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Book 1. (24 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	113	A thought struck me with sudden swiftness, and I was afraid, but I knew what I must do.	10
1	189	The silent but intense explosion of the envelope into flames had caused me momentarily to become confused—that and the sudden return to the darkness from the hideous glaring light of the disintegrating envelope.	10
1	198	There was a loud noise, but I now think it must have been the sound of my own voice, a sudden frightened shriek for which I shall always bear the shame.	10
3	223	It showered sparks in a sudden cascade of yellow light, but left the table unmarked.	10
3	229	It had been like a sudden, severe electric charge, like the striking of a snake in my hand.	10
3	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
4	6	The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.	10
4	54	"Har-ta! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" The great bird seemed to sense what I intended, or perhaps it was merely his sudden realization that the other tarn was in the lead, but a remarkable transformation swept over my sable, plumed steed.	10
5	66	I helped her unbuckle the hood and felt delighted at the sudden flash of her long blond hair streaking out beside my cheek.	10
6	82	I tensed myself for the sudden lateral chopping of those pincerlike jaws.	10
6	198	A sudden tremor of fear shook her heavily robed body, and the girl's hands tried to force the implacable chitinous pincers from her throat.	10
7	196	But then, shamefacedly, I admitted to myself that I had, while dragging her to the trees, intended to take her and that it had only been the sudden spell of her beauty which, paradoxically enough, had claimed my respect, forced me to recognize that selfishly I was about to injure or dominate what Na...	10
9	149	Hooded, she cowered there, the prize, her ears filled with the sudden violent ringing of blade on blade as two warriors fought to the death to possess her.	10
11	80	My head swam at the sudden intoxicating scent of a wild perfume.	10
11	84	There was a sudden bright clash of the finger cymbals, and, to the music of the nearby tent, Talena, daughter of the Ubar of Ar, began to dance for me.	10
11	117	There was a sudden rush of men behind me as tarnsmen broke into the tent.	10
11	120	There was a sudden flash of light, and then darkness.	10
12	84	The sudden weight of the frame swinging against my roped wrists and ankles, while the talons of the bird gripped my body, almost tore me apart.	10
13	23	When the larl hunts alone, it hunts silently, never uttering a sound until the sudden roar that momentarily precedes its charge, the roar calculated to terrify the quarry into a fatal instant of immobility.	10
13	52	Perhaps my sudden appearance had disoriented the beast or shaken its marvelous instincts, because it must have uttered its killing cry an instant too soon, or perhaps my muscles and nerves responded to my will more rapidly than it had anticipated.	10
14	136	The sudden wrenching pain seemed to rip my body.	10
14	153	I heard the scream of the tarnsman and then the sudden silence.	10
14	157	The sudden tug downward caused the bird to respond as I had hoped it would, as if pressure had been exerted on the four-strap.	10
19	124	Instantly the Assassins and the men from Pa-Kur's horde fell upon the men of Ar, who stood firm under the sudden onslaught, meeting them blade for blade.	10

Book 2. (13 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	40	He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood.	10
1	105	And in that sudden instant of startled, awe-struck silence, I heard him clearly, intensely, repeat in a hoarse whisper that strange phrase, "Ta-Sardar-Gor!" The bartender, a heavy, soft-faced man, waddled to the table.	10
4	45	In the far distance there was a sudden flash of lightning, and the sound of remote thunder reached me some seconds later.	10
6	64	I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.	10
12	60	I love to hear the sudden glad music of a woman's laughter, that laughter that so delights a man, that acts on his senses like Ka-la-na wine.	10
16	66	When she had reached their side, she turned and with a sudden swirl of those golden robes pointed an imperious finger at me.	10
16	83	I twisted it and thrust it up and high over my left arm, and with a sudden downward wrench snapped it at the elbow.	10
18	155	We heard a sudden, loud swift rushing of water.	10
18	163	Above, whoever worked the valve must have grown impatient and thrown it open completely, or perhaps the sudden torrent of water had been intended as a gesture of mercy to drown any survivors quickly.	10
21	120	The iron was now poised for the sudden, firm imprint.	10
21	122	She closed her eyes and tensed herself for the sudden, inevitable, searing flash of pain.	10
24	36	Kron clapped his hands again and to my surprise there was a sudden sound of bells and four terrified girls, obviously chosen for their beauty and grace, stood before our table clad only in the scarlet dancing silks of Gor.	10
24	123	The sudden noise attracted the attention of the entire room and all eyes turned toward us.	10

Book 3. (18 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	65	The resemblance is, I suppose, due to the mechanics of convergent evolution, both animals having been shaped by the exigencies of the chase, the stealth of the approach and the sudden charge, and by the requirement of the swift and devastating kill.	10
2	80	Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were bo...	10
2	131	At last I came to the bend in the path and braced myself for the sudden bolt about that corner in which I must cry aloud to startle them and in the same instant cast my spear at the nearest larl and set upon the other with my drawn sword.	10
3	1	Parp There was a sudden startled rattle of chains and I saw two huge, white larls frozen in the momentary paralysis of registering my presence, and then with but an instant's fleeting passage both beasts turned upon me and hurled themselves enraged to the lengths of their chains.	10
3	90	At that moment one of the larls gave a sudden roar.	10
4	74	There was a sudden splintering burst of heat and I fell back, staggering.	10
5	123	She looked at me through her tears and fear, with sudden defiance.	10
7	99	I tensed myself for the leap and cry that would fling me into the open, the sudden interruption in the stillness of the passageway that might be sufficient to impair the steadiness of a spear arm, the calm setting of a crossbow's iron quarrel on its guide.	10
17	135	There was a sudden flash of fire and a crack of sound from the hollow tube as some projectile hurtled through it and shattered against the rock.	10
17	141	Before my horrified eyes in the observation cube the man seemed suddenly to vaporize in a sudden blasting flash of blue fire.	10
18	58	"Watch this!" I said, and turning my body I swung the transportation disk in a sudden, abrupt complete circle and continued on in the same direction we had been traveling.	10
20	229	"No?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta, showing sudden interest.	10
27	131	Well could I now read the signs of consternation in the rows of Priest-Kings, the startled antennae, the shifting of the supporting appendages, the sudden intense inclination of the head and body, the straining of the antennae toward the Platform of the Mother.	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
28	18	And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling ...	10
29	135	There was a sudden fearful scream of odor from the signal glands of the Priest-King and he tipped to one side, reaching for me with his grasping appendages.	10
31	33	I tensed myself for the sudden burst of fire, that incandescent torrent that would burst and burn the flesh from my bones.	10
34	4	I felt a sudden blow on my back and nearly lost my breath and twisted to see the gigantic, brawny Older Tarl, my former Master at Arms, who clapped me on the shoulders, his hands like the talons of tarns.	10

Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	It could not be evaded, but only countered, and countered it was by the Koroban steel in my hand, a sudden ringing, sliding flash of steel and the knife was deflected from my breast.	10
5	72	There was the sudden thud of a kaiila's paws on the grass between the wagons and a wild snorting squeal.	10
5	116	I was about to press Kamchak on this matter when we heard a sudden shout and the squealing of kaiila from among the wagons.	10
7	129	She remembered then only turning and starting for the door, and a sudden, peculiar odor, penetrating, that seemed to close about her face and head.	10
8	93	He was, of course, aware that no girl, Gorean or otherwise, could be expected to take lightly a sudden reduction to an abject and complete slavery, particularly considering what that would mean among the wagons.	10
8	523	Because she had annoyed me the kiss that was hers was that of master to a slave girl; yet was I patient because the kiss itself was not enough; I was not satisfied until, despite herself, I read in my arms her body's sudden, involuntary admission that I had conquered.	10
9	295	The drums and flutes of the musicians sounded, and to my amazement the first girl, with a sudden, graceful swirl of her body lifted away her robes and flung them high over the heads of the guests to cries of delight.	10
10	223	As soon as the hundreds of ponderous tharlarion had been marshaled into an order, a lance, carrying a fluttering pennon, dipped and there was a sudden signal on the tharlarion drums.	10
10	515	I saw a sudden, bright drop of blood on his thumb.	10
11	16	The girl looked at him in sudden fear.	10
11	341	She threw back her hand with the knife to rush forward and thrust it into the heart of Kamchak but the coil of the whip lashed forth and I saw its stinging tip wrap four times about the wrist and forearm of the Turian girl who cried out in sudden pain and Kamchak had stepped to the side and with a m...	10
13	17	It was all Kamchak's kaiila could do to brace itself against their sudden madness.	10
13	84	I observed to my amazement the sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable response to the touch.	10
15	83	Aphris, in particular, seemed utterly distraught by Kamchak's unreasoning cruelty, his callous treatment of herself and Elizabeth—perhaps most by his sudden, seeming indifference to her.	10
16	141	It was he who had hurled the quiva at me among the wagons, who would have been my assassin save for the sudden flicker of a shadow on a lacquered board.	10
20	71	I then heard a sudden, sharp crack, as of a fist meeting bone.	10
21	55	It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean city.	10
21	262	I now saw a sudden flash of light as the sun took the tips of Tuchuk lances.	10
25	844	She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from...	10

Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	2	In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...	10
12	362	I read in their eyes, even those of Elizabeth, a sudden terror of the goad.	10
13	307	With a tap on the two-strap I took the bird in a sudden breathtaking sweep to the high right and in an instant had joined Mip in flight.	10
15	167	I had once been struck with a tarn goad and knew substantially what her pain must be; further, the shower of yellow sparks, though perhaps in itself innocuous, was, conjoined with the sudden pain, terrifying.	10
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...	10
18	404	He crawled to his knees, squinting against the torch, trying to shelter his eyes with manacled clawlike hands from the sudden, fierce, painful blaze of fire that his world must have then been for him.	10
19	132	There was the sudden crack of a whip, loud and sharp, and the crowd leaped to its feet, for the sale had begun.	10
19	215	Below, in the darkness, there came the sudden, startling, savage report of a slave whip, snapped three times.	10
22	109	I heard the judge's bar, a bristling fire of wings, and the sudden, wild roar of the crowd.	10
22	130	This time, on the center side ring, a nonfaction tarn was forced into the padded bar by a sudden swerve of Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows.	10
22	163	With a clear strike at the first of the end rings, however, the bird, headstrong, resenting the sudden pressure on the control straps, went wide.	10
22	406	There was a sudden clang of the judge's bar and the rope stretched before the tarns was jerked away.	10
22	422	With a sudden scream and a snap of the wide black wings the War Tarn of Ko-ro-ba was aloft.	10
22	481	I heard a sudden hiss in the air and bent lower in the saddle.	10
23	166	I saw a sudden, wild elation cross his features.	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.	10
1	8	A brightly plumaged bird sprang from the rushes to my left, screaming and beating its sudden way into the blue sky.	10
4	263	"Know you not," asked she, with sudden insolence and coldness, "that I am a free woman?" I said nothing.	10
8	115	I heard the sudden intake of breath which marked the position of a man.	10
8	614	And in that moment I saw, to my interest, a sudden, startling transformation in her eyes.	10
13	428	Obediently the oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold.	10
17	382	I did not expect a great deal of damage to be done by these shattering bombs of burning oil, but I was counting on the confluence of three factors: the psychological effect of such an attack, the fear of the outflanking fleets, whose numbers could not yet well have been ascertained, and, in the conf...	10

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	197	There was a sudden, bluish flash, and a blast of almost incandescent heat.	10
8	40	I saw a sudden movement in the water.	10
10	624	The large, wide, triangular head of the sleen, its nocturnal eyes blinking against the sudden light of the fire, thrust further into the room, followed by its shoulders, then its right, clawed paw.	10
11	186	I looked at him with sudden apprehension.	10
11	1013	But what most I now feared, and most hysterically rejected, was the suspicion that there might lurk in my deepest being a profound turning, a sudden, cataclysmic transformation of my consciousness, the possibility that I might admit to myself, confess to myself, a truth I dared not even articulate.	10
11	1248	But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear moveme...	10
15	1076	The psychological impact of this, the sudden, fearful sense of vulnerability, of helplessness, of exposure, even for a slave, is considerable.	10
18	80	The tarn strike was sudden.	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	189	There was a sudden cry of pain from the green and the sunlight and shadows.	10
8	78	He gave a high whistle, shrill and sudden, and we, and the others, thrust through the portals of the hut, casting the sleen nets to encompass whatever might lie within.	10
12	204	I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp.	10
15	767	The movement would be startled, involuntary, sudden, wild, helpless, uncontrollable.	10
18	123	And women, one by one, or in groups of twos and threes, had disappeared, quite possibly to find their fair limbs in the sudden, inflexible clasp of slave steel.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	155	With a sudden wrench I threw him from his feet and hurled him from the dock into the water.	10
10	120	There were sudden tears in her eyes.	10

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	50	A storm, of which one is unaware, perhaps pasangs away, can fill such a bed with a sudden flow of water, washing away one's camp and endangering life".	10
14	542	I cried out in sudden pain, the unbelievable white light, hot, fierce, universal, merciless, shuddering in the scalding air of the encircling, blazing crusts, from horizon to horizon, exploding, stabbing, searing like irons at my face and eyes.	10
21	360	Then I heard the howling of a Kur, and four sudden, swift explosions.	10
21	455	The howling of the wind screened the sounds of my movements; its swift, lacerating blasts must have torn the atmosphere of my scent to pieces, scattering it wildly about, affording the Kur only sudden, misleading, fleeting, confused sensations.	10
21	494	Perhaps then, in the sudden moment of confusion, one might slip within, behind it, invisible.	10
24	343	There was a sudden, unexpected stroke, loud, reverberating, on the summoning gong, placed just outside the entryway to the larger room outside, that with the alcoves.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	516	Bound, kneeling in the circle, it was with sudden, frightening elation that I realized the stranger was the master of the other two.	10
2	632	He gave me a sudden shake.	10
4	565	Again I heard the word which, later, I would learn was "Quarry"; again I felt the sudden sting of the switch, inciting me to motion; again I ran.	10
7	716	Did they know where she was? Were they playing with the beauty, tormenting her? Longer yet did they stand there, and then, exchanging glances, one of them, with a sudden, loud cry, pounced on the pile of canvas.	10
7	1013	I recalled his anger at my helpless yielding to the soldier; I was only a slave; I had not been able to help myself; yet he had been angry; too, he himself had commanded the man to address himself to the work of my rape; yet he had been angry; too, his concern with Marla seemed to me rather sudden a...	10
12	202	And, too, almost overwhelming me, I felt a sudden fury against men, for what they had done to me, even to the collar and brand.	10
12	523	I heard the girl cry out, in sudden pain.	10
19	85	I had sudden respect for whoever had devised the ritual we were enacting.	10
28	74	I sensed a tremor, sudden, subtle, in the chain.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	600	I rolled to one side in the sudden darkness, and then scrambled to my feet.	10
6	901	The tarn, given the sudden force on the one-strap, reared and, smiting the air with his mighty wings, lifted itself into the air.	10
11	33	With a sudden cry he fell upon a bound hunter.	10
26	145	Its meaningfulness to the sleen was reflected in the sudden alteration in the nature of the pack's hunting cries.	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	120	A skirl on a flute and a sudden pounding on twin tabors, small, hand drums, called my attention to the square of sand at the side of which sat the musicians.	10
24	260	There would then be a sudden lunge, and the snapping of the great jaws, the fighting for the prey.	10
24	263	At the same time, sensing the sudden movement of the prey, the four tharlarion, lashing the water with their tails, cut toward her.	10
26	25	The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.	10
27	32	I heard a sudden scream, that of a boy, and, looking about, saw one of the lads, some eight years in age, tumble from the scaffolding.	10
32	554	No marks of war or fire, or other forms of sudden destruction, had been discernible.	10
34	1009	Sometimes a girl, kneeling before a new master, is seized by a sudden wild emotion.	10
45	54	But her body, as though in sudden relief, desperately clasped me.	10
46	4	I turned when I heard their sudden cries of surprise, and then of rage, and then of fear.	10
53	396	I then felt the sudden rupture of the cartilage of its throat.	10
54	145	"It was his intention to return it himself," said Bila Huruma, "but the attack of the beasts, so sudden and unexpected, intervened".	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	261	I had not known I could feel such sudden lust, such startling, astonishing, maddening desire for a woman.	10
1	647	"What brought about this sudden change of heart, that perhaps it might be all right for a woman to be just a little bit feminine?" She put down her head.	10
1	666	"This change in you is sudden," I said.	10
1	854	She struck me with sudden fury and my face stung.	10
1	992	At the same time I heard two sudden hisses, coming from the back of the seat in front of us, one on each side.	10
5	98	I looked at Lola with a sudden fury.	10
12	107	"No!" She seemed amused, but I could tell she was not pleased at the sudden turn the sale had taken.	10
18	193	This sudden, exacting concern with the details of the operation of the great stables was unusual for her.	10
25	164	In that squarish, hideously scarred countenance of Krondar there was, for a moment, a sudden understanding that though he were now in the vicinity of Vonda he with whom he shared that shallow pit of sand, collared and slave, too, might be one perhaps not unworthy to be called a fighter.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	137	Then there was a sudden, different look in her eyes.	10
3	239	"Yes," I said, for, somehow, suddenly, perhaps with the sudden understanding and acceptance of her nature and condition, it had become true.	10
8	24	There was a sudden sound, that of a short metal blade slipping from a sheath.	10
24	110	I touched my fingers to her side, and noted her sudden, involuntary movement.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	42	A sudden wind was pulling at the fog.	10
6	34	Consternation held sudden sway upon her decks.	10
8	326	There was a sudden, loud pounding on the cabin door.	10
19	134	The sweetness of these sometimes sudden and transient ravishings, of course, does not replace the lengthy feasts of love of which the Gorean is fond; rather, they merely supplement them.	10
20	1912	She looked at me, in sudden fear.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	12	It was unlikely that we could have adequately defended ourselves against a sudden onslaught of such foes at that short a distance.	10
2	244	Sudden storms, too, are not unprecedented.	10
6	89	I opted, accordingly, taking them for my authorities in the matter, for a weapon similar in design to theirs, one which had, apparently, proven its usefulness in the abrupt, sudden and fierce engagements characteristic of war on the vast grasslands of the Barrens.	10
7	103	Too often, I suspected, a suspicion of cheating at stones or disks, or a dispute over a slave, might lead to the flash of steel, the sudden movement of a knife.	10
8	736	There was the sudden lash of the five-stranded Gorean slave whip and the girl cried out and sank down on the block, kneeling, with her head down, making herself as small as possible.	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	83	Clearly this is a sudden and radical transition for the Earth girl! What an enormous adjustment she must make! She may not even have thought of slavery before, and now she finds herself branded, and on her knees before masters, on a world in which such relationships have been tested for hundreds of ...	10
2	84	The transition then from free woman of Earth to slave girl of Gor is one likely to be not only radical and sudden for the Earth girl, but one astonishing and startling, disconcerting and alarming, one almost incomprehensible, and doubtless one profoundly emotionally traumatic.	10
27	69	There was a sudden, horrified scream of a tarn, impaled.	10
37	523	We heard a sudden, striking, thudding sound.	10
47	356	Occasionally one would reach out, or snarl, or make a sudden movement, but not charging, to see the response of the other.	10

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	319	Perhaps that was what was so strange, my sudden disturbing sense of the radical difference between us, my sudden, alarming understanding of the momentous physical, psychological, and emotional dichotomy dividing us, dividing the sexes.	10
3	630	There was a sudden, loud knock at the door.	10
3	867	Surely I had a right to frustrate and deny my sex if I wished! If I was afraid to be a woman, truly and fundamentally, with all that it might entail, surely I should not be forced to become one! Yet I knew that in my heart I felt a sudden, marvelous surge of hope, a sense of possible liberation, tha...	10
5	131	I felt sudden anger, and jealousy.	10
8	57	"They are expecting us," said Drusus Rencius, sensing my sudden terror.	10
9	10	She looked at me, with the sudden terror of a slave who had been clumsy.	10
13	106	There was a sudden cry of pleasure and victory from the crowd.	10
15	190	Then I heard a sudden scrambling.	10
26	168	"I do not understand all this sudden shyness, all this reserve, on your part," I whispered to her.	10
36	555	Some masters think of such names as being along the lines of verbal leashes, the utterance of the name, like the sudden tug of a leash, immediately calling the slave's attention to the master and his wishes.	10
36	1271	I flinched briefly, recalling the sudden, searing pain of my branding.	10

Book 20. (14 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	314	Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu...	10
1	477	"Do you not know you are a slave? Do you not know you are owned?" A wild look, one of sudden, fearful insight, came over the face of the dancer.	10
1	681	But could she free her small wrist from his sudden grip, as he might stand, and force her to her knees before him, and then slowly down, to her back? It is pleasant for strong men to be served by slaves.	10
2	34	At its sudden climax, followed by an instant of startling silence, the door of the vertical cabinet burst open and the magician, smiling, to cries of surprise, of awe and wonder, stepped forth, waving, his hands free, greeting the crowd.	10
2	82	Who was that fellow, for example, who poured paga on one's head? And who, the free woman might wonder, was that fellow who gave her so sudden, so unexpected, so fierce a pinch? Indeed, perhaps she is fortunate that her very veil was not lifted up and her lips pressed by those of a stranger, or was i...	10
6	771	"Though I may be a slave in my heart," cried the Brigella, leaping to her feet, "I am surely not a legal slave and thus, as yet, am bond to neither you nor any man!" "Many are the slaves who do not yet wear their collars," said Boots, meditatively, and then, suddenly, turned about and, to the amusem...	10
13	183	There was the wild scream of a charging sleen below and its sudden, frightened squeal, and I saw it flung, half bitten apart, to the side.	10
13	286	It was capable of incredible stillness and then sudden, surprising bursts of movement.	10
15	16	Rowena, Lady Telitsia and Bina knelt in terror to one side, slaves, fearful in the presence of free persons, trembling in the face of this sudden invasion of the camp.	10
16	415	The movements, of course, were not, nor were they intended to be, those of an actually displayed slave in such a predicament, say, in a market or capture camp, being commanded, say, to "move" before men, the adagio movements, the sudden movements, the melodious movements, the incredibly sensuous mov...	10
18	299	Secure the palace!" If the escape of the prisoners did not seem sufficient for that purpose the sudden knowledge that I was still free in the palace, and mysteriously so, should prove more than adequate to accomplish that end.	10
18	305	There was a sudden, shocked silence in the hall.	10
18	339	A sudden vast hissing flow of boiling oil spread eagerly, deeply, outward, away from the tilted rim.	10
20	246	There were wild screams and a sudden breaking of ranks.	10

Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	321	Why was this? Was it because I was naked, and kneeling, and my hands were tied behind my back? Was it because I then seemed a slave to myself? And when I understood that I had been found acceptable for the chain, that I would be put on it, I felt a sudden, inexplicable profusion of relief, a surge o...	10
4	1	Feiqa Serves in the Alar Camp; Tula Has Now Been Collared I heard the sudden, hesitant, choking cry of the newborn infant.	10
4	536	How beautiful Feiqa was! What incredible power she exercised, though only a helpless slave, over men! How she pleased them and made them scream with pleasure! How incredibly basic, how fundamental, how real she was! I then felt a sudden, poignant sorrow for the women of Earth.	10
5	484	Sometimes the mien of a slave, the acknowledgment of her sex, her sudden entrance into a vulnerable, obedient, ready-to-serve, exquisite femininity, occurs almost simultaneously with the locking on of a slave collar.	10
11	201	"I am one well aware of the complexities of coping with grandeur, of the exquisite agonies attendant upon wrestling with nigh ineffable sublimities, with the excruciating intensities of the authentic aesthetic experience, with the travails of poignant significance, with the exhausting consequences o...	10
16	482	I heard a sudden, tiny gasp, of protest, or alarm, from the side.	10
19	361	I felt a sudden twinge of jealousy for Hurtha.	10
26	489	There was a sudden, wild yanking at the shackles and chain, and ring.	10
26	1414	"Why this sudden change of heart?" she smiled.	10
26	1781	Behind her I was in an excellent position to see the looks she received, which were many, the admiring glances, the intakes of breath, the sudden delights at seeing such a female.	10

Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	776	I was now much more conscious of it, the irregularities of its surface, the subtle unevenness of texture, the flat, stained spots, the sudden, tiny, abrupt roughnesses, where a shoe might have moved the pile.	10
6	188	Once I heard a sort of sudden bellowing snort and hiss, it seemed, from the closeness, and the associated jerk on the traces and movement of the vehicle, from the beast drawing the wagon.	10
6	240	When there was the sound of the slap of the man's hand on the wagon side, it so unexpected, and sounding so loud, and his sudden shout, several of the girls had moved, stirring suddenly, in their chains.	10
8	194	Some of the other girls looked at me, strangely, unable to understand my sudden agitation.	10
8	253	A wave of sudden terrible hatred swept over me.	10
9	526	Thus, even though I had been taken unawares by the sudden movement of the auctioneer's whip, and had moved suddenly, inadvertently, in a manner which might have suggested to some that I was a pleasure slave, I knew that the fullness of what I conjectured would be my typical response to such a touch ...	10
10	303	I also heard a sudden, shrill, terrifying, piercing scream.	10
10	323	I then heard again, it startling me, terrifying me, that sudden, loud, shrill, piercing scream, this time, it seemed, from terribly close, surely no more than a few feet away.	10
10	333	There was a sudden swirling of air.	10
10	643	In particular, make no sudden moves".	10
11	134	Mirus, too, I recalled, had himself turned away from me, at the end, when we were alone, with a sudden abruptness.	10
16	38	There was a sudden metallic sound as the linkage on the bracelets snapped taut.	10
24	154	The matter had seemed very sudden.	10
29	1099	Some blood came through the cloth, but very little, little more than a sudden, fresh stain, then nothing.	10
30	16	Surely he did not intend to put me through this! Did he not recognize me! Was I to be treated only as another slave? I, sitting up in this awkward position, jerked at the bracelets, sensed the sudden straightening of the linkage, heard the small metal noise, and felt the occasioned cruelty of the ba...	10
33	295	Almost at the same instant I heard a sudden, bestial, deafening, screaming roar behind me and the movement of a huge body and my master was leaping to his feet lunging over the fire thrusting his sword into the darkness behind me over my head and I twisted and saw two great, hairy arms outstretched ...	10

Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1	The Road; The Slave In a sudden flash of lightning, showing the driving rain, the wagons, the crowd on the road, I saw ahead, above me, and to my left, about a half of a pasang forward, on its stony plateau, the inn of the Crooked Tarn.	10
5	637	"No! No!" The sudden, tense, almost hysterical ardor of her denial spoke of truths, and needs, and depths within her of the existence of which she must be only too keenly aware, and yet truths, depths and needs which, for some reason or another, she seemed almost tragically desperate to conceal and ...	10
8	579	There were, too, if I am not mistaken, the sounds of blows, or, at least, sudden grunts and cries of pain.	10
8	725	Then she screamed, a long, wild wailing scream, as the tarn, responding to the four-strap, began a sudden, precipitous descent.	10
10	153	I had not seen what passed between them but I suspect that he had seen in her eyes something swift, some flash of sudden fear and recognition, that she had seen him as her master.	10
12	6	Any suspicious or sudden move, I was sure, would result in the entry into my body of those two stubby, heavy iron bolts.	10
13	35	It had had a sudden wild ring about it, as though she might suddenly, to her dismay, have felt ropes settle about her body, and draw tight.	10
15	60	There was then a sudden impact somewhere on the wall, perhaps not seventy-five feet from where we were.	10
18	506	We could see their squirming bodies, their subdued, thrashing limbs, hear their cries, cries with which they responded to, and registered and recorded, their ravishments, cries mostly, at this point, of protest and lamentation, but, too, in instances, of astonishment and wonder, and sometimes, even ...	10
21	569	This was interesting, this sudden, poignant touch of frightened modesty, now that she was aware of her slave vulnerability.	10
23	31	I could hardly hold her for a moment, even with her small body, so grateful, so wild, so eager she was in her sudden, joyous spasmodic helplessness.	10
24	291	I heard the sudden crack of a long, plaited, single-bladed slave whip on the bow deck.	10
24	418	These may be mixed upon occasion with sudden, perhaps surprising, movements, almost spasmodic, or spasmodic, in nature.	10

Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	648	Then, as startling as a gunshot, there was the sudden crack of a whip in the hand of Philebus.	10
3	48	They afforded me a priceless cover, for example, from the investigations, if not the sudden, unprovoked attacks, of Cosian tarnsmen.	10
13	47	At the same, time, too, I felt the side of the knife press against my throat, reflexively, almost like an eye blink, given the sudden clamor in the marsh.	10
14	215	There was a sudden thrashing out in the water, some yards away.	10
14	319	Then, after a moment or two, I heard the sudden bellowing, again, the hissing and squealing, of tharlarion.	10
18	56	This movement was sudden and swift, almost blurring.	10
28	337	I heard her utter a sudden, inarticulate cry.	10
29	285	This reaction on her part was sudden and apparently involuntary, almost reflexive.	10
29	377	Plenius and I started, and I think some of the others, too, for there was a sudden tearing, ripping sound.	10
43	193	It had been a recognition in reality, the sudden sensing of a rightness, an appropriateness, an exact fittingness.	10
44	182	She did not see fit to respond to this, at least explicitly, but, in her body, I sensed a sudden, thrilled concord of recognition.	10
47	7	I would suppose that this business of the sudden presentation of the slave before the master, as he may never have seen her before, and the suspense and revelation, and delight, involved, tends to increase sales.	10
47	260	I had a sudden, odd feeling, as if I might be denying that I was struck.	10

Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	196	There was, from one side, a sudden sound of grunting and the cracking of great staffs, and urging cries from men.	10
7	174	There was a sudden pressing forth toward the platform, a tiny, incipient surgency.	10
7	180	There is often a delicate balance in such things, and sometimes in such situations even a small action, even a seemingly insignificant stimulus, can trigger a sudden, massive response.	10
8	574	Not only had we been startled by the sudden, intrusive noise, which the girl must have understood would have been the case, but we resented the insinuation that we might be such as would of our own will join the work on the wall.	10
14	15	The face of the standing, captive girl manifested sudden relief.	10
16	39	Indeed, many sudden and unexpected blows had I received in lusty sport from that device in his hands.	10
19	626	"It was a momentary reaction, a sudden, fleeting, wild thing!" "What was it?" I asked.	10
20	294	There was a sudden noise at the side of the room and I looked there, quickly.	10
20	844	In a few moments she wept, "I yield me, Master!" and I then held her like iron and cried out with joy and she sobbed "I am helpless and taken!" and Phoebe, too, in the arms of Marcus, cried out, herself as well taken, and he, too, uttered a wild cry and a then sudden, low, satisfying growl, and the ...	10
25	30	Apparently but moments before it had been red with excitement, love and yielding, and had then, in the sudden surprise and shame of her discovery, flushed scarlet, blushing literally from head to toe, and then, almost instantly later, in the tumult, had begun in terror to drain of color, she suddenl...	10

Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	168	I heard exclamations from the men, the sudden intakes of breath, tiny sounds of surprise, murmurs of approval.	10
8	128	But instead, perhaps oddly, as I lay there, somehow half between waking and sleep, I perceived a sudden poignance, as of irreparable loss.	10
8	1006	I felt then within me a sudden body's urgency and cast aside the blanket and groped awkwardly toward the larger of the three vessels.	10
9	115	But I had felt, too, a sudden uncontrollable wave of hatred and jealousy for her, she being permitted to follow him as she did.	10
10	102	And my outburst, under the circumstances, his sudden appearance, the noise, the beast, and such, certainly would have been an innocent enough one, a natural enough one.	10
11	830	"Ha!" cried Tenrik, a sudden cry, more that of a beast than a man.	10
12	44	It is like a sudden, odd cloud come between you and the sun.	10
13	567	I could not rid my mind of the sudden appearance of the rattling projections.	10
16	192	How this made me hope, and how my heart was filled with a sudden surge of elation! But it was not these men whom I must most desperately strive to please.	10
23	115	Then I shrank back, for I saw a sudden sternness in the eyes of the male.	10
31	650	His action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise.	10
37	236	They had, in those sudden, unexpected, precipitate, grisly moments, stood back, perhaps fearing to act, perhaps unable to do so.	10
37	678	There was a sudden, half-strangled cry from across the pool as Herminius, clutching at his throat, legs kicking, seemed, somehow, to fly upward, into the darkness.	10

Book 27. (36 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	3272	I was well leashed, she thought, and felt, however unwillingly, a sudden heat in her belly, a sudden flaming within her upper thighs.	10
3	67	In the instant before she had drawn the gown down she had seen her calves in the mirror, and, to her surprise, to her fear, and with perhaps an unwilling, sudden moment of apprehensive pleasure, she realized that there was still there in her body, even now, a turn of roundedness, and softness, about...	10
4	75	Too, the older woman was alarmed, and troubled, by the sudden, prompt, immediate, graceful response of Tutina to the utterance "Anklet!" It was as though she had been trained to present the device for easy view, and immediately, gracefully, beautifully, upon the utterance of that word, which, it see...	10
4	482	She was in sudden consternation.	10
4	545	The older woman cried out, softly, in sudden protest, as the gown was thrust up, rudely, above her waist.	10
7	177	No sooner had she turned about, to make her way to the cell, than she cried out in pain for the first instructrix had struck her a sudden, sharp stinging blow across the back of the right calf.	10
11	1078	How her misery would mingle with the viselike grasp of the opened, then closed, spun shut, tightened, then locked-closed branding rack on her thigh, the meticulous, brief, carefully controlled, searing fury of the marking iron, the futile pulling at the light, attractive bracelets that held her hand...	10
12	211	Ellen pulled back, suddenly, softly crying out, shielding her face as Nelsa, in a sudden, plunging stream, too close to her, water splashing and hissing, emptied the ewer into the tub.	10
16	1168	She felt a sudden tremor in her loins.	10
16	1311	Any one of these is worth a Ubar's medallion, a thousand golden tarn disks, but I am a destitute man, who, due to personal exigencies am in sudden dire need of ready cash.	10
16	1329	There was a sudden, sharp little cry from Lydia, as, Ellen supposed, some hair was drawn from her head to ascertain the veracity of Targo's asseveration.	10
17	328	Whereas Ellen could see little of what went on, she could certainly hear the movements of Jill's ankle chain and her sudden, almost inadvertent gasps.	10
17	532	She moaned softly, trying to understand sudden, warm, disturbing feelings welling up within her.	10
18	656	And then she had thought, as well, but is that not what we all want to do, please men? Too, she had sometimes marked various changes in their behavior, such as a self-conscious awkwardness, a sudden uneasiness, a stumbling of speech, unfamiliar gestures, of a surprisingly, rather obviously feminine ...	10
19	565	In a moment the tarn had leapt from the platform, spread its wings, soared for a brief moment, swooping downward, and had then, with a sudden snapping of those mighty wings, begun to fly.	10
19	738	Then she felt a sudden chill.	10
20	389	* * * * "March!" came the command, a command accompanied by the crack of a whip, sudden and sharp.	10
20	392	That sound, you see, the fierce, sudden crack of the whip, is not unknown to slave girls.	10
20	574	"I belong to Cos! I am a property of the empire of Cos!" The two lads exchanged sudden glances, clearly of concern.	10
22	612	Its sudden rising up and vicious snarl terrified her.	10
24	379	Then there was, from outside on the sand, the sudden sound of a snapping whip.	10
24	697	How could he do other than hold her in contempt? Then, exhausted, miserable, aroused, tearful, she, in a sudden swirl of music, concluded her dance, hurling herself to the sand, to her left side, her legs drawn up, she on her left elbow, her right hand lifted piteously to the crowd.	10
25	580	There was a sudden gesture, imperative, impatient.	10
25	585	Surely a life of wealth, of luxury and pampering would have done little to prepare her for chains, exposure, degradation, the searing heat of the pressing, held, iron, for the sudden, sharp, instructive stroke of the whip, for the grasping, imperious hands of men, for the sawdust of the sales block.	10
25	603	To the right of the block, at the foot of wide, low, rounded steps, the kneeling slaves, chained, jammed together, huddled together, exchanged sudden startled, fearful, glances.	10
25	783	See life as it is, directly, in its beauty, if only for a sudden, startling moment, perhaps as men might have seen it before language, before the subtle, altering, translucent barriers of words, the invisible wall that so liberates, but yet confines and shapes, was interposed between the mind and ex...	10
26	62	Too, though she tried to brush away the thought, she had a sudden sense that she wanted to spread her knees before him, perhaps even supplicatingly.	10
27	877	And in that sudden, confused moment the startled, angry rider had been dragged from the saddle, struck half senseless, and dragged backward, stumbling, groggy, his body shielding that of Arconious, toward the wagon.	10
27	1490	Even the free woman, fully clothed, has a sudden sense of her body, naked, within her encumbering robes.	10
27	2240	Then Ellen realized with a sudden spasm that she was now no more than a slave, a helpless slave! What mattered her thoughts, her feelings, her recognition that he was not her master! No longer could she help herself.	10
27	2243	How quickly she had learned to do that, how naturally! The grasslands are commonly dry, but this was in the spring, and storms sometimes erupt, and, when they do, it is often with a sudden rage, a blackening of the sky, a rising of wind, a rushing of clouds, a shattering of lightning, a beating, pou...	10
27	2318	She was sure the sleen were harmless at present, particularly if she did not make sudden moves, or annoy them.	10
27	2887	The dagger paused, wavering, the energy of the arm behind it revealing itself in the conflicted hesitation of the blade, narrow, bright, quivering, arrested by a sudden monitory glance from the officer.	10
27	3163	And the officer, struck through the back, a sudden stain upon his tunic, fell forward, stumbling, and collapsed to the grass.	10
30	165	Then strangely, she felt a sudden incredible elation, and fulfillment, in the pain.	10
30	195	It was so sudden.	10

Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	99	Beyond a certain interval they do not exhaust their resources, but conserve them, almost lethargically, for a given moment, for the sudden movement, for the lunge, the movement to the throat.	10
1	491	This sudden hysterical activity and outcry on the part of her lovely container mate startled the girl from the Steel Worlds, who drew quickly back, alarmed, then perplexed, then resentful.	10
1	589	Shortly thereafter, she seemed to understand, perhaps in part from her distraught reflection in the barrier, with a sudden, poignant and alarmed fullness of realization, her complete lack of covering, and she became, too, then, perhaps for the first time, more acutely aware that she was not alone in...	10
1	774	She found these moments, these sudden sensations and feelings, unprecedented and inexplicable, suffusive, shocking, overwhelming.	10
1	775	She had the sudden sense she belonged in a collar, a slave collar, and that such as she was the rightful property of such as he.	10
1	800	She thought of herself in his arms and had the sudden sense she would oil and leap within his arms as no more than a helpless, manipulated toy, as not other than a meaningless slave.	10
1	1324	He wants me, she thought, trying to hold her head very still, quite aware that if she made any sudden movement or made the least attempt to escape, it would hurt even more, and that he, if he wished, with a mere tightening or twist, could subject her to the torment of hundreds of tiny scalding knive...	10
15	3	Just as women of one world may use attire, perfume, cosmetics, and such, or another robes, and sandals, and veils, to call attention, while haughtily pretending not to do so, to the flesh she is offering to a man, or the slave she is dangling before him, so a slave, who is owned, may use her bells v...	10
21	123	With a sudden screech of rage the two females flung themselves upon one another.	10
21	597	There was then a sudden roll of drums.	10
22	212	And the slave danced, as she could, danced for fear of the whip, for fear of her life, danced for the pleasure of men, hoping to please them, hoping that they might see how beautiful and desirable she was, and would be kind to her, and then for the sudden desperation of her awakened needs, and dance...	10
24	271	Then her expression changed, to a sudden, wild thought, one of relief, even of elation, and possibility.	10
25	133	Again he noted her reaction, one which shook her body, suffusing it with significance and heat, with sudden emotion and pleasure.	10
27	22	"It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...	10
32	390	Thus, no thrashings about this night, no moanings, no uncontrollable gaspings, no wild, inadvertent utterances, no sudden cryings out, none of that sort of thing".	10
36	9	"Lita," called Cabot, "fling the garland!" Lita removed the garland from her hair and tossed it away from her, and scarcely had it left her hand than the string of the bow of Lord Grendel leaped forward, and then vibrated with that sudden, intense purr, the bow's music, signaling a flight.	10
45	194	A throat may be bitten through in a moment, a sudden blow may snap the neck, a heart, even, may be gouged out in an instant.	10
47	127	Cabot scanned the remaining foes who had seemed startled, almost paralyzed, at the sudden appearance of his threat.	10
53	205	They had not moved more than three or four yards when there was a sudden, frightened squeal, and Cabot spun about, to see a flurry of fur and teeth behind him.	10
55	273	"Her act, I suspect," said Cabot, "was one less of courage than of terror, of sudden and thoughtless desperation, an irrational flight at any cost to escape capture by the killer humans".	10
70	9	The sudden snap of the metal was followed, almost instantly, by a long, weird scream of Kur pain.	10
80	177	Does she, enclosed in those ornate blockades, wonder from time to time what it might be to feel a man's hands upon those stiff enwrapments, and wonder what it might be to feel them ripped from her, abruptly, imperiously, and feel the sudden flash of air upon lovely, startled skin? Does she wonder wh...	10

Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	497	It was like a sudden, passing surf, a storm in the sky.	10
4	14	It is a world that contains not only the beauty of grass and the blossoming of the talendar but the fangs of the ost, the coils of the hith, the jaws of the larl, the frenzies of flocking, feeding jards, the sudden, wrenching, twisting strike of the nine-gilled shark, the claws of the sleen, the bea...	10
5	274	"Attend," said he, "fellow partisan of the plans of Priest-Kings, attend the commands of the Sardar!" "What is your sudden concern?" I asked.	10
10	267	Too, if one makes a sudden movement in its vicinity, for example, a paw may, as by a reflex, lash out and a hand may be half torn from a wrist, or an arm may be shredded.	10
10	690	I thought I saw a small movement of sudden comprehension, of profound understanding, pass through the slave's body.	10
14	11	One-on-one combat can be stylized amongst the Pani, and may proceed rather formally, for all its sudden swiftness and violence, alternating with an almost unnatural stillness, reminiscent of a larl or panther, intent, immobile, subtly quivering, before its attack.	10
18	214	Even as I did so, to my right, his pavilion collapsed, crashing downward in a sudden flurry of sparks and smoke, then settling into a mass of flaming planks, timbers, and panels.	10
18	263	"The slave learns quickly to respond to its discipline, to its swift, informative, lashing sting, its sudden monitory caress on her soft, smooth skin".	10
18	507	About them they hear the squeals of kaiila, the shouting of men, the shrieks of their sisters, the sudden pounding of paws in the grass behind them, and then the bright sound of a flighted, swirling, belled capture net.	10
20	88	There was a sudden flash, almost invisible, and a shriek of gouged metal and a brightness of sparks and Pertinax, who was in the center, was spun half about, and almost lost the buckler, but then again had it in place.	10
20	174	There was a sudden vibration of a bow cable within and I heard a man scream with pain.	10
22	361	She gasped, in sudden terror.	10
26	200	In the wingbeat in the rain, after a sudden clearing, the rain water is flashed into the sky, sometimes taking the light in an instant's rainbow, vanishing almost instantly to be replaced with another, and another.	10
27	112	I heard the snap of a switch and a girl's sudden cry of pain.	10
41	46	Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail.	10

Book 30. (19 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	87	Then there was a rift in the fog, like the sudden, whispering drawing aside of a curtain, but briefly.	10
2	182	I had heard, above the cries and the breaking wood, from the other side of the passing hull, the sudden ringing of springal boards speeding javelins, doubtless ignited, into the enemy.	10
3	235	What had been begun by the Delta Brigade, that hated, secret band of subversives, the resistance, implacable to the occupation, came openly alive and flaming with the sudden reappearance of Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ubars.	10
3	309	"There was a sudden darkness," she said, "as though a dark cloud had suddenly enveloped the cylinder, or its roof.	10
3	318	Then there was a sudden blast of light, obliterating the darkness, blinding us, and it seemed, when we could see, that a large metal object, I think thick and circular, was disappearing in the distance".	10
3	535	Then, too, I had a sudden, fearsome thought.	10
3	752	As it grew dark I felt a sudden piercing, a fierce, doubled puncturing, in the calf of my right leg and I screamed in pain.	10
5	225	Had a sudden flicker of disquiet crossed his features? In any event, for whatever reason, it seemed clear he did not welcome this intrusion.	10
8	71	Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful ...	10
9	267	I drew it free, with a sudden sense of exhilaration.	10
12	377	Almost at the same instant I sensed something pass my head, like a sudden, fierce whisper in the air.	10
14	40	It may have been thirsty for that sudden, bright, exhilarating draught.	10
14	347	"Aiiii!" I heard, a sudden, startled, weird, hideous cry, and the knife arm, and the head, and the torso of Seremides suddenly disappeared beneath the water, which churned, rocking the mat of vines, lifting and scattering the broad blue and yellow blossoms amongst the foliage.	10
20	101	I saw a sudden look of surprise, and then understanding, manifest itself in the features of Alcinoë.	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	250	There was a sudden cry from Lord Nishida and our fellows cast aside the bodies, bristling with arrows, and leaped upon the startled, disconcerted archers, only feet away, few of whom could train or loose more than a single arrow before dying.	10
25	206	"But on the roof of the Central Cylinder," she said, "there was sudden confusion, and darkness, and I was seized, and rendered unconscious.	10
37	829	"I take it you have a sudden craving for paga," said Callias.	10
37	830	"A sudden craving, yes, dear friend," I said, lifting my clenched fist, holding the tiny, beadlike coin, a golden tarsk, "but scarcely for paga".	10

Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	180	She pointed to the door and, shuddering, stumbling, numb, we turned about, unable to speak, unable to comprehend the dissolution of our reality, the sudden and catastrophic loss of our position and status, taken as given and unassailable but moments ago.	10
4	310	The thought came to me, unbidden, sudden, that I was where I belonged, on my knees.	10
4	631	I was overwhelmed by a sudden, momentous sense of meaningfulness.	10
8	235	What is so special about their terrified, groveling rival, licking and kissing at her master's feet, with her marked thigh, and band-encircled throat? What could she, a slave, an animal, possibly have, or offer, that might begin to compete with the accorded favor of a free woman, standing on her dig...	10
10	129	Once a fellow appeared, a shadow, in a doorway, but was greeted with so sudden, and fierce, a snarl, that he quickly withdrew.	10
10	696	It was my first experience of the sudden rage of that form of life, a rage easily aroused, swift, unexpected, unpredictable, terrible and overwhelming, a rage almost impossible to subdue.	10
17	318	Surely, on the street, in the market, or elsewhere, you have received a sudden slap, or pinch, on the fundament, when unattended, even though you were in the tunic of a woman's slave?" "Yes," I said, angrily.	10
18	920	I could not follow the movement of the blades, so sudden, so swift they were, but, a moment later, I realized they had crossed six times, from the sound.	10
24	20	Akesinos, then, like a sudden shadow, was at his side.	10
32	29	Then I heard a sound which was difficult to interpret, like a metallic scratching, interspersed, now and then, with a sudden, quick sound like a wheel of rotating metal spokes moving on tiles.	10
42	72	Crouching down, watching him, I moved warily toward the yoke; when I had it in one hand, he made a sudden move toward me, and roared, and I went to my stomach, shrieking, covering my head with my hands.	10
48	246	There was a sudden fierce, almost deafening, crackling sound, and a great blast of light, and the Kurii who held the container reeled away from it, and the Lady Bina and I screamed.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	203	They had attracted attention, for their apparent wealth, for buying slaves and hiring ships, and taking men into fee, many of them refugees, armed mercenaries, escaped from Ar, given the sudden, devastating, bloody restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, sometimes spoken of as the Ubar of Ubars.	10
21	102	"Make no sudden moves," said Tyrtaios.	10
27	55	Briefly there was a sudden coat of fire on the sundered wood, narrow, diagonal, to my right, but it was extinguished by the rain, only an Ihn or two after its appearance.	10
41	22	How different we are, I thought, from those precious, glorious free women, at least of the high castes, in the cities, of whom I had often heard, who might faint with mortification should a sudden breeze disarrange a veil, or attack a fellow suspected of considering an ankle, or hire public avengers...	10
50	215	My left cheek, my head struck to the side, stung with the sudden, fierce, angry, open-handed slap of his smiting right hand, and I might have reeled and fallen, save that his left hand, its grip close to the leash collar, held me upright, in place.	10
52	107	Through the door I saw smoke, billowing like dark, ugly, suffocating clouds, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, which tore apart the smoke, and flung before it a shower of sparks, and then more sparks began to fall about, the wind softening, in the clearing, these now descending like hot, bri...	10
52	1027	I had just decided that he, mercifully, had decided not to cast the knife after all, when there was, close, to my left, at the level of my throat, a sudden, firm, unmistakable sound, like the slap of metal driven into wood, followed by the tremor of a briefly quivering blade.	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	105	I saw the reaction of the girls, sudden, startled, their alertness, their apprehension, their readiness to obey, instantly.	10
23	32	"It is true," said the gardener, "that their sudden silence might be so motivated".	10
25	35	"Perhaps a sudden blow, while she is unconscious, the stroke of a glaive," I said.	10
38	109	Together, now!" At various points, to my left and right, for others, too, had made progress such as we, I heard the soft cries and utterances, sudden and forceful, of desperate and straining men.	10
40	88	"It was regrettable," he said, "a sudden, thoughtless act, which, in the moment, I could not help, an act expressing my horror, my indignation, my outrage, at the attempt on the life of my beloved shogun".	10
49	100	You performed the slave girl's trick, of having your hair about your body, and then bending over to loosen it, and then straightening up, head back, to fling it behind you, thus to startle us with the sudden revelation of your beauty".	10
57	53	Who would dare to attempt to hold, or stop, such desperate, frightened men? In the confusion, the chaos, and disorder, in the sudden disarrangements of power, in the lapse of authority, peasants rose, many following a charismatic leader named Arashi, himself of the peasants.	10
60	35	Indeed, I suspected, with a sudden coldness in my body, he might welcome this occasion, for a distractive interlude, pending returning to the audience chamber, to await the arrival of enemy troops, hundreds of violent men thirsting for his blood, competing for his head.	10
60	52	There was no sound in the garden but the sudden ringing of steel, followed by silence, and then beginning again.	10

Book 34. (24 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
6	301	At that moment, startling and shocking us, there was a sudden, unexpected ringing of metal on metal, a loud, sharp staccato of sound at the bars, consequent on the dragging of a metal bar back and forth against them.	10
6	462	At the same time there was a sudden blast of heat, wavelike, which swirled about and pressed against us, even in the cell, even where we knelt.	10
7	9	I recalled Paula's appearance at the apartment, her freeing me of the handcuffs, and, later, the sudden, swift ingress of three men into the apartment, the simplicity and ease of our capture, the ride in the van, the arrival at the warehouse or storage facility, the cell, the taking of our clothing,...	10
9	226	In the late afternoon, surprising me, there was a sudden cessation of activity on the wharf in our vicinity, and, as precipitately, a lull in conversation.	10
15	190	We made a sudden turn, and the wagon, veering, was on two wheels, and I was rolled to the side, and then, the vehicle righting itself, we plunged on.	10
20	136	"Attend, make no sudden moves".	10
20	170	"If we make no sudden moves, I am sure we are in no danger.	10
25	33	There was a sudden cry of pain, short, and ugly, from the sand, and I looked about, wildly, suddenly, startled, back to the sand, and then turned away, and put down my head, covering my eyes with my hands.	10
30	316	At that moment there was, from beyond the leather curtain, the sudden skirl of a flute, the swift strumming of a kalika, and the pounding of the tabor.	10
30	330	I heard the jangle of jewelry, and the sudden, bright flash of finger cymbals.	10
33	22	I held back a cry of alarm, for it seemed, for a moment, in the light of the lantern, that two bright, sudden, feral disks of copper blazed forth from the darkness.	10
39	65	I was seized by a sudden panic.	10
41	43	Just do not make any sudden moves, and, if you sense impending danger, a readiness to attack, withdraw".	10
42	206	I attempted, wildly, irrationally, in sudden panic, to spring to my feet, but, my ankles bound, I fell heavily to the flooring, before the door.	10
49	108	In any event, as the account goes, these warring armies were not the only creatures discomfited by the sudden, unexpected cruelty of the weather.	10
49	212	Was the sun so bright in this room? Did she fear a sudden torrent of rain might fall from the ceiling, from which a parasol, even so improbable a defense, might serve to protect her? "Tenrik, of Siba," said Decius Albus.	10
53	95	A bridge seemed an appropriate venue for the exchange as, in such a location, one could easily determine the nature and numbers of either party, and an ambush, a sudden rush from a doorway, an emergence from brush, or concealed pits, or such, would be impractical.	10
53	137	In any event, it was clear to me that Kurii might, prompted by a sudden frustration or rage, act without reflection.	10
55	1	The great cry that had rent the morning air, as Lord Grendel had rushed upon his foes, terrified me, in its sudden, unexpected, thunderous loudness, in its nearness, in its might and bestiality.	10
59	24	"Bind him," had said Decius Albus, and three of the four guards remaining with Decius Albus had set upon my master, who struggled wildly, until his arms were pinned back by two of the guards, one to each arm, and the other, standing close to him, struck him a sudden, heavy blow to the body, followin...	10
61	43	In the way it can be done, by disaster, crisis, or a sudden, freezing recognition of danger, it seemed the reeling heat of his drunkenness had been thrust aside.	10
61	939	We heard a sudden cry of pain, and a gasp.	10
64	275	Are masters not familiar with such sounds, from a slave at their feet? There was a sudden, ferocious shriek from Eve and she leaped upon Lyris, seized her, the pan of meat flying away, and hurled her to the ground on her belly, pushed her head down to the dirt, and snapped at the back of her neck.	10

Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	247	Had I not felt it before? Is it not an experience sufficiently familiar to an attractive, negligible female slave? I had been stung sharply below the small of my back, with a sudden, forcible blow, delivered with the fierce, swift flat of a man's hand.	10
8	883	Almost at the same moment, amidst cries of terror and distress from across the water, there was a sudden, vast sound of buckling, broken, ruptured, splintering, shattering planking.	10
11	77	How wonderful to belong, to be literally owned! And yet, sometimes, too, the collar has its miseries and terrors, for in it we are so vulnerable and helpless! To my left there was a sudden stir, and splash, in the water, and I spun about on the walkway in time to see a large urt submerge, it ears ba...	10
11	311	As I continued on my way, a sudden rage welled up in me.	10
14	165	A sudden transformation of relief shook Adraste, and she gasped and threw back her head, covering her mouth, fighting to repress laughter.	10
21	78	At that moment, there was a sudden noise, a bright, loud, unexpected, shocking, jagged flash of sound not a foot from my head, and a handful of stone and dust, and debris, gouged, burst forth from the wall.	10
22	141	It seemed to me as though I must be enveloped in a blaze of flame, but there was no flame, only, apparently, a sudden, fierce interaction of substances, freed or precipitated, I supposed, by the administration of water.	10
42	110	Even as he expressed this sober assessment one could hear the sudden pounding of a beam on the inner gate.	10
43	158	There was a sudden rending of wood and the iron-reinforced prow of our canal boat rose out of the water, climbing the gunwales of the other boat, and then, after a terrible moment, plunged back into the water, scattered planking and timbers on each side.	10
46	475	"That one!" I tried to move away, unnoticed, to slip through the beaded curtain, but the Vat Master's sudden grip on my upper left arm held me in place.	10

Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	17	"A sudden disruption in the crust of the earth," I suggested, "a spillage of fire from ovens or hearths, uncontrolled, sweeping even to the pomerium, eating away the palisade with red teeth?" We were within the blackened shell of what had once been a hut, a simple village dwelling.	10
21	133	I detected no sudden cast of apprehension in his eyes, no tiny drawing back of a body, no trembling of a hand.	10
29	186	The slaves exchanged sudden glances of dismay and terror.	10
31	39	I conjectured that the first to flee through the gate would meet arrows, and that the corsairs would then draw back, if typically commanded, and arrange a sudden assault en masse to close the gap between themselves and the archers.	10
32	18	Thus, one might hope that the surprise following a sudden, unexpected attack might burst into panic, which, ideally, would be soon transmitted to their as-yet uninvolved cohorts.	10
36	208	A sudden look of recognition, as of recalling a bird in flight, dating past a window, a little thing scarcely noticed, flickered across the countenance of Margot.	10
41	1	Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge...	10
49	71	"As Tab and Sakim left no message of any sort to explain their departure, we may infer that the appearance of the corsair fleet was sudden and unexpected, perhaps emerging from darkness in the vicinity of dawn, a situation calling for instant action, getting the Dorna and Tesephone to sea before an ...	10
51	124	The two enemy ships, given the sudden appearance of the hith, coiling about their fellow, had held up like frightened animals, and had then, frenziedly, and awkwardly, out of rhythm, begun to back oar.	10
55	52	"After surcease, the sudden return of agony must be excruciating," said Clitus.	10
56	35	Shortly thereafter, scarcely had war sandals been pressed on the first rungs of the braced scaling ladders, than a sudden, hideous tremor shook the beast, a violent stream of air and water exploded upward from its breathing hole, and its enormous body reared a dozen feet from the water, scattering l...	10
58	126	There was a brutal shock and a sudden, ear-shattering tearing of wood behind us and Clitus, Sakim, Thurnock, and myself fell to the remaining boards of the stem deck.	10
59	372	Thurnock, wide hands open, took a sudden, savage step toward Glaukos.	10
60	195	I trusted that he could note and deal with any sudden charge by the minion.	10