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Spears

Book 1. (6 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	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
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
12	32	The men of Pa-Kur stamped their feet in the sand and clanged their spears on their shields.	10
17	63	They chanted a marching rhythm as they followed him, the sunlight on their spears.	10
18	30	At a word from the officer a hundred spears would have sought my heart.	10

Book 2. (19 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	179	Approaching across the meadow, ankle deep in the wet grass, were four warriors, helmeted and carrying spears and shields.	10
7	87	Then wrapping a cloak about two spears, and fastening it with binding fiber, they formed an improvised litter.	10
10	4	Yet the officer must have read defiance in my eyes because he signaled his men, and three spears dropped to threaten my breast.	10
10	22	In all likelihood three spears would have transfixed my body within my first few steps toward freedom.	10
10	40	I turned to regard them, and three spears dropped level with my chest.	10
10	43	I glanced once more at the spears, smiled grimly at the guardsman, turned and, lowering my head, entered the small door.	10
11	114	One or two of the warriors, heedless of the proprieties of Tharna, acknowledged my deed by smiting their shields with the bronze heads of their spears.	10
12	151	Through the door of the dungeon a yoked figure was thrust by the butt ends of two spears.	10
13	5	My back felt the jab of spears as I was prodded ahead and stumbled forward, unsteady under the weight of the yoke, my feet sinking to their ankles in the hot sand.	10
14	84	Warriors with spears rushed forward, forcing me back away from the tarn.	10
14	156	Some spears fell in lazy loops below us, short by far, falling back again into the gala-colored sand of the arena.	10
23	178	Some six shapes, gray, carrying spears and shields were moving rapidly in our direction.	10
23	180	Suddenly I saw the shields shift, facing us obliquely, and saw the right arms raise, spears high, with no change in the rapid pace of the men.	10
23	181	In another dozen steps the six spears would fly hurled from that swift even pace.	10
23	186	No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock.	10
23	202	Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole.	10
24	144	Many of them had cut longbows and many of them were armed with the spears and crossbows of fallen warriors.	10
25	2	Both of us cast our spears at the same instant and the two weapons passed one another like tawny blurs of lightning.	10
26	28	I myself had stood at the foot of the steps to the golden throne when Lara had commanded that the giant mask of gold which hung behind it be pried by spears from the wall and cast to the floor at our feet.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	100	It is thus that, should the spears miss their mark, he sacrifices his life for his companions who will, while the larl attacks him, make good their escape.	10
2	104	Whether this is because Gorean hunting tradition favors the weak, protecting him with the stronger spears, or tradition scorns the weak, regarding him as the most expendable member of the party, I do not know.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.	10
3	105	"But I am of the Caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these".	10
20	39	The roof of the tower, which might have been fortified with impaling spears and tarn wire, was now clear, to permit the descent of tarns and their riders.	10
26	113	"Strike him with your spears," screamed Saphrar from within the doorway.	10
26	151	Four spears, with bronze heads, suddenly burst across the passage, emerging from circular openings, their tips striking into other small openings across the passage.	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	29	The procession was led by four Warriors, who supported on their shoulders a framework of crossed spears, lashed together, on which, wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, lay the body.	10
1	31	Averting their eyes the Warriors threw back the scarlet leather that the body might lie free on the spears, open to the wind and sun.	10
19	13	Behind me, prodding me upon occasion with the butts of their spears, there walked two others.	10
20	324	He turned with a swirl of his cloak but found his way barred by two guards with spears.	10
21	270	I moved swiftly drawing one Warrior or another after me, and he who was swiftest died first; I turned and spun, accepting or not accepting an attack, always to isolate a man; vaguely, as though far off, I heard the screaming of Philemon in the Ubar's box, the shouting of Taurentians; in a moment's r...	10
21	296	The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ...	10
21	321	The crowd began to press against the spears of the Taurentians in the tiers, who, at the edge of the tiers, at the top of the wall overtopping the sand, resolutely held them back.	10
22	530	Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt...	10

Book 6. (25 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	54	Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor.	10
2	47	From the safety of the yards of marsh water separating me from my enemies I could have been immediately slain, lost in a thicket of the two- or three-pronged marsh spears.	10
3	6	It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...	10
3	10	In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...	10
3	13	Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...	10
3	62	There were various rence growers gathered about, the men with their marsh spears.	10
3	154	I felt the prongs of two marsh spears in my back.	10
3	245	I felt the prongs of marsh spears in my back.	10
4	68	You will be hunted down by the men with marsh spears.	10
5	85	The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another.	10
5	136	Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night.	10
6	23	We heard the shouts of men behind them, saw the movement of spears.	10
6	30	Behind us we heard trumpets, and the beating of spears on shields, the shouts of men.	10
6	37	"Stop! There are nets! Nets!" But most of those with us, heedless, fleeing the trumpets and beating of spears on shields, ran wildly toward the nets, which suddenly emerged before them, held by slaves.	10
6	39	Between their interstices, here and there, spears thrust, forcing back those who would tear at them.	10
6	63	I saw the nets on the two sides of the island had now advanced, the spears between their meshes herding terrified rencers before them.	10
6	91	I saw warriors of Port Kar rushing forward, clubbing him senseless with the pommels of their swords, the butts of their spears.	10
6	99	We turned and saw some four warriors, armed with nets and spears, running toward us.	10
6	198	In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island.	10
7	28	Guards, with spears, stood about the net, occasionally jabbing here and there, keeping the prisoners quiet.	10
7	38	About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies.	10
15	295	I sing the spears and walls of Ar of Glorious Ar.	10
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10
18	521	Standing even on the mantelets under the tarn wire, with spears and swords, we thrust at the tarnsmen dropping to the wire, letting go of the ropes to which they had clung.	10
18	595	We heard the men nearing us, on the other side of the wall, the scraping of swords and spears on the vertical stones of the keep.	10

Book 7. (18 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	213	Four of the others actually carried spears.	10
6	214	The spears were large, with curved bronze heads.	10
7	394	The wagon was flanked by perhaps forty warriors, with spears, twenty to a side.	10
7	503	Suddenly the guards leaped to their feet, seizing their spears.	10
7	508	I, and the other girls, crowded about, but the guards pushed us back with their spears.	10
8	68	Also forward on the barge was a slave cage, and two guards, with the sides of their spears, herded us onto the barge, across its planking and into the cage.	10
8	103	"Some call them the forest girls," said Ute, "others call them the panther girls, for they dress themselves in the teeth and skins of forest panthers, which they slay with their spears and bows".	10
8	171	They carried spears, and were helmeted.	10
8	745	How clever they thought they were! They were beasts, all of them! I suppose they were big, brave men, with their spears and swords, and if the beast charged at them, they would just stand there and kill it, while we, only women, fled like screaming children.	10
9	7	They stopped only long enough to lift aside some branches and take up the light spears, and bows and arrows, which they had hidden there.	10
9	103	The girls put down their spears, unslung the bows and quivers from their shoulders.	10
9	162	Most of them merely looked about, their spears ready.	10
12	144	How fearful they appeared, in skins, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, with their hunting spears.	10
13	537	The women and children carried sticks and switches, the men spears, flails, forks and clubs.	10
13	638	Turning my head to one side, I could see men with spears and flails, in peasant tunics.	10
14	230	Outside the entrance of the tent, squatting down, leaning on their spears, there were two guards.	10
14	680	Some of the warriors smote their shields with the blades of their spears.	10
14	721	Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields.	10

Book 8. (16 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	437	Suddenly, as one, they seized up their light spears, and, swaying, spears lifted, began to circle me.	10
2	47	Some carried bows, two carried spears.	10
8	100	I saw spears about, and bundles of arrows.	10
8	237	"Back!" At the gate there were four panther girls, thrusting with spears, held in their two hands, prodding us back.	10
9	307	Some of the panther girls, at the edge of the clearing, with their spears, stood restlessly, watching me.	10
9	455	None of the spears had struck me.	10
9	456	The girls cast aside the spears.	10
10	238	Then the girls, in coffle, were led away into the darkness, herded by the butts of spears.	10
14	28	Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack.	10
14	96	Panther girls, proud in their skins and gold, with their light spears, strode about.	10
14	115	He was beaten back, when he tried to rise, with the butts of spears.	10
14	147	How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo...	10
14	292	Vicious, sinuous, clawing, lithe, these savage beauties, in their skins and gold, with their knives, their light spears, weapons darting, danced.	10
15	718	There was already, though before dawn, a dim filtering of light in the forest, the false dawn, the inchoate, fractionated light preceding the true dawn, when Tor-tu-Gor, the common star of two worlds, would, as a Gorean poet once said, fling its straight, warming, undeflected spears of the morning a...	10
20	151	"Our spears, too, are gone!" cried another.	10
22	11	Others carried merely knives, or light spears, taken from Hura's panther girls.	10

Book 9. (22 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	118	"We need spears!" But there were few spears in the fear-maddened, terrified crowd of men cringing back from the beasts.	10
18	214	"Regroup! Spears to the second line!" A hedge of spears, projecting from the lines of men, men with axes between them, waited for Kurii, should they try to press their advantage.	10
2	286	Four huge men of Torvaldsland, in long cloaks, clasped about their necks, heads down, bearded, with braided hair, entered, bearing on their shoulders a platform of crossed spears.	10
2	298	Behind the platform of crossed spears, heads down, filed the crew of Forkbeard.	10
2	313	It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar.	10
2	321	The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears.	10
3	66	One of the spears which had formed the platform on which he had been carried, gaining entrance to Kassau and the temple, was handed to him.	10
7	331	Four spears were raised, but they did not strike.	10
13	38	Even those who sat commonly at the center tables, and were warriors, kept their shields and spears at the wall.	10
13	308	From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl.	10
14	117	"Spears!" cried Ivar.	10
14	119	What spears there were could not be thrown because of the press.	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
16	234	He selected two spears, handing me one.	10
17	232	Swords were withdrawn from scabbards; arrows were fitted to the string, spears more firmly gripped.	10
18	114	Spears fell among the determined Kurii.	10
18	392	They were beating it back and forth between them with the butts of spears.	10
18	395	Prodded by spears it rolled over.	10
18	524	Thorgard of Scagnar, raiment torn, bloodied, a broken spear shaft bound behind his back and before his arms, his wrists pulled forward, held at the sides of his rib cage, fastened by a rope across his belly, herded by men with spears, stumbled forward.	10
19	1	The Note The Kur came that night, the night of the battle, in the light of torches, ringed by men with spears.	10
19	22	Spears were lowered.	10
21	74	Many were the lamps, bowls on spears, which burned, and torches, too.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	At the corners of the room, helmeted, with spears, stood men-at-arms.	10
1	582	Then he pointed the eating prong at the leather-harnessed American girl, on the tiles to our right, naked, two guards with spears at her side.	10
1	583	The heavy butts of their spears rested, one to each side of her.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	153	They had covered the area thoroughly, even turning aside long grass with the blades of their spears.	10
3	12	Spears were stacked to one side, and shields lay about against the sheltering, enclosing cliffs.	10
12	145	More warriors, eight men from the keep, followed, bearing spears.	10
19	21	Two guards, helmeted, with spears, stood at that door.	10
19	22	There were shields and crossed spears on either side of the door.	10
21	67	I saw guardsmen hurrying by, with shields and spears.	10

Book 12. (12 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	67	The girl tried to step forward but the shafts of two spears, wielded by her flanking guardsmen, barred her way.	10
2	76	She again tried to step forward but this time the points of the guards' spears prevented her.	10
2	79	The points of the spears had gone through the cloth, and she felt them in her flesh.	10
2	150	Again the points of the two spears pressed against her abdomen.	10
4	440	Soldiers of Cos lifted spears again and again.	10
5	95	The two guards, their spears crossed, barred my way.	10
5	112	I turned and seized the crossed spears of the guards, twisting and pulling them toward me, flinging them, they surprised, not swiftly enough releasing the weapons, to the tiles.	10
5	114	I slipped through the door and, with one of the spears, which I had retained, sliding the shaft through the great handles, closed the door.	10
6	564	The large upright tharlarion, or war tharlarion, are guided by voice commands and the blows of spears.	10
8	21	I was dragged to my knees and struck with the butts of spears.	10
9	188	He was struck to his knees by the blows of spears.	10
10	314	We had then four swords, and two spears.	10

Book 13. (38 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
11	169	They carried high, oval shields, and short, long-bladed stabbing spears.	10
11	181	They put aside their shields and short spears and, hauling on the rope, jerked the blond-haired barbarian to her feet.	10
11	326	I faced the short, stabbing spears of the two huge blacks.	10
11	333	Slowly, watching the points of the two stabbing spears, I drew forth the two letters.	10
12	32	I glanced uneasily at the two large fellows, those with the shields and stabbing spears, who stood near us.	10
16	127	They threw their spears and then fled.	10
16	218	The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears.	10
16	232	The askaris pointed their spears at him, and turned to us, and shouted.	10
19	44	I turned to leave the room, but, at the door, I was met with the leveled stabbing spears of several askaris.	10
19	115	Two askaris drew back the short stabbing spears to drive them into my chest.	10
19	117	They lowered the stabbing spears.	10
20	138	They struck both of us with the handles of their stabbing spears.	10
22	29	Dig now, or we will be beaten with the handles of spears".	10
23	36	Like most askaris they carried long, tufted shields and short stabbing spears.	10
23	110	"Meet me with spears," said Kisu.	10
23	354	Nervously I saw that there were several askaris about, more than I had originally realized, some twenty of them, with their shields and stabbing spears.	10
24	20	Concealed by a thin layer of mud on the raft were two shields and two stabbing spears, which Kisu and I had taken from the two askaris we had subdued on the platform of Tende.	10
24	69	Kisu tore at the mud, scratching for one of the shields and stabbing spears.	10
32	400	The spears of guards, lowered, to her dismay, suddenly block her way.	10
39	3	In these two other villages the men, with shields and spears, had rushed out to the shore to threaten us.	10
39	21	Streaming out from behind them, brandishing spears and shields, knives and pangas, crying out, plunging toward us in the water, were dozens of men.	10
39	22	Spears splashed in the water about us, bobbing under, then floating.	10
44	3	I stood on the shore, with one of the raider's spears in my hand.	10
44	69	They carried spears and nets.	10
44	101	As soon as it had turned in my direction, away from the girl, the small men, howling and shrieking, began to hurl their small spears into its body.	10
44	140	They had hurled their spears into the beast and had, helping me, distracted it in its ferocities.	10
44	230	"They have spears and knives".	10
46	30	Many of the little men leaped up and down, brandishing their spears and singing.	10
47	54	This morning, early, the small men, with their nets and spears, had killed a small tarsk.	10
47	67	We had further encouraged the column during the day with additional blood and flesh, taken from further kills made by the small men with their nets and spears.	10
47	87	Men were irrationally thrusting at the ground with spears.	10
50	10	Here and there, emerging from the lake, were great stone figures, the torsos and heads of men, shields upon their arms, spears grasped in their hands.	10
50	39	At places, and flanking the huge building at the top of the flights of stairs, were more of the huge figures of warriors, with shields and spears.	10
50	62	Kisu struck Turgus between the shoulder blades with the butt of one of the spears.	10
53	20	Before being allowed to approach him closely Shaba's men, ringing me with spears, placed me in manacles, locking my hands behind my back.	10
53	316	The oval leather shields and the stabbing spears of the askaris might have been an ideal armament for invincibility in tribal warfare but they afforded little in the way of martial equity when compared to the weighty, slashing pangas of the Kurii.	10
56	12	Small leather strips customarily sheath the blades of the spears of Ukungu.	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	55	To one side, behind Gron, and to the back, stood four carrying slaves, large, brawny, collared men, two of whom held the poles, like spears, butt down, on the tiles.	10
10	49	This entrance was protected by two guardsmen, armed with spears and swords.	10
12	82	In the back of the tiers I saw two guards, with spears, go to the top of one of the aisles, whence they might descend quickly into the tiers if it should be necessary.	10
13	122	The huge war tharlarion are commonly guided by voice signals and the blows of spears on the face and neck.	10
13	281	On their right shoulders they bore spears, with long, bronze, tapering blades.	10
13	284	Behind the right shoulder, slung on the shaft of the spears, were light packs.	10
18	166	These are usually larger and more agile beasts than common saddle tharlarion and are smaller, of course, than either draft tharlarion or war tharlarion, the latter used almost exclusively in the tharlarion cavalries of Gor, huge, upright beasts, several tons in weight, guided by voice commands and t...	10
21	127	That is a situation in which many spears may mix the brew".	10
21	145	We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	68	Different length spears are held by different ranks, the longer spears by the more rearward ranks.	10

Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	203	Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering.	10
5	204	Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov...	10
6	119	Even soldiers of Ar, at our benches, crying out, seized up shields and bucklers, and smote them with the blades of spears and the flats of swords.	10
7	60	By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble.	10
16	16	But a moment later the charging citizens, like thundering, horned kailiauk, like uncontrolled, maddened, stampeding bosk, pikes and spears leveled, chains flailing, swords flashing, boat hooks, and axes and shovels upraised, struck the dumbfounded, disarrayed throngs of astonished buccaneers.	10
16	23	Spears thrust.	10
16	31	Still more citizens were running forth, from buildings, from further down the wharves, with spears and swords.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	196	In climbing to the platform, and in traversing it, the guards with us, who had now remained outside, had, with the butts of their spears, prodded more than one sinuous tharlarion from the boards, the creature then plunging angrily, hissing, into the marsh.	10

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	19	Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" This was the one case which I remembered the most clearly.	10
4	145	The guards, flanking the palanquin on both sides, pressed them back with the sides of spears.	10
9	86	I could see a double line of guardsmen, with shields and spears, exiting through the gates.	10
17	299	Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" But I could not run now.	10
30	126	Then I was stopped, crossed spears before me.	10
33	270	"As the reports have it," said Miles, "you were marched naked from the city, before the spears of guards, a sign about your neck, proclaiming you a fraud".	10
33	674	Surely Goreans, with their swords and spears, by themselves, could not have resisted them.	10

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	913	They poked it with spears.	10
13	196	I saw soldiers now, warily, with leveled crossbows, and with spears, approaching the creature.	10
14	22	We were prodded with the points of spears through a heavy wooden door.	10
14	146	Outside the entrance to the cubicle of the bathing cisterns, before being prodded within by the spears of our keepers, Nim Nim and I had been forced to strip.	10
20	209	"Level your spears.	10
20	245	In an instant it was under, and among, the spears, tearing and slashing.	10
20	362	The beast seized at spears, slapping them away, seizing some, breaking them, taking others, perhaps a dozen, in its body.	10
20	366	Men swarmed about it, thrusting with their spears, some hacking downward with their swords.	10
20	380	Suddenly, from the midst of those bodies, howling, the Kur, spears in its body, thrust upward clawing and raging like some force of nature.	10
20	383	Again men charged, with spears and swords.	10
20	399	Spears and swords struck at it, again and again.	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	205	The common Gorean defense against tharlarion attack, if it must be met on open ground, is the stationary, defensive square, defended by braced spears.	10
3	218	Spears and shields were cast away that men might flee the more rapidly.	10
15	227	This is usually formed of three spears, two upright and the third bound horizontally across the first two.	10
15	233	Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads.	10
29	101	Too, none of the men had lowered their spears or drawn their weapons.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	118	"It was a world of tides and gods, of spears and Caesars, of games, and wreaths of laurel, of the clash, detectable for miles, of phalanxes, of the marchings of legions, in measured stride, of the long roads and the fortified camps, of the coming and going of the oared ships, of the pourings of offe...	10
17	119	To one side there was a sculptured group, perhaps celebrating some triumph or victory, of five heroic male figures, with shields, helmets and spears, and at their feet, amidst apparent spoils, perhaps captives, or slaves, kneeling, two nude female figures.	10
26	8	It had been, I suppose, a joke, that we must wait to see if we were to be struck, trampled or impaled on their spears.	10
29	782	"It is unfortunate we do not have spears with us".	10

Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	172	I gestured to the bearers of his litter, who lifted it, the two fellows with the spears thrust through the net, Aemilianus on the net between the spears.	10
16	521	Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging...	10
17	641	Spears tried to force the rock from its position.	10
18	100	Two spears were thrust through the net, about two feet apart, and Aemilianus was placed on it.	10
18	205	He had hardly spoken when the interior gate, leading out to the landing, swung inward, and a stream of Cosians waiting within, a moment later, helmeted, with shields, thrusting with spears, slashing with swords, pressed out against the defenders.	10
18	227	Some, reaching the crenelation again, were struck back by the jabbing spears of their own men, screaming at them.	10
19	215	"Together now, gently fellows, spears down.	10
19	246	"Lower spears," said the officer to his men.	10

Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	10	Men thrust it away with the butts of their spears.	10
10	37	"Now they have it confused, with fire and spears," reported the man, standing beside me.	10
10	69	Men rushed forward, with torches, and spears.	10
13	240	"People of scaling knives, of throwing sticks, and fish spears!" laughed a fellow.	10
14	225	Sometimes, too, animals desired for the arena are hunted in this fashion, usually to be driven, at last, by fire and spears into nets or cages.	10
14	244	Men were hurrying about with torches, with spears, striking at tharlarion.	10
14	247	Nearby several men were thrusting spears into the body of a huge tharlarion.	10
28	115	"The Cosians say the laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos," said a fellow.	10
29	16	On either side of us were two fellows, Plenius and Titus, with spears.	10
29	43	Both spears thrust forth simultaneously and suddenly the great dark body, some seven feet Gorean in length, reared up, tail thrashing, body twisting, out of the water.	10
29	48	Then two other fellows, with spears, too, waded into the water.	10
29	52	One of the spears in its body snapped.	10
29	54	One other we had lost offshore, it freeing itself of the spears and swimming back through the rence, leaving behind it a trail of blood in the water.	10
29	55	We then had it, now at least five spears in its body, other fellows having come to assist, up on the sand.	10
29	202	I took one of the spears from a fellow nearby and thrust the butt end into the mouth of the shark.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	86	Other men rushed out to fall upon the former regent with blows but Taurentians swiftly, with proddings and blows of their spears, drove them back.	10
7	142	Several men broke out, into the street, where Taurentians, with spears held across their bodies, struggled to restrain them.	10
7	175	Taurentians braced themselves and pressed back against the crowd with the shafts of their spears.	10
7	390	Some of the men tied them on their spears.	10
10	91	Some twenty men, stripped, in heavy metal collars, these linked by heavy chains, their hands behind their backs, presumably manacled, prodded now and then by the butts of guards' spears, were approaching.	10
11	232	"And it is a mark of the old Ar, the Ar I knew in war, the Ar of spears and standards, of rides and marches, of dust and trumpets, of tarns and tharlarion, the Ar of imperialism, of glory, of valor, and pride.	10
21	114	Two followed, with spears.	10
28	90	But even so, how odd, I thought, that those who did not wade in the delta, facing the arrows of rencers, the spears of Cos, the teeth of tharlarion, should profess their superiority over those who did, indeed, by their work and service sheltering and protecting those who, obedient to the subtleties ...	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	2	Shafts of sunlight, like golden spears, fell through the high, narrow windows, illuminating the scarlet circle before the high desk.	10
37	28	Sometimes it takes ten spears to kill one.	10

Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	82	Immediately the soldiers began to ransack the loft area, casting saddles and harnesses about, pulling down tarn baskets, emptying boxes, stirring, and probing, thrusting about, beneath straw with their spears.	10
19	201	"The laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos," said the officer.	10
19	393	"Assist Selius," said Portus, looking about, as though he feared to hear at any moment the cries of men and the rushing of footsteps on the stairs, the rude, insistent smiting of spears against the inner door.	10
25	275	"One does not question the spears of Cos".	10
27	386	"Free the spears," said Portus Canio.	10
27	387	Two spears, suspended in slings at the sides of the wagon, were drawn free.	10
27	446	You two with spears defend the bowmen while they prepare their bows for a second flight".	10
27	1696	Some had spears and some shields.	10
27	1708	Motioned by swords and spears the three surviving beasts were herded, shambling, blinking, seemingly docile, toward the wagon.	10
27	2324	Spears were ready for the thrust.	10
27	3193	A litter was rigged of canvas wrapped about two spears.	10

Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
74	19	He was familiar with martial dances from Gor, of course, which are used not simply for public displays, and such, but in the training of infantry, the turns, advances, withdrawals, the liftings and lowerings of spears, the rhythmic clash of blades on shields, the stamping of feet, the glittering of ...	10
13	17	They carried pointed sticks, some sharpened as spears, others as shorter, stabbing weapons.	10
14	4	Cabot was pleased to have survived his encounter with the group, but he placed little confidence in their sharpened sticks against the spears, the nets, and the edged weapons of Kurii.	10
17	25	In moments, four Kurii were dead, and there was not one other that was not bloodied, and the six remaining Kurii, snarling, and tearing and biting, and sweeping about them with their spears, broke through the opening, and the massed humans, to the forest beyond.	10
18	274	There was suddenly a flash of darkness to Cabot's left, and a sharp, sliding, grating sound, as one of the great spears struck against a projecting outcropping, and was then arrested, snapped in two, by the wall behind him.	10
19	13	Two Kurii, other than the hunters, had been penetrated by spears, with which the hunters had been armed.	10
26	88	"For use on Gor, of course," said Peisistratus, "to be used there, that we not attract the attention of Priest-Kings nor seem to violate their laws, crossbows, blades, javelins, spears, and such".	10
48	23	The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont...	10
74	20	On level ground nothing could stand against the weight of a thousand spears, of different lengths, bristling before the advance, rushed forward with the weight of a thousand running, screaming men behind them.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	22	The Pyrrhic dances were used primarily as training exercises, but also figured in parades and martial displays, men shouting, spears clashing rhythmically on shields, the spear hedge rising and falling, wheeling about, a thousand spears in unison, this all to music.	10
5	471	"These swelled the ranks of the spears of the island ubarates," said a fellow.	10
5	676	"Men who would die for her?" "None would stand by her," said a fellow, "once she no longer stood within the palisade of foreign spears".	10
17	2	The heavy shields and mighty spears borne by them would alone far outweigh the armament and accouterments of my men.	10
20	55	If a general melee was in store, involving close fighting with several men, taking and giving ground, even a frightened, bounding kaiila might suffer, terrified in the rush of men, the shouts, the movement of blades, the fending of strokes, the thrust of spears, the slashing of glaives, the flight o...	10
38	31	Catapult stones, too, were brought aboard, in hundreds, and "heavy arrows," almost spears, which might be sped either singly, as from ballistae, or, from a springal, in showers, their flight propelled by a single fierce blow, that from a horizontal spring-driven board.	10
40	13	And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle.	10
40	170	On the shores of the river, to the left and right, we saw hundreds, perhaps thousands of spears raised.	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	196	Is the way of war not the way of men? Surely her spears were matched ever with spears, her blades with blades.	10
1	324	Talena, smug with the spears of invaders behind her, sat regally upon her father's throne, and abused her power wickedly, using it to further reduce and diminish her city, and avenged herself rampantly, as she wished, upon numerous enemies, or putative enemies, or on anyone she might wish, as the hu...	10
2	55	I became an itinerant laborer, concealing that I had once held rank amongst the spears of Cos.	10
3	175	During the course of the uprising, the restoration, even in the midst of fighting, angry crowds had sought out traitors and collaborators, and brought them, bound and screaming, to improvised impaling spears.	10
4	191	"The laws of Cos," I said, "march with the spears of Cos".	10
9	135	Most of the weaponry, spears, swords, crossbows, longbows, javelins, glaves, maces, axes, Anango darts, gauntlet hatchets, edged battle weights, bladed chains, and such, was gone.	10
9	136	Some of the bows and spears, ax hafts, and such, had been broken, or splintered.	10
10	112	Many soldiers were on board, with ropes fastened to spears.	10
16	105	I heard weapons being spilled on the deck, brought from below, and men seized up blades, spears, axes, and pikes.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	7	On the other hand, I have here seen disputes resolved with blades, fleet tabuk felled with arrows, men confronting larls with no more than spears.	10
3	20	They have powers far beyond your keenest steel, your sharpest spears, your swiftest arrows.	10
23	12	In the third wagon there had been some weaponry, some spears, two swords, a crossbow with a dozen quarrels.	10
23	179	He had one of the two spears tied across his pack.	10
33	123	The guards uneasily drew back their spears, and stepped aside.	10
33	135	They would have been more at ease had they kept their spears at the ready, drawn back, in the two-handed thrusting position.	10
38	3	They carried improvised shields of nailed wood and spears.	10
45	42	Here and there there were spears of stone.	10
46	24	Almost at the same time another pair of Kurii, for the guard is doubled after dark, joined them, these carrying spears.	10
46	27	The two with spears brandished their weapons and stepped threateningly toward the larl, but did not, I noted, much leave the vicinity of the threshold.	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	91	Hundreds of impaling spears were adorned with writhing victims.	10
6	105	But beyond the influx of refugees, more streaming in each day, the crowding, the begging, the closing of hiring tables, the raiding of garbage troughs, the sleeping in cold, damp, dangerous streets, the discordant accounts of doings to the south and east, the racing about of rumors, it was clear tha...	10
8	391	Some carried spears on their shoulders, and others crossbows.	10
20	178	"And the objects of war," said another, "timbers, hurling stones, cordage, jars of pitch, finned darts, spears, glaives, javelins, varieties of blades, masses of shields, bucklers, wrappings in which are bound a thousand arrows".	10
29	62	They carried light spears.	10
29	138	Three Panther Women, carrying their spears, approached.	10
38	4	We were ringed with spears.	10
38	59	"You have the spears," said Axel.	10
38	64	I counted four more of the newcomers, also armed with spears.	10
38	144	Spears pressed against Axel's tensed body.	10
38	252	Two raised their spears, a common signal of readiness before an engagement.	10
39	502	It seemed they could not move quickly enough to regain the camp, perhaps the protection of the men's spears.	10
40	131	They were accompanied by Donna, with her switch, and two men, with spears.	10
43	721	He bore two light hunting spears, and two belts, with swords and daggers, presumably those of Axel and myself.	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	228	"The laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos".	10
61	732	"To the extent permitted by the spears of Cos, and her allies".	10

Book 34. (18 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	141	It is men who carry spears and maintain walls; it is men who encounter the violence of the enemy; it is men who stand, armed and resolute, between the Home Stone and its desecration or destruction; it is men, the masters, who will decide what respect and privileges will be accorded women.	10
26	22	A saying I have heard seems germane here, "the laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos".	10
51	1	Crossed spears barred our way.	10
51	14	The spears were pulled away, and Kurik and I proceeded down the hall.	10
54	124	It is almost certain to fall within the perimeters of permissible weaponry, knives, swords, pikes, spears, staffs, axes, and such, and most likely axes, for Kurii, like the men of Torvaldsland, are fond of the ax".	10
60	195	Two of the soldiers present grasped their spears more firmly.	10
61	72	"We will spare her the death of teeth or spears.	10
61	284	Some reached the soldiers, and a Kur, threatened by a forest of spears, would turn away, seeking other prey.	10
61	310	"Turn your spears toward them.	10
61	337	Some held Kurii at bay with leveled spears.	10
61	422	I trusted they would not think that I had been weak, foolish, or stupid, or incredibly naive, that I had essayed an escape, or perhaps they merely thought that I had simply lost my head and fled, that I had hoped, absurdly, to make my way unscathed between the spears.	10
61	490	Test the might of your single ax against twenty spears, from twenty sides!" I saw men encircling us.	10
61	502	I saw the eyes of the soldiers about us, but feet away, eyes narrowed, watchful, alit within the apertures of those fierce-seeming helmets, the openings so like a "Y" in shape, the lowered spears, the points threatening us, moving slightly, like the heads of a ring of osts.	10
61	683	Our happy allies, the loyal servitors of the noble Decius Albus, with a hundred spears, will thrust aside any impediment to your hunt".	10
61	793	Spears were leveled, swords grasped more securely.	10
61	799	"Put up your spears, lower your swords.	10
61	831	"Kurii may be wary of my parasol," she said, "and we must consider the blows of two axes, the quarrels of a crossbow, the swords and spears of several fellows who would rather get their hands on kajirae than feed them to monsters, and so on".	10
65	237	"Reluctant as I am to interfere in the activities of men, riddling bodies with quarrels, lopping off arms and heads, stabbing with knives and spears, splashing blood about, and such," she said, "such activities are, I gather, most enjoyable when properly motivated".	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	138	One shop dealt with weapons of various sorts, swords, daggers, balanced throwing knives, spears, darts, javelins, and such.	10
42	84	Climbers, struggling upward, must risk darting spears and descending axes.	10
42	99	"Do not let your bodies rot for months on impaling spears, raised on the walls of the city, a warning to others, a testimony to the displeasure of the Men of Port Kar!" Amongst these voices I recognized that of Florian, and perhaps of Miles, and surely others.	10

Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	130	"Regulars of Cos are spearmen," said Aktis, "veterans of the defense and attack of two spears, long spears and casting spears, masters of the fence of death, stalwarts whose lines of braced spears deter even tharlarion.	10
20	131	I see no spears, long spears, or casting spears.	10
2	6	"This is not Cos," I said, "though the weight of the spears of Cos are felt here".	10
19	146	"The laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos," said Thurnock.	10
33	78	"However," I said, "in your safe, uncontested passage to the sea, generously allowed to you, you may bear no arms, either offensive or defensive, no swords, no spears, no knives or axes, no shields, no helmets, no bucklers, or such".	10
42	11	In the vicinity, awaiting my signal, were some three hundred men, mostly citizens of Mytilene, armed with pikes, knives, spears, stones, axes, hammers, chains, and clubs.	10
50	14	"Spears and shields! Arm your bows and slings! Release the vulos".	10
51	69	Sunlight was reflected from helmets, from the metal bosses of rounded shields, from the blades of spears.	10
51	146	The second longboat was now amongst the floating debris, but four mercenaries, with spears, were thrusting at those trying to clamber aboard.	10
51	149	We watched a few men drawn aboard, while others were repelled at the point of bloody spears.	10
51	159	It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore.	10
60	29	They hold them like they were spears.	10