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Striking

Book 1. (15 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	229	It had been like a sudden, severe electric charge, like the striking of a snake in my hand.	10
3	280	Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight, rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hu...	10
3	284	The next thing I knew his beak was open; I caught a brief sight of his thin, sharp tongue, as long as a man's arm, darting out and back, and then, snapping at me, he lunged forward, striking at me with that monstrous beak, and I heard the Older Tarl cry out in horror, "The goad! The goad!".	10
4	2	I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof.	10
4	39	Fortunately, before losing consciousness, I drew on the four-strap, and the tarn leveled out and then lifted his wings over his back and dropped like a striking hawk, with a speed that left me without breath in my body.	10
4	165	I removed my helmet, feeling proud as I heard the approval of the Council, both in voice and by Gorean applause, the quick, repeated striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand.	10
6	144	It charged, its great webbed feet striking the marsh water like explosions.	10
6	168	She was striking at Nar with her tiny fists, cursing and kicking in a manner I thought most improper for the daughter of a Ubar.	10
10	115	Nonetheless, the butt of one's lance, striking about the eye or ear openings, for there are few other sensitive areas in their scaled hides, is occasionally necessary to impress your will on the monster.	10
10	120	When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm.	10
11	96	She danced before me for several minutes, her scarlet dancing silks flashing in the firelight, her bare feet, with their belled ankles, striking softly on the carpet.	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
14	140	I could hear the curses of the tarnsmen above me and saw once or twice the flash of the striking tarn-goad.	10
15	6	The wings of a striking tarn would be cut from its body by such wires.	10
19	199	Like a striking cobra, Pa-Kur snatched up the sword.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	1	The Sleen In the darkness I stumbled on toward the walls of Ko-ro-ba, striking the stones of the road with the butt of my spear, to keep on the road and to drive possible serpents from my path.	10
14	66	The man in wrist straps, the burly fellow who had so delighted in striking me, he with the band of gray cloth wound about his forehead, approached me, his whip lifted.	10
15	16	I said no more and the bird leveled off, its wings striking the air in great rhythmical beats, alternating occasionally with a long, soaring, shallow glide.	10
23	137	The helmet had largely absorbed the blow but the blade of the striking instrument had creased the skull, accounting for the flow of blood.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	91	She gave a long, frantic, terrified, wild scream and squirmed about in the cylinder, her small gloved fists striking futilely at the strong, curved plastic walls that confined her.	10
30	75	Then it seems that a brave female, a former Mul, unidentified, had grasped the situation and, seizing a cattle goad from one of the confused, puzzled herdsmen, had rushed upon the Beetles, jabbing and striking them, driving them away with the long spearlike object, and soon the herdsmen had rushed t...	10
31	139	His weapon fired again, slicing through the top of the dome in his vicinity and striking beneath me, melting a hole in the dome below me.	10
32	89	To one side, high in the domed wall some energy bulbs burst, emitting a cascade of sparks that looped downwards burning themselves out before striking the floor.	10

Book 4. (17 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	2	The slender, flexible wand of the lance tore at the seven-layered Gorean shield, striking a spark from the brass rim binding it, as the man had lunged at my head.	10
4	57	I could hear the other three men of the Wagon Peoples, the Kataii, the Kassar, the Paravaci, striking their shields with their lances.	10
5	49	The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat.	10
5	63	One of the most striking features of these wagons is the wheels, which are huge, the back wheels having a diameter of about ten feet; the front wheels are, like those of the Conestoga wagon, slightly smaller, in this case, about eight feet in diameter; the larger rear wheels are more difficult to mi...	10
8	338	To my dismay, as he returned racing toward the circle of the boskhide whip the girl, a fine wench, managed to sink her teeth into the neck of the kaiila causing it to rear squealing and hissing, then striking at her.	10
10	264	The secret justification, I suspect, however, is that the Turian warrior is fond of meeting the enemy and acquiring his women, particularly should they be striking little beasts, like Hereena of the First Wagon, as untamed and savage as they are beautiful; it is regarded as a great sport among Turia...	10
10	265	It might also be mentioned that the Turian warrior, in his opinion, too seldom encounters the warrior of the Wagon Peoples, who tends to be a frustrating, swift and elusive foe, striking with great rapidity and withdrawing with goods and captives almost before it is understood what has occurred.	10
14	43	In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.	10
15	7	Four times masses of tharlarion cavalry had charged forth from the city but each time the Hundreds withdrew before them until the charge had been enveloped in the swirling kaiila, and then its riders were brought down swiftly by the flashing arrows of the Tuchuks, riding in closely, almost to lance ...	10
20	60	I backed rapidly along the bridge and another quarrel sped past me, striking sparks from the stone tower behind me.	10
21	316	About us there were the stamping paws of kaiila, the crying of men, the sound of arms, and always more and more Tuchuks striking the top of the wagon and bounding into the city uttering their war cry.	10
23	22	I sensed, however, that he was angry when I spoke of the probable complicity of the Paravaci with the Turians, striking when and how they did, even during the Omen Year, presumably to draw the Tuchuks away from Turia.	10
23	43	I drew on the one-strap and took the tarn into the air, striking out across the prairie skies to intercept my Thousand on its way to the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
23	68	In an instant we were embroiled among angry men—the half-formed, disorganized Hundreds of the Paravaci—striking to the left and right, shouting the war cry of the Tuchuks.	10
24	211	The two Tuchuk guards saluted us, striking their lances three times on their shields.	10
26	151	Four spears, with bronze heads, suddenly burst across the passage, emerging from circular openings, their tips striking into other small openings across the passage.	10
26	179	In that moment, uttering the Turian war cry, the young man rushed forward with his sword on Kamchak and the dozen arrows flew simultaneously, striking him a dozen times, turning him twice.	10

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	296	Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s...	10
2	148	No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table.	10
3	241	"No!" he cried, striking out wildly with a hand, trying to force me away.	10
14	153	Then she sobbed in rage and flung the chain forward, striking it on the chests, on the divan, again and again.	10
14	156	Then she sobbed and ran back to the center of the room, striking again and again the divan with the chain.	10
17	603	"Die!" she screamed, hurling herself toward me, striking with the goad.	10
19	66	One striking set of mosaics details a slave raid from its initial planning phases through the successful return of the Slavers, on tarnback, to Ar with their stunning victims; another picks up this story from the registration and training of prizes to the block of the Curulean itself; another record...	10
20	488	"Only too late did I realize its position in your plan, the feint of the four-piece combination covering your transposition into the Hogar Variation of the Centian, striking down the file of the Ubara's Scribe.	10
22	144	"Beware!" cried my fellow, he with the crossbow, and I spun to catch the wrist of a man striking toward my back with a dagger.	10
22	195	I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last.	10
22	444	The wind racing against me, I shuddered, for striking such a ring edge, at the speed of the racing tarn, might well cut a man or bird in two.	10
22	561	"Faster! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" Then, approaching the last of the left side rings, Ubar of the Skies, striking for the heart of the ring, burst between the startled Red and Menicius, who led him by perhaps four yards.	10
23	134	The knife struck the back of the chair before which I stood, striking through the wood, stopping only with the hilt.	10

Book 6. (22 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	222	I did so, fumbling in the darkness, striking together the flint and steel, sparks falling into the small bowl of dried petals of the rence.	10
8	66	The slaves in the punt, too, striking down with their glaves, shoving away tharlarion, began to cry out.	10
9	226	But these men were drunk and stumbling, and their brutal striking about, it seemed, was offensive to many at the tables, who disdained so crude an employment of a weapon of such subtlety.	10
13	130	There was some polite striking of the left shoulder with the right hand in the room, which is a common Gorean applause, though not of the warriors, who clash weapons.	10
13	245	"Stop, Slave!" cried the slave master, striking me with the butt of his whip.	10
14	479	"They are striking their masts!" came the cry from the lookout.	10
15	10	My ten search vessels had managed to bring in five of the seven missing round ships, four of which had been, foolishly, striking out directly for Telnus in Cos.	10
15	263	There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul...	10
15	338	My retainers cried out with pleasure at my generosity, many of them striking their left shoulders with their right fists in Gorean applause.	10
15	406	There were cries of pleasure from the tables, and much striking of the right fist on the left shoulder.	10
15	652	In fury, I rushed on, sometimes falling, sometimes striking against the walls.	10
15	655	I howled with rage and turned about, striking the walls with my fists and then, throwing off my cloak, spun weeping to face them, in the same instant drawing my blade.	10
16	343	Four members of the Council Guard, beneath the two great braziers set at the entrance, leaped to attention, the butts of their pikes striking on the tiles.	10
17	109	The wind was very cold now, and the Dorna shook in it, the windward waters striking at her hull.	10
17	211	My fifth wave was divided into two portions, the pincer blade striking from the north under the command of the tall, long-haired Nigel with his fifteen ships, supplemented by twenty-five of the arsenal, and the pincer blade from the south under the command of Chung, with his twenty ships, supplement...	10
17	434	A crossbow bolt dropped past me, striking into the burning deck.	10
18	37	When it was it was like a fist striking the sail and the mast screamed, and the bow, for a terrible moment, dipped in the water and then, dripping the cold waters, the bow leaped up and tilted to the sky.	10
18	523	We heard the striking against the walls of the keep of siege poles, like ladders with a single upright, rungs tied transversely on the single axis.	10
18	528	I caught sight of the boy, Fish, running past, a spear held over his head in both hands, and heard a horrible cry, long and wailing, ending with the abrupt striking of a body far below on the stones.	10
18	546	I threw a man whom I had struck, even before he died, over the parapet, striking another, who, clinging desperately to the siege pole, carried it back in a long arc with him as he fell.	10
18	592	Again we heard the striking against the walls of siege poles.	10
18	689	The boy smartly parried them, not striking his own blows.	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	323	There was only the grass and the tears and the pain of the straps, striking again and again.	10
8	695	With the other girls I applauded, striking my left shoulder in Gorean fashion, as the mountebank put his beast through its paces.	10
8	725	It struck the bars, reaching through them, its teeth grating on them, its chain striking against the iron, its claws scraping towards us.	10
9	344	And then, helplessly, she threw herself to the grass within the square, striking at it, biting and tearing at it, and then she threw herself on her back and, fists clenched, writhed beneath the moons.	10
10	626	The man, as though brought to his senses by the maddened cry of the beast, picked up the slave whip and ran to the window, striking the sleen, trying to drive it back through the window.	10
11	420	I backed away from him, and turned and, stumbling, striking into the wall of cages, fled down the hall.	10
11	1083	Four caravans had fallen spoils to the fierce, swiftly striking tarnsman of Treve.	10
11	1287	He seemed truly to be arranging for supplies, and his men, in their leisure, gambled and drank in the inns and taverns of the city, spending their time striking up acquaintances with men here and there, other tarnsmen, mostly men like themselves, from other cities, now, too, by coincidence within th...	10
12	312	The crowd of slave girls swarmed forward toward the cart with their sticks and switches, some of them even leaping upon it, spitting, and striking and poking through the bars of the high narrow cage.	10
12	317	The slave girls swarmed about the cage, poking, and striking with their switches, and spitting and cursing.	10
12	323	And huntsmen, too, angrily, now leaped to the cart, striking about them with their whips.	10
13	169	She had also shown me how to make shelters of various sorts and use a small, curved stick for striking down birds and tiny animals.	10
14	720	I heard hands striking the left shoulder in Gorean applause.	10
17	291	His woman was the striking, beautiful Telima, from the marshes, a true Gorean beauty, before whom I felt myself only an Earth woman and a slave.	10

Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	486	The girls, as the slaves were carried toward the water, swarmed about them, spitting upon them, and striking them, jeering and mocking them.	10
6	267	If it should prove necessary to storm the camp with slave nets, we would do so after a secret approach, striking decisively and fiercely from an unexpected direction.	10
6	658	They were striking their left shoulders with their right fists, repeatedly, in Gorean applause.	10
14	294	I could hear their cries of rage and need, hear their heels striking in the earth, their hands slapping at their thighs.	10
15	4	Her hands were outstretched, trying to force away the branches that impeded her progress, striking at her face and eyes.	10
15	362	"We are not the porters of a man!" It was she who was struck first with the switch by the red-haired girl, who leaped among them, striking and slashing with the supple lash.	10
15	446	"Hurry, Slave!" cried one of the girls of Hura, striking her twice again with a switch.	10
15	967	"Coffle!" cried Vinca, striking two of the girls.	10
17	140	Instantly Vinca was on the girl with her switch, striking.	10
20	115	Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another.	10

Book 9. (19 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	357	I suddenly saw the large man of Torvaldsland, he of incredible stature, seem to come alive, eyes wild, screaming, veins prominent on his forehead, mouth slobbering, striking about himself almost blindly with a great ax.	10
3	35	I saw, twenty feet from me, screaming, the giant, he of incredible stature, striking down at the kneeling people, who were crying out and trying to crawl away.	10
3	268	"Hurry, my pretties," he laughed, striking the slender blond girl, and others of them, sharply with the palm of his hand.	10
7	158	The snake is to be distinguished from the much more common Gorean slave whip, with its five broad striking surfaces.	10
8	216	With the waves, striking on rocks about, we did not hear the splash.	10
10	14	I heard hands striking the left shoulders; weapons struck on shields.	10
14	81	The axes behind me were the axes of men, and striking on wood.	10
14	189	Another beam fell, flaming and smoking from the roof, striking into the dirt floor, and leaning against the wall.	10
14	204	I saw Kurii, methodically, blow after blow, striking the fallen, lest any might have sought to hide among the dead.	10
15	371	Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across.	10
15	412	The Forkbeard thrust at it with his sword but the blade was diverted, his arm striking against stone.	10
18	2	Howling I leapt upon another, striking it before it could rise, and then another.	10
18	83	I leaped forward, striking it again, at the left hip.	10
18	96	Then he swung the pole, striking at me.	10
18	152	At its foot stood the mighty Rollo, striking to the left and right with his ax.	10
18	174	Almost as one the girls, crying out, flung themselves to their bellies among the bodies and the charge of the men of Torvaldsland, missing not a step, took its way over them, striking the startled Kurii with an unimpeded impact.	10
18	293	His charge was unleashed while the last of the bosk were still striking the western edge of the square, and other animals were streaming, bellowing, goring, through it.	10
18	578	Too, of course, the weight of such blows, particularly with the long, heavy swords of Torvaldsland, take their toll from the striking arm, as well as the fending arm.	10
22	241	"Ho!" cried Ivar Forkbeard, striking me on the back, clasping me about the shoulders.	10

Book 10. (24 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1	I do not Participate in What Occurs in a Courtyard; I Recover a Silver Tarsk The war kaiila, its claws, however, sheathed, lunged at the other animal, its clawed back feet thrusting with an explosion of sand away from the ground, its fanged jaws, bound shut with leather, striking at the man astride ...	10
3	148	On the other hand, I would have little or no chance of finding it by striking blindly out into the desert.	10
4	42	The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...	10
5	138	Aya made clear her displeasure by striking the girl several times, before she could free herself, with her customary instrument of instruction, the knotted kaiila strap.	10
7	277	The men converged at the blood, striking.	10
7	284	"It will escape!" He leaped to the barred window, striking madly about, against the stone.	10
7	285	His men followed, striking, crying out.	10
8	300	I saw it was his intention, not dismounting, to ride the kaiila against and through the tent, it striking against the beast's forequarters.	10
11	48	I noted that Hassan's men had thrown blankets over the heads of the kaiila, to prevent them from seeing the storm, and keep rain from striking their faces, which phenomenon, frightening them, tends to make them unmanageable.	10
11	189	When the sky is reflected in this rising, heated air, the mirage is even more striking, because then the surface of the "lake," reflecting the sky, seems blue, and, thus, even more waterlike.	10
11	507	An arrow had fallen within the stable yard, striking through the straw in the storage stall at the right.	10
11	528	They vaulted the edge of the roof, striking below in the stable yard.	10
12	87	I had little doubt that she was a proud, striking female.	10
12	564	And how striking the beads were upon her.	10
16	200	A man cried out, in horror, striking with a paddle.	10
17	249	It came by surprise, from the back, from beneath the surface, then without warning men screaming wood splintering amongst us seeing it striking me others too tumbling gone then men crying out arms in the water one lamp only tiny alive in that blackness.	10
17	253	I leaped from the raft, striking the surface of the water.	10
21	531	I fell, dropping, striking objects, sliding for perhaps forty or fifty feet, until stopped by a compartment wall.	10
21	590	The Kur, striking four times, fell some sixty or seventy feet, to the lowest level of the ship, past the door, well below the level of the sand outside.	10
24	702	The sentry's bar, on the wall, had finished striking the twentieth hour.	10
25	51	"You have the audacity of Hassan the bandit, to whom you bear a striking resemblance".	10
25	103	Hamid, whatever might be his guilt in the matter of the striking of Suleiman Pasha, had obviously fought with the men of the Salt Ubar, and had raised his blade against his own tribe, the Aretai.	10
25	231	She wept, striking wildly.	10
26	14	The sun was now striking the east wall of what had been the kasbah of Abdul, Ibn Saran, who had been the Salt Ubar.	10

Book 11. (20 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	46	He approached the camp singing, and striking his spear blade on his shield.	10
3	49	They shouted, and clasped him, striking him upon the back and laughing.	10
4	520	He had kept me from striking into the cliff wall behind the camp.	10
5	281	"Naughty, naughty, salacious slave!" cried the Lady Sabina, striking her.	10
5	347	"Stand! Stand!" I ran, stumbling, striking branches and brush away from me.	10
7	285	"Now!" said Lehna, crying out, striking her.	10
8	261	Then he struck me twice, once striking my head to the right, and, then, with the back of his hand, lashing it to the left.	10
9	1369	At the same time Bran Loort himself struck down at me with the rope he carried, striking me across the shoulder and neck.	10
9	1409	There they held my wrists about a tree and, striking many times, put me under rope-discipline.	10
9	1758	Bran Loort hesitated only an instant, and then he struck down, the staff stopped, striking across Thurnus's turned shoulder.	10
9	1759	It had been like striking a rock.	10
12	422	The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th...	10
12	515	I heard the striking of swords.	10
16	239	Then I, too, was thrown through the hatch, striking the stairs, rolling, chained, tumbling, to the flooring of the hold.	10
20	257	She crouched beside me, striking down at me with her fists.	10
22	580	I struck down, striking again and again at the thing.	10
27	193	But I saw his hand reach out and seize a paga cup which he drained while men fought over him, struggling to pound upon him, largely striking one another.	10
28	115	The contrast between her dark hair, and her naked arms and legs, and the bit of white fluff about her, was quite striking.	10
28	316	Then one man rose to his feet, striking his left shoulder.	10
28	318	Soon the crowd was on its feet, cheering and striking their left shoulders.	10

Book 12. (17 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	458	I heard the ship's bell, in the great hall, striking.	10
6	243	I nodded to them and, together, grinning and striking one another in their pleasure, they withdrew.	10
9	38	"Perhaps now," I said, "you might succeed in striking me with your dagger".	10
10	154	Instantly guards were on the fellow, striking him with spear butts and pulling him from the girl.	10
10	300	He pushed his way amongst us, striking to the left and right.	10
12	247	In a moment a small woman, a girl of the red hunters, fiery and very angry, was striking it.	10
12	248	She stopped striking my back primarily because I turned to face her.	10
12	249	She was then, however, striking my chest.	10
13	13	Urine can freeze before striking the ground.	10
14	92	She then rushed forward, striking down at me with the heavy, flat pan.	10
20	34	He was now striking on it and singing.	10
23	128	In moments the Kur would be surrounded by a swarm of men, screaming, striking at it, hurling their weapons into its body.	10
26	189	Striking iron pyrites together she showered sparks into tinder, dried grass from the summer.	10
26	261	He kicked at a sleen which was leaping toward me, striking it in the snout.	10
30	240	I leaped into the tiers, slashing and striking.	10
30	256	I shielded myself from one fellow with a tubular weapon while striking at another.	10
35	48	"Aiii!" cried the first man, as I leaped upward, striking him aside with my right hand.	10

Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	680	I think he, or they, or both, will be very interested in striking up an acquaintance with our lovely prisoner below".	10
4	638	There were cheers from the men present, and Gorean applause, the striking of the left shoulder with the right hand.	10
4	643	Then the she-urts who had accompanied me to the station of the praetor, kicking and striking with their ropes, fell upon the bound slave.	10
5	25	Sasi enjoyed this, standing over the blond girl with a strap, striking her when she made mistakes.	10
11	54	"Behold!" she said, striking a pose.	10
14	705	"Have you never wondered," I asked, "what it might be like, men with whips standing near you, to dance naked in the firelight, your feet striking in the sand, before warriors?" "Yes," she said.	10
16	1	Kisu "Get back!" I shouted, striking at it with the shovel.	10
16	12	Its gigantic tail thrashed, striking a man, hurling him back a dozen feet.	10
23	333	I had seen, from his striking the fellow in the chain, that he had been in agreement with me as to the advisability of proceeding westward.	10
27	202	For the first time then they begin to have some sense of the profound and explosive meaning of their beauty, biologically, socially, sexually, and its striking desirability, its latent value, things scarcely considered before.	10
29	40	That a slave has irritated one in the least particular is, of course, more than enough reason for striking her.	10
29	41	Indeed, one does not need a reason for striking a slave.	10
29	52	"Surely one needs a reason for striking a slave," she said.	10
44	107	Some of the small men then hurried about the depression striking at the beast with palm leaves, distracting it, infuriating it.	10
47	88	Others tore palm leaves from the roofs of huts, striking about them.	10
47	123	Kisu suddenly seized a man and hurled him about, striking him repeatedly with the butt of his spear, beating him as though he might be an animal.	10
48	69	He struck out at me and I blocked the blow and, striking him in the stomach and then across the side of the face, sent him grunting and sprawling to the debris of the jungle floor.	10
53	280	I slipped to the side and caught him with the panga, striking across the hip and lower abdomen.	10

Book 14. (14 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	788	The whiteness of her breasts, as I could see them, and of her throat, was striking.	10
3	29	She was muscular and strong, but her figure was striking.	10
3	471	Her figure was striking.	10
11	140	I heard the striking together of stones, probably iron pyrites, and saw sparks.	10
11	608	Once we heard, in the distance, the striking of a gong.	10
19	7	Too, it is similar to the loosened arrow, which has its greatest swiftness, and maximum striking power, immediately after being sprung from the string, immediately after leaving the bow.	10
19	9	The outer surfaces, or striking surfaces of the gunni are usually shallowly rounded, being slightly convex.	10
20	4	He threw himself at me, fists striking.	10
20	118	We heard the striking of the long bar from near the pit.	10
22	20	There was polite applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from those at the tables, including the Lady Florence.	10
25	95	"Yes," smiled Kenneth, striking me on the shoulder.	10
26	99	They landed on the wide bed, striking into the soft covers.	10
27	276	Swiftly I lashed her face, back and forth, striking her twice, first with the palm of my hand, and then with the back of it.	10
27	353	I found the lantern on its outjutting perpendicular and, in a few Ehn, adding some oil, turning up the wick and striking some pyrites together, relit it.	10

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	132	There was Gorean applause in the room, the striking of the right palm on the left shoulder.	10
4	169	It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda.	10
6	26	Ar's committed infantry had been outnumbered but its mobility and its support by their tarn cavalry had compensated to some extent for its lack of weight as a striking force.	10
19	25	When he stood in about a foot of water, among pilings, near the next wharf, he struck down madly at his legs with his left hand, striking two dock eels from his calf.	10
19	64	Several of the men about, striking their shoulders in the Gorean fashion, applauded the merchant.	10
21	38	Dalliance is discouraged by means of long-bladed whips and the prodding and striking of reversed lances.	10
23	314	There was applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the tables.	10
31	183	"Nothing!" called the pirate who had been striking me.	10
32	266	I reached for the blade and, as I did so, he rushed upon me, and I met the blade, striking downwards, with a flash of steel and a shower of sparks.	10

Book 16. (21 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	There was a great sound, the hitting of the huge chain by the galley, a sound as of the striking of the chain, and then the grating sound, scraping and heavy, of the chain literally being lifted out of the water.	10
1	164	We slid along the chain, then, the oars on our starboard side striking loose the wicker shielding of another longboat, too close to the chain, and spilling men into the water.	10
3	47	Beyond that ship we could see another galley, too, but this one was striking at the chain.	10
3	91	Here and there, at the chain, again and again, pirate galleys were striking at the great links, and then backing away, and then again, patiently, renewing their attack.	10
4	195	That island of wood in the midst of the Vosk, those grating, striking ships, twisted at the chain.	10
6	27	Men leaped from it into the water, mixing in the water with the striking oars of the Voskjard's ship.	10
7	21	There was a movement in the water behind me, and I twisted suddenly to the side, turning, and catching the arm, its knife in hand, striking toward me.	10
9	11	The girl was lifted up, by her bound arms, by two men, and hauled over the bulwarks, the board and packet striking against the side of the ship, with her.	10
10	187	I saw two pirates, cut from the steps, fall twisting and striking against stone to the sea yard below.	10
16	10	I saw a single man on the roof, striking it with a great hammer.	10
16	15	Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse.	10
16	100	The flagship of Policrates moved backward a dozen feet or so, and then again, striking against another ship, or the same, came again to a stop.	10
16	438	With two hands holding the sword he stumbled toward me, exhausted, striking downward.	10
18	730	With the fur-wrapped striking surface of the stick, removed from its rack, I smote the gong, once, smartly, decisively.	10
19	709	Then suddenly she screamed, struck by the Gorean slave lash, her body stripped, stumbling across the room, striking against the wall, at whose foot she fell.	10
20	162	There was applause for me about the table, the striking of the left shoulder in Gorean fashion.	10
20	533	There was applause for this at the table, the gentle striking of left shoulders, for she had done it well, and the significance of a woman's unbinding her hair before a man is well understood on Gor.	10
20	808	His right hand, in a backhand blow, lashed forth, fierce and powerful, striking her from her knees to her side on the tiles.	10
20	918	I observed the dancer, closely, the striking of her small, clenched fists on the tiles, the scratching of her fingernails at their smooth surfaces, the turning of a hip, the flattening of a thigh, the lifting of a knee, the turning of her head, the piteous scattering of her hair from side to side.	10
21	146	I cuffed her, backhanded, striking her from her position to her side on the love furs.	10
21	498	Perhaps you remember how striking were such animals, and how you enjoyed seeing them, and admiring them.	10

Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	941	He rides close to the animal, not a yard from its side, just outside the hooking range of the trident, to supplement the striking power of his small bow.	10
1	1060	The range and striking power of the small bow, while not negligible, do not compare with that of the peasant bow, or long bow.	10
6	16	Indeed, I had heard the striking of the time bar, mounted on the roof of the Administrator's store, as I had approached the town's outskirts.	10
6	80	It has considerable striking power, it may be kept ready to fire almost indefinitely, and, for most men, it is easier to fire with accuracy from the saddle than the straight bow.	10
6	85	While this procedure permits the rider to reload without dismounting and tends to improve, at some cost to striking power, the bow's rate of fire, it still provides, in my opinion, no adequate compensation for the loss of rapidity of fire.	10
8	1100	"Your coffle," I said, "is striking, an assemblage of chained beauties.	10
10	106	Then, hopefully, when the pursuers were strung out, over pasangs, we would turn back on them and, two to one, one engaging, the other striking, finish them off.	10
11	128	The switch lashed down, striking her on her small shoulder.	10
14	505	The two friends of the Dust Leg shouted out with pleasure and, striking him about the shoulders and back, congratulated him on his good fortune.	10
14	1035	He then made the sign for woman, followed by a downward striking motion, as though holding a switch.	10
14	1139	I then, quickly, brought my right index finger down, striking into the space between the index finger and second finger of my left hand.	10
17	208	I saw one of the infantrymen kill a cavalryman, striking him from behind with his pike, and take his kaiila.	10
19	330	"Canka," said the young warrior, striking himself on the chest with his fist.	10
19	410	"Akicita hemaca!" I said angrily, in his own language, striking myself on the chest.	10

Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	488	Some of the larger stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail.	10
1	417	I heard its paws, suddenly, striking the turf, the sound rapidly diminishing.	10
3	8	She was dressed, and adorned, in all the colorful, glittering, striking barbaric richness, in all the impressiveness and splendor, in all the festive display, fit for feasts and dances, of a red-savage female.	10
3	79	"It is the tree!" suddenly cried Cancega, rushing to the tree and striking it with the medicine wand.	10
3	111	In a moment there was a cracking noise, and then, after a few more blows, a splintering, rending sound as the tree tipped, and then, its branches striking the earth, fell.	10
6	20	Almost at the same time, suddenly, about a bend in the draw, turning, lurching, its shoulder striking the side of the draw, its feet almost slipping out from under it, in its turn, in the soft footing, covered with dust, its eyes wild and red, foam at its nostrils and mouth, some twenty-five hundred...	10
6	28	The thudding now became thunderous, striking about the walls, seeming all about us.	10
9	431	"Do not whip me!" But I laid the quirt to her well, five times, first striking her from her hands and knees to the robes, and then, as she twisted and rolled, helpless to avoid the blows, lashed her upon them.	10
13	115	"Splendid," said one of the lads, an older one, striking his thigh.	10
18	338	"Lying slave!" cried Iwoso angrily, lunging at me and striking me.	10
19	61	"I do not think Watonka would have paid us attention," I said, "except that Iwoso leaped at me, striking me, crying out that I was a lying slave".	10
24	8	Had he a shield he might have sought an inside attacking position, fending to the left, striking then toward the opened center.	10
24	31	I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...	10
26	71	They are heavy enough to have considerable striking force in saberlike trajectories and light enough to have something of the swiftness and play of the foil.	10
37	523	We heard a sudden, striking, thudding sound.	10
40	66	"Can you not see? She is a slave!" Radish ran about the fire and struck Mira, striking her to her side on the dirt floor.	10
42	68	The birds, wings snapping and striking, their backs almost vertical, the men leaning forward on them, were an impressive sight.	10
44	452	More kaiila rushed forward, charging behind them, striking into the bloody, halted mass.	10
44	486	These stones, striking down, could not fail to find marks.	10
46	170	Some, even, had plunged bounding, and turning and striking, from plane to plane, to the grass.	10
47	110	There, concealed by day and trained by night, and housed within striking distance of Council Rock, they had waited for our signal.	10
54	309	These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the...	10

Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	4	"The resemblance is truly striking," said the second man.	10
1	71	"Yet the techniques used in striking this coin have not been used, as far as I know, for centuries".	10
1	288	"You bear a striking resemblance to someone else," he said.	10
6	421	Surely they seemed eager to applaud, striking their left shoulders, particularly fine thrusts or particularly tight, fierce passages.	10
7	188	Then, suddenly, I felt the two bracelets flung about my wrists, striking them, encircling them and snapping shut.	10
10	65	I was flung then from his shoulder, striking my own shoulder against a wall, and sliding down to the street.	10
11	104	Too, I think she is probably even more beautiful than you, though the resemblance is truly striking.	10
12	107	It was a dull, striking sound, coming as though from a great distance.	10
12	126	I heard a splintering in the distance, and then, in a moment, a new striking, doubtless on the interior gate.	10
13	3	Before this I had heard the screams of the crowd outside the doors, their shouting and pounding, then the striking of a heavy beam against the door.	10
15	356	There seemed suddenly a storm of wings in the air, and I heard the striking of tarn talons on the platform.	10
16	44	The porter then went to the tharlarion and pushing at it and striking it, urged it forward.	10
16	180	It is also regarded as a more aesthetic chaining arrangement than its opposite, the neck chain, for example, with its linearity, and its sturdy, inflexible links, affording a striking contrast with the softnesses, the beauties, of her lovely bosom.	10
22	99	It swung down on its hinges, striking against the wagon.	10
30	462	She stumbled suddenly at the wall, almost striking it, and then had her feet under her.	10
30	600	"Surely you can see the striking resemblance," said Miles.	10
33	25	There was Gorean applause at this point, the striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the hand.	10
36	1273	It had doubtless been good for me, of course, to degrade and shock me, to humiliate me, to further confirm my bondage upon me, as might the brand or collar, that of a mere female of Earth, negligible before him, a Gorean male, but the contrast with the lovely complexities and beauties of Gorean had ...	10

Book 20. (8 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	717	I gathered, from the cries of pleasure, from the clapping of hands, the striking of hands on shoulders, that the new slave might be proving not unacceptable.	10
1	741	There was a striking of shoulders in Gorean applause.	10
9	406	The fellows applauded Boots, admiringly, striking their left shoulders in Gorean applause.	10
14	322	It reverberated in the area, striking against the nearby cliffs, the stones and outcroppings, rebounding, resounding, again and again in that natural bowl, torturing the ear, tearing and shocking the air, seeming as though it must affright and terrify even the clouds themselves, which seemed to flee...	10
20	251	Then another, and another, to scattering men, to wildly striking weapons, and then the last! "Behind the ubar's box!" said the beast to me.	10
20	269	I darted between two groups of men, each striking down at a twisting sleen.	10
20	295	"Aiii!" cried a man, striking with his foot against an object on the sand.	10
22	254	We stood for a long time, all of us, on the summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	444	Then the whip flashed forth again, like a striking snake, and she, struck once more, sobbing, stumbled back on the road.	10
4	292	I refrained from striking him.	10
5	64	"I must warn you," I said, "that even outside the wagons striking fellows on the head and taking their purses is often frowned upon".	10
16	1490	Many were brightly colored, and set with bold stripes, and various striking designs and patterns.	10
26	184	There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di...	10
27	203	My right hand, reflexively, flew up, striking her across the mouth, lashing her head back.	10

Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	304	My bare feet sounded strange to me, striking on the surface of the stairs.	10
10	335	I heard the striking of small pebbles against the outside of the wicker.	10
11	299	I could hear the striking of goblets more often now on tables.	10
11	985	There was a thunder of applause, the striking of the shoulders in the Gorean fashion, and, too, the crashing of goblets on the tables.	10
20	192	Too, the Gorean peasant tends to be a master of the "peasant bow," a weapon of unusual accuracy, rapidity of fire, and striking force.	10
22	98	"Sometimes," he said, "I think a lure girl should be less beautiful, less striking, perhaps, than you.	10
29	612	See Mina, and Cara! Both are beautiful! You can put sword claim on us all!" Mirus, in fury, lashed back with his hand, striking Tupita from him.	10

Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	15	Ahead, and on the plateau of the inn, I saw the large wooden sign, on its chains, jerked in the wind, striking about, pelted with rain.	10
1	333	This was a reference to an old form of grinding, for some reason still attributed to Priest-Kings, in which a pestle, striking down, is used with a mortar.	10
1	354	Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among Priest-Kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, the rumbling of their chariots, the trampl...	10
7	26	The striking of a piece of kindling on the tub, for example, rather on the left of the tub, seemed to cause distress to the bather.	10
10	406	More quarrels struck about me, bursting chips from the wall, some striking me like stinging pebbles, then, at last, after a seemingly endless ascent, hands burning and raw, I was at the height of the wall, some eighty feet above the embankment, and hands reached out, seized me, and pulled me inward,...	10
15	108	At that instant I lunged forward and the nearest guard had barely time to turn his head before I caught him, and his fellow, taking them together, striking them with great force, I sprinting, thrusting, they off balance, and blasted them back, one loosened, sprung quarrel skittering about the room l...	10
17	201	I returned to my original place to meet him, but suddenly, just as he was coming within reach, I heard a sound like a fist striking leather, it came from his back, and he looked surprised, and then stiffened on the ladder and threw back his arms and head, and, twisting, plunged downward.	10
17	424	She half fell once, losing her footing, striking against the right side of the stone stairwell, but he kept her upright, his hand then literally about her thick leather collar, and then, in a moment, now again on a short leash, I saw her drawn about the corner, toward the line of rings below and in ...	10
18	212	We heard, too, the sounds and screams of those swept, as by a flood, from the landing, and from the sides of the walkway, striking into the water.	10
18	393	Few quarrels fell now at the entrance to the walkway, for those upon the wall must now fear the striking of their own men.	10
21	972	For example, in a Gorean marketplace, in a plaza or bazaar, even in a crowd, it is easy to pick out, instantly, the slaves, given the striking brevity of their tunics.	10

Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	949	Men rose up, crying out with pleasure, striking their left shoulders.	10
9	24	The fellow there thrust out, striking me in the back with the paddle.	10
13	468	Already the stones might be striking together beneath the water.	10
14	193	"But the striking is now rhythmical," I said.	10
14	244	Men were hurrying about with torches, with spears, striking at tharlarion.	10
14	284	In an instant I heard the first strike, a sound like a fist striking a chest, and saw a fellow reeling among the tharlarion.	10
17	250	All about me was screaming, sounds of misery, the striking about, the slapping, the cursing of men.	10
17	258	I cursed, striking against a bar.	10
18	64	Then, suddenly it seemed the very air was filled with swiftly moving bodies, pelting, striking even into one another.	10
18	222	The striking of his blade in the water had moved the float.	10
18	256	I suspected that these sharks had been drawn to the bar by the striking about of the sword of Plenius in the water.	10
19	117	Its shadow was then over the water, rapidly approaching, and, in a moment, its clawed feet striking down into the sand, it alit on the beach, much where it had been before.	10
19	171	I picked up a large rock and threw it against that huge body, striking it on wingskin stretched between its leg and arm, on the left.	10
19	756	I did not attack its feet for fear of striking the girl.	10
28	350	I heard the sound of striking against her body, the subjection of it to the blows of a fellow's mastery and joy.	10
39	37	There was much skilled staff work in progress, the staffs often behaving in unison, circling about, changing hands, striking on the floor together, seeming to poke at the victim, to strike her and such.	10
39	65	There was much Gorean applause, the striking of the left shoulder with the palm of the right hand.	10
44	260	He then lashed her head back and forth, several times, striking first with the flat of his hand, then the back, alternating.	10
46	406	I used the rod, however, only for striking twice on the bars.	10
48	439	He then cuffed her savagely, in his hatred, and fury, striking her to her side in the dirt.	10

Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	748	Then, the dance ended, men striking their left shoulders in Gorean applause, shouting their vociferous approval, some armed warriors striking their shields with spear blades, she sank to the ground, on her back, breathless, breasts heaving, covered with a sheen of sweat, before her master, her left ...	10
2	210	He then struck her with the back of his hand, striking her to one side, and she fell, turning, to her knees.	10
7	72	At intervals, for which they watched eagerly, receiving the permission of a supervising Taurentian, they would rush forward, striking the helpless figure.	10
7	82	Gnieus flinched, several of these small missiles striking him.	10
7	533	It now seemed quiet at the park of the Central Cylinder, save for the sounds of the workmen, striking apart the boards of the platform.	10
9	3	There were cheers, and applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the crowd standing about the edges of the huge, temporary platform, the same which had earlier served near the Central Cylinder for the welcoming of Myron, in his entrance into the city.	10
9	480	Then she was pulled down the ramp and, men jeering her and striking at her, buffeting and bruising her, was thrown on her knees before me, to be added to the chain.	10
22	597	I do not think that he intended striking her that time, incidentally, but was only threatening to do so.	10
28	51	Well could I imagine Seremides storming about, striking subordinates, denouncing his staff, threatening his officers, and all Ar, overturning furniture, tearing down hangings, picking up the pen, putting it down again, spilling ink, shouting orders, rescinding them, issuing them again, and demanding...	10

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	732	Surely they could not be used upon us! Surely these men, these leonine males, like gods and beasts, did not regard us as being subject to such attentions! But somehow I suspected that these men, these unusual males, these incredible males, our striking, magnificent captors, were not likely to be pat...	10
7	761	The two small, sturdy, pretty bracelets, hanging at her right hip, made a tiny noise, striking together, as she assumed the position.	10
11	1014	I heard the striking of shoulders behind me.	10
13	402	If the latch were sprung now she would plunge perhaps twenty yards before striking the surface of the pool.	10
16	203	Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for s...	10
19	421	The musicians in the crowd were now again striking up a tune.	10
31	591	"Aargh!" cried one of the bowmen reeling back, his face a mass of blood within the helmet, the quarrel slashing into the wall to the right of the prisoner, gouging the wall, showering sparks and the other, too, was buffeted to the side by his fellow, his own quarrel spitting, too, to the side, to th...	10
31	593	As it had left the wall it had, with all the violence of the forces imposed upon it, whipped to the peasant's right, striking the nearest bowman on the side of the head.	10
38	156	What did it matter if, returned to her house, she might writhe and squirm in tears in her bed, striking her pillows in need? I think she now feared only that the ransom might be paid.	10

Book 27. (21 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	119	That device now, due to the absence of footwear and the shorter nature of her new garment, appeared even more striking, more meaningful and lovely, on her ankle.	10
7	178	Then, laughing, pursuing her, running behind her, taking turns, striking one calf and then the other, the other two joined in the sport, and she fled weeping before them, on burning feet, crying out in misery, in shame, frequently and muchly stung.	10
8	157	Perhaps it was merely your appearance, suddenly striking someone with a telling import, nothing you could have anticipated, or prevented, or how you moved, or how you spoke a given word, or phrase.	10
8	212	Her figure was even more striking than on Earth.	10
9	167	Twice he asked her to gesture, in such a way that he might hear the tiny sound of the two bracelets striking against one another, as though so accidentally.	10
16	581	What a striking contrast such small, lovely figures, with their tiny tunics, and bared limbs, afforded to the more common denominator of the large, massive, generally male, generally robed throngs through which they threaded their way.	10
17	812	The rain pelted against her, mercilessly, and she felt it run about her body, and, striking the cement, splash up, against her, like spray.	10
17	917	She drew back, with a rattle of chain, cringing, and closing her eyes, as he lifted his hand, as if to cuff her, but then he had lowered his hand, without striking her, as though such an admonition might be wasted on so stupid a slave.	10
18	386	He will know, too, her every tiny blemish, and will commonly see them as interesting and delightful, as making her different or special in her way, or perhaps as beauty marks or patches, whose presence cunningly serves to enhance, by striking contrast, the beauty of the owned wholeness of her.	10
18	712	What a boon, what a privilege it is, to breathe such air, such exuberant air, to see such sights, so striking, so splendid and colorful, to taste fresh, natural foods, not aged and stale, not tasteless, not saturated with alien chemicals! And see how these men love their world and their cities, thei...	10
19	193	"Forgive me, Master!" But the officer had put his left hand in her hair, to hold her in place, and he then lashed her face back and forth, striking her twice, first with the stinging flat of his right hand, then with the slashing back of the right hand.	10
20	444	The first then lifted itself from the water, furiously beating its soaked wings, plunging down, striking the water, then sweeping up again, the wet feathers scarcely sustaining its flight.	10
20	609	These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects.	10
23	100	Mirus reached down and struck her with the back of his hand, striking her to the rug.	10
24	448	Given the Gorean applause, the striking of the left shoulder, the callings out of the men, Ellen supposed that Dara, upon returning to the area of preparation area, would be flushed with insolent triumph.	10
27	157	Incidentally, the penalties for a slave's striking, or attempting to strike, a free person are severe.	10
27	1002	She feared that the smallest movement, the tiniest sound, the most diminutive influence, might prove critical, like the smallest jarring, or jostling, like a small thing which might tip a balance, a carelessly dislodged pebble that releases an avalanche, the particle of static electricity which trig...	10
27	2088	There was suddenly a sound, a striking, as of a fist struck quickly, sharply, yet softly, into a chest, and the soldier atop the tharlarion wagon, he surveying the prairie, stiffened, stood unnaturally still for a moment, and then, half turning, knees buckling, tumbled from the surface of his post, ...	10
27	2293	She clung to the wheel to which she was fastened, and it spun beneath her, and she turned with it, and then, to her misery, she felt the wagon rock backward, and it was falling away, toward the ground, and she nearly slipped from the wheel to which she clung, and then, as the wagon heavily righted i...	10
30	574	"Be silent!" he cried, and, mad with passion, cuffed her, striking her head to the side but she turned back, instantly, her mouth bleeding, kissing at his body, leaving small, bright prints of blood upon it.	10
30	676	Someone may be thoughtfully considering how you might look in sirik, that striking custodial device with its collar, the connecting chains, the wrist and ankle rings, or conjecturing, taking notes, on your likely value, as he watches you, what you might be expected to bring on the slave block, first...	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	406	But Grendel who had anticipated this device hurled himself to the sand below this flighted granular torrent, and swept his bar across the sand, striking the now-again-turned attacker frontally across the legs, some inches above the ankles, and the attacker, with a bellow of agony, fell forward into ...	10
2	3	Had there been air in the hallway there might have been much screeching of metal, and the ringing of ovoid containments striking the floor, rolling, crashing into one another.	10
2	353	At this point Cabot, who had hitherto for some time remained inert, seemingly crushed and defeated, reconciled to whatever might lie in store for him, in the grasp of his captor, suddenly lashed back with his elbow, striking sharply, heavily, as an ax, into the ribs of the Kur who held him, who, sta...	10
19	1	The Intervention of the Steel Larl There was suddenly above Cabot a rushing sound and a torrent of fire and Cabot turned his head away, half blinded, and was barely aware of the gigantic, headless trunk above him, the parts of arms, striking about him, and the charred particles of parts of a blacke...	10
19	116	There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th...	10
21	453	Whatever the clue might have been, a pressing of a paw into the sand to gain leverage for a blow, an intake of breath prior to striking, a tiny sound of harness, perhaps even the slick, shifting of a grip, to take advantage of a less-moist, drier surface, Grendel threw himself to the side and the mi...	10
36	73	A mighty warrior confronted by two foes is often doomed, one foe engaging and the other striking.	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
55	203	Cabot shaded his eyes, and narrowed them, but he saw little other than the grass, the cliffs and rocks behind it, the massed cattle, forward, in the plain, and two, only two, killer humans beginning to move through the herd, slowly, deliberately, watchfully, thrusting or striking one beast or anothe...	10
56	185	Cabot could hear the sounds of fighting, of grappling, the hiss of weaponry, the striking of blades, axes, doubtless, into shoulders and flesh.	10
56	211	"We gave them the opportunity, if not of redemption, in their own eyes," said Lord Grendel, "at least that of striking a blow for the world".	10
60	61	"Kur ways, such as striking first, retaliating instantly, seeking vengeance, annihilating an enemy, eliminating weakness, punishing failure, improving the folk, pledging loyalty, and keeping it, unquestioning obedience to command, ruthlessness, breeding for Kur virtues, power and energy, savagery, i...	10
80	224	Cabot then heard the striking of hands on the left shoulder, surely from the human males present.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	176	In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi...	10
5	102	Might not a knife swiftly, like a striking viper, dart from its sheath, find its home in a startled heart, and might not the very body of that heart serve an assassin as shield, sheltering the assailant from the vengeance of the crossbows' metal-finned, soon-flighted penetrant iron? I pretended to e...	10
9	191	The camp seemed to be, more than anything, a lumber camp, for logging was in process in the vicinity, and one, not unoften, heard the striking of axes, the crash of falling trees.	10
16	136	The range and striking power of the stirrup bow somewhat exceeds that of the short bow, and the range of the crank-and-ratchet variety exceeds that of the stirrup bow.	10
17	110	Elsewhere another riderless tarn was pinning a fellow to the earth with one taloned foot, and striking at him with its beak.	10
19	92	"He came to the sound of striking steel," said another.	10
26	101	How often had I fallen short of my codes! How striking are the enlargements of time! And one supposes, as well, that there must be a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes, better men, nobler men, who have no songs.	10
37	39	The blows of great hammers were striking away the chocks that held the ship of Tersites in place, on the great sloping frame.	10

Book 30. (25 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	6	Even on deck one could hear the crunch of their boots on the ice below, the striking of the posts downward, each handled by two men, on the ice, the sharp crack of the Torvaldslander axes striking on the horizontal, encroaching wall that seemed about to encircle the mighty ship.	10
14	136	It then, dragging its burden of sharks, its victim still struggling in its jaws, dove, and the snap of that great tail, striking upward, tipped us, and then, striking downward, propelling that enormous bulk, clove our galley, and we were plunged into the water.	10
1	116	The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ...	10
2	71	But I heard some men about, striking their left shoulders.	10
3	381	And I then heard heavy blows against the wood, the striking of some tool".	10
3	385	'She has fled! I will open the door!' I lifted away the bars, and the door burst inward, striking me to the side.	10
8	5	It was quiet, except for the men below, outside, moving on the ice about us, with their staves, posts, and axes, striking at the ice.	10
9	287	I saw him disable another man, and then twice slash his face, once on each side, and then his blade, swift as a striking ost, entered the throat and withdrew, only a hort, but enough.	10
11	42	Several of the men were striking their left shoulders with the palm of their right hand.	10
12	54	We had had two hail storms of great severity when farther north, storms such as those which, in the Barrens, north and east of the Voltai, sometimes decimate flocks of migrating birds, striking them from the sky, flocks which, obedient to their hereditary imperatives, refuse to land and seek shelter...	10
13	8	The odor of these enormous fields of growth, alive, rocking and swaying in the sea, with their ubiquitous, massive blossoms, yellow, and purple, which had struck me one night some weeks ago as so pervasive, striking, and unpleasant, was doubtless as physically present as ever, but, interestingly, on...	10
14	320	He would prepare carefully for the kill, feinting, darting, keeping the blade forward of my grasp, but slashing, striking, again and again, at the hand, from which he might sever fingers, or slash a wrist, disabling the hand.	10
16	194	I also heard a striking at the sides of the great ship, like a rain of wood, and smelled burning pitch.	10
16	202	I heard more striking of arrows into the hull.	10
22	150	I turned about, and saw the galley of Turgus, oars striking the water, drawing away.	10
22	154	The tumult, the confusion, the striking of oars, the splashing of men in the water, had doubtless attracted the attention of marine predators, presumably sharks.	10
22	186	Another was striking downward and I managed to bend forward and catch it behind the blade, though I was forced down to one knee.	10
22	232	I heard, for the first time at this range, the sudden, unmistakable sound, so solid, so quick and frightening, of an arrow striking a body, and then its repetition, again, and again.	10
22	234	Then, again and again, I heard the striking of arrows, one following on another, into the inert barriers, once alive, interposed between us and the Pani bowmen.	10
24	293	Who, at one time, would have dared to think of striking Talena, Ubara of Ar? Now, a slave, she was subject to the whip of a child.	10
24	336	I had turned about, finally, to join others, to make my way upward, when I heard my name called, "Callias!" I turned about, and, to my surprise, one not pleasant, I saw Seremides hobbling toward me, the crutch striking on the wharf planks.	10
26	9	Behind us we heard the striking of sharpened steel.	10
28	102	I heard some striking on the tables, in the dining area.	10
32	35	An ax was thrust into my hands, and I rushed to one of the long, mooring lines, cutting it, even striking sparks from its broad cleat, anchored in the deck.	10
36	562	He put a hand to the door jamb, on his right, suddenly striking it, to steady himself.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	84	At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, both that of men ...	10
8	1722	"Come along, Allison," said he, and began to make his way between the tables, and I, in the sullied, soaked tunic, stumbled along at his side, sometimes brushing into patrons, sometimes striking against benches, jutting out, in the narrow space between the tables.	10
10	192	One of the things about your world which I found striking was the paucity of clutter and furniture in your dwellings.	10
10	689	And the knots had been warrior knots! I was scarcely aware of its movements so swift it was, and I felt myself seized up, lifted, in mighty paws, and I sensed nails within them, and heard a roar of rage, and I was flung a dozen feet across the room, striking into a wall.	10
11	162	"Then, one day, when it was to be fed, it reached through the bars and seized a keeper's arm, and broke him against the bars, and tore at his belt, where dangled his keys, but others intervened with spear butts, striking at the beast, and it, roaring, tore away the keeper's arm, and fed on it, and t...	10
15	29	Were the streets themselves not a danger? Who knew what might lurk around the next turn? Might one not be slain by a guardsman's spear, a frightened guardsman striking at a movement in the darkness, the source of which was unknown? I felt the soft brush of hair on my head, for I wore no kerchief now...	10
17	259	Such a striking contrast with the others about, those well robed, so fully clothed! But how taken for granted here such beauties are! It is no more than a cultural commonplace.	10
27	89	Some of the beasts were striking on small bars, which, we gathered, constituted a form of music.	10
27	379	She slashed down with the switch, striking my left shoulder.	10
32	22	A few Ehn later, there was a sharp, ringing sound, resulting one supposes from the striking of one of the small bars, to the sounds of which the Lady Bina, amongst other festal tokens, had been welcomed to the Cave.	10
32	67	By means of these sticks, striking and jabbing, Tiresias was guided to the foot of the dais, where he stood, lost, and forlorn, turning his head about, as though he were trying to see through the seared holes in his face.	10
32	77	Tiresias was then, with the sharp sticks, striking and jabbing, hurried from the room.	10
48	60	Striking a blow at the heart of the conspiracy, by doing away with Agamemnon, had seemed to him a consideration of paramount importance.	10
53	14	Accordingly, I have remarked often, I fear, on matters familiar to you, but which I found striking, or of interest.	10

Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	293	"Not at all!" he laughed, striking his left shoulder twice with the flat of his right hand.	10
29	47	It was then obvious why I had heard no response to the striking of the switch.	10
37	150	"You are free, free!" she screamed, striking her twice more.	10
38	66	On a leash, held by one of the men was a tall, striking, dark-haired woman, her neck encircled with a typical band, clad in a brief, brightly scarlet slave tunic, slit at the sides.	10
39	26	She then, wildly, tried to throw herself upon him, striking him with her small fists.	10
39	216	The dark-haired, striking, scarlet-tunicked slave approached, and stood before the prisoners.	10
42	74	Her switch was like a nest of striking snakes, so swiftly did it strike, again and again.	10
50	799	The gowned slave then threw herself upon me, screaming, striking, biting, and scratching, and the other slaves about leapt to their feet, and rushed toward us, to protect me, and, as they seized her, the gowned slave had seized my hair, and shook my head, violently, and I had pulled back, with a rat...	10

Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	83	One leaves poison to the ost, and the striking pins and daggers of free women.	10
10	7	Tarns descended, the forty of the striking arm.	10
10	39	Several days ago we had begun to disrupt the supply lines of the enemy, striking at supply trains, frightening away draymen, dealing with guards, overturning and burning wagons, seizing stores, and discarding what we could not carry.	10
17	7	The draw is long, contributing to the weapon's striking power, accuracy, and range.	10
24	130	The four individuals striking the small gongs were walking abreast.	10
29	294	Indeed, they are designed with this in mind, the striking enhancement of her beauty.	10
30	1	We Have Paused at an Inn to Gather Intelligence "Sake, more sake!" said the Ashigaru, striking the low table with the metal cup.	10
59	273	But no straight thrust would follow that feint, for in the instant his blade was occupied in this subterfuge, lowered, threatening, the arm extended, I did not move to defend but struck over the lowered blade, striking to the right wrist.	10
60	254	He would have the advantage of height, striking down, with the uplifted faces of the enemy almost within reach.	10
60	275	Blades of glaives thrust up at us, striking wood, splintering railings, tangling in the vinous blue climbers.	10

Book 34. (11 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	125	Sometimes two or three plainer girls, comparatively speaking, are used to lead up to, or frame, a less plain girl, in order that her beauty may seem even, by contrast, more striking.	10
9	174	"No, no!" said the young man's companion, striking his fellow on the back, jovially.	10
9	441	She then, in rage, lashed at the cage with her switch, striking it on the roof, and across the bars, again and again.	10
15	170	I heard the grunting, and hissing, of one large beast, and then that of another, and the sound of a blow, striking on a massive body, and the wagon lurched forward, and I was shaken on the boards of the wagon bed.	10
24	60	I heard a rattle of chains and the striking of some heavy object, wooden, I think descending, on stones.	10
24	74	Far off I thought I heard the sounds of men, shouts, and the striking of metal on metal, often quick, and sharp, and sometimes so rapidly I could not distinguish the sounds.	10
25	13	It was muchly different from the bold and striking colors that, in bold display, characterize so many Gorean rooms, halls, and domiciles.	10
26	74	I have seen the plates of weapons and devices borne to the training chambers, the daggers, the balanced throwing knives, the easily concealed hook knife, the swords, the darts, the loops of wire, the chain garrotes, and, in particular, the crossbow and quarrel, the favored striking weapon of the cas...	10
30	126	"The yellow tunic," he said, "is too striking, surely too easy to recognize.	10
61	265	It reached, snarling, for Drusus Andronicus, and the sword of the latter, like a striking ost, swift, clean, and deep, almost invisible in its movement, penetrated that massive body, only to be instantly withdrawn, that it might be freed for another thrust.	10
63	156	We cried out in fear for there was a sudden sound, striking us like a bludgeon, a sudden snap of wings, great wings, not twenty feet from us, over us, air rushing about us, buffeting us, we covered for an instant by a vast, fleet shadow.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
7	48	There would be a silence, and then, a moment later, a sound, as of wood striking wood, coming ever closer.	10
7	91	What I had heard striking on the floor was the base of a heavy, rounded crutch, whose height was fitted into a stout, rounded crosspiece.	10
8	681	A crippled vulo could more easily escape a striking tarn".	10
8	923	Two men, with an oar, were striking, or thrusting at, fellows in the water.	10
21	123	I heard the hasty striking of Bruno of Torcadino's crutch on the bridge, nearing me.	10
46	327	"Paga, paga!" said a fellow at one of the tables, striking his empty goblet on the table.	10
46	556	"Kajira, kajira!" called men, striking their left shoulders with their right hands.	10
46	589	There was the sound of palms of hands striking left shoulders.	10

Book 36. (16 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	127	What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ...	10
16	259	The most common way of doing this is to create noise, say, the striking together of chains of pots and pans dangled under the water".	10
16	267	"By striking on the hide," she said, "with wooden mallets.	10
16	269	There are cruel ways, too, but we do not practice them on the Isle of Seleukos, for we care for our island, ways such as digging in the hide and striking nerves with pointed sticks, and digging in the hide and applying hot irons to the wound".	10
21	66	"Yes!" he said, striking his right fist savagely into the palm of his left hand.	10
34	83	"On the beach they are striking the tents," said Aktis.	10
41	34	In passing, it might also be mentioned that the heavy blocks used as ammunition, striking at the walls, or falling within the walls, particularly given their size and shape, were useful, in filling and repairing breaches.	10
42	126	"Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking.	10
43	145	Silhouetted against the light I could make out numbers of small figures rushing about, striking tents, carrying water.	10
47	8	This plenitude of striking force was applied both singly and randomly and, occasionally, in thick volleys, falling like a dark, torrential rain of death.	10
50	59	"The living island," said Sakim, "can detect the sound of an oar striking the water at a distance of pasangs".	10
54	18	Some ships use a mechanical device, rather like a metronome, to guide the keleustes in his work, in governing his striking on the metal drum, but most captains of knife ships do not avail themselves of this aid, regarding it as of little worth.	10
57	58	Then, suddenly, there was a splintering of wood in several locations and the grapnels leaped backward with force, several even striking the corsair ship itself, others disappearing between the hulls, splashing into the water.	10
57	173	Instantly spreading fire, like a striking, scarlet snake, raged about the ankles and legs of the mercenaries.	10
57	190	Oars from the corsair ship thrust out, striking our hull, trying to move their ship from our proximity.	10
60	181	"I shall!" cried Ctesippus, striking the man across the back of the neck with his sword, following which blow the head lolled half to the side, dangling, and fell to the planks with the body.	10