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Saphrar

Book 4. (316 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	11	It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...	10
9	217	Saphrar gestured to two of the camisk-clad girls in the room, who brought cushions and a silken mat and placed them between Saphrar and Kamchak.	10
11	29	"Saphrar!" Saphrar looked on the girl.	10
11	33	"Saphrar," she wept, "free me!" "How unfortunate!" wailed Saphrar.	10
11	67	"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "Free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed.	10
17	56	This train of observation was interrupted by the arrival of Saphrar's two men-at-arms bearing a wooden barrier of sorts, about four and a half feet high and twelve feet wide, which they set between myself and my captors, and Saphrar, the Paravaci and those with the crossbow.	10
24	58	I feared, of course, that this addition to our armament might hasten Saphrar's departure, but, as it turned out, it did not, perhaps because the first word Saphrar had of our intentions was the tumbling of dying tarns behind the walls of the compound.	10
26	53	"He is coming to bargain with Saphrar, but I can better whatever terms he is offered—for I have all the gold and women of Turia, and by nightfall I will have the private hordes of Saphrar himself".	10
26	112	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks, whose father Kutaituchik was slain by Saphrar of Turia, calls upon Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	127	Again and again we encountered guards within the house but each time, when Saphrar took refuge behind them, Kamchak would throw gold to them and they would dissipate and Saphrar, panting, puffing, still clutching the large, purple-wrapped object in his arms, would on his short legs hurry off again.	10
26	157	On the floor below the dais were Saphrar of Turia, frantic, clutching the purple-wrapped object, and the Paravaci, he who still wore the hood of the Clan of Torturers, he who would have been my assassin, he who had been with Saphrar of Turia when I had entered the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	2	"It is the spiced brain of the Torian vulo," Saphrar was explaining.	10
9	3	It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...	10
9	21	"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish".	10
9	27	"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".	10
9	28	Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ...	10
9	33	In Saphrar's case, of course, he being of the Caste of Merchants, the notching of the ear would be a coincidence, albeit one that must have caused him some embarrassment.	10
9	34	Saphrar was a pleasant, gracious fellow, a bit indolent perhaps, save for the eyes and rapid fingers.	10
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.	10
9	39	"She is not," said Saphrar.	10
9	45	Saphrar winced.	10
9	48	Saphrar conveyed my wishes to the scandalized Feast Steward, and he, with a glare in my direction, sent two young slaves scampering off to scour the kitchens of Turia for a slice of bosk meat.	10
9	50	I glanced at Saphrar, who was now leaning on his yellow cushions, in his silken pleasure robes, white and gold, the colors of the Caste of Merchants.	10
9	51	Saphrar, eyes closed, was nibbling on a tiny thing, still quivering, which had been impaled on a colored stick.	10
9	53	"Do not object that we are entertained in the house of Saphrar of the Merchants," Kamchak had said, "for in Turia power lies with such men".	10
9	60	"Besides," Kamchak had told me, nudging me in the ribs, "the food and the entertainment are better in the house of Saphrar than in the palace of Phanius Turmus".	10
9	90	Thus, unfortunately, save for an occasional furtive pair of dark eyes peering from behind a veil in a recessed casement, we saw in our journey from the gate of the city to the House of Saphrar none of the fabled, silken beauties of Turia.	10
9	100	Suddenly I became aware again of the banquet of Saphrar of Turia.	10
9	116	"He is Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," Saphrar had remarked.	10
9	120	If there had been no women for us to view in the streets of Turia, Saphrar, merchant of the city, had determined to make that omission good at his banquet.	10
9	148	I could pick up snatches of conversation between Kamchak and Saphrar, and I gathered from what was said that they were negotiating places of meeting for the exchange of goods.	10
9	154	"I can arrange that she is chosen for the games," Saphrar was saying, "but it must be worth my while".	10
9	156	"My gold can determine that," Saphrar was saying, "and further determine that she is ill defended".	10
9	161	I and all others turned our eyes to a wide, swirling marble stairway in the back and to the left of the lofty banquet hall in the house of Saphrar the merchant.	10
9	167	As the woman approached I suddenly became aware again of Saphrar speaking.	10
9	170	"When she reaches her majority," Saphrar remarked.	10
9	171	Until then, I gathered, her means were in the doubtless capable hands of Saphrar the merchant.	10
9	173	Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.	10
9	179	I heard Saphrar whisper to Kamchak, whose eyes glowed as they rested on the figure in white and gold on the distant stairway.	10
9	182	"I have the word of her serving slaves," insisted Saphrar.	10
9	186	"The sphere is actually not of much value," Saphrar was saying, "it is not truly of gold—but only appears so".	10
9	188	"I would only wish it as a curiosity," Saphrar was saying.	10
9	190	"I know where it is," Saphrar was saying, his lips pulled back, revealing the golden canines, "I could send men for it".	10
9	195	Even I, in spite of my preoccupation with the conversation of Kamchak and Saphrar, would have found it difficult, had I wished, to take my eyes from her.	10
9	198	"It is in the wagon of Kutaituchik," Saphrar was saying.	10
9	202	I had learned now, if Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, undoubtedly the last egg of Priest-Kings, was in the wagon of Kutaituchik, said to be Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
9	203	At last, if Saphrar was correct, I knew its location.	10
9	210	"The golden sphere for Aphris of Turia," Saphrar whispered to Kamchak.	10
9	213	"Very well," snapped Saphrar, "then you will not obtain the woman—I shall see to that—and somehow I shall have the sphere—understand that!" Kamchak now turned to watch Aphris of Turia.	10
9	214	The girl now approached us, behind the tables, and Saphrar leaped to his feet and bowed low to her.	10
9	216	The girl inclined her head to him, "Honored Saphrar," she said.	10
9	232	"Please, if you wish, Lady Aphris, join us," wheezed Saphrar.	10
9	246	Saphrar was speechless.	10
9	249	He addressed Saphrar.	10
9	252	"No, no, no!" cried Saphrar.	10
9	271	The girl turned to Saphrar.	10
9	274	Saphrar was looking down.	10
9	277	I supposed Saphrar was still irritated at Kamchak's refusal to give up, or arrange the transfer of, the golden sphere.	10
9	279	I gathered he did not understand its true value, seeing that he had apparently discussed its exchange with some seriousness earlier in the evening—only that, apparently, he wanted more than Saphrar was offering, even though that might be Aphris of Turia herself.	10
9	301	Kamras was laughing loudly and even Saphrar was giggling amongst the yellow cushions.	10
9	320	Aphris then turned to Saphrar.	10
9	323	"Please, Aphris," said Saphrar, shaking his fat, pinkish head, sweating.	10
9	326	"The others," ordered Aphris, "—for the amusement of our guests!" The Feast Steward turned a wary eye toward Saphrar, who, defeated, nodded his head.	10
9	343	"Let us sit down and enjoy ourselves," recommended Saphrar.	10
9	424	"Replace your veil!" ordered Saphrar.	10
9	428	"Send for one of the Caste of Metal Workers!" cried Saphrar.	10
9	431	"Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia, "Slay him!" "Replace your veil," repeated Saphrar to the girl.	10
9	438	"It is a joke," cried out Saphrar.	10
9	441	"Now, gentle Aphris," Saphrar was purring, "you must be calm—soon one from the Caste of Metal Workers will appear to free you—all will be well—return to your own chambers".	10
9	443	"The Tuchuk must be slain!" "It is not possible, my dear," wheezed Saphrar.	10
9	460	I saw Saphrar, a bit in the background, close his eyes and nod his head.	10
9	464	It was something he would not buy with the golden sphere from Saphrar the merchant; it was something he was clearly capable of arranging, with Tuchuk cunning, by himself.	10
9	465	I supposed, naturally, however, that Saphrar, guardian of Aphris of Turia, would not permit this to occur.	10
9	466	"No, my dear," Saphrar was saying to the girl, "you must not expect satisfaction for this frightful injury which has been wrought upon you—you must not even think of the games—you must forget this unpleasant evening—you must try not to think of the stories that will be told of y...	10
9	468	"I will stand, I tell you! I will! I will!" "No," said Saphrar, "I cannot permit it—it is better that the people laugh at Aphris of Turia—and perhaps, in some years, they may forget".	10
9	470	Then she cried, "I beg of you Saphrar—permit me!" "But in a few days," said Saphrar, "you will attain your majority and receive your fortunes—then you may do as you wish".	10
9	472	"Yes," said Saphrar, as though thinking, "that is true".	10
9	475	"It is true you have never lost," wavered Saphrar.	10
9	480	Thus, if Aphris of Turia, by some mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	482	"All right," said Saphrar, his eyes cast down, as though making a decision against his better judgment, "I will permit my ward, the Lady Aphris of Turia, to stand at the stake in Love War".	10
9	492	"Have no fear, Saphrar of Turia," Kamras was saying, "I shall slay the Tuchuk sleen—and I shall do so slowly".	10
10	1	Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia.	10
10	127	I had now learned, if the information of Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, lay in the wagon of Kutaituchik.	10
11	21	I turned to see, only a few feet away, on the shoulders of slaves standing on the bloodied sand, the open, bejeweled, cushioned palanquin of Saphrar of the Caste of Merchants.	10
11	23	Saphrar's round, pinkish face was beaming with pleasure, though I would have thought this day a tragic one for him.	10
11	28	"Saphrar!" she cried.	10
11	44	Then she turned to Saphrar.	10
11	46	"If necessary, use all my resources, all! Free me!" "But Aphris," Saphrar was purring, "I am in charge of your funds and to barter them—and all your properties and goods—for one slave would be a most unwise and absurd decision on my part, irresponsible even".	10
11	48	"It is—or was—true that you were the richest woman in all Turia," Saphrar was saying, "but your riches are not yours to manage—but mine—not, that is, until you would have reached your majority, some days from now I believe".	10
11	50	"Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".	10
11	52	"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".	10
11	55	"Surely you are aware," said Saphrar, "that a slave cannot own property—any more than a kaiila, a tharlarion or sleen".	10
11	57	Saphrar reclined a bit more on his cushions.	10
11	69	"You stinking sleen!" "Be careful," warned Saphrar, "how you speak to the richest man in Turia!" Aphris wept and pulled at the retaining rings.	10
11	70	"You understand, of course," continued Saphrar, "that at the instant you became slave all your properties and riches, your wardrobes and jewels, your investments and assets, chattels and lands, became mine".	10
11	73	"I beg you, noble Saphrar," she wept, "I beg of you—I beg of you to free me.	10
11	74	Please! Please! Please!" Saphrar smiled at her.	10
11	77	Saphrar smiled.	10
11	80	Saphrar then again lifted the tiny glass through which he had regarded her, and examined her with some care.	10
11	82	"Saphrar!" cried out the girl one last time.	10
11	86	"Even had Saphrar been a worthy man you would not now be free".	10
11	177	We also heard that the wench Hereena, of the First Wagon, had been won by a Turian officer representing the house of Saphrar of the Merchants, to whom, for a fee, he presented her.	10
11	399	"Do you not recall," asked Kamchak, "the banquet of Saphrar?" "Of course," she said, warily.	10
12	3	I knew that in that wagon, if the words of Saphrar were correct, there lay the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, which he had, for some reason, seemed so anxious to obtain.	10
12	16	I had, however, inadvertently, learned the location of the golden sphere, and that Saphrar, a man of power in Turia, was also interested in obtaining it.	10
12	18	I wondered if Saphrar himself might be the key to the mysteries that confronted me.	10
12	21	Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.	10
14	90	"Saphrar?" I asked.	10
14	91	"Surely," said Kamchak, "for who could hire tarnsmen but Saphrar of Turia—or arrange for the diversion that drew fools to the edge of the herds?" I was silent.	10
15	29	"But," said Kamchak, "I think in the end Saphrar of Turia will meet their price—and the wagons will be fired and the bosk slain—" He gritted his teeth.	10
15	43	Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.	10
15	130	"I expect," I said, "it might be found here or there in the House of Saphrar, a merchant of Turia".	10
15	131	"That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphrar".	10
16	40	Also, I was not clear how Harold, supposing him to be successful in his shopping amongst the ferns and flowers of Saphrar's Pleasure Gardens, intended to conduct his squirming prize along this unscenic, difficult and improbable route.	10
16	61	"Stealing a wench from the House of Saphrar and returning on a stolen tarn".	10
16	79	"Is it far to the House of Saphrar?" I asked.	10
16	98	"That is all well and good," I said, "but I think it would be better to strike out for the House of Saphrar".	10
16	113	I told myself it might be better, even, to come to the House of Saphrar late, rather than possibly before the twentieth hour.	10
16	123	"Take them to the House of Saphrar," said the first man.	10
16	130	We knelt before a low dais, covered with rugs and cushions, on which reclined Saphrar of Turia.	10
16	142	On the left of Saphrar there sat another warrior, in the leather of a tarnsman, save that he wore a jeweled belt, and about his neck, set with diamonds, there hung a worn tarn disk from the city of Ar.	10
16	144	"I am pleased that you have chosen to visit us, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," said Saphrar.	10
16	150	"Our friend with the hood," said Saphrar, gesturing to his right, "preceded you tonight in the Passage Well.	10
16	158	"Please," said Saphrar, lifting his small fat hand.	10
16	162	"I would introduce our hooded friend," explained Saphrar, "but even I do not know his name nor face—only that he stands high among the Paravaci and accordingly has been of great use to me".	10
16	165	"I trust," said Saphrar, "that we shall have better fortune".	10
16	172	"Tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen".	10
16	173	"Is it known to Saphrar," I inquired, "that you have received gold from the Tuchuks?" "Of course," said Ha-Keel.	10
16	174	"You think perhaps," said Saphrar, chuckling, "that I might object—and that thus you might sow discord amongst us, your enemies.	10
16	193	"Ha-Keel," said Saphrar, "wisely went to the city of Port Kar, whose hospitality to such as he is well known.	10
16	196	"The little urt was trying to pick my pouch!" "You were not always a merchant, then?" I asked Saphrar.	10
16	197	"Among friends," said Saphrar, "perhaps we can speak frankly, particularly seeing that the tales we tell will not be retold.	10
16	202	"I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros—but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder—and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city.	10
16	205	"A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man—rather dreadful actually—with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass".	10
16	208	Saphrar shivered.	10
16	216	Though raised in Tyros and successful in Turia, Saphrar the merchant thought of himself as one of Port Kar.	10
16	223	Saphrar smiled.	10
16	225	Saphrar shrugged and spread his hands.	10
16	227	"The gray fellow," said Saphrar, "who brought the girl to the city, drugged on tarnback".	10
16	229	"Always he refused to tell me," said Saphrar.	10
16	231	"Master," said Saphrar.	10
16	234	Saphrar took no offense but arranged his robes and smiled.	10
16	236	"Why," I asked, "did he not permit you to keep the girl as a slave?" "She spoke a barbarous tongue," said Saphrar, "like yourself apparently.	10
16	240	"It doesn't matter—now," said Saphrar.	10
16	242	"How was it," I asked, "that you, who had never seen me, knew me and spoke my name at the banquet?" "You had been well described to me by the gray fellow," said Saphrar.	10
16	247	I recalled, with a certain amount of satisfaction, even in the House of Saphrar, that I had managed to resolve most of these disputes in my favor.	10
16	249	"It was an amusement on my part," smiled Saphrar, "to speak your name at that time—to see what you would do—to give you something, so to speak, to stir in your wine".	10
16	254	"Let me have this one," begged the Paravaci of Saphrar, pointing the tip of his quiva at Harold.	10
16	255	"Perhaps," said Saphrar.	10
16	264	"But he has come so far and risked so much," said Saphrar kindly.	10
16	267	"Many more than he," said Saphrar, "and perhaps in the end even more will die".	10
16	269	"No," said Saphrar, "but I know it is important to Priest-Kings".	10
16	273	"Yes," said Saphrar, "whatever it is, it has the shape of an egg".	10
16	275	"Perhaps," admitted Saphrar, "but what would Priest-Kings wish with such an egg?" "Who knows?" asked Ha-Keel.	10
16	276	"It was this, was it not," asked Saphrar, looking at me, "that you came to Turia to find?" "Yes," I admitted.	10
16	283	"No," said Saphrar firmly.	10
16	287	Clearly he had little stomach for whatever games the Paravaci or Saphrar might have in mind.	10
16	289	"You have secured the object," I inquired, "to give it to the gray man?" "Yes," said Saphrar.	10
16	291	"I do not know what he will do with it," said Saphrar.	10
16	294	"For all I know," said Saphrar, "the man is a Priest-King.	10
16	296	But I could now see that Saphrar had no idea who he was—or for whom, if anyone, he was working.	10
16	301	"He said once," said Saphrar, "that he was told—" "By whom?" I asked.	10
16	302	"I do not know," said Saphrar.	10
16	303	"You know no more?" "No," said Saphrar.	10
16	314	The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr...	10
16	316	Saphrar, of course, had been in Turia for years.	10
16	320	Saphrar, too, I reminded myself, had known that the golden sphere was in the wagon of Kutaituchik.	10
16	330	"Would you like to fight for your life?" asked Saphrar of Turia.	10
16	332	"Excellent," said Saphrar.	10
17	9	Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more beautiful, more alive.	10
17	24	"You will learn," Saphrar laughed.	10
17	38	Saphrar looked pained, but not much more so than was required by courtesy.	10
17	42	"Certainly not," said Saphrar.	10
17	45	"Such matters are very important to me," said Saphrar.	10
17	48	"Fetch the wooden shield," commanded Saphrar.	10
17	60	"It is in case you might feel tempted to hurl the quiva at us," said Saphrar.	10
17	69	"Nonsense," said Saphrar.	10
17	74	"Let him be untied," said Saphrar.	10
17	78	"That is only fair," said Saphrar.	10
17	82	"None has, of course," said Saphrar, "ever succeeded in doing either".	10
17	92	"Enter the pool," commanded Saphrar.	10
17	110	Then, angrily, thinking perhaps the pool was empty, or I had been made fool of, I cried out to Saphrar.	10
17	111	"When is it that I meet the monster?" Over the surface I heard Saphrar, standing behind the wooden shield, laugh.	10
17	118	"Yes," said Saphrar, gleefully.	10
18	1	The Pleasure Gardens At the very instant that Saphrar had called out there was a great blast of steam and fumes that seemed to explode from the fluid about me as though the monster in which I found myself had now, its prey satisfactorily entrapped, dared to respire and, at the same time, I felt the...	10
18	4	I heard Saphrar remark, "It sometimes takes hours to be fully digested".	10
18	7	"Some men," said Saphrar, "those who do not struggle—have lived for as much as three hours—long enough in some cases to see their own bones".	10
18	16	"Yes, Tarl Cabot," wheezed Saphrar, giggling, "and yet you will, in an hour or so, when you are mad with pain and fear, try yet again and again to touch and grasp a vine, knowing that you will not succeed but yet again and again trying, believing that once somehow you will be successful.	10
18	17	But you will not!" Saphrar now giggled uncontrollably.	10
18	18	"I have even seen them reach for vines a spear's length above their head and think they could reach them!" Saphrar's two golden teeth, like yellow fangs, showed as he put back his head and howled with pleasure, his fat little hands pounding on the wood of the shield.	10
18	19	The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia.	10
18	20	"Beware!" cried the Paravaci and Saphrar suddenly stopped laughing and observed me warily.	10
18	26	"I did not think so," said Saphrar.	10
18	30	"Be patient," giggled Saphrar.	10
18	42	"He is mad," said Saphrar.	10
18	73	"Kill him!" I heard Saphrar cry, and there was suddenly the hiss of a crossbow quarrel which streaked past me and shattered on the curving wall behind me.	10
18	81	Far off, it seemed, I could hear Saphrar screeching for more guards.	10
18	88	Saphrar cried out and darted away.	10
18	102	We heard running feet approaching, those of several men, the clank of arms, the high-pitched, enraged screaming of Saphrar of Turia.	10
18	112	"Tarns! Kaiila!" "No," he cried, "Saphrar's Pleasure Gardens!" and disappeared down the other side of the dome.	10
18	116	About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden.	10
19	15	"You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan...	10
19	22	Undoubtedly tarnsmen, mounted, would come from time to time during the night to the House of Saphrar.	10
19	33	And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
19	64	The masses of flowers and vegetation in Saphrar's Pleasure Gardens filled the air with mingled, heavy sweet fragrances.	10
19	80	I had not kept count but we must have passed by more than seven or eight hundred girls, and still, among all these riches of Saphrar, he could not seem to find the one for which he searched.	10
19	203	In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...	10
20	4	"Probably," I said, "on the highest roof of the highest building in the House of Saphrar".	10
20	33	It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us.	10
20	67	"A wench from the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar, you fool!" Harold was crying at him.	10
20	155	I took one long turn, seeing the torches and lights in the House of Saphrar below, and then guided my bird out over the prairie in the direction of the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
20	156	I was elated that we had managed to escape alive from the House of Saphrar, but I knew that I must return to the city, for I had not obtained the object for which I had come—the golden sphere—which still resided in the merchant stronghold.	10
20	157	I must manage to seize it before the man with whom Saphrar had had dealings—the gray man with eyes like glass—could call for it—and destroy it or carry it away.	10
21	49	As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia.	10
21	56	I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures.	10
21	60	"I have gems and jewels to show the noble Saphrar!" "Approach then the nearer gate!" he called.	10
21	62	I found a rather small gate in the wall, heavily barred, and begged admittance to show my wares to Saphrar.	10
21	92	I might go after the wagons, which would be moving slowly, obtain the tarn I had left with them, and then return on tarnback to Saphrar's house.	10
21	114	At one time, I gathered from Dina, her father's shop had been the most famed of the baking shops of Turia, most of which are owned by Saphrar of Turia, whose interests range widely, though operated naturally, as Gorean custom would require, by members of the Caste of Bakers.	10
21	115	Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant.	10
21	130	"But," said she, "even had I the money to reopen the shop—it would mean only that the men of Saphrar would come again".	10
21	139	In answer to her questions I told her the reason for which I had entered the city—to steal an object of value from Saphrar of Turia, which he himself had stolen from the Tuchuks.	10
21	166	There I thought long on the matter of the egg of Priest-Kings and the House of Saphrar.	10
21	205	I, of course, did not wish to wait a few days—or more—or however long it might take Ha-Keel to rest his men, square his accounts with Saphrar and depart.	10
21	212	But how it must have hurt him—he, Kamchak—to turn the wagons and withdraw from Turia, leaving Kutaituchik unavenged and Saphrar of Turia triumphant.	10
21	362	"I want the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he cried.	10
22	9	The compound of the House of Saphrar, however, had not fallen, protected by its numerous guardsmen and its high walls, nor had the tower elsewhere that sheltered the tarn cots and warriors of Ha-Keel, the mercenary from Port Kar.	10
22	20	After we had taken the girl and the potter and wine vendor to whatever safety their homes might afford, we set out for the House of Saphrar, where, after some examination of the scene, I convinced myself there was nothing immediately to be done.	10
22	28	Saphrar, if he chose, could escape on tarnback.	10
22	134	"Only the blood of Saphrar," said he.	10
23	2	On one of these wagons, with the top removed, were the two tarns Harold and I had stolen from the roof of Saphrar's keep.	10
23	50	He had apparently, in the past several days since our escape from Saphrar's keep, been familiarizing himself with the saddle straps and the bird's habits and responses.	10
24	7	The House of Saphrar still stood, and the tower that had been fortified by Ha-Keel's tarnsmen.	10
24	9	I and Kamchak expected Saphrar to flee by tarn at any moment, for it must now be clear to him that the strike of the Paravaci against the Tuchuk wagons and herds had not forced Kamchak to withdraw; indeed, his forces were now supplemented by Kataii and Kassars, a development which must have horrifie...	10
24	10	The only reason that occurred to me why Saphrar had not yet fled was that he was waiting in Turia for an excellent reason—quite possibly the arrival on tarnback of the gray man—with whom he had negotiated apparently to secure the golden sphere.	10
24	49	I spent what free time I could in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound.	10
24	63	"Kamchak will close the gates soon," said Harold, "and then we shall get to work on Saphrar's house and that tarn roost of Ha-Keel's".	10
24	65	The city now largely clear of defenders, and closed to the outside, Kamchak could bring his forces to bear on Saphrar's house, that fort within a fort, and on the tower of Ha-Keel, taking them, if necessary, by storm.	10
24	67	Saphrar probably had, behind his walls, more than three thousand defenders, plus a comparable number of servants and slaves, who might be of some service to him, particularly in such matters as reinforcing gates, raising the height of walls, loading crossbows, gathering arrows from within the compou...	10
24	233	Tomorrow I knew the assault would begin on the House of Saphrar and the tower of Ha-Keel.	10
25	303	And yet on the very morrow it seemed I might die on the walls of Saphrar's compound.	10
26	1	The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig...	10
26	10	The tarns that Harold and I had stolen from Saphrar's keep several days ago had both been brought into the city and were nearby, for it was thought that such might be needed, if only to convey reports from one point to another.	10
26	43	Very high in the sky, no more than a small speck, speeding toward the compound of Saphrar from the direction of the tower I believed held by Ha-Keel, we saw a tarn.	10
26	47	"Saphrar may escape," I pointed out.	10
26	48	"No," said Kamchak, "there is no escape for Saphrar".	10
26	60	"Then Saphrar is alone," I said.	10
26	66	The House of Saphrar was encircled literally by thousands of warriors.	10
26	70	"I have waited long for the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he said.	10
26	82	"Let Saphrar of Turia die by gold," he said.	10
26	83	Only then did I understand with horror the depth of Kamchak's hatred of Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	84	Man by man, stone by stone of gold, Saphrar was dying, his walls and defenses being taken grain by grain from him, slipping away.	10
26	86	Kamchak, in his Tuchuk cruelty, would stand quietly to one side and, coin by coin, bit by bit, buy Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	87	Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in...	10
26	88	Indeed, some who might have fought for Saphrar, seeing their fellows deserting in such numbers, undoubtedly realized their own imminent danger, now increased a hundred fold, and hastened to join the deserters.	10
26	90	I gathered that Saphrar, in the years he had built his power in Turia, had for his own purposes gathered such men about him, and now he would pay the price—with his own life.	10
26	105	Behind them I was startled to see suddenly a scurrying figure in white and gold, Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	113	"Strike him with your spears," screamed Saphrar from within the doorway.	10
26	115	"Give greetings to Saphrar of Turia from Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said Kamchak calmly.	10
26	117	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks," he said, "gives greetings to Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	118	"Kill him!" screamed Saphrar.	10
26	122	"Fight!" cried Saphrar.	10
26	124	"Sleen!" cried Saphrar, and turned and ran deeper within the house.	10
26	125	Not hurrying Kamchak walked his kaiila up the stairs of the house and, on kaiilaback, entered the main hall of the House of Saphrar.	10
26	126	In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	130	Our pursuit carried us from room to room, through hall after hall, in the great house of Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	132	We passed through kitchens and galleries, even through the private compartments of Saphrar himself, where we saw the multitudinous robes and sandals of the merchant, each worked predominantly in white and gold, though often mixed with hundreds of other colors.	10
26	133	In his own compartments the pursuit had seemed to end, for it seemed Saphrar had disappeared, but Kamchak did not show the least irritation or annoyance.	10
26	143	Guided by the sleen we had no difficulty in following the track of Saphrar through the passage, though often it branched variously.	10
26	145	I supposed Saphrar of Turia must have carried lamp or torch, or perhaps that he knew the passage by heart.	10
26	154	I recognized it immediately, for it was the room in which Harold and I had been brought prisoner before Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	194	Then Kamchak lifted his head and regarded the other three men, seated Ha-Keel, calm with his sword, and the frantic Saphrar of Turia, and the tall Paravaci, with the quiva.	10
26	204	"Do not approach!" cried Saphrar, "or I shall destroy the golden sphere!" He tore away the purple cloth that had enfolded the golden sphere and then lifted it high over his head.	10
26	210	"Stand back!" screamed Saphrar.	10
26	212	I saw Saphrar's eyes gleam.	10
26	215	"Listen to him!" screamed Saphrar.	10
26	219	Kamchak regarded Saphrar.	10
26	221	"The golden sphere!" cried Saphrar.	10
26	223	"I do not know," said Saphrar, "but I know that there are men who will pay half the wealth of Gor for this—" "I," said Kamchak, "would not give a copper tarn disk for it".	10
26	224	"Listen to the Koroban!" cried Saphrar.	10
26	229	Saphrar's eyes seemed to pop.	10
26	231	The Paravaci regarded Saphrar.	10
26	241	"As Saphrar did?" asked Kamchak.	10
26	252	"Is it your intention to buy your life with the golden sphere?" "If necessary," said Saphrar, "yes!" "But I do not want it," said Kamchak.	10
26	254	Saphrar blanched and held the sphere again over his head.	10
26	257	"That is better," wheezed Saphrar.	10
26	260	"Go back with your men!" cried Saphrar, backing away from us a step.	10
26	262	The animals raged against the chain leashes, maddened as they were drawn farther from Saphrar, their prey.	10
26	267	I can give you half the riches of the Paravaci! Bosk and gold and women and wagons!" "I would suppose," said Ha-Keel, "that all that you have is not worth so much as the golden sphere—and that is Saphrar of Turia's".	10
26	271	"Then it will be mine!" he cried and raced to Saphrar, trying to seize the sphere.	10
26	272	"Mine! Mine!" screamed Saphrar, trying to retain the sphere.	10
26	277	Saphrar was screaming insanely and then, to my astonishment, he bit the Paravaci's forearm, sinking the two golden upper canine teeth into the hooded man's flesh.	10
26	278	The Paravaci suddenly cried out in uncanny fear and shuddered and, to my horror, the golden sphere, which he had succeeded in wresting from Saphrar, was thrown a dozen feet across the room, and shattered on the floor.	10
26	296	I was only partly cognizant of these things, for I was overcome with grief, kneeling in Saphrar's audience hall before the shards of the shattered golden sphere.	10
26	301	I heard, vaguely, someone say, "Saphrar and Ha-Keel have fled".	10
26	305	I would not have cared to have been Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	341	At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers...	10
26	346	The golden droplets which Saphrar wore in place of eyebrows fell unnoticed into the sluggish fluid that slowly rose about him, inching itself upward, thickening itself about him.	10
26	348	Saphrar took a step deeper into the pool and the pool permitted this, and he now stood with the fluids level with his chest.	10
26	349	"Lower the vines!" begged Saphrar.	10
26	351	Saphrar threw back his head like a dog and howled in pain.	10
26	356	Saphrar screamed in agony and moving beneath the yellow glistening surface of the pool I saw several of the filamentous fibers encircle his legs and begin to draw him deeper into the pool and beneath the surface.	10
26	357	Then Saphrar, merchant of Turia, struggled, pounding against the caked material near to him, to prevent his being drawn under.	10
26	360	The fluid now had reached Saphrar's chin and his head was back to try and keep his nose and mouth above the surface.	10
26	369	"It was Saphrar of Turia," said Kamchak to me, "who first introduced Kutaituchik to the strings of kanda".	10
26	378	For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia...	10
26	381	Outside the compound of Saphrar, which was now burning, we mounted kaiila to return to the wagons outside the walls.	10
26	384	He added, "As you said, we did not fire on him for he did not have with him the merchant, Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	389	He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".	10
26	414	We turned the kaiila from the courtyard of the burning House of Saphrar and, abreast, rode from that place.	10
27	5	Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as escapes from ...	10
27	6	Indeed, Saphrar's secret hordes alone, kept in dozens of vast underground storehouses, would have been enough to have made each and every Tuchuk, and perhaps each Kataii and Kassar as well, a rich man—a very rich man—in any of the cities of Gor.	10
27	11	The most marvelous set of the latter were the beauties from the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar of Turia.	10
27	13	Few it seemed to me, surprisingly perhaps, much objected to leaving the luxurious delights of the gardens of Saphrar for the freedom of the winds and prairies, the dust, the smell of bosk, the collar of a man who would master them utterly but before whom they would stand as human shes, individual, e...	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	117	I knew one of these mercenary captains, Ha-Keel, murderer, once of Ar, whom I had met in Turia, in the house of Saphrar, a merchant.	10
10	259	I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.	10
10	260	Saphrar, I recalled, had once been a perfumer from Tyros but, being exiled as a thief, had made his way to Port Kar, and thence had gone to Turia.	10
17	301	I had met Ha-Keel at a house in Turia, the house of Saphrar, a Merchant.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	101	Saphrar, a merchant of Tyros, resplendent in Turia, had similarly described the man who had enlisted his services in behalf of those who contested worlds with Priest-Kings.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	596	I passed a stall of perfumers, and thought of Saphrar of Turia.	10