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Torches

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	42	That night I took Talena into the City of Tents, and by the light of torches set on lances we walked arm in arm through the crowded streets, among the colorful tents and market stalls.	10
16	30	After dark, in the light of torches, the first tower reached the walls.	10
20	42	That night, that glorious night, was a night of flowers, torches, and Ka-la-na wine, and late, after sweet hours of love, we fell asleep in each other's arms.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	57	Now that I had not seen the lights of Ko-ro-ba, as I would have expected, it struck me more forcibly that I had not even seen the lights of peasant cooking fires glowing in the hills surrounding the city, or the torches of rash sportsmen who hunt the sleen by night.	10
10	57	At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted-stone walls.	10
11	15	At last I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lit by torches set in the walls.	10
24	259	The torches on the walls still burned.	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

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	49	The feet had no toes but were rather disklike, fleshy cushions on which they padded silently along, and similarly on the palms of their wide hands there seemed to be a fleshy disk, which glistened in the blue light of the Mul-Torches.	10
21	56	While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the...	10
21	67	When there several Muls flanked him on either side, still singing, and holding their torches and carrying their vessels which now brimmed with a pale, milky substance, something like white, diluted honey.	10
21	70	In the light of the last torches which left the chamber I could see that there remained one Priest-King who, though emptied of Gur, still clung to the ceiling.	10
22	83	There were several of these, I noted, around the walls and they seemed obviously intended to hold Mul-Torches or some similar illuminating device.	10
26	114	"In time I think we could cut through with heat torches," said the Attendant.	10
28	38	Al-Ka looked at me in the light of the hanging torches.	10
28	78	And her fears were not lessened as she looked beyond me to see the creatures, undoubtedly hideous to her eyes, who clung spiderlike to the ceiling of the Vivarium chamber with their glowing Mul-Torches.	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	72	During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur...	10
14	1	Tarnsmen Outside, as Kamchak and I bounded down the steps of the slave wagon, the darkness was filled with hurrying men, some with torches, and running kaiila, already with their riders.	10
17	9	Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more beautiful, more alive.	10
20	155	I took one long turn, seeing the torches and lights in the House of Saphrar below, and then guided my bird out over the prairie in the direction of the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
21	196	"It will take time," she said, "and the walls are patrolled closely after sundown, and lit by torches".	10
26	141	"Bring lamps and torches," said Kamchak.	10
26	142	Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold.	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	199	It is not well to walk among the cylinders after dark without torches and steel".	10
4	16	In the walls were torch racks, but there were now no torches.	10
13	259	I could see the torches of two or three men moving together far below.	10
15	60	Then, after this instant of silence under the torches, the music struck the final note, with a mighty and jarring clash of cymbals, and the Warrior had lowered her to the furs and her lips, arms about his neck, sought his with eagerness.	10
15	360	The night that Phyllis Robertson, under the torches in the hall of Cernus, while we supped, performed the belt dance, was the last day of the Eleventh passage hand, about a month before the Gorean New Year, which occurs on the Vernal Equinox, the first day of the month of En'Kara.	10
15	414	I have no men! I have no gold! I have only the garb on my back! Tarnsmen! Soldiers! The very men of the street! With torches and ropes! I barely escaped with my life.	10
17	373	Phyllis had now struggled to her feet, blushing a red visible even under the torches, and, unsteady, trembling slightly, was trying to brush the sand from her hair, her legs and her slave livery.	10
18	219	"Besides," said he, "the men of Initiates, did we begin again, would only need bring torches and steel once more".	10

Book 6. (46 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	205	There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction.	10
5	136	Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night.	10
6	4	I saw torches in the night, moving at the periphery of the island.	10
6	9	The marsh torches burned as quietly as they had.	10
6	18	In the light of the moving torches, beyond them, toward the marsh, I saw, dark, the high, curved prows of narrow marsh barges, of the sort rowed by slaves.	10
6	42	Among them ran slaves, carrying torches, that they might see to their work.	10
6	78	Everywhere about us there were shouting men, screaming women, running, crying children, and everywhere, it seemed, the men of Port Kar, and their slaves, holding torches aloft, burning like the eyes of predators in the marsh night.	10
6	82	There, under the light of marsh torches, I saw Ho-Hak, crying with rage, shouting, with an oar pole laying about himself wildly.	10
6	84	Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons.	10
6	93	We ran again through the torches and the men.	10
6	100	We fled back toward the light, the torches, the center of the island, the screaming women and men.	10
6	115	Then I saw, under the light of the torches, fleet as the tabuk, running, the dark-haired, lithe girl, she who was so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
6	197	On the other side there were the lights and torches, the cries of men, the slavers of Port Kar.	10
6	201	I heard shouts from the area of torches and confusion.	10
6	210	The torches were moving towards us, coming from the right, around the periphery of the island.	10
6	224	The torches were nearer now.	10
6	230	The torches passed.	10
7	1	I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo...	10
7	4	We saw several running across the bridges, crying out, being whipped toward the torches by those of Port Kar.	10
7	9	Their slaves, their torches extinguished, were loading the narrow, high-prowed barges, treading long, narrow planks extending from the barges to the matting of the island.	10
8	78	As darkness fell in the marsh the men of Port Kar lit torches on the sides of the barges.	10
8	79	But by the light of these torches the great bow found the enjoyment of various victories.	10
8	80	Then the torches were extinguished and, in the darkness, fearing, the men of Port Kar waited.	10
8	128	There were more cries for torches, but I did not see any lit.	10
11	129	"I will send pages through the city with torches," he said.	10
11	196	Some of those who had started these fires, who had been apprehended, now, under the torches, screamed on the racks beneath the chamber of the Council of Captains.	10
11	273	The torches lit the room with unusual shadows.	10
11	316	The hall was lit by torches, and by many lamps with candles, set on tables between curule chairs.	10
15	52	I recalled, late the first night, under ship's torches, I had had Vivina brought down from the prow and brought before me.	10
15	293	We could hear the torches crackle now, and the singer touched his lyre.	10
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10
15	401	Dark and golden, shimmering, crying out, stamping, she danced, her thonged beauty incandescent in the light of the torches and the frenzy of the slave bells.	10
16	287	Even from where I was I could hear, beyond the holding, the cries that there was a Home Stone in Port Kar, and could see torches being borne along the narrow walks which, in most places, line the canals.	10
16	300	I saw her standing there, near the entryway to my holding, in the garment of the Kettle Slave, under the torches.	10
16	310	There were torches everywhere, and lights in the windows.	10
16	336	There were now torches on both sides of the canals, in long lines, following us, and boats, too, began to follow us.	10
16	390	Torches! Thousands!" "What is it that they cry!" demanded Bejar.	10
16	420	"It is Bosk, Admiral!" I looked out into the thousands of faces, the hundreds of torches.	10
16	422	And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water.	10
16	427	"The stone!" There were great cheers, and cries, and shouts, and the lifting of torches and weapons.	10
16	441	And I saw tears, too, in the eyes of the vast crowds, with their torches, before me.	10
18	196	I saw torches being carried.	10
18	199	Several men rushed forward, some of them with torches.	10
18	203	I could see, as they did not, a shadow moving swiftly behind them, it, too, rapidly shifting its position, moving about amidst the frantic shadows of men, torches and confusions, but always staying in the background, like an absence of substance but one which carried a blade of steel.	10
18	207	Then we heard more shouting, and saw more torches.	10
18	220	Then, from one side, from the passageway, from the door to the kitchens, a number of other men came forth, carrying torches and steel.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	565	I wondered if I might, as I had seen other girls, ride beside them on their wagons, or, as I had heard, fish with them at night with torches on the river.	10
13	309	Through the brush, some two hundred yards away, moving in the darkness, we saw two torches.	10
13	315	We had seen no more torches, following us in the night.	10

Book 8. (17 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	378	The torches burned.	10
11	954	"Yes, Master!" I glanced at her collar, glinting in the light of one of the camp torches, and took pity upon her.	10
18	325	We saw torches far behind us, the search for the guard.	10
20	36	"Free us!" "Fire! Torches!" cried Sarus.	10
20	41	"Lift torches!" cried Sarus.	10
20	62	"Torches!" cried Sarus.	10
20	71	Two torches were raised.	10
20	139	In the center of the stockade, two torches were lifted.	10
20	152	I saw, in the light of two torches, men fighting, still in the center of the stockade.	10
20	193	Soon we shall have more torches.	10
20	246	"More torches," said Sarus.	10
20	248	In a few moments, two more torches had been lit.	10
20	249	And, within the circle, lit by the torches, burned a fire.	10
20	260	At the line of the men of Tyros the torches were lifted.	10
21	27	There were now more torches and lanterns in the stockade, carried by my men.	10
21	69	I heard the fire of the torches crackling.	10
21	80	Marlenus stood for a moment in the light of the torches, and then he threw back his head, with his long hair, and laughed.	10

Book 9. (23 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	11	No longer did the several torches, bristling and tarred, burn in the iron rings at the wall.	10
1	13	No musicians played; no cup companions laughed and drank, lifting their goblets; on the broad, flat tiles before me, under the torches, barefoot, collared, in scarlet silks, bells at their wrists and ankles, there danced no slave girls.	10
1	562	They entered, carrying torches.	10
1	563	"Put torches in the rings," said Samos.	10
7	271	"Torches!" cried the Forkbeard.	10
7	272	"Torches!" Men cried out; bondmaids screamed.	10
13	150	Light was furnished from the cooking fire but, too, from torches set in rings on the wall, backed with metal plating; too, here and there, on chains from the beams, high above, there hung large tharlarion-oil lamps, which could be raised and lowered from the sides.	10
13	306	There was no sound in the great hall, save the crackle of the fires and torches.	10
13	311	Her robes were marvelously wrought, subtle, soft, seeming almost in their sheens, like the jewels, to shift their colors in the light of the lamps and the flickering torches.	10
15	80	Some carried torches.	10
16	13	Before the bit of flaring moss turned to a million red pinpoints the Forkbeard took one of the torches and thrust it to the moss.	10
16	19	The passage extended beyond us, disappearing in the darkness beyond the light of our torches.	10
16	22	Along its edges, spaced some twelve feet from one another, on both sides, were torch rings, with unlit torches, which might be lit.	10
16	48	It was now much more decorated and carved than it had been, and, in the light of the torches, we could see that much color had been used in its decoration.	10
16	50	Torches, unlit, in wall rings, were still illuminated as we passed near them.	10
16	88	We lit new torches from the wall rings and discarded our old ones.	10
16	91	We came then to a great arch, which marked the entrance to a vast room, lost in darkness beyond the flickering spheres of our uplifted torches.	10
19	1	The Note The Kur came that night, the night of the battle, in the light of torches, ringed by men with spears.	10
19	3	Many men stood about, armed, several with torches.	10
19	29	I looked at Leah, standing back, the light of the torches felicitous and provocative on her flesh.	10
20	168	I could see the longboat, four torches uplifted in it, men at the oars, putting in to the skerry.	10
20	173	The torches were lifted.	10
21	74	Many were the lamps, bowls on spears, which burned, and torches, too.	10

Book 10. (18 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	163	I think I was not more than a half pasang from my compartment when, approaching an opened gate, some forty yards ahead, lit by torches in walls, I stopped.	10
3	185	The torches, high on the walls of the courtyard, flickered, casting pools of yellow light on the plaster walls.	10
3	195	In what could not have been more than two or three Ehn, men, carrying torches, some of them lamps, emerged into the street.	10
3	199	I could see movement, and torches, in the vertical thread of space between the two halves of the gate.	10
3	204	Torches were lifted as men looked to the stones of the courtyard.	10
5	316	Then the tent, as men held torches, at a sign from Shakar, was thrown back.	10
9	181	These arrangements, I suspected, had to do with the attempt of cities to protect their free women who, in numbers, seldom fall to the enemy, unless the city itself should fall, and then, of course, they would find themselves, like slaves, under the victory torches, their clothing removed, completely...	10
10	129	She crouched there, under the torches, on the seven-foot scarlet marble circle, angry, frightened.	10
10	199	Under torches men had labored, removing stone and sand in leather buckets on long ropes.	10
12	640	We heard the torches crackle.	10
17	21	Torches, however, stood ready, to be lit from these, and held over the water, should there be need.	10
17	179	If the lamps were lost, and the torches unlit, I did not think it likely we would return to the salt dock.	10
17	195	"Cover the torches," cried T'Zshal.	10
17	197	Men covered the torches with their bodies.	10
17	250	"Light torches," I cried.	10
17	251	From the lamp torches were lit.	10
17	267	I was aware of torches across the water on the raft, men crying out, then the fish, I clinging to it, fell into the water, thrashing.	10
24	756	I saw torches.	10

Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1147	Approaching, in the darkness, we saw some twenty torches.	10
2	1153	These carried the torches.	10
2	1173	We, in the light of the torches, watched the approaching retinue.	10
2	1221	Then the palanquin had passed, and more torches, and men.	10
2	1228	Then the men, the torches, disappeared in the distance, through the trees.	10
5	461	Many were the torches, much was the confusion we encountered there.	10
7	695	Two young men came by, with torches.	10
7	753	With the boy who had captured Lehna came four others, two with torches.	10
7	827	Twice boys with torches passed quite near to me.	10
9	1443	It was night now, and men stood about, with torches.	10
9	1472	Men stood about, with torches.	10
9	1473	It was silent, save for the crackle of the torches.	10
9	1505	I heard the crackle of the torches.	10
13	224	It was I, not they, who was well illuminated by the torches.	10

Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	566	"What is it?" He gestured to a guardsman to bring a lamp, for we were far from the light of the bowl of coals now, and of various torches set in the walls.	10
3	433	Sales take place at night in the pavilion, from a sawdust-strewn block, under the light of torches, but girls may also be sold directly from the platforms.	10
3	715	And then he again was calling out, "Rent her! Rent her, kind masters!" Some jugglers, to one side, were exhibiting their astonishing talents with colored plates and torches.	10
4	482	Torches abounded.	10
4	647	Two men with torches were now there, as well as several others.	10

Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	The hall was lit with burning torches.	10
1	322	Here and there lamps and torches burned.	10
32	578	There were numerous torches, and drums.	10
32	610	I twisted on the altar, under the torches.	10
32	720	In the light of lifted torches I saw its contents.	10
32	831	I could almost sense the torches, the pool of reptiles to one side, the rude altar, with its rings, in the background.	10
42	45	By the time we heard men crying out in rage, and saw torches on the shore, we were safely on the river.	10
47	86	I saw torches being thrust to the ground.	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	659	"Light the torches," said another woman's voice.	10
11	661	Torches were lit.	10
11	665	To my left and right torches were ignited.	10
26	313	"Bring torches!" I heard someone cry.	10
26	347	"The men will soon arrive, with torches".	10
26	418	Their torches are coming! Oh! Oh!" She lowered her arms, with their bound wrists, putting them about my neck.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	62	I looked down the long rows of pleasure racks, aligned under the high torches.	10
9	145	I could not take my eyes off the girl under the torches, the collar and sales disk at her throat.	10
9	201	Her entire body, under the torches, turned a creamy crimson in color.	10
22	19	Some of the pirates bore torches.	10
23	113	The torches could then be heard, crackling at the walls.	10
24	672	Such auctions are usually held at night, when men are off work, and can come to the biddings, under torches.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	608	I listened to the sound of the torches in the hall.	10
18	657	I listened to the crackle of the torches.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	483	In many Gorean cities, when men go out at night, they carry their own light, torches or lamps.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	52	The room was lit by torches.	10
2	16	It was ringed with booths, and platforms, and stages and stalls, and booths, and platforms and stalls, too, with colorful canvas, with their eccentrically carved wood, with their fluttering flags, and signs, like standards, illuminated by lamps and torches, throngs gathered about them, and flowing b...	10
2	1583	Despite the lanterns and torches one could see the stars in the sable Gorean sky.	10
9	311	Chino came from the area of boxes and packs, with one of the torches.	10
19	145	Torches were lit.	10
20	359	For an instant, as it turned its head, its eyes, reflecting the light of one of the torches, blazed like molten metal.	10

Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	816	I dared not meet those fierce eyes which so frightened me, which seemed somehow to look through me, burning through me like fire, bringing unwelcome, frightening torches to my secret darkness, penetrating to my deepest and most closely guarded secrets, to what lay in the most secret belly and heart ...	10
11	912	I was ready, even at that time, as I now realize, to have the relentless torches of men set to the tinder in my belly, that slave fires might be lit there, thence by service, submission and love, my condition as slave, and the commands and touches of men, to be fanned, whether I willed it or not, to...	10
27	307	In venturing out into the night they were not unaccustomed to carrying lanterns with them, or torches, and that for so simple a purpose as merely to see their way.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	437	Yes, I thought, it is true, she is very beautiful, and those small, white limbs would look well in shackles, and that face, those breasts and thighs would exhibit well on the block, under the torches of an auction.	10
18	480	In the boats, approaching from the piers, the same boats which had come earlier to help evacuate the landing, there were men with torches and axes.	10

Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1128	I supposed, however, that dozens of men, perhaps some carrying torches or flaming brands, or lanterns, would be wading about, slipping in the mud, parting reeds, and so on, swords drawn, at the bank of the Vosk, looking for me.	10
1	1141	From the higher part of the camp, now, I could see several torches flickering along the river.	10
1	1142	Too, there seemed some small boats in the water, torches fixed in their bows, much as are used for hunting tabuk and tarsk at night, from behind blinds.	10
1	1256	I could see the light of torches, could hear, distantly, shouts of men.	10
10	59	"Torches!" The opening of its long, narrow jaws may have been as much as five foot Gorean.	10
10	60	"Torches!" cried the fellow with me.	10
10	69	Men rushed forward, with torches, and spears.	10
10	73	"Keep torches lit," said a fellow.	10
10	120	Some torches were fixed there, at intervals, near the water's edge.	10
12	39	I looked beyond her, out, back past torches.	10
14	244	Men were hurrying about with torches, with spears, striking at tharlarion.	10
14	248	Other fellows were thrusting torches down at others.	10
14	263	"More fire! More torches!" cried a fellow.	10
14	268	"More torches!" called another fellow.	10
14	279	"Light more torches!" I heard.	10
14	290	"Put out the torches!" screamed the officer.	10
14	295	"Put out the torches!" screamed the officer.	10
14	299	Torches, swiftly, men crying out with misery, began to be extinguished.	10
14	316	Most, however, confused, not now troubled by the men, the torches, seemed to remain much where they were.	10

Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	799	We then passed through another door, and emerged, at last, into a lighted passage, though it was lighted but dimly, with two torches, one at each end of the passage.	10
19	470	But others, many others, I suspected, perhaps simpler men, or perhaps more intellectually insouciant or robust fellows, would conduct themselves otherwise, joyously frequenting the taverns, prowling the streets with torches, making loud the night, indulging in riotous thankfulness.	10
24	529	Artisans, in the light of lamps and torches, began to repair the tarnwire.	10
32	8	"There are more lamps, torches, and such, in my quarters," said the pit master, helpfully.	10
35	115	"Torches, light lanterns, hurry!" cried the leader of the strangers.	10
35	123	Lanterns and torches cast light about.	10
37	487	We had now fetched torches and lamps from the passages, whatever was available.	10
37	596	The lamps and torches threw strange shadows, which moved, as the source of light moved, sometimes giving the impression of a dark body stirring, even moving furtively, or quickly.	10
37	616	Too, once they had come to the tunnel opening, which was beneath the surface of the pool, reached from the nest, on a higher level, on the other side, they may have seen the light from the lamps and torches on the water.	10
37	683	"Get those torches up!" I could see the dark, jerking shadow of Herminius over the portal.	10
37	687	"Torches, light!" cried the lieutenant, near the portal.	10
37	692	The lamps and torches were wild in the darkness.	10
37	698	"Lift the torches! Lift the lamps! Lift them up!" Fina screamed and stepped back, turning about.	10
37	793	We all, then, save the pit master, with his torch, brought our lamps or torches to the railing.	10
37	807	The light of the torches and the lamps shone, reflected, from the water.	10

Book 27. (15 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	332	For example, on such a world, on this supposed other world, instead of adjudicating differences with, say, bombs and bullets, or thermonuclear weaponry, destroying life indiscriminately, irradiating soil, poisoning atmospheres, and such, points at issue might be adjudicated rather with the fire of t...	10
16	794	It was now darker in the square and, here and there, torches were being lit.	10
16	934	"The torches are lit," said Targo.	10
16	935	Indeed, two torches had even been lit on the building behind the shelf, one rather at each end.	10
16	936	The torches, and some lamps, tend to be lit toward dark by the market attendants.	10
16	1343	It was later that night, when the market was mostly deserted, and several of the torches had burned out, that Ellen awakened, to a sound of chain.	10
19	611	Below her, too, here and there, were broad thoroughfares, lit by torches.	10
19	619	On some of these streets could be seen small parties, led by individuals with torches.	10
19	621	Some markets were open, these lit with torches, small, bright patches of light in the darkness.	10
20	805	Through the burlap, lifting her head with difficulty, she could see the light of two torches, apparently one elevated on each side of the entrance to a large tent.	10
22	2	"Wine, girl!" called another, and Ellen hurried to him, threading her way amongst the men, the fires and torches, and replenished his goblet.	10
22	618	Why was there not more light? Torches, lanterns, lamps, anything? Surely at places in the camp, even away from the festival fires, there was some light.	10
24	152	The sand was lit with the light of torches.	10
25	542	The light was now from torches.	10
25	946	And then the image was gone, and Ellen was again herself, on the exotic world of perilous, barbaric Gor, illuminated in the light of torches, standing on the concave surface of the block, her ankles in sawdust, the lights of Brundisium in the distance, the men calling out, being offered for sale, be...	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	395	Doubtless often, in her dreams and otherwise, she had stood upon the slave block, in sawdust, in the light of torches and lamps, exhibited, and had been auctioned to the highest bidder.	10
36	265	Vended off a platform at night, under torches, well displayed, your blemishes somewhat concealed, you might bring a handful of copper".	10
44	30	Torches had been lit, and, where available, independent electronic lighting had been employed.	10
79	151	Or in the light of torches, or candles, in some such natural light.	10
79	677	"Perhaps you fear being exhibited naked, under the torches, standing in the sawdust of the block, being bid upon, being displayed by the auctioneer?" "Perhaps, Master," she said.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	181	I did hope that they would be cognizant of the dangers we would face in seeking them out, either in darkness or in the light of lamps or torches.	10
19	182	Torches, in particular, would not be practical as a single torch, fallen into the straw, would result in the loss of the stable, and its housing for several tharlarion.	10
22	420	We saw some torches, down the road, approaching, from the central camp.	10
22	532	Saru, on her hands ands knees before Pertinax, cast a glance toward the approaching torches.	10
23	65	The tables had been set in the open air, and the area was lit with the glow of torches.	10
23	178	A slave fled past, to laughter, between the torches, into the night, her ta-teera gone, pursued by two unsteady brutes.	10
23	269	One of them paused at the edge of the torches, and looked back.	10
38	4	All night men and slaves, by the light of torches, carrying burdens, had come and gone on this ramp, which led to a large now-opened port in the hull, far below the higher bulwarks.	10

Book 30. (22 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	534	And I feared the perimeter would be illuminated at night, not only by the moons, for two would be full, but by torches and kindled fires.	10
8	41	Accordingly, some feet of ice, with great travail, had been cleared about the hull of the great ship, and, by day, and under torches at night, flickering weirdly on the ice, men, in shifts, struck, hacked, and sawed away at the foe, the silent, ever-forming, encroaching ice.	10
22	3	It was shortly after the first Ahn, and, when I raced up the companionways to the open deck, it was still dark, though there were dozens of torches on the beach.	10
22	14	"What is going on?" I said, to anyone, for there were several about, trying to see the beach, perhaps as unclear as I was, as to the confusion, the motion of the torches.	10
22	71	The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.	10
22	77	Swords flashed in the torches.	10
22	110	"Oars," called Pertinax, taken aback, his voice cracking with misery, "Stroke!" The galley now captained by Philoctetes had already moved from shore, outside the light of the torches.	10
22	133	There were many torches high in the defile, above the beach.	10
22	147	Torches threw strange lights and shadows on the sand.	10
22	199	Far off in the defile, above the beach, I could see, as before, a large number of torches.	10
22	265	From torches I could sense, as well, a number of men at the water's edge.	10
22	269	When it began to sound, we witnessed, as expected, the movement down the defile, marked by a hundred or more torches, of the mass of Pani reserves.	10
22	302	In the darkness and torches it was almost like a flood of darkness on darkness, a storm of bodies.	10
22	316	It was perhaps only the sixth or seventh ranks of the enemies, impelled by their fellows, who, in the light of the torches, some flung amongst us, realized they were facing archers, and of a sort with which they were unfamiliar.	10
28	270	It was dark outside now, but, under torches, there was still feasting at the long tables in the courtyard.	10
32	1	Lines are Severed; Torches Fall Into the Sea Dust was roiling in the courtyard from the beating of wings.	10
32	8	Already the Pani with their vessels of oil, and their torches, had begun the descent of the wharf trail.	10
32	17	Almost at its end the Pani, with their flammables, and lifted torches, looked up, startled.	10
32	47	I saw a number of Pani rushing toward the ship with torches, hurrying through scattered, subsiding flames.	10
32	74	One or two torches were flung toward the ship, but fell short, and struck the water, hissing.	10
36	197	As it was, it barely escaped the torches of Lords Temmu and Okimoto.	10
36	209	"And, if it returned," said the stranger, "would it not again face the torches of the castle?" "Of course," said the captain.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	100	Clearly they did not use fire, as you are likely to think of it, as in, say, candles, lamps, braziers, torches, or such.	10

Book 32. (9 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	130	Some of these slaves might have been close enough to the raised sales platform, and its torches, to be visible to the items being vended.	10
4	209	Attendants, below and to the sides, waited to extinguish the torches.	10
5	259	I remember little about my sale, until near the last, the straw, the block, the torches to the left and right, the darkness in the house, the sense of faces and bodies, the calls of the auctioneer, the occasional responses from the house, the touches of the whip, helping me, guiding me, turning me, ...	10
9	333	"No," I said, "but there were torches about the block.	10
41	63	And then I had found myself on a slave block, under torches, naked, being vended in Brundisium! I wished he was watching me.	10
52	44	Two men were outside, with torches.	10
52	75	The two fellows with torches had turned about, and were moving toward the broad stairway leading down to the river, that which I had ascended yesterday.	10
52	197	They extinguished their torches in the water.	10
52	481	On the block, turned and exhibited, naked, under the torches, I had wondered if he were out there, somewhere, in the crowd.	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	154	Surely there had been no signal arrows from the lower posts, no torches, no cries of warning.	10
2	102	Neither of us were here when the Ashigaru of Yamada, with glaives and torches, streamed forth from the mountains.	10
14	14	"Bring torches! And you, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, please step forward".	10
14	15	Torches were brought, several held about me, as I stood near the railing of the balcony.	10
27	43	They will avoid the searching torches".	10
27	130	"Much was done last night," he said, "with torches".	10
27	179	In daylight, flags may be used, and mirrors, and at night, the movements of double torches, or the light of a single lantern, revealed, and shielded, alternately".	10
38	50	Too, the guards will seek shelter, and it will be difficult to kindle their torches".	10
47	45	"As it seems the holding is to be destroyed, in either case," said Lord Yamada, "either by the breath of the iron dragon or the torches of Temmu, one may as well be done with it, and free the iron dragon".	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	34	"Light the torches, the lamps," said a fellow from a table across the sand.	10
25	49	Slaves, the two who were serving the supper, and some others, similarly lovely, similarly long-haired, similarly clad and collared, hastened to kindle torches and lamps, and, shortly, the room was well lit.	10
45	14	It was lit with torches.	10
57	175	And then they find themselves on the auction block, their bare feet in the sawdust, a collar on their neck, under the light of torches, being bid upon! Kurik, of course, seldom forgot, or neglected, my feeding.	10
65	105	We saw torches approaching through the wagons, approaching the yard where we had camped.	10
65	106	"I count eight torches," said Paula, "and each torch bearer illuminates the way for a bowman".	10
65	125	"She is as aware as we of the torches, the men," said Paula.	10
65	186	"I suggest," said the Lady Bina, "that some of you fellows bring those torches a bit closer and lift them higher.	10
65	206	Some thrust their torches in the dirt.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	202	The block was lit by torches.	10
6	8	I could see the light of torches as they passed me, and, blocking the light, often, moving darknesses, which must be men.	10
11	245	The occupying forces, in days of terror and blood, overwhelmed by a massive revolt of a swarming populace, armed sometimes with no more than pointed sticks, staves, clubs, torches, and fragments of pavement, fled.	10
13	117	"I suppose," said he, "in the light of torches, exhibited, it is hard for a slave to look into the darkness of the high, far tiers".	10
24	116	Those who would go abroad at night usually carry their own light, lanterns or torches.	10
33	363	"Light torches!" I heard.	10
33	367	Some men, with torches and drawn swords clambered over the side of the canal boat and were wading about.	10
33	445	The torches were extinguished, one by one.	10
42	40	A man called back, from the barricade, "Torches approach and a green flag of parley!" He was joined on the barricade by some ten or so defenders.	10

Book 36. (17 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	39	These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle.	10
44	41	Too, the sight of war torches and irons, particularly at night, the torches blazing and the irons bristling with heat, glowing in the darkness, have little difficulty in convincing an enemy of possible dangers likely to attend his proposed assault, the memories of which will persist later, indefinit...	10
4	34	In some signaling, visual, utilizing flags, pennons, lanterns, torches, or such, and auditory, utilizing a drum, trumpet, or such, a different arrangement is used, which is generally thought to be easier to read, particularly by unsophisticated readers.	10
8	23	"The very night we withdrew from the harbor of Sybaris," said Clitus, "an unconscionable event took place, a riot, a drunken mob, with torches, axes, and clubs, rushed blindly, meaninglessly, pointlessly, inexplicably, upon a large, well-known inn in Sybaris, looting it, tearing it to pieces, puttin...	10
20	6	Torches illuminated the interior of the tent.	10
20	173	We then, each one of us, took one of the torches which illuminated the interior of the long tent and set fire to the rent canvas.	10
22	4	He and Clitus lowered the large, inert, blanketed form, groaning and soaked with paga, to the sand beside the beached Tesephone, in our camp a pasang or so away from the harbor at Mytilene, near which the teeming streets of the fair were still lit by hundreds of torches.	10
35	90	"How then could the brigand island, if that is what it is, an island manned by brigands, move so quickly?" "By the application of means less gentle," said Sakim, "gouging, wounding, exacerbating wounds, applying hot irons, torches, and such".	10
37	177	Torches, here and there, provided light on some of the piers.	10
39	60	Why not blow trumpets in your stealth, or carry torches to offend a needed blanket of darkness?" "All right," said Thurnock, "we will paint her green, the green of Thassa, green as night is to the sleen, green as high, tawny grass is to the larl".	10
42	52	Behind our men torches were lit, by means of which any who might break our lines and attempt to escape, say, into the town, might be dealt with.	10
42	66	"Extinguish the lamps and torches, and prepare, on my signal, to light them again".	10
42	81	"Until the lamps and torches are lit," said Thrasymedes.	10
44	40	War torches, for example, last night, not only engaged climbers but illuminated targets.	10
45	82	I called out, "Waken! To arms! Intruder! Intruder!" Within moments I saw the approach of torches and roused, hurrying men.	10
45	91	More torches were brought.	10
49	51	Several torches were lit, and men, in lines, made their way about the beach.	10