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Poles

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	234	In the distance Pa-Kur's camp was only a framework of blackened poles.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	215	Chains were grasped more firmly; the few swords lifted toward me; even the sharpened poles inclined toward my breast.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	144	Some men from the Fungus Chambers carried on their backs great bags filled with choice spores, and others labored under the burdens of huge baskets of freshly reaped fungus, slung on poles between them; and those from the Pastures drove before them with long pointed goads huge, shambling gray arthro...	10

Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	214	Many of the bottles of wine were gone and those that were not had been shattered against the floor, or against the wagon poles, leaving dark stains on the poles and on the hides behind them.	10
2	148	The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees.	10
8	109	In the morning I awakened to find Elizabeth sitting, red-eyed, at the side of the wagon, leaning back against one of the poles that supported the wagon hides, wrapped in the pelt of the red larl.	10
11	27	To them, of course, she was now no more than they, save perhaps that her flesh would not be used to bear the poles of palanquins, to carry boxes nor dig in the earth, but would be appointed its own tasks, lighter and more suitable, doubtless even more pleasing than theirs to a master.	10
11	347	Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl.	10
14	2	War lanterns, green and blue and yellow, were already burning on poles in the darkness, signaling the rallying grounds of the Orlus, the Hundreds, and the Oralus, the Thousands.	10
14	6	During the day the rapid movements of these individually maneuverable units are dictated by bosk horn and movements of the standards; at night by the bosk horns and the war lanterns slung on high poles carried by riders.	10
14	33	With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy passages between...	10
14	58	The sewn, painted boskhides that had covered the domed framework over the vast wagon of Kutaituchik hung slashed and rent from the joined tem-wood poles of the framework.	10
23	213	Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles.	10

Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	43	On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race.	10
13	314	The long net under the rings had been removed and rolled, placed with its poles near the dividing wall.	10
13	315	The painted, wooden tarn heads, used for marking laps of the race, stood lonely and dark on their poles.	10
22	123	I saw six wooden tarn heads mounted on poles at each end of the dividing wall, indicating the laps remaining.	10
22	161	I saw there were two tarn heads left on the poles.	10
22	416	I looked at the poles bearing the twenty wooden tarn heads, signaling the circuits of the track to be made.	10
22	445	I glanced at the tarn heads remaining on the poles and saw, to my dismay, only eleven remained.	10
22	466	There are four poles on the dividing wall at one end, and another four at the other end.	10
22	467	These poles both keep the laps.	10
22	468	At the beginning there had been, on each set of poles, twenty wooden tarn head, five to each pole.	10
22	469	Now two poles of each set were empty.	10
22	476	By the time there were seven tarn heads remaining on the poles I had caught up to the rider for the Blues, who held a poor fourth.	10
22	511	There were still five tarn heads on the poles when he overtook, between rings, and passed the Silver.	10
22	521	I saw four tarn heads left on the poles.	10
22	539	Two wooden tarn heads now surmounted the high poles.	10
22	552	Now there was but one tarn head on the poles when I came again to the right center rings.	10

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	8	Most of those who handle the poles gather on the edges of the island, but within the island there are four deep rectangular wells through which the long poles may gain additional leverage.	10
3	7	When one wishes to move the island, the tethers are simply chopped away, and the community divides itself into those who will handle the long poles and those who will move ahead in rence craft, cutting and clearing the way.	10
5	67	I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence.	10
7	163	There were oar poles left on the island.	10
8	25	Two other slaves stood forward with glaves, lighter poles, bladed, with which they cut a path for the following barges.	10
8	61	The slaves standing in the punt, the two with their poles, the other two with their glaves, cried out in fear.	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
9	31	Our girls, our slaves, wept at the poles, guiding the raft into the canal.	10
13	292	Above us, on the upper deck, I could hear the cries of the seamen, casting off mooring lines, shoving away from the dock with the traditional three long poles.	10
15	263	There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul...	10
18	334	Some were even slaves, who had fought with poles and hammers.	10
18	523	We heard the striking against the walls of the keep of siege poles, like ladders with a single upright, rungs tied transversely on the single axis.	10
18	592	Again we heard the striking against the walls of siege poles.	10
18	607	We heard the men climbing closer on the siege poles.	10

Book 7. (20 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	490	The pole was supported by two pairs of crossed poles, the whole structure secured with lashings; the entire arrangement was much the same as had been that of the trophy poles on the wagons.	10
8	9	We could see poles of fish hanging to the sides.	10
12	114	Then, on carts, drawn by small, horned tharlarion, there came cages, and poles of trophies.	10
12	116	From the poles there hung the skins and heads of many beasts, mostly panthers and sleen.	10
12	256	The supports consisted of two pairs of diagonally crossed poles.	10
12	258	The horizontal pole was a trophy pole, now with its stanchions; the pole, peeled, was formed of a straight branch, like the other trophy poles, higher, from which had hung the skins of slain animals.	10
12	260	Only from this pole, supported by the crossed diagonal poles, there hung no snared birds, no gutted tarsks, no drying skins of panthers or sleen.	10
12	284	Like the girls bound by the hair to the trophy poles, on the carts, these were stripped, their skins knotted about their necks.	10
12	491	The feet of the supporting poles here, of course, were in the dirt.	10
14	187	In another place I found a horizontal pole, itself set on two pairs of poles, leaning together and lashed at the top.	10
14	201	I stood before a large, low tent of scarlet canvas, suspended on eight poles.	10
14	213	And, within, from extensions of certain of the tent poles, there hung, on hooks, burning tharlarion-oil lamps of brass.	10
15	163	We stopped by the framework of poles, which I had seen before.	10
15	164	There was the horizontal pole, itself set on two pairs of poles, leaning together and lashed at the top.	10
15	221	When I could, I would manage, in my daily tasks, to pass by the tent of Rask of Treve, that large, low tent, on its eight poles, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk.	10
15	610	She took us to that part of the camp near the horizontal pole, some nine feet high, resting across the two pairs of crossed poles, rather like a pole for hanging meat, or trophies, from.	10
15	618	Some other men, and girls, from the camp, strolled over to the poles.	10
15	1155	Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles.	10
15	1370	There were, here and there, small, brass tharlarion-oil lamps hanging from projections set on the tent poles.	10
17	20	Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles.	10

Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	71	In foul weather, if there is not high wind, or in excessive heat, a canvas covering, on poles, is sometimes spread over the thwarts.	10
2	93	With the men at the oars, ready, and others with the thrusting poles, she might be swiftly sped, if need should arise, at a word, into the deeper waters.	10
2	110	"Poles!" We were a few yards offshore.	10
2	112	I saw two seamen, one on the starboard bow, the other on the port bow, hunch their weight into the two, long, black temwood poles, which curved with the stress set upon them.	10
2	114	Two further poles were set at the stern, that the lapping tide, seeking its beach, not turn her about.	10
2	331	The girls had set two poles in the sand, and lashed a high crossbar to them.	10
2	335	His legs had been widely spread and tied to the side poles.	10
2	505	Soon the two seamen, with their black, bending temwood poles, were thrusting the Tesephone backward, into the deeper waters.	10
5	215	Others, perhaps deemed of lesser value, in one area of the compound, to the left, as one entered, were simply tied or chained to poles and stakes, their knees in the mud.	10
5	354	Two men at the bow thrust against the wharf with their poles.	10
6	193	Twice in the Tesephone's own journey upriver, even with her shallow draft, we had gently ran aground and must needs use the poles to free ourselves.	10
7	369	I saw some poles behind the huts, on which, drying, were stretched the skins of four panthers.	10
11	2	His hunting tent, hung on its eight great poles, was open at the sides.	10
11	5	Here and there were piled boxes, and rolls of canvas, and, too, at places, were poles and frames on which skins were stretched, trophies of his luck in the sport.	10
12	137	Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea...	10

Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	90	It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole.	10
4	91	These poles can also be used in pushing off, and thwarting collisions on rocks.	10
7	306	With chains and poles the body of the Kur was dragged and thrust from the hall.	10
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...	10
15	101	The tent had been half burned, and poles were down.	10
17	97	Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve...	10
17	201	Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock.	10
18	92	The Kur, backing away, with its right arm, reaching across its body, tore up one of the tent poles, wrenching it free of the earth, the tent.	10
18	306	We passed the poles of the vast pen.	10
18	311	She extended her hands through the poles but we turned away, leaving her, and the Canadian girl, behind them.	10
18	384	We stepped over broken axes, shattered poles, torn leather, from the lodges of the Kurii.	10
18	404	In another place we saw a framework of poles set on the field.	10
22	210	Poles thrust the Hilda from the wharf.	10

Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	155	"Poles!" The poleman seized the poles, lowering them into the water.	10
2	351	At various places in the bazaar, from poles laid between the buildings, numerous skeins of wool hung, dyed in various bright colors, drying.	10
2	356	I looked up at skeins of wool hanging from the wooden poles between the flat roofs.	10
16	14	The poles used are weighted at the bottom, and are some twenty feet in length.	10
16	15	One of the poles, released in deep water, will stand upright in the water, about a yard of it above the surface.	10
16	19	There are areas in the pits, however, where the depth exceeds that of the poles.	10
16	45	This is one of the reasons, too, it is particularly desirable, in this environment, to weight the raft poles, to help counter the unusual buoyancy of the saline fluid.	10
16	58	Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike cranial vibration receptors, from the cones and poles.	10
16	139	The oil in the lamps, on the poles at the corners of the raft, grew low.	10
16	154	"Poles!" screamed the steersman.	10
16	168	"You others," said the steersman, "take poles!" We did so.	10
16	169	It was our hope that the men with the paddles could move the raft sufficiently to bring it to a place we could use the poles.	10
16	235	I felt for one of the raft poles, found it, and, extending it, thrust it toward the voice.	10
17	17	Far into the pit, distant from the salt docks, we slowed the raft, and steadied it with the long poles, holding it as nearly as we could in place.	10
17	20	At the corners of the raft burned four lamps, mounted on poles.	10
17	190	We retained the light on the poles.	10
17	339	The men picked up their poles.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1167	I could see that, on the first carried platform, there were some five figures, those of women; on the second there were several chests and boxes, some covered with sheens of glistening material; in the wagon, under a loose canvas, were other boxes, but simpler and grosser in appearance, and poles an...	10
3	115	Behind me, the thorn brush, so thick and high, by means of hooked poles, was pulled into place, closing me in the camp with the men, and the girl.	10
5	106	In the center of the camp was a striped tent, almost a pavilion, supported on ten poles.	10
5	133	The wagon which I had seen earlier, the supply wagon, was now almost empty, the food supplies perhaps being diminished as the peregrination neared its end, and the poles and tenting, of course, being used in the sheltering for the camp.	10
6	105	It was high, and conical, and floored with rough planks, set some six or seven feet on poles above the ground, that it might be drier and protected from common insects and vermin.	10
8	55	Within the ring, too, were some eight sleen, tied on short tethers to stakes, at the sides; and a rack of meats, and poles, and ropes and whips, used in the training of the animals.	10
21	96	I saw three sailors, with long poles, edging the ship from the wharf.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	52	Some of the screens were over my head but, lifted to the poles, those above, I, clinging to the poles, could see well.	10
3	1315	These chains were suspended from metal projections on certain of the tent poles.	10
4	585	Light in the booth was furnished by a tiny lamp, dim, burning tharlarion oil, hung from one of the booth's ceiling poles.	10
4	731	For them, not of Gorean background, the world's end could mean only one of the poles.	10
11	247	Interestingly he had also placed much wood on the sled, both boards and poles, for it is of great value in the north.	10
12	153	Thimble and Thistle dismantled the hides and poles of Imnak's tent, and began to load them on the sled.	10
12	430	I had noted that Arlene, her wrists crossed and over her head, bound, was fastened to the horizontal pole of a meat rack, supported by its two tripods of inclined poles.	10
20	99	The ceiling, supported by numerous poles, consisted of layers of grass and mud.	10
21	420	"Aiii!" she screamed wildly to the poles and the leather and the grass and dirt of the roof of that feasting house in the polar basin of Gor's far north.	10
32	53	The beast moved easily on the poles beside me.	10
36	275	Weapon in hand I scanned the room, the walls, the high poles threaded over my head.	10

Book 13. (20 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	251	I conjectured that it must have been a marvelous moment when Shaba and his men, toiling with ropes and poles, wading and shoveling, brought their two craft to the clear vista of vast, deep Lake Ngao.	10
1	735	In Lake Ushindi, in certain areas frequented by tharlarion, there are high poles.	10
1	736	Criminals, political prisoners, and such are rowed to these poles and left there, clinging to them.	10
1	737	There are no platforms on the poles".	10
4	837	The two sailors then lifted the cage on its poles, and, kneeling, she was lifted within it.	10
4	920	Sailors, at the port rail, with three poles, thrust the Palms of Schendi away from the dock.	10
7	126	"There is a blond-haired girl over there," I said, indicating the girl in the blindfold, kneeling chained, crowded together with other girls, under one of the small, thatched roofs, on its poles.	10
19	49	In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
19	56	The poles supporting the sleeping platform were set within it.	10
19	57	In the pit, his hands still clutching, fingernails bloody, at one of the round poles supporting the platform, lay an askari.	10
19	84	Msaliti looked into the shallow pit below the high poles of the sleeping platform of Bila Huruma.	10
27	45	I looked back, and, to my surprise, saw the lad half shinnied up one of the poles of the scaffolding.	10
53	17	Too, between the edges of the walls, over the stones, they had erected a barrier of lashed poles.	10
53	199	I saw Kurii, too, thrusting their arms through the barrier of lashed poles mounted over the stones at the threshold.	10
53	200	Ayari, small Ayari, joined the askaris there, thrusting with a stabbing spear through the poles.	10
53	208	I saw the poles being splintered and smote apart by pangas.	10
53	261	"They are breaking through!" I ran to the threshold and, leaping upon the stones, screaming, struck at the arms and paws which were thrusting back the barrier of lashed poles.	10
53	302	Others pressed again now at the lashed poles over the stones at the threshold.	10
53	349	Suddenly, behind us, there was a splintering of lashed poles, and bindings, too, tore loose.	10
53	353	The framework of lashed poles, suddenly, broke half apart and Kurii swarmed within, some with pangas, some with clubs and sharpened sticks.	10

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	54	On its top it had two sets of rings, each set placed along an edge of the top, through which long carrying poles might be thrust.	10
8	55	To one side, behind Gron, and to the back, stood four carrying slaves, large, brawny, collared men, two of whom held the poles, like spears, butt down, on the tiles.	10
8	93	I heard the two long poles being thrust through the sets of rings on the roof of the box.	10
8	96	I felt the box being lifted into the air, suspended by the rings and poles.	10
9	106	I then felt the slave box, on the rings and poles, again being lifted.	10
10	12	Prodicus gestured to the carrying slaves and they set their poles again through the rings and, in moments, they, carrying the box, preceded by Prodicus, had exited through an iron door.	10
13	94	"Proceed!" she called to the draft slaves, those bearing upon their shoulders the poles of her palanquin.	10

Book 15. (11 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	160	This eventuality would be extremely dangerous, of course, to anyone within the compass of the poles' movement or who might be, as we were, chained to the poles themselves.	10
2	49	Fires, on high poles, illuminated the area.	10
22	6	Other citizens, with ship poles, of the sort used on Gorean galleys in casting off and thrusting from the wharves, pressed back the crowd.	10
31	6	The gate is raised by muscle power, abetted by two heavy, drumlike weights which partially balance its weight, transmitted to the windlass by means of metal windlass poles, or bars, these being used to rotate the windlass.	10
31	21	There were five large poles, or bars, set in the windlass.	10
31	23	These poles may be inserted into the windlass and, if one wishes, removed from it.	10
31	126	As I made my way about the windlass, treading the slatted, circular platform, with my fellow prisoners, thrusting against the metal pole, I saw, chained to the wall, and at one side, behind the water trough cut in the stone, their necks still fastened to their own poles, two other sets of prisoners.	10
31	136	We reversed our position at the poles, stepping under them and then standing, turning the chain swivels, to which the chains on our collars were attached.	10
31	158	The polelike spokes, of course, by which the windlass is normally turned, or managed, should be freed of the windlass before this is done, a disengagement which is effected by loosing the pin-and-lock devices and withdrawing the poles from the windlass.	10
31	159	If this were not done the poles would spin wickedly, turning with the rotating windlass.	10
31	187	Immediately we felt the stress in the windlass poles.	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	6	Two ship's lanterns, suspended on poles, thrust over the bow, to port and starboard, cast pools of yellow light on the water.	10
4	91	There are three poles which, customarily, with Gorean ships are used in casting off, in thrusting away from the wharves.	10
4	92	There were, of course, three such poles on the Tina and on the Mira.	10
4	94	Suddenly, as the enemy galley veered to knife between us, and the Mira men with poles, and, too, with oars, on our ship, and on the Mira, thrust the ships apart.	10
16	58	"Poles!" shouted Policrates.	10
16	60	Then the ship on which I was bound, poles thrusting against the wharf, slid to my right and backward.	10

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	59	It was little more than a sleen cage, of heavy, wooden poles, lashed together, its rear gate fastened with a chain and padlock, set on a flat wagon bed.	10
12	41	These things could be mounted on hoops, attached to poles, and used in dances.	10
12	42	They could be hung, too, from lodge poles, and parts of them, in twisted or dangling fringes, could decorate numerous articles, such as shields and war shirts.	10
12	105	In more sophisticated devices, two, or even three, poles or boards are used, which can slide apart, and are fastened at given points by pegs or thongs.	10
14	300	Such a device, the poles crossing over the withers of the kaiila, reduces the animal's speed but makes it possible for it to transport a heavier weight.	10
14	997	"You see? It is like the spread poles of a travois, which might be drawn by such an animal".	10

Book 18. (44 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	257	Indeed, the travois poles themselves, when untied and freed from the kaiila, would be used as lodge poles.	10
4	154	Two long poles, lighter than the lodge poles, are tied to the cover.	10
11	111	Its high walls, some forty feet in height, built on poles, from platforms, and ceilinged with poles and branches, enclosed a dancing space, cleared, circular and packed down, of about fifty feet in diameter.	10
27	41	Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack.	10
32	255	We saw Yellow-Knife warriors setting up small poles, some five to six feet in height, attaching grisly trophies to the tops of the poles.	10
1	182	Indeed, is it not that in dreams one may even enter the medicine world itself? In dreams is it not the case that one might sit about the fires of the dead, conversing with them? Is it not the case that in dreams one may understand the speech of animals? And is it not the case that in dreams one may ...	10
2	245	Older children often ride on the skins stretched between travois poles.	10
2	254	Children, too, I noted, those not in cradles, greased, their hair braided, their bodies and clothing ornamented, in splendid finery, like miniature versions of the adults, some riding, some sitting on the skins stretched between travois poles, participated happily and proudly, or bewilderedly, in th...	10
2	256	The travois with them were heavily laden, with bundles, and lodge skins and poles.	10
4	5	I could see the poles sloping together over my head, the encircling hides.	10
4	42	Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder.	10
4	143	The lodge poles were about twenty-five feet high.	10
4	145	The bark is removed from the poles and they are trimmed to an even thickness for most of their length.	10
4	148	In setting up the lodge three or four poles are tied together and raised to a standing position, rather resembling a tripod.	10
4	149	The other poles, appropriately spaced, are laid against these.	10
4	150	A long rawhide rope, then, from the ground, wound about several times, fastens the primary and secondary poles together.	10
4	155	By means of these lighter poles the cover is put in its place.	10
4	156	The two poles hang near the lodge entrance.	10
4	166	Various tribes use different numbers of poles in setting up their lodges.	10
4	394	Then came the women, with the kaiila and travois, the poles leaving lines in the dust, and with them, joining them, came Cuwignaka and myself.	10
5	211	The two women, then, Bloketu and Iwoso, the travois poles marking the grass behind their kaiila, took their way away.	10
6	62	The poles were broken and splintered; the crosspieces were shattered; the hides were rent.	10
7	549	"She had cut so much meat! The poles of the travois even bent!" "Yes," said Iwoso.	10
14	155	Then, in a few moments, we came to a place where a low, sloping shelter, of travois poles, sticks and canvas, had been erected.	10
14	233	I walked over to the vicinity of the hooded Waniyanpi women, those near the closest shelter of sticks, poles and canvas.	10
18	218	Its poles were fifty feet in height and it was covered with more than a hundred skins.	10
22	255	It was ceilinged with poles and branches.	10
28	57	Little now remained but its poles.	10
28	69	I looked into the darkened circle outlined by the long poles.	10
32	83	In the center of the great circle the huge fire blazed from a kindling of broken lodge poles.	10
32	257	"Those are trophy poles.	10
33	9	Above the platform, on poles, a cloth canopy had been stretched.	10
36	4	One covers the framework of branches and poles, over the pit, with plates of sod, with living grass.	10
37	150	I looked to the walls of the pit, to the ceiling, with the poles and sod, and at the light, filtering downward into the pit, and then again I looked at my naked slave.	10
37	532	We then heard a taloned foot cutting at the sod and poles over our head.	10
37	543	I saw poles lifting and splintering.	10
37	557	The bird, then, rising up, wings beating, took to flight, jerking the hobbling log from the pit, tearing it up through the sod roof and poles.	10
39	434	"Cuwignaka and I will draw it, after we have tied the reins of this tarn to one of the poles," I said.	10
40	16	This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ...	10
40	20	It is quite different from the smoke holes of the conelike hide lodges common with the red savages which, because of flaps, responsive to the movements of poles, function like efficient, adjustable flues.	10
44	477	"No!" Lodges, with their poles, were thrown back and men emerged, dragging at the ropes of small travois, heavily laden with stones.	10
47	101	"And throw back the lodge covers and poles which conceal our tarns.	10
47	116	Lodges were thrown back, with the poles and skins.	10
51	34	He then crossed the index fingers of his right and left hand, like lodge poles.	10

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	20	This cover was placed over a frame which consisted of five poles; two of these poles, braced, crossed and tied together near the top, were at the front of the wagon; a similar pair was fixed at the back of the wagon; between these two pairs of poles there lay, across them, parallel to the long axis ...	10
22	21	The tarpaulin, then, was laid over this long pole and held in place by its own two poles, resting against the sloping sides of the crossed poles at the front and back of the wagon.	10
4	106	There was an apparatus at one side, like a canopy wrapped about poles, but it, too, was not now in use.	10
22	19	The cover consisted of a tarpaulin sewn about long poles on two sides.	10
22	22	The tarpaulin was rolled up and tied about its poles in such a way that there was a gap of about a yard between itself and the side of the wagon.	10
30	230	Street signs in Gorean cities, where they exist, incidentally, are not mounted on poles.	10

Book 20. (9 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1162	In two days, however, it would be lit with lanterns, thrust out on jutting poles from the bordering, clifflike houses, and strung with garlands and flags.	10
2	440	Sometimes a copper tarsk, or even a silver tarsk, is nailed to one of the poles of the booth.	10
3	8	The tent was one of rich cloths, supported by five poles.	10
3	10	These, with the various materials for the tent, and its poles, had been disembarked from a large, high-wheeled wagon.	10
6	41	Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab...	10
6	1100	The viewing area may, of course, be roofed with a tarpaulin, suspended on poles.	10
12	13	"That accident which destroyed or disfigured your face," I said, "that rendered it such, as I understand it, that women might run screaming from your sight, that men, crying out, sickened and revolted, might drive you with poles and cudgels, like some feared, disgusting beast, from their own habitat...	10
16	1258	Some men then, near the back of the hall, using poles, brought in a giant vat of tharlarion oil, mounted over a large, flattish, curved-edge iron plate.	10
18	331	I had my hands on one of the long poles, wherewith the giant vat, on its lifting rings, had been brought into the hall.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1485	Interspersed among these was an occasional lookout tower, composed of poles and planks, the lashed poles supporting a horizontal platform of planks, from which a watch could be kept on the gate of Torcadino.	10
13	96	We came then to a barrier, several poles on tripods, set across the main way in Torcadino.	10
16	1422	Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness.	10
16	1423	Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders.	10
16	1425	The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports.	10
21	313	It was borne on long poles slung in tandem fashion between two tharlarion.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	775	I then heard what sounded like a number of poles thrust through wood.	10
25	255	He went to the front of the tent, and stepped outside, underneath the sort of awning there, over the threshold, supported on two poles.	10

Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	37	Boarding hooks, on poles, are often used, too, for such purposes, when one can get close enough.	10
16	505	Buckets of oil on the long poles were ignited.	10
16	523	"The bridges will drop and you will think an avalanche of iron has spilled upon you! How shall you meet it? Let it spill on your heads? Clever fellows! Bring poles! Bring stones! You, fetch grapnels and ropes.	10
16	539	"Bring stones, poles, tarn wire!" cried men.	10
17	25	Poles, and pikes, and stones, and wire, and steel and fire met them.	10
17	26	At two of the towers great poles were used.	10
17	66	At the last tower a simple garrote of tarn wire, almost invisible, had been thrust forth, secured between two poles.	10
17	145	Too, it makes it much easier to prevent the dropping of the bridges, by blocking them with beams or poles, or, in some cases, by fouling one or both of the chains, usually with metal pins.	10
17	160	In places along the wall defenders sought to get their poles under the bridges, between them and the crenelation, and, using the wall as a fulcrum, to lift the bridges back up.	10
17	162	At two towers the poles had thrust the bridges up and back.	10
17	287	Scarcely were the defenders drawn back than the great cauldron of oil, its oil now ignited, now aflame, into which the buckets on long handles had been dipped, was overturned with poles and flooded the walkway behind them.	10
20	418	Several of the ships then departed from the piers, pushing off with the three traditional poles.	10
20	454	Three mariners, managing the long poles, thrust the Tais from the pier.	10

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	31	Men moved it with poles.	10
6	12	The officer's boat, too, the fishing craft, propelled by poles, approached, he and others, as well.	10
9	104	The poles propelling the craft were golden.	10
9	105	On board, other than the occupant of the golden cabin, dimly perceived behind the golden netting, I saw an officer, and some guards, who perhaps took their turns at the poles.	10
10	96	"There are two poles only".	10
11	53	"Pull!" One of the two poles used by the fellows on the raft dug into my back forcing me forward.	10
17	67	Trophy poles, too, are sometimes erected, similarly decorated.	10
19	1072	"Look," she said, "it is one of the poles from my barge! You can see the gilding there, where it is not burned away".	10
21	16	The poles used in propelling it had been gilded, as well.	10
21	86	"The barge, too, was lovely," I said, "though I suppose some might have regarded it as a trifle too ornate, too prideful, too ostentatious, with purple, and the gilding, the poles, the golden cabin, with the golden mesh".	10
44	330	Those not at the poles might double as lookouts, guards and such.	10
46	142	I saw men rushing about amongst the cages and poles.	10

Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	245	She was tied on her knees, her wrists over her head, tied to a horizontal bar between two poles.	10
12	324	The poles themselves are usually marked off in segments, for different size collars.	10
17	398	"You noted, of course, that the palanquin was roofed, or canopied, and that the roof or canopy was supported by four poles".	10
17	400	"Those poles are hollow," I said, "and within them there are cords and weights".	10
17	402	"The cords," I said, "are attached at one end to the weights within the poles and, at the other end, to the corners of a flat pallet at the bottom of palanquin, on which the girl reclines.	10
17	405	As the weights descend within the poles the cords move and draw the pallet up under the canopy".	10

Book 27. (15 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	102	There were seven sockets behind the shelf in the wall of the building, overhead, in which horizontal poles might be fixed, and there were matching sockets near the front of the shelf, into which vertical poles might be placed, from which arrangements of poles, joined together and reinforced by addit...	10
13	19	On the broad, circular roof, some fifty yards in diameter, there were numerous, sturdy, tiered racks of poles on which levels of laundry might be dried, and, between these racks, were numerous swaying lines, from which a great deal more wash, like flags, shook, flapped and fluttered in the wind, hel...	10
16	103	At present, however, the poles, with their awnings, were not set, reposing rather in a storeroom of the low brick building, the tenement, or insula, as the shelf, without the awnings, rented for a lower price.	10
16	782	There were, of course, the pans, pots, utensils, lamps, pails, and such, which, on shelves and dangling from poles, she supposed might have suggested the name of the market, but there were also stalls, as well, specializing in many other forms of goods, for example, stalls of fruits and vegetables, ...	10
16	940	In better districts, and on the great boulevards and such, high lamps, usually hung from poles, are usually lit after dark by employees of the city, sometimes by guardsmen.	10
20	55	To her left, yards away, tent pegs jerked from the earth, poles lifted and lowered, colorful, striped canvas seemed to collapse in upon itself, to be gathered and rolled, and tied.	10
22	318	Within the cage, most near the exterior bars, were ten upright metal poles, which helped to support the roof of the cage.	10
24	97	The al-ka and ba-ta circles were enclosed, surrounded by walls of silk, held on poles.	10
24	133	He turned to one of the poles supporting the silk of the small enclosure.	10
24	340	In the back, they stood, some at the very poles at the rear of the enclosure.	10
25	105	Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...	10
26	922	They were tied apart, bound hand and foot, fastened in a row, tied by the neck and feet to two notched poles, so they could not reach one another.	10
28	106	Soon, she gathered, Mirus and his fellow, now muchly recovered, though still unable to walk, would leave the group and make their way toward Brundisium, Mirus dragging an improvised travois, constructed of rope, a pair of poles and a tarpaulin.	10
29	136	It consisted of horizontal poles, some four inches thick.	10
29	137	Here Selius Arconious angrily kicked away two of the lower horizontal poles, and left one horizontal pole in place, which was about four feet above the leaves, wood chips, rotted straw, and turf.	10

Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	594	Two attendants, with poles with hooks, came and removed the now inert body of the champion, dragging it through the sand, furrowing it, to another gate.	10
39	4	Others had thick poles which might be leant against a wall, up which the claw-footed Kurii might scramble with ease.	10
39	42	One Kur, ascendant on one of the poles against the wall, turned about, and, doubtless assisted by the height from which he made his observation, detected a movement in the foliage, one perhaps some seventy-five yards away.	10
39	44	A second and a third similarly perished, and then the Kurii best situated to make the determinations germane to the matter, those on the poles, leapt to the ground, preferring, if nothing else, to reduce their imminence as targets of choice.	10
39	45	A large Kur on the ground, looking wildly about, seemingly issued orders to a fellow Kur, doubtless a subordinate, who then, instantly, as one expects a Kur to obey, climbed one of the poles, turned about to view the terrain, and died.	10
39	58	There was then a paucity of clear targets, as Kurii crouched down behind hurdles formed from their ladder poles, and some behind the large log, which had presumably been intended to batter at the walls or gate of the diminutive citadel, and some huddled behind ramparts raised of their fellows' bodie...	10
46	150	The ends of the world, then, were the flat caps, or poles, closing the cylinder, at each end.	10

Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	1118	The newcomers were nicely organized, and, in moments, much of the baggage had been lashed to the poles, and the briefly tunicked slaves shouldered the poles with the suspended cargo, and stood ready to depart.	10
1	15	This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles.	10
5	580	"Weapons had been forbidden to the populace," said another, but many had been concealed, and there is little which may not figure as a weapon, axes and hammers, the implements of agriculture, planks, poles and sticks, the very stones of the streets".	10
5	894	Cry out that we are conducting them to the impaling poles.	10
5	1095	Some carried poles, with coiled ropes.	10
5	1096	Such poles could be used for portering, the baggage fastened to them by the ropes.	10
5	1097	Sometimes captured panther girls, small bands of which occasionally roamed hundreds of pasangs to the south, were slung from such poles.	10
5	1098	They were bound, hand and feet, by their captors, to the poles, as might have been slain or captured panthers, the beasts from which they derive their name.	10
5	1099	They are fastened to the poles in such a way that they dangle, swinging, from them, their bellies to the pole, their backs to the ground.	10
5	1100	The poles are carried by female slaves, a great insult to the panther girl for they despise female slaves.	10
5	1133	Indeed, precisely fifteen such packages had been left, not attached to the poles borne by the fair porters come from the forest.	10
5	1141	A march then followed him, first his own men, then the portering slaves, with their poles and baggage, and then Torgus, and the fellows from the ship, and then, bringing up the rear, a lovely coffle, fifteen shapely pack beasts, the girls from the ship.	10
12	187	These cots were mostly improvised, walled with rope nets strung between trees, and, too, large, heavy poles, doubtless from local trees, trimmed of bark and branches.	10
12	200	Between two sets of poles were slung ropes and a saddle, and in each saddle was a fellow who was being flung from side to side, and dropped, and lifted, and spun about, by others, and even, by ropes, on each side, being whirled about a vertical axis.	10
14	24	An interesting variation on these surrogate weapons was supple poles, long, light, peeled, whiplike branches which might flash about, scarcely visible.	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	98	"Poles!" cried Pertinax, and men seized up the launching poles, used in thrusting a galley from a wharf, cushioning her approach to a wharf, holding her away from rocks, or such.	10
2	245	The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase.	10
3	230	"Those of Ar had risen, everywhere, it seemed, from doorways and cellars, from within the cylinders and on the bridges, rushing forth, seizing up as weapons things so simple as clubs, poles, staves, and rocks, overwhelming in their numbers even armed men".	10
8	91	If one came on the ice, we would push it back in the water with poles.	10
8	112	And others served here and there about the ship in yet other ways, ways similarly appropriate for slaves, carrying messages, running errands, bringing food and black wine, not paga, to the men, both those on deck and those on the ice below, being lowered on a stirrup rope, to be drawn from the side ...	10
12	395	Within the Ahn, by one of two galleys, lanterns suspended on poles over the water, part of the body had been recovered.	10
14	99	It is customary that there be three such poles, as you of the port know, one for the bow, one amidships, one aft.	10
21	4	Pani had interposed themselves between the great water casks and angry men with clubs and poles who wished to shatter the casks, that one must put ashore for fresh water.	10
24	7	These, shouldered, or hung on poles, or sometimes on yokes, they began to transport up the trail.	10

Book 32. (15 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	125	There are bundles of silk, coils of wire, brass lamps, jars of ointment and salve, flat boxes of cosmetics; and poles on which are strung shackles and slave chain.	10
8	15	Grunt and parsit were strung between poles.	10
8	197	One did not know when the long poles might thrust one ship or another from the wharves, the sail take the wind, or the low-banked oars enter the water, and rise again, shedding their sparkling showers in the early morning light.	10
8	522	The first ship, now, freed of its mooring, was thrust from the dock with the harbor poles.	10
9	198	A line of slaves, perhaps twenty, with ropes and poles, emerged from the forest.	10
9	297	Most of the heavier objects would be slung from the poles brought by the tunicked slaves.	10
9	302	Interestingly the two large boxes, which had been covered with canvas on the open deck, concerning which the mariners had been so careful, were consigned to four men each, who managed them, each box, by lashings and two poles.	10
33	161	By the next Passage Hand you will be bound naked to selling poles on the beach, awaiting passing galleys".	10
38	41	On the other hand I saw no tabuk, dangling from poles, nor skins slung over the shoulders of any of the fellows.	10
38	255	Smaller nets can be cast; larger nets may be spread between poles or trees, to intercept driven game.	10
38	273	"Doubtless you will be pleased to see them bound naked to selling poles on the coast," he said.	10
39	237	I felt it often enough on the trek to the selling poles".	10
43	227	"There are selling poles on the coast.	10
43	433	"You are trekking to the coast, to selling poles.	10
43	1063	"In our business, we commonly pass selling poles".	10

Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	130	It was quiet now, and the ashes, the charred planks and blackened poles, would lie beneath the coating of snow.	10
13	258	Impaling poles were weighted.	10
27	18	On the continent, street contingents, raised in times of need to supplement a city's standing troops, commonly make do with knives, clubs, sharpened poles, and stones.	10
30	406	What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ...	10
42	41	The tent, as most such large, long tents depended on several poles to support its roof, and was further secured by a number of tent pegs, or, as the Americans will have it, stakes, and ropes outside.	10
47	263	I think that these two inhabited a world alien to that of better than a hundred observers, a world shut away from other worlds, a world in which each stood at an opposite end, a narrow world, the two poles of which were linked by a wirelike, invisible path no broader than the breadth of an arrow.	10

Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	53	If we take the three penetrant poles spoken of, and count them as six poles, or spokes, by means of which to turn the stone, there were four girls to each of the six poles, or spokes, so twenty-four of us were used at a time in the work.	10
11	2	It, like its two similar poles, passed through the stone and emerged on the other side.	10
11	3	This produced, given the penetrations, the effect of six poles, against which weight might be pressed, this turning the heavy stone.	10
11	102	The flute girl began to play, and we dug in our feet and pressed our weight against the spokelike poles by means of which the stone was turned.	10
11	113	The tunes played by our flute girl were not lively, of course, for one does not turn a stone with grace and sprightliness, but were measured to our tread, as we thrust against the poles.	10
11	114	Sometimes, when we were resting, leaning on the poles, she would play as she wished.	10
11	241	We thrust our weights against the poles.	10
15	124	Some free women enjoy using harnessed female slaves to draw their carriages, or, chained to their poles, to carry their palanquins.	10
20	9	Too female slaves are sometimes harnessed to, or chained to, poles, by means of which they carry their mistress's palanquin.	10
20	11	Much harnessing for slaves, of course, is primarily concerned with restraint, for fastening, say, to poles, stanchions, slave rings, and such.	10
55	4	Would not such a cry, as the roar of the larl, startle and momentarily immobilize a quarry, or foe, allowing for the rapid, unchallenged advance, the strike or pounce, of the predator, the assailant? I suspected it was an ancient cry, such as might well have antedated the working of metals, a cry th...	10
64	58	It was there that spaces, marked with numbered poles, might be rented.	10
65	225	"The caravanserai will furnish the impaling poles!" "We are innocent!" cried one of Lucilius' followers from the darkness.	10
65	231	What thief in his right mind would risk the impaling poles of the great Mintar? I am sure they did not know a cargo of Mintar was in question".	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	134	Outside one of these metal worker's shops, on racks and poles, hung a number of slave collars, slave bracelets, manacles, shackles, siriks, mixed chains, and various slave-holding devices, such as racks and spreaders.	10
30	48	The walls of the enclosure were not of stone or wood, but of brightly painted red-and-yellow canvas, suspended from high poles.	10
37	68	They usually have a narrow landing with mooring cleats, but often they will have one or two vertical, colorful, thick, capped, metal poles, rising from the canal itself, to which boats may be tethered.	10
38	164	Whereas holding poles differ amongst themselves, depending on accouterments, such as belly chains, neck collars, and bracelets, and the purposes to which they may be applied, the device in Dorna's cell was rather typical.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	39	Who would risk their lives on a blind ship? Who would be so foolish as to take such a ship to sea? The eyes of the seven ships were blackened over with paint, presumably administered from small boats in the night, possibly by means of paint-soaked rags or sponges fastened to poles.	10
24	32	Each of our men had filed, one at a time, behind the blanket raised and stretched on poles, on the other side of the fire.	10
24	45	Thurnock walked about the fire, to the blanket stretched on its poles, and tore it away.	10
40	41	Struggle to market your shoddy goods to gullible beasts, behind the poles of some flimsy palisade".	10
44	39	These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle.	10
50	97	"Do not underestimate the effects of jabbing, pointed metal poles, serrated blades, and white-hot irons affecting the Brigand Island," said Sakim, "nor the willingness of the mercenaries to kill it in their attempt to overtake us".	10