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Book 1. (39 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	50	Something in the darkness, to the left, lying on the ground, seemed to be glowing.	10
1	209	I fell to the ground, gasping for breath, suddenly asking myself why I had ran.	10
2	29	I could not lean far enough outside the window to see the ground.	10
2	89	"A handful of my native ground".	10
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.	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	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
6	84	When freed, I was lifted lightly in the mandibles and carried to the edge of the web, where the spider seized a hanging strand and scurried downward, placing me on the ground.	10
6	216	"My tarn killed the other," said the girl, "and followed it to the ground, where he tore it to pieces".	10
7	52	"I order you to protect me," she said, never taking her eyes from the ground.	10
7	76	Without raising her eyes from the ground, the daughter of the Ubar said in a clear, distinct voice: "I submit myself".	10
7	173	A marvelous cascade of hair, as black as the wing of my tarn, loosened behind her, falling to the ground.	10
8	2	The common soldier, setting the crossbow on the ground, strode to the daughter of the Ubar, who stood as though stunned, her face drained of color.	10
8	83	I threw the manacles to the ground, rubbing my wrists.	10
8	113	Her garment was, of course, too long, as it had originally reached to the ground, covering the absurd platformlike shoes she had worn.	10
9	82	"So," she said contemptuously, "that is how a Warrior tarnsman treats the daughter of a rich merchant?" I rolled onto the ground, turning away from her, unable to sleep.	10
9	152	Once I stepped back, gesturing to the ground with my sword, the symbolic granting of quarter should it be desired.	10
10	124	Not only does this lubricant absorb much of the shock involved, but it tends, except under abnormal stress, to keep the seat of the saddle parallel to the ground.	10
10	130	I argued with him to accept forty, on the ground that he was a sword brother, and at last convinced him to accept half of his own wages back.	10
12	104	Falling, I twisted madly, unsupported in the air, a wordless cry of anguish in my throat, and watched in horror as the ground seemed to rush upward to meet me.	10
13	32	It crouched, holding its long, terrible body close to the ground.	10
13	33	It then began to move forward, swiftly but stealthily, its shoulders hunched forward, its hind quarters almost touching the ground.	10
13	35	As it moved, for all its speed, it placed each paw carefully on the ground, first the toes and then the ball of the foot, as silently as the wind might bend grass, in a motion that was as beautiful as it was terrifying.	10
13	43	It was a human being, moving with surprising alacrity over the rough ground.	10
13	46	The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl.	10
13	47	Rather than risk casting my spear from the safe but unsteady saddle of the tarn, I leaped to the ground, just as the larl, furious that it had been discovered, uttered the paralyzing hunting roar and charged.	10
13	53	When, twenty feet away, the great, bounding beast, fangs bared, leaped for its prey, it encountered instead only the slender needle of my spear, set like a stake in the ground, braced by the half-naked body of a warrior of Ko-ro-ba.	10
13	99	The thing stumbled forward, reaching for me, and fell to the ground with a tiny, moaning sound.	10
13	100	It sat on the ground, wrapped in its yellow cerements—a mound of decay and desolation under the three Gorean moons.	10
14	37	Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.	10
14	158	It immediately descended, and a minute later I was on the ground, on a sort of rough plateau.	10
14	171	Then I slapped his leg with affection, climbed to the saddle, dropped the dead tarnsman to the ground, and fastened myself in the saddle straps.	10
15	55	The compound of Mintar enclosed several acres of ground and was the largest merchant compound in the camp.	10
15	260	"On the highest ground in camp," said Mintar, "near the second ditch and across from the great gate of Ar.	10
16	35	Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops.	10
18	40	When it reached the ground, it would be sectioned and rolled.	10
19	45	Lying on the ground, bound hand and foot, still clad in the white robe, was Talena.	10
19	189	I gestured to the ground with my sword, offering quarter.	10
20	51	But then, on the ground near my boot, I saw it—a small object, a tiny, round object.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...	10
12	5	I had no idea how far below ground it might be.	10
14	192	Its wicked eyes gleamed, scanning the ground, its head and beak thrust forward, its wings still, gliding silently in great sweeps, lower and lower, over the gray towers of Tharna.	10
16	5	The solid pillar would not allow entrance to men on the ground, and approaching tarns would be easily visible for miles before they could reach it.	10
19	67	I could imagine the terror of those poor creatures cringing in those traps beneath the ground waiting to hear the distant rush of water through the tunnels.	10
20	100	When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed.	10
20	129	The great head moved quizzically and dipped to the ground, rubbing against my leg.	10
23	102	In time it became dangerous for the small cavalries of Tharna to assault them, to brave the storm of missile weapons which would seem to rise almost from the very ground itself.	10
24	129	It was the sound of the plowing song, as slow and irresistible as the breaking of ice in frozen rivers, a simple, melodic paean to the soil, celebrating the first breaking of the ground.	10

Book 3. (23 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	35	I wished that I had had longer to visit the fair, for on another occasion at another time I should have sought eagerly to examine its wares, drink at its taverns, talk with its merchants and attend its contests, for these fairs are free ground for the many competitive, hostile Gorean cities, and pro...	10
1	37	Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by accident among the silken pavilions.	10
2	92	As soon as he casts his weapon he throws himself to the ground and covers his body with his shield, as does each man successively behind him.	10
2	95	Once Last Spear casts his weapon he may not throw himself to the ground.	10
2	99	He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught.	10
3	53	Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain habits or vices to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison.	10
14	75	In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement;...	10
17	71	Patterns of small ships, not satellites, invisible from the ground and remotely controlled, carry the lenses and receptors which beam information to the Sardar.	10
17	130	The man from the Caste of Builders then sat cross-legged on the ground and took from the pouch slung at his waist a tiny, cylindrical Gorean fire-maker, a small silverish tube commonly used for igniting cooking fires.	10
19	30	"They are worn on Tola by all Priest-Kings in memory of the Nuptial Flight, for the Nuptial Flight takes place above the ground in the sun and there on the surface there are many things which are green".	10
29	48	The first craft began to turn slowly, uncontrollably, in the air and then plunged toward the ground.	10
29	50	The second craft shot wildly toward the ceiling of the complex and shattered on the stone ceiling, falling back to the ground in a shower of wreckage.	10
29	74	My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...	10
29	93	It tumbled away like a balloon and exploded in the air as I dropped my ship almost to the ground.	10
29	108	I flashed my ship to the ground only an instant before the entire ship above me seemed to explode silently in a storm of metallic dust glinting in the light of the energy bulbs above.	10
29	134	I seized the sword which I had never ceased to wear and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba rushed forward but as I did so I suddenly threw myself to the ground beneath those extended projections and slashed away at the Priest-King's posterior appendages.	10
29	136	His abdomen now dragged on the ground but he pushed himself toward me, jaws snapping, by means of the two forward supporting appendages and the remains of his posterior appendages.	10
29	160	I crawled out of the ship through the hatch and slid over the side to the ground.	10
30	67	On the other hand the ships of the two forces tended, it seemed, to neutralize one another, and the war in the air, far from being decisive, as Misk and I had hoped, had begun to turn into the same stalemate that had developed on the ground.	10
32	203	Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator.	10
32	292	He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds.	10
34	52	This time the Older Tarl lifted him up by the scruff of his robes and held him dangling, kicking, a foot from the ground.	10
35	96	"Perhaps you could develop a depth scanner," I suggested, "one that could penetrate walls, ground, ceilings".	10

Book 4. (31 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	67	I began to walk toward the dust in the distance, across the trembling ground.	10
2	24	The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever.	10
2	107	The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under ...	10
2	110	He held his ground, waiting for the others.	10
3	2	I might have thrown myself to the ground as the larl hunters from Ar, once their weapon is cast, covering myself with the shield; but then I would have been beneath the clawed paws of four squealing, snorting kaiila, while the riders jabbed at me with lances, off my feet, helpless.	10
3	20	Even had I slain two of them the others might have withdrawn and with their arrows or bolas brought me to the ground.	10
3	113	As I watched, the Tuchuk took his long, slender lance and thrust it into the ground, point upward.	10
4	11	Then the animal seized my shield in its teeth and reared lifting it and myself, by the shield straps, from the ground.	10
4	52	To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up...	10
5	58	The wagon box, which stands almost six feet from the ground, is formed of black, lacquered planks of tem-wood.	10
6	12	The lance cleared the ground, given the height of the kaiila, by about five feet.	10
8	465	Her feet were off the ground and she had the side of her head pressed against his furred boot.	10
8	469	The girl had released the stirrup and her feet struck the ground.	10
10	2	Judges and craftsmen from Ar, hundreds of pasangs away, across the Cartius, were already at the stakes, inspecting them and preparing the ground between them.	10
10	194	I noted some of the workmen still affixing small retaining rings to some of the stakes, bolting them one on a side, usually about five feet to five and a half feet from the ground.	10
11	253	I gathered that the ground under the wagon was hard.	10
13	8	Their ears began to lay back against the sides of their triangular heads; their long, serpentine bodies trembled; I saw claws emerge from their paws, retract, emerge again and then retract; they lifted their heads, sweeping them from side to side, and then thrust their snouts to the ground and began...	10
13	181	She had been bound across a wagon wheel lying on the ground, her body over its hub.	10
14	37	Suddenly, instead of giving pursuit, Kamchak drew his mount to a halt and behind him the rushing cavalries of the Tuchuks snarled pawing to a halt, holding their ground.	10
14	54	They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
20	16	I slipped with one hand and hung there, feet scraping the wall, some fifty feet from the ground, for a nasty moment, but then managed to get both hands on the edge of the wall and hoist myself up.	10
20	35	Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a Gorean keep.	10
20	73	Then there was a horrified cry as one rope was cut and the flooring of the bridge suddenly pitched, throwing several of the guardsmen to the ground below.	10
20	78	I then flung the two bars in position, which locked the door, lest men on ladders from the ground attempt to force it.	10
21	56	I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures.	10
21	313	I threw myself to the ground and rolled under with him.	10
22	77	Some were sobbing, others wailing, but most were silent, numb with shock, staring at the ground.	10
23	111	Scarcely had we cleared the ground before the wagons when the Paravaci bosk horns sounded again and another wave of kaiila and riders, lances set, raced towards us.	10
23	121	I looked to the left and right over the torn, bloody barricade of wagons, at the remains of my men, wounded and exhausted, many of them lying on the barricade or on the ground behind it, trying to gain but a moment's respite.	10
26	101	The clear ground between the walls and the first buildings was similarly empty, though here and there I saw some litter, pieces of boxes, broken arrows, patches of cloth.	10
28	10	Within something like fifty yards we heard a frightened squawk and saw Tuka thrown to the ground with a tackle that might have done credit to a qualified professional player of the American form of football.	10

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	147	I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r...	10
7	60	About a hundred yards from the shelf the ship stopped, stationary, more than two thousand feet from the ground below.	10
7	82	The man, who wore a simple dark tunic and sandals, dropped out to the ground.	10
7	170	I supposed it was possible that a girl might awaken, in the rushing cold air, and attempt to hurl herself to the ground.	10
10	32	On the way down the stairs to the lower portions of the cylinder, several floors of which, incidentally, are below ground level, we passed the office of Caprus.	10
11	1	Two Girls After having passed through several doors of iron, each with an observation panel, descending on a spiral ramp deeper and deeper beneath the ground level, I could at last, clearly, smell the stink of the pens.	10
11	15	The pens seemed humid and, though we were below ground, warm from the heat of the bodies.	10
12	370	On the ground level, beneath the lofty stands, there was much more life.	10
18	346	I passed through the level on which interrogations take place, the level of the kennels, and went lower in the cylinder, now far below ground, past even more iron pens and levels.	10
19	77	I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...	10
19	78	I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma...	10
20	207	He ground the bits of the doll into the tile with the heel of his sandal.	10
21	296	The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ...	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	596	Then, with a cry of hatred and elation, my blade, parallel to the ground, that it not wedge itself between the ribs of its target, passed through his body.	10

Book 7. (26 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	292	In its back, there were two heavy metal rings, one about two feet from the ground, the other about three and a half feet from the ground.	10
3	525	I shut my eyes against the reflection of yellow light from the ground.	10
4	17	It opened in such a way as to touch the ground and formed a sort of ramp, by means of which the ship could be loaded.	10
5	219	A blind, split, podlike head was moving toward me, lifting itself slightly from the ground, moving from side to side.	10
6	332	The men pulled me away from where I had vomited and another, from behind, holding my hair, pushed my face down to the ground, to the clean grass, and, turning my head, wiped the vomit from my mouth and chin.	10
7	67	In the "display chain" we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl.	10
9	193	Then her foot was on the leash a few inches from my neck, pinning me, choking, to the ground.	10
9	291	It was about five feet high, and seven inches thick, sturdy, sunk deep into the ground.	10
9	426	Verna removed the bag from its hook and knelt down on the ground, the other girls around her.	10
9	427	She shook the contents of the bag out on the ground.	10
10	463	I ground out the cigarette on the table, and looked at him, coolly.	10
12	492	The floor of the cage was about six inches off the ground.	10
12	495	I would have preferred to have looked down upon her, but she was a taller woman than I, and, of course, the cage was suspended somewhat off the ground.	10
12	505	The water ran over the small, circular floor of the cage, and some of it dripped out, falling to the ground.	10
14	189	Oddly enough, there was also an iron ring, set in a stone, buried in the ground, beneath the center of the horizontal pole.	10
15	167	Beneath its center, on the ground, there was an iron ring.	10
15	168	This ring was set in a heavy stone, which was buried in the ground.	10
15	172	Her ankles are tied together and tied, some six inches from the ground, to the iron ring.	10
15	189	How skeptically, and eagerly, with the other girls, I would silently appraise her, comparing her, always unfavorably, on some ground or another, with myself.	10
15	195	And more than one was hauled to the saddle and well held and kissed before being thrown again to the ground.	10
15	350	Ena came from the tent and I, only a work girl, knelt before her, putting my forehead to the ground.	10
15	611	Near that pole, near the iron ring set in the stone, which was buried in the ground, Ute told Techne and I to kneel.	10
15	748	I hung perhaps a foot from the ground.	10
15	749	I felt my ankles lashed together, and then a strap tied them to the ring below, that set in the stone, which was buried in the ground.	10
15	886	I fell to my knees immediately, and put my head to the ground.	10
15	1309	When the music finished, I fell to my knees, insolently, before him, my head to the ground.	10

Book 8. (31 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	334	He hung about a foot from the ground.	10
2	736	Then, where the forest begins, look for a Tur tree, blazed ten feet above the ground, with the point of a girl's spear.	10
5	236	The bar was about four feet from the ground, and about forty feet long.	10
6	257	The men were cutting and sharpening stakes, and setting them in the ground, about our camp site.	10
6	404	I dropped my belt, with sword and sheath, and knife, to the ground, beside the fire.	10
6	846	Rim, from his own pouch, handed up to her a tiny steel half crescent, ground from the blade of a shaving knife.	10
7	156	I followed swiftly, now rapidly closing the ground between us.	10
7	219	With my foot I scuffed dirt over the stains on the ground, where she had bled.	10
7	221	When I was satisfied that I had carried her sufficiently far, so far that I was confident that she would not be within earshot of any to whom she might wish to call, I set her down on the ground, leaning her against a tree.	10
7	282	"Climb," I told her, "or I shall bracelet you on the ground".	10
7	285	At last she was more than thirty feet from the ground.	10
7	306	The panther can climb, but it is accustomed to take its hunting scents from the ground.	10
8	68	The ground was wet and damp from the dew.	10
8	253	One of my men had fallen unconscious to the ground.	10
8	295	It led to a ring on a post, sunk deeply into the ground.	10
11	3	From where we sat, cross-legged, across from one another, before the low table, I could see the tent ropes stretched taut to stakes in the ground, the drainage ditch cut around the base of the tent, the wall of saplings, sharpened, which surrounded the camp.	10
11	461	With her foot, spurning her, Hura thrust her to the ground at the feet of Marlenus.	10
11	528	Two huntsmen threw Verna forward, holding her head toward the ground.	10
11	577	She knelt on the ground, her head down, her hair forward, her shoulders and body shaking, trembling with terror.	10
11	886	They were asleep, on the ground.	10
14	2	I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground.	10
14	89	I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground.	10
15	290	"Extend your left legs," I told the panther girls, "and bend and lift your right knee, heel to the ground".	10
15	315	It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city.	10
16	307	Three furs I had brought back to Vinca and the other two paga slaves, that they might be comforted from the hard ground and protected from the cold forest nights.	10
17	147	Almost immediately she had her kneeling as a pleasure slave, but this one with her head fully to the ground.	10
18	181	One end they forced into the ground high on the beach, among the stones.	10
18	355	At the fringe of the forest, overlooking the sloping beach, covered with its stones, and, lower, with its sand, I found a strong, slender tree, with an outjutting branch some five feet from the ground, the branch facing away from the water.	10
18	482	On the other hand, that night, one of the gods, curious, or perhaps careless, or perhaps driven from the hall and angry, threw down upon the ground his own great ax, and upon this ax he poured paga and his own blood, and the ax laughed and leaped up, and ran away.	10
18	519	She did so immediately, frightened, her head to the ground.	10
19	378	Then, trembling, shuddering, weeping, some begging for mercy they thrust their heads to the ground.	10

Book 9. (25 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	335	Thus, in a sense, the hall proper is about a foot below ground level, and the sleeping level, on each side, is at the ground level, where the walls begin.	10
1	143	How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground.	10
2	5	The High Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest, sat still in his white robes, in his tall hat, on the throne to the right, within the white rail that separated the sanctuary of Initiates from the common ground of the hall, where those not anointed by the grease of Priest-Kin...	10
3	354	I hurled a golden tarn disk to the ground, to pay for my lodging in Kassau, and the care of the bird.	10
6	188	Nearby, on a large, flat stone, to keep it from sinking into the ground, was the anvil.	10
6	239	The Forkbeard, with the heel of his boot on the ground, drew a bondmaid circle.	10
6	245	This, too, she drew over her head, and threw to the ground.	10
6	330	The center of the hall, down its length, is dug out about a foot below the ground level.	10
6	333	At the edges of the hall, at ground level, is a dirt floor, on which furs are spread.	10
6	519	At the foot of the ground level, which is the sleeping level, which lies about a foot above the dug-out floor, the long center of the hall, on the floor, against the raised dirt, here and there, were rounded logs, laid lengthwise.	10
9	114	Her breasts were against the post; she could not place her heels on the ground.	10
10	10	Then my right wrist, to cries of wonder, began to lift and straighten; my arm was then straight, before my body; I began, inch by inch, to lower it, toward the ground; if he did retain his grip he would, at my feet, be forced to his knees.	10
10	170	The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square.	10
12	26	He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c...	10
14	58	It was my hope that she, and the others, could manage to slip away somehow, perhaps climbing to the catwalk, and dropping over the side of the palisade to the ground below.	10
14	257	Part of the roof fell away, tumbling burning to the ground below.	10
15	27	Sometimes we threw ourselves to the ground, among the fallen.	10
15	108	The stake, to which the chains of the bondmaids had been fixed, had been torn from the ground.	10
17	4	At the feet of Ivar Forkbeard, head to the ground, nude, waiting to be commanded, knelt Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
17	85	If in a field they will sometimes even burrow into the ground, almost like a sleen, and cover the opening with grass and sticks from the bottom.	10
18	39	Shoulder to shoulder, fighting, I saw Bjarni of Thorstein Camp and the young man whom I had championed on the dueling ground in the Thing.	10
18	221	It consists of two lines, one on the ground, the other at chest level, of overlapping shields.	10
18	345	Thyri lay on her side, the palms of her hands on the ground, her right leg under her.	10
19	20	Then the beast went to Svein Blue Tooth and Ivar Forkbeard, and there, from the ground at their feet, lifted again the two parts of the ax.	10
21	96	I looked at the huge, somber, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake, some eight feet from the ground.	10

Book 10. (23 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	66	It is little wonder that the Earth human, when unobserved, even the adult, sometimes throws itself on the ground and rolls and cries out, if only to feel the joy of its own movement, the unleashing of the tensions inflicted by the rigidities of the civilized restraints.	10
2	112	Residences, at an oasis, are built on the higher ground, where nothing will grow.	10
3	1	I do not Participate in What Occurs in a Courtyard; I Recover a Silver Tarsk The war kaiila, its claws, however, sheathed, lunged at the other animal, its clawed back feet thrusting with an explosion of sand away from the ground, its fanged jaws, bound shut with leather, striking at the man astride ...	10
5	333	The guards of Farouk, following his example, dropped their bucklers to the dust, thrust their lances, butt down, in the earth, took out their scimitars and, flinging them blade downward from the saddle, hurled them into the ground, disarming themselves.	10
5	868	He struck a roof below, and then another roof, and then was to the ground, racing away, men turning to look after him.	10
7	753	I removed from its paw the tiny, rounded ball of wax, held in place by threads; within the wax, which would soon, in the riding and pounding, and by the heat of the animal's body, disintegrate, concealed, I found a needle; I smelled it; it was smeared with kanda, a deadly toxin, prepared from the gr...	10
8	52	Then some other water bags were thrown to the ground, before the dismounted, herded, cornered men.	10
8	53	Packs were cut from kaiila, their contents spilling on the ground.	10
8	85	Sa-Tarna grain spilled to the ground.	10
8	87	Like the camps of many nomads the camp was on high ground, which commanded the terrain, but was itself concealed among scrub brush and boulders.	10
8	91	These tents, typical nomad tents, were small, some ten feet in depth, some ten to fifteen feet wide; they were supported on wooden frames; the ground, within them, leveled off, was covered by mats.	10
8	92	At the back the tents were low, stretching to the ground.	10
11	35	The men of the Tahari, however, led by Hassan, sought quickly the highest ground in the vicinity.	10
11	38	Within minutes of the rain beginning to fall we had to dismount, to drag and pull our struggling, frightened kaiila toward the distant, higher ground.	10
11	496	Saddles were fetched, two men leaped down from the roof to the ground below, then leaped up, running to the stables.	10
15	18	Salt can be found in solid form either above or below ground.	10
20	85	With one motion the Kur tore the brush from the ground and lifted it over his head, and threw it from him.	10
21	38	An Ahn later, nostrils distended, head to the ground, he became excited.	10
21	39	He pointed to the ground.	10
21	477	Given the attitude of the ship, however, the ladder was roughly at a twenty-degree angle to the ground, and some twenty feet from the sand; it was useless to me.	10
22	1	I Obtain Kaiila I crouched between thrust chambers, some seventy feet from the ground, on the height of the tall ship, half buried in the Tahari sand.	10
22	31	In a day on a kaiila, if it was well watered and strong, I might cover the ground which, afoot, might take weeks.	10
24	6	Many of the mercenaries, unable to escape, discarded their bucklers and dismounted, thrusting their lances and scimitars into the ground.	10

Book 11. (45 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1068	I thought, seeing it, holding itself closely to the ground, but yet free of the ground, that it might be a long-bodied lizard.	10
3	355	The white-barked tree, fallen, within the camp enclosure, broken off some four feet from the ground, the trunk then inclining to the ground, was near.	10
2	75	I was hurled stumbling, spinning, to the end of the chain, which caught me, cruelly, at the neck, jerking me to the ground.	10
2	291	The newcomer grinned and slipped the spear to the ground, loosening the helmet and shield.	10
2	429	Then, suddenly, the stranger, laughing, lifted his spear and struck its butt into the ground.	10
2	445	The stranger's spear had penetrated the shield of he who was one of my captors, and the stranger, bracing the shaft between his arm and body, had lifted his opponent's shield and turned, throwing it and his opponent, who had not the time to slip from the shield straps, to the ground at his feet.	10
2	560	Then I felt my head drawn up and back, and back, until, his right hand on my knee, his left hand in my hair, I knelt bent backward, my head on the ground, my back bent painfully, my eyes looking up, frightened, at the sky.	10
3	17	The camp would not be much visible from the air; similarly it would not be visible from the ground unless one should almost stumble upon it, following this small canyon, rather than various others in the vicinity.	10
3	226	It was broken off some four feet from the ground, and the fallen trunk, from that height, inclined downward.	10
3	765	I went back to where Eta had given me the rep-cloth blanket, and lay down on the hard ground.	10
4	549	I heard the man who held me from the ground being slapped on his back by the referee.	10
4	551	It is a helpless feeling being held on the shoulder of a man, your feet unable to touch the ground; you are unable to obtain the slightest leverage; you are simply his prisoner.	10
4	742	I tore it from the ground and covered myself with it, holding it about my shoulders.	10
4	830	I sat on the ground, the blanket about me.	10
4	1212	She then took me by the shoulders, to press me back, softly, to the ground.	10
4	1222	Then she gently pressed me back to the ground and, as I lay on my right shoulder, looking up, covered me with the thin blanket.	10
6	105	It was high, and conical, and floored with rough planks, set some six or seven feet on poles above the ground, that it might be drier and protected from common insects and vermin.	10
7	97	"Beware!" The veils, by a man behind her, were lifted from about her shoulders, and dropped to the ground.	10
7	99	The veils lay fallen, gently, upon the ground.	10
7	583	Already the torch had been fixed in the ground.	10
7	719	She struggled, held from the ground, high, helpless, her lovely limbs without leverage.	10
7	777	She rolled onto her back, her tied feet now held about a foot off the ground by the rope.	10
7	1186	I felt the furs and the ground beneath my back.	10
8	17	The bars were wet where it had bit at them; the ground, too, about the cage was wet where the beast's saliva, in its frenzy, its lust for killing, had dampened the clawed dust.	10
8	97	I saw its belly lower itself to the ground, the head still lifted, watching me.	10
8	336	Clitus Vitellius took the rope from the ground, which hung from my throat.	10
8	344	He put his foot on the rope, pressing it to the ground.	10
8	349	Then he threw the rope to the ground and turned away from me.	10
9	132	I lay on the ground, twisting, moaning.	10
9	157	The kennel was a large cage, a large, altered sleen cage, tipped on its side, barred, sunk mostly into the ground.	10
9	162	It was sunk some four and a half feet in the ground.	10
9	168	Standing in the cage one could look out, one's shoulders being approximately at ground level.	10
9	356	She looked out through the bars of the cage, at ground level.	10
9	639	I struck angrily down at the ground with the hoe.	10
9	649	I chopped down angrily at the ground with the hoe.	10
9	1332	"Drop it upon the ground and step upon it, grinding it into the dirt," said Bran Loort.	10
9	1453	Melina emerged from the hut and descended the stairs to the ground.	10
9	1508	Then he again turned to face Thurnus, who stood, not speaking, at the height of the stairs, some six or seven feet above the level of the ground, in the doorway to his hut.	10
9	1700	The young man sat, dazed, on the ground.	10
9	1824	She carried a metal goblet, and, slowly, in stately fashion, descended the steps to the ground, approaching Thurnus.	10
9	1953	Instantly she was stripped and thrown to the ground.	10
9	2019	Sandal Thong gently lowered herself to the ground, and lay on her belly before Thurnus.	10
12	117	It was more than eighty feet to the ground.	10
12	118	"Is it your intention, Dina," had asked a soldier, coming up behind me, "to dash yourself to the ground?" "No, Master," I said to him.	10
12	422	The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th...	10

Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	350	Standing beside the ship, on the ground, looking up at that high prow, so far above me, it seemed sometime that such a ship, if any, might embark upon that threatening, perhaps impossible voyage to the world's end.	10
3	164	The fairs were truce ground.	10
3	393	There are hundreds of such platforms, long, raised about a foot from the ground, far more than one could easily examine in a day's browsing.	10
4	483	Tables were strewn about and sheets thrown upon the ground.	10
4	633	I dropped the garrote to the ground.	10
4	680	It lay wrapped in fur on the ground within the booth.	10
6	941	She knew that it was only her master's hands on her which prevented her from falling to the ground, hundreds of feet below.	10
9	131	Beneath this depth one strikes still frozen ground.	10
9	144	She pointed arrogantly to the ground at her feet.	10
10	153	She was thrown to the ground beneath him.	10
10	392	The ground shook beneath me.	10
11	59	Defensive archery, directed upward from the ground, fighting against the weights of gravity, is reduced in both range and effectiveness.	10
13	13	Urine can freeze before striking the ground.	10
14	65	In a moment he was rolling on the ground.	10
14	268	Her feet were then off the ground, and she was helpless.	10
23	12	Then, a few hours later, these reaches of ice, forming and extending themselves, had touched, and struck one another, and ground against one another, and slid some upon the others, forming irregular plates and surfaces, and then the sea, still and frozen, was locked in white, bleak serenity.	10
35	5	I dove toward him and the breech snapped shut and the weapon, struck to the side, discharged and I flung him to the ground, we both half tangled in the white fur of the Kur.	10
38	46	We wanted their hands free to help with the sled, when it became necessary to haul or push it over rough ground or through heaps of ice or broken snow.	10

Book 13. (31 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	206	In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and land gim.	10
32	236	This is the result of the denseness of the overhead canopies, because of which the ground is much shaded, the factor which tends to inhibit and limit ground growth.	10
3	15	They were generally windowless until some fifteen feet above the ground.	10
4	369	I held her by the arms, her toes barely touching the ground.	10
6	567	During the rains of the rainy season seeds could be torn out of the ground and fields half washed away.	10
7	45	Two heavy posts are sunk deeply into the ground at each end of each shelter.	10
12	139	I had taken a large room on the ground floor, behind a cloth-worker's shop, just off the Street of Tapestries.	10
25	78	She had lost much ground since Schendi.	10
29	35	It, immobile on the ground, was about a foot in diameter.	10
32	124	"Lie on your stomach, head to the left, with your legs spread, and your hands at your sides, backs of your wrists to the ground, palms facing upwards".	10
32	182	The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.	10
32	198	The first zone extends from the ground to the beginning of the canopies above, some sixty feet in height, Gorean measure.	10
32	199	We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground zone," of the rain forest.	10
32	208	Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects.	10
32	213	In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man.	10
32	214	On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupials, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts.	10
32	597	But I was lifted from my feet and, my back to the ground, screaming, carried by many men, was helplessly hurried to its surface.	10
32	872	He then directed me to walk to my left, and I walked upon one of the broad terraces, many feet from the ground, which, like tiers, were integral to the structure of the edifice.	10
34	139	With a large rock, blow by blow, heavily, inch by inch, I drove the long, thick stake into the ground.	10
34	156	It fell to the ground.	10
34	899	Then I lowered her gently to the ground.	10
34	1065	Then I lowered her to the ground.	10
38	13	I crouched down and studied the ground in the moonlight.	10
44	149	Then, to my surprise, when she stood safe, trembling beside me, the small men crowded about her and knelt down, putting their heads to the ground.	10
44	199	Too, on the ground, I saw shed blood.	10
46	6	Some of the talunas lay upon the ground, tangled in nets, the spear blades of the small men at their throats and bellies.	10
47	86	I saw torches being thrust to the ground.	10
47	87	Men were irrationally thrusting at the ground with spears.	10
47	90	Between two huts I saw a man rolling on the ground in frenzied pain.	10
53	71	Given the habits of the fish I had little doubt but that this place was an ancient mating ground for them, for the grunt populations tend to return again and again to the places of their frenzy, wherever, usually in a lagoon or shallow place in a river, they may be.	10
53	400	The panga fell to the ground.	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	17	I thought it might be far below the ground.	10
13	639	Then, at a gesture from the masters, the palanquins were lowered to the ground.	10
18	142	It had rained the night before, and the ground was soft.	10
18	143	She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots; a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching beige material, and an opaq...	10
18	147	The skirt's hem, some six inches from the ground, protects the skirt from being soiled by water or mud.	10
19	262	She struggled up and then, carefully, that her tunic not be drawn upward, put her legs over the edge of the wagon bed and lowered herself to the ground.	10
29	56	Such a camp, in effect, is a truce ground, where men of various allegiances may in safety bring what prizes may have fallen to their ropes and chains".	10
30	38	She collapsed to the ground, on her right shoulder.	10
34	23	The camp of Tenalion was truce ground.	10

Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	65	Then did the day seem lost and retreat was sounded, but the withdrawal was prearranged to creviced ground, to rocky slopes and cragged, outjutting formations.	10
1	66	Our generals had chosen their ground well".	10
6	28	Eventually, after several days of uneasy encampments, the haruspexes of Port Olni, Ti and Ar, meeting on a truce ground, had determined, by taking the auspices, read from the liver and entrails of slaughtered verr, that it was propitious for both armies to withdraw.	10
6	111	The ground level is commonly reached by ascending a dirt ramp.	10
22	205	I stood my ground.	10
28	304	Victoria is neutral ground between Ar's Station and Port Cos.	10
28	305	You are both, Callisthenes and you, here met on neutral ground".	10
31	27	When the pole is on the ground, and not lifted, one can rise no higher, of course, than on one's knees, with one's head deferentially lowered.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	100	The two supporting ships ground their hulls together.	10
15	46	When the town is suitably sacked, emptied of anything of interest, he will have it burned to the ground".	10
20	626	Sometimes, however, the slaver, when the woman's legs are bared, will use a bola, the cords and weights then snapping about her calves and ankles, throwing her to the ground.	10

Book 17. (22 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	959	The ribs of the kailiauk are vertical to the ground; the ribs of the human are horizontal to the ground.	10
1	955	In level shooting, then, the plane of the point is roughly parallel to the ground.	10
1	957	In level shooting, then, the plane of the point is roughly perpendicular to the ground.	10
6	2	In the pit, about five feet below the surface of the ground, there were nineteen girls.	10
8	479	"Kneel her, with her head to the ground!" called another.	10
9	50	The butcher knives are usually ground down into a narrow, concave shape.	10
10	83	I looked about, swiftly, for high ground or shelter.	10
11	14	A common way is to bind their wrists behind their backs and then place them on the ground, supine, the head of one to the feet of the other.	10
12	156	He tossed me the reins of his beast and, drawing his knife from a beaded sheath, slipped from the saddle to the ground.	10
14	478	He had already, in his trick with Ulla and Lenna, in my opinion, been treading on dangerous ground.	10
14	1087	I held my hands near the ground, with my fingers curved upward and slightly apart.	10
14	1090	I held my right hand, palm down, even with my shoulder, and lowered it, until it was about eighteen inches from the ground.	10
14	1146	I cupped my right hand close to the ground, my fingers partly closed.	10
14	1147	I then raised it a few inches from the ground, with a short, wavy motion.	10
14	1199	I then lowered my hand toward the ground.	10
14	1201	"The heart is on the ground," said Grunt.	10
14	1202	"My heart is on the ground.	10
14	1205	"My heart, too," said Grunt, "is on the ground.	10
18	229	I stood my ground as well as I could.	10
19	59	Too, because of the recent battle, this area would be, for a time, truce ground.	10
19	92	A heart placed on a horizontal base line, of course, suggested a heart on the ground, or sadness.	10
19	528	One of the savages, he at the left of Canka, Akihoka, leaped to the ground.	10

Book 18. (35 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	114	Two forks had been left on the pole, one about ten feet from the ground and one about fifteen feet from the ground.	10
43	317	The heads of the girls were off the ground, held off the ground, when we were in motion, by the construction of the sack with its handles, and the draw of the rope.	10
1	144	Once, in a fight with Fleer, he had leaped to the ground and thrust his lance through the long, trailing end of the society's war sash, which, on that occasion, he had been wearing.	10
1	146	"I will not yield this ground!" he had cried.	10
3	112	Five last blows were struck, cutting the last fibers and wood, and the trunk, freed, laid level, a yard above the ground, held in place by branches and foliage.	10
3	114	The ax was removed from Winyela's hands and she was dragged back and knelt, her knees closely together, on the ground.	10
3	123	It was set in two stout tripods of branches, about a yard above the ground.	10
3	154	Thus, when the pole was set in the ground, amidst its supporting stakes, these circles would be at the visible base, or root, of the pole.	10
3	321	Men were lowering the medicine pole to the ground and breaking apart the tripods.	10
4	150	A long rawhide rope, then, from the ground, wound about several times, fastens the primary and secondary poles together.	10
6	27	The ground shook under our feet.	10
14	235	They were seated, mostly cross-legged, on the ground.	10
16	139	I pointed to the ground at my feet, uncompromisingly.	10
18	285	* * * * The three men, arms folded, standing in the vicinity of Watonka, who stood on a bit of high ground, near the Isanna lodges, I did not doubt were Yellow Knives.	10
21	21	Another tarnsman, low on the back of the mount, it swooping towards us, only a few feet from the ground, lowered his lance.	10
21	35	He struck the ground, rolling, scattering dust.	10
23	15	* * * * "Oh!" cried the woman, one of two, nude and bound, sitting on the ground, their legs widely apart.	10
23	35	He gestured to the two women, one sitting on the ground, her legs widely apart, the other lying on her side, her arms, too, in their particular tie, largely between her legs.	10
23	71	Since her wrists will usually have been bound behind her back at the time of her capture, particularly if she is a new capture, all that remains to be done in the holding area, thus, is to throw her to the ground and put her in a quick ankle-tie.	10
23	162	He then gave his attention to the ground, looking for tracks.	10
25	61	Too, it was on high ground.	10
25	80	Cloths and covers, even separated and strung above the ground, can provide protective concealments, some serving to hide what is actually beneath them, particularly from high altitudes, others serving as patterns distractive to archers, patterns which make it difficult to target the objects they she...	10
26	28	He was struck by the forequarters of another Yellow Knife's kaiila and fell to the ground.	10
27	47	The ground-based archer, on the other hand, the defender, has the solid earth beneath him, and he, because of his nearness to the openings in the network, or loosely linked canopy, can both track the approaching enemy and fire through it with ease and efficiency.	10
27	88	Another perished similarly, lances thrust upward through the ropes and cloth, until, bleeding, wounded again and again, he could be pulled down, falling to the ground, there to die under knives.	10
29	18	I could see another girl, too, ahead of me, to my right, lying on the ground, trembling.	10
30	171	Dust swirled up from the ground.	10
35	50	It seemed the ground was far beneath me.	10
37	237	I then ground some of the root onto her tongue.	10
37	382	It is said it can see an urt move across open ground at a distance of two pasangs.	10
37	486	I wondered how long it would take, say, a startled tabuk or ground animal, of a burrowing sort, to regain its composure, to return to its normal activities.	10
42	90	They must expect me to hold my ground.	10
43	305	I looped the rope about the pommel of the saddle, dropping a few coils of it to either side, it then, on either side, descending to the ground and trailing back into the lodge.	10
46	152	The eighty of us, then, the lancers and Hci's group, held our ground.	10
47	176	It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, b...	10

Book 19. (12 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	4	I was scarcely aware of my surroundings, of where I was or what I was doing, or even of my feet touching the ground.	10
14	35	I looked down to the ground.	10
14	55	Then it rested on the ground.	10
14	71	One of them held an unshuttered dark lantern and the other opened a leather wrapper containing keys and tools on the ground.	10
14	131	I was then lifted from my feet and placed, sitting, on the ground.	10
15	412	Through tiny cracks between the woven fibers of the deep, sturdy basket I could see the ground slipping away beneath us.	10
16	40	It tipped to the left, its wheels sinking into the ruts, on the left almost to the hubs, in the soft ground, from the rains.	10
16	52	I began to dig there in the softness of the ground, and in the muddy water pooled in the ruts.	10
30	62	In the front of the crowd, their snouts down to the ground, almost on the paving stones themselves, were two gigantic gray sleen.	10
30	231	They are commonly painted a few feet above the ground, on buildings at corners.	10
30	418	The inhabitants of the dwelling, thus, if they wished, might, without bringing their garments into contact with the ground, eat here on warm evenings.	10
30	515	Then he held her weight by the leash, and lowered her, gently, to the ground.	10

Book 20. (15 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	434	She was on the protected ground, the truce ground, of the Sardar Fair.	10
2	295	I looked to one side, to the ground at the side of the raised platform.	10
2	543	Doubtless the ground should be grateful that he deigns to tread upon it.	10
6	884	Immediately the girl put her head to the ground.	10
7	18	The stake was driven deeply into the ground.	10
9	213	"Are we a refuge for homeless waifs, a food wagon for improvident wayfarers, a training ground for amateurs, a nomadic inn for stage-struck aspirants, an itinerant shelter for every awed, hopeful bumpkin desirous of donning the thespic mantle, and on our stage, that of the theater's titans, of shari...	10
10	4	It was about five feet from the ground.	10
10	603	"It is hard to sleep on the ground.	10
11	128	If the board had been laid flat on the ground, the captive then on her back, the position, immediately, would have been recognized as a common binding position, one in which girls are not unoften put for slave use.	10
12	122	She had not thrust her head to the ground.	10
12	655	"Head to the ground!" Startled, she cried out with misery.	10
13	21	Men leaped to the ground.	10
13	174	The three sleen in the pit, snarling, tails lashing, their hunched shoulders scarcely a foot from the ground moved in a menacing, savage, twisting, eager circle about the center of their interest.	10
13	280	It commonly walked, or hurried, bent over, its knuckles often on the ground, its head often moving from side to side.	10
22	97	I had looped coiled wire about a parapet projection and, protected by the leather gloves, had descended to the ground, some sixty feet below.	10

Book 21. (19 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	90	None of these wrinkled their noses nor spat upon the ground.	10
3	193	It was Dietrich of Tarnburg who had first introduced the "harrow" to positional warfare on Gor, that formation named for the large, rakelike agricultural instrument, used for such tasks as the further leveling of ground after plowing and, sometimes, on the great farms, for the covering of seed.	10
3	201	Most impressive to me, perhaps, was Dietrich of Tarnburg's coordination of air and ground forces, and his transposition of certain techniques and weapons of siege warfare to the field.	10
3	205	The common Gorean defense against tharlarion attack, if it must be met on open ground, is the stationary, defensive square, defended by braced spears.	10
3	206	At Rovere and Kargash Dietrich coordinated his air and ground cavalry in such a way as to force his opponents into sturdy but relatively inflexible defensive squares.	10
3	214	Then again the ponderous, earthshaking, bellowing, grunting, trampling tharlarion ground cavalry charged, this time breaking through the walls like dried straw, followed by waves of screaming, heavily armed spearmen.	10
3	437	The beast grunting, slowed, dragging the girl's weight; she clung fiercely to the halter; it moved its head about, pulling her about, from side to side, shaking her; it tossed its head impatiently upward, lifting her literally from the ground.	10
3	438	But she held firmly to the halter and was then, in a moment, still clinging to it, again on the ground.	10
5	207	"Head to the ground," I whispered to her.	10
5	476	In a city, after a few switchings, I was sure Feiqa would learn a common lesson of slave girls, namely, that compared to free women she was less than dirt beneath their slippers, less than garbage in the sewers, that she would learn to avoid them if at all possible, and, if addressed, kneel before t...	10
7	74	Too, particularly when they had licked and begged, and with sufficient fervor and skill, and prettiness, we had put dishes on the ground for them.	10
9	29	The tents of commanders are usually placed on high ground near the center of the camp.	10
10	6	They swung creaking, a few feet off the ground, some turning slowly, backward and forward, at the ropes' terminations.	10
11	213	She sat on the ground with her back against the right, rear wagon wheel, her ankles still bound together.	10
11	295	I put a copper bowl on the ground, beside her, at her left.	10
15	187	In it there is little solid ground.	10
16	1516	Her food will be thrown to her, or put in pans on the ground.	10
19	318	"Be pleased that Hurtha does not strike you to the ground with a heavy blow," said Boabissia.	10
22	339	Then there was a slop pot as well, one for the wastes to be emptied into the vat on the ground floor.	10

Book 22. (21 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	222	Swiftly we assumed a common form of slave obeisance, kneeling, the palms of our hands on the ground, our heads to the ground.	10
9	201	I saw Gloria being drawn from the surface by the manacles, doubtless, by means of them, to be lowered to the ground on the other side.	10
10	311	I was pulled to my feet by an arm and walked for a few feet and then put down, on my back, on a blanket, on the ground.	10
10	336	Then, to my astonishment, the object in which I had been placed began to slide rapidly along the ground and then, in a moment, it taking my breath away for an instant, it swung free, and was rising.	10
10	337	I was off the ground! We were climbing.	10
11	12	To it are fastened two horizontal chains, one, from its attachment point near the lower belly, terminating in slave bracelets, wrist-rings, or manacles, and the other, from its attachment point at the end of the dangling chain, usually lying on the floor, or ground, terminating in shackles or ankle-...	10
17	166	In the wall of it, about a foot from the ground, there were four or five slave rings.	10
17	171	I removed the pallet from my back and put it on the ground.	10
17	211	It went to the ground where it lay in a coil, then moved back to the ring.	10
23	151	Behind it, and to the left, at the foot of the hill, on the low ground, in a soft area, were the pens for the female work slaves.	10
24	749	"He poured it out, on the ground".	10
25	122	One has no contact with the ground.	10
27	218	Still, I was safe now, lying close to the ground, in the darkness, among the other girls, locked in the pen.	10
28	82	"The bottom of the shaft, below us, is not open to the ground, to sand, or soft dirt, but filled, apparently for several feet, with large boulders.	10
29	1	The Meadow "Not enough! Not enough!" cried the small, twisted fellow, with the yellowish, sallow complexion, crouching down, his back to us, pointing to the blanket spread there on the ground.	10
29	7	To the right of the blanket, on the ground, there was a pack, filled, it seemed, with trinkets, a peddler's pack.	10
29	68	I did not mind this, though, so pleased I was to be once more on the ground.	10
29	544	It was near the well, its snout to the ground.	10
31	370	I crawled across the ground to the slave wagon, and up the steps.	10
33	3	There was a space of some fifty feet of cleared ground behind him.	10
33	105	Put your head to the ground, clasp your hands together, behind the back of your neck".	10

Book 23. (18 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	334	Most Sa-Tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves.	10
1	459	The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it.	10
5	689	To ground my emotion, so to speak, I gripped the table.	10
8	50	As soon as it senses the basket touch the ground it alights to one side.	10
8	74	The tarn then had the meat and the lower portion of the rope on the ground, the meat grasped in his talons, tearing it away from the bone.	10
8	396	The tarn opened and closed its wings, and she lowered her head, turning it to the side, and shrank down, frightened, cringing, so low that her head was but inches from the ground.	10
8	733	"What are we doing! Where are we?" "We are within a man's height of the ground," I said.	10
12	226	"And that pleasure would presumably remain mine even if Ar's Station were burned to the ground, and salt cast upon the ashes!" "Of course," I said.	10
13	31	"They are clearing the ground outside the citadel, destroying the buildings, that they may bring their engines within range".	10
15	1020	"Even one of them," I said, "from the platforms and landings within, and by means of the ladders, bringing men from the ground, may feed a thousand men into a city in ten Ehn".	10
16	103	This area, at least at the moment, perhaps because of its height, and its position over the gate, the ground below soon to be blocked by the ram, the men working it protected by its sturdy shed, was empty.	10
17	28	Men, before its movement, were struck screaming to the ground, but others followed them, pouring over the wall, to plunge into coiled tarn wire, to stumble, to fall, to wade in it bloodied, to meet stones and steel.	10
17	29	The second great pole was tied on two crosspoles and, by ten men on each crosspole, was thrust in place as soon as that bridge fell, and was held at an angle, like a railing, its sturdy barrier diverting the stream of attackers, causing many on the outside edge to be buffeted by their comrades to th...	10
17	212	I leveled the spear, then cast it to the ground.	10
17	296	I saw the bridges, burned through, collapse beneath some of them, plunging them to the ground.	10
17	388	I then went to the wall and looked out, once more, on the vast panoply before me, across the burned, leveled ground, at the engines, the troops, the hulks and shells of buildings in the distance.	10
17	553	Swiftly she bent forward and put her head down to the ground.	10
18	331	I held my ground, as men of Ar's Station, one by one, backed past me, onto the walkway.	10

Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	2	"Yes, Master," she said, lifting her head a little from the dirt, where, before me, in the camp of Cos, on the south bank of the Vosk, north of Holmesk, she knelt, head down, the palms of her hands on the ground.	10
1	309	They, in their snatches of slave silk, sat, knelt or lay about a stout post which had been driven deeply into the ground to one side, to which post they were chained by the neck.	10
1	1225	There was also, to one side, at the edge of a carpet, a heavy stake driven deeply into the ground.	10
3	331	Marcus, of course, stood his ground.	10
3	417	It was only when the ground had shaken near me, and I had spun half about, almost buffeted by a saddle tharlarion, and saw the running mercenary caught between the shoulder blades with the point of the lance, thrown then to the dust, rolling and bloody, and saw the tharlarion trampling the body, the...	10
14	52	He looked down at the ground.	10
16	40	And the forces of Cos, moving swiftly on open ground, well informed, adequately supplied, in good health, can be marshaled to a given point far more rapidly than can be the men of Ar, struggling in the marsh".	10
17	52	The prisoner, surrendering, is often ordered to strip himself and lie on the ground, on his stomach, limbs extended, in rows with others.	10
19	102	Its head was some twelve feet from the ground.	10
19	108	The other stood its ground, opening its own jaws, hissing.	10
28	225	One will never cross high ground but use it, too, as cover, circling it, well below its ridge, that one is never seen outlined against the sky".	10
37	8	Beside her, too, on the ground, was a small copper bowl.	10
37	36	Ephialtes glanced down at the two women on the ground, chained by the neck to stakes on this side of the wagon, the copper bowls near them.	10
37	39	Immediately, with a rustle of chain, they knelt, the palms of their hands on the ground, their heads to the dirt.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1353	"Then I would have flung her to the ground, thrust her about, let her feel the side of my foot, such things, and then, when I wished, I would have knelt her, her head to the ground, and used her".	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	380	There was ground below, and then there was water, and then ground, seeming to swing about and turn, and then water, again.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	43	Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe...	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	68	In first obeisance position, often assumed by a slave in the presence of a free man, she kneels with her head to the ground, and the palms of her hands down on the ground on either side of her head.	10
16	89	Tarn attack is often effective against ground troops, as they mass in formation, might march in columns, might be exposed in open camps, be discommoded in traversing marshy ground, be struck while fording bodies of water, and so on.	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	1139	The two laundry slaves swiftly went to first obeisance position, kneeling, head to the ground, palms of their hands on the ground, the switches crosswise in their teeth.	10
37	185	You thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	135	Shortly thereafter four waves, or ranks, of tarnsmen swept by, the lowest wave perhaps no more than five yards from the ground, the highest perhaps twenty or twenty- five yards from the ground.	10
33	22	Do pack beasts speak? We were first to prepare the ground for the camp, and so we gathered up forest debris from the site, stones, leaves, and sticks, and, with branches, swept the ground smooth.	10