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Book 1. (91 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	201	I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases.	10
3	168	Indeed, the largest part of my education was to be in arms, mostly training in the spear and sword.	10
3	183	My training in the short, stabbing sword of the Goreans was as thorough as they could make it.	10
3	187	During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest.	10
3	189	He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing.	10
3	199	Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former.	10
4	144	At his feet lay a helmet, shield, spear, and sword.	10
4	156	About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head.	10
4	161	"Is it to that city that you pledge your life, your honor, and your sword?" asked my father.	10
5	2	My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder.	10
5	161	Sword and tarn-goad met in a ringing clash and a shower of glittering yellow sparks.	10
5	171	I had no time to think, but somehow I was aware that my sword was now in my hand and the tarn-goad thrust in my belt.	10
6	44	I drew my sword from its sheath, to cut the mounting ladder from the saddle, but stopped, and angrily drove the blade back into its sheath.	10
6	139	In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised.	10
6	146	It snapped again, and I knelt, the jaws passing over me as I thrust upward with the sword, piercing the neck.	10
6	153	I bent down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade.	10
6	154	Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.	10
6	161	Exhausted, I sat with my back against the tree, my hand never leaving the hilt of my sword.	10
6	166	I leaped to my feet, sword ready.	10
7	10	She kept her eyes on my sword, as if she expected me to strike her down if she turned her back.	10
7	110	I tried to reach her with my sword belt, but it was too short.	10
7	220	The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt.	10
8	1	I Acquire a Companion I lunged forward, but was checked by the point of the officer's sword.	10
8	21	The officer prodded me with the sword.	10
8	34	He jabbed me with his sword.	10
8	49	The officer sheathed his sword, not taking his eyes from Talena, who drew back.	10
8	64	He struggled furiously, his hands trying to pry apart my fingers, his sword slipping from the sheath.	10
8	68	Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger.	10
8	71	Talena, naked, still held the bloody sword, her eyes glassy with the horror of what she had done.	10
8	72	"Drop the sword," I commanded harshly, fearing it would occur to her to strike me with it.	10
8	75	I took the sword and approached the other soldier, asking myself if I would kill him if he was still alive.	10
8	93	I decided to carry my own sword and the soldier's crossbow, which I unwound, relaxing the tension on the metal span.	10
9	27	It would be generally assumed that the mysterious tarnsman who had stolen the Home Stone and disappeared with the daughter of the Ubar must long ago have reached whatever unknown city it was to which he had pledged his sword.	10
9	50	When one keeps to the left side of the road, one's sword arm faces the passing stranger.	10
9	146	"I challenge you for her!" "The sword," I said.	10
9	152	Once I stepped back, gesturing to the ground with my sword, the symbolic granting of quarter should it be desired.	10
9	153	But Kazrak would not lay his sword on the stones at my feet.	10
9	156	At last, terminating a frenzied exchange, I managed to drive my blade into his shoulder, and as his sword arm dropped, I kicked the weapon from his grasp.	10
10	2	"He is my sword brother, Tarl of Bristol".	10
10	4	One who has shed your blood, or whose blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you formally repudiate the blood on your weapons.	10
10	16	"And this is my woman, whom I claim by sword-right".	10
10	24	One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan".	10
10	26	"Tarl of Bristol," he said, "you have disabled my finest sword".	10
10	30	"Can you pay the hiring price of such a sword?" "I have no goods other than this girl," I said, "and I will not give her up".	10
10	34	"Her sale price would not bring half the hiring price of a sword such as that of Kazrak of Port Kar".	10
10	41	"He has done me honor and is my sword brother".	10
10	130	I argued with him to accept forty, on the ground that he was a sword brother, and at last convinced him to accept half of his own wages back.	10
13	113	In his hand was a warrior's sword, and the point was at my breast.	10
14	8	Before me, on a rough throne of piled rocks, sat Marlenus, his long hair over his shoulders, his great beard reaching almost to his sword belt.	10
14	37	Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.	10
14	38	"Do you know, Tarnsman," he asked, "that there is no justice without the sword?" He smiled down on me grimly.	10
14	42	Without the sword there is nothing".	10
14	43	"By what right," I challenged, "is it the sword of Marlenus that must bring justice to Gor?" "You do not understand," said Marlenus.	10
14	44	"Right itself—that right of which you speak so reverently—owes its very existence to the sword".	10
14	49	"Before the sword," he said, "there is no right, no wrong, only fact—a world of what is and what is not, rather than a world of what should be and what should not be.	10
14	50	There is no justice until the sword creates it, establishes it, guarantees it, gives it substance and significance".	10
14	56	"And yet," I said, "your sword has not yet found the strength to bring it into being".	10
14	63	"With this!" The Ubar then rose and sheathed his sword.	10
14	91	I seized the sword from his scabbard.	10
14	149	Then the tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword.	10
15	74	He came through the opening, dropped his helmet on the sleeping mat, and began to unsling his sword.	10
15	100	"We are together again, Tarl of Bristol, my sword brother".	10
15	204	"A Ubar," he cried, "answers such a question only with his sword!" My weapon, too, had flashed from its sheath almost simultaneously.	10
15	205	We faced each other for a long, terrible moment; then Marlenus threw back his head and laughed his great lion laugh, slamming his sword back into its sheath.	10
15	252	"And it was logical, was it not, to expect you to enlist the aid of your Kazrak, your sword brother?" "Yes," I said.	10
16	93	With a heavy heart I watched Kazrak loop his sword belt over his shoulder and pick up his helmet.	10
16	94	"Goodbye, Sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days.	10
16	155	Indeed, I was momentarily overwhelmed with the cunning of Pa-Kur and rejoiced that I had followed something of Kazrak's counsels of patience and caution, that I had not disclosed my identity, that I had not attempted to cut my way to her side and bring her out by the blade of the sword.	10
17	9	Four times I eluded special patrols of Pa-Kur, led by men I had questioned at sword point.	10
17	12	Yet nothing but the sight of my beloved would have brought me more satisfaction than driving my sword into the heart of the Assassin.	10
17	99	I loosened my sword in its sheath, set my shield on my arm, and grasped my spear.	10
18	157	Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn.	10
18	159	It was not simply that my sword was drawn.	10
18	171	I struck and parried and struck again, my sword flashing forth and drinking blood again and again.	10
18	180	I wiped my sword, sheathed it, and climbed to the top of the barricade.	10
19	57	"Who are you?" cried Pa-Kur, drawing his sword.	10
19	70	"Are you truly the men of never-conquered, imperishable Ar? Or are you but slaves who will exchange your freedom for the collar of Pa-Kur?" "Down with the Initiates!" cried one man, drawing his sword.	10
19	107	Then, before anyone could stop him, he seized a sword from the scabbard of an Assassin and rushed to Talena, holding it over his head with both hands.	10
19	115	"The sword shall decide these matters," he said.	10
19	122	Pa-Kur, without taking his eyes off me, gestured with his sword toward the men of Ar.	10
19	130	He then began testing elsewhere, methodically, using his sword almost as a physician might use a stethoscope, applying it first to one area and then to another.	10
19	153	In affairs of the sword, there is a place for outguessing the opponent, but there is no place for anxious speculation; it paralyzes, puts you on the defensive.	10
19	158	Pa-Kur withdrew coolly, meeting my attack effortlessly, letting me weary my sword arm; hating him, I admired him; wanting to destroy him, I acclaimed his skill.	10
19	171	I heard the joyous cry, "Sword Brother!" It was Kazrak's voice! "Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried another familiar voice—that of my father.	10
19	189	I gestured to the ground with my sword, offering quarter.	10
19	198	"Or take your sword again".	10
19	199	Like a striking cobra, Pa-Kur snatched up the sword.	10
19	202	Suddenly Pa-Kur, who sensed this as well as I, hurled his sword.	10
19	214	I sheathed my sword and went to Talena.	10
19	222	My hand was on my sword.	10
20	27	The free cities of Gor appointed Kazrak, my sword brother, to be temporary administrator of Ar, for it was he who, with the help of my father and Sana of Thentis, had rallied the cities to raise the siege.	10

Book 2. (60 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	82	The other warrior lunged at me with his sword and I side-stepped the stroke and seized the wrist of his sword arm.	10
19	158	The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" But I knew then that I would not throw myself u...	10
2	13	From them, if this were true, I could gather my bearings for Ko-ro-ba, that city of cylinders to which, years ago, I had pledged my sword.	10
2	55	My Home Stone was the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.	10
2	57	In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans.	10
2	81	I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder.	10
4	89	Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free.	10
4	90	Then, as sleen hunters do, for luck, and because I was hungry, I took my sword and cut through the fur of the animal and ate the heart.	10
5	78	"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said, "throw yourself upon your sword".	10
5	81	"Throw yourself upon your sword," he begged.	10
5	112	I stood beside the grave, and drew my sword.	10
5	115	"No, I shall not throw myself upon my sword.	10
5	117	I lifted the sword toward the valley where Ko-ro-ba had stood.	10
5	118	"Long ago," I said, "I pledged this sword to the service of Ko-ro-ba.	10
5	123	I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains.	10
6	80	He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room.	10
7	5	I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion.	10
7	11	Now my sword stood between him and my body.	10
7	72	My sword was free of its sheath.	10
7	120	I felt my hand clench on the hilt of my sword.	10
7	125	I replaced the sword in my sheath, shattered, helpless.	10
9	106	I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait.	10
11	159	He drew his sword.	10
19	41	"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind.	10
20	1	The Invisible Barrier In my hand I held a sword, taken from one of the guardsmen in the mines.	10
20	18	The sword itself, of course, was gone.	10
20	23	I thrust my weapon into the empty scabbard, buckled the sword belt and, in the Gorean fashion, looped it over my left shoulder.	10
20	63	But so far there has been no military victory of Ar over other cities and, accordingly, free of the sword, the Initiates of each city regard themselves as supreme within their own walls.	10
21	1	I Buy a Girl Out from my scabbard leaped the sword and I splashed across the cold stream, making for the grove of trees across the way.	10
21	17	I thrust my sword back in the scabbard and took off my helmet.	10
21	169	My sword pushed a quarter of an inch into the belly of the merchant.	10
21	172	He noted that my sword was at the belly of his master, but did not seem unduly disturbed.	10
21	181	I resheathed the sword.	10
21	194	I slipped the blade of my sword between the girl's cheek and the hair that was bound across her mouth.	10
21	214	The sword itself I retained, knotting the scabbard straps and thrusting the blade into them.	10
22	22	"Give me your sword, Warrior," said she, "and I will throw myself upon it".	10
22	24	"Ah, yes," she said, "a warrior is unwilling to have the blood of a woman on his sword".	10
22	147	He who had captured the girl would place his sword to her breast and utter the ritual phrases of enslavement.	10
22	203	"I have no more slave whips," said Targo, shrugging his shoulders sadly, "but your sword belt will do as well".	10
23	179	"Guardsmen," I said, drawing my sword.	10
23	182	Losing not a moment I thrust my sword into my belt and seized Lara by the waist.	10
23	207	I slowly drew my sword, and thrust the girl to the side of the street against the wall.	10
24	71	"We need your sword".	10
24	131	It was clear to the defenders of the palace, which formed the major bastion of Dorna's challenged regime, that the issue would be decided that day and by the sword.	10
24	141	I motioned to the others to remain back and, carrying a shield and spear in addition to my sword, approached the rampart.	10
24	206	He leaped down from the barricade and laid his sword on the stones at Lara's feet.	10
24	207	"Take up your sword," she said, "in the name of Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	210	"I take up my sword," he said, "in the name of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	227	He leaped down from the wall and placed his sword also on the stones at her feet.	10
24	265	He loosened the sword in its scabbard.	10
25	7	Hardly had my shield been penetrated when my sword had leaped from its sheath and slashed through the shoulder straps of the shield, cutting it from my arm.	10
25	10	His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.	10
25	16	I kicked the sword from the hand and turned over the body with my foot.	10
25	37	"You see," she said, "my master has defeated you, as he knew he could, not by the sword but by the purchase of time.	10
25	78	The man with wrist straps had picked up the sword and with this, and his whip, circled us, waiting for an opportunity to strike.	10
25	82	Then I turned so that it was my body that was exposed to the blow of the sword carried by the man in wrist straps.	10
25	88	It now had its eyes fixed on the man with the sword, he who had struck this new blow.	10
25	124	Resourceful as she was, even carrying riches as she must be, she was still only a woman and, on Gor, even a silver mask needs the sword of a man to protect her.	10
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...	10
26	126	I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip.	10

Book 3. (76 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	98	Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword.	10
2	130	I loosened my sword in its sheath and continued upwards.	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
4	82	"I shall keep my sword," I said.	10
4	155	Then seized by an impulse I sat myself down on the great throne in the Hall of Priest-Kings, drew my sword and placed it across my knees.	10
6	97	I buckled on my sword.	10
7	73	I spun quickly about, drawing my sword in the same motion.	10
7	79	Slowly, very slowly, I drew the sword, taking care that it made no sound as it left its sheath.	10
7	100	And so I uttered the war cry of Ko-ro-ba and leaped, sword ready, to face what might follow me.	10
7	107	Angrily I stood alone in the passageway in the dimmed light of its energy bulbs, my unused sword grasped futilely in my hand.	10
7	111	Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ...	10
7	120	I resheathed my sword and returned to Vika's chamber.	10
8	78	I drew my sword.	10
8	80	She leaped from the stone couch and ran to me, seizing my sword arm, but with my left hand I flung her back and she fell stumbling back against the side of the stone couch.	10
8	82	Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks.	10
8	84	I resheathed my sword and wiped my face with the back of my forearm.	10
9	230	I drew my sword and turned.	10
10	51	The floor seemed to drop beneath me and my hand grasped my sword.	10
10	53	I resheathed my sword.	10
10	73	I reached for my sword.	10
10	77	My hand left the sword hilt and I wiped the sweat from my palm on my tunic.	10
11	77	I drew my sword and faced Sarm.	10
11	106	"I'm sorry," I said to Sarm, resheathing my sword.	10
12	19	"Is it your intention," I asked, "that I should be so shaved and clad?" My hand was on my sword hilt.	10
12	43	* * * * "Your sword," said Misk, extending one foreleg down to me.	10
12	46	For some reason I unbuckled the sword belt and reluctantly handed the weapon to Misk.	10
12	51	I had been pacing back and forth in the long room, nervous without the feel of the sword steel at my thigh.	10
14	89	I did not even have a sword, and I was sure that, in any battle with Priest-Kings, I would constitute but a moment's work for their fierce mandibles and the bladed, hornlike projections on their forelegs.	10
16	14	"If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".	10
18	174	"Then give me my sword," I said, "and take me to him".	10
19	1	Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared.	10
19	17	From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.	10
19	20	Where would one strike a Priest-King? To my surprise Sarm then jerked at the door of the compartment from which he had withdrawn my sword.	10
19	23	"I am making sure," said Sarm, "that no one will lock your sword up again in this compartment".	10
19	68	It would be simpler, when I approached Misk with my sword in hand, to see if he would volunteer the information.	10
20	54	My hand went to my sword.	10
20	66	I did not draw my sword.	10
20	141	My hand tightened on the hilt of my sword.	10
22	157	I drew my sword, lifting it easily from the sheath.	10
22	162	I liked the blade which seemed so simple and efficient compared to the manifold variations in sword steel that were possible.	10
23	48	I held my sword in my right hand and the Mul-Torch in my left.	10
23	49	When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come.	10
23	64	With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor.	10
23	70	I then took my sword and wiped the oil from one side of the blade and set the shining steel against the lips of the girl from Treve.	10
24	12	I stood before her body, my sword drawn.	10
24	31	I slipped my sword into its sheath and knelt beside Vika's body, not taking my eyes off the creature who stood about four yards distant.	10
25	6	I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg...	10
25	10	I did not wish to resheath my sword, for it was coated with the body fluids of the Golden Beetle.	10
25	23	As I prepared to resheath the sword I heard a slight noise in the passage and, in the light of the dying Mul-Torch, without moving, I waited.	10
25	29	I shook myself and resheathed my sword.	10
25	40	When I had entered I had immediately marked my passage with small arrows scratched by the hilt of my sword at eye level on the left side of the passages.	10
25	45	Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword.	10
25	87	I took off my sword belt and, rebuckling it, made a loop which I managed to hook over the closest ring in the shaft.	10
25	91	Thus carrying her I climbed the sword belt and soon had attained the first ring.	10
25	140	I knew that she was faithless, vicious, and treacherous, and because of her glorious beauty a thousand times more dangerous than a foe armed only with the reed of a Gorean spear and the innocence of sword steel.	10
26	206	I could not understand why this assertion of mine should have troubled one of Vika's proud and treacherous nature but she seemed somehow more hurt than if I had administered to her when she had knelt the blows of a slave whip or the lashings of my sword belt.	10
27	38	I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother.	10
27	191	At that instant I kicked loose the grille on the ventilator shaft and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba sprang to the Platform of the Mother and in another instant had leaped between Sarm and Misk, my sword drawn.	10
27	230	I gestured to him with my sword.	10
28	10	On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium.	10
29	134	I seized the sword which I had never ceased to wear and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba rushed forward but as I did so I suddenly threw myself to the ground beneath those extended projections and slashed away at the Priest-King's posterior appendages.	10
29	137	I leaped between the bladed projections and cut halfway through its skull with my sword.	10
30	52	I noted that the appendage which I had severed with my sword in the Chamber of the Mother had now regrown.	10
31	37	"No," cried Vika, "I discharged it this morning!" The girl ran to my side in a swirl of many-colored silks and from beneath the Robes of Concealment she withdrew my sword and kneeling at my side lowered her head and placed it in my hand.	10
31	131	I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword.	10
31	167	I did not even draw my sword.	10
31	187	I crouched, sword in hand, waiting for the blow.	10
32	160	I drew my sword, but gently Misk seized my wrist, not permitting me to rush upon the Beetle and slay it.	10
32	310	I stood at the portal, sword drawn, to defend it against the larls should they attempt to enter.	10
32	329	With a sword it would be a great blow.	10
32	332	"Good," said Parp, not flinching, "follow me!" Vika screamed and I cried out for him to stop, but Parp dashed forward and threw himself into the jaws of the startled larl and it lifted him in its jaws and began to shake him savagely, and I was at its feet and thrust my sword between its ribs, plungi...	10
32	335	I drew out the sword and thrust it again and again into the heart of the larl until at last it lay still.	10
33	61	Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man.	10
34	68	I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t...	10
34	167	I thought his sword might indeed have been welcome, but I knew his first duty lay to his city.	10
35	16	I sheathed my sword.	10

Book 4. (51 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	52	To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up...	10
10	455	The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ...	10
26	389	He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".	10
1	66	I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear.	10
4	15	I retained my sword.	10
4	69	I went to him and set the point of the Gorean short sword at his heart.	10
7	192	I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword.	10
7	195	"Put your sword away and sit down," said Kamchak.	10
7	242	"Please, please, please!" My hand was on the hilt of my sword, but Kamchak's hand rested on mine.	10
10	437	Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword.	10
10	447	"Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be—the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bola—perhaps the quiva?" "The sword," said Kamras.	10
10	450	The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill...	10
10	458	"The sword," he repeated.	10
10	461	"The sword," he said, yet again.	10
10	463	"But how would I, a poor Tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia".	10
10	495	"I have always wondered," he said, "what it would be like to hold a sword".	10
10	497	"I will choose the sword," said Kamchak.	10
10	535	In the last moment I cried out to Kamchak, "For the sake of Priest-Kings, hold the weapon thus!" trying to teach him the simplest of the commoner grips for the hilt of the short sword, permitting a large degree of both retention and flexibility.	10
10	542	Kamchak was looking at the edge of his sword, turning it about, apparently noting with pleasure the play of sunlight on the blade.	10
10	555	In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow.	10
10	560	His sword was in front of his face, apparently blocking his vision.	10
10	568	Once again, expertly, the sun flashed from the sword of Kamchak in his eyes.	10
10	569	In terror Kamras blinked and shook his head, thrashing about wearily with his sword.	10
10	576	Kamras tried to lift his sword but the boot of Kamchak pressed it into the sand, and Kamras lifted his eyes to look dazed into the scarred, inscrutable countenance of the Tuchuk.	10
10	577	Kamchak's sword was at his throat.	10
10	579	In that time of the guards of Ar I became First Sword".	10
10	582	Rather he threw the sword he carried into the sand and though he threw it easily it slipped through almost to the hilt.	10
12	506	He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains.	10
16	19	I followed him, armed with quiva and sword.	10
16	183	"You may ask," said Ha-Keel, "how it is that I, a tarnsman of Ar, ride for merchants and traitors on the southern plains?" "It saddens me," I said, "that a sword that was once raised in defense of Ar is raised now only by the beck and call of gold".	10
16	280	Ha-Keel drew his sword.	10
16	285	Ha-Keel angrily rammed his sword back into the sheath.	10
17	2	I had not been given back my sword but the quiva I had carried was now thrust in my belt.	10
18	108	I had the guardsman's sword and my quiva, Harold his quiva alone.	10
20	96	"Hurry, take her!" The guard sheathed his sword.	10
21	44	Beneath my garment, concealed, I carried sword and quiva.	10
21	71	"Why are you carrying a sword beneath your robe?" he asked.	10
21	253	Beneath the unbelted tunic of the Bakers, slung under my left arm, its lineaments concealed largely by a short brown cloak worn over the left shoulder, there hung my sword and with it, the quiva.	10
21	275	Suddenly understanding, the officer cried out in rage and whipped his sword from his sheath but before he could raise his arm the young man had leaped to him and thrust a quiva into his heart.	10
21	285	My Turian foe took the short sword under the heart.	10
21	340	I sat cross-legged under the wagon, my sword across my knees, watching the paws and legs of the swirling kaiila bounding past.	10
23	145	I unsheathed my sword.	10
24	191	"Behind you!" I spun the kaiila and whipped my sword from its sheath.	10
26	156	Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10
26	163	He carried a short sword and stood between us and the others.	10
26	168	He held his sword ready.	10
26	179	In that moment, uttering the Turian war cry, the young man rushed forward with his sword on Kamchak and the dozen arrows flew simultaneously, striking him a dozen times, turning him twice.	10
26	194	Then Kamchak lifted his head and regarded the other three men, seated Ha-Keel, calm with his sword, and the frantic Saphrar of Turia, and the tall Paravaci, with the quiva.	10
26	230	Ha-Keel looked up, suddenly, seeming to forget his sword and its oiling.	10
26	263	The Paravaci turned to Ha-Keel, who had now resheathed his sword and stood up.	10
26	391	"It is said," remarked Kamchak, "that the sword of Ha-Keel is scarcely less swift and cunning than that of Pa-Kur, the Master of Assassins".	10

Book 5. (77 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...	10
22	555	A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor...	10
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat...	10
1	51	He picked up his short sword in its scabbard, his helmet and his shield.	10
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.	10
2	57	Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table.	10
2	130	"Yes, Master," he said, "yes!" "Then you have money," said Kuurus, and stood up behind the table, slinging the sheath of the short sword about his shoulder.	10
2	133	"There are four of us," said another, putting his hand on his sword.	10
2	148	No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table.	10
2	149	Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st...	10
2	155	Once more the short sword lay at his right hand on the table.	10
2	158	The right hand of Kuurus now lay on the hilt of the short sword.	10
2	169	The short sword moved from the sheath.	10
2	233	"Why did you come to speak with me?" "I would hire a sword such as yours," said Portus.	10
2	312	"I gather," said Kuurus, "that you wish to hire my sword, that you may in some degree protect yourself from the men and the plans of the house of which you have spoken".	10
2	318	"I shall permit my sword to be hired," said Kuurus.	10
3	22	The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s...	10
3	205	I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield.	10
4	1	Cernus "Place your first sword before me," I said, "that I may kill him".	10
4	11	"I am the first sword in the House of Cernus," said Cernus.	10
4	21	"I have come," I said, "to rent my sword to the House of Cernus".	10
4	24	"It is understood by me," said Cernus, evidently relaying certain reports which had reached him, "that Portus, of the House of Portus, sought to hire your sword in vain".	10
4	104	"I now see," said Cernus, "that there is more reason than I suspected in your desire to rent your sword in this house".	10
4	110	"As you presumably know these are difficult times in Ar, and a good sword is a good investment, and steel in these days is upon occasion more valuable than gold".	10
4	114	"But for the time," he said, "it is valuable for me simply for it to be known that your sword is in this house".	10
4	125	I tensed slightly, my hand dropping to the hilt of the short sword.	10
5	15	In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...	10
5	50	She knelt and watched me as I took one of the thongs and sat cross-legged by the door, and split it carefully over the edge of my sword.	10
5	88	"Alexander," she remarked, smiling, "cut it with his sword".	10
5	503	My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...	10
5	619	Further, I did have the business of vengeance to attend to, for there was a Warrior from Thentis who had died on a Koroban bridge, whose blood surely required the justice of the sword.	10
7	27	You will this night understand how wisely you have invested the use of your sword".	10
7	80	My hand was on the hilt of my sword, sweating.	10
8	145	We entered, and I closed the door, put the beams in place, and took off my sword belt.	10
13	232	I expect the fact that I walked as a Warrior, a sword at my side, perhaps dissuaded individuals who might otherwise have attempted to cut a purse or threaten a throat were they not rewarded for leniency.	10
13	366	I knew he could throw the knife before I could reach him, before I could hope to unsheath the sword at my side.	10
15	93	Buckler and short sword are perhaps most popular, but there are few weapons on Gor which are not seen over a period of three or four days of the games.	10
16	12	Indeed, he was said to be, and I do not doubt it, first sword in the house.	10
16	40	Murmillius, in the games, returned with more brilliance than ever and, on the second day of En'Kara, with superb swordsmanship downed two foes, wounding them again and again, until even the crowd did not regard them as worth slaying, at which time Murmillius sheathed his sword, turned his back, and ...	10
17	156	Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...	10
17	157	Condemned criminals and men of low caste, fighting for gold or freedom in the arena, he treated with the harsh courtesies obtaining among sword brothers.	10
17	203	The first sword of the military forces of Ar, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, second in authority only to Minus Tentius Hinrabius himself, was relieved of his post.	10
17	542	But then my sword was out of the sheath and delicately, turning each bone with the tip of the blade, I placed the side marked with the highest number on each of the bones facing the ceiling.	10
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
18	5	Ho-Tu fell heavily on the floor and I slipped free, rolled and had the sword from my sheath, standing.	10
18	18	I had backed to the chest, resheathed my sword, and drawn forth the knife which had been thrown.	10
19	61	My wrists pulled futilely against the circles of steel that confined them; I felt the point of a short sword in my back.	10
19	250	"I wonder," he said, "how she will feel when she learns she has been truly sold?" "Put a sword in my hand," said I, "and face me!" Cernus laughed and turned his attention again to the block.	10
21	5	"It will be amusing," said he, "to see you stumbling about on the sand, sword in hand, thrashing here and there, trying to find your foes.	10
21	148	He unbuckled his own sword belt and buckled it about me.	10
21	149	He drew the sword.	10
21	154	He was now buckling about his waist the sword and belt of Vancius.	10
21	213	He seemed to thrash about wildly with his sword.	10
21	272	Another Taurentian fell from my sword.	10
21	318	I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius.	10
21	347	"I think you will find," said Murmillius, "a sword is more useful here than your small knife".	10
22	149	The hand of Saphronicus was on the hilt of his sword.	10
22	221	With my sword I cut Mip free of the safety straps and drew him from the tarn.	10
22	405	I wore my sword; I carried the killing knife I had taken from the back of Mip; lastly, thrust in my belt, was the double-edged quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife.	10
22	564	I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ...	10
22	588	Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades.	10
22	602	There he knelt before the man who stood there, and placed his sword at his feet, in the sand.	10
22	605	His sword across his knees, he took his seat on the throne.	10
22	616	My sword was in my sheath, the quiva in my belt.	10
23	2	Before me, on the wooden table, there lay my sword.	10
23	64	I had taken my seat on the chair of Cernus; I had drawn my sword, and laid it across the wood before me.	10
23	73	As the men burst into the room I stood behind the table, in the half-darkness, setting the point of my sword in the wood, holding the hilt with both hands, surveying them.	10
23	76	The man who had ridden against me threw me a look of hatred and drew his sword, but, angrily, he threw it to the tiles.	10
23	114	"Do not strike me!" "But," I laughed, "you are first sword of the House of Cernus.	10
23	136	He stood now with his sword in hand, eyes bright.	10
23	142	Once Cernus, moving backward, defending himself, fell over the dais, and my sword was at his throat.	10
23	172	"You are a fool, Tarl Cabot!" He hurled his sword down the stairs at me.	10
23	181	When I had come to the room, sword ready, the beast was gone.	10
24	5	But it was my old sword, the fine, familiar steel, remembered even from the siege of Ar, many years before, that I dropped into the scabbard.	10
24	414	My hand was at the hilt of my sword.	10
24	420	My hand was clutched on the hilt of my sword.	10
24	468	"Would you," asked Hup, "betray the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba?" My hand leaped to the hilt of my sword.	10

Book 6. (64 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	3	I wore at my side a jeweled sword, no longer the sword I had worn for the long years when I had served Priest-Kings.	10
17	391	As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist.	10
1	16	I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.	10
1	35	Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...	10
2	46	It was pointless to unsheath my sword, or to take up a weapon.	10
3	39	Ho-Hak looked at the garb of the warrior, the helmet and shield, the sword with its scabbard, and the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, with its roll of sheaf and flight arrows.	10
6	41	I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c...	10
6	47	The tall, bearded officer, sword drawn, stood silently near him.	10
6	145	He struck down at me with the double-edged sword.	10
6	149	I seized up his sword.	10
6	162	A spear flashed towards me but tangled in the net in which my sword had been enmeshed.	10
6	164	Before the man who had thrust with the spear had his sword half from its sheath I was on him.	10
6	180	Spitting teeth, his face a mask of blood, he tried to draw his sword.	10
6	215	Then he was running forward, sword at the ready.	10
8	5	I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc...	10
8	129	And then I heard the clash of sword steel, wildly, blindly.	10
8	137	I whispered to Telima to bring the rence craft in again, and put down my bow, taking out the steel sword.	10
8	189	In my scabbard was the short sword, carried even at the siege of Ar.	10
8	237	But many had apparently died of wounds inflicted with spear and sword.	10
8	246	And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge.	10
8	411	I held the blade of the short sword at her throat.	10
8	569	Then, resheathing my sword, I eased her, wrists still bound, down the prow, until her feet at last stood on the rail, on which, beside her, I stood.	10
9	255	At my side I wore a sword of steel.	10
11	28	I resheathed my sword.	10
11	314	He stood before the thrones of the Ubars, before even the large table, which now, on its upper face, was marked by sword cuts and the apertures splintered open by the passage of crossbow quarrels earlier this afternoon.	10
11	339	Lysias, his body rigid with fury, his hand on the hilt of his sword, stood not speaking before Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
11	375	In fury, with a shout of rage, Eteocles, cloak swirling, his hand on the hilt of his sword, strode to the table.	10
11	376	He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table.	10
13	403	He had a drawn sword in his hand.	10
13	421	I held out my hand and the officer placed his sword in it, hilt first.	10
13	451	And I walked up the steps, carrying the officer's sword.	10
13	505	Seeing the officer whose sword I had, I laughed and flung the weapon into the deck at his feet.	10
13	506	"Sir," I said, "your sword".	10
13	514	With gold won by sword at sea I purchased extensive wharfage and several warehouses on the western edge of Port Kar.	10
15	4	That sword, shortly after coming to Port Kar, I had put aside, and purchased others.	10
15	5	I did not feel, somehow, that I should carry that old sword any longer.	10
15	263	There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul...	10
15	702	Then they turned and left the room, he still carrying the unsheathed sword.	10
15	762	"You have destroyed me," I cried, "and now I shall destroy you!" I leaped to my feet, whipping the sword from my sheath and stood over her, the blade raised to strike.	10
16	131	She leaped up, and picked up the sword, which lay near the wall, where I had thrown it some hours before, when I had not slain her.	10
16	147	I dressed, and slung the sword over my left shoulder.	10
16	169	A door at the side opened and Tab strode in, his sword over his left shoulder.	10
16	382	Bejar swept his sword from his sheath.	10
17	22	"Give him a sword," I said.	10
17	155	What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ...	10
17	359	I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions.	10
17	372	I whipped the sword from its sheath.	10
17	385	Then we grappled, the sword wrist of each in the hand of the other.	10
17	390	I released the sword hand of the admiral of Tyros and struck him in the stomach with my left fist.	10
17	423	I briefly saw Tab, sweating even in the cold, in a torn tunic, a sword in his hand on the stern castle of the Venna.	10
18	80	In the belt of his tunic he had thrust the sword that I had had the officer give him before the battle.	10
18	98	He drew the sword I had had given him.	10
18	236	He sheathed his sword.	10
18	319	His sword had been much stained in my behalf.	10
18	506	To my astonishment she handed me the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar.	10
18	508	I put aside the admiral's sword.	10
18	514	At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of Priest-Kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself, when I had seemed to serve ...	10
18	515	It did not have the jeweled hilt or the figured blade of my admiral's sword, but I found it sufficient.	10
18	536	In her right hand, bloody, was the admiral's sword I had discarded.	10
18	540	Telima, wildly, her two hands on the sword, struck a man from behind in the neck and he fell away from the blade.	10
18	619	And behind them, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white, spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about, was another man, one I did not know.	10
18	678	We turned to see the slave boy, Fish, his sword in hand.	10
18	688	Claudius, with a cry of rage, the cloak of white, spotted fur of sea sleen swirling behind him, leaped at the boy, sword high, raining blows upon him.	10
18	898	"I dishonored my sword, my city.	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	905	The men then removed their sword belts, holding the short swords and scabbards in their left hand, the belts in their right.	10
8	910	I was suddenly stung, smartly, with the fierce slap of a sword belt.	10
8	921	Suddenly there were three more sharp slaps of the sword belts and, crying out, protesting, begging for mercy, laughing, we leapt to our feet to busy ourselves.	10
11	1120	Men feared his sword.	10
12	679	Now Haakon of Skjern stood in the stirrups of the tarn saddle, and waved his sword toward the wagons.	10
13	860	With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...	10
13	864	Then my captor again had his sword in his grip, but the other dragged his tarn upward, cursing, and its long, curved talons raked downwards, clutching for us.	10
13	883	I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped.	10
14	721	Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields.	10
17	293	Too, there was a young, beautiful girl, named Vina, the woman of a slender, strong youth, a seaman, whose name was Henrius, said to be a master of the sword.	10
17	369	He held a drawn sword.	10
17	484	When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba.	10
18	17	What should I do? What can I do? My old sword, the blade carried even as long ago as the siege of Ar, hangs still in my chambers, in its worn scabbard.	10
18	54	I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my swo...	10

Book 8. (33 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	98	In my hand I held my sword, in its sheath, the sword belt wrapped about the sheath.	10
2	119	I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head.	10
1	128	"Do you care to dispute these matters with the sword?" I asked.	10
1	358	"And, too," said Rim, "prior to my retiring to the Torian room, I would appreciate a sword, with sheath, a knife, and a bow, the great bow, with arrows".	10
2	36	There was a steel sword at his side.	10
2	129	I now slung the sword over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion.	10
2	148	"Shall we discuss the matter with the sword?" he asked Arn.	10
3	203	Sometimes disputes, which otherwise might be settled only by ax or sword, are willingly surrendered to a game of Kaissa, if only for the joy of engaging in the game.	10
4	321	I fastened the sword, with the sheath straps, to my belt.	10
6	403	"Remove your sword belts and weapons," said the woman.	10
6	404	I dropped my belt, with sword and sheath, and knife, to the ground, beside the fire.	10
9	156	"His hand on the hilt of his sword," said Mira, "and his other hand on the medallion of Ar, his daughter was disowned".	10
10	172	Each of them is a known man, a sword companion, one of glorious Ar".	10
12	187	Over my left shoulder, slung, was sword and scabbard.	10
13	59	White-faced, he threw down his sword.	10
13	62	"No!" "The sword?" I asked.	10
13	64	"No, not the sword," said he.	10
13	112	I removed the sword from my sheath.	10
13	369	I carried sword, sleen knife, and bow with quiver.	10
16	278	Sarus slew the man himself, with his sword, but he, Sarus, did not then move to strike the slaves.	10
18	54	No one, after I had felled the first who had dared to lift his sword to such a purpose, had dared to threaten a slave.	10
18	536	He held an exposed sword.	10
18	543	With the blade of his sword the fellow lifted her head, and turned it from side to side.	10
18	545	He sheathed his sword and, by the hair, pulled her to her feet and faced her to the fire.	10
18	595	He unbuckled his sword belt and dropped it to the side.	10
19	66	I carried only my sword, in its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced.	10
19	457	"Once, on the sands of an arena in Ar, we fought, as sword companions".	10
20	96	I thrust my sword into the dirt at my feet, and held the spear.	10
20	99	I seized again my sword, and moved again, to one side, mixing in the shadows.	10
20	140	I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft.	10
20	241	I caught him at the gate and, with my fist, sword in it, struck him across the face.	10
20	245	I stood at the gate, sword drawn.	10
20	304	I sheathed my sword.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
11	90	He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double guard.	10
1	26	He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not care to die in ...	10
7	118	"How do you like it, Thyri," asked he, "to find that you are now a girl whose belly lies beneath the sword?" "It lies not beneath your sword," she snapped.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	330	He reached for his sword, but the point of my sword was in his belly.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	780	I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	895	"Sword! Sword!" said the leader of the beasts, near the fighting animals, beckoning to the bearded man, pointing to the fighting beasts.	10
34	83	The legalities of simple slave claim, based on active proprietorship, had now superseded, with respect to that collar, the rights contestable by the sword under which I had hitherto been held, those of sword claim.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	116	He looked down once at the sword in its sheath, lying to the side, where it had slipped, the sword belt earlier severed, when he had risen to his knees.	10
19	777	The jaws snapped downward and the point of the sword emerged through the upper jaw and the lower jaw was tight under the hilt of the sword.	10
25	203	When I held her back a bit from me, by the upper arms, I saw, as I expected, the mark of my sword belt, diagonal, across her body, and the print of two buckles in her flesh, that of the sword belt, and that of the pouch, or knife, belt.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	101	"He has his sword!" "Seremides retains his sword!" cried a man, calling back to those less near the platform.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	27	The officer of Treve, Terence, quietly removed the sword belt, the sheath and sword, from about his left shoulder, handing it to the guard, to his right.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	76	"The knife," said Cabot, "outreaches the hand, and the sword outreaches the knife, and the spear outreaches the sword.	10
36	77	Is the knife then less noble than the hand, and the sword less noble than the knife, and the spear less noble than the sword?" "No," said Grendel.	10

Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	22	These were surrogates for several weapons, in particular the short sword, or companion sword, and the long sword.	10
18	210	I did note that his sword, the long sword, with its beautifully curved blade, and its tasseled hilt, suitable for a two-handed grasp, was bloodied.	10
18	346	"He fights, he, sword to sword?" I asked.	10
22	153	"The sword! The sword!" begged Licinius.	10
23	282	A similar practice I would learn often obtains in houses and barracks amongst the Pani, a practice in which the long sword is often set to one side, stored or racked, in a hall or vestibule, but the companion sword is kept at one's side, even near the sleeping mats and blocks.	10
43	104	"How can his sword be of great value," I asked, "if it has cost you six men?" "Is such a sword not worth six men?" asked Lord Nishida.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.	10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	515	"Of what use is a lance left forever in its rack," I said, "or a sword which fears to leave its sheath?" "The lance is to remain in its rack until grasped," said Lord Okimoto, "and the sword is to be drawn only by the proper hand".	10
7	95	It was felt that each sword was needed; would not each sword, when the major onslaught came, if it would come, be important and precious? Given the honor and discipline of the Pani, and their sense of propriety, even privately owned slaves had been placed in the indoor housing area.	10
31	225	A decree without the sword is no more than a sword without a blade.	10
46	176	But now, gripped in two hands, he carried a different sword, the heavier, longer of the two swords often carried by a warrior, the field sword.	10
47	332	"My sword," said Nodachi, bowing, and handing his sword, hilt first, to Katsutoshi, the captain of the shogun's guard.	10
59	30	The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword.	10
59	191	He was no master of the companion sword, nor would he have been of the field sword.	10
60	328	One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t...	10

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
49	31	Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword.	10
69	20	If one were a warrior, one might even issue a challenge, a challenge in virtue of sword right, the right of beauty to be claimed by means of the sword.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	84	I had expected him to run, which would have been his best option, in which case I would pursue him for a pace or two and launch my sword with an overhand hilt cast, hoping, if all went well, to penetrate his back below the left shoulder blade, after which one would hope to draw out the sword, turn t...	10
60	202	"Let us meet," he said, "sword to sword".	10