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Mercenary

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	225	"You could not," said the man, "for I am a mercenary of Ar who took service in Tharna only within the time of the revolt".	10

Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	199	"I could send mercenary tarnsmen from the north, but I would prefer not to have war".	10
10	578	"Six years," said Kamchak, "before I was scarred was I mercenary in the guards of Ar, learning the walls and defenses of that city for my people.	10
15	9	The mercenary tarnsmen of Turia were most feared by the Tuchuks, for such could, with relative impunity, fire upon them from the safety of their soaring height, but even this dread weapon of Turia could not, by itself, drive the Tuchuks from the surrounding plains.	10
15	12	Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius.	10
16	172	"Tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen".	10
21	203	It was almost certain they would be flying within minutes after an alarm was sounded, even though they need be summoned from the baths, the paga taverns, the gaming rooms of Turia, in which of late, the siege over, they had been freely spending their mercenary gold, much to the delight of Turians.	10
22	9	The compound of the House of Saphrar, however, had not fallen, protected by its numerous guardsmen and its high walls, nor had the tower elsewhere that sheltered the tarn cots and warriors of Ha-Keel, the mercenary from Port Kar.	10
26	52	"Ha-Keel, the mercenary," said Kamchak.	10
26	156	Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10
26	291	"It had to have been the Ubar of the Paravaci—for who else could have sent their riders against the Tuchuk wagons, who else could have promised a mercenary tarnsman half the bosk and gold and women and wagons of the Paravaci?" I was only dimly aware of their conversation.	10
26	386	"I have no quarrel with Ha-Keel, the mercenary," he said.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	499	"I shall follow her," I said, "probably as a mercenary tarnsman, and attempt to take service with the House of Cernus".	10
5	617	I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu...	10
12	29	Their leader, or Captain, was Saphronicus, a mercenary from Tyros.	10
14	56	It was thought that I, as a mercenary in the house, or Elizabeth, as a staff slave, might be able to locate and seize the documents in question.	10
24	71	His betrayal of the Greens and his secret endorsement of the Yellows, which could only be for purposes of mercenary gain, was made clear in the events of the race of the Ubar.	10

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	116	Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several.	10
9	117	I knew one of these mercenary captains, Ha-Keel, murderer, once of Ar, whom I had met in Turia, in the house of Saphrar, a merchant.	10
17	264	"You are Terence," I asked, "mercenary captain of Treve?" The man nodded.	10
18	136	Terence of Treve, mercenary captain of the tarnsmen, had refused to return to Port Kar before the return of the fleet.	10
18	552	Samos survived, and I, and the boy, Fish, and the three girls, and, beyond these, other than the dancer, Sandra, who had remained below, only five men, three who had come to my holding with Samos, and two of my own, one a simple mercenary, one who had once been a slave.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	776	I supposed then, that he must be a mercenary, or an outlaw.	10
17	411	"I am letting it be known in the camp of Terence of Treve, a mercenary, that there is, in my house, a wench, whose name is Elinor".	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	80	A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod...	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	133	A mercenary tarnsman.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	139	"Do you think a woman cannot be a mercenary?" "No," I said, "I see no reason why a woman cannot be a mercenary".	10
2	406	"I know you," he said, bitterly, "you are a warrior, a soldier, a mercenary, an adventurer.	10
2	415	"You are a mercenary," he said.	10
5	57	"I am in my way a mercenary," I said.	10
8	136	"You are a true mercenary," I smiled.	10
8	137	"Yes," she said, proudly, "I am a mercenary".	10
8	215	"The mercenary speaks," I said.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	629	It permitted him to satisfy his sense of venality and yet not appear excessively mercenary.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	213	"Is it such men as Terence of Treve or Ha-Keel, once of Ar?" These were two well-known mercenary captains.	10

Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	7	Yet they belonged to no mercenary company I recognized.	10
5	14	This was unusually large for a Gorean mercenary force.	10
5	17	An officer, a bearded fellow with a plumed cap, perhaps the captain of the mercenary company, rode beside this cart.	10
5	42	"I am Alfred, captain of this company, mercenary of Port Olni".	10
5	79	"One such mercenary is worth a thousand half-naked savages".	10
6	109	"It was the largest mercenary band ever to leave Kailiauk," he said.	10
8	898	"Are you a mercenary?" he asked.	10
14	1309	I did not know what had been the fate of the Kurii who had been with the mercenary captain, Alfred, of Port Olni.	10
16	115	These were the wagons for which I had earlier sought in vain, the smaller, squarish wagons, which had been with the mercenary column.	10
16	322	"How many of these smaller, squarish wagons, such as this one, were there?" I asked, indicating the remains of the nearest wagon, one of those which had been with the mercenary column.	10
17	662	"I am going to leave you precisely where you are," I said, "my lovely mercenary".	10
17	663	"Mercenary?" she said.	10
17	664	"I am not a mercenary! I am the Lady Mira of Venna, of the Merchants!" I smiled.	10
17	716	"You called me a mercenary," she said.	10
17	718	"You are only a former mercenary".	10
19	782	Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni, I supposed, must now be making his way back to civilization, with his men.	10

Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	323	The white men were undoubtedly the mercenary soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain of Port Olni.	10
12	481	"Too," I said, "I gather, from other aspects of your story, that you became mercenary and greedy".	10
14	73	The military command of these mercenaries, also under Kog and Sardak, who would have retained supreme command, had been in the hands of Alfred, a mercenary captain from Port Olni.	10
14	287	"Formerly a mercenary," I said, "formerly an agent in the service of Kurii?" "Who are you?" she asked, frightened.	10
14	292	"I was formerly a mercenary.	10
16	290	"Some weeks ago," I said, "there was a raid on a large wagon train and a mercenary column of soldiers.	10
32	33	There had been seventeen of the small wagons, of the sort which I had conjectured contained Kurii, with the mercenary column.	10
42	19	She, with three others, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla, had been taken from Grunt by Yellow Knives in the vicinity of the field where the battle had taken place between a coalition of red savages and the soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni.	10
44	336	"Now you are done, Kaiila sleen!" At this point I could see only Yellow Knives but I did not doubt but what Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni, with the remnants of his command, probably some three hundred cavalrymen, or so, following the engagement at the summer camp, was not far behind.	10
51	20	There had been seventeen wagons with the mercenary column which I had conjectured had contained one Kur apiece, given the irritability and territoriality of such beasts.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	65	He might have been any mercenary, or armed servant, in attendance on a lady.	10
26	215	I remembered that pretty, mercenary, greedy little clerk at the perfume counter.	10
31	503	That mercenary little chit was now, on this natural world, a braceleted slave at the foot of a man's couch.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1175	I am my own man, a mercenary of sorts, one who has, upon occasion, as it pleased him, labored in their behalf".	10
12	509	I was perhaps less of a pledged adherent in their wars than a free sword, a mercenary of sorts, one who accepted one cause or another, as it might please him to do so.	10

Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	73	The soldiers of Cos, and their mercenary contingents, no matter how numerous, will be no match for the marshaled squares of Ar".	10
3	166	These men were mercenary captains.	10
3	172	In many mercenary companies, incidentally, there are no uniforms and no issuance of standard equipment.	10
3	180	Sometimes the mercenary captains, whose negotiated, signed contracts call for the furnishing of certain numbers of armed men for their various employers, have little choice but to impress some reluctant fellows, that their obligatory quotas may be met.	10
3	192	I knew him from scrolls I had studied years ago in Ko-ro-ba, and from volumes in my library in Port Kar, such as the commentaries of Minicius and the anonymous analyses of "The Diaries," sometimes attributed to the military historian, Carl Commenius, of Argentum, rumored to have once been a mercenar...	10
3	342	It is not difficult to infiltrate spies into mercenary troops, incidentally, where the men come from different backgrounds, castes and cities, and little is asked of them other than their ability to handle weapons and obey orders.	10
4	147	"I am a mercenary, of sorts," I said, "but I have usually selected my causes with care".	10
8	84	It must be understood, of course, that the average mercenary looks upon loot as his perquisite.	10
8	89	It did not seem to me impossible that some of the mercenary troops with the Cosian army might have doubled back to strike at one of their own supply columns.	10
14	64	I had realized for years, of course, that Dietrich of Tarnburg was a capable mercenary, and one of Gor's finest commanders.	10
16	6	I did not think I needed a mercenary's coins to buy my way there.	10

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	347	"I will seek service with some mercenary captain".	10
25	173	It has to do with the mercenary companies now roving the countryside.	10
26	49	"You are more of a mercenary than I," he laughed.	10
26	129	Surely Tupita, too, for example, would have fallen into the hands of this fellow, this mercenary captain, Pietro Vacchi.	10
29	127	Many mercenary companies use them as cadre and officers.	10

Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	480	Dietrich of Tarnburg, one of the best known of the mercenary captains on Gor, is legendary for his skill in such matters.	10
6	649	I frankly doubted that the keeper would be keen to mix into such an altercation, particularly one involving an armed mercenary, a fellow of the company of Artemidorus.	10
10	58	There had been no difficulty in moving through the trenches in my guise as a mercenary with one or two women to sell.	10
11	141	"He is a mercenary," said Aemilianus, bitterly.	10
11	147	"You, too, are a mercenary," he said, bitterly.	10
19	41	Some claim, incidentally, that Commenius was himself once a mercenary.	10
19	166	"It is speculated that you are a mercenary," he said.	10
19	189	"You are not a mercenary, then?" he said.	10
21	811	"Think of me then as a mercenary," I said, "and I am speaking of my pay".	10
24	137	After the fall of Ar's Station the Cosian troops, and their allies, mercenary and otherwise, would have much more freedom.	10

Book 24. (28 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	308	He had not yet learned to distinguish between mercenary and mercenary.	10
1	171	Two days after the fall of Ar's Station a mercenary, who had apparently seen much action, passed near the wagon of Ephialtes.	10
1	200	'She is for sale, or my sword will have it so!' cried the mercenary.	10
1	368	Also, of course, the Cosians were presumably moving toward either Brundisium, which had been the port of entry of their invasion fleet, or south to join Myron in the vicinity of Torcadino, where Dietrich of Tarnburg, the mercenary, lay at bay, like a larl in his den.	10
1	372	Indeed, mercenary bands often number no more than one or two hundred.	10
1	374	He is one of the most feared and redoubtable of the mercenary commanders on Gor.	10
1	448	He wore the uniform and insignia of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus, the well-known Cosian mercenary.	10
1	1144	I then began to make my way toward the encampment and cots of Artemidorus, the Cosian mercenary.	10
3	314	Many mercenary companies consist of little more than rabbles of armed ruffians, others, like those of Dietrich of Tarnburg, Pietro Vacchi and Raymond, of Rive-du-Bois, are crack troops, as professional as warriors of Ar or Cosian regulars.	10
3	317	More than one regiment of regular troops has been decimated as a result of their commanders having taken a mercenary foe too lightly.	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
37	63	"Liomache," he said, "I also sold near Ar's Station, even before Temione, to a Cosian mercenary, whom she had apparently, months before, at the Crooked Tarn, tricked and defrauded".	10
39	97	A mercenary captain from that city, learning of this, saw to it that she was brought naked and in chains into his keeping.	10
39	119	The city of which the former Lady Cara had spoken disparagingly, before being brought into the custody of the mercenary captain was Tarnburg.	10
39	120	The city to which the former Lucilina, the former preferred slave of Myron, the Polemarkos, had been smuggled was Torcadino, then held by the same mercenary captain, Dietrich of Tarnburg, of course.	10
47	306	"The mercenary sleen does not come cheap," said Marcus.	10
47	307	He had a regular's disdain for his mercenary counterpart.	10
47	334	"What if it had not been here?" asked the mercenary.	10
47	336	"I see," said the mercenary.	10
47	338	"Well," said Marcus to the mercenary, "you have your gold.	10
47	341	The mercenary then went to where Ina lay in the dirt, in the center of what had been the circle.	10
47	361	"What a mercenary fellow," said the leader of the mercenaries.	10
47	364	"I wish you well," said the mercenary captain to me.	10
47	366	The mercenary captain then turned to Marcus.	10
47	369	"That is because you are not a mercenary," said the captain.	10
47	374	"My thanks," I said to the mercenary.	10
48	135	"I gave her to the mercenary," I said.	10
48	579	Even torturers, I supposed, might be satisfied with the information that we had given the girl to a mercenary, Edgar of Tarnwald, and he, by that time, would presumably have slipped away, unnoticed, and presumably under new names.	10

Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	270	Then he had discovered that she was from Cos, that ubarate which was his hated foe, at the hands of whose mercenary and regular forces he had seen his city destroyed.	10
1	310	It had been seized by the mercenary, Dietrich of Tarnburg, to forestall the march on Ar.	10
4	68	Indeed, it was with this in mind, that I had come this morning to the city, to lend my sword, a modicum of mercenary iron, to her defense.	10
7	215	"Myron, polemarkos of Cos!" I saw nothing for a time but the crowd, the platform, the people on the platform, and Cosians, for several yards to the right, standard bearers, some even bearing the standards of mercenary companies, probably not in the march, such as that of Raymond Rive-du-Bois, musici...	10
10	158	"Ho! One side, buffoons of Ar!" said a voice, that of a mercenary, one of two, with blue armbands.	10
16	1	In the Vicinity of the Teiban Market "Ho!" cried the mercenary.	10
16	3	"Will no one rescue me?" cried the bearded, bound fellow, struggling in the grasp of the mercenary who had first cried out.	10
16	11	"Sleen of a traitor to Cos!" said the other mercenary, adding a blow, to which the bearded prisoner once again reacted.	10
16	25	One of the fellows from the market pushed at a mercenary, who thrust him back, angrily.	10
16	26	"Make way! Make way!" cried the mercenary.	10
16	54	"Do not let them take me! Save me, if there be true men of Ar here!" "Back, sleen of Ar!" cried the mercenary with the prisoner in hand.	10
16	89	"We yield to superior force," said the first mercenary.	10
16	92	"There are only two of us," I said to the mercenary who I took it was first of the two.	10
28	109	I thought, too, of the mercenary might that held Ar oppressed.	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	100	"One I met long ago, when I was a mercenary tarnsman," said Terence.	10
45	186	The victory has come to Cos, but for various reasons, having to do primarily with the volatility of mercenary forces, it is thought that the permanence of this victory is not assured.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	414	"But as you know," laughed the young woman in the white, off-the-shoulder gown, "I never joined you as a mercenary.	10
11	1026	"The female agents, who are commonly egotistical, petty, vain, self-seeking and mercenary, need not be informed of their eventual disposition.	10
19	34	Myron, the polemarkos, was the commander of the Cosian, and mercenary, forces in the city.	10
19	416	Later, as you know, the gates of Ar were opened to the Cosians and their mercenary allies, again by insufferable treason in high places, under delusory pretenses of friendship and alliance".	10
19	446	"They no longer need their mercenary allies.	10
27	262	Mercenary garrisons, deprived of their pay, become restless.	10
27	1178	The important thing is that it does not reach the mercenary forces in Ar".	10
27	2669	"The purloined gold, the fees for mercenary cohorts, is presumably gone by now.	10
27	3052	The sleen, it is said, is the ideal mercenary.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	238	To be fair to Cabot, however, rumors had it, at least, that he might have had some connection with that Venetian John Cabot, or Giovanni Caboto, a Fifteenth-Century (Earth Chronology) mercenary sea captain who sailed for England, in the time of Henry VII, and was the first European after several Vik...	10

Book 29. (23 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	276	He was presumably less a warrior than a mercenary, and less a mercenary than a brigand.	10
3	168	"You could be a mercenary," he said.	10
3	517	"A very large band of mercenary brigands?" I suggested.	10
4	166	"You are a mercenary, of sorts," I said.	10
5	469	"Mercenaries, and mercenary bands, were recruited from dozens of states, even from brigand bands, from outlaw leagues, eager for loot".	10
5	604	"Many of his troops," said another, "those of the mercenary captains, given the emptying of Ar, and the lessening of loot, had deserted".	10
6	1	We Trek the Forest It was the afternoon of the day following the encounters on the beach, first with Sullius Maximus, and later with Torgus, the fee fighter, or mercenary, and his cohorts.	10
13	23	Torgus, the mercenary leader whom I had met on the beach earlier, had rented some of these, former high women of Ar, to the house.	10
13	253	Sometimes slaves were brought in, to dance for us, though probably, in particular, for the men, officers of Tyros and Cos, mercenary captains, bankers, such as the Serisii, high merchants, well-known traders, and such.	10
14	180	"A mercenary?" I suggested.	10
16	64	One expects the mercenary to fight for coin, not a Home Stone.	10
16	181	I then placed Torgus in command of the cavalry, with orders to remain on alert, and designated Lysander, a mercenary, once of Market of Semris, to second him.	10
16	185	This proved correct, and he was, as well, a tarnsman, who had turned mercenary.	10
16	189	As Lysander had been subordinate to Torgus in his mercenary troop, I thought it best to keep him second here.	10
17	46	The Pani, I was sure, would be loyal to their lord, their daimyo, Lord Nishida, for that seemed to be their way, and a cornered mercenary, one with no hope of a higher fee or escape, much like the cornered seventy-pound canal urt of Port Kar, is a most desperate and dangerous foe.	10
17	47	The mercenary who fights for his life is more to be feared, surely, than one who fights merely for his pay.	10
18	363	He is not a mercenary, but he is a loyal follower, whomsoever he follows.	10
20	6	"Free him," I said to a nearby mercenary, indicating Pertinax.	10
20	37	"The mercenary, Licinius Lysias of Turmus," said Tajima.	10
28	55	"Ai!" said a mercenary, nearby.	10
28	153	Occasionally, in passing a wagon, I would hear a gasping and moaning, and a rolling and thrashing in the mud where, it seemed, some fellow, presumably a mercenary, had pulled a slave from under a wagon, to the end of her tether, and was in the midst of reminding her of her bondage.	10
28	445	"We caught the scent of a sleen in the vicinity earlier," said a mercenary, one of the guards.	10
28	451	"He bled to death," said a mercenary.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	84	"Thassa," said a man, I think a mercenary.	10
1	217	"One's relationship to collar meat, of any sort," said a fellow, he I took to be a mercenary, "is uncomplicated".	10
1	282	It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies.	10
1	348	Rather the troops of Cos and Tyros, borne by their lateen-rigged fleets, would be welcomed here in Brundisium, where, in league with hundreds of mercenary companies, joined here in prearranged rendezvous, they began their march on Ar.	10
1	376	"Marlenus of Ar," said the mercenary, "has put a reward of ten thousand tarns of gold on her head".	10
1	417	"Of course," said the mercenary.	10
3	657	More than one mercenary had a crossbow bolt half through his brass-bound shield, formed of layers of bosk hide.	10
3	664	"'Here, kajira, here!' called a mercenary.	10
3	680	I must not be returned to Ar! "'Begone,' said the mercenary, stepping between me and the fellow.	10
3	681	The fellow looked at the mercenary, in his helmet, with his shield, and a spear whose reddened blade had recently drunk the blood of a foe, and then backed away.	10
3	683	I said nothing, but I supposed that the mercenary, before approaching the fellow, would have examined the sky behind him.	10
5	78	"Fortunately for yourself," he said, "you were picked up by a second galley, the port-amidships galley, captained by the mercenary, Torgus".	10
28	197	Must we always be content with a disarranged veil, the hem of a skirt, lifted about an ankle? Better the slave in her collar, given no choice but to be bared before masters! Does not the free woman, in her heart, yearn to cast aside her robes, and show herself as what she is, woman! Does she truly w...	10
34	190	Usually, of course, the girl, after a bit of time at the slave ring, does her best to be pleasing not to avoid the whip or switch, which is a rather prudential, mercenary motivation, after all, but, rather, because she wants to be pleasing to her master.	10

Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	373	"You, and your sisters, are shallow, petty, vain, spoiled, mercenary, meaningless, little bitches," he said.	10
8	693	Yet, at times, how meaningless are these prudential, mercenary considerations! Does the slave not hope that she will be purchased by a strong, handsome, powerful, virile master, rich or not, who will know well what to do with her, before whom she will know herself well in her collar? Are we not all ...	10
18	181	He was, as far as I knew, a mercenary, with a possible background in the Scarlet Caste.	10
18	840	I gathered then he was a soldier of fortune, a mercenary, or perhaps a fugitive.	10
18	971	There were five free men with the wagons, Astrinax, who was much as our caravan master; Desmond, thought to be a Metal Worker, in whose care I was; Lykos, whom I supposed a mercenary; fierce, bearded Trachinos, clearly skilled with the gladius, at whose background I could scarcely guess; and his fel...	10
29	212	I warned Astrinax, and I think he warned two of his hires, Lykos, a mercenary, and Desmond, a Metal Worker".	10

Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	75	Some weeks before, as I had been given to understand, the forces of Cos, Tyros, and their allies, and hirelings, most in mercenary bands, had withdrawn from Ar.	10
9	266	"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ...	10
17	120	And why do some of them join small caravans, and risk dangerous journeys to far places, or wander dark, unguarded streets, or stroll the high bridges alone, in the bright moonlight? Are they so smug, so sure of themselves, that they do not understand the perils of such things? Do they court the coll...	10
50	359	I did not think him a common member of the mercenary infantry, nor of the tarn cavalry.	10
52	241	"Hold!" said a mercenary, a large fellow, bearded, with a helmet crested with sleen hair.	10
52	247	"Take your place there," said the mercenary, indicating an eight- oared craft.	10

Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	189	"You are a hired sword, a mercenary," it said.	10
4	235	"You are a mercenary," he said.	10
6	77	Tyrtaios, who had served as mercenary liaison to Lord Okimoto, and a guard, on the ship and in the holding, prior to his desertion, similarly, understood him without difficulty.	10
6	196	It seemed likely to me that the garrison, both Pani and mercenary, must soon succumb, if not to the enemy, then to hunger.	10
11	229	"An emissary from the palace of Lord Yamada, Tyrtaios, the mercenary, has come again to the dais," said Tajima.	10
12	115	* * * Whereas I had been willing, under the force of circumstances, recognizing treachery in high places, and the lack of practical alternatives, to conduct the cavalry as a rogue arm, aflight on behalf of Lord Temmu, I was unwilling to transform it into what would be in effect a brigade of bandits ...	10
12	393	"This is the prisoner, the rebel, Tarl Cabot, enemy to the rightful house of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, delivered to us by the noble Tyrtaios, devoted, trusted mercenary?" "Yes, Lord," said a voice.	10
13	373	Too, your character, your mercenary nature, your pettiness, your ambition, your shallowness, your greed, fitted you well for the projected employment.	10
31	124	I take him to be a deserter, a mercenary fled from the holding of Temmu, one forsaking a doomed cause".	10
54	64	"Margaret Wentworth," he said, "was mercenary, shallow, cheap, arrogant, dishonest, and untrustworthy".	10
61	596	Eventually he was freed of his chains and, during the traumas and exigencies of the ensuing months, particularly once the islands had been reached, and the need for armed men became more desperate, he had been allowed to serve with our mercenary contingents, rather as though he had been originally r...	10
61	957	But then she, mercenary, greedy, and corrupt, was approached by agents of Gor.	10

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	33	The original image of the elite mercenary, hired to do good and carry right into otherwise inaccessible precincts, supplying a needed service not otherwise available, became transformed into that of the contemporary black caste, an order of skilled, dangerous men particular about little else but the...	10
49	498	"She is then a mercenary, of sorts," I said.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	373	The supposed free women of the slave world, such as this now-stripped barbarian before you, are exploitative, mercenary creatures bartering their beauty for gain!" There were cries of anger from the tiers.	10
12	5	I supposed he might be diffident or ill at ease in the presence of one of those exalted, lofty Gorean free women, secure in her status, haughty, mercenary, and demanding, protected by a shared Home Stone, but his relation to the female slave, a half-naked property, purchasable, collared, and marked,...	10
24	145	"The fee giver has been betrayed! The wretched sleen, the faithless tarsk, Steele, Addison Steele, what a mercenary, irresponsible, greedy scoundrel he is.	10
33	238	"At the World's End, he permitted the supposed mercenary, Rutilius of Ar, who could recognize the quarry, to live".	10
46	522	How he had scorned me for the mercenary use of my body, implicitly bartering its promises for favors and acquisitions, hinting at much, reaping gains, and bestowing nothing, a body which was now no longer my own, but the possession of another.	10
47	210	"Long I thought you a duplicitous mercenary, pretending to serve two competitors, Seremides, whom I then knew as Bruno of Torcadino, and Pa-Kur," I said.	10

Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	45	If I were concerned to ship quarry stone as inconspicuously as possible, I would certainly be even more concerned over the public embarking of large numbers of mercenary troops".	10
41	23	In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whol...	10
42	133	"No! No!" cried another mercenary, on his belly, looking up, much of whose body lay within the gate, his foot caught between the leaves.	10
43	85	As it was, my blade, so lightly engaged in my earlier stroke, leapt up and easily parried the savage downward stroke of the mercenary's blade, a fierce, heavy, frenzied stroke which might have cut away the head of a saddle tharlarion.	10
43	133	I could hear men crying out near the mercenary camp.	10
44	23	Twice, from the wall, we saw a mercenary slain by an officer, presumably in connection with some such reluctance or noncompliance, and twice we saw the officer die; in one case, men gathered about him, closer and closer, despite his protests, and, later, when the men dispersed, the officer's bloodie...	10
48	116	"Too," said Thrasymedes, "who, mercenary or not, blames themselves for anything? What is more common than to blame others for one's own faults, failures, and lacks? Why assign blame to oneself when it is so easy to ascribe it to others?" "I fear it is common," I said.	10
51	68	We could see files of helmeted men, mercenary warriors, not mariners, doubtless mercenaries embarked from the beach near Mytilene.	10
57	133	"What mercenary shrinks from a fight he deems easily and profitably won," asked Thurnock, "a fight in which he risks little and is likely to gain much?" "It is true," I said, "the corsairs have four ships to our two, and the Dorna is crippled".	10
57	191	"Back, back," cried a mercenary officer on our deck, looking behind him, and men began, sustaining our determined, fierce attack, to back away.	10