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Book 1. (20 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	28	The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.	10
2	273	I have seen things of which I must speak, even if, as it is said here, only to the Towers.	10
4	41	The great tarn snapped his wings out, catching the air under them, and smoothly began to fly a straight course, his wings beating slowly but steadily in a cruising speed that would soon take us far beyond the towers of the city.	10
5	187	When I neared Ar, I crouched low in the saddle and hoped that the speck against a moon which might be seen by the watchmen of the outlying towers would be taken for a wild tarn, flying high over the city.	10
15	3	Every fifty yards along the walls rose towers, jutting forth so as to expose any attempt at scaling to the fire of their numerous archer ports.	10
15	22	Here and there among the tents siege towers were being constructed.	10
15	23	Nine towers were in evidence.	10
15	27	Over these bridges the siege towers would be rolled to the walls of Ar; over them his tharlarion cavalry would march; over them his horde would flow.	10
16	13	Occasionally I would climb halfway up one of the siege towers under construction and observe the city of Ar and the skirmishes that took place between it and the first ditch.	10
16	28	It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.	10
16	32	Around these towers and on top of them warriors swarmed.	10
16	34	Rope ladders from Ar brought defenders two hundred feet down the wall to the level of the towers.	10
16	35	Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops.	10
16	36	From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast.	10
16	37	Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.	10
16	38	One of Pa-Kur's towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants.	10
16	40	But five more towers rolled slowly toward the walls of Ar.	10
16	41	These towers were fortresses in themselves and would be maintained at all costs; hour in and hour out, they would continue their work, gnawing at the walls.	10
17	18	It was being methodically razed in seven places, to allow for the passage of the siege towers to the second wall.	10
20	25	With some fifty followers, who loved him even more than their native walls, he fled on tarnback to the Voltai Range, from whose peaks he could always look upon the distant towers of Ar.	10

Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	6	An ancient poet, who incredibly enough to the Gorean mind had sung the glories of many of the cities of Gor, had spoken of Ko-ro-ba as the Towers of the Morning, and it is sometimes spoken of by that name.	10
7	138	"I wish you well, Vera of the Towers of the Morning," I said.	10
8	52	After all, how many scarlet-clad warriors appeared from day to day in the drab streets of Tharna? I climbed one of the towers of Tharna, wanting to look out upon the city.	10
8	57	This was perhaps because the cylinders were, on the whole, less lofty than those of other cities, and much broader, giving an impression of a set of squat, accumulated disks, so different from the lofty forests of sky-challenging towers and battlements distinguishing most Gorean cities.	10
12	88	Nine cities, long after his death, claimed the man who, centuries ago, had called Ko-ro-ba the Towers of the Morning.	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...	10
14	175	I saw the towers of Tharna, and the glittering oval of its arena, that cruel amphitheater, dropping away beneath the wings of the tarn.	10
14	192	Its wicked eyes gleamed, scanning the ground, its head and beak thrust forward, its wings still, gliding silently in great sweeps, lower and lower, over the gray towers of Tharna.	10
14	216	With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons.	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	125	I have seen it in the vanished towers of Ko-ro-ba and in the flight of a tarn, in the movements of a beautiful woman, in the gleam of weaponry, in the sound of tarn drums and the crash of thunder over green fields.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	145	He organized a system of far-flung beacons, set in fortified towers, which would give the alarm when unwelcome forces entered the territory of Ko-ro-ba.	10
8	149	There was also a system of signals whereby the towers could communicate with one another and the city.	10
31	182	I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black...	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1	I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here.	10
2	31	It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.	10
3	29	I was entitled to wear the marks of the city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, but I had not done so.	10
20	8	It is difficult to fire from the outside, and the roundness—like the roundness of Gorean towers in general—tends to increase the amount of oblique hits from catapult stones.	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	11	The Towers of the Morning, thought Kuurus, the Towers of the Morning.	10
1	3	In the distance he could see the white walls, and some of the towers, of the city of Ko-ro-ba, which was being rebuilt.	10
3	11	Its walls, its countless cylinders, its spires and towers, its lights, its beacons, the high bridges, the lamps, the lanterns of the bridges, are unbelievably exciting and fantastic, particularly as seen from the more lofty bridges or the roofs of the higher cylinders.	10
5	193	Builders and others, all who were free, have worked upon the walls and towers.	10
5	196	Doubtless there were many slaves in Ko-ro-ba but they would be allowed only to serve those who raised the walls and towers.	10
12	135	The course is determined by twelve rings, hung on chains from great supporting towers; six of these "rings" are rectangular and six are round; the large rectangular "rings" are three on a side; the smaller, round rings are set at the corners of the dividing wall, and one at each of the narrowest por...	10
24	489	Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.	10

Book 6. (12 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	26	The Older Tarl, my former master-at-arms, had so spoken to me years before in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning.	10
1	41	It is reasonably well known in Thentis, in the Mountains of Thentis, famed for her tarn flocks, and in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning.	10
8	166	I was no longer worthy of the red of the warrior, no longer worthy of serving the Home Stone of my city, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning; it seemed to me then that there were only winds and strengths, and the motions of bodies, the falling of rain, the movements of bacilli, the beating of hearts...	10
9	96	In Port Kar, incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern cities of Gor.	10
9	97	The men of Port Kar had not chosen to build towers.	10
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.	10
10	330	But how would he have come to know this? And how could he have come to understand that Bosk, fighting man and merchant, was the same as he who once had been a warrior of the towered city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning? Doubtless he wished to summon me to his presence, that he might recall me...	10
13	307	Slowly the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus, capital city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar's throne.	10
15	127	The time that the fortress might still stand was now most adequately to be charted by the depth of its siege reservoir, and by the fish that might swim within her barred sea gates, and the mouthfuls of bread yet stored in her towers.	10
15	296	In the long years past of the siege of the city the siege of Ar of her spires and towers of undaunted Ar Glorious Ar I sing.	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
17	331	Why would one who had been a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, let one of Treve, a traditional enemy, take the saddle of a tarn before him? It would not do, of course, to tell him this.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	956	Tomorrow, Targo, and his men and his merchandise, would make their way to Laura and, crossing the river there, begin their long, overland journey to Ko-ro-ba, called by some the Towers of the Morning, and from thence to luxurious Ar itself.	10
11	490	The city, the sun reflecting on its walls and towers, was very beautiful.	10
11	491	It is sometimes called The Towers of the Morning, and perhaps justifiably so.	10
11	1167	It was my hope to become the preferred pleasure slave of a wealthy master, and to reside in one of the high towers of Ar, Gor's largest and most luxurious city, and to have silks and jewels wherewith to deck myself, and no work to do, saving perhaps pleasing my master or guests to whom he might, if ...	10
11	1269	At any rate, it seemed that Rask of Treve, and his raider's band, had left the lands of the Towers of the Morning.	10
11	1276	The men of Skjern seldom ventured as far south, or as much inland, as Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.	10
12	722	In moments her garments flutter down among the towers and she is his, bound on her back across the saddle before him, his prize.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	435	It is sometimes called the Towers of the Morning".	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	61	It towers far over the squalid huts of the common folk, and over the stabler homes of merchants, too, which crowd about it.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	15	I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...	10
3	141	Towers of steel do not figure in the hallucinations, the delusions of the desert mad.	10
9	178	Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...	10
11	79	"Surely in the Tahari there are no towers of steel".	10
11	215	"Does the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock have, at its northeast rim, a kasbah, with four towers?" "Yes," said Hassan.	10
11	230	On the towers two flags fly".	10
11	279	On the summits of its four towers flew pennons, those of the Tashid and Aretai.	10

Book 11. (25 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1086	It is a civilization informed by beauty, from the tanning and cut of a workman's sandal to the glazings intermixed and fused, sensitive to light and shadow, and the time of day, which characterize the lofty towers of her beautiful cities.	10
10	152	There were six towers on the walls, two defending the gate, and one at each corner.	10
12	785	I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus.	10
14	41	I looked out, over the bridge, to the towers and cylinders beyond, and to the sunset over the walls of Ar.	10
15	130	Return me to the Lady Elicia of Six Towers.	10
15	362	"As you note," she said, "there is nothing here at Six Towers which suggests that I am not an ordinary woman of Ar".	10
18	49	There were scenes of hunting, of caravan raiding, of girl taming; scenes were fixed there of the great bosk herds and the strings of the wagons of the fierce plains nomads; in one place there was fixed a painting of the walls and towers of Turia, and riders of the Wagon Peoples on hills, looking tow...	10
21	53	The tag, I had been told, read: "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
22	19	It read, "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
22	679	He read it aloud, "Send me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
26	1	I Return to Ar; What was Done to Elicia Nevins, My Mistress "Your bath is ready, Mistress," I said, kneeling, head down, in brief white slave tunic, before the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers.	10
26	70	"Yes, terrible!" said the Lady Elicia of Ar, my mistress, of Six Towers.	10
26	105	"Are you the lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers?" he asked.	10
26	204	Secondly, though you speak of yourself as the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers, you are, in actuality, Miss Elicia Nevins of the planet Earth.	10
26	373	He glanced outside the long, high window in her compartments, out upon the towers of Ar.	10
26	375	The blue sky was intense among and over the lofty towers of the city.	10
26	435	The towers were beautiful.	10
26	478	Return me to the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers".	10
27	3	He stared moodily out the window, at the towers of Ar.	10
27	318	When Clitus Vitellius had come to the compartments of the former Lady Elicia of Six Towers to fetch a slave she, bound hand and foot, had been in white.	10
27	379	I do not think he would have boasted of that to his fellows in the Towers of Warriors! I think, you see, all in all, he did not trust himself to see me about his compartments, or at his feet, subdued and begging, naked, say, or in a bit of red or yellow slave silk.	10
27	759	"Give me whatever you think she is worth," he said, "and send the coins to the compartments of Clitus Vitellius, in the Towers of Warriors".	10
29	1	A Warrior's Vengeance; the Furs of My Master We were but four bridges from the Towers of the Warriors when Clitus Vitellius turned suddenly, regarding me.	10
29	52	We were but a short way from the Towers of Warriors, on the third of its approaching high bridges, when again Clitus Vitellius turned and faced me.	10
29	102	He carried me, my head against his left shoulder, over the bridge and toward the second bridge, leading to the Towers of the Warriors.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	948	"Warriors storm buildings and burn towers".	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	214	It was reinforced on two sides with keeplike towers.	10
31	141	The signal to raise or lower the gate is given by a guard on the wall, at the west gate tower, one of two towers flanking the sea gate.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	108	"And in the cities," she said, "it is so beautiful, the towers, the bridges and sunsets, the people, the flower stalls, the market places, the smells of cooking".	10
47	122	"Ko-ro-ba!" I cried, the name of the city to which I had first been brought on Gor, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	642	The towers, streets, and bridges are often bright with color, strikingly in contrast with the passive urban monochromes, the browns and grays, with which you may be familiar.	10
36	654	There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a...	10

Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	3	They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own...	10
13	193	It then flung the creature down at its feet, threw back its head, its fangs and tongue bright with fresh blood, and howled its defiance to the hot noonday sun, to the towers of Brundisium, and the crowd.	10
16	141	"Why from the high towers of Pseudopolis," said Petrucchio.	10
19	1	A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium.	10
19	4	In Brundisium there were eleven such towers.	10
19	9	Gorean urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries.	10
19	10	The security-mindedness of Brundisium, incidentally, was manifested also in the tarn wire strung among its towers, extending down in many cases to lower rooftops and even the walls.	10

Book 21. (12 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	212	Even mobile siege towers, pushed from within by straining tharlarion, pressing their weight against prepared harnesses, trundled toward them, their bulwarks swarming with archers and javelin men.	10
20	30	Within the gamut of those gleaming walls, so lofty and mighty, rose thousands of buildings, and a veritable forest of ascendant towers, of diverse heights and colors.	10
20	31	Many of these towers, I knew, were joined by traceries of soaring bridges, set at different levels.	10
20	84	Yet I knew that somewhere within it, perhaps within its crowded quarters, from which mobs might erupt like floods, or within its sheltered patios and gardens, where high ladies might exchange gossip, sip nectars and toy with dainty repasts, served to them by male silk slaves, or among its houses and...	10
22	351	Without girders, frame steel, and timber iron, as the Goreans say, wrought in the iron shops, such as are used in the towers, physics, even indexed to the Gorean gravity, is quick to impose its inexorable limits on heights.	10
26	1794	We were in one of Ar's finest residential districts, that of the seventeen Tabidian Towers.	10
26	1928	The soaring, lovely tower, one of the seventeen Tabidian Towers, lay ahead of her.	10
26	1935	The particular bridge, colorfully paved, graceful, narrow and ascendant, on which she walked, barefoot, blonde, her hair moving in the wind, in her exquisitely brief leather, gave entrance to the tower at something over half its height; it was one of several such bridges about, some giving access at...	10
26	1937	The bridges, like traceries amongst the soaring towers, are very beautiful.	10
27	212	"I was the Lady Lydia, she of the High Merchants, she whose wealth was in gems and land, she of the Tabidian Towers!" she said.	10
27	215	"Lydia," she said, "of the Tabidian Towers!" "Does it matter?" I asked.	10
29	179	I recollected, in particular, most recently, the former Lady Lydia, she who had been of the Tabidian Towers, that particular slave, how she had looked, the straw about her body, and in her hair, the chain on her neck, her eyes, her cries, her pleading kisses and touches, her utter helplessness, and ...	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	747	That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...	10

Book 23. (39 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	1018	As they are used here, one would commonly think of them, and speak of them, as towers, here, siege towers".	10
14	143	I doubt that even those at the central crenels, those on the towers, those defending the gate itself, feed as well this morning".	10
15	1017	We call them generally castles or towers.	10
16	29	The siege towers were still some hundreds of yards away.	10
16	62	The siege towers were still at least two hundred yards away.	10
16	110	I considered the approaching towers, the thousands of men I could see in the field, the ladders being carried, the supporting engines.	10
16	317	Behind the slowly approaching towers, partly in their cover, advanced hundreds of men.	10
16	318	The towers themselves were now little more than seventy-five yards from the wall.	10
16	319	They had now aligned themselves, and the dropping of the bridges, when the towers were in position, would be simultaneous.	10
16	322	There were dozens of supporting grapnel and ladder crews, however, now approaching between the towers.	10
16	343	The towers were now but thirty yards away.	10
16	414	The towers had now stopped, aligned, some twenty yards or so from the wall.	10
16	419	"When the towers spill their troops onto the wall," I said, "I do not think they will be stopping to make slaves.	10
16	436	"The towers will advance at any moment".	10
16	495	I then turned to look across the twenty yards or so of space between the somber, looming towers, aligned, and the wall of the citadel.	10
16	498	The hides hung profusely about the outsides of the towers, especially on the frontal surfaces, were dark with water.	10
16	521	Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging...	10
16	537	Suddenly there was a blast of trumpets from the foot of the wall and the eleven towers, with a lurch and groan, began to creep forward.	10
17	1	Battle; We Will Withdraw to the Landing The bridges of the towers were still raised.	10
17	3	The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width.	10
17	7	There was no accident about the height of the towers.	10
17	9	We could now hear little movement within the towers, scarcely the clink of arms.	10
17	15	It had taken the towers at least five Ehn to move the twenty yards or so to the wall.	10
17	19	What is more often done when time permits is to build portable wooden walls, some fifteen feet, or so, in height, with defensive walkways and loopholes for missiles, which are then moved in the path of the towers.	10
17	20	Sorties, the object of which is to fire the towers, are less practical than it might seem at first glance.	10
17	21	Such towers are usually well defended, and are often not brought into play until such excursions are for most practical purposes beyond the resources of the defenders.	10
17	24	As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descendin...	10
17	26	At two of the towers great poles were used.	10
17	74	Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents.	10
17	81	In two of the towers defenders had won the top level and poured flaming oil about the floor and down the ladderways.	10
17	97	Then, suddenly, a lever thrown, the mighty arm of the engine went forward again and a great stone burst against one of the towers.	10
17	127	I now saw a fellow from Ar's Station on top one of the towers, on its roof.	10
17	136	On the east, and nearer the center portions of the wall, four of the towers were aflame.	10
17	138	Along the wall, at two of the towers, men chopped away at the housings for the chains which controlled the bridges.	10
17	142	I did not doubt but what, sooner or later, the towers might be brought flush to the wall.	10
17	152	Men leaped back from towers to the wall, their work done on them.	10
17	162	At two towers the poles had thrust the bridges up and back.	10
17	165	I heard the bellowing of an agonized tharlarion from below, and saw some led from burning towers, their harnesses cut.	10
17	295	Some withdrew, even, to the towers, some of which were aflame.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	227	I also recalled a blond free woman acquired later in the same place, the Lady Lydia, of the High Merchants, whose wealth had been in gems and land, a tenant even of the Tabidian Towers.	10
18	513	"I have nothing but contempt for those magicians who stay safe in the towers of their castles, consulting their texts, uttering their spells and waving their magic wands about, spiriting away valuable objects.	10

Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	146	I gasped; hundreds of yards ahead of me, where the trail led, past several barred cells, and approached by a narrow, ascending trail, there was a startling, lofty, sheer edifice that seemed to rear up from the mountains itself, its towers lost among clouds.	10
10	187	Wisps of cloud hung about the cold trail, and the turrets, or towers, of the structure in the distance.	10
19	904	Do you think I do not know in what mountains I am? Do you think I cannot tell the coloration of the Voltai, the Scarlet Mountains? Do you think I am totally unaware of the distances and times I have traveled? Do you think I cannot recognize the accents of the men who brought me here? Do you think I ...	10
24	252	Whereas the buildings, and towers, might be burned out, it would be practical, on the whole, to do it only from the inside.	10
24	385	She was the slave I had met long ago on the surface of one of the towers, she whose name was "Dorna".	10

Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	201	The duties she was taught were common to most women of her sort, of whatever variety, but tended to be especially associated with such as served in the towers, in the high cities, in the cylinder cities.	10
13	51	There must have been parapets, and, discernibly, here and there, there were small towers, which may have been guard stations.	10
13	52	Some of these towers jutted partly out from the walls, which would expose the sheer declivity of the architectural escarpment to view.	10
13	57	Most of the towers were, in effect, keeps.	10
13	58	They were stocked, fortress towers.	10
13	141	One of the girls, clambering on one of the tiered racks, some ten or twelve feet above the surface of the roof, called out, "Look!" She was pointing out, toward the distance, toward one of the towers on the wall.	10
13	273	May her women be put in collars! May they, and her other slaves, be herded away! May her towers be burned and salt cast upon their ashes!" The approach of the second tarn, soaring, borne on the wind, its wings still, was silent.	10
13	283	Regardless of the interest or value of such speculations, the truth of which would in any event be veiled in the mysteries and darkness of the past, the fact of the matter was obvious, the fact of the congeniality of such bodies to the convenience of binding and tethering, as obvious as the perfecti...	10
21	46	The massive walls and towers of Brundisium could be seen in the distance, some two pasangs, or so, away.	10
29	57	"Oh, look, Master!" said Ellen, pointing, having then first noticed towers in the distance.	10
29	96	She cast one last look at the distant towers of Venna, and thought again of the former Lady Melanie of Brundisium, she sold at the festival camp, now doubtless a lovely, suitably embonded, obedient chattel behind those far walls.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
80	199	The high cities, as it is explained to me, are usually larger cities, with many towers, and bridges amongst the towers.	10
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man the walls and d...	10

Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	554	One thinks of "Thentis, Famed for her Tarn Flocks," rather as one thinks of "Glorious Ar," of "Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning," of "Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa," and so on.	10
5	613	Too, it is ditched, and palisaded, with lookout towers at the corners of the palisade.	10
5	824	Enemies were at hand, ransacking houses, scouring bridges, searching towers, closing in upon us.	10
13	52	She whom I sought, I had learned, upon inquiries, was the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, an exclusive district, near Ar's Street of Coins, where were found most of the banking houses of the city.	10
13	158	"You are," I said, "the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers".	10
13	198	There was no longer a Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers.	10
14	37	Why should they not? Indeed, had I not, long ago, in Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, engaged in similar exercises, though commonly with actual weapons? But one can do only so much in such training, of course, whether with wood or steel.	10
15	6	She was, of course, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, of Ar, of the house of the Serisii, now vanished.	10
15	17	"I was Portia," said the slave, "Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, of Ar, of the Serisii!" I gave her a slight kick, in the side, and she put down her head again, quickly.	10
15	257	"My name," she said, "is Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers".	10
15	262	"'Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers'," she suggested.	10
18	253	"Doubtless for the same reason that the Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers would, if she dared, not treat Pertinax well," said Pertinax.	10
22	684	I trusted he would remember to retrieve his Jane, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, near the Street of Coins in Ar, from the rope circle.	10

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	363	Tides of hate, unleashed, irresistible, swept through the streets, through the plazas, into the towers, across the bridges.	10
3	248	We avoided, as we could, the avenues and boulevards, and sought small streets, away from the shouts of men and the sounds of war, the ferocity of rude battle, and made our way to the pomerium, no longer marked by walls and towers.	10
3	702	I could see her towers in the distance.	10
10	53	I thought of Jad, her opulent streets, of the countryside, of the terraces of Cos, of her grapes, fresh, sweet, and full, of Ar, of glorious, imperial Ar, with its countless towers and its wide boulevards, of the occupation, of my squad, of the rising in the city, the flight to return, the welcome w...	10
10	71	And how beautiful are the towers against the evening, stormy sky, the light of Tor-tu-Gor half hidden in the dark clouds.	10

Book 31. (18 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	84	At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, both that of men ...	10
8	541	"I am the Lady Persinna, high in the Merchants, the Lady Persinna of Four Towers!" One of the brunettes laughed.	10
8	592	"I am free, a free woman! I am the Lady Persinna, of the Merchants, of Four Towers".	10
8	968	"This slut was once the Lady Persinna, of the high Merchants, housed even in Four Towers.	10
8	1020	Thus, I conjectured a plausible explanation for the apparent anomaly of one such as the former Lady Persinna, of the Merchants, of Four Towers, which, I gathered, must be an exclusive residence, or an exclusive residential area, being vended in such a market.	10
8	1805	"He contracts with several towers, for serving slaves," he said.	10
8	1807	I had occasionally been out of the restaurant, on errands, and had marveled at the lofty towers of Ar, so lovely and colorful, and yet so stately, solid, and formidable, each, in its way, a defensible keep, with its reservoirs, and emergency stores.	10
8	1809	These towers, at various levels, were joined by narrow, graceful bridges.	10
8	1823	Sometimes the towers seem to be giants, standing proudly, independent and mighty, soaring to the sky, touching clouds, their feet in garbage.	10
8	1825	In many respects Ar is a city of wonder, of beauty and grace, of soaring towers, large parks and gardens, and broad boulevards.	10
8	1835	Too, the bridges may be broken, this preventing access to the towers, turning each into a solitary, soaring, nigh-impregnable citadel.	10
8	1885	So, if Astrinax was not thinking in terms of the towers, and was not thinking, at least at present, in terms of the taverns or brothels, in what terms might he be thinking? "You are a barbarian are you not?" asked Astrinax.	10
9	322	Clearly I would now be of little interest in the taverns, in the brothels, in the gambling houses, even in the towers, or inns.	10
10	597	This was usually possible as, in times of peace, one may enter most towers at the level of the street, and use the stairwells within them, to gain access to the various levels, with their corridors, from which one might reach apartments, ranging from simple one-room cubicles to large, elegant suites...	10
10	610	In the towers there are often "tower slaves," most often owned by the management of the tower.	10
10	612	Accordingly, some residents in the towers rent work slaves whose services, being more intermittent and casual, are less expensive.	10
10	1112	It seldom went out while Tor-tu-Gor reigned amongst the towers.	10
15	22	The beast, I was sure, might have most of the city at its disposal, moving from roof to roof, traversing the darkness, saving perhaps the towers and bridges.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	265	But are not all women pretty much of a muchness when stripped on a sales block? Is there that much difference, then, between a Ubar's daughter and a barbarian recently brought from the sordid towers of an abused world, one recently removed from her slave capsule and branded? "Today, lovely, tunicked...	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	157	The situation of the holding of Lord Temmu, surmounting cliffs landward, almost in the clouds as seen from below, rendered siege towers impractical.	10
1	479	Pertinax's Jane, whom I had purchased for him in Tarncamp, that he might learn the uncompromising mastery of women, and the rewards and pleasures attendant thereupon, was Gorean, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Towers, of Ar.	10
13	247	"She is Gorean, once the Lady Portia Lia Serisia, of Sun Gate Towers, a scion of the Serisii, a banking family once of considerable repute and power in Ar".	10
19	224	His Jane was Gorean, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Gate Towers, of the Serisii, prior to being reduced to bondage.	10
42	68	How I had missed her in my arms! "Master!" cried Jane, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia of Sun Towers, of Ar, to Pertinax.	10
54	183	There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or, often, to dis...	10
54	184	To be sure, in the present instance, siege towers were impractical, given the height and steepness of the escarpment surmounted by the holding of Temmu.	10
58	148	"She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone.	10
61	925	He held the switch to the lips of Jane, the former Lady Portia Lia Serisia, of Sun Gate Towers, of Ar, a scion of the Serisii, once a major banking power in Ar.	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	77	I could see buildings about, and, in the distance, several of the lofty towers of Ar, lights in many of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the passage of a body, and several of the narrow, graceful, lamp-lit bridges that, like delicate traceries, at various levels, linked the towers.	10
15	189	There are, for example, racing and hunting tharlarion, and tharlarion bred for battle, some of which, ponderous, and armored, can shatter lines and topple siege towers.	10
17	47	Ar, I gathered, was a typical "high city," with its noisy, colorfully garbed, bustling crowds, its affluent quarters and its sorrier districts, some of which were not to be frequented at night; here were places of lofty towers, often linked by graceful, narrow, arching, railless bridges, which I fea...	10
53	5	These towers, often in their clusters, cylindrical and rearing, loom well over the walls of the city.	10
53	27	Each of the towers in a city is, in essence, a fortified keep, furnished with water and supplies.	10
53	29	The cylindricality of the towers reduces the number of direct strikes by catapult stones, and maximizes the amount of living space in proportion to the exterior walls.	10
53	30	These towers, which are almost always brightly colored, as Goreans are fond of bright colors, inside and outside, in both private and public buildings, in fountains and walls, and so on, are often joined, as well, at different levels, by narrow, graceful, colorful, arching, railless bridges.	10
53	92	This particular bridge, the Sleen's Back, was little frequented, and arched between two towers in the Claudian district, which is in the northeast section of the city.	10
54	36	One sees the towers, the clouds, the sky".	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	35	I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an in...	10

Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	139	My first Gorean had been learned in Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, in the western, northern latitudes of the vast Gorean continent.	10
21	61	"But," he said, "if I could achieve a master stroke, if I could ignite a blaze of glory visible across the seas, even to the towers of Cos, I could no longer be ignored.	10
35	45	"Too," said Thurnock, "watch towers are built, and signals, by day and night, have been devised".	10
35	167	"I had hoped," I said, "that with communication and cooperation amongst the villages, the building and manning of watch towers, the arming of peasants with an effective weapon, that the land would be closed to the raiders, this protecting both villages and towns".	10
41	172	"That is a great advantage of siege towers," said Clitus.	10
41	174	"They have no siege towers," I said.	10
41	177	"And even so," I said, "siege towers can be at but one place at one time and, at that place, and time, can be faced".	10
41	178	"The combination of siege towers with massive scaling is difficult to deal with," said Clitus.	10