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Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	4	He drew back his head again, spreading his beak, preparing to slash downward again.	10
4	5	In that instant I switched the tarn-goad to the "on" position, and when the great beak flashed downward again, I struck it viciously, trying to force it away from me.	10
4	174	"And there," he said, poking downward with his finger, "is the City of Ar, hereditary enemy of Ko-ro-ba, the central city of Marlenus, who intends to be Ubar of all Gor".	10
5	102	I jerked the collar away from her throat and threw it and the key from the tarn's back and watched them fly downward in a long, graceful parabola.	10
5	177	I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below.	10
6	4	Boldly I dipped my tarn downward, into the midst of the cylinders, just another of the wild tarnsmen of Ar.	10
6	63	My hands flung out, grasping nothing, and I fell headlong downward into the night.	10
6	84	When freed, I was lifted lightly in the mandibles and carried to the edge of the web, where the spider seized a hanging strand and scurried downward, placing me on the ground.	10
6	140	I rushed between its mouth and the girl, and with a swift downward slash of my blade severed that foul brown tongue.	10
8	3	The soldier, beginning at the high, ornate collar of the girl's robes, began to break the braided loops, ripping them loose from their hooks; methodically he tore her robes apart and pulled them down and over her shoulders; in half a dozen tugs the heavy layers of her garments had been jerked downwa...	10
12	103	In that wild instant I saw my bird beginning to fall, flopping downward, and saw his attacker wheeling in my direction.	10
13	74	As an act of charity, Initiates have arranged at various places Dar-Kosis Pits where the Afflicted may voluntarily imprison themselves, to be fed with food hurled downward from the backs of passing tarns.	10
13	112	Before I realized what was happening, my arm had been jerked downward and twisted, and I had been thrown on my back at the feet of the man, who leaped up and set his boot on my throat.	10
14	150	He slashed downward, and I slipped down one talon of the bird, which screamed and became unmanageable.	10
14	157	The sudden tug downward caused the bird to respond as I had hoped it would, as if pressure had been exerted on the four-strap.	10
18	165	"Die, Assassin!" one of them screamed, and struck downward with his blade.	10
18	169	I remember them pressing downward, so many, and my blade, terrible, moving as if wielded by a god, meeting their steel, cutting its path upward.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	44	Suddenly I cried out in alarm, pawing at nothing, hurtling downward.	10
10	75	Again and again it struck downward like lightning bolts of leather fire.	10
13	140	Everywhere I saw the silver masks, and heard the shrill command, "Slay him!" On every side I saw the merciless gesture, the extended right hand, palm turned inwards, the cruel, downward chopping motion.	10
16	83	I twisted it and thrust it up and high over my left arm, and with a sudden downward wrench snapped it at the elbow.	10
20	96	Protesting, screaming, the great bird began to reel helplessly downward.	10

Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	165	Misk bent down until his long body was horizontal and then inclined downward yet more towards me.	10
15	13	Here and there a trickle of water traced its dark pattern downward to the floor where it crept along the wall and, continuing its journey, disappeared into one crevice or another.	10
17	41	"Tell me why you have been brought to the Nest," said Sarm, and suddenly his antennae snapped downward towards me like whips, and now rigid, they seemed to be trained on me, as though they might be weapons.	10
17	133	The wick burned slowly downward toward the hole in the pipe.	10
18	175	"Good," said Sarm, and we began to trace our way downward around that vast bluish globe that sheltered the power source of Priest-Kings.	10
19	21	He bent it outward and downward and then, with one of the pieces of metal hanging from the necklace at his throat, he scraped at the front edge of the door and bent it a bit outward; following this he attacked the interior edge of the cabinet similarly.	10
20	120	As well as she could, sobbing and trembling, the girl looked downward through the transparent top of the plastic cylinder and regarded herself.	10
26	214	I reached up to slide the plastic door downward.	10
29	90	His antennae swept the area and focused on me at the same time that I pressed the firing switch, and it seemed the golden head and antennae blew away in ashes and the golden body slumped downward in the hatch.	10
29	116	Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship.	10
33	5	Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped.	10
33	15	I swept Vika again to my arms and, half walking, half floating, made my way downward toward the ruins of the gate.	10
33	21	It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	355	Another wall, on the other side of the avenue, tumbled downward, two Turian warriors leaping from it, being ridden down by Tuchuks, leaping over the burning debris on kaiilaback, lance in hand.	10
25	669	By the Turian collar one may control a girl in a variety of ways, dragging a girl to one side or another, turning her, force her downward, to her knees or back, and so on.	10
25	673	By the collar, of course, pressing downward I could have forced her to her knees before me, and then, pressing the collar up and back, and against her chin, might force her from her knees helplessly to her back on the rug at my feet.	10
26	46	The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range.	10
26	363	"Remember Kutaituchik," said Kamchak, and the filamentous fibers about the merchant's legs and ankles drew him slowly downward.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	604	I dropped the doll, spun and managed to catch her wrist as she struck downward with the burning goad.	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

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	9	In a moment it had darted again downward to be lost in the rushes, the waving spore stalks, the seed pods of various growths of the Gorean tidal marshes.	10
1	75	The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ...	10
8	596	The blade still did not move, but continued to point downward.	10
12	41	I brought it to the edge of the canal and one of my men, lying on his stomach, extending his hand downward, caught him under the arm.	10
18	142	From time to time the bird, tiring, its wings wet, cold, coated with sleet, would drop sickeningly downward, but then again it would beat its way on the level, half driven by the wind, half flying.	10

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	152	It was a painful, frustrating task, but inch by quarter inch, I moved it downward.	10
5	101	It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height.	10
8	26	Then, bit by bit, releasing the brake and applying it, the wagon, jolting, slipped and slid forward and downward.	10
8	34	The back flap of the wagon was tied up and the back gate of the wagon swung downward.	10
13	883	I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped.	10
13	902	On the left side of his arm, running from the wound, there were several almost horizontal, reddish lines, where, but moments before, tiny trickles of blood, unable to flow downward, had been whipped backward by the wind.	10
15	1371	At the sides of the tent, where it sloped downward, there were many chests, and kegs and sacks, filled with the booties and plunders of many raids.	10
18	86	I saw, for one moment, the helmet of the warrior, and his hand extended downward.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	910	The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet Thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp.	10
7	303	I climbed downward.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	262	I saw the ring and chain dart downward.	10
14	282	I looked over and saw him, in the moonlight, making his way downward, hand by hand, foot by foot, using the clefts, projections and niches in the ornate carvings of the exterior corner beams of the Blue Tooth's hall.	10
15	239	The first Kur was some eight or ten feet below us when, suddenly, it slipped on the rock and, with a wild shriek, scratching at the stone, slid some four feet downward and then plunged backward, turning in the air, howling, and, some five Ihn later, struck the rocks far below.	10
17	336	With one frenzied cry the host, in its fury, from either side of the valley, plunged downward.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	810	I looked downward.	10
4	342	He then poised his thumbs, held downward, over her eyes.	10
5	333	The guards of Farouk, following his example, dropped their bucklers to the dust, thrust their lances, butt down, in the earth, took out their scimitars and, flinging them blade downward from the saddle, hurled them into the ground, disarming themselves.	10
11	241	I shrugged, and kicked the kaiila in the flanks, urging it downward, from the sloping hill, toward the oasis.	10
11	249	"The oasis, which is some seventy pasangs distant, is reflected in the mirror of air above it, and then again reflected downward and away, at an angle".	10
14	315	Gracefully, it wafted downward, settling on the sand at the foot of the wall near us.	10
21	549	I fell to my stomach, my arm clawing downward.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	226	It was broken off some four feet from the ground, and the fallen trunk, from that height, inclined downward.	10
8	209	The butt of the sleen whip struck me heavily, driven downward, between the shoulder blades, felling me.	10
22	573	It was drawing me downward, away from the mast.	10
22	581	Then, I screaming, crying out with misery, it drew me from the mast and, turning about, twisting under the water, dove downward.	10
22	591	Something, too, was in the water, moving downward from the surface.	10
24	289	The large man descended a short flight of stairs, leading downward from an opened hatch.	10

Book 12. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	48	Then she cried out, angrily, pulling downward at the edges of the livery in which she had been placed, as though that would hide more of her legs, which were lovely.	10
3	518	The next girl, dark-haired, lovely, wore black, feminine slacks; these were apparently of some synthetic Earth material; the left leg of the slacks was torn from the knee downward; she also wore what had probably been a soft, red, turtle-necked pull-over; it, too, was rather feminine; perhaps that i...	10
4	613	He, waiting to one side, leaped downward upon me, but I, twisting, squirming, proved an elusive target.	10
6	284	She assumed this posture, her blond hair hanging forward, downward, over her head.	10
10	186	Or was this but vanity on my part? I heard her mocking laughter drift downward.	10
10	244	He drove the iron bar, which he gripped in fur, downward.	10
11	355	I leaned to one side as the raking talons of a second tarn tore downward for me.	10
12	149	I looked downward, out across the ice of Ax Glacier.	10
12	197	Imnak and I held the rear of the sled that it not move too rapidly downward.	10
12	237	Below the height, the pass sloping downward, we could see the tundra of the polar plain.	10
12	242	Then we eased the sled downward.	10
18	30	The monster, as though it stood on its flukes, towered forty feet above us, the line like a tiny thread, billowing, leading downward to the boat.	10
18	32	The beast, grunting, expelling air, fell downward into the water.	10
22	182	I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal.	10
22	183	The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood.	10
22	191	The two kayaks dipped, stems downward.	10
22	264	Again the harpoon line darted downward.	10
22	268	I peered downward into the water.	10
22	270	I thrust downward with the lance and was half pulled from the kayak, myself and the vessel lifted upward, as the sleen's impaled body reared up almost beneath the craft.	10
25	4	Imnak and I, and the girls, tipped the sled over a slope of pack ice, it tilting and then sliding downward.	10
29	16	This dangled downward from one of two overhead tracks in the ceiling.	10
35	37	I may have heard or sensed it the object cutting the fur of the parka and lodging a foot behind me in the ice and I flung myself away from it and the ice shattering and exploding outward and the blast and ice pushing me like a hand and I struck a projection of ice and slipped downward, and then I sa...	10
35	298	With the barrel of the weapon I guided her downward, to her side, and then lay the weapon on the plates.	10
35	744	The chain dangled downward, then looped up to her neck.	10
35	856	An instant later, as I flung myself downward, near the girl, Drusus with me, there was a ripping of steel which tore at my eardrums.	10
36	288	Then I threw the glass against the steel wall, where it shattered, and fell, its fragments showering downward, mingling with those of the other glass.	10
37	113	I watched the great mountain of ice, which had been the sheathing of the complex, slip downward into the sea.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	152	He glared sullenly downward.	10
15	100	Several of the strings, with the tiny peas attached, dangled downward.	10
23	307	I seized him and thrust him headfirst downward through the hole.	10
32	685	She extended her wrists downward and to the sides.	10
33	2	It tipped up and then settled downward, and we thrust and hauled it, laden, to the level.	10
34	881	I then forced her head downward, and held her in place, as is common with slaves.	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	190	I hung, helpless, head downward.	10
7	103	A key on a wire dangled downward from her collar.	10
7	155	"Did you wish to kill me?" "You are strong," she said, her head inclined a bit downward, but looking up at me.	10
8	17	She suddenly lashed downward with the whip and I winced.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	493	In a short time I heard the sliding downward and locking in place of a kennel gate.	10
29	259	A few feet behind me, hurtling downward, crashing through the foredeck of the galley, fell the great gate of iron.	10
31	162	The disengagement of one is quite sufficient to permit the gate to rattle viciously downward.	10
31	166	A golden shaft of light filtered downward, falling gently into the chamber.	10

Book 16. (19 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	198	But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes.	10
5	199	These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.	10
9	193	I reached downward and, with my left hand, closing it about her small wrists, pulled her wrists up, drawing her into a kneeling position, her hands, in my grip, held over her head.	10
9	304	I took her by the arm and, lowering my head and crouching, pulling the girl with me, leapt downward into the water.	10
9	382	My arm struck against an oar, unmanned, projecting downward from her side.	10
10	117	I remembered how, the last time, it had plunged downward.	10
10	208	With a rattling thunder of chain and iron the huge gate splashed downward into the water, its bars entering and anchoring themselves in their deep, subsurface sockets.	10
11	46	What woman could respect a man who is not strong enough to put her under the whip? We continued to look downward into the central room of the slave quarters.	10
11	172	It is usually short, though seldom as short as a slave tunic or Ta-Teera, and it is always open on both sides, save where snugged at the waist, this emphasizing her figure; in it, her embonded beauty is well manifested, from her shoulders and waist, downward delightfully, though to her flanks, and c...	10
11	223	Miles of Vonda and I continued to look downward, into the central room of the slave quarters, upon the confined inmates.	10
12	5	"Yes, Jason," said the man, hurrying downward from the wall.	10
12	26	In moments an answering smoke bomb, from a catapult on the walls, describing its graceful parabola, ascended and then seemed to pause, and then looped downward, to splash into the marshes.	10
12	128	This signal was rapidly relayed to the west gate tower and, as the fellow below leapt into the water, to swim for the gate, it, with a thunderous rattle of weight and chaining, shaking and sliding, crashed downward, smiting and dividing a galley just aft of amidships, and then anchored itself in pla...	10
12	143	I hurried downward.	10
16	112	I looked downward.	10
16	390	I then, feet first, leaped downward into the water, landing near the floundering Ragnar Voskjard.	10
16	438	With two hands holding the sword he stumbled toward me, exhausted, striking downward.	10
16	505	Kliomenes slid downward, toward the port rail.	10
18	244	I gestured that she should return the whip, and then, briefly, placed four fingers, downward, on the arm of the curule chair.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	1005	"And this?" With the fingers of both hands slightly curved, he made downward motions from the top of his head to the shoulders.	10
14	1012	He had traced a line with his right index finger across his forehead, from left to right, and had then opened his hand and moved it downward, toward his shoulder, in the combing motion.	10
14	1035	He then made the sign for woman, followed by a downward striking motion, as though holding a switch.	10

Book 18. (17 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	7	We then, grateful for the slope, drew the travois downward, toward the valley below.	10
35	111	Rain tore its way downward.	10
37	150	I looked to the walls of the pit, to the ceiling, with the poles and sod, and at the light, filtering downward into the pit, and then again I looked at my naked slave.	10
37	535	The beak again entered the pit and pushed downward.	10
44	430	We heard the scream of another kaiila and saw it, and its rider, plunging downward.	10
44	461	Bodies, those of kaiila and Yellow Knives, slipped from the edge, plummeting downward.	10
44	488	Some of the larger stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail.	10
44	489	Some finally plunged, rolling and bouncing downward, into the Yellow Knives far below on the grass.	10
44	512	"Look," said Hci, pointing downward.	10
44	571	One man, with the downward momentum of the slope, managed to leap his kaiila over the lower barricade.	10
45	102	Some men released their hold altogether on the rock, hoping to risk less in the terrors of the slide downward than in facing the Kaiila arrows.	10
46	174	By the time these Yellow Knives had dismounted and cast aside the lower barricade, it tumbling downward, breaking and shattering in its descent, and remounted, we were safe.	10
47	137	The disemboweled tarn fell away from us, fluttering, spinning downward.	10
47	175	Again the tarn aligned itself, smote downward, then lifted its wings, almost folded on either side of me, its talons, like great hooks, lowered.	10
47	236	Again, allowing a suitable interval, I plummeted the tarn downward, again into the midst of the Kinyanpi.	10
47	302	I waited another suitable interval and then I, again, took Ubar of the Skies downward.	10
47	402	The Yellow Knives began to back downward.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	75	"Nim Nim safe now!" he cried, pointing downward into the shallow, muchly encircled valley below.	10
20	366	Men swarmed about it, thrusting with their spears, some hacking downward with their swords.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	411	Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake.	10
19	390	Its limbs were askew, hanging downward.	10
26	322	I then moved my left hand downward from its hair to check the wrists.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	632	Then the collar was suddenly, angrily, turned on my throat, relieving the pressure on my carotid artery, and jerked downward.	10
8	310	It traversed my skin easily, with little friction, though I was clearly aware of its downward pressure.	10
11	11	One of these chains, a long, vertical chain, attached to the collar, dangles downward.	10
29	574	"Defend me!" But he, both hands on the hilt of his sword, holding it at rest now, pointed downward, backed away.	10

Book 23. (15 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	143	It ran from the pitched surface of the road downward, in tiny rivers; it struck into the swirling ditch water, lashing it into foam, dashing it upwards, its impact registered in thousands of overlapping circles and leaping crowns of water.	10
1	337	When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow.	10
1	526	The other end went behind the figure and downward, probably to fasten together its crossed ankles.	10
5	412	I plunged her face downward, fully into the porridge.	10
17	24	As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descendin...	10
17	201	I returned to my original place to meet him, but suddenly, just as he was coming within reach, I heard a sound like a fist striking leather, it came from his back, and he looked surprised, and then stiffened on the ladder and threw back his arms and head, and, twisting, plunged downward.	10
17	500	There was suddenly, she losing her footing, knowing herself unsupported, her head jerking wildly in the hood, her legs moving wildly, treading on nothing, beginning to turn to her side in the air, starting to plunge downward, a wild, tiny, terrified, prolonged noise from within the hood, what perhap...	10
17	501	But in an instant she had gasped and was jerked up short by the coils of rope, her plunge arrested, but then, again, almost instantly, the rope began to uncoil from her body and she, spinning, the rope unwinding, in a series of wild jerks, awkwardly began to descend, riding the uncoiling rope downwa...	10
17	542	The end of the rope was a few feet above her, on the hill, where she had come free of it, and then rolled further downward.	10
17	544	There were rope marks on her body, the signs of her spinning, jerking plunge to the hill, and then her tumbling downward, rather to her present location.	10
17	663	"Do not let them escape!" called a Cosian pointing downward.	10
18	206	At the same time a hundred ropes, along the wall, were thrown downward and men, one after the other, began to lower themselves to the landing.	10
20	382	Some tarnsmen flew overhead, but none fired downward.	10
20	389	I saw her lose her footing once on the plank and fall, belly downward on it, her legs on either side of it.	10
21	104	From it a long chain, dangled downward.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	726	Then I saw the total alteration in the attitude of the monster, and it turned, and began to glide downward, silently, toward the marsh.	10
19	777	The jaws snapped downward and the point of the sword emerged through the upper jaw and the lower jaw was tight under the hilt of the sword.	10
19	806	In trying to reach me with these claws, of course, it lost aerial stability, and began to fall, twisting downward.	10
29	103	I spread the first two fingers of my right hand and gestured downward, toward a place nearby in the sand.	10
29	106	In this particular signal, one of several which, from city to city, might have similar import, the downward movement of the hand indicates that the girl is to kneel, the place where she is to kneel is indicated in effect by pointing, and the spreading of the fingers indicates how she is to kneel, in...	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	110	Seremides now, at the rear of the platform, where the rear ramp ascended to its surface, extended his hand downward, to escort a figure clad and veiled in dazzling white to the surface of the platform.	10
19	1037	"Oh!" she said, and quickly turned them downward, and clutched her thighs.	10
25	430	He was silent, and stared downward, at the tiles.	10

Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	137	We are to turn our eyes downward and to the left, and look upon it, seeing it once again, understanding it once again.	10
10	520	I did look up and saw, as I passed under the wall, heavy and menacing, in a large, oblong overhead slot, the downward-pointing spikes of a great, barred barrier.	10
11	719	So, too, surely had been the blanket, and even the wastes vessel! Had I understood such things as evidence of a special status, of special treatment, of special consideration, either of myself personally, or, more generally, of my sort of woman in this place? Had I interpreted such things as signs o...	10
11	1452	One serves humbly, self-effacingly, eyes cast downward.	10
11	1682	I felt my left ear lobe drawn downward, taut.	10
11	1843	I was moved slightly, and my feet suddenly slipped downward.	10
11	1846	Again my feet slipped downward.	10
11	1854	I was then suddenly, without warning, thrust forward, and, as I cried out with alarm, I descended, in which descent the hood, by my motion downward and the grip on the hood, was removed from me, which descent, after a yard or so, was arrested by the rope.	10
11	1862	I saw one of the ends of the rope released and it whipped downward under my left arm, across my body, half turning me, back under my right arm and upward.	10
11	1864	I was descending in the tube and the rectangle of sky above me shrunk and disappeared, and, in a moment, even the dimness of light was gone, and I spun about, turning, crying out in misery, spiraling downward through the darkness.	10
11	1872	Might not treasures be safely herein committed? Perhaps a captive free woman dared entertain hopes of rescue, but she then finds herself, clad only in her slave bracelets, whirling helplessly downward, toward what fate she knows not, in the very bowels of the city.	10
11	1876	I plunged, and spun and slid downward.	10
16	385	Then, slowly, he lowered it, sliding it downward, against the interior of my left thigh.	10
37	712	The gate bolt on the cage drawn, the bottom of the cage dropped downward on its hinges, opening the cage.	10
46	317	"Could you now thrust downward before I could resist, or defend myself?" he asked.	10

Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	69	She sat there, then, for a moment, regarding herself, the gown now modestly drawn downward, but the steel still visible in the mirror.	10
8	216	Tutina's blond hair was bound back with a woolen ribbon, or fillet, which went completely about the head, across the brow, and was knotted behind the back of the head, two ends then dangling downward, each about six inches in length.	10
16	1216	"Belly," he said, gently, and held out his hand, palm downward.	10
17	1072	For better than an Ahn she was led through the streets, and alleys, and between buildings, sometimes with passages, many of them steep, downward and upward, and sometimes so narrow that she might strike her shoulders, first on one side, then on the other.	10
17	1073	Sometimes, on a pronounced declivity, she feared she would again fall, losing her balance, hurtling headlong downward, and, at other times, given an ascending steepness, she struggled, gasping, legs aching, to climb, the leash taut, mercilessly, impatiently, against the ring, drawing her relentlessl...	10
19	565	In a moment the tarn had leapt from the platform, spread its wings, soared for a brief moment, swooping downward, and had then, with a sudden snapping of those mighty wings, begun to fly.	10
20	356	What then? The tarn suddenly uttered a weird screaming sound and swooped downward, its talons open, grasping, toward the following tarnsman who, turning in the saddle, angrily, thrust up at it with his lance, and withdrew the lance from the feathers dark with blood.	10
20	361	This time the tarn, fiercely, perhaps in rage, in pain, hurled itself downward on the following tarnsman.	10
21	82	The group was directed toward a narrow trail, one winding its way gently downward among deciduous trees.	10
21	85	Her group was conducted downward, slipping a bit on the dirt and grass, one girl fell, to the border of the stream, along which was a narrow trail, some five feet above the stream.	10
21	98	Others were not now in obvious contact with the stream but were nearby, perhaps fed by waters which had occasionally exceeded the normal boundaries of the stream, or by waters which had drained downward naturally, overflowing the sunken walls, filling the area, cisternlike, the expected result of th...	10
22	623	She cried out, softly, piteously, her progress suddenly arrested by a tent rope, taut, running diagonally downward from its pole to its peg, anchored in the dirt, some feet from the tent.	10
26	42	A leather slave hood was thrust over her head and pulled downward.	10
26	1441	He sat near her, before her, cross-legged, and reached his hands to her hair, and, by means of her hair, as she knelt, back-braceleted, drew her head downward a few inches, toward himself.	10
27	1628	As the tharlarion reared again she was aware of Mirus cursing, and a weight, a body, was hanging onto the bridle, pulling the animal down, fiercely, yanking downward, twisting its neck.	10
27	2279	Rain slashed downward in torrents.	10
27	2862	Ellen cast a glance downward, and trembled.	10
29	19	From the pommel of one saddle, seemingly not that of a guard, but perhaps of a civilian or merchant's agent accompanying the caravan, there looped downward a light, graceful chain to the throat of a naked, blond slave.	10
30	133	Perhaps, someday, who knew, she might, if she served long enough, and deferentially enough, with sufficient perfection, be permitted sometimes the dignity of the surface of the couch, though still chained by neck or ankle, first kneeling beside it, kissing its furs, and then being permitted to ascen...	10
30	193	"Please forgive me!" Then, as she dared to lift her eyes, clutching his calves, and looking fearfully up at him, she suddenly felt an almost uncontrollable cry of need in her belly, one suffusing upward and downward throughout her small body.	10

Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	43	"Look here!" Again he pointed downward, and she rose to her feet, came to his side, and looked downward.	10
2	214	The brunette shrieked piteously, and tried to brace herself within the container, to keep from slipping forward, and downward.	10
15	29	A hand raised the rock, to use it, hammerlike, to drive the stick downward, through the back of her neck, pinning her by means of it to the ground.	10
16	2	He slipped down the side of the defile to where he had left the blonde, sitting, her ankles crossed before her, tied together with the twice-braided leash, in such a way that her head, by the leash, was drawn forward and downward, and fastened to her crossed ankles.	10
17	19	And about the top of the defile were now better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head.	10
18	294	This second Kur carried a spear, which he handed to the net holder, who then, grasping it some four feet behind the blade, lifted it, his hands high over his head, and pointed it downward, toward the heart of Cabot, who lay in the toils of the net, on his back, looking upward.	10
19	2	The trunk did not bleed as the flame had seared shut the avenues of blood within that large body, and the head, or the parts of it which remained, slid slowly downward, descending from the rock wall behind him.	10
20	105	Many were unsheathed, and by far the most, and each of those daggers pointed downward, threateningly, toward the pit in which Lord Pyrrhus awaited the verdict.	10
21	184	"They are large, sluggish, surely well-fed," said Cabot, peering downward.	10
21	341	"The challengers!" said Cabot, pointing downward.	10
21	390	The second challenger struck downward with his weapon, and Grendel fended the blow but in such a way as not to take the brunt of its weight, but rather to slide it aside.	10
21	631	The huge metallic head, with eyes like fire, turned from side to side, and then halted, and inclined a foot forward and downward, peering at the figure on the sand, Lord Pyrrhus.	10
30	29	She then inched downward, and kissed him on the thigh.	10
31	36	"Look, girl," said Cabot, pointing downward, at the sand.	10
32	292	Grendel ate more in the fashion of the Kur, ripping large pieces of tharlarion apart with his hands and teeth, and then cutting them into ribbons with his fangs, and then, with movements of his head and long, dark tongue, forcing them downward into his cavernous gorge.	10
33	252	But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u...	10
42	71	The lead animal, at the last moment, slips through a gate to the side, and the line behind it continues to move forward, and downward, to the great hammers, or to the ropes and slings, to be suspended, dangling, for the knives, such things".	10
43	12	Her bell hung downward, and rang.	10
46	153	Caught by the rotation, one could be hurled downward, and dashed to the ground, and, without aid, it could be an almost insurmountable climb to ascend against the rotation, until one had ascended far enough for it to be neutralized, and one would have approached the gravity-free, or low-gravity, axi...	10
47	14	"Go back! Go back, while you can!" Inch by inch, he saw two of his fellows, flattened against the steel, moving downward.	10
53	222	Then there seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clu...	10
67	34	Overhead Cabot could even see it on the trees which, from his vantage point, though so far away, seemed to be growing downward.	10

Book 29. (11 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
42	4	In swells we would be lifted twenty or thirty feet into the air and would then swirl downward into the troughs, to be lifted again and slide downward again, and again.	10
16	12	"Three-strap," I called, and Ichiro blew the signal, and the flock turned downward and to the right.	10
17	73	Others of my fellows were soaring downward, lance in hand, hunting targets.	10
17	96	"Victory!" "War!" I cried, and gestured downward, toward the plaza of training.	10
17	98	With a laugh Torgus then, with a declination of his lance, followed by that of his bannerman, followed by the twenty, in its four prides, in its ranks, that twenty which was his personal guard, swooped downward to join the fray below.	10
17	106	Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.	10
18	214	Even as I did so, to my right, his pavilion collapsed, crashing downward in a sudden flurry of sparks and smoke, then settling into a mass of flaming planks, timbers, and panels.	10
18	506	Sometimes, of course, things do not go well, and they must forsake their heights, now being swept by the enemy, and flee downward, in terror, scattering to the grassy valleys, running before mounted foes intent on collecting them.	10
25	194	I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...	10
29	80	We came then, at last, to an opening in the trees, and stood upon a rise, from which a road led gently downward through the valley toward the river.	10
29	95	In a few Ehn the tharlarion would again grunt and bellow, and the wagons would again trundle forward, and now downward.	10

Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	59	"You were ejected elsewhere, thrown into the streets, and stumbled downward, bewildered, blindly, mad, knowing nothing else, stumbling from door to door, until you would reach the piers".	10
2	228	Then, the fog parting, momentarily, I saw, looming above me, passing, a large, painted eye, black on yellow, that behind the small galley's downward sloping, concave prow, such eyes that she may guard herself and see her way, for as those who follow the sea are well aware, the ship is a living thing...	10
8	6	Even on deck one could hear the crunch of their boots on the ice below, the striking of the posts downward, each handled by two men, on the ice, the sharp crack of the Torvaldslander axes striking on the horizontal, encroaching wall that seemed about to encircle the mighty ship.	10
8	33	Twenty days ago the ice had shifted, with a great, splitting roar, and our great, weighty bulk had slid downward, deeper into the ice, then through the ice, and righted itself.	10
13	26	He punched downward with the heel of his sea boot and the board broke under the blow, revealing a brown, spongelike mass of fiber.	10
14	136	It then, dragging its burden of sharks, its victim still struggling in its jaws, dove, and the snap of that great tail, striking upward, tipped us, and then, striking downward, propelling that enormous bulk, clove our galley, and we were plunged into the water.	10
14	312	I, backing away, suddenly slipped downward, through a gap in the vinage, and felt circles of vines about my legs and lower body, through which I had plunged.	10
19	91	The bow of the ship paused, teetering, as though at the edge of a cliff, and then, suddenly, it plunged downward, and slid to the side of that steep, pouring, liquid valley, and went over to her side, and continents of water poured over her, and then engulfed her, and she spun about, for all her siz...	10
22	186	Another was striking downward and I managed to bend forward and catch it behind the blade, though I was forced down to one knee.	10
22	189	It was only later that I realized this was the attack of the doubled glaive, in which the first thrusts horizontally, and the second, on the chance that the defender's attention is distracted, strikes downward.	10
29	97	I was more startled when I saw the other two gates between the courtyard and the steep, downward trail to the wharf already stood open.	10

Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	167	They turned toward me, as though they might have been eyes, inclining downward, peering downward.	10
14	2	I brought the brushes and combs to his side, and began at the sides of the head, brushing downward, toward the shoulders.	10
14	10	I drew the brush downward.	10
23	89	Shortly thereafter a vast, loose quantity of mud, some fifty paces wide, and perhaps fifteen deep, moved past us, before us, downward, slowly, then more rapidly, to plunge into the valley below, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant.	10
32	39	It was poised on the dais, alertly, and then sank downward, resting its belly on the dais.	10
42	46	I saw a fang sunk deep into the meat, anchoring it, and then a huge piece was wrenched free, and the long, dark tongue wrapped itself about this, and thrust it back, into the toothed darkness, and, in a moment, I witnessed its passage, sliding downward, under the fur of the throat.	10
45	188	The blade missed the center of the head, and clove downward, through the side of the skull, close to the left ear, and continued through the shoulder, and half into the ribs.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	168	He twisted her rudely, abruptly, about, and downward, and she was then at his feet, he crouching over her, his hand in her hair.	10
11	87	A leaf or two, late, dislodged, fluttered downward.	10
15	81	Before, in the forest, I had known them only as large, frightening shadows overhead, rapid, monstrous darknesses overhead, storms of wings smiting the air, whose passage had torn leaves from the canopy, these then showering downward, scattering about us.	10
35	61	Tuza had slipped to her knees beside Darla, lifted her hands over her head, grasping the dark object, which was a heavy stone, and struck downward.	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	557	In a moment Ashigaru had closed about the figure and borne it, face downward, to the floor.	10
20	585	"See, my lord, the sign of the lotus!" "It is the avenger, of whom Tatsu spoke!" said an Ashigaru, peering downward.	10
25	275	Surely he knew she was not a slave! Crying out in confusion, and misery, Sumomo, obedient, bound and blindfolded, leaped from the board's edge into nothing, and plummeted downward, the skirt of her sheetlike garment torn high about her thighs, and was caught in the arms of Tajima, who threw her on h...	10
25	286	This had been clear enough in her leap downward, in which the light garment in which she had been placed, lifted, had billowed about her, trailing her leaping body.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	355	I clutched the crude board within the threshold, the board to my left, serving as a banister, and took a step downward, into the darkness.	10
15	128	I felt myself handed downward from one fellow to another.	10
15	207	"Hold that wagon! Hold that wagon!" Instantly Tullius Quintus released the brake and struck the beasts forward, and the wagon, tipping downward, rattled down a slope and struck into the water.	10
27	19	At least the street would soon begin to lead downward toward the wharves.	10
28	252	He then turned about and retraced his steps, once more downward, toward the pier district.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	191	I realized that I was being carried downward toward the wharves.	10
31	12	But Bruno of Torcadino had already accessed the steps downward, toward the sand.	10
38	59	Shortly thereafter we turned from the hallway and began to make our way downward, descending steep, ill-lit, narrow stairs.	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	74	The body had been placed on the sharpened point of the pole, facing upward, and then dragged downward, worked downward, wrenched downward, slowly, bit by bit, perhaps by four men, until the pole's sharpened terminus, red with blood, now a dried stain, was visible, protruding some eighteen inches abo...	10
37	25	Their mooring ropes, fastened to shore cleats at stem and stern, with their conical or disklike urt guards, would, as they lifted and tightened, shed water in a rain of sunlit droplets, and then, again, relaxing, would loop downward, settling again into the water.	10
40	62	Gather stones which may be hurled downward from the walls.	10
41	173	"They can conceal and protect men, be wheeled to walls, overtop walls, and, when they suddenly drop their gates, permit besiegers bearing shields to rush downward with great force upon defenders".	10
43	85	As it was, my blade, so lightly engaged in my earlier stroke, leapt up and easily parried the savage downward stroke of the mercenary's blade, a fierce, heavy, frenzied stroke which might have cut away the head of a saddle tharlarion.	10
44	6	The defenders not only have height and can strike both downward and horizontally, and are protected by the wall, but they can fight side by side.	10
51	85	At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum.	10
53	46	The iron-shod ram, mounted in such a way as to withstand the grievous shock of tearing through reinforced planking, cut a short, sharp, linear, bloody furrow in the hide of the living island and then, as it was riding over the beast, the beast, reflexively, reared upward, like a hill of muscles, as ...	10
53	64	Their travail was brief, however, for the shore of the island drew back under them, and inclined downward, as though, water rushing in, it would so rid itself of an unwelcome visitor.	10
53	274	I then slashed my hand downward, and the keleustes brought his mallet down on the great drum.	10
56	105	Once more, the enormous living weight of the Brigand Island exploded up from the sea and then, from some sixty to eighty yards above the surface, plunging downward, it fell athwart the retreating corsair ship, snapping it in two.	10