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Strength

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	258	The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence.	10
9	81	Summoning all my strength, I put her from me.	10
14	56	"And yet," I said, "your sword has not yet found the strength to bring it into being".	10
14	87	Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave.	10
19	167	Seeing her and the fear for me in her eyes, I seemed to gain redoubled strength, and for the first time it seemed to me that Pa-Kur was not meeting my attack as surely as he had previously.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	37	I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task.	10
4	109	Its heart had given me strength.	10
6	108	Of his courage and strength she has already had ample evidence.	10
11	117	"Strength is the attribute of beasts," said Dorna the Proud.	10
14	143	I could feel the muscles of my arm and back pitting their strength against the obdurate metal.	10
16	97	Slowly, though no strength returned to my body, my vision cleared, first in the center, and then gradually toward the edges, until I could once again see the pillar, the sky beyond and my foes.	10
20	101	The bird regained his strength and senses, except for the fact that it remained agitated, almost unmanageable.	10
21	237	Upon reflection it seemed clear to me that the chain must, in the end, be a lonely place for a girl, filled with life, knowing that her brand has destined her for love, that each of them must long for a man to care enough for them to buy them, that each must long to follow a man home to his compartm...	10
23	100	The slaves, forewarned of their approach by other slaves or by impoverished peasants, supplanted by the Great Farms, would have made good their departure, only to strike when ready, when unexpected and in strength.	10

Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	68	Most of the contests involve such things as racing, feats of strength, and skill with bow and spear.	10
12	93	They had wide, fine heads, strong, broad bodies, and a carriage that suggested calmness and strength.	10
25	73	Then, gathering my strength, I leaped up and easily seized one of the rings inside the chamber shaft, held it for a moment and then released it and dropped back to the floor.	10
26	261	As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ...	10
27	151	I knew the unusual strength of Priest-Kings and I could well imagine the stresses and pressures that throbbed in the frames of those locked creatures as they rocked back and forth, to one side and another, each pressing and seeking for the advantage that would mean death to the other.	10
27	362	Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a Priest-King, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutching, trying to sense someth...	10
29	170	Though my finger was on the firing switch it lacked the strength to depress it.	10
30	173	I ate because I wished to keep what I could of my strength, for I might have need of it again.	10
31	100	Misk covered my body with his own and then with his great strength, reared up, stones falling from his back like water from the body of a swimmer.	10
31	170	Sarm reached to the steel bar that formed the railing to his left on the walkway and with the incredible strength of Priest-Kings with one motion twisted and tore free a length of perhaps eighteen feet.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	66	"Good," said Kutaituchik, "the she-slave will need her strength".	10
16	13	"Perhaps," he said, "I never saw them—during the day I and the other male slaves were chained in a darkened chamber that we might sleep and preserve our strength for the work of the night".	10
16	125	"Was this," I asked Harold, "a part of your plan?" He grinned, pressing against the net, trying its strength.	10
18	10	If I could but reach it! With all my strength I moved towards it—an inch—and then another inch—my fingers stretched, my arms and back aching, until in another inch I might have grasped it and then, to my horror, as I reached in agony for the vine, it rustled and lifted itself ju...	10
23	170	"Their strength was brought here".	10

Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	100	Players, when playing among themselves, with men of equal strength, frequently play for a draw when they do not have the first move.	10
4	150	There were few girls with her wind and stamina, her strength and vitality, few who could run at the stirrup of a Warrior as well as she.	10
5	353	We have noted that among the Others who have been settled on Gor there has been, once out of the ship, a degeneration of interrelated roles, resulting in anarchy until the institution of authority resting on superior strength and fear".	10
10	93	Cernus, as before, was lost in his game with Caprus, this time lingering at the board even long after paga and full-strength Ka-la-na were served.	10
12	94	The differences among these tarns are not simply in the training, which does differ, but in the size, strength, build and tendencies of the bird.	10
12	95	Some tarns are bred primarily for strength and are used in transporting wares by carrying basket.	10
12	97	The war tarns, of course, are bred for both strength and speed, but also for agility, swiftness of reflex, and combative instincts.	10
12	209	I'm sure, in the pain of branding, they scarcely felt the pain which might be attendant on his massage, trying to restore some feeling and strength to their aching limbs.	10
15	133	The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da...	10
17	263	There was much hilarity in the hall of the House of Cernus, and, though it was early in the evening, paga and full-strength Ka-la-na were flowing.	10
18	88	You have been to me kindness, and gentleness and strength, and you have loved me".	10
22	141	I knew its age, the diminishment of its strength, that it had not raced in many years.	10
22	162	I did not know the strength of the bird.	10
22	212	And what I saw seemed to be a young bird, in the fullness of his strength, at the pitch of his prime and pride, his cunning and swiftness, his fury and power.	10
22	396	It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip...	10
23	207	I saw the webbing on which the thing had apparently slept, judged its strength, noted its width.	10

Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	137	He had strength, and much strength, for he had strung the bow smoothly, strength it might be from the galleys, but strength, and superb strength.	10
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
1	23	Well used, the long bow is a far more devastating weapon than its rival, the crossbow; but few men had the strength and eye to use it well; I prided myself on my skill with the weapon.	10
3	174	And we do not have cords of strength enough to draw such bows".	10
8	523	Thurnock was a huge man, with arms like the oars of the great galleys; Clitus was slighter, but he had been first oar; he would have great strength, beyond what it might seem.	10
8	531	I was alone, but I had my arm, and its strength, and the Gorean blade.	10
8	654	Then, startled, she looked up at him, her wrists bound, having felt the strength of his hands.	10
14	18	The entire ship is built in such a way that the combined strength of the keel, stempost and strut-frames centers itself at the ram, or spur.	10
14	76	The slaves, eager for the capture of the vessel by one of my ships, could scarcely be expected to row with their full strength, and the masters, knowing full well the ship might be taken, feared, under the conditions obtaining, to seriously abuse or slay the chained oarsmen.	10
17	202	I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.	10

Book 7. (23 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	453	And the guard uses not the handful of leather straps with which Lana, only with her woman's strength, had struck me, but the five-strap Gorean slave whip, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man.	10
2	143	I did not have the strength to climb back! I looked up.	10
6	276	I hated men, and their strength.	10
6	316	The girl struck, with her small fierce strength, again and again, over and over, viciously, fiercely, as hard as she could, again and again.	10
7	295	Yet the major differences between them and the men of Earth are not those of size or strength, but rather those of character and psychology.	10
7	426	Surely I am not beginning to find myself responsive to these handsome, virile, dominating, masterful brutes! And surely not when I am naught but a meaningless slave! No, I told myself, never, no, no, no! But I had already begun to sense, fearing the comprehension, how the slave girl sees men, how sh...	10
8	507	I liked to handle them, to feel the strong fabric that had clung to their sweet strength.	10
8	575	Not until I had become a slave girl, and understood that men might own me, did I become so devastatingly, thrillingly, aware of them, the rude beauty and strength of their bodies, and their power.	10
8	758	On Earth I had not thought much of the strength of men.	10
8	759	Strength had not seemed important.	10
8	761	But on Gor I realized that strength was important, very important.	10
8	1054	I hated all men, and their strength.	10
10	506	Suddenly, with fury, he, with his full strength, slapped me across the side of the face, literally knocking me from the bench and against the wall.	10
11	368	How I resented the strength of men! "Oh, yes, you are a clever little thing," he said.	10
11	642	I was terrified of having the full five-strap Gorean slave lash, wielded with the full strength of a man, used on me.	10
11	888	I was conscious of the strength of his arms.	10
11	1016	I suspected what might be the joys of love and service, the pleasures of kneeling and obedience, the pleasures, too, of being a will-less, subjugated, helpless sexual toy, forced, a writhing slave, to endure whatever lengthy, maddening raptures might be inflicted upon me, a rightless property and po...	10
13	778	I sensed audacity, and strength, and a powerful intellect.	10
13	860	With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...	10
15	756	I had always feared, but never felt, the five-stranded Gorean slave lash, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man.	10
15	1298	I danced to arouse him, to make him mad with the desire of me, which desire I could then frustrate, which desire I could then, in my strength, for I was not as other women, for I did not have their weaknesses, fail to fulfill.	10
16	137	But my puny strength would have availed me naught.	10
16	462	He, his body tightening, startlingly again mighty with strength, astonishing me, delighting me, lifted me from my feet and lowered me, gently, to the grass, covering me with his cloak.	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	23	I had tried to play frequently with players of strength superior to my own.	10
11	521	He can, though it requires strength, and it is awkward and painful, drag himself about by the hands.	10
14	262	It was not strange that the proud, intelligent women of the forest, and elsewhere, chose war with men, rather than admit the meaning of his strength and swiftness, the meaning of their own weakness and beauty.	10
15	29	That a girl may have fought to the last moment with the last ounce of her strength to avoid being conquered is of no interest to the panther girl.	10
21	162	Then he, with his man's strength, could strike away other chains, and free his fellows.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	69	It again thrust down, with its full weight and strength, certain that it could crush the puny strength of a human.	10
1	181	Many Earth moralities encourage resignation and accommodation; Gorean morality is bent more toward conquest and defiance; many Earth moralities encourage tenderness, pity and gentleness, sweetness; Gorean morality encourages honor, courage, hardness and strength.	10
4	154	She now saw the men of Torvaldsland in their mightiness, in their freedom, and strength and power, and she, a stripped, fettered bondmaid, coffled, feared them.	10
14	200	The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le...	10
15	273	"Let us descend and meet the Kurii, while we still have strength," I said.	10
15	299	"We will need our strength," said the Forkbeard.	10
18	585	He had spent much strength.	10
22	92	Once there had been a boy by this name, one with simple dreams, naive, vain, one shattered by a betrayal of his codes, the discovery of a weakness where he had thought there was only strength.	10
22	96	In the north my blood had found itself, learning itself; in the north I had learned strength, and how to stand alone.	10
22	104	One must match them in strength, in intellect, in terribleness, in ferocity.	10

Book 10. (19 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	53	It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them.	10
2	601	Each individual strip, interestingly, given the strength of the rein, is little thicker than a stout thread.	10
4	180	The weakest, the most trapped among them, are often the first, with hysteria, knowing they themselves are not strong enough to take their rightful freedoms, and envying others they fear might have the strength, to denounce such modest suggestions".	10
5	751	But when, long later, after I had learned the lessons of Torvaldsland, I ridded myself of the poison in the cleansing delirium of the antidote, I had not cried out, in weakness, for her love, begging it, but rather, in strength, laughing, had collared her, putting her to my feet and making her my sl...	10
7	211	I gathered that the man did not know the strength of Kurii.	10
7	567	Doubtless you, a man of your world, never had the strength, the amused audacity, to get the full slave of her".	10
8	187	It is an insult to their strength".	10
10	378	One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...	10
14	132	It interested me that she would attempt to pit her strength against mine.	10
14	133	The strength of a full-grown woman is equivalent to that of a twelve-year-old boy.	10
18	128	"You will, of course," said T'Zshal, "remain at Klima for some days, to recover your strength".	10
20	24	"We have scarcely the strength to carry the water".	10
21	520	Perhaps the Kur with whom I had trekked had, with the frenzy of a Kur's strength, wrenched it aside, before meeting the four charges of the other Kur's weapon.	10
21	604	Its strength was almost inconceivable.	10
24	622	Whereas this may have injured their vanity somewhat I supposed this possible slight to their status would be more than compensated for by the strength of the new arms in which they would now gasp and writhe.	10
24	804	This torments her with joy, and she revels in his strength.	10
25	243	I met her blade, high, forcing it down; she slipped to one knee, looking up, trying to keep the blade away; she wept; she had no leverage, her strength was gone; I thrust her back, and she fell on her back before me on the tiles; my left boot, heavy, was on her right wrist; the small hand opened and...	10
26	495	Perhaps Vella had thought she would be dealing with a pliant, manipulable man of Earth; but then not even all men of Earth are such; did she not know that; they, the girls, on the other hand, given their different cultural background, did not expect vacillation and weakness from a man, but what they...	10
26	938	"Yes," she said, "that is it—not the pain—but my weakness, and the strength of men, and that I am under their will, and that, if I am not pleasing, I know that he is man enough and powerful enough to put me under harsh discipline, and, should I not be pleasing, will, without a thought,...	10

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	475	Yet, now, branded, for the first time I was acutely aware of the fantastic strength and size of even such boys, not even men, not even Gorean men, compared to my own diminutive strength and stature.	10
1	30	I remembered the cloth slipped over my mouth and nose, the fumes, the strength of the man who had held me.	10
1	52	I remembered the cloth, the strength of the man, the fumes.	10
2	53	I knew that were he to seize me in his arms and crush me to his chest, with what strength must be his, that the mark of the strap, the coarse fibers, would be imprinted on my breasts.	10
2	413	It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...	10
2	640	Never had I felt such strength.	10
2	1063	I supposed they might carry perhaps a slim blade, manageable to their small strength and weight, a poniard or dagger, but what if an assailant, such as the man in whose power I was, was simply to take it from them? I did not know it at the time but girls such as I was to be were not permitted to car...	10
2	1125	I found myself grateful for his strength, and proud for it, though I knew I was the helpless object upon which it would be exercised.	10
5	154	Women, of course, it might be noted, lack the strength to bend this bow.	10
5	361	Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women.	10
5	363	For, in the intricacies, and interplay of both natural and sexual selection, not merely a swiftness, a size and strength would have been selected for in women but an entire set of genetic dispositions; it seems inconsistent to suppose that evolution would select only for the outside of an animal and...	10
5	364	Surely the same evolution which has selected for the fangs of the lion and the speed of the gazelle has selected as well for the disposition to hunt and the disposition to flight, that has selected for the strength of the male and the weakness of the female has selected as well for the disposition t...	10
6	141	It required, too, not simply the strength of a man, but of a man who was unusually strong.	10
7	1046	Gorean males are unusual in their strength, energy and intelligence.	10
7	1193	I lay in the darkness, helpless, imprisoned in the strength of his arms, waiting to learn whom I would be.	10
7	1374	"It is I, Dina, in your arms, who am without strength".	10
9	581	Slowly, leaning forward, our feet digging into the earth, we had pitted our strength against the restraining band of the harness, and, slowly, the great blade had begun to move through the deep soil, turning it for our master.	10
9	583	Who would know if I did not put my full strength upon the trace? It was then that I first felt the whip.	10
9	675	Because of my slightness of strength Thurnus had had me help him often with the sleen.	10
9	937	I knew he could crush my throat easily with his Gorean strength, did he choose.	10
9	1698	Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f...	10
12	544	The task was beyond the strength of my fingers.	10
12	727	They must cling as they could to the stirrups with their small strength; else, braceleted as they were, they must simply dangle far above the earth, painfully and helplessly, hoping that not a link in the bracelets would fail.	10
21	9	How I would if I could have tried to pit my small strength against the heavy oar which he would now draw.	10
23	15	"I have always feared you, Master," I said, "your temper, your strength, your will.	10
23	33	He had terrible strength.	10
27	591	She knew then the nature of the man, and his strength, who owned her.	10
27	611	A woman admires strength, especially if it is used to dominate and control her.	10
27	684	I wished he had torn it open and would march me through the streets as an exposed slave, that other girls might see the strength of the man who owned me.	10
29	96	I felt I had the strength only to lie vulnerably before him, perhaps holding and kissing him, awaiting him.	10

Book 12. (20 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	405	She could not begin to be a match for my strength.	10
3	607	But that she had displayed her body as she did, even if in compensation for her fears, which she would scarcely admit to herself, indicated the strength of the drives against which she fought.	10
8	90	It was not pleasant, but she did not have the strength to make the blows tell.	10
9	234	Much, of course, depends on the master, and his strength.	10
10	36	The girl's helplessness was doubtless in part a response to his strength.	10
11	561	"I know," she said, "that with a man of your strength I could never be anything but a slave".	10
12	225	Imnak and I, too, applied our strength to the haul, thrusting at the wooden uprights at the back of the sled.	10
15	322	"It was only a longing dream," she whispered, "the yearning of a girl for a true man, one proud and free and strong, one not dishonest, one not broken, one not robbed of himself, one who could by his might and strength make me as much a woman as he was a man".	10
15	753	Whereas the free woman normally maintains a plateau of frigidity, however, the slave girl will usually increase in degrees of heat, this a function of her master, his strength, her training, and such.	10
20	28	It requires strength to manage it.	10
20	46	Also, carving ivory and bone requires strength.	10
21	232	"Strength in men, not weakness," she said, "excites me.	10
21	235	"Physical strength," she said, "is only a small part of what I mean, though it is not unimportant.	10
21	236	I mean strength of will.	10
22	289	"You have great strength," said Imnak.	10
24	480	It may seem hard to understand but the man who truly cares for his slave is often rather strict with her; he cares for her enough to be strong; sometimes she may resent or hate him but, too, she is inordinately proud of him, for what he makes her do, and be, and she loves him for his strength and hi...	10
28	1	I Must Conserve my Strength I felt her small, soft hands on my body.	10
28	306	"I must save my strength," I said.	10
30	95	The assassins take in lads who are perhaps characterized by little but unusual swiftness, and cunning, and strength and skill, and perhaps a selfishness and greed, and, in time, transform this raw material into efficient, proud, merciless men, practitioners of a dark trade, men loyal to secret codes...	10
35	815	Though I may be too weak to be an Assassin, yet perhaps I have strength sufficient unto manhood".	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	568	Would not any woman hate a man who did not have the strength to put her in a collar?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
20	131	Kisu was, I had little doubt, quite similar in strength to myself.	10
20	135	He did not understand how such a blow could have stopped one of his strength.	10
23	51	In virtue of his strength, skill, and intelligence, he was rightfully first among them.	10
32	33	It requires great strength to brace and support the canoe at that point.	10
34	109	We felt the long-term strength of meat protein would be a useful addition to our diets.	10
34	468	Her small strength might not be sufficient to lift the door, to thrust it back.	10
48	214	"We are women, and have only women's strength".	10
49	10	If it became necessary to expedite our passage we wished each member of our party, whether free or bond, to be able to lend his strength to this work.	10
52	107	"My war is not done, while I still have the strength to clutch a spear," said Kisu grimly.	10

Book 14. (24 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	462	There seemed some kind of strength about him, such as I had never met in another man.	10
2	316	What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...	10
3	154	I had never encountered such strength.	10
3	210	I had never seen such strength as theirs.	10
3	416	I knew I could not begin to match the power and strength of her will, her stern character.	10
4	244	"Why do the weak belittle strength?" "I do not understand," I said.	10
4	327	That I suppressed my feelings toward them, thus, was not now evidence of my cowardice but rather of my strength and courage.	10
5	83	She had only a woman's strength.	10
5	85	A man, on the other hand, with his strength, may punish a woman terribly with it, should he choose to do so.	10
5	170	"See my size and strength, my severity.	10
5	196	"It requires courage and strength to be small and weak," I said, angrily.	10
5	202	"Perhaps the fool has the strength to be a fool.	10
7	64	This was not merely a function of the reduced gravity of the planet but of newly acquired strength.	10
7	96	I had already had experience of his strength when he, with his fellow guard, Gron, the Oriental, had handled me with such ease.	10
7	541	I recalled that I should have castigated myself for the feelings of strength which had been in me at that time, but I had failed to do so.	10
7	570	One who fears to be a master, who doubts his capacity, his power, his strength, his will, his resoluteness, will be expected to turn a deaf ear to the pleas of even the most piteous of beautiful slaves.	10
7	871	Her small strength was no match for mine.	10
7	999	But if a woman should kneel before me and beg a collar would I not be terrified to enclose her lovely neck in its inflexible grasp? Would I not be afraid to own her, to assume the mighty responsibility of the mastery? Did I have the power, the strength, the courage, to be a master? Did I fear I woul...	10
11	65	"It will give you strength".	10
13	733	I knew nothing of fighting, but I had discovered, it frightening me, that there was in me, somehow, strength which I had not understood.	10
19	4	First, they strengthen the muscles of the shoulders, back and arms, building up incredible strength; second, when they are removed, it seems as though the hands, relieved of such weights, can fly like hornets.	10
19	174	They are useful in keeping the male slaves content, and may well be applied to lighter labors, on which a man's strength would be wasted".	10
22	285	She had only a woman's strength.	10
22	294	I wondered what would have been her reaction had she been beaten not by a mere woman, but by a man, with a man's strength.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	345	"I know that you will not treat me with power, and strength," she said.	10
14	376	Her weight was light for my strength.	10
15	31	I did not think that she, with her woman's strength, could well undo them.	10
21	58	"You are known for your ability with your fists, a thing which Gorean men can understand, and for your work on the docks, and for your strength".	10
22	117	How powerful are the forces of socialization! How rare the individual who has the intelligence and strength to examine inflicted orthodoxies! How few can detect the subtle encompassing walls, let alone break or scale them.	10
23	123	Strength, as well as skill, is significant in swordplay, something which is insufficiently understood by many unfamiliar with weaponry.	10

Book 16. (13 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	227	In such a situation it was not unlikely that he would have come about and, at his leisure, still in strength, withdrawn to the west.	10
17	429	Her strength was as nothing, compared to mine.	10
18	284	"I know well the power of your desire, and the strength of your arms, from the holding of Policrates.	10
19	215	I did not strike her with my full strength.	10
19	224	"I am nothing! I am only a slave!" I then struck her ten times, savagely, with the unrestrained strength of a man.	10
19	500	"The strength, it was yours?" she said.	10
20	429	Its strength and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually only a drop or a few drops at a time.	10
20	1456	Later, in his own domicile, after such an experience, now thoroughly conscious of her vulnerability, and the hitherto unsuspected strength of her new master, well now revealed to her, slave fires begin to burn in her belly.	10
20	1555	She had little leverage and, in any event, her strength was as nothing compared to mine.	10
20	1783	Later, once they had clearly recovered their strength, the flocks were released to continue their migration, and the armies reassumed their original positions.	10
20	1856	Woman's sexuality responds more favorably to strength than weakness; a slave girl juices more readily, more fearfully, for example, at the slave ring of a harsh master than in the bed of a weak one.	10
21	757	Is that not a source of pride for a girl, at least one of Earth, that a man is strong enough to make her his slave, and see to it that she is an excellent slave? On Gor, of course, one does not need strength for the mastery, for that is cultural, and expected of a man.	10
21	758	What would require great strength on Earth is simply a matter of maleness on Gor.	10

Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1053	This conserves the resilience of the wood and the tightness and strength of the sinew string.	10
2	308	In such a case, of course, the girl must depend for her life on the steady hand and keen eye, the swiftness, the strength and timing, the skill, of the urt hunter, her master.	10
2	355	Gorean slave breeders, perhaps benighted in this respect, prefer what they take to be health to what they think of as sickness, and what they take to be strength to what they deem weakness.	10
7	54	Such a string is more than sufficient, in its length, and in its strength and toughness, to tie a woman in a number of ways.	10
8	731	The girl leaped suddenly to her feet and, crouching over, with the fullness of her small strength, began to tear wildly at the chain.	10
11	250	What woman has not toyed with the thought of her helpless bondage, what woman has not wondered what it might be to be owned, and mastered? Who would own them? What would it be to be owned by a man of power and strength? What would it be to be lusted for, as a stripped, helpless slave? "You will lear...	10
13	405	"She well used my femininity, my meaninglessness, my prettiness," she said, "to highlight, to point up and accentuate, by contrast, her own quite different image, that of strength and competence, of decisiveness, of command, of authority and power".	10
13	886	Stripped and hurled to his feet she understands the strength of men, and their desire and will.	10
13	1770	I respond to their strength, to their domination.	10
14	226	Neither of them, I think, had expected to be made so helpless so quickly, and with such strength.	10
14	421	I would not strike her with my full strength, but, on the other hand, she must know clearly that she had been struck.	10
17	56	Light chains, sheathed in silk, or satin or velvet, incidentally, have this utility as well, as well as their intrinsic strength, more than adequate for the securing of a female.	10

Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	492	Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble f...	10
14	141	"Have you noticed," I asked, "that males are better at dragging heavy weights across the prairie than women?" "We notice, of course," said Pumpkin, "that not all Sames are of equal size or strength".	10
25	35	It seemed that Hci, almost with the strength of his arm, must restrain it.	10
27	104	The attack, of course, I told myself, might have been primarily an excursionary probe, a venture to determine the nature and strength of our defenses.	10
30	9	Here and there, at points on our perimeter, Yellow Knives and soldiers, in fierce, brief exchanges, tested our strength.	10
37	278	In the matter of bitterness of taste, there is little to choose from between raw sip root and slave wine, the emulsive qualities of the slave wine being offset to some extent by the strength of the concentrations involved.	10
37	559	He had not understood the strength of such a creature.	10
39	504	We did not wish to be slowed by her shorter steps and lesser strength.	10
40	611	We know your strength.	10
43	315	I felt the tension in the ropes, on either side of the kaiila, as I entered into the long lane, some two hundred yards in length, the sacks, their weight negligible for the strength of the kaiila, being drawn lightly behind.	10
46	84	They moved slowly, to conserve their strength.	10
46	87	There was little doubt their main party would reach the barricade at the summit in much of its full strength.	10

Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	320	We are so different from them! Can these radical disparities be truly meaningless? And if they are not meaningless, what might they mean? He was at ease with his sex, and his strength, and power.	10
2	226	It appeared to me, indeed, that it might serve very well, in virtue of its strength and weight, for the securing of valuables.	10
2	227	I conjectured that I, with my strength, would scarcely be able to move it about.	10
3	617	"By means of different garbs, then," she said, "it is natural that these important and fundamental differences be marked, the garbs of men being appropriate to their nature, for example, to their size and strength, and those of women to their nature, for example, to their softness and beauty".	10
4	44	How pleased I was, too, to see the awesome strength of men serving my purposes.	10
8	368	I was startled that one such as he, seemingly so scholarly and gentle, possessed such uncompromising strength.	10
21	12	I had then, tipping and lifting the trunk, been able to slip between the two iron bands which reinforced its strength, bands which joined with the hardware of the two locks, making it impossible to cut or saw around the locks.	10
24	137	The average man of Earth had not prepared me for the virility, the strength, the possessiveness, the intelligence, the will, the power, the force, the command of the men of Gor.	10
30	337	It serves to apprise their keepers of the strength of the scent, and perhaps to some extent ventilates their frustration and expresses their excitement.	10
36	436	And perhaps therein lay their strength, that they were fully, honestly, human.	10
36	438	Were they, too, capable of humanity, not a humanity defined to promote political agendas, but a true humanity, one of strength, biology, intelligence, and rationality, a humanity emergent from nature, rather than one engineered to negate, frustrate and poison her? Surely, I thought, the men of Earth...	10
36	541	What do you think is the meaning of your size and strength, your energy and agility, your dominance? Do you think it is all some alarming, inexplicable, statistical eccentricity? Can you not see the order of nature? Is it so difficult to disclose? Why do you think men make us slaves, and put us in c...	10
36	1116	I screamed, struck, sobbing! I knew he had not struck me with his full strength.	10
36	1131	I knew he had not struck me with his full strength and, indeed, I had been struck only five times.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	34	They must be capable, with their bestial strength, of sustaining indefinitely so onerous a servitude".	10
15	60	I was pleased she did not have a man's strength.	10
16	913	"I love your strength, and your manhood," she said.	10
19	134	Indeed, only part of an arm had been fed upon and that, I suspected, had been only to generate the strength to pursue a less material objective.	10
20	310	The Kur then, with a prodigious strength, slowly lifted the flaming vat of bloodied oil over its head.	10
22	117	"Yes," said Boots, "but I suspect we may soon have to find another brawny fellow, another chap of great strength and modest talent, to help us set up the platform and tents".	10

Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	2202	"It is such strength, strength so great, that I long for in a man," she said.	10
1	237	Women respond to strength in a man.	10
4	126	He would be interested, I assumed, in such matters as the nature of their walls, the number of gates, their defenses, the strength of garrisons, and such.	10
4	275	His blow had been a simple, obvious one, and unless he had intended to use it in wearing down my strength or perhaps breaking the handle I carried, it made little sense.	10
11	203	I shall not force you beyond your strength".	10
12	87	"I am conserving my strength.	10
15	41	He was obviously a man of great strength.	10
16	340	I saw the ferocity, and the strength, and the uncompromising determination, in his eyes.	10
25	1818	How could she expect to do so, with her strength, only that of a female? But this time, even so, it seemed to me she had pulled less strongly than before.	10
25	1819	Even her small woman's strength seemed now less than it had been.	10
25	2229	"Love can be conjoined with strength.	10
25	2241	"I am the sort of woman," she said, "who wants love conjoined with strength.	10
26	601	Still, when all was said and done, her strength was only that of a female.	10
26	2044	Similarly, as suggested, the jerking of the leash, to test its strength, is good for her.	10

Book 22. (25 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1010	My strength, that of a woman, was nothing to theirs, that of men.	10
4	203	"They deserve to have us take their world from them, to be thrust aside with words and writs, to be superseded by contrived legalities, to be relegated by statutes and slogans to the peripheries of power, to become trammeled, and crippled, and incapable of action, like tied sheep, bleating contented...	10
6	413	For example, if one is not strong, one might tend to disparage strength, or claim that it is not important.	10
6	786	I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t...	10
8	35	Compared to them, her size and strength, really only that of a woman, was, like ours, when all was said and done, simply negligible.	10
10	30	I could not begin to conjecture the strength of such a man.	10
11	1210	I was grateful, but, too, I could feel the heat of his breath there, it making me uneasy, and disturbing me, and I could sense the strength of his arms.	10
11	1253	I could feel the strength of him.	10
13	773	His strength was overwhelming.	10
13	894	My yielding would not be of the sort of yieldings approved of on Earth, those mild, meaningless ripples of sensation, indicative of acceptable congenialities, the most that many of Earth, it seems, could manage, but would be rather the result of his will and power, of his enforcements and determinat...	10
14	238	I feared him as my master, of course, but I also had a considerable respect for him, for the strength, the shrewdness, and intelligence I sensed in him.	10
24	203	Even had I dared to rise, as I did not, I did not know if I, in my terror, could even have found the strength to do so.	10
24	204	Too, even if I had dared to leap up, and had found the strength to do so, I could not have escaped them.	10
25	20	In their haste, and their strength, and considering I had been a lure girl, they had not chosen to be gentle.	10
26	123	I suppose this is only to be expected, given the vitality, the masculinity, the strength of Gorean males.	10
27	63	Indeed, I had danced my beauty particularly to him, more than once, as he was the captain of these men, and his ruggedness and strength, his entire demeanor, that of a master, stirred my belly.	10
29	355	I had more than enough evidence of its ferocity and strength.	10
29	690	"Have you the strength to strike?" asked Hendow.	10
29	768	Perhaps then, while you have the strength, you will wish to attack".	10
29	819	He must have been a man of incredible strength.	10
29	885	I think only then did he fully comprehend the nature of the beasts, their power, strength, their energy, how difficult it might be to kill or disable such a thing.	10
29	1152	Do not hurt him!" "Doubtless she will not make a clean job of it, with her girl's strength," said the bearded man to Mirus, "but I am sure, in time, she will get the job done".	10
32	24	Too, it was good for Mirus to have the wagon, at least for a few days, until his strength might be fully recovered.	10
33	56	"I gather this was in deference to Mirus, who was recovering his strength".	10
34	390	How badly I had behaved! I had failed my first test with my master, whom I loved! Yet, too, I felt grandly and warmly reassured as to his strength and dominance.	10

Book 23. (12 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	584	She clutched the pommel with all her strength.	10
8	614	I drew back, decisively, on the one-strap, and the tarn screamed and smote the air with its wings, and, my servant crying out in terror and clutching the pommel, was aflight! Those who are horsemen know the exhilaration of riding, the marvelous animal, its strength, its pacings, its speed, its respo...	10
9	48	Had it not been for the strength of the bird and my start I might have been downed over the city.	10
14	40	"It is to build up your strength so that you will squirm well on the impaling spear".	10
14	159	Strength flooded into my body.	10
15	97	They would not have their full strength.	10
15	973	"Look at them," I said, "the soldiers, their glory, their strength!" "It terrifies me!" she wept, the wind moving the veil against her lips.	10
17	422	He was in age no more than a lad and she was a mature, fully grown, beautiful woman but in accord with nature's decisions, given the differential parameters involved, those of his size and strength, contrasting so markedly with hers of slightness, delicacy, softness, and beauty, he handled her with ...	10
21	364	I have nothing of their strength.	10
21	667	"Marsias," said he, "have you the strength to carry out the sentence?" The man nodded.	10
23	109	Indeed, many of the petty recalcitrances and rebellions of slave girls, and such, may be seen merely as attempts on their part to beg their masters to be strong with them, attempts somewhat like those of a child, sometimes, to reassure themselves of the reality and strength of the authority to which...	10
24	78	They would find themselves held in strength, kept in discipline, and given no choice but to yield and serve as a slave girl must, with total perfection.	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	378	Perhaps, incredibly enough, they simply did not know the disposition, strength and location of the Cosian forces.	10
1	1091	It had been strong enough to hold him, despite his size and strength, even when he had seen me, which occurrence had apparently caused him agitation.	10
16	83	I regard it as unlikely you could, with this strength, enforce an exit".	10
18	76	There are various ways in which this may be done, given the strength.	10
26	7	Though her strength was small she lent it unstintingly, unbidden, to this common task.	10
26	8	It was anomalous to see her, a lady of Ar, slipping unbidden into the marsh, eagerly, zealously, pitting her tiny strength against those recalcitrant logs, therein attempting to assist in the progress of our bulky conveyance.	10
32	163	Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body.	10
40	59	They would permit the forces from Torcadino to emerge and then, in virtue of their superior strength, on open ground, annihilate them.	10
40	63	Wisely, of course, Myron also left many troops about the city, and in special strength near the gates, lest Dietrich attempt to outwit him, by sallying forth and breaking free".	10

Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	269	We taught them that evil was good, and good evil, that strength was weakness, and weakness strength, that health was sickness, and sickness health.	10
8	84	After her whipping, reassured of the strength of her master, and that she will be kept in her place, where she belongs, and wishes to be, she curls gratefully, lovingly, at his feet, eager to serve in all ways, his to command.	10
8	245	Too, given its strength, ponderous tharlarion, together with numerous other beasts, wagons and such, could appear on it, as they had last night, for example, in staged battles, in which Lurius of Jad, by personal intervention and at great personal risk, again and again turned the tide, and triumphal...	10
8	284	Among such properties are initiative, will, command, intelligence, strength, and power, in short, with characteristics appropriate to a master.	10
8	287	Tenderness, gentleness, and such, become meaningful only in the context of, and against a background of, a temporarily suspended, perhaps even momentarily suspended, strength and command.	10
8	688	Also, accepting this principle, and knowing the strength and resolve of her master, and the uncompromising reality of the discipline under which she herself was held, she was naturally disinclined to see others escape sanctions and penalties to which she herself was subject.	10
8	954	In what other arena, and for what lesser stakes, can so much of man be summoned forth, man with his brutality, his cruelty, his mercilessness, his ruthlessness, his terribleness, these ancient virtues, and man with his devotion, his camaraderie, his fellowship, his courage, his discipline, his glory...	10
9	445	"I am not yet legally embonded!" "Thus," cried Talena, "will you learn to kneel before free persons!" Claudia struggled, but, in a moment, her small strength, that of a mere female, availing her nothing, by two guardsmen, was forced to her knees.	10
9	641	The light cord, little more than twine, but strong enough not to be broken by a woman's strength, had been knotted about her neck and then carried forward to the woman before her, where it was tied similarly, and thence forward again, suitable lengths being unwound and cut from a long spool.	10
10	214	They ape the feared enemy, and hope thereby, as though by some alchemy, to obtain his strength and success.	10
11	384	"Surely it would have been better if the bodies had been put outside," said Marcus, "that the strength of the Delta Brigade, as it is spoken of, and the effectiveness of its work, might seem displayed".	10
12	305	She tested the fiber on her wrists, subtly, attempting to do so inconspicuously, trying its snugness and strength, its effectiveness.	10
14	734	"It was cut deeply, swiftly," he said, "with strength, probably in hatred".	10
17	341	"Such things," said he, quickly, "are mere matters of blood, of instinct, of aptitude, of strength, of reflexes, of training, of practice.	10
27	241	"And as she is female," I said, "she may occasionally, curious, foolishly, particularly at first, wish to test the strength of your will, to discover, if you like, the boundaries of her condition".	10
27	246	Too, she wants to be reassured of your strength.	10

Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	199	But here I found, in this culture, that the standard of beauty is set by what women really are, in the helplessness of their hormonal richness, rather than, for some reason, the way boys often are, in their adolescence, before they achieve the girth and strength of their manhood.	10
7	386	I held to him, fiercely, with all my small strength.	10
8	369	If there were counterweights engaged then more than my strength was needed to activate them.	10
9	168	The strength of two women, combined, did not seem to me likely to be able to accomplish the task, or, at any rate, as smoothly as it had been done.	10
9	169	To be sure, there might be a lever or some such device outside which was unknown to me which would have put the task within even my strength, unaided.	10
9	171	One would not then need the strength of a man, or of the titanic beast I had seen.	10
10	49	He was a man not untypical of this world, in his size and strength.	10
10	54	In his eyes, you see, I saw the firmness of his character, the strength of his will, which was as iron.	10
10	924	Sometimes women use them for controlling other women, for they have less strength".	10
12	459	Just as men will buy one animal for speed, perhaps for racing, and another for strength, perhaps for draft purposes, they will buy another for beauty and passion, for the purposes of their compartments and furs.	10
12	488	In all their tenderness he will never let her forget whose collar she wears, and she loves him for it, his strength, and his gift to her, fully and uncompromisingly mastering her.	10
13	52	They were, it seemed, beyond her strength.	10
13	838	Too, mercifully, though he saw to it that I was well punished, he had not used his man's strength on me.	10
13	839	Only on the tenth stroke, which, before its delivery, he informed me was the last, did he let me glimpse even a particle of the strength with which a stroke, if he so chose, might be delivered.	10
13	847	"Please, do not strike me again, Master! Please, Master, do not strike me again!" I realized then what, even with so small a portion of his strength, might be done to me.	10
13	1097	"He is afraid to go to the surface," she said, "in spite of his intelligence, and his great strength, for there even children mock and ridicule him.	10
15	8	In such a place, in such a corridor, I think he, with his terrible strength, and almost like a four-footed animal, would have proved a terrible foe to almost any man, even those of this world.	10
16	287	Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...	10
24	605	In his size, his strength, his intelligence, his power, he had been fearsome enough, even then.	10
31	128	I think they did not know his strength.	10
31	425	Then it was suddenly, oddly, as though he grew in stature, in power, and strength.	10
31	729	Suddenly the pit master, with a great cry, with a great surge of strength, like a moving mountain, like a pain-crazed, maddened bull, threw from him the black-tunicked men who held him, as the mountain might have uprooted trees and tumbled boulders to the valley below, as the bull, rearing up, tossi...	10
34	122	Shackles, of course, and links of chain, if one wishes, may be forced apart, or even broken, given proper tools and sufficient strength.	10
40	31	At such times perhaps one stands in crowds, the crowds of oneself, together with one's infancy, one's childhood, one's youth, one's past, one's present, one's weakness, one's strength, in the lonely, crowded, empty silence.	10
44	276	This was not merely a matter of their much greater size and strength, enabling them to handle us as though we might be children, enabling them to do with us as they wished, nor was it a matter merely of the implacability of our bonds, denying us even the most meaningless opportunity to try to defend...	10
44	277	It was that which, more than anything else, more than their incomparably greater physical strength, more than the sternness of bonds, made us wholly, helplessly, theirs.	10
46	351	I want a man of strength, of power, one who will relish me, and desire me, with might and passion, one who will put me in my place, and keep me there, as a woman, and will see to it, to his joy and fulfillment, and mine, that I am well mastered.	10

Book 27. (15 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	1451	Amongst these sensations may be tremors of fear, a sense of uneasiness, suffusions of warmth, and an awareness of weakness, knowing that her strength is not the strength of a man.	10
7	81	"Please!" she begged, her momentary pretense to strength and resolution gone.	10
10	210	She was terribly uneasy then, stirred profoundly, these thoughts disturbing her deeply, by the sturdy legs, the width of the shoulders, the strength of the arms.	10
14	113	Let him, if he will, in defense of his failures and futility, denounce and castigate her, she whom he has never had the strength to own.	10
15	835	She crawled, squirmed, as she could, to his feet, and, summoning what little strength remained within her, pressed her lips to the bootlike sandal which had spurned her.	10
16	607	See that you, too, are groomed and cleaned! Sparkle, slave, for your master—and for all men! As the kaiila has its swiftness, and the tharlarion its strength, so you, too, have your special properties, your service, your passion, and beauty.	10
16	696	A woman is almost never beaten with the full measure of a man's strength.	10
19	585	She fastened her fingers in, about, and through the wicker, holding to it with every particle of her small strength.	10
20	373	Ellen's basket swung wildly on its ropes, and she clung to the wicker with all her strength.	10
20	496	Yet she knew that either of them could easily overcome her lesser, her slight, female's strength.	10
22	499	And one supposes that the women prefer it this way, that the men will do with them as they please, for that is part of the strength to which they long to submit.	10
24	622	You, Masters, she thought, have the power of strength, and dominance, and weapons, but I, a mere slave, and my lowly sisters, have power as well, the power of our desirability, the power of our beauty! And our power is not inconsiderable, I assure you! Who is strongest, I wonder, she asked herself.	10
24	645	Why did you have to come here, and make me miserable, reminding me of your imperious strength and mastery! I will go to a richer master! I do not think you could afford a girl whose lot number is less than seven or eight hundred.	10
27	232	She felt the strength of his hand in the softness behind the backs of her knees, and his other hand at her back.	10
27	3274	At least, she thought, it is common rope, and not a leash of knotted leather, or knotted binding fiber, because she knew that knots in such materials might be drawn so tightly that her small, delicate fingers, those of a woman, might lack the strength to undo them.	10

Book 28. (19 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	21	Too, even with the strength to bend the bow it requires additional strength to keep it bent, to steady it, and to train it on a target.	10
1	207	Size and strength are common features of the human male, and accordingly the human female, smaller and weaker, often seeks to secure and protect herself within the shelter of these features.	10
1	1237	If not, she was sure she could soon make him so, by turning his own strength against him, by dividing him emotionally, and by arranging self-conflicts which would bring him, his own confused enemy, to an uncertain and anxious balance, where she might, by as little as a breath, so to speak, move him ...	10
2	140	The strength of a human is small, compared to that of a superior species, such as that of the Kur.	10
18	121	And one need not, one supposes, remark further on the greater strength of the Kur, nor the massiveness of its jaws, the penetrability of its fangs, the capacity of its claws, particularly on the hind feet, to disembowel prey, and so on.	10
18	123	He would prefer to deal with them, or be dealt with by them, while he was in a state of strength and acuity.	10
19	41	It is not strength.	10
21	519	A praetor now approached the seventh challenger, and placed in his huge paws a gigantic ax, some ten feet in length, and double-bladed at each end, an ax which, in the grip of one such as he, one of such strength, might have decapitated a larl, and perhaps even, with three or four blows, Gor's might...	10
27	133	"I can understand," she said, "why free persons might avail themselves of such achievements, but why would they be bestowed on slaves?" "Clearly," he said, "to keep up their value, in the case of a male slave, his strength, in the case of a female slave, her beauty".	10
36	18	First, it is a weapon which requires considerable strength and skill to use effectively.	10
36	20	It requires great strength even to string the bow, let alone to draw it and fire the projectile.	10
39	60	Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion.	10
50	39	And if she does not please, she knows she will feel the lash, as any other girl, and she would have it no other way, for she is proud of her master and his strength, proud to be owned by such a man.	10
51	4	Many of the humans had now accustomed themselves to the bow, of one strength or another, but there was a considerable shortage of suitable headings for these missiles, many now being merely sharpened sticks, fletched.	10
51	93	"There is some possibility," said Cabot, "that the seeming dearth of female passion on such a world, seemingly so unnaturally pervasive, seemingly so inexplicable, is actually in its way an evidence not of the absence or weakness of female drives and needs, but of their remarkable strength, which re...	10
55	25	"The human in you may prove to be a strength".	10
73	30	"It seems, Lord Grendel," said Cabot, "that in a human weakness is sometimes found a wisdom, and sometimes a strength".	10
73	175	Cabot, with all his strength, held Lord Grendel in place.	10
79	105	"You will not be beaten as a man is beaten, with the fullness of a man's strength, and such, nor with a whip such as is used on men, say, the snake.	10

Book 29. (21 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	92	By means of these serums a given phase of maturation, say, beauty in a woman, strength in a man, and so on, may be retained indefinitely.	10
4	161	How she despised him! Women despise men for weakness, and fear them for strength.	10
5	394	In Gorean warfare, of course, as in much traditional warfare, prior to electronic sophistications, one is often uncertain of the position, strength, and plans of the enemy.	10
5	472	The strength of the maritime ubarates was surely in their fleets, not in their ground forces.	10
9	294	"I trust," said Miss Wentworth to Pertinax, "you are not toying with contemplating the possible meaning of your bestial strength, that you are not tempted to acknowledge your desires".	10
9	296	How fortunate she was that he was not Gorean! "Your strength and desires must be ignored," said Miss Wentworth.	10
10	611	"No, no!" She fought to cling to the sheet, to hold it together, before her, but her strength was nothing to that of the two men, and her fingers were pried from the sheet, and her arms were separated, and drawn to the sides.	10
14	72	Whatever world that was, I suspected, it had been a high-gravity world, one with a deep gravity well, for the strength of the tarn was considerable, far beyond what one would normally expect of an avian creature of a more typical world, such as Earth or Gor.	10
14	201	"Not all strength," said Tajima, "is of the body".	10
15	250	The slave wants strength in a master.	10
16	79	Whereas I have spoken of two hundred tarns and riders, and this seems to me acceptable, it must be understood that, like any military unit, it might, from time to time, be above or below its official strength.	10
16	96	Supplies, too, in tarn basket, may be transported by tarn, usually by draft tarns, a breed of the tarn which is bred less for speed and agility than strength and stamina.	10
18	150	Later, with new developments in metallurgy, moving toward lightness and strength, it became, once more, rather general, at least where it might be affordable.	10
18	275	"How can she be slave, if you are not master?" "I fear I lack the courage, the strength, to be a master," he said.	10
28	45	Several slaves, a few yards ahead, were thrusting against the back of a wagon, lending their small strength to the effort to free it.	10
33	4	Foes will come again, in much greater strength".	10
38	418	Secondly, bonds, in virtue of reinforcing the slave's sense of her lesser strength, her vulnerability, and helplessness, are sexually stimulatory.	10
39	36	"At what strength do you put their forces?" asked Lord Nishida.	10
40	5	Other ships, with bolder governors, many with ladders and irons, clung to her flanks, clustered about her, like insects, but their ladders were unavailing, foolish against this behemoth's sides, and what arm had the strength to cast an iron so high that it might engage the railings towering above? M...	10
41	59	It must have incredible strength".	10
42	9	My fingers seemed to stiffen and freeze, and lose their strength, but they were clenched in the fur, fastened there, like cold hooks in that cold, soaked fur.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	514	I could not have begun to match strength, nor try force, with her.	10
3	885	It is symbolic of your utter otherness, of your softness before his hardness, your weakness before his strength, your slightness before his might, your beauty and helplessness before his virility and power, your readiness before his command.	10
9	104	It takes a moment, of course, to draw a bow, and it requires strength to keep the bow drawn.	10
9	200	Whereas the tarn, in virtue of its strength, can take flight directly, interestingly, almost vertically, from a horizontal surface, they would usually, on the ship, as from a cliff, launch themselves through an arranged opening in the bulwarks, spread their wings, catch the air, and then strike thei...	10
22	228	The Pani bow is powerful but, like the common peasant bow, it, given the lightness of its missile, and that it is drawn by the strength of a human arm, can rarely tear its way through a human body, and its force, even if passing through an arm or throat, is largely spent in its passage.	10
22	323	The strike of the Tuchuk bow, short, of curved horn, requiring much strength to draw, is heavy, and, at close range, terrible, capable, like the thrust spear, of penetrating the typical four-layered shield.	10
24	330	As we had no bench slaves on board, such fellows usually found on round ships, I supposed him a recreant of sorts, spared for his strength at an oar.	10
27	97	"In what strength?" I asked.	10
30	12	Too, of course, there is fear abroad, and, should customary measures be inflicted, it is recognized that the strength of our force would be considerably reduced by the elimination of these men, this in the face of the enemy, whose attack may be imminent.	10
36	591	They crave strength, not weakness! Freed they are the bitterest and most frustrated, the subtlest and slyest of enemies.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	5	Too, on my former world we do not have the serums you take so much for granted, assuring youth and strength, youth and beauty, serums so readily available, so inexpensive and abundant, that you administer them thoughtlessly and routinely, even to such as I.	10
8	98	It is also, of course, strong, or strong enough, at least, to well exceed the strength of women.	10
8	152	The city or state, on the other hand, which has properties, farms, and such, as well as it support from taxes, often supports public festivals, concerts, performances, and contests, competitions, for example, of strength, speed of foot, archery, javelin casting, riding, singing, drama, poetry, danci...	10
9	426	I struggled, wildly, but my strength was no more than that of a child in his arms.	10
10	553	"I am a woman, with only a woman's strength".	10
15	298	I had a sense of its power, from the stall, the broken wood, from the strength of Lord Grendel, as one of its sort, from killings in the streets of Ar, from the improbable, sightless blow it had delivered, which had struck a large, grown man stumbling, reeling, yards to the side.	10
18	804	We are not men, with their large bodies, their strength, their ferocity, their callousness, their speed, and power.	10
23	15	Peasant boys, from childhood, are trained in the use of bows, preparing them for the day when they will have the strength to draw the great bow, on which day they are accounted men, suitable for mating with free women.	10
26	96	They can see in the dark! They can kill with their teeth! The strength of one is that of a hundred men! They think less of us than we of tarsk! They kill without compunction, and feast on their kills! Save me! Keep me! Sell me! But do not send me back".	10
26	115	They are powerful, and dangerous, but their strength, though considerable, would not begin to approximate that of a hundred men, though perhaps that of five or ten.	10
35	69	The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi...	10
49	136	His criteria were less strength and prowess than reliability and honor.	10
49	161	I think this would not have been possible without the determination and courage, the strength and power, the leadership, of Lord Grendel.	10
52	514	Her feelings were unimportant, but how could she forget the grass, the smell of flowers, the wind in the leaves overhead, the strength of his arms, her helplessness, his hands, his touch, his lips, his caresses, his tongue, forcing her to endure a hundred intimacies, some anticipated, some unexpecte...	10

Book 32. (16 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	17	As we lay there, the size of males, and their strength, and how different we were from them, impressed me as I think it hadn't before.	10
4	146	Little on her world had prepared her for this, for such men, their health and hardiness, their naturalness, their openness, innocence, and honesty, their unity, power, strength, possessiveness, and aggression, how they would look upon her and, without a second thought or reservation, see her as a fe...	10
11	109	Happily, most carnivores, if young, if fresh in their skills and strength, if healthy, are unlikely to attack humans, as the human is not their natural prey.	10
15	744	"Ai!" I cried, again, and again, and he could scarcely, with all his strength, hold me.	10
26	213	Javelins, whether intended for sport or war, are quite different from the typical Gorean war spear, which is commonly a weighty, formidable weapon, requiring considerable strength for its apt employment.	10
29	42	Their size and strength did not seem well proportioned to what they were given to bear.	10
29	141	I was not small, nor weak, for a typical woman, though I was far inferior in size and strength to them Doubtless they would define womanhood, and value, as they pleased, however eccentrically.	10
38	209	Too, woman's hair is excellent for catapult cordage, as it retains its strength and tensility indefinitely, and that under a variety of weather conditions and temperatures.	10
39	28	She struggled, squirming, held, pitting her woman's strength against his.	10
41	299	"It requires strength to sound it?" asked Aeson.	10
41	326	"Even when new," said Axel, "it required strength to sound it, and it is now broken".	10
44	78	His strength might pull the limbs from my body.	10
46	11	In particular, I had escaped a fearsome man, a large, impatient, powerful brute before whom I doubted I could now find the strength to stand upright, before whom I would now tremble in terror.	10
46	18	But then, soon after, he was no more at my mercy, helplessly roped by the strength of men.	10
50	808	My assailant's blows, dealt with the sides of her fists, happily, had been administered only with a woman's strength, and my rescuers had been upon her almost as soon as she had hurled herself upon me.	10
52	969	I had long sensed he was a man not only of formidable size and strength, and virility, and desire, but of formidable intellect, as well.	10

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	50	One recalled the ambush ship, and its lurking assailants, and the treacherous signals which had lured men ashore to the south, and the fate of the exploratory force, whose march and order, whose route, whose strength and weaponry, may have been as familiar to the enemy as to its own commanders.	10
1	236	"While strength remains," I said, "we might rush forth, if only to fall beneath the blades of greater numbers".	10
1	257	It is little more than a third of its original strength, little more than a third of even what survived the voyage onto the homeland".	10
2	13	This was essentially a sound military decision as the cavalry's mission would not be well served by, and might be jeopardized by, devoting a large complement of its strength to its own protection.	10
4	11	"Save your strength".	10
5	44	"Recover your strength," I said.	10
7	222	"We should have sallied forth when we had strength, weeks ago, risking all on a desperate charge," I said.	10
9	37	"Our renewed strength," I said, "is not known below".	10
11	84	Now you see him grown in strength, in skills, in learning.	10
21	172	Too, it did not seem that Tajima, no matter his will or fortitude, his agility and supple strength, could meet the rendezvous on time, bearing Sumomo, despite her lightness and small frame.	10
32	34	"Doubtless we outnumber them, even with losses!" I had, of course, no knowledge of what might be the case outside the inn, but it was brought home to me, forcibly, the common military strategy of confusing one's enemies as to the nature and quantity of one's strength.	10
36	21	"Keep up your strength".	10
38	135	Palings, in their strength, in the depth of their planting, in their securings and lashings, and such, would differ amongst themselves.	10
46	66	Whereas much is obscure here, the selections involved seem to favor early maturity in the female which increases the length of her beauty, the length of her attractiveness, the length of her child-bearing years, and such, and to postpone maturity in the male until he is capable, in strength, agility...	10
47	270	It was difficult even for the shogun, with his considerable strength, to draw back that string.	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	209	Then I was frightened, for I feared he might return the blow, and I did not doubt that such a blow, even if merely with the flat of his hand, that of a male, given his size, his strength, so much more than mine, might strike me to the side of the room.	10
3	17	Instantly I knew myself helpless, the prisoner of such strength! I looked wildly at Paula.	10
6	294	And what if my hair had been seized not by Paula, with her woman's strength, but in the single hand of a man? Might I not have hastened to be placed anywhere, to be conducted anywhere? Would I not have begged to serve, eagerly and piteously, in any manner I might? I had not realized until then how I...	10
6	489	I had the sense in them of ambition, possessiveness, aggression, strength, and will.	10
21	13	Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ...	10
27	40	But, too, my heart ached for the sight of him, his proud, splendid form, his easy carriage, the narrowness of his waist, the strength of his arms, the width of his chest, the breadth of his shoulders, his frank, piercing gaze before which, now, I feared I could not remain standing, even had I desire...	10
34	297	Now, desist, and, in some days, when you have recovered your strength, return to Victoria".	10
44	62	The voice was clear and manly; in it there was no apology for strength and manhood; such a voice carries a natural authority; perhaps it is best listened to when one is on one's knees.	10
47	13	I was sure it might, with a single blow, delivered with the strength of a Kur, fell a small tree or shatter a wall.	10
50	133	In short, Lord Grendel, with the strength and agility of a Kur, undetected, had had little difficulty in gaining access to the premises.	10
63	284	Whereas the desiderated attributes of the male slave are stamina, endurance, strength, and such, and male slaves may be driven hard and long, and treated mercilessly, the most obvious desiderated attributes of the female slave are such things as beauty, grace, softness, and femininity.	10
63	291	This is not to deny that coffled women, proportional to their stamina, size, and strength, may not be as weary, worn, driven, and miserable as coffled men.	10

Book 35. (11 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	449	She may not have the sturdy limbs, and strength of some slaves, but not all slaves need carry weighty sacks of suls or pit their strength against the straps of plows.	10
3	102	They are taught to ignore their might, judgment, strength, and agility, taught to be ashamed of the promptings of their blood.	10
6	176	The slender thongs might have been burst with a man's strength, but they were more than adequate to hold a woman.	10
12	4	My experiences on Earth had not prepared me for the typical Gorean male, free of programmed conflicts, guilts, and weaknesses, the uncrippled, unreduced male, so open, simple, honest, and direct in his unassumed, unquestioned, natural animal manhood, in his assurance, confidence, strength, and appet...	10
19	17	A natural, unapologetic, unassuming, unquestioned, taken-for-granted, powerful virility is common with Gorean males, presumably a consequence of the culture, which does not set itself, for political or social reasons, to diminish, undermine, cripple, and poison what otherwise would be a flourishing ...	10
33	169	We are at the mercy of the strength of birds, the stamina of kaiila, the beat of the long oars and the accommodations of congenial winds.	10
33	185	I cannot control the speed of tarns, the pace of kaiila, the strength of men, the whims of winds".	10
38	281	I wanted a master, a master whom I might love and serve, wholly and devotedly, who would subject me to the authority, warmth, passion, strength, and domination which I, a slave, wanted so much, for which I so much longed.	10
43	30	"We lacked the strength for an assault on the holding".	10
45	40	How well reminded I was then of the difference between my slightness and its dramatic contrast with the size and strength of men.	10
46	411	I knew she had wanted strength in her master, and now she had been reassured.	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	152	"And then little to do but lie still, and hope to sleep, little to hope for other than the strength to climb one last time to the parapet, the strength to once more unsheathe a sword, to lift an ax".	10
2	106	"State his strength, his resources," said Tab.	10
4	21	"To be sure," I said, "the greatest of teachers cannot supply the strength to draw the great bow, the eye to mark the distant target, the mind, which instantly, without thought, processes the subtleties of distance, the moisture of air, the stir of wind".	10
5	82	A single prairie sleen could bring down a kailiauk, but, given the size and danger of the kailiauk, the menace of its strength and horns, it will commonly attack one only in a pack.	10
7	39	He is a trader, familiar with winds, currents, and the strength of oarsmen.	10