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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	131	From the back of Nar I could see the marsh, with its reeds and clouds of tiny flying insects below.	10
6	139	In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised.	10
6	144	It charged, its great webbed feet striking the marsh water like explosions.	10
6	149	The tharlarion sunk a bit lower in the marsh, half closing its eyes.	10
6	167	But across the marsh, with his swift prancing stride, came Nar, and in his mandibles, held gently but firmly, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus.	10
6	174	Her Robes of Concealment were splattered with mud and marsh water, and in several places the heavy brocade had stiffened and cracked.	10
7	81	Wordlessly Nar moved rapidly through the marsh, his eight delicate feet scarcely seeming to dip into the greenish water.	10
7	106	She had sunk to her waist in the marsh water.	10
7	119	I frantically looked about, caught sight of a half-submerged log some yards away, protruding upward out of the marsh water.	10

Book 6. (157 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	136	Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night.	10
2	45	Instantly there was a great cry from all sides, and, breaking through the rushes and sedge, dozens of rence craft, bound with marsh vine, thrust into view, each poled by one man, with another in the prow, a two- or three-pronged marsh spear uplifted.	10
2	47	From the safety of the yards of marsh water separating me from my enemies I could have been immediately slain, lost in a thicket of the two- or three-pronged marsh spears.	10
3	6	It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...	10
3	14	Sometimes an entire island is abandoned, the community setting it afire and taking to the marsh in their marsh skiffs.	10
6	18	In the light of the moving torches, beyond them, toward the marsh, I saw, dark, the high, curved prows of narrow marsh barges, of the sort rowed by slaves.	10
6	195	On one side there was the marsh, with its marsh sharks and its tharlarion.	10
7	38	About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies.	10
7	174	"The rence growers," she said, "rose from the marsh, and they must return to the marsh".	10
7	189	"He arose from the marsh, and he must return to the marsh".	10
8	6	I had even, folded and stained from the salt of the marsh, the warrior's tunic, which had been taken from me even in the marsh, before I had been brought bound before Ho-Hak on the island.	10
8	15	I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.	10
8	41	* * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by...	10
8	45	Telima poled us skillfully about a large, floating tangle of marsh vine, it shifting with the movements of the marsh water.	10
8	55	Below the prow, in the marsh water, the slaves in the punt stopped cutting at the sedge and marsh vine that blocked their way.	10
8	90	Sometimes merely the movement of a tharlarion or the flutter of a marsh gant, something completely unrelated to us, would summon a great falling and hissing of bolts into the marsh.	10
8	116	With the noose of marsh vine I dragged him over the side of the hull, lowering him into the marsh, holding him until I felt the tharlarion take him from me, drawing him away.	10
8	145	She thrust the oar-pole deep into the mud of the marsh, and fastened the rence craft to this mooring by a length of marsh vine.	10
8	152	I took a length of marsh vine and bound her wrists behind her back, and then, with another bit of marsh vine, crossed and bound her ankles.	10
8	170	* * * * I awakened stiff in the cold of the marsh dawn, hearing the movement of the wind through the dim sedges, the cries of an occasional marsh gant darting among the rushes.	10
1	5	It was formed of pliant, tubular, lengthy Vosk rushes, bound with marsh vine.	10
1	6	To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.	10
1	37	I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged.	10
1	38	Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks.	10
1	45	I heard another bird, another marsh gant it seemed, some fifty yards away, but this time to my left.	10
1	55	I heard again the cry of the marsh gant, from somewhere behind me.	10
1	58	The channels of the Vosk, to be sure, shift from season to season, and the delta is often little more than a trackless marsh, literally hundreds of square pasangs of estuarial wilderness.	10
1	59	In many places it is too shallow to float even the great flat-bottomed barges and, more importantly, a path for them would have to be cut and chopped, foot by foot, through the thickets of rush and sedge, and the tangles of marsh vine.	10
1	84	Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.	10
1	90	The calls of marsh gants, a kind of piping whistle, seemed more frequent now, and somewhat closer.	10
1	103	Not only must they fear the marsh sharks and the carnivorous eels which frequent the lower delta, not to mention the various species of aggressive water tharlarion and the winged, monstrous, hissing, predatory Ul, but they must fear, perhaps most of all, men, and of these, most of all, the men of Po...	10
1	112	The cries of marsh gants followed me.	10
2	1	The Cries of Marsh Gants I saw the girl ahead, through a break in the rushes, some fifty yards beyond.	10
2	3	She was standing on a small skiff of rence, not larger than my own rush craft, about seven feet long and two feet wide, fastened together, as mine was, with marsh vine; it, like mine, had a slightly curved stern and prow.	10
2	11	The cries of marsh gants were about us now.	10
2	32	"I want only as much of your marsh as the width of my craft," I said, "and that only for as long as it takes to pass".	10
2	39	The red of the warrior which I wore was now faded from the sun and stained with the salt of the marsh.	10
2	52	I felt my wrists pulled behind my back, and crossed; they were instantly lashed together with marsh vine; then my ankles were crossed, and they, too, were lashed securely together with vine.	10
2	57	She and one or two of the others then put back their heads and uttered a kind of piping whistle, the call of the marsh gant.	10
2	60	The rence growers, I had learned, communicate by means of such signals, disguised as the cries of marsh gants.	10
3	2	They are formed entirely from the interwoven stems of the rence plants and float in the marsh.	10
3	5	To prevent an unwanted movement of the island there are generally several tethers, of marsh vine, to strong rence roots in the vicinity.	10
3	10	In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...	10
3	18	Two ropes of marsh vine, besides my other bonds, had been knotted about my neck, each in the hands of a man on either side of me.	10
3	62	There were various rence growers gathered about, the men with their marsh spears.	10
3	73	I heard some domestic marsh gants making their piping call.	10
3	75	Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif...	10
3	94	He carried a marsh spear.	10
3	98	I squirmed a bit in the marsh vine that constrained me.	10
3	100	Immediately the two loops of marsh vine knotted about my neck tightened, each taut, pulling against the other.	10
3	119	Angrily she threw the marsh gants from her shoulder and took the bow.	10
3	130	The fellow handed his marsh spear to a companion and turned to the bow.	10
3	154	I felt the prongs of two marsh spears in my back.	10
3	166	"With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar".	10
3	173	"Besides," said another man, "we do not have metal for the heads of arrows, nor arrowwood, and Ka-la-na does not grow in the marsh.	10
3	177	And perhaps the teeth of the marsh shark might be fashioned in such a way as to tip arrows".	10
3	207	"You will be thrown bound to marsh tharlarion, of course," said Ho-Hak.	10
3	211	"Either you will be thrown alive to the marsh tharlarion or, if you wish, we will kill you first".	10
3	212	I struggled wildly against the marsh vine, futilely.	10
3	245	I felt the prongs of marsh spears in my back.	10
3	246	"I say," said he with the headband, "let it be the marsh tharlarion".	10
3	314	A woman left the group to bring some rence paste, and two men removed the marsh vine from my neck and ankles.	10
4	13	About my neck she had coiled and tied a length of marsh vine.	10
4	43	Then she had taken a length of marsh vine from a packet on her rence craft.	10
4	68	You will be hunted down by the men with marsh spears.	10
4	82	How could I face free men again, when in my own heart I could not even face myself? It was hot, and the coils of marsh vine about my throat were hot.	10
4	136	I was confined by the marsh, and only slave.	10
4	181	There were also, in one corner, some coils of marsh vine.	10
4	197	I did so, and with one of the coils of marsh vine, she lashed my wrists together, tightly, with the strong hands of a rence girl.	10
4	213	Then, with another coil of marsh vine, she tied my ankles together.	10
4	260	She had one finger inside my collar of marsh vine, idly playing with the side of my neck.	10
4	276	It was she who had fastened coils of marsh vine about my neck, and knotted them, putting me in the collar of a slave.	10
4	288	I wore besides my bonds only a collar of marsh vine.	10
4	312	My wrists and ankles fought the marsh vine.	10
5	4	"I shall win him," said another girl, a tall, blond girl, gray-eyed, who carried a coil of marsh vine in her right hand.	10
5	28	My wrists were bound behind the pole with marsh vine.	10
5	30	Two other coils of marsh vine bound my stomach and neck to the pole.	10
5	85	The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another.	10
5	94	Most of these took place in the marsh.	10
5	105	I pulled at the marsh vine, helpless.	10
5	112	She pressed a coil of marsh vine against my left arm.	10
5	120	Then I stood free at the pole, save that I wore the collar of marsh vine she had fastened on my neck, and a garland of rence flowers.	10
5	142	Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans.	10
5	152	She took my hands and, with marsh vine, lashed them behind it.	10
5	185	Then another girl, the tall, blond girl, she who had held the coil of marsh vine, stood before me, moving with excruciating slowness, as though the music could be reflected only from moment to moment, in her breathing, in the beating of the heart.	10
6	9	The marsh torches burned as quietly as they had.	10
6	13	I heard what might have been a marsh spear splinter against metal.	10
6	54	Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor.	10
6	66	It was the tall gray-eyed blond girl, whom I remembered from the morning, who had carried a coil of marsh vine, holding it against my arm, she who had danced, with excruciating slowness, before me at festival, who had, like the others, shown her contempt of me with her spittle.	10
6	78	Everywhere about us there were shouting men, screaming women, running, crying children, and everywhere, it seemed, the men of Port Kar, and their slaves, holding torches aloft, burning like the eyes of predators in the marsh night.	10
6	82	There, under the light of marsh torches, I saw Ho-Hak, crying with rage, shouting, with an oar pole laying about himself wildly.	10
6	84	Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons.	10
6	85	He could not have been more enclosed had he found himself in the jaws of the long-bodied, nine-gilled marsh shark.	10
6	95	In the marsh, some yards away, rence craft were burning on the water.	10
6	97	We saw one rencer screaming in the water, caught in the jaws of a marsh tharlarion.	10
6	181	I lifted him over my head and threw him screaming into the jaws of tharlarion churning the marsh at the edge of the island.	10
6	221	My leg was out of the water, but now the water seemed yellow with the flashing bodies of tiny tharlarion, and, beyond them, I heard the hoarse grunting of the great marsh tharlarion, some of which grow to be more than thirty feet in length, weighing more than half a hundred men.	10
6	222	Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks.	10
7	1	I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo...	10
7	3	Those who had so concealed themselves must then choose between the fire, the marsh, and the nets of slavers.	10
7	5	Then the tetherings on the two burning islands were cut away with swords and they floated away, free, afire into the marsh.	10
7	7	Then these two islands, too, were cut free and floated burning into the marsh.	10
7	8	By the time that dawn's gray knife had touched the waters of the marsh the work of the men of Port Kar was mostly done.	10
7	10	Some of them carried rolls of rence paper, tied together by marsh vine, others the human booty of the raid.	10
7	19	At the prows of the second and third ships I saw two others of my tormentors, the blond, gray-eyed girl, who had carried marsh vine, and the shorter, dark-haired girl, who had carried a net over her left shoulder.	10
7	42	He scratched it behind the ears and then threw it squealing out into the marsh.	10
7	44	I saw an Ul, the winged tharlarion, high overhead, beating its lonely way eastward over the marsh.	10
7	52	The high-prowed marsh barge is anchored at both stem and stern.	10
7	53	Soon, each drawn by two warriors, the anchor-hooks, curved and three-pronged, not unlike large grappling irons, emerged dripping from the mud of the marsh.	10
7	56	In marsh barges there is no time-beater, or keleustes, but the count to the oarsmen is given by mouth, by one spoken of as the oar-master.	10
7	72	I looked down at Telima, who turned her head away, and then I threw the bloodied garland of rence flowers into the marsh.	10
7	76	I had not wished to place a limb in the marsh, particularly in this area, though, to be sure, it seemed clearer now.	10
7	81	A flock of marsh gants, wild, took flight, circled, and then, seeing I meant them no harm, returned to the island, though to its farther shore.	10
7	86	Unsteadily she stood up and, with fumbling fingers, untied the knot that bound the five coils of the collar of marsh vine about my neck.	10
7	94	I saw, thus, her bending down and taking up of the broken shaft of a marsh spear, about a yard long, its three prongs intact.	10
7	115	"On beams bound together," she said, "poling into the marsh from the canals".	10
7	162	I would take rence from the island, and marsh vine, and make myself a rence craft.	10
7	173	"We are of the marsh," she said, woodenly.	10
7	194	I threw the body into the marsh.	10
7	206	I looked again westward, after the long barges, and looked again into the marsh, where it was now quiet.	10
8	1	What Occurred in the Marshes I had gathered the rence and Telima, with marsh vine, and her strong hands and skill, had made the craft.	10
8	35	The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh.	10
8	39	The marsh was quiet.	10
8	40	They heard only, from somewhere, far off, the piping cry of a marsh gant.	10
8	62	I heard a thrashing in the water on the other side of the barge, the hoarse grunting of a suddenly emerged marsh tharlarion.	10
8	70	As we silently moved among the growths of the marsh we heard the wild cries of men, and the screaming of the girl bound to the prow, until, by a whip slave, she was lashed to silence.	10
8	71	"Cut! Cut! Cut!" I heard the officer cry out to the slaves in the punt and, immediately, almost frenzied, they began to hack away at the tangles of marsh vine with their bladed poles.	10
8	74	Then warriors climbed down to the punt, to help the slaves cut marsh vine and sedge, to clear the way, but these warriors, exposed, fell easy prey to the birds of the bow.	10
8	78	As darkness fell in the marsh the men of Port Kar lit torches on the sides of the barges.	10
8	82	And Telima had often raised the piping cry of the marsh gant.	10
8	84	The fact, delightful to me, that Telima's skill was such that actual marsh gants frequently responded to her cries was, I expect, less delightful to those of Port Kar.	10
8	85	In the darkness, peering out, not seeing, they had no way of knowing which was a marsh gant and which an enemy.	10
8	96	I had cut some marsh vine and had, from this, formed a loop.	10
8	120	I heard two men, missing their step in the darkness, moving from one barge to the next, plunge screaming into the marsh.	10
8	130	And then I heard one cry out "They are aboard! We are boarded! Fight!" Telima had poled us some thirty yards out into the marsh, and I stood there, arrow to string, in case any should bring another torch.	10
8	140	Again and again, on the fourth and the third barges, on one side and then the other, we did this, each time returning to the marsh and waiting with the bow.	10
8	148	We listened to the shouts and cries, the clash of weapons, the screams, carrying to us over the calm waters of the marsh.	10
8	154	With a last length of marsh vine, doubled and looped about her throat, its free ends tied about the up-curved stern, I secured her in place.	10
8	183	She unfastened the rence craft from the oar-pole which had served as a mooring and, slowly, drew up the pole from the mud of the marsh.	10
8	250	It was also possible that they had eventually realized that boarders were not among them or, if they had been, were no longer, but they did not wish to remain trapped in the marsh, to fall victim to thirst, or the string-flung arrows of the yellow bow.	10
8	258	I stood on the foredeck, looking out over the marsh.	10
8	289	On the second prow of the six barges, only a few feet from the tiller deck of the first barge, it had been the tall, gray-eyed girl, who had held marsh vine against my arm, she who had danced with such excruciating slowness before me at the pole.	10
8	292	Bound as they were to the curved prows of the barges, these captives could see only the sky over the marsh.	10
8	301	I heard only my footsteps, and the occasional sounds of the morning in the marsh, and the movement of the Gorean blade in my sheath.	10
8	371	I looked out, over the marsh.	10
8	422	It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person.	10
8	548	Then I looked to the second prow, and the third, where were tied the large girl, blond and gray-eyed, who had held marsh vine against my arm, and the shorter girl, dark-haired, who had carried a net over her left shoulder.	10
8	588	A huge tharlarion, seeing the image on the water, half rose from the marsh, jaws clashing, and then dropped back into the water.	10
8	683	"The Peasants," cried out Thurnock, his voice thundering over the marsh, "are the ox on which the Home Stone rests!" "But I am of the Rencers!" she wailed.	10
8	698	"If not," she said, "I expect you will have the barges sunk in the marsh, that we may all be fed to tharlarion".	10
8	724	"The Rencers," I said, "will doubtless help you live in the marsh, should you wish it.	10
9	109	Further, of course, it is next to impossible to bring large bodies of armed men through the delta of the Vosk, or, under the conditions of the marsh, to supply them or maintain them in a protracted siege.	10
9	115	It was subject to attack by forces beached to the west from the tarn fleets of Port Kar, through the marsh itself by the barges of Port Kar, or from the east or north, depending on the marches following the disembarkation of Port Kar forces.	10
9	119	And even if an attacking force could be brought into the marsh, it was not clear that it would, days later, make its way to the walls of Port Kar.	10
9	273	I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort put in the pouring sling, and reeled out of the tavern, making my way along the narrow walkway lining the canal...	10
18	297	We could, from the ramparts, look out over the marsh, stretching far beyond, that vast, beautiful delta of the great Vosk, through which I had come, so long ago.	10
18	715	Then we saw him, outlined against the sky, climb to the parapet itself, hold Henrak over his head for a long moment and then fling him screaming from the wall out into the marsh beyond.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	61	I looked out over Thassa, and the marsh, in the moonlight.	10

Book 13. (35 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	485	The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.	10
1	486	It is trackless and treacherous, and the habitat of marsh tharlarion and the predatory Ul, a winged lizard with wing-spans of several feet.	10
1	488	They are banded together under the nominal governance of the marsh Ubar, Ho-Hak.	10
4	340	Also, though this would not figure in her thinking, she could, on the north, east and south, be trapped against the delta walls or at the marsh gates.	10
16	83	Waters from the overflow of Lake Ngao entered the great marsh between Ngao and Ushindi, and, thence, made their ways to Ushindi, which, by means of the Kamba and Nyoka, drained to gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
16	85	The area between these walls, the marsh waters diverted on either side, was then to be drained and readied for the digging of the main channel.	10
16	92	I shoveled another load of mud from the marsh and flung it on the mud raft.	10
16	214	It was being drawn by dozens of men, wading in the marsh, pulling on ropes.	10
20	13	In this place, in this great irregular marsh, the water was only to our knees.	10
20	14	In some places there were risings above the marsh and hills of relatively dry land.	10
20	24	The two girls were on a raft, being drawn through the marsh by five chained slaves.	10
20	136	Then he threw up in the marsh.	10
21	1	What I Saw One Night in the Marsh, While I Was Chained in the Rogues' Cage "Awaken," said Ayari, nudging me.	10
21	38	Furthermore, any light galley with which I am familiar, though comparatively shallow-drafted, would be too deeply keeled to traverse this marsh".	10
22	19	"If the marsh were an enemy you would have cut it to pieces by now".	10
22	37	I slashed down at the marsh with my shovel, gouged out a weight of mud and flung it to the mud raft.	10
23	168	Far off, across the marsh, we could hear the noises of jungle birds, the howling of tiny, long-limbed primates.	10
23	396	We tied them hand and foot, gagging them with choking wads of marsh grass, forced into their mouths and fastened in place with wide strips of leather.	10
24	47	On the other side of the raft passed two canoes of askaris returning to the marsh camps of the west.	10
24	60	Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa.	10
24	72	I thrust my way through submerged marsh grass.	10
24	75	There, suddenly, over the waters of the marsh, roared the war cry of Ko-ro-ba.	10
24	82	He slipped and I thrust the iron blade into him and thrust him down, pinning him, blood and bubbles bursting up, to the bottom of the marsh.	10
24	96	Kisu, leaving the raft, fetched two sealed calabashes of meal from where they floated in the marsh.	10
24	108	"He would not wish to alienate the friendly shore communities, either of the marsh or of Ngao".	10
24	118	From the heaped mud on the raft, unobtrusively, protruded three hollow stems, of broken marsh reed.	10
24	180	I then again lowered the paddle into the marsh.	10
24	265	Another uttered an explosive cry, half grunt, half bellow, which, in rage and frustration, sounded across the marsh.	10
24	322	She then saw her clothing, with the exception of a silken strip, a foot in width and some five feet in length, ripped from an undergarment, dropped overboard into the marsh.	10
25	10	We had come to the sill, that place where the marsh gives way to the waters of Ngao.	10
25	12	Then the marsh reeds parted and I saw, before us, sparkling in the sun, broad and shining, the waters of Lake Ngao.	10
25	15	We had lived by spear fishing, and drinking the fresh water of the marsh.	10
32	724	The marsh tharlarion, and river tharlarion, of Gor are, I suspect, genetically different from the alligators, caimans, and crocodiles of Earth.	10
32	726	The marsh and river tharlarion, accordingly, if descended from such beasts, brought long ago to Gor on Voyages of Acquisition by Priest-Kings, would presumably resemble them more closely.	10
34	3	It swerved, slashing with its curved tusks, and I only managed to turn it aside with the point of the raider's spear I carried, one of four such weapons we had had since our brief skirmish with raiders, that in which we had obtained our canoe, that which had occurred in the marsh east of Ushindi.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	196	In climbing to the platform, and in traversing it, the guards with us, who had now remained outside, had, with the butts of their spears, prodded more than one sinuous tharlarion from the boards, the creature then plunging angrily, hissing, into the marsh.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	186	Marsh sharks even swim among its reeds.	10

Book 24. (151 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	809	It opened its wings to try to climb again, perhaps some fifty feet or so, above the marsh, and did climb, yard by yard, as though it would ascend to the clouds, but then it fell slowly, its wings beating, toward the marsh.	10
4	3	The fellow had been taken from the rence craft before me, the comparatively small, less than a foot in breadth at its thickest point, triangular-jawed head, on the long, muscular, sinuous neck, lifting suddenly, glistening, dripping water, from the marsh, turning sideways, and seizing the fellow, th...	10
6	13	In the marsh water, half submerged, its face down, floated a body.	10
7	9	The fin of a marsh shark cut the water nearby.	10
7	17	There are many varieties of such shark, some of which, like the marsh shark and the sharks of the Vosk and Laurius, are adapted to fresh water.	10
7	23	This, like the fin of the marsh shark, earlier, told me we were still far from the gulf.	10
9	99	The marsh echoed with their songs.	10
9	101	It, gliding by, poled by four men, seemed an apparition in the marsh.	10
10	34	"It is a marsh turtle, a large one," said the fellow, "come up on the bar".	10
10	121	Beyond them the marsh was dark.	10
12	75	"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches".	10
12	136	"I hear Vosk gulls, out in the marsh".	10
12	308	"Beware," she said, "lest I be truly cruel to you, lest I truly torment you, lest I lower my veil and permit you to glimpse, ever so briefly, my beauty, a beauty which you will never possess, which you will never kiss or touch, a brief glimpse which you must then carry with you, recalled in frustrat...	10
12	375	It had been very hot in the marsh today.	10
12	384	It had been very hot in the marsh today.	10
12	393	I had felt almost as if something lay brooding over the marsh, or within it, something dark, something physical, almost like a presence, something menacing.	10
12	417	I listened to birdlike cries in the marsh.	10
13	46	Almost at the same instant, from ahead and the sides, ahead, I heard the war cries of Ar and the movements of large numbers of men, hundreds of them, hastening in the marsh, converging doubtless on the barge.	10
13	47	At the same, time, too, I felt the side of the knife press against my throat, reflexively, almost like an eye blink, given the sudden clamor in the marsh.	10
13	55	If fleeing Cosians came through the marsh, plunging toward us, it was his intent, I gathered, at least if it seemed prudent, to cut my throat.	10
13	243	"Did you hear, before the attack," I asked, "the cries of marsh gants?" "Yes," said one of the fellows in the water.	10
13	392	If you break and scatter they will hunt you down, one by one, in the marsh.	10
14	23	"I had thought you might have died in the marsh today".	10
14	200	"I grant you that they may have observers in the marsh," he said.	10
14	231	To his right, a few feet away, not following him, there suddenly emerged a long-necked tharlarion from the marsh, half out of the water.	10
14	245	The shore seemed alive with them, and the marsh.	10
14	249	More beasts clambered from the marsh, driven by those behind them.	10
14	287	Then like wind, swift, everywhere, as though the air were alive, shafts, in flights, from all sides, sprung from the darkness of the marsh, swept the bar.	10
14	334	I then, after a time, heard various tharlarion leave the bar, returning to the marsh.	10
15	1	We Continue Westward Again I struggled westward in the marsh, gagged, my hands manacled before me, tied at my waist, my body pulling against the harness.	10
15	5	So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la...	10
15	10	Then an arrow would dart forth from the rence, the bowman unseen, his presence perhaps not even suspected, and another man, perhaps silently, would sink into the marsh.	10
15	24	Bit by bit, from the reports of men from other units, sometimes coming across us, sometimes found wandering in the marsh, sometimes half mad, we had been able to build up a picture of what was occurring in the delta.	10
15	39	Others had fallen to the attacks of tharlarion and the marsh shark, which becomes particularly aggressive early in the morning and toward dusk, its common feeding times.	10
15	63	There was not much noise, only the cry of a marsh gant.	10
15	81	"Keep the lines!" We did hear, an Ehn or so later, a long, single wailing cry from the marsh.	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
16	72	Out in the marsh we could hear various sounds, movements in the water, the occasional bellow of a tharlarion, usually far off, and the cries of Vosk gulls, perhaps Vosk gulls.	10
16	117	I felt again almost as if something lay brooding over the marsh, or within it, something dark, something physical, almost like a presence, something menacing.	10
16	119	I noticed then, interestingly, that the marsh was unusually quiet.	10
17	3	Lamentations, cries of misery, rang out in the marsh.	10
17	7	Oddly enough, it seemed few, if any, had encountered rencers in the marsh.	10
17	72	Even so lookouts were changed frequently and the duty, I gathered, in spite of the respite it provided from the marsh, the relative coolness and dryness afforded by the platform, and such, was not a coveted one.	10
17	115	"Woe!" There seemed then a great lamentation in the marsh.	10
17	147	Why should they not, now, fall upon the vanguard, milling, tormented, confused, mutinous, helpless, exhausted in the marsh? "Speak to us, Labienus!" cried men.	10
17	196	I suspect that the men, on the barges, on the craft, the scows and rafts, those in the marsh itself, had now turned their eyes westward.	10
17	277	It was probably a marsh moccasin.	10
17	364	I did not wish, if I could help it, to expose open wounds to the water of the marsh.	10
17	377	The men of Ar, doubtless, would expect me to flee into the marsh.	10
18	6	Too, of course, this approach requires immersion in the marsh, which can be dangerous in itself.	10
18	11	Fires had been built, on which marsh growth and damp rence were thrown, to produce smoke, that this might ward off flies.	10
18	22	I heard a man throwing up, into the marsh.	10
18	33	Indeed, though I did not wish to retrace the steps of the column, there were many things, even shields and such, which had been discarded in the marsh.	10
18	35	It was the same, I supposed, with the other units in the marsh.	10
18	65	I then swiftly, running, bent over, emerged from the marsh.	10
18	96	The point of the float, of course, was in case the key might be dropped in the marsh, that it would be less likely to be lost.	10
18	200	Then, suddenly, Plenius turned to the side and began to wade into the marsh.	10
18	209	I slipped in the marsh, to one knee.	10
18	229	It was raised something like a foot from the marsh.	10
18	260	They were looking out, over the marsh, indeed, toward me, though I do not think they could see me in the poor light, through the flies, like a dark wind, in the rence.	10
18	273	I saw Plenius then left alone on the beach, his sword sheathed, raise his fists and shake them at the marsh.	10
18	278	Standing in the rence, in the light of the moons, intermittently darkened by the living clouds passing overhead, I removed the rusted manacles, discarding them, with the key, in the marsh.	10
18	282	Leave them to the marsh.	10
18	304	Still I did not think I would envy fellows who might come into the marsh after me.	10
18	309	Too, I had supplies, and could, of course, manage to live in the marsh, off its own offerings.	10
18	310	Indeed, if I wished, I might stay in the marsh indefinitely.	10
18	330	I threw up into the marsh.	10
19	33	The marsh beetle crawls upon the sand at night and its tiny passage can be marked in the sand.	10
19	34	Of the footprints I saw several were traversed, like valleys, by the path of the marsh beetle.	10
19	87	Slowly the long-necked tharlarion, pushing back with its paddlelike appendages, slipped back into the marsh.	10
19	115	With a beating of the giant wings the creature ascended, struggling with the weight of the tharlarion, and then, after a moment, perhaps from a height of a hundred feet or so, dropped it into the marsh.	10
19	228	Once I fell but took refuge beneath a tree trunk in the marsh, washed down from the Vosk.	10
19	422	My guards fled into the marsh, abandoning me.	10
19	430	Also the very pole I was using for the raft had been gilded, though the gilding, when I retrieved it from the marsh, had been muchly burned away.	10
19	539	"Do you recall a camp in the marsh, some days ago," I asked, "to the southeast, an evening, a prisoner?" She looked down, frightened.	10
19	545	We heard a tharlarion bellowing in the marsh.	10
19	568	The tharlarion again bellowed in the marsh, this time more closely.	10
19	577	"You even called yourself to its attention in the marsh, when you understood how tenacious, how dangerous, it was!" she said, triumphantly.	10
19	709	I could see her footprints in the sand, and where they entered the marsh.	10
19	710	In the marsh, of course, she might have gone any way.	10
19	712	I then dragged the pole to the marsh and, floating it, waded out a way, and thrust it into the center of what seemed a deep, promising channel.	10
19	726	Then I saw the total alteration in the attitude of the monster, and it turned, and began to glide downward, silently, toward the marsh.	10
19	727	When it struck the marsh water splashed up, furrowing, twenty or thirty feet in the air.	10
19	729	I caught sight of the Lady Ina plunging through the marsh, her hands extended, her hair wild behind her.	10
19	740	Then I again saw her plunging through the marsh, pushing her way through rence, approaching the edge of the island.	10
19	758	It, hovering, backed over the marsh.	10
19	762	I saw the marsh dizzily spinning beneath me.	10
19	767	I feared I might rip free and fall to the marsh below, sometimes a hundred feet below, sometimes as little as thirty or forty feet.	10
19	792	I saw her falling toward the marsh below.	10
19	808	In attempting this, however, it again lost aerial stability, and began once more to plummet, spinning toward the marsh.	10
19	953	I looked out, over the marsh.	10
19	1067	She walked before me, across the small island, and then, first hesitating, then urged forward with a curt word of command, waded into the marsh.	10
19	1116	Then she turned about and ascended the bar, that tiny island in the marsh.	10
19	1620	I then picked up a short, buckled strap, cut from the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh.	10
19	1622	I then lifted up one end, the loose end, of a long strap, also part of the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh, and tied it about the four turns of the strap on her neck.	10
19	1645	I then thrust the raft fully into the marsh.	10
19	1646	She observed me, facing me, lying on her side, as I did this, I in the marsh.	10
19	1652	I lifted her up and dropped her into the marsh, behind the raft.	10
19	1665	"There are dangers in the marsh!" she said.	10
20	24	"The marsh leech is edible," I said.	10
20	49	We stood in the marsh, under the moons.	10
20	87	"But there are others in the marsh!" she said.	10
20	160	In this fashion you may better make the acquaintance of certain nocturnal insects, such as the marsh beetle".	10
21	8	Lying in the sand, in the moonlight, on a small bar to our left, carved from wood, half sunk in the sand, about ten feet in length, was the long, narrow neck and head of a marsh gant.	10
21	14	It had been purple, and gilded, its bow carved in the likeness of a long-necked, sharp-billed marsh gant.	10
21	35	"You were permitted to see where you were being taken in the marsh?" I asked.	10
21	48	Many things had changed since I had been in the marsh, long ago.	10
21	49	Some rencers even charged tolls to freight moving through the marsh.	10
21	50	Also, it was not always easy to transport female slaves through the marsh now.	10
21	52	I recalled the barge which had been encountered in the marsh several days ago, when I had been a prisoner.	10
21	54	On the other hand I supposed there might be similar barges here and there in the marsh which had been waylaid, their cargoes then distributed amongst strong men.	10
21	126	I then thrust the large wooden piece, carved in the likeness of the neck and head of a gant, out into the marsh.	10
22	5	I carried two marsh grunts, caught on the other side of the bar.	10
22	58	I did not know who or what might be about in the marsh.	10
22	67	I watched Ina gather up the scales, bones, and such, the refuse, and carry them to the marsh, where she discarded them.	10
22	86	"Do you recall the marsh leech?" I had asked her.	10
23	9	We would, in any event, await the coming of darkness before addressing ourselves again to the marsh.	10
24	71	It must have been followed for more than a hundred pasangs through the marsh".	10
26	8	It was anomalous to see her, a lady of Ar, slipping unbidden into the marsh, eagerly, zealously, pitting her tiny strength against those recalcitrant logs, therein attempting to assist in the progress of our bulky conveyance.	10
26	26	Ina splashed water from the marsh on her legs, washing the mud from them.	10
26	32	These things were not easy tasks in the marsh.	10
26	44	"That is a marsh moccasin," I said.	10
26	84	"Are they poisonous, the marsh moccasins, like the ost?" she said.	10
26	91	"Do men ever throw women to marsh moccasins, or osts?" she asked.	10
26	159	"Not being thrown to marsh moccasins, osts, and such".	10
26	280	I then waded into the marsh and thrust the raft higher on the sand.	10
27	26	"Help! Help!" He was covered with the slime and sand of the marsh.	10
27	164	I found this pole in the marsh.	10
27	166	Too, I came on some of the other wreckage later in the marsh".	10
28	34	"We will move at night," I said, "feeding ourselves from what the marsh offers".	10
28	64	He was staring ahead, out over the marsh.	10
28	130	"Do you bear us ill will?" asked Labienus, staring toward the marsh.	10
28	246	"I can be very patient," said Labienus, looking out over the marsh.	10
28	405	Rather he looked out over the marsh.	10
28	421	"Surely it is unlikely that a given rence girl, picked up in the marsh, would be a mute," he said.	10
28	441	"Perhaps she, a mute rence girl, doubtless an outcast, was merely living alone in the marsh when you found her?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
28	492	"Fifty thousand men," said he, looking out over the marsh, "entered the delta".	10
28	675	"I will awaken you a little earlier, to darken your face and body, here and there, with mud from the marsh".	10
29	10	Thrice in our trek had we heard the sound of the marsh jard, our agreed-upon signal, warning us of danger.	10
29	13	Each time we had lowered ourselves into the marsh, little but our eyes and mouth above the water.	10
29	19	We could see the black dorsal fin of the marsh shark about thirty to forty feet off, in the open water.	10
29	128	In her case, of course, it might be simply washed away, with a handful of water from the marsh, or rubbed off, lightly, with the fingers.	10
29	237	Titus conducted Labienus back to his place, where he now sat quietly, cross-legged, as a warrior, looking out over the marsh.	10
29	380	He then, looking out, over the marsh, immersed his hands in salt and water.	10
31	194	I suppose he was appreciative of this not only for his own sake, but, too, because of certain delicacies of honor involved, these having to do with his family and its importance in the marsh.	10
31	324	We watched Ina going to the well hole, dug in the sand near the shore earlier, into which marsh water might filter, and there kneel down, to fill a small metal bowl.	10
31	522	I did not think that the youth would return with his fellows, to attack us, but they probably had rence craft and could move much more quickly than we in the marsh.	10
31	525	They had become wise to the ways of the marsh.	10
32	31	Also, beyond the delta, one would not have the cover of the marsh, the rence.	10
34	33	"We have here another body for the marsh," I said.	10
34	36	"We shall discard all such things in the marsh," I said.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	88	When the fellow then took to his way again this second palanquin, in a fashion I thought rather reminiscent of the investigatory movements of the nine-gilled Gorean marsh shark, slowly, silently, and smoothly turned in his direction.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	26	Poling in the trackless delta, the rope on their neck, they are well aware of the wilderness, the vastness, the treacherous byways, the quicksand, the heat, the insects, leeches, delta sharks, winged, predatory uls, and, in particular, marsh tharlarion, which often scout the boats, and accompany the...	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	419	"I found a fellow, in a marsh beside the Cartius," he said, "bitten at the shoulder, ribs and intestines torn from his body, who cried out the words, 'Kur, Kur,' and died".	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	183	If there is a marsh to the right, would the attack not be likely from the left? Has a frightened animal darted past? What has frightened it? Keep high ground on the shield side.	10
61	628	The room was a typical Pani room, ample, airy, tasteful, and sparsely furnished, with a few mats, a low table, and a painted screen, suggesting marsh birds in flight.	10

Book 35. (32 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
11	13	Also, as would be expected, given the abundance of game, it is home, as well, to various predators, in particular, the marsh shark and various forms of tharlarion, some, like the Ul, winged.	10
11	25	Whereas slave girls are not allowed on the walls unaccompanied, some will seek escape by scrambling to deserted segments of the walls and diving into the marsh waters below.	10
17	19	As I may have mentioned, sometimes a shark, usually a marsh shark or Tamber shark, is found in the canals, but they normally find their way back to the delta or the sea.	10
17	67	Some produce and goods, however, come through the marsh from as far away as the towns of the lower Vosk.	10
26	8	There were the subtle night noises of the marsh, the calls of small amphibians, the humming of insects.	10
26	69	There was no abatement of the tiny, regular marsh noises.	10
26	104	Then I realized there had been an abatement of the marsh noises.	10
26	111	As far as I knew, our passage had made little, if any, difference in the sounds of the marsh.	10
26	112	Our passage had not silenced the marsh, as far as I had noted, however briefly.	10
33	24	A rence craft is smaller, and is almost part of the marsh itself.	10
33	38	Within that marsh there are wonders".	10
33	76	By now the smell of the marshes and the marsh noises were familiar.	10
33	108	Everything was still, save for the familiar marsh noises.	10
33	116	"Those are the sounds of the nesting marsh kite," whispered Bruno of Torcadino.	10
33	119	Some speculate that the humans who had long ago taken to the vast, formidable delta marshes, perhaps fleeing to them, might have realized the possibility of rence islands from the nest building of the marsh kite.	10
33	149	I wondered what might be the depth of the marsh at this point.	10
33	152	In many places in the marsh one can wade, in depths as shallow as the ankles, as high as the waist.	10
33	324	I resisted the impulse to hurl myself into the marsh.	10
33	359	There was a mad, incomprehensible moment in which the cold water of the marsh swirled about me and Bruno of Torcadino disappeared.	10
33	377	The water in the marsh, at this point, was mostly fresh, from the great Vosk river, feeding the delta.	10
33	403	I then felt the sand of the marsh beneath my feet, and between my toes.	10
33	562	To be sure, I did not recall such shallowness on earlier ventures into the marsh.	10
33	582	Then I was in the marsh to my waist.	10
33	586	The clouds parted and the light of the moons again bathed the marsh and rence.	10
33	590	Rencers sometime set such markers in the marsh to warn of quicksand.	10
33	605	I was angry with myself and the marsh.	10
33	637	My first thought was that it was the investigatory prodding of a marsh shark or a Tamber shark.	10
33	649	I suspected it had come from the side of the canal boat, from the right side of the canal boat, in the darkness, and somehow, in the mix of waters, that of the exiting freshwater flow of the Vosk, draining through the marsh, and the incoming, rising tide of the Tamber, had turned and moved behind me...	10
33	661	I awakened in the early morning, half lying across my makeshift vessel, to the sound of marsh birds.	10
33	670	I supposed that Bruno of Torcadino had perished in the marsh.	10
38	127	And some men, when the twig snaps and the branch moves, when birds rise unexpectedly from the grass, when the calls of the marsh kite and the Vosk gull cease, are more attentive than others.	10