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Book 28. (265 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	104	"Lord Statius?" asked Statius.	10
47	139	Cabot saw loops of gut loose amongst the beating wings, and Statius' foe, striking Statius' jaws away from his shoulder with a mighty blow, turned about, erratically, and tried to strike away.	10
61	72	"So," smiled Lord Grendel, to Cabot, and Statius, who was of late, from a conversation the reader may recall, one in which an ally, or friend, figured, now well apprised of their suspicions with respect to a certain member of their company, "shall we cast away the war?" "Do as Flavion urges," said S...	10
44	1	The Insurrection is not yet Quelled; A Kur Female is Encountered; Statius The world itself shook, and then shook, again.	10
44	298	This cannot be rendered into English or Gorean, so we will choose a name, one not unknown on Gor, Statius.	10
44	304	The three males were followed by Statius' bound female, on her leash.	10
46	49	"The nondominants," said Statius, "are weak, and useless.	10
46	51	"Were you not once a nondominant?" asked a Kur of Statius.	10
46	52	"Once," said Statius.	10
46	169	"Two possibilities suggest themselves," said Statius, he who had once been a nondominant.	10
46	172	"Of course," said Statius.	10
46	176	"The other possibility," said Statius, "is far more dangerous.	10
46	179	"Yes," said Statius.	10
46	183	"It is solid steel, feet thick," said Statius.	10
46	188	"Something similar," said Statius.	10
47	68	At that point Statius alighted on the ledge.	10
47	71	"The arsenal seemed open, even unguarded," said Statius.	10
47	88	"You have a bow, arrows," said Cabot, to Statius.	10
47	89	"Few of the birds of death are left," said Statius.	10
47	99	"We shall flight against these," said Statius, "and meet them Kur to Kur, tooth to tooth, claw to claw".	10
47	102	Lord Statius, give me your bow, your quiver.	10
47	108	He took the bow from Statius, and the quiver, and grasped four arrows and the bow in his left hand, and set an arrow to the string.	10
47	113	"Do not activate your translator," said Lord Grendel to Statius.	10
47	114	And so Lords Grendel and Statius stood, seemingly convinced that further flight was futile, wings spread, in the great threshold of the barren arsenal.	10
47	115	As the translators were not activated Cabot could only conjecture the exact nature of the exchanges between the purple scarves, of which there were ten, and Lords Grendel and Statius.	10
47	121	Cabot heard the clawed feet of a purple scarf touch the ledge, and then, rather as the two leaves of a mighty gate might swing open, outwardly, the left wing of Lord Grendel, and the right wing of Lord Statius, swung toward their bodies, and Cabot released the first shaft, point-blank, through the c...	10
47	122	At the same time Lords Grendel and Statius pushed from the ledge and with a blow of the wide canvas wings were each entangled with a foe.	10
47	126	Statius and his foe grappled, spinning in the atmosphere.	10
47	136	Statius, his teeth fastened in the shoulder of his howling foe, brought up his hind legs, ripping and gouging, tearing, digging, within his foe's belly, a reflex perhaps genetically coded in long-vanished, unspeeched ancestors of the modern Kur, ancestors not yet Kurii.	10
47	140	Cabot saw fur and meat in Statius' jaws.	10
47	155	Another, he who had fled, he muchly eviscerated by Statius, had died within moments.	10
47	163	Then he spoke to Statius.	10
47	166	Statius, not questioning Lord Grendel, slipped his harness, and moved the weapons to the two Kurii.	10
47	190	"They were waiting for us at the arsenal," said Statius.	10
47	196	"Even we ourselves," said Statius, "regarded our attack as little more than an act of desperation, if not of madness.	10
47	200	"How would he have known where to lay it, and when?" asked Statius.	10
47	202	"The Lady Bina," said Statius, "fled the camp, days ago".	10
47	205	"She had overheard our plans," said Statius.	10
47	208	Was she not chained at night?" "She slipped away from the camp master, before her chaining, perhaps with the assistance of a confederate," said Statius.	10
47	211	"Certainly," said Statius.	10
47	217	"In all its deadliness," said Statius.	10
47	220	"We will have her blood," said Statius.	10
47	224	"If we do," said Statius, "it will be the privilege of Lord Grendel to gouge out and roast the first ounce of her flesh, to be eaten before her eyes".	10
47	227	"She is guilty," said Statius.	10
47	229	"Then, dear friend," said Statius, "you will die with her".	10
47	231	"Why do you say that?" asked Statius.	10
47	234	"Perhaps," said Statius, "when, at the side of Agamemnon, in regalia, a tiara upon her brow, she presides over a thousand executions, those of our fellows, Kur and human, you might be convinced".	10
47	236	"Do you love her?" asked Statius.	10
47	240	"Who?" asked Statius.	10
47	242	"Lord Grendel?" said Statius.	10
47	244	"The evidence, the incidents, the circumstances, a thousand details, are incontrovertible," said Statius.	10
47	247	"My dear Statius, will you gather the weapons".	10
47	248	"Yes," said Statius.	10
48	17	These were the weapons which had been acquired by Lords Grendel and Statius, and the human, Tarl Cabot, in the vicinity of the far pole, that beyond the small villages.	10
51	2	Peisistratus had been left in charge of the humans in the camp of Lord Grendel's band, and Statius, who had once been no more than a despised nondominant, had been deputized to command the Kurii of the camp, and, as he was Kur, was sovereign in the camp.	10
51	176	"Statius and others," said Cabot, "want her blood".	10
53	6	"Ho!" said Statius, rushing forward.	10
53	9	"Excellent," said Statius.	10
53	21	Statius' Kur female crouched behind him, in his shadow.	10
53	34	"It seems," said Statius, "she does not know what it is to be a slave".	10
53	56	"It seems she does not understand her bondage," said Statius.	10
53	72	"Four days ago," said Statius.	10
53	90	"It was of gold, was it not?" said Statius.	10
54	1	There is Converse in a Rebel Camp "Dear Cabot," said Statius, "I find the actions of humans mysterious.	10
54	4	"You left the camp this morning," said Statius, "with a haunch of tarsk, and you returned without it.	10
54	7	"And was this experiment successful?" inquired Statius.	10
54	9	"May I inquire into the nature of this experiment?" asked Statius.	10
54	11	"No," said Statius.	10
54	14	"I have heard so," said Statius.	10
54	16	"I have heard so," said Statius.	10
54	18	"It would seem so," said Statius.	10
54	20	"True," said Statius.	10
54	22	"And perhaps they require some explanation?" "Coincidence," said Statius, "oddities, random fortuities.	10
54	25	"Certainly," said Statius, "and stick gambling, and pebble gambling, and so on.	10
54	28	Say, it turned up a hundred times, a thousand times, would you not find this surprising?" "Surely," said Statius.	10
54	29	"Would you deem it a remarkable fortuity?" "I would want to see the coin," said Statius.	10
54	34	His greeting was returned by Statius and his human ally, Tarl Cabot.	10
54	53	"True," said Statius.	10
54	62	"Good Flavion," said Statius.	10
54	64	Lord Grendel then, accompanied by Statius, turned about, to attend to other concerns.	10
54	80	"I have seen the female of Statius humbly grooming him, as well," said Flavion.	10
54	83	"Statius does not think so," said Cabot.	10
55	30	A moment afterward Statius' head, as well, lifted, ears erected, and turned similarly.	10
55	59	"What are they doing in the tunnel?" said Statius.	10
55	64	"Perhaps they are hunting cattle humans," said Statius.	10
55	67	"Not us, surely," said Statius.	10
55	79	"See how they turn them," said Statius, "and mill them, and they do not know what to do or how to move".	10
55	82	"They are crying out, in fear, and in misery," said Statius.	10
55	84	"We can," said Statius.	10
55	112	"Those below," said Statius, "may be held in common, but, too, they might be individually marked, that one know their owner".	10
55	114	"It must be much easier to be a slave in civilization than otherwise," said Statius.	10
55	118	"I do not understand," said Statius.	10
55	120	"They are attractive," said Statius.	10
55	122	"I see," said Statius.	10
55	124	"Marked?" said Statius.	10
55	127	"Still, is their slavery not easier in a civilization than in a rude culture?" asked Statius.	10
55	134	"I see," said Statius.	10
55	147	"I can see," said Statius, "where the slave in a civilization is more helplessly and inalterably a slave than one in a simpler, ruder, more primitive situation, but, still, would their lives not be easier?" Lord Grendel snorted, a derisive Kur laugh.	10
55	148	"Lord Grendel?" said Statius.	10
55	150	"I see," said Statius.	10
55	155	"But, surely," said Statius, "they will not be cruelly roped, as are the cowering properties below, those of the killer humans".	10
55	157	"But they need not fear the brutality of simple sticks, surely," said Statius, "as those below".	10
55	160	"That is as I suspected," said Statius.	10
55	162	"I do not understand," said Statius.	10
55	164	"A whip?" said Statius.	10
55	167	"I am to understand then, am I not," said Statius, "that the slave in civilization is not only more a slave than a slave in another venue, but that she is in far greater jeopardy, has more to fear, and is likely to be more sharply and perfectly disciplined".	10
55	170	"But if they are not?" asked Statius.	10
55	172	"I understand," said Statius.	10
55	177	"I see," said Statius.	10
55	179	"I see," said Statius.	10
55	181	"Interesting," said Statius.	10
55	189	"Some of the killer humans," said Statius, "seem to be threading their way amongst the cattle humans".	10
55	191	"Surely they are not interested in cattle females," said Statius.	10
55	197	Statius suddenly uttered a sound, clearly of astonishment, but it was no word, or at least none programmed into Cabot's translator.	10
55	199	"He heard it," said Statius.	10
55	202	"What is it?" "Down there," said Statius, intent, pointing.	10
55	204	"Surely you heard it then!" said Statius.	10
55	206	"What is it?" "See, toward the nearer part of the herd?" said Statius.	10
55	208	"Agitated, disturbed," said Statius.	10
55	210	"Clearly," said Statius.	10
55	213	Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury...	10
55	227	So, too, did Statius.	10
55	231	Accordingly, the killer humans brought their neck-roped females to their feet, placed themselves between the females and the herd, and Lord Grendel, Cabot, and Statius, and, with a few cries and strokes of their sticks, herded them away, withdrawing behind them, with an occasional vigilant glance ca...	10
55	288	There was, at that moment, a cry of Kur elation, and greeting, and Cabot and Lord Grendel turned about to see Statius approaching, dragging behind him, by means of a stout rope on her neck, stumbling, filthy, terrified, only the remnant of a stained tunic left to her, her wrists pinioned behind her ...	10
55	290	Statius hurled the Lady Bina triumphantly, contemptuously, to the feet of Lord Grendel.	10
55	291	"Here," cried Statius, "is the traitress, the Lady Bina!" The Lady Bina, helpless at the feet of Lord Grendel, squirmed in misery, and terror.	10
55	295	With one foot Statius put her to her belly and then pulled her wrists up, behind her, so that their confinement might be obvious.	10
55	297	Statius then thrust her wrists down, angrily, and put his clawed foot on her back, pressing her against the earth.	10
55	299	"Here she is, the traitress," said Statius, "now ours!" "She is in the presence of Lord Grendel," said Cabot.	10
55	301	Angrily Statius drew her by the hair to a high kneeling position before Lord Grendel, and then thrust her head to the ground, before him.	10
55	302	"Kiss the feet of your lord," said Statius, "before justice is done to you".	10
55	304	"Shall we kill her now?" asked Statius.	10
55	306	Statius seized her by the hair and pulled her up, kneeling, so that Lord Grendel could see her face.	10
55	314	"No!" said Statius.	10
55	320	Statius pulled the Lady Bina up, to an upright kneeling position, before Lord Grendel.	10
55	325	"Should she not kneel with her knees spread," asked Cabot, "that she might thusly plead to be spared, that her life might thereafter be devoted to the service and pleasure of men?" "No!" said Statius.	10
55	335	"The Lady Bina," said Statius, "is not a slave.	10
55	339	It seemed the Lady Bina would collapse, but Statius, a hand in her hair, held her upright.	10
55	355	Statius jerked at the rope on her neck.	10
55	358	"But," said Lord Grendel, "that would be too quick, would it not?" "Yes," said Statius, thoughtfully.	10
55	363	"No!" cried Statius.	10
55	365	"I will stand by you to the death," said Statius.	10
55	367	"But I do not think the others will," said Statius.	10
55	368	Lord Grendel then turned away from the captive, in grief, and Statius, with one clawed foot, impatiently, angrily, spurned her to her belly, where she had knelt.	10
55	372	She lay on her belly before him, miserable and filthy, in the tattered and stained shred of her tiny garment, weak, doubtless starving, her small hands fastened behind her in the slave bracelets, Statius' rope on her neck.	10
56	3	"Statius," said Lord Grendel.	10
56	5	"He is not here," said Statius.	10
56	11	"I wonder if he thinks we are so stupid as to actually intend that," said Statius.	10
56	17	"None," said Statius.	10
56	40	"The analogy is apt," said Statius, "save that there may be no hunters".	10
56	46	"The trenches have been dug," said Statius.	10
56	58	"I wonder if the daylight will come brightly, instantly," said Statius.	10
56	122	"They do not wish to risk approaching us," said Statius, "while we have weapons, however few and inadequate they might be".	10
56	128	"Are you good at resisting prolonged and extreme tortures?" asked Statius of Cabot.	10
56	130	"Would you like me, then, to kill you now, mercifully?" asked Statius.	10
56	132	"My dear Statius," said Lord Grendel, "there are sophisticated tortures available to Agamemnon to which even a Kur might object".	10
56	133	"Would you like me, then, to kill you now, mercifully?" asked Cabot of Statius.	10
56	134	"Forgive me, dear friend," said Statius.	10
56	139	"Perhaps it would be churlish," said Statius, "to deny Agamemnon his pleasures".	10
56	141	"And mine," said Statius.	10
56	143	"When they come to kill us, we shall meet them, as we can," said Statius.	10
56	148	"What for?" asked Statius.	10
56	160	"Their chains will remain empty," said Statius.	10
56	164	"Yes," said Statius.	10
56	218	At this point Statius joined Lord Grendel and his human ally, Tarl Cabot.	10
56	219	Statius carried a weighty Kur ax, double-headed, and each blade bore blood.	10
56	220	Statius, as other Kurii from the trenches, had been active in the field.	10
56	222	"Four hundred are chained, and ready to be slain," said Statius to Lord Grendel.	10
56	225	"Yes," said Statius, "and now they wear them themselves".	10
56	248	"Obey him," said Statius.	10
56	252	"Madness!" cried Statius.	10
56	255	"I, too, of course," said Statius, "but who else would do so?" "I believe Lord Lucullus commanded the forces of Agamemnon," said Lord Grendel.	10
56	271	"The four hundred must now, surely, be killed," said Statius.	10
57	2	"Dear Grendel!" he cried, "we had report that your plan had failed, and your command destroyed, wiped out, each and every one of our fellows, in the Vale of Destruction! Praise the Priest-Kings! You, and Cabot, and some others, Statius, I see, and some few, have escaped!" "Praise the Nameless One, i...	10
57	5	His Corinna was eagerly heeling him, Statius' female hurried forth, to kneel at his feet, rubbing her head against his leg, and other slaves crowded about, kneeling, weeping with joy, and the seven or eight humans and Kurii who had been commanded, to their sorrow, to stay within the camp, to protect...	10
57	40	"Glory to our cause!" In the threshold of the camp, startled, and seemingly jubilant, stood Flavion, who then rushed forward to embrace Lord Grendel, Cabot, Statius, Archon, and others, and then he bounded about, leaping into the air, uttering screeches of pleasure, and then, alighting, again and ag...	10
57	56	"The victory was ours," said Statius.	10
57	61	"Afterward," said Statius, "they withdrew to their place of ignominious gathering, the place of ropes or knives, and we could not follow up our victory".	10
57	128	"Might it not be better to auction it off on a slave block?" "Certainly not, dear Cabot," said Statius.	10
57	145	To what tantalizing anxieties, to what false hopes, to what terrifying uncertainties, she will be subjected, not even knowing at what moment she will be roped and carried to the torture table!" But then Lord Grendel had turned away, with Statius, and others, to confer on matters of policy, diplomati...	10
58	32	"Can you communicate with your friend?" asked Statius.	10
58	42	"Perhaps another might make the test," said Statius.	10
58	50	"I think your friend," said Statius, "is hideous, and dangerous".	10
58	54	"And loyal?" asked Statius.	10
58	57	"He has long protected the camp," said Statius, "has he not?" "I think so," said Cabot.	10
60	5	"As in the amnesty?" said Statius.	10
60	9	"Tell them," said Statius, "for they are not Kur".	10
60	17	"How so?" asked Statius.	10
60	36	Statius' slave howled, and then crept to his feet, frightened, seeking comfort.	10
60	39	"All rebels," said Statius.	10
60	57	"No more so than much in some human ways," said Statius.	10
60	63	"They are our ways," said Statius.	10
60	84	"It is a runner," said Statius.	10
60	92	"He was not attacked," said Statius.	10
61	54	"Why?" asked Statius.	10
61	56	"Our humans will be at a serious disadvantage in the night," said Statius.	10
61	74	"Yes," said Statius, "chained, and with bells attached to his hands and feet, and neck".	10
61	83	"Why not?" asked Statius.	10
61	85	"Forget her," said Statius.	10
61	88	"Slaves are cheap," said Statius.	10
61	90	"Forget her," said Statius.	10
61	94	"If you recover the slave," said Statius, "you would not mind our killing him".	10
61	96	"At least, my dear Statius," said Lord Grendel, "you cannot blame this projected treachery on the Lady Bina".	10
61	103	"She has treacheries enough to her account to justify a thousand deaths by the most harrowing of tortures," said Statius.	10
61	106	"Flavion does stand high in our war," said Statius.	10
61	109	"And one who acts in concert with a human, and even with one who was once a despised nondominant," said Statius.	10
61	111	"I fear he will find a ready field for the sowing of such seed," said Statius.	10
61	115	"Not indefinitely," said Statius.	10
61	119	"And that," said Statius, "would guarantee the victory of Lord Agamemnon".	10
61	122	"And Kurii would follow him," said Statius.	10
61	126	"You must permit the torture and death of the Lady Bina," said Statius.	10
61	133	"It is clear," said Statius.	10
61	137	"Our cause is then lost," said Statius.	10
61	140	"Kurii are not patient," said Statius.	10
61	142	"I do not understand," said Statius.	10
61	145	"The enemy is moving?" asked Statius, eagerly.	10
61	148	"Nothing then of interest," said Statius.	10
61	152	He was followed by Cabot, his human ally, and Statius.	10
61	180	"You grow bold, dear Flavion," said Statius.	10
61	218	"Clearly, surely," said Statius, "the signs are against marching tonight".	10
61	222	Lord Grendel, Statius, and Cabot then regarded the Lady Bina.	10
61	233	"For a human," said Statius, for he perhaps had his mind on his own female.	10
61	236	"Interesting," said Statius.	10
61	240	Lord Grendel and Statius then returned to a place of vantage, forward.	10
61	271	"Kneel there," said Cabot, who then turned his back on her, and went forward to join Lord Grendel and Statius.	10
63	3	"How can that be?" said Statius.	10
63	33	"It seems, dear Flavion, you will survive the day," said Statius.	10
63	59	"It is not here," said Statius, looking about.	10
63	64	"It would have been easier to remove her head, in a single bite," said Statius.	10
63	91	"He heard the bell below, from a half pasang distant," said Statius.	10
63	106	"They will kill the Lady Bina!" said Statius.	10
63	158	"Are you all right?" called Statius.	10
63	161	With Statius and Archon were more than a dozen Kurii and humans, armed with power weapons.	10
63	167	"She is alive," said Statius.	10
63	172	"Kurii cannot weep," said Statius.	10
64	4	In all this time Lord Grendel had remained at her side, watching over her, tending her, while the governance of the camp was surrendered to the human ally, Peisistratus, and the rule of the insurrectionists' lines, the orders of the day, the arrangements of signs and countersigns, the inspection of ...	10
64	30	"She was refusing to eat," said Statius, "until our friend Cabot spoke to her".	10
64	34	"And Lord Grendel permitted this?" said Statius.	10
64	36	"How did it turn out?" asked Statius.	10
64	39	"But you treated her, in effect, as a slave," said Statius.	10
64	47	"But she is a free woman," said Statius.	10
64	50	"Cestiphon, who is a killer human, inured to the sights of the arena, and such, caught a glimpse of her, and cast up his food," said Statius.	10
64	54	"I was sure of it," said Statius.	10
64	72	"Many," said Statius, "feel she should be turned out of the camp".	10
64	76	"Her presence depresses many in the camp," said Statius.	10
64	79	"No," said Statius.	10
64	81	"Nor I," said Statius.	10
64	113	She had been noted by killer humans, and was fleeing them, when she was apprehended by Lord Grendel, Statius, and the human, Tarl Cabot, which party brought her back, a prisoner, to the camp.	10
64	125	It was his group which had flushed the Lady Bina into the open, earlier, when she had been noted by Lord Grendel, Statius, and Cabot, in the vicinity of a womb tunnel.	10
64	158	The Lady Bina went to where Lord Grendel was in conference with Peisistratus, Statius, and Cabot, and, with a small sound of chain, lay down at his feet.	10
64	167	"She belongs in a collar," said Statius.	10
64	179	"Many of our men grow impatient," said Statius.	10
64	184	"Let us hope," said Statius, "that they will make the first such move".	10
64	189	"He has thoughts behind thoughts," said Statius.	10
64	195	"I do not understand," said Statius.	10
65	5	"Surely," said Statius, "he does not have Lord Arcesilaus".	10
65	63	"I suspect," said Statius, "Agamemnon does not have Lord Arcesilaus".	10
65	70	"It is the delegation," said Statius.	10
73	29	"We had other adherents, as well," said Statius, "adherents, and dissenters, many, from those spared, at the Vale of Destruction".	10
73	40	"It is the Kur way," said Statius, who stood high in the councils of Lord Arcesilaus, Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World.	10
73	55	"Should they not produce, and work?" "They are too simple, too stupid, to do so," said Statius.	10
73	116	"She is not going anywhere," said Statius.	10
73	137	"Yes," said Statius, to Lord Zarendargar.	10
74	50	Lord Arcesilaus sat on a dais, at the head of a hundred tables, with Lord Zarendargar, Lord Grendel, and Statius; and Archon, of the forest humans, and Cestiphon, of the killer humans, sat with them.	10
81	210	"I see, beyond the port," said Peisistratus, joining them, "Cestiphon, Statius, Archon, Lord Arcesilaus, many noble humans and high Kurii.	10