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Skilled

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	50	Accordingly, for subtle communication or the fullest expression of thought, the machine was inferior to a skilled linguist.	10
3	131	If I had been a skilled linguist, I undoubtedly would have discovered hundreds of parallels and affinities, grammatical and otherwise, between Gorean and various of the Earth languages.	10
3	167	I would come to know this skilled, powerful, proud man well.	10
17	22	It was Ar's misfortune, at this most critical time in its long history, to be in the hands of the bleakest of all castes of men, the Initiates, skilled only in ritual, mythology, and superstition.	10
20	69	Perhaps the serums of the Caste of Physicians, so skilled on Gor, have something to do with this, but I cannot tell.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	23	I respected the quiet, efficient guardsmen of Tharna, and I had already encountered her skilled warriors in a field far from the city.	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	103	Paradoxically perhaps, Last Spear is normally the weakest of the spearmen, the least skilled.	10
18	61	"You are very skilled," said Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
27	258	And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw...	10
34	109	I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where...	10

Book 4. (13 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	87	The members of these clans, however, like the Year Keepers and Singers, are all expected, first and foremost, to be, as it is said, of the wagons—namely to follow, tend and protect the bosk, to be superb in the saddle, and to be skilled with the weapons of both the hunt and war.	10
7	28	I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a...	10
8	145	I gathered that girls such as Elizabeth Cardwell, used to buying machine-made, presewn garments on Earth, were not as skilled as they might be in certain of the homely crafts which used to be associated with homemaking, crafts which might, upon occasion, it seemed, come in handy.	10
8	190	Both were, doubtless, well skilled in the art of pleasing the fancy of warriors of the Wagon Peoples.	10
8	211	The first rider is, commonly, as one might expect, the more experienced, skilled rider.	10
8	213	Kamchak was a skilled instructor in these matters and, freely, hours at a time, until it grew too dark to see, supervised my practice with such fierce tools as the lance, the quiva and bola.	10
8	388	Albrecht was a fine rider and skilled in this sport and, of course, this time, his quarry had been only an untrained barbarian slave, indeed, a girl who had never before run from the bola.	10
8	458	Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with...	10
9	18	There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...	10
10	159	"That much for her at least—maybe more—because she was skilled in the games of the bola".	10
20	85	"Normally," I said, "it takes years to become a skilled tarnsman".	10
20	129	"I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he said, "I am a skilled tarnsman—I have ridden over a thousand tarns—I have spent more time in the tarn saddle than most men on their feet—I was conceived on tarnback—I was born on tarnback—I eat tarns—fear me! I am Harold of t...	10
21	143	"Poor warrior," said she, her eyes smiling over the veil, "you do not even have enough to pay for the use of a skilled slave girl".	10

Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	281	I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of the house I spe...	10
3	128	He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far.	10
5	143	And, as the hour progressed, perform she did, and superbly so, and I knew that had I been a prospective buyer I would have bid high indeed for the skilled, sensuous little wench in my arms, so striving with all her quickness and beauty to please me.	10
6	14	I assumed he must be skilled at this sport.	10
13	19	I knew the Taurentians to be skilled Warriors, wary and swift, and I would have thought the women of the Hinrabians would have been the safest of the city.	10
13	275	Some Assassins are, as a matter of fact, skilled tarnsmen.	10
13	358	"Are you skilled with such a knife?" I asked.	10
13	362	"You are skilled indeed," I said.	10
15	95	Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen.	10
17	789	I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent.	10
18	153	"You seem to me, from what I have seen and heard," I said, "a skilled Physician".	10
19	146	Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...	10
20	189	"But," said Cernus, smiling, "since you are scarcely likely to be as skilled as I, I feel that it is only just that you be represented by a champion, who can play for you and give you some opportunity for victory".	10
22	337	Menicius of Port Kar is skilled with the killing knife.	10
22	456	I knew Mip had had something of this rare gift and did not suppose that others, skilled, veteran riders, would be completely without it.	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	18	It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...	10
2	6	Some girls are quite skilled with this light weapon.	10
3	151	"Are you skilled with this bow?" he asked.	10
10	157	A captain next to me snorted, "Give the pulley-makers the wage of oar-makers, and sawyers will want the wages of carpenters, and carpenters of shipwrights!" All who do skilled work in the arsenal, incidentally, are free men.	10
10	193	I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m...	10
13	25	I had little doubt that he would be highly intelligent, and skilled with weapons.	10
13	461	"And your crew seems skilled," I said, "and the ship is a good ship".	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	802	The northern girls, incidentally, were very skilled at this game.	10
13	916	"To be the preferred slave of a man such as Haakon of Skjern, who is rich and powerful, you must understand that I am unusual, quite beautiful and skilled".	10
14	522	If she proves sufficiently skilled, and zealously satisfactory, he may arrange for her purchase.	10
17	40	No scribe it seemed would own Inge, but she would belong to a brutal and powerful huntsman, the handsome Raf of Treve; and Rena's captain of Tyros, he who had contracted for her capture, must now surely be disappointed, and his gold lost, for his lovely prize has been taken by another, at whose feet...	10

Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	132	"You have in mind a skilled girl," said Thurnock, "one experienced in the ways of the forests".	10
8	5	The fact that we numbered ten, including myself, and that the girls of Verna's band numbered some fifteen, and that they were skilled with their weapons, and dangerous, dictated the nature of our approach.	10
9	240	"You are skilled.	10
9	243	"We were following an enemy panther girl," she said, "one less skilled than yourself, of the band of Hura, who would take my land from me".	10
9	249	You are skilled with the bow".	10
9	252	"You are skilled.	10
13	34	At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus...	10
13	166	I would speculate, however, judging the business on which I conjectured the Rhoda had come north, that she would have carried more than a hundred below decks, doubtless all skilled warriors.	10
16	321	In the hands of a skilled auctioneer she is forced to reveal, incontrovertibly, her passionate latencies, the suppressed pleadings of her womanhood for a master's touch.	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	38	Few scribes, I expected, were so skilled in the supervision and management of complex affairs as this slight, unattractive, brilliant girl.	10
2	75	The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands.	10
3	232	"I am skilled at the game," I said.	10
3	241	"I, too, am skilled at the game," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
5	69	Gorean enemies, if skilled, often hold one another in high regard.	10
5	72	"You, too, are quite skilled," I told him.	10
10	62	There are various forms of ball game enjoyed by the men of Torvaldsland; some use bats, or paddles; in the winter, one such game, quite popular, is played, men running and slipping about, on ice; whether there is any remote connection between this game and ice hockey, I do not know; it is, however, ...	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	318	"Do you know that, with a scimitar," she asked, "I am quite skilled, more skilled than any man?" "No," I said, "I did not know that".	10
26	1016	"And will improve me, so that I am skilled in all".	10

Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	462	Now I knelt bound and nude, helpless, utterly exposed and vulnerable, in the vicinity of fierce men, skilled and strong, who with intent and menace, with edged, bared steel, addressed themselves to the savageries of war.	10
3	301	Eta was skilled in the game.	10
4	312	Gorean, as I would learn, is rich in words borrowed from Earth languages; how rich it is I am not a skilled enough philologist to conjecture.	10
24	74	I think they are skilled in reading women.	10
27	124	Thurnus, whatever might have been his virtues, was not skilled in melody.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	597	These men, however, apparently more skilled than the girl, first circled the pond to discover emergent tracks.	10
7	22	"The one I seek," I said, "is skilled with the knife.	10
9	207	It is said that skilled slavers can detect a slave even when clad in the robes of concealment.	10
9	209	Too, attempting to disguise these things, now so much a part of the slave, tends to make the imposture, at least to a skilled eye, obvious.	10
12	362	They were quite skilled.	10
27	252	"You may think that to be a warrior is to be large, or strong, and to be skilled with weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet, to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one's countenance, but these things are not truly needful; they are not, truly, w...	10
27	253	Many men are strong, and large, and skilled with weapons.	10
30	107	"You are skilled," I told Drusus.	10
30	108	"You, too, are skilled," he said.	10
32	158	"You are very skilled with that tiny weapon".	10
32	160	"I, too, am skilled in weaponry," it said, "in various weapons traditional with my people, and in modern weapons, as well".	10

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	97	"You are quite skilled at Kaissa".	10
16	198	"You speak," I said, "as though they were professional warriors, under astute generalship, skilled in scouting, in flanking and cutting off retreats".	10
34	882	"You are skilled," I told her.	10
34	884	"Quite skilled," I said.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	281	Her most efficient and skilled hand was thus the prisoner of my grip, making her more mine, whereas, of course, my own most efficient, skilled hand, also the right, was freed for use.	10
12	297	"Tendite," said the Lady Tima to me, "is not skilled in conducting a sale.	10
21	270	How skilled, too, were the girls, even though they had worked only on common girth cloths.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	36	"I am not skilled with it".	10
18	37	Too, he does not seem skilled with the sword".	10
25	128	"He is skilled with the sword.	10
26	254	Jason, the worker on the docks, and a fellow of some popularity in Victoria, was not thought to be skilled with the blade.	10
29	183	"It is sometimes surprising," said Callisthenes, regarding me, smiling, "what a few men, determined and skilled, can accomplish".	10
32	234	"He is skilled," said Kliomenes.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	316	What can any journey profit us, if it is ourselves whom we have left behind? "But I speak foolishly, my Master," she said, "for what can such nonsense mean to one such as you, one skilled in the mastery, Gorean in blood and power? How little has your own world prepared you to comprehend such lamenta...	10
20	158	This heartened me, for Tasdron was quite skilled in the assessment of female slaves.	10
20	161	It seemed to me not impossible, upon reflection, that the voluptuous Shirley, put upon the block, exhibited by a skilled auctioneer, might bring the very fine sum of ten silver tarsks.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	940	From kaiilaback, riding beside the stampeded animal, however, the skilled hunter can kill one with a single arrow.	10
1	1110	A skilled warrior, in the Gorean gravity, can fire ten arrows into the air, the last leaving the bow before the first has returned to the earth.	10
19	495	They, each of them, are skilled warriors.	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	282	Each was an All Comrade; each was skilled; all had counted coup.	10
2	248	The red savage, particularly the males, will usually be a skilled rider by the age of seven.	10
5	213	In a few minutes it would be difficult for anyone but a skilled tracker, looking for broken stems, to determine that they had gone that way.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	73	He was skillful, and apparently a smith in such matters, perhaps a skilled specialist within his caste.	10
27	199	They are likely to be kinder to an unskilled girl zealous to please than a skilled one who permits her performances to lapse from standards of perfection.	10
33	344	I think that he, with the practiced eye of his profession, skilled in the close scrutiny and assessment of females, can render a judicious opinion as to whether or not she whom you brought to the house of Kliomenes, she whom you were guarding, is or is not in the room".	10
36	1453	"And I am a skilled feast slave.	10
36	1454	I am also skilled at weaving on a mill loom".	10

Book 20. (8 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	101	Secondly, she did not seem skilled in the handling of men.	10
5	240	It is not difficult for a skilled master, incidentally, to discriminate between such declarations which are genuine and those which are not, usually in virtue of incontrovertible body cues.	10
5	329	It is a useful arrangement in their training and, too, even a skilled, experienced girl, even one who is highly esteemed, is sometimes confined so, when it pleases the master to do so".	10
7	360	"Surely we are ruined! Surely we shall all starve! There are not two copper tarsks in the coin kettle! What hope is there these days for artists such as we! That the skilled and famous company of Boots Tarsk-Bit, actor, promoter and entrepreneur, that company whose performances are commanded by high...	10
9	224	"There are, of course, many other things you might do, simple work, heavy work, say, unsuitable for more skilled personnel".	10
12	89	Many Goreans are quite skilled in the game, and I had played with them.	10
12	565	"You have probably not played with skilled players," he said.	10
16	128	"How fortunate they are to be under the care of one so skilled and courageous, as well as wise," said Chino, adding, seemingly sotto voce, to Lecchio, "or so it would seem".	10

Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	183	Indeed, skilled and famous captains, ones noted for their military skill and profitable campaigns, must often close down their enlisting tables early in En'Kara.	10
16	1172	"They think themselves attractive and skilled, when they know little of attractiveness and almost nothing of skill".	10
18	210	"To be sure," I said, "a skilled, diligent slave is seldom beaten.	10
19	50	"In this camp," said Boabissia, "it seems unlikely that there could have been so skilled a thief".	10
19	74	"No thief so skilled, surely," said Boabissia, "would be with the refugees".	10
19	89	"I am free!" "It would not be impossible for a skilled thief to be with the refugees," I said.	10
25	725	"You are not yet sufficiently skilled, slave," said my hostess.	10
25	1567	I did not know how skilled the Lady Tutina was.	10
25	1568	I had known at least one fellow, Boots Tarsk-Bit, who was marvelously skilled at such things as misdirection and sleight of hand.	10
25	1590	I decided that she was not particularly skilled after all.	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	871	Gorean masters, or many of them, were skilled in reading women.	10
20	218	Many of them are skilled, or semiskilled, workers, and they can come and go as they please.	10
24	289	Too, I was a skilled dancer.	10
29	801	"I think he may be skilled".	10
29	908	He, too, was very skilled.	10
29	1590	Sempronius, probably more skilled, had been wounded.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	100	"He is very skilled at his work," said the warder to Lady Claudia.	10
17	58	Huntsmen are skilled in the stringing and weighting of such devices.	10
17	63	Slavers are skilled in setting girl snares, sometimes baited with trinkets.	10
18	445	"You will need skilled swordsmen," said the grizzled fellow, "preferably those of the scarlet tunic".	10
21	1294	How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a la...	10
21	1297	Accordingly the female slave, just as her free sister, is undeniably possessed of that same superb device of woman for winning her way, her subtle, skilled and lively tongue.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	877	Too, I was not unaware that in certain cases, as in that of Temione now, as she was not as yet really skilled, and was certainly untrained, the man himself might make a difference.	10
1	1285	To be sure, many of the men in this camp, both regulars and mercenaries, were skilled warriors, perhaps even trained to hunt men.	10
1	1290	There is one place, however, that even such skilled fellows are not likely to look, and that is with the search parties themselves.	10
19	127	Gorean men, incidentally, are skilled in the tying of women.	10
39	37	There was much skilled staff work in progress, the staffs often behaving in unison, circling about, changing hands, striking on the floor together, seeming to poke at the victim, to strike her and such.	10

Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	261	The Gorean slave girl seldom needs to fear that her master will not be fully familiar with, and skilled in, the handling, treatment and discipline of slaves.	10
3	613	For example, a skilled Kaissa player is sometimes greeted in such a manner.	10
11	320	They were skilled swordsmen," he said.	10
12	40	A skilled slave can drive a man mad at his feet.	10

Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	77	How skilled were they? Doubtless quite skilled.	10
6	69	Those of the house were skilled in what they were doing.	10
7	105	Similarly I was not versed in song, I was not skilled with lute or lyre, I did not even know the special dances of the gardens.	10
11	1610	It is not easy in a world such as this to deprive those who are skilled with weapons their share of authority.	10
16	170	Alas, I, so little trained in the art form, for an art form it is, was only too painfully aware of how far short my efforts must fall from those of a skilled performer.	10
16	606	Indeed, it is said that a skilled slaver can tell the difference between a free woman in the robes of concealment and a slave in them merely by having them walk about.	10
19	140	When I became clear on these things later I understood, to my uneasiness, how ruthless and powerful, and bold and skilled, how proud and dangerous, how particular, how touchy, how sensitive, how easily angered, how difficult to satisfy, the men of this city were.	10
19	494	The taverners might not like this, the time, indeed, perhaps the entire night, of a skilled soliciting slave being spent in service, but I did not think they would object.	10
23	68	Does a slave require to be humbled? Men such as those on this world are skilled in doing so.	10
24	965	But this was not surprising for the iron masters in such a place, of the caste of metal workers, are skilled.	10
34	7	I think they were both skilled.	10

Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	656	You can also steady it with one hand, and, if you become skilled, balance it on your head alone, without using your hands".	10
15	402	The skilled master can read a woman like a book.	10
16	1133	"I am Zara, if it pleases Master! I beg to be purchased! I am skilled! I can serve you well! Oh, buy me, Master! I beg to be permitted to serve you!" "Do not concern yourself with her, Master!" called out Lydia.	10
17	176	"Is accent so important, father?" "No," said his father, "particularly as some of these barbarians eventually become so fluent in Gorean, so skilled, that you could not detect, from their speech alone, that they were not native to our world".	10
24	99	Similarly reserved, but for less skilled dancers, were the gamma and delka circles.	10
25	951	Perhaps a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, perhaps high slaves, perhaps exquisitely, lengthily trained pleasure slaves, perhaps skilled dancers, perhaps such, but surely not she! Accordingly, instead of being excited and thrilled, she was apprehensive.	10
27	2651	Goreans, of all castes, are skilled at thonging, braceleting, binding and such.	10
27	2828	Fel Doron, and the third fellow, Loquatus, skilled with the crossbow, soon joined him.	10

Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1071	To the practiced, discriminating eye of the professional slaver, who is skilled in reading women, their beauty and their needs, it was clear she belonged in a slave collar.	10
26	15	"Those of your caste, as those of the Assassins, are skilled in such things.	10
26	131	"I am a skilled liar," said Peisistratus.	10
28	33	She was a skilled dancer.	10
30	91	"Incidentally," said he, "being skilled in slave acts, such as kissing the whip, has saved many a girl a beating".	10
48	20	"Should we not have kept them all?" asked a human, Archon, now skilled with the bow.	10
74	67	She was skilled, and danced well.	10
79	178	I trust this is not surprising, that hardy men, skilled with weapons, who often lived with peril, might have such concerns.	10
79	358	It was true the Earth girl was not skilled in slave dance, but it takes years to master its subtleties.	10
79	518	And doubtless millions of female slaves have been picked out for others, matched to others, to the best of the purchaser's ability, a slave who sings and recites, and plays the lyre, for a fellow who loves poetry and music, a skilled dancer for a fellow who is fond of dance, a brilliant, informed, e...	10
81	54	"Certainly," said Peisistratus, "we are skilled in the evaluation of slave stock, such as yourself.	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	219	Surely they now had less to fear from one of the greatest and most dangerous of the Kurii, Lord Agamemnon, an ambitious, skilled, determined, brilliant, gifted, implacable foe.	10
2	54	Obviously a skilled swordsman would have an advantage in such matters, which it would be inappropriate, and perhaps dishonorable, to press.	10
5	899	"This aroused suspicion, and, forced to speak, the foreignness of the accents of some of us, for not all were skilled in the intonations of Ar, unsheathed the swords of men of Ar".	10
5	1044	If Cos and Tyros had paid these men good coin for their work in Ar, as I supposed they had, they would be skilled.	10
8	266	He was not skilled with weapons, nor in woodcraft, as far as I knew.	10
10	408	A skilled dancer brings high prices.	10
10	412	"Are you skilled," asked Lord Nishida, "in the art of conversation?" "No," said Miss Wentworth, "and I do not understand the purport of these bizarre questions".	10
20	191	"You are skilled," I said.	10
22	30	Is it a way of speaking, an expression, a hesitation, a gesture, a turning of the head, a shyness, a glance, a subtle, revealing, furtive unwillingness to make eye contact when a certain word is spoken, what? There are a hundred subtle cues, readable by the experienced and skilled.	10
22	251	I would not, comfortably, have set Tajima against him, who was skilled, as I had determined in the dojo.	10
24	182	"You must be skilled".	10
26	239	"Do you truly think I can create darkness in the midst of day, that I can seize a woman and fly off with her, in a blazing light?" This sort of thing, of course, spoke to me of no ordinary matters, even of deception and smoke, such as might have been contrived by mountebanks skilled in illusions.	10
30	190	Therefore it is mercenaries, preferably those less skilled, who will have to be thinned".	10
30	201	Too, in this way the most skilled will survive".	10
32	11	Many others, drovers, tarnsters, skilled artisans, and such, were not permitted on the beach.	10
33	8	Did these things have to do with Priest-Kings or Kurii, each of which faction was skilled in utilizing humans as their instrumentalities? I wondered what kaissa was being played, and who were the gamesmen.	10

Book 30. (8 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	659	Should the tarnsman dismount he fights evenly with his foe, and the more skilled warrior is most likely to survive.	10
5	302	"I trust that he is skilled," I said.	10
9	406	Their final intention, in any case, I suspected, was to put together a formidable force as quickly as possible, a force of skilled and dangerous men, men free of certain indigenous and traditional loyalties, which, disciplined, and closely managed, might in unfamiliar, remote venues be well applied ...	10
16	228	Those whom the Pani had recruited were on the whole large, strong, agile, skilled men, many from the free companies, many from the occupation forces fugitive from Ar, and many, I fear, from amongst brigands and renegades.	10
19	176	She hopes to prove a suitable slave to him, attentive, humble, grateful, zealous, and skilled.	10
22	169	Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death.	10
25	11	A small group of skilled climbers, approaching at night, might have reached the foot of the walls, but it seemed that an ascent of the plateau by any large group, certainly undetected, would have been unlikely.	10
27	169	And I did not think that even his students, such as Pertinax and Tajima, the Pani tarnsman, understood the mystery of this unusually skilled, but enigmatic warrior.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	2030	"On your former world," said Astrinax, "one supposes you were adept in certain familiar female practices, commonly associated with free women, for example, that you were skilled in flattering males, in teasing them, manipulating them, playing on their feelings, raising their hopes, encouraging them ...	10
18	971	There were five free men with the wagons, Astrinax, who was much as our caravan master; Desmond, thought to be a Metal Worker, in whose care I was; Lykos, whom I supposed a mercenary; fierce, bearded Trachinos, clearly skilled with the gladius, at whose background I could scarcely guess; and his fel...	10
25	36	"Did Pausanias seem to you a skilled navigator, one who might read charts, lay out courses, determine positions by the stars?" "I would think not," said Astrinax.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	154	A skilled auctioneer is expensive.	10
6	209	Do we not acquire, and buy, and sell? What difference is there, other than the nature of the goods handled? "Slavers," said he, "are cunning, and skilled with weapons".	10
14	214	We not only did not like where we were and what we were doing, but we were at risk, as well, for no reason we understood, from the hostility of apparently numerous, formidable, skilled foes.	10
33	32	Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t...	10

Book 33. (13 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	174	It is skilled in the lore of the raid.	10
1	176	They are less skilled.	10
4	145	For his age he was an excellent swordsman, and was skilled, generally, in the martial arts of the Pani.	10
13	172	For the successful pursuit of this matter, of course, one required the services of a skilled reader.	10
15	5	"Why should I mind," I asked, "when I am accompanied by Lord Akio, a skilled warrior, who will protect me?" He shook the large, metal fan open.	10
23	14	"You are skilled in reading weather," I said.	10
25	335	I feared he would be an unlikely match for the dangerously skilled Tyrtaios, who, I was confident, was of the black caste, trained in tenacity and guile.	10
42	220	"Pertinax is strong, supple, agile, skilled and trained, a warrior and tarnsman, the possessor of a code".	10
44	10	"Would that I had a skilled and honest reader of bones and shells," said Lord Temmu.	10
46	119	"Skilled fellow!" cried a man.	10
47	177	"Or insufficiently skilled," said Lord Yamada.	10
59	263	It is difficult to touch, or cut, a skilled swordsman who is content with defense.	10
60	92	But Nodachi met this attack, and lived! Then Nodachi, commonly so skilled in stance, and ready in response, slipped in the soft sand.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	174	"You are then a shrewd judge of collar meat, a skilled appraiser of girl stock.	10
11	115	She was quite skilled.	10
14	46	Needless to say, the presence of such women, witty and skilled, much enlivens a dinner.	10
14	179	"She is not one of us! She is not trained! She is not skilled! Please, Masters, do not beat the rest of us, for her fault!" "Be quiet," said Lysander.	10
26	25	Given such considerations, and the consequent difficulty, frequently recognized, of obtaining justice, satisfaction, or vengeance, as the case may be, one can well understand the existence of an order of men, itinerant, independent, dedicated, armed, and skilled, for hire.	10
26	33	The original image of the elite mercenary, hired to do good and carry right into otherwise inaccessible precincts, supplying a needed service not otherwise available, became transformed into that of the contemporary black caste, an order of skilled, dangerous men particular about little else but the...	10
61	685	"Friends," he called, "humans, astute and wise, skilled and loyal, beloved allies, you did note how I intervened to save the life of your lord, the great Decius Albus, how I, at great personal risk, thrust him aside, away from the line of a quarrel's flight, just as he was about, boldly, at risk to ...	10
63	136	His hunters, skilled and patient, were often referred to as "the Sleen of Mintar".	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	453	Too, might not Gorean males be overly discriminating in such matters, and, familiar with the performances of skilled dancers, fail to be accepting of less skilled performances? The whip fell again on Daphne, as she crawled hurriedly from the floor.	10
30	100	What play, what declamation, what dance, what song, what song drama will be awarded a city's prize, a golden tripod and its sack of coins? Who is most skilled with the bow, the peasant bow or the riflelike crossbow, or the casting of darts or javelins? And races are popular, those of slaves, male an...	10
33	215	"He is undoubtedly skilled," said the man.	10
37	125	One does not expect the metal worker to be skilled at baking or the baker to be adept at metal work.	10
38	92	In some of the more extreme cases, the free woman cannot even dress herself, but requires the assistance of a skilled "woman's slave".	10

Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	145	How might one separate idle rumor from sober truth; how might one tell fact from fable, fear, and fancy? This had much to do with the technology laws of the Priest-Kings, who, it seemed, recognized the danger, both to themselves and other forms of life, of sharing a planet with human beings, bellige...	10
27	34	"Wheels are skilled at changing such feelings," said Clitus.	10
27	76	A skilled game master can, by sleight of hand, should he be so minded, remove the tarsk-bit from the cup and, if challenged, seem to retrieve it from beneath a different cup.	10
41	14	Wherein then did theory encounter fact to its disappointment? The tactic in question works best with well-constructed, well-tested equipment, utilized by experienced, muchly practiced engineers, or "gunners," in conjunction with skilled, well-trained, well-disciplined troops.	10
41	86	One council member, however, benign Tarchon, skilled with the lyre, advocated its acceptance on two grounds.	10
41	186	"I am not skilled in the ways of war," said Thrasymedes, "but does not this massing of engines suggest an imminent assault, a barrage of stones, softening resistance, to be followed by a massive attack, presumably with an attempt to scale walls?" "It certainly suggests that," I said.	10
41	257	"Tarchon, of the Council, is skilled with the instrument, and, when not engaged in defensive duties, often plays it".	10
44	28	"Yet," I said, "I would have more skilled archers, such as you and your caste brother and friend, Aktis".	10
48	102	"He was skilled at the lyre," I said.	10
53	153	"And he has many fighting men ready to do so," I said, "skilled soldiers, evacuated from Chios".	10
54	50	"Our lads are strong and skilled," said Clitus.	10
54	55	"Our lads," I said, "however strong and skilled, cannot match frequent shifts of oarsmen".	10
57	159	The helmsmen of the corsair ship were skilled.	10
60	18	In the hands of a strong, skilled man it is a formidable weapon.	10