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Book 1. (104 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	9	It was given to me by my father, who disappeared when I was quite young.	10
1	134	It was the signature of my father, Matthew Cabot, who had disappeared when I was an infant.	10
1	137	Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in...	10
1	187	Whatever it was, father or no, that was the source of these frightening events, it did not seem to wish me harm, but then, I thought, somewhat bitterly, floods and earthquakes presumably wish no one harm either.	10
1	228	My father's words recurred in my memory: "The fate is upon you".	10
1	230	I bent down and scooped up, as my father had asked, a handful of our green earth.	10
2	55	"I am your father," he said, and shook me powerfully by the shoulders.	10
2	57	I was surprised to find myself accepting this stranger not only as a being of my world, but as the father I couldn't remember.	10
2	71	"Father," I said.	10
2	81	My father regarded me evenly.	10
2	90	I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father.	10
2	103	"You may have her this evening if you wish," said my father, who had scarcely seemed to notice the girl.	10
2	105	At my father's insistence, I began to eat, reluctantly, never taking my eyes from him, hardly tasting the food, which was simple but excellent.	10
2	112	While I ate, and afterward, my father spoke.	10
2	121	"Later," said my father, "Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities.	10
2	124	My father had risen to his feet and had begun to pace the room, and his eyes seemed strangely alive.	10
2	127	"These stones," said my father, "are various, of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and many of them are intricately carved.	10
2	129	My father paused at the narrow window in the circular room and looked out onto the hills beyond and fell silent.	10
2	134	"Yes," said my father, as if there were nothing incredible in this admission.	10
2	149	My father faced me, and he seemed troubled, as if he might have said more than he intended.	10
2	151	"Yes," said my father at last, "I must speak to you of Priest-Kings".	10
2	154	We both sat down again, the stone table between us, and my father calmly and methodically explained many things to me.	10
2	155	As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body.	10
2	160	"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "are immortal, or so most here believe".	10
2	162	"I don't know," said my father.	10
2	165	"It is not known that they are men," said my father.	10
2	169	"My speculation, however," said my father, "is that the Priest-Kings are indeed men—men much as we, or humanoid organisms of some type—who possess a science and technology as far beyond our normal ken as that of our own twentieth century would be to the alchemists and astrologers of th...	10
2	172	"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates.	10
2	175	My father's eyes seemed faraway, as if focused on sights he might have preferred to forget.	10
2	184	"Sometimes," said my father, his eyes still faraway, "when men are old or have had enough of life, they assault the mountains, looking for the secret of immortality in the barren crags.	10
2	190	"No," admitted my father.	10
2	192	My father then explained to me something of the legends of the Priest-Kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the Priest-Kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effect, the divinities of this world.	10
2	194	It was rumored, according to my father, that they cultivated holiness in their mountains, and in their contemplation could not be concerned with the realities and evils of the outside and unimportant world.	10
2	198	"There is at least one area, however," said my father, "in which the Priest-Kings do take a most active interest in this world, and that is the area of technology.	10
2	219	"Frankly," said my father, "I believe the ship was remotely controlled from the Sardar Mountains, as are said to be all the Voyages of Acquisition".	10
2	220	"Of Acquisition?" "Yes," said my father.	10
2	225	My father then spoke to me of the world on which I found myself.	10
2	236	To my surprise, this absurd hypothesis was welcomed by my father.	10
2	241	One can't hide a planet the size of the Earth in our own solar system! It's impossible!" "You underestimate the Priest-Kings and their science," said my father, smiling.	10
2	244	"Gravitational perturbations," said my father, "can be neutralized".	10
2	252	"Exploratory satellites can be similarly dealt with," added my father.	10
2	256	"Actually," said my father, "there is evidence of the existence of the Counter-Earth".	10
2	258	"Certain natural signals in the radio band of the spectrum," said my father.	10
2	263	My father had finished speaking.	10
2	268	Most keenly perhaps, I missed that he had not spoken to me of himself, for I wanted to know him, that kindly, remote stranger whose bones were in my body, whose blood flowed in mine—my father.	10
3	26	Incredible as it may seem, I did not doubt that he was the finest scholar in the City of Cylinders, as my father had said.	10
3	35	At first only Torm and my father were my teachers, but as I began to master the language of my new home, numerous others, apparently of Earth stock, assumed responsibility for my lessons in special areas.	10
3	37	He had learned our tongue from my father.	10
3	45	My father, to my delight, had taped one of these translation devices with English, and accordingly it was a most useful tool in working out equivalent phrases.	10
3	51	The machine, however, according to my father, retained the advantage that its mistakes would not be intentional, and that its translations, even if inadequate, would be honest.	10
3	75	"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side".	10
3	82	"The caste structure," said my father patiently, with perhaps the trace of a smile on his face, "is relatively immobile, but not frozen, and depends on more than birth.	10
3	86	"The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.	10
3	89	"Normally the office is surrendered after the passing of the crisis," said my father.	10
3	93	"Those who do not desire to surrender their power," said my father, "are usually deserted by their men.	10
3	96	"But," said my father, "sometimes such a war chief, or Ubar, wins the hearts of his men, and they refuse to withdraw their allegiance".	10
3	98	"He becomes a tyrant," said my father, "and rules until eventually, in one way or another, he is ruthlessly deposed".	10
3	99	My father's eyes were hard and seemed fixed in thought.	10
3	117	I wondered at the possible antiquity of the Voyages of Acquisition I had heard my father speak of.	10
3	155	I once talked to my father about the matter, and he merely said that there were many things on Gor worse than the lot of slavery, particularly that of a Tower Slave.	10
3	191	He slapped me on the shoulders, proud as a father who has taught his son chess and has been defeated for the first time.	10
3	211	After a few English sentences or a page or so in one of my father's books, I would be at home again in my native tongue, but the shift was there, and necessary.	10
4	76	"We were not sure of you, your father and myself, but today I am sure.	10
4	78	In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, this City of Cylinders".	10
4	79	I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.	10
4	143	In the center of the amphitheater was a throne of office, and on this throne, in his robe of state—a plain brown garment, the humblest cloth in the hall—sat my father, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, once Ubar, War Chieftain of the city.	10
4	145	"Come forward, Tarl Cabot," said my father, and I stood before his throne of office, feeling the eyes of everyone in the chamber on me.	10
4	151	My father answered him, speaking in ritual phrases.	10
4	155	When they had finished, my father invested me with the arms which had lain before the throne.	10
4	157	"Will you keep the Code of the Warrior?" asked my father.	10
4	159	"What is your Home Stone?" asked my father.	10
4	161	"Is it to that city that you pledge your life, your honor, and your sword?" asked my father.	10
4	163	"Then," said my father, placing his hands solemnly on my shoulders, "in virtue of my authority as Administrator of this city and in the presence of the Council of High Castes, I declare you to be a Warrior of Ko-ro-ba".	10
4	164	My father was smiling.	10
4	171	With the Older Tarl I left the Chamber of the Council and entered a room off the chamber to wait for my father.	10
5	7	I waved a farewell to the Older Tarl and to my father, drew back on the one-strap, and was off, leaving the tower and their tiny figures behind me.	10
5	16	How surprised I had been when she had appeared in the small room outside the Chamber of the Council, after my father! She had knelt at his feet in the position of the Tower Slave as he had explained to me the plan of the Council.	10
5	23	My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance.	10
5	24	Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba.	10
5	25	But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.	10
5	36	She had been sold in Ar on the Day of the Love Feast and had been purchased by an agent of my father.	10
5	41	I had felt this even when my father had commanded her to rise and submit to me, accepting me as her new master.	10
5	100	I took from my tunic the key my father had given me, the key to Sana's collar.	10
5	108	"My father," she said, "and my brothers will reward you".	10
6	179	Normally, of men, only a father and a husband may look upon the woman unveiled.	10
7	75	It was the same simple ceremony that Sana had performed before me in the chamber of my father, back at Ko-ro-ba—the submission of the captive female.	10
8	122	"I'm sorry about your father," I said.	10
8	130	"Are you of Gor or not? I have never seen my father except on the days of public festivals.	10
8	132	"You mean you never knew your father?" I asked.	10
8	134	I then wondered if that might be due to the influence of my father, whose Earth ways sometimes seemed at variance with the rude customs of Gor.	10
8	151	I recalled the attempt on my life in the cylinder of my father, an attempt that would have been successful except for the alertness of the Older Tarl.	10
8	152	"Ko-ro-ba is one of the few cities my father feared," said Talena, "because he realized it might someday be effective in organizing other cities against him.	10
9	21	"Your tarn was killed by my father's men, and you are taking me back to your city, to be your slave".	10
10	64	"I am," announced Talena proudly, "the daughter of a rich merchant, the richest on Gor, stolen from her father by this tarnsman.	10
10	68	"If your father is a merchant, tell me his name," he said.	10
10	71	Her father was a goat keeper by the swamp forests of Ar, and I did steal her, but she begged me to take her from the village.	10
19	96	I had heard of the Flame Death from my father and from the Older Tarl—that legendary fate which overtook those who had transgressed the will of the Priest-Kings.	10
19	171	I heard the joyous cry, "Sword Brother!" It was Kazrak's voice! "Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried another familiar voice—that of my father.	10
19	184	Kazrak's tarn had alighted on the roof of the cylinder, and a moment afterward my father's and perhaps fifty others.	10
19	187	Even as I watched, my father's tarnsmen were roping them together.	10
19	233	My father stood watching me, approval in his eyes.	10
20	27	The free cities of Gor appointed Kazrak, my sword brother, to be temporary administrator of Ar, for it was he who, with the help of my father and Sana of Thentis, had rallied the cities to raise the siege.	10
20	53	In my hand I held the ring of red metal, the ring that bore the crest of Cabot, the gift of my father.	10
20	68	I have puzzled over this, trying to connect it with the mysterious letter, dated in the seventeenth century, ostensibly by my father, which I received in the blue envelope.	10

Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	14	So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted city,...	10
2	37	This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own...	10
2	86	Where my father had met me after more than twenty years of separation, where my warrior comrades and I had drunk and laughed together, where I had met and learned from my little friend, Torm, the Scribe, there was home.	10
5	11	I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of a conspiracy to separate him from...	10
5	64	"What of my father, my friends, the people of my city?" "Scattered to the corners of the world," said the robed figure, "and not a stone may stand upon a stone".	10
5	71	Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the Priest-Kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and fields of Gor in guilt and a...	10
8	30	The same maiden whom her father must harshly order into the presence of her suitor, the same shy girl who, her parents approvingly note, finds herself delicately unable to raise her eyes in his presence, is probably the same girl who slapped him with a fish yesterday and hurled such a stream of inve...	10
17	67	I had failed my city, my beloved Talena, my father, my friends.	10
20	78	The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who...	10
26	9	They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.	10
26	106	I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m...	10
26	115	It now seems to me that if I had simply returned to Gor, and to my city, my father, my friends and my beloved Talena, I might not have cared to enter the Sardar, that I would not have cared to relinquish the joys of life to inquire into the secrets of those dark mountains.	10

Book 3. (49 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	66	"Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its Home Stone has not perished!" My father had taken the Stone from the City before it had been destroyed.	10
34	188	And my father, my father.	10
1	105	I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my Free Companion, my Talena, forever the Ubara of...	10
4	52	"Where is my father?" I asked.	10
4	104	"Will you speak to me of my father, of my city, and of my love?" I asked.	10
8	135	"My father," she said, "was of the Caste of Physicians".	10
8	144	The cessation of attacks on Ko-ro-ba began during the time my father, Matthew Cabot, was Ubar of that city.	10
8	185	"Vika," I asked, "was your father truly of the Caste of Physicians?" "Yes," she said, "why do you ask?" "It does not matter," I said.	10
9	53	"But my father," said Vika, "whose slave she was, and who was of the Caste of Physicians of Treve, loved her very much and asked her to be his Free Companion".	10
9	74	"What of your father?" I asked.	10
9	114	"My father would not hear of it, of course," she said.	10
9	116	"He locked me in my chambers, but the High Initiate of the City came with warriors and they broke into our compartments and beat my father until he could not move and I went gladly with them".	10
16	21	"You killed my father!" I cried.	10
16	97	"Yes," said Misk, "and your father, who is a brave and noble man, has served us upon occasion, though he dealt only, unknowingly, with Implanted Ones.	10
16	106	"I then, by means of an Implanted Agent, unconscious of the message being read through him, instructed your father to write the letter which you found in the mountains on your native world".	10
16	109	"Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand".	10
16	125	"It frightened her," said Misk, "and your father asked that she be allowed to return to Earth, for, loving her, he wished her to be happy and also perhaps he wanted you to know something of his old world".	10
16	217	"Are you not going to hunt down my father or my Free Companion and kill them if I do not serve you?" "No," said Misk.	10
17	38	"My freedom," I said, "the restoration of the City of Ko-ro-ba, the safety of its people—to see my father again, my friends, my Free Companion".	10
27	89	There was no male, no Father of the Nest, and I supposed the male had died, or had not lived long after her mating.	10
32	171	"Is this how our father chooses to die?" asked Al-Ka of Kusk.	10
32	231	"But then I was an unworthy father for such a girl".	10
32	315	"Father!" she wept.	10
32	317	"I love you, my Father," she said.	10
34	1	Men of Ko-ro-ba "My father!" I cried.	10
34	2	"My father!" I rushed to the arms of Matthew Cabot who, weeping, caught me in his arms and held me as though he might never let me go.	10
34	11	"Where is Talena!" I begged my father.	10
34	13	But in that instant my joy was gone, for my father's face became grave.	10
34	15	"We do not know," said the Older Tarl, for my father could not bring himself to say the words.	10
34	16	My father took me by the shoulders.	10
34	33	I looked at my father.	10
34	37	"Forgive me, Vika," I said, and introduced her to my father, to the Older Tarl and Torm, the Scribe, and explained as briefly as I could what had befallen us in the Sardar.	10
34	38	My father, the Older Tarl and Torm listened amazed to my account of the truths of the Sardar.	10
34	40	"Yes," said my father, "I believe you".	10
34	60	I looked at my father.	10
34	62	My father laughed.	10
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.	10
34	68	I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t...	10
34	70	"Yes," said my father, "here too is Ko-ro-ba, not only in the particles of its Home Stone, but in the hearts of its men".	10
34	72	"I understand," said my father, "from what you have told us, that now once more a stone may stand upon a stone, that two men of Ko-ro-ba may once again stand side by side".	10
34	74	My father and the Older Tarl and Torm exchanged glances.	10
34	75	"Good," said my father, "for we have a city to rebuild".	10
34	77	"The word will spread," said my father, "and they will come in twos and threes from all corners of Gor, singing, each carrying a stone to add to the walls and cylinders of their city".	10
34	94	"My father and Tarl, the Master-of-Arms, are two of the finest swords on Gor".	10
34	109	I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where...	10
34	117	She burst into tears and would have clung to me but I handed her gently into the arms of my father.	10
34	124	She smiled and turned away and my father gently put his arm about her shoulder and led her away.	10
34	143	I told the Older Tarl and Torm to say good-bye to my father, as I did not trust myself to see him longer, for fear that I would not wish so soon to part from him again.	10
34	159	"Perhaps," said the Older Tarl, "she attempted to reach her father, Marlenus, in the Voltai".	10

Book 4. (13 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	70	Until the youth has mastered the bow, the quiva and the lance he is simply known as the first, or the second, and so on, son of such and such a father.	10
9	173	Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.	10
9	174	The father of Aphris of Turia, Tethrar of Turia, had been the richest merchant in this city, itself one of the richest cities of Gor.	10
12	214	One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...	10
21	112	There I dyed my hair black and exchanged the robes of the merchant for the yellow and brown tunic of the Bakers, to which caste her father and two brothers had belonged.	10
21	114	At one time, I gathered from Dina, her father's shop had been the most famed of the baking shops of Turia, most of which are owned by Saphrar of Turia, whose interests range widely, though operated naturally, as Gorean custom would require, by members of the Caste of Bakers.	10
21	115	Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant.	10
21	117	In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death.	10
21	164	The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...	10
22	137	"He was my father," said Kamchak, and turned away.	10
26	112	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks, whose father Kutaituchik was slain by Saphrar of Turia, calls upon Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	370	He added, "It was twice he killed my father".	10
27	90	"I shall reopen the shop of my father and brothers".	10

Book 5. (21 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	607	I heard a child ask his father, "Father, who is that man?" "He is Marlenus," said the father.	10
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.	10
4	85	We took the body, fortunately meeting no one at that late hour, to the nearby compartments of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of the City.	10
4	86	The Older Tarl, my father and I long discussed the matter.	10
5	72	His own knot was a sixty-two turn knot, his father's was seventy-one; one of his brothers used a hundred-and-four turn knot, which, as I recall, Andreas thought a bit pretentious".	10
5	231	"It will be fine," I said to Misk, "that there be a Father of the Nest, as well as eventually a Mother".	10
5	233	"There is never a Father of the Nest," said he.	10
5	503	My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...	10
5	508	In a short time, I found myself in the arms of my father, and my friends.	10
5	587	My own father, Administrator of the City, seemed unnerved by her.	10
11	325	The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister would be to most o...	10
13	130	She had lived alone with her father, who had gambled heavily on the races.	10
13	132	She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...	10
17	651	"My father," she said, "I never knew, though I suppose he was a handsome slave.	10
17	692	He was devoted to the father of Cernus.	10
17	693	When the father of Cernus was poisoned and Cernus, then the lesser, placed upon his neck the medallion of the House, Ho-Tu protested.	10
17	819	"But in the time of the father of Cernus," she said, "when hook knives were sheathed".	10
20	80	"Please noble Cernus, Ubar of my city, free me!" "Your father owed me moneys," said Cernus.	10
20	418	Cernus himself had not recognized them; perhaps none in the room had; the lame foot was perhaps the legacy of his misshapen father; but the boy was fine, and he was brilliant; he was the marvelous Scormus, youthful master Player of Ar.	10
20	423	I had sensed the marvelous raw power of Sura, her amazing, almost intuitive grasp of the game; and I wondered of Hup, who could be the father of so brilliant a boy as Scormus of Ar; perhaps Hup, the Fool, was no stranger to the game; I looked to one side and saw Qualius of Ar, the blind Player; unno...	10
24	196	"Many times," said Marlenus, "your father, when Administrator of Ar, by stealth and openly, sought my destruction.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	13	In the calendar of Ko-ro-ba, which, like most Gorean cities, marks years by its Administrator Lists, it would be the eleventh year of the administration of my father, Matthew Cabot.	10
8	495	And, too, I was no longer worthy of the respect of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and of my teacher at arms, the Older Tarl, nor of he who had been my small friend, Torm, the Scribe.	10
9	472	"He was his father," said Telima.	10
18	393	"I was raised in that house," she said, "with love, though I was only slave, and Samos was to me almost as a father might have been.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	76	My father made his fortune in real estate in Chicago.	10
1	81	I do not believe my father was even interested in the money he made, other than in the fact that he made more of it than most other men, but there were always others, some others, who were richer than he.	10
1	85	I recall my father once mentioning to me that she was his most valuable asset.	10
1	92	When I graduated neither my mother nor my father attended the ceremony.	10
1	96	That summer my father, though only in his forties, died of a heart attack.	10
1	106	My father had had numerous business contacts in New York, and my mother had made influential friends.	10
13	81	Her father had been of that caste.	10

Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	630	"My father was a thief," she said, "and his father before him".	10
6	606	"My father was a thief!" she cried.	10
6	607	"And his father!" Several men had gathered round.	10
6	662	"My father was a thief," she said.	10
6	663	"And his father before him," added Rim.	10
9	134	"Talena," she said, "by my permission, by one of my women, sent a missive in her own handwriting to Marlenus, her father, the great Ubar".	10
10	129	I have done what was needful, as a warrior and a father, and a Ubar".	10
12	19	In the latter case, if the council member has a daughter, it is common to give her to the man who has captured her father.	10
12	106	It was not uncommon for the daughter of a jarl in that bleak place, upon the arrival of a suitor, to be called in from the pastures, where she would be tending her father's verr.	10
18	483	The god, and all the gods, could not catch it, and it became, it is said, the father of the men of Torvaldsland.	10

Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	308	"In the forest," I said, "it is my understanding that you sued for your freedom, begging in a missive that your father purchase you".	10
1	401	"I wish to be returned to my father," said Talena.	10
1	408	"My father would avenge that insult," she said, coldly, "with the tarn cavalries of Ar".	10
2	343	On the platform the men of importance, and their families, observed the High Initiate, among them, craning her neck, looking over her father's shoulder, was the large blond girl, in her black velvet and silver.	10
3	142	"My father is poorer than Aelgifu's," she said, "but for me, too, there will be a ransom".	10
4	305	"When your father sees you tomorrow night," said he, "you must not be weak, but rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed.	10
5	117	Ivar Forkbeard went to him, as might have a father, and took his head in his hands, and held it against his chest.	10
6	565	She sat on the furs, her left ankle clasped in the iron fetter, which chained her to the log at the foot of the Forkbeard's couch, her wrists fastened behind her with her father's chain of office.	10
8	137	"A friend of your father," said he.	10
10	175	"They are of Torvaldsland!" "Where is the boy's father?" I asked one who stood next to me.	10
21	167	Claudius, who had been regent for Henrius Sevarius, and had slain his father, and sought the life of the boy, had been slain by a young seaman, a former slave, named Fish, in my house.	10

Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	107	"At what place," would inquire the Tajuk Khan, as had his father, and his father before him.	10
2	190	In Kasra I had learned the name, and father, of the boy who had found, in pursuing a kaiila, the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower'.	10
2	191	His name was Achmed, and his father's name was Farouk, who was a Kasra merchant.	10
2	390	She was being sold to pay her father's gambling debts.	10
2	392	"Where is your father?" I asked.	10
2	402	"I must hurry home," she said, "to prepare supper for my father".	10
3	97	The boy placed the chronometer in the hand of his father, offering it to him.	10
3	104	He looked at his father.	10
3	106	"Yes, Father," said the boy, his head down.	10
3	107	"But," said his father, "you may keep the gift".	10
3	108	"Oh, Father, thank you!" he cried.	10
7	46	On the trip to Nine Wells, in the company of Achmed; his father, Farouk; Shakar, captain of the Aretai; Hamid, his lieutenant, and a guard of fifteen riders, I had seen the stone, led to it by Achmed.	10
11	140	Do you wish to bid for her?" "My father will not yet let me own a girl," said the youngster.	10
18	23	"The desert is my mother, and my father," said Hassan.	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	135	The Lady Sabina, I learned from Eta, was pledged by her father, Kleomenes, a pretentious, but powerful, upstart merchant of Fortress of Saphronicus, to Thandar of Ti, of the Warriors, youngest of the five sons of Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors, Administrator of Ti, this done in a Companion ...	10
5	160	The Betrothal or Companion Journey, ceremonially, included the circuit of the four villages, in each of which a feast was held, and from each of which a wagon of produce was procured, to be added to the dowry riches to be presented to Ebullius Gaius Cassius, father of Thandar of Ti, to be included i...	10
5	212	From the point of view of his father the bargain was a good one for Thandar was the youngest and least important of five sons; it was not as if his first or second son had been matched with a merchant's daughter; besides the match was politically and commercially expedient; who knew how ambitious mi...	10
5	243	"When you were twelve, my father bought you from the pens in Ar, and gave you to me".	10
6	159	He had been driven from his father's village, for his attendance upon a young free woman of the village.	10
6	174	It had been many years ago that she had followed him from the village of her father.	10
9	1002	Caste membership of the children born of such a union is a function of the caste of the father.	10
9	1907	"Shave my head and return me in dishonor to my father's village," she begged.	10
9	2166	"To return you as a shamed slave to the village of your father," said he.	10
27	169	There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later.	10

Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	85	"Yes," he said, "once when I took feasting clothes to her father's house she threw the urine pot at me".	10
13	152	"What of her father? He is inept and weak, I trust".	10
13	205	"Can my father be wrong?" she asked.	10
14	125	"Aren't you going to carry me off?" "I would be content," I said, "if it were up to me, to leave you in your father's tent forever".	10
14	316	"Now," said Kadluk, her father, "you will not come running home to the tent".	10
14	318	"Father!" she cried.	10
14	320	"Father!" she cried.	10
14	323	Indeed, she could not now go running home to the tent of her father.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	47	His father had, many years ago, fled from an inland village, one of the Nyuki district, a district noted for its honey, on the northern shore of lake Ushindi.	10
16	49	His father had returned some five years later to purchase his mother.	10
23	53	"Behold, Lady," said Mwoga, indicating Kisu, "the enemy of your father, and your enemy, helpless and chained before you.	10
23	55	He opposed your father.	10
27	60	One of the men, perhaps his father, patted him on the head, congratulating him.	10
57	74	He was facile with languages, and had connections with the villages of Nyuki on the northern shore of Ushindi, which was the territory of his father's birth, and, because of his connections with Kisu, with the Ukungu districts on the Ngao.	10

Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	392	I did not think, incidentally, that Hci's hostility toward Canka had anything to do with Canka's acquisition of, and ownership of, Winyela, the lovely, white, red-haired female slave, the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, of Pennsylvania, whom Grunt had brought into the Barrens for Mahpiyasapa, h...	10
7	657	"Ask your father, Mahpiyasapa, if you like".	10
7	781	"And if you are important," said Cuwignaka, puzzled, "then surely Watonka, your father, would be even more important".	10
15	45	Even so, he did not put his plan into effect until after Canka had refused to give her to his father, Mahpiyasapa, for the Yellow Knives.	10
15	123	"My father wanted her," said Hci.	10
15	180	"Tomorrow," cried Hci, angrily, pointing his finger at Canka, "my father will take the woman! Tomorrow, by noon, he will take her from you, for the Yellow Knives!" He then, in fury, turned about and strode between the lodges.	10
17	50	"Mahpiyasapa is the father of Hci," said Akihoka.	10
17	117	It must be a terrible thing for a father to realize that his beloved son has betrayed his codes.	10
18	334	"But I have reason to believe that the three men with your father, the Yellow Knives, are not as they seem".	10
20	10	"Do not come to plead lenience for your foolish brother, who tried to kill my father, Mahpiyasapa, this morning?" inquired Hci.	10
28	16	On the other hand, Hci had been scrupulously honest, somewhat to our surprise, in making it clear to his father and to Kahintokapa the source of his earlier recommendations for defense against the attacks of the Kinyanpi.	10
43	131	"Your father was a traitor," said Iwoso.	10
48	72	"In virtue of the power vested in me as a commander in the Sleen Soldiers, and in accordance with the wishes of my father, Mahpiyasapa, civil chieftain of the Isbu Kaiila," said Hci, "I pronounce you both free".	10
54	21	The lad had something of Grunt's facility with languages and his father's shrewdness and good sense in trading.	10

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	278	I have mentioned that masks are commonly worn in serious drama and sophisticated comedy, such as it is; I might also mention that they are not worn in most of the minor forms, such as mime or story dance, unless called for by the plot, as in the case of brigands, and so on; farce, on the other hand,...	10
2	287	Who would accept the Comic Father if he did not have his Turian accent, or the Desirable Heiress if she did not speak in the soft accents of Venna, north of Ar? What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable woode...	10
2	323	The Golden Courtesan, facing away, was now feigning indifference to the suits of both the Comic Father and the Pedant.	10
2	325	Chino, usually the servant of the Comic Father or the Merchant, is willowy and mischievous, with a black half-mask, with slanted eye holes, with red-and-yellow diamond-figured tights and pullover.	10
2	328	The Comic Father and the Pedant pursue their suits.	10
2	330	Chino kicks the Comic Father and then looks away, studying clouds.	10
2	333	Soon the Comic Father and the Pedant, each thinking the other is the assailant, are in furious controversy.	10
2	336	The Comic Father and the Pedant then give their robes and wallets to the servants and begin to berate one another and pull beards.	10
2	338	The Comic Father and the Pedant, now without their robes and wallets, soon discover the trick.	10
7	287	Worse, perhaps, two of his company had joined another troupe, taking advantage of an opportunity at the fair, the fellows who commonly played the comic father and the comic pedant.	10
22	318	Then, for having begged to be purchased, an act confessing the propriety of her bondage, sworn she was from her father's blood".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	232	You are my mother!" "Your father did not much care for me," she said.	10
16	1314	Perhaps it was the caravan of my father".	10
19	35	They tend to be quite proud of their calling, it being handed down often from father to son.	10
24	235	"You are perhaps my uncle," she said, "if you are not my father".	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	887	One autumn my father's fields again failed.	10
24	990	"The fields of my father were north of White Water!" White Water is called such because of rapids in its vicinity.	10

Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	69	Afterwards, they are usually conducted home by one of the young men, often he whose cords have bound them, and who may be interested in their acquisition, on his leash, usually to the home of their mother's owner, usually their father, to whom, in virtue of such a ceremony, they now legally count as...	10
31	367	"No," he said, "but I was once taken to Ven by my father.	10
31	419	"I doubt that your father would mind," I said.	10
31	482	"I was thinking of my father and my mother," he said.	10
31	484	"And how my father is held in, inhibited and frustrated, by my mother".	10
31	488	"You are thinking," I said, "of how well your mother would look at your father's feet, branded and in a collar".	10
31	491	"Perhaps I shall speak to my father," he said.	10
48	313	She knew that she was not, for example, a trained slave, a high slave, a politically sensitive slave, the shackled daughter of a Ubar being publicly sold in the city of her father's conquerors, or such.	10

Book 25. (18 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	303	"Treason!" "Your father sent men to the Voltai, to seek out and destroy Marlenus of Ar!" cried Talena.	10
9	304	"I do not deny that my father was enemy to Marlenus of Ar," said Claudia.	10
9	409	"Kill her!" "But," said Talena to the horrified Hinrabian, "I am prepared, on my own responsibility, and in spite of your crimes, in recollection of our former affection for one another, which I still entertain for you, and in respect of your exalted lineage, and the contributions of your family to ...	10
11	352	I recalled her father had chided her about this.	10
12	292	"Does your father know you have read it?" I asked.	10
12	467	"Also we owe something to her father".	10
12	472	My father is a negligible coward".	10
12	494	"My father is a coward.	10
12	497	"My father does not understand me," she said.	10
12	532	We cannot blame him for being angry that the carnage was wrought within his precinct, almost under his nose, and he could, at least, recognize, as her father could not, the true nature of this little slave slut before us".	10
12	558	"Why will you return me to my father?" she asked.	10
12	561	"Because we owe your father something," I said.	10
12	620	"If it were not for what you owed my father," she asked, "would you have brought me here?" I considered the matter, and regarded her.	10
12	658	The girl, of course, would have only a very imperfect idea of what had occurred, as her father had doubtless hurried her to the chest upon the entry of the brigands.	10
12	659	The details of the afternoon, however, would presumably be made clear to her by her father.	10
26	64	Long ago when I was a girl it was the same, and then, in my time of troubles, after the misunderstanding with my dear father, Marlenus, I was sequestered, and then, later, now that the war has been concluded to the mutual benefit of Ar and Cos, with victory for us both, thanks to the mercies of Cos,...	10
27	688	"I had once thought," I said, "that Marlenus had acted precipitately in disowning you, but I see now that he, though your father, understood you far better than I.	10
27	874	"You may implore Priest-Kings," I said, "that your father does not return to Ar, and discover what you have done".	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	166	It is to be mine, you see, in accord with the provisions of the oath, to throw you as my branded slave, naked and in chains, to the feet of he who is first in my house, William, my father".	10
29	531	"I must, by oath, throw you naked and in chains to the feet of my father".	10

Book 27. (27 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	176	"Is accent so important, father?" "No," said his father, "particularly as some of these barbarians eventually become so fluent in Gorean, so skilled, that you could not detect, from their speech alone, that they were not native to our world".	10
17	151	Might she not make a lovely gift for your strapping lad?" Ellen shrank back, but this did not seem to be much noticed by the father and his son, whose minds were on other things.	10
17	152	"We are not interested in buying her," said the father.	10
17	158	Then she would belong, literally belong, to the father, or to the boy, however it was decided, presumably to the boy.	10
17	162	Yet what an incredible difference there is in maturity and sexual readiness between an eighteen-year-old girl, already beautifully developed and perfectly suitable for the collar and slave bracelets, and an eighteen-year-old boy! "Speak, in Gorean," said the father to Ellen.	10
17	169	Is it acceptable, Masters, that I speak as I am speaking?" And thus, in this way, she continued, until the father indicated, by putting his finger up, in a cautionary manner, that she should desist.	10
17	170	"Do you hear the accent?" the father asked his son.	10
17	171	"You see it is different?" "There are many different accents, father," said the boy, "even in Gorean".	10
17	172	"And there are many barbarian accents," said his father.	10
17	179	"Here," said the father.	10
17	183	"I suppose so," said the father.	10
17	186	"Most do," said the father.	10
17	188	"I do not know," said the father.	10
17	190	"Open your mouth," said the father.	10
17	192	"See," said the father, "those tiny bits of metal in the teeth.	10
17	195	"I do not know," said the father.	10
17	199	"That is interesting," said the father.	10
17	208	"Lastly," said the father, "they are ignorant.	10
17	216	"Well, this little she-urt does not," said his father.	10
17	220	"Thank you, father".	10
17	221	"So do not let yourself be fooled in the market," said the father.	10
17	223	"No, father".	10
17	225	"Thank you for the use of your slave, sir," said the father.	10
17	232	"She is a barbarian," said the father.	10
17	235	"You should have worked on both the father and the son," said Targo.	10
17	237	Thus, you should have lured the father, subtly, of course, as in theory he is interested in you for his son.	10
17	238	Secondly, you should have squirmed a little for the lad, you know, pathetically, needfully, pleadingly, putting yourself before him, proffering your indisputable slave delights hopefully, when the father is looking away.	10

Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	242	She had, largely through her upbringing, primarily by servants, occasionally abetted by a distant father and a supercilious, frigid, unhappy mother, and a desire to be faultlessly au courant, quite ambivalent attitudes toward the male sex of her species.	10
6	81	"Who was your father, your mother?" demanded Cabot.	10
79	544	"Until disowned?" "She shamed him, her father, the Ubar".	10
79	573	"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and entrap the Ubara, was a famed ...	10
79	577	"It is hard to understand how her father could disown her," she said.	10
79	579	"This was an enormity, twice an unconscionable affront to her father's honor, and shamed him.	10
79	590	"But is she not a great and noble woman?" "Doubtless she seems so to the world," said Cabot, "but now, under her father's own laws, she is only another slave".	10

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	209	What man would not want one such as she, if only to trade or sell her to another? One of the things a Gorean father often does, if his finances permit, is to buy a young female slave for his son.	10
28	393	Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty...	10
28	394	But then her father had somehow returned, it seemed from the Voltai, and the insurrection had subsequently occurred, casting forth, violently and bloodily, the occupying forces and restoring the rightful governance of the city.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	324	Talena, smug with the spears of invaders behind her, sat regally upon her father's throne, and abused her power wickedly, using it to further reduce and diminish her city, and avenged herself rampantly, as she wished, upon numerous enemies, or putative enemies, or on anyone she might wish, as the hu...	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	376	"Father," said Grendel.	10

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	359	"A father is proud," said Lord Yamada, "to be the father of so beautiful and dangerously fascinating a daughter".	10
17	191	"They might vie with their father," he said.	10
20	23	This evening Lord Yamada bestowed on her all the attention, interest, friendliness, and kindness of a loving father.	10
20	144	"That was a guise, a role behind which I might abet the projects of my father".	10
20	273	"Father?" she said, surprised.	10
20	277	"Father?" she said, puzzled.	10
21	139	"I was told by my father that you were here, and that I might greet you.	10
21	159	"You were sent to me by your father," I said.	10
21	182	I could thus foil my captors, and trust that we might fall in with one of my father's patrols".	10
21	257	This could be only a patrol of my father! The men crouched down, to one side, in the shrubbery, I dragged down with them.	10
21	268	It was a guard patrol, as we were within my father's domain.	10
21	350	'I do not doubt but what your father would pay to have you back,' he said.	10
21	352	Of course my father would be delighted at my return.	10
21	379	"I suspect," I said, "your father is not altogether displeased at this outcome.	10
21	399	"But I am here," she said, "safe in my father's garden".	10
21	471	"I should report it to my father," she said.	10
21	505	"My father will hear of this!" she said.	10
21	517	"He is my father!" she said.	10
23	143	"You were her father?" "Yes," he said.	10
23	156	"There are always such rumors," said Haruki, "for years, meaningless rumors, rumors whispered in the darkness, rumors spoken about small fires while the rice boiled, the rumor of a spared son, a lost son, an escaped son, a returning son, one who would seek his father's blood, who would do vengeance ...	10
25	22	Sumomo turned toward her father, sobbing, crying out for mercy.	10
29	445	"It is possible, now, that your father would not even regard you as worthy to be fed to his eels".	10
47	155	It was here, too, that Tyrtaios had brought his tarn down, delivering the unsuspecting Sumomo to the mercies of her father.	10
60	137	"Father," he said.	10
60	139	"It is not honorable to kill one's father," said Nodachi.	10
60	383	"One often has little choice in such matters, father," said Nodachi.	10
60	482	"I am at your side," said he, "father".	10
61	293	"Forgive me, honored father," said Nodachi.	10
61	310	He then bowed to his father, which bow was returned.	10
61	803	"And even then," she said, "when Samos would have put me to the lash, even had me cast bound to the urts in the canals of the city, you did nothing, but requested that Samos deliver me to the city of my Home Stone, Ar, and to my father, Marlenus, as a free woman!" "He did so," I said.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	299	"Its father, or fathers, for seeds may be mixed, and fused, was Kur," he said.	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	291	"His father would not permit him to drink the wine of companionship with one so unfit as I".	10
16	292	"A stern father," I said.	10
16	295	"Who is his father?" I asked.	10
16	302	"This will buy a boat, a fine boat, of the workmanship of Naxos, two boats," she said, "one for Xanthos, one for his father".	10
23	62	"We have heard of the village, and your father," I said.	10