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Rain

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	177	These beasts, yoked in braces, were drawing mighty wagons, filled with merchandise protected under the lashings of its red rain-canvas.	10
16	45	The city would now have to depend primarily on its private wells and the hope of rain.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	44	I smelled rain in the air.	10
4	58	Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with...	10
4	65	I replaced the helmet, it bright, and then dark, running with rain.	10
4	73	In spite of the icy wind and rain I could feel the heat of the stones through my sandals.	10
4	76	I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ...	10
4	87	A shudder involuntarily shook me, though I do not know if this was due to the cold and the rain or the sight of the long, furred lizardlike body that lay at my feet.	10
8	70	A slight rain had begun to fall.	10
8	123	The light drizzle of rain, almost a gray mist matching the miserable solemnity of Tharna, had not abated, and had, by now, soaked through my garments.	10
9	1	The Kal-Da Shop Standing there on the bridge, in the rain, facing the obsequious, hooded conspirator, I felt suddenly sad.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	51	If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	14	I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...	10
21	17	In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green...	10
21	190	I watched the merchant wagon, large and heavy, wide, with planked sides painted alternately white and gold, covered with a white and gold rain canvas.	10
21	314	Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the...	10
23	152	And even the sky seemed dark for a moment as, from the left and right, thousands upon thousands of arrows fell like dark rain among the startled, stumbling, turning Paravaci.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	600	Then she had lain down on a flat piece of rain canvas which Al-Ka and I had rolled about her, and, concealed in this fashion, we had carried her to the wagon.	10
5	602	There Al-Ka would release Elizabeth from the rain canvas and busy himself with the wagon.	10
5	604	Then he would change the white and gold rain canvas to a covering of blue and yellow silk.	10

Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	145	And then the sleet became only pelting rain, and the rain became only a cruel wind, and then the cruelty of the wind yielded to only the cold rushing air at the fringe of the storm's garment.	10
1	7	Immediately following I saw the water seem to glitter for a moment, a rain of yellowish streaks beneath the surface, in the wake of the water tharlarion, doubtless its swarm of scavengers, tiny water tharlarion, about six inches long, little more than teeth and tail.	10
6	26	Suddenly there fell among us a rain of crossbow bolts.	10
8	166	I was no longer worthy of the red of the warrior, no longer worthy of serving the Home Stone of my city, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning; it seemed to me then that there were only winds and strengths, and the motions of bodies, the falling of rain, the movements of bacilli, the beating of hearts...	10
13	220	The shops were shuttered with wood, and the wood was still stained dark from the night's rain.	10
13	224	He was a large man in the rough rain robes of the peasant.	10
15	646	Enraged I took the bag of gold, what was left of it, and hurled it out into the hall, spilling a rain of golden tarn disks before it struck the tiles.	10
17	437	"Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a...	10
18	612	As one their arrows leaped to the string, as one the great bows bent, and I saw Ho-Hak on the height of the wall bring down his arm with a cry, and I saw, like sheets of oblique rain, the torrent of gull-feathered shafts leap toward the keep.	10

Book 7. (19 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	355	It was raining outside, and I could hear the rain beat on the squarish roof of red rain canvas stretched over our heads.	10
6	45	Here, among the rocks, I found a tiny pool of rain water.	10
6	53	Not far away, in another outcropping of rock, I found another pool of trapped rain water.	10
6	241	Further, as I could see now, it had been burned at the edges and was, in another area, stained from smoke and rain.	10
6	325	Targo said something to the girl, Lana, and the stinging rain of leather stopped.	10
7	159	The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with red rain canvas.	10
7	357	I snuggled down again on the folded canvas beneath my body and, with a rustle of chain, listening to the rain, soon fell asleep again.	10
8	21	The canvas was damp, and stained from the dew and fog, and an early morning rain.	10
8	316	There had been rain recently in Laura and the yard was muddy, but I found it more pleasant than the stuffy interior of the dormitory.	10
11	798	The prevailing northern winds, carrying rain and moisture, had coated the northern sides of the high trees with vertical belts of moss, extending some twenty to thirty feet up the trunks.	10
11	816	Then, to my joy, I felt a drop of rain on my naked body, and then another.	10
11	818	In the forest, tied, bound, in the icy rain, I threw back my head and laughed.	10
11	820	The rain would wipe out my trail! I might escape the beast! I doubted that even a sleen, Gor's most perfect hunter, could follow my trail after such a downpour.	10
11	821	I laughed, and laughed, and then, crouching, hid in some brush, trying to protect myself from the rain.	10
11	822	After some two hours the rain stopped and I crawled out from the brush and again continued my way southward.	10
11	987	They would not have been able to follow my trail after the rain.	10
12	103	I turned about, kneeling, twisting the ankle chain, and dug with my fingers under the edge of the rain canvas.	10
12	105	I lifted up an edge of the rain canvas and peeped through.	10
12	123	The other girls, too, watched excitedly, all of them coming to my side of the wagon, wedging among us, lifting up the rain canvas, peeping out.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	345	Canvas sheets, like rough awnings on stakes, are tied to the Tesephone, and these provide shade from the sun and protection in the case of rain.	10
8	34	They love the sky, the plains, the sea, the rain in the summer, the snow in winter.	10
22	958	In time there would be only ashes, and they would be swept away in the rain and the wind.	10
22	999	In the morning there would be only ashes, and they would be swept away in the rain and the wind.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	163	To protect goods or men from the rain or sun a large rectangle of boskhide, on stakes, tentlike, stretched to cleats on the gunwales, is sometimes used.	10
2	164	This same rectangle of boskhide may be used, dropped between the gunwales, to collect rain water.	10
13	160	"It will last many months, even against rain".	10
14	151	Kurii themselves, axes like sheets of iron rain, shattered that fearful throng, splitting it into hundreds of screaming fragments of terror.	10
15	301	"If the Kurii are above us," I said, recalling the rain of stones, "is this not our opportunity to descend?" "Kurii corner their prey," said the Forkbeard.	10
17	47	Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator.	10

Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	528	An English transliteration, though not a perfect one, would be rather along the lines of "Ahl-yieh-ain-nah," where the "ain" is pronounced such that it would rhyme with the English expression "rain".	10
7	299	I had adjudged this by the blood rain on the scimitar, in its rivulets.	10
10	31	In such an area one often goes years without rain.	10
10	32	When rain does fall, however, sometimes it is fierce, turning the terrain into a quagmire.	10
11	30	Two days later there had been rain.	10
11	32	I had, at first, welcomed the clouds, and thrown back my burnoose to feel the swift, fierce rain pelt my face.	10
11	36	There is little rain erosion in the Tahari, with the result that there are few natural and ready paths to convey water.	10
11	38	Within minutes of the rain beginning to fall we had to dismount, to drag and pull our struggling, frightened kaiila toward the distant, higher ground.	10
11	41	"This is only the fourth time," he said, "I have seen rain".	10
11	48	I noted that Hassan's men had thrown blankets over the heads of the kaiila, to prevent them from seeing the storm, and keep rain from striking their faces, which phenomenon, frightening them, tends to make them unmanageable.	10
11	61	Within an Ahn after the cessation of the rain, the sun again paramount, merciless, in the now-cloudless sky, the footing was sufficiently firm, the water lost under the dust and sand, to support the footing of kaiila.	10
11	67	Suddenly, like darting, black, dry rain, the insects swarmed about us.	10
11	77	I did not find myself, however, longing for a swift return of rain.	10
21	79	In another place, that night, we found a narrow channel of baked mud, the dried bed of a tiny, vanished stream, of the sort which in the winter, should it rain, carries water for a few days.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	117	The two palanquins which had been carried, by ten men apiece, were within the camp, turned upside down, to protect them, I supposed, from dew or rain.	10
6	63	My inner nature, thus, was permitted to open its petals to the rain and sunlight of a clean, honest, glorious world.	10
9	1	Rain I cut at the soil with the hoe, chopping and loosening the dirt about the roots of the sul plant.	10
9	2433	I felt a drop of rain.	10
9	2438	Then more rain splashed into the dust.	10
9	2443	At last we waited, standing in the driving rain.	10
9	2457	The rain drove down from the sweet dark sky in torrents.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	173	They were being sold by merchants of Schendi, who had them from the rain forests of the interior.	10
3	386	It left deep tracks in the rain-softened earth.	10
11	51	Of the original force of Sorgus, some ninety-five men, fifty had succumbed to the fierce rain of steel-tipped arrows which had struck amongst them.	10
37	15	For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius.	10

Book 13. (36 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	193	"It flows west by northwest, entering the rain forests and emptying into Lake Ushindi, which lake is drained by the Kamba and the Nyoka rivers.	10
1	218	"And until the calculations of Ramani, and the expeditions of Shaba and Ramus, who had reason to believe otherwise?" "The rain forests closed the Cartius proper for most civilized persons from the south," I said, "and what trading took place tended to be confined to the ubarates of the southern shor...	10
5	597	Their herds are usually found in the savannas and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well.	10
6	566	It is not really dry but actually a season of less rain.	10
6	579	The reason for the great amount of rain in the equatorial regions is, I suppose, clear to all.	10
6	586	When the warm air reaches the upper atmosphere, well above the reflecting, heated surface of the earth, it cools; as it cools, its moisture is precipitated as rain.	10
6	590	There can be rain, of course, at other times, as well, depending on the intricate interplay of air currents, pressures, and temperatures.	10
11	144	They can be closed by a rod from the floor, in the case of rain or during the swarming seasons for various insects.	10
16	88	The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...	10
18	264	Behind and about him had swirled a gigantic cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest.	10
20	9	"At least it will not rust in the rain," I smiled.	10
23	169	It was about an Ahn after the late evening rain, somewhere about the twentieth Ahn.	10
29	1	Bark Cloth and Beads We sat about the small fire, some half pasang inland from the river, in the rain forest.	10
29	217	I was interested in the fauna of the river and the rain forest.	10
32	163	The jungle, from the heat and rain, steams with humidity.	10
32	164	Too, like the roof of a greenhouse, the lush green canopies of the rain forest tend to hold this moisture within.	10
32	176	There is an incredible variety of trees in the rain forest, how many I cannot conjecture.	10
32	183	In the rain forest some trees grow and lose leaves all year long, remaining always in foliage.	10
32	189	In the rain forest we may distinguish three separate ecological zones, or tiers or levels.	10
32	199	We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground zone," of the rain forest.	10
32	219	They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes.	10
32	221	Perhaps it is because in the rain forest food is usually plentiful for them, and, thus, there is little temptation for them to transgress the boundaries of their customary prey categories.	10
32	223	Conspicuously absent in the rain forests of the Ua were sleen.	10
32	239	And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, an...	10
32	244	That is why they are called "second-growth" patches; they normally occur along rivers and are not characteristic of the botanical structure of the virgin rain forest itself.	10
32	874	In the light of his torch I could see that many of the carvings were colored, the natural hues and pigments not worn away by wind or rain.	10
34	1	The Blond-Haired Barbarian Dances; What Occurred in the Rain Forest Between a Master and His Slave "Watch out!" I said.	10
34	35	She sat on the floor of the rain forest.	10
34	117	We had proceeded into the rain forest for better than two Ahn before we had come upon the tarsk.	10
39	11	There is often a night rain in the jungle, usually occurring before the twentieth Ahn.	10
47	33	Through the green rain forest the column moved, like a governed, endless, whispering black snake.	10
47	38	"It is going to rain," I said.	10
47	41	Scarcely had he spoken but the skies opened up and, from the midst of the black, swirling clouds, while lightning cracked and shattered across the sky and branches lashed back and forth wildly in the wind, the driven, darkly silver sheets of a tropical rain storm descended upon us.	10
47	48	I looked up at the sky, at the sheets of rain, the lashing branches.	10
48	301	"How came you to the rain forests?" I asked.	10
55	11	There was a rain of rocks, branches and debris.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	69	Such things commonly bring a storm of leather, the remedial rain of the lash.	10
17	144	In the implacable decisions of nature, decisions at one with a world's journey about a star, at one with the turnings of a planet, with the alternance of day and night, and the successions of seasons, at one with storms and sunlight, with clouds and grass, with rain and tides, with manifold forms of...	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	211	They are barren only in contrast, say, with the northern forests or the lush land in river valleys, or the peasant fields or meadows of the southern rain belts.	10
2	245	Sometimes as much as twelve inches of rain, borne by a southern wind, can be deposited in less than an hour.	10
2	246	To be sure, this rain usually runs off rapidly, cutting crevices and gullies in the land.	10
8	950	Too, it saves on tunics or such, which, in the wind and rain, and heat and dust, might be ruined or soiled in the march.	10

Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	113	Then lightning again illuminated the stormy sky and the driving torrents of rain, and then the lightning and rain were gone, and then there were great ringing blows, and the great hammer of Kron, of the metal workers, lifting and falling, smote on a mighty anvil, showering sparks in the night, which...	10
4	281	It signifies a mist, or a slowly falling rain.	10
28	216	They would either keep their height and rain arrows down upon us or act in support of the Yellow Knives.	10
35	7	It began to rain.	10
35	8	The rain washed the dirt and grass from my hands.	10
35	37	Rain fell.	10
35	93	I felt rain.	10
35	95	Torrents of cold rain descended in diagonal sheets, pounding at the rocks, tearing at the leaves of nearby trees.	10
35	111	Rain tore its way downward.	10
44	611	It did not take long for the assaulted Yellow Knives to realize that they were exposed to no ordinary rain of arrows, a shower soon finished, but something unnatural to them, something unprecedented in their experience.	10
47	176	It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, b...	10
53	5	She had then spent the night outside the lodge, naked, in the rain, her hands tied behind her back, her neck tied to a stake.	10

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	91	Rain had begun to fall, as it apparently had the night before.	10
20	189	"There is some fear for the Sa-Tarna crop, because of the great deal of rain.	10
21	37	I felt a few drops of rain.	10
21	49	It now began to rain more heavily.	10
21	50	I welcomed the rain, hoping it would diminish and wash away the scent my body and bare feet might be leaving behind me.	10
21	70	Toward morning the rain stopped and I, fearful of discovery as it grew lighter, left the Argentum road.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	55	Then, as the crowd cheered, and coins fell like rain on the platform, she, helped by the magician, stepped forth from the sack and trunk.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	108	I supposed that its spillage, a short, clattering rain of goblets, would scarcely be noticed in such an accumulation.	10

Book 23. (33 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1	The Road; The Slave In a sudden flash of lightning, showing the driving rain, the wagons, the crowd on the road, I saw ahead, above me, and to my left, about a half of a pasang forward, on its stony plateau, the inn of the Crooked Tarn.	10
1	15	Ahead, and on the plateau of the inn, I saw the large wooden sign, on its chains, jerked in the wind, striking about, pelted with rain.	10
1	18	Then again it seemed the world was plunged into darkness and there was little except driving rain and the creaking of wagons.	10
1	29	In this way I was less likely to stumble in the darkness, and the cold, driving rain.	10
1	43	Rain was pouring over the broad brim of his felt hat.	10
1	56	"Beware," cried the driver through the rain to the men below me, beside the wagon.	10
1	115	The three fellows, with my encouragement, in the rain, replaced them.	10
1	142	The rain continued to pour down in torrents.	10
1	193	I was sweating, in spite of the cold and the rain.	10
1	228	I saw a knife leave a sheath in the driving rain.	10
1	248	"You are clever," said the fellow in the rain.	10
1	254	I heard tharlarion snorting and bellowing, even in the rain.	10
1	269	The wheel of the wagon, that to my right, spun slowly, free, the rain glistening in the lantern light on its iron rim.	10
1	270	The men were quiet in the rain.	10
1	306	"Most of a wagonload of loot," I said, speaking in the rain, "was emptied out down there, by the ditch.	10
1	329	I thought the storm might have abated a bit but the rain was still heavy.	10
1	429	Because of the storm, the rain and wind, another method of dealing with such fellows had not been suggested back there on the road, but it is not unknown.	10
1	437	The wind and rain lashed at the right side of my head and body.	10
1	446	Some other wagons were more ahead of me, turned away from the rain.	10
1	466	There is usually a large amount of supplies laid in, often enough for one or two years, and water is generally available in siege cisterns within, if not from rain or the moat itself.	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
1	514	The rain poured from it.	10
1	537	Her body now was streaked with the slanted rain.	10
1	546	I touched her body, gently, rubbing the rain about it.	10
1	547	She shuddered, her shoulders and breasts wet now, and slick, with the rain.	10
1	555	But it then seemed quiet, and there was little noise except for the wind and rain, and the distant rumble of thunder.	10
1	617	I had thought the streaks there might have been rain, but they had a salty taste.	10
2	196	I then picked up the pack and went out again, pulling my cloak over my head, to cross the court, in the cold rain.	10
2	228	There were five of them, naked, and lashed by the rain.	10
2	236	She was covered with rain, which had blown back under the roof's overhang.	10
3	62	"The rain has slacked off," he said.	10
8	25	The world about smelled fresh and clean from the rain.	10
17	120	Sometimes, too, in a moment's lull, one notices little things, to which one has perhaps hitherto paid scant attention, the movements of an ant, how rain water irregularly stains a rock, moving and spreading, depending on the texture of its surface.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	181	In this way one may shield the girls, if one wishes, from such things as the sun and the rain.	10
13	391	Then when you are in close quarters, when you are huddled together, when you are weak, exhausted and helpless, they will rain arrows upon you.	10
14	321	The arrows, for an Ehn or so, descended unto the island, like rain.	10
18	53	It is a bit like a rain, I thought, the first drops, then more, then torrents, perhaps for a long time, then eventually the easing, the letting up, then the last drops, then, somehow, eventually, what one had almost ceased to hope for, the clearing.	10
30	7	Nine days ago we had come across the sand island where the tharlarion drive of the rencers had taken place, followed by the rain of arrows.	10
45	114	There are the equations of winds and tides, the silent turning of worlds on their axes, the movements of clouds, the descent of rain, the turbulent dynamics of gases, the freezing points of liquids, the melting temperatures of copper and iron, the migrations of birds, the habits of sleen.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	31	Rather the Priest-Kings are seen as being its children, too, like sleen, and rain and man.	10
20	728	How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	209	Here I was free to be what I was! Here I might feel, truly feel! Here one need not live as if indoors, sheltered from sunlight and rain, here one might look upon truth as it was in itself, not as it might be distorted in the labyrinths of prescribed protocols, here one might touch real things, like ...	10

Book 27. (22 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	224	There were the gentle kisses, some prolonged, some as light and quick as the shiftings of sunlight and shadow among stirring leaves, some as bright and unexpected as the pattering of momentary, shimmering drops of rain, some as tender as the falling of the petal of a flower, and the other kisses, th...	10
10	370	Then the whip began to rain blows upon her.	10
11	567	Its rhythms are less the periodic turbulences of rush hours, the blinkings of colored, regulatory lights, carefully timed, the staccato clickings and hammerings, the stops and starts, of the assembly line, than those of tides, and winds, and clouds and rain, the appearance and disappearance of stars...	10
16	10	These were not the sounds of animals, the roars, and growls, the bleating, bellowing, shrieking, howlings, and hissings of animals, nor the sounds of nature, nothing like the dashings of branches against one another, lashed by the wind, nothing like the pattering of rain, the tumbling of rocks, the ...	10
17	801	Later that day it rained, a long, cold rain, and it rained heavily.	10
17	810	"Guardsman! Search for an escaped slave in a weight collar, a high collar of thick, black iron, hammered shut about her neck, its two forward projections pierced, a dangling, two-hort iron ring threaded through the piercings!" So Ellen lay on the cement shelf, chained, closing her eyes, shuddering, ...	10
17	812	The rain pelted against her, mercilessly, and she felt it run about her body, and, striking the cement, splash up, against her, like spray.	10
17	824	After a few minutes the rain stopped, rather suddenly, as it had begun, and water dripped from awnings, and trickled through cracks in the paving stones of the market square, and the sun again blazed down, as before, yellow, hot, indifferent, merciless.	10
17	981	We may have another rain".	10
26	1168	How alive the collar makes us! How welcoming and sentient we become in so many ways in this so sentient world! We welcome its myriads of sensations, its aromas, its colors, its sounds, its textures and tastes, the feel of wet sand beneath our bared feet, that of the wind on our bared arms and legs, ...	10
27	2248	She felt the first pattering of rain.	10
27	2279	Rain slashed downward in torrents.	10
27	2286	And at the same time she heard a cry of rage from beneath the boards of the inverted wagon, and the entire surface beneath her, seemed to shudder, and buck, once, twice, exerting force upon the straining ropes fastened to the stakes, and then the wagon rose up, suddenly, the ropes tautening and drag...	10
27	2290	Ellen, terrified, half-blinded in the rain, braceleted as she was, was twisted about, dragged to the side.	10
27	2301	Their fur was matted and glistening from the rain.	10
27	2359	Tears, mixing with the rain, streamed down the face of the kneeling, back-braceleted slave.	10
27	2369	"Yes, Master," said Ellen, in misery, and went to her back in the rain and mud.	10
27	2381	The storm, meanwhile, was somewhat abating, and though a steady rain fell, there was a lessening of, and then a desistance of, the earlier atmospheric chaos of thunder, wind, and electricity.	10
27	2402	Not before my master, she thought, not before my master! Then Ellen lay on her back in the mud and rain, her eyes closed.	10
27	2445	The rain now had ceased, and two of the three moons were visible.	10
27	3187	"We will find a suitable place, a green place, with stones about, where the wind and rain can find him.	10
27	3259	The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	689	It spoke not of ideas and theories, or verbalisms, or of the fencings and cant in which she had sought to perfect herself, of the skills which brought status in her world, but of a different world, one of which she knew but little, one in which she had little part, one in which she did not belong, o...	10
7	36	It moves in the wind, in the churning sea, in the sheetings of rain, in the cry of lightning, in the tremors of the earth; it whispers in lava scalding the affrighted air; it prowls with the panther; it soars with the tarn; it bounds with the startled tabuk".	10
17	13	Kurii looked up, wildly, astonished, and met a rain of stones, large and small.	10
21	380	"That it will rain in the summer is not hard to predict, in one week or another," said Peisistratus.	10
34	48	A driving rain began to fall.	10
34	58	He felt it rip through his hands, pulled away, carried off into the wind-torn, rain-driven darkness, wound about some shifted, dislodged log.	10
34	65	Rain continued to torment the raft and lake.	10
34	66	Even Grendel could not see for the darkness, and the rain.	10
34	71	"Here!" In the darkness, in the cold, blinding water, he thrust the slave to the log, and, with loops of wet rope, loose from the log, fastened her to it, and then he thrust his own arm amongst the ropes, and clung to the log as it pitched about, rising and falling, and sometimes rolling over, takin...	10
39	60	Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion.	10

Book 29. (19 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	200	In the wingbeat in the rain, after a sudden clearing, the rain water is flashed into the sky, sometimes taking the light in an instant's rainbow, vanishing almost instantly to be replaced with another, and another.	10
12	135	A thousand arrows could be loosed in an instant, like death rain, on a foe, and then the riders were gone.	10
25	194	I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...	10
26	5	I felt moisture, a spattering of rain.	10
26	67	I wiped some rain from my eyes.	10
26	194	The rain, which had been light, stopped.	10
26	197	Tarns, as other birds, do not much care to flight in the rain.	10
26	269	The rain then began again.	10
26	302	The rain began to fall more heavily.	10
28	2	The rain which had intruded itself lightly, intermittently, then more heavily, briefly, for some Ehn, when I had been aflight, responding to what had turned out to be the summons of Seremides, had been little more than a harbinger of storms which had begun in earnest some two days later.	10
28	36	The girls were cold, and rain was falling.	10
28	48	Rain was falling, cold and pelting, almost blinding.	10
28	68	It was toward evening, and the light, in the rain, and within the looming trees, was poor.	10
28	69	The rain continued to fall, but it had lessened from some Ehn before.	10
28	78	And there was the rain and cold.	10
28	81	Once again the rain began to fall heavily.	10
28	250	I thought of Seremides, and the strange conversation we had shared, on tarnback, in the darkness, partly in the rain.	10
38	11	Great quantities of water were also brought aboard, this despite the common expedient, on round ships, of adding to one's stores by capturing rain in extended volumes of sail canvas, thence conducting it to on-ship reservoirs.	10
44	19	One does not disparage a woman for her thriving in bondage, no more than one might denounce the tides, sunlight, wind, and rain, no more than one might denounce a flower for its blossoming, for the color, brightness, delicacy, and radiance of its petals.	10

Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	182	"I see no curtain of darkness beneath the clouds, and thus it is not rain," I said, "but doubtless they are rain clouds".	10
7	68	A mariner had attempted to do so, in the wind and rain, in darkness, after the twentieth Ahn, but was apprehended by the deck patrol, and, by order of Tersites himself, was put under the lash, the snake, twelve strokes.	10
12	3	The rain was fitful, I could see the Prison Moon.	10
12	15	Should the rain continue, the cloak would be soaked.	10
12	49	The rain became heavier.	10
12	81	Sometimes she had lifted her head, her face white and rain-streaked, to look up at me, but I had paid her little attention, and she would soon put her head down, again.	10
12	87	I looked about, though with the clouds, the darkness, the rain, the spattering of hail, there was not much to see.	10
16	194	I also heard a striking at the sides of the great ship, like a rain of wood, and smelled burning pitch.	10
17	181	"Rain?" he inquired.	10
17	186	"You think they are rain clouds?" he said.	10
19	140	Later, a light rain had begun to fall, for the first time in several days.	10
19	141	This, I take it, may have been a result of the stifling, burning air ascending to the high, cold sky, familiar to jacketed tarnsmen, where, condensing, it fell as a soft, washing rain.	10
22	218	The original ambush in the defile had begun with a rain of arrow fire, which had taken a heavy toll on our fellows, Pani and otherwise.	10
22	312	The great flood of darkness, confused, proximate, rushing, pounding, imminent, was some five yards from our steel when Cabot cried out, "Down!" We all crouched down, instantly, and, from behind us, over our heads, into the confused, rushing mass of men before us there poured a rain of arrows sped fr...	10
24	324	A light rain began to fall.	10
24	419	We then addressed ourselves to the trail, in the light rain.	10
32	90	A light rain, one such as is common in the islands, began to fall.	10
32	97	I felt the rain on my face, and was aware, too, of the taste of salt.	10

Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	685	Then, suddenly, I felt a stinging rain of leather cracking on my back, and then I was rolling on the floor, crying, turning about, trying to fend the blows which fell upon me, and then I struggled to my knees, and put my head down to the floor, covering it with my hands.	10
16	197	Too, the shifting of the earth, the occasional softening of the soil by rain, differences in weathering, various temperature changes, and such things, may produce a shifting of one stone in relation to another.	10
16	207	"I think it will rain more, later," he said.	10
20	25	Similarly, if the harness is wet, as from rain, it may dry stiffly.	10
23	1	It was hard to see, against the pounding rain.	10
23	6	It was the third day of rain.	10
23	20	He then turned away, to fight his way further through the rain and mud.	10
23	26	If only I were a free woman, and worthy of him! A few steps forward, and he called back, cheerily, "I like sluts!" "I am one!" I called out, in the rain.	10
23	78	We now heard a rumbling, from somewhere above us, through the rain.	10
23	83	I tried to peer upward, through the rain.	10
23	91	"We shall have to make our way around this," shouted Desmond of Harfax, trying to wipe rain from his eyes.	10
23	146	"You are mad," said Trachinos, against the rain.	10
23	171	Desmond of Harfax waved a farewell to him, and turned, bracing himself, into the wind and rain, and then, slipping some, began to ascend the mountain.	10
23	174	I shook my head and hair, and tried to wipe the rain from my eyes with the back of my right hand.	10
23	175	It was hard to see, for the rain, and the shadows, but there was a new last figure on the rope.	10
45	52	Mighty boulders were scattered about, some jagged, and young, and some worn smooth by centuries of wind and rain.	10

Book 32. (38 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	105	Muchly had she writhed and shrieked under the fiery rain of leather.	10
16	133	Rain had soaked her hair, and it lay about her head and shoulders, in scattered, bedraggled, unkempt strands.	10
17	12	It was he who had brought me to this, to this strange, different, natural, beautiful, fresh world, much as Earth might once have been, a world of blue skies and white clouds, of wind and rain, of storms and sunlight, of green fields and dark forests, of bracing, uncontaminated air and clean, clear, ...	10
20	96	A moment later we heard a torrent of rain beat against the low roof of the kennel.	10
20	137	There was another crash of thunder, and the rain continued to fall heavily.	10
20	143	"It may rain for days," said a girl.	10
20	172	The rain continued to beat heavily on the roof.	10
20	204	"I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against Thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of the world, to f...	10
20	224	I listened for a time to the rain, and then fell asleep.	10
21	494	"We will leave them," he said, "for the forest, for the winter, for rain, for snow, for wind, for urts, for sleen, for panthers".	10
23	63	Here, muchly bared, and owned, I was keenly aware of a gentle wind, the splash of rain, the feel of wet grass on one's feet, the scent of a flower, the texture of a piece of cloth, than I had ever been on my former world.	10
25	158	There had been much rain of late.	10
25	159	I hoped it might rain again, as that would wash scent away, clearing it from rocks and soil, obliterating trails.	10
25	305	But I supposed rain would be in my favor.	10
25	317	I felt a drop of rain.	10
25	386	I stood, and felt more drops of rain.	10
25	409	The rain was then falling heavily.	10
27	1	I looked up, into the night sky, and the pouring rain.	10
27	19	I stood there in the darkness, my feet in the water and leaves, cold and miserable, and now, again, hungry, very hungry, the rain streaming from my body.	10
27	34	I wanted the rain to stop, but it gave no sign of doing so.	10
27	44	A boulder might slip, dislodged in the rain, and tumble down an incline.	10
27	49	If there were scent the rain would confuse it, or wash it away.	10
27	53	Lightning occasionally gashed the darkness, turning the night for an instant into a bright, cold, frightening noon, but then again, as quickly as a door might close, I found myself once again in darkness, as though shut in a room, the room of the forest, with no light, only rain, wind, cold, darknes...	10
27	55	Briefly there was a sudden coat of fire on the sundered wood, narrow, diagonal, to my right, but it was extinguished by the rain, only an Ihn or two after its appearance.	10
27	60	The rain stopped after a time, I supposed somewhere in the vicinity of the twentieth Ahn.	10
29	252	Then I writhed, and squirmed, helpless and bound, on my belly, tears bursting from my eyes, muddying the dirt before me, under a lashing rain of supple leather.	10
30	63	Last night had been lacerated by lightning, much thunder, and a lengthy, cold, soaking rain, to be sure, severities of a sort not that unusual in this latitude at this time of year.	10
30	67	We had brought with us, in our packs, camp blankets and rain blankets, and so, save for the thunder, the noise, had fared rather well.	10
30	68	Axel had shared his camp blanket and rain blanket with the beast, sleeping beside it.	10
30	73	"There was a long, fierce rain last night," I said.	10
30	81	She had no rain blanket, not even a camp blanket.	10
30	82	Accordingly, I expect our game, concerned that she might be pursued, well aware she was in danger from the forest, hungry and exhausted, alone, perhaps lost, lying in the cold and rain, in the mud and leaves, may not have spent a pleasant night".	10
30	84	The rain may have washed it clean, washed away the scent".	10
44	15	There is the wind, the cold, the storms, the mighty waves, the torrents of icy rain.	10
47	15	Additionally, footprints would not be as clear now as one might desire, given the drying after the rain.	10
50	177	She was presumably returning either from the river or from one of the laundry troughs, filled with rain water.	10
52	107	Through the door I saw smoke, billowing like dark, ugly, suffocating clouds, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, which tore apart the smoke, and flung before it a shower of sparks, and then more sparks began to fall about, the wind softening, in the clearing, these now descending like hot, bri...	10
52	809	"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ...	10

Book 33. (39 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	43	"We have spared the holding of Temmu," said Tyrtaios, "from the rain of burning arrows, because of our love for our wayward, misguided servitor, the glorious, honorable Temmu".	10
13	89	"Earth must once have been like this," she said, "the freshness, the rain, the air, the flight of birds, the blue sky, the water, the food with taste".	10
14	38	He who has demon birds, in time, could rain fire from the sky, far above futile, angrily brandished glaives, and burn with impunity where archers are not.	10
16	91	"The wild tarn," I said, "seldom chooses to fly in the rain".	10
16	95	"Many beasts," I said, "prefer to avoid the rain".	10
16	97	"But men," I said, "think little of going about in the rain".	10
16	119	When the fur is thick, and matted, and soaked with rain, it has an odor which, once experienced, is not likely to be mistaken.	10
17	118	The saru, for which she had been named, was a small, scampering mammal indigenous to the rain forests of the Ua basin.	10
18	94	"I think it may rain," he said.	10
20	360	"I felt drops of rain," said Tajima.	10
20	374	I heard rain gently falling on the leaves of the trees in the garden.	10
20	376	"It is the rain," said Lord Akio.	10
20	525	I noted the rain, still falling outside, the lantern light illuminating the droplets, and then returned my attention to Tatsu.	10
21	8	But rain may reveal as well as conceal.	10
21	24	"I think it will rain today," I said.	10
21	28	"You can predict rain," I said.	10
23	16	"You can read rain," I said, "perhaps as much as four or five Ahn, even before the clouds gather".	10
23	21	"It was the rain," he said.	10
23	36	"But on a night of rain," I said, "as their songs desist, their silence would be unlikely to motivate an investigation".	10
23	38	"It is interesting," I said, "that the attack on the shogun should coincide with the rain".	10
23	72	"The night of the attack was one of rain," I said.	10
38	46	"It is going to rain," said Haruki.	10
38	52	"What is not good," said Haruki, "is that tracks may linger in rain-softened soil".	10
38	55	"Good," he said, "the rain will be heavy and, in time, tracks will be obliterated".	10
38	56	"The night is clear," I said, and then felt a drop of rain.	10
38	62	A gentle rain began to fall.	10
38	67	It was raw from the wood, and slick now with rain, as was the wood.	10
38	70	The rain had purchased time, as the rounds of the guards, which were desultory at best in this lax camp, had now ceased.	10
38	92	I wiped rain from my eyes, and looked back, to the gate.	10
38	94	They wore hoods and shawls, to protect them from the rain.	10
38	105	The rain and darkness will cover their work".	10
38	137	In the darkness and rain easier openings might not be scouted, or noticed.	10
38	154	We then, in the pourings of rain, in the flashings of lightning and the crashings of thunder, with startled, confused men rushing about, slipping a bit in the mud, scrambled away, to lose ourselves, as we might, amongst the corridors of tents.	10
39	4	Rain still fell, but the brunt of the storm had passed.	10
39	114	"The rain has stopped," I said.	10
41	62	Given the recent storm, the pounding rain, the drenching miseries, the cold, and such, I thought it might have done Nezumi some good, helping her to learn her collar, to have been in a slave pen, but I did not think that that, for political reasons, would have been her housing.	10
60	269	"Like wind and rain, like lightning! Carry all before you!" Lord Akio's men, from two sides, rushed onto the bridge.	10
61	506	If this simple arrangement was not honored, fire was to rain from the sky.	10
61	1073	There is little to be gained if the unpleasant death of a slave is followed by a rain of fire from the sky".	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	18	I lay in the dark, holding the blanket about me, listening to the driving rain.	10
19	21	I listened to the driving rain.	10
19	29	Perhaps it was the rain, or the spillage from the gutters to the street below.	10
19	32	What could be heard in the storm? The rain would mask out a thousand noises.	10
19	56	I heard the rain, soft, outside.	10
19	148	I listened to the rain.	10
32	29	A rain, scarcely noticeable, was falling.	10
44	1	A light rain had begun to fall.	10
44	6	As the rain fell, I could feel the thin, scant, damp rep-cloth against my skin.	10
46	222	The rain had stopped.	10
49	212	Was the sun so bright in this room? Did she fear a sudden torrent of rain might fall from the ceiling, from which a parasol, even so improbable a defense, might serve to protect her? "Tenrik, of Siba," said Decius Albus.	10
61	153	Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin...	10

Book 35. (16 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	392	Could the free women be actually jealous of slaves, such meaningless, worthless beasts? Do they envy them their brands and collars? Do they themselves wish to feel the kiss of the searing iron and the clasp of the degrading metal collar? I screamed in misery and writhed on the wood for the first str...	10
8	557	Then you would have a miserable slavery, a rural slavery, worked from dawn to dark, often whipped, chained at night, in the open, in the cold and rain, to a stake in the yard, penned with tarsks, housed in a cramped, damp, log kennel".	10
13	219	"Presumably to be exposed, naked, on the Street of Coins itself, in a tiny, dangling cage, in heat and cold, in wind and rain".	10
30	9	There were several structures lining this muddy street, most the size of huts, shedlike, brightly painted, with backward sloping roofs, to carry rain water away from the street.	10
30	98	There is little on which one cannot bet, the turning of cards and the fates of small, marked stones, the trickle of rain drops down a polished shield, the number of petals on a dina or talendar.	10
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
40	312	How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w...	10
43	205	It then, in the darkness and wind, began to rain, heavily.	10
43	206	In the instant before it began to rain, I detected, it frightening me, what I took to be a momentary flash of sinister illumination on the coarse features of Vas of Anango, and then it vanished, as deliberately as the closing of a drawer, the descent of a panel, the locking of shutters, the closing ...	10
43	210	"True," agreed Seremides, apparently unconcerned, squinting his eyes against the rain.	10
43	212	"But I do not like the darkness, the sea, the rain," said Vas of Anango.	10
43	222	I could hardly see for the rain.	10
43	223	My hair was about my eyes, disheveled and sopped; rain ran down my cheeks, and over my face and gag.	10
43	225	The canal boat was not only tormented by the rain and spray, but, from the splash of the waves, had shipped water.	10
43	252	Vas of Anango put a blanket about me, rudely, roughly, and withdrew through the rain-pelted curtains.	10
43	258	How terrified are slaves of free women! How they hate us! How it pleases them to make us suffer! What would be done with us? I was aware of the storm, the pouring of rain, and the shaking of the curtains of the canopied area.	10

Book 36. (15 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1	We Attend the Fair at Mytilene Clitus had cast his net expertly, it enveloping and settling about the opponent like a swift, soft, corded rain.	10
22	141	"And why would our 'Three Ubaras' seal their tent, turning their presumably lovely backs on such a rain of wealth?" "I do not know," said Sakim.	10
36	35	Thus, they were bared to glare and heat, changes of temperature, wind and rain, even spray, and the waves that occasionally washed across the deck, flinging and rolling them to one side or the other of the ring, to the ends of their ankle chains.	10
37	25	Their mooring ropes, fastened to shore cleats at stem and stern, with their conical or disklike urt guards, would, as they lifted and tightened, shed water in a rain of sunlit droplets, and then, again, relaxing, would loop downward, settling again into the water.	10
41	1	Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge...	10
41	26	We had had, in the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the siege, heavy rain.	10
41	29	One gathers that the "artillery men," so little versed in the technology they were attempting to exploit, had not anticipated the effect of rain and moisture on the efficiency of their machines.	10
42	82	"At that point those trapped inside the gate will discover that their terror was well founded, and those outside the gate, still in darkness, will withdraw in disarray, fleeing a rain of stones".	10
47	8	This plenitude of striking force was applied both singly and randomly and, occasionally, in thick volleys, falling like a dark, torrential rain of death.	10
48	8	The disrupted turf, seeded, refreshed by rain, would gradually renew itself as had the fairgrounds near the town.	10
48	64	Such displays, if not destroyed, stolen, or removed, sometimes in later battles, for certain places and fields, given their location and favorable properties, have been the scene of more than one battle, can remain in place for years, even generations, until wind, rain, ageing, heat, cold, and rust ...	10
53	49	This rose a hundred feet into the air, and droplets fell like warm rain, drenching the island.	10
56	51	Then it returned to the water, falling, like a mountain, and the residue of this great splash descended like rain on the Dorna and Tesephone, and the closest of the five corsair ships.	10
57	67	Quarrels like a rain of metal struck the shaken screens.	10
59	186	It runs like rain water in the gutters".	10