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Book 1. (23 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	9	Opposite the tapestry—for decoration, I assumed—hung a round shield with crossed spears behind it.	10
2	10	The shield was rather like the old Greek shields on some of the red-figured vases in the London Museum.	10
2	11	The design on the shield was unintelligible to me.	10
2	14	Above the shield was suspended a helmet, again reminiscent of a Greek helmet, perhaps of the Homeric period.	10
2	16	There was a savage dignity about it, with the shield and spears, all of them stable on the wall, as if ready, like the famous colonial rifle over the fireplace, for instant use; they were all polished and gleamed dully in the half light.	10
2	237	"That," he said with animation, "is the Theory of the Sun Shield".	10
2	242	"Any power that is capable of moving a planet—and I believe the Priest-Kings possess this power—is capable of effecting adjustments in the motion of the planet, such adjustments as might allow it to use the sun indefinitely as a concealing shield".	10
3	170	I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards.	10
3	192	I also learned the use of the shield, primarily to meet the cast spear obliquely so that it would deflect harmlessly.	10
3	193	Toward the end of my training I always fought with shield and helmet.	10
4	111	Besides, I had a headache like the beating of spears on a bronze shield, a headache that drove all lesser considerations, such as the attempt on my life yesterday, from my mind.	10
4	144	At his feet lay a helmet, shield, spear, and sword.	10
4	156	About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head.	10
5	2	My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder.	10
8	95	Neither soldier had carried a spear or shield.	10
12	141	The shield was also gone.	10
15	13	On the summit of the rampart, where it was completed, were numerous archer blinds, movable wooden screens to shield archers and light missile equipment.	10
17	34	The Supreme Initiate, as he called himself, raised a shield and then set it at his feet.	10
17	35	He then raised a spear and set it, like the shield, at his feet.	10
17	38	In surrender, on the other hand, the shield straps and the shaft of the spear are broken, indicating that the vanquished has disarmed himself and places himself at the mercy of the conqueror.	10
17	99	I loosened my sword in its sheath, set my shield on my arm, and grasped my spear.	10
19	18	He lowered his helmet onto his head and loosened his shield and spear.	10
19	27	Once again alone, sick at heart, I loosened my spear and shield in their saddle straps.	10

Book 2. (32 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	14	Indeed, even if the missile struck and penetrated my shield, I would have to cast the shield away and would find myself at a serious disadvantage.	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
1	5	He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings.	10
2	20	I noticed, a few feet from me, lying on the grass, a helmet, shield and spear, and a bundle of folded leather.	10
2	24	The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked.	10
2	25	Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city.	10
2	26	If this shield were intended for me, and I had little doubt it was, it should have carried the sign of Ko-ro-ba, my city.	10
2	28	It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood.	10
2	79	I was puzzled that the garb, like the helmet and shield, bore no insignia.	10
2	81	I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder.	10
3	57	"What do you want?" asked the carrier of wood, who must now have noticed that my shield and accouterments bore no insignia, and would have concluded that I was an outlaw.	10
4	4	Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain.	10
4	74	I raised my eyes to the storm, and my spear and shield, and shouted into the storm, my voice drowned in the turbulence of nature, a defiant puff of wind hurled against the forces that seemed arrayed against me.	10
4	111	I saw that water had gathered in the concave side of the shield.	10
5	9	Drenched, cold, I climbed on, holding my shield obliquely before me to deflect the wind and make the climb easier.	10
5	20	I spun about, shield before me, spear ready.	10
5	123	I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains.	10
6	180	By their shield insignia and blue helmets I knew them to be men of Tharna.	10
7	63	"That I can see by the lack of insignia on your shield and tunic".	10
8	89	"How then," he asked, "do you propose to obtain your tarn?" "I am not an outlaw," I said, "though I wear no insignia on my tunic, or shield".	10
9	106	I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait.	10
15	134	"I think the mask alone," I said, "might bring the price of a good shield and spear".	10
24	141	I motioned to the others to remain back and, carrying a shield and spear in addition to my sword, approached the rampart.	10
24	148	About a hundred yards from the rampart I put down the shield and spear, signifying a temporary truce.	10
24	238	Andreas had brought with him the shield and spear which I had put down in token of truce, and I took these weapons from him.	10
24	241	The door was loose and I kicked it open, covering myself with the shield.	10
24	266	He unslung his shield and the long, broad-headed spear from his left shoulder.	10
25	4	Both of us cast well and the jolt of the massive missile thundering on my shield spun me half about.	10
25	5	The bronze head of the spear had cut through the brass loops on the shield and pierced the seven hardened concentric layers of bosk hide which formed it.	10
25	6	The shield, so encumbered, was useless.	10
25	8	Only an instant after myself Thorn's shield too was flung to the stones of the chamber floor.	10
26	135	My weapons and my shield and helmet are at hand.	10

Book 3. (19 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused ...	10
2	8	My garments and my shield bore no insignia, for my city had been destroyed.	10
2	73	Now hearing the growl of such a beast, I threw back my cloak, lifted my shield and held my spear ready.	10
2	85	I advanced, my spear ready for its cast, my shield ready to be thrown over my body to protect it from the death throes of the thrashing beast should the cast be successful.	10
2	92	As soon as he casts his weapon he throws himself to the ground and covers his body with his shield, as does each man successively behind him.	10
2	132	I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high.	10
3	14	I lifted the shield, for, to my horror, in reversing his position on the chain he had suddenly added some twenty feet to the fearful perimeter of the space allotted to him by that hated impediment.	10
3	15	Two great clawed paws smote my shield and hurled me twenty feet against the cliff.	10
3	24	I examined my shield and saw ten wide furrows torn across its brassbound hide surface.	10
4	39	I lifted my shield.	10
4	79	I removed my helmet and threw my shield to the floor.	10
5	184	Holding it before her as though to shield her face she approached the portal.	10
7	97	The safest thing for me would be to continue on as I had been doing, a pattern of action which would give me the benefit of the shield formed by the turn in the passage.	10
9	229	I watched Vika and suddenly she seemed too to know and her head lifted and her eyes widened with horror and she crept to her knees, her hands before her face as though to shield herself and she shuddered and suddenly uttered a wild, long, terrible scream of abject fear.	10
14	4	It seemed to be bare except that at one end there were several metal disks in the wall and, high in the wall, there was a transparent shield.	10
14	5	Viewing me antiseptically through this shield was the face of a Priest-King.	10
14	8	Two circular metal plates in the wall beneath the shield had slid upward and suddenly long metal arms had telescoped outwards and reached for me.	10
14	11	The Priest-King behind the shield did not seem to notice my remark.	10
24	16	It lifted its hooked, tubular jaws before its eyes as though to shield them from the light.	10

Book 4. (28 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	11	Then the animal seized my shield in its teeth and reared lifting it and myself, by the shield straps, from the ground.	10
1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...	10
1	66	I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear.	10
2	62	I could see he carried a small, round, leather shield, glossy, black, lacquered; he wore a conical, fur-rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending from the helmet protecting his face, leaving only holes for the eyes.	10
2	114	His shield was lacquered yellow, and his bow was yellow.	10
2	122	His shield was red.	10
2	131	The kaiila of these men were as tawny as the brown grass of the prairie, save for that of the man who faced me, whose mount was a silken, sable black, as black as the lacquer of the shield.	10
2	180	Now the man facing me lifted his small, lacquered shield and his slender, black lance.	10
3	2	I might have thrown myself to the ground as the larl hunters from Ar, once their weapon is cast, covering myself with the shield; but then I would have been beneath the clawed paws of four squealing, snorting kaiila, while the riders jabbed at me with lances, off my feet, helpless.	10
3	26	"You wear no insignia on your shield," he said.	10
3	47	"You see there is no insignia on my shield or tunic," I said.	10
4	2	The slender, flexible wand of the lance tore at the seven-layered Gorean shield, striking a spark from the brass rim binding it, as the man had lunged at my head.	10
4	12	I fell from some dozen feet to the grass and saw the animal snarling and biting on the shield; then it shook it and hurled it far and away behind it.	10
4	32	Then he took his lance and smote it on the small, glossy shield, acknowledging my act.	10
4	34	Then the Tuchuk drove his own lance into the dirt and hung on the lance his glossy shield.	10
7	210	There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished Priest-Kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiously, invisibly, at war with ...	10
10	435	He wore a helmet and carried the Turian shield, which is oval.	10
16	143	Beside him there rested, lying on the dais, spear, helmet and shield.	10
17	48	"Fetch the wooden shield," commanded Saphrar.	10
17	59	"What is the shield for?" I asked.	10
17	111	"When is it that I meet the monster?" Over the surface I heard Saphrar, standing behind the wooden shield, laugh.	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	22	Now he was putting his chin on the wooden shield and watching me again, once more giggling.	10
21	358	The black lacquer of his shield was deeply cut and scraped.	10
21	361	He turned his kaiila to face the city and it reared and he lifted his shield on his left arm and his lance in his right fist.	10
22	46	The lance strikes the shield once for the commander of a Ten; twice for the commander of a Hundred; three times for the commander of a Thousand.	10
22	104	At one end of the room, on the throne of the Ubar, a purple robe thrown over his black leather, sat dour Kamchak of the Tuchuks, his shield and lance leaning against the throne, an unsheathed quiva on the right arm of the throne.	10
23	70	We left them facing one another, cursing, while we moved slowly back through our bosk, keeping them as a shield.	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	51	He picked up his short sword in its scabbard, his helmet and his shield.	10
2	57	Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table.	10
3	205	I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield.	10
21	318	I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius.	10
21	378	Then to my surprise I saw, with us, fighting, a common Warrior, not a Taurentian, one whose helmet was not laced with gold nor his shield bound with silver, nor his shoulders covered with the purple of the Ubar's guard.	10
22	554	Again the tarn cut through and two of the tarnsmen were screaming, trying to shield themselves from the weighted straps, flying about them; the weights in the Tuchuk bola can crush a skull, the leather can strangle.	10
22	564	I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ...	10

Book 6. (19 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	16	I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.	10
2	38	I wore no insignia on my garments, nor on my helmet or shield.	10
3	38	It was true that my shield, and my clothes, now taken from me, bore no insignia.	10
3	39	Ho-Hak looked at the garb of the warrior, the helmet and shield, the sword with its scabbard, and the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, with its roll of sheaf and flight arrows.	10
6	41	I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c...	10
8	5	I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc...	10
8	12	Mixed in with the arrows were the leather tab, with its two openings for the right forefinger and the middle finger, and the leather bracer, to shield the left forearm from the flashing string.	10
8	203	I did not take up the shield, for in climbing it would have encumbered me.	10
8	218	I looked over the side to Telima, and indicated that she should hand me my shield, and, with difficulty, she did so.	10
8	220	Then I placed the shield by the rail, and extended my hand for the great bow, with its nine arrows.	10
8	228	I took up my shield.	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	776	Already, Thurnock and Clitus, in loading the raft, had placed on it my helmet, and shield, and the great bow, with its arrows.	10
9	278	Midice, startled, looked up from where she knelt, polishing the hoops of brass upon my shield.	10
14	17	Behind the ram, to prevent it from going too deeply into an enemy ship, pinning the attacker, is, shaped like the spread crest of a tarn, the shield.	10
14	23	The sternpost is high, and fanlike; it is carved to represent feathers; the actual tail feathers of a tarn, however, would be horizontal to the plane, not vertical; the prow of the tarn ship resembles the ram and shield, though it is made of painted wood; it is designed and painted to resemble the h...	10
14	191	It, too, began to come about, and we caught her amidships, the ram thrusting through the heavy planking like kindling, then stopped by the shield, like a spread tarn's crest, and we chopped our way back and free, and then knifed past her stern toward the next two ships.	10
18	544	Vina, with a shield, whose weight she could hardly bear, was trying to cover the boy, Fish, as he fought.	10
18	637	"And the Tela!" Standing at the prow of the Venna, shield on his arm, helmeted, spear in hand, was Tab.	10

Book 7. (20 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	867	Then its talons locked over the shield and it smote its wings, ripping the shield straps, half tearing my captor from the saddle, and the tarn was away, the shield then dropping like a penny, turning, toward the field below.	10
8	757	His shield I had barely been able to lift.	10
8	1023	Ute and the men began to sing and clap, one of them slapping at the leather of a shield.	10
8	1039	I could hear the slave bells, the song of Ute and the men, their clapping, the slapped rhythm on the leather shield.	10
8	1077	I heard the bells of Lana, the singing and clapping of Ute and the men, the slapping of the rhythm of Lana's dance on the leather of the shield.	10
13	839	In one moment, as I screamed, terrified, thrown rudely against my bonds, he had jerked his shield from the saddle straps and wheeled the tarn, with a cry of rage, a strange war cry, to face his foe.	10
13	840	He was met with another war cry, and suddenly, only feet from us, another tarn streaked past, and I heard the forcible, tearing scrape of a broad, bronze spear blade, its blow turned, sliding across the metal-bound, layered, boskhide shield of my captor.	10
13	843	When only yards separated us, the other man flung away his bow and quarrel, seizing up his shield.	10
13	845	It struck the other's shield, piercing it.	10
13	847	As it was, it spun him, tearing the shield from his arm.	10
13	851	Again the other's spear struck, and again the blow was countered by my captor's shield.	10
13	852	I again heard the terrible, startling scrape of the spear blade diverted by the seven-layered, metal-bound boskhide shield.	10
13	853	Twice more the attacker pressed in, and each time, again, the shield turned the blow, once but inches from my body.	10
13	855	Again the spear struck, but this time my captor took the point in the shield.	10
13	860	With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...	10
13	862	My captor now thrust his shield before him, and over my body.	10
13	863	I heard the blade of the other strike twice, ringing on the metal hoops of the shield that guarded me.	10
13	865	I heard the talons tear across the shield.	10
15	634	Sometimes he watches in the reflection of a shield hoop".	10
15	1002	"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	747	Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman...	10
19	39	They could shield themselves, either with wood or slaves, from the forest.	10

Book 9. (54 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	150	Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...	10
6	249	Two, who were armed with shield and spear, smote the spear blade on the wooden shield.	10
6	495	Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...	10
7	37	"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...	10
14	76	The Kur who had taken the girl then took another leash from the interior of his shield, where there were several wrapped about the shield straps, and surveyed the hall.	10
2	129	And on its mast, round and of painted wood, had hung the white shield.	10
2	133	That the tarnhead was hinged back, as the ship entered the inlet, was a suitable indication, like the white shield, that it came in peace.	10
2	169	In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ...	10
5	88	"What shield is at his mast?" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	89	"The red shield," called the lookout.	10
5	90	"Raise no shield to our own mast," said 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	78	At the Thing, to which each free man must come, unless he works his farm alone and cannot leave it, each man must present, for the inspection of his Jarl's officer, a helmet, shield and either sword or ax or spear, in good condition.	10
10	192	"Would you like to carry my shield?" he asked.	10
10	196	Another youngster, about his own age, probably from an adjoining farm, would carry his shield for him.	10
10	204	"Who is your shield bearer?" asked one of the two white-robed referees.	10
10	218	"Who will bear your shield?" asked one of the referees.	10
10	219	"My weapon is my shield," I told him, lifting the sword.	10
10	239	I tapped the shield of Bjarni of Thorstein Camp, it held by another ruffian from his camp, with the point of my sword.	10
10	241	With a cry of rage the shield bearer of Bjarni of Thorstein Camp rushed at me, to thrust me back, stumbling, hopefully to put me off my balance, for the following stroke of his swordsman.	10
10	243	The shield bearer's charge carried him almost to the hazel wands.	10
10	248	Quickly he fled back, and was joined by his shield bearer.	10
10	249	In the second charge, though I do not know if it were elegant or not, given the proprieties of the formal duel, I tripped the shield bearer.	10
10	250	One is not supposed to slay the shield bearer but, as far as I knew, tripping, though perhaps not in the best form, was acceptable.	10
10	255	Bjarni, quite wisely, he obviously brighter than his shield bearer, had not followed him so closely this time, but had hung back.	10
10	258	The shield bearer leaped to his feet.	10
10	278	Then he, with his shield bearer, left the leather of the square of hazel wands.	10
11	48	Each carried a wide, round shield, of iron, some four feet in diameter.	10
12	12	There are shield signals, too, however, it might be mentioned, in Torvaldsland, though these are quite limited.	10
12	13	Two that are universal in Torvaldsland are the red shield for war, the white for peace.	10
12	86	"Swear, too," he suggested, "by the side of the ship, by the shield's rim, by the sword's edge".	10
12	92	"Very well," said the Blue Tooth, "I swear by the ship's side, the shield's rim, the sword's edge, the fires of my hearth, the timbers of my hall and the pillars of the high seat in my house".	10
13	449	In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som...	10
14	140	The shield arm was twisted in one of the straps.	10
14	163	At close range it can pierce a southern shield, shatter its point through a seven-inch beam.	10
15	359	I saw its eyes over the shield, the ax light in its great fist.	10
15	367	The heavy shield, with fantastic force, with a sidelong motion, a sweep, struck me, fending me away, hurtling me for forty feet through the air.	10
15	371	Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across.	10
15	403	The rock struck the shield, bounding with a clang away, down into the abyss.	10
15	408	It, too, with a sound of granite on metal, was fended away, this time by the shield of the second Kur.	10
15	426	I had learned that the Kur shield could be as devastating a weapon as the war hammer of Hunjer.	10
16	152	At the foot of the couch were weapons; at its head, hanging on the wall, under a great shield, were two spears, crossed under it, and, to one side, a mighty sword in its scabbard.	10
17	17	I could see the outline of his helmet, the rim of the shield, the spear, dark against darkness.	10
17	21	With us stood Bjarni of Thorstein Camp, and with him he who had in the formal duel carried his shield.	10
17	23	With the boy, too, was his friend, who would have carried the shield for him.	10
17	51	Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer o...	10
17	58	The signal would be a shield signal, taking the morning sun, a flash, and then the attack.	10
17	263	Another man threw aside his shield and jerked open the shirt at his chest, looking into the valley.	10
17	279	He bit at the rim of his shield, tearing the wood, splintering it with his teeth.	10
17	334	The sun flashed on the shield.	10
18	211	We were thrown back from the shield wall with devastating losses.	10
18	215	Then the spear line faced the shield wall.	10
18	220	The Kurii showed no signs of emerging from the shield wall.	10
18	225	Within the square, formed into ragged "Hands," "Kurii," and "Bands," with their appropriate leaders, were massed a considerable number of Kurii, ready to charge forth should the shield wall open, or to support it if it seemed in danger of weakening.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	486	It would assume that I would not relinquish the shield of the ring's invisibility.	10
21	503	One thing the Kur would not expect would be that I would surrender the shield of invisibility; one thing he would not expect would be that it would be I, myself, who would present myself to his weapon.	10
23	118	In a Gorean engagement on foot, incidentally, assuming uniform lines, this drift is almost inevitable, because each man, in fighting, tends to shelter himself partially, as he can, behind the shield of the man on his right.	10

Book 11. (77 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	445	The stranger's spear had penetrated the shield of he who was one of my captors, and the stranger, bracing the shaft between his arm and body, had lifted his opponent's shield and turned, throwing it and his opponent, who had not the time to slip from the shield straps, to the ground at his feet.	10
2	448	He severed the shield straps of the opponent's shield, freeing his arm from them.	10
29	59	With the straps, brought about the sides of the great shield he fastened my wrists apart, one on each side, about at shoulder level, at the edges of the shield.	10
29	100	He slung his shield upon his back, and tied his spear, too, beneath the shield's edge, upon his back.	10
2	15	Both wore tunics, red; each, at his left hip, had slung a blade and scabbard; each, at his belt, carried an ornamented knife; the man behind him who stood over me had slung over his back a shield, of layers of leather and brass, and carried a spear, beneath the blade of which was slung a helmet with...	10
2	16	The man who stood over me had put his helmet and shield to one side; the helmets of both would cover the entire head and most of the face; the helmets were cut and opened in such a way as to suggest a "Y".	10
2	41	Each in my world, it seemed, carried about with him a bubble of space, a perimeter, a wall, an invisible shield, an unconsciously acculturated, socially sanctioned remoteness, a barrier decreed by convention and conditioning.	10
2	255	Angrily the bearded man stood up, sheathed the dagger, took up his shield, his spear.	10
2	272	He carried a spear over his left shoulder, balanced by his left hand; from the spear depended a shield, behind the left shoulder, and a helmet; about his right shoulder was slung a pouch, which I gathered must have contained supplies; a bota of liquid, water I assumed, was fastened at his belt, on t...	10
2	291	The newcomer grinned and slipped the spear to the ground, loosening the helmet and shield.	10
2	293	Carrying the shield on his left arm, carrying the spear lightly in his right hand, the helmet hanging, too, by its straps, from his right hand, the newcomer approached casually.	10
2	394	Perhaps a mistake had been made? Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding? The stranger, crouching in the grass, his shield beside him, the butt of the spear in the grass, the weapon upright, its point against the sky, nodded.	10
2	409	He slipped his shield on his arm, adjusting straps.	10
2	415	He who was not the bearded man then stepped forward, his shield on his arm, his spear in hand.	10
2	443	The spear of him who was one of my captors seemed to leap upward and away, caroming from the oblique, lifted surface of the stranger's shield.	10
2	444	The spear, caroming from the shield, flew more than a hundred feet away, dropping in the grass, where it stood fixed, remote and useless, the butt of its shaft pointing to the sky.	10
2	450	He cast his own shield aside, into the grass.	10
2	474	The bearded man lifted his shield and raised his spear.	10
2	477	He went to extricate his spear from the penetrated shield of the man with whom, but moments before, he had shared the sport of war.	10
2	481	The stranger bent to lift the penetrated shield, that he might remove from it his bronze-headed weapon.	10
2	485	The stranger had not remained at the vicinity of the shield with its penetrating spear, but had abandoned it.	10
2	495	With a cry of rage the bearded man rushed upon him, thrusting with his shield, his sword flat and low.	10
2	503	The bearded man's shield slipped from his arm.	10
2	504	The straps which had held the shield to his upper arm had been severed.	10
2	505	The shield fell on its edge to the grass, and then tipped and rocked, then was still, large, rounded, concave inner surface tilted, facing the sky.	10
2	518	He moved the bearded man into a position where his fallen, discarded shield lay behind him.	10
2	519	With a cry he forced back the bearded man, who fell, stumbling in the shield, backward, and then lay on the grass before the stranger, the stranger's blade at his throat.	10
2	533	He removed his spear from the shield which it had penetrated.	10
2	536	He sat his shield by it.	10
2	669	He went to the spear thrust in the turf, upright, blade to the sky, and the concave shield at its foot.	10
2	670	He slung the shield and helmet over the butt of the spear, suspending them behind his left shoulder, his left arm over and resting on the shaft of the spear, steadying it in place.	10
2	710	He regarded me for a minute or two, and then, from his shoulder, unslung the shield, and helmet, from his spear.	10
2	713	Then, adjusting the straps, he fastened the shield at my back.	10
2	716	Staggering under the weight of the shield, the pouch and bota about my neck, I followed him.	10
2	726	Carrying his shield, the pouch and bota, some eight or nine feet behind him, on his left, I followed him.	10
2	765	I now, naked and bound, carrying his shield, followed him who had been victorious.	10
2	769	I now carried his shield.	10
2	787	But, as I followed the man, trekking through the glorious grass, under the bright, marvelous moons, carrying his shield, literally heeling him, as might have an animal, his captive, nude and bound, I felt, paradoxically, a fantastic sense of freedom, of psychological liberation.	10
2	792	I would struggle to my feet, staggering under the weight of the shield, and run to catch up with him.	10
2	800	I lay on my side, the weight of the shield upon my shoulder.	10
2	818	He removed the pouch and bota from my neck, the shield from my back.	10
2	947	He lifted his shield and spear.	10
2	949	Was I not to bear his burdens? Was I not to carry the pouch and bota? Was I not to bear his shield? With a snap of his fingers and a movement of his hand he released me from position.	10
2	1130	I was eager to carry his shield, to have its heavy weight placed across my small back, that I might serve him again, as I had before, as his lovely beast of burden, heeling him, but he did not again stagger me beneath that ponderous weight.	10
2	1132	He retained the shield, as he did the spear, the sword.	10
2	1170	My captor had put aside his shield and spear.	10
2	1192	He had fought with savage steel to possess me; he had candidly, upon his victory, to my horror, appraised my flesh; he had kept me bound for hours; he had made me carry his shield, and heel him like an animal; he had cuffed me, and put me under discipline! He had not treated me as the free and right...	10
3	26	I hated him! I hated him! The last two days of the trek we had traveled much in daylight, and he had permitted me to carry his shield.	10
3	41	In the vicinity of the camp, upon our approach to it, my captor had taken his shield from me, which I had been bearing for him.	10
3	46	He approached the camp singing, and striking his spear blade on his shield.	10
3	55	His shield and spear, and helmet, he handed to another.	10
3	216	I then conjectured that one of the men, perhaps my captor, since it was he who had had me tend the brazier, wished to mark something which he owned, imprinting in it an identificatory design, perhaps a harness or belt, or the leather of a brass-hooped shield.	10
3	537	The brand Eta wore was not the "dina"; it was, as I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; it, too, however, was, in its delicacy and floral nature, an incredibly beautiful and feminine brand; I recalled that I had thought that the brand I had heat...	10
4	755	My shield then, as before, was simply my ignorance, the ignorance of a foolish girl.	10
5	148	If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which, of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving the protection of the city's soldiers.	10
5	440	It was as though in my own home an almost final shield of modesty had been taken from me, leaving me only a bit of wide-strung netting, inviting the ripping hand of a master.	10
5	821	Was I first girl? Was I over her? Did I have switch rights upon her body, as Eta had upon mine? Would I be cruel to her? Would I make her suffer? Would she have to please the masters incredibly, and constantly attend them, that they might perhaps be moved to shield her to some tiny extent from my ve...	10
11	202	This is a merchant keep, under the banner and shield of Turia".	10
11	208	That the keep was also under the shield of Turia meant that it was defended by Turians, that its garrison was Turian.	10
11	210	It is not unknown for a keep to fly the banner of one city and stand behind the shield of another.	10
11	211	Both banner and shield of Stones of Turmus, however, were Turian.	10
20	232	The large, yellow shield on the high pole in the harbor had already been hoisted and fallen, and, near it, the fire of white smoke had been lit.	10
20	233	When the shield reaches the top of the pole in the harbor and is permitted to fall it is the tenth hour, the Gorean noon.	10
21	60	The fire of white smoke had been lit near the shield pole, though it was not yet noon.	10
21	62	On the height of the shield pole there was hoisted a scarlet disk.	10
21	107	White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk.	10
28	287	He carried shield and spear.	10
28	319	Clitus Vitellius stood straight on that great platform, his great, circular shield on his left arm, his mighty spear, seven feet in length, headed in tapering bronze, grasped in his right hand.	10
28	324	He put aside his shield and spear, to lift me to my feet as his equal.	10
28	451	He lifted his shield and took up his spear, and then descended the steps of the great block.	10
29	6	He stood before me, his shield on his left arm, the mighty spear grasped in his right hand.	10
29	9	He, placing the spear and shield to one side, had moved to her and was tying her hands behind her back.	10
29	57	He placed his shield upon the bridge, straps down, its convex surface like a bow facing the stars.	10
29	60	I lay over the shield, bound upon it.	10
29	67	He dragged me upward to his pressing mouth, pulling me against the wrist straps which held my wrists at the shield's edges.	10
29	68	I thought he might tear me from the shield.	10
29	73	He unbound my wrists from the shield.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	Should he discover the weakness of the Priest-Kings, or construct a depot adequate to fuel, to shield, and supply the beaching ships, there seemed little reason to suppose the invasion would not prove successful.	10
4	329	Guardsmen, with spear butts and cruel shield rims, forced back two more men from the stage's edge.	10
6	37	I waited, standing, my helmet over my back, my shield behind my left shoulder, leaning on my spear.	10
6	130	Then he slung his shield on his arm, and unsheathed the blade slung at his left hip.	10
6	134	But what did she know of the codes? I met his attack, turning it, and he fell, shield loose, at my feet.	10
11	361	I tore the shield from its saddle straps and blocked the raking talons that furrowed the leather.	10
11	378	I examined the shield.	10

Book 13. (23 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
56	18	When the tuft of feathers is at the bottom of the shield, the shield being so held, this is an indication that the hunter seeks an animal.	10
56	19	When the tuft of feathers is at the top of the shield, the shield so held, it is an indication that the quarry is human.	10
1	542	Within the invisibility shield the spectrum is shifted, permitting one to see outward, though in a reddish light.	10
1	559	"It is my belief that this ring does not cast the invisibility shield," said Samos.	10
6	65	Lake Ngao, which was discovered by Shaba, and named by him, was named for a shield, because of its long, oval shape.	10
7	102	"We have strengthened our defenses," said Uchafu, "reinforcing the palisaded walls which shield Schendi from the interior, but we must not delude ourselves.	10
15	51	"My orders," I said, "are to exchange them with Shaba for the authentic shield ring".	10
15	211	"That is the ring from the chain on his neck, where he carried the shield ring".	10
15	212	"It is not the shield ring," I said, miserably.	10
15	215	He had established for us, earlier, yesterday evening, that the ring on the chain had been the shield ring.	10
20	42	But he, holding his shield and stabbing spear with his left hand, struck her twice, snapping her head back and forth, with his right hand.	10
20	45	The askari near to me, one supervising the chain, thrust me back with his shield and I fell in the water, and he hit me four times with the handle of the stabbing spear.	10
24	89	Kisu stood on the raft, like a black god, the shield on his arm, a bloodied stabbing spear in his right hand.	10
24	170	We had placed weapons in the canoe, the shields and stabbing spears from the two askaris, and some spears and another shield, from the raiders.	10
51	227	And with them, too, at their head, was an unmistakable figure, black and huge, with shield and spear.	10
53	319	He himself had discarded his shield, or it had been struck from him.	10
56	3	Mwoga, spear in hand, a shield on his arm, came out to greet us.	10
56	15	Each man carried, too, a shield.	10
56	16	On the Ukungu shield there is, commonly, a tuft of feathers.	10
56	17	This is fastened at one of the points of the shield.	10
56	20	On both the shield of Kisu and Mwoga the tufts were now at the top.	10
56	45	Turn your shield so that the feathers lie again at its base".	10
56	47	"I will turn my shield".	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	990	Almost instantly, as he threw a lever which must have been beside him, a heavy glass screen or shield sprang up, from the top of the seat in front of us, against which his back rested.	10
1	995	"Stop the cab!" I demanded, coughing, pounding on the glass shield with the flat of my hand.	10
21	231	Terence, I conjectured, would not be willing to ride against Ar unless he had removed the insignia from his helmet and shield.	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	168	Half submerged, a wicker shield floated behind the chain.	10
4	29	The chain could now be cut with impunity, behind the shield of the Voskjard's northern fleet, that now some half pasang off our bows.	10
4	37	Even now, behind the shield of the northern fleet, it was not improbable that the ships of the southern fleet were proceeding unimpeded between the pylons.	10
4	71	Our bow was aligned, as though to take its ram on the ram shield.	10
20	651	The Gorean slave girl is not permitted to shield her intimacies without the explicit permission of her master.	10
20	1784	Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march.	10

Book 17. (18 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	528	The shield straps, which had been displayed to us with the shield, the shield held convex side down, had not been torn away or cut, which would have rendered the shield useless.	10
15	44	He carried a long, feathered lance, and a small, round shield, a war shield, on which were inscribed medicine signs.	10
1	501	It turned about and bent down, and picked up a large shield, of a sort adequate for such a creature.	10
1	503	We could see that the shield straps were in order.	10
1	504	It then placed the shield on the floor, to the side of the table, to their left.	10
1	1115	In this type of combat, incidentally, it is not unusual for the warrior to shield himself behind the body of his racing kaiila, and, circling the enemy, rise up, suddenly, to fire over the animal's back or, sometimes, from beneath its neck.	10
1	1175	He will make a shield".	10
1	1177	"This is the shield that he will make," said Kog, indicating the last picture on the hide.	10
1	1181	"The shield bears, clearly delineated, the visage of the dark guest, the medicine helper".	10
1	1215	"Beyond this," said Kog, "note that the image of the dark guest appears on the shield".	10
1	1217	"It is a belief of the red savages that if they are unworthy, or do not speak the truth, that their shield will not protect them.	10
1	1365	Kog hurled the shield towards us and, like a great, shallow, concave bowl, it skimmed through the air, between us, and broke boards loose behind us.	10
1	1379	"And this," said another, lifting up the huge shield.	10
1	1380	Samos' men examined the spear and shield.	10
2	19	The huge shield and spear we had discarded in the marshes.	10
4	73	Indeed, not even a blanket had been thrown into the wagon bed to soften the blows of the springless cart, or to shield the flesh of the bound beauties from the splintery roughness of the sturdy planks on which they rode.	10
14	1293	I pointed to the image on the representation of a shield, that painted at the conclusion of the hide's account.	10
19	77	The fellow in the background, with his war shield in its case, is a member of the Yellow-Kaiila Riders.	10

Book 18. (77 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	442	Never before had I seen the shield of Kahintokapa outside of its shield cover, even when I had first seen him, long ago, with Canka and the members of the All Comrades, near the site of the battle of the wagon train, near, too, where the mercenaries had fought, and Alfred had escaped with a continge...	10
34	445	I stood for a long time on that late-summer day, looking at the shield, hanging on the shield tripod.	10
47	138	With a shake of its mighty head my tarn flung the shield from its beak, a hundred feet away, the arm still inserted in the shield straps.	10
1	126	Too, he did not carry lance and shield.	10
11	92	On this hide, among other things, was the representation of a shield bearing Zarendargar's image.	10
11	93	If I could find the owner of this shield I might then, hopefully, be able to locate Zarendargar.	10
15	230	"One's shield might betray one," said Cuwignaka.	10
15	234	One's shield may choose not to defend one, if one is a liar".	10
15	248	"You would not do that with an ordinary shield, would you?" asked Cuwignaka.	10
17	48	"He has sworn by his shield," said Akihoka.	10
17	69	"Hci swears by his shield," said Akihoka.	10
17	70	"Then Hci swears falsely by his shield," I said.	10
17	78	"But Hci has sworn by his shield," he said.	10
20	54	"Had I a shield I would swear by it".	10
20	57	"Would you truly swear by a shield?" asked Hci.	10
20	61	"No one would betray the shield oath," said a man.	10
20	69	"Would you truly swear by your shield?" asked Hci.	10
24	6	Cuwignaka had no shield.	10
24	8	Had he a shield he might have sought an inside attacking position, fending to the left, striking then toward the opened center.	10
24	20	Cuwignaka's upward thrust, however, was easily turned by the Yellow Knife's stout war shield, of rawhide thickened and hardened by shrinking over heated stones, from the neck, between the shoulders, or the humped back, behind the head, bearing the trident of the bull kailiauk.	10
24	23	The rider brought the lance over the beast's neck, inside of the shield on his left arm.	10
24	24	In this position, the enemy to the left, the rider affords himself the protection of the shield.	10
24	25	This is commonly regarded as more than an adequate compensation for the somewhat reduced fanlike ambit of play, that between the shield and the neck of the kaiila, then open to the lance.	10
24	31	I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...	10
24	33	Being close enough to sturdily fend the blow brings one, if one is afoot, and shieldless, normally, close enough to risk the strike of the shield.	10
24	35	The rider spun the kaiila about, to his right, keeping his shield between himself and my arrow.	10
24	49	The rider, not unaware of my presence, jerked the kaiila about, bringing his shield once more between us.	10
25	6	I had taken, too, his lance and shield.	10
25	7	Cuwignaka had recovered his own lance and had added to his armament, too, the shield of the Yellow Knife he had slain.	10
25	29	I noted that Hci's shield, almost as though it were alive, seemed to move.	10
25	34	He, too, obviously, noted the shield of Hci.	10
25	36	Then the shield was again calm, again seemingly no more than a device of leather, one painted with designs and ornamented with feathers.	10
25	126	"Did you see the movement of his shield before?" asked Cuwignaka.	10
26	2	His kaiila in the clash of shield and lances had lost its footing, spinning and falling back to its haunches.	10
26	4	As it scrambled up he had caught a passing Yellow Knife under the shield.	10
26	10	I buffeted aside the attack of a Yellow-Knife lance, it furrowing the hide of the shield I bore.	10
26	24	A Kaiila turned, catching the canhpi of a Yellow Knife on his shield.	10
26	32	I saw Cuwignaka fend away an attack against Hci, thrusting his kaiila, his shield lifted, literally between that of Hci and his assailant.	10
26	60	I met the lance of the man on my left with the shield, turning its stroke.	10
26	62	I turned, taking his lance thrust, too, on the shield.	10
26	67	I struck out at the fellow on my left and a segment, cleaved, flew from his shield.	10
27	33	Then, shield and lance in hand, I mounted.	10
28	31	He had his shield again in its cover, as he had had earlier.	10
28	194	I saw his shield move, as though by itself.	10
28	198	This movement of the shield had not been unnoticed by Mahpiyasapa.	10
28	200	"What is wrong with your shield?" he asked.	10
28	280	I saw Hci struggle for a moment to again control his shield.	10
29	43	My shield lifted, I deflected an arrow from above.	10
29	76	I lifted my shield but the Yellow Knife, his eyes wild with fright, rode past, his braids flying behind him.	10
30	100	It carried a huge shield and lance, the accouterments of a man.	10
30	150	His shield began to rise.	10
30	156	"His shield would not defend him," said Cuwignaka, in horror.	10
30	157	"His shield betrayed him! I have heard of such things.	10
31	11	"I swore upon my shield," said Hci.	10
34	417	This would be the time for the sunning of shields, hanging on the shield tripods behind the lodges, the entrance of the lodge facing east, the back of the lodge facing west.	10
34	443	It is not uncommon for a warrior to keep his shield in its case or cover when not fighting.	10
34	450	They, too, regarded the shield.	10
34	458	"Look upon the shield," I said.	10
34	459	We all regarded the shield.	10
34	478	I looked at the visage on the shield.	10
34	483	At the narrative's termination on the hide the artist had drawn a likeness of the medicine helper, portrayed as though on a shield.	10
34	485	Now, deep within the Barrens, north of the Northern Kaiila River, in the country of the Casmu Kaiila, I looked upon the shield itself.	10
35	86	The shield of Hci rose like a moon, inexorably, exposing him to the lance of the Yellow Knife.	10
39	292	A man's shield can protect him in only one plane of attack.	10
41	70	Later, in battle, my shield betrayed me.	10
41	81	"The shield rose," said Hci.	10
41	82	"The shield cannot rise by itself," I said.	10
41	90	"The shield rose, like a moon," said Hci.	10
41	98	These two things tend, then, in your understanding to merge into only one, in this case that your shield betrayed you".	10
44	491	Arms were broken in the shield straps.	10
44	517	The rider, tall on the kaiila, singing medicine, disdaining to lift his shield, rode past, below us.	10
47	135	I turned the stroke of a lance with my small shield.	10
47	199	On the other hand, the shield and lance skills of the Kaiila were fresh, and our men were tried warriors.	10
47	219	My shield was at my hip.	10
47	467	Hci interposed his shield, and the arrow, deflected, caromed off a hundred feet in the air.	10
47	470	Lightly, moving swiftly, discarding his shield, armed now only with his knife, he made his way from our position, to the trail summit, and to the barricade.	10
56	117	His shield still bore the visage of Zarendargar.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1521	"Let it at least lie across me, to shield me, to cover me, if only a little! Perhaps my abdomen, or navel! Just a little, just that much! Surely it will not much interfere with you".	10
7	413	I had not seen fit to purchase a shield or spear, or even a bow, with sheaf arrows.	10
14	474	I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments...	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	202	The common military response to aerial attack from tarnsmen is the "shield roof" or "shield shed," a formation the same as, or quite similar to, a formation once known on Earth as the testudo, or "tortoise".	10
1	297	I gathered my shield and weapons from the grass near us, where they lay with my pack.	10
3	109	I took my pack from Feiqa's back and threw it, and my spear and shield, into the wagon.	10
3	210	The shield shed was broken.	10
26	1669	Some warriors enter battle with no more than their battle straps, and their shield, helmet, and weapons.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	199	There I saw the shield which Tela had been polishing, a small, round silver shield, more of a buckler, really, than a shield.	10
25	114	"She is polishing the shield of Aulus," I said.	10
25	140	He drew aside that bit of silk, that slender mockery of a shield.	10
25	202	The shield, so small, so beautiful, was perhaps more an artifact for display, I think, than a device of war.	10
25	206	Her rag, and the polish, in its flat metal container, were near the shield.	10
25	227	I supposed the matter had to do with the effect he hoped to achieve, perhaps like the silver shield.	10
25	232	I glanced over at the shield.	10
25	235	The shield was hers to do! I had been assigned, perhaps because Aulus thought it more fitting for me, to do the boots.	10
25	253	"The shield has not been finished," he said.	10
26	18	Across his back was slung a shield.	10

Book 23. (37 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	272	I saw the one woman, still clutching the child in her cloak, darting from shield to shield.	10
21	1273	The slave girl's protection and champion is the master, who stands between her and others, particularly between her and free women; he is the shield behind which she hopes to be sheltered, nurtured, and loved, a shield without which she, a slave, would be vulnerable not only to abuse and cruelty, bu...	10
15	354	I had denied her the delicacy, the modesty, the shield and defense of the veil, just as it is denied to slaves.	10
15	985	Under their cover the ladder brigades followed and the grapnel men; behind these came scalers, crouching, protected under the shield roofs of infantry men.	10
17	170	The next fellow had his shield before him.	10
17	173	He climbed another rung and I kicked out, turning the shield to the side.	10
17	174	He was half pulled from the ladder by the shield straps but he slipped down a foot or two, recovering himself.	10
17	181	He was then on the same rung with the fellow with the shield, and then one rung higher.	10
17	199	The fellow with the shield hung half off the ladder.	10
17	227	The highest fellow was the man with the shield, who had withdrawn earlier.	10
17	228	He looked up, discarded his shield, started to climb madly toward the spear, then stopped.	10
17	246	The fellow who had had the shield now again climbed toward me.	10
17	644	I could not well defend it, not indefinitely, not against quarrels, as well, with no shield.	10
18	150	"Shield wall!" I cried.	10
18	167	I crouched down behind the shield wall.	10
18	179	I then sent forth men from the shield wall singly, and in squads, to ferry the women and children, one at a time, or the women carrying children in their arms, beneath the cover of their shields, to the walkway.	10
18	182	I saw the young crossbowman, under the cover of a shield, held by his friend, the other young fellow from the front wall, harvesting quarrels from the walkway.	10
18	184	He distributed these to cohorts behind the shield wall, neglecting not to retain some for himself.	10
18	196	I sent some men forward, to try to shield the huddled noncombatants, before they could be conducted away from the wall, but it was of little use.	10
18	198	Many were cut down before they could reach our shield wall.	10
18	208	The shield wall was disrupted, the frightened women and children rushing through it, tearing at it, plunging toward the walkway behind us.	10
18	210	"Forward!" I cried, seizing up the shield of a fellow fallen.	10
18	233	I saw a fellow struck to one knee by a tile hitting on his shield.	10
18	255	In the layered leather of my shield bristled quarrels.	10
18	435	His fellow, the other young fellow from the wall, the one with the shield, who had protected him in the fighting, was at his side.	10
18	569	Then, with shield and sword, with the ringing of metal, with shouts, with cries of war, the six of us, I, Marsias, the grizzled fellow, and the three who had come originally to the cell, struck by charging Cosians, almost swept back, struggled to hold the walkway.	10
19	31	In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of casualties, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself.	10
19	32	In the late Ahn of a battle, however, an even more common cause of casualties, interestingly enough, is the simple inability to lift, control and maneuver the shield.	10
19	145	I looked up, from where I crouched behind the shield.	10
19	146	Then I rose up, lifting the shield once more.	10
19	147	A solitary figure, with no shield, but in helmet, and with sheathed sword, approached.	10
19	211	One's shield, he charging, I struck obliquely to the side, and he, in the grip of his own momentum, lost the walkway.	10
19	212	I cut at the other below the shield, above the knee, and he slipped to the boards.	10
19	231	I put down my shield on the walkway, and extended my hand down to the fellow in the water.	10
20	63	"What do you think? Do you think I would have given an order I would not be willing, under similar circumstances, to obey? My body, as it is wounded, will serve as a shield in the fighting.	10
20	65	"We need Aemilianus, our commander," said a man, "not a body for a shield".	10
20	74	"If there must be a body for a shield, use mine, instead," he said.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	21	Too, in a formal whipping, as opposed to an occasional stroke or two, perhaps called forth on a given occasion, not even as meaningless, fragile or symbolic a shield as slave silk is allowed to obtrude itself between the slave and the justice, or mere attention, of the lash.	10
7	11	A wading fellow discarded his shield.	10
13	181	In this way one may shield the girls, if one wishes, from such things as the sun and the rain.	10
15	74	Normally the shield, of course, is carried on the left arm, most warriors being right handed.	10
43	55	There was nothing unusual in this, as it is occasionally done in wagon camps for various reasons, for example, to form wind breaks, shield fires, and such.	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	573	After several seconds, the man standing there in the portal, silhouetted by the light behind him, the lieutenant, unwilling to lose more time, indicated that one man, preceded by his fair shield of two, should enter and go to the left, and another, he, too, preceded by his shield of two, to the righ...	10
11	1173	"But the first use was doubtless merely that you would follow him naked, and collared, bearing his shield".	10
24	595	Behind him there was a shield bearer.	10
24	827	It was muchly wound about his arm, constituting in its way, it seemed, an improvised shield.	10
31	665	Swords darted at the peasant but none reached him, he protected in the whirling shield of chain and stone.	10
37	35	The members of each group were tied together by the neck, presumably not merely to control us, as a coffle chain might, but to keep us together, making our disposition as a shield, or wall, more effective.	10
37	362	"They are the shield," said a man.	10
37	501	Too, tied as we were, we constituted, as before, something of a shield, in this case for the one man behind us.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	143	She did not care what he thought! Perhaps it was because the gown was all she had to shield her body from his gaze.	10
13	50	Occasionally there was a flash, as might have resulted from the sun's being suddenly reflected from a metal surface, perhaps a helmet, a spear point, a shield.	10
15	526	No longer was he her defense and shield.	10
15	527	And there is none to defend or shield the slave, you see, from the master.	10
17	950	A studded buckler, a small, round, spiked shield, was at the side of the saddle.	10
18	475	The slave is, you see, to be instantly available to men; her inviting, luscious intimacies, so sweet and warm between her thighs, belong not to her but to the master; she is not a free woman who may wrap and bundle herself, and shield and guard herself; she is a slave and thus she is to be instantly...	10
20	296	She saw the insignia on the shield, but made nothing of it.	10
20	364	The tarnsman's shield was ripped from his arm and went flying into the darkness below.	10
27	3001	A shield was torn from a soldier breaking an arm.	10

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	79	In the Gorean phalanx the field commander leads the right wing, which tends to drift to the right, this resulting from the natural tendency of each man to take advantage of the protection of the shield of the man on his right, as well as his own shield.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
59	254	The gladius too, of course, may function in both modalities, without shield and buckler, though Gorean infantry commonly combines it with the shield, and the arena fighter with the buckler.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	650	"A shield, a shield!" cried Decius Albus, "and one, as well, for noble Lucilius!" The large Kur beside him in the box was crouched down, and the broad, double-edged blade of the Kur ax it bore was held across its body, before its chest, covering its heart.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	7	The tactic is for contingents of the invasive force, in the "box formation," shield walls to the sides and a shield roof or ceiling overhead, to protect against arrow fire and cast stones, to approach under artillery fire so as to be able to enter a new breach almost instantly, before defenders can ...	10
56	15	"I want it closer," I said, "and I want the mercenaries to mass together, crowded, shield to shield, intent on naught but war, each hoping for his place on a ladder, each eager for a kill".	10