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Distance

Book 1. (23 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	30	In the distance I could see hills covered with some type of green vegetation, but I could not determine whether or not it was grass.	10
2	179	Parts of outlaws and fugitives who have sought refuge in them have been found on the plains below, like scraps of meat cast from an incredible distance to the beaks and teeth of wandering scavengers".	10
3	170	I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards.	10
4	43	He pointed back toward the city, which was now several miles in the distance.	10
4	60	"I had a full pasang start, and yet you passed me!" The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to.	10
4	94	"A member of the Caste of Assassins," said the Older Tarl, gazing at the retreating speck in the distance.	10
5	64	Abruptly I changed course, drawing on the four-strap, guiding my tarn toward the blue, shimmering wave of a mountain range in the distance.	10
6	27	From a short distance away I heard the shouts of men and the clank of arms as warriors raced up the stairs to the roof.	10
6	43	She was now clear of the roof, swinging free below the tarn, with the lights of Ar dropping rapidly into the distance below her.	10
7	9	She looked at me, stunned, and backed away, being careful to avoid Nar by a safe distance.	10
7	218	At that distance he could not have missed, and if he had fired at that range, most probably the quarrel would have passed through my body and disappeared in the woods behind.	10
9	176	Behind them, stretching into the distance, came a long line of broad tharlarions, or the four-footed draft monsters of Gor.	10
11	2	Now, in the distance, we could hear the muffled roar of the mighty Vosk.	10
12	88	The Vosk became a broad, glimmering ribbon in the distance.	10
13	8	In the far distance I could see the silver wire I knew must be the great Vosk, could see the abrupt shift from the grassy plains to the Margin of Desolation.	10
13	22	The hunting cry was answered from elsewhere in the peaks and then again from a farther distance.	10
13	27	Momentarily it was answered, once from about two pasangs to the west and once from about the same distance to the southwest.	10
16	97	I made my way to the interior perimeter of the second ditch, opposite the great gate of Ar in the distance.	10
17	60	Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening.	10
18	62	I noted with repulsion that on the roof of the Cylinder of Justice there shimmered a public impaling spear of polished silver, some fifty feet high, gleaming, looking like a needle in the distance.	10
18	65	I streaked from the walls of Ar, noting with dismay that the procession of Pa-Kur was only a short distance from the great gate.	10
19	175	In the distance the camp of Pa-Kur was in flames.	10
19	234	In the distance Pa-Kur's camp was only a framework of blackened poles.	10

Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	53	There was a knot of people who had gathered, standing a safe distance away on the sidewalk.	10
2	9	In the distance I could see some patches of yellow, the Ka-la-na groves that dot the fields of Gor.	10
2	11	To the right, in the far distance, I saw the smudge of mountains.	10
4	45	In the far distance there was a sudden flash of lightning, and the sound of remote thunder reached me some seconds later.	10
6	41	As I was pondering these matters, I observed, approaching me, but not seeing me, in the distance, moving across a green meadow, a dark figure, that of a woman.	10
7	13	At that distance he would not be likely to miss.	10
7	82	I heard a bird cry in the distance.	10
15	17	I watched the pasangs flow by below, and saw Tharna disappear in the distance.	10
15	48	In the distance, perhaps some forty pasangs away, I saw a set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talenders, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens.	10
16	1	The Pillar of Exchanges Guided by the Tatrix, in perhaps no more than thirty minutes, we saw, gleaming in the distance, the Pillar of Exchanges.	10
16	98	In the distance I saw a flying speck, which would be the tarn.	10
20	72	* * * * Some four days after I had recovered the tarn, we sighted in the distance the Sardar Mountains.	10
20	89	There seemed to be a menace, an intangible fearful effect about those angular shapes in the distance.	10
20	137	I watched it until, a tiny speck against the blue sky, it disappeared in the distance.	10
23	112	It was late in the afternoon of the fifth day that we saw in the distance the gray walls of Tharna.	10

Book 3. (17 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	12	And only with harsh words could I drive it away, and when it disappeared in the distance, puzzled, perhaps hurt, I wept.	10
4	111	In the far distance, perhaps from some passage leading away from the Hall of Priest-Kings, I heard the roar of a larl.	10
6	124	Suddenly in the distance I heard the rumble of the gong which I had heard before in the Hall of Priest-Kings.	10
11	92	Usually the breathing cycle, unless one is quite close and listens carefully, cannot be heard, but in the present case I could hear quite clearly from a distance of several feet the quick intake of air through the eight tiny, tubular mouths in Sarm's abdomen, and its almost immediate expellation thr...	10
13	90	All three of us stared down the hall after the girl, but she had now disappeared in the distance.	10
19	19	I calculated the distance between myself and Sarm and wondered if I could reach him and kill him before he could bring his jaws into play, or those formidable blades on his forelegs.	10
19	55	"By the way," I asked, "how does one kill a Priest-King?" As I asked this I found myself unconsciously measuring my distance from Sarm.	10
21	31	We listened carefully and in the distance it seemed we heard, incredibly enough, the mournful singing of human voices, as though of many men, and the sound was as we determined by listening for a minute or two gradually nearing.	10
27	50	The only Priest-King in the Nest who could have recognized me immediately, and perhaps from a distance, was probably Misk, who knew me not as a Mul but a friend.	10
27	330	He withdrew and stood watching us from some distance away, not moving, as still as the others, like a thousand statues of tortured gold.	10
28	248	My senses were reeling but now in the distance I could hear cries and shouts, the screaming of the dying, the unutterably horrifying noises of the broken, the torn and maimed.	10
29	65	From this distance I could see hatches in the ships, on the top, and there was sufficient oxygen in the complex to permit exposed visual observation, but none of the Priest-Kings peered out of any of the hatches.	10
31	105	In the distance we could hear the domed side of a complex begin to crumble, raining down huge blocks of stone on the buildings beneath.	10
32	64	I saw Kusk in the distance, and both Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, followed by their women, began to walk towards him.	10
32	69	In the distance we could hear dull explosions and the crash of falling rock.	10
32	86	Then together we watched the ship float swiftly upward like a small white star and disappear in the blue distance beyond.	10
33	19	I had apparently slightly misjudged the distance.	10

Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	18	In the distance, to one side and the other, I could see other human beings, running, carrying burdens, driving animals with sticks, fleeing.	10
1	43	I looked into the distance, from which these fleeing multitudes, frightened men and stampeding animals, had come.	10
1	46	Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples.	10
1	60	Now there seemed to be fewer men and animals rushing past, scattered over the prairie; only the wind remained; and the fires in the distance, and the swelling, nearing roll of dust that drifted into the stained sky.	10
1	67	I began to walk toward the dust in the distance, across the trembling ground.	10
2	54	I was surprised at the distance I had been from the herds, for though I had seen the rolling dust clearly, and had felt and did feel the shaking of the earth, betraying the passage of those monstrous herds, I had not yet come to them.	10
8	355	Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, streaked for the black lance in the distance.	10
10	19	Dina, though she was slave, I had placed on the saddle before me, her legs over the left forequarters of the animal, and had ridden with her from the wagons, until in the distance I could see the gleaming, white walls of Turia.	10
10	23	I pointed into the distance.	10
10	83	When I had lifted her to her feet I noted, in the distance, a bit of dust moving from one of the gates of the city towards us, probably two or three warriors mounted on high tharlarion.	10
13	233	Then I too heard it, the winding of a bosk horn in the distance, and then another.	10
14	11	Then the women climb to the top of the high sides on the wagons and watch the war lanterns in the distance, reading them as well as the men, seeing if the wagons must move, and in what direction.	10
14	43	In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.	10
15	10	In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour...	10
18	82	I ran over the iron framework until, judging by the distance and curve of the dome, I had reached a point above where Harold and I had waited at the edge of the pool.	10
23	106	At a distance of little more than a dozen feet thousands of arrows were poured into the trapped Paravaci and yet they pressed forward, on and over their brethren, and then, arrows spent, we met them on the wagons themselves with lances in our hands, thrusting them back and down.	10
23	126	We watched the milling of kaiila and riders in the distance, the movement of standards.	10
24	6	I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.	10
25	225	I did, however, measure the distance between us, an experiment in speculation, and decided I could reach her in one bound and in one motion, with luck, land her on the rug.	10

Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	3	In the distance he could see the white walls, and some of the towers, of the city of Ko-ro-ba, which was being rebuilt.	10
5	149	In the distance far below, and to the right, I could see, through the cloud cover, the black, snow-capped crags of the Sardar.	10
5	223	But, from a central, guarded panel, and from individual transmitters, those of their owners, a signal may be transmitted which causes the two bracelets and the two anklets to immediately snap together at the flat plates, thus, even at a distance, binding the slave.	10
7	187	In a moment the tarns left the rocky ledge, and in another moment or two, in the distance, I could see the lights of distant Ar.	10
12	100	Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...	10
12	144	There were various races to follow but the afternoon sun was now below the roof of the central cylinder in the distance and I decided to leave the races.	10
13	216	The tavern, like the Capacian Baths, was within fair walking distance of the stadium.	10
18	475	At this distance the bolts would pass through my body, shattering against the stones behind me.	10
19	19	Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b...	10
21	1	The Stadium of Blades Outside, as though from a distance, I could hear the roar of the crowd packed into the tiers of the Stadium of Blades.	10
22	171	The bird of the Blues raked downward, with talons that could have torn Mip from the saddle, but Mip had judged the distance superbly.	10
22	245	In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings.	10
22	574	In the distance I heard singing, a song of Ar's glory; in the stands the song was picked up.	10
23	187	I saw, in the distance, something large on the back of a great tarn, humped, shaggy.	10
24	489	Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.	10

Book 6. (20 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	58	The shaft, at the distance, passed completely through his body, flashing beyond him and vanishing among the rushes and sedges in the distance.	10
1	35	Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...	10
6	198	In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island.	10
7	100	I knew the distance involved and what she might do.	10
8	171	Somewhere in the distance I heard the grunting of tharlarion.	10
11	10	Outside, in the distance, through the great door, flung open, I heard cries of alarm, and the clash of weapons.	10
11	93	I could see, even at the distance, leaping from the prow of the ship to the tiles of the piazza, running across the large, oblique-looking, colored squares toward the Hall of the Council of Captains, the great Thurnock, with his yellow bow, followed by Clitus, with his net and trident, and by Tab, w...	10
14	243	After a quarter of an Ahn, in the distance, I could see her, at last, come about.	10
17	2	It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon.	10
17	73	Meanwhile, of course, the numerous bowmen, and the men at the springals, catapults and onagers would be keeping up a heavy fire, the more devastating, the closer the distance.	10
17	89	I kept in reserve fifty-five tarn ships, which, simultaneously with the fifth wave, that of the flanking fleets, would draw within signal distance of the Dorna.	10
17	141	Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos.	10
17	145	I knew only that I was cold, and that I was alone, and that, far in the distance, men were fighting, and so, too, would others.	10
17	178	And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna.	10
17	216	The command ship of the reserves heaved to within hailing distance of the Dorna.	10
17	221	I turned the glass again to the west, to the smoke in the distance.	10
17	230	It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.	10
17	428	I could see ships burning in the distance.	10
18	147	In the distance we could see rocky beaches, and grass and brushland beyond, and beyond that, a woodland, with Tur and Ka-la-na trees.	10
18	280	It had helped to keep besiegers at their distance.	10

Book 7. (27 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	473	I switched off the lights on the Maserati and whipped off the road, moving toward some patches of trees in the distance.	10
4	120	"This device," he said, "transmits a signal, which can be picked up by our equipment at a distance of one hundred miles".	10
5	23	I was in a field of some sort, but there were trees, tall and dark, in the distance.	10
5	27	In the distance, away from the forest, I could see a yellowish thicket, it, too, of trees, but not green, but bright and yellow.	10
5	31	In the distance, near the yellowish thicket, I saw a small, yellowish animal moving, delicately.	10
5	163	The dark forest was behind the ship, in the distance.	10
5	165	Somewhat more to the left, in the distance, in the fields was the yellowish thicket I had seen earlier.	10
5	177	I had not run far when I stopped, for, in the sky, in the distance, I saw a swift, silverish, disklike object.	10
6	91	Drifting through the air, unmistakable, though coming from some distance, was the sound of a shout, a human voice.	10
7	380	We also heard, in the distance, some bosk bells.	10
8	177	They were far off, but even from the distance I found myself frightened.	10
8	950	Beyond the fire, in the distance, like an irregular margin, a torn, soft, dark edge hiding the bright stars of Gor, I could see the lofty, still blackness of the borders of the northern forests.	10
8	1142	From a distance it would appear that they sat about the fire.	10
8	1161	From a distance it might appear they were merely sitting about the fire, celebrating, two Kajirae at their feet.	10
8	1192	I shook my head, No! Without looking back she then strode, spear in hand, from the camp, toward the dark forests in the distance.	10
10	305	We removed your identification anklet and hid you in the grass, some distance from the ship.	10
12	94	We heard music in the distance, trumpets, drums and cymbals.	10
12	618	Ute saw them before I did, in the distance.	10
12	621	"Tarns!" In the distance, in a set of four, long, narrow, extended "V's," there came a flight of tarnsmen.	10
12	676	I could not fail to recognize him, even at the distance.	10
13	448	Stealthily, at a distance, I followed her.	10
13	449	A short distance from the camp, I knelt down and picked up a heavy rock.	10
13	559	The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance, the peasants standing at its edge, not moving.	10
13	588	The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat...	10
13	594	It was turning back toward the Ka-la-na thicket, now remote in the distance, far below.	10
13	636	I could see, my head hanging down, in the distance a great thicket of Ka-la-na.	10
16	118	I could see, here and there, in the distance, the embers of cooking fires.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	4	When I did not move, did I stand among the brush and light trees, in the sunlight and shadows, it was difficult to detect my presence, even from a distance of some yards.	10
11	487	A bird cried in the distance.	10
11	883	Lying in the darkness, wrapped in my blankets, I heard, in the distance, Verna's cries of pleasure.	10
15	521	She turned and, I following her, walked some distance from the camp.	10
16	193	Movement will sometimes provoke the animal's charge, if within a certain critical distance, which, for the sleen, is about four times the length of its body.	10
18	654	I saw the single lantern on the longboat growing smaller in the distance.	10
22	991	In the distance I could see light in the sky, the illumination from the beacon which I had ordered set on a remote, deserted beach, high above Lydius on the coast of Thassa.	10

Book 9. (16 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	49	Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear...	10
3	68	I turned and swept to the guard position, in the instant seeing the man's distance, and spun again to strike from my body, before it could penetrate it, the hurled spear of Ivar Forkbeard.	10
3	337	We heard, in the distance, a muffled crash.	10
6	42	In the distance, above the acres, I could see mountains, snowcapped.	10
10	56	Shortly after the first "knock off," in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great...	10
11	303	In leaving the Thing-Field I saw, in the distance, a high, snow-capped mountain, steep, sharp, almost like the blade of a bent spear.	10
12	26	He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c...	10
13	164	In the far distance, the moonlight reflected from its snowy heights, I saw, too, the Torvaldsberg, in which the legendary Torvald was reputed to sleep, supposedly to waken again if needed once more in Torvaldsland.	10
14	278	In the distance I saw the Torvaldsberg.	10
15	127	In the distance we could see burning tents.	10
15	128	Too, in the distance, there was a great redness in the sky.	10
15	155	Kurii, it was evident, would accomplish the same distance in a much shorter time.	10
18	402	In the distance, visible, was the height of the Torvaldsberg.	10
21	88	Few eyes, I think, in the ruins of that hall, under the torchlight, beneath the stars, the height of the Torvaldsberg in the distance, illuminated in the light of the three moons, were dry.	10
22	34	In the distance I had seen the Torvaldsberg, and, to the west, gleaming Thassa.	10
22	230	In the distance, as the ship moved to sea, the wind in its sail, oars dipping, I saw the bleak, white heights of the Torvaldsberg.	10

Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	242	Seldom does he move any great distance without turning to see what is behind him.	10
5	286	Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver.	10
12	260	I saw Hassan measuring the distance between the two girls.	10
12	527	I looked to the door, considering the distance.	10
14	630	In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered.	10
14	632	They were hard to see in the distance, in the light, but I could make them out.	10
16	7	I estimated our distance beneath the surface to be some four hundred feet.	10
21	134	There seemed much water here and there, in flat places, in the distance, rippling, stirring.	10
24	1044	I strode toward the sound of metal clashing in the distance.	10
25	193	We could hear men fighting in the distance, somewhere in the corridors beyond.	10
26	497	I fear that many felt the strap that day, and I understand that he was forced more than once to lay about him vigorously, but still, shrieking, crying out and clustering about, as I understand it, they would rush in, to strike their small blows, or, sometimes at a distance of no more than a yard or ...	10

Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	532	He watched them until they disappeared in the distance.	10
2	717	Once he turned and, with the spear, indicated the position and distance at which I should follow.	10
2	1228	Then the men, the torches, disappeared in the distance, through the trees.	10
3	19	During this time he had not spoken to me, and I had followed him at the position and distance which he had indicated.	10
8	108	The critical attacking distance for a sleen in the wild is about twenty feet.	10
8	109	This distance, in a herd sleen, of course, is much smaller.	10
9	718	The cart of Tup Ladletender was now disappearing in the distance, a bit of dust rising behind its wheels.	10
10	43	In the distance, even from the pool, I could see the white, looming walls of the merchant keep, Stones of Turmus, a Turian outpost, licensed for the storage of goods within the realm of Ar.	10
10	58	I watched the tarnsmen disappear in the distance.	10
10	71	I looked up to the keep of Stones of Turmus in the distance.	10
22	135	Behind us, in the distance, hove to, lay the convoy.	10
22	223	Too, in the distance, between some of them, I could see other ships, approaching.	10
22	276	Sometimes, in the distance, I saw flares lofted from one ship or another, burning upward and then, their silken globelike chutes opening, burning steadily, descending, to settle into the water and be extinguished.	10
22	587	Then it seemed, outward from me, in the distance there was a shifting, dull, flickering light.	10
27	367	I am sure he wished, insofar as he could, to distance himself from me, and my attractions, at least to him.	10

Book 12. (29 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	97	I had the feeling, and it startled me, as I ran towards it, that it was considering our distance from it, and the time it would take us to traverse that distance.	10
1	216	It was now within its critical attacking distance.	10
3	1279	He was the fellow whose back I had seen in the restaurant, from a distance.	10
3	1304	From the platform, too, I could see the fair, with its lights and fires, and tents and shelters, and the amphitheater in the distance, where Scormus of Ar and gentle Centius of Cos would meet tomorrow, on the opposite sides of a small board marked with red and yellow squares.	10
6	27	From a distance, approaching, I could see a small retinue, not more than some fourteen persons.	10
6	297	The former slaves could be seen in the distance.	10
6	573	In the distance I could see the four guardsmen, moving swiftly, trying to catch up with the girl who had broken away from them in the rash vanity of her hunt, desiring to be first upon the prize.	10
6	805	We could hear their squealing in the distance.	10
6	808	"It is sleen, in the distance," I said.	10
8	196	Too, their sex and alien origin, being from Earth, gives them an excellent distance from their subordinates.	10
9	119	Usually they are killed from a distance, often from behind shields, with arrows.	10
11	338	They would have little difficulty, even from their distance aloft, in identifying the lovely captive suspended from the ring.	10
12	346	I could see the blue line of the Hrimgar Mountains in the distance to the south.	10
13	16	A mountain which seems very close, given the sharpness of visibility in the clear air, may actually be forty pasangs in the distance.	10
23	54	We heard the sleen again in the distance.	10
25	109	Distance he tends to measure in terms of sleeps.	10
25	112	The shape of a peninsula on which he may have a permanent camp, for example, is of less interest to him than is the direction and distance to the next nearest camp.	10
26	144	This difficult trail to follow, little more than a waft of scent in the air, carrying over the ice, had now, however, because of Audrey's scream, been supplemented with a clear auditory cue, one supplying both an approximate distance and location to the pursuing pack.	10
26	149	I listened to the sleen in the distance.	10
27	9	From a distance they had eyed us, balefully.	10
32	12	"It was, of course, of a suitable size and distance from its star.	10
32	167	They put one at too great a distance from the kill.	10
33	5	I was to be taken outside and there, some distance from the complex, out on the ice, slain.	10
34	1	What Occurred on the Ice As I had anticipated it was the intention of Half-Ear that my mutilated body be found at a considerable distance from the complex.	10
34	34	It might kill me now, but then it would have to draw the sled itself, my rent body upon it, to the place or distance at which it was to be abandoned.	10
34	93	It was relatively open, easily identifiable, or as easily identifiable as any area might be in the ice, and was at a suitable distance from the complex.	10
35	495	It seemed probable to me that I was on the appropriate level as I had encountered the man at some distance from the nearest stairway.	10
35	759	I slid the chain a distance down that hall, and then, still holding her, returned to that point at which the track system terminated.	10
37	140	I lifted my hand to the roiling, steaming waters in the distance, beneath the high, spreading cloud.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	168	I turned about, watching the ships vanish in the distance.	10
8	11	I followed at a discreet distance.	10
12	655	I measured the distance to him.	10
14	539	This distance, of course, was not cultural for her.	10
14	540	She came from a culture which requires a significant distance, usually a yard or more, between male speakers and as much, or more, between speakers of the opposite sex.	10
14	541	Yet she knew readily, or instinctively, or intuitively, or naturally, or somehow, that she should be, in these circumstances, standing as she was before me, at a distance where I might, if I wished, without inconvenience, simply take her in my arms.	10
16	59	When one adds to this certain additional drum signals corresponding, in effect, to keys to the message or to certain consonantal ciphers, one has, in effect, a direct, effective, ingenious device at one's disposal, given the drum relays, for long-distance communication.	10
33	29	I looked into the distance, downriver, half shutting my eyes against the glare from the water.	10
33	82	The distance was too great.	10
50	6	Two weeks ago we had come to another high falls, even higher than that from which we had, long ago, caught sight of the following forces of Bila Huruma, pasangs behind in the distance.	10

Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	608	Once we heard, in the distance, the striking of a gong.	10
13	192	The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.	10
18	80	She looked about, but did not see us, as we were some distance away, at the corner of the house, and shielded by trees.	10
20	85	I could hear, but only as in the distance, the crying of the crowd, the screaming of the women, slave and free.	10
21	145	We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round.	10
25	358	I then realized that what I saw in the sky, in the distance, were birds, indeed, but tarns, and that doubtless mounted upon them, armed and purposeful, were men.	10
25	378	They returned toward the twin columns of smoke in the distance.	10
33	84	I could see the camp in the distance, with the blue and yellow canvas, the cages, pens and wagons.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	169	It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda.	10
29	21	I could see the high, dark walls of the stronghold of Policrates in the distance, with its lofty sea gate, with its heavy latticework of iron.	10
32	140	"But even this morning he persisted in these assertions, thinking I was not within that distance wherein I might detect his boasts".	10
32	272	I turned, holding him, seeing that the others kept their distance.	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	749	It helps the slave distance herself from herself when one wants her to distance herself from herself, and thus see herself rather from the outside as her Master's object.	10
1	5	I heard them echoed in the distance, the sounds first taken up by the Mira and Talender.	10
3	38	The strands seemed narrow, from the distance from which I viewed them.	10
5	161	In the distance involved, at full strike, with the lost port rudder, we could not have come about in time to attain the attack course.	10
17	60	It seemed then that I looked at the leashed girl intently, as though trying to place her, at the distance, in the light, and then I reacted, as though I might then have placed her, or feared that I might have placed her, feared, dismayed, that I might have recognized who she might be.	10
19	915	Rank, distance and hierarchy are prominent in Gorean society.	10

Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	987	From a distance then, particularly if one holds in one's kaiila, one and one's mount may be mistaken for a single beast, a lone kailiauk.	10
1	1061	The red savage, accordingly, whenever possible, attempts to maximize the possibilities of an effective hit by decreasing the distance between himself and the target.	10
1	1153	In the distance they turn to regard the kailiauk, the dark guest, the man.	10
2	12	It was unlikely that we could have adequately defended ourselves against a sudden onslaught of such foes at that short a distance.	10
5	139	When the lines and wagons had passed I emerged from the rocks and, at a distance, followed them toward Kailiauk.	10
10	22	We observed the dust in the distance, some pasangs across the prairie.	10
12	107	One may then, in accordance with one's moods, and at one's convenience, regulate the distance between them.	10
15	7	The distance between the two fires was probably some ten to fifteen pasangs.	10
16	120	Given their distance from the other wagons and their distribution in the grass I took it that they had broken their column and sped away, as best they might.	10
19	1	In the Distance there is the Smoke of Cooking Fires Evelyn cried out with misery as the tether was knotted about her neck.	10
19	712	Then, after a time, they were in the distance, following the trail of Canka and his party.	10
19	713	I could see the smoke of evening fires in the distance.	10

Book 18. (27 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	370	To be sure the greatest dangers were clearly borne by the hunters who must ride among the running beasts themselves, and attempt their kills from a distance just outside the hooking range of the trident, from a distance so close that they might almost reach out and touch the animal.	10
1	48	I looked into the distance.	10
1	497	Grunt and I remained for a moment on the rise, gazing on the awesome sight in the distance.	10
12	28	"Hei! Hei!" cried the boys, in the distance, bringing together the members of the herd.	10
23	6	It must be made swiftly enough for the carrying force of the small bow not to be dissipated; it must be made from a distance sufficient, given the spacing of the riders and the sound of the kaiila's paws, to cover the sound of the string.	10
27	43	We expected the Kinyanpi to be much less effective at a greater distance.	10
27	64	We kept a distance of a lance length between riders.	10
28	217	As we could protect ourselves reasonably well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvious, then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction.	10
28	305	In this type of formation, given the speed of the charging kaiila, the distance between successive waves is about forty to fifty feet.	10
31	17	We could hear the sounds of revels in the distance, where, together, Yellow Knives, soldiers and Kurii celebrated their victory.	10
33	1	Mira We heard the rattling and beating, the clanging, from a distance.	10
33	17	She began to run toward the palisade in the distance.	10
33	57	Approaching, along the side of the maize field, coming from the direction of the palisade and buildings in the distance was a group of Waniyanpi.	10
35	10	In this distance I heard the roars of the crowds in Ar's Stadium of Tarns.	10
37	380	The distance vision of our prey would be truly remarkable.	10
37	382	It is said it can see an urt move across open ground at a distance of two pasangs.	10
37	383	It is said it can detect an irregular movement of grass, not correlated with wind direction and velocity, from a distance of one pasang.	10
43	475	Then I had flung the double loop on her sack over the hook on Hci's tarn and she, her scream fading in the distance, was lofted away into the night.	10
43	489	The tarns of Cuwignaka and Hci, with their lovely cargoes, were now far in the distance.	10
44	849	I had also scouted it from a distance, from the presumed perspective of an enemy, from the grasslands below.	10
46	90	"In the distance, to the west," I said, "the prairies seem clear".	10
47	110	There, concealed by day and trained by night, and housed within striking distance of Council Rock, they had waited for our signal.	10
47	148	Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra...	10
47	431	In the distance, coming from the west, were columns of dust.	10
54	101	We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance.	10
54	105	Women, too, even free women, of these peoples, of those bands within trekking distance, had journeyed to the encampment.	10
54	309	These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the...	10

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	107	It was a dull, striking sound, coming as though from a great distance.	10
12	126	I heard a splintering in the distance, and then, in a moment, a new striking, doubtless on the interior gate.	10
14	33	I heard music from the distance, from somewhere among the tents, where perhaps girls danced to please masters.	10
14	43	I heard the music in the distance.	10
15	428	I saw the camp disappearing in the distance.	10
16	124	In the distance I heard the sound of bells, harness bells.	10
30	32	Probably she had heard the crowd in the distance, and had come out to see what might be afoot.	10
30	331	I saw the wall, over some buildings, in the distance.	10
31	349	He would play it out, or draw it in, as it pleased him, varying his perspective, and my distance from him, as I squirmed, and writhed and posed, from as little as an inch or two to the full length of the leash, something in the neighborhood of a full fifteen feet.	10
31	454	He, by varying his rhythms and movements, brought me again and again to the point of yielding, and then stopped short, letting me go back a greater or lesser distance, and then bringing me forward, at one speed or another, again.	10
33	16	The guests, on the other hand, given the closeness of the beading and their greater distance from it, could detect my presence there only with difficulty, and, even then, presumably, they would be able to tell little other than the fact that the individual there, as might be discerned from the vague...	10

Book 20. (21 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	981	Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate.	10
3	121	From the location of our camp, indeed, from our chain line, between two stakes, we could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance.	10
4	13	We could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance.	10
8	290	I measured the distance between us.	10
14	99	I measured the distance between myself and the jailer.	10
14	200	Nim Nim scampered down the grassy slope toward the huge urt pack in the distance.	10
14	233	I did not, of course, infringe the perimeter of their group, or approach within a critical distance.	10
14	471	I watched while two or three crossbow quarrels, their energy spent in the distance, looped over the pack and fell short of me.	10
16	38	"But, good sir," called Chino, keeping his distance, "we are but two humble cloth workers!" "Do not seek to deceive Petrucchio, captain of Turia!" cried Petrucchio.	10
16	773	Petrucchio then apparently looked into the distance.	10
16	786	It was, of course, the direction exactly opposite that in which he had, but a moment ago, fearfully, thought he might have discerned a movement of dust in the distance.	10
18	509	I could hear shouting in the distance.	10
18	526	I could still hear the shouting in the distance.	10
19	181	"Examine, as you can, at the distance, in the light, the latch clasps," I said.	10
20	248	Even if they had been regrouped and set, the distance was so short and the attack of the beast so precipitous and swift that there had been no time to align their weapons in a practical, properly angled, defensive perimeter.	10
21	123	Other men I have outside, but at a distance, on the bridges, outside the gate to the garden".	10
21	124	"That," I said, "the distance involved, would seem to be a flaw in your plan".	10
21	681	Outside, in the garden, off in the distance, on one of the bridges, I saw some men approaching.	10
22	24	We could see Brundisium in the distance.	10
22	253	In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels.	10
22	254	We stood for a long time, all of us, on the summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.	10

Book 21. (21 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	138	Surmounting a rise, we had seen it below us, and the wagons, in their long line, stretched out in the distance.	10
3	346	When the men of Ar moved, for example, and whenever possible they would do so on the great military roads, such as the Viktel Aria, they used a measured pace, often kept by a drum, and, including rests, would each day cover a calculable distance, usually forty pasangs.	10
12	6	I did hear the ringing of an alarm bar in the distance.	10
12	173	"You can see that," I asked, "at this distance?" "No," he said.	10
13	214	"I do not know if you will see her again, or not," he said, "except perhaps at a distance.	10
16	1281	In the distance I could see the great gate of Torcadino.	10
16	1435	He then continued on his way, toward the pennons in the distance.	10
16	1492	A Gorean camp is often a spectacular sight, with its arrays of silks and flags, even from a distance.	10
16	1733	Torcadino was in the distance.	10
16	1809	"Yes, Master," she said, "totally, and yours, completely!" I turned her about, facing the camp, with Torcadino in the distance.	10
16	1828	"That is the Treasure Road," I said, indicating a narrow road in the distance.	10
19	492	I saw the small figure of Ephialtes disappearing now in the distance.	10
20	20	I saw then, in the distance, some four or five pasangs away, the gleaming walls of glorious Ar.	10
20	24	The high, uprearing walls of the city, some hundred feet or more in height, the sun bright upon them, stretched into the distance.	10
20	32	These bridges, however, save for tiny glintings here and there, could not be well made out at this distance.	10
20	77	I regarded again the walls of glorious Ar, shining in the distance.	10
20	82	"Let us return to the cart!" I looked again at the city in the distance.	10
23	86	I looked about myself, noting the distance to the nearest guardsmen.	10
24	325	The disk also had some device on it, as did Boabissia's, but I could not see it well from the distance.	10
26	184	There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di...	10
26	1277	"So, then," I said, "now that you are in a calm frame of mind, and are fully rational, and the experience is at some distance, what are your feelings?" I asked.	10

Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	181	I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling naked before him, so close ...	10
10	541	The distance serves three major purposes.	10
10	542	It symbolizes in the distance, as well as in the differential in height, the social inferiority of the slave to the master.	10
10	660	I could now hear, from some distance down the tunnel, the sound of something approaching.	10
11	743	Near his table, but back a bit from it, discretely, at slave's distance, knelt luscious Inger, blond and voluptuous, from the north, from Skjern, who had come to Brundisium in the heavy shackles of Torvaldslanders.	10
17	428	I did not want to lag too far behind, outside the normal heeling distance.	10
23	25	I heard the snap of the whip and, together, we hurried forward, within the fence, toward the square tent, the overseer's tent, on a rise in the distance.	10
23	69	Over the fence, in the distance, I could see the walls of a city.	10
24	43	There was apparently a rationale to the distance.	10
24	45	The distance, seemingly rather small, on the one hand, and rather large, on the other, was seemingly dictated by a twofold consideration, the preclusion of my capacity to run and the convenience of the guards, particularly when I was supine, a position in which they sometimes placed me.	10
25	28	I could see, too, though it was harder now, the posts in the distance, between which the wire was strung.	10
25	71	I think the guard had understood that I might wish to see the city, and its lights, in the distance.	10
27	33	He had judged the distance with cruel exactness.	10
32	8	I could not see it now, but I could hear it, in the distance, descending toward the road.	10
34	813	Then I said, "Yes, my master," in Gorean, and, at a suitable distance, naked, bearing his pack, followed him from the woods.	10

Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	524	If he approached me too closely, coming within a predetermined critical distance, I could dash the paga upward into his eyes and wrench the table up and about, plunging one of the legs into his diaphragm.	10
8	64	This was suggested, too, by its distance from the Vosk, which was approximately one hundred pasangs.	10
9	348	We listened for a time to the distant trumpets, watched the small spots of light in the distance.	10
9	558	But then, in the distance, we heard the trumpets, the horns.	10
10	328	I assumed that at the distance I could not be heard in the Cosian lines.	10
14	199	We then heard a dull impact, from a distance.	10
15	548	You did not wish to be brought down with a quarrel at a distance but to find yourself at close quarters with captors.	10
15	970	There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s...	10
15	1006	They seemed small yet, even in their numbers, at this distance.	10
16	35	They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks.	10
17	388	I then went to the wall and looked out, once more, on the vast panoply before me, across the burned, leveled ground, at the engines, the troops, the hulks and shells of buildings in the distance.	10
17	481	To be sure, now, with the interior debris below, the drop there was only about forty feet, but then there was another distance, longer, given the angle, down to the courtyard, down the hill.	10
19	6	Indeed, the walkway for a dozen yards, closer to the landing, was covered by these boats, until the camp commander sent his own crossbowmen out on the walkway, to keep them their distance.	10
20	13	I looked back to the walkway in the distance, across the inner harbor.	10
20	119	It was hard now to even see the ships at the distance.	10
20	433	I looked back toward the landing and the citadel in the distance, across the inner harbor.	10

Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	174	It was a very tiny thing, in the distance.	10
13	335	Even at the distance we could make out the scarlet of his uniform.	10
17	269	I did not plunge away indefinitely, but only for a few Ehn, trying even, as I could, to count paces, that I might have some idea of my distance from the column.	10
32	84	"But surely you are distressed," I said, "that you have been garmented as you have, in such a manner that you might at a distance, save for the collar, be mistaken for a thigh-stripped, bare-breasted slave".	10
46	370	I glanced again about the floor, and at the booths in the distance, under the roof, various sorts of booths, for the sales of whips, leashes, collars, chains, jewelry, cosmetics, perfumes, slave garb and such.	10
47	20	He assessed my distance and made his judgment.	10
47	27	There had been nothing wrong with his assessment of my distance, my speed and the time he had.	10
47	36	I then, and two or three other fellows, they keeping their distance, all of us moving purposefully, and as rapidly as was practical, began to examine the cages, the kennels, the fair prisoners of the numerous stakes and posts, of the slave bars, and the chains in our immediate vicinity.	10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	486	Phoebe moved her lovely little head in the leash and collar, and looked off into the distance.	10
3	992	The newcomer came forward slowly, deliberately, as though he might have come from a great distance.	10
3	1080	I listened to the alarm bars in the distance, from within the city.	10
7	34	We could hear cheering in the distance.	10
7	43	I could hear trumpets and drums in the distance.	10
10	226	"We are only lads!" said the leader, keeping his distance.	10
10	420	Doubtless she had witnessed, from a distance, the fate of her compatriot.	10
11	220	Are we not all the victims of hearsay, even with respect to many of our most profound "truths"? Of our thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of such "truths," how many have we personally earned? How many of us can determine the distance of a planet or the structure of a molecule? "I will have a wago...	10
13	18	Such teams, drawn from various parts of the city, competed in various games, in hurling the stone, in hurling the thonged javelin, both for distance and accuracy, in races of various sorts, in jumping, in wrestling, and such.	10
14	330	"Such things are symbols of rank and hierarchy, of difference and distance.	10
19	1390	"You do grant then," he said, "that your treatment of her was severe?" "But intentionally so," I said, grimly, looking after the girl, now small in the distance.	10
22	456	I could then renew my contact with them from a distance, discreetly observing the encounter between that party and a girl seemingly in the garments of the state slave.	10
24	22	We could hear the bars, even at a distance of over a pasang.	10
26	571	With these were recorded such data as the width and length of fingers and toes, the width of her heels, the lovely tiny distance between her nostrils, and so on.	10
27	973	She crept back, on her knees, apprehensively, putting a little more distance between us.	10

Book 26. (24 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	229	Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends upon the whims of males? There is a thin l...	10
7	811	Aynur, she who was first amongst us, Aynur, in her rich silk, and ornaments, Aynur, in her golden talmit, with the affixed ruby, had fetched sandals, and before such as Tima and Tana, not to mention before one such as my own lowly self! On this world hierarchy exists, and status, and rank, and dista...	10
8	946	I did not wish to be fed to one! But then I had presumably not been brought here, with such secrecy, over such a distance, merely to be fed to such a beast, no more than to that gigantic, carnivorous, hawklike creature, that titanic bird I had seen.	10
9	197	At various times in the past days I had seen one or more of the gigantic birds, coming or going, aflight over the valley between my location and the mountains in the distance.	10
10	135	I leaped to my feet and, going far to the right, stopped only by the stone, put as much distance between me and the six-legged beast as possible.	10
10	186	How naive I was! How much I had still to learn! Ahead of me was the trail and the looming fortress or citadel in the distance.	10
10	187	Wisps of cloud hung about the cold trail, and the turrets, or towers, of the structure in the distance.	10
10	303	The rider, now in the distance, moving swiftly, looking back, lifted his arm to the jailer, and the jailer, grinning, raised his whip in salute.	10
10	413	I saw ranges beyond ranges of mountains, some snowcapped, extending into the distance.	10
10	627	One is customarily expected to follow at an appropriate distance, that constituting an attractive, lovely interval, but it is not always easy to maintain such an interval, for various reasons, such as crowding, or the rapidity of the leash holder's pace.	10
11	1817	He walked about for a bit, turning this way and that, at one angle or another, proceeding for one distance or another.	10
13	426	This was, I gathered, a great distance.	10
16	58	I could see more lights through this aperture, in the distance.	10
18	10	I could see the tarns, in the distance, one by one, approaching.	10
23	146	She leaped up, and kept her distance, waiting for him to turn about, that she might heel him.	10
23	211	I did not know if they were able to detect the movement, at the distance.	10
24	32	What could twenty men, or so, do against a city? The line of tarns in the distance had now disappeared.	10
24	126	I could now see, in the distance, that to which he must have reference.	10
24	274	Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro...	10
36	4	The leader of the strangers had hoped to follow the dark passages, the extinguished lamps indicating the path taken by the prisoner but, at a joining of several passages, it was seen that the lamps of each were still lit, dimly flickering into the distance, thus giving no indication which, if any, m...	10
37	26	Over a short distance they can outrun fleet game.	10
37	1054	"At this distance you could not miss!" "I will not waste the quarrel," said the lieutenant.	10
40	375	I did know that the surface of this tower, in the coldness of the morning, had, as the tops of certain peaks in the distance by light, been touched by honor.	10
46	131	I kept you at a distance.	10

Book 27. (42 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	But had you had my experiences, and were you I, were you faced with yourself, and frightened, or disconcerted, or shamed, you might, too, seek to distance yourself from that most sensitive, usually most zealously concealed, of subject matters, yourself.	10
3	31	That had suited her professional image, and had been a part of her strategy to proclaim and make manifest her independence, and personness, and to distance herself from males, to chill them, and warn them away, to show them that she did not need them and despised them, those insensitive, boorish, lu...	10
4	485	It seemed a strange landscape, in its way, with gentle yellow trees nestled in a valley, and, in the distance, a range of scarlet mountains.	10
9	44	Rank, distance and hierarchy are ingredient in Gorean social arrangements.	10
13	45	In the distance, too, between the cylinders, many of which must have been twenty or thirty living tiers, or stories, high, she could see walls.	10
13	76	She thought she saw a bird in the distance, and watched it for a moment.	10
13	78	It was difficult to judge its distance.	10
13	141	One of the girls, clambering on one of the tiered racks, some ten or twelve feet above the surface of the roof, called out, "Look!" She was pointing out, toward the distance, toward one of the towers on the wall.	10
13	144	She could see nothing in the distance but a flock of birds.	10
13	218	It is difficult to make judicious assessments, as you might suppose, given the brief amount of time at his disposal, time enough for little more than a glimpse, given the distance, the swiftness of the flight, the press of pursuit, and such.	10
13	231	"They have broken through!" cried the girl on the height of a nearby rack, she who had originally called their attention to the agitation in the distance.	10
13	240	In the distance one could hear the ringing of a great metal bar, struck repeatedly.	10
13	245	"They do not want to risk them! Stay down, everyone! Stay down!" Ellen, standing among the flapping clothes, amongst the lines, between racks, shaded her eyes, straining to see into the distance.	10
13	246	She could see, in the distance, what appeared to be a flock of birds.	10
13	252	The first girl, she who had first alerted the slaves to the phenomenon in the distance, climbed down from the rack, and crouched near it, amidst the flapping clothes.	10
13	271	"Down with Treve!" cried Nelsa, shaking her fist after the rider in the distance.	10
13	274	Nelsa, of course, did not see it, as she was facing away from it, crying out, shaking her fist at the retreating figure of the other rider, now muchly in the distance.	10
13	480	"We may now rise," said one of the girls, watching the tarn disappear in the distance.	10
13	638	Goreans, you see, tend to be great believers in rank, distance and hierarchy.	10
14	112	Another, at the mere snapping of fingers or an imperious gesture, receives from she whom he has never taken the time or interest to truly know, she whom he has never questioned as to her depths and needs, she to whom he has never intimately and truly spoken, she whom he has never attempted to unders...	10
16	90	At one end of the square she could see two of these cylinders in the distance.	10
16	778	Where you are, specifically, in the city of Ar is in one of her most crowded and poorest districts, the district of Metellus, and in the Kettle Market, within walking distance of the Peasants' Gate".	10
16	1229	That was doubtless deliberate, a way of keeping her at a distance, of precluding involvement with a pretty little slave, perhaps because of her youthfulness, or her collar immaturity.	10
18	371	"I see the first of the birds in the distance.	10
19	231	Splendid! And she recalled how she had been muchly pleased to keep him at a distance, how amused she had been that he might burn with need, writhe with desire.	10
20	260	She looked about and saw, or thought she saw, a tiny point of light in the distance, some hundreds of feet above the ground, perhaps hundreds of yards away, to the right.	10
20	453	In the distance she could see a sloping darkness, that seemed to be a hill, and she made toward that.	10
21	46	The massive walls and towers of Brundisium could be seen in the distance, some two pasangs, or so, away.	10
22	627	On the other hand, she was not totally disoriented as she could see the fires of the camp behind her and, in the distance, the lights of Brundisium, among them some of the beacon fires on her walls.	10
24	74	A slave girl's heeling distance is a function of a particular situation, of local circumstances, so to speak.	10
25	946	And then the image was gone, and Ellen was again herself, on the exotic world of perilous, barbaric Gor, illuminated in the light of torches, standing on the concave surface of the block, her ankles in sawdust, the lights of Brundisium in the distance, the men calling out, being offered for sale, be...	10
26	994	* * * * Scarcely had Ellen backed away, on her knees, bent humbly, head down, from the fourth guardsman, that she might not rise to her feet at his side, this perhaps being taken as insolence, he supine and bound, than she heard, vaguely, obscurely, not really registering it at first, as she now rec...	10
27	395	"But they will have a sense of our distance, from the freshness of the scent".	10
27	471	He was viewing the five beasts, who doubtless appeared far more awesome to him now, at a distance of a few yards, than they had when they were a quarter of a pasang away.	10
27	967	"There are five of us, and we can kill from a distance.	10
27	1055	In the distance, but turning now, obviously withdrawing, but not abandoning the field, were four more tarns, each with a tarn basket slung beneath it.	10
27	1691	Of the four tarns with baskets, two had been brought down with pistol fire, and the strapmasters of the other two had muchly, judiciously, maintained their distance.	10
27	1693	The other could be seen in the distance, a remote speck, safely away.	10
27	2780	The great bow can strike from a distance.	10
29	57	"Oh, look, Master!" said Ellen, pointing, having then first noticed towers in the distance.	10
30	17	At this distance a girl's presence is unobtrusive, and one might easily forget she is present.	10
30	608	To the ignorant, fearful and weak these truths must, I suppose, seem frightening, perhaps as other truths concerning nature, long ago, the movement of the earth, the nature of the sun, the distance of stars, seemed so frightening.	10

Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	236	This may be an adaptation to facilitate heat loss in long-distance pursuit and pack hunting, or, again, it may have to do merely with preferences involved in sexual selection, or both.	10
1	445	Animals, such as she, and others, were incapable of such things, just as they were incapable of building pens, making rooms light and dark, burning objects at a distance, and such.	10
5	5	"There," said his guide, whom we shall call Arcesilaus, pointing to the left, into the distance, and sky, "is Lake Fear.	10
5	336	"Objects of sufficient menace," said Pyrrhus, "such as those approximating the mass of the habitat itself, can be detected, years in advance, and no more than a small energy, at that distance, is required to move them from their course".	10
16	48	I must distance myself from the humans.	10
18	118	* * * * Cabot understood that he would be unable to distance either sleen or Kurii, for the sleen is a swift, tireless tracker and the Kur, particularly when descending to all fours, its accouterments fastened to its body, can easily outrun a man, either in a short race, for speed, or in one ranging...	10
24	193	At that point, in the distance, a bar began to ring, and its ringing was taken up by other bars, and the cylinder itself seemed to ring.	10
28	77	"There," said Cabot, pointing upward, toward a shimmering patch of silver, seemingly small at the distance, amongst the forests above".	10
36	22	Too, skill in its use does not come easily to all, for there are dozens of subtleties of judgment which will affect its accuracy, judgments such as those of distance, elevation, and wind.	10
36	52	One strikes him with impunity, from a distance.	10
40	87	"I want to be handled, and mastered, and treated, and commanded, as what I am, a slave! Rope me, if you wish! Put me under your whip, if you wish!" "Surely you crave distance, delicacy, courtesy, and reserve".	10
47	58	From the distance they resembled slowly flying insects.	10
47	148	Two Kurii remained, other than the figure retreating in the distance.	10
53	100	Too, at the distance, it was not clear that the targets might not be no more than a Kur and its pet, or even a nondominant, followed by a scavenging human.	10
55	83	"I cannot hear them, at this distance," said Cabot.	10
55	230	They would not go against a bow with sticks, and certainly not across a distance, in full daylight.	10
65	68	Small figures could be seen in the distance.	10
69	20	The female slaves edged through the gate, knowing they must enter, but did their best to keep as much distance as was possible between themselves and the huge, watchful, six-legged, viperlike carnivore.	10
70	13	They had then, at a distance, trailed their unsuspecting quarry.	10
70	53	Cabot followed the drive, but unseen, and at a distance.	10
78	147	Lord Grendel had won one of the agons of the ax in one of the festival games, splitting a post, at a distance of some fifteen Kur paces, which would correspond, approximately, to some twenty human paces.	10
80	89	Provisions are made for their caging or chaining outside such places, in nearby lots, removed to a decent distance.	10

Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	26	Too, their female agents could not be well integrated into Gorean society, with its orderings, its clan and caste arrangements, its rank, distance, and hierarchy.	10
5	412	I counted some fifteen, though it was hard to tell, at the distance, as they were crowded together.	10
8	24	This fellow's exercises, however, were done by a single man and, as nearly as I could determine, from the distance, in silence.	10
8	333	"Yes," she said, sensing his withdrawal, "keep your distance!" The leash looped up from his hand to her neck.	10
14	114	One could assess the probable arrival of the quarrel from the reaction of the archer, the stock pounding back against his shoulder, and the distance involved.	10
16	15	A tarn flock will tend to cohere, to stay together, and it will also maintain a bird-to-bird distance.	10
16	203	What an admirable target would have been the white kimono on the observation platform! To be sure, it would have been a difficult target from tarnback, with the short bow, for one of my men, given the distance.	10
16	272	In the distance, far off, coming from the south, it seemed a cloud had formed, obscure, uncertain, at first, and then swift and dark, and then, in a moment or two, it seemed the cloud might be a flight of insects, a dark swarm, a plague of predators.	10
20	213	In this fashion the hilts were within grasping distance.	10
21	2	From the commanded distance, one of several yards, we watched Licinius fasten the slave over the forward capture leather of the saddle, tethering her crossed wrists to the saddle ring to his left, and then her crossed ankles to the saddle ring to his right.	10
25	79	In the distance the feast was still in progress.	10
25	147	To such animals scent not only detects prey, but can be informative as to its distance, movements, numbers, and sex.	10
26	330	What, then, in view of such a chasm, would be the distance between a Ubara and a slave, even a lovely slave? Talena was no longer of use to Cos or Tyros, or conspirators and traitors.	10
29	86	The river, broad and apparently navigable, lay some pasang or so in the distance.	10
38	390	From a distance, given their tininess, these ports, if noticed at all, would seem little more than dots in the hull.	10
40	44	The shouting and drumming continued, but was now little more than a rumble in the distance.	10
40	178	It was hard to make out, at the distance.	10
43	123	"Many of our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "have chosen names for convenience, to distance themselves from records of crime and blood, to elude pursuers, to escape justice, to begin new lives, such things".	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	38	The captain pointed toward the object in the distance, indistinct in the fog.	10
3	318	Then there was a sudden blast of light, obliterating the darkness, blinding us, and it seemed, when we could see, that a large metal object, I think thick and circular, was disappearing in the distance".	10
3	702	I could see her towers in the distance.	10
3	765	"Then, perhaps near midnight, in the darkness, for clouds obscured the two moons then in the sky, when I thought I could go no further, to my joy, I glimpsed a small light, in the distance.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	24	I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an...	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	189	"There!" In the distance, hard to determine initially, from the morning sun, there was a speck in the distance.	10