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Clouds

Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	131	From the back of Nar I could see the marsh, with its reeds and clouds of tiny flying insects below.	10
7	201	"If you had been a true warrior," she said, "you would have taken me on the back of your tarn, above the clouds, even before we had passed the outermost ramparts of Ar, and you would have thrown my robes to the streets below to show my people what had been the fate of the daughter of their Ubar".	10
19	168	Suddenly there was a sound like thunder and a great shadow was cast across the roof of the cylinder, as if the sun had been obscured by clouds.	10
19	253	"It seems I belong to you, bold Tarnsman," she said, "What are you going to do with me?" In answer, I hauled on the one-strap, and the great bird rose into the air, higher and higher, even into the clouds, and she cried to me, "Let it be now, Tarl," and even before we had passed the outermost rampar...	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	12	As I tore the thing from my leg, glad that the sting had not been that of the venomous ost, the three hurtling moons of Gor broke from the dark cover of the clouds.	10
4	42	Black, scudding clouds again obscured the three moons of Gor, and the wind began to rise.	10
5	30	The clouds had dissipated.	10
15	153	I watched the clouds scudding across the darkening sky, listened to the wind whistling among those lonely ridges.	10
20	37	I had only reached the shelter of a line of trees when I saw, some thousand yards behind me, descending on the Compound of the Mines, like clouds of wasps, the tarnsmen of Tharna.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	61	My limbs shaking, clouds of yellow and red fire moving in tangled afterimages across my field of vision in the darkness, I struggled to my feet.	10
29	11	Clouds of particles from this destruction hung in the air, gray under the energy bulbs.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	41	Even the autumn grass itself bent and shook in brown tides toward Turia, shimmering in the sun like a tawny surf beneath the fleeing clouds above; it was as though the unseen wind itself, frantic volumes and motions of simple air, too desired its sanctuary behind the high walls of the far city.	10
21	204	In a few days, their recreations complete, I expected Ha-Keel would weigh up his gold, marshal his men and withdraw through the clouds from the city.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	148	Clouds like drifting fogs, radiant with the golden sunlight, passed about it.	10
7	1	The Ship I could see the black disk now, moving swiftly, but not at great altitude, passing among the night clouds, under the three moons of Gor.	10
22	295	The sky was a clear blue, dotted by clouds.	10
22	527	The crowd's protest of fury must have torn its way to the very clouds in the calm, blue sky.	10
24	489	Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	144	The arrow seemed lost, as though among the clouds, and so far was it that it seemed vanished in its falling.	10
17	94	Clouds scudded across the sky.	10
17	187	Overhead the white clouds swept past, like white, leaping tabuk fleeing from the jaws of the black-maned larl.	10

Book 7. (15 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	238	There were some white clouds scudding across the sky.	10
6	51	The air was bright and clear, the grass green, the sky a full blue with bright, white clouds.	10
7	85	Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,...	10
7	349	Knowing no English themselves, they had no choice but to teach me a living language, in life, as practical and concrete as a tool, as expressive and beautiful as flowers and clouds.	10
8	495	It was true that I had never felt as healthy in my life as I did then, nor had the air seemed as clear and pure, the sky so blue, the clouds so sharp and white.	10
8	525	There was no penthouse here, no Maserati, no wealth, no mighty buildings, no roar and drone of engines, no scream of planes, no clouds of choking smoke.	10
8	526	There was only the laughter of the girls, the bubbling of the stream, the work, the blue sky and white clouds, the wind and the bending grass, clean air and, somewhere, the call of a tiny horned gim, the tiny purplish owl-like bird.	10
11	1096	The element of the tarnsman is not the green glades, and the branches; it is the clouds, the saddle and the sky; his steed is the tarn, his field of battle, strewn with light and wind, higher than mountains, deeper than the sea, is the very sky itself.	10
12	428	The sky was bright and blue, and the white clouds scudded swiftly by.	10
12	724	If he is a brutal tarnsman, he may take her rudely, should he wish, above the clouds, above her own city, before even his tarn has left its walls.	10
13	633	I could see little but the sky, and the clouds.	10
13	719	I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...	10
13	905	It was very blue, and there were white clouds.	10
15	684	The sky was very blue, the clouds were white.	10
18	82	There was from the broken cover of clouds, like a bolt of dark, beating lightning, the thunder of the wings of a tarn.	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	35	They will sometimes stand and watch clouds.	10
15	722	I could detect dim, whitish clouds overhead.	10
18	134	There were swift, white clouds in the sky.	10
18	430	Clouds, like tarns from the north, swept in some stratospheric wind, were moving southward.	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...	10
21	247	The moons broke from the cover of the clouds.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	4	It was not easy to see, for the clouds of incense hung heavy in the air.	10
3	3	I strained my eyes to see through the clouds of incense hanging in the temple.	10
4	108	The helmsman studies the sky and the waters ahead of the serpent; beneath clouds there is commonly wind; and he avoids, moving a point or more to port or starboard, areas where there is little wave activity, for they betoken spots in which the serpent might, for a time, find itself becalmed.	10
17	47	Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator.	10
22	280	There were now white clouds in it.	10
22	284	Somewhere, above that placid sky with its swift, white clouds, closer now, were Kurii.	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1	I Become the Guest of Hassan the Bandit I did not sleep as well as I might have that night, for, from time to time, clouds of riders, with bows and lances, swept through the streets of Nine Wells, returning from one sortie into the desert or another.	10
10	33	Following such rains great clouds of sand flies appear, wakened from dormancy.	10
11	32	I had, at first, welcomed the clouds, and thrown back my burnoose to feel the swift, fierce rain pelt my face.	10
11	66	The sun itself, for more than four Ehn, was darkened, as the great clouds moved over us.	10
11	72	In less than four Ahn, twittering, fluttering, small, tawny, sharp-billed, following the black clouds, came flights of zadits.	10
13	22	Scarcely had Hassan and I, clad in the garments of guards, astride kaiila taken from the stables of Tarna's kasbah, emerged from the fortress's gate than, on the path to Red Rock, clouds of riders had swept before us.	10
23	124	One might, if one has the men, use clouds of archers and slingers to hold back the enemy.	10
26	1199	I lifted my head to the sky, wide and blue, with no clouds.	10

Book 11. (17 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	69	My chin was forced up; I saw the bright sky, blue with its startlingly white clouds.	10
1	97	I saw nothing but the grass, it moving in the soft, unhurried wind, the distant horizon, the unusually white clouds and blue sky.	10
1	138	The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff...	10
2	427	The clouds shifted in the blue sky.	10
9	1995	I looked upward, and saw dark clouds in the sky, racing across the faces of the moons.	10
9	2084	The clouds gathered further in the sky, and I smelled moisture.	10
9	2436	The billowing, scudding clouds were swift in the night.	10
16	173	The ship on which I was carried was the round ship, or cargo ship, Clouds of Telnus, registered in Cos, but with shipping papers clearing it for the waters of Schendi.	10
16	178	The Clouds of Telnus was said to be a medium-class ship.	10
16	202	She was auburn-haired, and, like all the slave girls on the Clouds of Telnus, whether cage girls or below-deck girls, stripped; girls are not permitted clothing on a slave ship.	10
17	22	"What girls here," asked one of the men, who seemed imposing, in helmet and cloak, with four fellows, of the man with the lamp, a short, fat fellow in the merchants' white and gold, "are from the Clouds of Telnus?" "None, of course, Noble Sir," said the merchant.	10
17	31	"What girls here," he asked, "are from the Clouds of Telnus?" The fat man shook.	10
17	40	"Were you two from the Clouds of Telnus?" asked the tall man.	10
17	55	It was my hope that none on board the Clouds of Telnus had carried the pox.	10
22	6	It was intensely blue, and the clouds were so white it almost hurt my eyes to look upon them.	10
22	139	When the Clouds of Telnus had been taken I had been locked below decks, with other slave girls.	10
26	433	I looked outside, at the clouds, the blue sky of the late afternoon.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	589	They follow the shore of Thassa north, cross Ax Glacier here, like dark clouds on the ice, then continue to follow the shore north here, until they then turn eastward into the tundra of the polar basin, for their summer grazing.	10
11	303	There was nothing in sight, save clouds.	10
11	387	I would wait for them in the clouds.	10
11	391	Two had been foolish enough to follow me into the clouds.	10
26	18	I sensed Imnak turning about, and then again he was at the tabuk-horn uprights at the sled, glimpsed momentarily in a break in the clouds.	10
26	74	I had not seen Karjuk when the clouds had parted for a moment earlier.	10
37	3	Others, too, turned about, the long sleds, like clouds, on the bleak ice.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	238	There were white clouds in the sky, and the sky was very blue.	10
47	41	Scarcely had he spoken but the skies opened up and, from the midst of the black, swirling clouds, while lightning cracked and shattered across the sky and branches lashed back and forth wildly in the wind, the driven, darkly silver sheets of a tropical rain storm descended upon us.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	102	Beyond that door lay not the bricks, the gutters, the dingy air, the hurrying of traffic, the triviality and misery, which had previously lain outside it, but now, as the door opened, we saw open fields, vast and green, and a sky that was gloriously blue, studded with scudding clouds.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	11	I could see blue sky and clouds.	10
13	35	I saw the blue sky and clouds.	10
15	20	I could see the blue sky, and the white clouds.	10
17	144	In the implacable decisions of nature, decisions at one with a world's journey about a star, at one with the turnings of a planet, with the alternance of day and night, and the successions of seasons, at one with storms and sunlight, with clouds and grass, with rain and tides, with manifold forms of...	10
20	1789	On the other hand, interestingly enough, the Gorean's fondness and tenderness for terrain, and for grass, and winds and clouds, and flowers and small animals, does not extend, or at least not obviously, or not professedly, to one particular form of animal—a particularly delicious form of anim...	10

Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	970	The sun has emerged from clouds.	10
9	16	The hills, the grass, the arching blue sky, the white clouds, seemed much the same on both sides of the wands.	10
17	580	"Even if they think they are all urts, or lizards or clouds?" "I gather so," I said, "and in such a society the one who does not think that he is an urt, or, say, a lizard or a cloud, would be accounted insane".	10
19	109	"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu".	10
19	112	"It is for Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, that I have brought the red-haired girl into the Barrens.	10
19	248	"She was meant for Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds," said Grunt.	10
19	442	This it might have mutely symbolized, if only to the grass of the Barrens, and to the winds and clouds, and perhaps to those of the Medicine World, should they exist, who might have looked down upon it, and pondered it.	10

Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	333	In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles Dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection.	10
2	300	Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, civil chief of the Isbu, greeted Watonka, One-Who-Is-Rich, on foot, welcoming him officially to the Isbu camp.	10
25	134	In it were billowy white clouds.	10
29	65	Then great wings smote the air above us, the air tearing at our clothes, raising dust in affrighted clouds on the field.	10
35	87	The moon raced through the clouds.	10
36	38	I could see the sky through the opening, and the clouds.	10
37	465	It seemed empty, save for the high, billowing clouds.	10
37	498	The sky seemed placid, the clouds slowly changing their shapes in the air currents.	10
41	36	White clouds scudded across the sky.	10
41	102	"Do you not see how they fly through the sky?" "It is the clouds moving in the wind," said Hci, "going the other way.	10
42	108	Only the clouds, the sky.	10
43	496	I looked up at the glorious sky, with its moons and clouds.	10
47	145	Through clouds, such bright, lofty fogs, did we ascend.	10
47	146	Below us, like birds springing wondrously from the snow, tarns and their riders emerged from the clouds, following us.	10
47	178	He was released, falling through the clouds below us, disappearing.	10
47	180	Beneath those placid, fleecy clouds I had little doubt there was bloody war in the air.	10
47	181	The fourth rider made good his escape, descending through the clouds, disappearing.	10
47	182	I swung the tarn about, for a moment, over the clouds, and then entered them, several hundred feet from where the foe had disappeared.	10
47	184	I took the tarn below the clouds and there again made visual contact with the foe.	10
47	229	As soon as I had entered the clouds I whipped out my small bow and put an arrow to the string, and held two in the bow hand, and, reseizing the reins, brought the tarn about, and yet it seemed it needed no guidance.	10
47	250	We ascended again to the clouds.	10
47	262	I then took the tarn to a place in the clouds which I judged to be above the Kinyanpi formation.	10
47	294	The body would seem to have fallen from the sky, from the clouds, mysteriously, inexplicably, like a meteor amongst them, penetrating their formation, thence descending to its encounter with the grasslands below.	10
47	295	I hovered, high in the clouds, over where the Kinyanpi circled below.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	90	I had been afield for only an Ahn or so when the winds had risen and clouds had obscured the moons.	10
36	1687	Then I melted to him again, soft and lost, held, in his arms, and then he swept me up again, will-less, his collared slave, like a swirling leaf high into the clouds of ecstasy, and love.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	330	Chino kicks the Comic Father and then looks away, studying clouds.	10
6	1178	"Surely it is only right that I should let it fly away, back into the clouds and winds, perhaps even back to Anango".	10
12	94	It is one thing to be beaten by someone; it is another thing to have it done roundly, you sweating and fuming, while the other fellow, as far as you can tell, is spending most of his time, except for an occasional instant spent sizing up the board and moving, in considering the ambient trivia of the...	10
14	322	It reverberated in the area, striking against the nearby cliffs, the stones and outcroppings, rebounding, resounding, again and again in that natural bowl, torturing the ear, tearing and shocking the air, seeming as though it must affright and terrify even the clouds themselves, which seemed to flee...	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	44	Smoke, like stifling clouds, did not block the sun, turning the day to choking dusk.	10
20	99	Yes, I thought, it is all there, the habitats of culture, the intricate poetries of stone, the incredible places where, their heads among clouds, common bricks have been taught to speak and sing, the meanings uttered scarcely understood by those who walk amongst them; yes, it is all there, in them, ...	10
26	1792	It seemed to soar to the clouds.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	304	There must therefore, somehow, be some light, perhaps a tiny bit of light from the moons, or even the stars, filtered through the cover of clouds.	10

Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	355	Even more sophisticated Goreans, however, if not of the Scribes or Builders, have been noted to speculate that lightning is the result of clouds clashing together in the sky, showering sparks, and such.	10
9	9	There were, in this vicinity, clouds of tiny tents and shelters, some of them belonging to soldiers, most to civilians, sutlers, merchants, slavers, and such.	10
16	512	The clouds would be indifferent to the blood that would be spilt beneath, dark in their racing shadows.	10
17	735	"Would you not rather die in the sunlight," I asked, "in the fresh air, under the blue sky, the clouds, in sight of the harbor, the river?" "I would rather die in sight of the walls of Ar," he said, "that I might spit upon them".	10
24	228	There were clouds of small sails about us now, as many small boats had come out to meet us.	10

Book 24. (17 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	615	The dust rose like clouds, stirred by the heavy, clawed paws of the tharlarion.	10
17	188	"Clouds," said a fellow.	10
17	189	"Such dark clouds," said a man.	10
17	190	"Seldom have I seen clouds so dark," said another.	10
17	202	"Such vast clouds, so black," said a man.	10
17	204	"The sound comes from the clouds," said a man.	10
17	221	"The clouds come closer!" cried a fellow.	10
17	226	"Beware!" "The clouds approach more closely!" cried a man.	10
17	227	"But what are the clouds?" cried a fellow.	10
18	39	I had, however, from the rence, seen the clouds once more approaching from the west, even vaster, even darker.	10
18	43	Rencers sometimes even leave their huts during the final waves, racing overhead like scattered clouds.	10
18	44	As soon as I had seen the first edge of the new darkness, those new clouds, like a black rising moon, emerge on the horizon, over the rence, to the west, I had taken the rence tube, already prepared, and returned to the vicinity of the men of Ar.	10
18	45	None here, on the bar, it seemed, was yet aware of the new clouds, rising in the west.	10
18	278	Standing in the rence, in the light of the moons, intermittently darkened by the living clouds passing overhead, I removed the rusted manacles, discarding them, with the key, in the marsh.	10
19	809	It opened its wings to try to climb again, perhaps some fifty feet or so, above the marsh, and did climb, yard by yard, as though it would ascend to the clouds, but then it fell slowly, its wings beating, toward the marsh.	10
19	1533	"Take me there, as though in your arms, higher and higher, to dizzying heights of terror, to the clouds, the winds, the sun and beyond, I dependent on you!" I was silent.	10
45	114	There are the equations of winds and tides, the silent turning of worlds on their axes, the movements of clouds, the descent of rain, the turbulent dynamics of gases, the freezing points of liquids, the melting temperatures of copper and iron, the migrations of birds, the habits of sleen.	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	348	Following them were two more, who shook censers, these emitting clouds of incense.	10
23	194	"The substitution was made quite early in the performance, when I looked up at the clouds, speculating that they would be unlikely to bother raining on such an unworthy stone.	10
23	336	"After all, that will give us something to do in leisure moments, fighting off armies from all directions, fending away clouds of mercenaries, battling bands of brigands, attempting to turn back innumerable waves of eager, lustful ruffians, and such".	10

Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	623	I could see nothing, only the sky, the clouds.	10
9	157	I could see nothing much different from before, the mountains, the ledge, the clouds.	10
10	146	I gasped; hundreds of yards ahead of me, where the trail led, past several barred cells, and approached by a narrow, ascending trail, there was a startling, lofty, sheer edifice that seemed to rear up from the mountains itself, its towers lost among clouds.	10
10	427	Above the platform the walls of the citadel reared up, toward the clouds.	10
11	7	In it billowing clouds scudded like speeding fleets.	10
11	1377	"They float on clouds, as other ships on water".	10
19	24	Once or twice one or another of these mighty creatures put back its head and screamed to the clouds.	10
19	351	The gaunt figure now lifted his grasping, crooked hands to the clouds.	10
24	107	It was a strange feeling, being where I was, where it seemed so quiet, the sky so blue and calm, the clouds moving overhead, unhurried, knowing that not far away some terrible action might be ensuant, perhaps at the pens.	10
24	943	The sky was dark with clouds.	10
40	24	Fog swirled about it, like smoke, or clouds, wind-twisted, about a dark rock.	10

Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	10	She could see the sky, and occasional clouds, and, at night, the darkness and some stars, through the window, which views, though reassuring, were not particularly informative.	10
11	567	Its rhythms are less the periodic turbulences of rush hours, the blinkings of colored, regulatory lights, carefully timed, the staccato clickings and hammerings, the stops and starts, of the assembly line, than those of tides, and winds, and clouds and rain, the appearance and disappearance of stars...	10
13	5	Above her there raced white clouds in a bright blue sky.	10
17	793	She looked up at the sky, and the clouds.	10
17	857	It was flames and clouds, forces of nature, winds and storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, an entirety of experience, a coming of seasons of being, a time of wholeness.	10
20	262	Perhaps it was a star, she thought, now obscured by clouds.	10
20	264	It was dark, but she was not sure there were clouds there.	10
21	49	White clouds, unhurried, insouciant, pursued their leisurely way inland, floating, drifting, in the currents of the wind, like ships on an invisible ocean, like remarkable, protean creatures risen majestically from the cold waters of gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
21	145	She saw a fish disturb the water briefly, noted the rippling effect of clouds and sky in the stream, and caught sight briefly of her own image, of her head and upper body, peering down, into the water.	10
26	648	One of the moons was visible through a break in the clouds.	10
26	920	The clouds were more open now, and two of the three moons were visible.	10
26	1013	Clouds raced overhead.	10
26	1123	But then, while Cosians scour the clouds themselves, we, below, in daylight, mixing with hundreds of others, shall quietly, unhurriedly, calmly, take our leave afoot".	10
27	215	"I see only the grass, bending in the wind, clouds, the horizon, Master," she said.	10
27	1047	Another, in frustration, sprang upward, again and again, reaching upward, as if it might clutch and tear the clouds themselves.	10
27	1833	"But some of the metal clouds from which it strikes are there".	10
27	2243	How quickly she had learned to do that, how naturally! The grasslands are commonly dry, but this was in the spring, and storms sometimes erupt, and, when they do, it is often with a sudden rage, a blackening of the sky, a rising of wind, a rushing of clouds, a shattering of lightning, a beating, pou...	10
27	2446	There were breaks in the dark clouds.	10
27	2504	Amongst the boys in their little clouds or gangs, roaming about, looking for some "good ones" amongst the "ring girls," those chained to the public rings, there will occasionally be one or two older ones, who will carry switches.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
63	9	Lord Grendel howled in rage, his eyes raised to his far sky, where one could see the heights of the trees descendent, so far above him, visible through wisps of clouds.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	204	I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...	10
5	74	Who is to tell Priest-Kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of Priest-Kings.	10
12	110	Indeed, one of the surprises to many Earth women brought to Gor for the sales cages of slavers is to learn that on this world they are not viewed through clouds of misrepresentation and nonsense but, radically and profoundly, as what they are, basically and fundamentally, females.	10
12	134	The riders of the Tuchuks were subtle clouds of war, almost impossible to close with, dangerous archers, with the short, horn bow, fit for clearing the saddle, to left or right.	10
16	22	One becomes almost another form of life, one with the bird, and one with the wind, the clouds, and sky.	10
19	7	There was much dust about, like gray clouds, settling slowly, from the movements of the tharlarion.	10
26	195	The light of the yellow moon, high to my right, broke through some clouds.	10
26	249	It is not unknown to me that not all ships cleave seas, the fluid roads, but that some, like tarns, sail over mountains, are fleet amongst the clouds, spread their sails not upon the liquid fields, but in the sky, that they dare to venture upon the wind roads themselves".	10

Book 30. (22 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	167	There were some dark clouds, or what I took to be dark clouds, on the horizon, both to the north and south.	10
17	182	"I see no curtain of darkness beneath the clouds, and thus it is not rain," I said, "but doubtless they are rain clouds".	10
2	2	One feared it was a ship of no mortal creation, but rather a vessel of Priest-Kings, come from the clouds over the Sardar, gone on air.	10
2	197	Stories had it that they rode within ships, but strange ships, round, flat ships, like disks, disks of metal, which moved like clouds, swift as thought, in silence.	10
3	765	"Then, perhaps near midnight, in the darkness, for clouds obscured the two moons then in the sky, when I thought I could go no further, to my joy, I glimpsed a small light, in the distance.	10
3	1163	She took my head in her hands and lifted it, and the moonlight, the clouds separated, fell full upon my face.	10
5	129	But she seemed uneasy, cold and dark, and there was a roll of clouds unfurling over her brow in the north.	10
7	149	Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying Thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it not have been...	10
7	191	Half blinded by water I saw briefly, clouds apart in the wind, the star of Hesius.	10
10	71	And how beautiful are the towers against the evening, stormy sky, the light of Tor-tu-Gor half hidden in the dark clouds.	10
12	40	You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of Thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, intriguing, be...	10
12	87	I looked about, though with the clouds, the darkness, the rain, the spattering of hail, there was not much to see.	10
15	42	The expansive blanket of odor, of the blossoms of the Vine Sea, with their clouds of insects, surely pervasive, yet seldom noticed for days, seemed suddenly rent.	10
16	10	Now, however, the sky was blue, the clouds white, the air clear.	10
16	108	Fire, if it can but obtain its hold, may climb to the clouds.	10
17	179	"I see little," I said, "three dark clouds, one to starboard, two to port".	10
17	186	"You think they are rain clouds?" he said.	10
17	188	"I am told," he said, "by Lord Nishida that they are not clouds".	10
17	194	"Clouds, then," I said.	10
19	10	Too, there was often one or more of the mysterious clouds, or volumes of ash, or whatever they might be, on the horizon.	10
19	115	I saw rising, on either side, and before, mountains rising from the sea, mountains of fire, bursting alive, mountains moving, rising, run with molten streams of rock, some loose like flaming water, some patient and thick, dully red, and from these strange mountains, cast into the air were clouds of ...	10
27	109	Whatever might be the initial psychological impact of the tarn on those unfamiliar with its form of life, it would be only a matter of time before it became clear to the enemy that the tarn, however formidable, was a natural creature, limited, and mortal, nothing dreadfully mysterious, no unnatural ...	10

Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1823	Sometimes the towers seem to be giants, standing proudly, independent and mighty, soaring to the sky, touching clouds, their feet in garbage.	10
15	85	I did not move until the clouds once more obscured the moon.	10
15	146	Again the clouds parted, and, again, one of the moons was visible.	10
15	148	The market was again bathed in cool light, and then, again, with the rolling of clouds, the moon was obscured, and the market became once more a jumble of shadows, a weird terrain of the night, a frightening desert of darkness, so different from the brightness, the bustle, the noise and tumult of th...	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	64	Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ...	10
6	13	Do they hate it so? If not, why do they neglect and injure it? Have they another world at hand, a secret one, better and more convenient? Would they not insult and despoil it, as well? What is so terrible about trees and grass, white clouds and blue skies? Perhaps they do not care for such things.	10
10	9	In a way he was far less dangerous to his men than an idealist or fanatic, who would sacrifice armies and continents to pursue a face in the clouds, a goal he does not even understand, an end which, if achieved, would betray the dreams in terms of which it was sought.	10
11	163	One could see occasional clouds drifting past, solitary, lonely, unhurried, above, in the night.	10
12	6	It is almost as though the attention of the guardians of the clouds, if they exist, is intermittent, or differs in its severity, from time to time.	10
13	43	Again I could see little but clouds, and the blue sky.	10
17	12	It was he who had brought me to this, to this strange, different, natural, beautiful, fresh world, much as Earth might once have been, a world of blue skies and white clouds, of wind and rain, of storms and sunlight, of green fields and dark forests, of bracing, uncontaminated air and clean, clear, ...	10
19	41	"Tonight," he said, "clouds are likely to conceal the moons.	10
19	59	"Clouds, the moons obscured, darkness, an empty dock, the absence of random patrols".	10
20	204	"I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against Thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of the world, to f...	10
20	234	It is enough, they say, when one can read the currents, the clouds, the winds, the skies, and the stars.	10
23	146	It would be like a city at sea, a dangerous, armed city, walled with wood, with sails which might challenge clouds.	10
52	107	Through the door I saw smoke, billowing like dark, ugly, suffocating clouds, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, which tore apart the smoke, and flung before it a shower of sparks, and then more sparks began to fall about, the wind softening, in the clearing, these now descending like hot, bri...	10
52	809	"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ...	10

Book 33. (26 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	133	Those who control demon birds control the clouds, and those who control the clouds control the sky, and those who control the sky control the earth".	10
1	157	The situation of the holding of Lord Temmu, surmounting cliffs landward, almost in the clouds as seen from below, rendered siege towers impractical.	10
2	4	The dark clouds of early winter obscured the moons.	10
2	48	Occasionally the clouds parted, and I could see rocks, and mountains, below.	10
2	125	A wind thrust clouds to the west, and the landscape lay a pale yellow about me.	10
3	54	The tarn moved beyond me, and put down its head, and, at the same time, the yellow moon broke through the clouds, and I saw branches about, heaped, from which the fire might have been fed, and a supine figure, crumpled against the rocks.	10
9	18	He looked from his pavilion to the heights of the holding so far above, almost lost in the clouds, and shook his fists in anger.	10
9	23	The siege was done; gold lay in the clouds; officers sought to muster and organize men, but already hundreds of Ashigaru, and men, even of two swords, were hurrying up the long trail.	10
9	86	In moments the remnants of the tarn cavalry, limited now to fifty-one mounts, was streaking through the clouds over the holding, making its way, in formation, though without tarn drum, to the encampment of Yamada, to fire as many tents as possible.	10
9	99	Two-strap! Into the clouds, to vanish! Home, Fellows, home!" Ichiro winded his horn, with the piercing note of assembly, and the riders, as one, wheeled their sky mounts toward the mountains.	10
10	41	We would depart, smoke in our wake, leaving behind us the scramblings of hungry men and the cries of clouds of small birds.	10
12	220	"Across Thassa," I said, "there are places where the livers of verr are examined, where formations of clouds are noted, the flights of birds observed, such things".	10
17	179	Oddly, for a moment it seemed as though it might be still, fixed in the sky, and the clouds were flowing behind it.	10
20	364	"The clouds have gathered".	10
21	88	Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of Thassa, what the...	10
23	16	"You can read rain," I said, "perhaps as much as four or five Ahn, even before the clouds gather".	10
24	7	They are such as to be welcomed by the sky, the clouds, and mountains.	10
25	244	I looked away, up, at the blue sky, the white clouds.	10
29	35	Shortly thereafter I took my mount into the cover of clouds, within which I would be briefly concealed, shifted my course, descended, landed, and freed the bird, which then, rising, would presumably seek its cot in the north".	10
30	654	I suspected, by now, the lightning, set to the bowstring of the heavy, dark, surging, turbulent clouds, was prepared to flash, the thunder to roll forth, to the beat of its drums, roaring like an avalanche in the Voltai, precipitating its tons of falling rocks to the valley below.	10
47	257	Some of the deflected arrows, given the force with which they were sped, lingering even after the deviation suddenly introduced into their trajectory, had seemed to spring to the clouds, and others had bounded over the walls of the enclosure, or struck against the far wall.	10
52	118	We could see clouds.	10
61	1	How Matters Turned Out; I Look Eastward It was a bright morning, with a pleasant wind, and I stood on the heavy planks of the great wharf, that at the foot of the long trail which led upward, within its walls, to the holding of Temmu, far above, almost obscured by clouds.	10
61	195	Not even the high holding of Lord Temmu, citadel which had withstood a hundred sieges, over a thousand years, would be immune from foes who might companion themselves with clouds.	10
61	694	Clouds must have sped from the sun, because the sunlight poured into the room, like fire, and cast the shadows of bars across the room.	10
61	1290	Clouds were about the graceful roof of the castle.	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	46	And so I, scouring the pan, let my thoughts roam about, as might clouds in a clear sky.	10
14	258	Footprints are not left on clouds.	10
15	260	"No footprints," said he, "appear on clouds.	10
15	335	I recalled that footprints are not left on clouds, nor, I gathered, do sleen, a tracking beast, tread the tarn road.	10
19	38	The yellow moon was no longer obscured by clouds.	10
19	55	Clouds then obscured the moon again, and once more the room was in darkness.	10
29	26	The sky was overcast, but occasionally the light of the white moon, the clouds parted, broke through, illuminating the street and adjoining buildings.	10
29	103	At that moment the clouds parted, again, and the light of the white moon fell on the stones before me.	10
32	31	Two of the three moons were in the sky, occasionally visible through the clouds, the white and yellow moons.	10
49	48	Some Initiates dabble in signs, omens, and such, the formations of clouds, the flights of birds, the eating habits of sacred fowl, the livers of sacrificial animals, and so on, but that work, which commonly pays less well, is usually surrendered to augurs, haruspices, and such.	10
54	36	One sees the towers, the clouds, the sky".	10
54	64	"The mighty tarn soars in the sky, putting clouds beneath its wings.	10

Book 35. (11 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	2	I could see the sky, a bright blue, with white, scudding clouds.	10
26	68	I could see the White Moon through the clouds.	10
26	70	Once, when the clouds parted, the Yellow Moon shimmered brightly, unobstructed, in the sky.	10
26	71	Then it was, again, a faint yellow disk, pale behind the mist of clouds.	10
26	76	Against the bright disk of the White Moon, shortly before clouds once more enveloped it, half obscuring it, tattering its light, something moved across its face.	10
33	469	Clouds, too, now obscured the moons.	10
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
33	563	Once again the moons were obscured by clouds.	10
33	586	The clouds parted and the light of the moons again bathed the marsh and rence.	10
33	603	Then, again, clouds obscured the moons.	10
33	621	The Yellow Moon then broke free of clouds and I could see its light reflected all about me in the rising, surrounding water.	10

Book 36. (9 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	142	"Contemplate harbor sharks," I suggested, "schools of small harbor sharks, like clouds in the water, clouds with teeth".	10
28	5	The sky was blue, the clouds a congenial white, the waters gentle and calm from horizon to horizon.	10
42	6	No moon was visible in the sky, and the light of the stars, many of which I might have recognized from Earth, could not be seen, their fires concealed by a tent of clouds.	10
42	175	The clouds thin.	10
43	102	"The clouds part," said Clitus.	10
49	18	In a few moments the yellow moon emerged from the clouds and, briefly, illuminated the bare, broad half-circle of the beach.	10
49	140	"Longboats were sent forth to ferry them aboard," said Aktis, "but few such boats, given clouds of arrows, hazarded a second trip".	10
56	48	Suddenly, without warning, violently, like a massive, discharged, living quarrel, threatening the sky and clouds, the immense body of the Brigand Island hurtled upward, vertically, twisting, from the water.	10
58	262	"Next afternoon," said Sakim, "when the lights are no longer too bright for the crew, when the noises are no longer too loud for them, when the slightest move no longer torments them, when the clouds no longer scream and beat on their heads, what course shall we set?" "Sybaris," I said, "there are d...	10