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Book 1. (11 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	121	Inside the second wall, I was escorted among the tents by a tower slave, a black girl whose livery was golden and who wore large golden earrings that matched a golden collar.	10
9	92	In a minute the rider appeared in view—a fine, bearded warrior with a golden helmet and a tharlarion lance.	10
14	12	Around his neck he wore the golden chain of the Ubar, carrying the medallionlike replica of the Home Stone of Ar.	10
15	253	Mintar reached into the pouch at his waist and drew forth a golden tarn disk, of double weight.	10
16	11	Across the left temple of the black helmet I fixed the golden slash of the messenger.	10
16	104	It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger; who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier? Without hesitation I cl...	10
17	4	But the answer, when I received an answer, whether by virtue of a golden tarn disk or mortal fear, was always the same—that she was kept in the tent of red and yellow silk.	10
17	75	To my amazement, I saw that her wrists were fastened together by golden shackles.	10
17	106	I tossed the tarn keeper a golden tarn disk.	10
17	109	A golden tarn disk was a small fortune.	10
18	21	I wore the garb of the Caste of Assassins, and on the left temple of the black helmet was the golden slash of the messenger.	10

Book 2. (70 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	36	I looked above the wall and saw, vested in her robes of gold, regal on a golden throne, she who alone might wear a golden mask, she who was First in Tharna—Lara, the Tatrix herself.	10
14	19	I walked slowly to the foot of the golden wall, where lay the golden scarf of the Tatrix, that scarf whose fluttering signal had initiated the Amusements.	10
5	104	The morning light flashed briefly on something golden among the white shards.	10
5	106	It was a webbing of fine golden wire.	10
8	106	"I can help you obtain not only a tarn," said the man, "but a thousand golden tarn disks and provisions for as lengthy a journey as you might wish".	10
10	34	It was a far cry from the broad-portaled central cylinders of many of the Gorean cities, through which a brace of golden-harnessed tharlarion might be driven with ease.	10
11	17	Only one adornment relieved the walls of their melancholy aspect, the image of a gigantic golden mask, carved in the likeness of a beautiful woman.	10
11	24	On the throne itself there sat a woman, proud, lofty in haughty dignity, garbed regally in majestic robes of golden cloth, wearing a mask not of silver but of pure gold, carved like the others in the image of a beautiful woman.	10
11	39	The voice came from the woman behind the golden mask, Lara herself.	10
11	64	"It was the wish of the Tatrix that the slave be yoked and brought to the Chamber of the Golden Mask as soon as possible, and unharmed".	10
11	221	For a moment I felt sorry for the golden creature before whose throne I knelt.	10
11	238	"He spoke," I said, "of a tarn, a thousand golden tarn disks and provisions for a long journey".	10
11	239	"Golden tarn disks—unlike those of silver—are scarce in Tharna," said the Tatrix.	10
11	249	Shaking with fury she stood before me, over me, in her golden robes and mask.	10
13	38	Pure in its glove of gold it held a golden scarf.	10
13	45	The golden scarf fluttered to the sands of the arena and the Tatrix resumed her throne, reclining upon its cushions.	10
13	54	The race would begin and end before the golden wall behind which, in lofty splendor, sat the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
13	56	We painfully dragged the heavy blocks to the golden wall.	10
13	61	As he examined my yoke and chain, he said, "Dorna the Proud has wagered a hundred golden tarn disks on this block.	10
13	67	Savagely, our backs breaking, stinging under the frenzied lashing of our driver, cursing the colorful sands of the arena that mounted before the block as we dragged it foot by foot about the course, we managed to come first within the zone of the golden wall.	10
13	132	Painfully, as he writhed, hung in the yoke, I carried him to the golden wall, and hurled him against it.	10
13	151	"Sleen," cried he, "you have spoiled the Amusements of Tharna!" Two warriors hastily unbolted the horns from the yoke and dragged me to the golden wall.	10
13	152	Once more I stood beneath the golden mask of the Tatrix.	10
13	156	Her golden mask and robes glittered above me.	10
14	22	I looked up into the glittering, golden mask of the Tatrix.	10
14	23	"As something by which to remember the Tatrix of Tharna," said the voice behind the golden mask, amused.	10
14	24	I grinned up at the golden mask, and taking the scarf slowly wiped the sand and sweat from my face.	10
14	87	I wondered what thoughts passed behind the golden mask of Lara, Tatrix of the city of Tharna.	10
14	194	The awnings had been struck, but the stands were still filled, as the thousands of silver masks of Tharna waited for the golden Tatrix herself to be the first to leave that scene of the macabre amusements of the gray city.	10
14	195	Far below in the midst of the crowd I caught sight of the golden robes of the Tatrix.	10
14	206	In one instant that must have been the most terrifying in her life, the Tatrix stood alone, looking up, deserted by all, on the steps before her golden throne in the midst of tumbled cushions and trays of candies and sweetmeats.	10
14	207	A wild scream issued from behind that placid, expressionless golden mask.	10
14	208	The golden arms of her robe, the hands gloved in gold, were flung across her face.	10
14	216	With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons.	10
15	34	From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons.	10
15	47	Another moan escaped the golden captive.	10
15	72	It would surely be a small enough price for the return of the golden Tatrix herself.	10
15	75	Her hands, still in their gloves of gold, went to the golden mask, as if she feared most that it might not be in place.	10
15	128	I could scarcely conjecture the hatred that seethed behind that placid golden mask.	10
15	133	"No!" she cried, her hands flying to the golden mask.	10
15	151	"Because," she said, drawing herself to her full height, gathering the golden tattered robes about her, "I am Tatrix of Tharna".	10
15	260	"No," I laughed, "it is back to Tharna with you!" I still wore the golden scarf about my neck, from the arena, that scarf which had initiated the games, and which I had picked up from the sand to wipe away the sand and sweat.	10
16	33	"All Tharna is yours, Warrior," cried Dorna the Proud, "if you but relinquish our noble Tatrix! The city weeps for her return! I fear there will be no more joy in Tharna until she sits again upon her golden throne!" I laughed.	10
16	58	I set her on her feet, on the top of that windy pillar on the borders of Tharna, and bent to remove the golden scarf which restrained her.	10
16	66	When she had reached their side, she turned and with a sudden swirl of those golden robes pointed an imperious finger at me.	10
16	126	Painfully I was wrenched into the air and, cruelly hanging by my shackled wrists, I saw the white column dropping away beneath me, and the figures upon it, two warriors, a woman in a silver mask, and the golden Tatrix of Tharna.	10
18	45	"Well," said he, "we know she no longer wears her golden robes".	10
21	22	She was a blond girl with golden hair that fell behind her to the small of her back.	10
21	121	I noted that some of the delicate golden hair on her thigh, from the very proximity of the iron, curled and blackened.	10
21	138	From the lobe of each small, round ear there hung an enormous earring, a sapphire pendant on a golden stalk.	10
22	55	I put my arms around her slender shoulders and to my amazement she who had worn the golden mask of Tharna, she who had been Tatrix of that gray city, put her head upon my chest and wept.	10
24	30	"Free Kal-da for all!" cried Kron, and when the proprietor, who knew the codes of his caste, tried to object, Kron flung a golden tarn disk at him.	10
24	122	"We fought against the golden mask of Tharna," shouted Kron, pounding his fist on the table.	10
24	125	"I no longer wear the golden mask," she said.	10
24	130	At the head of that splendid, ragged procession five marched; Kron, chief of the rebels; Andreas, a poet; his woman, Linna of Tharna, unveiled; I, a warrior of a city devastated and cursed of the Priest-Kings; and a girl with golden hair, a girl who wore no mask, who had known both the whip and love...	10
24	155	When at last I stood unslain on the black cobblestones at the foot of the double rampart I knew that though Dorna the Proud might rule in Tharna, though it might be she who sat upon the golden throne of the city, that it was the word of a warrior that ruled on those ramparts above me.	10
24	178	"The Tatrix of Tharna," sneered Thorn, looking on the unconcealed features of Lara, "wears a golden mask".	10
24	216	"Are there none of you here who have served in the Chamber of the Golden Mask? None of you who recognize my voice?" "It is she!" cried one of the men.	10
24	251	My memory and sense of direction began to carry me unerringly from hall to hall, guiding me swiftly toward the Chamber of the Golden Mask.	10
24	256	At last I came to the Chamber of the Golden Mask.	10
24	260	Behind the golden throne of the Tatrix loomed the dull gold mask, fashioned in the image of a cold and beautiful woman, the reflection of the torches set in the walls flickering hideously on its polished surface.	10
24	261	On the throne there sat a woman clad in the golden robes and mask of the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
25	11	Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors.	10
25	12	Our reflections fought one another in the shimmering surface of the great golden mask behind the throne.	10
25	14	Then there was but one reflection and but one gigantic, grotesque shadow cast upon the walls of the Chamber of the Golden Mask.	10
25	30	The girl lifted her head and the golden mask faced me.	10
26	28	I myself had stood at the foot of the steps to the golden throne when Lara had commanded that the giant mask of gold which hung behind it be pried by spears from the wall and cast to the floor at our feet.	10
26	31	"Let it be melted," Lara had said, "and cast into the golden tarn disks of Tharna and let these be distributed to those who have suffered in our day of troubles".	10
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...	10
26	39	Here and there the mount of a tarnsman boasts a golden harness.	10

Book 3. (185 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	12	The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ...	10
9	240	They curved toward me like delicate golden pincers and each of the countless golden strands on those appendages straightened and pointed toward me like a quivering golden needle.	10
23	52	But still, as the Mul-Torch burned lower and I yet encountered no sign of the Golden Beetle, my thoughts turned ever and again to the still form of Vika lying in the cavern of the Golden Beetle.	10
24	7	Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creature's head over its domed, golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it.	10
24	37	Now the Beetle began to poke its head out from beneath the shelter of those domed, golden wings and its short antennae, tufted with golden fluff, thrust out and began to explore the chamber.	10
25	52	If this were not possible I would explore the tunnels seeking some other exit, and if worse came to worst, I was sure that Vika and I, now that I knew the dangers and strengths and weaknesses of the Golden Beetle, might manage to survive indefinitely in the tunnels, however despicably, and escape ev...	10
27	5	I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the ...	10
29	90	His antennae swept the area and focused on me at the same time that I pressed the firing switch, and it seemed the golden head and antennae blew away in ashes and the golden body slumped downward in the hatch.	10
30	176	"What a piteous thing you are," she said to me, "and how golden and strong and brave and fine is a Priest-King!" And Sarm would extend his antennae down to her that she might delicately brush the small golden hairs which adorned them.	10
31	196	Behind me, inching its way up the narrow walkway, clinging with its six small legs, slowly lifting its heavy domelike golden body a step at a time, came the Golden Beetle I had seen below.	10
31	218	Sarm's antennae lay immersed in the golden hair of the Beetle; his grasping appendages with their sensory hairs caressed the golden hair; even did he take some of the hairs in his mouth and with his tongue try to lick the exudate from them.	10
31	229	Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height.	10
35	42	I would always remember Sarm, huge and golden, in the last agonizing minute when he had pulled free of the Golden Beetle and had stood upright and splendid in the crumbling, perishing Nest that he was determined must be destroyed.	10
1	97	It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of human beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human...	10
9	232	In its way it was very beautiful, golden and tall, looming over me, framed in that massive portal.	10
9	238	From its head there extended two fragile, jointed appendages, long and covered with short quivering strands of golden hair.	10
10	6	Accordingly the two golden-haired, jointed appendages protruding from their globelike heads, above the rounded, disklike eyes, are their primary sensory organs.	10
10	7	I gather that these appendages are sensitive not only to odors but, due to a modification of some of the golden hairs, may also transform sound vibrations into something meaningful in their experience.	10
10	62	"This," said the Priest-King, still grooming the golden hairs of his antennae, "is the vestibule of our dominion".	10
10	106	Now I may still look forward someday to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle".	10
11	7	The oval disk glided to within some forty feet of us, and the golden creature which had ridden it stepped delicately to the ramp.	10
11	100	He reminded me vaguely of the blade of a golden knife.	10
13	113	"It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle," said the first slave.	10
13	114	"What does the Golden Beetle kill?" I asked.	10
14	140	We came upon a Golden Beetle though none had ever been seen in that place and I wanted to go to the Beetle and I put down my head and approached it but the girl seized my antennae and dragged me away, thus saving my life".	10
14	142	"The pain was excruciating," said Misk, "and I could not but follow her in spite of the fact that I wanted to go to the Golden Beetle.	10
14	151	"Is it not possible," I asked, "that Sarm wished you to die by the Golden Beetle?" "Of course," said Misk.	10
14	158	The Second, Third and Fourth Born, in the long ages, have, one by one, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle.	10
14	163	Misk looked at me and his antennae had a certain lack of resilience and the golden hairs had seemed to lose some of their sheen.	10
15	46	What most astonished me was that he had wings, long, slender, beautiful, golden, translucent wings, folded against his back.	10
15	55	I looked at the long, golden wings of the creature.	10
15	69	"How long," I asked, "does a Priest-King live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "Priest-Kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are found by the Golden Beetle".	10
15	76	"One by one we succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle.	10
15	79	"Why do you not slay the Golden Beetles?" I asked.	10
15	127	"Once," said Misk, "we rejoiced and lived, but now though we remain young in body we are old in mind, and one wonders more often, from time to time, on the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle".	10
16	2	I could see the disklike eyes in that golden head above me and see the flicker of the blue torch on their myriad surfaces.	10
17	4	In fevered sleep it seemed I saw Sarm's great head with its powerful, laterally moving jaws hovering over me, that I heard the cry of larls and saw the burning pupils of Parp's eyes and his reaching toward me with instruments and a golden net, and I found myself chained to the foot of Vika's couch a...	10
18	137	He turned to me and the antennae lowered themselves toward me, the slender, golden hairs on the antennae slightly oscillating.	10
20	166	"He means," said Mul-Al-Ka, "that she has been sent to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle".	10
20	182	"No," said Mul-Al-Ka, "we are simply to tell you that Vika of Treve awaits you in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle".	10
20	183	"That is the weak part of Sarm's plan," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "for you would never go to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle to seek a female Mul".	10
20	185	"You will not go to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "because it is death to do so".	10
21	43	Then, as we crouched in the darkness of the far side of the chamber, the doors opposite us swung open and we observed two long lines of strange men, marching abreast, each of whom carried a Mul-Torch in one hand and in the other by a handle what resembled a deflated wineskin of golden leather.	10
21	56	While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the...	10
21	57	Many times was a golden vessel held for a Priest-King as it slowly yielded whatever had been stored in its abdomen to the Muls.	10
22	1	To the Tunnels of the Golden Beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door.	10
22	86	"Yes," said Mul-Al-Ka, "find yourself some secret place and stay, and perhaps someday Sarm will succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle and you can emerge in safety".	10
22	102	"What was sad," said Misk, "was that I might not have been able to give Gur to the Mother, and that thought troubled me grievously for the days in which I retained Gur, but now thanks to you I will be able to give Gur to the Mother and I will stand forever in your debt until I am slain by Sarm or su...	10
22	121	"We will come with you, Tarl Cabot," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to fight the Golden Beetle".	10
22	123	"The girl Vika of Treve lies in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," I said.	10
22	156	"You are foolish," he said, "to go to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle".	10
22	168	"Where are the tunnels of the Golden Beetle?" I asked.	10
22	171	"Is it as difficult to slay a Golden Beetle as a Priest-King?" I asked.	10
22	173	"We have never slain a Golden Beetle, nor have we studied them".	10
22	187	His antennae inclined toward me and the golden hairs with which the antennae glistened extended towards me as though to touch me.	10
23	2	Deep in the unlit tunnels of the Golden Beetle, those unadorned, tortuous passages through the solid rock, I came upon her body.	10
23	4	She wore only brief rags, the remains of her once long and beautiful garment, torn and stained by what must have been her terrified flight through these dark, rocky tunnels, running, stumbling, screaming, futilely trying to escape the pursuing jaws of the implacable Golden Beetle.	10
23	9	I wondered if the removal of the collar meant that Vika had been freed before being closed within the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
23	10	I recalled vaguely that Misk had once said to me that in deference to the Golden Beetle it was given only free women.	10
23	11	The cavern in which she lay reeked of the spoor of the Golden Beetle, which I had not yet encountered.	10
23	17	She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden Beetle must have closed upon her.	10
23	27	I saw her now as only a girl, surely too innocent for this, who had met the Golden Beetle and had in consequence died one of the most horrible of deaths.	10
23	28	She was of the human kind and whatever might have been her faults, she could not have deserved this grotesque, macabre fate, the jaws and cavern of the Golden Beetle.	10
23	41	There was nothing I could do for her now, save perhaps hunt for the Golden Beetle.	10
23	43	I might move it from the filth of the Golden Beetle's den but it, until the creature itself was slain, would never be safe from its despoiling jaws.	10
23	47	I continued to search the stony passages of the tunnels of the Golden Beetle but I saw no sign of the creature.	10
23	51	As I wandered through these passages my sorrow for Vika of Treve struggled with my hatred for the Golden Beetle until I forced myself to clear my head of emotion and concentrate on the task at hand.	10
23	53	It had been weeks since I had last seen her and I supposed it would have been at least days since she had been closed in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
23	55	And how was it, I asked myself, that the Golden Beetle had not already feasted on the delicate flesh of the proud beauty of Treve? And I wondered on the five strange protuberances that nested so grotesquely in her lovely body.	10
23	58	Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden Beetle.	10
23	60	I burst into the cavern of the Golden Beetle and held the torch high.	10
23	63	From her flesh at one point I could see the gleaming eyes of a small organism, golden and about the size of a child's turtle, scrambling, trying to pull itself from the leathery shell.	10
24	1	The Golden Beetle At that instant I heard a slight noise and looked up to see peering at me from the darkness of one of the tunnels leading from the cavern, two flaming, luminous eyes.	10
24	2	The Golden Beetle was not nearly as tall as a Priest-King, but it was probably considerably heavier.	10
24	6	They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair.	10
24	8	The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell.	10
24	15	It backed up a bit and withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings.	10
24	26	It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to injure the Golden Beetle, particularly when its head was withdrawn beneath the shell of its enclosing wings.	10
24	28	It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a Priest-King, much depended on this sense.	10
24	41	Walking backwards, Vika on my shoulder, the Mul-Torch in my hand, I slowly retreated from the cavern of the Golden Beetle.	10
24	43	I had no notion of the speed of the creature but at this point I turned and began to jog away down the passage, back toward the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
24	47	Now, scrambling after me in the tunnel, I could hear the approach of the Golden Beetle.	10
24	50	Apparently my conjecture as to the mobility of the Golden Beetle had been correct and the speed of its pursuit had quickly slackened.	10
24	64	There did not seem to be much air in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
24	66	There was an odor in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle, perhaps of its spoor or various exudates.	10
24	77	The golden strands on its back were lifted and quivering, and it was from them that the odor came.	10
25	1	The Vivarium My hands seized the narrow, hollow, pincerlike jaws of the Golden Beetle and tried to force them from my body, but those relentless, hollow, chitinous hooks closed ever more tightly.	10
25	2	They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...	10
25	4	The Beetle wavered, its entire shell of golden, fused wings trembling, and it seemed as if those fused wings shook as though to separate and fly but they could not, and it pulled its head back under the shelter of the wings.	10
25	8	The odor of the golden hairs still lingered in the passages and, fearing I might once again succumb to whatever drug they released into the air, I determined to make my departure.	10
25	10	I did not wish to resheath my sword, for it was coated with the body fluids of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	13	I thought for a moment I might clean it on the golden strands of the Beetle's strange mane but I discovered these were wet with foul, glutinous exudate, the source of that unpleasant, narcotic odor which still permeated the passageway.	10
25	20	But now it was important to get her from the tunnels, to find her a place of refuge and safety where I hoped she might recover from the venom of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	24	What approached was not another Golden Beetle, though I supposed there might have been several in those tunnels, but another inhabitant of those dismal passages, the whitish, long, slow, blind Slime Worm.	10
25	27	"No," I said, "the Golden Beetle has not made a kill in this place".	10
25	28	The tiny red mouth seemed to continue to peer at me for perhaps a moment or two more and then it slowly turned away from me to the carcass of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	39	* * * * Although it was slow work I had little difficulty in finding my way back to where I had entered the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	43	When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	50	It had been Sarm's intention apparently that I should enter the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and die there and so I thought it expedient to allow him to believe I had done so.	10
25	51	I knew the tunnels of the Golden Beetle, like those of the Nest itself, were ventilated and I hoped to be able to use one of the shafts to leave the tunnels undetected.	10
25	109	In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope.	10
25	112	When one of the attendant Muls happened to pass near the case the two little tabuk immediately froze, becoming almost invisible, and the mother, her bright golden pelt gleaming, began to prance away from them, while the angry male lowered his head against the Mul and trotted in a threatening manner ...	10
25	118	In another case, somnolent and swollen, I saw a rare golden hith, a Gorean python whose body, even when unfed, would be difficult for a full-grown man to encircle with his arms.	10
25	136	"You brought me," she said, "from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle".	10
26	266	I smiled to myself as I thought of the small things on my old world that at such remoteness perhaps reenacted the ancient ceremony of the caves, the carrying of the bride over the threshold, perhaps as a prisoner, the tiny wedding bands, perhaps a small reminder of the primitive thongs that bound th...	10
27	4	The transportation disk which had originally taken me to the chamber where I had found Misk I had taken to the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and I thought it well that it should stay there, as if witnessing my entrance and my supposed failure to return.	10
27	64	From one of these openings I could see that I was already behind the steel barricade with its Priest-King guard, who was standing as I would have expected, in that almost vertical, slender, golden fixity that was so characteristic of his kind.	10
27	67	Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools.	10
27	79	But now this monstrous abdomen, depleted and wrinkled, no longer possessing whatever tensility it might once have had, lay collapsed behind the creature like a flattened sack of brownly tarnished golden ancient leather.	10
27	88	How golden she would have been.	10
27	96	There, from a great golden bowl, about five feet deep and with a diameter of perhaps twenty feet, setting on a heavy tripod, he would take a bit of whitish liquid, undoubtedly Gur, in his mouth.	10
27	109	I was already familiar with the astounding patience of Priest-Kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of Priest-Kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother.	10
27	111	I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death.	10
27	114	But on the platform before which these golden creatures stood there lay the Mother, perhaps blind, almost insensate, the large, feeble thing they revered, weak, brownish, withered, the huge worn body at last wrinkled and empty.	10
27	116	I strained my eyes to see if I could pick out either Sarm or Misk in those golden rows.	10
27	124	Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her.	10
27	127	Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract.	10
27	138	His entire frame, that long, slender golden blade, seemed to shudder.	10
27	145	No longer was Sarm trembling or shaken but he had drawn his frame to its full and golden height.	10
27	150	With a speed that I still find hard to comprehend Sarm rushed upon Misk and after a blurring moment I saw them on their posterior supporting appendages locked together rocking slowly back and forth, trying to bring those great golden, laterally chopping jaws into play.	10
27	155	Again Sarm charged and again I saw a long greenish-wet opening appear as if by magic on the side of Misk's huge golden head, and again Sarm, whose speed was almost unbelievable, leaped away before Misk could touch him and was again circling and watching.	10
27	170	Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri...	10
27	186	Sarm had drawn himself up again to his full height and like a golden blade he stood behind Misk and before the Mother.	10
27	190	But Sarm looked about himself to the golden rows of immobile Priest-Kings who watched him and then, satisfied, he opened those great, laterally moving jaws and advanced slowly on Misk.	10
27	194	Horror coursed through the ranks of the assembled Priest-Kings and their antennae waved wildly and their golden frames shook with rage, and hundreds of them must have simultaneously turned on their translators for I heard almost immediately from everywhere before me the contrastingly calm translatio...	10
27	200	The rows of Priest-Kings seemed to rustle in confusion and anguish but in a moment, incredibly enough, they were as immobile as ever, standing as if statues of golden stone, regarding me.	10
27	215	The golden disks on his great globular head seemed to flicker and they fastened themselves upon me.	10
27	228	"What of the Golden Beetle?" asked Sarm.	10
27	269	Glancing over my shoulder I saw the welcome, now standing golden form of Misk.	10
27	272	The golden Priest-Kings behind Sarm did not advance further.	10
27	294	It was strange to me to hear her speak of the powerful, golden creature Misk in such a way.	10
27	324	"I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest".	10
27	350	Amazed, I stepped away from her and went to the great golden bowl on its heavy tripod and took out a few drops of the precious liquid in the palm of my hand and returned to her.	10
27	363	And from a thousand translators rang the message she cried out over those golden heads to the blank stone ceiling and walls of her chamber and I shall never forget it as it was in all the sorrow and the joy of her trembling dying magnificence; I and all could read it in the attitude of her body, the...	10
28	34	I saw that the creatures above me, whom I shall now speak of as Gur Carriers, for they were no longer Muls, still carried their sacks of golden leather.	10
29	128	I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and it gave forth with a short, abortive scorching blast and was cold, but the golden body of the Priest-King blackened and, half sliced through, reeled against the wall and fell at my feet.	10
29	144	Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel...	10
30	5	To one side I saw a brownish Priest-King, very thin and angular, wearing the appearances of age but yet his antennae seemed as alert as those of any one of the golden creatures.	10
30	16	Though I felt no pain nor any of the discomfort I would have expected, I now understood that these creatures had infused into the very tissues of my brain one of the golden control webs that could be operated from the Scanning Chamber of the Priest-Kings.	10
30	53	Sarm brandished the appendage, more golden and fresh than the rest of his body.	10
30	55	I conceded the point in silence, amazed at the restorative powers of Priest-Kings, those redoubtable golden foes against which mere men had dared to pit themselves.	10
30	70	Most savage and unnatural of all, at least to the mind of a Priest-King, was the release of the Golden Beetles from their various tunnels in the vicinity of the Nest.	10
30	72	The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost...	10
30	76	It was not more than a day later before one of Sarm's own scouts laid aside his weapon and, as the Priest-Kings say, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle.	10
30	77	Now the Beetles roamed at random throughout the Nest, more of a threat to Sarm's own forces than Misk's, for now none of Misk's Priest-Kings ventured abroad without a human to protect it should it encounter a Golden Beetle.	10
30	78	In the next days the Golden Beetles began, naturally enough in their hunt for food, to drift toward those portions of the Nest occupied by Sarm's Priest-Kings, for in those portions of the Nest they encountered no shouting humans, no jabbing cattle goads.	10
30	81	The Golden Beetles, free within the Nest, forced Sarm, in sheer regard for survival, to turn to humans for help, for humans, particularly in the well-ventilated areas of the Nest, are relatively impervious to the narcotic odor of the Beetle's mane, an odor which is apparently almost utterly overpowe...	10
30	94	The woman who stood over me with the whip, the woman clad in the most marvelous array of the most beautiful silks, wearing golden sandals and purple gloves, was Vika of Treve.	10
30	164	Parp had again been sent into the streets to fend off Golden Beetles, should they approach too closely any of the Priest-Kings of Sarm.	10
30	187	This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational...	10
30	199	And I noted that some of Sarm's Priest-Kings were less golden than I had known them, having now a slightly brownish cast on the thorax and abdomen, signs I knew to be associated with thirst.	10
31	11	To my surprise his pet Mul, Vika of Treve, demanded to accompany her golden master.	10
31	14	"I wish to see my Master triumph!" she begged, and that argument seemed to sway golden Sarm, and Vika found herself a member of our party.	10
31	15	I myself was forced to walk perhaps a dozen paces in front of Sarm, who held his grasping appendage near the control box which would, he supposed, activate the golden net he believed to be fused into the tissues of my brain.	10
31	18	How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a Priest-King, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us.	10
31	26	I turned and I saw Sarm, his entire golden bladelike form convulsed with rage.	10
31	83	Then to my surprise Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, from their pouches, produced golden collars, only too obviously prepared in advance.	10
31	123	Then I saw him through the sides of the blue dome that covered the power source, far above, a golden figure on the narrow walkway at the crest of the dome.	10
31	129	To one side, though I scarcely noticed it at the time, I saw a vague, domelike golden shape, one of the Beetles which, undoubtedly confused and terrified, had crept into the room of the Power Plant from the tunnel outside, through the door I had opened for Misk and his Priest-Kings.	10
31	153	He had been watching me approach and now his antennae focused on me and he drew himself up to his full golden height.	10
31	183	I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet.	10
31	186	Sarm lifted the bar and I sensed the murderous intensity that transformed his entire being, how each of those golden fibers like springs of steel would leap into play and the long bar would slash in a blur toward my body.	10
31	213	Then to my amazement when the Beetle neared Sarm the Priest-King sank down on his supporting appendages, almost as if he were on his knees, and suddenly plunged his face and antennae into the midst of the waving mane hair of the Golden Beetle.	10
31	222	I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that Priest-Kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives.	10
31	223	I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ...	10
31	225	Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great Priest-King, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me.	10
31	236	Far below, at the door to the chamber, I could see the golden figures of Priest-Kings, Misk among them.	10
32	4	I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room.	10
32	63	Their women, too, to my amazement, freely elected to remain by the sides of the men who had fastened golden collars about their throats.	10
32	81	I looked up into the huge, peering golden eyes of Misk, the left one lined with a whitish seam where Sarm's bladed projection had once torn it open in the battle in the Chamber of the Mother.	10
32	153	At that moment, through the drifting rock dust, I saw the heavy, domed body of one of the Golden Beetles, perhaps fifty yards away.	10
32	156	"Yes," said Misk, "now it will not be necessary to seek one of the Golden Beetles".	10
32	157	"You must not yield to the Golden Beetle!" I cried.	10
32	163	"You must resist the Golden Beetle," I said to Misk.	10
32	166	"You must resist the Golden Beetle to the end!" I cried.	10
32	172	"You do not understand, my children," said Kusk, "what the Golden Beetle means to a Priest-King".	10
32	173	"I think I understand," I cried, "but you must resist!" "Would you have us die working at a hopeless task," asked Misk, "die like fools deprived of the final Pleasures of the Golden Beetle?" "Yes!" I cried.	10
32	178	He surveyed the humans gathered about him, the heavy golden hemisphere of the approaching Beetle.	10
32	180	With a cry of joy I rushed upon the Beetle and Vika and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and their women joined me and together, kicking and pushing, avoiding the tubular jaws, hurling rocks, we forced away the globe of the Golden Beetle.	10
32	276	"Did you know," he asked, "that Vika was the female Mul who drove away the Golden Beetles when Sarm sent them against the forces of Misk?" "No," I said, "I did not know".	10
33	61	Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man.	10
35	19	The two peering eyes, golden and luminous, looked down at me.	10
35	62	"Have you had the humans slay the Golden Beetles?" I asked.	10
35	72	Suddenly Misk was frozen in the attitude of utter attention, the antennae lifted, each sensory hair alive on his golden body.	10
35	123	"Howsoever I spoke," said Misk, "words cannot diminish men or Priest-Kings—for who cares what we are—if we can act, decide, sense beauty, seek right, and have hopes for our people?" I swallowed hard, for I knew I had hopes for my race, and I sensed how Misk must have them for his, only...	10

Book 4. (103 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	204	"Do not approach!" cried Saphrar, "or I shall destroy the golden sphere!" He tore away the purple cloth that had enfolded the golden sphere and then lifted it high over his head.	10
26	378	For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia...	10
3	89	"It will buy ten bosks," said he, "twenty wagons covered with golden cloth, a hundred she-slaves from Turia".	10
5	68	The interiors of the wagons, lashed shut, protected from the dust of the march, are often rich, marvelously carpeted and hung, filled with chests and silks, and booty from looted caravans, lit by hanging tharlarion-oil lamps, the golden light of which falls on the silken cushions, the ankle-deep, in...	10
6	60	I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to Priest-Kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race.	10
7	3	The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns.	10
7	19	Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe...	10
7	21	Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf.	10
7	190	Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die.	10
8	86	As I had followed him from the dais I had seen Kutaituchik, the interview ended, absently reaching into the small golden box of kanda strings, his eyes slowly beginning to close.	10
8	141	Moreover, he did not brand her, nor fix in her nose the tiny golden ring of the Tuchuk women, nor did he even, incomprehensibly, put her in the Turian collar.	10
8	224	She was a very exciting, vital, proud girl and the tiny golden nose ring, against her brownish skin, with her flashing dark eyes, did not detract from her considerable but rather insolent beauty.	10
8	423	"But if so?" "Then," said she, "I will give you a golden ring and a silver cup".	10
8	428	"I do not want your golden ring and silver cup," I said.	10
8	631	It was now, perhaps, I hoped, that I might learn the answer to the riddles which had not ceased to disturb me, that I might learn the answer to the mystery of the message collar, perhaps the answer to the numerous mysteries which had attended it, and perhaps, at last, find some clue, as I had not ye...	10
9	9	I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia.	10
9	28	Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ...	10
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.	10
9	46	"Perhaps," he suggested, "you would like a piece of roasted bosk meat?" I replaced the golden eating prong in its rack beside my place, shoved back the glittering dish in which lay several theoretically edible objects, carefully arranged by a slave to resemble a bouquet of wild flowers sprouting fro...	10
9	65	This would be impractical, naturally, save for the detestable device of the golden bowl and tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, by means of which the diner may, when he wishes, refresh himself and return with eagerness to the feast.	10
9	70	On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities.	10
9	126	The women in bondage present, who served us, each wore four golden rings on each ankle and each wrist, locked on, which clashed as they walked or moved, adding their sound to the slave bells that had been fixed on their Turian collars, and that hung from their hair; the ears of each, too, had been p...	10
9	150	Then I heard the sentence, "If she is to participate, you must deliver the golden sphere".	10
9	180	"Is she not worth the golden sphere?" asked the merchant.	10
9	190	"I know where it is," Saphrar was saying, his lips pulled back, revealing the golden canines, "I could send men for it".	10
9	202	I had learned now, if Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, undoubtedly the last egg of Priest-Kings, was in the wagon of Kutaituchik, said to be Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
9	210	"The golden sphere for Aphris of Turia," Saphrar whispered to Kamchak.	10
9	212	"The Tuchuks," he said, "are fond of the golden sphere".	10
9	277	I supposed Saphrar was still irritated at Kamchak's refusal to give up, or arrange the transfer of, the golden sphere.	10
9	278	I did not clearly understand Kamchak's motivations in this matter—unless, of course, he knew the true nature of the golden sphere, in which case, naturally, he would recognize it as priceless.	10
9	290	"I think not," snapped the angry Aphris of Turia, her eyes flashing above the golden border of her white silken veil.	10
9	353	Like Hereena, of course, she wore the tiny golden nose ring.	10
9	464	It was something he would not buy with the golden sphere from Saphrar the merchant; it was something he was clearly capable of arranging, with Tuchuk cunning, by himself.	10
10	14	The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,...	10
10	127	I had now learned, if the information of Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, lay in the wagon of Kutaituchik.	10
11	25	I saw the tips of the two golden canines.	10
11	34	I could still see the tips of the golden teeth.	10
11	50	"Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".	10
11	234	When I had first seen this thing, heaped with other odds and ends in one corner of the wagon, some of the odds and ends being tankards of jewels and small, heavy chests filled with golden tarn disks, I had thought it merely a rock.	10
12	3	I knew that in that wagon, if the words of Saphrar were correct, there lay the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, which he had, for some reason, seemed so anxious to obtain.	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	14	I wondered if any in the camp of the Tuchuks realized how actually great indeed was the value of that golden sphere, containing undoubtedly the last hope of the people called Priest-Kings.	10
12	16	I had, however, inadvertently, learned the location of the golden sphere, and that Saphrar, a man of power in Turia, was also interested in obtaining it.	10
12	20	How was it that he, a merchant of Turia, knew of the golden sphere? How was it that he, a man of shrewdness and intelligence, seemed willing to barter volumes of gold for what he termed merely a curiosity? There seemed to be something here at odds with the rational avarice of mercantile calculation,...	10
12	22	He, or those for whom he worked, must have some inkling—or perhaps know—of the nature of the golden sphere.	10
12	28	Once he might have been a great man and warrior but now, somnolent and fat, he thought of little save the contents of a golden kanda box.	10
12	132	As I did so I glowered significantly at the tankards of jewels and chests of golden tarn disks in the corner of the wagon.	10
13	186	He bent to his tools, taking up a tiny, open golden ring, a heated metal awl, a pair of pliers.	10
13	224	I thought of the wagon of Kutaituchik and the golden sphere.	10
14	68	At his right knee was the golden kanda box.	10
14	81	I did not see the golden sphere.	10
14	92	"There was a golden sphere," said Kamchak.	10
14	104	"No, Tarl Cabot," said he, "the golden sphere is worthless".	10
14	110	Suddenly Kamchak cried out in rage and seized up the golden kanda box and hurled it away.	10
15	13	I presume that the mercenaries, being tarnsmen—a proud, headstrong breed of men—made the Turians pay highly for the supplies they carried, the indignities of bearing burdens being lessened somewhat by the compensating weight of golden tarn disks.	10
15	40	* * * * I knew that I myself must somehow enter Turia, for in Turia now lay the golden sphere.	10
15	123	"No," I said, "a golden sphere".	10
15	129	"Where do you think this golden sphere will be lying about?" asked Harold.	10
16	1	I Find the Golden Sphere It was not a pleasant path to Turia that Harold the Tuchuk showed to me, but I followed him.	10
16	39	More disturbing to me was the prospect of bringing the golden sphere down the rope and under the water and through the underground stream to the place where we had embarked on this adventure.	10
16	131	The merchant wore his Pleasure Robes of white and gold and his sandals, too, were of white leather bound with golden straps.	10
16	134	The golden drops above his eyes rose and fell.	10
16	135	He was smiling and I could see the tips of the golden teeth which I had first noticed on the night of the banquet.	10
16	184	"About my neck," he said, "you see a golden tarn disk of glorious Ar.	10
16	259	On this platform, nestled in the folds of the purple, I saw the object of my quest—what I had come so far to find—that for which I had risked and, apparently, lost my life—the golden sphere.	10
16	300	"How did the gray man know where the golden sphere was?" I asked.	10
16	320	Saphrar, too, I reminded myself, had known that the golden sphere was in the wagon of Kutaituchik.	10
16	323	It occurred to me that perhaps the Tuchuks had made no secret of the presence of the golden sphere in Kutaituchik's wagon.	10
16	326	Kamchak himself had told me the golden sphere was worthless—poor Tuchuk! But now, I said to myself, poor Cabot! However it came about—and I could not be sure—Others than Priest-Kings had now entered the games of Gor—and these Others knew of the egg and wanted it—an...	10
18	18	"I have even seen them reach for vines a spear's length above their head and think they could reach them!" Saphrar's two golden teeth, like yellow fangs, showed as he put back his head and howled with pleasure, his fat little hands pounding on the wood of the shield.	10
19	99	Then, startled, as she moved her head a bit, restlessly on the rug, I saw that in her nose was the tiny golden ring of a Tuchuk girl.	10
20	156	I was elated that we had managed to escape alive from the House of Saphrar, but I knew that I must return to the city, for I had not obtained the object for which I had come—the golden sphere—which still resided in the merchant stronghold.	10
21	43	My hair was concealed in the hood of a thin, ankle-length rep-cloth garment, a dirty white through which ran flecks of golden thread, a fit garment, in my opinion, for an insignificant merchant.	10
21	63	I hoped to be ushered into his presence and then, on the threat of slaying him, secure the golden sphere and a tarn for escape.	10
21	125	"I paid a golden tarn disk for them," I asserted.	10
21	169	I lived in constant fear that the gray man—he with eyes like glass—would come to Turia on tarnback and acquire, before I could act, the golden sphere—for which so much had been risked, for which apparently more than one man had died.	10
22	115	Before them had been placed large golden dishes heaped with delicacies prepared by the kitchens of the Ubar, tall precious goblets filled with Turian wines, the small bowls of spices and sugars with their stirring spoons at hand.	10
23	57	We found thousands of bosk slain in the grass, their throats cut, their flesh rotting, the golden nose rings chopped or torn away.	10
24	10	The only reason that occurred to me why Saphrar had not yet fled was that he was waiting in Turia for an excellent reason—quite possibly the arrival on tarnback of the gray man—with whom he had negotiated apparently to secure the golden sphere.	10
24	106	I did not obtain the golden sphere".	10
24	107	"But the golden sphere is worthless," said Harold.	10
25	86	In her nose, as I had suspected, there glinted the tiny, fine golden ring of the Tuchuk woman.	10
25	88	I held her lovely head with its soft dark hair in my hands, gazing on her face, her forehead, her dark, soft eyes, with tears, the marvelous, trembling mouth, and set in her fine nose, delicate and lovely, the tiny golden ring.	10
26	221	"The golden sphere!" cried Saphrar.	10
26	222	"But what is the golden sphere?" queried Kamchak.	10
26	235	"It was for the golden sphere, was it not," asked Kamchak, "that you came to the Wagon Peoples?" "Yes," I said, "it was".	10
26	252	"Is it your intention to buy your life with the golden sphere?" "If necessary," said Saphrar, "yes!" "But I do not want it," said Kamchak.	10
26	261	"I will shatter the golden sphere!" Slowly Kamchak, and Harold and I, and the sleen keeper, dragging the two sleen, moved backwards.	10
26	267	I can give you half the riches of the Paravaci! Bosk and gold and women and wagons!" "I would suppose," said Ha-Keel, "that all that you have is not worth so much as the golden sphere—and that is Saphrar of Turia's".	10
26	275	"No harm must come to the golden sphere!" I cried.	10
26	277	Saphrar was screaming insanely and then, to my astonishment, he bit the Paravaci's forearm, sinking the two golden upper canine teeth into the hooded man's flesh.	10
26	278	The Paravaci suddenly cried out in uncanny fear and shuddered and, to my horror, the golden sphere, which he had succeeded in wresting from Saphrar, was thrown a dozen feet across the room, and shattered on the floor.	10
26	296	I was only partly cognizant of these things, for I was overcome with grief, kneeling in Saphrar's audience hall before the shards of the shattered golden sphere.	10
26	313	He knelt down near the fragments, disgust on his face, fingering the stiff, leathery ruptured egg, some of the golden pieces broken from it.	10
26	316	"Have you examined the golden sphere carefully?" Kamchak was asking.	10
26	321	I saw that his thumb and forefinger were marked with a golden stain.	10
26	329	I stooped down and picked up one of the stiff shards and rubbed it, seeing the golden stain now left on my fingertips.	10
26	346	The golden droplets which Saphrar wore in place of eyebrows fell unnoticed into the sluggish fluid that slowly rose about him, inching itself upward, thickening itself about him.	10
26	358	The eyes were bulging perhaps a quarter of an inch from the little round head and the mouth, with its two golden teeth, now emptied of ost venom, seemed to be screaming but there was no sound.	10
26	456	"That is why," I asked, "you let me go to Turia—though you knew the Golden Sphere was worthless?" "Yes," said Kamchak, "that is why".	10
26	462	"That is why," he said, "I wanted the Golden Sphere shattered.	10
26	487	"You thought, perhaps," he asked, "it would be golden and spherical?" "Yes," I said, "I did".	10
26	560	Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...	10

Book 5. (17 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	150	On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a Priest-King.	10
5	177	I lifted my hands over my head, and he, delicately, in the fog splendid with the sun, the smooth texture of his golden body gleaming, gently lowered his body and head, and with the tips of his antennae, covered with their sensitive, glistening golden hair, touched the palms of my hands.	10
2	6	The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth.	10
4	19	Cernus wore about his neck, on a golden chain, a medallion which bore the crest of the House of Cernus, a tarn with slave chains grasped in its talons.	10
5	148	Clouds like drifting fogs, radiant with the golden sunlight, passed about it.	10
5	160	I looked on that great golden head and its two large, circular, disklike eyes, compound, and the light seemed to flicker among the multilensed surfaces.	10
5	165	Then he stood there, in his some eighteen feet of golden height, balancing on his four posterior, four-jointed supporting appendages, the two anterior, four-jointed grasping appendages, each with its four, delicate, tiny prehensile hooks, held lightly, alertly before his body in the characteristic s...	10
5	180	The great golden blade, his body itself, for a moment trembled.	10
8	193	I saw that she now wore in her nose the tiny, fine golden ring of the Tuchuk woman.	10
12	119	I wondered if the golden tarn disk, that of Portus, which I had given to him at the tavern had been used to buy a vending license.	10
12	129	He wore a patch of golden cloth on his left shoulder.	10
13	224	The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.	10
14	118	About his neck hung the golden medallion of the House of Cernus, the tarn with slave chains grasped in its talons.	10
19	325	About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer...	10
19	376	"I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do...	10
19	449	The fist of the auctioneer closed, as though grasping a handful of golden coins.	10
24	429	The tiny, fine golden ring of the Tuchuk woman was in her nose.	10

Book 6. (41 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	67	About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w...	10
4	15	She wore a golden armlet.	10
4	157	"You wear on your left arm," I said, "a golden armlet.	10
5	54	She wore the golden armlet, and the purple fillet tying back her hair.	10
6	45	With him there stood a tall, bearded helmeted warrior of Port Kar, the golden slash of the officer across the temples of his helmet.	10
7	32	He was conversing with the bearded officer, tall and with the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet.	10
7	48	The last two aboard had been Henrak, with his white scarf, and the tall, bearded officer, he with the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet.	10
8	68	The officer, bearded and tall, with the two golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, followed by Henrak, still with the scarf bound about his body, ran to the rail.	10
8	111	In this situation, then, it was natural, expecting an attack on either the first or the last barge, that the officer, he of the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, would concentrate his men in the first and last barges.	10
9	245	And, as I watched, on that square of sand between the tables in a paga tavern in Port Kar, under the ship's lanterns, the movements of the body of a slave girl, the lights reflected in her chains, the rubies, the shimmering golden droplets, I grew slowly furious.	10
9	453	I slipped the golden armlet from her arm.	10
9	474	I looked down at the golden armlet I held in my hand.	10
9	477	I then picked up the golden armlet, and again regarded it.	10
9	478	"It is strange," I said, "that a rence girl should have a golden armlet".	10
9	484	In the other room I tossed the golden armlet to Midice, who caught it and slipped it on her arm with a squeal of delight, holding up her arm, showing the armlet.	10
10	49	He was the one who had come to the rence islands, who had had upon his helmet the two golden slashes.	10
10	59	Though his helmet still bore the two golden slashes, it now bore as well a crest of sleen hair, permitted only to captains.	10
10	159	The wages of a sail-maker, incidentally, are four copper tarn disks per day, those of a fine shipwright, hired by the Council of Captains, as much as a golden tarn disk per day.	10
10	326	I saw Lysias, with his helmet, with the two golden slashes, with its captain's crest of sleen hair, on the arm of his curule chair.	10
11	266	His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of Thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings.	10
11	385	A man behind him helped him adjust his cloak, so that it fell from its golden clasp, as he wished.	10
13	166	The helmet, too, bore two golden slashes.	10
14	339	He presented a folio-sized book, bound with golden cord and sealed with wax, bearing the impress of the Ubar of Tyros, Chenbar.	10
14	341	I broke the golden cord and the seal and opened the master cargo lists.	10
14	374	She wore swirling, dazzling robes of concealment, of purple and golden cloths, brocades and silks.	10
15	2	I wore the purple of a fleet admiral, with a golden cap with tassel, and gold trim on the sleeves and borders of my robes, with cloak to match.	10
15	346	I fingered the golden medallion with the lateen-rigged tarn ship, and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar in its half-curve beneath it.	10
15	401	Dark and golden, shimmering, crying out, stamping, she danced, her thonged beauty incandescent in the light of the torches and the frenzy of the slave bells.	10
15	442	He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south.	10
15	482	They had been beautiful, in silver throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their backs in golden slave bracelets, kneeling as pleasure slaves among the jewels, the piled gold, and the heaps of silk and kegs of spices.	10
15	590	Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the Free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to be received as...	10
15	646	Enraged I took the bag of gold, what was left of it, and hurled it out into the hall, spilling a rain of golden tarn disks before it struck the tiles.	10
15	803	I drew the golden armlet from her arm, and looked at it.	10
16	36	I looked about and found the golden armlet.	10
16	40	"Commonly," I said, "a Ubara wears more than a golden armlet".	10
17	295	I speak of lean, scarred Ha-Keel, who wore about his neck, on a golden chain, a worn tarn disk, set with diamonds, of the city of Ar.	10
18	232	There was a splash of blood across his face, staining the left side of his face, his short, white, cropped hair and the golden ring in his ear.	10
18	441	"And, too," she said, "nearby there was a golden armlet".	10
18	453	He permitted me, even, to retain the golden armlet".	10
18	773	"I see," said Ho-Hak to Telima, "that you still wear the golden armlet".	10
18	824	"Yes," said Samos, "and you were permitted to take the golden armlet, that Ho-Hak, with his men, would recognize you in the marshes".	10

Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	55	It hung dark with the gases of pollution, made golden in the sunlight.	10
2	56	I could see thousands of windows, some with the sun reflecting from them, in the unreal golden haze.	10
5	190	Then, to my horror, a large, golden creature, six-legged, supporting itself on its four long back legs, almost upright, stepped from the ship.	10
6	78	Even those who had come from the silverish ship, with the exception of the tall, delicate golden creature, had seemed to be human, or much like humans.	10
6	123	The fat man wore earrings, sapphires pendant on golden stalks.	10
8	336	He had paid a deposit of fifty golden tarn disks, and on our first morning in the compound, I had seen him pay one hundred and fifty more to the huge, bearded, scowling Haakon of Skjern.	10
8	1100	There were barbaric golden ornaments on her arms, and about her neck.	10
8	1128	The tall girl, the blond girl, their leader, called Verna, lithe in the skins of forest panthers, in her golden ornaments, with her spear, strode to where Lana lay on the grass, on her side, bound and gagged.	10
8	1147	She seemed magnificent and fierce in the brief skins and golden ornaments.	10
9	275	I could imagine her, straight in her skins and golden ornaments, with her spear and weapons, watching me.	10
9	334	And then the first girl tore away her skins and danced in her golden ornaments beneath the huge, wild moons, on the grass of the circle, before the square.	10
10	153	He produced two cigarettes from a flat, golden case.	10
10	297	It seemed clear that it had been the object of an effective, devastating attack, quite possibly by the silverish ship which had later landed, that from which the unusual men, and the tall, golden creature had emerged.	10
10	496	He closed the small, flat golden cigarette box and struck a small match.	10
11	764	I was also frightened by the memory of the huge golden creature who had accompanied them.	10
13	584	I might have been a golden-pelted tabuk, but I was a girl! The scream of the bird deafened me and its wings broke like thunder about my ears.	10
13	1051	I felt like a golden-pelted tabuk, lying between the paws of the black-maned mountain larl.	10
14	219	Against its far wall I could see great chests, heavy and bound with iron, filled doubtless with a raider's abundant booty, gems and golden wire, and necklaces and coins, and pearls, and jewelries, and bracelets and bangles, set perhaps with precious stones, which might serve to adorn the limbs of ex...	10
14	235	I heard the flash of a pair of bangles and saw a dark-haired girl, the two golden bangles on her left ankle, come to the opening of the tent.	10
15	223	Sometimes I saw the dark-haired girl, in red silk with the two golden bangles on her left ankle, when I passed by the tent.	10
15	417	Always, about her left ankle, fastened, were two golden bangles.	10
15	997	Laughing, bloody tarnsmen, with strings of pearls thrown about their necks, and cups and goblets tied at their saddles, and their saddle packs bulging with the weight of golden tarn disks, had brought their tarns down, wings beating, to receive the greetings of the camp.	10
15	1124	As I stood there two large, golden earrings were thrust through the piercing of my ears and fastened on me.	10
16	204	The beautiful Talena no longer wore her marvelous silks, her golden ornaments.	10
17	168	In one week I had even begged him to place in my nose the tiny golden ring of a Tuchuk slave girl, and in that week I had served him as such, clad even in the Kalmak, Chatka and Curla, my hair bound back with the red Koora.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	410	She had a golden armlet on her left arm, a golden anklet on her right ankle.	10
1	24	I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar, trimmed with golden cloth, from Tor, the colors of the Merchant.	10
1	57	There were small, golden rings in his ears.	10
2	344	Sheera was a strong, black-haired wench, with a necklace of claws and golden chains wrapped about her neck.	10
2	345	There were twisted golden armlets on her bronzed arms.	10
2	379	About her throat was the necklace of claws and golden chains.	10
3	150	I reached to my pouch, to take from it a golden tarn and throw it to them.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	95	They, loot, too, knelt, or sat or laid among golden plate, and candlesticks and golden hangings.	10
6	554	About his neck, looped, was a cord of woven, golden wire, with a golden pendant, in the shape of an ax.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	293	She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba...	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1213	They wore what appeared to be golden circlets about their neck, and a golden bracelet on the left wrist.	10
18	12	I also wore a brief, open, sleeveless vest of black leather, the Kalmak; a patron parted it, holding it open, as I tried to move past him on the ramp; I stood, quietly, stopped helplessly, the tray held over my head; he kissed me twice; "Little beauty," he said; "A girl would rejoice if she were per...	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	121	They were barefoot, and collared; they wore cosmetics; their right wrists wore bracelets; each, on her left arm, had a golden armlet; each, on her left ankle, had a golden anklet.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	184	On her feet were golden pumps, with a wisp of golden straps.	10
22	13	Before each guests there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and, in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	74	Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta.	10
30	223	On her feet had been golden pumps, fastened with a lace of golden straps.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	467	"A golden tarn disk! A golden tarn disk!" "No female is worth that much," I said.	10
18	488	In the restaurant she had worn golden pumps, with a golden wisp of straps.	10
20	554	In the restaurant she had worn golden pumps, with wisps of golden straps.	10
20	566	The golden straps she had used to simulate the footwear which she had worn on Earth were golden binding straps.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	109	"Strip her," said Miles of Argentum, "and put her in golden chains, and put her in the golden cage".	10
33	508	"Surely you recognize that garment?" asked Ligurious, indicating a purple robe with golden trim, and a golden belt.	10
36	1567	"But I think you need not fear confinement now in golden cages or golden sacks," he said.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	174	"In that purse," he said, "there were eighteen golden staters, from Tyros, three golden tarn disks, one from Port Kar, and two from Ar, sixteen silver tarsks from Tabor, twenty copper tarsks, and some fifteen tarsk bits".	10
25	573	Golden bangles encircled her ankles, and golden bracelets encircled her wrists.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	103	It had an open, golden cabin, covered with translucent golden netting.	10
9	105	On board, other than the occupant of the golden cabin, dimly perceived behind the golden netting, I saw an officer, and some guards, who perhaps took their turns at the poles.	10
12	40	Now that I was on my knees and the men were to one side, I could see the lines of the barge, purple and gilded, near the bank, that with the golden cabin, covered with golden netting.	10
21	17	It had been surmounted by an open, golden cabin, covered with a translucent golden mesh.	10
21	86	"The barge, too, was lovely," I said, "though I suppose some might have regarded it as a trifle too ornate, too prideful, too ostentatious, with purple, and the gilding, the poles, the golden cabin, with the golden mesh".	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	232	He was a tall man, in a golden helmet, plumed, too, in gold, and a golden cloak.	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	43	On his feet were golden sandals; on his forehead was a golden circlet.	10
19	244	The crowd parted to my left and I saw, making its way through the crowd, some sort of standard, a golden staff surmounted by a golden circle.	10
19	284	He with the golden standard, that surmounted with the golden circle, was in the center.	10
19	449	"The Golden Shackles! The Golden Shackles!" I could smell her perfume from where I stood.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	44	If they could not wear a golden chain why should anyone? Let there be a golden chain for everyone, or no golden chains.	10
31	73	All three were what we might call "golden-chain Kurii," namely high Kurii, their station witnessed by the golden chains from which depended their translators.	10
33	122	See! It is a golden chain!" Only four in the Cave wore the golden chain, Lucius, putatively first in the Cave, Timarchos, Lysymachos, and, of late, some days ago, Grendel.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	23	Our crimson street tunics bore the small image of a golden chain at the left shoulder, and, elsewhere, in cursive script, one or more provocative snippets designed to appeal to potential customers, such as, I was told, "Find me at the Golden Chain," "I await you at the Golden Chain," "I hope to plea...	10
20	44	"It was for you, the slender, dark-haired barbarian slave, Zia, floor slave in the Golden Chain, the property of Ho-Tosk, proprietor of the Golden Chain".	10
24	59	Did I not belong to Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar, proprietor of the Golden Chain? I wanted to be returned to the Golden Chain, and exonerated of any charges of being a fugitive slave.	10
32	15	What had he to fear? But, of course, if all went well, I might have been recognized, certainly at the Golden Chain, did he patronize it, or I could have, in some way, surely at the Golden Chain, did he wish to recruit within it, even at the risk of the lash, called attention to myself, created some ...	10
34	1	I am Again at the Golden Chain Brushed and combed, washed and rested, watered and fed, freshly tunicked, I knelt before Ho-Tosk, my master, proprietor of the Golden Chain, in his office.	10
34	44	Shortly after I had arrived at the Golden Chain, the Golden Chain's collar had been placed on my neck and Bruno of Torcadino's collar had been removed.	10
39	69	Do you think you are in an alcove at the Golden Chain? Do you truly think I would be interested in allowing myself to be served by so inferior a slave and slut as you, only another worthless Golden-Chain girl?" I struggled to my feet, keeping my mouth open, widely.	10
40	319	She must have awakened somewhere in Port Kar, and discovered herself in a tunic of the Golden Chain and a new collar, doubtless also of the Golden Chain.	10
46	119	When I had been returned to the cages of the Golden Chain from the Skerry of Lars, I had, of course, recalled the beautiful slave, Dorna, once, in her freedom, called Dorna the Proud, once the highest of Silver Masks in Tharna, second only to the Golden Mask, Lara.	10