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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	192	My father then explained to me something of the legends of the Priest-Kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the Priest-Kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effect, the divinities of this world.	10
6	158	After all, what did I expect? That she would thank me for saving her life? She had undoubtedly left me to the tharlarion, rejoicing in the luck of a Ubar's daughter, that her enemies might destroy one another while she escaped with her life.	10
15	193	If they do not, destroy the Stones".	10
16	76	"Pa-Kur will not destroy the city," I said, "and he will keep as much of his horde as he can".	10
19	123	"Destroy this rabble".	10
19	158	Pa-Kur withdrew coolly, meeting my attack effortlessly, letting me weary my sword arm; hating him, I admired him; wanting to destroy him, I acclaimed his skill.	10

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	43	It was the reflex of an animal whose instinct it is to destroy before it can be destroyed, or of a human being who has been tooled into such an animal, a human being who has been conditioned to kill swiftly, savagely, or be killed in the same fashion.	10
2	17	The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ...	10
11	52	Speaking to the Tatrix, but not turning the mask from me, she said, "Destroy the animal".	10
11	195	In that way he might at one time appear free from guilt and destroy the man who knew of his complicity".	10
22	13	"Didn't you buy me to destroy me?" she asked, bewildered.	10
22	135	So it was I hated you and wanted to destroy you because you threatened me and all that I was, and at the same time I hated you I feared you, and I desired you".	10
25	95	"Destroy him".	10

Book 3. (18 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	96	I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling pl...	10
4	119	"You are a Priest-King," I said, "why do you not simply lift your hand and destroy it?" "Of what use is a dead larl?" asked Parp.	10
8	77	It would be, in a way, a shame to destroy them, for they were rather beautiful.	10
16	25	"Why destroy a city?" "To conceal our motivation from Sarm," said Misk.	10
16	27	"Occasionally on Gor we destroy a city, selecting it by means of a random selection device.	10
16	50	"We keep in touch with the earth," said Misk, "for it might, in time, become a threat to us and then we would have to limit it, or destroy it or leave the solar system".	10
16	53	"According to our calculations, which may of course be mistaken, life as you know it on the earth will destroy itself within the next thousand years".	10
17	149	Sometimes we must wait until others are using the device for purposes of war and then destroy many men.	10
18	123	"Yet," said Sarm, "there are those who would destroy all this".	10
27	355	"Would you destroy it?" she asked.	10
28	243	The fire of silver tubes could damage and in time destroy the ship but yet its cage plastic offered considerable protection to its crew who might, with some degree of safety, mete out destruction to all that crossed its path.	10
28	254	"Sarm could destroy the Nest," said Misk, "even the planet".	10
29	158	Moreover, if I could bring it to the first Nest complex, Misk would probably destroy it on sight with his own disrupter.	10
30	20	I might be sent back among them to spy, to foil their plans, perhaps even to destroy, perhaps even to slay Misk, Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and other leaders, my friends all.	10
30	32	Otherwise I would be used as a weapon by Sarm, used to injure and destroy my friends.	10
31	106	"He is going to destroy the Nest," said Misk.	10
31	132	Sarm kept firing long, persistent bursts of fire at the paneling against the walls, undoubtedly attempting to destroy the instrumentation.	10
31	168	"But now," said Sarm, "I will destroy you".	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	17	And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Onc...	10
2	21	But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a...	10
7	220	Indeed their power, as I knew, was sufficient to destroy planets.	10
20	157	I must manage to seize it before the man with whom Saphrar had had dealings—the gray man with eyes like glass—could call for it—and destroy it or carry it away.	10
26	204	"Do not approach!" cried Saphrar, "or I shall destroy the golden sphere!" He tore away the purple cloth that had enfolded the golden sphere and then lifted it high over his head.	10
26	216	"If you approach I shall destroy this!" "No harm must come to it," I begged Kamchak.	10
27	43	I had thought that Kamchak might destroy the stone, thus breaking the heart of the city, leaving it in ruins in the minds of men.	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	416	"And we do not wish to destroy it immediately.	10
5	419	Further, if we destroy it, and it is a portion of a network, we will have lost valuable information on the degree of their dispersement and penetration".	10
13	240	Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and...	10
24	197	Many times did he send Assassins and spies, and tarnsmen, to the Voltai, to find me and my men, and destroy us".	10

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	138	Hunting sleen are trained to scent out and destroy escaped slaves.	10
11	144	The coup intended to destroy them, swift as the falling of the assassin's blade, had failed.	10
14	311	She is built for speed, and the capacity to destroy other shipping.	10
15	762	"You have destroyed me," I cried, "and now I shall destroy you!" I leaped to my feet, whipping the sword from my sheath and stood over her, the blade raised to strike.	10
17	196	Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage.	10

Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	17	The other ship had come, to destroy the first, but this might not be its world either.	10
10	308	The enemy was apparently content only to destroy the ship.	10
12	646	Accordingly, unless they wished to destroy the very goods they sought, their attack must be measured, and carefully calculated.	10
13	199	"Destroy the trap," said Ute.	10
13	284	Ute began to destroy, in the darkness, the small shelter of sticks and leaves we had constructed.	10
17	132	Accordingly, I sometimes, to my agony, tried to destroy in him those very feelings which I most dearly hoped he might, however unwillingly, entertain for a lowly slave.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	107	The men of Tyros, and Hura and Mira, wished to find and destroy the assailant who had struck down the man of Tyros the preceding evening.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	387	It was the practice of Priest-Kings to destroy the wrecks of such ships but, usually, at least, they did not attempt to hunt and exterminate survivors.	10
15	70	If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of Gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be smuggled to Gor...	10
15	72	Sooner or later, if Gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar.	10
17	156	The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ...	10
17	324	I wanted to tear, to cut, to strike, to destroy.	10
18	30	Now, however, indiscriminately, they sought to destroy all armed male humans.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	66	Surely, in but a few days, word that Aretai tribesmen had destroyed, or attempted to destroy, a well at Two Scimitars would spread like fire across the desert, inflaming and outraging men from Tor to the Turian outpost, merchant fort, and trading station of Turmas.	10
10	285	They would not destroy a well.	10
11	585	"Destroy them," she said.	10
11	588	"Destroy the palms, burn the buildings," she said.	10
12	389	"I shall call the guards, now," she said, "to enter and destroy you!" "But you will not then learn," I said, "what it is to be a woman, a true woman—at the mercy of men".	10
23	225	"No Aretai raided in this season, and had they done so, they would not destroy wells.	10
26	1206	The political ascendancy of the party which had been willing to destroy Gor, to secure the Earth, had, with the failure of their project, doubtless been brief.	10

Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1325	I did not wish to destroy the kerchief.	10

Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	25	Priest-Kings would not permit men to destroy Gor.	10
1	27	Perhaps it is hard to understand why they do not permit men to destroy Gor.	10
2	15	"Kurii were ready once," said I, "or some party of them, to destroy Gor, to clear the path to Earth, a world they would surely favor less.	10
2	393	"There you must seek out Half-Ear, and destroy him".	10
2	704	He could use it to destroy his enemies.	10
3	670	"I shall destroy you," had said Scormus of Ar.	10
4	106	"Scormus of Ar will destroy him," said a man.	10
4	201	"I shall destroy him," had said Scormus.	10
11	32	Their mission had been to destroy it.	10
11	169	I did not think it would take long to destroy the wall, surely not more than the days to the first passage hand.	10
11	227	"They labored well with the others to destroy the wall," I said.	10
35	132	"Did he ever speak to you of a device to destroy the complex?" I asked.	10
35	395	If I were successful in detonating or initiating the trigger sequence on the apparatus I sought I hoped that it would destroy only those parts of the complex in which the munitions and supplies were stored.	10
35	810	"I have searched for the lever or key, or wheel, or whatever it may be, which, manipulated or turned, will destroy this place".	10
35	1269	"Is there so much of value here," I asked, "that you would be willing to destroy it?" "The supplies here, and the disposition maps, the schedules and codes, will not fall into the hands of Priest-Kings," it said.	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	666	Without it, given to me by a dying Kur warrior, I doubted that I could have survived to prevent, some years ago, the detonation of the explosives in the steel tower, in the Tahari, explosives that were intended to destroy Gor and the Priest-Kings, that the path to Earth might be cleared for conquest...	10
5	667	But the faction that would have been willing to destroy one world to obtain another was, we speculated, no longer in the ascendancy on the steel worlds.	10
23	120	"Then destroy it," said Mwoga.	10
24	56	"Destroy it," said Ayari.	10
32	211	In their feeding they break down and destroy the branches and trunks of fallen trees.	10
33	48	"Thus," said Kisu, "in destroying Bila Huruma, I will destroy the empire".	10
53	34	A scratch from that ring would destroy a kailiauk in a matter of seconds.	10
53	469	"They will destroy the bridge," I said.	10
54	113	"Or destroy them," I said.	10
54	116	"Yes," he said, "some men make empires, and others would destroy them".	10
54	118	"I think," said Bila Huruma, "it is better to build than it is to destroy".	10

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	80	The ideal of the person was the antithesis to honest sexuality, a device to inhibit and reduce, if not destroy, it.	10
1	733	"They will undermine and destroy me".	10
2	249	"Free a woman," he said, "and she will try to destroy you.	10
3	267	One purpose they are commonly used for is to hunt down and destroy slaves.	10
7	982	The beast will walk at our side, or it will destroy us.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	136	She may even humiliate them and destroy them as men and with total impunity.	10
33	192	"Cutting the chain," I said, "they could, in one or more successive engagements, outnumber and destroy the defending ships".	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	389	"Has man," I asked, "the right to bring about his own downfall, to destroy himself".	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	376	"Let us destroy his lodge and break his weapons.	10
39	345	"Destroy the tarn pit," I said, "and address yourself to the task of concealing all signs of our activities here".	10
40	546	"No!" "And you have tried to weaken, to reduce and destroy true manhood," said Seibar.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	121	On Earth a woman may reduce, diminish and destroy a man with impunity.	10
36	311	"With her deceits, and blandishments, and charms, she may with impunity do much what she wishes, even destroy men.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	150	They can destroy Sa-Tarna fields and force their way into granaries.	10
16	1149	"But now I shall destroy you, swiftly and brutally".	10
16	1203	I shall destroy him.	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
22	324	"The armies of Ar," I said, "will destroy the forces of Cos and Tyros".	10
22	331	"The armies of Ar will destroy those of Cos and Tyros".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1601	If you are weak with them, they will take away your manhood and destroy you.	10
25	1378	Another danger, and perhaps one more serious, is that a misdirected response would be provoked in which, say, angry males, perhaps unable to take direct action because of the numerous, carefully wrought political traps and snares trammeling them, would think themselves, consciously or subconsciously...	10
25	2296	"Unable to be men," she said, "they try to destroy them.	10
26	1542	"You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men.	10

Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	544	"Yes," he said, regarding me, "you are a modern woman, one with intellectual pretensions, I see it now, certainly, one of those modern women who desire to destroy men".	10
3	971	"Destroy them," he said.	10
3	972	"I am not going to destroy men!" I said.	10
4	180	"You are a modern woman," he said, "and would destroy men".	10
4	182	"But you will not, I assure you," he said, "destroy men here, Modern Woman.	10
4	210	You envy men, and not being one, would try to destroy them".	10
4	212	"Yes," he said, "you are a modern woman, and would, like others, if you could, destroy men.	10
11	650	How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat...	10
29	359	It could destroy men.	10
34	175	It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".	10
34	190	"Freed, we will destroy you, and then ourselves," I said.	10
34	591	"You did not destroy it there!" "Perhaps from time to time in the villa," he said, "I will let you wear it, or less, when you serve me".	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	385	"Ar will destroy the Cosians in the north, and then destroy them in the south," said Marcus.	10
9	254	Lay down the whip, and we will attack you, and undermine you, and use your own laws, institutions and rhetorics to destroy you, inch by inch.	10
24	485	It can undermine and destroy the edifice of authority.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	306	"Did you not, only yesterday, destroy a rence village?" There was silence.	10
17	324	Rencers usually attempt to destroy such an animal, as it represents a particular menace.	10

Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	590	Once in Ar, several years ago, several free women, in their anger at slaves, and perhaps jealous of the pleasures of masters and slaves, entered a paga tavern with clubs and axes, seeking to destroy it.	10
9	303	"Treason!" "Your father sent men to the Voltai, to seek out and destroy Marlenus of Ar!" cried Talena.	10
11	146	"They came pretending to be collectors," said the merchant, "to rob me under this pretense, and dissatisfied with my inability to fill their purses, set out to destroy the shop and goods, and then two fellows whom I did not know, their features concealed in wind scarves, entered and did what you see...	10
12	27	Gorean civilization, you see, unlike some civilizations, was developed to abet and express nature, even enhance her, not to contradict, destroy, or poison her.	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
21	231	"'I should destroy this letter,' said the Ubara to me.	10
21	236	But, Master, she did not destroy the letter! She folded it carefully, and concealed it within her robes!" "I understand," I said.	10
21	237	I suspected that that letter was too precious to the Ubara for her to destroy it.	10
27	289	"She is a slave," I said, "not a free companion, who may not be touched, to whom nothing may be done, even if she turns your life into a torture, even if she drives you mad, even if she intends to destroy you, hort by hort".	10
27	502	"It was too beautiful to destroy," he said.	10
27	775	You come from a world where women may destroy you in a thousand ways, and you are forbidden to so much as touch them".	10

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	131	Did the moons of Jupiter not shatter the crystalline spheres? Destroy telescopes then, for they might see the truth.	10
14	1330	They know that if we are not kept there we will destroy them.	10
19	37	From them companies of tarn cavalry may be launched to intercept and destroy intruders.	10
24	254	But if they could not take the city, nor destroy it, what was their purpose in coming here? It must be gold, I thought, or women.	10
28	73	"Destroy the necklace," said the praetor's officer to the clerk.	10
29	735	Free women may make men miserable, and even attempt to destroy them, but slaves may not do so.	10
39	15	He seemed to have some sense of what, politically, educationally, and culturally, was being done to the men of Earth, to destroy them, and cripple them, and deprive them of their masculinity.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	179	"I am an Earth woman! You cannot whip an Earth woman! Earth women are never whipped! We are never punished, no matter what we do! Even if we ruin lives, and destroy men, we are never punished!" "Embonded women do not ruin lives and destroy men," he said.	10
18	215	On her old world, in what had been her city of residence, unauthorized scrawlings, blatant obscenities, defiling letterings, ignorant vandalisms and such were common, these things exhibiting hatred, incivility, a disrespect for property, a petty, ugly desire to defile, to destroy and such, but they ...	10
18	712	What a boon, what a privilege it is, to breathe such air, such exuberant air, to see such sights, so striking, so splendid and colorful, to taste fresh, natural foods, not aged and stale, not tasteless, not saturated with alien chemicals! And see how these men love their world and their cities, thei...	10
22	165	Generalized, it would falsify and degrade human life, destroy the gene pool, and lead to the termination of the human race.	10
24	619	I do not care! See her dance, as the slave she is! You sought to destroy her, to reduce and ruin her, but you have succeeded only in giving her the dearest, the most precious and greatest fulfillment a woman can know! I love being what I am, being joyfully, willingly, helplessly, given over wholly t...	10
27	3087	How naive he had been! It was not their intention to assist him in acquiring a particular property; it was rather their intention to destroy it.	10
28	190	"The beasts, and their allies," said Portus Canio, addressing himself to Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus of Ar's Station, "followed us, at least in part, it seems, to obtain and destroy this slave".	10
28	259	Thus, if they wished to destroy all three, it seems that this would be the time to strike".	10
30	677	All your laws then, your politics, your ideologies, your legal remedies, your petty threats, your thousand devices to obtain power, to control, reduce, tame and destroy men, would be useless.	10

Book 28. (18 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	138	"To destroy Priest-Kings and seize Gor?" "To free Gor," said Agamemnon.	10
24	199	"They will kill me," said Grendel, "or capture and destroy me, but if she appears innocent in all this she may be spared".	10
26	86	"Those alone might destroy your putative cohorts".	10
35	125	One Kur can destroy with his hands a hundred humans, and one with power weapons can slay thousands".	10
40	130	"It would destroy the world," said Cabot.	10
40	131	"Agamemnon, I am sure," said Lord Grendel, "if perceiving himself adequately threatened, would not hesitate to destroy this world".	10
40	200	"Humans are safe with the revolutionaries," said Lord Grendel, "as they are regarded either as allies or neutral, but those with the purple scarves will destroy all humans on sight".	10
44	16	"Would those outside wish to destroy this world?" asked Cabot.	10
46	145	"Some could destroy the world," said a Kur.	10
53	66	They would simply fire upon her, to destroy her on sight".	10
53	112	They did tend to hate Kurii, and their easily initiated murderous rages often targeted isolated Kurii, whom they would swarm upon, regardless of their own safety, and destroy as they could.	10
63	21	"He would destroy him, the most valuable and courageous of scouts," said another.	10
64	43	"She may be quiet now, but I fear she will watch," said Archon, "and, when the opportunity permits, destroy herself".	10
66	105	The blasts of our weapons would in moments destroy regiments, flood the plain with boiling water".	10
69	82	They petitioned the loyalists to destroy them where they stood, in honor, before the protesting, pleading Lord Arcesilaus.	10
69	131	"He would destroy the world, rather than have it no longer his," said Cabot.	10
75	47	For example, given the "kill" command the sleen will locate and destroy the quarry, given a "drive" command, it will conduct the quarry to a predetermined location, or, if the quarry should prove recalcitrant, tear it to pieces.	10
79	529	Perhaps I was once the tool of someone or something to demean or destroy you, or serve some purpose not known to me, I do not know, but I am no longer such.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	206	Later, in the insurrection, he, and other sleen, as Agamemnon grew more desperate, uncertain, and frightened, had been freed, that they might hunt down, destroy, and devour his foes, in particular ill-armed humans who might be party to the rebellion.	10
16	161	Two such victories may destroy an army, and ruin a state.	10
17	35	They would expect, in numbers, if in nothing else, to overwhelm and destroy a smaller force.	10
41	50	The narrow snout of the sea sleen, driven into the shark at great speed, can destroy the capacity of gills to extract oxygen from the water, and crush cartilage.	10
43	44	Depending on the commands issued, the sleen will either destroy and feed on the quarry, or drive it to a preappointed destination, usually a cage, the gate of which the quarry, if it wishes to live, must close, and swiftly, therewith locking itself within.	10

Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	69	Rumors were being spread by Lord Temmu's men, disguised as fishermen, herdsmen, and such, of new allies for Lord Temmu, strange warriors, arrived from far off, and, terrifyingly, of dragon birds, which might fly forth and destroy armies.	10
30	159	I did not know if Lord Yamada, or his generals, contemplated addressing the castle, or had come largely to destroy villages, and fields.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	22	The least of them, the weakest and most defective, armed with engineering, technology, and weaponry, could destroy the finest bands and prides of your Scarlet Caste, could reduce the mightiest walls to rubble, burn your ships like kindling, demolish to dust the loftiest of your fortresses.	10
29	216	"I think," I said, "they had an overweening confidence in your capacity to attack and destroy the band of the outlaw, Trachinos".	10
31	130	"I do not wish to destroy you," he said.	10
33	95	Doing so, of course, would be to repudiate the ends and principles for which he had earlier fought, and to ally himself with the very forces which had sought to destroy him and his party.	10
35	64	Their power makes clear their existence, for example the Flame Death, selectively used, usually to enforce the weapon and technology laws, the policing of the skies, to seek out and destroy intruding ships, the inability of tarns to fly over the palisaded Sardar, and such things.	10
39	38	The point of this, I gathered, was to gain access to the container so that he might, when the opportunity afforded itself, open it and destroy its contents.	10
41	28	The greatest victory of the insurgents had occurred on the ninth day of the insurrection, when they had managed to trap, attack, and destroy the most recent body of Agamemnon, the large, mobile, crab-like machine which had been, as it turned out, fearsomely effective in the halls.	10
42	30	I was helplessly and futilely angry with Grendel, whose faithlessness, and treachery, cruelty, and ambition, so shocking and dismaying me, had betrayed his friends, his principles, his honor, his allies, his brethren of a far world, Grendel who had used his cleverness to win greater prospects from t...	10
48	280	"It could not be as before, or it would destroy the contents of the box".	10
48	300	I will destroy it".	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	213	It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i...	10
37	180	Once this was done a stout raiding party might attack and destroy the ship, and withdraw with little, if any, loss.	10
39	207	It was planned then to dispatch a small, but swift, terrible force, perhaps only two hundred men, to destroy this ship before it could reach Thassa".	10
43	40	You admitted learning of a great ship, its apparent readiness for departure, and your intention to inform others of this, with the expectation that a small force, say, some two hundred men or so, would be soon dispatched to attack and destroy this ship, withdrawing almost immediately".	10
43	56	Some other force, apparently, wished to destroy the ship, thus precluding its voyage and any possible influence it, and its complement, troops, or such, might eventually bring to bear on certain distant, critical events.	10

Book 33. (23 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	44	It was easy to understand the reluctance of Yamada to destroy, or attempt to destroy, a fortress, castle, and holding as large and beautiful, and as nigh inaccessible and impregnable, as that of Lord Temmu.	10
2	34	If doubt could be cast on my loyalty who might trust who? A suspicion of betrayal in high places, particularly amongst one's commanders, can shake and divide units, destroy confidence, undermine morale, threaten discipline, and induce timidity and hesitation.	10
6	136	To be sure, some of it might be destroyed, but that was not likely, as Pani tend to be reluctant to damage or destroy objects and materials of value.	10
7	102	Pani would seldom destroy valuable objects, and most such objects, then, would be available to the intruders once the holding was taken.	10
11	245	"It is said that unless the house of Temmu yields to the house of Yamada the iron dragon will emerge from its den and destroy the house of Temmu".	10
12	269	"The readings are similar," said Daichi, "in a sense identical, namely, that the house of Temmu must yield to the house of Yamada, or the iron dragon will fly, and destroy the house of Temmu".	10
12	344	If the house of Temmu does not yield to the house of Yamada, it will emerge from its lair, will be awing, and will destroy the house of Temmu".	10
20	20	He had determined to destroy Sumomo as a failed agent.	10
42	236	I can trample and destroy him!" "How so?" I asked.	10
44	260	"Lord Yamada does not wish to destroy the holding," I said.	10
44	348	You may threaten to destroy the holding rather than surrender it.	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
45	171	What could we do to damage such a monstrous thing, let alone destroy it? It would be like trying to pull a Tur tree up by the roots, like pounding on a mountain with one's fists".	10
47	40	"Do you think that Temmu will destroy the holding, rather than surrender it?" asked Lord Yamada.	10
48	56	"The dragon can destroy the holding," said Lord Yamada.	10
50	135	Too, I suspected that vital parts of the machinery would be sealed away from the curious, and armed in such a way that any attempt to examine them would result in the destruction of the equipment and, doubtless, the release of a quantity of lethal energy, either in radiation or explosiveness, which ...	10
52	30	"Now," said Pertinax, "we use the ax, and destroy these things".	10
52	43	"Destroy the control apparatus," said Pertinax.	10
53	64	"He thinks the dragon will destroy the holding of Temmu," said Pertinax.	10
54	136	"We must destroy it".	10
54	146	"The device would doubtless self-destruct and simultaneously destroy its unwise interrogator".	10
54	183	There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or, often, to dis...	10
54	222	Lord Temmu would destroy the holding before allowing it to fall into the hands of Lord Yamada.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	284	It is not an easy thing to destroy, even if one wishes earnestly to do so.	10
33	633	What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des...	10
33	728	"Is voracious flame not stimulating? Does it not excite and stimulate, does it not, in all its brightness and heat, speak of violence and power, does it not rage as it wishes, go whithersoever it will, devour as it chooses, destroy what it pleases without heart, qualm, or conscience?" "Let us procee...	10
40	154	A free woman might be slain, mayhap, for she is free, but who would destroy a domestic beast, a kaiila, or a domestic beast as vital, as silken and soft, as helplessly inflammable, as a kajira?" "Yes, Master," I whispered.	10
42	165	Surely Lord Grendel, a creature of sensibility and taste, would be more likely, in disgust and rage, to destroy such an affront to nature than spare it.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	33	"Marlenus would own Brundisium, not destroy her!" I did not know who Marlenus might be.	10
5	34	"Marlenus is a madman who would destroy what he cannot own!" said Fina.	10
5	52	"They would not destroy the city for her," said another.	10
11	50	As the story goes, Cos and Tyros, some years ago, built, equipped, manned, and launched a mighty fleet, to destroy Port Kar, to be done at last with "the Scourge of Thassa".	10
20	102	After perusal, destroy this message.	10
42	222	Who would be so stupid as to cast aside seized loot or destroy a snared, vendible animal, particularly one likely to be attractive? Now, however, in virtue of what I had heard, I feared that such common assurances, so often relied upon, might no longer obtain.	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	When one wishes to steal fruit from a tree one does not destroy the tree.	10
1	206	"You have not come to steal it, to destroy it, to wipe Nicosia from the earth, to make her be as though she never was?" he asked.	10
5	57	"And that is why I am reluctant to destroy the bottles".	10
6	343	"But they have failed hitherto even to encounter the fleet of the so-called Bosk of Port Kar," said Clitus, "let alone engage and destroy it".	10
7	181	How much better for us that the authorities of Thera, or Cos, whose legal charge it was, utilizing the weapon of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, some twenty ships or so, should locate, engage, and destroy the corsair fleet.	10
21	65	"If," I said, "you could encounter and destroy the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar".	10
22	64	"You would foil them and destroy them," he said.	10
22	77	Now there were seven enemy ships, each of fifty-oars, a far more formidable fleet than the one we had managed to destroy by trickery.	10
41	109	"It would destroy such an island," said Thrasymedes.	10
45	122	The first act was the surprise of, and murder of, the tunnel guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted at our end of the tunnel, that tunnel which had been opened in the house of Tarchon, that through which mercenaries had sought to steal into the camp and overcome the gate guard, opening the gate to ...	10
51	115	"Another theory," said Sakim, "is that the hith scents warmth and blood, and its attack is not so much to destroy an intruder as to get at possible food".	10