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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	233	Perhaps life might have been suspended temporarily or hidden beneath the planet's surface with sufficient sustenance and oxygen for the incredible journey.	10
2	277	After all, suppose you should accept this tale, should learn of the Counter-Earth and of the Voyages of Acquisition, what could you do? You could do nothing, you with your rudimentary technology of which you are so proud—you could do nothing at least for a thousand years, and by that time, if...	10
3	72	On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o...	10
6	25	I lunged for the center of the platform, breaking under my foot a small ceremonial basket filled with grain, kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface.	10
7	112	The girl sank deeper in the mire, the surface of the water circling her armpits.	10
9	44	Even so, the surface of the highway had been worn smooth, and the ruts of tharlarion carts were clearly visible, ruts worn deep by centuries of caravans.	10
12	59	Bound helplessly, without food or water, my own body would torture me by its weight dragging on the hand and ankle ropes, suspended a few inches above the roiling, muddy surface under the fiery sun.	10
14	21	"It was well done," said Marlenus, looking at the Stone, holding it so the light reflected variously from its worn surface.	10
18	87	I scrutinized every inch and ran my hands carefully over every portion of its smooth surface.	10
19	196	It rang on the marble surface.	10

Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	106	I could not even see myself reflected in the surface.	10
6	55	Perhaps this institution, which on the surface seems so deplorable, is profitable from the standpoint of the race, preventing the gradual inbreeding of otherwise largely isolated, self-sufficient cities.	10
9	81	He did not approach, but remained behind the wooden counter, slowly, deliberately wiping the puddles of spilled Kal-da from its stained surface.	10
12	43	She reached into the cistern, first scraping the surface of the water to clear it of the green scum that floated there, and then, in the palms of her cupped hands, carried water to my parched lips.	10
13	26	The surface of the area, white sand, perfumed and sparkling with mica and red lead, added to the colorful mien of the place.	10
14	177	Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning.	10
17	80	The slaves are never brought to the surface, and once plunged into the cold darkness of the mines never again see the sun.	10
19	44	Our mine opened on it perhaps a thousand feet below the surface.	10
24	260	Behind the golden throne of the Tatrix loomed the dull gold mask, fashioned in the image of a cold and beautiful woman, the reflection of the torches set in the walls flickering hideously on its polished surface.	10
25	12	Our reflections fought one another in the shimmering surface of the great golden mask behind the throne.	10

Book 3. (22 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	24	I examined my shield and saw ten wide furrows torn across its brassbound hide surface.	10
17	64	Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus...	10
17	70	At my request Sarm took me to the Scanning Room, whence the surface of Gor is kept under selective surveillance by the Priest-Kings.	10
17	136	The face of the rock was blackened and some stone had been chipped from its surface.	10
19	30	"They are worn on Tola by all Priest-Kings in memory of the Nuptial Flight, for the Nuptial Flight takes place above the ground in the sun and there on the surface there are many things which are green".	10
20	72	"It is on the surface," said Mul-Al-Ka.	10
21	40	On the surface it is spoken by none but members of the Caste of Initiates, who use it primarily in their numerous and complex rituals.	10
25	12	The plastic tunic I wore did not provide an absorbent surface with which to clean the blade.	10
25	64	I leaped again and this time managed to fasten my fingers in the grille and cried out in pain, turning my face away from the heat and fire that seemed to transform its surface erupting over my head with torturing, savage incandescence.	10
26	36	"You will be a girl brought from the surface," I said, "for you are still unshaved, and you are to be delivered to the Vivarium on the orders of Sarm, the Priest-King".	10
26	54	"Here is a new female Mul from the surface.	10
29	9	Over it hung ten ships, perhaps of the sort used for surveillance on the surface, and in the nose of each of these ships there was mounted a conelike projection.	10
29	40	In less than a few Ihn I had brought the ship into the large Nest complex where the ten ships of Sarm still followed their grim, precise, destructive pattern, as placidly and methodically as one might paint lines on a surface or mow a lawn.	10
31	134	I left cover and rushed to the walkway and was soon climbing up the narrow path that crept around the surface of the globe that now barely contained the frenzied, bubbling fury, the turbulence of the hissing, erupting substance that leaped and smote against the smooth enclosing walls.	10
31	164	More stones fell from the ceiling of the chamber now, clattering and bouncing off the surface of the blue, scarred seething dome.	10
31	206	I stood to one side, standing on the surface of the globe, clinging to the rail.	10
31	231	One last time he looked about himself, his antennae surveying the grandeur of the Nest, and then tumbled from the walkway and fell to the surface of the globe and slid until he fell to the rubble below.	10
32	1	To the Surface "It is the end," said Misk, "the end".	10
32	77	I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend".	10
32	189	"Go to the surface," said Misk.	10
33	112	Perhaps, if they were silent, they might return to the surface, but even then, probably not to their own cities, for the Initiates of their cities would undoubtedly recall that they had left for, and perhaps entered, the Sardar.	10
35	36	In the end, those humans who wished to remain on the surface had landed elsewhere, far from their native cities, and scattered themselves as vagabonds about the roads and alien cities of the planet.	10

Book 4. (39 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	72	Some of the filamentous streamers beneath the surface now seemed to roil beneath the surface and the colors of the spheres seemed to pulsate.	10
26	347	Beneath the surface we could see places where his robes had been eaten away and the skin was turning white beneath the surface, the juices of the pool etching their way into his body, taking its protein and nutriment into its own, digesting it.	10
26	356	Saphrar screamed in agony and moving beneath the yellow glistening surface of the pool I saw several of the filamentous fibers encircle his legs and begin to draw him deeper into the pool and beneath the surface.	10
1	24	I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...	10
9	11	I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface.	10
11	238	It was rather leathery and had a grained surface.	10
12	217	There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious...	10
16	22	At last, at a given point in the tunnel, Harold disappeared beneath the surface and I followed him.	10
16	27	A foot or so above the surface hung a huge, heavy drum, now tipped on its side.	10
17	11	Some of the vines hung so low that they nearly touched the surface of the pool.	10
17	19	I noted that the surface of the pool, shortly after we had entered, began to tremble slightly, and it was then once again calm.	10
17	26	Nothing had yet broken the surface.	10
17	27	It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f...	10
17	30	Yet, if it had been a tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air.	10
17	55	I noted, too, that the surface of the pool licking at the marble basin in which it lay trapped seemed to rise slightly and then fall with the discharge of the steam.	10
17	64	I still had seen nothing break the surface to breathe, and now I was determined that my unseen foe must indeed be aquatic.	10
17	84	I now looked across the surface of the pool.	10
17	89	The filamentous strands seemed to go mad with movement and the spheres of various colors were almost phosphorescent, pulsating beneath the surface.	10
17	100	It was difficult to look into the fluid because of the brightness of the yellows, the glistening brilliance of the surface troubled by my passage.	10
17	105	Some of them, mostly whitish, luminescent ones, had seemed to float nearer, and hovered slightly beneath the surface, in a ring about me, some ten feet away.	10
17	111	"When is it that I meet the monster?" Over the surface I heard Saphrar, standing behind the wooden shield, laugh.	10
18	47	To my horror I saw it change its shade as it neared the surface, more closely approaching the light.	10
18	48	As it had risen toward the surface, just beneath which it now rested, its pigmentation had changed from a luminescent white to a rather darkish gray.	10
18	60	Beneath me, vaguely, several feet under the surface, I could see a collection, almost like threads and granules in a transparent bag, of intertwined, writhing filaments and spheres, imbedded in a darkish yellow jelly, walled in by a translucent membrane.	10
18	63	Finally I was literally digging in it feet below the surface.	10
18	69	Now below me the fluid began to gel swiftly almost like a rising floor and it loosened and withdrew on all sides and suddenly my head broke the surface and I breathed.	10
18	70	I now stood on the hardened surface of the Yellow Pool of Turia and saw the fluids of the sides seeping into the mass beneath me and hardening almost instantly.	10
18	72	I could not have scratched the surface with the quiva.	10
18	78	Then suddenly I heard his agonized cry and saw that beneath me, once again, there glistened the yellow fluids of the pool, moving about him, for the thing—perhaps thermotropic—had again, as rapidly as it had hardened, liquefied and swirled about him, the luminescent spheres and filamen...	10
18	79	The crossbow bolt went wild, again shattering the blue surface of the dome.	10
18	80	I heard the wild, eerie cry of the luckless man beneath me and then, with my fist, broke the blue surface and climbed through, grasping the iron of a reticulated framework supporting numerous energy bulbs.	10
18	83	There, quiva in hand, uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba, feet first, I leaped from the framework and shattered through the blue surface landing among my startled enemies.	10
19	62	I could see the three moons of Gor reflected in its surface.	10
26	345	He was surrounded by the luminous, white spheres that floated under the surface about him, perhaps watching, perhaps somehow recording his position in virtue of pressure waves in the medium.	10
26	360	The fluid now had reached Saphrar's chin and his head was back to try and keep his nose and mouth above the surface.	10
26	364	Some bubbles broke the surface.	10
26	365	Then the merchant's hands, still extended as though to grasp the vines overhead, with their scarlet fingernails, the robes eaten away from the flesh, disappeared beneath the sparkling, glistening surface.	10
26	366	We stood silently there for a time, until Kamchak saw small, white bones, like bleached driftwood, rocking on the sparkling, now watery surface, being moved bit by bit, almost as if by tides, to the edge of the pool, where I gathered attendants would normally collect and discard them.	10
26	372	The yellows of the pool began to flicker and the filamentous fibers began to writhe, and the spheres of different colors beneath the surface began to turn and oscillate, and dart in one direction and then the other.	10

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	146	In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor.	10
19	80	Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...	10
5	12	Most of these locks, interestingly, though hand-crafted, are of the pin-tumbler variety, in which the locking is secured by a set of heavy pins extending into the lock plug; when the key is inserted the pins, of various lengths, are lifted to the surface of the lock plug, freeing it, so that when th...	10
5	150	On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a Priest-King.	10
5	164	Bracing himself against the wind, the antennae struggling to retain their focus on me, he took one delicate step toward me across the metal surface of the disk.	10
5	215	Elizabeth had been rapt with wonder at the Nest, but after some days, even in the presence of its grandeur, I knew she desired again to be on the surface, in the free air, in the sunlight.	10
5	394	"Movements of probe ships appear to have been coordinated from the surface.	10
9	38	On its surface there was sprinkled, again in one of the conventions of Gorean tradition, some sawdust.	10
13	54	It took but one glance and I dove into the water, swam to her, seized her by the ankle and dragged her under, kissing her, rolling about beneath the surface.	10
13	55	I liked the lips and feel of her and when we broke surface, she and I laughing, I asked her how much she went for.	10
16	268	And then I held it, and pressed my cheek to its fierce surface.	10
19	133	A girl, wild, clad only in a brief tunic of gray toweling, as though fleeing, ran to the surface of the block, weeping, circling it, her hands outstretched to the crowd; this was done to the music of the Musicians; she turned this way and that, acting the frantic role of the fleeing slave girl.	10
19	134	In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher...	10

Book 6. (22 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	48	I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its padlike feet, daintily picking its way across the surface.	10
3	3	They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface.	10
1	7	Immediately following I saw the water seem to glitter for a moment, a rain of yellowish streaks beneath the surface, in the wake of the water tharlarion, doubtless its swarm of scavengers, tiny water tharlarion, about six inches long, little more than teeth and tail.	10
1	75	The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ...	10
3	6	It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...	10
3	13	Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...	10
3	112	The roll of sheaf and flight arrows spilled out to the woven mat that was the surface of the rence island.	10
3	149	Then he replaced the bow, putting it with its arrows, on the leather spread upon the mat of woven rence that was the surface of the island.	10
3	198	He shrugged again, and looked down at the woven surface of the island.	10
4	3	These stores of rence are not used in the making of rence paper, but in the weaving of mats, for adding to the surface of the island, and for the pith, used as a food.	10
4	169	Its ceiling was continuous with its walls, and, in its curve, stood not more than four feet from the rence surface of the island.	10
5	173	It was Telima who began first to pound the woven rence mat that was the surface of the island with her right heel, lifting her hands, arms bent, over her head, her eyes closed.	10
6	29	We turned and ran again, stumbling in the torchlit darkness, across the woven mat of rence that was the surface of the island.	10
6	68	Another warrior approached her from behind, with a whip, and with four fierce strokes had cut the rence tunic from her body and she knelt on the rence matting that was the surface of the island, crying out in pain, begging to be bound.	10
6	133	Then something, probably a club or the butt of a spear, struck the side of my head and I fell to the matting of rence that was the island surface.	10
7	40	A small domesticated tarsk, grunting and snuffling, pattered across rence matting that was the surface of the island.	10
7	73	* * * * I stood on the surface of the rence island.	10
7	79	I climbed the curve of the matted shore until I came to the higher surface of the island.	10
7	83	I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting.	10
7	207	Then I began to gather rence, drawing it from the surface of the island itself, long strips, with which a boat might be made.	10
12	43	I felt my leg then caught in the jaws of an urt, like triple bands of steel, set with needles, and was dragged beneath the surface.	10
17	100	I studied the surface of the water to windward.	10

Book 7. (13 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	171	It had been drawn in my most scarlet lipstick on the surface of the mirror.	10
1	175	I looked again at the red mark drawn in lipstick on the surface of the mirror.	10
3	22	The strange mark, drawn in lipstick, was still on the mirror's surface.	10
4	157	As I watched it, it seemed that lights began to flicker on its surface, and then it seemed that tendrils of light began to interweave across its steel, and, before my eyes, it began to change in color, turning a grayish blue, streaked with white.	10
5	46	What I thought was a petaled flower underneath the swift, cold surface of the brook suddenly broke apart, becoming a school of tiny yellow fish.	10
5	220	Inside the pod I could see, fastened in the upper surface, two long, curved, thornlike fangs.	10
8	7	Several of the men must be fishermen, already returning with a first catch, who had hunted the river's surface with torches and tridents at night.	10
8	46	Several of the girls looked after it, the fin cutting the waters and disappearing in the fog on the surface.	10
8	56	One dipped its head under the surface and, moments later, the head emerged, dripping, the eyes blinking, a silverish fish struggling in the small, triangular-toothed jaws.	10
8	77	The fog had begun to lift and the surface of the river, broad, slow-moving, glistened here and there in patches.	10
8	136	The morning sun was bright on the surface of the river.	10
10	238	"A handle, containing the heating element, is fixed into the back of the marking surface.	10
10	456	"It is unwise to carry weapons of power on the surface of Gor," he said.	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	276	A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface.	10
6	21	Following in the wake of the Tesephone, to pick up litter or garbage thrown overboard, were two long-bodied river sharks, their bodies sinuous in the half-clear water, about a foot below the surface.	10
11	38	Players, incidentally, are free to travel where they wish on the surface of Gor, no matter what might be their city.	10
14	128	Its marking surface, its termination, soft and red in the night, was in the form of a large, block letter in Gorean script, the initial of Kajirus, a common Gorean expression for a male slave.	10
14	336	In an instant the white-hot marking surface would be pressed deeply into, and held in, for some seconds, the flesh of Marlenus of Ar.	10
21	273	The glittering surface of the water, broken by the stroke of the oars, seemed to swirl.	10

Book 9. (12 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	386	In these battles, unknown to most men, even of Gor, from time to time, ships of the Kurii had been shattered and fallen to the surface.	10
8	218	Then the Forkbeard stood on the sill of the tall window, poised, and then he dived into the darkness; after about an Ehn, giving him time to surface and swim to the boat, I followed him.	10
9	59	Then, like any bondmaid, she found herself plunged beneath the cold green surface of Thassa.	10
9	66	One must follow its rhythm, and, as soon as the surface is broken, expel air and take a deep breath.	10
14	251	Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...	10
15	75	It had managed to put a handful of men, for a few hours, on the surface of its moon.	10
15	223	I chose, and cut, a path which it might follow, to the last twenty feet; for the last twenty feet I cut shallow holds in the surface, adequate for a man, climbing carefully, but too shallow for the fingers of a Kur".	10
15	371	Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across.	10
15	382	I hugged the surface of the ledge.	10
20	70	I saw now, head first, then shoulders, then body, a Kur, climbing to the surface of the skerry.	10
20	169	I stood on the surface of the skerry.	10
21	86	Then the Blue Tooth climbed to the table's top and stood there, and the Forkbeard, astonished, climbed, too, to the surface of the table.	10

Book 10. (40 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	25	It is the subterranean residue of portions of the vanished seas themselves, which have slipped through fissures and, protected from the heat, and fed still by the ancient seeping rivers, now moving sluggishly beneath the surface, maintain themselves, the hidden remnants of oceans, once mighty, which...	10
1	443	The sand, struck by the sun, can reach temperatures on its surface of more than 175 degrees Fahrenheit.	10
1	445	Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees.	10
1	450	Interestingly, because of the lack of surface water, the nights, the sun gone, are cool, even chilly at times.	10
1	825	It takes more than a hundred and fifty years for some of this water to make the underground journey, seeping hundreds of feet at times beneath the dry surface, moving only a few miles a year, to reach the oases.	10
1	827	Surface temperature, diurnally, is, of course, much higher.	10
4	222	An obvious example is the stimulation-chamber training which is overtly concerned with honing a physical and psychological responsiveness to surface sensation; this responsiveness, however, is reflected in the entire attitude, and expressions, of the girl.	10
4	429	I became aware of the pounding of kaiila pads on the dry surface.	10
7	331	"In the pits," he said, "you pump water through underground deposits, to wash salt, with the water, to the surface, and repump again the same water.	10
7	404	These would have been the Nest's humans who, following the Nest War, had elected to return to the surface of Gor.	10
9	153	The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the Taharic character 'Kef', which, in Taharic, is the initial letter of the expression 'Kajira', the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.	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	206	It is thus not unusual that, in a desert situation, a calm, normal person may, misinterpreting physical cues, make an oasis, complete with buildings and trees, out of energies reflected over a heated surface from rock and brush.	10
14	26	It was difficult to believe then, in the cool of that morning, as early as late spring, that the surface temperatures of the terrain we would traverse would be within hours better than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.	10
14	443	The surface temperature of the crusts would be in the neighborhood of 160 degrees Fahrenheit.	10
15	20	Some of these deposits are far below the surface of the Tahari.	10
15	35	Men, in the closed pits, actually descend and, wading, or on rafts, negotiate the sludge itself, filling their vessels and later, eventually, pouring their contents into the lift sacks, on hooks, worked by windlasses from the surface.	10
15	39	In places, the "open pits," the brine pits are exposed on the surface, where they are fed by springs from the underground rivers, which prevents their desiccation by evaporation, which would otherwise occur almost immediately in the Tahari temperatures.	10
16	7	I estimated our distance beneath the surface to be some four hundred feet.	10
16	15	One of the poles, released in deep water, will stand upright in the water, about a yard of it above the surface.	10
16	18	The floor of the brine pit, in most places, is ten to fifteen feet below the surface of the water.	10
16	34	These ropes run in systems to the surface and return.	10
16	35	Men at windlasses on the surface lift the sacks, which, when emptied, return on the slack loop.	10
16	56	The light of our lamps flickered on the surface, yellowly, in broken, shifting refractions.	10
16	92	Ultimately, then, food is brought into the pits, generally in the form of organic debris, from hundreds of sources, many of them hundreds of miles distant; this debris is carried by the fresh-water feeds, through minute faults and fissures, and even porous rock, until it reaches the remains of the a...	10
16	140	On the surface it would be dusk.	10
17	162	It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t...	10
17	182	Then it slipped beneath the surface.	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
17	284	The Old One was still alive when I was drawn away from it, pulled by Hassan and another man to the surface of the raft.	10
18	77	Further, one shields, with one's body, the surface on which one lies.	10
18	78	The surface temperature can reach one hundred and seventy-five degrees by late afternoon.	10
19	180	I slipped into the ditch and slowly, in order not to provoke the beast to attack, lifted the two bags to the surface.	10
21	75	More than four feet below the surface he found mud.	10
24	85	I wondered if she entertained Ibn Saran, upon occasion, on the broad, lovely surface.	10
24	86	As a high slave she might be permitted the surface of a couch.	10
24	87	I could imagine her kneeling beside a master's couch, as other slaves, not knowing if she would be permitted on its surface or not.	10
24	89	Permitted the privilege of ascending to its surface, she would first humbly, fervently, gratefully, press her lips to a coverlet, acknowledging the privilege accorded her, before presuming to crawl to his side.	10
26	851	She looked at me, then at the glowing, white-hot marking surface of the iron.	10

Book 11. (27 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	443	The spear of him who was one of my captors seemed to leap upward and away, caroming from the oblique, lifted surface of the stranger's shield.	10
2	505	The shield fell on its edge to the grass, and then tipped and rocked, then was still, large, rounded, concave inner surface tilted, facing the sky.	10
3	419	The marking surface of the iron, then, lay hissing, literally submerged, in my flesh.	10
3	422	The marking surface of the iron is some quarter of an inch in depth.	10
4	881	At no point could I crawl more than a yard up its surface.	10
13	152	As I lay, lashed, quivering, in misery, on the surface of the block, I realized that that seemingly insignificant little fact, the piercing of the ears, had indeed, as I had been informed, a most significant import on Gor.	10
15	358	"And it is dangerous to bring such material to the surface of Gor.	10
20	33	On the whole surface of the planet there was nowhere to run, nowhere to go.	10
22	206	I went beneath the surface and then emerged.	10
22	210	I was dragged back and submerged, but, in moments, I managed to regain the surface.	10
22	552	It turned in the water, twisting, and was half submerged when the ship disappeared but, in a moment, it lifted again to the surface.	10
22	584	I could no longer tell where the surface of the water was.	10
22	588	It was the surface.	10
22	591	Something, too, was in the water, moving downward from the surface.	10
22	598	The surface receded.	10
22	614	Swiftly I was drawn toward the surface.	10
22	615	Unable to see, my eyes filled with salt water, my head broke the surface and I coughed and gasped.	10
25	220	"Doubtless Half-Ear, even now, is upon the surface of Gor," said Samos, grimly.	10
26	406	She sat at the foot of the couch, her knees drawn up and together, on furs thrown to the tiles from its surface.	10
26	519	She looked at the surface of the couch.	10
28	223	He did not order me immediately to the foot of the stairs, those leading to the surface of the great block at the Curulean.	10
28	343	I heard a pouch, heavy, filled with metal, strike heavily on the smoothed beams of the surface of the block.	10
28	366	The virginal girl, slender, sweetly shouldered, lovely legged, terrified, crept to the surface of the block.	10
28	380	It floated to the surface of the block, stirring in the slight movements of air.	10
29	57	He placed his shield upon the bridge, straps down, its convex surface like a bow facing the stars.	10
29	69	Then he flung me back, arched across its surface.	10
29	74	He thrust me from its surface.	10

Book 12. (23 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	46	Samos was much disturbed that the high Kur, it referred to as Half-Ear, was now upon the surface of this world.	10
1	56	Half-Ear was now upon the surface of Gor.	10
3	11	These pits are circular, marked off with a small wooden fence, sand-bottomed, and sunk some two feet below the surface of the "field".	10
3	978	He stepped upon the platform, and crouched upon its surface.	10
6	554	He thrust her under the surface following her under.	10
6	557	The girl's knife was in his right hand; his left hand held her head, grasped by the hair, beneath the surface.	10
6	560	When she could scream he thrust her head again beneath the surface.	10
6	577	I saw the man take the tube of reed he had broken off and thrust it in her mouth; then the knife he carried, hers, lay across her throat; I saw her eyes, wild, in the moonlight, and then he, another bit of reed in his mouth, pulled her quietly below the surface.	10
10	136	It was some twelve feet square, and some four feet in height, its surface reached by steps.	10
12	210	Their occasional vastnesses, and the might of the forces that have formed them, become even more impressive when it is understood that what one can see above the surface does little more than hint at what lies below.	10
12	212	Thus, in a given piece of such ice, there is some seven times more beneath the surface than appears visible above it.	10
12	353	In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy.	10
21	306	"And yet this is all on the surface," I said, "and largely a matter of theory".	10
22	183	The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood.	10
22	185	In moments the harpoon shaft and foreshaft bobbed to the surface, but the bone harpoon head, its line taut, turning the head in the wound, held fast.	10
22	207	"Beware!" But in a few moments I saw the body of the sleen rise to the surface, rolling, buoyant.	10
28	20	Beneath the furs I sensed an obdurate surface.	10
34	13	It towered more than a thousand feet above the surface ice in which it was now locked.	10
34	14	It would extend, below the surface, much farther, probably some seven thousand or so feet.	10
35	67	I thought it better to let him ponder what might have happened high above on the surface of that rugged island of ice.	10
35	162	"I came from the surface," I said.	10
35	191	I assumed they were on their way to the surface, to aid in the search and investigation which must now be underway high above.	10
35	322	"A ventilation shaft grating was found blasted on the surface.	10

Book 13. (38 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	258	Thus the sound, though propagated efficiently either beneath or above the surface, is not well propagated, because of the barrier of the surface, either from beneath the surface to above the surface, or from above the surface to beneath the surface.	10
24	188	"Please, Kisu!" She stumbled and fell, and was, for a moment, under the surface, but the tether on her wrists pulled her again to the surface and, moaning, she regained her feet and staggered to again follow us.	10
24	192	I saw four more tharlarion, low on the surface, eyes and nostrils above the surface, knifing toward the feast.	10
1	352	The two guards then, reaching upward, with some chains, attached above the door, lowered a heavy, wooden walkway to the surface of the water.	10
4	126	The praetor placed the coin on his desk, the surface of which was some seven feet high, below the low, solid wooden bar.	10
6	581	This creates greater surface heat than oblique rays would.	10
6	582	This heating of the surface causes warm air to rise.	10
6	586	When the warm air reaches the upper atmosphere, well above the reflecting, heated surface of the earth, it cools; as it cools, its moisture is precipitated as rain.	10
6	589	There are often two major rains during the day, in the late afternoon, when the warm air has reached its precipitation point, and, again, in the late evening, when, due to the turning of the planet, the surface and upper atmosphere, darkened, cools.	10
10	63	And, though it was not gold, he put it in his mouth, touching its surface with his tongue, and biting against its resistance.	10
13	776	"Is her slavery close to the surface?" he asked.	10
19	43	I heard fingernails scratching at a wooden surface and the turning and thrashing of a body.	10
20	27	A pole, mounted on two tripods, had been fastened some six feet above the surface of the raft, and parallel to its long axis.	10
20	40	One of the askaris wading beside the raft climbed angrily to its surface.	10
20	51	On the surface of the raft the askari who had administered slave discipline to the blond-haired barbarian for her outburst thrust a slave whip, crosswise, in her mouth, thrusting it back between her teeth.	10
23	243	There was an occasional squeak of the metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water.	10
23	257	The sound, of course, does not well break the surface of the water.	10
23	311	The first man's head broke the surface sputtering.	10
23	397	I tied shut the door of the wooden shelter, to keep it from being pushed inward by tharlarion which might crawl to the surface of the small island.	10
23	460	The chained slaves who drew the platform and were sitting and crouching forward, on its surface, had, cautioned by Ayari, remained silent.	10
24	35	I climbed to the surface of the raft.	10
24	46	We crouched down in the water, our heads scarcely above the surface, shielded by the raft.	10
24	62	Its mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering the mating instinct.	10
24	70	A fellow leaped to the surface of the raft.	10
24	85	I pressed the body of the man under the surface from the spear blade with my foot and drew the weapon up.	10
24	148	Kisu threw her, in her soiled robes, to the surface of the raft.	10
24	172	We saw the body of one of the raiders, seized in the jaws of a tharlarion, pulled beneath the surface.	10
24	182	The tharlarion, when it takes large prey, such as tabuk or tarsk, or men, commonly drags the victim beneath the surface, where it drowns.	10
24	281	"Do not let them under it!" I thrust at the water with the paddle, and then, as the tharlarion began to surface under the slender vessel, pushed down at it.	10
27	55	As we did so he helped the lad climb up to the surface of the scaffolding.	10
27	143	With the ring he might have slipped to a thousand more secure safeties on the broad surface of Gor.	10
29	197	I saw that the slave girl in her was near the surface.	10
32	181	One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine.	10
32	579	At the end of the street, before a group of men standing on the wide steps and the surface of a broad, stone platform, some ten feet in height, we stopped.	10
32	597	But I was lifted from my feet and, my back to the ground, screaming, carried by many men, was helplessly hurried to its surface.	10
33	74	From its surface we could see downriver, and, pasangs back, the flotilla of canoes and galleys of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
41	11	The trap, weighted, just below the surface, is activated by two vine ropes, slung over tree branches, ropes which are drawn taut when two logs, to which they are attached, one on each shore, are rolled or dropped from a concealed scaffolding.	10
44	57	There I saw it beneath the surface, its gills opening and closing.	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	69	Your slavery, already, lies almost at the surface".	10
17	173	I suddenly reared up, struggling, my shoulders some two or three inches above the surface of the couch.	10
18	19	I did not regain consciousness until, painfully, I was aware of being thrown upon a hard surface.	10
20	78	The sweat and water, too, now that I had paused, sticky on my hot body, formed an adhesive surface which I feared might hold the leather of Kaibar.	10
21	8	Beneath the warm sand, say a foot below the surface, we heard a tiny noise, a scratching.	10
26	199	We half reared from the surface of the bed.	10

Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	108	A network of welded iron bars, set an inch or two beneath the surface, underlies the planking of the floor and the surface of the dirt.	10
6	7	Before she had been dragged to the surface of the block, I had examined the remaining girls in the ready cage.	10
9	56	Five times the ready cage was emptied and filled, and emptied, as girls, freed of their shackles, were ordered to the block's surface for their vending.	10
23	85	He then threw her, with a jangle of bells, and a clatter of plates and goblets, to the surface of the table.	10
24	134	This is frustrating to her, naturally, and intensifies her desire, usually near the surface in a slave, to be taken in the arms of the master.	10
24	497	I then threw her, bodily, onto the deep furs on the surface of the couch.	10
24	517	In my desire, and in my eagerness, and in my fury and joy, I had had the wench on the surface of the great couch itself.	10
29	266	In a moment I rose to the surface, gasping, trying to see.	10
29	275	At last, lungs bursting, shaking water from my eyes, I rose to the surface and clutched at the iron latticework.	10
32	346	I tore loose, kicking, of the mud, and pushed upward toward the surface, which, after some seconds, gasping, I broke.	10

Book 16. (15 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	7	In the light of the starboard lantern, here and there, where the chain was visible above the water, as it was between certain pylons, we could see the dark links; generally, however, it was invisible, concealed by the surface.	10
6	22	I saw, peering through the thole port, the Leda's bow lift suddenly at a sharp angle from the water, the ram and hull dripping water, glistening, and then, in a moment, she slipped back, three-quarters below the surface.	10
7	6	An arrow pierced the water near me, then bobbed to the surface.	10
9	381	I felt her keel with my two hands, and pushed away, and again came to the surface of the water.	10
9	394	My head then again broke the surface, and I could once more breathe.	10
9	432	Too, from the manacles, other chains disappeared beneath the surface of the water.	10
9	440	The second climbed painfully, hampered by the chains, to its surface.	10
16	114	Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward.	10
16	152	"Time grows short!" A large eel suddenly broke the surface tearing at the side of my abraded leg.	10
16	188	Bubbles exploded to the surface.	10
16	557	Looking aft I saw the flagship of Policrates subside beneath the surface of the river.	10
17	784	She turned to look at the vendor of bosk milk, and then again lay on her side, the right side of her head on the stones, her eyes, half glazed, regarding the surface of the street.	10
18	730	With the fur-wrapped striking surface of the stick, removed from its rack, I smote the gong, once, smartly, decisively.	10
18	759	Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck.	10
21	862	But here, on Gor, you have not yet even permitted me to ascend to the surface of your couch".	10

Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	78	She lay on her left elbow, on the couch, the chain running from her collar to the surface of the couch, and thence to the slave ring fixed deeply in its base.	10
1	79	Seeing my eyes upon her she then knelt on the surface of the couch, kneeling back on her heels, spreading her knees, straightening her back, lifting her head, and putting her hands on her thighs.	10
1	296	As they lay, together, the crest of that heap, that living mound, marked by the backbone of one of them, was a few inches higher than the surface of the table.	10
1	784	The Priest-Kings care for their world, but their primary interest is in its subsurface, not its surface.	10
2	260	I climbed to the rail of the barge and ascended from thence to the surface of the landing.	10
2	304	This modality of hunting, incidentally, is not as dangerous to the girl as it might sound, for very few urts make their strike from beneath the surface.	10
2	305	The urt, being an air-breathing mammal, commonly makes its strike at the surface itself, approaching the quarry with its snout and eyes above the water, its ears laid back against the sides of its long, triangular head.	10
4	6	I waded about the wagon and then attained the graveled surface and, running, caught up with the wagon, and drew myself up to the wagon box, beside the driver.	10
4	119	The delivery points for slavers in league with Kurii shifted about on the surface of Gor.	10
6	2	In the pit, about five feet below the surface of the ground, there were nineteen girls.	10
8	870	She was conducted from the surface of the block.	10
13	12	The large extents of wilderness on the surface of Gor and the absence of large-scale artificial illuminations, of course, permit starlit nights, almost anywhere, to manifest themselves with a splendor that would be almost breath-taking to one accustomed to the drab, half-gray, polluted, semi-illumin...	10
13	492	I recalled the tiles of a palace, the weight of obdurate, clasping chains, my nudity, the tiny movements of air upon my body, the feel of the flat, colored surface of the tiles beneath my knees, and, too, beneath my forehead, as I knelt, my hair spread upon them, betokening submission, humbly render...	10
14	1252	I noted that he did not, with his eye or finger, trace the spiraling account painted on that almost-white, softly tanned surface.	10

Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	127	In this type of application of paint, on wood, over a large surface, or bands of a large surface, a brush of chopped, twisted grass is used.	10
47	318	In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,...	10
3	134	Thrice did Winyela, with the brush, as the pole was turned in the tripods, scarletly band the rotated surface.	10
5	222	Sometimes they will even paw down earth from the upper sides of washouts and then use the harder, exposed material beneath, dust scattering about, as a polishing surface.	10
6	77	We will take it up to the surface".	10
6	117	"Take it up to the surface".	10
12	419	This may be the last time in months, incidentally, that the girl will be on the surface of the couch.	10
12	535	She lay on her stomach on its surface, grateful to be again within the perimeters of its relative safety.	10
18	255	I could see the beginnings of the groove in its surface.	10
33	8	At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by a ladder.	10
40	16	This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ...	10
43	467	The wooden hook was no more than four or five feet from the surface of the rock.	10
43	485	I extended my hands and thrust my arms through the rope netting, it dangling from the girth rope of my tarn, and whipping and snapping, too, at the surface of the rock it skimmed.	10
43	491	Several of the Yellow Knives, on their kaiila, were now on the large, flat surface of the rock.	10
44	18	They were wedged deeply in a fissure in the surface of Council Rock, near the brink of the escarpment.	10
44	490	Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface.	10
44	739	Deep and interesting are the currents which far below the surface flow.	10
44	850	From the surface of the prairie certain things, cleavages and fissures, certain irregularities in the rock face, appeared to be weaknesses.	10
45	54	Enough men must be allowed to attain the surface to convince the enemy that their approach was undetected, that the orders for continuing the climb be transmitted, but not enough men that they might effectively hold a position behind which further climbers, in numbers, might be able to complete thei...	10
46	124	He then bent down and picked up a small rock, about an inch in diameter, from the surface of our position.	10
50	34	Mahpiyasapa made a sign and Cuwignaka, at the very edge of the surface, released Bloketu.	10
50	166	There, near the trail's summit, about a hundred feet to my right and a few feet below me, on the ascendant, sloping, exposed surface of the trail, the cliff on one side, the wall on the other, slaves were in the arms of their masters.	10

Book 19. (25 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	695	But for the slave access to the surface of the couch is an inestimable privilege, and she enters upon its surface gratefully and in trepidation, deferentially, determined thankfully to prove to her master the probity of his judgment, by according to him thereupon subtle and complex raptures of sensu...	10
1	130	I looked at the fierce head on the surface of the yellowish object.	10
1	170	It shows no particular, obvious signs of wear but its surface is less perfect than would be required to qualify it as being Uncirculated or as being in Mint State.	10
3	4	I lay on my stomach on the soft, broad, red-silk surface.	10
3	11	I was lying nude, uncovered, on my stomach, on a wide, soft, silken surface.	10
3	13	I turned and sprang to my hands and knees on the soft surface.	10
3	237	She began to take articles from the vanity, such as combs and brushes, and vials, and place them on its surface, before the mirror.	10
3	812	I half rose up on the couch, my left leg under me, my palms on the surface of the couch.	10
8	622	"Would that you were a slave!" He then, lifting me from my feet as though I might have been no more than a doll, suddenly, violently, with a cry of rage, flung me from him, yards from him, to the surface of the bed.	10
13	190	I gathered that the cage would be suspended from the ring on the projecting beam on the wagon, that it would hang suspended over the surface of the wagon, some feet from the flat bed of the wagon.	10
14	11	Because of the width of the wagon bed and the height of the cage, some five feet or so above the surface of the wagon bed, I had been reasonably well protected from the blows of whips, the jabbings of sticks.	10
16	101	As it was I lowered myself down its slope with the intention of then climbing the other side and attaining the surface of the road.	10
16	131	I could not see the surface of the road.	10
16	143	I dreaded the climb again to the surface of the road.	10
16	164	At least one other, I could hear him moving about, was above and in front of me, up on the surface of the road.	10
16	286	Both of the men then laughed, he standing now before me as I sat on the bank, and he, who was apparently alone, on the surface of the road.	10
21	27	An additional reason for keeping to the road was that I thought, on the hard, wet surface, it might be more difficult to follow my sign, if sleen were later used.	10
31	430	I had not been granted the dignity of the couch's surface.	10
34	140	Swiftly I released my ankles and slipped from the surface of the couch, to stand beside it.	10
34	141	"Bring furs from the surface of the couch, and spread them here, on the tiles," he said.	10
35	13	On this same stair, and on the floor below, and on the surface of the dais itself, before the long, low, small table, I had been ordered to writhe, to the music.	10
36	690	What of the master's couch? In theory its surface is for the master and a free companion, and it is true that the slave is often chained at its foot, where she belongs as an animal, and is usually enjoyed on the furs there.	10
36	691	The secret, however, which seems to elude many free women, though perhaps they suspect the truth, to their fury, is that preferred slaves, or favored slaves, though no more than owned animals, perhaps purchased in a market, as might be goods of any sort, do sometimes share the surface of the couch.	10
36	692	To be sure, they are expected to kneel, and kiss the coverlets, first, before ascending to its surface.	10
36	693	The free companion regards access to the surface of the couch as her undisputed right, and justifiably so.	10

Book 20. (18 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	499	The principle involved is that certain surfaces are reflected in such a way that the observer is led to misinterpret his visual data; for example, he is led to take a reflected surface, a mirrored surface, in a given location, for an actual or real surface in a different location; he normally does n...	10
1	666	To be sure, the arousal of a Gorean slave is seldom far below the surface.	10
1	785	Then, rising up a little and approaching further, still on her hands and knees, she turned her head, delicately, and kissed the edge of the table, her lips touching partly the surface of the table, partly its side.	10
2	1377	She twisted her head angrily, in frustration, to the side, on the surface of broad, soft, interlaced straps.	10
5	197	I then returned to the table about which the guards lay and replaced the small lamp on its surface.	10
7	8	It was covered with an intense, irregular geography of scarlet patches, the capillaries near the surface of the skin swelled with blood, the red color suffusing upward as though from a light within her, as though fires raged within her, just beneath her exposed, yielding, eager softness, witnessing ...	10
7	19	About five inches of it showed above the surface.	10
9	117	It would be in a sense a race, one between the fangs of sleen, or such, one supposes, and the large, sawdust-littered, gently concave, surface of an auction block.	10
9	295	Nudity, of course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch.	10
10	555	She did not wish to leave a particle of food on that homely tin surface.	10
12	187	"Perhaps that is all it is, after all," he said, "the meaningless movement of bits of wood on a checkered surface".	10
12	361	Among some of these papers, which I would apparently use as a backing surface for the sheet on which I intended to record the moves, were the papers I had taken, long ago, from the Lady Yanina near the fair of En'Kara.	10
13	202	The creature beside me released the bars, slipping down to the table, from the surface of which it leaped to the floor.	10
13	321	I indicated the surface of the table.	10
13	322	He leapt up to the surface of the table, squatting there.	10
18	506	The casual observer would take the mirrored surfaces of the two opposite walls for a single, solid surface, that well behind the pole, at the back of the niche.	10
20	408	As it was designed, it was almost impossible to distinguish, from the surface, from the arrangements of tilings behind the box.	10
21	108	The wood was not worn smooth and stained with the oil of fingers; the surface of the boards showed little sign of wear, or use, such as tiny scratches or even the subtle indications, the small rubbing marks, of polishings.	10

Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	86	She then stood before me, even more naked than many a girl up for vending, waiting to be thrust to the surface of the block, for she wore no collar, no chains, no brand.	10
3	53	He lifted the lid of the wagon box, which lid served also as the surface of his seat or bench, and dropped the empty sack within, and then shut the box.	10
3	486	It glistened, too, from tiny chips and plates of mica ingredient in its surface.	10
13	18	From the high, opened window of another building, some four or five feet below the sill, some forty feet or so above the street, its back against the stuccoed surface of the wall, there hung a body.	10
15	168	If anything, he seemed on the surface little more than a simple soldier, perhaps no more than merely another unpretentious, candid, efficient officer.	10
15	169	It was beneath the surface that I sensed more.	10
16	646	Smoldering fires have not been set in your belly, never far from the surface, ready to leap into flame at the smallest touch.	10
16	1541	On the outside surface of the horizontal beam, the side facing us, there were two hooks, over which there hung a sign.	10
24	290	The man himself then sat behind the desk and put the small disk before him, to his right, on the surface of the desk.	10
25	691	Some women, whose hunger for bondage is just under the surface, if not manifest, are probably prepared to be superb slaves almost instantly, with no pain, or perhaps no more than a modicum of pain, perhaps only enough to assure them of the reality of their condition, that they are truly slaves, and ...	10
25	1371	As with most free females they were doubtless far below the surface and seldom directly sensed.	10

Book 22. (35 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	893	I realized, lying there on the cool surface, it is a composition surface in that area, on my belly, naked, among the machines, that it is not always necessary to understand a man's language to obey him, or for him to command you.	10
3	304	My bare feet sounded strange to me, striking on the surface of the stairs.	10
3	307	The corrugated surface of the stairs, too, felt strange on my feet.	10
3	775	It had seemed plain, hard, and scratchy to my back, a suitable surface, I supposed, on which a girl's virginity might be tested, but as I lay on my stomach, to my softness, to my breasts and belly, to my thighs, it seemed oddly different.	10
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
3	998	Taurog held my wrists, pinning me back on the table's surface.	10
6	93	I then felt myself lifted up, lightly, in the hood, the chain still on my neck, in a man's arms, his hands thusly supporting me, one beneath the back of my knees and the other behind my back, and was handed up to another man, who then put me down, kneeling, on a higher, metal surface.	10
6	99	The surface seemed to move a bit under me.	10
6	103	I heard a body, doubtless that of the fellow to whom I been handed, descend from the surface.	10
6	114	This cage, I gathered, from the height of the surface, and its movement, was mounted on a wagon.	10
6	279	It seemed, now, too, to be moving on a level, on a wooden, planked surface.	10
6	574	The flooring gave us a very obdurate surface.	10
6	742	I was then lifted up, and down, onto another wooden surface, this one as smooth as a floor.	10
6	757	We were on a floating surface.	10
6	786	I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t...	10
6	790	I then heard a sound like the beating of a mallet on a wooden surface, slowly, regularly, every few seconds.	10
8	355	I had awakened here, on the platform, feeling its heavy, sturdy, smooth wooden surface beneath my body.	10
9	143	I again addressed myself to this journey on the wooden surface.	10
9	170	The interest of the men who could see me, however, as nearly as I could determine, was on something to my left, and raised above the dirt surface.	10
9	186	I saw Gloria there, on that rounded, raised surface, standing, her wrists over her head, in manacles much like mine.	10
9	199	From my left, from the rounded, wooden surface, there had come the snap of a whip.	10
9	201	I saw Gloria being drawn from the surface by the manacles, doubtless, by means of them, to be lowered to the ground on the other side.	10
9	208	I was then being lifted up, toward the surface of the block.	10
9	227	Then the chain slackened a little and my feet touched the surface of the platform.	10
9	552	Another girl, then, would be brought to the surface of the block.	10
10	5	I had climbed, on all fours, up the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and now lay, on my belly, half on its surface, the lower part of my body, my right knee flexed, across the final two steps before its height.	10
10	314	I was then lifted in it and set down, sitting, on what seemed to be a heavy wicker surface.	10
10	315	A leather collarlike arrangement was then put about my neck and my head was pulled back, apparently, as I could tell, pressing back through the hood, against a vertical wicker surface.	10
10	317	I was then pushed back, further, against the vertical wicker surface.	10
10	358	It seemed the ropes suspending this object would hold, that the surface on which I was confined was not likely to suddenly give way.	10
11	1624	Too, sometimes I had felt a desperate longing for them to continue, and had been eager for them, and others, some charming, and subtle, and some almost overpowering, making me feel weak, and held, to surface in me, like wonders, some bursting up, some rising slowly, in my depths.	10
13	631	To have no needs, if, indeed, there were women truly without them, would be a tragedy, and if one had any need at all, then it would be only a matter of time until under Gorean tutelage they were revealed, deepened and enlarged; until they were imperiously summoned forth into the open for inspection...	10
13	632	Too, they would always be with her, ready and meaningful, never far beneath the surface.	10
17	246	I could hear, beneath its narrow, sewn canvas surface, the crinkling of the straw within.	10
24	29	I was pleased when the contents were depleted, for the weight was less, but then, soon, I must hurry back to the wooden tank, to submerge the bag again and, as the bubbles streamed up to the surface, and broke there, refill it.	10

Book 23. (26 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	140	He scrambled up the embankment, the lantern in one hand, clutching at knots of wet grass with the other, slipping, sliding back, then regaining his feet, then reaching the surface.	10
1	143	It ran from the pitched surface of the road downward, in tiny rivers; it struck into the swirling ditch water, lashing it into foam, dashing it upwards, its impact registered in thousands of overlapping circles and leaping crowns of water.	10
1	144	We saw the lantern, in the fellow's hand, at the surface, swinging.	10
1	180	"Who is down there?" called a fellow from the surface of the road.	10
1	200	I ascended to the surface of the road.	10
1	342	The bottom stone has a small hub on its upper surface which fits into an inverted concave depression in the upper stone.	10
1	344	It also has shallow, radiating surface grooves through which the grindings may escape between the stones, to be caught in the sturdy boxlike mount supporting the stones, often then funneled to a waiting receptacle or sack.	10
2	139	Its primary purpose was to provide a reliable, nearly indestructible surface for the rapid movement of armed men.	10
2	269	She shrank back, frightened, against the rough surface.	10
2	402	There had been many indications that the fifth woman's slavery was very close to the surface.	10
5	541	He smote twice on the surface of his table.	10
5	803	The bill was inscribed on the waxed surface within.	10
8	667	I could see the surface of a lake, like a shimmering puddle, to my right.	10
9	549	The slave was so visible in her, so near the surface, that it was maddening.	10
11	2	I was forced down, on a hard surface, tiles, I thought, on my knees.	10
16	102	I hurried up the broad stone steps to the surface of the platform over the main gate.	10
17	3	The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width.	10
17	120	Sometimes, too, in a moment's lull, one notices little things, to which one has perhaps hitherto paid scant attention, the movements of an ant, how rain water irregularly stains a rock, moving and spreading, depending on the texture of its surface.	10
18	292	They were so thick there it seemed they constituted a surface.	10
18	294	Yet I would not have cared to tread that shifting, treacherous, churning surface.	10
19	53	Great lengths of it, some half submerged, tilting, others at, or almost at, the surface, floated in the water.	10
19	74	Here and there there was a stirring at the surface, as though there might be violent agitation some feet beneath.	10
19	75	Too, in places the harbor water suddenly muddied, the mud from the bottom rising to the surface.	10
19	76	These upswirling discolorations marked places, I supposed, where, below, unseen, a few yards beneath the surface, the long fish, pulling and fighting, snapping and tugging, stirred the mud.	10
19	224	He could not reach the surface of the remains of the walkway.	10
20	233	In his hand, uplifted, about half the size of a fist, the sun catching its polished surface, was a yellowish stone, marked with brown.	10

Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1653	She went under the surface but, in a moment, got her feet under her and came to the surface, wading, sputtering.	10
1	767	Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn...	10
3	10	Not a stain of dust lifted from that long, brown surface, lying like a dry line between two vastnesses of dried grass.	10
6	40	As the rence rots at the bottom, it is replaced, more rence being added to the surface.	10
9	7	Perhaps rope might be worked free, or slipped, somehow, unseen, beneath the surface.	10
9	12	My head went briefly under the water, and then, coughing, I struggled again to the surface.	10
14	189	"Rencers sometimes use such rocks," I said, "struck beneath the surface of the water, the sound detectable by holding the side of the head under water.	10
17	174	It has large, padlike feet on which, when it alights, it can rest on the water, or pick its way delicately across the surface.	10
17	296	Again and again the leather slipped even more maddeningly over the smooth, wet surface.	10
17	347	With some difficulty I attained the surface of the raft and, with my manacled hands, tied at my waist, bending down, bit by bit, drew up the harness behind me.	10
18	2	By means of this, particularly if the opening of the stem is kept near the surface of the water, and those in the vicinity are not familiar with marshcraft, if they are not vigilant and keenly alert to the possibility of such techniques, one may often travel about in relative security and concealmen...	10
19	308	Indeed, if she had been branded and collared, I did not think that anyone would have thought twice about seeing her under a sun trellis in an open market, on a warm day, chained by the ankle to a ring, displayed in a booth, or being herded upward, with a whip, to the surface of a sales block.	10
19	652	Her slave reflexes, I noted, were not far below the surface.	10
20	164	I then regained the surface of the raft, took up the pole, and continued my journey, she following on her tether.	10
26	42	A small triangular head was almost level with the water surface.	10
27	9	Sometimes such pools are extremely treacherous, as when they have a natural concealment, the sand at their top, supported by surface tension, seemingly continuous with adjacent sand, or when covered with algae or swamp growth.	10
29	229	His hands groped, feeling the abrasive surface.	10
39	172	It made me wish to reach across the table, seize her, and throw her upon it, and then, there, on that small, smooth, hard surface, put her to my pleasure, ravishing her publicly.	10
47	39	I then strode quickly to a slave bar, a rounded, metal bar, about six inches above the surface of the dirt, inserted through, supported by, and locked within, at each end, two low, trunklike posts.	10

Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	110	Seremides now, at the rear of the platform, where the rear ramp ascended to its surface, extended his hand downward, to escort a figure clad and veiled in dazzling white to the surface of the platform.	10
1	68	Female slaves are commonly not allowed the surface of the couch.	10
3	84	"Aii!" cried a fellow flailing about and then spilling from its surface.	10
3	905	It is not easy, of course, given the surgent fluid and the slippery surface.	10
3	915	The fellow was helped to the surface of the wineskin.	10
3	921	I watched another fellow being helped to the surface of the skin.	10
7	87	Gnieus Lelius was then, by the front ramp, conducted to the surface of the platform.	10
7	103	Then the High Council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface.	10
7	347	I noted that while Myron and his fellows scattered these coins about, Seremides, waving to the crowd, and Talena, lifting her hand, too, and the High Council, withdrew from the surface of the platform.	10
7	562	Such a surface would be likely to be quite smooth to her feet, too, presumably having been worn smooth by the bared feet of numerous women before her.	10
9	7	Talena, with certain aides and counselors, and guardsmen and scribes, was on a dais, it mounted on the surface of the platform, a few feet away, rather to its left, as one would face it.	10

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	1149	The first, or uppermost, tier was some four feet above the surface of the terrace; the second, or middle, tier was about three feet above the surface of the terrace; the lowest tier, the third tier, was almost level with the surface of the terrace itself.	10
6	14	The belly itself, of course, remains in contact with the surface on which one lies, the grass, the dirt, the gravel, the deck, the floor, the tiles, whatever the surface may be.	10
24	725	The top of the box, the lid, the box placed on a solid surface, serves as a writing surface, or desk.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	463	He then carried her to the saddle, over his shoulder, and laid her gently on her back, across the saddle, on the large plain surface before the pommel, perhaps a surface prepared for just such a purpose.	10
18	307	So, too, the sight of a place she remembers, a grassy knoll, a place behind a shed, a ditch, a stall, the surface of a long, narrow wooden bench, the floor, fur-strewn, at the foot of the master's couch, she not permitted on its surface, that privilege usually reserved for free companions, or perhap...	10
30	133	Perhaps, someday, who knew, she might, if she served long enough, and deferentially enough, with sufficient perfection, be permitted sometimes the dignity of the surface of the couch, though still chained by neck or ankle, first kneeling beside it, kissing its furs, and then being permitted to ascen...	10

Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	287	If she is permitted on the surface of the couch, there is often a ritual involved, in which she kneels at the foot of the couch, or toward its foot, on the side, and lifts the coverings, and kisses them humbly, and then, when permitted, crawls to the couch's surface, from the bottom, or near the bot...	10
33	252	But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u...	10
34	71	"Here!" In the darkness, in the cold, blinding water, he thrust the slave to the log, and, with loops of wet rope, loose from the log, fastened her to it, and then he thrust his own arm amongst the ropes, and clung to the log as it pitched about, rising and falling, and sometimes rolling over, takin...	10
47	12	Cabot heard another cry of misery and saw one of his fellows slipping down the surface, scratching at it with his finger nails, and then, he, too, lost the surface, was loose in the air, turning, and disappeared in the greenery below.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	83	On the other hand, some, seen first beneath the surface, a detectable, sinuous, twisting, moving body, a foot or two below, would suddenly emerge, beside the ship, snouts raised above the surface, with an explosive exhalation of breath, and then a drawing inward of air, these come to open water abou...	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	202	Such a feature, I supposed, was in the interests of cargo, affording a run-off for possible spillages, a higher, drier surface to protect against dampness, perhaps a less frictionated surface to facilitate the loading or unloading of boxes, crates, and such.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	120	The beast with the box pressed a part of its surface, on the side, and, on its upper surface, rotated what seemed to be a tiny dial, rather like that by means of which one might set a chronometer.	10