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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	44	I drew my sword from its sheath, to cut the mounting ladder from the saddle, but stopped, and angrily drove the blade back into its sheath.	10
8	63	It was only halfway from its sheath when I leaped upon him, my manacled hands seeking his throat.	10
8	64	He struggled furiously, his hands trying to pry apart my fingers, his sword slipping from the sheath.	10
9	145	"Done!" he cried, fastening his lance in its saddle sheath and slipping from the back of the tharlarion.	10
12	132	I seized my spear from the saddle sheath and turned.	10
15	203	"What is it, Ubar, that you hold dearest—your city or your title? Do you seek the welfare of Ar or your private glory?" Marlenus leaped to his feet, hurling the yellow robes of the Afflicted from him, drawing his blade from its sheath with a metallic flash.	10
15	204	"A Ubar," he cried, "answers such a question only with his sword!" My weapon, too, had flashed from its sheath almost simultaneously.	10
15	205	We faced each other for a long, terrible moment; then Marlenus threw back his head and laughed his great lion laugh, slamming his sword back into its sheath.	10
17	99	I loosened my sword in its sheath, set my shield on my arm, and grasped my spear.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	57	In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans.	10
2	58	I took the blade from its sheath.	10
7	72	My sword was free of its sheath.	10
7	125	I replaced the sword in my sheath, shattered, helpless.	10
14	170	Accordingly the goad had seldom left its sheath on the right side of the saddle.	10
23	135	One hand attempted to clutch his weapon but the sheath had been emptied.	10
25	7	Hardly had my shield been penetrated when my sword had leaped from its sheath and slashed through the shoulder straps of the shield, cutting it from my arm.	10
25	10	His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.	10
25	24	I wiped the blade on my tunic and replaced it in the sheath.	10

Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	130	I loosened my sword in its sheath and continued upwards.	10
7	75	I slammed the blade back in the sheath and continued on.	10
7	79	Slowly, very slowly, I drew the sword, taking care that it made no sound as it left its sheath.	10
12	40	Although her head was shaved she was pretty and the brief plastic sheath she wore did not conceal her charms.	10
22	157	I drew my sword, lifting it easily from the sheath.	10
22	160	I tried the balance, and dropped the steel back into its sheath.	10
22	163	I supposed one of the reasons for the short blade was that it could clear the sheath a fraction of a second before a longer blade.	10
24	31	I slipped my sword into its sheath and knelt beside Vika's body, not taking my eyes off the creature who stood about four yards distant.	10
27	38	I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother.	10
28	68	Even shorn she seemed to me incredibly beautiful, very frightened, in the brief plastic sheath that was the only garment allotted to female Muls.	10
31	169	The weapon left my sheath.	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	35	I saw him draw one of the quivas from a saddle sheath, loosen the long, triple-weighted bola from his side.	10
10	437	Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword.	10
11	316	She jerked one of the quivas from its saddle sheath and stood with the blade facing us.	10
16	285	Ha-Keel angrily rammed his sword back into the sheath.	10
21	275	Suddenly understanding, the officer cried out in rage and whipped his sword from his sheath but before he could raise his arm the young man had leaped to him and thrust a quiva into his heart.	10
24	191	"Behind you!" I spun the kaiila and whipped my sword from its sheath.	10
26	258	"Sheath your weapons," ordered the Paravaci.	10

Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	171	Not taking his eyes from the man, Kuurus cut the straps on the sheath from the man's forearm, and with a small movement of his blade, threw the sheath and its dagger some feet to the side.	10
5	737	To this belt there hung the sheath of a hook knife, which was buckled in the sheath, the strap passing over the hilt.	10
2	130	"Yes, Master," he said, "yes!" "Then you have money," said Kuurus, and stood up behind the table, slinging the sheath of the short sword about his shoulder.	10
2	145	Five blades leaped from the sheath with but one sound.	10
2	169	The short sword moved from the sheath.	10
2	170	"I must protect myself," said the man, smiling, as the blade of Kuurus lifted itself through the sleeve, parting the silk, revealing the sheath strapped to his forearm.	10
3	205	I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield.	10
6	5	The edges of the sheath were coated with a bluish pigment.	10
10	109	There was a whipping strap looped about his belt, and in the belt, sheathed, was a hook knife, the hilt buckled down in the sheath, as was the case with that of Ho-Tu.	10
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...	10
17	542	But then my sword was out of the sheath and delicately, turning each bone with the tip of the blade, I placed the side marked with the highest number on each of the bones facing the ceiling.	10
18	2	In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...	10
18	5	Ho-Tu fell heavily on the floor and I slipped free, rolled and had the sword from my sheath, standing.	10
22	616	My sword was in my sheath, the quiva in my belt.	10
24	415	I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath.	10

Book 6. (19 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	164	Before the man who had thrust with the spear had his sword half from its sheath I was on him.	10
8	293	They could hear only my footsteps passing beneath them, and perhaps the small movement of the Gorean blade in its sheath.	10
8	301	I heard only my footsteps, and the occasional sounds of the morning in the marsh, and the movement of the Gorean blade in my sheath.	10
8	415	I slammed the blade back in the sheath.	10
8	576	Then, contemptuously, I removed my blade from the sheath.	10
9	65	Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth.	10
9	582	"No," I said, and moved the blade from the sheath.	10
11	14	So, too, did my steel leave its sheath.	10
11	376	He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table.	10
11	382	He looked at me, and then, with a cry of anger, drew his blade from the papers and wood, slammed it back into its sheath, and turned and strode from the room.	10
15	670	"Very well," said Tab, and his weapon left its sheath.	10
15	695	I returned my blade to its sheath.	10
15	762	"You have destroyed me," I cried, "and now I shall destroy you!" I leaped to my feet, whipping the sword from my sheath and stood over her, the blade raised to strike.	10
16	382	Bejar swept his sword from his sheath.	10
17	288	I whipped my blade from its sheath, angrily, and held it to his throat.	10
17	372	I whipped the sword from its sheath.	10
18	102	My blade leaped from its sheath and I parried his blow.	10
18	109	After an Ehn or two I replaced my blade in its sheath.	10
18	511	I slipped the blade into the sheath and began to climb the rungs.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	49	I had been gagged as one might have gagged a mere slave! Verna's knife was again in its sheath.	10
9	129	The girl, clad like the others in the skins of forest panthers, who had held my leash, and now again held it, she who had bound me, her sleen knife again in its sheath, thrust her face toward mine.	10
9	136	She wiped the dirt and tumbled leaves from her sleen knife, which I had thrown from me, on the skins of her brief garments, and then replaced it in her sheath.	10

Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	98	In my hand I held my sword, in its sheath, the sword belt wrapped about the sheath.	10
2	119	I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head.	10
1	358	"And, too," said Rim, "prior to my retiring to the Torian room, I would appreciate a sword, with sheath, a knife, and a bow, the great bow, with arrows".	10
2	347	At her belt she wore a knife sheath.	10
2	511	She had now thrust her sleen knife into its belt sheath.	10
4	321	I fastened the sword, with the sheath straps, to my belt.	10
6	404	I dropped my belt, with sword and sheath, and knife, to the ground, beside the fire.	10
9	88	She drew the sleen knife from her belt sheath.	10
9	226	She replaced the knife in her sheath, and stood up.	10
11	532	He removed his sleen knife from its sheath.	10
13	112	I removed the sword from my sheath.	10
13	317	I slipped the sleen knife from its belt sheath.	10
16	154	Vinca handed the blade back to me, which I cleaned and replaced in my sheath.	10
19	66	I carried only my sword, in its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced.	10
21	144	I placed my blade in its sheath.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	306	It can also, of course, be hung, by its sheath and sheath straps, from the master belt, which is quite adequate, being a stout, heavy belt, to hold it.	10
3	357	From it, too, I took, in its waterproof sheath, the great bow, and its arrows, forty arrows, both flight and sheaf.	10
7	210	In moments, ax in its sheath on my back, I joined the Forkbeard.	10
10	75	Should she, lying on her back, look back and up, she sees, on the wall, the shield, the helmet, the spear and ax, the sword, in its sheath, of her master.	10
10	170	The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square.	10
14	240	He slammed his sword into its sheath and leaped up, seizing one of the lamps on its chain.	10

Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	3	I turned the stroke with my own sheathed blade, it, too, in the light, ornamented exercise sheath.	10
3	22	I discarded the exercise sheath, and, with the bared blade, parted the leather that had bound the jaws of the kaiila.	10
4	453	I turned the kaiila, loosened the scimitar in the sheath.	10
4	455	I thrust the scimitar back, deep, in the sheath.	10
4	459	Lances were high, butts in the stirrup sheath, like needles against the hills.	10
5	851	His scimitar leapt from its sheath and they fell back, bleeding, reeling to the tiles.	10
5	852	He thrust his scimitar back in his sheath.	10
7	125	I heard his scimitar leave its sheath.	10
7	722	It was saddled; water bags were at its flanks; a scimitar sheath, with weapon, on straps, hung at a saddle ring on the right.	10
7	757	I removed the scimitar from its sheath.	10
8	15	I did not need a sheath and belt.	10
26	8	I held the light lance of the Tahari, its butt in the stirrup sheath on my right.	10

Book 11. (17 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	410	He slid the short blade at his left hip some inches from the sheath, and slipped it back in, lifting and dropping it in the sheath.	10
2	176	He slipped it free from the sheath and dagger, and doubled it.	10
2	195	I heard him replace the sheath and dagger on his belt, and put on the belt.	10
2	211	He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened.	10
2	446	The stranger's blade, now, loosed from its sheath, under the opponent's helmet, lay at his throat.	10
2	454	The blade in his sheath leaped forth.	10
2	526	The stranger slipped his own blade back in the sheath.	10
2	662	I heard the sword slip free from his sheath.	10
5	579	He stepped back, but he did not sheath his sword.	10
8	260	He replaced the sleen knife in its sheath.	10
23	47	Then angrily he thrust it again in its sheath.	10
23	96	He then removed the knife from his sheath, plunged it into the wood a few feet from him, and lay down.	10
26	143	In one sleeve, in a tiny, narrow sheath, he found a needle, which he held up.	10
26	146	He washed the needle, dried it on a towel and replaced it in the sheath.	10
26	147	I had not known the sheath and needle were there, so cunningly had they been concealed in the weaving.	10
27	227	I heard a sword leave its sheath.	10
27	236	The sword, too, of Clitus Vitellius, my master, the captain of Ar, had left its sheath.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	43	She drew forth the blade from the sheath.	10
8	60	To this belt, on two small straps, hung a dagger sheath; the handle of the weapon was ornamented with red and yellow swirls.	10
12	368	In the winter buds of many of these plants lie dormant in a fluffy sheath which protects them from cold.	10
27	134	I heard Imnak replace the knife in its sheath.	10
27	135	I then returned my own blade, too, to its sheath.	10
35	506	She whipped the silken sheath of a veil across her features.	10
35	601	She was very slender, and exquisite, in the sheath of green silk.	10

Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	19	She also had, about her waist, a belt, with a dagger sheath, though the sheath was now empty.	10
18	2	"Surely," I said, "in the sleeve sheath".	10
18	144	"Why, yes," I said pleasantly, revealing the sleeve sheath, and handing him the dagger.	10
18	147	I showed the sleeve sheath to Bila Huruma, who was interested in it.	10
18	202	"I am just testing the sheath," I said.	10
18	252	"Will you please replace that dagger in the sheath," said Msaliti.	10
18	255	I slipped the steel back in the sheath.	10
32	1046	I do not think she could have been more pleased if I had considered allowing her a sheath gown of white satin, with gloves and pearls.	10
43	69	"Consider also," I said, "that she retained her belt and dagger sheath.	10
53	224	I scrambled, leaping, half crawling, to the place on the stones where Ngumi had, after putting me in manacles, dropped my belt, sheath and dagger.	10
56	12	Small leather strips customarily sheath the blades of the spears of Ukungu.	10
56	46	"I will clean and sheath my spear," said Kisu.	10

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	178	She wore an off-the-shoulder, svelte, white, satin-sheath gown.	10
1	189	Her bosom, small, but sweetly swelling, concealed, strained against the tight satin sheath.	10
1	638	She, without really thinking, smoothed the sheath on her hips.	10
1	789	How marvelously the white sheath concealed and yet suggested her beauty.	10
1	1048	I looked at her, she so frightened, in the cape and sheath dress, her feet drawn up beneath her on the leather of the seat of the cab.	10
26	222	His sword was but half from its sheath when the bench piled into his gut.	10
33	43	I picked up the steel of Orgus, in its sheath, and looped it over my shoulder.	10

Book 15. (15 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	66	I knew I did not have time to turn and clutch at the weapon in its sheath on the table, with my pouch and clothes, and even had I been able to reach it and remove it from the sheath I did not think it would do me much good.	10
8	24	There was a sudden sound, that of a short metal blade slipping from a sheath.	10
8	81	Over his left shoulder there hung a leather sheath.	10
8	97	When he reached his table he thrust his own blade angrily into his sheath.	10
9	163	How unfortunate for her, I supposed, in such a place and time! And how beautiful she had been in the restaurant, in the off-the-shoulder, white, satin-sheath dress, she somehow then daring to appear so.	10
22	81	He thrust his blade back in its sheath.	10
23	130	Kliomenes angrily thrust his steel into its sheath.	10
23	131	I dropped my blade, too, into my sheath.	10
26	205	I turned suddenly for I heard steel slipping from a sheath behind me.	10
26	220	"Will it be necessary to slay you with your sword in your sheath?" inquired Miles of Vonda.	10
26	246	"How then, as I am a worker on the docks, could I have had the leisure to develop skills with the blade which might be the match of yours?" Angrily Miles of Vonda thrust his sword back in its sheath.	10
28	344	A moment later the sword of Aemilianus, too, rested in its sheath.	10
30	221	Then I remembered how she had looked, with her hair drawn severely back, and fastened in a bun, but wearing a svelte, feminine, off-the-shoulder, white, satin-sheath gown.	10
30	279	I remembered her from the restaurant, long ago, the svelte, off-the-shoulder, white, satin-sheath gown, the candlelight, the beaded purse.	10
32	164	The fellow near me, who had brought me to the room, withdrew his blade from its sheath.	10

Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	143	I put aside my weapon, in its sheath, in the bottom of the longboat.	10
4	276	I withdrew my sword from its sheath.	10
15	28	I heard it enter a sheath.	10
16	255	Callimachus drew the fellow's sword from his sheath.	10
17	264	And I recalled her, too, from an evening at a restaurant, when she had worn, so seemingly unaccountably, an incongruous-for-her, lovely, off-the-shoulder, svelte, white, satin-sheath dress.	10
17	465	She had worn an off-the-shoulder, svelte, white satin-sheath dress.	10
18	480	I remembered her, again, from the restaurant, so long ago, in the candlelight, in the svelte, off-the-shoulder, white-sheath dress, so chic and lovely, carrying the tiny, silver-beaded purse.	10
20	469	She wore what seemed to be a svelte, satin, off-the-shoulder, white-sheath gown.	10
20	536	She then, reaching to the left side, beneath her arm, of what seemed to be a white sheath gown, undid a fastening, and then others, at the side of her body, her waist, her thigh, and knee, and then, gracefully, the Gorean music unobtrusive but melodious in the background, removed the garment.	10
20	537	I saw then that a rectangle of white cloth, cleverly tucked and sewn, had been used to simulate the off-the-shoulder, white sheath gown on Earth.	10
20	1293	"Had you fantasized thusly," I asked, tying her, "the removal of your clothing, the white-sheath gown, and such, and the offering of yourself to me as a slave, on the night of our meeting at the restaurant?" She winced.	10

Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	525	I wrapped the belt about the sheaths, the sword sheath and the knife sheath, and handed the objects to Grunt.	10
1	311	My left hand steadied the sheath.	10
7	6	To this belt was fastened a substantial, beaded sheath, apparently containing a stout, triangular-bladed dagger.	10
8	199	He then drew the large, triangular-bladed knife from the beaded sheath on his belt and slashed the straps and uppers of the sandals, discarding them then in the flaming copper bowl at the side.	10
8	546	The fellow slammed his steel into his sheath and strode towards us.	10
8	571	I observed the sheath.	10
8	594	The other fellow was caught with a backwards kick, his steel no more than halfway from its sheath.	10
8	598	My blade was free from my sheath before his knees began to sag.	10
12	156	He tossed me the reins of his beast and, drawing his knife from a beaded sheath, slipped from the saddle to the ground.	10
19	46	He stood up, quickly, angrily, brushing the lance away, his hand at the handle of his knife, in the beaded sheath at his hip.	10

Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	128	He did have a bow case and quiver, and at the thong on his waist was a beaded sheath, from which protruded the hilt of a trade knife.	10
1	300	I had wrapped the belt about the sword and knife sheath, and had given the belt, and these objects, to Grunt.	10
4	226	On his belt, that holding the breechclout, there was a knife, in a beaded sheath.	10
15	74	His hand was near his knife sheath.	10
15	154	His hand opened and closed at his knife sheath.	10
22	33	Within it was my belt, with the scabbard and knife sheath, and the small bow I had purchased long ago in Kailiauk, with its sheaf of twenty arrows.	10
22	42	The sheath hold was firm but the draw was smooth.	10
26	59	The short sword of Port Kar leapt forth from my sheath.	10
44	202	Hci was stripped to the breechclout and Iwoso shrank even further back as the handle of his knife, thrust in its sheath, touched her above the belly on the right.	10
44	309	Hci's knife whipped from its sheath.	10

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	88	There was something on her neck, however, something fastened closely about it, encased in a silken yellow sheath or sleeve.	10
3	176	I wondered what was concealed in the silken sheath about her neck.	10
5	41	More than one blade about me slipped swiftly, menacingly, from its sheath.	10
10	31	The sword of Drusus Rencius left its sheath.	10
10	63	I heard another sword, quite near me, sliding from its sheath.	10
11	6	Even the silken collar sheath, of one color or another, which was usually worn, selected to match a tunic, was gone.	10

Book 20. (14 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	984	I rolled to the side, my hand going instinctively for the blade in my sheath, but the sheath, the weapon earlier surrendered at the check point through which I had entered the piazza, was empty.	10
8	224	The other fellow now had his own blade free of its sheath.	10
8	231	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow who had struck the leader.	10
8	232	"Sheath yours," invited he who had been with the leader.	10
9	193	"Perhaps you could unmake it, and start in, all over again," I suggested, reaching to the multiple sheath of saddle knives slung at my hip.	10
11	83	I approached, the multiple sheath of saddle knives at my left hip.	10
16	30	"Ho, varlets, craven churls, away!" cried lanky Petrucchio, drawing his great wooden sword from the preposterous sheath which dragged behind him.	10
16	256	Then he gave up the attempt, it apparently being stuck in the sheath.	10
16	653	Tremble! Shudder! Quake in terror, for I, Petrucchio, draw upon you!" He then began to try to pull his great wooden sword from its lengthy sheath, dragging behind him.	10
17	12	My sword slipped from the sheath.	10
17	16	His own steel then left its sheath.	10
21	118	He made no move to remove his blade from its sheath.	10
21	529	I also picked up my sword sheath, the belt wrapped about it, the blade housed in it.	10
21	635	I rose to my feet and donned my garments, and retrieved the sheath, with the belt and sword.	10

Book 21. (27 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	18	"The blade was in the sheath, was it not," asked Boabissia, "and the sheath beside you?" "Yes," I said, "and the sheath was on its strap, slung about my shoulder.	10
4	561	I removed her dagger from its sheath.	10
5	298	He then went to her and untied the strings which held the dagger sheath, with its small, narrow, sheathed weapon, with its ornamented, enameled handle, at her belt.	10
5	343	He threw the dagger, with its sheath, to the side of the road.	10
7	30	Ah, yes, there it was, somehow in its sheath, over my left shoulder.	10
9	6	Nonetheless, I loosened the blade in my sheath.	10
12	24	My right hand was on the hilt of my sword, my left on the sheath, its straps wrapped about it, to steady the draw.	10
13	249	The blade slipped swiftly, freely, from its sheath, and its point was at her bosom.	10
13	258	He returned the blade to its sheath.	10
16	1403	The letters of the officer were now within my sheath.	10
16	1429	My hand I put inadvertently against the sheath of my sword.	10
16	1654	In my sheath were his letters, and my letters of safety.	10
16	1842	In my sheath were the letters of safety, and, below them, thrust down beneath them, the letters given to me by the officer, he who was now the master of Torcadino.	10
18	40	My left hand, I fear, moved, as though to touch the sheath beside me.	10
19	7	I had them here, in the sheath".	10
19	25	Less obviously, but more deviously, the blade could be tightened, or even fastened, in the sheath by an enemy, by such means as a tiny wooden shim or plug, or a fine wire looped below the hilt.	10
19	26	The practicing of the draw, and the associated testing of sheath resistance, is a small, but seldom neglected detail, in the practice of arms.	10
19	475	It seemed clear to me now that, in asking if I was carrying valuables, he had tricked me into inadvertently betraying their hiding place, by the incipient movement of my hand toward the sheath.	10
19	476	Too, he had certainly removed the letters of safety from my sheath with great skill, even replacing the blade.	10
19	478	I had determined, incidentally, that the deeper papers, the letters, addressed to Ar's regent, Gnieus Lelius, were still in the sheath.	10
25	766	I reached for my dagger, but it had been removed from my sheath! I stood there, wild, on the grass, between them, the two ropes on my neck.	10
26	213	I then withdrew the blade from the sheath a good deal more noisily than was necessary.	10
26	229	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow on the right.	10
26	258	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow on the right.	10
26	260	"There," I said, thrusting the blade back in the sheath.	10
29	121	I handed my blade, in its sheath, the straps wrapped about it, to him.	10
29	174	The captain was in the lead, my sword in its sheath, slung on its strap, over his shoulder.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	316	"Kneel," said the fellow with the pencil, putting it back in one of the compartments of an open, triple-sheath attached to his belt.	10
26	19	Beside him, in a saddle sheath, reposed the butt of a lance.	10
27	22	He had been making his way, meaningfully, the blade in its sheath, toward Venna, and the black chain.	10
29	230	Almost instantly another of the men had begun to draw his sword, but the beast, before the blade was half from the sheath, on all fours, scrambling, tearing the grass behind it, moving with incredible swiftness, not like anything on two legs, seized him and tore open his throat with a single slash o...	10
29	549	The blades, too, for that matter, of the two slain fellows were also in the vicinity, one still in its sheath, the other half drawn.	10
29	1205	I heard the sword thrust into its sheath, its guard halting its further progress.	10
29	1248	He drew the sword from his sheath.	10
29	1501	He removed his blade from his sheath.	10
29	1502	I heard, too, to my left, and behind me, the blade of Callisthenes leave its sheath.	10
29	1595	It cracked into the sheath.	10

Book 23. (24 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	303	I then removed the sword from the sheath and thrust the sheath up, between the slave's back and the ropes, and then forced the point of the spear up, high, into the sheath.	10
16	306	The spear's point was now entered into the sheath, the sheath held in place behind the slave by her ropes, and the slave's body held against the sheath and spear by the ropes and belt.	10
17	311	The advantage of the left shoulder carry, the sheath at the left thigh, is the ease of discarding the belt and sheath, thereby ridding oneself of a possible encumbrance.	10
1	27	I had shortened the straps of the sword sheath, hitching it high, the hilt now before my left shoulder, under the cloak.	10
1	228	I saw a knife leave a sheath in the driving rain.	10
4	97	The newcomer then returned his blade to the sheath.	10
6	603	Another fellow said something to the newcomer and the newcomer's sword half emerged from its sheath, and the other fellow rolled back, away, quickly, feigning sleep.	10
6	604	The sword slammed back into the sheath.	10
6	791	My own blade left the sheath.	10
8	96	I replaced the blade in the sheath.	10
11	206	Then it was returned, angrily, to its sheath.	10
15	117	He weakly half drew his sword but before it could clear the sheath I was upon him, within his guard.	10
15	119	The blade fell back, into the sheath.	10
16	299	"I need it, and the sheath," I said.	10
16	304	This did not do the sheath any good, distending it, but then it was not one, I reminded myself, for which I had had to put out my own tarsks.	10
16	307	She could not slip down the spear because of the spear's insertion in the sheath.	10
17	209	I thrust my sword through my belt, to which were attached my pouch and knife sheath, both on the left side.	10
17	211	The slave who had been Lady Publia, its burden by means of the ropes, the sheath and sword belt, twisting wildly, throwing her head about as though bewildered, as though she would try to see through the hood, uttered a tiny, terrified, questioning, miserable, helpless noise, her oral orifice, of cou...	10
17	215	I then, lifting the spear up a bit, her head down, thrust her with my foot, in her ropes, with the sword belt and sheath, from the spear.	10
17	305	I withdrew the sheath from between her back and the ropes.	10
17	309	I rebuckled the belt and put it about me, the strap over my right shoulder, the sheath at the left hip, as one wears it on the march.	10
21	772	More than one loosened the blade in his sheath.	10
24	271	His sword was out of its sheath.	10
24	276	"Sheath your swords, beloved friends," said Aemilianus.	10

Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	536	He put aside his shoulder belt, with the sheath and blade, and removed his tunic belt, slipping the pouch and knife sheath from it.	10
1	468	I returned my blade to the sheath, almost entirely.	10
1	526	But I moved the sword just a bit more from the sheath.	10
1	1078	His sword left its sheath.	10
1	1081	My sword, too, had left its sheath.	10
1	1124	I did, however, as soon as I was among them, sheath my sword and begin walking, pausing here and there to look back, particularly when in someone's vicinity, as though puzzled by the clamor coming from the vicinity of the enclosure.	10
3	192	His blade reentered its sheath.	10
3	328	My sword, too, had left the sheath.	10
3	424	"Sheath your sword!" called Marcus to me.	10
18	116	He looked down once at the sword in its sheath, lying to the side, where it had slipped, the sword belt earlier severed, when he had risen to his knees.	10
18	174	I turned to see it fall in the water and, at the same time, heard the swift departure of steel from a Gorean sheath.	10
19	681	I then took the knife from the sheath and, carefully, put it between her belly and the three thongs which, dark, half buried in her flesh, in collusion with the crossbar, held her wrists in place at her sides.	10
34	26	I do not think he heard my sword leave its sheath.	10
42	40	"But my sword," said he, "never left my sheath".	10
45	79	I tested the draw of the blade in the sheath.	10
48	196	He thrust it angrily into his sheath.	10
48	377	Angrily, he thrust the blade into the sheath.	10
48	563	Then, angrily, he returned to where he had discarded the pouch and knife sheath, replaced them on the belt, and replaced the belt about his waist.	10
48	564	He then, angry still, slung his sword belt and sheath over his left shoulder.	10

Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	120	I removed the knife from the sheath, putting it beside the sheath.	10
3	1004	No one moved to stop him, but the large man, opening his cloak, drew a knife from his belt sheath and slowly, deliberately, slit the skin open.	10
7	234	In a saddle sheath, remaining there, was a longer weapon, a two-handed scimitar, the two-handed scimitarus, useful for reaching other riders on tharlarion.	10
7	252	Seremides approached him and, drawing his sword from its sheath, extended it to him, hilt first.	10
8	624	Marcus used his belt for the business, slipping the knife in its sheath, and his pouch, from it, and handing them to me.	10
8	714	I handed Marcus his things, piece by piece, the sheath, with its knife, and the pouch, both for his belt, and the sword belt, with its scabbard and blade, to be slung over the left shoulder.	10
8	927	"Sheath your sword".	10
9	355	A guardsman behind Claudia had his sword half drawn from its sheath.	10
9	448	Talena made an angry sign and a guardsman withdrew his blade from its sheath.	10
10	194	Almost at the same instant I heard Marcus' sword leave its sheath, warning back the other lads, some six of them.	10
10	237	"Sheath your knives," I said.	10
15	123	He whipped free a sword and mine, and that of Marcus, too, left its sheath.	10
18	95	Marcus' blade half left its sheath.	10
18	98	I pushed Marcus' blade back down in its sheath.	10
20	635	"Deign to use me, unworthy slave though I am," she whispered, "as the cover for your spear, as your sheath and scabbard".	10
20	693	Now I, too, serve him as sheath and scabbard!" "But such things in manners befitting the female slave," I said.	10
22	650	This is because the sheath of the knife or sword is, by right-handed men, commonly worn on the left, facilitating the across-the-body draw to the right.	10

Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	542	How helpless I felt, kneeling on the platform, my upper body pinioned helplessly within that stout canvas sheath.	10
31	137	The lieutenant removed his dagger from its sheath.	10
31	352	It left the sheath almost soundlessly.	10
31	639	"Sheath your swords, set your bows".	10
39	111	When the blade is in use the sheath and belt are discarded.	10
40	27	The officer of Treve, Terence, quietly removed the sword belt, the sheath and sword, from about his left shoulder, handing it to the guard, to his right.	10
45	76	I heard a knife slip from a sheath, a soft sound.	10
45	84	The blade was returned to its sheath.	10
46	63	Then I saw the blade, removed from his sheath, held before my face.	10
46	167	He retrieved the knife and replaced it in its sheath.	10
46	277	He then extracted the knife from the sheath.	10
46	416	He reached down and retrieved the dagger, which he replaced in its sheath.	10
46	417	He then threw the sheath and belt to the side.	10

Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	845	"Put down the bows, sheath your weapons," said one of Mirus's companions, one mounted to his left, regarding the men of Portus Canio.	10
27	2884	A dagger was whipped from its sheath.	10

Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	61	"There is little point in eying my dagger," said Pyrrhus, "for the sheath is locked, and you do not know the releasing touch".	10
13	80	But the leader, as he was that, and we shall call him Archon, to utilize a Gorean title for a variety of civic officials, removed the sheath and dagger from the remains of the Kur harness he wore and handed it to Cabot.	10
13	82	Cabot took the sheath and dagger from Archon and tried to draw the blade.	10
13	83	It was frozen in the sheath.	10
13	90	The dagger sprang free from the sheath and there was a cry of wonder from Archon, and the others.	10
13	96	To Archon's astonishment he returned the blade to him, now freed from the sheath, now no more a mere symbol of authority, a scepter of sorts, but a weapon, one capable of piercing to the heart of even a Kur.	10
13	101	But Archon thrust the knife through a broad leather band of the Kur harness, unwilling to trust it again to its strange, recalcitrant sheath, and approached Cabot, and, putting out his arms, embraced him.	10
43	44	"I can reach you before you can free it of the sheath.	10
80	130	"There are the steel worlds themselves, the vacuum ships, the power weapons, the translators, even such seemingly simple things as the heat knife, the customized weapon sheath, and such".	10

Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	102	Might not a knife swiftly, like a striking viper, dart from its sheath, find its home in a startled heart, and might not the very body of that heart serve an assassin as shield, sheltering the assailant from the vengeance of the crossbows' metal-finned, soon-flighted penetrant iron? I pretended to e...	10
12	326	His head was bowed, and before him, on the platform, was a curved wooden sheath, which contained, doubtless, a knife.	10
12	335	I thrust Tajima back and strode to the figure on the platform, who had now loosened his robe and drawn forth a small dagger from the sheath.	10
23	279	I loosened the sword in my sheath.	10
25	120	I slipped the blade free from the sheath.	10
43	177	I then drew my sword, and, smoothly, like the lifted head of an ost, so, too, did the blade of Seremides, as noiselessly as the menace of that venomous creature, leave its sheath.	10

Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	178	He had slipped his short blade from its sheath.	10
4	187	The blade snapped back into the sheath, angrily.	10
5	95	He slipped the sheath from his left shoulder, and, grasping it, drew his blade, easily, casually.	10
5	96	It made no sound, as the sheath was lined.	10
5	97	This is not uncommon with the sheath of an Assassin's weapon, this permitting the weapon's noiseless departure.	10
5	99	The sheath with belt he then handed, as he had the cloak, to the fellow with him.	10
5	100	When danger is not imminent, the sheath belt is usually worn across the body, as this provides greater security, the weapon then at the left hip.	10
5	101	If a locale is deemed dangerous the sheath belt is usually looped over the left shoulder.	10
5	102	In this way, the weapon freed, the sheath and belt may be discarded, as it constitutes a graspable encumbrance.	10
12	343	The weapon then would have to be retrieved before it could be used, say, from a neck cord, a shoulder sheath, or such.	10
14	106	But already the blade of Seremides was free of its sheath, and, his eyes alight with eagerness, he leaped aboard our galley.	10
14	107	I rose at the bench and cried, though it might be insubordination, to Pertinax, "Do not unsheathe your blade!" He slammed the blade, half free, back in its sheath, looked at Seremides before him, unflinching, and said, "Welcome aboard, noble Rutilius".	10
36	40	A blade was brought, with its shoulder strap and sheath.	10
36	249	The stranger had removed his sheath and belt from across his body, and held these in his left hand.	10
36	389	The stranger, being right-handed, ran his sheath strap from his right shoulder to his left hip, so the blade was at his left hip.	10
36	390	Before he met Cineas he had removed both the strap and sheath, for such things may be seized.	10
36	391	When danger is imminent the strap is usually, for a right-handed swordsman, simply put loose over the left shoulder, where, in a moment, the blade drawn, the belt and sheath may be held, as the stranger did, or, as is often the case, discarded altogether, to be retrieved later, this being permitted ...	10
37	454	"What is Master doing?" The stranger was removing his dagger belt, from which he removed, as well, the dagger and its sheath.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	350	Even blind I had little doubt that the beast, from a small sound, the scrape of a boot on the stones, from the movement of a weapon departing from a sheath, from breathing, might locate an enemy.	10
19	60	He had a knife half drawn from its sheath.	10
21	110	The blade of Trachinos leapt from its sheath.	10
45	198	I removed from the sheath a Kur side knife.	10
48	326	He did have the side knife in its sheath, part of the harnessing, but he made no attempt to draw that blade.	10

Book 32. (13 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	160	I had a knife, as well, in its sheath, fixed laterally on my waist belt, behind my back.	10
16	139	I wore my waist belt, with dagger, and the shoulder belt, with the slung sheath, and gladius.	10
21	374	He loosened his dagger in its sheath.	10
35	106	Hiza thrust her dagger back into its sheath.	10
39	204	A knife leapt from its sheath.	10
43	313	Rorton stepped back, away from Darla, and returned his dagger, angrily, to its sheath.	10
43	883	"I draw it," said Genserich, and very slowly eased the blade from its sheath.	10
45	46	Behold, his blade was half drawn from the sheath.	10
45	54	He thrust his partially drawn blade back in the sheath, resignedly.	10
52	365	His dagger remained in its sheath, as did his sword, the gladius.	10
52	399	"Why do you sheath your sword?" asked my captor.	10
52	901	He removed his dagger from its sheath, and held it, lightly, by the tip of the blade.	10
52	1014	"What is Master going to do?" He slipped his dagger from the sheath.	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	206	The sheath was at my left hip, and the sheath strap ran across my body from my right shoulder to the left hip.	10
1	515	"Of what use is a lance left forever in its rack," I said, "or a sword which fears to leave its sheath?" "The lance is to remain in its rack until grasped," said Lord Okimoto, "and the sword is to be drawn only by the proper hand".	10
2	104	I was away, far away, my blade sleeping in its sheath.	10
3	40	I did not remove the blade from the sheath.	10
3	48	My foot snapped a branch, and my hand, without my thinking, sped my sword half from its sheath.	10
16	19	The sleeve sheath was held by two straps.	10
20	559	His right hand drew from its concealed sheath the sleeve knife, which he thrust into the assailant's neck, at the base of the skull, severing the vertebrae.	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	229	He wore, as well, a wide, double-buckled belt, from which a dagger, in its sheath, was suspended, and ankle-high, cord-laced street sandals.	10
49	185	The hand of Tyrtaios slipped within his robes, where I glimpsed a sheath fastened athwart the left shoulder.	10
61	643	"Kill her!" "I will do so!" cried a soldier, whipping his sword from the sheath, and raising the weapon, but it fell, almost immediately, from a lost grip, as the man staggered back a foot or so, turned, and crumpled at the foot of the stands, the metal fins of a quarrel clearly visible, the bolt mu...	10

Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	124	"look, lout, where you are going!" "Move to the side!" "I am here!" "Go about!" "I will not!" "Do so!" "Impede my way, will you?" "Watch your purse!" "Sheath your dagger!" "Beware!" "He has a club!" "They are drunk!" "Peace, peace in the streets!" "Call guardsmen!" "Guardsmen, guardsmen!" I heard a ...	10
27	124	"No," said the first man, drawing his knife from its belt sheath, "let us attend to it first".	10
33	217	"The swiftest, sharpest, and most cunning of swords is innocuous in its sheath," said the man.	10
33	459	Out of the corner of my eye I saw that one of the men had freed his sword belt, the sheath put aside.	10
41	37	He then freed his blade of its sheath.	10
43	211	He returned his sword to its concealed sheath.	10
45	73	She returned his knife to him, and he returned it to its sheath.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	3	I returned the Builder's Glass to its sheath at my belt.	10
3	170	I removed the Builder's Glass from its sheath at my belt, slid open its sections, and adjusted the focus.	10
42	58	"Tonight it may sleep easily in its sheath," said Thrasymedes.	10
43	81	"Trust no one," I said, easing my sword silently from its sheath, emerging from the tunnel, and thrusting the blade to his heart.	10
43	121	Simultaneously my swordsmen attacked the other guards, only two of which managed to clear their weapons from the sheath.	10
49	122	I heard a sword half freed of its sheath.	10