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Rence

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	154	Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper, made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the Vosk.	10
7	155	I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...	10
7	162	I smiled and took the piece of rence paper.	10
16	220	"Also," I cried, suddenly aware, "the rence paper in the message collar, paper from Port Kar!" "Of course," he said.	10
17	27	It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f...	10

Book 6. (311 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	75	Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif...	10
3	81	By that time most of the year's rence will have been cut, and great stocks of rence paper, gathered in rolls like cord wood and covered with woven rence mats, will have been prepared.	10
4	2	It was late in the year to cut rence, but some quantities of the rence are cut during the fall and winter and stored on covered rence rafts until the spring.	10
4	36	At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me.	10
4	63	We must cut rence today, and be quick, be quick, My Slave!" * * * * I cut another rence stem, lopping away the tufted head, and throwing it onto the rence craft.	10
4	163	We had returned her rence craft to the shore of the rence island, fastening it there, along with the rence raft.	10
4	180	The rence knife, with which I had cut rence, she had left in the packet in her rence craft.	10
7	38	About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies.	10
1	50	On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...	10
1	77	The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and for the rence ...	10
1	102	The rence growers, in spite of the value of their product, and the value of articles taken in exchange for it, and the protection of the marshes, and the rence and fish which give them ample sustenance, do not have an easy life.	10
3	1	Ho-Hak The rence islands, on which the communities of rence growers dwell, are rather small, seldom more than two hundred by two hundred and fifty feet.	10
3	10	In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...	10
3	50	He wore a sleeveless tunic of rence cloth, like most of the rence growers.	10
3	82	Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th...	10
3	90	At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant; singing; games; contests and courtship, for the young people of the rence islands too seldom meet those of the other communities.	10
4	1	The Hut In the stem of the girl's rence craft, she poling the craft from its stern, I knelt, cutting rence.	10
4	3	These stores of rence are not used in the making of rence paper, but in the weaving of mats, for adding to the surface of the island, and for the pith, used as a food.	10
4	6	We were towing a small rence raft and there was already much rence upon it.	10
4	9	I cut again, dropping the tufted, flowered head of the rence stem into the water, and then I tossed the stem onto the raft of rence, with the piles of others.	10
4	31	I had spent the night in the open, a foot or two from her tiny hut on the rence island, my wrists tied to my ankles, my neck tethered to an oar pole thrust deep through the rence of the island.	10
4	62	"Put now the rence craft in the water," she said, "and attach to it a raft for cut rence, Slave.	10
4	98	The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others.	10
4	140	"It would be useful to have similar standards for rence paper, to sometimes harvest in common, to sometimes, in times of need, share crops, and, of course, to obtain a better price for our paper than we might if we bargained as isolated islands with the rence merchants".	10
4	154	She had now turned the stem of the craft toward the rence island, which lay some pasang or two through the swamp, and, as I cut rence here and there, began to pole homeward.	10
5	65	In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island.	10
5	67	I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence.	10
5	142	Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans.	10
5	144	I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer.	10
5	172	Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root.	10
6	68	Another warrior approached her from behind, with a whip, and with four fierce strokes had cut the rence tunic from her body and she knelt on the rence matting that was the surface of the island, crying out in pain, begging to be bound.	10
6	196	Here and there, on the water, apart from the flaming rence island, I could see the flat, black keels of rence craft, which had earlier been cast off and burned to the water, to prevent them from being used for escape.	10
6	209	Then I began to tear loose the rence-rope fastenings, fixed to stakes thrust through the rence.	10
7	1	I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo...	10
7	39	Two wild gants alighted on the island, away from the men and their prisoners, and began pecking about the ruins of one of the rence huts, probably after seeds or bits of rence cake.	10
7	138	Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w...	10
7	147	Then I shook out what food lay in the wallet, some dried rence paste from the day before yesterday, some dried flakes of fish, a piece of rence cake.	10
7	162	I would take rence from the island, and marsh vine, and make myself a rence craft.	10
8	779	To my amazement she slipped out of her rence cloth tunic and took a place behind the third girl in the coffle, the shorter rence girl, Ula.	10
1	11	It was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead; sometimes I could see no further than the lifted prow of my small craft, as it nosed its way among the rushes and the frequent rence plants.	10
1	38	Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks.	10
1	51	I noticed that one of these rence plants had, tied about it, below the tuft of stamens and narrow petals, a white cloth, rep-cloth.	10
1	54	Then I moved past the plant, parting the rence and passing through.	10
1	60	The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea.	10
1	70	I was not particularly surprised at finding a bit of rep-cloth tied on the rence plant, for the delta is inhabited.	10
1	72	There are scattered, almost invisible, furtive communities of rence growers who eke out their livelihood in the delta, nominally under the suzerainty of Port Kar.	10
1	73	The cloth I found had probably been a trail mark for some rence growers.	10
1	74	A kind of paper is made from rence.	10
1	76	The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper.	10
1	79	Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ...	10
1	82	Rence paper comes in various grades, about eight in all.	10
1	83	The rence growers market their product either at the eastern or western end of the delta.	10
1	84	Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.	10
1	85	Rence paper is, incidentally, not the only type of writing material used on Gor.	10
1	87	I now noted another bit of white rep-cloth tied on a rence stem, larger than the first.	10
1	92	Yet, not surprisingly, because of the rence, the rushes and sedge, I could not see the birds.	10
1	99	Then I stopped short, for tied to a rence plant before me now was a sheaf of red cloth.	10
1	101	I had come into an area of the delta where I was not welcome, into a territory that must be claimed by some small community, doubtless, of rence growers.	10
1	106	The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city.	10
1	107	I looked on the red cloth tied to the rence plant.	10
2	3	She was standing on a small skiff of rence, not larger than my own rush craft, about seven feet long and two feet wide, fastened together, as mine was, with marsh vine; it, like mine, had a slightly curved stern and prow.	10
2	8	The birds are later, on the rence islands, killed and cooked.	10
2	16	She wore a brief, sleeveless garment of yellowish-brown rence cloth; it was worn well away from both shoulders to permit her freedom of movement; the brief skirt had been hitched up about her thighs that it might in no way bind her in her hunting.	10
2	20	The girl was doubtless the daughter of a rence grower, hunting for gants.	10
2	21	I supposed the rence island, on which such communities lived, might be nearby.	10
2	23	She stood well in the light, slightly shifting skiff of rence, moving almost imperceptibly, unconsciously, to maintain an easy balance.	10
2	45	Instantly there was a great cry from all sides, and, breaking through the rushes and sedge, dozens of rence craft, bound with marsh vine, thrust into view, each poled by one man, with another in the prow, a two- or three-pronged marsh spear uplifted.	10
2	54	She was handed the pole with which she had propelled her own craft, which craft was now tied to another of the rence craft of the men who had come from the rushes and sedge.	10
2	59	Soon other rence craft, with their curved prows and sterns, had joined us.	10
2	60	The rence growers, I had learned, communicate by means of such signals, disguised as the cries of marsh gants.	10
3	2	They are formed entirely from the interwoven stems of the rence plants and float in the marsh.	10
3	3	They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface.	10
3	4	Thus, over a period of months, a given layer of rence, after being the top layer, will gradually be submerged and forced lower and lower until it, at last, is the deepest layer and, with its adjacent layers, begins to deteriorate.	10
3	5	To prevent an unwanted movement of the island there are generally several tethers, of marsh vine, to strong rence roots in the vicinity.	10
3	7	When one wishes to move the island, the tethers are simply chopped away, and the community divides itself into those who will handle the long poles and those who will move ahead in rence craft, cutting and clearing the way.	10
3	11	Ironically, it is not of much use against an organized attack of well-armed warriors, such as those of Port Kar, and those against whom it might be fairly adequate, other rence growers, seldom attack communities like their own.	10
3	12	I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise...	10
3	15	At a given point, when it is felt safe, several of these skiffs will be tied together, forming a platform on which rence may be woven, and a new island will be begun.	10
3	25	I gathered that the rence growers did not have the tools to remove it.	10
3	27	He was doubtless a slave, probably escaped from the galleys of Port Kar, who had fled to the marshes and been befriended by rence growers.	10
3	49	He had brown hair, and brown eyes; the hair, long, was tied behind his head with a string of rence cloth.	10
3	62	There were various rence growers gathered about, the men with their marsh spears.	10
3	71	I heard the squealing of a domestic tarsk running nearby, its feet scuttling in the woven rence of the island, as on a mat.	10
3	76	There were several reasonably important looking individuals gathered about, and, as it turned out, these were headmen from various other rence islands in the vicinity.	10
3	77	A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons.	10
3	80	For rence growers, the first of Se'Kara, the date of the Autumnal Equinox, is a time of festival.	10
3	83	The first of Se'Var is also a date of festival, it might be mentioned, but this time the festival is limited to individual, isolated rence islands.	10
3	84	With the year's rence sold, the communities do not care to lie too closely to one another; the primary reason is that, in doing so, they would present too inviting a target for the "tax collectors" of Port Kar.	10
3	86	The unsold stores of rence paper on the islands at this time would, in themselves, be a treasure, though, to be sure, a bulky one.	10
3	88	It is seldom, even in Se'Kara, that so many rence islands would gather for festival.	10
3	91	Why should there be so many rence islands in the same vicinity, even though it was near the first of Se'Kara? Surely the capture of one traveler in the delta did not warrant this attention, and, of course, the islands must have been gathered together even before I had entered the area.	10
3	96	I wondered what in particular there might be to spy about on the rence islands.	10
3	106	The women of rence growers, when in their own marshes, do not veil themselves, as is common among Gorean women, particularly of the cities.	10
3	107	Moreover, they are quite capable of cutting rence, preparing it, hunting for their own food and, on the whole, of existing, if they wish it, by themselves.	10
3	108	There are few tasks of the rence communities which they cannot perform as well as men.	10
3	112	The roll of sheaf and flight arrows spilled out to the woven mat that was the surface of the rence island.	10
3	149	Then he replaced the bow, putting it with its arrows, on the leather spread upon the mat of woven rence that was the surface of the island.	10
3	169	"I," said the man, "am of the Growers of Rence.	10
3	182	"You, Ho-Hak," said he, "were not born to the rence".	10
3	186	"We are Growers of the Rence".	10
3	189	"We are Growers of the Rence!" There was an angry cry of confirmation from the group, mutterings, shouts of agreement.	10
3	190	Ho-Hak once again sat down on the curved shell of the great Vosk sorp, that shell that served him as throne in this his domain, an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk.	10
3	213	The rence growers, without emotion, watched me.	10
3	233	"That rightless he should serve the Growers of Rence as a beast of burden?" "Let us rather throw him to tharlarion," said the man with the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	311	"Bring the paste of rence!" cried the girl.	10
3	314	A woman left the group to bring some rence paste, and two men removed the marsh vine from my neck and ankles.	10
3	316	In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste.	10
3	317	When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds.	10
3	359	I struggled to my feet and, to the jeers of the rence growers, and blows, stumbled after the girl, she who owned me, my mistress.	10
4	4	"Cut there," said the girl, moving the rush craft into a thicket of rence.	10
4	10	I could sense the rence craft move as the girl shifted her weight in it, balancing it and maintaining it in position.	10
4	14	I knew her to be barefoot behind me, in the brief-skirted tunic of yellowish-brown rence cloth, cut away at the shoulders to give her freedom of movement.	10
4	17	She had, as the girls do in rence craft, tied her skirt high about her thighs, for ease in moving and poling.	10
4	20	Her hips were sweet, her belly a rhythm made for the touch of a man, and her breasts, full and beautiful, magnificent, tormenting me, strained against the brittle rence cloth of her tunic with an insolence of softness, as though, insistent, they would make clear their contempt for any subterfuge of ...	10
4	23	In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste.	10
4	24	At noon, in the marshes, with the sun burning at meridian, she had taken another handful of rence paste from a wallet worn at her waist and thrust it in my mouth, again not permitting me the dignity of feeding myself.	10
4	26	I cut another rence stem, cut away the tufted, flowered head, and threw the stem onto the raft.	10
4	27	"Over there," she said, moving the rence craft to a new location.	10
4	39	I had done so, and she had drawn out a handful of rence paste from the wallet at her side, and she had fed me.	10
4	43	Then she had taken a length of marsh vine from a packet on her rence craft.	10
4	71	She moved the craft to a new thicket of rence, and I obeyed.	10
4	74	It would not be hard for the men of the rence islands, in their hundreds, to cut off escape, to find me, if the tharlarion did not manage to do so first.	10
4	80	I did not even much care that I might spend the rest of my life as an abject slave, abused on a rence island, the sport of a girl or children, the butt of the cruelty and jests of men.	10
4	87	"There, cut there," said she, and again I cut rence for my mistress.	10
4	93	"Cut rence, Slave".	10
4	106	The rence knife flashed through another stem, and I cut away the flowered, tufted head, and threw the stem in the piles on the raft.	10
4	111	I trembled with fury, the rence knife in my hand.	10
4	114	"Cut rence," said she, "Pretty Slave".	10
4	115	I turned again to the rence, trembling with fury, with shame, and again, stem by stem, began to cut.	10
4	117	Stem by stem, and pile by pile, the time was marked in strokes of rence.	10
4	123	"How is it," I asked, "that so many of the rence islands are now gathered together?" I had wondered about this.	10
4	125	Indeed, I knew that tomorrow was festival for the rence islands.	10
4	137	"He thinks to unite the rence growers," said she, a certain amused skepticism in her voice.	10
4	150	"It would doubtless be desirable, from the point of view of the rence islands," I suggested, "if they should, in certain matters, act in unanimity".	10
4	158	How is it that a girl of the rence islands has such an armlet?" "You may not speak," she said, irritably.	10
4	160	* * * * "In there," she said, indicating the small, round hole that gave access to her tiny rence hut.	10
4	162	I had expected her to bind me, as she had the night before, then tethering me to the oar pole thrust through the rence near the hut.	10
4	164	I had carried the rence, in many trips, to a covered area, where it was stored.	10
4	166	I fell to my hands and knees and, lowering my head, crawled through the small hole, the edges of the woven rence scratching at my shoulders.	10
4	169	Its ceiling was continuous with its walls, and, in its curve, stood not more than four feet from the rence surface of the island.	10
4	170	The rence hut is commonly used for little else than sleeping.	10
4	171	She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence.	10
4	172	A small flame was kindled into which she thrust a bit of rence stem, like a match.	10
4	177	There were two throwing sticks near the wall, where her sleeping mat, of woven rence, was rolled.	10
4	179	Some utensils were in the bowl, a wooden stirring stick and a wooden ladle, both carved from rence root.	10
4	197	I did so, and with one of the coils of marsh vine, she lashed my wrists together, tightly, with the strong hands of a rence girl.	10
4	205	She laughed and reached into the wallet at her side and drew forth two handfuls of rence paste and thrust them in my mouth.	10
4	206	She herself nibbled on a rence cake, watching me, and then on some dried fish which she drew also from the wallet.	10
4	225	Then, sitting on the mat, forgetting me, she turned to the repair of a small sack, woven of rence, which had hung in the corner of the hut.	10
4	226	She used thin strips of rence, breaking them and biting them, weaving them in and out.	10
4	229	Then on an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk I had learned myself, that I was, in the core of myself, ignoble and craven, worthless and fearing, only coward.	10
4	236	She hung the sack again in the corner, putting the scraps and strips of rence left over from her work at the foot of her sleeping mat.	10
4	277	It was she who had placed her arms about my neck at dawn, on the shore of the rence island.	10
4	279	It was she whom I must obey, she for whom I had cut rence, she who had fed me as one feeds an animal.	10
4	299	I put my head back to the woven rence that formed the floor of the hut.	10
5	3	Her legs were marvelous, accentuated by the incredibly brief tunic of the rence girl.	10
5	27	The pole, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood in a clearing near the shore of the island.	10
5	31	On my head my Mistress, Telima, had placed a woven garland of rence flowers.	10
5	55	She wore the brief tunic of the rence girl.	10
5	59	"Come, come away," said Ho-Hak, gesturing for the girls to go down to the shore of the rence island.	10
5	62	But he did not look upon me, nor notice me in any way, and, followed by Telima, and the other girls, made his way to the shore of the rence island.	10
5	66	I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival.	10
5	68	Then, about the eighth Gorean hour, Telima had ordered me to the pole, where she bound me and placed on my head the garland of rence flowers.	10
5	70	Around the tenth Gorean hour, the Gorean noon, the rencers ate small rence cakes, dotted with seeds, drank water, and nibbled on scraps of fish.	10
5	72	Around this time a small boy had come to stare at me, a half-eaten rence cake in his hand.	10
5	75	He had held the rence cake up to me and I bit at it, eating it.	10
5	85	The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another.	10
5	95	From where I was bound, over the low rence huts and between them, I could see something of what went on.	10
5	97	There were races, poling rence craft, and skill contests maneuvering the small light craft, and contests with net and throwing stick.	10
5	99	At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore.	10
5	100	Then the entire group came to my pole, with the exception of Ho-Hak, who went rather to speak with some men carving rence root and talking, on the other side of the island.	10
5	119	"Do not remove the garland of rence flowers," said she.	10
5	120	Then I stood free at the pole, save that I wore the collar of marsh vine she had fastened on my neck, and a garland of rence flowers.	10
5	136	Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night.	10
5	138	There were children about the periphery of the circles but many of them were already asleep on the rence.	10
5	150	The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers.	10
5	154	Then, throwing away the garland of rence flowers I had worn, she replaced it with a fresh garland.	10
5	160	Then there came a drumming sound, growing louder and louder, a man pounding on a hollowed drum of rence root with two sticks, and then, as suddenly as the singing and clapping, the drum, too, stopped.	10
5	161	And then to my astonishment the rence girls, squealing and laughing, some protesting and being pushed and shoved, rose to their feet and entered the clearing in the circle.	10
5	164	Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle.	10
5	169	The rence communities tend to be isolated.	10
5	173	It was Telima who began first to pound the woven rence mat that was the surface of the island with her right heel, lifting her hands, arms bent, over her head, her eyes closed.	10
5	175	The dances of rence girls are, as far as I know, unique on Gor.	10
5	176	There is some savagery in them, but, too, they have sometimes, perhaps paradoxically, stately aspects, stylized aspects, movements reminiscent of casting nets or poling, of weaving rence or hunting gants.	10
5	178	To my astonishment, as the dances continued, even the shiest of the rence girls, those who had to have been forced to the circle, even those who had tried to flee, began to writhe in ecstasy, their hands lifted to the three moons of Gor.	10
5	179	It is often lonely on the rence islands, and festival comes but once a year.	10
5	180	The bantering of the young people in the morning, and the display of the girls in the evening, for in effect in the movements of the dance every woman is nude, have both, I expect, institutional roles to play in the life of the rence growers, significant roles analogous to the roles of dating, displ...	10
5	182	Suddenly, before me, hands over her head, swaying to the music, I saw the dark-haired, lithe girl, she with such marvelous, slender legs in the brief rence skirt; her ankles were so close together that they might have been chained; and then she put her wrists together back to back over her head, pal...	10
5	208	Torrents of barbaric music swept about us, and there was the clapping and the shouting, and the turning, and the twisting and swirling of rence girls, the passion of the dance burning in their bodies.	10
5	218	Outside I could hear the music, the cries and clapping, the shouts of the rence girls dancing under the moons of Gor.	10
5	222	I did so, fumbling in the darkness, striking together the flint and steel, sparks falling into the small bowl of dried petals of the rence.	10
5	223	In this tiny flame I thrust a bit of rence stem, from a bundle of such, and, with it, lit the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp set in its copper bowl.	10
5	224	I put the bit of rence stem back, as I had seen Telima do, in the small bowl of petals, where, with the flaming petals, it was soon extinguished.	10
5	226	She was eating a rence cake.	10
5	230	Holding half the rence cake in her mouth she unrolled her sleeping mat and then, as she had the night before, she unlaced her tunic and slipped it off over her head.	10
5	232	She sat on the sleeping mat and finished the rence cake.	10
6	29	We turned and ran again, stumbling in the torchlit darkness, across the woven mat of rence that was the surface of the island.	10
6	54	Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor.	10
6	71	It was the lithe, dark-haired girl, the slender girl, who had been so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
6	76	The rence tunic had been half torn from her right shoulder.	10
6	80	It was he who had given me a piece of rence cake in the morning, when I had been bound at the pole, who had been punished by his mother for so doing.	10
6	87	Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay.	10
6	95	In the marsh, some yards away, rence craft were burning on the water.	10
6	115	Then I saw, under the light of the torches, fleet as the tabuk, running, the dark-haired, lithe girl, she who was so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
6	120	With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island.	10
6	133	Then something, probably a club or the butt of a spear, struck the side of my head and I fell to the matting of rence that was the island surface.	10
6	172	I threw her weeping back to the rence.	10
6	193	One of the rence islands, tied in the group, had begun to burn.	10
6	198	In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island.	10
6	203	The rafts, the bridges, I thought, the rafts! Carrying Telima in my arms I sped about the periphery of the rence island, meeting no one.	10
6	214	His spear fell near me, dropping through the rence of the raft.	10
6	223	I jerked loose the last two fastenings, and tore rence from the edge of the island, heaping it on the raft, covering Telima.	10
6	225	I heaped more rence on the craft and then, with one foot, thrust off from the islands between which the raft had been fastened.	10
6	226	I slipped beneath the rence on the raft, next to the girl.	10
6	231	Unnoticed, the raft, with its heaped rence, drifted away from between the islands.	10
7	2	The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...	10
7	6	Later, about an Ahn before dawn, the two other rence islands, tethered to the central island, were similarly set afire, their fugitives, too, being driven to the nets and binding fiber of the men of Port Kar.	10
7	10	Some of them carried rolls of rence paper, tied together by marsh vine, others the human booty of the raid.	10
7	11	I gathered that much rence paper had been taken from the four islands, before they had been set afire.	10
7	13	The rence paper was loaded forward, carefully, in stacks, like corded wood, that it not be damaged.	10
7	17	I was not surprised to see that it was the dark-haired, lithe girl, who had been so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic, that was bound to the prow of the flagship of that small barge fleet.	10
7	40	A small domesticated tarsk, grunting and snuffling, pattered across rence matting that was the surface of the island.	10
7	68	I stood up on the raft of rence reed, and looked after the barges.	10
7	69	At my feet, half covered with the rence reeds with which we had concealed ourselves, lay Telima.	10
7	70	I reached to my head and drew away the garland of rence flowers which I had worn at festival.	10
7	72	I looked down at Telima, who turned her head away, and then I threw the bloodied garland of rence flowers into the marsh.	10
7	73	* * * * I stood on the surface of the rence island.	10
7	89	There would be something edible on the island, if only the pith of rence.	10
7	93	I kept the sun behind me that I might follow, in the shadows on the rence matting before me, the movements of the girl.	10
7	109	Always before, in the lighted hut, she had kept that side from me; in the day it had been covered by her tunic; in the night, in the darkness and tumult, I had not noticed it; on the raft it had been concealed in the reeds of the rence plant, with which I had covered her.	10
7	118	Had Telima not been a rence girl, she would, I supposed, most likely, have died in the marshes.	10
7	130	Then she put her head down to the rence, shoulders shaking, and wept.	10
7	139	I tossed the tunic of rence cloth before her.	10
7	166	She was intelligent, and brave, a strong girl, as well as beautiful, a rence girl.	10
7	167	She, too, would make a craft, take a pole, and find her way deeper into the delta, doubtless to be accepted by another of the small rence communities.	10
7	171	I rose, wiping my hands on the bit of rence tunic I wore, and went to her.	10
7	174	"The rence growers," she said, "rose from the marsh, and they must return to the marsh".	10
7	180	Then, turning over the slashed side of some broken matting, that had been part of the side of a rence hut, I found another body, that of a child.	10
7	188	"He is of the rence growers," she said.	10
7	190	I took the child in my arms and walked down to the shore of the rence island.	10
7	197	It was the boy who had brought me the bit of rence cake when I had been bound at the pole, he who had been punished for doing this by his mother.	10
7	207	Then I began to gather rence, drawing it from the surface of the island itself, long strips, with which a boat might be made.	10
8	1	What Occurred in the Marshes I had gathered the rence and Telima, with marsh vine, and her strong hands and skill, had made the craft.	10
8	3	She had concealed them in the rence, far from her hut, weaving the reeds again over them.	10
8	13	I had told Telima to make the rence craft sturdy, wider than usual, stabler.	10
8	16	The arrows lay before me, loose in the leather wrapper opened before me on the reeds of the rence craft.	10
8	22	It is sometimes difficult for even a small rence craft to make its way through the tangles of rushes and sedge in the delta.	10
8	41	* * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by...	10
8	91	* * * * In the darkness, Telima and I finished some rence cake we had brought from the island, and drank some water.	10
8	109	These defensive conditions dictated that the offense, putatively the male population of one or perhaps two rence communities, say, some seventy or eighty men, would most likely attack at either the first or the last of the barges, where they would have but one front on which to attack and little, or...	10
8	110	That the punt might be used to bring men behind attacking rencers was quite improbable; further, had it been used, presumably it would have encountered rencers in their several rence craft and been thereby neutralized or destroyed.	10
8	112	We had come now to the hull of the fourth barge, and we had come to her as silently as a rence flower might have drifted to her side.	10
8	114	Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import.	10
8	137	I whispered to Telima to bring the rence craft in again, and put down my bow, taking out the steel sword.	10
8	142	She seemed startled but, as I told her, poled the rence craft away from the barges.	10
8	144	When the rence craft was lost, some hundred yards from the barges, among the reeds and sedge, I had her secure the craft.	10
8	145	She thrust the oar-pole deep into the mud of the marsh, and fastened the rence craft to this mooring by a length of marsh vine.	10
8	146	In the darkness I felt her kneel on the reeds of the rence craft.	10
8	173	I lay there for a time, feeling the rence beneath my back, staring up at the gray, empty sky.	10
8	178	She wiped the last of the crumbs of rence cake from her mouth with the back of her left hand.	10
8	183	She unfastened the rence craft from the oar-pole which had served as a mooring and, slowly, drew up the pole from the mud of the marsh.	10
8	195	I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge.	10
8	202	I put the bow back on the reeds of the rence craft, and removed the arrows from my belt.	10
8	215	The slaves from the rence islands, lying between the rowers' benches, like fish, bound hand and foot, had their heads to the stern of the vessel.	10
8	222	Then I motioned that she should come aboard and, tying the rence craft fast to the small mooring cleat just abaft of the prow, she did so.	10
8	246	And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge.	10
8	259	Above me, her back to the front of the curved prow of the barge, was bound the lithe, dark-haired girl, whom I well remembered, she who had been so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
8	305	I went forward to the foredeck of the sixth barge and there freed the rence craft of its tether to the mooring cleat and climbed over the side, dropping into the small craft.	10
8	306	I pulled the oar-pole from the mud at its side, and then, standing on the wide, sturdy little craft which Telima had fashioned from the rence I had gathered, I poled my way back to the first barge.	10
8	308	I refastened the rence craft at the first barge, to the starboard mooring cleat just abaft of the prow.	10
8	452	"You fought well, Ho-Hak," said I, "on the rence island, with only an oar-pole".	10
8	478	"Eechius had given him rence cake when he was bound at the pole," said Telima.	10
8	543	"There is much rence paper," said Thurnock.	10
8	545	"I do not want rence paper".	10
8	547	I looked to the prow of the first barge, where was bound the lithe, dark-haired beauty, she who had been so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
8	642	"Yes," said Clitus, "though they are rence girls, they would bring a high price".	10
8	657	Clitus, I expected, would have little difficulty with his short rence girl.	10
8	666	"We have tied it with the rence craft," said Clitus, "abeam of the starboard bow of this barge".	10
8	675	Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p...	10
8	688	Clitus had already fastened the short rence girl in the coffle, the binding fiber looped and knotted about her neck, the remainder of the coil fallen to the deck behind her.	10
8	711	"This time," she asked, "will you perhaps throw me up the stairs?" "The mouths of rence girls," commented Clitus, "are said to be as large as the delta itself".	10
8	735	She stood up in the brief rence tunic, and stretched.	10
8	741	I gathered that she had regarded herself as the beauty of the rence islands.	10
8	812	She stood there proudly, straightly, behind the short rence girl, Ula, and, wrists bound, and tethered by the neck, was added to the slave coffle, as fourth girl.	10
8	830	The large, blond girl, Thura, gray-eyed, and the shorter rence girl, Ula, gasped.	10
9	36	We might well have congratulated ourselves on our catch of rence girls.	10
9	219	For was I not myself of Port Kar? Could we not do what we wished, taking what we wanted, as we had rence girls that pleased us, simply binding them and making them our slaves? I laughed, for I had been considering, aforetime, how Port Kar might fall, and yet she was my own, my own city! The two drun...	10
9	280	I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island.	10
9	373	"Do you recall," I asked pleasantly, looking down into her eyes, "how some days ago, on the rence island, on the night of the festival, in the firelight, when I was bound at the pole, you taunted me in your dance?" "Master?" she asked, her eyes timid.	10
9	418	Then Thura, to my amazement, though a rence girl, dancing, revealed herself similarly to the great Thurnock, he only of the peasants, and he, with a great laugh, swept her from her feet and carried her from the room.	10
9	460	Midice, Thura, Ula were all, as is common with rence girls, illiterate.	10
9	478	"It is strange," I said, "that a rence girl should have a golden armlet".	10
10	49	He was the one who had come to the rence islands, who had had upon his helmet the two golden slashes.	10
10	87	I took the green bars to symbolize the rence of the marshes, and the flag, thus, became that of Bosk, a Captain, who had come from the marshes.	10
13	178	"Are you not the one who, in the delta of the Vosk, was overcome by vast numbers of rencers, and forced to abandon your barges, and a treasure of rence paper and slaves?" "This man is dangerous," said Lysias to Chenbar.	10
15	306	She was only a rence girl, I reminded myself.	10
15	379	I recalled that she had been caught in capture loops on the rence island, not unlike the two now about Sandra's waist.	10
15	853	Not since I had knelt bound before Ho-Hak on the rence island had such words come from me, so unbidden, so tortured.	10
16	83	"Yes," she said, "sometimes a singer comes to the rence islands.	10
16	92	And I recalled, now puzzled again, that she, though a rence girl, had been able to read the lettering on the collar I had placed on her one night long ago.	10
16	94	"When I was a girl on the rence island," she said, "and later, sometimes at night, when I was a slave, in my cage in my master's house, I would lie awake and think of the songs, and of heroes".	10
18	181	"The mouths of rence girls," I said, "are said to be as large as the delta itself".	10
18	187	"At last," I commented, "someone has discovered a way to keep rence girls quiet".	10
18	259	"Have you something to say to me, Rence Girl?" I asked.	10
18	390	I recalled once, long ago, being puzzled that she, though a mere rence girl, had been literate.	10
18	405	There, like a new girl taken from the rence islands, I was stripped.	10
18	412	These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.	10
18	702	"Eechius was killed at the rence island," he said to Henrak.	10
18	794	"The rence islands, now confederated," said Ho-Hak, "are yours".	10
18	806	They would return to their rence craft tied at the foot of the delta wall.	10
18	852	Disappearing now in the rence of the marshes, under the three moons, were the many small craft of the rencers.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	292	Talena was not a simple rence girl, indigenous to the marshes, as was Telima.	10
6	296	And Telima, though she was very beautiful, was a rence girl.	10

Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	113	And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former Free Companion, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and resol...	10
1	580	He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta.	10
1	596	I poled my rence craft toward them, my bow ready.	10
1	598	The tarn took flight, low, over the rence, the beast upon it, hunched, shaggy.	10
1	599	I found her rence craft, the pole floating nearby.	10
1	636	"The beast," he said, "had been seen earlier, twice, on abandoned, half-rotted rence islands, lurking".	10
20	58	A bloodied armlet, bloodied hair, was found on the rence.	10
20	66	There is little like that in the rence".	10
20	150	"I shall return to the rence," she said.	10

Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	54	The Vosk is a mighty river which flows westward, emptying into a vast rence delta, finding its way eventually to Thassa, the sea.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	487	It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	195	We were in the remains of a half-fallen, ruined tarn complex, built on a wide platform, at the edge of the rence marshes, some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	133	The ticket is of rence paper, which is cheap in Port Kar, owing to its proximity to one of Gor's major habitats for the rence plant, the vast marshes of the Vosk's delta.	10

Book 24. (164 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	7	Rencers usually attack in their rence craft, formed of bound rence, using the almost ubiquitous rence for cover.	10
6	39	They inhabit rence islands, huge floating rafts of woven rence.	10
6	40	As the rence rots at the bottom, it is replaced, more rence being added to the surface.	10
12	156	But could this have been the case if Cosian forces had earlier entered the delta, in great numbers, to flee the vengeance of Ar? Would they themselves not have taken such craft, or destroyed them, as they could? Where do you think the sympathies of those in Turmus and Ven lie, with Ar, or Cos? Is it...	10
12	210	"The rence girls go barefoot, commonly, or wear rence sandals, and short tunics".	10
17	323	One that has taken human flesh, of course, for example, in attaching a rence craft, or in ascending a rence island, is particularly dangerous.	10
18	44	As soon as I had seen the first edge of the new darkness, those new clouds, like a black rising moon, emerge on the horizon, over the rence, to the west, I had taken the rence tube, already prepared, and returned to the vicinity of the men of Ar.	10
18	300	Indeed, most rencer villages usually have warning banners set up in the rence, pieces of cloth on prominent rence stems.	10
28	410	The rencers use rence mats most commonly, or hoods made of rence, for these, screenlike, permit one to see out but are too small to admit the average sting fly.	10
29	162	She would, presumably, in one of the rence villages or another, on one of the rence islands, have seen such a brand on some beauty, perhaps stolen from a slave barge.	10
4	1	The Delta "Through the eye!" I screamed, struggling in the ropes, naked, they tight about my upper body, my hands crossed and bound behind me, fastened closely to my ankles, kneeling in the bow of the small craft, of bound rence.	10
4	3	The fellow had been taken from the rence craft before me, the comparatively small, less than a foot in breadth at its thickest point, triangular-jawed head, on the long, muscular, sinuous neck, lifting suddenly, glistening, dripping water, from the marsh, turning sideways, and seizing the fellow, th...	10
4	9	Within a hundred yards there was a flotilla of small craft, rence craft, flatboats, barges, scows, fishing boats and rafts, perhaps four or five hundred men.	10
4	17	"I cannot reach him!" cried a fellow with a sword, standing unsteadily, almost falling, in one of the light rence craft.	10
4	24	It disappeared under the bound rence.	10
4	28	My knees were wet, from water come up between the bound, shaped bundles of tubular rence.	10
5	17	There is often very little visibility in it, for more than a few feet ahead, for the rence.	10
6	3	The bow of the rence craft, still dry, nosed through reeds.	10
6	9	"A Cosian?" asked a man, in a rence craft nearby.	10
6	42	And, indeed, the rence islands, inhabited by the rencers, as they float, are movable.	10
6	44	Needless to say, this mobility can be very useful to the rencers, enabling them, for example, to seek new fishing grounds and harvest fresh stands of rence, their major trading commodity, used for various purposes, such as the manufacture of cloth and paper.	10
6	53	"They could be anywhere in the rence," said a fellow, uneasily.	10
7	2	"The rence is broken there!" There was a cheer from the several craft about us.	10
7	5	Eagerly the men of Ar then pressed through the break in the rence.	10
7	28	More water swirled up through the rence of our small craft.	10
7	31	Normally a rence craft will last weeks, even months.	10
9	1	The Barge "Move ahead," said the fellow in the bow of the small rence craft.	10
9	2	I struggled forward, pressing against the water, up to my chest, stumbling, pushing through rence, the rope on my neck going back to the small craft.	10
9	14	Rence cut at my face.	10
9	19	It was hard to paddle now, being heavy, the rence soaked with water.	10
9	27	I then struggled ahead again, through the rence.	10
9	40	A rence craft floundered near us, settling in the water.	10
9	77	He could, from that coign of vantage, look over the rence.	10
9	85	I could hear cheers from far behind me now, so swiftly had the word spread through the rence.	10
10	5	He held the bit of rence stalk, still smoking from the fire, to one of the creatures on my back.	10
10	25	He stood up, discarding the smoking rence.	10
10	86	"The rence craft is rotted," he said.	10
10	89	I wondered if he had ever considered the oddity of the deterioration of the rence, in only days.	10
11	5	There were almost no shadows from the rence on the water.	10
12	75	"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches".	10
12	110	"Surely there were warning signals, cloth on wandlike rence stems, white, then later red, raised in the vicinity of the rencers' village".	10
13	18	Some were held in the rence, others were circling to the left, and, I suppose, on the other side, to the right.	10
13	58	No fugitives came plunging through the rence.	10
13	60	In a few Ehn, however, a fellow did approach, covered with mud, cut from the rence.	10
13	61	He had, I gathered, forced his way through the rence, in the charge.	10
13	67	I went before him, through the rence.	10
13	197	"It was as though the rence were alive!" I emerged onto the stern deck, blinking against the sun, where my keeper, who was waiting for me, unlooping the rope leash from the yoke, and, keeping me on a short tether, about a foot Gorean in length, the remaining portion of the leash coiled in his hand, ...	10
13	207	There seemed little, if anything, to draw against!" "Only a shadow," wept a man, "a movement in the rence, a suspicion, and then the arrows, and the arrows!" "What were the casualties?" asked the officer.	10
13	212	I could see other fellows making their way towards us, through the rence, some dozens, more survivors, many wounded.	10
13	273	Beware of straws, or rence, which seem to move in the water".	10
13	277	"Or of a Ho-Hak, or a Tamrun, of the Rence," I said.	10
13	279	"And many in the rence," I said, "may never have heard of a Marlenus of Ar".	10
13	306	"Did you not, only yesterday, destroy a rence village?" There was silence.	10
13	470	I spun about, in the rence.	10
13	480	For several Ehn I was able to keep to the thickest of the rence.	10
13	487	Then, to my elation, I was again in the high rence.	10
14	128	"But have you," I asked, "who are the commander of the vanguard, you who are in the very best position to do so, detected any clear evidence as yet of even so minimal a presence?" "There has been broken rence," he said.	10
14	129	"Tharlarion can break rence," I said.	10
14	192	"We are speaking of simple fishermen," said the officer, "of hunters of birds, of harvesters of rence".	10
15	5	So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la...	10
15	10	Then an arrow would dart forth from the rence, the bowman unseen, his presence perhaps not even suspected, and another man, perhaps silently, would sink into the marsh.	10
15	20	Everywhere the rence would seem the same.	10
16	93	She cannot investigate every rush, every stem of rence.	10
17	75	"A standard of Ar, raised above the rence!" cried the voice.	10
17	96	"He is out of the rence now," called the voice from above and the right, probably that of the lookout.	10
17	207	At such a time, which occurs every summer in the delta, the rencers withdraw to their huts, taking inside with them food and water, and then, with rence, weave shut the openings to the huts.	10
17	213	Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants.	10
17	270	I wished to go deeply enough into the rence to elude recapture, and not so deeply that I might lose contact with the column.	10
17	272	I could feel rence all about me.	10
17	279	Too, I feared tharlarion, though now, in the heat of the day, many might be somnolent, in the water, mostly submerged, or on bars, at the water's edge, perhaps half hidden in the rence.	10
17	310	There was much rence about.	10
17	316	I moved the raft farther away from them, deeper into the rence.	10
17	320	Indeed rencers sometimes paddle about amidst them in their light rence craft.	10
17	321	Similarly, they seldom ascend the rence islands.	10
17	326	Deep in a stand of rence there were fewer flies.	10
17	357	I could see nothing but rence.	10
17	365	Many of the wounds of the men of Ar, even those from the lashings and cuttings of rence, had become infected.	10
17	386	I then lowered myself from the raft, again into the water, to be less exposed to the flies, even in the thick rence.	10
18	1	I am Pleased to Take Note of the Moons The rence stem, hollowed, may serve as a breathing tube.	10
18	11	Fires had been built, on which marsh growth and damp rence were thrown, to produce smoke, that this might ward off flies.	10
18	20	Others had covered themselves with rence.	10
18	28	He was lying on his stomach, shuddering, half covered with rence.	10
18	39	I had, however, from the rence, seen the clouds once more approaching from the west, even vaster, even darker.	10
18	50	I saw with satisfaction the men of Ar take what shelter they could, digging into the sand, pulling blankets about them, covering themselves with rence, wrapping cloths about their head and eyes, burying their head in their arms, doing whatever they could do to prepare themselves for the imminent arr...	10
18	66	In an Ehn I was to, and behind, the fellow lying on the bar, covered with rence.	10
18	240	I submerged and swam back into the rence.	10
18	258	From the rence I looked back to the bar.	10
18	260	They were looking out, over the marsh, indeed, toward me, though I do not think they could see me in the poor light, through the flies, like a dark wind, in the rence.	10
18	278	Standing in the rence, in the light of the moons, intermittently darkened by the living clouds passing overhead, I removed the rusted manacles, discarding them, with the key, in the marsh.	10
18	283	I then left the rence and, slowly, smoothly, swam about the island.	10
18	285	I then put these materials in one of the remaining, wretched rence craft, its bottom already half rotted, drew up the mooring rope, and paddled from the island, my knees in the water, back to where I had left the raft.	10
18	308	I was in no hurry to leave the relative security of the rence.	10
19	8	The rence craft I had taken from the men of Ar was rotted and treacherous.	10
19	9	It had sunk into the water even before I had left the rence in which I had originally taken cover.	10
19	14	I had seen the creature hovering about, then alighting, dropping out of sight, amongst the rence.	10
19	38	I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan...	10
19	39	I had emerged from the rence.	10
19	110	I had not realized the blast that might be created from that, and was thrown back, stumbling, into the rence.	10
19	116	I did not see it hit the water, for the rence, but I saw, two or three hundred feet away, the splash.	10
19	194	I took a step back, into the rence.	10
19	197	If it were its intention to smite me with the wind from the beating of those mighty wings I thought it best to withdraw into the rence.	10
19	208	I crouched down, half blinded by the particles, sand and rence, smiting against me, and slashed up, cutting at the feet.	10
19	223	It was my intention to gather some dry rence and light it with the fire-maker, a simple device, little more than a wheel and flint, from my pouch.	10
19	225	I withdrew, stumbling, back, into the rence.	10
19	226	It began to pursue me, sometimes hovering, its wings beating over the rence, flattening the stalks, forcing them to the water, agitating the water itself, producing waves fleeing before that force.	10
19	235	I began to gather rence frenziedly.	10
19	241	The rence was now lit.	10
19	242	I set fire to the dry tops of the rence as I waded among them.	10
19	243	In a moment, though it would be only for an Ehn or so, the rence about me burst into flame.	10
19	245	Into this fiery welcome the ul descended but, in a moment, hissing in pain, drew away, and disappeared over the rence.	10
19	246	I discarded the rence I had used as a torch.	10
19	249	I stood among smoking, blackened rence stalks.	10
19	325	"I am a simple rence girl," she said.	10
19	346	"But you are a simple rence girl?" I said.	10
19	386	"More likely you would be beaten with rence stalks," I said.	10
19	397	"I am not a rence girl," she said.	10
19	629	"One can see over the rence from here," I observed.	10
19	713	I then returned to the island, and from the island, back into the rence, to locate the raft, and my things.	10
19	718	Then I saw, about a hundred yards away, to the right, the head of the ul, stalking, bobbing, over the rence.	10
19	721	Then the ul struck its huge wings against the air, lifting itself above the rence, hovering.	10
19	724	Its quarry, I supposed, must be hiding in the rence.	10
19	730	Following her, over the rence I now again saw the small head of the ul, bobbing, inquisitive, birdlike.	10
19	732	Once I caught a glimpse of her again, small, white, blond, terrified, crashing through rence.	10
19	733	There was no difficulty, of course, in keeping track of the ul, whose head overtopped the rence.	10
19	740	Then I again saw her plunging through the marsh, pushing her way through rence, approaching the edge of the island.	10
19	744	Then the ul burst through the rence behind her.	10
19	754	It then, for what reason I am not sure, perhaps because of its memory of fire, perhaps because of the injuries I had caused it, perhaps because of a mere desire to safeguard its prey, smote its great wings, and, blasting sand about, bending nearby rence almost to the water, began to rise into the ai...	10
19	789	We were perhaps fifty or seventy feet then from the rence.	10
19	900	This she did do with a touch of sensuousness, perhaps because she was now reasonably confident I was not about to disappear into the rence.	10
19	1834	I moved the raft south, through the rence, under the moons.	10
20	11	"Such things often attach themselves to rence stems," I said.	10
20	15	Perhaps you brushed against rence in doing this.	10
21	22	"You would make this observation, presumably," I said, "tied on your knees, your wrists fastened to your ankles, in a rence craft".	10
21	24	"That you were in a rence craft would indicate that you were in their power," I said, "and too, you might then be conveniently transported from the place".	10
21	31	Once it was well afire your ankles would be freed from your wrists, and you would be put on your belly in the rence craft, still, of course, bound hand and foot.	10
21	33	"You would also," I conjectured, "prior to having your wrists freed from your ankles, and being put on your belly in the rence craft, have been blindfolded".	10
21	117	Such things are now doubtless spread throughout the delta, a bottle for a rencers' feast here, a veil there to strain water, somewhere else a necklace clinking, wrapped several times about the ankle of a fishing rence girl".	10
22	28	She might have been a rence girl, and not Ina, the lovely scion, I had learned, of one of Ar's oldest and finest families.	10
22	55	If we were to cook the fish, we would presumably do so in wrappings of wet rence, buried in the ashes of a small fire.	10
22	68	She then wiped her hands on her thighs like a rence girl and returned to kneel by the rock, where she began to separate the pieces of fish into bite-sized pieces.	10
24	24	I poled the raft to the side and put it in some rence, on a bar of sand.	10
24	33	She stood at the edge of the rence, within which we had concealed the raft.	10
24	36	She was pale there, in the moonlight, by the rence.	10
26	6	We had recently left the raft, together, to thrust it through thick rence.	10
26	230	I saw the fin of a shark several feet to the left, gliding through a stand of rence.	10
27	197	I watched him until he had disappeared among the rence.	10
27	469	"You, my dear," I said, "will be a mute rence girl".	10
27	470	"A rence girl!" she said, half rearing up.	10
27	472	"It will make sense to the fellows of Ar that I may have picked up a rence girl in the delta, particularly one as pretty as you are.	10
27	491	"I think the men of Ar, remembering that the Lady Ina was somewhat rude to me in one of their camps, will see this as a rich joke, giving her name to a lowly rence girl.	10
27	505	"If you are a simple rence girl, we cannot very well have you speaking with the accents of a cultured lady of Ar".	10
27	543	"You are then to be as a mute rence girl".	10
27	546	"Most rence girls are illiterate".	10
27	610	"I do not think they will see the Lady Ina in a small, well-curved, half-naked rence girl, in slave strips, perhaps bound".	10
28	256	"A mute rence girl?" he said.	10
28	324	"Do not be afraid, rence girl," said Plenius.	10
28	333	She was a highly intelligent woman, was the lovely Lady Ina, and I did not doubt but what she would keep well within the character of a mute rence girl.	10
28	355	To be sure they would presumably accept her as a simple, lowly rence girl, and much had they suffered at the hands of rencers.	10
28	362	"Do not lie to us, rence slut!" snarled a man.	10
28	392	"Do you wish to learn tongue work, mute rence slut?" asked a man.	10
28	419	"The rence woman you brought into the camp is a mute," he said.	10
28	421	"Surely it is unlikely that a given rence girl, picked up in the marsh, would be a mute," he said.	10
28	428	"Why would the rence girl not do that?" he asked.	10
28	439	She had tried to convince me of that, or something like that, I recalled, when she was pretending to be a rence girl, preposterous though that was, with her accent, when I had first encountered her on the pole, tied there for tharlarion.	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	62	The rence islands on which the Rencers live are also formed of woven rence.	10
17	63	As rence rots, deteriorates, or breaks away on the bottom, new rence is added on the surface.	10
26	13	The rence islands, of woven rence, too, could be moved about, so a village located one afternoon might be gone by the next morning.	10
33	62	The slender rence craft rested lightly on the water, nestled within the rence.	10
33	73	I supposed it had to do with rence; rence would be familiar to them, a part of the marshes, here snagged, here floating, here loose, there massed, there tangled and rotting.	10