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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	94	"Goodbye, Sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days.	10
19	37	The high impaling post, normally visible on the top of the cylinder, had been lowered.	10
19	46	The point of the sharpened impaling post lay near her.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	148	I gathered that he had not enjoyed the performance of his duty, and that perhaps his heart lay with the rebels, but the pride of his caste had kept him at his post.	10
24	202	"Back to your post!" Other warriors in the blue helmets and gray tunics of Tharna had climbed to the top of the barricade, to see more clearly what befell.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	50	He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the High Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former High Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the Flame Death years earlier.	10

Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	361	She shook her hair as well as she could, bound to the post.	10
10	371	"You sleen! You filthy sleen! Come back! Come back!" I heard her pulling at the rings and kicking at the post.	10
26	3	Behind the walls we could hear, now and then, a sentry calling his post, answering another.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	147	The ship did not move, but remained as stationary in the sun and the whipping wind as though it were fixed on some invisible post or platform.	10
5	621	* * * * "I've got it now," said Elizabeth, who, kneeling before the slave ring, had been practicing my signature knot, using the ring as a post.	10
7	52	Once landed the tarns and baskets were moved back beneath the overhang, beneath which we took up our post as well.	10
17	203	The first sword of the military forces of Ar, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, second in authority only to Minus Tentius Hinrabius himself, was relieved of his post.	10
24	114	The palace guard, I had learned from Hup, would be, on a staggered basis, rotated, in order that the honor of serving the Ubar would be more broadly distributed, and, further, presumably, that no given faction of men could come, in time, to dominate the guards; the pay of the guards, incidentally, w...	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	560	"I am, of course, highly honored," I began, "that noble Samos should think of me, that he should nominate me, doubtless the lowliest of the captains here assembled, for a post of such distinction, that of bearing the peace of Port Kar to her hereditary enemies Cos and Tyros".	10
13	237	To one side, leaning against a heavy, roped post, supporting part of the structure of the slaves' wharf, cross-legged, there sat a fisherman.	10
16	342	Even before the man in the bow had tied the tharlarion-prowed longboat to a mooring post at the piazza, I had leaped up to the tiles and was striding, robes swirling, across the squares of the broad piazza toward the great door of the hall of the Council of Captains.	10
17	386	I threw him against the sternpost and his back and head struck against the post.	10

Book 7. (18 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	309	She tied the binding fiber securely about my left wrist, took the fiber behind the post, threaded it through the highest of the two metal rings, and then, jerking my right wrist back, bound it, too, fastening me to the post.	10
9	388	Then she untied the strap at my ankles, freeing them, and, drawing the strap about the post and through the two rings, released me from the post.	10
9	271	At the edge of the clearing, you will find a post.	10
9	290	I saw, at one side of the clearing, the post.	10
9	293	It was a rough post, barked.	10
9	295	It was a slave post.	10
9	301	She then threaded the leash through the ring, about three and a half feet high, behind the post, brought the leash about and looped it, from the left to the right, about my neck and then rethreaded it through the ring, pulling it tight.	10
9	302	I was bound by the neck to the post.	10
9	303	Then she threaded the free end of the leash through the lower of the two rings, passed it about my belly, and rethreaded it again through the same ring, keeping it tight, fastening me at the waist to the post.	10
9	304	With the free end of the leash, keeping it taut, she then lashed my ankles together behind the post.	10
9	354	I was Elinor Brinton! Though I might be stripped, though I might be tied to a slave post, I was greater and finer, and of nobler stock, than they.	10
9	368	I knelt by the post, very straight.	10
9	386	She untied my hands and then, behind my body, but not behind the post, rebound them, cruelly.	10
9	391	She said nothing, but turned angrily away, and led me from the post, following Verna and her band.	10
11	781	I saw the slave post to one side, where I had been tied.	10
13	672	She must then, if the master sees fit to grant her petition, at a word from him, run to the post.	10
16	138	Doubtless I would be cuffed and taken to a post, and knelt there, my back against it, opposite the low tying ring.	10
16	139	I would then be gagged, and have my wrists taken behind me, and bound there, together, behind the post, to the tying ring, that I might not even be able to rise to my feet, that I might be well held in place, on my knees, until it might please masters to free me, perhaps to work, perhaps to be beate...	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	331	Furthermore, I would post guards, downriver, to warn us of any approach, say, by longboats, from Laura.	10
8	260	I saw two men, in slave manacles, chained to a post of the gate.	10
8	295	It led to a ring on a post, sunk deeply into the ground.	10
8	296	I could not budge the post.	10
9	11	I saw, to one side of the clearing, a short, stout slave post, with two rings.	10
11	97	She had been stripped and, hands tied over her head to a post, had been given ten lashes.	10
11	104	After her beating, she had been left bound to the post for two Ahn.	10
11	105	When Marlenus ordered her freed from the post, he stood nearby.	10
11	474	But Marlenus dragged her past the whipping post.	10
12	29	That post was held by Samos.	10
15	315	It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city.	10

Book 9. (27 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	132	Her body, again, was struck against the post; her hands twisted in the binding fiber; her entire body rubbed on the post, in agony, pressing against it; tears burst from her eyes; she was on her tiptoes, pressing against the post; her thighs were on either side of the post; but the post did not yiel...	10
9	399	Her hands writhed in the bonds; her body pressed against the post; her left cheek was at the right side of the post.	10
6	332	Also, in the center, down its length are two long rows of posts, each post separated from the next by about seven feet, which support the roof.	10
7	3	The blade bit deep into the post.	10
7	5	"Put more back into it!" The men cried out with pleasure as the blade then, with a single stroke, split through the post.	10
7	12	Once more the great ax struck the post.	10
7	37	"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...	10
7	83	"Do you wish to go to the whipping post?" he asked.	10
7	84	This is a stout post, outside the hall, of peeled wood, with an iron ring near the top, to which the wrists of a bondmaid, crossed, are lashed over her head.	10
7	85	Near the bosk shed there is a similar post, with a higher ring, used for thralls.	10
7	146	"Run to the whipping post," he said.	10
7	149	He would be stripped and bound, wrists over his head, to the post at the bosk shed.	10
8	28	On each post of the chair, carved, was the head of a snarling sleen.	10
9	111	Then he said to the bondmaids, "Take her to the whipping post".	10
9	112	The bondmaids, laughing, dragged Hilda to the post, stout, of peeled wood, which stood outside the hall.	10
9	114	Her breasts were against the post; she could not place her heels on the ground.	10
9	128	The first stroke threw her against the post; I saw the astonishment in her eyes, then the pain; the daughter of Thorgard seemed stunned; then she howled in misery; it was only then that she realized what the whip might do to a girl.	10
9	143	The last five blows were delivered with her hanging in the binding fiber, her body against the post, her face to one side of it.	10
9	144	She was then released from the post and fell to her hands and knees.	10
9	146	Yet I did not think it would be soon that the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar would wish to find herself again at the post.	10
9	269	I heard her moan, and rub her body on the post.	10
9	383	I followed the sound of the voice and, to my delight, as Ottar had left her, she slipping his mind apparently, as she had mine, her hands still tied before her, about the post, kneeling in the dirt, was Olga.	10
9	396	I heard her body move against the post.	10
9	401	And then, her hands tied about the post, we both kneeling, I caressed her.	10
9	408	I untied her hands from the post, taking, too, the rope from her belly, by which Ottar had fastened her to his belt, but left the rope on her right wrist, its free end in my hand, to lead her.	10
10	424	Dagmar had, two months ago, stolen a piece of cheese from Pretty Ankles; she had been beaten for that, at the post, fastened there by Ottar and switched by Pretty Ankles, until Pretty Ankles had tired of switching her; too, she had not been found sufficiently pleasing by several of the Forkbeard's o...	10
14	200	The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le...	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	121	Indeed, women are sometimes tied in much the same fashion, kneeling back against such a post or tree, their hands tied together over their head and behind the post or tree.	10
2	82	There were many walled, guarded warehouses, requiring their staffs of scribes and guards, and, in hundreds of hovels, lived kaiila tenders, drovers, and such, who would, at the caravan tables, when their moneys had been exhausted, apply, if accepted, making their mark on the roster, once more for a ...	10
25	525	I took her wrists and pulled them forward, to the two posts, some six inches apart, part of the branding rack, putting them in the snap bracelets which dangled there, one from each post.	10

Book 11. (27 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	1112	But I could not be more a slave than now if I were chained to a whipping post and the lash being laid upon me.	10
9	816	This might easily suggest, again perhaps only on a subconscious level, that I might be removed from the post, have my hands tied behind my back, and be led away, like a tethered tabuk doe, to the master's pleasure.	10
9	820	Startled, suddenly frightened, I clutched the post.	10
9	824	The man had seen the reaction of a beautiful, startled slave girl, bound at a post.	10
9	881	I felt shamed at the post.	10
9	897	He caressed my flanks, and I held the post.	10
9	899	Suddenly, without warning, he touched me, and I cried out, my body thrusting against the post, my hands clutching it, my eyes closed.	10
9	914	Then I cried out, and began to writhe at the post.	10
9	917	"Please, stop Master!" He withdrew his hands and I shuddered against the post, fearing only that he might again so touch me.	10
9	932	I reddened, bound at the post.	10
9	941	"Hold to the post," he said.	10
9	946	I held tightly to the post, as commanded, that the rope collar I wore, fastened to the piling, would not pull against my throat.	10
9	951	I tensed at the post.	10
9	954	He touched me, and I cried out, tears in my eyes, squirming, thighs grasping the post, turning my head, biting at the wood with my teeth.	10
9	964	I clung to the post, slave meat.	10
9	1036	He pulled my small hands, bound, out from the post, and rubbed his thumbs into my palms.	10
9	1043	I thrust myself against the post, eyes closed.	10
9	1110	I was startled, kneeling in the dirt at the post, my hands bound about it.	10
9	1147	"Come away from the post," she said to Ladletender.	10
9	1148	They left me tied at the post.	10
9	1155	I did move a bit about the post where I might look, as though inadvertently, at the pair of free persons at the wagon.	10
9	1159	I then turned about at the post, so that they would not know I had observed them, and continued to relish the candy.	10
9	1160	In a short time Melina returned and untied me from the post, and, to my surprise, removed the long rope, though not the rope collar, from my neck.	10
9	1253	I would have been willing to be anything he had wanted at the post, anything to interest him, anything to escape Tabuk's Ford, but he and Melina, in their cleverness, had manipulated me in such a way that I was unable to be anything but what I was, an Earth-girl slave whose passions put her helpless...	10
28	423	"Put me at a post, Master!" I lay on the block on my stomach, my hands over my head.	10
29	12	The ring was mounted on a post, about a yard high.	10
29	13	She stood at the post, naked, tethered there, her hands fastened behind her back, at the foot of the Four Lamps bridge.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	10	Their small wrists, by means of slave bracelets and a ring at the top of the post, were fastened behind them and to the post.	10
3	977	"These four wenches," said the slaver's man, expansively, indicating the small coffle, "are comely candidates for such a post".	10
4	34	Tied by the neck to the foot of a post, one of several supporting one of the long, high platforms near the palisade, kneeling, naked, their hands tied behind them, were two slave girls.	10
4	64	Below, the red hunter freed the kneeling, tethered girls of the post.	10
5	137	"I think you should remain at your post," I said.	10
29	96	"You betrayed your post," I told him.	10
29	97	"I keep my post in my own way," he said.	10
30	9	There was an upright iron post, about a yard in height, on each platform, behind each girl.	10
30	56	Tina was released from the post, and fled to him, but stopped short, the point of his blade at her belly.	10
30	69	Tina was dragged in her collar and slave silk to the post.	10
30	72	She was again fastened at the iron post, this time kneeling beside it, her hands lifted above her face.	10
30	189	The man who had been in charge of the combat then released Arlene from the iron post.	10
30	223	Arlene was dragged to the iron post and knelt beside it.	10
30	225	Then she knelt as did Tina, as what she was, as a slave girl, at the post, with her hands lifted and fastened above her head to the ring.	10

Book 13. (36 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	125	"Go sit by the slave post," I said to her, referring to that slim tree to which the other girls were secured, which served us as slave post, "and cross your wrists behind you".	10
4	102	There seemed to be something going on now at the post of the wharf praetor, so I returned to that area.	10
18	36	He has maintained his post.	10
27	78	Individual tethers ran from the bound wrists of each girl to a low, stout, sunken slave post at one side of the hut.	10
27	113	She lay at his feet, on her side, terrified, blood at her mouth, her wrists bound behind her, the line on them taut to the slave post.	10
27	134	He loosened her tether from the slave post and carried her, wrists still bound behind her back, to the side of the hut.	10
27	149	The first blond-haired girl, not she who had been Janice Prentiss, whom I have referred to as the blond-haired barbarian, knelt at the end of her tether, her wrists extended behind her, bound, their line taut to the slave post.	10
27	156	The blond-haired barbarian, her wrists tied behind her, tethered to the same post, sat nearby, angrily, in the dirt.	10
27	282	I thought that, in a few days, it might well be she who would crawl kneeling to the end of her tether, her bound wrists extended behind her, the line taut to some slave post, and beg, perhaps weeping, the touch of a master.	10
27	286	She now, too, like the other girls, lay sleeping in the dirt, her wrists tied behind her, tethered to the slave post.	10
29	128	I then tied the free end of the tether about the slave post, or tree, fastening her to it.	10
31	73	A five-foot line, lying loosely behind her, ran from her bound wrists to the slave post, to which it tethered her.	10
31	107	In the filtered moonlight, in the hut, tethered to the slave post, she again lifted her head.	10
31	109	She pulled toward me, on her knees, her wrists extended behind her, tethered to the slave post.	10
31	120	Slowly, softly, she crept back to the vicinity of the slave post, and lay down.	10
32	154	Tende and Alice were already, hands tied behind them, wrist-tethered to the small tree which served us as slave post.	10
32	250	But surely she knew it was nearly time for me to tie her at the slave post.	10
32	256	"Go sit with your back to the slave post, in binding position," I said.	10
32	1122	"Go to the slave post," I said.	10
32	1123	"Sit there, with your back to the post, your hands crossed behind your back".	10
32	1146	I fastened the free end of the binding fiber to the slave post, and stood up.	10
34	518	"I note that this night," she said, "you did not fasten me to a small tree, as to a slave post, but that you prepared a slave stake".	10
35	121	"If you are so pleasing," she said, "then why is it that it is you who are trussed and tethered like a domestic tarsk at the slave post and it is I who lie free by my master's side?" Alice fought her bonds, and wept.	10
35	126	I then took a line and tied Janice's hands behind her back and threw her to her side at the slave post.	10
35	127	By the free end of the line I tethered her, like Alice, to the post.	10
37	14	She would cry alone at night, secured to the slave post, until Kisu, by a word, or kick or blow, would silence her.	10
40	5	Her hands were tied behind her, a line running to the small tree which served us in the camp as slave post.	10
43	38	"There is another!" Now, on the shore, standing at a post, chains about her body, we saw a blond girl.	10
43	72	"Too," I said, "she, like the girl at the post, there on the shore, wore clothing and ornaments.	10
43	93	Consider the girl at the post.	10
43	95	You must understand that a post is often used to display a girl, not merely to secure her.	10
43	100	"How long have you been at the post?" I called to her.	10
43	105	Does she truly seem to have been at the post for two days?" "No, Master," said Janice.	10
43	106	"Too," I said, "had she been at the post overnight is it not likely that tharlarion would have discovered her and eaten her from the chains?" "Yes, Master," said Janice.	10
43	128	In the prow of the first canoe was the blond girl who had seemed to be chained at the post.	10
45	15	She was the girl who had feigned being chained at the post, to lure us into a trap.	10

Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	97	He had doubtless gone about his duties, whatever they might be, and the guards had returned to their post.	10
20	84	Then suddenly it seemed that the gunni were again on my hands and that I stood in the training barn before the great post.	10
20	87	Did not Kenneth hold the vial of sand? Blows it seemed I rained with an avalanche of lead on the reeling post shuddering in its braces.	10
20	90	I lunged against the post, inches from it, blow after blow.	10
20	91	Then spitting blood from my mouth, my legs covered to the knees with sweat and sand, pounding, laughing, exultant, terrible, I saw the post shatter away, falling from me.	10
25	173	I could conceive of the post in the training barn shattering.	10
34	34	"Take her to the whipping post," said a man to another slaver's man, who was holding a girl by the arm, her wrists tethered before her body.	10
34	41	She shuddered, and looked after the miserable slave, being conducted to the whipping post.	10
34	48	This misunderstanding, of course, is easily dispelled at a whipping post.	10
34	54	The girl was already being tied at the post.	10
34	61	We heard the lash falling on a girl, doubtless the one recently tied at the post.	10
34	73	She was then untied from the post.	10
34	75	She clung to the post in disbelief.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	49	"They fear that their post will be subjected to attack".	10
33	114	I was pleased to hear that Callisthenes had taken up his post at the south guard station.	10

Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	174	Callimachus descended from the stem castle, leaving his officer at that post.	10
2	196	"I will kill the first man who deserts his post," I said.	10
3	66	Twenty others lay to in the waters near the south guard station, which post was held by Callisthenes.	10
3	114	He would not be lured from his post.	10
6	159	Callisthenes must have abandoned his post.	10
15	32	Tomorrow, as a participant in our naval exercises, in our projected maneuvers, designed to celebrate our victory, perhaps we shall permit you to return to your post upon the shearing blade".	10
20	336	"But it would be my hope that Callimachus, who was once first captain, may be prevailed upon to resume that post".	10
20	1175	"Are you not to return to Port Cos, to replace Callisthenes, to become High Captain?" "That post is yours, my friend, Calliodorus," said Glyco.	10
20	2070	I had also, however, purchased a set of lock clips, which are useful in some chaining situations or out-of-doors, where, say, one would not wish a stranger to be able to gag the slave, undo the clips and carry her off from where, perhaps, she has been chained to a post.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	139	Originally it had been a trading post, maintained by the Haskins Company, a company of Merchants, primarily at Thentis.	10
3	146	The fort now serves primarily as a trading post, maintained by the caste of Merchants, from Thentis, an interesting recollection of the origins of the area.	10

Book 18. (46 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	461	Her ankles were roped back against the post; at the waist, too, she was fastened to it, the rawhide ropes deep in her belly, and deep, too, in the notch behind the post; her neck, too, was tied to the post; and her hands, as well, in tight, rawhide loops, rather at her sides and slightly behind her.	10
44	7	To be sure, she was not tied with her belly against the post and her hands over her head, out of the way of the lash, or kneeling, her hands tied in front of her, about the post, common whipping positions.	10
44	36	"To what do we owe this extraordinary privilege," she asked, "that we are permitted this view, this fresh air, that we have been relieved of our hoods and our bonds in the prison lodge?" I looped the rope twice about her neck and then three times more under her chin and about the post, slipping it d...	10
12	330	Imagine my surprise when, standing on the front porch of my small trading post, I saw my five men, afoot, bound and gagged, each dragging a travois, returning from the Ihanke.	10
12	337	One of the Dust Legs showed it to me, and then pointed to it, and then to me, and then threw it on the porch of the trading post.	10
44	1	Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post.	10
44	6	She shrank back, her back against the post.	10
44	8	I then crouched down and roped her ankles, closely, to the post.	10
44	10	"It is undignified for me to be tied to a post".	10
44	21	I then, looping rope about Iwoso's belly, twice, snugly, pulled her back against the post, roping her closely to it.	10
44	22	There was a deep notch in the back of the post, into which the rope fitted, to prevent slippage.	10
44	25	Bloketu, naked, was already bound to the first post.	10
44	40	I then jerked tight the knot, the rope secure in its notch, behind the post.	10
44	41	Iwoso's head, like Bloketu's, was then roped back helplessly against the post.	10
44	62	On her neck, thrust up, over the ropes holding her neck to the post, she still wore Iwoso's collar.	10
44	65	She stood before me, roped to the post, absolutely helpless in her bonds.	10
44	96	It was not easy for her to do so now, her head held back so closely against the post.	10
44	108	"Too," she said, "do you not think I could see all the lodges when I was being brought to the post?" "I suppose it does not make any difference that you know about it," I said, "as you are a prisoner.	10
44	157	"I am only a captive woman," she said, poutingly, lowering her eyes, "one stripped and roped to a post, one whom you can uncompromisingly view, one who cannot protect herself, one who is absolutely helpless before you".	10
44	168	She thrust her body toward me, pressing it piteously, squirmingly, against the ropes that bound it to the post.	10
44	179	"Is it my understanding," I asked, "that you wish to serve at the post, as a slave might, licking and kissing?" "Yes!" she said.	10
44	194	Hci, interestingly, was not very far away and, in a moment or two, he was approaching Iwoso's post.	10
44	196	"This woman," I said, "has begged to lick and kiss her captor, as a slave, at the post".	10
44	284	She trembled at the post "Well?" asked Hci.	10
44	299	Cuwignaka came over to the post.	10
44	310	I feared he was going to disembowel her at the post.	10
44	324	"You look well, Yellow-Knife slut," said he, "roped naked to a Kaiila post".	10
44	554	Then she stood disdainfully at the post, roped helplessly to it.	10
44	591	"What are you doing?" She struggled to see behind her but, because of the post and her neck bonds, could do so but very imperfectly.	10
44	675	She shrank back against the post.	10
44	709	Well pinioned to the post was the beauty.	10
44	733	Much of it was obscured by the narrow, coarse ropes which bound her neck back against the post.	10
44	804	She then shrank back against the post, terrified, awed at the enormity of what she had done.	10
44	840	Too, it was by him that she had found herself dominated, and so effectively and suitably, at the post.	10
44	863	"Do you beg as a captive to be released from the post?" asked Hci.	10
44	888	I then freed their hands from the post and, on either end of a common tether, I tied their hands together before their bodies.	10
46	3	I had tightened her neck bonds, pulling her head back against the post.	10
46	4	She was then bound to the post as she had been the previous day, helplessly, identically, as Hci had wished.	10
46	6	Bloketu was already bound to her post.	10
46	117	Iwoso shrank back against the post.	10
47	31	She was roped to her post, just as she had been the first two days.	10
47	174	As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke.	10
47	322	"You are finished!" Roped to the post as she was, she, too, was ignorant of the developments to the east.	10
47	448	Iwoso was white with terror, roped to her post, seeing the retreat of the Yellow Knives.	10
47	457	Iwoso, helplessly roped to her post, moaned.	10
50	129	"These things were confirmed at the post," she said, "when you taught me my sex, and your power!" Hci regarded her, not speaking.	10

Book 19. (20 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	2	The heavy belt, with the ring on it, through which the loose post strap passed, that strap looping the post and threaded through the belt ring, was put about my belly, and buckled shut, tightly, behind the small of my back.	10
27	3	I could now move easily about the post but, given the post strap and the belt ring, I could not be further than six inches from it.	10
1	512	"The second decision, that with respect to the more important post, so to speak, of necessity, must be made elsewhere".	10
1	522	"When do you think you will know," I asked, "—about the more important post?" "It will take at least several days," he said.	10
2	49	"Am I to gather that I have been found acceptable for what you spoke of as the more important position, or post, or something like that, then?" I asked.	10
2	60	"And if there should come a time in which your services are no longer required for this more important post, as I have put it, you might still, I am sure, meet the qualifications for this other thing".	10
8	210	She knelt behind the dark, smooth post, facing it, her knees on either side of it, her belly and breasts against it, her hands embracing it.	10
8	211	"This may be done to music," said Hermidorus, "and, as you know, there are many versions to the post dance, or pole dance, singly, or with more than one girl, with or without bonds, and so on, but here we are using it merely as a training exercise".	10
8	221	She was then as she had been before, kneeling behind the post, her knees on either side of it, her belly and breasts pressed against it, her hands embracing it.	10
8	223	She was wondering, perhaps, if I were the next to be put to the post.	10
8	230	I looked at the post.	10
8	235	She saw, I think, in my eyes, that I thought I could have done better at the post than she.	10
9	262	Twice he had requested to be relieved of his duties, to be assigned to a new post, but I had refused to grant this request.	10
16	61	I did not know when, or if, another wagon would arrive before daylight, one that might take the porter again from his post, giving me time to dig out under the gate.	10
17	94	I wondered if it might have something to do with the fact that I was not branded, or collared, or if it had to do perhaps with the sign on the post.	10
17	169	Later in the afternoon, after I had been fed and watered, standing in the shackles, I decided to once again essay the decipherment of the legend on the post.	10
27	1	School I was pulled to the post, close to it and facing it.	10
27	7	"Address yourself now to the post, Tiffany," he said.	10
33	332	"I was assigned the post of guarding one whom I at that time thought was Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus," said Drusus Rencius.	10
36	1374	Too, deception was involved in my post.	10

Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	103	Thirdly, she did not seem to have the hardness of a woman likely to be efficient in such a post.	10
8	101	"Sleeping at his post," said a man.	10
18	419	No one has left the corridor in the vicinity of their post".	10
18	423	"The eastern post," said a man.	10
18	438	"He did not pass their post," said the man.	10
19	1	A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium.	10
19	54	"You may return to your post," I told my guide.	10
20	20	Belnar had been fastened some five feet from the post by a stout chain.	10
20	49	I stood up and moved about the post.	10
20	124	It had not been tethered at the post.	10

Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	355	This horizontal post was mounted on a short vertical post, in the manner of a "T".	10
15	354	As he had her head pulled back her back was pulled back against the short, horizontal wooden post behind which her arms were hooked.	10
15	357	Her ankles were chained together, behind and about the vertical post.	10
15	485	She jerked back against the stout post.	10
19	247	There is a common myth, given their post in the city, that Taurentians are spoiled, and soft.	10
19	257	Such an appointment, of course, that of one of Tyros to such a post, later would have been unthinkable, given the developing frictions between Ar and Cos, and her mighty ally, Tyros, frictions largely consequent upon competitions in the valley of the Vosk.	10
25	1036	"When you are dismissed, if you are dismissed, return to your post," she said.	10

Book 22. (11 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	28	When I had knelt before a post, my hands behind me, chained back about the post, a helmet beside me, set in the sand, like a vessel, into which ostraka would be placed, men had come to look upon me.	10
3	857	Could I be remembering it, I wondered, from a sunlit shelf in Memphis, from a patio in Athens, from a post in Rome or a ring, cords on my wrists, in a women's quarters in Bokara, Basra, Samarkand or Baghdad? Had I felt it before, somewhere, or in many places, and never, even through a succession of ...	10
5	112	Our ankles were put in leather shackles, behind the vertical post.	10
5	113	Our arms were hooked over the horizontal post and fastened in front of us with straps and leather manacles, which buckled shut.	10
5	114	Our heads were then pulled back and, by our hair tied about the ring behind the post, held painfully in this position.	10
13	1114	Who do you think has undermined her?" "To how many of us have you offered the post of second girl?" I asked.	10
14	181	"She would not decline the post," I said.	10
20	310	"It was because of you," he laughed, "curvy little she-urt, that I lost my post in Brundisium".	10
25	238	Where was lazy Tela? If she wanted to court the wrist rings and chains, to be fastened on her knees to the center post of the tent, and whipped, that was her business, not mine! To be sure, this was not like Tela.	10
27	31	I strained forward, trying to kiss at his legs, but the chain on my wrists, pulling against the back of the post, held me back.	10
29	613	She fell back, her mouth bloody, by the post to my right, that supporting the rail on that side.	10

Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	264	I had used him, and the other, he between the command post and the west, the other between the command post and the east, as messengers, hoping in this way to keep them within the semblance of interior lines, out of the thickest fighting.	10
1	226	A common punishment where this mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him to a post, beat him with rods and then behead him.	10
1	441	A lantern was hung on a post ahead of me.	10
1	450	It surmounted a post which was at the right corner of the wagon bridge, over the moat, ascending toward the inn gate above me.	10
1	485	The lantern to my right, to the side, on its post, at the right side of the bridge, swung wildly in the rain and wind.	10
2	190	These latter structures were placed in post wells and bracing recesses, cut in the stone, sealed about with tar.	10
9	356	"Your thigh would probably look well, roped to a post, awaiting the branding iron," I said.	10
13	60	"Why do they not take us outside and chain us to a post?" she asked.	10
16	104	It would have made an excellent command post for Aemilianus, I thought, but, I gathered, he must be below, in the vicinity of the gate.	10
16	130	Hope would be springing up wildly within her, for the executioner not knowing who she was, and thinking she was the Lady Claudia, would presumably have simply put her on the spear and went about his business, probably, pulling off his mask, to some post on the wall.	10
17	106	I had taken up my post above the main gate, on the higher battlements, where the impaling spear was mounted, and the flag of Ar's Station still snapped defiantly.	10
17	107	This seemed to me the likely place for a command post.	10
17	267	My plan, even if successful, would keep the walkway, nearer the command post, only for a few Ehn.	10

Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	309	They, in their snatches of slave silk, sat, knelt or lay about a stout post which had been driven deeply into the ground to one side, to which post they were chained by the neck.	10
1	310	As more men entered the enclosure women were released from the post to assist in the serving.	10
1	312	Temione had been free of the post when I had arrived.	10
1	443	The chained girls shrank down, frightened, making themselves as small and inconspicuous as they could, close to the post.	10
1	474	The newcomer strode to the post.	10
1	566	Philebus unlocked even the holding collars on the neck chains of the girls at the post, that they, too, might participate in the serving.	10
3	102	This, of course, would not serve to extricate Dietrich from his post at Torcadino.	10
12	58	"It seems to me unusual," I said, "that such a woman, disowned, disinherited, surely once sequestered in the central cylinder, in disgrace, should be able to post an observer in the delta".	10
19	350	Her hair came down the post behind her, to the small of her back.	10
19	395	She pulled back, against the post.	10
28	418	Saphronicus had probably wanted a simple, trusting, reliable, tenacious, indefatigable officer in that post, one who would continue to doggedly carry his command deeper and deeper into the delta, regardless of what might appear to be the hazards or untenabilities of the situation.	10
46	296	In this one there was a woman chained by the neck to a post.	10
46	297	Other than this she was sitting with her back to the post in a common slave tie, her arms down between her thighs, her left wrist passing under her left calf and tied on the outside of her left ankle, the right wrist passing under the right calf and tied on the outside of the right ankle.	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	587	Then, angrily, she spun about, dancing, to return to her former post near the wall side of the Wall Road.	10
11	294	I have no wish to lose my post.	10
11	325	"It is a symbol of resistance, smeared on a wall, scratched on a flagstone, carved into a post, found inscribed on an unfolded napkin".	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	167	And for one such as I they might lead at best to the thonging of the wrists and the waiting at the post, for the lash.	10
30	71	"Neither of us may betray the honor of our post," said the officer.	10
31	315	"Such would seem to constitute a betrayal of my post".	10
31	473	Be mindful of your post, its honor, and your duty".	10
35	112	"The guards are not at their post," said the lieutenant.	10
38	249	"I betrayed my trust, my post, my oath to the city".	10
40	99	"So, too, have others, thousands of others!" "I have betrayed my trust, my post.	10
41	4	This evening she had had Tima and Tana tie me to the whipping post in the garden.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	140	She was invited to parties, occasionally, her academic post assured that, and was the recipient of various academic courtesies, received reprints, invitations to participate in colloquia, and such.	10
10	396	The guard came forward, from near the door, where he had kept his post.	10
24	147	This was the second whip master, he who had his post within the preparation enclosure.	10
27	1641	"Why are you not at your post?" asked Selius Arconious.	10
27	2088	There was suddenly a sound, a striking, as of a fist struck quickly, sharply, yet softly, into a chest, and the soldier atop the tharlarion wagon, he surveying the prairie, stiffened, stood unnaturally still for a moment, and then, half turning, knees buckling, tumbled from the surface of his post, ...	10
30	126	In a few moments she was again at her post, kneeling, and the men were once again in converse.	10
30	169	She was barely aware of her wrists being freed from the post, though they remained bound together.	10
30	170	She then lay under the post on her stomach, her bound wrists stretched out, moaning, sobbing.	10
30	171	Then she felt herself dragged on her belly through the wood chips and grass under the post and toward the center of the tarsk pen.	10

Book 28. (36 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
74	87	On a nearby post hung a damp, bulging bag, and, on a nail driven into the same post, on a small string, hung a small metal cup.	10
76	35	Following her return, the third time, he took her to a stout post, some six feet high, with two rings, one high, one low, at the side of the camp, one he had had placed there earlier, indeed, with she, the errant slave, in mind, knelt her before it and then braceleted her hands behind the post, and,...	10
79	77	When she had reached the post, he said, "Kneel, facing the post".	10
79	89	"I am of Earth! You cannot be serious!" "I have not fastened you standing at the post," he said, "your hands over your head, for I feared you might be driven against the post, and injured".	10
22	102	"Would you rather I had strung the coins on a post?" asked Peisistratus.	10
50	59	In moments the slave, stripped, her wrists crossed and bound, and fastened over her head, to a stout, overhanging branch, that her beauty might be protected, that she might not be dashed against a post or tree trunk, was in whip position.	10
62	3	He had a power weapon at this place, but it was not assigned to him but to the post itself.	10
69	170	"Put up a discipline post, somewhere aside, in the camp," said Cabot, "to which a slave might be tied".	10
69	172	"It will be good for our girls to see such a post".	10
71	19	"You were doubtless making your way to some enclave or post when caught," said Cabot.	10
74	116	He could split a post with an ax hurled from fifteen Kur paces, which is approximately twenty human paces.	10
76	42	She tried to pull out a bit from the post, and thrust her belly toward him.	10
76	50	The slave fought the bracelets; she turned her head back and forth, in frustration, in the chain leash that held her head back, against the post.	10
76	61	Before retiring he again visited the slave, and rebraceleted her hands before her, and about the post, and fastened the chain leash in such a way that she could lift her head no more than a foot from the ground.	10
76	62	She turned, as she could, to view him, and raised her head to the extent permitted by the leash, it shortened and locked about the lower post ring.	10
77	246	He dragged her to the post of discipline.	10
77	249	He struck the ax lightly into the post, that its handle was within an easy grasp, and it was lightly held in the wood.	10
77	255	He then turned her about and thrust her, belly to the wood, against the post.	10
77	256	In a moment, passing the slave bracelets through the high ring, he had fastened her to the post, her hands above her head.	10
77	283	The slave, braceleted at the post, jerked and jerked at the snug steel on her wrists.	10
77	285	The steel, the links, the ring, the post, such things, were not designed to concede the least possibility of escape to their selected prisoners.	10
77	288	Cabot lifted his ax above his head, such a comparatively tiny, frail thing, to hold back the haft of Flavion's pressing ax, and Cabot was forced down, to one knee, miserably, and then he rolled to the side, and Flavion's struck at him sidewise and a great shower of dirt leapt from the ground, scatte...	10
78	2	Both were chained by an ankle to the discipline post.	10
78	134	"He has chained me to a post!" "Wait until tomorrow night," said Corinna.	10
78	147	Lord Grendel had won one of the agons of the ax in one of the festival games, splitting a post, at a distance of some fifteen Kur paces, which would correspond, approximately, to some twenty human paces.	10
79	1	The Litany; Cecily Better Learns her Collar, At the Discipline Post; The Feast; Cecily Dances; Some Account of What Later Occurred Between a Master and his Slave "Kneel," said Cabot, "there".	10
79	72	"Have you done so?" "Master?" "To all fours," he said, angrily, "and crawl to the post of discipline".	10
79	74	Then she said, quickly, "Yes, Master!" And crawled, her master on his feet beside her, to the foot of the post.	10
79	75	She was familiar with the post.	10
79	79	He braceleted her left wrist and passed the other bracelet through the post's lower ring and then snapped it about her right wrist.	10
79	80	She was then before the post, kneeling, fastened to it.	10
79	96	"If you wish," he said, "you may brace your hands against the post, or your shoulder, to prevent being dashed against it.	10
79	110	"In this way they will not be bruised, or torn, as they might be, against a post, or a wall, such things.	10
79	195	Perhaps, too, they would have enjoyed seeing her at the post, earlier in the afternoon, being punished for having been displeasing.	10
79	197	Cabot had left her there for an Ahn, and had then freed her from the post, that she might assist her collar sisters in preparing the feast.	10
79	270	After she had been whipped she had lain in the dirt, at the post, "I have been whipped," she had whispered to herself.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	60	In this fashion signals could be relayed from post to post, rather in the nature of beacons on the Vosk.	10
25	15	One post or another might be passed.	10
25	86	How marvelous is the property female! I passed a post.	10
25	128	"Remain at your post," I said.	10
25	161	"You will all remain at your post," I said.	10

Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1100	My ankles were then crossed and bound behind the post, and fastened to a ring there, and my wrists were crossed and bound, too, behind the post, and fastened to a second ring there.	10
2	107	It is rumored that there were gigantic dragons of the sea, prodigious monsters, lurking beyond the farther islands, aquatic prodigies guarding the end of the world, set there by Priest-Kings, as one might post guard sleen about the perimeter of a camp, but this thing, in the glimpse we had had, was ...	10
3	1088	' The leader then said, 'Take her out back and tie her to a slave post.	10
3	1099	I was knelt, my back to the post.	10
3	1101	They then withdrew, and I knelt at the post.	10
3	1115	What was to occur then? Clearly it must have to do with me! "So in the moonlight, in the abandoned stable yard, kneeling, tied to a slave post, I waited".	10
3	1250	'You would have me believe this is a free woman?' he asked, thrusting my head back against the slave post.	10
3	1276	'Take her to a whipping post,' he said, 'and lash her.	10
9	145	I would later learn that this standing at one's post, this adherence to duty, was typical of the Pani.	10
19	134	It was not that I feared to leave my post, or feared to be flogged, or killed, for doing so.	10
22	223	A given body, held erect, constituted a post, barrier, or hurdle, behind which a column of crouching men might shelter themselves.	10
26	1	What Occurred in the Courtyard of the Castle of Lord Temmu It had been a good cast, from twenty yards, the javelin into the heavy post set in the courtyard.	10
26	69	Each is chained by the ankle to a post which protrudes through a prepared aperture in the mat.	10
30	55	Seremides, prior to his crippling in the Vine Sea, had been liaison to Lord Okimoto, a post now held by Tyrtaios.	10
36	79	"Indeed, he was later denounced explicitly by the cripple, Rutilius of Ar, who had been succeeded in his post as liaison for Lord Okimoto by the same fellow, Tyrtaios.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	28	One sort of slave, however, is likely to be more visible in a stadium, a certain sort of stadium, a "stadium of blades," a more vulgar, violent milieu, the sort helplessly chained naked to a post, a sack of gold tied about her neck, she and it prizes to be awarded to a successful fighter.	10
18	210	"Am I to be put on the common chain at the camp, or am I to be fastened to the slave post, nearer the wagons, with Jane and Eve, or am I to be merely left in the slave wagon, shackled to the central bar, or what?" "Have you ever been in a paga tavern?" he asked.	10
18	246	* * * * It was after dark when I approached the slave post.	10
18	250	I could not well see the slaves, but, when they moved, I could hear the linkages which secured them to the post.	10
18	252	Further, the left ankle of each was chained to the post, as well.	10
18	284	"Food is included in the post fee," he said.	10
18	289	Eve and Jane knelt by the post to which they were fastened, their heads down.	10
18	295	At the post slaves are chained nude.	10
18	299	Here they were Gorean slave girls, naked, chained to a post.	10
18	875	"There are two others chained to a slave post, in our wagon camp," said Astrinax.	10
20	259	They had been double chained to the slave post in the Venna camp.	10
26	171	If no such "post" were available, we were shackled to one another, Jane's left ankle to my right ankle, and my left ankle to Eve's right ankle.	10
44	95	"In any event, they are not likely to leave their post".	10
47	92	Then he returned to his post, with his fellow, by Desmond of Harfax.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	103	Could honor be retained in the face of defeat, even rout? If the stories were true, of triumph, and such, where was their wealth, their spoils? Surely, for whatever reason, or reasons, justified or unjustified, an inhospitable reception not unoften awaited them Some, even regulars managing to return...	10
33	69	Sometimes, in concert, bands of Panther Women will attack a small caravan in the forest or an outlying trading post on the coast.	10
50	367	At each side of this platform was a post to which was attached a slave ring.	10
50	368	I was knelt near the post at the right and my leash was looped about the slave ring.	10
50	418	But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post.	10
50	442	I had erred earlier, by the post at the head of the stairway, but it had been difficult to rise to my feet, bound as I was.	10
52	903	I had seen men playing near the dock, hurling knives into an upright plank or post.	10

Book 33. (24 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	197	The cry of the guardsman was echoed, from post to post.	10
12	130	"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ...	10
1	319	"Lord Temmu might appoint him to such a post," I said.	10
5	20	"You may soon return to your post of spy for Lord Nishida, monitoring the whereabouts and behaviors of Tarl Cabot".	10
17	95	The target was a bundle of straw, tied to a post, the bundle shaped into the likeness of a man.	10
17	106	As we spoke, an attending Ashigaru was withdrawing the arrows from the post behind the straw.	10
17	142	The Ashigaru who had withdrawn the arrows from the post to which the target was affixed had now brought them back to Lord Yamada, and placed them in the stand which reposed to the shogun's right.	10
24	54	"It seems a pity to relieve him of his post for so small an indiscretion, particularly in the light of his experience, knowledge, and diligence".	10
46	41	"Put her on her feet, tie her to the post," said a man.	10
46	42	The slave was yanked to her feet, and, sobbing, thrust back against a post, and, with several loops of rope, bound in place.	10
46	43	"Tie her head back, by the hair, against the post," said a fellow.	10
46	180	She had her head back, pressed against the post, and her eyes closed tightly.	10
46	191	"I did not understand that! If a nondescript peasant, a lowly one, can do it, so can anyone! Bring another grain of rice!" The magician, with one movement of the field sword, severed the knot of hair which held the slave's head back, against the post.	10
46	192	Her head, she unconscious, fell forward, some cut hair falling about the post.	10
46	193	His blade then entered itself amongst the ropes which bound her, and they leaped away from her body, and she slumped to the foot of the post.	10
46	199	The magician then placed it half in a tiny crack in the post, about where the girl's forehead would have been.	10
46	202	With a cry of rage the officer drew his field sword, poised it, and struck at the post.	10
46	203	The blade had entered the post half a hort from the grain of rice, and sunk a full hort into the wood.	10
47	7	"It was not thought so," said Nodachi, not moving within the ropes which held his body bound to the post, his hands free, in the exercise yard.	10
47	185	The crowd, including we four prisoners, then withdrew from the post to which Nodachi was bound, his hands free.	10
47	283	Even as we cried out with astonishment and pleasure, and Lord Yamada, shaken, tried to grasp what had occurred, Nodachi thrust the companion sword amongst the ropes which fastened him to the post, and the ropes parted, darting to the sides, as though fleeing from the blade.	10
57	247	At night this arrangement will be in place, and you will be tied by the neck to some post, or convenient object, as well".	10
60	374	"The post is yours," said Lord Yamada.	10
61	400	"I left her at the camp," he said, "chained by the neck to a post".	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	16	I recalled the post of Decius Albus in the administration of the city.	10
50	132	Indeed, given the complacency of Kurii, and their contempt for humans, they had not even seen fit to post guards, a laxity that was doubtless remedied by now.	10
63	43	A kaiila, with a post rider, raced by.	10
63	45	Occasionally we saw a tarn in flight, it, too, with its post rider.	10
63	46	Cities maintain their post riders.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	222	Goreans, bond and free, are eager for news, but the channels of its conveyance, for the populace at large, it lacking post riders and hired informants, tend to be unreliable and haphazard.	10
40	127	It was hard to conceive of a post more perilous.	10
43	187	"Turn back then, to decorate an impaling post," said Seremides.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	49	Thurnock called these instructions back to our keleustes, whose post was close to the foot of the steps leading down from the stern deck, his drum on its stand between the two helmsmen.	10
5	73	This had been determined by means of a Builder's Glass, from the ringed lookout post on the raised, socketed mast.	10
38	5	He deems himself wrongfully denied the High Admiralty of Cos, the post of High Admiral of the Cosian naval forces.	10
38	11	"I do not know if it is unwarranted or not," said Thurnock, "but to despise so high a post on Thera, the Admiral of a Fleet, suggests a mighty vanity and an ambition that might fly with tarns".	10
44	119	"I shall return to my post," said Thrasymedes.	10
59	45	"Nicomachos advised the scribes what to post," said a bystander, who had overheard our conversation.	10