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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	1	In the Tarn's Nest My wrists and ankles were bound to a hollow, floating frame.	10
12	86	I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was.	10
12	108	High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work.	10
12	113	And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority.	10
12	119	The saddle and reins of the tarn were no longer on the bird and had undoubtedly rotted off or had been rubbed from his back by scraping against the rock escarpment backing its nest ledge.	10
12	131	I frantically looked about for a weapon, and then, hardly believing my eyes, I saw, woven roughly into the nest sticks, the remains of my harness and saddle.	10
12	139	I returned to the nest and salvaged what I could of the tarn harness and saddle.	10
12	167	In the hours that remained before the tarn returned to his nest, I used the binding fiber and bowstrings to repair, as well as I could, the harness and saddle.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	214	It trembled in terror, quivering uncontrollably like that of a graceful, captured tabuk, waiting to be borne to the nest.	10
15	234	And there was no nest on the ledge, no female tarn, no screeching brood of tarnlings.	10
20	41	There was good hunting nearby, and the ridges where I had carried the Tatrix afforded shelter for its nest.	10

Book 3. (209 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	252	"It is Sarm," I called, "who is a traitor to the Nest, for this Nest will die, and he has not permitted the founding of a new Nest".	10
10	1	Misk the Priest-King The Priest-Kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor permit identifications of individuals.	10
12	10	"It is not necessary to mark a distinction between slave and free within the Nest," said Misk, "for in the Nest all humans are slaves".	10
12	60	"A creature that is in the Nest but is not of the Nest," said Misk.	10
12	68	"The Mother is the Nest and the Nest is the Mother," said Misk.	10
13	99	"Yes," said the other, "it is in the Nest but not of the Nest".	10
14	41	Indeed, they are regarded as Matoks, in the Nest, but not of the Nest, and are thus to be tolerated with equanimity.	10
14	54	"Yes," said the other, "then you would be not only in the Nest but of the Nest".	10
14	156	I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and S...	10
15	82	"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...	10
27	68	There were perhaps a thousand Priest-Kings in the Nest, and I supposed that this might be almost all the Priest-Kings in the Nest, save perhaps those that might be essentially placed at a few minimum posts, such as the guard at the steel barricade and perhaps some in the Scanning Chamber or, more li...	10
27	90	I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N...	10
30	78	In the next days the Golden Beetles began, naturally enough in their hunt for food, to drift toward those portions of the Nest occupied by Sarm's Priest-Kings, for in those portions of the Nest they encountered no shouting humans, no jabbing cattle goads.	10
30	81	The Golden Beetles, free within the Nest, forced Sarm, in sheer regard for survival, to turn to humans for help, for humans, particularly in the well-ventilated areas of the Nest, are relatively impervious to the narcotic odor of the Beetle's mane, an odor which is apparently almost utterly overpowe...	10
31	52	The Priest-Kings who had served him had, on the whole at least, believed that what they were doing was required by the laws of the Nest, but now with Sarm's disappearance Misk, though only Fifth Born, acceded to the title of highest born, and it was to him now, according to the same laws of the Nest...	10
31	97	Misk was quite ready, as I was afraid he might not be, to allow humans a voice in affairs of the Nest and, moreover, to arrange for the return to their cities of those humans who did not wish to remain in the Nest.	10
32	31	"He was a traitor," I said, "and betrayed the Nest and would have slain you by treachery and has now destroyed your Nest and world".	10
32	57	The Priest-Kings, of course, would not leave the Nest, and, to my surprise, most of the humans, many of whom had been bred in the Nest or now regarded it as their home, insisted also on remaining where they were.	10
32	202	Then I found myself in the first Nest Complex, where first I had laid eyes on the Nest of Priest-Kings.	10
35	33	It would be long before the powers of the broken Nest could be restored, before the Scanning Chamber could function again, before the vast damages done to the Nest could be repaired, but men and Priest-Kings were even now at work, side by side.	10
8	166	It was a city rich in plunder, probably as lofty, inaccessible and impregnable as a tarn's nest.	10
10	38	There is an expression in their language which translates into English as "Nest Trust," however, and seems to play something of the same role in their thinking.	10
10	39	The notion of friendship, it seems to me, has to do with a reliance and affection between two or more individuals; the notion of Nest Trust, as nearly as I can understand it, is more of a communal notion, a sense of relying on the practices and traditions of an institution, accepting them and living...	10
10	120	"Only the Nest matters".	10
10	123	"This is the Nest?" I asked.	10
10	124	"It is the beginning of the Nest," said the Priest-King.	10
11	20	"The Nest was not jeopardized," came from Misk's translator.	10
11	48	"Greatest in the Nest is the Mother," said Misk.	10
11	59	"The Nest Feast Cycle," said Misk, "Tola, Tolam and Tolama".	10
11	87	From behind me I heard the mechanical voice of Misk's translator: "But she is the Mother," it said, "and we of the Nest are all her children".	10
12	2	I found myself in some sort of plaza, surrounded by the fantastic architecture of the Nest of Priest-Kings.	10
12	66	"Thus," said Misk, "it is not the wish of the Nest".	10
12	67	"Of course," said Sarm, "for the wish of the Mother is the wish of the Nest".	10
12	98	"In the Nest," said Misk, "the expression 'Mul' is used to designate a human slave".	10
12	123	"It too," said Sarm, "is not without interest and is also bestowed upon us by the avocational whims of Kusk, one of the greatest of our Nest".	10
12	130	"Kusk," said Misk, "is one of the greatest of the Nest".	10
12	136	"It is growing late," said Misk, "and the Matok, if he is to remain in the Nest, must be processed".	10
13	10	"To protect the Nest from contamination," said the first.	10
13	31	The Priest-King, for all his intelligence, tends to be fond of established patterns, at least in basic cultural matters such as Nest mores and language, subscribing to them however not because of genetic necessity but rather a certain undoubtedly genetically based preference for that which is comfor...	10
13	96	Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings.	10
13	107	"Long ago it functioned in the Nest," said one of the slaves, "as a sewerage device, but it has not served that function in many thousands of years".	10
13	108	"But yet it remains in the Nest".	10
13	111	"The Slime Worm has earned its place in the Nest," said the other.	10
14	39	In the next few weeks in the Nest I would occasionally come upon diseased Muls.	10
14	72	Even the Muls, many of whom have been bred in the Nest, do not particularly like it, nor despise it.	10
14	81	I was in the Nest, incidentally, for more than five weeks before I could even vaguely detect the odor difference which seemed so significant to Misk.	10
14	83	The longer I stayed in the Nest the more acute became my sense of smell, and it was an embarrassing revelation to me to discover how unaware I had been of these varied, rich sensory cues so abundantly available in my environment.	10
14	95	Indeed, Misk informed me that the patterns in his chamber had been laid down by some of the greatest artists in the Nest.	10
14	130	"She wanted to let the threadlike growths on her head emerge, for she was not bred in the Nest".	10
14	157	The first five born of the Mother are the High Council of the Nest.	10
15	20	"Let there be Nest Trust between us," I said.	10
15	21	"But you are not of the Nest," said Misk.	10
15	22	"Nonetheless," I said, "let there be Nest Trust between us".	10
15	27	"Let there be Nest Trust between us," he said.	10
15	28	"Yes," I said, "let there be Nest Trust between us".	10
15	61	"It is the first male born in the Nest in eight thousand years".	10
15	65	"No," said Misk, "in the Nest only the Mother is female".	10
15	68	I myself know of no female egg in the Nest, and I know of only one which has occurred in the last six thousand years".	10
15	74	"Then," I said, "the Nest will never die".	10
15	83	"There must be a new Nest," said Misk.	10
15	129	"Of course," said Misk, "for after one dies the Nest continues".	10
15	141	"Basic information, as you might expect, pertaining to language, mathematics, and the sciences, but he is also being taught the history and literature of Priest-Kings, Nest mores, social customs; mechanical, agricultural, and husbanding procedures, and other types of information".	10
16	179	"The greatest in the Nest," said Misk.	10
16	195	"You are not of the Nest," said Misk, "and thus you can do what is necessary".	10
16	211	"Yes," said Misk, "it is the end of the Nest".	10
17	3	I could not forget the plot of Misk, the threat which loomed over the Nest of the Priest-Kings.	10
17	13	"It is near the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "and it is a time of pleasure and hospitality in the Nest of Priest-Kings, a time in which Priest-Kings are well disposed to all living things, whatever be their order".	10
17	41	"Tell me why you have been brought to the Nest," said Sarm, and suddenly his antennae snapped downward towards me like whips, and now rigid, they seemed to be trained on me, as though they might be weapons.	10
17	47	"What did he say?" "There is Nest Trust between us," I said.	10
17	48	"Nest Trust with a human?" asked Sarm.	10
17	58	"Perhaps you would like to see the Nest?" asked Sarm.	10
17	112	I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar.	10
18	1	I Speak with Sarm In the next days, when I could escape from the attentions of Sarm, on occasions when he was undoubtedly drawn elsewhere by his numerous duties and responsibilities, I searched the Nest by myself, on a transportation disk furnished by Sarm, looking for Misk, but I found no trace of...	10
18	4	I gathered that the Muls to whom I spoke, who seemed well enough disposed towards me, simply did not know what was meant, in spite of the fact that several of them had been bred in the Nest, in the breeding cases located in certain special vivaria set aside for the purpose.	10
18	11	One afternoon, as I judged by the feeding times, for the energy bulbs always keep the Nest of Priest-Kings at a constant level of illumination, Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta and I were swiftly passing through one tunnel on my transportation disk.	10
18	22	I gathered he had not been bred in the Nest.	10
18	85	* * * * I did not object to the time I spent with Sarm, however, for he taught me far more of the Nest in a much shorter time than would have otherwise been possible.	10
18	90	"The analogy, of course," said Sarm, "is incorrect, for there is no Home Stone as such in the Nest of Priest-Kings, the Home Stone being a barbarous artifact generally common to the cities and homes of Gorean humans".	10
18	94	"You have nothing like the Home Stone in the Nest?" I asked.	10
18	125	"I know why you were brought to the Nest," said Sarm.	10
18	129	"There are those," he said, "who do not love the Nest, who would wish to see it pass".	10
18	131	"The Nest is eternal," said Sarm.	10
18	150	"Misk believes that he brought you to the Nest for his own purposes, and I have allowed him to suppose so.	10
18	162	"There is Nest Trust between myself and Misk," I said.	10
18	163	"There can be no Nest Trust between a Priest-King and a human," said Sarm.	10
18	173	"It was for that purpose I brought you to the Nest".	10
19	6	To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde...	10
19	97	"In the accomplishing of this matter you do a great service to the Nest and to Priest-Kings, and thereby will you gain great glory for yourself and a life of honor and riches, the first of which will be the slave girl Vika of Treve".	10
20	73	"Ah well," said the attendant, "I was bred in the Nest".	10
20	112	"It is better for the Nest".	10
20	144	Should I kill the innocent attendants, merely Muls who were performing the tasks allotted to them by Priest-Kings? Would I then have to slay Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta as well? And what would I do with the girl in the Nest of Priest-Kings? And what of Misk? Would I not then lose my opportunity, if any,...	10
21	5	"This must be a very old portion of the Nest," said Mul-Al-Ka.	10
21	48	They were shaven and clad in plastic as are all Muls of the Nest, but their torsos seemed smaller and rounder than those of a human being and their legs and arms seemed extraordinarily long for their body size and the hands and feet seemed unusually wide.	10
22	63	"Besides, there is Nest Trust between us".	10
22	106	"Let there be Nest Trust between a Priest-King and two Muls," said Misk.	10
22	107	"There can be no Nest Trust between a Priest-King and Muls," said Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
22	142	"Everywhere in the Nest," I said, "you must go everywhere that there is something human to be found".	10
22	170	"They are well known to all within the Nest".	10
23	8	The Priest-Kings often practice such small economies, jealously conserving the inanimate resources of the Nest.	10
23	12	Its contrast with the fastidiously clean tunnels of the Nest of Priest-Kings made it seem all the more repulsive in its filth and litter.	10
25	21	I worried, for where could I find such a place? By now it might be well known to Sarm that I had refused to slay Misk and the Nest would no longer be safe for me, or for anyone associated with me.	10
25	44	The portals were opened occasionally to allow the Beetle its run of the Nest but I had no idea when this might occur again.	10
25	51	I knew the tunnels of the Golden Beetle, like those of the Nest itself, were ventilated and I hoped to be able to use one of the shafts to leave the tunnels undetected.	10
25	94	I removed Vika's arms from my neck and shoulder and carried her in my arms down the shaft which led, to the best of my reckoning, in the general direction of the major complexes of the Nest.	10
25	98	Occasionally we would pass an opening in the shaft where, through a grille, I could see portions of the Nest.	10
25	106	Indeed, as I spied through the grille I saw that not all of the cases were occupied by humans but some by a variety of other organisms, some of the types with which I was familiar in the Nest but others not, and some of the others were, as far as I could tell, even mammals.	10
26	24	I was rather pleased with the discovery of the network of ventilator shafts, for it suggested to me almost a private and extensive highway to any place in the Nest I might wish to reach.	10
26	46	I then took the handful of rags she had worn and discarded them in a nearby waste container, a convenience with which the Nest was, to my mind, excessively provided.	10
26	50	I gathered he had been bred in the Nest and therein had formed his concepts of female beauty.	10
26	58	She wore the brief tunic of purple plastic allotted to female Muls in the nest and save for her eyelashes her hair had been completely removed.	10
26	120	Nothing in the Nest is ever lost".	10
26	156	"We do not have the luxuries in the Nest that you had in your chamber," I said, "but I think you will manage quite well".	10
27	7	I had not walked far from the Vivarium before I was able to regather my general directions in the Nest and, as I walked impatiently along, I spied a transportation disk docked, so to speak, hovering on its cushion of gas, outside one of the tall steel portals of the Hall of Commissaries.	10
27	8	The disk was of course, untended, for in the enclosed, regulated life of the Nest theft, save for an occasional handful of salt, was unknown.	10
27	15	"You will now be of the Nest as well as in it," he beamed.	10
27	16	Outside I thrust the red plastic garment I had worn into the first disposal chute I found whence it would be whisked away pneumatically to the distant incinerators that burned somewhere below the Nest.	10
27	29	They, like myself, having disobeyed Sarm, were now outlaws in the Nest.	10
27	37	There was Nest Trust between us and accordingly, as a warrior and a man, I stood ready to give my life for him.	10
27	39	I had spent but a few Ehn on the disk before I came to the barricade of heavy steel bars which separated those portions of the Nest open to Muls from those which were prohibited to them.	10
27	47	Without the tunic I had worn I probably did not seem much different to him from any other male Mul he had encountered in the Nest.	10
27	49	The colors that are found in the Nest are always in the areas frequented by Muls.	10
27	50	The only Priest-King in the Nest who could have recognized me immediately, and perhaps from a distance, was probably Misk, who knew me not as a Mul but a friend.	10
27	69	Much of the business of the Nest, of course, even relatively technical matters, was carried on by trained Muls.	10
27	73	I had little doubt but that these Priest-Kings were the most highly regarded musicians of the Nest, that they should be chosen to play together on the great Feast of Tola.	10
27	86	It was a most ancient creature on which I gazed, the Mother of the Nest.	10
27	89	There was no male, no Father of the Nest, and I supposed the male had died, or had not lived long after her mating.	10
27	110	But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the...	10
27	113	The Nest, had said Sarm, is eternal.	10
27	250	"He is a traitor to the Nest," said Sarm.	10
27	253	"The Nest is eternal," said Sarm.	10
27	291	"The Nest is eternal," said another.	10
27	307	Behind me I heard one of the Priest-Kings repeat over and over, "The Nest is eternal".	10
27	320	"Long ago," she said, "Misk, my child, stole the egg of a male and now he has hidden it from Sarm and others who do not wish for there to be another Nest".	10
27	324	"I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest".	10
27	332	"The egg was taken from the Nest by two humans," she said, "men who were free—like yourself—not Muls—and hidden".	10
28	1	Gravitational Disruption We were in the fifth week of the War in the Nest and the issue still hung in balance.	10
28	37	"The Nest is dying," said one of the creatures hanging above me, "and we have determined that we will die free".	10
28	55	"There are humans in the Nest who know of these matters," said Al-Ka.	10
28	58	After all, Al-Ka, and other humans of the Nest, with the exception of the Gur Carriers, would never have known darkness.	10
28	90	I no longer wished her to be confined here now that I better understood how matters stood in the Nest.	10
28	157	"We were bred in this Nest," he told the Priest-King, "and it is ours as well as yours".	10
28	162	And so it was that the former Muls, humans, bringing with them the basic food supplies of the Nest, began to flock to the side of the Priest-King Misk and his few cohorts.	10
28	163	The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...	10
28	164	* * * * As Al-Ka had predicted, the energy bulbs in the Nest, except where they had actually been destroyed by the fire of Sarm's silver tubes, came on again.	10
28	171	Our intelligence was vastly superior to theirs and the networks of ventilation shafts provided the quick nimble men of the Fungus Chambers and the uncanny Gur Carriers access to almost anywhere in the Nest they cared to go.	10
28	172	Moreover, all former Muls who fought with us were clad in scent-free tunics which in effect supplied them with a most effective camouflage in the Nest.	10
28	182	Indeed, in my opinion, the greatest mistake of Sarm in the War in the Nest was in his poor handling of the Muls.	10
28	183	As soon as it became clear to him that the Muls of the Fungus Chambers and the Pastures, and the Gur Carriers, were coming over to Misk he apparently assumed, for no good reason, that all Muls in the Nest were to be regarded as enemies.	10
28	185	With these new Muls, not from the Fungus Chambers and the Pastures, but from the complexes of the Nest proper, came a new multitude of capacities and talents.	10
28	218	In the fourth week of the War in the Nest our ship was outfitted and armored.	10
28	254	"Sarm could destroy the Nest," said Misk, "even the planet".	10
29	7	Through the very stone of the tunnel which lay outside Misk's compartment, now opened like a deep window, I could see the next large Nest complex which lay beyond.	10
29	15	At one point I was faced with a ditch, cut by the disruption cones with geometrical precision in the very stone of the Nest.	10
29	40	In less than a few Ihn I had brought the ship into the large Nest complex where the ten ships of Sarm still followed their grim, precise, destructive pattern, as placidly and methodically as one might paint lines on a surface or mow a lawn.	10
29	158	Moreover, if I could bring it to the first Nest complex, Misk would probably destroy it on sight with his own disrupter.	10
30	8	So it was he, I said to myself, who formed Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, he the biologist who was among the first in the Nest.	10
30	65	There were new ships flying in the Nest, I understood, ships that had been built by Misk's men and disks that had now been armored by those of Sarm.	10
30	66	I gathered there were no more available surveillance craft hangared in the Nest.	10
30	68	Not long after the failure of his gravitational disruption attack Sarm had spread throughout Misk's portions of the Nest various disease organisms, many of which had not had a free occurrence in centuries.	10
30	70	Most savage and unnatural of all, at least to the mind of a Priest-King, was the release of the Golden Beetles from their various tunnels in the vicinity of the Nest.	10
30	71	These creatures, perhaps two hundred or more, were loosed and by means of covered transportation disks, piloted by Priest-Kings using oxygen systems internal to the disks, were driven toward the quarters of the Nest controlled by the unsuspecting Misk and his forces.	10
30	77	Now the Beetles roamed at random throughout the Nest, more of a threat to Sarm's own forces than Misk's, for now none of Misk's Priest-Kings ventured abroad without a human to protect it should it encounter a Golden Beetle.	10
30	82	Accordingly, Sarm broadcast throughout the Nest his general amnesty for former Muls, offering them again the opportunity to become the slaves of Priest-Kings.	10
30	86	Whereas I would not have abandoned Misk and freedom to join the forces of Sarm, I was forced to admit that the probable victory in the end would be his, and that his proposals might well be attractive to some former Muls, particularly those who had occupied a position of some importance in the Nest ...	10
30	168	The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest...	10
30	185	Meanwhile, slowly, incredibly, the War in the Nest began to turn against Sarm.	10
30	187	This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational...	10
30	194	It now became clear that Sarm was on the defensive, for I heard orders being issued to block the tunnels leading into the areas of the Nest he controlled.	10
30	202	"It is said that there is Nest Trust between you and Misk," he said.	10
30	205	"If there is Nest Trust between you," said Sarm, his antennae curling, "Misk will be ready to die for you".	10
31	18	How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a Priest-King, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us.	10
31	20	And then we began to walk slowly towards one another again across the square tiles of that plaza in the secret Nest of Priest-Kings.	10
31	94	* * * * Misk and I had been trying to decide, for the past five days, how to organize the Nest in the wake of the War.	10
31	101	The entire Nest seemed to shiver.	10
31	106	"He is going to destroy the Nest," said Misk.	10
31	127	As he was doing this the entire Nest seemed to shift and the planet convulsed, and fire spurted from the paneling.	10
31	160	"It has sheltered the Nest of Priest-Kings but now there are no more Priest-Kings—only I, only Sarm is left".	10
31	161	"There are still many Priest-Kings in the Nest," I said.	10
31	162	"No," he said, "there is only one Priest-King, the First Born, Sarm—he who did not betray the Nest, he who was beloved of the Mother, he who kept and honored the ancient truths of his people".	10
31	165	"You have destroyed the Nest," said Sarm, looking wildly down at me.	10
31	180	If I had dared to take my eyes from Sarm I might have looked about at the wonder of the Nest and the destruction in which it was being consumed.	10
31	222	I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that Priest-Kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives.	10
31	223	I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ...	10
31	231	One last time he looked about himself, his antennae surveying the grandeur of the Nest, and then tumbled from the walkway and fell to the surface of the globe and slid until he fell to the rubble below.	10
31	235	I stood there on the crest of the globe and looked about the crumbling Nest.	10
32	41	A great opening, from the sides of which stones still fell, had appeared in the ceiling of the Nest complex, opening the thick, numerous strata above it until at last through that rupture could be seen the beautiful calm sky of the world above.	10
32	59	"We have made many trips," said Al-Ka, "and so have others in the other ships, for the Nest is broken in a dozen places and open to the sky".	10
32	62	Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, as I would have expected, turned their ships over to others to pilot, for they would choose to remain in the Nest.	10
32	65	They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest.	10
32	70	"The entire Nest is being destroyed," said Misk.	10
32	83	"I said," I told him, "I choose to remain here with you—and I said something like 'There is Nest Trust between us.	10
32	100	"Yes," said Ba-Ta, "built by Mul engineers trained by Priest-Kings, constructed of parts stolen over centuries and hidden in an abandoned portion of the Old Nest".	10
32	107	We ourselves did not find out about it until some technicians joined our forces in the Nest War".	10
32	146	"If not for your own sake," I said, "then for the sake of humans—in the Nest and outside of it—who have no hope but you".	10
32	207	It seemed I was trapped in the Nest, but then I noted, perhaps fifty yards away, a similar door, though smaller.	10
32	214	When he had first spoken to me I knew now he would have been under the control of Priest-Kings, that his control net would have been activated and his words and actions dictated, at least substantially, from the Scanning Room below, but now the Scanning Room, like most of the Nest, was demolished, a...	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
33	2	It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl...	10
33	40	I wondered if the shaven heads, traditional for centuries with Initiates, held some distant connection, lost now in time, with the hygienic practices of the Nest.	10
33	111	Suddenly I was very sad, and I wondered what would be the fate of humans from the Nest, if they should attempt to return to their cities or the world above.	10
33	117	I hoped that those humans who returned from the Nest would not be hunted by Initiates and burned or impaled as heretics and blasphemers.	10
33	120	I supposed many of the humans might even return to the Nest, where they could live and love and be happy.	10
35	27	"I came to see you one last time," he said, "for there is Nest Trust between us".	10
35	32	That night Misk told me of how affairs stood in the Nest.	10
35	37	Others had returned to the Nest, to share in the work of its rebuilding.	10
35	42	I would always remember Sarm, huge and golden, in the last agonizing minute when he had pulled free of the Golden Beetle and had stood upright and splendid in the crumbling, perishing Nest that he was determined must be destroyed.	10
35	89	They may return to their cities or remain in the Nest, as they please".	10
35	108	"I am needed in the Nest and even so my antennae cannot stand the sun—not for more than a few hours at most—and if I so much as approached a human being it would probably fear me and try to slay me".	10
35	133	"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may...	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	208	Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.	10
5	10	I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.	10
7	206	Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from Priest-Kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who knew to what primitive devices...	10
7	207	It had been, after all, months since the Nest War and surely, by now, to some extent, Priest-Kings would have managed to restore significant portions of the equipment, devices of surveillance and control, by means of which they had, for such long millennia, managed to maintain their mastery of this ...	10
16	305	The Others—those of power, not Priest-Kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of Priest-Kings, particularly not now, following the recent War of ...	10

Book 5. (31 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	252	Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen...	10
5	218	Indeed, few of the Nest's humans were any longer slaves, save certain of the men and women who had betrayed us in the Nest War, certain men and women who had been reduced to such bondage because of transgressions, and certain others who had entered the Sardar to seek and acquire the riches of Priest...	10
5	224	There are individual signals and a master signal, permitting an individual slave to be immediately secured, no matter where he is in the Nest, or every slave in the Nest.	10
5	240	"We found, after the Nest War," Kusk informed me, "that many of our ex-slaves could not read, which is not surprising since they had been bred in the Nest and it had not been generally thought important that they have that skill.	10
5	378	"Some information on the Nest War is surely available to them," said Misk, "carried by humans who were permitted to leave the Nest following the War".	10
5	590	I almost did not recognize him, for the humans in the Nest commonly, both men and women, though not now always, shave themselves completely, in accord with traditional practices of sanitation in the Nest.	10
4	87	We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...	10
5	184	* * * * Elizabeth and I had remained with Misk in the Nest of Priest-Kings, that incredible complex beneath the Sardar, for some weeks.	10
5	186	I doubt that the Physicians and Scientists of the Nest had ever exercised more diligence and care in such matters than they lavished on that one egg, and perhaps rightfully so, for it represented the continuation of their kind.	10
5	187	"What of Ko-ro-ba, and of Talena?" I had questioned Misk, even on the ship, before we returned to the Nest beneath the Sardar.	10
5	215	Elizabeth had been rapt with wonder at the Nest, but after some days, even in the presence of its grandeur, I knew she desired again to be on the surface, in the free air, in the sunlight.	10
5	216	I myself had much to speak of with Misk and with other friends of the Nest, notably Kusk, the Priest-King, and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, who were humans, and fondly remembered.	10
5	219	A Priest-King named Serus, whom I had not known in the Nest War, but who had been of the cohorts of Sarm, had developed an interesting device for slave control, which I might mention.	10
5	225	"Had Sarm this device at his disposal," said Serus to me, "the Nest War would have turned out differently".	10
5	227	Since Elizabeth and I were strangers in the Nest Serus had wanted us fit with the devices as a precaution, but, of course, Misk would hear nothing of it.	10
5	228	Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the Priest-King kind.	10
5	231	"It will be fine," I said to Misk, "that there be a Father of the Nest, as well as eventually a Mother".	10
5	233	"There is never a Father of the Nest," said he.	10
5	235	Interestingly, Elizabeth learned to read Gorean in the Nest, and in less than an hour.	10
5	246	They were used largely as a matter of tradition, but the humans of the Nest suggested refinements in the technique, leaving them to us to develop, of course".	10
5	292	That evening, having missed the fourth feeding, she returned late to the quarters I was sharing with Misk, a number of plastic scrolls in her arms which she had managed to borrow from various humans in the Nest.	10
5	298	But, as the days wore on, I, as well as Elizabeth, wished to leave the Nest.	10
5	367	"But," I said, "this power is severely curtailed following the Nest War".	10
5	487	"Once," said Misk, "I had such a human she as you, many years ago, when humans were slave in the Nest".	10
5	588	But, long before such a revolution might have been successfully achieved, Al-Ka, from the Nest, arrived in the city.	10
5	593	Some of the information such as Physicians' certifications and measurements and marks of identification had been compiled in the Nest and later transferred to the documents.	10
11	323	I do think, of course, that the Gorean population tends to be more physically fit and mentally acute than that of Earth, but I would rate them provisionally rather than essentially superior in these respects; for example, Goreans live much out of doors and, as a very natural thing, celebrate the bea...	10
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat...	10
23	190	About the walls of the room there was much delicate apparatus, reminding me somewhat of instrumentation I had seen in the Nest long ago; complex paneling, wires, disks; the dials, I noted, were adopted for a visually oriented organism, needles quivering against a metric of spaces; a cone was flashin...	10
24	85	Nothing more was known of her in Ar than had been known in Ko-ro-ba, or in the very Nest of Priest-Kings itself.	10
24	142	"What will be done with Philemon in the Nest, when they have learned what they wish from him?" "I do not know," said Hup.	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	514	At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of Priest-Kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself, when I had seemed to serve ...	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	52	"Let there be nest trust! Let there be friendship!" But I could not reach them, and Misk had turned, and, delicately, on his posterior appendages, had vanished.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	95	He had been instrumental in the Nest War, and had earned the friendship and gratitude of the Priest-King, Misk, glorious, gentle Misk.	10
1	96	"There is Nest Trust between us," Misk had told him.	10
1	98	"Yes, there is Nest Trust between us," Tarl Cabot had told him.	10
10	567	Since the Nest War the probes of aliens had grown more bold, even on Gor; they had little difficulty in taking female slaves on Earth; gold, exchangeable for materials essential to their enterprises, was well guarded on Earth; it could seldom be obtained in quantities without attracting the attentio...	10
15	57	Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of Priest-Kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a large movement, and complex, i...	10
15	59	In the Nest War, when the Priest-Kings had been locked in internecine warfare, their powers had been severely reduced and disrupted.	10
15	60	The Nest itself had been severely damaged.	10
17	44	They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones.	10
18	644	I thought of golden Misk, the Priest-King, of once, long ago, when his antennae had touched the palms of my uplifted hands, and Nest Trust had been pledged between us.	10
21	143	I did not know, nor I suppose did others, outside the Nest, when the first contacts had been made, the first probes initiated, the first awareness registered on the part of Priest-Kings that there were visitors within their system, strangers at the gates, intruders, dangerous and unwelcome, threaten...	10

Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	777	But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely.	10
7	404	These would have been the Nest's humans who, following the Nest War, had elected to return to the surface of Gor.	10
1	759	Lights, in the Nest, were for the benefit of humans and other visually oriented creatures sharing the domicile.	10
1	763	The social bond of the Priest-Kings is Nest Trust.	10
1	766	"Sometimes," once had said Misk to me in the Nest, "I suspect only men can understand Kurii".	10
2	218	There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets.	10
7	397	"What, in particular," I asked, "did you learn from the Earth slave girl, the former Miss Cardwell?" "Many things," said he, "but, doubtless of most importance, the weakness of the Nest".	10
21	513	Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod...	10
24	97	She had revealed all she knew of the Sardar, the plans of Priest-Kings, their practices and devices, the weakness of the Nest.	10
26	1181	Since the time of the Nest War the intelligence and surveillance networks of the Priest-Kings had been severely impaired.	10
26	1222	Surely Kurii must, by now, sense the weakness of the Nest.	10
26	1224	But the Priest-Kings, after the Nest War, would be rebuilding their power.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	41	But some years ago, in the time of the Nest War, the power of the Priest-Kings was considerably reduced.	10
12	357	They nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra.	10
32	89	"The Nest War," he said.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	589	These voyages now, as I understood it, following the Nest War, had been discontinued.	10
6	24	"They nest on land at night".	10
29	7	It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...	10
32	230	It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to its nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.	10
49	72	Portions of flesh the zad will swallow and carry back to its nest, where it will disgorge the flesh into the beaks of its fledglings.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	268	To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of Priest-Kings to the Nest.	10
1	270	But I had never learned what had occurred in the Nest after the return of the egg.	10
1	273	I did not know if, in the Nest, a new Mother now reigned or not.	10
1	652	If such creatures should come to clearly understand the nature of the Priest-Kings, and the current restrictions on their power, in virtue of the catastrophic Nest War, I had little doubt but what the attack signals would be almost immediately transmitted to the steel worlds.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	367	The Priest-Kings, I recalled, had recognized who was "of the Nest," and who was not, by means of the Nest odor.	10
1	940	I recalled, long ago, in the Nest, when I had seen the dying Mother.	10
1	945	There was now, doubtless, a new Mother in the Nest.	10
14	368	This odor is acquired, of course, after time is spent in the nest.	10

Book 26. (29 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	14	One had been pierced by a concealed spear, spring-released from the side of a corridor, another in crossing one of the narrow bridges over a crevice, it buckling as weight was placed at its center, another when an apparently solid portion of the corridor had fallen away beneath him, plunging him scr...	10
37	467	The prisoner had apparently lifted the panels to the urt nest, permitting them access to the walkway, the gate having been raised to permit them, or some at least, into the passageway, the gate then being lowered.	10
37	539	"As they did not pass us," said the pit master, "and they are not here, one gathers they have returned to the nest, or the pool.	10
37	614	Some, it seemed, had just entered it, from the tunnel leading to the nest.	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	621	When one urt leaves the nest, others tend to follow.	10
37	813	"Of course," said the pit master, "that through which the urts enter it, through their nest".	10
37	818	The peasant now could not return through the nest, even if he survived there, to the walkway.	10
37	819	I did think it possible, as doubtless so, too, did the lieutenant, that the peasant might now, at this time, the urts otherwise occupied, successfully reach the nest, which would be above water, on the other side of the wall.	10
37	830	"The nest opening is there!" pointed the lieutenant.	10
37	833	I supposed that the nest might be empty now.	10
37	837	One does not intrude into their nest.	10
37	859	The lieutenant pointed to the place where the pit master had indicated lay the underwater entrance to the nest.	10
37	863	One of the urts, an arm in its jaws, was swimming back toward the nest.	10
37	869	"Not if there are young in the nest," said the pit master.	10
37	870	"Are there young in the nest?" asked the officer of Treve.	10
37	907	I saw another swimming toward the nest, a shred of muscle trailing behind it.	10
37	914	"Perhaps they have all died in the nest," said the pit master.	10
37	927	"They are in the nest," said the lieutenant, "waiting for the way to clear of urts".	10
37	940	He gestured toward the opposite wall, several yards from the nest entrance.	10
37	955	I did not know if Tensius had reached the nest or not.	10
37	956	I supposed that he might have, as we had not detected a disturbance in the water near the entrance to the nest.	10
37	957	But if he had been killed in the nest, why had the urts not fed on him there? When I looked away from the water I saw that the lieutenant's attention was returned, intently, to the pool.	10
37	966	"The prisoner," said the officer of Treve, "may have died in the nest.	10
37	1001	Suddenly from the part of the pool near the entrance to the nest we saw a hand reach up, breaking the surface, and then an arm.	10
37	1009	"He is fleeing the nest!" said the officer of Treve.	10
37	1066	It then, near the entrance of the nest, slipped under the water.	10
37	1069	"Is there a way from the urt nest, other than to the pool and walkway?" asked the officer of Treve.	10
37	1122	"You are certain that there is no possibility of escape through the urt nest, through drains, or sewers, or such".	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	729	He belongs to his culture, and not to himself, rather like the insect to the nest, the bee to the swarm.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	77	Too, I knew there was a new dynasty in the Nest.	10
12	164	With the new dynasty in the Nest had they not turned against me? Had I not been imprisoned in the holding capsule on the Prison Moon, in such a manner as to torture me, and jeopardize my honor? Might I not, then, of my own will, so treated, have turned from the Sardar to the Steel Worlds? "Our loyal...	10
14	75	It does nest and reproduce itself oviparously.	10
30	98	Tarns which, for whatever reason, or random gift of genes, were reluctant to leave the sight of land might nest, and reproduce.	10
37	52	Unladen, and without her nest of galleys, the river should come to the first mark.	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	156	Smaller gulls nest on the cliffs of both Tyros and Cos.	10
14	143	I pulled myself half onto a nest of vines, half in the water, half not.	10
22	57	To starboard, back a bit, was another galley, also with a handful of oarsmen, it commanded by Pertinax, and to port, further back, was the galley of Turgus, more amply manned, as men, later gathered, had come to the last galley nest.	10
34	235	Are they not like animals who would soil their own nest, like madmen who would poison their own air and water? Given a garden of loveliness, would they not burn it, and turn it to ash? She had now disappeared down the stairwell, on the way to the market.	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	116	What strange beast would defecate in its own lair, or foul its own nest, ruin the soil from which it hopes to harvest, defile the seas in which it would cast its nets, contaminate the very air which it must breathe? Barbarians, they do not know that they are barbarians.	10
18	42	"Not even the urt soils its own nest," she said.	10
25	200	The growth was alive, not as a plant is alive, but as a nest of disturbed, excited snakes might be alive.	10
42	74	Her switch was like a nest of striking snakes, so swiftly did it strike, again and again.	10
46	96	Soon, about the trunk of a tree, one of two so adorned, or afflicted, I saw, at a height I could reach, thick and coiling, a nest of Tur-Pah.	10

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	31	Long ago, in the Nest of Priest-Kings, in the Nest War, I was familiar with such things, the flat, circular transportation disks which could be used to speedily negotiate the vast intricate corridors and halls of the nest.	10
52	75	I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes.	10
10	17	Whereas a human being is not the common prey of a wild tarn, the usual objects of its interests being verr and tabuk, the tarn can be dangerous to humans, particularly if a nest is approached.	10
10	18	The tarn commonly kills in hunting by breaking the back of its prey, but it can seize a verr and bear it aloft, to drop it to its death, after which it feeds, or carry it to its nest, where fledglings fight for the meat, the swiftest and most aggressive surviving, often at the expense of its sibling...	10
20	595	What nest contains but one?" "It is an unusual marking," said Lord Akio.	10
21	88	Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of Thassa, what the...	10
21	99	Indeed, had not such factions rendered their original world little more than a seared wasteland? Too, I knew from my own time in the Nest, long ago, that the Priest-Kings themselves might differ amongst themselves in trust and agenda.	10
23	113	"To the nest of the demon birds?" he asked.	10
27	126	When I deem the way is safe, some days from now, you may continue on, to the holding of Temmu or, if you prefer, to the nest of the demon birds".	10
34	10	"It is thought," said Yasushi, "that the bold tarnsman and his fair captive, Sumomo, outdistanced their pursuit and that she is now a prisoner in the holding of Temmu, the Wicked, or somewhere in a nest of demon birds".	10
45	7	"Do you know its nest, its lair?" I asked.	10
50	131	Then I recalled from the Nest of Priest-Kings the bleak, tiered housings of transportation disks.	10
54	296	I was much less certain about the involvement of the hierarchy of the Nest, largely determined by order of birth, in the matter.	10
61	187	If the altercation between these two houses was indeed wagered on by mysterious gamblers, perhaps treading the depths of a vast nest in the Sardar, or in orbiting worlds of steel, it would lack a resolution.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	118	It weaves its nest of rence, which floats on the water.	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	259	"We would have a nest of osts, a chaos of traitors, each determined, sooner or later, to have the quarry for himself alone.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	75	He then called out, "We seek a villain wanted on Chios, and elsewhere, a spreader of sedition, a fomenter of discontent, the harborer of a forbidden weapon, an Aktis, once from that nest of osts, Nicosia".	10
33	2	"How then," I asked, "is it that you would attack the small village, Zeuxis?" "It is a nest of Cosian spies and sympathizers," he said.	10