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Defend

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	154	Rather, he suddenly launched a vicious attack, forcing me to defend myself as best I could.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	130	How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?" "You're drunk," I said, smiling.	10
3	134	I made no move to defend myself.	10
14	114	I knew that the warriors of Tharna would have to kill two of us, for the tarn would defend me to the death.	10
24	100	"The soldiers and guardsmen of Tharna are pledged to the Tatrix, but the Tatrix they defend is a traitress.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	58	"Frankly," said Misk, "it would be my recommendation to slay me first and then unlock the band and dispose of my body, for otherwise I might be tempted to defend myself".	10
32	310	I stood at the portal, sword drawn, to defend it against the larls should they attempt to enter.	10

Book 4. (9 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	3	So gambling all on the respect of the Wagon Peoples for the courage of men, I made no move to defend myself but, heart pounding, blood racing, yet no sign visible of agitation on my face, without a quiver of a muscle or tendon betraying me, I stood calmly erect.	10
5	10	I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.	10
9	418	I stood beside Kamchak, ready to defend him with my life, yet as startled as any in the room at what had been done.	10
9	473	"I will defend her," said Kamras.	10
21	117	In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death.	10
26	104	I caught sight of two warriors standing before it, ready to defend it.	10
26	107	The two men prepared to defend the portal.	10
27	59	"Each of you," he said, "the Kassars—the Kataii—the Paravaci—have your own bosk and your own wagons—live so—but in time of war—when there are those who would divide us—when there are those who would fight us and threaten our wagons and our bosk and wo...	10
27	140	"You gambled," I said, "when you did not surrender Turia—to return to defend the bosk and wagons of the Tuchuks—that the others, the Kataii and Kassars, would come to your aid".	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	178	He must defend, for his very life! With a trembling hand, the Vintner shoved his Second Spearman to the left, capturing the Player's First Spearman, which had not been defended.	10
18	410	Each of his limbs, and his throat, was separately confined, each chained individually to the wall, each chain running to a separate ring bolted in the stone; any one of the chains would have been sufficient to hold a man; I gathered that this prisoner must be unusual indeed; I observed, further, tha...	10
21	281	It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,...	10
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
23	117	"Defend yourself," I said.	10

Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	147	"It is with this," he said, "that peasants defend their holdings".	10
15	665	"Defend yourself," I said.	10
15	669	"Defend yourself," I screamed to him.	10
16	159	"I must defend it".	10
18	101	"Defend yourself!" he cried.	10
18	289	"Why have you come to defend my keep, and my holding?" I asked Samos.	10
18	313	Why had he come to defend my holding? Was he so irrational, so mad, so contemptuous of the value of his life? He did not belong here.	10
18	587	"If I do not please you," she screamed, "beat me or kill me!" He kissed her swiftly, and turned to defend a wall.	10
18	632	Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	159	I must defend my Home Stone.	10
11	15	I myself am an aggressive player, but against Marlenus it seemed always necessary to defend.	10
11	802	I could not defend myself.	10
17	22	The men of Tyros, as I had expected, had not elected to remain at the camp, to protect and defend the girls until they had regained consciousness.	10
17	57	She had stayed behind, to defend her fallen sisters of the forest.	10
22	181	The exception was the woman of Hura, named Rissia, who had remained behind to defend her fallen sisters, whom I had captured at the trail camp of Sarus.	10
22	800	It was her intention to defend her drugged sisters, to protect them".	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	187	I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor...	10
9	422	We have built our own cage, and defend it against those who would shatter its locks.	10
10	150	Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...	10
10	160	A young man, not more than sixteen, was preparing to defend himself against a large, burly fellow, bearded and richly helmeted.	10
10	179	It was, accordingly, up to him to defend, as best he could, against such a challenge.	10
18	31	Many were the men of Thorgard who fell beneath the teeth and steel of Kurii, and several were the Kurii who fell to the weapons of Thorgard's men, as they fought madly to defend themselves.	10

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	175	Whichever man I attacked need only defend himself; the other two would have a free instant, that of his defense, to make their own strokes.	10
5	292	"If there are so many Kavars about," I said, "and Ta'Kara, you do not have enough men to defend this caravan".	10
9	126	When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right leg; it is common for the slave to be placed...	10
11	294	Food supplies at the oasis are short, except for the stores in the kasbah, and supply lines are long, and difficult to defend.	10
11	314	The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death.	10
23	134	Now, I gathered, the Zevar and Arani had prevailed upon the Aretai command to defend the front lines of the left flank, or perhaps the Tajuks had merely come late, to discover their position occupied by others.	10

Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	479	We tried to defend the mistress.	10
14	378	I could scarcely defend myself.	10
20	256	I was then terrified, and tried to defend myself, as she struck me.	10
27	240	"It is not proper that you should attack with steel those who defend themselves with wood".	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	34	I do not defend it.	10
4	356	It did, however, place his Ubar on the same rank with the Ubara, where they might defend one another.	10
4	652	"You did not well defend your master," I said.	10
6	197	"Before I send men against one such as he," said the officer, "it will be to defend a Home Stone".	10
10	75	"It is difficult to defend against tarn attack, the sheets of burning oil to the sails".	10
11	75	I positioned my archers at the openings to the hall, with armed men to defend them.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	126	He could not then defend himself.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	704	I tried to defend myself.	10
26	24	He could not defend himself.	10
32	128	She is open before him, completely, her most delicate sensitivities revealed, publicly bared, irrecoverably and candidly exposed; she may not defend herself; she is at his sexual mercy.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	123	It will be impossible to defend its length against determined attacks.	10
33	177	"They are, however, held there to defend the town, if need be".	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	75	"Why, to defend the chain," I said.	10
9	345	One ship, in oared battle, cannot well defend itself against two.	10
19	443	For example, it can be useful in leading her about, either because of its ring, if it has one, to which a leash may be attached, or in connection with a leash with a snap lock, which can be placed about the collar itself; similarly it is useful, in connection with various forms of hardware, in faste...	10
20	341	The citadel of Ragnar Voskjard had been fled by its defenders, after the news of the battle at Victoria reached them, they knowing themselves too few to defend it against a concerted siege.	10

Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	594	Perhaps when the belief simply becomes too archaic, obsolete and unwieldy to defend, when it becomes simply preposterous and blatantly irrational to seriously continue to defend it, then, perhaps, if one still continues, compulsively, to defend it, one might speak of insanity".	10
3	73	The answer of the fool is the answer he has been taught to give, the answer he must continue to defend and beyond which he cannot see, an answer historically deriving from an ethos founded on the macabre superstitions and frustrated perversions of lunatics, an answer now co-opted to serve the intere...	10
13	596	He wants her that much, that he will own her and keep her, and defend her, as his property against all others.	10
16	110	"Do they not care to defend themselves?" he inquired.	10
16	126	The man held a shovel, but he had not raised it to defend himself.	10
16	209	He had not even raised his shovel to defend himself.	10
16	279	"Was it your intention to use them, to defend yourselves from the beast?" I asked.	10
16	343	Too, they would have been less able, presumably, to defend themselves than the soldiers.	10

Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	53	These lads, and lads like them, were set to watch the herds, not to defend them.	10
15	234	One's shield may choose not to defend one, if one is a liar".	10
28	321	"Fight! Defend the camp!" The lines spun about and the men of Mahpiyasapa, whooping and crying out, dust scattering, sped back under the ropes and between the lodges to engage this new enemy.	10
30	156	"His shield would not defend him," said Cuwignaka, in horror.	10
31	15	Dishonored, it would not defend me".	10
44	568	And as they lowered their shields to defend themselves against the almost point-blank fire of the Kaiila other Kaiila archers, from above, over the edge of the escarpment, fired down upon them.	10
44	588	We had not chosen to defend it.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	770	Yet, too, he had, with Menicius, risked his life in the camp of Miles of Argentum to free me, and he had sought desperately to protect and defend me in the inquiry with Claudius and the high council.	10

Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	271	"If you are magistrates," he cried, "know that I have come on this camp of brigands and, in cognizance of my jeopardy, was making ready to defend myself!" He looked about, wildly, drawing back another pace or so.	10
8	272	"Show yourself," he cried, "as befits your office, that of those who courageously do war with brigands, that of those who do nobly defend and support the law, or as plain honest men, if that you be, that I may ally myself with you, that we may then offer to one another, no, then pledge to one anothe...	10
8	278	A falling out occurred here in which I was forced to defend myself.	10
12	28	"If you do not defend, it will be capture of Home Stone on the next move".	10
12	50	"How would you choose to defend?" he inquired.	10
12	667	I could stand it no longer! I took it upon myself, risking my own life, to stop him, to defend your honor!" "Is this true?" inquired Boots of the player.	10
16	132	"Do you doubt my capacity to defend these damsels to the death, against even armies?" asked Petrucchio.	10
19	3	They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own...	10
20	18	That was more than it had had to defend itself in its own ordeals.	10
21	174	Apparently, anticipating your interest in the quarters of the ubar, he had come here, to defend the bridge, to keep you safe.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	378	"You would not defend your lading, your freight?" I asked.	10
16	964	The mother cried out, softly, and drew her legs up more, but did not attempt to defend herself, nor to return the blow.	10
16	1218	I, too, then, I fear, had she been armed, might have had to defend myself.	10
22	19	That would make it easy to defend, I thought.	10

Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	574	"Defend me!" But he, both hands on the hilt of his sword, holding it at rest now, pointed downward, backed away.	10
29	754	"Do you think, in your condition, you can adequately defend her?" asked Hendow.	10
29	755	"I will defend her to the death!" cried Mirus.	10
29	910	It is difficult to strike a man, I gather, who is primarily concerned to defend himself.	10
29	913	"Kill him!" Mirus could not defend himself.	10
29	916	Hendow turned to defend Mirus, and did so, stopping the assailant, spitting him on his blade, but, in doing this, of course, as the bearded man had doubtless hoped, he had opened his own guard.	10
29	1593	Mirus thrust Tupita behind him, and held his sword, ready to defend himself and the slave.	10
30	74	And, too, from the woman's point of view, she so helpless, so close to him, so much at his mercy, unable to defend herself, or even to feed herself, dependent on him for her very food, this produced a sense of distinct unease, and arousal.	10
31	104	In it the female is fastened in a position of subservience, cannot rise to her feet, is well displayed, cannot defend herself, and is utterly helpless.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	208	"I will defend you, as I can," I said.	10
16	320	Surely men should be drawn up from below to help defend the wall.	10
17	644	I could not well defend it, not indefinitely, not against quarrels, as well, with no shield.	10
18	469	We had to defend that break in the wall for Ahn.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	937	"Guard me! Protect me! Defend me! I cannot protect myself! I cannot defend myself! I am a female.	10
1	263	Such precautions serve primarily to defend against attacks of tarnsmen.	10
3	611	Chained, it would be difficult to defend oneself from such a creature.	10
13	56	In this fashion he could both prevent my escape and free his hands to deal with, or defend himself from, fugitives.	10
17	161	"Defend yourself!" I heard the clash of metal.	10
19	198	If I lost my footing I could lie on my back and defend myself, as I could, with the blade.	10
19	200	I suspected I could probably defend myself from that approach.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	132	"I do not think Ar will choose to defend itself," I said.	10
6	2	"Ar will defend herself to the death," said a man.	10
8	882	One need only engage and defend, and the other strike.	10
10	110	"You would defend Talena of Ar?" he asked.	10
14	388	"Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you to keep them that way! Arres...	10
16	40	Eventually, under his tutelage, I had become proficient with the weapon, enabled at any rate to defend myself with some efficiency.	10
17	24	His fundamental metaphor in terms of which he would defend himself from the glory and mystery of the world is neither the machine nor the die.	10
22	132	In virtue of it, I thought I might be able to defend Lavinia, if necessary, without calling too much attention to myself, in particular, without identifying myself as her likely master.	10

Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	642	I did not think it would be difficult to defend such passageways.	10
11	1575	The point of the high bridges seems to be twofold, first, they are lovely in their traceries against the sky and between the cylinderlike buildings, and such things are important to these people, who seem to have an unusually developed aesthetic sense and, second, they have military value, inasmuch ...	10
24	213	The defenses of this part of the city, I gathered, had been drawn away, to defend the pens.	10
24	465	The men at the stairs, as far as I knew, had not had to defend them, unlike the men at the bridge.	10
31	251	"Then those who are of Ar must defend her," said the peasant.	10
31	254	"Are you not of Ar? Must you, too, not defend her?" "Is it time for the planting?" asked the peasant.	10
31	255	"Must you not defend Ar?" asked the leader of the black-tunicked men.	10
31	377	Why would you defend this monster?" "We share a Home Stone," said the officer.	10
31	680	He could not defend himself, he substantially defenseless now, against these blades.	10
31	682	Too, as he would move to defend himself on one side, the other would close.	10
37	976	The condition of the body, on the other hand, shows that it was not attacked by urts until either it was dead or unable to defend itself.	10
38	172	"I will defend the Home Stone while yet a Spearman remains," said the other, irritably.	10
41	17	I wanted to be there, where I might run through the streets in a tunic and collar, where I might drink water from the lower basins, where I might press through crowds, carrying a package or vessel upon my head, unable to defend myself against the touches of men, who might touch me as easily as one m...	10
44	276	This was not merely a matter of their much greater size and strength, enabling them to handle us as though we might be children, enabling them to do with us as they wished, nor was it a matter merely of the implacability of our bonds, denying us even the most meaningless opportunity to try to defend...	10
46	300	"Do you think you could seize it, lift it, and, before I could resist, or defend myself, plunge it into my heart?" "I have no wish to injure my master," I said.	10
46	317	"Could you now thrust downward before I could resist, or defend myself?" he asked.	10

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	527	And there is none to defend or shield the slave, you see, from the master.	10
17	281	In the present arrangement, as she would later come to understand, later in the afternoon, she was allowed enough latitude to squirm and writhe, but not enough to defend herself.	10
17	642	"You can see that I am chained! You can see that I am helpless! You can see that I cannot protect myself, or defend myself! You see that I cannot, in any way, prevent you from doing whatever you wish with me.	10
27	446	You two with spears defend the bowmen while they prepare their bows for a second flight".	10
27	743	The ropes now were not those of Selius Arconious, her master, in which she might have been left alone, to simmer in his absence, well aware of her bound limbs, or squirmed in anticipation, delighting in her helplessness, and readying herself for his caresses, against which she would be helpless to d...	10
27	2984	What he said he said in his own tongue, but surely it was an utterance eliciting carnage for the beasts lunged toward the men who, startled, half paralyzed, could scarcely defend themselves.	10
27	3050	The rent sleen had given their lives to defend him, who was only a rent master.	10

Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man the walls and d...	10
13	77	He reached to the sheathed dagger he wore at his hip, and Cabot prepared to defend himself, a second time.	10
13	93	The men about put their weapons to the ground, the weapons facing away from him, as though he might be ringed with points arranged to defend him, or to be directed by him.	10
17	24	When one tried to defend itself from a sharpened stick three or four other humans, like sleen hanging on the flanks of a larl, drove their points deep into hairy bodies.	10
18	7	They like to own, and master, their women, and fully, and even to the whip, but, too, they will commonly go to great lengths to care for them, to nurture them, and defend them.	10
18	130	He elected, thus, to climb a small escarpment, some thirty feet from the ground, which would slow sleen in their ascent, and, with good fortune, allow him to defend himself for a time with the sharpened stick or pole, were the sleen loosed.	10
19	110	He did not have even his pointed stick with which to defend himself.	10
21	216	The cattle did not defend themselves, though several now fled wildly, clumsily, terrified, about the arena, pursued swiftly by the youthful predators with their colorful ribbons.	10
21	313	"I gather he must now, if he wishes to keep her, or save her, defend her?" "Assuredly," said Peisistratus.	10
21	407	Grendel then rose to his feet, slowly, deliberately, and, as the crippled attacker watched, and lifted his arms to defend himself, Grendel struck down with his bar, shattering through the fending arms, and breaking the head open as one might have beaten a hammer into a crusted larma.	10
21	419	The crowd was howling with rage, but the four continued to advance, and began to spread themselves about, to encircle Grendel, and he could not, of course, defend the pet on more than one side.	10
21	632	It then, slowly, foot by foot, heavy in the sand, approached Lord Pyrrhus, who made no move to flee, or to defend himself.	10
21	639	Still Lord Pyrrhus, again and again, staggered to his feet, and made no effort to either flee or defend himself.	10
47	226	"I will defend her, to the death," said Lord Grendel.	10
52	34	Those who do not defend themselves die, and fall amongst the litter of their virtues.	10
62	27	"Have you not planned for that," asked Cabot, "by demonstrating his concern for the welfare of the much-hated traitress, the Lady Bina, his defense of her against the human, Cestiphon, and urging her trial, conviction, and execution, confident that Grendel would defend her, and thus die with her?" "...	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	189	Tarn wire, for example, sometimes used to "roof a city," to defend it from tarn attack, is almost invisible, and can easily cut the wing from a descending bird.	10
13	88	Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od...	10
14	113	For defense, primarily, a light buckler might defend against the spear, and, possibly, some arrow fire.	10
18	28	When charged they melted away only to reform again in a circle of death, where the turning warrior, confused and frightened, could defend himself on only one side.	10
22	250	It is difficult for even a fine swordsman to defend himself against even two assailants, for one need only engage, setting the target, so to speak, and the other strike.	10
25	103	Against such mindless puppets, such naive fools, such lunatics, manipulated by those who send them forth, sitting safe in their mountain fastness, safe in their lair of prevarication and deceit, it is difficult to defend oneself.	10
30	69	"How can the ship defend itself?" I asked.	10
38	30	Clearly the shield cannot be used simultaneously to defend one both from the air and the ground.	10
40	20	Too, it is difficult to defend oneself from low-flying tarns, attacking in concert, from two or three sides at once.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	23	Who will deny to the tiny ost the shield and threat of its venom, who convince the tarsk boar to put aside his short, curved tusks? How will the unarmed larl defend his territory, or life; how would the unarmed sleen defend its burrow, its brood, its life? Who most desires you to be disarmed? He who...	10
3	233	It is important that the subject population be as helpless as possible, that it be unable to defend itself, that those sovereign in the state may thus impose their will, their exactions and abuses, with impunity upon it, having then nothing to fear from the weak, the disarmed, the unprotected, and d...	10
3	658	The crossbow, even the stirrup variety, loads slowly, and there is little danger from the quarrel if one need only defend oneself from a single direction.	10
3	666	At last I had a man to defend me.	10
9	202	The narrowness of the corridors, which one or two men might plausibly defend, and the lowness of the ceiling, and the dangling lamps, discouraged a more frenetic, disorderly passage.	10
14	121	"Defend yourself," said Seremides.	10
15	113	Tereus looked at me, and he, and his fellows, lifted their belts and ropes, and I prepared to defend myself.	10
23	65	Finally the deck watch, disgusted at this bullying, this attempt to intimidate and threaten a substantially helpless man, castigated Tereus roundly and ordered him away, that he might desist in such unmanly, unseemly behavior, wanton abuse, inflicted upon an unfortunate who could not be expected to ...	10
24	163	There is none to defend them, none to save them.	10
36	322	"He who surrenders the means to defend himself delivers himself into the hands of his enemies".	10

Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	412	She has no self to defend, no honor to preserve, no person to strive to keep isolated and inviolate.	10
8	1834	One thing I did not realize originally about your bridges is the military utility involved in their design, that they may be blocked and defended by small groups of armed men; five may defend against a hundred, because of the hundred only five can engage at a time.	10
10	1063	Thus, on the left, you are better positioned to defend yourself, if necessary.	10
15	201	Blind, unable to defend itself save erratically, awkwardly, it must have been struck an innumerable number of times.	10
15	239	A narrow space is one in which it may be difficult to defend oneself, and a space with but a single opening is a space in which one might be cornered, or trapped.	10
20	183	"We cannot well defend ourselves against eleven men," said Desmond.	10
48	196	"Did none defend me? Did none fight for me?" asked the container.	10
49	134	Our own gang must be formed to defend our supplies and other goods.	10
49	165	Indeed we have mentioned how those of the gangs which had formed in the Cave after the onset of anarchy had made it a point to acquire and defend portions of this wealth, each gang as much as possible.	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	70	"Surely Master can defend me, and keep me," she said.	10
10	120	"You did not allow him the opportunity to defend himself," I said.	10
11	105	What can one do to defend oneself, if one is bound, and on a rope? One might as well be a tethered verr.	10
48	105	Even a small sleen, I knew, will defend its food dish in the face of a larger animal.	10
52	347	If you turn to defend yourself against him, you will be open to my blade".	10

Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	429	Let him hurry back to defend his homeland.	10
8	24	Great Yamada delays, to make more certain of the incapacity of the garrison to defend itself".	10
10	13	The wild tarn will defend its nesting site against larls and sleen.	10
10	238	"Perhaps as they hurry south to defend the holdings of Yamada, we will see them below, on the road, on our return," said Lysander.	10
15	36	The Night Singers were now afield, but would return in the evening to proclaim and defend their small territories.	10
45	69	In temperament the Kurii tend to be imperialistic, tenacious, ambitious, and fierce, and the Priest-Kings, on the whole, tend to be pacific and nonaggressive, content, on the whole, to defend their world, rather than seek out Kurii in their strongholds and methodologically destroy them.	10
54	248	"The success of such an attack would be unlikely," I said, "if the dragon chose to defend itself.	10
59	273	But no straight thrust would follow that feint, for in the instant his blade was occupied in this subterfuge, lowered, threatening, the arm extended, I did not move to defend but struck over the lowered blade, striking to the right wrist.	10
60	121	"He cannot defend himself!" said Pertinax.	10
60	337	"I would defend it as long as I could, but I fear it is doomed".	10

Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	333	Would my master not defend me against such abuse? But it seemed he did not care to do so.	10
46	380	Too, of course, Lord Grendel, lured away, would not be present to defend her.	10
60	253	Too, perhaps Tyrtaios would not strike a man who refused to defend himself.	10
61	823	"Consider a desperate assault on the box of honor, where the noble Albus lies helpless, unconscious, unable to either flee or defend himself, an assault by several assailants.	10
61	829	"A hundred men would defend him!" said a second officer.	10
61	830	"How many of you fellows," asked the Lady Bina, "would gladly sell your life to defend Decius Albus?" Clearly the response was less than overwhelming.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	311	It is hard not to be aware, as a purchasable object, of the desire and lust in the tiers, against which one will be helpless to defend oneself.	10
11	15	It seems that the Rencers adopted the peasant bow, a weapon used in peasant villages on the continent to maintain and defend the freedom and sovereignty of the villages.	10
38	99	Who means you well, and who means you ill? What are the parameters of time and space? How swiftly may troops be moved, and over what distances? Where is water in the desert? When, given ice and storms, can mountain passes be negotiated? Should one attack or defend, advance or withdraw? The dark is d...	10
41	199	Were all these as unconscionable and traitorous, as disloyal and opportunistic, as Addison Steele? "Defend yourselves!" cried Addison Steele.	10
42	41	Given the size, weight, and height of the barricade, that militating against its swift dismantling, and the unreliability of its footing should one attempt to climb it, a small number of men was sufficient, at least for a time, to defend it against a much larger force of attackers.	10
42	114	"We shall withdraw to the other side of the barricade, and defend a stairwell.	10

Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	32	To defend one Home Stone is to defend all Home Stones".	10
1	172	"Perhaps we should have retained the means to defend ourselves," he said.	10
1	185	They need only convince the ruled that being helpless is desirable, that it is in their own best interest, that a desire to protect oneself is benighted and shameful, an evidence of civic distrust, of moral ignorance and iniquity, even that an inability to defend oneself is rightfulness and salvatio...	10
17	407	In this braceleting a woman is helpless, unable to resist, unable to protect or defend herself, unable to fend off the hands which may now delightfully trace, grasp, and caress her vulnerable, undefended beauty.	10
20	19	It is not criminal to be ready to defend oneself.	10
41	169	"It requires great courage to cling to a ladder with one hand and try to defend oneself with the other, against burning pitch, axes, jabbing blades, cast stones, and such.	10
41	233	"Then," said Thrasymedes, "the collapsed wall at that point would be as easy to defend and repair, as in the familiar case of a blow resulting from the strike of one of the great engines".	10
42	26	"None defend the gate," said a man.	10
42	129	It was a butchery of men crowded together, who could scarcely lift their weapons to defend themselves.	10
43	32	"Too, the inner ditch is a more secure location, more so than the outer ditch, one easier to defend, lest an excursion take place from within the walls of Mytilene".	10