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Book 1. (13 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	227	So now the tarn was gone, returned to his natural wild state, the Home Stone was in the saddle pack, and I had failed, and the daughter of the Ubar had failed, and we stood facing one another on a green knoll in the swamp forest of Ar.	10
1	14	I graduated decently, having failed to astound either myself or my tutors.	10
1	96	I tried to crease the envelope with my thumbnail, but failed.	10
4	125	I shook the thought from my aching head, made an unsuccessful effort to muster a decent sense of shame, failed, and was belting my tunic when the Older Tarl entered the room.	10
6	123	"I have failed".	10
6	226	When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the Home Stone.	10
7	20	Indeed, perhaps I should be honored that he had addressed me as brother—I who failed to meet his standards, I who had so many times, intentionally or unintentionally, injured those of the rational kind.	10
8	143	Then she asked suddenly, "You are Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, are you not?" I failed to conceal my astonishment, and she laughed merrily.	10
8	150	"Pa-Kur, Ar's Master Assassin, was dispatched to kill you, but failed".	10
12	17	"You failed to kill me that time," I taunted.	10
14	139	Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut.	10
16	60	At any rate, my plan for the division of the Home Stones had failed, and Marlenus, on whom I had depended, was, in the language of the game, neutralized if not removed from the board.	10
19	146	My ruse had failed.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	20	I returned at the determined time, but he failed to keep the rendezvous.	10
17	62	"I failed her".	10
17	63	"We have all failed," I said.	10
17	67	I had failed my city, my beloved Talena, my father, my friends.	10
20	127	I think, though it may be absurd, that the beast felt that he might have failed me, that he had not carried me into the mountains.	10
20	130	Had it failed me? Was I now rejecting it? "Go, Ubar of the Skies," I said.	10

Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	211	I wondered how many men had failed.	10
8	150	Thus if one tower failed to report when expected the alarm bars of Ko-ro-ba would soon ring and her tarnsmen would saddle and be aflight.	10
9	260	Let her weep, I said to myself, for she has failed her masters, the Priest-Kings, and undoubtedly her punishment will not be light.	10
12	207	"They feel they have failed the Priest-Kings and wish to die," said Misk.	10
16	40	"You have surely not failed to notice," said Misk, "that though you came to the Counter-Earth more than seven years ago you have undergone no significant physical alteration in that time".	10
17	54	If these tactics were calculated to have some effect on Sarm, I think they most miserably failed of that effect, for during the entire time I took, which was considerable, he stood motionless in the room, save for an occasional movement of his antennae, frozen in that maddening, immobile but alert p...	10
18	153	"The girl Vika of Treve has never failed me," said Sarm.	10
27	164	In the frenzy of the battle I had apparently failed to note the injury to the leg.	10
30	177	For some reason Vika's attentions to Sarm irritated me and undoubtedly I failed to conceal this sufficiently because Sarm often required this task of her in my presence and, I noted with fury, she seemed invariably delighted to comply with his request.	10
31	34	The firing switch was depressed and I heard the soft click but the tube failed to fire.	10
33	63	"All else has failed!" cried the Initiate, weaving back and forth, his hands in the air.	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	314	The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr...	10
12	11	It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...	10
12	257	Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon.	10
24	105	I failed.	10
26	282	It was done, gone, ended! My mission had failed! The Priest-Kings would die! This world, and perhaps my other, dear Earth, would now fall to the mysterious Others, whoever or whatever they might be.	10
26	299	It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur...	10
26	420	"I think," I said, "I shall leave the Wagons soon—for I have failed in my mission on behalf of Priest-Kings".	10

Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	149	Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st...	10
14	102	I had not known, for example, and I gathered it was not common knowledge, about the many sorties to the Voltai to find and slay Marlenus, sorties which had invariably failed.	10
20	25	I had failed them all.	10
21	383	Now those Taurentians left in the stands suddenly failed to restrain the crowds and thousands of citizens were leaping into the arena and others were swarming across the tiers toward the box of the Ubar.	10
22	536	I heard the judge's bar ring twice, indicating two had failed to clear one ring or another.	10
24	269	In so much I had failed.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	144	The coup intended to destroy them, swift as the falling of the assassin's blade, had failed.	10
11	594	Further, even if my mission failed, I would be richer by a galley, and that a ram-ship of heavy class, the most redoubtable naval weapon on gleaming Thassa.	10
13	385	But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	30	I was failed in one course, in French.	10
11	323	The only thing I failed to take into my calculations was that the Gorean male, whether by culture or genetic endowment, is unlike the typical man of Earth.	10
11	468	I thought the woman instructor in French, who had failed me in the course, and had had her grade changed, and who had resigned from the school on account of it, might have enjoyed that.	10
11	595	The slave mistress would switch me, and the others, when we failed.	10

Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	45	He had succeeded, casually, where we had failed.	10
12	124	I was furious! I had failed to rescue Talena! She had been disowned! I and my men had fallen to panther girls! We would have been raped and sold slave had we not been rescued by the incomparable Marlenus of Ar.	10
15	109	Five of their parties had failed to return.	10
19	369	"Your ruse has failed," said Sarus.	10
19	400	"Your ruse has failed," said Sarus.	10
20	277	But I had failed to locate it, or its bowman.	10
20	278	I had failed.	10
21	47	"You have failed," said I, "Sarus".	10
21	52	All that he had come to the northern forests to accomplish he had failed to do.	10
21	53	He had failed his Ubar, Chenbar of Tyros, called the Sea Sleen.	10
21	89	In my venture into the forest I had failed.	10
21	90	Both Sarus and I had failed.	10

Book 9. (12 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	34	Twice yesterday, in long games, until the Torvaldsland gulls had left the sea and returned inland, I had failed to meet the gambit.	10
6	377	"We hunted him, but failed to find him," said Ottar.	10
6	450	He had failed to capture me, and I had, eventually, managed to free Marlenus, his men and mine, and defeat Sarus.	10
12	66	Ivar Forkbeard shrugged and spread his hands, as though he had been found out, as though his ruse had failed.	10
17	101	They had failed, several days ago, in the Thing Assembly, to intimidate the men of Torvaldsland into furnishing them provisions for their march.	10
18	249	"Your plan has failed," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
18	653	The great plan of the Others, of the Kurii of the steel worlds, their most profound and brilliant probe of the defenses of Priest-Kings, had failed.	10
18	662	They had failed.	10
18	683	Yet it seemed I had failed.	10
18	685	I had failed.	10
20	92	"That attempt failed," it said.	10
21	57	If he repudiates her, she is shamed; she has failed as a female.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	781	It had failed.	10
2	192	I had failed to contact them in Kasra, as I had planned, but I had learned that they were in the region of Tor, purchasing kaiila, for a caravan to the kasbah, or fortress, of Suleiman, of the Aretai tribe, master of a thousand lances, Ubar of the Oasis of Nine Wells.	10
2	587	I had failed to learn who it was who had purchased the girl Veema, who perhaps had sent her as a message girl to Samos of Port Kar.	10
7	90	The blow of the assassin, in the confusion, had failed to find its mark.	10
7	428	"The message collar," said Ibn Saran, "failed to bring about your death, the termination of your quest for the last egg of Priest-Kings".	10
14	402	What she had failed to do at Nine Wells, her master, Ibn Saran, silken, pantherlike and lithe, had well accomplished.	10
14	678	We had failed.	10
23	105	They had never been summoned by the Aretai, who had no right to do this, but they had never failed to come.	10
24	840	"Nature, in teaching man to dominate, has not failed to provide his victim".	10
26	137	Not receiving it they become petty, frustrated, competitive, hostile, and vicious, a function of this basic need having failed to be satisfied.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	746	The plan, perhaps, had been disrupted, or had failed, prior even to the arrival of the two men at the rock.	10
3	84	I think the major reason I so failed to impress the men at the camp of my captor was because at that time I had not yet been taught to come alive as a woman.	10
7	361	No woman who failed to meet these understood, publicized and well-known terms would be acceptable.	10
9	593	Yet I knew a girl could be subjected to a full and lengthy lashing by the true slave whip for so small a thing as having failed in some way that she might not even understand to be completely pleasing to a master.	10
9	732	Too, once she had prepared to kill me, on the day when I had failed in the plowing.	10
21	41	I had failed miserably to please the drunken sailor.	10
24	336	When I failed to give it to him I did not know what would be done to me.	10
27	387	His various stratagems, I fear, failed him.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	703	"The trap has failed," I said.	10
4	738	"He was pleased that it failed".	10
4	752	"Thus, if the trap failed, I would supposedly detect nothing.	10
8	195	"Where men have failed to take you," she said, "I have succeeded".	10
10	74	"I am a failed captain," said he.	10
10	190	And had she not succeeded where mere men had failed? Muchly then did she relish the sight of Tarl Cabot, it seemed, he, occasional champion of Priest-Kings, sometimes foe of Kurii, at the mercy of her guards, and in chains she doubtless regarded as her own.	10
24	145	"I failed them," she whispered.	10
30	86	It is assumed that failed candidates are slain, if not in the training, for secrets they may have learned.	10
30	170	"It is twice I have failed my caste".	10
30	175	"That is the first time I failed my caste," said Drusus.	10
35	914	"We have failed," said Drusus.	10
35	916	The strange common project of two men, of diverse and antagonistic, yet strangely similar castes, an Assassin and a Warrior, had failed.	10
35	1018	"We have failed to find the destructive device," I said to Imnak.	10
35	1326	"Though I am in disgrace, though I have failed, I am yet Zarendargar, Half-Ear, of the Kurii".	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	88	Since she was not found desirable as a woman she attempts to become a more successful man than the men who failed to note her attractiveness.	10
15	234	The jeweler who had duplicated the ring for Shaba had failed slightly in that particular.	10
41	12	A signal which we had failed to note had doubtless been given.	10
48	169	The girl who is ignored, of course, is likely to suspect that she has been found wanting as a slave, that she has failed to be pleasing.	10
48	171	Has she failed as a slave? Who will want her now? Was this her fault? How could she have done better? At whose feet will she wear her next collar? "Do you wish to be a slave girl?" I asked her, the erstwhile leader of the once arrogant, now subdued, talunas.	10
53	520	I had failed.	10

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	375	"How have I failed to please you?" she begged.	10
7	541	I recalled that I should have castigated myself for the feelings of strength which had been in me at that time, but I had failed to do so.	10
7	684	Shame she could understand, such things as the chagrin of a man who has failed in honor, but pathologically conditioned guilts, instilled neurotic anxieties, used as control devices to perpetuate sickened societies, were unfamiliar to her.	10
7	1028	I had failed to relate well to her, in spite of being solicitous and charming, courteous and attentive, in spite of treating her with honor, and with dignity and respect.	10
18	169	Apparently she had failed to do so.	10

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	95	"Yet you failed her as a master," she said.	10
25	228	Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently lucrative, it...	10
28	330	He had not failed to notice that Peggy had glanced, terrified, earlier, to Callimachus.	10
29	70	"The topaz, given the existence of the chain," said Callisthenes, "is now meaningless, though, to be sure, I am charged with the attempt to intercept it, a charge in which I have, thanks to our young friend here, failed".	10
32	4	They had failed to sufficiently please Jandar, one of the minor captains in the holding of Policrates.	10

Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	157	They had failed to support us in our fight at the chain.	10
6	158	Now, it seemed, they had failed, too, even to prevent the third fleet of the Voskjard from making an unimpeded entry into the waters east of the chain, from which position, of course, they could take the defensive fleet in the rear.	10
17	165	"You have failed to interest him," said the girl who held the leash.	10
17	195	"You have failed to interest him".	10
17	224	"You are now to be led back to your master, as a failed slave".	10
17	846	And, of course, if she has failed in some way, or has not been fully pleasing, this is an excellent way to improve her behavior.	10
18	598	I was to be returned to a stern Gorean master as a failed slave.	10
19	737	"But before you could be put up for sale," I said, "you must learn certain lessons, which apparently you have earlier failed to master, on the position, and condition, of the Gorean slave girl".	10
20	774	"But," said she, moist-eyed, "that our courtship not appear to have failed, and that our families not be disgraced, you agreed to proceed with the companionship.	10
20	1763	She tried again to free her ankles, and again failed.	10
21	242	"What would have happened," she asked, "had I failed the test?" "What do you think?" I asked.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1242	"He knows that he has failed".	10
10	13	Too many of them had failed to return.	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	153	Too, that a given girl has been beaten, and has thus, presumably, failed to be fully pleasing in some way, makes her an object of contempt and ridicule among other girls.	10
12	352	"You have not failed to note, I suppose," I said, "that you have seemed to undergo a certain decrease in value".	10
12	353	"No," she said, angrily, "I have not failed to note that".	10
44	724	Doubtless Iwoso, who was a highly intelligent woman, feared that her insolence, her bluff called, her gamble failed, might, though she was free, earn her a quirting.	10
47	418	It seemed their medicine had failed them.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	258	I had failed to escape.	10
33	801	The beasts, it is my surmise, having hitherto failed to win Gor by overt conquest, attempt now to obtain power on this world by specific and detailed subversions, mixing in, and influencing, the politics and affairs of cities.	10
36	1194	I failed.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	624	But he, too, failed to notice.	10
4	129	"He failed," he said.	10
4	143	"How might you have succeeded where Babinius failed?" he asked.	10
5	190	His legs failed him and he sprawled back, over the bench, and then, half catching himself, slipped to the tiles of the inn floor.	10
12	579	"He failed his city," he said, "and was disgraced".	10
12	676	"I failed to kneel in the presence of free men," she sobbed.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	483	I now understood more clearly than before why earlier messengers or agents might have failed to make contact with the regent and high general.	10
21	193	Five messengers before me, it seems, might well have failed to accomplish the delivery of such letters.	10
25	2311	"To be sure, he may have ordered the waves beaten, but, as far as we know, the ocean failed to take note of this".	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	15	If I failed, I had been told that I would be whipped or slain.	10
34	384	I loved him! I loved him more than anything! But I had failed my first test with him! I had only wanted to know, foolishly, the nature of my power with him, if any, and the nature of the discipline to which I might be subject.	10
34	390	How badly I had behaved! I had failed my first test with my master, whom I loved! Yet, too, I felt grandly and warmly reassured as to his strength and dominance.	10
34	393	If I had failed his test, he had passed mine.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	136	"When our evasions failed to satisfy the attendants ropes were put on our necks, over our robes and veils, and we were brought to the keeper's desk.	10
5	217	"Perhaps you had earlier failed to be pleasing," I said.	10
6	893	"If I failed to do the job neatly, and he awakened, and I was kneeling there with a bloody knife in my hand, one could not at all count on his seeing the matter from our point of view".	10
24	887	One autumn my father's fields again failed.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	437	"Let the festivities begin!" called the newcomer, a large, broad-shouldered, heavily bearded fellow, flinging a heavy purse on its strings into the stomach of he whom I took to be Philebus, the taverner, who clutched at it, but failed to secure it, as it was jerked back on the strings.	10
1	1051	Forgive me, if I have failed to be fully pleasing".	10
12	405	What would be the nature of the new order? Surely it need not be built on the failed model of the old order.	10
15	12	Too often these scouts and flankers, and rear guards, failed to return.	10
40	76	As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	311	Ar, however, had failed to act.	10
3	338	"I entered Phoebe in "meat catch," " said Marcus, "but she failed to catch even a single morsel".	10
8	547	Some ignorantly and sanctimoniously devote themselves to uncriticized abstractions; some strive merely to please their fellows; some, more ambitious, with their eye on power, seek to equal, or even outdo, their peers in lunacy; let civilization be inverted, if only they will then be on top; some, mo...	10
8	1073	I do not think, then, she thought of herself any longer, really, as a woman of Cos, or even one who had once been of Cos, but rather now as merely a slave, only that, and one who had perhaps, frighteningly, to her trepidation and misery, failed to be fully pleasing.	10
9	202	Some women who had failed to report to the great theater were brought later that evening to the Stadium of Tarns by guardsmen, both regulars and auxiliaries.	10
13	151	"And surely you have not failed to notice that in the last few days many slaves, many, indeed, are scantier garmented than before," he said.	10
21	161	"Such knee positions become almost instinctive in a female slave, and I would not wish to complicate your training by punishing you for having failed to alter them in a particular case.	10
23	65	"He failed," said Marcus to me.	10

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	538	"No," she said, "but were it not for him I might now be tatrix in my city!" "Your schemes failed," said a man.	10
11	1600	I gathered it would not go well with her if she failed.	10
12	770	I think I would have preferred to choose my own master, but that is perhaps only because I remembered one from long ago, one before whom I had knelt even before my body had grown used to bonds of iron, one whom I had never forgotten, one whom I had failed to please, one whose whip I had kissed.	10
13	790	Too, of course, knowing the name, if the slave has one, makes it easier, particularly in a situation such as the pens, to keep track of things, to inform others, and such, for the punishment for later infractions may be considerably more severe if it seems the slave has failed to profit from her ear...	10
13	855	It had to do with more than the mere triviality of my having failed, in my confusion and fear, to make my condition clear to a free woman in the darkness.	10
18	98	The tarnsman then, and his companions, those who failed to draw the winning lot in the hunting game, are feasted, with their officers, at the table of the very ubar or administrator himself.	10
38	196	Indeed, so concerned she had been that she, doubtless in a momentary lapse, occasioned by her agitation, her sense of vulnerability, had failed to enunciate a standard permission request.	10

Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	59	He had failed to conform.	10
2	61	She had failed him, of course, for his consciousness had not been raised.	10
2	118	Too, clearly, he had failed to meet the most important requirement of the course, the adoption of its ideological viewpoint.	10
15	165	She had failed that test.	10
16	473	Though she strove to feel distressed, even outraged, she failed.	10
17	76	"Are you a slave girl?" "Yes, Master!" "And you have failed to obey a free person?" "He is a little boy!" she cried.	10
17	77	"So you have failed to obey a free person," he said.	10
24	447	Ellen was, on the whole, pleased that 51, she called 'Dara', had not been again displeasing, and had not been again subjected to the typical Gorean consequences attendant upon the least lapse into slave laxity, but, on the other hand, she realized that she herself would now find herself contrasted n...	10
25	394	"But perhaps you will not fully appreciate your slavery, or understand its inflexibility, its absoluteness, unless you have made every effort to obtain your freedom, and have failed, and have come to understand the absolute hopelessness of such an endeavor.	10
27	1322	Thus she would be not only humiliated that she must dance as a slave, but, beyond that, an excruciating shame for a woman, that she would be humiliated that she had failed to please, that she had danced so badly.	10
27	1415	But the cruel plan of Mirus had failed of its realization! She had, it seems, done well! How frustrated, how furious, he must have been.	10
29	275	"But you never touched me, Master! Take me! Take me now! Take your slave! But you did not touch me, Master, why? Why?" "It was a test, slave girl," said he, "and you failed it miserably!" "How a test, Master?" "I thought I would give you some laxity, to see if you could handle it, to see what you we...	10
30	50	Some Goreans seem to prefer Earth women as slaves; others prefer native Gorean women; I would not think it would make much difference; they are all women; doubtless it depends on the particular woman and man, on the particular slave and master, on the particular "chemistry," so to speak; on the othe...	10

Book 28. (18 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	140	When it became clear that Zarendargar had survived the destruction of the staging area, a death squad was dispatched from the Steel Worlds to hunt him down and kill him, for he had, after all, failed the people.	10
1	297	Her master or keeper in the meantime might have made good his escape, or perhaps failed to do so, was apprehended by Priest-Kings, and routinely destroyed.	10
1	873	She tried to look away, as though indifferently, but we fear she failed to do so.	10
1	1194	Seldom one supposes had she failed before to obtain her way.	10
3	27	"But failed to do so," said Cabot.	10
6	125	"Why?" "Perhaps you might succeed where I have failed," he said.	10
10	134	Cabot took this to be a reference to a failed experiment, the outcome of which was Grendel.	10
11	298	"She failed to seduce you," said Peisistratus.	10
21	251	He failed.	10
21	576	Such failures do not reflect well on the astuteness or stratagems of a Face of the Nameless One, and their lingering, failed residues are best discarded".	10
32	72	She was unfamiliar with the cumbersome intricacies of the usual Robes of Concealment, their arranged foldings, the abundant drapings, and such, which vary from city to city, but she had simulated something akin to them, doubtless with the aid of Grendel, who would have been familiar with such things...	10
51	179	"She is in little danger," said Lord Grendel, "for the revolution has failed".	10
56	105	"We have failed," said Cabot.	10
56	169	"I failed".	10
57	2	"Dear Grendel!" he cried, "we had report that your plan had failed, and your command destroyed, wiped out, each and every one of our fellows, in the Vale of Destruction! Praise the Priest-Kings! You, and Cabot, and some others, Statius, I see, and some few, have escaped!" "Praise the Nameless One, i...	10
77	126	Doubtless Cabot wished that the slave might have reached the safety of the forest, a desiderated outcome, where she might, a fleet, collared human female, have managed to elude a lame Kur, but he was not surprised when she failed to do so.	10
79	231	A man is likely to punish a girl only if she has failed in some way to please him, but a free woman may whip her for no other reason than that she is a lovely slave and men might desire her.	10
79	429	"But I have failed! It is what I am, a slave, and yours! Touch me, my master! I beg it! When first I saw you I knew you were my master! Did you not, as well, know I was your slave?" "It was no accident," said Cabot, "that we found ourselves together there".	10

Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	270	How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo...	10
1	268	Had she no need of such as I, the temptation would have been primarily mine, and it would have failed of its devastating symmetricality.	10
3	374	Unfortunately for the would-be assassin, she failed to make her escape.	10
5	381	Pertinax, for example, who seemed a nice enough fellow, might be punished for having failed his more remote employers.	10
5	476	"She failed to arm and deploy her formidable infantries".	10
8	112	"Have I failed?" he asked.	10
13	59	It was predominantly wiped out in the rising, it seems, for its collaboration with the occupational forces, its extending of credit to them, to meet its payrolls, when the funds for these failed somehow to reach the city, its purchases of great quantities of loot, including women, for later retailin...	10
17	68	And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai...	10
22	618	"I have failed to please you," she said.	10
23	86	His Ashigaru, of course, had failed to find the body in the forest.	10
25	107	If he himself dies, he has botched his work, he has failed, he has shamed his caste.	10
27	32	He did not know me, I was not of the Pani, I had not turned a failed assassin, Licinius, over to him for the expected justice of prolonged torture, and there was the matter of yesterday night, when I had mysteriously left the camp and had apparently engaged in a clandestine rendezvous with a strange...	10
27	144	Too, on Gor, she is likely to find herself the property of a dominant male, by whom she will find herself wholly mastered, as only a slave can be mastered, and handled and desired, and possessed, with a raw, animal passion for which her old world has failed to prepare her.	10
30	97	Tarns which were disposed to leave the sight of land might have perished in the sea, and thus failed to replicate their genes.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	42	The scrolls allege that the bodies on the ship are those of criminals, men who were enemies of the shogun, men who conspired against him, who dared oppose his will, whose loyalty was suspect, who failed to pay their taxes, who tried to hide food, who failed to speak of him with sufficient reverence,...	10
12	554	"It is strange, is it not," I said, "that the deck watch failed to note such intruders, and that the alarm bar did not ring until men were pouring onto the deck?" "Do you think it strange?" asked the tarnsman.	10
13	100	Had helmsmen failed to keep the charted course? The Vine Sea moves, like a vast garden in the sea, but perhaps it had not moved as much as had been thought.	10
13	108	"It seems likely they failed to reach land," he said.	10
13	121	"Clearly some have failed to escape," said Cabot.	10
16	215	I doubted that Tyrtaios, under the circumstances, thought it well advised, given fire and our own troubles, to board the warning ship, but he failed to demur.	10
25	351	"I do not know," said Adraste, "but you failed to sell me for your freedom in Ar!" "You looked well on your knees, at the feet of Seremides," she said, "bound, helpless, waiting, in the rag of a slave!" "You betrayed me!" said Adraste.	10
30	1	How the Desertion Failed of Its Purpose; I Realize the Danger Which is Not Spoken Not one man had been killed.	10
36	123	Their fellows took fee and failed to earn it.	10
36	125	They failed.	10
36	128	"Cineas," said the stranger, "may not even know they failed".	10
36	317	Had they failed to earn their fee, our swords would have spoken".	10

Book 31. (17 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	337	She has failed, failed to be such that he would never think of selling her.	10
8	1080	And what would be done with me if I failed to please him, and fully, and as a slave? The slaver's man was on the street level, and the auctioneer, on the surface of the block, looking down, conferred with him.	10
8	1598	I feared the pain, and terribly, but, too, it is humiliating to be beaten for clumsiness, to be beaten as an inept slave, one who has failed to be pleasing.	10
8	1732	"Surely they know what they have done, or failed to do, even if masters do not," he said, "and thus well know, given their lapses and faults, however infrequent or slight, which may have escaped the notice of the masters, how richly they deserve to be whipped, and, accordingly, should have no object...	10
10	975	The Lady Bina, however, who knew little of Gorean culture, failed to detect the insult intended, and bore up well under the ordeal.	10
15	43	I suspected she might have done so, if I had failed to satisfy her curiosity in the matter, and not because she was thoughtless or cruel, but, rather, simply, because she was concerned with the matter.	10
18	107	"But you have failed to sell them," she said, "and the races are over".	10
18	654	"I have failed," said Astrinax, wearily.	10
18	795	I was in a collar! I had failed it! Did I think I was a free woman? I was no longer a free woman, if I had ever been a free woman.	10
18	812	Again I had failed to please him, a free man.	10
33	110	What I had failed to anticipate were his revelations to me prior to our entry into the so-called Audience Chamber of Agamemnon, spoken of as the "Theocrat of the World," and the "Eleventh Face of the Nameless One".	10
48	117	The common Kur is fanatically loyal to his lord, unless his lord is thought to have failed him, in which case the bond of allegiance is regarded as dissolved.	10
48	202	"But you failed me," said Lucius.	10
49	29	The experiment failed, however, as the humans tended to not only not identify with Grendel, but, for the most part, to loathe him, and recoil from him.	10
49	32	It may be remembered that when Lucius had failed to dispatch Grendel, and had lost the respect and allegiance of the only two Kurii who remained of his followers, he had departed from the audience chamber.	10
49	395	I then, shaken that I had been robbed, miserable in the pain of my bruising, distraught that I had failed to return home with the package, frightened that I would be punished, poured out, in a torrent of tears what had occurred.	10
49	399	"I have failed you!" I wept.	10

Book 32. (20 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	43	Perhaps I was merely curious to see what might occur, if I failed to comply in some particular, if I might hazard some show of resistance or recalcitrance.	10
5	102	I had striven to be these things, what I was not, what I was told to be, what was prescribed for me, but I had failed.	10
7	51	After our encounter in the warehouse, in which he failed to recognize me, or it seems so, I did not see him again until the afternoon before my sale, in the exposition cage.	10
7	254	Yet, too, I felt an indescribable excitement and thrill, a sense of reassurance and security, and even identity, and reality, knowing myself subject to its attention, knowing it would be used upon me if I failed to be pleasing.	10
8	578	"I sent two messengers to recruit you," he said, "but they failed in their mission".	10
9	205	To be sent naked about one's errands, one's shopping and such, is usually regarded as an instruction, if the slave is new, or, if she is not, as a sign that she is out of favor with her master, perhaps having failed to be fully pleasing in some way.	10
13	11	Too, this is sometimes done for a slave who has in some way failed to be fully pleasing.	10
14	203	Some days ago there had been a failed attempt on the life of Lord Nishida, which attempt had been shortly followed by a presumably coordinated, large-scale attack on the camp, one beaten away, on the ground, by Pani and mercenaries, and in the air, by Lord Nishida's tarn cavalry, commanded by the ta...	10
16	65	After her lashing, she had not only failed to be grateful that I should be concerned that she be improved, but, incredibly, had been resentful, even to asserting that she hated me, as if that would be of interest to anyone.	10
17	26	Why had I not rejoiced? I had tried to rejoice, and failed.	10
23	130	My legs almost failed me.	10
26	146	My test, it seemed, had failed, or had been detected.	10
37	12	Darla took an angry stride toward Tuza but, beside herself with rage, had either failed to notice, or had forgotten, the shackles which bound her ankles, and she fell into the dirt, before Tuza.	10
37	173	Many sent had failed to return, and those who had returned had nothing of substance to report.	10
43	202	"You failed to cut their throats while you had the chance, while they were free".	10
43	231	"We might claim we failed to find them," said a man.	10
43	1020	"Forgive me, Master," she said, "I have failed you".	10
47	8	As yet, however, I had failed.	10
52	860	I have acknowledged a mighty wanting of you, fierce as the tides of Thassa, and as irresistible and inalterable, that I have fought to free myself from this inexplicable, terrible wanting, and have failed to do so.	10
54	179	Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi...	10

Book 33. (51 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	261	"It seems" I said, "the location of the camp was known, and we failed to detect the approach of the enemy".	10
1	313	"Then I have failed as a commander," I said.	10
2	168	I had failed to think clearly.	10
2	174	He, or they, had lit their tiny signal, and I, in the madness of my rage and shame, had failed to understand, and respond.	10
4	161	Her treatment of Tajima had never failed to rankle me.	10
9	120	But unfortunately this project had failed of fruition.	10
9	124	The exploratory force had failed to rouse the countryside against Lord Yamada and had been unable to set the stage for a major confrontation in which the surprise of the tarn cavalry might be decisive.	10
11	141	"Which, it seems," said Tajima, "the commander failed to convey to the cavalry".	10
11	200	The exploratory force, on the other hand, had failed to scout and assess the enemy, let alone bring about a situation which, properly exploited, would be likely to lead to a major confrontation.	10
12	133	"I have then failed as commander".	10
14	178	"She has failed," he said.	10
15	4	If a daimyo failed to respond at any time to a particular summons, or did not choose to honor his shogun with his presence at expected times, he was regarded, de facto, as placing himself in a state of rebellion, the likely consequence of which would be his execution, unpleasantly consummated, the e...	10
16	56	I did not now know Sumomo's whereabouts, but had gathered that Lord Yamada, displeased with her, would arrange, by means of the contrived readings of Daichi, that she be brought somewhere into his regions, perhaps to the palace, to be dealt with as a failed spy.	10
17	185	In a sense I suppose she is, returned to be rewarded as is fit for a failed spy, one whose carelessness might have jeopardized my plans".	10
17	196	As with others who have failed me, she is to be executed, slowly, and unpleasantly".	10
20	14	I had gathered, earlier, from Lord Yamada that, in his view, she had failed him, even to the point of placing certain plans in jeopardy.	10
20	20	He had determined to destroy Sumomo as a failed agent.	10
20	32	Perhaps it was twofold, first, that her beauty and charm would add luster to the evening; and, second, that the categorical reversal of her fortune, perhaps suddenly manifested, would be found instructive by the guests, as they would then better understand the consequences of having failed the shogu...	10
20	145	"Are you angry," he asked, "that I failed to recognize that you could not be such, but were instead a noble, and fine, lady?" "Not really," she said.	10
20	146	"Rather, it is a tribute to my talent, and my skill, that you failed to do so".	10
21	115	Tajima, in the garden, had tried to make this clear to her, but he had failed to convince her of her danger.	10
21	125	Not only did this preclude the meting out of his justice on his failed agent, but it would be annoying, certainly, to recognize that she had been boldly removed from the palace, literally from amongst his guards.	10
21	135	Certainly I had failed to conceal my astonishment.	10
21	429	"As might be the case," I said, "if one had failed him mightily, so much so as to have seriously imperiled his plans?" "Such things," she said.	10
23	212	"Someone must have secured, trained, and positioned the assailant who failed in the attack on the shogun's life," I said.	10
23	254	"Unfortunately, noble one," he said, "as wise as your hope might be, that rendezvous was attempted, and failed, which intelligence I have also from the aforementioned peasant, a trap having been laid and sprung.	10
25	31	It is little wonder she failed me".	10
25	34	"She failed," said Lord Yamada.	10
25	67	But Haruki had failed.	10
25	126	Haruki had failed.	10
25	273	"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...	10
29	30	Unfortunately, given the surprising promptness of the pursuit, which I had not anticipated, a matter of little more than a few Ehn, this stratagem failed of its intended effect.	10
29	354	How was it that she had failed to exercise a greater caution? How anomalous an action that had been for a woman of her obvious intelligence.	10
32	142	I did not know the fate of the bandits who had exited the inn through the rear entrance, nor, indeed, those whom the fellow I had taken for the innkeeper had failed to discern, when he had thought to inquire into the preparations for departure.	10
33	23	"Many have sought Arashi, and failed to find him," said Yasushi.	10
33	26	How did you mark his path, how did you locate him? Many, for months, have failed? How is it that you, of all, found him?" "We did not find him," said Kazumitsu.	10
36	73	"Surely you do not suppose Lord Akio failed to identify Nezumi?" said Tajima.	10
43	194	"Ahead! My plan has failed!" "How so?" said Pertinax.	10
45	237	"I am sorry I have failed, noble ones," said Haruki.	10
45	238	"You have not failed," I said.	10
47	21	We failed".	10
49	184	Surely, eventually, an inquiry would take place when the Ashigaru who had conducted the slave to my chamber failed to report back to his station, but I did not expect this to take place immediately.	10
54	10	And who but Kurii might manage the enormous mechanical beast? Who else might risk bringing such a dreadful thing forth from its lair? Who else might dare to pilot such a thing? And who else would have the skills to do so? Most likely it would be supposed that we had failed to obtain an entrance to t...	10
54	302	If the hierarchy as a whole was a party to the wager, or game, so to speak, I would expect a delayed reaction to the dragon's inexplicable behavior and change of course, one perhaps involving inquiries, consultation, and such; on the other hand, I expected the reaction would be precipitate if a clan...	10
55	27	"That plan failed," I said.	10
59	42	"They have failed.	10
59	183	"I have failed, Master," said Tajima.	10
60	75	"Five times, I thought I had you on my point, and five times I failed".	10
60	328	One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t...	10
60	357	"He failed," said Lord Yamada.	10
61	273	"But you failed to do so," I said.	10

Book 34. (22 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	349	But, if, when I return, I should find any slave has failed to comply, perfectly and completely, with my instructions, that slave will be stripped and lashed".	10
9	122	My beauty had never failed me.	10
9	272	Still I failed to understand the effect his presence had had on the wharf.	10
14	51	Indeed, such laws existed in Market of Semris, but it seems they failed to be noted by Lysander, and, I suppose, by other individuals of influence or importance.	10
20	61	If an observer failed to note me, I reasoned, he might suppose that I was no longer in the city, for example, that Tullius Quintus had already sold me.	10
26	40	One who is slain in his work is regarded as having failed, and, in virtue of this, is denied any further consideration.	10
26	69	Amongst applicants might be found the dishonored and failed, the disappointed and abandoned, the despised and hated, the hopeless and resigned, the mocked and ridiculed, ones who have fled from Home Stones, who have repudiated codes, perhaps fugitives who seek a sanctuary behind dark walls, possibly...	10
30	230	I dared not conjecture what might have occurred had I failed such a test, so simple a test! He was a monster, and I was in his power, and I knew that I could not resist his touch, even had I been permitted to attempt to do so.	10
33	212	"I have failed, Masters," I said.	10
34	190	"But the project failed," he said.	10
38	22	"Which plan failed, signally," I said.	10
41	67	I supposed that a fellow might think carefully before he chose to acknowledge that he had failed to carry out a task set to him by creatures such as I had seen in Brundisium, in the house of Flavius Minor.	10
52	103	"She is a duped, failed operative," said Drusus.	10
52	206	"Yes," I said, "but not as you think!" "You failed," he said.	10
52	216	"You failed to interest him," he said.	10
54	67	The tarn is not a failed larl, nor the larl a tarn gone awry.	10
61	68	"Behold, a fallen, disgraced one," he shouted out, "a failed one, reduced and degraded, a belonging of the traitor Surtak.	10
61	82	"We will now add to the games," called out Decius Albus, "as being of special interest, two kajirae, one who failed to well serve the House of a Hundred Corridors, a house that is reluctant to accept embarrassment or failure, and one that attests the good faith, the good will, the generosity, the bo...	10
61	462	"I failed".	10
61	568	Decius Albus looked sharply about, failed to note any likely source of the aforementioned mirth, and then returned his attention to the small figure before him.	10
61	745	"We failed," said Kurik.	10
67	11	"I betrayed our friendship! I was vain, foolish, jealous! You sold for more than I! You were found of much greater interest than I, by many masters! I wanted to prove myself your equal, indeed, your superior! If you could interest a master such as Master Drusus, could I not do so, as well? I sought ...	10

Book 35. (13 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	239	I tried to be horrified, but failed.	10
6	288	Some slave, I gathered, had failed to be fully pleasing.	10
7	148	"You have failed, abjectly, miserably.	10
10	254	Were I to be so unwary, or naive, as to repeat myself, it might well irritate a master, suggesting I was impatient, or that he might have failed to note my presence.	10
11	388	Addison Steele, had not only, at least seemingly, failed to be moved by my charms, but was actually indifferent to me.	10
12	106	"Why then," said he, "should you be afraid?" "Perhaps I fear I may have failed in some way, a way I do not even understand, to be pleasing, fully pleasing".	10
13	217	It became clear, in Brundisium, that some, presumably failed coin merchants and defrauded patrons, presumably through one or more agents, were seeking the former Lady Julia Leta, now the slave, Luta, to return her to Ar's Street of Coins, one supposes for use in restoring the name of the Claudian ho...	10
15	169	Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price...	10
25	110	"I was not pleased to learn that Decius of Venna, who failed me so egregiously in Brundisium, was in Port Kar," he said.	10
33	256	"Bounty hunters are plentiful, frustrated seekers are desperate, human sleen await scent, failed soldiers of fortune despair of their fees," said the beast.	10
38	285	Too often she spoke abruptly, and failed to be pleasing.	10
46	665	I heard the sounds of music from behind me, as the slave, Sandra, danced, and men, jubilant, and content, well satisfied, too, with a free round of paga, failed to note our departure.	10
47	355	"The attempt on the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, led by Pa-Kur," I said, "failed".	10

Book 36. (28 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	9	It is not pleasant to be cuffed, nor switched, nor feel the kiss of the supple, five-stranded Gorean slave whip, designed to administer admonitions to the female slave who has somehow failed, or is suspected of having failed, to be fully pleasing.	10
3	15	It was my pretense that the Dorna, now referred to as the Korinna on the Cove of Harpalos papers, was a knife ship converted to freight duty, a pretense now accepted by the Cove authorities, due I suspect, first, to a judicious distribution of gold amongst them and, two, due to the fact that Therans...	10
4	60	Yet, interestingly, the navies, and patrols, of both Cos and Tyros had failed to make contact with the six or more ships of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar.	10
6	147	I noted she had failed to say, "Yes, Master".	10
6	252	A girl who has failed to be pleasing is often an object of derision and scorn.	10
6	253	She is likely to be regarded by other slaves as a failed slave, as one inadequate and inferior, as one inept and stupid, as one unworthy of the collar.	10
6	343	"But they have failed hitherto even to encounter the fleet of the so-called Bosk of Port Kar," said Clitus, "let alone engage and destroy it".	10
9	63	Similarly, on the voyage from Nicosia to Sybaris, after painting the Tesephone white and yellow, colors of the Merchants, so that it would stand out, and not be difficult to detect amongst the billows of Thassa, we had again failed to encounter the small, dark island.	10
11	231	Awakening so, nude, she senses herself a slave, but a failed slave.	10
18	45	"Sakim," he said, "the worthless, the failed, the beggar of paga, the braggart, the liar".	10
20	92	It is commonly used with troops which have behaved in a cowardly or dishonorable fashion, failed to engage under orders, fled the field of battle, and so on.	10
20	164	"I have failed," said Aktis.	10
26	129	"But your plan failed," he said.	10
37	63	One supposes that harbor sharks, perhaps in the far past, which did not find its appearance aversive, might have attacked it and, statistically, would have died and thus failed to replicate their genes.	10
40	87	"Your ruse of luring us from our homes, so that you can rob them as you wish, without fear, has failed," said another man.	10
41	82	This act, if it was intended to dismay or terrify the citizenry of Mytilene, failed of its purpose, as it produced in most, but not all, a hardening of a general intention to resist.	10
44	66	As a consequence of such lethal hoaxes the enemy's audacity was soon diminished, with the result that he sometimes failed to exploit opportunities that might have been much to his advantage.	10
45	35	Decimation is a harsh military punishment, one usually inflicted on troops which have failed to follow orders, have exhibited cowardice in the face of the enemy, and such.	10
45	84	"An attack on my life failed," I said.	10
45	126	The fourth act, an act which failed, was the attempt to treat the 'Central Room' similarly.	10
51	14	"We have failed to reach the coast".	10
52	58	But my plan failed of fruition.	10
53	128	Perhaps they could not believe their strategy had failed.	10
57	89	"Grapnels have failed," said Clitus.	10
58	20	We have failed.	10
60	162	The second man had intended to coordinate his attack with that of the first, but he failed to reach me, the front of his skull broken in by a thrust of Thurnock's mighty staff.	10
60	307	"He has failed the governor," I said.	10
63	132	"Have I failed my captain?" he asked.	10