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Book 1. (20 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	96	I tried to crease the envelope with my thumbnail, but failed.	10
2	47	I tried to put my thoughts together, sitting on the table, but there was too much.	10
3	94	The offending war chief is simply abandoned, left alone in his palace to be impaled by the citizens of the city he has tried to usurp".	10
6	67	Absurdly, I tried to loosen my body, relaxing the muscles, as if it would make any difference.	10
6	171	She seemed to have no fear of Nar, perhaps because of the familiarity of the citizens of Ar with the Spider People, but it was obvious she loathed the touch of his mandibles, and she shivered slightly as she tried to wipe the exudate from the sleeves of her gown.	10
6	198	A sudden tremor of fear shook her heavily robed body, and the girl's hands tried to force the implacable chitinous pincers from her throat.	10
7	27	The Ubar's daughter tried to stand up, but, ridiculously enough, it seemed as if one leg were suddenly far shorter than the other.	10
7	44	She tried to rise, but one foot was, of course, some ten inches higher than the other.	10
7	69	"You tried to kill me," I said.	10
7	109	Cautiously I tried to approach her, but felt the ooze slipping away beneath my feet.	10
7	110	I tried to reach her with my sword belt, but it was too short.	10
7	117	"Unwind it, throw it to me!" Her hands tried to tear at the veil, but she was unable to unwind it, in her terror and in the moment of time left to her.	10
7	172	She tried frantically to readjust the folds of her veil, but with both hands I tore it fully away, and she lay at my feet, as it is said on Gor, face-stripped.	10
8	101	I was surprised that she had not tried to dress herself.	10
12	4	I blinked my eyes against the hot sun and tried to move my wrists and ankles.	10
13	41	As it is, when the larl loses its hunt, the animals which escape are those which haven't tried to break the circle, those which allow themselves to be herded easily.	10
14	143	Without thinking, but responding blindly, with a surge of joy, I seized the other wrist rope and tried to force it over the wrist.	10
18	106	Without much success, by hand and voice, I tried to soothe the beast's apprehensions.	10
18	145	Another tarn reached the portal and tried to pull the body from the beak of its possessor.	10
20	41	I have tried to keep that promise, and I know that she has done so as well.	10

Book 2. (25 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	99	It was an ugly death—his for having tried to speak to me, for having tried to tell me what was in his heart.	10
4	88	I tried to extract the spear but this was no easy task, so deeply it was lodged within the animal.	10
10	51	I tried to struggle, but it was useless.	10
10	67	I tried to rise but was pressed down, my face to the stone.	10
10	73	I tried to rise to my feet, but the weight was too much.	10
11	96	Ost, squealing with fear, tried to rise, but could not lift the yoke.	10
12	14	I tried to move and my wounds tortured me.	10
13	116	I shook my head wildly; my hands, yoked helplessly, tried vainly to reach my eyes, to tear the blinding particles from my vision.	10
14	3	Andreas of Tor tried to remain at my side, to share my fate, but he was beaten and dragged senseless from the arena.	10
14	79	"A hundred tarnsmen have tried to mount this beast, and one hundred tarnsmen have died.	10
14	122	My hands tried the bolt.	10
15	6	When I had borne Talena home from Ar to Ko-ro-ba, I had tried to teach her the reins of the tarn-harness and help her, at least with me at hand, to learn to master the brute.	10
16	25	I tried to calm the bird.	10
17	105	Ost tried to pull toward the trough, but he was chained to Kron, who refused to move.	10
18	53	* * * * Little by little, I tried to restore the self-respect of my fellow slaves.	10
19	4	He threw down the whip and tried to run, scurrying like an urt, but everywhere he turned, the chain of haggard, violent men confined him, and as the chain closed, Ost fell quivering to his knees.	10
19	30	I tried to press forward, but the men of the chain held firm.	10
19	32	He tried to crawl toward me, his hands extended.	10
19	66	I was proud when I saw that my slaves had defended the valve, for about it lay the bodies of soldiers who had tried to reach it; but I was most proud when I realized that the slaves had not now opened the valve, when they knew that below, in the confines of those dismal shafts and cells, chained and...	10
19	113	"Well," said he, "I have tried the Mines of Tharna, and now I think I shall try the Great Farms".	10
19	130	I tried to be light.	10
20	103	Again and again he tried to rise and again and again he was forced down.	10
21	248	She tried to smile.	10
24	30	"Free Kal-da for all!" cried Kron, and when the proprietor, who knew the codes of his caste, tried to object, Kron flung a golden tarn disk at him.	10
25	79	I tried to turn the animal as well as I could to keep its scrambling body between myself and the man with wrist straps.	10

Book 3. (24 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	107	The ship above me seemed to tremble and tried to turn and flee and then sensing the futility of this it turned again and tried to train its own disrupter cone on its fellow.	10
1	5	Once it had tried to carry me over the palisade into the mountains, but never again would I have essayed that flight.	10
4	29	He tried to find some position that would satisfy him.	10
5	178	"Have you tried shielding yourself?" I asked, looking at the bronze laver which was drying against the wall.	10
5	197	"And instead," she cried, "I have only these walls of stone and the steel collar of a slave girl!" She helplessly, enraged, tried to tear the slender, graceful, obdurate band from her white throat.	10
9	109	"He tried to prevent me but I sought out the Initiates of Treve, proposing myself as an offering to the Priest-Kings.	10
14	103	I had naturally supposed the fluid to be simply water which it closely resembled in appearance, and once had tried to fill my bowl for the morning meal there, rather than ladling the water out of the water pan.	10
14	136	"You tried to be kind".	10
17	23	I had tried to find it on the translator and lexical tapes which Misk had placed at my disposal.	10
20	132	She tried to twist away as the attendant's hands lifted the collar towards her.	10
22	160	I tried the balance, and dropped the steel back into its sheath.	10
25	1	The Vivarium My hands seized the narrow, hollow, pincerlike jaws of the Golden Beetle and tried to force them from my body, but those relentless, hollow, chitinous hooks closed ever more tightly.	10
25	80	I carried her beneath the shaft and tried to hold her upright, but her legs crumpled.	10
25	139	The last time I had seen this woman conscious had been in the chamber where she had tried with the snares of her beauty to capture and conquer me for my archenemy, Sarm the Priest-King.	10
26	259	As the girl spoke and I tried to lightly dismiss her words, I wondered at the long processes of evolution that had nurtured over thousands of generations what had in time become the human kind.	10
27	139	Trembling, with none of that delicate grace that so typically characterizes the movements of Priest-Kings, he once again tried to approach the Mother.	10
27	338	The huge, tarnished head lying on the stone platform tried to lift itself but could not.	10
27	351	She tried to lift her head but still could not do so.	10
29	85	I took my ship up over the craft and tried another burst, which was even weaker than the last.	10
29	86	I tried to keep above the ship, staying away from the disrupter cone on its bow.	10
30	2	I heard the words from somewhere, vague, distant, and I tried to move but could not.	10
30	17	I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ...	10
32	168	"And I have tried.	10
33	148	"I and others have tried to leave open the gap that he might see it and fill it—and some have—but not many".	10

Book 4. (24 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	94	Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp...	10
6	33	She lifted her head and seeing the wild, fearsome scarred face that stared into hers, she suddenly screamed hysterically, and tried to jerk and tear herself away, but the lance held her in place.	10
6	104	"No!" Then she tried once more to free herself.	10
6	169	She tried to protest, but I would not permit it.	10
7	74	Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n...	10
8	101	I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri...	10
8	102	I tried to explain to Kamchak that her old world had not prepared her for these things, for the slaveries of her old world are of a different kind, more subtle and invisible, thought by some not even to exist.	10
8	376	"I tried," she said, looking up at me, tears in her eyes.	10
8	377	"I tried".	10
8	520	She tried to free her wrists, but could not, of course, do so.	10
9	43	I tried the liver of the wingfish.	10
10	125	Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ...	10
10	340	Aphris, not very obviously, moved her hands in the rings, tried to withdraw them.	10
10	369	I suddenly glimpsed the face of Aphris of Turia contort with rage and she tried to free herself.	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
11	164	She tried to take Aphris by the arm.	10
16	127	I, too, tried the net.	10
16	164	"He followed me in the camp of the Tuchuks—and tried to kill me".	10
18	57	I tried this twice more, in different directions, with identically the same result.	10
23	78	And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l...	10
25	84	She tried to twist her head away.	10
25	738	She tried to move her leg, but could not.	10
25	740	She tried to pull her leg away, but she could not.	10
25	816	She tried to laugh.	10

Book 5. (24 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	83	He tried foolishly to hide behind a group of men but they threw him to the center of the pit of sand in the tavern.	10
2	84	He tried, like a frantic animal, to crawl under one of the low tables but he only spilled the paga and the men pulled him out from under the table and belabored his back with blows of their fists.	10
4	185	"I had a Tuchuk girl once," said Cernus, "a wild girl of the wagons, of whom I was fond, but when she tried to kill me, I strangled her in the chain of the House of Cernus".	10
11	74	The girl tried to hold her breath but when it became necessary for her to breathe she must needs swallow the gruel; twice more the smith did this, and then the girl, defeated, swallowed the gruel as he poured it into her mouth, half choking on it.	10
11	332	The girl tried to move her head but could not.	10
12	393	Angrily I tried to step about him, but then there were others pressing between myself and the large man in the peasant's garments, and he had disappeared.	10
13	99	She tried to put her hands back but could not remove my hand from the chain.	10
14	154	Then crouching over, with first one hand and then the other, she tried madly to push and slip the encircling, resisting steel over her other hand.	10
15	80	Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position.	10
17	92	I opened the door and, not to my surprise, discovered that the Warrior and Tarn Keeper, preventing the girls from escaping, and having freed themselves in the moment of surprise and tumult in which I had seized the long-legged girl, had, probably one by one, while the other girls had looked on miser...	10
17	101	She said nothing, but tried to turn away.	10
17	367	He laughed and she screamed and tried to escape but he took her by the hair and, crouching over her, pressed her back weeping to the sand.	10
17	399	I maintained a straight face, and tried to frown convincingly, finding myself the butt of their laughter.	10
18	199	"These I had from the flames," said he, "as I tried to rescue our work.	10
19	180	The auctioneer, as though desperately, tried to do his best for the girl, but soon jeers were forthcoming from the crowd, hissings and shoutings; when her blanket was removed from her, gracefully by the auctioneer, as though removing an expensive wrap from a lady of pearls and sophistication, she sl...	10
19	353	In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth...	10
20	18	The woman tried, with paga and jewels, to bribe your guards".	10
20	34	Then Portus tried to fight but, weakened, unskilled, clumsy, he stumbled about, being again and again streaked with blood, no cut mortal.	10
20	360	I tried to place the boy, his features.	10
21	99	"Now, Vancius," I heard, "you are mine!" I tried to tear the steel helmet from my head with my manacled wrists.	10
22	27	"Yellows," said one of the men with the crossbow, "who tried to slay the bird".	10
22	170	Again and again Mip tried to pass above the bird of the Blues, ring after ring, and then, lifting the bird again, he suddenly cut low and to the left, executing the dangerous talon pass.	10
22	563	The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...	10
24	128	"He tried to take refuge in the private compartments of Cernus".	10

Book 6. (12 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	222	Involuntarily, instinctively, I tried to withdraw but, bound, I could not.	10
4	273	I tried to twist my head away, but could not.	10
5	49	I tried to draw back.	10
5	163	One or two of the girls, giggling, tried to slip away, fleeing, but young men, laughing, caught them, and hurled them into the clearing of the circle.	10
5	178	To my astonishment, as the dances continued, even the shiest of the rence girls, those who had to have been forced to the circle, even those who had tried to flee, began to writhe in ecstasy, their hands lifted to the three moons of Gor.	10
6	180	Spitting teeth, his face a mask of blood, he tried to draw his sword.	10
9	636	Again he tried to speak.	10
10	259	I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.	10
11	45	From the outside some men tried to climb the barricade, and break it down.	10
14	419	She tried to draw back.	10
17	398	Chenbar tried, groggily, to get up, but my foot on his neck held him in place.	10
18	549	We heard the trumpet of retreat, and killed six as they tried to escape back over the wall.	10

Book 7. (48 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	90	I had not tried to signal anyone when I had found the phones had been destroyed.	10
2	158	I tried to cry out but could not do so.	10
3	11	I tried to sit upright, but I nearly strangled, and fell back.	10
3	23	I tried to scream again, but could not.	10
3	65	I tried to keep my eyes open.	10
3	261	I tried to turn him away, with a look of coldness, of contempt for him.	10
3	481	Wildly I tried to start it again.	10
3	524	I tried weakly to free myself but could not.	10
4	91	I tried to stand straight.	10
4	110	It was brought to him, from where it had fallen when I had tried to escape.	10
4	249	I tried to attract his attention.	10
6	274	I tried to pull my wrists away, angrily.	10
6	280	Once again Targo tried to speak to me, patiently, slowly.	10
7	191	She had not forgotten that I had tried to shirk in the harness.	10
8	132	"I tried to bend him to my will," she said.	10
8	443	On the second day, after the shot, I had tried to speak to the physician, in spite of the guard, to beg him for information.	10
8	798	I tried the cat's-cradle game but I could not play it.	10
8	1048	No, something in me cried, no! I am Elinor Brinton! I am not a slave girl! I am not a slave girl! I tried to draw away, but his hands on my arms held me.	10
8	1076	"Please, no, no!" I tried to struggle.	10
8	1085	The men tried to climb to their feet, shouting in anger.	10
8	1089	I tried to dart to my feet but two bodies, those of girls, thrust themselves on me.	10
10	119	I tried to breathe.	10
11	117	She tried to pull them from her ears and the guard, angrily, cuffed her, and, with a foot of binding fiber, lashed her wrists behind her body.	10
11	208	I tried to scramble from the platform.	10
11	372	I tried, as I could, to keep my side to him.	10
11	510	Lana tried to reach the thong.	10
11	634	Ute tried to separate us.	10
11	796	I tried, in the moonlight, to run in the same direction, to find my way from the forest, somehow.	10
11	824	I tried to rub through the binding fiber that held my wrists, rubbing it against the trunk of a fallen tree, but I could not loosen it, or rub through it.	10
11	1185	I had tried to present myself well.	10
12	152	I recalled that Ute had told us that she had tried to bend him to her will.	10
12	165	Would one not do as much for another animal, a pet sleen, or such? But she had tried, unsuccessfully, to be sure, to bend him to her will.	10
13	37	I had tried before, and could not do it.	10
13	39	I again tried.	10
15	1164	I tried to rise, but the warrior whose cup I had filled had his hand in my hair.	10
15	1175	I tried to rise.	10
15	1184	I tried to rise, but the man's hand was knotted in the silk.	10
15	1215	I tried to twist away.	10
15	1301	I would make him suffer! How desperately, in my dance, I tried to arouse him! Yet his eyes remained expressionless.	10
15	1451	I seized the collar and tried to pull it from my throat.	10
16	130	On my hands and knees I tried to crawl to the tent.	10
16	377	I tried to lift myself, to touch his lips with mine, but he would not permit me.	10
17	20	Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles.	10
17	132	Accordingly, I sometimes, to my agony, tried to destroy in him those very feelings which I most dearly hoped he might, however unwillingly, entertain for a lowly slave.	10
17	326	It had died in the basement, in the darkness behind the furnace, where it had fled, howling and whimpering, biting at me when I, a hysterical, weeping child, had tried to touch it and hold it.	10
17	450	I tried, from time to time, to put Rask of Treve from my mind, but I could not do so.	10
17	469	I have tried to comply.	10
18	15	They know me, and my whereabouts, and have tried to slay me.	10

Book 8. (25 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	292	"You have been tried, and convicted, of the crime of theft," intoned the judge.	10
3	296	"You have been tried and convicted of the crime of theft," said the judge, "for the second time".	10
3	370	Then suddenly she threw back her head and screamed, and tried to twist away from the man.	10
3	405	She tried to reach his hand in her hair.	10
4	171	I tried to make snares.	10
6	32	She tried to pull it from her neck.	10
6	647	"No!" Then she turned and tried to flee, pushing her way through my men, closing her in.	10
6	1005	It is further said, that on the couch, the Gorean girl, whether slave or free, who has had the experience, who has tried all loves, begs for a master.	10
6	1057	She tried to step back.	10
7	308	If she were not, I remembered, as a Gorean, that she had tried to kill me.	10
8	224	Two of them tried to lift the man who was lying at the side of the hut.	10
8	249	I tried to draw the bow.	10
11	23	I had tried to play frequently with players of strength superior to my own.	10
11	141	She tried to stand as a panther girl, but he had laughed at her.	10
11	151	She had tried to kick at them and fall upon them but her guard, controlling her easily, for she was only a woman, dragged her away.	10
11	200	I tried to imagine how Cara might have stood, had she been in the place of Verna.	10
14	115	He was beaten back, when he tried to rise, with the butts of spears.	10
15	55	Ilene, helplessly, tried to rise.	10
15	444	She tried to turn to face the girl who had kicked her, but strangling, was pulled ahead by the girl in front of her.	10
15	573	She tried to tear the collar from her throat.	10
15	664	She tried to leap to her feet, but my hand was in her hair, painfully.	10
17	83	The girl lay on the grass, tried to get up, and then fell unconscious.	10
18	634	She tried to leap to her feet and flee, but he caught her by the hair, and threw her to one of his men.	10
22	27	And I had cried out, and tried to rise, but strong hands, those of Rim and Arn, had pressed me back, holding me.	10
22	471	"Tina is free!" He ran suddenly toward her and she tried to scramble away, climbing over the thwarts, but he caught her by the scruff of the tunic and pulled her under the water.	10

Book 9. (16 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	209	I tried to clench my left fist.	10
1	265	"Within five days," she said, "as I tried to return to Ar, I was sheltered by an itinerant leather worker, who did not believe, of course, that I was the daughter of Marlenus of Ar.	10
6	201	She had tried not to scream.	10
6	543	When the fellow, an oarsman, had finished with her and would return to the table, she tried to hold him.	10
8	68	Again and again we tried to please the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
9	263	She tried futilely to free herself.	10
9	402	She tried to resist, in fury, but I was patient.	10
10	531	When his hands left her body she tried, sobbing, to strike him, but he caught both her small wrists, holding them.	10
13	172	Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea...	10
14	11	I tried to rise.	10
14	39	Those nearest the Kurii tried to crawl back within the throng.	10
15	179	I tried to remain calm.	10
15	353	I tried to drive in to thrust with my blade.	10
17	193	When she tried to move in any direction other than that of the opened passage they snapped at her, viciously.	10
18	73	It tried to dislodge it.	10
18	100	It tried to tear the silk, and it was at the wall of the tent that I caught it.	10

Book 10. (26 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	40	It seemed she tried to hold herself immobile, as though fighting her own body, but yet that it forced her to dance, betraying her as a slave girl to the gaze of masters.	10
5	118	She then, weeping, in misery, inched down the trunk of the tree until she knelt with her back against it, leaning back, and tried to reach behind her, again trying to undo the knots.	10
8	45	One man tried to break and run.	10
11	334	When the battle was lost to him, Ba'Arub tried to reach him.	10
12	192	She tried to pull away.	10
13	246	I tried to pull away, but was held.	10
14	9	I tried to rise.	10
14	114	She tried to jerk it again, holding it more firmly.	10
16	237	I tried to save a second man, similarly, but he was taken from the pole, screaming, by the Old One.	10
17	187	Four times the Old One tried to turn the raft.	10
17	282	Madly did the great marine beast thrash; its jaws distended, trying to disgorge its victim, but it was held by the teeth; it tried to bite through the body in its jaws but the body was wedged well within the jaws and it could exert little leverage.	10
17	293	I tried to press together the wounds.	10
20	113	I think it might have tried to free me.	10
21	265	In an Ahn he tried to rise, but could not.	10
21	431	He tried to hold his balance.	10
21	461	It seemed likely then that the Kur must have been struck as it had framed itself, perhaps in an opening, the other Kur, smelling it, hearing it, firing when it had tried to enter.	10
21	518	I tried to swing the hatch shut, to lock it, but it hung crooked on its hinges and would not close.	10
21	543	When it reached my level I tried to climb upward, clinging to piping at the ship's side.	10
21	589	It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...	10
21	610	In a frenzy I tried to free it of the side of the ship.	10
21	621	It tried to lift its hand, to seize me.	10
24	731	She tried to cry out.	10
25	242	Again she lifted the scimitar; again she tried to attack.	10
26	106	"That one," he had said, sitting in court, in the audience chamber of what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran, indicating the silken fellow who had worn the ruby necklace, who had tried to betray us to the guards of Tarna, "that one sell in Tor—sell him to a woman".	10
26	631	She tried to turn her head, to look at me.	10
26	757	"I tried, Master," she wept.	10

Book 11. (73 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	33	I had tried not to breathe.	10
1	38	I tried not to breathe.	10
1	66	I tried to thrust the collar up, over my head.	10
1	67	I turned it, again tried to thrust it up, over my head.	10
1	78	I tried to back away, on my knees; my head was pulled cruelly forward.	10
1	152	I tried to thrust from my mind what must be, what had to be, the explanation of this unusual phenomenon.	10
2	25	I turned, and tried to hide myself, as I could, with my hands.	10
2	235	Please, let me be a slave!" I tried to smile.	10
2	423	I tried to free myself.	10
2	803	I tried to smile.	10
2	1048	I tried to take his left leg in my hands, to hold him, but, with the butt of his spear, he thrust me back and away.	10
2	1054	I tried to peer about his body.	10
3	452	I tried to move my wrists, my head and body, my legs and ankles.	10
3	496	I tried to move my ankles and wrists.	10
4	40	I tried to resent the brand, but I could not do so.	10
4	412	How could he permit this? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, the preceding night, taken my virginity from me? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, for long hours, pleasured himself with my body? Did it mean nothing to him that he had won me, that I had yielded to him, that I had surrendered ...	10
4	464	I tried to free my hands.	10
4	863	I tried to tell myself it had not happened.	10
4	1107	I tried to respond to the man's directions.	10
4	1135	My performance had not been superb, but surely I had tried hard, under his will, to be pleasing as a slave girl to the man he had designated.	10
4	1140	Why then had I been bound? I had tried to resist the man for several minutes, and had managed to do so.	10
4	1141	I had held myself tight and rigid, and had tried to hold in all feeling.	10
5	373	I tried to escape, but I was held fast.	10
5	479	We tried to defend the mistress.	10
5	646	Surreptitiously, for I did not wish to be struck or again kicked, I tried to move my wrists and ankles.	10
5	890	I tried to brush my left shoulder against him, but he, with his hand, roughly thrust me to the side.	10
6	232	I tried to restrain myself, to keep from responding to the touch of Thurnus.	10
7	172	She tried to be stern.	10
7	306	I tried to pull away a bit, but I did not much resist.	10
7	1327	I tried to hold myself immobile.	10
8	13	It tried to reach me from another side.	10
8	134	The beast tried to reach me, but could not do so.	10
8	244	I had tried to escape.	10
8	262	"That," said Thurnus, "is for having tried to escape".	10
9	239	I had tried, on Earth, honestly enough, to fulfill the stereotypes prescribed for me.	10
9	534	I tried to pull the short woolen tunic more over my legs.	10
9	722	He had not had me, but I had, in his assessment, tried to present myself to him well.	10
9	1294	I tried again to break the circle and was again caught and flung again to its center.	10
9	1349	I tried again to seize the tunic but was prohibited by the ropes from doing so.	10
9	1354	Wildly I tried to seize the garment, to pull it over my head, but the boys would not let me touch it.	10
9	1359	Again I tried to reach the garment but again was not permitted to do so.	10
9	1360	Then I tried to seize the garment at the neck and tear it away but the boys would not let my hands reach the garment.	10
9	1364	I tried again to tear away the garment.	10
9	1672	I am Judy Thornton, I tried to tell myself.	10
9	1843	I tried to cry out, but could not.	10
9	1848	I tried to scream.	10
11	113	I tried to pull the collar from my throat.	10
12	466	I tried to tear off the slave bells on my ankle.	10
12	489	Gate after gate I tried along the passageway below the steel door, those gates giving access to the storage areas for larger, less valuable merchandise, but all were locked.	10
12	527	The handle of the other door was being tried.	10
12	569	Frenziedly I tried keys in the first of the locks.	10
12	782	Why should animals be permitted clothing? I tried to move a little.	10
13	360	I tried to fight the sensation of the whip.	10
14	469	I tried to jerk back but his hand, on the chain between the bracelets, held me, my hands confined in his bracelets.	10
15	209	I tried to lie still.	10
16	8	I tried with my right foot to press against the wound, to stanch the flow of blood.	10
16	18	I tried to be silent.	10
16	120	When the spike was withdrawn I again tried to speak.	10
17	88	The original reagent was then again tried, to check the erasure.	10
18	12	I also wore a brief, open, sleeveless vest of black leather, the Kalmak; a patron parted it, holding it open, as I tried to move past him on the ramp; I stood, quietly, stopped helplessly, the tray held over my head; he kissed me twice; "Little beauty," he said; "A girl would rejoice if she were per...	10
20	22	Timidly, softly I tried the handle.	10
20	108	Then I tried to put such thoughts from me.	10
20	256	I was then terrified, and tried to defend myself, as she struck me.	10
21	9	How I would if I could have tried to pit my small strength against the heavy oar which he would now draw.	10
21	169	I tried to press myself against him.	10
21	175	I tried to lift my lips to the officer, but he held me from him.	10
22	257	She tried to move back the heavy hatch but it had been battened down.	10
22	593	Weakly I tried to push away the jaws that held me, long and narrow, with many fine teeth.	10
26	50	I tried to answer her honestly.	10
26	763	She tried to hold herself still, rigid, but, when he chose, could not do so.	10
27	212	About swung the staff and men tried to struggle backward.	10
27	652	I tried not to cry.	10
29	82	I tried to get up, but could scarcely stand.	10

Book 12. (24 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	404	She tried to rise up, but I held her down, her small shoulders down to the tiles in the blood.	10
2	67	The girl tried to step forward but the shafts of two spears, wielded by her flanking guardsmen, barred her way.	10
2	76	She again tried to step forward but this time the points of the guards' spears prevented her.	10
3	1033	What did it matter that someone had touched, even intimately caressed, a woman who was only a slave? She tried to creep back, but the slaver's man, seeing this, irritably removed his whip from his belt and, with its coils, indicated the place on the platform where her knees must be.	10
3	1379	She moved her small wrists in the cuffs; she tried to move her hands; they were held, confined, at the golden loop.	10
4	313	"Kill him! Kill him!" Guardsmen at the stage's edge, with shields, buffeted back a man who, with drawn knife, had tried to climb to the level where sat the table of the game.	10
4	654	"I tried," said the scribe.	10
6	862	She tried with her bound wrists to tear away the rags which she wore but they, because of the knotted belt strip, were perfectly fastened upon her.	10
7	253	I tried to push myself up, but fell again.	10
11	315	She squirmed in protest, and then, alarmed, tried to remain quite still.	10
11	528	With a cry of misery she tried then to provoke my interest.	10
14	272	She tried to get up, but he pushed her back down.	10
20	123	"Since that day I have never tried to sing," said Imnak.	10
22	15	I tried to keep the stem of the kayak pointing roughly toward the beast in the water.	10
24	343	She tried to free herself, and could not.	10
24	349	She tried to twist her head, and then yielded.	10
26	342	Other sleen tried to thrust into the orgy.	10
28	111	She tried to pull it down a bit, about her thigh.	10
28	234	She, terrified, tried to cover her body with her hands, half naked in the pleasure silk.	10
30	266	I cut a man down by the door and tried to force it open.	10
34	153	It tried to take a step toward me, and then its face contorted with excruciating pain.	10
35	773	I tried the door at the end of the corridor.	10
35	1163	She had tried to kill me.	10
35	1182	"I tried to kill you".	10

Book 13. (33 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	630	Had I tried to obtain her for less than six tarsks or he tried to obtain more for her I think the situation could have become unpleasant.	10
2	2	She tried to pull it from her throat.	10
2	5	Had she never been sold before? She tried to turn away, and cover herself, her feet in the damp sawdust.	10
2	122	She tried to draw back, but his left hand, behind the small of her back, held her in place.	10
2	139	She tried to hold the whip between her thighs.	10
3	120	She gasped for air; she tried to clear water from her eyes.	10
4	176	The girl, crying out with rage, tried to kick at the man tied beside her.	10
4	234	He tried to throw off his bonds.	10
4	413	She tried to saunter as a she-urt.	10
4	431	Then, remembering herself, she tried to look disappointed.	10
4	443	She tried to walk as a she-urt.	10
4	445	She tried not to look at me.	10
4	649	The blond girl tried to make herself even smaller and more submissive, that she be not more abused.	10
4	683	"Please, don't! Please, don't! I will be good! I will be good!" She tried to turn her head, to look behind her.	10
4	720	When she saw me she tried to cover herself and crouch small.	10
4	774	She had tried to run away.	10
4	821	She tried, unsuccessfully, to struggle.	10
6	500	She tried to look angry.	10
8	39	The girl tried to get up but her foot slipped in the mud and she fell to her side.	10
13	525	Most importantly I had tried to impress upon her the fundamental importance of submission, and that she was a slave girl.	10
19	90	"He tried to kill me," said Bila Huruma.	10
24	80	He tried to regain it.	10
24	218	She tried to approach the canoe more closely but Kisu, as she would approach, would, with a powerful stroke, move the canoe more swiftly forward, keeping her at the length of the tether.	10
26	11	She had tried to speak to me at various times during the past few days, but I had responded little to her, usually confining my responses to curt utterances.	10
31	23	If she had tried to push away the villagers, or prevent them from touching her, they might have wanted her hands cut off.	10
32	848	"It was thus," she said, "that I tried to please him".	10
34	187	"You tried to escape in Port Kar," I said.	10
44	84	It was not simply the adhesiveness of the web's strands which prevented her from freeing herself but, also, its swaying and elasticity, sinking beneath her as she tried to press against it.	10
44	134	They tried to pull me away.	10
45	63	Then, in a moment, there were tears in her eyes, and she tried to lift her head and gagged mouth to touch me.	10
47	136	The chieftain of the Mamba people rolled screaming at the wall, and then, scratching and screaming, tried to drag himself toward the gate.	10
48	73	He tried to do so, but fell back.	10
53	500	He then lay on the level and we, with strips of cloth, tried to stanch his bleeding.	10

Book 14. (38 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	606	Some have even tried to take me in their arms and kiss me".	10
1	728	"I have tried to fight my femininity," she said.	10
1	729	"I have tried to overcome it".	10
1	811	I tried, in my mind, various sorts of collars and chains on her.	10
1	948	"You tried to put me in your power," she said.	10
1	1005	I tried not to breathe.	10
1	1008	I tried to force down the handle on her side, but it, like that on my side, did not move.	10
1	1025	"I will pay you!" I tried to tear loose then the steel slats from the aperture, to wad the jacket inside.	10
1	1054	"Help me!" I turned from her and, with my fingers, tried to find some crack or crevice between glass and steel, to the side and in front of me, anything that I might be able to exploit.	10
2	139	I tried to struggle to my feet.	10
2	273	I tried to struggle to my feet, but two men held me down on the cement.	10
3	2	I tried to get to my feet.	10
3	37	I tried to turn away from her, for I was naked, but she drew back the whip and, suddenly, again struck me.	10
3	44	Again I tried to turn to the side, that I might not be so shamefully exposed to her.	10
3	106	I tried to cover my head with my chained hands.	10
3	151	The men approached me and I tried to pull back in my chains.	10
4	123	Again, suddenly, it seemed she tried to free herself, but could not do so.	10
4	126	She tried to hold herself still.	10
4	315	I tried not to look at the beauty of the girl who led me.	10
5	58	I had tried not to look upon her.	10
5	59	I had tried, constantly, to respect her, and I had reminded myself, a thousand times a day, that she was, as I, a person.	10
7	863	She tried to put her small hands out, to clasp me piteously behind the neck.	10
7	1022	I had tried to relate to her.	10
11	522	She, with her small hands, tried to pull together the rent fabric at her thighs.	10
11	633	"I tried to escape once," she said.	10
13	704	I tried to defend myself.	10
16	362	I tried to free my wrists but could not begin to do so.	10
19	384	She tried to look up at Kenneth, but the hand of Barus did not permit it.	10
20	9	I tried, gasping, to thrust him away.	10
20	26	He tried to shake me from him.	10
20	112	Slave girls, their eyes bright, their breath hot, tried to press themselves piteously against me.	10
20	161	Taphris, with two hands, tried to pull together the sides of her tunic, but it did her little good.	10
22	166	She tried to touch the Lady Florence but the Lady Florence drew back.	10
24	147	She tried then to kiss me, but I held her from me.	10
27	75	She tried to pull down the hem of the garment, frightened.	10
27	469	She tried to smile.	10
32	423	She was very beautiful as she tried to free herself.	10
34	320	I tried to dismiss such dreadful, unworthy thoughts.	10

Book 15. (17 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	115	How zealously earnest she had been to dress in certain ways and behave in certain ways, to deny her beauty and its meaning, how desperately she had tried to live up to ideological strictures foreign to her needs; how pathetically she had dutifully repeated slogans; how sincerely she had tried to bel...	10
4	272	She tried the steel.	10
4	558	She moaned, and foolishly tried to cover her beauty.	10
4	576	She tried to press me away, but could not do so.	10
5	32	I tried to appear as though incredulous that he was down, as though I could not believe that I had somehow struck him from his feet.	10
15	41	She tried to speak, but she had been well gagged.	10
23	128	Sometimes, though I had tried not to make this obvious, I had, in effect, beaten his blade to the side, rather than merely turned it away.	10
24	534	She tried to scramble, weeping, to her feet, but I was on her in an instant.	10
24	618	She then began to tremble, and sometimes tried to pull away from me, and at other times to press against me.	10
28	127	"I have tried to live up to your trust," said Callisthenes.	10
30	83	I tried to pull loose the chains, but they were of Gorean iron.	10
30	117	I tried to move in the chains.	10
30	170	Whoever had betrayed us must be, or be in contact with, the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, he who had tried to obtain the topaz from me on the wharves of Victoria.	10
30	190	I tried to control myself.	10
30	212	I tried to resist the caresses of the slave girls.	10
32	5	Each, in the opinion of Jandar, had not tried hard enough to outdo the other in addressing themselves to his pleasure.	10
32	205	He then took his sword back, and, with a slash or two in the air, tried its balance.	10

Book 16. (28 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	38	I tried to see through the fog.	10
8	31	I backed from her and then, turning, tried the door.	10
8	227	She tried to crawl from the whip, but could not do so.	10
8	228	Then she tried to crawl no more, but knelt, her head down, her head in her hands, weeping, at the side of the berth, a whipped slave.	10
9	235	In the beginning, true to my resolves, I tried to be rebellious, but the impracticality of that was soon brought home to me.	10
10	20	It was identical to that which had been worn by the masked fellow who had tried to obtain the topaz from me in Victoria.	10
12	50	He had tried to kill me.	10
12	119	One galley tried to come about.	10
15	57	Again and again, wincing, I tried to pull free.	10
16	36	In a frenzy I tried to free myself.	10
16	122	I tried to inch upward on the blade.	10
16	127	Again, frenzied, in terror, I tried to struggle.	10
16	132	I felt another stinging bite at my leg, where another of the heavy, leaping eels tried to feed.	10
16	143	I tried to abrade my ankles against the steel.	10
16	404	Ragnar Voskjard tried to rise, but my foot, thrust between his shoulder blades, pressed him rudely back to the deck.	10
16	508	He tried to free himself, but succeeded in doing little more than squirm choking on the deck, a stripped, tethered prisoner.	10
17	420	She tried to pull back.	10
17	774	Then, straining against the leash and collar, she tried to press herself forward, against me.	10
18	633	Then, my senses reeling, I found myself, to the laughter of men and slaves, as I tried futilely to resist, being stripped and bound.	10
19	51	Sensing her orientation she tried, desperately, to press her gagged mouth, beneath its binding and the leather of the hood, against my body, piteously attempting to please me.	10
19	836	It was thus that I tried to incite you to my conquest.	10
19	837	It was thus that I tried to make you angry, that you might make me your slave, and keep me as such, uncompromisingly".	10
20	1224	"I shall, of course, need strong men, men from the various towns, men tried and true".	10
20	1302	"I did not know what to do!" She tried to pull her ankles apart.	10
20	1445	She is to be thrown then as feed into a pool of restless, hungry eels, unless a given fellow, one she hitherto spurned as a free woman, and has tried to ignore at the banquet, will accept her as his slave.	10
20	1763	She tried again to free her ankles, and again failed.	10
20	2063	Then she tried to pull her wrists apart, from behind the back of her body.	10
21	285	She half tried to pull away, frightened.	10

Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	142	They would surely have tried, at least in the beginning, to work through local traders or, say, Dust Legs themselves.	10
8	789	Wildly the red-haired girl tried to attain her feet but the auctioneer, his hand in her hair, twisted her and threw her on her belly before him.	10
12	127	He tried to rise.	10
13	29	She tried, with her small fists, to pull together the sides of the tunic, to protect, as she could, the rounded, interior contours of her softness from the garment's apparently thoughtless disclosure.	10
13	782	"I tried to struggle.	10
14	198	Ulla tried to resist him, as best she could, but, in a moment, bruised and vomiting, he not having been gentle with her, she was on her belly in the grass, her hands being jerked behind her and tied.	10
14	484	He tried to walk about and peep beneath the hide and Grunt, with great apparent earnestness and seriousness, hurried about, tugging down the hide at the edges.	10
14	507	The Dust Leg, more than pleased, tried to get Grunt to accept at least one extra hide for the girl, but this, of course, Grunt magnanimously refused to do.	10
18	190	The lad tried to climb to his feet, but fell.	10
19	83	"Only tried and proven warriors, with many coups, and many expeditions of war and kaiila stealing, are admitted to it".	10

Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	25	Bloketu tried to read in the eyes of Cuwignaka, and Iwoso tried to read in the eyes of Hci, what was to be her fate.	10
6	23	My kaiila squealed and, as I headed it off, it tried to climb the side of the draw, scrambling at it, then slipping back, falling, rolling, to the side.	10
12	64	The girl, frightened, seeing our eyes upon her, tried to slip back, unobtrusively, among her fellow lovely beasts.	10
12	361	"I was tried out, and then put in the herd," she said.	10
17	21	"He tried to kill Mahpiyasapa," moaned Akihoka, rocking in misery.	10
18	236	"I think it is because Canka tried to kill him," said the man, watching the movement of the string.	10
18	325	"It was your master, Canka," she said, angrily, "who tried to kill Mahpiyasapa this morning".	10
20	4	"She tried to enter the lodge of the dance," laughed Hci, pointing at Cuwignaka.	10
20	10	"Do not come to plead lenience for your foolish brother, who tried to kill my father, Mahpiyasapa, this morning?" inquired Hci.	10
24	29	I tried to get to the rider's right.	10
30	151	It seemed, for a moment, that he tried to struggle with it, but, inexorably, as though with a will of its own, it rose.	10
37	412	She had tried to run.	10
37	473	Twice she had tried to run.	10
39	367	"I have tried," she said.	10
39	368	"I have tried! Please, do not whip me!" I unfastened the knot.	10
40	58	Some of the Waniyanpi males tried to avert their eyes but, in a moment, gazed eagerly again upon her.	10
40	544	I lied! I tried in my heart to be a man! I pretended to be a man, but I am not a man! I am a woman! I have never been other than a woman! I wanted to be what I was not, not what I was! But I was miserable, and unhappy! I wanted to be the wielder of power, when I should have been subject to power! I ...	10
40	546	"No!" "And you have tried to weaken, to reduce and destroy true manhood," said Seibar.	10
40	759	She then reached her head toward his, where he crouched down before her, and tried to touch her lips to his.	10
44	696	Iwoso, tears running from her eyes, tried suddenly, wildly, irrationally, to free herself, while Hci marked her movements, each one, but, in a moment, she realized she was as helplessly bound as before.	10
44	708	Iwoso then tried to stand perfectly still.	10
47	46	She tried to lick at the water at the side of her mouth.	10
47	199	On the other hand, the shield and lance skills of the Kaiila were fresh, and our men were tried warriors.	10
47	472	* * * * Iwoso gasped, and tried to turn her head away, her neck in the ropes.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	217	If I had not tried to be so clever, if I had not tried to trick him, he probably would have read the legend for me.	10
2	320	I tried to conceal this from myself, but of course I could not do so.	10
2	398	I tried, wildly, with my right foot, to slide it from my left ankle.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	629	When I had felt the wetness of blood there, I had tried to keep my hands low at my sides, in the sand, scratching and clutching at it, but then, almost as though unable to help myself, I had again tried to reach for their bodies.	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	778	I tried to imitate them! I tried to do well! Then I felt myself taken by the music, and I could not help myself.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	254	Who was master, who was slave? Was nature to be denied? What of my feelings, my needs? Was I to pretend to be a man, in which sorry pretense I must fail, or should I listen to my heart, and acknowledge my difference? Nay, not only acknowledge this difference, but welcome it, celebrate it, acclaim it...	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	427	"You tried to hide yourself in the water," he said, "and, emerging, you tried to conceal your body".	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	100	I tried to be true to the conditioning program to which I had been subjected, ever since the innocence of childhood, only later recognizing what it was, what it had tried to do to me, what it had tried to make me.	10
3	268	I tried to chastise myself for my needs, and tried to deny my heart.	10