He was carrying something in his right hand, which I could see in the shadow, coils of something, the coils stretched out, distorted somewhat, like the silhouette itself.
Details
10
4 283 I suddenly then saw the lower loops of what he had been carrying.
Details
10
7 585 He turned, rather in irritation, it seemed, to regard those who had come upon us, she who was first amongst us, carrying a long, supple switch of leather, and her two assistants, both large women.
Details
10
8 607 How would three rows of thonged bells look, jingling on the left ankle of a bare-footed Sandra? Wouldn't Jean look well, in a common camisk, carrying a vessel of water, balanced with one hand on her head, as we had been trained to do? And surely Priscilla would be fetching in a tiny bit of yellow si...
Details
10
13 1036 "Bringing food to the prisoners, replenishing cisterns, emptying wastes buckets, carrying fresh straw, cleaning cells, that sort of thing.
Details
10
29 977 Those not of this city with such a caravan, in the carrying baskets, would be hooded.
Details
10
32 30 I think there was not one of us who would not then have rather, a thousand times over, been elsewhere, almost anywhere, in the heaviest of chains in the foulest of dungeons; pitching, sick, bound to our pallets, almost immobile, in the holds of stinking slave ships, covered with vermin; sweating in ...
Details
10
37 360 "Will you truly walk down this passage, carrying light?" asked the officer of Treve.
Details
10
41 17 I wanted to be there, where I might run through the streets in a tunic and collar, where I might drink water from the lower basins, where I might press through crowds, carrying a package or vessel upon my head, unable to defend myself against the touches of men, who might touch me as easily as one m...
Details
10
43 148 Then one came toward me, carrying the cloak which had originally been put about Aynur in the house of Appanius.
Details
10

Book 27. (25 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
2 164 How she hated that young woman for some reason, the blond-haired, simple, surely stupid-looking one, how could he be interested in her, and yet there was a certain something about her, in the fullness of her lush, painted lips, how frightful, she used make-up, the sweet width but suggested softness ...
Details
10
4 285 At this point Tutina, carrying a tray, in her brief silk, and anklet, followed by one of the two men who had been outside, entered the room.
Details
10
8 137 She was taught, even, how to bring sandals to a man, head down, on all fours, carrying them in her teeth.
Details
10
12 90 He had been carrying an object whose nature was not immediately clear to her.
Details
10
12 502 The black woman, with the chain collar and disk, who was awaiting her consignment to a black merchant, was now carrying the ewer.
Details
10
13 654 "This way, you can take some of the weight on your arms, if you wish, or use your head and spine, carrying your body erectly, gracefully.
Details
10
14 146 The bar continued to ring, the notes carrying throughout the house.
Details
10
17 783 "Aiiiiiii!" cried Ellen, and her long, wild cry, her shriek of relief, of gratitude, of helpless joy must have rung throughout the market, piercing it from end to end, from stall to stall, reverberating from the wall across the way, carrying even to the streets beyond.
Details
10
17 1097 She could feel wind whipping about at this height, and twice the fellow carrying her stopped in his climb when the wind was particularly fierce.
Details
10
18 107 Still, in empty cages, or in sparsely occupied cages, while a man stands watch, with a goad, you will have ample opportunity, during long hours, to prove your value as a work slave, removing masses of soiled straw, shoveling excrement, scraping and scrubbing floors, supplying and spreading bundles o...
Details
10
18 207 Let him see me as I now am, as a naked slave, carrying laundry through the streets of Ar! Would he be amused? Or would he want to put a chain on me? Let him see a lovely, proud slave! Let him see what he has lost! Then she laughed to herself.
Details
10
18 640 She did not know if she were carrying messages back to her master or not, as he never opened the tube in her presence.
Details
10
18 825 "See him, the peasant, there, he, the fourth in the line, those men carrying suls!" Ellen did indeed see the figure referred to by her companion, but noted little of interest, or little out of the ordinary.
Details
10
18 829 He was partly bent over, as were the others, carrying, tied on a frame, in a large, open, netlike sack, large and bulging, a considerable quantity of suls, these golden-skinned, suls, a common, tuberous Gorean vegetable.
Details
10
19 58 Portus rushed inward, to the loft office, and, in moments, carrying a heavy bundle over his shoulder, from which escaped the sounds of metal, emerged, seized up a tarn goad and, throwing open the latch to the huge cot, the general housing area, that mighty cage, which held several of the gigantic wi...
Details
10
19 157 "She is a low slave, a cheap slave," said Portus, "good only for the cleaning of cages, the scrubbing of floors, the carrying of water, the replenishing of straw, such things".
Details
10
19 383 Fel Doron, carrying a crate, passed Ellen.
Details
10
19 401 Fel Doron passed her again, this time carrying supplies from the kitchen, bread, biscuits, dried fruit, a bulging sack of meal, which supplies he placed in a nearby tarn basket.
Details
10
20 401 There were some cage wagons, perhaps carrying high slaves or women of political importance.
Details
10
20 1031 These, not unoften, ran the length of the march, relaying orders, carrying messages and such.
Details
10
22 359 * * * * Ellen, carrying the pitcher of wine, found the fellow who had called out to her earlier.
Details
10
25 199 A second girl, carrying a large, flat, wicker tray, brought wedges of bread, cut from flat, rounded loaves, and gave one to each slave.
Details
10
25 547 There seemed to be at least one attendant on the block, with the auctioneer, who, Ellen supposed, might upon occasion lend him assistance, perhaps posing a girl, or carrying one from the block who might be unable to walk, perhaps having succumbed to terror or having fainted.
Details
10
27 1391 I doubt that the naked slaves in the tiny, crooked shafts of silver mines, carrying water to miners, have an easy life, and so on.
Details
10
29 90 In a few Ehn the last wagon had passed, and the following guards, carrying lances, mounted on kaiila, as well.
Details
10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
10 190 It had two handles, one on each side, for ease of carrying.
Details
10
15 6 Into the camp area, half running, came Tula and Lana, each carrying a supple switch, formed of a narrow, green branch, dragging between them a double leashed, pathetic, gasping, stumbling figure.
Details
10
17 21 Then, in the confusion, several humans, screaming, and carrying their pointed sticks, slid into the defile, and others rushed forward, through the opening.
Details
10
21 95 A large Kur then entered the arena, carrying a length of rope, and crouched down, waiting.
Details
10
68 63 But from what are they running? And what were they carrying, with such care? They seemed to know me.
Details
10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 157 The round ship is designed for the carrying of cargo.
Details
10
4 108 "Doubtless you would look well, carrying water in such a device".
Details
10
7 114 The manner of carrying the slave is usually quite different.
Details
10
10 600 At this point the fellow who had left the pavilion a bit ago returned and, with him, was a burly fellow, not of the "strange men," carrying tools, who was, if not of the caste of metal workers, one at least, it seemed, who was familiar with certain aspects of their craft.
Details
10
14 131 "I have seen some carrying food," I said.
Details
10
18 182 I now saw one of the Pani emerging from the hut, carrying a head.
Details
10
38 4 All night men and slaves, by the light of torches, carrying burdens, had come and gone on this ramp, which led to a large now-opened port in the hull, far below the higher bulwarks.
Details
10
38 55 I had stopped one girl at the foot of the ramp, my finger to her shoulder, who was carrying a number of garments.
Details
10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
3 1089 ' "I was freed of the rack by the two young men, and, each holding an arm, they assisted me, half carrying me, for I could barely walk, back through the shop, and the private quarters, toward a rear entrance, from which one might approach the stable yard of what had been the Inn of Ragnar.
Details
10
3 1347 "It was done through agents," she said, "but at the behest of strange men, quiet men, sedate men, softly spoken men, men carrying unusual weapons, men with strange eyes".
Details
10
5 296 The yards above, carrying their large square sails, creaked, turning, as the sails took the rising wind, moving from a gray north.
Details
10
8 112 And others served here and there about the ship in yet other ways, ways similarly appropriate for slaves, carrying messages, running errands, bringing food and black wine, not paga, to the men, both those on deck and those on the ice below, being lowered on a stirrup rope, to be drawn from the side ...
Details
10
12 387 "Ho," called a voice from below, carrying upward, "noble Callias, do you do well?" "Yes," I called down.
Details
10
20 286 I had occasionally heard, even on the street outside a tavern's door, a girl cry out in relief and gratitude, the sound carrying from behind the leather curtain of an alcove itself.
Details
10
25 81 It was the swift-flighted, message-carrying Vulo, released, seeking its familiar cot and roost.
Details
10
26 111 It did seem clear that Lord Temmu had in mind carrying the war to the enemy.
Details
10
37 620 "I could slip half of this into my purse," I said, "while you two are carrying on, as it is said, dizzy on the heights of desire, wandering on the roads of delight, lost in the forests of rapture, drunk on the wines of love, swimming about in one another's eyes, and such.
Details
10

Book 31. (20 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 303 I was also aware that the chaining which I was carrying was being unlooped, and unwound, from my body.
Details
10
8 1506 What fellow would want her in his bracelets? There is little room between the tables and one, making one's way, usually slowly, for the crowding, taking orders, carrying platters, and such, often brushes against the patrons.
Details
10
8 1539 She was carrying a vessel of steaming kal-da.
Details
10
10 173 Had I not seen free women standing as though forlorn before tiny lakes of drainage water and mud at intersections, until a suitable male approached, alert to her seeming distress, to whom she granted the daring privilege of carrying her to safety on the other side of the street? I supposed he knew w...
Details
10
10 556 I then, carrying the suls, heeled my Mistress from the market.
Details
10
10 571 I followed behind her, carrying the suls.
Details
10
10 1117 Carrying the laundry, a rectangular bulk of it, steadying it on my head with two hands, I could not well have turned about and fled.
Details
10
10 1120 Both were carrying a peeled, supple branch.
Details
10
15 23 Why was I obeying the beast? Why was I moving, as I could, toward the market of Cestias? Would it not have been better to flee anywhere else? Why would he want me there, rather than somewhere else? Was it in the market, near the praetor's platform that he wished to apprehend me? Was I proceeding bli...
Details
10
27 102 Coming from one of the darker corridors to the vicinity of the Cave's opening, as in carrying a message, or provender, to the guards, I was sometimes dazzled, painfully so.
Details
10
27 167 A bit later the door at the far end of the room opened, and a large-handed, brawny fellow, bearded, with a leather cap, entered, carrying a lidless tool box by its triangular handle.
Details
10
27 342 "How annoying and contemptible I found you," she said, "laughing and smiling, so pretentiously suave, so fraudulently refined, so feignedly clever, so aristocratically chatting and gossiping, so pointlessly sparkling, so calling attention to yourself, so posing and posturing, so carrying on, and, to...
Details
10
30 144 At certain Ahn walking down certain corridors, as when carrying provender to the guards at the outer gate, given the accostings, hootings, stolen kisses, playful slaps, and such, it could be something of a gauntlet.
Details
10
38 26 It is the machine!" Approaching down the corridor, moving carefully, the stalk-like eyes rotating about, scanning, came the machine, accompanied by two shield-bearing, ax-carrying Kurii, Timarchos and Lysymachos.
Details
10
44 8 He then sounded the small bar in the background and, in a bit, another guard appeared, carrying one of the bulky, complex crossbows.
Details
10
46 16 I recalled that such a beast had been in the neighborhood of that long, dangerous, winding passageway traversed by Tiresias when he, carrying me, was hurrying to its end, where it opened onto the broad, rocky slope.
Details
10
46 24 Almost at the same time another pair of Kurii, for the guard is doubled after dark, joined them, these carrying spears.
Details
10
47 101 Desmond of Harfax was carrying a weapon into the audience chamber.
Details
10
49 189 One supposes then that he by now, ignorant of developments in the Voltai, and following his instructions, would, by means of various well-placed agents, be carrying Agamemnon's plans forward.
Details
10
49 222 I last saw him on foot, Chloe behind him, heeling him, carrying his pack.
Details
10

Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 400 From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
Details
10
9 296 A corollary of this manner of carrying an object is it immobilizes the hands and accentuates the figure, rather like the fastening of a girl's hands behind the back of her neck.
Details
10
9 311 The box I was carrying was not heavy.
Details
10
11 17 What slave has not scrubbed floors, naked, in shackles? How weary I was, in my place, carrying my burden! Surely it was not for this that I had been taught in the house to cook, clean, launder, and sew, to tie a tunic, to move with grace, to speak as a slave, to kneel, belly, lick, and kiss, to eat ...
Details
10
15 370 *** How mighty was the ship! How tiny we were on the dock, bearing our burdens, coming and going, serving the workmen, carrying supplies, and food and water, in the shadow of that curved, towering structure rearing above us.
Details
10
15 652 It was there, visible, locked, even when I might be up and about the camp, being summoned, fetching and carrying, cleaning, laundering, ironing, digging roots, picking berries, tidying, being about whatever duties might be given me.
Details
10
20 30 "Day after day," I said, "carrying water, back and forth, doing errands, running, fetching, cooking, serving, the kitchens, the shops, the ironing, the laundering, the sewing of rent tunics!" "What do you expect?" asked a slave.
Details
10
23 87 He was watching a line of men, on my level, climbing a boarding plank, carrying sacks.
Details
10
29 138 Three Panther Women, carrying their spears, approached.
Details
10
37 47 The female serving slave, too, is apparently useful in the affairs of her mistress, carrying messages, arranging meetings, standing watch, and so on.
Details
10
41 256 The flask was finished in one round, but I replenished the small metal cups more than once, pouring from the bottle, it suspended in its carrying net, slung on its strap about my shoulder.
Details
10
42 183 There was a stirring in the camp above, and so I turned about, and, carrying my now-rinsed gruel bowl, climbed up the slope to the camp.
Details
10
43 38 "You were carrying gold," said Genserich, "and doubtless expected to acquire more.
Details
10
43 547 "Dear guests," said Aeson, approaching us, carrying two small, black, metal pails.
Details
10
50 176 We noted a female slave passing, carrying, on her head, a basket, filled with damp male tunics.
Details
10
51 110 "It is rather like carrying a live ost in your hand," said Tyrtaios.
Details
10
53 54 That is what is meant, that knowing such things is dangerous, as dangerous as might be the carrying of a live ost in one's palm".
Details
10
54 200 He then turned about, and strode through the trees, and I hurried behind him, carrying the pack.
Details
10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
19 284 "Do you not see what has been done to me? Take me out of this terrible place! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen! A pen! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen for slaves, for slaves! Do you not know what is done with us here, what is expected of us, what we must do! Do you not understand the dirt, ...
Details
10
20 515 Shortly thereafter a fellow entered, in simple robes, yellow, carrying an oval box which would contain, I supposed, bones and shells.
Details
10
25 329 Tajima's tarn might have been aflight for an Ahn or more, I did not know, and it was carrying two.
Details
10
29 437 In a bit, Haruki returned, bearing, on its carrying ring, insulated with folds of cloth, a brazier, from which two handles protruded.
Details
10
30 250 "We will take turns carrying her," said Tajima.
Details
10
38 79 The palings were lifted up a foot, carrying with them the lashings near their points, and then bent outward.
Details
10
43 180 A man passed us carrying a cage of vulos.
Details
10
59 113 Lord Yamada said something to Katsutoshi, who left the shogun's side, and shortly returned, carrying an object, wrapped in cloth.
Details
10

Book 34. (15 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
6 187 "It could be death for a free woman to fall into the hands of an enemy, unsated, wild, hot with killing, thirsting for blood, carrying fire and sword into a village, town, or city.
Details
10
6 548 "No biscuit, no meat," he said to his fellow, who accompanied him, carrying a small pail.
Details
10
8 365 And Kurii have no objection to arming, and equipping, humans, provided we prove to be of service, transporting envoys and agents, carrying messages, probing defenses, obtaining rare materials, metals, chemicals, and such, scarce in the Kur worlds".
Details
10
15 134 "You will be off well before dawn," said the fellow not carrying me.
Details
10
15 144 "All is well," said the fellow carrying me.
Details
10
30 41 A paga girl, carrying a tray, regarded me.
Details
10
33 287 "In this way she is not slowed, or burdened, by carrying young.
Details
10
36 103 "The enemy, the three Kurii, carrying the captive female, Eve, must proceed more slowly, and more judiciously.
Details
10
38 44 The journey was much further than usual, my body ached, a kindly kajirus helped me, carrying the pail for much of the distance".
Details
10
41 55 How women might tremble when he entered the slave quarters, carrying his whip! The seventh bar had rung.
Details
10
53 112 The slave would be utilized to conduct the prisoner, relieving the free persons of this task, and be available for any sundry task that might be appropriate for her, fetching, carrying, keeping watch, running a message, or such.
Details
10
53 228 It is one thing for the Lady Bina to be expeditiously removed from the House of a Hundred Corridors under the very nose of the fool, Decius Albus, and quite another for a Kur female, fully grown and supposedly intelligent, to be seized and carried away as easily as a human slaver or raider might hoo...
Details
10
59 43 The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from its chute, and ...
Details
10
59 148 Then I cried out with fear, for one of the men was outside the chute, to the side, close, carrying one of the glowing irons.
Details
10
68 458 The disadvantage of carrying the coins visibly is that their obvious presence might encourage buffeting and theft, particularly where slaves are concerned.
Details
10

Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 145 Two men, tunicked, stepped to the side, and a third man, sturdy, with cropped hair, approached, robed in blue and yellow, carrying a whip.
Details
10
10 23 I saw Euphrosyne pass, carrying a tray to another table.
Details
10
30 61 "Wagers, Master?" asked a fellow with a red-and-yellow cap, and a red-and-yellow jacket, carrying papers and a mark board.
Details
10
32 78 So why then, when he returns, will he find you still here? Perhaps the slave thief is a rank amateur, hoping to find you unsecured, as slaves often are, or the keys conveniently about, in the apartment, perhaps in a drawer or chest, perhaps dangling just outside your reach? More likely, he was inter...
Details
10
33 56 He would need some way to bring Adraste, or Luta, the former Lady Julia Leta, to some point on the continental coast, prior to carrying her overland to Ar.
Details
10
38 238 I was gathering up the plate from which I fed her and the cup from which I gave her her wine, and was about to return these wares to the carrying tray, when she spoke to me.
Details
10
39 93 "What is the meaning of this? Let me go! Free me! What are you going to do? Stop! Stop!" One of the guards entered, one I recognized from the canal boat, carrying Dorna in his arms.
Details
10
42 44 "And let them be he bearing the flag, one carrying a torch, and one to speak!" Then, a moment later, the defender called out, "That is close enough.
Details
10

Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
11 95 Shortly thereafter, he re-emerged onto the floor, carrying the goblet, brimming with fluid, and approached my table, now followed by a short, smiling, thick-legged, coarse-featured fellow, in a silken, gold-embroidered house tunic.
Details
10
16 42 I noted some of the men in pairs, carrying heavy, drilled stones to the shore.
Details
10
35 39 "Thanks to Xanthos, and his fellows," said Aktis, "emissaries are contacting and enleaguing villages, carrying messages of pride and resolution, urging vigilance, preparedness, and a common defense".
Details
10
43 145 Silhouetted against the light I could make out numbers of small figures rushing about, striking tents, carrying water.
Details
10
44 36 A citizen passed us on the narrow parapet, carrying a basket filled with chips of wood, minor kindling, fuel for braziers set intermittently along the parapet, from which protruded the handles of irons.
Details
10
48 172 Thrasymedes then took his leave, carrying the broken lyre, wrapped within his robe.
Details
10
51 179 Hardly had Sakim said this than the oar drums on the corsair ships began to sound, the reverberations carrying over the water.
Details
10
51 188 We could still hear the oar drums of the corsair ships carrying over the water.
Details
10
58 231 I expect she will do nicely, carrying water and hoeing in the fields shackled and naked and spending her nights chained by the neck to a floor ring in Aktis' rebuilt hut".
Details
10
60 14 Who were we, really? What did we want? What did we know? Did we have a role in these dark games? Might we not have something to sell the governor? Information? Silence? "There are six more, hooded, farther away," said Clitus, "those fellows carrying amphorae".
Details
10