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Lamps

Book 2. (13 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	10
6	79	He returns to his place among the tables that line the low-ceilinged chamber, hung with glowing brass lamps.	10
6	93	Fists clenched, she stands in the center of the room, alone, all eyes upon her, beautiful in the light of the hanging lamps.	10
9	149	The Kal-da flowed free that night and thrice the oil in the hanging tharlarion lamps needed to be renewed by the sweating, joyful proprietor of the Kal-da shop.	10
9	152	The lights in the tharlarion lamps had finally flickered and gone out, and the chill light of dawn at last bleakly illuminated the room.	10
11	10	The halls were lit occasionally by tharlarion oil lamps set in iron fixtures mounted in the walls.	10
17	48	In the half light, from the small tharlarion-oil lamps set in each end of the room, I saw the heavy, squat figure beside Ost loop his wrist chain silently about the creature's thin throat.	10
17	78	Light is supplied by tiny lamps, no more than small cups of tharlarion oil with fiber wicks.	10
19	45	We could see the great chains dangling down the shaft, outlined by the small lamps in the openings of other mines above us, and, very high above, by the white reflection of moonlight.	10
24	10	The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.	10
26	112	"Light your lamps," he calls.	10
26	113	"Light the lamps of love".	10
26	130	It is toward evening now, and the lamps of love are lit in many of the windows of the cylinders of Tharna.	10

Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	73	I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s...	10
19	29	"We grow them in special chambers under lamps," said Sarm.	10
27	103	I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e...	10
28	145	"We will have lamps set up soon," said Ba-Ta.	10
32	271	On the other hand, in the last few years, I have grown my own tobacco below in the Nest under lamps".	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
17	9	Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more beautiful, more alive.	10
25	632	She laughed happily and turned, and standing on her tiptoes, lowered the tharlarion oil lamps.	10
26	141	"Bring lamps and torches," said Kamchak.	10

Book 5. (12 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	51	From where she knelt she could see the low-hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move among them, replenishing the paga.	10
2	147	The first Warrior lunged toward the Assassin but in the darkness of the side of the room, in the dim light of the tharlarion lamps, it was difficult to tell what happened.	10
3	11	Its walls, its countless cylinders, its spires and towers, its lights, its beacons, the high bridges, the lamps, the lanterns of the bridges, are unbelievably exciting and fantastic, particularly as seen from the more lofty bridges or the roofs of the higher cylinders.	10
4	62	"A knife on the high bridge," said I, "in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—at the Twentieth Ahn—in the darkness and the shadows of the lamps".	10
4	66	His crime, if he had had one, was that his build was rather like mine, and his hair, in the shadows, the half-darkness of the lamps and the three moons of Gor, might have seemed to one who watched like mine.	10
4	67	The Older Tarl, the Koroban master of arms, and myself had found the body, and near it, the patch of green caught in a crack in the grillwork of one of the lamps on the bridge, where perhaps it had been torn from the shoulder of a running, stumbling man.	10
13	254	I have always been amazed at the grandeur of Ar at night, the bridges, the lanterns, the beacons, the many lamps in the windows of countless cylinders.	10
14	141	But this time, in that room rich with hangings, with lamps set behind ornate mesh in the ceiling, there was a prisoner.	10
16	30	When the lanterns on the bridges must be lit the people return home, singing, carrying small lamps, and give the night over to feasting and love.	10
18	327	I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on...	10
19	60	Within, the hood was, to my satisfaction, removed; when the large wad of soured leather was removed from my mouth I threw up against one wall; the guards laughed and struck me; the lights, lamps, though they were feeble, seemed very bright, and ringed with many colors; the hood had been dark and hot...	10
24	106	At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	316	The hall was lit by torches, and by many lamps with candles, set on tables between curule chairs.	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

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	213	And, within, from extensions of certain of the tent poles, there hung, on hooks, burning tharlarion-oil lamps of brass.	10
15	1370	There were, here and there, small, brass tharlarion-oil lamps hanging from projections set on the tent poles.	10
15	1373	I could see the glint of the precious metals, and the refulgence of gems, reflecting the light of the fire and the lamps.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	6	Thurnock and Rim, with snares and nets, and by the light of tharlarion oil lamps, had captured them.	10
18	433	What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui...	10
22	82	In Ar, years later, Mip behind me, late at night, I walked out upon a tarn perch, and surveyed the beauties of the lamps of Ar, glorious Ar.	10

Book 9. (14 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	200	The furnishings of the temple were quite splendid, gold hangings, and chains of gold, and lamps of gold, burning the finest of imported tharlarion oils.	10
3	83	"Hurry! The people of the town will gather!" Swiftly, tearing hangings from the walls, prying loose sheets of gold, pulling down even lamps from their chains, filling their cloaks with cups and plates, the men of Torvaldsland stripped the temple of what they could tear loose and carry.	10
4	69	In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to...	10
13	150	Light was furnished from the cooking fire but, too, from torches set in rings on the wall, backed with metal plating; too, here and there, on chains from the beams, high above, there hung large tharlarion-oil lamps, which could be raised and lowered from the sides.	10
13	311	Her robes were marvelously wrought, subtle, soft, seeming almost in their sheens, like the jewels, to shift their colors in the light of the lamps and the flickering torches.	10
14	196	"The lamps!" cried the Forkbeard to me.	10
14	197	"Red Hair," he cried, "the lamps!" Another beam from the roof, burning, dropped heavily to the floor of the hall.	10
14	227	"The lamps!" he cried again, as he had before.	10
14	228	"Red Hair," he cried, "the lamps!" Then I understood him, as I had not before.	10
14	229	The tharlarion-oil lamps, on their chains, hanging from rings on the roof beams! The apertures in the ceiling of the hall, through which smoke might pass! He had intended that I would escape.	10
14	240	He slammed his sword into its sheath and leaped up, seizing one of the lamps on its chain.	10
14	246	Then I had my hands on one of the large, swinging, bronze lamps.	10
17	20	On a distant world, lit by the same star, at a comparable time, men turned in their beds, mercury vapor lamps burned, lonely, heavy lorries rumbled down streets, keeping their delivery schedules, parts of yesterday's newspapers fluttered down lonely sidewalks.	10
21	74	Many were the lamps, bowls on spears, which burned, and torches, too.	10

Book 10. (31 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	276	Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...	10
1	544	There are brushes, perfumes, cosmetics, slave jewelries, heavy necklaces, armlets, bracelets and bangles; there is no clothing; there are also cushions, bowls of copper and lamps of brass.	10
3	195	In what could not have been more than two or three Ehn, men, carrying torches, some of them lamps, emerged into the street.	10
13	53	We could see the whitish courtyard, its sand, beyond the gate, lamps set in walls.	10
13	88	We could see the courtyard, whitish beyond, the moonlight on its sand, the small lamps set in the far walls.	10
13	99	High vessels of gold, some as tall as a girl, gleaming dully in the light of the lamps, were passed on our journey through the halls, into the upper rooms, too, great vases of red and yellow porcelain, many of which were as large as a man, imported from the potteries of Tyros.	10
14	146	Five men, two with lamps, entered the cell.	10
16	4	It was dark in the pit, save for our lamps, and those of other rafts.	10
16	56	The light of our lamps flickered on the surface, yellowly, in broken, shifting refractions.	10
16	59	Too, though they are blind, I think either the light, or the heat, perhaps, from our lamps, draws them.	10
16	60	The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps.	10
16	139	The oil in the lamps, on the poles at the corners of the raft, grew low.	10
16	156	One of the lamps sputtered out.	10
16	165	Another of the lamps sputtered out.	10
16	167	Only two lamps now burned.	10
17	20	At the corners of the raft burned four lamps, mounted on poles.	10
17	36	How is it, I wondered, that men survive at Klima, and that they do not die at one another's throats? I looked at the heads of the lelts, and, scattered among them, the heads of the pale salamanders, thrust from the dark water, attracted by the movement, or the awareness of the light or heat, of the ...	10
17	43	Their blunt, whitish heads protruded from the water, curious, each head oriented toward one or the other of the four lamps on the raft.	10
17	67	I suppose, in the salt pit, one of our small lamps might seem to those who had in their lives known only darkness like the glory of a thousand suns.	10
17	164	He held the bloodied lance in his hand, fluid thick, black under the lamps, on the blade.	10
17	177	"Protect the lamps," said T'Zshal, softly, to us.	10
17	179	If the lamps were lost, and the torches unlit, I did not think it likely we would return to the salt dock.	10
17	196	"Protect the lamps!" The lamp at the aft, port corner of the raft, drenched, was extinguished.	10
17	209	"Bring the lamps to the center of the raft," said T'Zshal.	10
24	37	The light in the room was from two tharlarion-oil lamps, one on each side of the mirror.	10
24	197	I could use one of the tharlarion-oil lamps by the large mirror.	10
24	628	I looked to the lamps at the side of the mirror.	10
24	666	Soon, Vella closely before me, her wrists bound, the tether looped about her forearm, I entered one of the long, tiled halls, carrying one of the lamps.	10
25	26	"Come with me!" Followed by many men, carrying lamps, he descended to the pits and dungeons and storage areas below the kasbah.	10
25	57	Hundreds of men, including myself, followed him, many bearing lamps.	10
25	430	When she stood again before us, Hassan took soot from one of the tharlarion-oil lamps and rubbed it, here and there, on her body.	10

Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	2134	Do you think Goreans do not know that? Have you not heard of the lamps of love, in the light of which it is common to ravish slaves? And the scent of flowers is surely not unknown in the chambers of love.	10
29	10	He fastened her by the wrists to a ring at the foot of the Four Lamps bridge.	10
29	13	She stood at the post, naked, tethered there, her hands fastened behind her back, at the foot of the Four Lamps bridge.	10
29	38	He then strode past me, and began the crossing of the bridge of Four Lamps.	10

Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1313	There were small lamps hung here and there in the tent.	10
4	52	It would take many nights in the light of the sloping, oval lamps.	10
12	389	Moss is used as wicks for the lamps.	10
14	102	The object, wooden-handled, with a stone head, is used for pounding blubber to loosen the oil in the blubber, which is used in the flat, oval lamps.	10
20	176	They did not carry with them much grass for the boots or mosses for the wicks of lamps as these materials could be obtained readily somewhat inland of the permanent camps.	10
21	7	The feasting house, because of its structure, the lamps and the heat of the many bodies within it, is quite warm.	10
21	10	Often, however, in the night and near morning, the lamps extinguished, and the guests departed, it can become quite cold in such dwellings, often falling below the freezing point.	10
21	26	There were six lamps in the feasting house.	10
21	41	Light in the feasting house was supplied generally from lamps.	10
21	92	The lamps were relit.	10
21	99	In the fifth round, when the lamps were relit, it was Arlene who looked up at me from my arms.	10
23	58	"Light lamps, boil meat!" called Kadluk, who was the chief man in the village.	10
24	95	Who else will chew the ice from our boots, and sew for us, and boil meat and tend the lamps, and keep us warm in the furs?" He rolled over in the furs.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	322	Here and there lamps and torches burned.	10
3	6	Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to the wharves.	10
19	47	Men entered with lamps.	10
19	52	The room was now well lit from the several lamps.	10
19	53	Other lamps, too, at a sign from the ubar, were lit.	10
19	184	He sat upon the high platform, above the others, solitary and isolated, the necklace of panther teeth about his neck, the lamps below him.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	465	The stairs were dark, save for small, trembling yellow pools of light, cast from flickering tharlarion-oil lamps.	10
23	149	In long hours, from dawn to dusk, and even in the light of lamps, over the past several days, in my house in Victoria, he had labored with me, instilling in me techniques, and anticipations and reflexes, subjecting me, too, to a tutelage of apprehensions and tactics.	10

Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	6	The room below was lit by lamps.	10
17	36	Families alternate in the fueling and tending of such lamps.	10
17	45	I turned a corner in the street, and it was then that I saw them, some fifty yards away, approaching, descending, nearing the location of one of the small tharlarion-oil lamps.	10
18	8	She was quite beautiful under the light of the three, dangling tharlarion-oil lamps, depending from an erect, tall iron stand near the mirror.	10
19	1245	"And I shall also depend upon you for decorations, that the house may appear festive, lamps and ribbons, and flowers, and such".	10
20	138	"It is smoke," I said, "from the lamps".	10
20	263	The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, veminia and teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant.	10
20	445	The voluptuous blond slave began to lower certain of the lamps.	10
20	687	The voluptuous slave of Aemilianus was now attending again to the lamps, this time restoring the room to its original illumination.	10
20	1263	I looked at the small slave, kneeling, head down, on the scarlet tiles, in the light of the lamps.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	482	Some of the major avenues, however, such as that Iphicrates, were illuminated, dimly, by lamps.	10
4	483	In many Gorean cities, when men go out at night, they carry their own light, torches or lamps.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	16	It was ringed with booths, and platforms, and stages and stalls, and booths, and platforms and stalls, too, with colorful canvas, with their eccentrically carved wood, with their fluttering flags, and signs, like standards, illuminated by lamps and torches, throngs gathered about them, and flowing b...	10
5	43	"Light two lamps," said the Lady Yanina to one of her men, "one in the main hall and one in the first alcove".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	81	"You should have lamps illuminating the stairs," said Boabissia.	10
25	54	The room was illuminated, insofar as it was, with a soft, flickering, reddish light, the result of the flames of tiny tharlarion-oil lamps set in narrow red-glass enclosures on certain of the tables.	10
25	323	Their collars glinted, the steel reflecting the dim, reddish light of the tiny lamps.	10
25	1143	It reminded me of the small lamps of love sometimes kindled in a fellow's compartments, the light from which has such an interesting effect on the skin of a slave chained to the couch ring.	10

Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	251	Our food, in the temporary light of lamps or lanterns, was thrown from pails to us, garbage perhaps, from the meals of others, and we could not, under penalties of the whip, use our hands to retrieve it.	10
8	434	I could see a long corridor, dimly lit with lamps.	10
11	56	It was dimly lit, mostly with tharlarion-oil lamps, hung on chains from the ceiling.	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	3	In the light of a few dim tharlarion-oil lamps one could see the large numbers posted high on the wall, to the left and the back.	10
6	50	Too, the tiny tharlarion-oil lamps, here and there, at the walls, were helpful.	10
8	205	It had been very dark on the level last night, with only the tiny lamps far to the side and back, but I could see now, upon close examination, that it was indeed the same woman.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	134	It was lit by lamps.	10
21	232	'I should burn it in the flame of one of these tiny lamps.	10

Book 26. (44 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	4	The leader of the strangers had hoped to follow the dark passages, the extinguished lamps indicating the path taken by the prisoner but, at a joining of several passages, it was seen that the lamps of each were still lit, dimly flickering into the distance, thus giving no indication which, if any, m...	10
12	357	In this room, in the lovely light of golden lamps, were the dozen necklaces displayed.	10
13	584	It was, it seemed, illuminated by lamps.	10
13	586	Yes, the light within it was from lamps, two of them, set on wall brackets.	10
13	1201	I saw the slave who had borne the torch, and who had locked me in sirik, putting out the two wall lamps.	10
24	526	Some lamps were brought, and set in mounts on the wall, and elsewhere about the terrace.	10
24	529	Artisans, in the light of lamps and torches, began to repair the tarnwire.	10
24	593	Indeed, he seemed there at night, by the wall, in the torchlight, and the light of the small lamps, a very terrible figure.	10
24	942	Here and there, on the wall, at the bridge, and to the right, and at certain places on the balustrade, were lamps.	10
31	101	The passage was lit, too, here and there, with tiny lamps.	10
31	154	"Light the lamps in the cell," said the leader of the helmeted men.	10
31	155	The lamps, one by one, were lit.	10
31	157	Fina and I, and the other girls, as the lamps were being lit, were thrust into the cell and knelt to one side, on the right, as one would look toward the prisoner.	10
31	536	The only light in the cell was from the two lanterns, and the tiny lamps.	10
31	595	The lights were wild in the cell, the two lanterns being jerked back by those who held them, the light of the tiny lamps obscured by moving bodies.	10
31	602	We then saw, in the light of the swinging lanterns, in the light of the small lamps, the men drawn back, the peasant, standing where he had been, but now bent over, his eyes wild, like something that had tasted blood, a long-forgotten taste, but one which induced a wild intoxication.	10
31	733	He then, with one hand, smote lamps from the wall, tearing them away from their holders.	10
31	741	In a moment or two one of the lamps was found and lit.	10
32	1	The leader of the strangers, warily, the fellow with one of the lamps, tiny and flickering, preceding him, went to the portal.	10
32	3	"He extinguished the lamps as he passed," said a man.	10
32	5	"Light more lamps".	10
32	6	The lamps which were still serviceable were lit.	10
32	8	"There are more lamps, torches, and such, in my quarters," said the pit master, helpfully.	10
35	77	Lamps were lit in the quarters of the pit master, serving now as the command center, or headquarters, of the strangers.	10
35	114	"Out into the hall! Run! Search!" "The lamps in the hall are out," said a man, drawing back into the room.	10
37	31	We were at the intersection of several passages, at a point we had reached last night, and a point we were sure the prisoner had occupied at least once, for it was here that the extinguished lamps had ended.	10
37	206	One could see the reflection of the lamps in it.	10
37	355	"The lamps are out," said a man.	10
37	358	"Take lamps from the passage," said the lieutenant.	10
37	359	Two of the men went back and fetched the nearest lamps.	10
37	383	I could see the two lamps flickering down the passage.	10
37	392	The lieutenant, the six men, two with lamps, stood back from the pile of frenzied urts.	10
37	401	The two men with the lamps lifted them higher.	10
37	425	"Extinguish the lamps!" cried the lieutenant.	10
37	487	We had now fetched torches and lamps from the passages, whatever was available.	10
37	591	They whimpered, and, lamps lifted, moved forward.	10
37	596	The lamps and torches threw strange shadows, which moved, as the source of light moved, sometimes giving the impression of a dark body stirring, even moving furtively, or quickly.	10
37	616	Too, once they had come to the tunnel opening, which was beneath the surface of the pool, reached from the nest, on a higher level, on the other side, they may have seen the light from the lamps and torches on the water.	10
37	692	The lamps and torches were wild in the darkness.	10
37	698	"Lift the torches! Lift the lamps! Lift them up!" Fina screamed and stepped back, turning about.	10
37	793	We all, then, save the pit master, with his torch, brought our lamps or torches to the railing.	10
37	807	The light of the torches and the lamps shone, reflected, from the water.	10
41	164	"Extinguish the lamps, my lovely sisters in bondage," said Aynur, pleasantly.	10
41	165	One by one the lamps were extinguished.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	590	In many of the windows she could see that lamps were lit, the tiny, softly glowing lamps of love.	10
14	95	She knelt there in the shadowed half darkness, in the light of a pair of flickering wall lamps.	10
15	16	There were two lamps behind the curule chair, one on each side.	10
15	807	There seemed to be a bright, hazy glow about the lamps.	10
16	515	Might that not be he, near the stall of kettles, lamps and pans? No, it was not.	10
16	782	There were, of course, the pans, pots, utensils, lamps, pails, and such, which, on shelves and dangling from poles, she supposed might have suggested the name of the market, but there were also stalls, as well, specializing in many other forms of goods, for example, stalls of fruits and vegetables, ...	10
16	936	The torches, and some lamps, tend to be lit toward dark by the market attendants.	10
16	940	In better districts, and on the great boulevards and such, high lamps, usually hung from poles, are usually lit after dark by employees of the city, sometimes by guardsmen.	10
22	618	Why was there not more light? Torches, lanterns, lamps, anything? Surely at places in the camp, even away from the festival fires, there was some light.	10

Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	10	A dim light was provided by lamps.	10
3	11	They are akin to the energy lamps of Gor, he thought.	10
3	395	Doubtless often, in her dreams and otherwise, she had stood upon the slave block, in sawdust, in the light of torches and lamps, exhibited, and had been auctioned to the highest bidder.	10
11	23	"This might be a tavern in a high city," he said, "the counter, the vats of paga, the square of sand for the dancers, the polished wooden floors, the low ceiling, the hangings, the cozy dimness, the small lamps, the curtained alcoves, such things".	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	181	I did hope that they would be cognizant of the dangers we would face in seeking them out, either in darkness or in the light of lamps or torches.	10
19	183	A similar danger, of course, but one considerably less, would attend the use of lamps, whose flames were small, and whose effects might be more easily smothered or stamped out.	10
19	184	To be sure, the lamps would cast less light, and the dangers, accordingly, to those who entered would be the greater.	10
24	33	The inner room of the double tent was lit by tharlarion-oil lamps, and I found Lord Nishida sitting cross-legged, at his ease, behind a small table, with a small cup in hand.	10
38	26	Much oil was brought aboard, not so much for the ship's lamps, but for a substance with which to fill clay vessels, with wire handles, of which there were hundreds.	10

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	Tharlarion-oil lamps hung on their slender chains, three to a lamp, adjusted variously, table to table, from the low, beamed ceiling.	10
1	33	The few lamps remaining alit put out little light, the wicks shortened to conserve fuel.	10
1	72	"Extinguish the lamps," said the taverner to his man, who stood behind him.	10
1	74	The only lamp remaining lit then, of the hanging lamps, was the one in which we could see the outline of the stranger's face.	10
5	22	Yet, later, I was sure, the cold, despite the corridors, the braziers, the lamps, would reach even the mysterious labyrinths below.	10
7	105	It would turn out she was indeed housed in the Kasra area, but it was difficult to make determinations, given the paucity of light, from some two lamps, in that area.	10
8	470	On the ice below the work lamps, on their tripods, had been lit.	10
9	8	"Lamps have been shattered!" I heard.	10
9	15	"Lamps have been shattered!" I heard.	10
9	29	We encountered no shattered lamps, nor any indications of arson.	10
9	202	The narrowness of the corridors, which one or two men might plausibly defend, and the lowness of the ceiling, and the dangling lamps, discouraged a more frenetic, disorderly passage.	10
12	383	Some carried lamps, others lanterns.	10
21	489	We could also see that lamps had been lit within.	10
21	531	It was lit by several lamps.	10
21	645	I unhooked one of the small lamps from the ceiling of the larger, general portion of the Venna keeping area, and, lifting it a little, entered the smaller area, followed by Alcinoë.	10
26	59	The hut was lit by hanging lamps, and floored by a large, colorful mat, presumably to enhance the pleasure of the clients, for the Pani, at least the high Pani, refined, and civilized, tend to be quite open to the pleasures of the senses, such as color, textures, scents, and such.	10
33	1	It is Now Morning in Brundisium The tharlarion oil had burned low in the lamps, and, outside, we could hear the sounds of the morning, the roll of carts, men calling to one another.	10
37	504	I secured one of the public lamps, and reentered the room.	10
37	709	Actually I did not have too much concern along these lines, as the night lamps would be lit, and, given the warehouse, the exiting Merchants, and such, there would be a number of guardsmen about, private guards, city guards, and guards in the employ of the harbor administration.	10
37	721	That was very clear, as goods were being covered, lamps were being extinguished, the praetors had left their platforms, and attendants were marshalling folks out.	10
37	770	Two lamps were posted at the head of the stairwell, and, in their light, one could negotiate not only the stairs but, though with more difficulty, the balcony, which tended to the left of the stairwell.	10

Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	679	They must have brought lanterns or lamps.	10
7	681	Too, I heard some tiny sounds, some suggesting the placing of lamps on shelves, others the hanging of lanterns on ceiling hooks.	10
7	684	There would not be a great deal of illumination, but it would be soft, and ample, that of lamps and lanterns, two or three, I supposed.	10
18	629	* * * * "Dear friends," said a tavern's man, "we must, in ten Ehn, extinguish the lamps".	10
18	828	A tavern's man was extinguishing the lamps.	10
27	100	Clearly they did not use fire, as you are likely to think of it, as in, say, candles, lamps, braziers, torches, or such.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	125	There are bundles of silk, coils of wire, brass lamps, jars of ointment and salve, flat boxes of cosmetics; and poles on which are strung shackles and slave chain.	10
20	180	"Vessels of rare metal, black- and red-figured potteries, candles and lamps, perfumes and silks," said Janina.	10
20	184	"Consider the cargos, rep-cloth, wool of the hurt, candles, mirrors, lamps, such things".	10
52	32	This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shaping of vases an...	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	54	It was lit by a number of hanging lamps.	10
40	112	I had hardly said this when, from a few yards away, some canvases separating us, I heard Lord Akio crying out, screaming wildly, "Guards, guard, guards!" I then withdrew, swiftly, stopping only long enough to scatter oil from four or five of the lamps I passed, igniting the spillage.	10
50	7	The main corridors were lit with lamps.	10
54	24	"Lamps will be brought," I said.	10
54	43	"Then," I had said, "there will be lamps in the corridor".	10
54	45	There were now lamps in the corridor.	10
55	1	A Woman Flees Before Us; We Encounter a Prisoner "When we reconnoitered before," said Pertinax, "there were lamps in the corridor.	10
59	15	It was supplied by small lamps, some of which were mounted in the walls, and some of which hung from the ceiling, descending, in some cases, to within a yard or so of the floor.	10
59	176	Blades, under the lamps, flashed.	10

Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	94	She opened drawers, moved furniture, looked about lamps, looked behind chests.	10
25	34	"Light the torches, the lamps," said a fellow from a table across the sand.	10
25	49	Slaves, the two who were serving the supper, and some others, similarly lovely, similarly long-haired, similarly clad and collared, hastened to kindle torches and lamps, and, shortly, the room was well lit.	10
30	30	I glimpsed the low tables, the hanging lamps, the fellows at the tables, cross-legged, conversing, drinking, gaming.	10
46	5	It was lit by small lamps, which, as we continued on, seemed to be more and more widely separated.	10
46	6	After a time the lamps were so infrequently ensconced that the corridor was almost dark.	10
68	216	Many lamps were in doorways.	10
68	221	The window had two lamps.	10
68	251	During the moment the door was ajar, I saw lamps within, and some men milling about.	10
68	452	Two held lamps.	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	114	I looked out across the floor at the men sitting, cross-legged, at the low tables, and the girls serving, barefoot and tunicked, in the soft light of the dangling lamps.	10
18	167	With his great crutch, which must have been cored with lead, he smote tables, breaking them in two, struck lamps from their chains, swept shelves free of goblets.	10
18	171	Tables must have been replaced, lamps restrung, and such.	10
24	109	One supposes this is to maximize the Ahn of daylight, and thus economize on candles and tharlarion oil, used mostly in lamps and lanterns.	10
24	112	Some homeowners mount small lamps at their gates or portals, presumably to discourage predation.	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
42	38	When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a heigh...	10
42	126	"Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking.	10
3	108	"Some at night," I said, "and some when the lamps need not be lit".	10
6	240	The dancer now, under the dangling lamps, animate, seductive, vital, swaying, negotiating the tables, was but yards away.	10
42	4	Those on the wall, above the gate, readied the unlit lamps and cords.	10
42	53	A dozen men, at my cry "Lamps!" had simultaneously invaded the house of Tarchon, to seize him, if he were there, and prevent any fugitives from retreating through the tunnel.	10
42	66	"Extinguish the lamps and torches, and prepare, on my signal, to light them again".	10
42	81	"Until the lamps and torches are lit," said Thrasymedes.	10
58	166	"Lamps are lit".	10
58	244	"Extinguish all lamps, carefully," I said.	10
59	1	The Corridor; Events Have Rushed Forward; The Triumph of Nicomachos; We Chat with Glaukos, Proprietor of The Living Island I caught the scent, in the dim corridor, lit by widely-spaced, tiny, tharlarion-oil lamps, in the back precincts of the tavern, The Living Island, of a voluptuous perfume, a sl...	10