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Copper

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	77	He lit the small hanging tent lamp, a wick set in a copper bowl of tharlarion oil, and in its flickering light turned to the sleeping mat.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	39	The vendor would then hold up a higher number, sometimes bending his fingers at the knuckle to indicate a fraction of the value unit, which would be, presumably, the copper tarn disk.	10
9	34	There must, after all, be provision made for entertaining merchants, delegations from other cities, authorized visitors of one sort or another, and, to be frank, the innkeeper is not always scrupulous about the credentials of his guests, asking few questions if he receives his handful of copper tarn...	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	71	And perhaps it is hardly necessary to add that the streets of the fair abound with jugglers, puppeteers, musicians and acrobats who, far from the theaters, compete in their ancient fashions for the copper tarn disks of the broiling, turbulent crowds.	10
4	132	Then it seemed in the impending darkness in the Hall of Priest-Kings as he looked down on me that the pupils of his eyes for an instant glowed briefly, fiercely, like two tiny fiery disks of molten copper.	10
15	40	What I could see suggested paneling and instrumentation, banks of scent-needles and gauges, numerous tiered decks of wiring and copper plating.	10
29	169	Standing nearby I saw Sarm, and behind him the creature Parp, he whose eyes had been like disks of fiery copper.	10

Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	69	In the center of the wagon there is a small, shallow fire bowl, formed of copper, with a raised brass grating.	10
8	264	I saw a flash of copper, perhaps a tarn disk from one of the distant cities, and one of the warrior's girls, an attractive Turian wench, Tuka, began to remove her fur.	10
10	301	Kamchak and I had visited one last night where I had ended up spending four copper tarn disks for one bottle of paga.	10
11	76	"I will let you have her for one copper tarn disk".	10
12	86	He then settled down cross-legged on the rug, not far from the brass and copper grating.	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.	10
16	10	"I cost my master only eleven copper tarn disks," he said, "and so I think he had no reason to be ill satisfied with his investment".	10
21	49	As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia.	10
22	146	Then one of the Tuchuk girls pointed to her ex-mistress and cried out, "What am I offered for this slave!" and one of the men, joining in the sport, would cry out a price, some figure in terms of copper tarn disks.	10
22	148	One beautiful Turian girl was thrown, weeping and bound, into the arms of a leather-clad Tuchuk for only seven copper tarn disks.	10
26	223	"I do not know," said Saphrar, "but I know that there are men who will pay half the wealth of Gor for this—" "I," said Kamchak, "would not give a copper tarn disk for it".	10
26	528	Well did I recall how Kamchak had made Albrecht of the Kassars pay dearly for the return of his little darling, Tenchika, and how he had roared with laughter because the Kassar had paid such a price, obviously having allowed himself to care for a mere slave girl, and she a Turian at that! "I would g...	10

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	131	Hup wildly thrust a small, stubby, knobby hand into his pouch and hurled a coin, a copper tarn disk, to Kuurus, who caught it and placed it in one of the pockets of his belt.	10
3	38	The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master...	10
3	42	I myself, when Centius of Cos was in Ko-ro-ba, might have played him on the bridge near the Cylinder of Warriors for only a pair of copper tarn disks.	10
3	212	The Vintner pressed the copper tarn disk, which the Player had won from him, into the Player's hands, and the Player placed this coin in his pouch.	10
12	382	"Use her," said he, "the poor wench is lonely, only a copper tarn disk".	10
13	48	The tarsk is a silver coin, worth forty copper tarn disks.	10
13	49	All the girls in the Pool of Blue Flowers cost the same, except novices in training who would go for ten or fifteen copper tarn disks.	10
13	51	In some of the larger pools the girls went as cheaply as one copper tarn disk.	10
13	132	She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...	10
16	53	We met in Sura's training room and I, who was to be in charge of this expedition, given that I would let no other guard Elizabeth, was given a leather sack of silver and copper coins by Ho-Tu, for the expenses of the day.	10
16	195	Some minutes later Phyllis came to our seats, bringing Ho-Sorl his bread and honey, and the two copper tarn disks change.	10
17	444	"Probably two copper tarn disks," I said.	10
19	193	Yet when he persisted, there were some token offers, perhaps by men who wished to obtain a kettle girl for next to nothing; I was not surprised to note that each time a legitimate offer was made, though small, it was topped slightly by a fellow in the robes of the Metal Workers, whom I knew to be a ...	10

Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	171	She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence.	10
4	173	The bit of stem took the fire and with it she lit a tiny lamp, also sitting in a shallow copper bowl, which burned tharlarion oil.	10
4	237	Then, kneeling on the mat, she bent to the small lamp in its copper bowl on the flooring of the hut.	10
5	164	Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle.	10
5	223	In this tiny flame I thrust a bit of rence stem, from a bundle of such, and, with it, lit the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp set in its copper bowl.	10
9	520	I threw down a copper tarn disk and he tilted the great bottle.	10
10	159	The wages of a sail-maker, incidentally, are four copper tarn disks per day, those of a fine shipwright, hired by the Council of Captains, as much as a golden tarn disk per day.	10
12	32	Already I could see the sleek, wet muzzles of urts, eyes like ovals of blazing copper, streaking through the dark waters toward the bag.	10
13	234	Every copper tarn disk, I told myself, in such a situation doubtless assumes greater importance than it normally would.	10
13	254	"Fifty copper tarn disks," said the slave master.	10
13	272	The slave master was again counting the fifty copper tarn disks.	10
13	289	He would mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum.	10
13	304	The keleustes struck the great copper drum before him with the leather-cushioned mallet.	10
13	338	"Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum.	10
13	344	"Two more ships astern!" The heavy, leather-cushioned mallets of the keleustes struck again and again on the copper-covered drum.	10
18	39	"Stroke! Stroke!" The beating of the copper drum of the keleustes took up maximum beat.	10

Book 7. (10 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	63	The cost for transporting an animal, however, was only a copper tarn disk.	10
8	65	Targo was charged twenty-one copper tarn disks for myself, the other girls, the new girl, and his four bosk.	10
8	646	For a copper tarn disk he would give a performance at the compound.	10
8	937	We saw copper tarn disks being exchanged.	10
8	979	I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it cost only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave.	10
15	1392	I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-trimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire.	10
15	1393	I poured some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over the tiny fire in the fire bowl.	10
15	1395	After a time I took the copper bowl from the fire and held it against my cheek.	10
15	1404	I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-trimmed wine crater, placing the small bowl in a rack to one side of the fire.	10
17	475	My price could have been an arrow point or a copper tarn disk, but his answer would have been the same.	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	264	"We shall pay you," said Rim, "four copper tarn disks per wench".	10
2	296	"Five copper tarn disks each," he said.	10
3	351	"What am I bid for her?" "Fourteen copper pieces!" cried a man.	10
3	356	"Twenty copper pieces!" cried a leather worker.	10
3	360	"Twenty-two copper pieces," called a metal worker.	10
3	373	"Twenty-five copper pieces," called a pastry vendor.	10
3	436	"What do you think they would charge for her pelt for an hour?" "Perhaps two copper pieces," I suggested.	10
4	120	"Key," I said, handing him a copper tarn disk.	10
5	303	"I will give you ten copper pieces for her," I told the man.	10
6	190	I heard the beat, over the water, of the copper-covered drum of the keleustes, marking the time for the oars.	10
7	84	We would have them for a copper tarn disk apiece, per day.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	320	Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men.	10
5	232	With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu.	10
17	42	The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the s...	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	544	There are brushes, perfumes, cosmetics, slave jewelries, heavy necklaces, armlets, bracelets and bangles; there is no clothing; there are also cushions, bowls of copper and lamps of brass.	10
2	16	I took the water and gave the man a copper tarsk.	10
2	24	To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, r...	10
2	221	They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe.	10
2	222	I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me.	10
2	493	"We cage a wench for a copper tarsk per day," he said.	10
2	650	I was informed by a ragged youngster, whom I rewarded with a copper tarsk.	10
3	81	That night, when our repast had been finished, and a clothed, bangled slave woman, the property of Farouk, had rinsed our right hands with veminium water, poured over our hand, into a small, shallow bowl of beaten copper, I drew forth from my robes a small, flat, closed Gorean chronometer.	10
4	292	I placed a copper tarn disk on the desk of the slave master.	10
8	191	I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand.	10

Book 11. (34 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	241	On Earth I had been noted as a beauty, an unusual, even ravishingly beautiful girl, but on Gor, as I would come to understand, I, and others like me, could be acquired and disposed of for a handful of copper tarsks.	10
2	1070	Its eyes caught the light and flashed like burning copper.	10
3	111	As I would later learn, the value placed on girls such as we were, a Judy Thornton or an Elicia Nevins, girls of our quality, would commonly be a tiny sack of copper coins, a few more, a few less.	10
3	611	She held two copper bowls of gruel.	10
3	648	Furtively, I looked at the man over the edge of the copper bowl.	10
3	677	Eta took me to one side and, together, we cleaned the copper bowls in the stream, wiping them dry.	10
5	258	"And yet I find you like a copper-tarsk rent slave in the arms of a retainer!" "Forgive your girl, Mistress," begged the cringing slave.	10
7	378	In the morning, she, nude, would prepare and serve to him his breakfast, after which he would make fresh use of her; he would then send her from his presence, first pressing into her hand a coin, usually a copper tarsk or a silver tarsk, commensurate with the quality of her service.	10
7	1149	"You can be bought or sold in any market," he said, "for a handful of copper tarsks".	10
7	1344	I knew I could be bought and sold for a handful of copper tarsks.	10
9	889	"I could get for her, at best," he conjectured, "only a handful of copper tarsks".	10
9	1135	"Two copper tarsks," he said.	10
9	1141	Surely I would be worth at least four or five copper tarsks in any market.	10
9	2299	Surely I was at least a few copper tarsks' worth of slave girl.	10
11	1	Perfume and Silk "I will give you four copper tarsks for her," said the captain.	10
11	28	I had been sold for six copper tarsks.	10
11	56	All he had left behind was she who had been Judy Thornton, six copper tarsks worth of sold she-slave.	10
11	327	But then I remembered I had cost only six copper tarsks.	10
12	11	I was a different girl now from the one who had been sold for six copper tarsks to Borchoff, Captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus.	10
12	14	"Six tarsks of copper," he had said.	10
13	24	I brought Rask of Treve, my captor, fifteen copper tarsks.	10
13	34	She brought her captor only twelve copper tarsks.	10
13	240	For a few copper tarsks you can own her!" A tear ran down my face, over my left cheek.	10
13	265	"Fourteen copper tarsks," called a man.	10
13	269	I knew I had been sold by Rask of Treve to a slaver for fifteen copper tarsks.	10
13	270	The slaver who had purchased me had sold me to the house of Publius for twenty copper tarsks.	10
13	308	"I have a bid of twenty copper tarsks for this lovely little beauty," said the auctioneer.	10
13	330	"It seems," said the auctioneer, "that we must let this little beauty go for a mere twenty-one copper tarsks".	10
13	363	"Did you truly think," he hissed, "we would take a profit of only a copper tarsk on you? Do you think us fools to buy a girl for twenty and sell her for twenty-one? Do you not think we know our trade, little slut?" I screamed for mercy.	10
13	371	"Forty copper tarsks," I heard call from the floor, "from the Tavern of Two Chains".	10
13	381	"The Perfumed Rope bids eighty copper tarsks," I heard.	10
13	393	"I have heard from the agent of the Silver Cage," called the auctioneer, "a bid of eighty-five copper tarsks.	10
13	412	Before they had only looked upon me as merely another girl slave, to be sold from the block in her turn for a handful of copper tarsks.	10
24	190	"The slut is not worth a copper tarsk-bit," said Clitus Vitellius, angrily, defensively.	10

Book 12. (19 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	704	Some cities give eight tarsk bits to the copper tarsk; others, most, I think, have the copper tarsk equivalent to ten tarsk bits.	10
2	176	The girl watched, horrified, as one of the guardsmen took the clothing and, piece by piece, threw it into a wide copper bowl of burning coals.	10
3	3	He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna.	10
3	200	His skin was dark, reddish like copper; his hair was bluish black, roughly cropped; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold.	10
3	296	For five copper tarsks one may rent furs and a place in the tent.	10
3	311	I purchased from him, for a copper tarsk, a bowl of soup, thick with shreds of hot bosk and porous chunks of boiled sul.	10
3	429	He carried a large, handled copper tureen filled with a watery soup.	10
3	706	These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk.	10
3	1247	"Four copper tarsks!" was a bid called from the floor.	10
3	1258	The girl was sold for fifteen copper tarsks to a metal worker from Tor.	10
3	1269	She was sold for four copper tarsks.	10
33	28	I thought of the melting of copper, the flame of sulfur, the structure of salt, of jagged Eros in its orbit, of the crags of Titan, of the interactions of compounds, the stirring of molecules, the movement of atoms, the trajectories of electrons.	10
36	64	"She was Neromiktok, of the Copper Cliffs Camp," he said.	10
36	67	I had learned, too, that she had once been the beauty of the Copper Cliffs Camp.	10
36	70	"It is said he left the camps and became the guard," said Imnak, "because his gifts were once refused by a proud girl of the Copper Cliffs Camp".	10
36	75	"I ran away from Copper Cliffs to avoid an unwanted match," she said.	10
38	173	She should not now sell for copper, really; if men knew her, she should now bring silver, perhaps as much as three or four silver tarsks.	10
38	174	But, untrained, and in an early sale, she would doubtless go for no more than a handful, though perhaps a double handful, of copper tarsks.	10
38	245	"You could, currently," I said, "be bought and sold for a handful of copper coins".	10

Book 13. (22 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	409	"I would say about five copper tarsks, in a fourth-class market, perhaps even an item in a group sale.	10
2	18	What am I offered?" "A copper tarsk," called a man from the floor, a fellow who rented chains of work girls.	10
4	124	Ten such coins make a copper tarsk.	10
4	125	A hundred copper tarsks make a silver tarsk.	10
4	800	Ulafi threw the metal worker a copper tarsk.	10
4	873	"It cost a copper tarsk to brand her," he said.	10
4	876	I threw him a copper tarsk.	10
4	950	It will cost you an extra copper tarsk".	10
4	952	I handed him, from my pouch, a copper tarsk.	10
5	340	"Surely such a girl, a wench of only average beauty, a tense, tight girl, awkward and clumsy, one untrained, new to the collar, one who can hardly speak Gorean, a barbarian, is worth, at best, only two or three copper tarsks".	10
5	358	"Is it worth a copper tarsk to you?" he asked.	10
5	361	I handed him the copper tarsk.	10
7	190	"Fifteen copper tarsks," he said.	10
7	193	I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks.	10
10	6	He put these two tiny coins in a small, shallow copper bowl before him.	10
12	142	When I had given her a copper tarsk as a tip she had looked down at the tightly tied blanket, containing its helpless burden, and had looked up at me, grinning.	10
12	573	"Four copper tarsks," he said.	10
13	44	I threw him a copper tarsk.	10
13	73	If she has not learned it in that time it is likely that her throat will have been cut by some customer, her sales price being then paid to her owner, plus a token tarsk or two, of copper, for good will.	10
27	106	Here we did not know if it would have more value than metal knives or coils of copper wire.	10
42	14	I had seen traces of copper and gold in cliffs.	10
57	270	She cost me two and five, two silver tarsks and five of copper.	10

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	693	"Four copper tarsks!" I heard a woman call.	10
12	266	The bid, however, I gathered, was one silver tarsk, five copper tarsks.	10
16	268	"Five two-hort vials should cost you no more than a copper tarsk!" "Yes, Turbus," she said.	10
22	743	"Give me then," said she, "a tarsk bit, the tenth of a copper tarsk.	10
27	265	"He cost me twenty copper tarsks," said another man.	10
34	123	"Ten copper tarsks," he said to a scribe at a small table nearby, with papers and a box of coins.	10
34	124	The scribe counted out ten copper tarsks to a fellow at the table.	10

Book 15. (26 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	133	I rose to my feet and placed two copper tarsks on the table.	10
4	11	"That is ten copper tarsks," had said the man last night, placing before me a bowl of sul porridge.	10
4	220	"Sul porridge," said Strobius, "is ten copper tarsks.	10
4	221	I will charge you forty copper tarsks for the wine, two cups".	10
5	4	"He wagers ten copper tarsks he can best any man in the house!" "It is true," I called, stepping to the sand, pulling off the tunic.	10
5	21	I had, as a consequence, picked up only ten copper tarsks at Tancred's Landing.	10
7	68	Then I heard a tarsk bit thrown into the copper bowl beside her.	10
8	2	I had tallied my resources, prior to coming to the tavern of Tasdron, off the avenue of Lycurgus, and found them to amount to only seventy copper tarsks, including five tarsks which I had happily, and unexpectedly, received, the captain being a good fellow, for acting as an oarsman from Fina to the ...	10
8	9	I had managed to accumulate two silver tarsks and some sixteen copper tarsks.	10
8	148	The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl.	10
9	5	The girl went for four copper tarsks.	10
9	70	In this market, to her indignation, she had gone for only fourteen copper tarsks.	10
9	73	She had gone for a mere fifteen copper tarsks.	10
9	94	"Two copper tarsks," called a man.	10
10	147	"If I do not return with the equivalent of a copper tarsk," said the girl kneeling before me, "I will be whipped".	10
10	178	I drew out a copper tarsk, and prepared to place it in the girl's coin box.	10
10	292	"There is a small copper tub," I said.	10
10	314	"I am worth much more than ninety-eight copper tarsks".	10
10	315	"I am not sure you are worth ninety-eight copper tarsks," I said.	10
10	321	"I do not think you are worth two copper tarsks," I said.	10
14	40	"Ten copper tarsks," he said.	10
16	29	"I received two copper tarsks for her," she said.	10
16	31	"I will give you the two copper tarsks, if you wish," she said.	10
16	40	"I will give you the two copper tarsks, if you wish," she said.	10
19	29	"Two copper tarsks, one to each of you," said the merchant to two dock workers who stood nearby, "to apprehend and bind that fellow!" Swiftly the two dock workers set out after the thief.	10
19	67	In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which is valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	191	The ringing of the copper-covered drum struck with the fur-wrapped wooden mallets suddenly rang out behind us.	10
20	1569	Some men buy such girls and cart them about in wagons in the morning, leaving them at various corners with a copper bowl and a crust of bread, collecting them again in the evening.	10

Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	397	For an instant they blazed, like red-hot copper disks, like those of a wolf or coyote at the perimeter of a firelit camp.	10
1	832	Greens can be obtained from a variety of sources, including earths, boiled rotten wood, copper ores and pond algae.	10
1	1359	I saw the eyes of the two creatures glinting like fiery copper plates.	10
8	32	It was written on her back in lipstick, forty copper tarsks.	10
8	148	The auctioneer signaled to an attendant who, from a side of the hall, brought forth a shallow copper bowl, some two feet in diameter, filled with slender cylinders of oil-impregnated wood.	10
8	199	He then drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt and slashed the straps and uppers of the sandals, discarding them then in the flaming copper bowl at the side.	10
8	213	With a gesture of disgust the auctioneer flung the pretentious, offending object, that necklace of false pearls, amongst the cylinders flaming in the copper bowl.	10
8	305	Several of the girls had gone from the side blocks, for example, for prices ranging between thirty and fifty copper tarsks.	10
8	389	This was a bid of three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks.	10
8	390	There are one hundred copper tarsks to one silver tarsk in Kailiauk.	10
8	753	"Five copper tarsks apiece!" laughed a man.	10
8	855	It was an even silver tarsk, or an even hundred copper tarsks, of the sort common in Kailiauk, figured in multiples of ten, over the earlier standing bid of six nine.	10
13	621	"That is," I said, "seven silver tarsks and ninety copper tarsks.	10
19	504	The suffix 'sa' designates the color red, as in 'Mazasa', 'Red Metal', 'Copper'.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	177	The Bracelets band, or the Napoktan, wear copper bracelets on the left wrist.	10
18	65	Napoktan warriors commonly wear two copper bracelets on the left wrist.	10

Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	221	He put a copper piece in the man's hand.	10
5	281	"I would think," he said, "that you would bring somewhere between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks".	10
5	282	"Copper tarsks!" I cried.	10
6	492	If I had been a slave, say, perhaps, a fifteen-copper-tarsk girl, that amount for which he had once suggested a slaver might let me go, I think I might have received a somewhat different treatment at his hands.	10
24	100	Tenrak and Durbar, at the office of the man of Mintar, outside the gate, had received ten copper tarsks for me.	10
24	106	Some girls, Tenrak had assured me, go for as little as five copper tarsks.	10
24	107	Ten copper tarsks, he assured me, was a good price for a mill girl.	10
26	33	Twelve copper tarsks for each of us had been transferred to the accounts of Mill 7.	10
26	344	"They cost me only twelve copper tarsks each," said Aemilianus.	10
26	436	A silver tarsk! I wished Drusus Rencius had heard that! He had thought I would only bring fifteen or twenty copper tarsks! And I was not even trained! "You did very well, Tiffany," said Aemilianus.	10
36	86	It may usually be depended upon to add a few copper tarsks to her value, much like the ability to play a musical instrument or to dance, or to cook and sew.	10
36	1628	Only my face had been unveiled! Had he seen me naked he might have raised his estimate! Too, suppose he had seen me in a posture of submission or had had me writhe at his feet in slave chains! Suppose he had put me through detailed and methodical slave paces, or had had me bring him the whip in my t...	10
36	1629	"Who knows?" "You yourself," I said, slyly, maliciously, "in Corcyrus, as I recall, conjectured that I would probably bring only between fifteen and twenty copper tarsks".	10
36	1635	I suppose it would be only fair to improve your price by a copper tarsk or so in virtue of such a consideration".	10

Book 20. (23 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	629	In Port Kar, and generally in the Vosk Basin, there are ten tarsk bits to a copper tarsk and one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.	10
2	370	The Bina and Brigella, too, were now passing through the crowd with copper bowls.	10
2	416	"How much have you taken in tonight?" asked the paunchy fellow, angrily, pointing to the copper, lidded pot, with the coin slot cut in its top, chained shut, near the low Kaissa table.	10
2	424	He replaced the copper coin pot, chained shut, beside the Kaissa table.	10
2	438	"We want them to come back! We want the board busy! That is how we are making the money!" The price for a game is usually something between a tarsk bit and a copper tarsk.	10
2	440	Sometimes a copper tarsk, or even a silver tarsk, is nailed to one of the poles of the booth.	10
2	627	"We have, so far tonight, taken in only ninety-seven tarsk-bits, not even ten copper tarsks".	10
2	657	He turned away, and then turned back, to stoop down and pick up the copper pot by the Kaissa table.	10
2	682	I replaced the copper pot beside the Kaissa table.	10
6	1222	"Thank you, noble free woman and noble gentlemen! Remember poor Boots and his company! Be generous!" Some coins, mostly copper, rattled to the stage.	10
6	1223	I myself gave a couple of copper tarn disks.	10
6	1228	The girls, here at the fair, were not passing through the crowd with copper bowls, perhaps because they had both been in the play.	10
6	1312	"If I had anything to do with them," I said, "to which I do not admit, of course, let us consider them merely as copper-bowl coins, coins such as might be gathered in the pursuit of your normal activities".	10
6	1327	"Here is another copper tarsk," I said.	10
7	120	"Ten copper tarsks, to hold her until then," he said.	10
7	134	I then gave him the ten copper tarsks.	10
7	136	Indeed, some of the girls in the market, I suspected, would go for as little as that same ten copper tarsks.	10
7	215	I had no difficulty in recovering my ten copper tarsks, put down to hold the girl for Boots's later inspection.	10
7	360	"Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high...	10
7	364	"There are more than two copper tarsks in the coin kettle".	10
16	236	"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio.	10
16	263	"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re...	10
16	797	No copper bowls were passed.	10

Book 21. (31 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	320	They would probably bring their captors in the neighborhood of a copper tarsk apiece.	10
4	588	About it, tied on a leather thong, was a small, punched, copper disk.	10
4	596	The punched copper disk, threaded on its thong, was not large.	10
5	34	"About seventeen copper tarsks," he said, "and two tarsk bits".	10
5	283	She fingered the small copper disk, on its thong, tied about her throat, that disk which had been found on her in infancy, when she had been found by Alars in the wreckage of a burned, raided caravan, that disk on which a "Tau" and a number had been inscribed.	10
6	38	"This is a great deal of food," I said, "to have been purchased by seventeen copper tarsks, and two tarsk bits".	10
6	48	"Fourteen copper tarsks," he said.	10
6	174	"In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits".	10
6	238	"Half of what I have is yours!" "That would come to about seven copper tarsks, as I recall," I said.	10
11	90	"Here," I said, giving him a copper tarsk.	10
11	233	"Something like two copper tarsks, and some four or five tarsk bits," I said.	10
11	295	I put a copper bowl on the ground, beside her, at her left.	10
11	305	The coin rattled into the copper bowl.	10
11	310	Hurtha happily shook the copper bowl.	10
15	87	"But you would make only a handful of copper coins in that sort of thing," he said.	10
15	739	"It is mostly silver," he said, "and some copper.	10
16	1257	A great transformation had come over her since the night before last, since she had been put on her back, her wrists tied to the spokes, a copper bowl resting on the dirt beside her.	10
16	1308	She touched the copper disk at her neck.	10
18	120	She fingered the copper disk at her neck.	10
18	172	"I am certain," said Boabissia, happily, fingering the small copper disk at her neck, "that I am of lofty birth, and high station.	10
22	292	"It is a copper tarsk a night," called Achiates.	10
22	320	I dropped a copper tarsk into his palm.	10
22	327	"Surely you did not pay a copper tarsk for this place," said Boabissia.	10
23	151	Several individuals, however, to be fair, did receive handfuls of coins, mostly copper, from the regent, who, smiling, would dip his hand into heaping coin bowls near him, and then spill coins into the outstretched hands of the grateful recipients.	10
23	212	He poured coins into my hands, copper tarsks.	10
24	322	He put to one side, taking it from a shallow pocket within the book's cover, a punched copper disk, on a string, rather the size of that which Boabissia had worn, and put it next to Boabissia's.	10
25	21	I put a tarsk bit into the copper bowl on the small table near her.	10
25	30	Her brothels, if it is of interest are the Chains of Gold, supposedly her best, costing at any rate a copper tarsk for admission, and, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks, and the Tunnels.	10
25	930	"The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".	10
25	1044	I then counted her out five copper tarsks.	10
25	1216	True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women may be purchased.	10

Book 22. (17 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	311	The bid had been for twenty copper tarsks.	10
10	398	"Two silver tarsks," he said, "and fifty copper tarsks, not tarsk bits, but tarsks, whole tarsks".	10
11	371	Each of them carried a deep copper bowl.	10
11	575	When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka.	10
11	1031	"Let us have the drawing!" Hendow nodded to Mirus, and Mirus summoned Aynur to the center of the floor, and near the front, with her copper bowl, laden with the halves of broken ostraka.	10
11	1094	I felt myself drawn to my feet, and, by the upper left arm, pulled forward, half dragged, to the copper bowl.	10
12	76	Why, for example, does one man bid gold for a girl that another man would not buy with copper? Perhaps because one man sees that the girl is worth gold, and the other does not.	10
16	96	Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.	10
17	70	I had cost him only fifty copper tarsks, half a silver tarsk.	10
17	77	About my neck hung a copper bowl.	10
17	174	I took the copper bowl from about my neck and put it beside the pallet.	10
17	234	I heard a small coin, a tarsk bit, ring in the copper bowl.	10
17	247	There were several coins in the copper bowl.	10
24	70	The agent in Samnium had purchased her, I had been told by another girl, one apparently sold at about the same time, and also purchased by the agent of Ionicus, for seventy copper tarsks.	10
24	76	I was angry that I had sold for twenty copper tarsks less than she.	10
24	79	Perhaps much depends on the individual man, and how much we interest him? Perhaps I had been sold before the agent had come to the market? Too, my former master, Gordon, had paid fifty copper tarsks for me, and that was undoubtedly a great deal of money for him.	10
34	754	And, of course, what was a slave worth? A few copper tarsks, or silver tarsks, in a market? Or everything to someone, perhaps everything in the world to someone? I looked at my master.	10

Book 23. (28 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	718	A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces.	10
1	609	She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth.	10
2	2	"Show that you have money!" I lifted up a copper tarsk.	10
2	263	"Your redemption fee," I said, "is forty copper tarsks, a considerable amount".	10
2	322	I thought she might bring as much as sixty copper tarsks in a market.	10
2	323	If that were so, and the inn sold her for that much, they would have made then, as I recalled, some twenty-five copper tarsks on her.	10
3	30	In many inns, depending on the season, to be sure, and the readiness of the keeper to negotiate, one can stay for as little as two or three copper tarsks a day, everything included, within reason, of course, subject to some restraint with respect to paga, and such.	10
3	33	The prices, of course, were in terms of copper tarsks.	10
3	34	For purposes of comparison, in many paga taverns, one may have paga and food, and a girl for the alcove, if one wants, for a single copper tarsk.	10
3	124	On the other hand, we would charge you only three copper tarsks for the time".	10
3	139	"That would be fourteen copper tarsks," he said.	10
5	29	I recalled that he had told me that although the use of an inn girl would cost me, in these times, three copper tarsks for only a quarter of an Ahn, I might have the free woman working in the paga room for an Ahn for only a tarsk bit.	10
5	233	The amount stated was a silver tarsk, five copper tarsks.	10
5	643	It was correct, bread and paga, two copper tarsks, the other food, an additional three.	10
5	804	It totaled five copper tarsks.	10
5	805	When I added that to my current bill, it would come to nineteen copper tarsks.	10
6	46	I blamed the keeper as much as anything, three copper tarsks for a girl, for a quarter of an Ahn, was outrageous.	10
6	198	"The price for an inn girl here," I said, "is three copper tarsks for the quarter of an Ahn".	10
7	37	I had given him five copper tarsks.	10
8	601	My own bill, for example, all told, had come to nineteen copper tarsks, and a tarsk bit, the latter for the use of the Lady Temione last night.	10
9	273	The paucity of women, relatively, rent slaves even bringing a copper tarsk a night, had largely to do with the coming and going of the slave wagons, which tended to carry off most of the captures, apprehended refugees, women who had fled from Ar's Station for food, giving themselves into bondage for...	10
10	8	Her hair had probably brought the keeper as much as five copper tarsks.	10
10	35	I had redeemed her, by means of Ephialtes, at the Crooked Tarn, for thirty-five copper tarsks, the cost of her bill, but I had sold her for forty, a modest, almost irresistible price, considering the value of women here, at least prior to the city's fall.	10
10	263	Klio, redeemed through Ephialtes, had only cost me thirty copper tarsks.	10
24	683	"A copper tarsk," said he.	10
24	690	It was quite possibly no accident that a copper tarsk had been used.	10
24	719	Some cities have tiny, round copper "tarsk bits," but they are usually regarded as too small to be suitable in the sports of chance.	10
24	736	It well deserves its coin, whether of copper or silver.	10

Book 24. (18 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	28	Had I had a slave sent to my "space" it would have cost me three full copper tarsks, for only a quarter of an Ahn.	10
2	1	A Copper Tarsk She made the tiniest of stifled noises, her head pulled back, my hand held tightly, mercilessly, over her mouth.	10
2	156	He could sell you for a copper tarsk, you know".	10
2	162	"Too," I said, "you are a paga slave, and thus, for a tarsk bit, or a copper tarsk, or whatever Philebus is charging, you could be put into his power for Ahn at a time".	10
2	247	"A copper tarsk," she said.	10
2	262	I recalled the copper tarsk I had left in the tent, on the carpet, beside her.	10
12	298	"Do you not clearly understand," she asked, "that it is you, not I, who are the prisoner?" "I think," I said, "you would sell for an average amount of copper tarsks".	10
12	349	"Probably an average number of copper tarsks," I said.	10
37	4	A small copper bowl was beside her.	10
37	8	Beside her, too, on the ground, was a small copper bowl.	10
37	36	Ephialtes glanced down at the two women on the ground, chained by the neck to stakes on this side of the wagon, the copper bowls near them.	10
37	295	We heard a coin thrown into one of the copper bowls on the far side of the wagon.	10
37	301	"Several fellows have asked me to put Phoebe at the stake," he said, "being willing to pay an entire copper tarsk".	10
37	460	Most women were being sold for copper tarsks, some even for a few tarsk bits.	10
39	26	I held up a full copper tarsk.	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
47	86	A standard price in an average market under normal conditions would run from a few copper tarsks for a nice kettle-and-mat girl to one to five silver tarsks for an average pleasure slave.	10
47	87	It would have been my supposition that Ina, in many markets, at this time, might have gone for about ninety copper tarsks, up to a silver tarsk fifty.	10

Book 25. (19 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	373	This is regularly done with copper tarsks, to produce, usually, the eight tarsk bits equivalent in most cities to the copper tarsk.	10
27	351	Accordingly, on this approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn.	10
3	42	Indeed, at least in my second usage of her, purchased with a second tarsk bit placed in the shallow copper bowl beside her, she had been put through fierce, severe, uncompromising slave paces.	10
3	57	As I left, slinging about me my accouterments, I heard a new coin entered into the copper bowl.	10
3	953	"Think of the whole skin of wine for you and your friends!" A skin of wine might bring as much as four or five copper tarsks.	10
8	416	It had cost three full copper tarsks for our admission to the pageant, and one of those was for Phoebe.	10
19	1408	"I would suppose that Appanius, who does not seem enamored of her, will let her go for a pittance, perhaps no more than a handful of copper tarsks".	10
19	1409	"That is a curvaceous female to acquire for a few copper tarsks," he said.	10
20	157	"Five copper tarsks, Mistress," said the girl.	10
20	163	As she had come into the keeping of Appanius in virtue of the couching laws, she had had only one sale, that to me for a few copper tarsks.	10
21	532	In most cities there are a hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk.	10
21	533	It is not unusual to pick up an excellent female from twenty to eighty copper tarsks.	10
23	312	"The weight of this suggests a great many copper tarsks," said Boots, surprised.	10
23	326	"Else a copper tarsk or two might have been too much," said Marcus.	10
23	329	You note the discrepancy between, say, ten thousand pieces of gold, or more, and one or two copper tarsks".	10
23	378	"The purse contains no copper tarsks," I said.	10
27	317	You can buy one for as little as one or two copper tarsks".	10
27	346	It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half.	10
27	348	There are apparently something like one hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities.	10

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	40	Betwixt there are many things, sheets of copper, plates of bronze, ingots of iron, tablets of silver, such things.	10
10	540	The exterior surfaces had been sheathed with nailed copper sheets, the intention of which, one supposes, was to resist fire.	10
29	304	But they will never compare with those of my love! To her gold, no matter how luscious and exciting might prove to be the curves of your perfidious, despicable body, you can never be more than a meaningless tarsk-bit of shaved copper!" The body of the slave shook, trembling with emotion.	10

Book 27. (25 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	895	I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, are a hundred tarsk-bits to ...	10
16	646	"I bought you last night for ten copper tarsks," he said.	10
16	1294	"Ten copper tarsks were too much for you," said Targo.	10
16	1295	"Ten copper tarsk-bits would be too much for you!" Ellen's body, lying on the shelf, was wracked with sobs.	10
17	157	Targo, she was sure, was ready to let her go at the drop of a copper tarsk.	10
18	63	"You do not earn your copper tarsks by amusing yourself with slave girls!" Selius grinned.	10
18	359	Mirus had let her go, it seemed, for a mere ten copper tarsks, such as might be paid for a worthless girl.	10
20	921	"Five copper tarsks each," said he.	10
20	941	A reward of ten copper tarsks for her seemed considerable.	10
23	262	Now you are angry with yourself! You are angry that I have become a true slave! And I think you are angry that I have become beautiful, and desirable! Yes, I am that, Master, and I will go for silver, I assure you, not copper! There have been twenty-one bids on me already, twenty-one! And there is s...	10
24	103	Their function it was to see to it that, if not the finest, the most stimulating, the most gratifying, of performances would be elicited from their silked, bangled charges, then there would be elicited from them at least performances which, perhaps to the lash of the whip, would bring howls of pleas...	10
24	180	"I was sold for ten copper tarsks," said Ellen.	10
25	589	"Ten copper tarsks for this slut!" called the auctioneer.	10
25	590	"Untrained! Never yet collared! Let yours be the first! Marked last night! Fresh meat off the iron! Fifteen copper tarsks! Seventeen! Had but once, and then as a free woman!" There was laughter from the crowd.	10
25	599	"Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a...	10
25	612	Fellow citizens, give me succor! I am in grievous distress! I call upon some noble, gallant citizen of Brundisium to rescue me! Please, please!" "Well," called the auctioneer to the crowd, "it will take at least thirty-five copper tarsks to rescue her!" There was laughter from the crowd.	10
25	616	"Ten copper tarsks!" There was laughter.	10
25	625	"Thirty-eight copper tarsks!" The woman cried out with misery.	10
25	628	"Thirty-eight copper tarsks is too much for so stupid a woman!" called a man.	10
25	655	"Forty copper tarsks!" called a voice.	10
25	813	He would be fortunate to be able to put together a handful of copper tarsk-bits.	10
25	886	"Two silver tarsks, fifty copper tarsks," said the assistant.	10
25	1010	"The bid was of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "not twenty copper tarsks".	10
26	794	Ellen stiffened as he then gave a tarsk-bit, the hundredth part of a mere copper tarsk, to Portus Canio.	10
27	691	High Initiates might receive gold from Ubars, low Initiates copper from the poor.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	265	Vended off a platform at night, under torches, well displayed, your blemishes somewhat concealed, you might bring a handful of copper".	10

Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	959	"Each of us received, in copper tarsks, the equivalent of a silver stater of Brundisium".	10
10	231	They would not now be other than they are, for they have finally come to understand the glorious preciousness of themselves, even though they may sell for no more than a handful of copper tarsks.	10
15	16	Indeed, I had had her for a handful of copper tarsks, to be sure, not tarsk-bits, but tarsks.	10
15	152	"She is now a slave, and would be worth something, even if only a few copper tarsks.	10
15	190	"She is humanly worthless," said Pertinax, "even if not economically so, whatever coin she might sell for, whatever price might take her off a slave block, whether a silver tarsk or a copper shaving.	10
28	224	Taking light, even that of a lantern, the membrane behind the eyes can suddenly flash like molten copper, an anomaly in the darkness.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	364	"And so, too, in similar straits," said Alcinoë, "would you have been purchased, as a common slave, and surely for no more than for a handful of copper!" Alcinoë, as I recalled, had sold for forty copper tarsks, not even half a silver tarsk.	10
3	65	On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships.	10
3	1307	"Of copper," she said, angrily.	10
3	1452	Yes, I thought, certainly well worth forty copper tarsks.	10
3	1470	"Forty copper tarsks," I said.	10
3	1478	"To taunt men," she snapped, "to make them miserable, to let them see what they could not have!" "Most," I said, "might have afforded forty copper tarsks".	10
5	3	Had the Metioche not crossed paths with the great ship she would now be in her shed in Telnus, in her winter berth, and I, and her crew, cleared and paid by a harbor marshal, wallets bulging with copper, would have gone our ways, some scattering through a hundred towns and villages, others remaining...	10
5	301	"My dear Callias," said Lord Nishida, "you behold before you a trustless rogue, Philoctetes, a miscreant and felon, a liar, a cheater at stones, one who robs men at night, who steals food, obtaining extra rations for himself, a villain who would cut a throat for a copper tarsk".	10
8	274	"Well, perhaps," I said, "as much as yours would be beyond that of a typical copper-tarsk girl, a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl".	10
26	45	These shells were not typical Pani currency, which, for the most part, consisted of metal coins, of silver, gold, and copper, of various certified weights, struck by various shoguns.	10
37	657	We then left the back room, and, a bit later, Callias had exchanged one of the tiny beadlike golden tarsks for nine silver tarsks, ninety-nine copper tarsks, and a hundred tarsk-bits, at one of the changing tables maintained in the warehouse by the harbor administration, to facilitate trading.	10
37	826	"You could be robbed for a copper tarsk, for a tarsk-bit".	10

Book 31. (21 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	135	The Gorean thinks generally in terms of metal, copper, silver, and gold, something obdurate and solid, which can be handled, split, quartered, shaved, and weighed, or else in terms of actual goods.	10
8	849	"Have you not, several of you, examined these beauties earlier in the morning, and pondered your bids?" "Yes," said a fellow, "a copper tarsk for the lot!" "You may ask," said the auctioneer, "how is it that such goods, goods of such quality, could be offered here?" "No other market would have them!...	10
8	1111	The highest price, so far, had been brought by the former Lady Persinna, who had gone for three and a half silver tarsks, three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks.	10
8	1328	They were copper.	10
8	1332	"Forty-two copper tarsks," confirmed the auctioneer.	10
8	1668	Menon fetched from within the pouch a handful of copper tarsk-bits.	10
8	2077	I had originally sold for forty-two copper tarsks.	10
8	2078	"The price, now," said Menon, rising, looking down on me, "is fifty, fifty copper tarsks".	10
10	353	"You were purchased for twenty copper tarsks," she said.	10
10	381	"A copper tarsk!" I said.	10
10	1198	"For copper tarsks," he said.	10
10	1358	"Perhaps sixty copper tarsks," he called.	10
11	51	All in all, as you may have surmised, my bondage in their loft, if one may so characterize it, was a fairly light one, save, of course, for labors involved in the business of the laundering, which business did accrue, from month to month, a small store of copper tarsks, some delivered, some collecte...	10
11	65	At such times a copper tarsk was often put in my mouth, to be retrieved by the customer when done with me, a tarsk which might be redeemed for tarsk-bits, to be spent on the tables, tarsk-bits which might, soon, result in the loss of tarsks, even of silver.	10
14	39	As would be expected, the most common denominations in the market were those of Ar, her tarn disks, and her tarsks, of copper, and silver and gold.	10
18	894	"Forty copper tarsks each week," said Astrinax.	10
49	11	I could think of one to whom I would have been happy to have been sold for a copper tarsk-bit, whereas there were others from whom I would have hoped that the Lady Bina would have resisted offers of tarn disks of gold.	10
49	353	He then drew a copper tarsk-bit from his pouch and placed it in my mouth.	10
49	464	"As I understand it," said Lord Grendel, "a copper tarsk-bit is the usual price for a use, for example, to be placed in the pan beside a secured camp girl, to be put in the chained neck box of a coin girl, and such".	10
49	466	"Then a single copper tarsk-bit is not a negative reflection on the quality of the slave".	10
51	124	They were clearly not copper, but silver.	10

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	191	I do not think that one item, to this point, had gone unsold, fortunately for the item, for otherwise it might be whipped, though several, in the first and second segments, had gone cheaply, for copper, from twenty to eighty tarsks, copper tarsks.	10
4	193	None had sold for less than twenty- forty copper, namely twenty copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits.	10
52	755	For example, in some cities there are eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk, and in others, such as Brundisium, a major commercial port, a hundred tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.	10
4	192	In Brundisium 100 copper tarsks is commonly valued at a silver tarsk.	10
4	194	In Brundisium there are 100 tarsk-bits to the copper tarsk.	10
4	195	In many cities, Ar, Besnit, Thentis, Ko-ro-ba, and such, the tarsk-bit is more valuable, there being most often eight or ten to a copper tarsk.	10
4	256	She finally went for forty- eight, forty-eight copper tarsks.	10
4	258	She had fallen short of this by two full copper tarsks, but I was not disappointed.	10
4	260	She might just as well have brought a tarsk plus two, two copper tarsks over a silver tarsk.	10
5	253	I sold for forty-eight copper tarsks.	10
5	255	I am not familiar with what forty-eight copper tarsks might buy, other than it might buy one such as I.	10
6	74	She went for forty-eight copper tarsks, which was about what I thought she would bring, something in the nature of a half tarsk, of silver.	10
6	181	"In the current market you would bring no more than thirty- five, copper," I said.	10
8	42	I had inquired and learned that the offer to most was in copper tarsks, to the equivalent of a silver stater.	10
8	46	What lay in the north? Who were the mysterious Pani? Their agents seemed well supplied with gold, gold at a time when even copper would go far.	10
8	86	"Five copper tarsks, I would say," called another.	10
8	223	I wondered if a master would place bells on the other slave, the Earth slut, who had sold for forty- eight copper tarsks.	10
8	359	I included, as well, one copper tarsk-bit.	10
9	177	"Did not each of you receive the equivalent in copper tarsks of a silver stater of Brundisium?" There was assent to this amongst the men.	10
9	224	It is nice to know that one has some value, if only a handful of copper coins.	10
15	116	"A copper tarsk for the lot!" said the fellow on the tarn.	10
15	118	I had sold for copper.	10
15	258	What did you go for?" "I have heard," I said, "forty- eight copper tarsks".	10
16	130	"I could not get a copper tarsk for you, as you are".	10
21	10	They were large, rounded eyes, and they suddenly flashed like burnished copper, reflecting the firelight.	10
40	129	Or does she, and is she afraid? Does she know that what smolders in her belly are slave fires, put there by men, and that, in time, they will grow, and rage, and she will find herself their prisoner, ready to beg relief from men, in time, from any man? Perhaps a silver tarsk, and, say, twenty copper...	10
43	1167	Accordingly I retained your fee from the Laurius and the original fee gold dispensed to four women who no longer have need of it, and, as slaves, may now own nothing, not even a collar on their necks or a copper tarsk-bit".	10
52	483	Then I had been sold, as it turned out, to an agent for Pani, for forty- eight copper tarsks.	10
52	750	"That is more than forty-eight copper tarsks," I said.	10
53	84	"I would rather," I said, "Master dealt with leather or iron, fruit or grain, copper or tin, verr or kaiila".	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	112	Even a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl, would most likely bring between twenty and thirty copper tarsks in most markets.	10
19	9	To be sure, silver, gold, and copper also function as means of exchange in the islands, either in the form of marked coinages or as plates and bars.	10
30	80	On this string were seven or eight copper disks, each penetrated by a small, square opening, through which the string was threaded.	10
30	89	Copper, of course, and bronze, is seldom shaved.	10
31	135	Yasushi, in his search for missing foragers, had carried but two coins, and of bronze, folded in his sash, and Tajima, in his venture to obtain a slave, had carried but one, of copper.	10
46	97	The peasant drew a thread of copper coins from his wallet, removed from it a single, tiny coin, and held it up.	10
61	441	Ichiro had no more than a handful of copper.	10
61	447	"Perhaps," said Haruki to Lord Yamada, "I will sell her to this young man, for his fine handful of copper".	10
61	1273	"In such markets," she said, "girls go for copper!" "I know," I said.	10

Book 34. (31 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	156	I meant fifty copper tarsks, say, of the weight of the copper tarsk of Brundisium".	10
10	158	In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.	10
17	101	Might she not be further incensed? And, too, was I not a copper-tarsk girl, a mere copper-tarsk girl? The free woman spun about, to regard the fellow who had spoken, he in the white and gold of the Merchants, and his robes well draped.	10
24	147	"Surely at least some copper tarsks," I said, "perhaps a silver tarsk, perhaps, for a better slave, a piece of gold?" "Some pay in copper," he said.	10
42	128	Better to be an honest copper tarsk than a copper tarsk painted silver or gold, one pretending to be silver or gold".	10
5	140	"Copper tarsks," said a man.	10
9	463	"You are all only copper-tarsk girls," he said.	10
9	480	What, I wondered, might account for the alleged reservations of free women pertaining to slaves? "Copper-tarsk girls?" I said.	10
10	164	"Five copper tarsks," said the man.	10
10	169	"Forty copper tarsks".	10
10	175	Surely then you must recognize that forty copper tarsks is a splendid buy for this lovely beast".	10
10	208	"Twenty copper tarsks," said the fellow with the whip, now, again, somewhere before me.	10
14	252	"They do not buy with copper; they do not buy with silver; they do not buy with gold; they buy with steel," said Lysander.	10
16	152	"Am I truly only a copper-tarsk girl?" I asked.	10
17	143	He had thought of me, it seems, apparently quite naturally, as a pleasure slave! Perhaps then I was not a mere copper-tarsk girl, after all.	10
19	139	And what then of me, poor thing that I might be, assessed as a copper-tarsk girl, a pot girl, a kettle-and-mat girl? What had I to hope for, on this beautiful, perilous world? How subject we are to our masters! The whip is theirs.	10
26	30	One might accept a handful of copper tarsks to do justice, at least as he understands it, whereas another, for a purse of gold, might kill an administrator, murder a business rival, or eliminate a competitive legatee.	10
28	6	"Twenty copper tarsks for your slave!" laughed a man.	10
28	18	"Twenty-one copper tarsks then!" called out the fellow who had bellowed forth the supposed offer of twenty tarsks but a moment ago.	10
28	37	The coin had been dropped into the cup by the fellow who had made the supposed bids of twenty and twenty-one copper tarsks for me.	10
28	156	Kurik then took out a copper tarsk, and dropped it into my cup.	10
28	236	Copper tarsks, in that district, will be sufficient for such a purpose.	10
31	11	"Sixty copper tarsks!" I heard.	10
31	42	"Ninety copper tarsks!" I heard.	10
31	104	"He would think," said Kurik of Victoria, "sixty or seventy copper tarsks would be too much".	10
31	194	"I will give you twenty copper tarsks for her," said the fellow.	10
33	22	I held back a cry of alarm, for it seemed, for a moment, in the light of the lantern, that two bright, sudden, feral disks of copper blazed forth from the darkness.	10
33	49	Again glowed the eyes like burnished copper.	10
34	139	Thus, it is in the interest of the Kurii to enlist men to obtain them on Earth, and convey them to the steel world, copper, for example.	10
37	28	"Surely," she said, holding out her hand, opened, in the palm of which lay a copper tarsk-bit, "but why?" "You are far from the Teiban market," I said.	10
40	188	A potter such as Epicrates, as many in the lower castes, would usually deal in tarsk-bits, or copper tarsks.	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	230	"Do I hear a copper tarsk, a copper tarsk?" "A copper tarsk!" called a man.	10
3	237	The tarsk-bits of Brundisium, however, were individual tiny copper coins, either small disks or tiny droplets of copper.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	13	In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and theaters, friend...	10
27	25	"Had I bought a notched copper-tarsk ostracon," said Aktis, "I could have won ten copper tarsks".	10