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Book 1. (24 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	98	Light as the envelope seemed to be, it resisted the point as if I were trying to open an anvil.	10
1	101	I handled the envelope carefully, puzzled, trying to determine if it might be opened.	10
1	166	I dropped it into the pocket of my coat and started off on my compass-bearing, trying to make my way back to the highway.	10
1	167	I felt stupid trying to hike in the dark.	10
3	108	Much of the area of Gor, surprisingly enough, was blank on the map, but I was overwhelmed trying to commit as many of the rivers, seas, plains, and peninsulas to memory as I could.	10
3	119	I had little time for speculation, however, as I was trying to bear up under an arduous schedule which seemed designed to force me to become a Gorean in a matter of weeks or perhaps see me die in the attempt.	10
4	2	I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof.	10
4	5	In that instant I switched the tarn-goad to the "on" position, and when the great beak flashed downward again, I struck it viciously, trying to force it away from me.	10
4	7	I was on my hands and knees, trying to get back on my feet, too near the edge.	10
5	142	During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback.	10
5	153	The thought crossed my mind of giving up the project, turning outlaw, if you will, deserter, if you like, but of saving my own skin, trying to get out of this mad scheme if only with my life, and that only for a time.	10
6	38	The heavily robed figure was trying to climb the mounting ladder, but was impeded by the weight and ornate inflexibility of her garments.	10
6	136	She screamed hysterically, trying to force the adhesive band from her waist.	10
6	200	"Tell it to stop," she gasped, writhing in the insect's grip, her fingers helplessly trying to loosen the mandibles.	10
6	207	"I was trying to bring the tarn back to Ar," said the girl.	10
8	64	He struggled furiously, his hands trying to pry apart my fingers, his sword slipping from the sheath.	10
11	27	The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba.	10
12	94	As well as I could, I opened and closed my hands and moved my feet, trying to restore in them some semblance of feeling.	10
13	37	Some animal must be trying to break the hunting circle.	10
13	56	The spear shaft snapped and the beast fell to the earth, rolling on its back, pawing at the air, uttering piercing, enraged shrieks, trying to bite the toothpick-like object from its body.	10
13	97	"Would you like the Holy Disease?" he asked, stretching out one hand in the darkness, as if trying to clutch my hand.	10
14	138	The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other.	10
19	169	Pa-Kur and I backed away from one another, each quickly trying to see what was happening.	10
20	68	I have puzzled over this, trying to connect it with the mysterious letter, dated in the seventeenth century, ostensibly by my father, which I received in the blue envelope.	10

Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	76	He seemed to shake with pain, his hands pressed against his head, trying to speak to me, trying to tell me something.	10
1	47	"Harrison Smith!" He lifted me easily to my feet, his words rapid and stumbling, trying to reassure me.	10
4	2	It was a nightmarish journey, and a foolish one, trying to rush on through the night to find my city, bruising, falling, scraping myself in the darkness, yet driven on by such a torment of doubt and apprehension that I could allow myself no rest until I stood again on the lofty bridges of Ko-ro-ba.	10
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	10
13	3	I blinked again and again, trying to lessen the torture of the glare.	10
14	125	My hands locked on it, trying to twist it open.	10
17	30	Before we had been ushered into the cell, outside, in a broad, rectangular chamber, two of the mine attendants had poured a tub of bread and vegetables into the feed trough fixed in the wall, and the slaves had rushed upon it, like animals, screaming, cursing, pushing, jostling, trying to thrust the...	10
21	70	The girl choked silently, trying to spit the ball of hair from her mouth, but of course she could not.	10
21	263	But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master.	10
24	79	Andreas shook his head as if trying to comprehend what I might mean.	10
25	17	Its chest shook under the stained tunic; its mouth bit at the air as if trying to catch it as it escaped its throat.	10
25	77	It rolled on the roof trying to tear me from its neck; it leaped and bounded, and twisted and shook itself.	10

Book 3. (15 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	138	As it passed from the chamber, followed by the attendant who had operated the wall panel, I could see the dazed, confused girl, sobbing and in pain, trying to reach the collar through the plastic of the cylinder's top.	10
23	4	She wore only brief rags, the remains of her once long and beautiful garment, torn and stained by what must have been her terrified flight through these dark, rocky tunnels, running, stumbling, screaming, futilely trying to escape the pursuing jaws of the implacable Golden Beetle.	10
23	50	It was a long, eerie search, in the blue light of the Mul-Torch, thrusting it into one crevice and another, trying one passage and then the next.	10
23	63	From her flesh at one point I could see the gleaming eyes of a small organism, golden and about the size of a child's turtle, scrambling, trying to pull itself from the leathery shell.	10
27	150	With a speed that I still find hard to comprehend Sarm rushed upon Misk and after a blurring moment I saw them on their posterior supporting appendages locked together rocking slowly back and forth, trying to bring those great golden, laterally chopping jaws into play.	10
27	212	His antennae peered down at me as though trying to recognize me.	10
27	362	Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a Priest-King, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutching, trying to sense someth...	10
28	67	She crept to her feet, holding her hands before her face, and I could see her trying to see and yet protect her eyes from the glare.	10
28	74	She stood before me blinking against the light of the Mul-Torch, trying to smile.	10
29	24	"My fingers," he cried, "my fingers hurt!" One of the humans by the wall, a girl, knelt by him, holding a cloth, trying to stanch the bleeding.	10
31	94	* * * * Misk and I had been trying to decide, for the past five days, how to organize the Nest in the wake of the War.	10
31	130	Where were they? I surmised the tunnels might have collapsed and they were even now trying to cut their way through to the Chamber of the Power Plant.	10
31	140	Twice more Sarm fired and twice more I scrambled about on the walkway trying to keep the two surfaces of the globe between myself and his weapon.	10
32	21	But the Priest-King paid me no attention, trying to move a great block of stone which had fallen across one of the supporting appendages of the dead Sarm.	10
32	267	He was trying to thrust more tobacco into it but was having difficulty because the tiny brown particles tended to lie loosely about a quarter of an inch above the bowl.	10

Book 4. (32 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	755	"A true man," she cried out suddenly, "would not behave so! No! A true man is gentle, kind, tender, respectful, at all times, sweet and solicitous! That is a true man!" I smiled at her defenses, so classical, so typical of the modern, unhappy, civilized female, desperately frightened of being truly ...	10
4	7	I thrust with the spear, trying to force back the snapping jaws of the screaming animal.	10
4	21	It shifted delicately, feinting, and then withdrawing, trying to draw the cast.	10
5	94	I repeated the name slowly, trying to sound it out.	10
6	49	The girl was trying to speak.	10
8	201	The two girls of Albrecht were standing to one side, their eyes shining, trying not to smile with pleasure.	10
8	356	She had perhaps observed the running of Tuka and the Kassar girl, trying to watch and learn, but she was of course utterly inexperienced in this cruel sport of the men of the wagons.	10
8	492	Her hands were out, trying instinctively to maintain her balance; the bola weights were still snapping about her ankles in tiny, angry circles; in an instant she would fall to the grass; racing past I seized her by the hair and threw her over the saddle; scarcely did she comprehend what was happenin...	10
9	238	"I seem to recall," said Aphris, as though trying very hard to do so.	10
10	18	It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee...	10
10	535	In the last moment I cried out to Kamchak, "For the sake of Priest-Kings, hold the weapon thus!" trying to teach him the simplest of the commoner grips for the hilt of the short sword, permitting a large degree of both retention and flexibility.	10
10	554	Kamchak was nearly stumbling over backward and kept trying to regain his balance.	10
11	26	Aphris suddenly pulled at the retaining rings, trying to rush to him, now oblivious of the riches of her beauty revealed even to the slaves who carried his palanquin.	10
12	26	At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr...	10
13	25	The sleen were trying to get at her and she had backed away against the wagon, watching them warily.	10
16	125	"Was this," I asked Harold, "a part of your plan?" He grinned, pressing against the net, trying its strength.	10
16	196	"The little urt was trying to pick my pouch!" "You were not always a merchant, then?" I asked Saphrar.	10
18	16	"Yes, Tarl Cabot," wheezed Saphrar, giggling, "and yet you will, in an hour or so, when you are mad with pain and fear, try yet again and again to touch and grasp a vine, knowing that you will not succeed but yet again and again trying, believing that once somehow you will be successful.	10
18	68	Crowded about my body now were entangling filaments and spheres trying, like hands and teeth, to tear me from my work, but I struck and tore again and again and then entered the secret world beneath the membrane slashing to the left and right and suddenly the fluid began to loosen and withdraw above...	10
19	112	"Not you!" "Yes," he said, "I," turning her about once again, routinely checking the knots that bound her wrists, taking her wrists in his hands, trying to separate them, examining the knots for slippage; there was none.	10
19	116	She was trying to free herself.	10
19	133	Hereena was trying to say something.	10
21	218	Then, irrationally, he put his shoulder under the wagon box and began to push up, trying to right the wagon, surely an impossible task for one man.	10
21	296	I stepped back, getting my back to the wagon, trying to keep their steel from me.	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
23	121	I looked to the left and right over the torn, bloody barricade of wagons, at the remains of my men, wounded and exhausted, many of them lying on the barricade or on the ground behind it, trying to gain but a moment's respite.	10
24	175	I bounded down the stairs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, and sped through the inner and outer courtyard and out into the street, leaving the startled guards trying to salute me as a commander.	10
25	233	"You are trying to get me drunk," she said.	10
25	711	"I know what you're trying to do," she said.	10
25	713	"You are trying to make me feel owned," she said.	10
26	271	"Then it will be mine!" he cried and raced to Saphrar, trying to seize the sphere.	10
26	272	"Mine! Mine!" screamed Saphrar, trying to retain the sphere.	10

Book 5. (29 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	2	In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...	10
3	165	Every nerve in that old face seemed strained, as though trying to understand what might lie there beyond him in the darkness that was his world, save for the memory of the movement of pieces on a checkered board.	10
3	241	"No!" he cried, striking out wildly with a hand, trying to force me away.	10
5	84	Elizabeth then watched in silence while I, trying to recall the intricacies of my signature knot, worked the boskhide cords.	10
5	131	With a flourish I unrolled the furs, spilling Elizabeth out, who shrieked and began to crawl away, but my hand caught at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment and she turned suddenly, trying to sit up, her feet tangled in the garment and I kicked it away and took her in my arms.	10
8	26	She squirmed furiously, kicking back, trying to hit me with her small fists.	10
9	14	The slavers, by the way, indulge in speculation and manipulation whenever possible, trying to anticipate changes in fashion or control them.	10
12	34	The rider was wheeling the bird, trying to bring it under control, and returning to the ring.	10
12	209	I'm sure, in the pain of branding, they scarcely felt the pain which might be attendant on his massage, trying to restore some feeling and strength to their aching limbs.	10
12	306	Elizabeth, now also free, went to their side, trying to help them.	10
13	96	She threw all her energies now into her panic-stricken flight; but the beauty of the rhythm, that powerful, even rhythm, was gone; her stroke was uneven; she lifted too much water; she missed a breath; she thrashed; but still she fled wildly for safety, kicking madly, trying to escape.	10
13	97	And then my hands closed on her waist and she cried out in rage, struggling, trying to break free.	10
14	172	The girl in chains strode to her and seized her by the collar, at which point the kitchen slave began to whine and weep, trying to draw back, to turn her head away.	10
17	12	They were passing about a bota of paga and, between dancing and trying to hold one another up, managed to weave unsteadily by.	10
17	302	"And who his bracelets?" "Ginia!" "And who does Relius guard?" "Ginia! Ginia!" wept Lana, trying to cover her face.	10
17	373	Phyllis had now struggled to her feet, blushing a red visible even under the torches, and, unsteady, trembling slightly, was trying to brush the sand from her hair, her legs and her slave livery.	10
18	285	It seemed to draw it open, and then, wildly, to thrust it back, keeping the door locked; and then I heard the bolt rattling in its brackets as though something had seized it and trembling was trying to hold it in place.	10
18	342	Now, paga bottle in hand, I was passing guards and found myself walking down the narrow iron runways over the pens below, now filled with drunken slaves, some sleeping, some sitting stupefied in the center of their pen, some singing brokenly to themselves, some trying to crawl again to the trough to...	10
18	404	He crawled to his knees, squinting against the torch, trying to shelter his eyes with manacled clawlike hands from the sudden, fierce, painful blaze of fire that his world must have then been for him.	10
20	17	"The men we apprehended after severe fighting, trying to cut their way to you when you lay in the dungeon.	10
20	345	I racked my brain, trying to understand something which seemed somehow but a moment from comprehension, something elusive, hauntingly near and yet undisclosed.	10
20	356	Hup, as though shocked, leaped to his feet, turned a somersault, and bounded unevenly to the table, where he put his chin on the boards, trying to nibble at a piece of bread lying there.	10
21	5	"It will be amusing," said he, "to see you stumbling about on the sand, sword in hand, thrashing here and there, trying to find your foes.	10
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
22	165	Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings.	10
22	196	Then, to my horror, I saw the wings miss their beat and the bird screamed in pain, and began to turn in the air, Mip spinning with the bird, trying to control it.	10
22	197	Menicius of Port Kar streaked past and as he did so his right hand flew forward and I saw Mip suddenly lose the reins of the tarn and clutch spasmodically at his back, as though trying to reach something.	10
22	479	Trying to block in the wrong position he nearly hit the top of the edged ring and the startled bird was carried far out of the ring track and had to wheel to reenter the track.	10
22	554	Again the tarn cut through and two of the tarnsmen were screaming, trying to shield themselves from the weighted straps, flying about them; the weights in the Tuchuk bola can crush a skull, the leather can strangle.	10

Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	50	The warriors in the craft, climbing on the rowing benches, were crowded amidships and aft, even on the tiller deck, looking back at the barge line behind them, trying to make out the shouting, the confusion.	10
8	51	Some of the slaves, chained at their benches, were trying to stand and see what might be the matter.	10
8	133	I heard more cries of pain, the screams of terrified slaves trying to crawl beneath their benches.	10
8	263	"Please," she begged, trying to turn her head, "who is it?" I did not answer her, but turned, and left the foredeck, walking back along the gangway between the rowers' benches.	10
9	422	And she danced superbly for me, every fiber of her beautiful body straining to please me, her eyes, each instant, pleading, trying to read in mine her fate.	10
11	50	No more men were trying to climb the wood of the barricade.	10
11	74	They were trying to urge men into the streets to support them.	10
12	45	The mouth kept reaching for me, head turned to the side, trying for the throat.	10
14	189	We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri...	10
14	190	We heard trumpets blaring behind us frantically, trying to warn the ship ahead of us.	10
15	404	She writhed and cried out, trying to force the thongs from her body, but could not do so.	10
17	365	In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros.	10
18	180	She was trying to tell me that there were men about, to attack me.	10
18	544	Vina, with a shield, whose weight she could hardly bear, was trying to cover the boy, Fish, as he fought.	10
18	617	And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an...	10
18	645	We saw the two ships, the Venna and her sister ship, the Tela, knife into the courtyard and swing about, their bowmen firing on the men running on the promenade and trying to escape about the edges of the courtyard.	10

Book 7. (23 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	6	I locked my fingers in the band at my throat, trying to tear it from my neck.	10
2	138	I moved my feet, the tiny bit I dared, trying to reach for the railing on the waist-high wall of the terrace below.	10
7	242	I could not tell her I was sorry that I had shirked in the harness, trying to let others work for me.	10
8	726	We stumbled back, terrified and screaming, trying to flee, but impeding one another.	10
8	774	I pressed against the bars putting my hands through, trying to touch him.	10
8	799	I always became confused, trying to copy the intricate patterns.	10
8	1049	I struggled, terrified, trying to pull away.	10
10	103	I rubbed my wrists and moved my fingers, trying to restore their circulation.	10
10	518	It pulled against the chain and collar, trying to reach me.	10
10	626	The man, as though brought to his senses by the maddened cry of the beast, picked up the slave whip and ran to the window, striking the sleen, trying to drive it back through the window.	10
11	61	She was trying not to cry.	10
11	121	She had her arms about her shoulders, trying to soothe her.	10
11	821	I laughed, and laughed, and then, crouching, hid in some brush, trying to protect myself from the rain.	10
11	1134	I thought of them, dressing for men, trying to please them, though not much caring for them, to advance themselves in powers and luxuries, using their bodies and minds, their smiles, and glances and words, and touches, clumsily perhaps, not having been trained, to obtain their desires of foolish, st...	10
12	203	I wept, trying to pull her hands from my hair.	10
13	412	She was trying, with a pointed stick, to round a pit in a new board for a new fire drill.	10
13	481	Ute and I had been desperately trying to reach them, I would tell them, only we had fallen in with slavers and, unfortunately, only I had escaped.	10
13	854	My captor was trying to close with him, to bring him within the range of his own steel, his now-drawn, swift, unadorned blade.	10
13	858	My captor then wheeled away, the other, his blade now drawn, trying to press close.	10
13	1108	It was amusing to stare them down, coldly, when I caught them trying to sneak a sly glance at what I had, of course, deliberately displayed with the obvious intent of arousing and troubling them.	10
14	425	The roving tarnsman, with his leather loops at the side of his saddle, thinking of trying "chain luck," the scrutinizing slaver, with his capture loops and notebooks, engaged in the commerce of women, may surely better assess a half-naked quarry.	10
15	1171	"Your ears are pierced," he said, shaking his head, trying to clear his vision.	10
15	1305	It was as though my body would, in its own right, speak to him, as though it were trying, on some level I could not comprehend, to communicate with him.	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	233	"At the time I was captured," said he, looking again at Samos, "I was trying chain luck".	10
1	243	The man cried out with rage, trying to struggle to his feet, fighting his chains.	10
2	412	"I think I might enjoy trying you," she said.	10
3	113	I could not place what I was trying to recall, if anything.	10
8	232	Trying to clear my vision, I felt, suddenly, the sharp jab of one spear, and then another.	10
8	266	I reached down, seizing one with both hands, trying to pull it up.	10
11	398	He was moving pieces, trying combinations, lines and permutations.	10
15	4	Her hands were outstretched, trying to force away the branches that impeded her progress, striking at her face and eyes.	10
15	855	She jerked, trying to free her wrists.	10
17	138	One of the panther girls was on her feet, wild, hysterically trying to force the slave bracelet from her left wrist.	10
18	263	Weeping, the two girls sprang to their feet and ran to the edge of the forest and, trying not to enter into its shadows, rapidly, weeping, began to break branches and gather wood.	10

Book 9. (21 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	530	She cried out, trying to pull back, but could not, and then, her eyes closed, whimpering, she thrust forward, writhing and then, sobbing, held herself immobile, teeth gritted, eyes screwed shut, trying not to feel.	10
3	35	I saw, twenty feet from me, screaming, the giant, he of incredible stature, striking down at the kneeling people, who were crying out and trying to crawl away.	10
6	361	She was trying to learn how to please a man.	10
6	414	Among them, too, some trying to resist, were the new girls.	10
6	416	Released, she began to kiss him, weeping, trying to please him.	10
6	530	She was kicking and laughing, trying to push back from her body the pressing jackets of fur of the men of Torvaldsland.	10
6	532	I saw her white body, briefly, trying to crawl away, but he who had thrown her upon the furs seized her ankle and drew her to him.	10
9	410	She followed eagerly, trying to press her lips to my left shoulder.	10
10	279	"These I give to you, Champion," said the boy, trying to push into my hands the three tarn disks of silver.	10
10	494	Some extended their bodies to him; some turned, to display themselves, provocatively; for he was obviously a desirable master; but others affected not to notice him; though I noticed that their bodies were held beautifully as he passed, particularly should he pause to regard them; other girls, perha...	10
12	97	I assumed he was trying to think of ways to strengthen the Blue Tooth's oath.	10
14	33	He was trying to thrust Hilda, held by the arm, toward one of the side rooms, between killing Kurii.	10
14	38	Four men, trying to back away, but held as though against a wall by the throng, were cut down.	10
14	82	Turning I saw Svein Blue Tooth and four others, trying to splinter their way from the hall.	10
14	92	On her back, then on her side, then on her stomach, rolling and squirming, eyes wild, her fingers hooked inside the collar, trying to keep it from choking her, was dragged the bondmaid.	10
14	100	"Let us use our axes!" Trying to draw back from the Kurii, approaching slowly, great, bloody axes ready, terrified men pushed back, further and further.	10
14	153	I managed, as the Kur was twisting his ax, trying to free it of the body, to drive my blade through its neck, under the right ear.	10
17	196	We saw her fleeing before them, trying to escape the swift, terrible jaws.	10
18	32	Once I saw Thorgard of Scagnar and Ivar Forkbeard trying to reach him.	10
21	25	No longer would she, in her free woman's scorn, shower contempt on bondmaids, trying to make them ashamed of their beauty.	10
22	262	I pondered trying chain luck in Ar.	10

Book 10. (27 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
1	857	She who had once been Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen, a free Earth girl prior to her enslavement, struggled to her feet, her eyes wide with horror, trying to struggle backward, but the guards' hands on her arms, she now only a nameless slave, for her master had not yet given her a name, held her in plac...	10
3	5	With the light rein I pulled my kaiila to the left as we passed, and the man, trying to reach me, was, startled, off balance.	10
4	262	She was trying to retain an island in which she would be her own mistress.	10
5	115	She stood with her back against the tree, angry, trying to reach the knots behind her.	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
5	120	Too, as she soon realized, her struggles on her knees, trying to reach behind her, were every bit as fetching as those had been when she had been standing.	10
7	312	I would have expected such work to be done by nude female slaves, in work collar, chain and ankle ring, to keep them on their knees with their brushes, but it had not been; one of the administrative penalties of he who is sent to the brine pits of Klima is commonly to be deprived of the sight of fem...	10
11	289	The Tashid commander of the time, Ba'Arub, died on the shelf of red stone, with ten men, trying to reach Hammaran.	10
11	657	They turned about, crouching, by the wall, trying to cover themselves.	10
12	567	She shook her head, trying to rid herself of the beads.	10
12	612	I noted one silken fellow, him with the ruby necklace, trying furtively to slip about the side of the room to the door.	10
12	651	She lifted her head, trying to put her gagged mouth against me.	10
12	658	The girl was trying to put her leg against me, reaching for me.	10
13	231	We shook our heads, trying to clear the wines from them.	10
14	194	Thus, even if they thought they might live for a time in the desert, in trying to flee, they would have little idea of even the direction to take in their flight.	10
14	601	This time, the man, stumbling, trying to turn away, had been struck on the left arm, high, just below the shoulder.	10
17	149	A man may starve trying to feed on the illusion of nourishment.	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
19	174	We crouched down, trying to keep our balance, the ditch between us and the standing beast.	10
21	332	I stood unsteadily then, at his side, in the wind and darkness, my feet in the sand, trying to remain upright.	10
24	864	"No!" she wept, rising to her feet, trying to turn and run.	10
24	1033	She did not even bother trying the leather.	10
25	243	I met her blade, high, forcing it down; she slipped to one knee, looking up, trying to keep the blade away; she wept; she had no leverage, her strength was gone; I thrust her back, and she fell on her back before me on the tiles; my left boot, heavy, was on her right wrist; the small hand opened and...	10
25	524	She turned, trying to pound at the metal that held her.	10
26	74	She turned away, trying to hide her face.	10
26	679	She turned her head again, desperately, trying to look at me.	10

Book 11. (21 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	607	I must resist him! He is a beast! I was sitting now, my face turned to one side, trying to push back, but his left arm, behind my back, held me.	10
3	168	One night when I had laid near him, bound hand and foot, I had literally whimpered in my need, trying to put my head against him.	10
4	455	I shook my body, trying to throw the bells from me.	10
4	834	It was as though I were trying to understand myself, my deepest emotions and needs.	10
4	908	Only too obviously had I been trying to escape.	10
4	928	It had been obvious I had been trying to escape.	10
7	1232	I lay in the darkness, in his arms, trying not to move.	10
9	1062	"She is trying to be pleasing," said Melina.	10
9	1779	The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight.	10
12	541	I stopped once again, trying to twist the slave bells, one by one, from the five-linked anklet which I wore, with its twenty bells.	10
15	67	"When I saw you in classes, in the cafeteria, in the library, walking on campus, attending functions, dating, laughing, applauding, lying beside the pool, posing for the boys, cute, pretty, trying to pretend to be more beautiful than I, I saw you as what you truly were and deserved to be, and would ...	10
15	221	I screamed and clutched at him, eyes closed, clawing at him, trying to bring our bodies closer.	10
16	61	"I was bitten!" I twisted on the wood, trying to see him.	10
16	97	"I will be silent! I will be silent!" I turned my head wildly, trying to look back.	10
16	125	Bit by bit, flake by flake, dampened, struggling, trying not to choke, I swallowed the crusts with which my mouth had been crammed.	10
22	569	I began to scream with misery trying to hold the mast.	10
26	115	"No!" she cried, frightened, trying to cover herself.	10
26	751	I saw her eyes, wild, trying to retain the image of the Earth girl.	10
27	294	"Come, Slave Beauty!" he cried and, bending me over, my hands trying to grasp his wrist, ran me, stumbling, to the nearest alcove.	10
27	350	Is the woman trying to be a man? But she is not a man.	10
27	366	But I am sure he was trying, in one way or another, to counter, reduce or diminish my appeal to him, which was apparently excruciating.	10

Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	129	Still she kissed me, but now frightened, trying to placate me.	10
2	140	It would be like trying to write down the noises of animals.	10
2	465	"The conflict, the struggle, even if it should issue in the triumph of the leveled herd, each smiling and trying to be the same as the other, will yet have been ours, and cannot be taken from us".	10
2	748	I wondered if she seized the bars of her cage, pressing her face against them, trying to understand what had happened to her.	10
6	573	In the distance I could see the four guardsmen, moving swiftly, trying to catch up with the girl who had broken away from them in the rash vanity of her hunt, desiring to be first upon the prize.	10
11	195	Weeping they fled to the cook shack, trying with their small hands to adjust their garments so that they would reveal less of their beauty.	10
13	32	We were trying to move close to a large bull tabuk.	10
13	39	We had been on our bellies for more than an Ahn trying to approach the animals.	10
15	137	They did not yet understand how a woman screaming in a cell might break her body against the bars trying to touch a guard.	10
15	445	"What is it that you are trying to say?" I asked.	10
23	46	Several were on the meat racks, in the moonlight, trying to see out across the snow.	10
23	88	The man was trying to thrust it away with a lance.	10
26	343	Two or three scrambled literally onto the backs of the feeders, trying to push down between them.	10
30	272	They were agonized, trying to breathe.	10
30	288	The man had the tubular weapon now, and was trying to steady it.	10
30	300	I shook my head, trying to clear it.	10
35	822	The girl, turning about, shrank suddenly back, desperately, futilely, trying to free her small hands, tied behind her back, and stifled a scream.	10
36	290	Outside Imnak was trying to organize a search of the complex.	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	449	Then she looked boldly up at me, brazenly, trying to pretend to be bored and casual.	10
13	303	"Yes! Yes!" She struggled, wildly, rearing up a little, as she could, trying to rise, shaking the chains, pulling at them.	10
13	443	Then, suddenly, she tore at the chains, trying to free herself, but could not, of course, do so.	10
15	293	I struggled, trying to free myself of the four men who held me.	10
27	253	She strained at the tether, trying to reach me.	10
29	32	When the blond-haired barbarian stumbled into the web, screaming, trying to tear it away from her face and hair, the spider did not even reveal itself.	10
32	2	The girls cried out in anguish, slipping, trying to keep the canoe from falling.	10
32	731	"Struggling, trying to pull back, fighting the wrist leashes, screaming, inch by inch," she said, "I was drawn toward the pool.	10
34	306	"The trick is to make a charge so obviously false or hopelessly vague that your interlocutor, who is usually concerned to be polite and congenial, makes a fool of himself trying to treat it seriously.	10
48	274	She struggled to her feet and, trying to keep her footing, slipping, waded splashing, wildly, her hands braceleted behind her, to the side of the canoe.	10
48	275	And so, too, in fearful desperation, too trying to maintain her footing, her hands braceleted, too, behind her, fearfully, tearfully, supplicatingly sought the canoe her fellow slave, the terrified, distraught dark-haired girl.	10

Book 14. (18 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	721	Twice more, brutally, he struck me, as I stumbled backward, and then I had seized him, holding him, trying to clear my head, trying not to let him gain again the leverage to strike such telling blows.	10
4	52	Earth, with its frigid, competitive, frustrated females, trying to be men, has not even prepared one for the understanding that such fantastic, owned beauties could exist.	10
4	240	These range from the praising of an idiotic celibacy in the interests of a presumably nonexistent spirit to the genres of dirty jokes and stories, in which a vengeance is taken on the thwarted sexuality by trying to make it appear small and dirty.	10
4	264	"You are then," I said, "trying to make me fear my sexual feelings that I will suppress them, and with them my manhood".	10
7	424	Thus I was not accustomed to truly looking upon women, truly seeing them and trying to understand them.	10
7	643	How could she have understood me, she a Gorean girl, collared, whom strong men had long ago taught her womanhood? Did she not know that I, because of my fears, was trying to make her like a man? Could she not, like many of the women of Earth, because of her own fears, try, too, to be like a man? Eac...	10
7	644	The wholeness is not achieved, the puzzle is not solved, by trying to put together pieces of the same configuration.	10
7	660	"I am not trying to be cruel to you," I said.	10
7	661	"I am trying to be kind to you".	10
7	999	But if a woman should kneel before me and beg a collar would I not be terrified to enclose her lovely neck in its inflexible grasp? Would I not be afraid to own her, to assume the mighty responsibility of the mastery? Did I have the power, the strength, the courage, to be a master? Did I fear I woul...	10
12	14	"It is their way of trying to be men, according to the quaint modalities of his strange world".	10
13	101	She is probably in Ar trying to negotiate a loan, or sell the house in Venna, if indeed she still owns it.	10
18	183	Stammering and cringing, he was trying to satisfy her.	10
20	111	I pressed through people, slave and free, who pressed about me, congratulating me, many trying to touch me, even free persons.	10
20	113	Some fell to their knees as I passed, trying to seize my legs, and kiss at my thighs and ankles as I passed.	10
22	258	"Do you dare to obstruct a blow of the whip!" cried the Lady Florence to the girl who lay now terrified and supine, in pain, wild, her hands trying to fend the leather away, at her feet.	10
23	136	"Oh, no! No! Please! No! Oh, oh!" * * * * Taphris lay weeping in my arms, trying to kiss me in the darkness.	10
25	194	He grunted savagely trying to hurl me off balance into the palings.	10

Book 15. (12 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	120	She had gone about her business, and studies, and such, on Earth, trying so seriously to conform to political and social pressures, fearing not to, being anxious to dress as required, to think as required, to feel as required, trying fearfully to please others who regarded her softness and femininit...	10
4	210	"One must make do in trying circumstances," she said, "with what there is".	10
4	492	They are regarded as game, much as tabuk or wild verr might count as game, only in this instance as "slave game," and the men of one city, particularly those of the caste of warriors, often delight in the pleasure of "woman hunt," trying, as it is said, their "chain luck".	10
10	433	"It has been a trying day for me," she said.	10
19	5	"Stop him!" cried the portly fellow, stumbling, puffing, trying to pursue the running man.	10
23	371	"She is trying hard to improve her skills," he said.	10
24	531	She rose, terrified, to her knees, and then to her feet, trying to escape.	10
24	540	Sputtering, half blinded by the water, gasping, she wept, "Please, Master, forgive me! I did not mean to displease you!" I then flung her on her back in the water and, she struggling, gasping, trying to keep her head above water, again had her.	10
24	669	"Buy Beverly, please!" I have also seen girls attempt to influence their sales in public auctions, while being exhibited naked on the block, trying to present themselves particularly to a given man, but this disposition is usually curbed by the auctioneer's whip.	10
29	266	In a moment I rose to the surface, gasping, trying to see.	10
32	10	If he would have handled them with adequate skills I had little doubt that each, indeed, would have striven desperately to outdo the other, each trying to be the favorite.	10
33	41	"He is now east on the river, trying to raise support for our cause," I said.	10

Book 16. (27 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	108	We struck down with an oar, driving back a man trying to reach into the boat.	10
4	107	The first galley, isolated behind our lines, was trying to swing to the southeast, to avoid the chain and find the open water to the east.	10
4	151	The lead ship of the wedge was trying to come about, swinging to starboard.	10
4	204	Dozens of ships, trying to come about, maneuvering, milling, struck by other ships, had been trapped against the chain.	10
5	8	Men on the Tina, using loose oars as levers, were trying to pry the ships apart.	10
9	311	"While we have been hard at work, moving the Tuka, it seems you have been trying chain luck".	10
12	123	The fellow who wore the mask, then, shouting, waving his sword, distraught, began to leap from ship to ship, trying to make his way toward the gate.	10
16	69	Some ran past me and apparently leaped to oars, trying to hold them and use them to clamber aboard.	10
16	80	"You have not heard the last of us! We are coming back, you sleen! We are coming back!" Then the stern of the ship struck against another pirate galley, trying to extricate itself from the press of ships.	10
16	97	The flagship of Policrates seemed jammed among the ships, each trying to escape.	10
16	118	I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abrade them against the back of the blade.	10
16	290	Sputtering, lifting my head, spitting water, trying to clear my eyes, I saw another shape approaching.	10
16	320	I saw the attacking vessel moving backward, trying to maneuver.	10
17	18	Such girls, now, as it was late, past the nineteenth Ahn, would surely, at least for the most part, be chained in their basement kennels, lying on their straw mats, trying to sleep, clutching their thin blankets about their nude bodies.	10
17	60	It seemed then that I looked at the leashed girl intently, as though trying to place her, at the distance, in the light, and then I reacted, as though I might then have placed her, or feared that I might have placed her, feared, dismayed, that I might have recognized who she might be.	10
17	263	How tight, inhibited, and unhappy she had seemed there, in her politically prescribed pseudo-male attire; was that truly her world; did she not, truly, belong elsewhere, somewhere, say, in silk and a collar; how desperate she had been to subscribe to opinions imperiously imposed upon her by others; ...	10
18	1	The Gag and Hood The small, exquisite, dark-haired slave, naked, knelt on the tiles before the large mirror, trembling, trying to apply, with the tiny brush, the bluish eye shadow.	10
19	584	She regarded me, trying to read me.	10
19	594	How desperate she seemed to be, trying to understand me, the man before whom she knelt.	10
19	742	She writhed, and screamed, and twisted, and turned beneath the whip, from her belly to her back, and to her sides, and to her back, and to her sides again, and back, trying to fend the blows.	10
20	596	More than one free woman has been taken trying to free herself from such platforms, or has been tripped by them, or slowed, perhaps dragging one, absurdly enough, behind her, still attached to an ankle.	10
20	732	Too, she shuddered, trying to cover her nakedness with her hands.	10
20	1554	I felt them trying, straining, to move apart, but they could not do so.	10
20	1570	They set an example for others, of course, of the foolishness of trying to flee the collar.	10
20	2082	"I am helpless, you know," she said, trying to pull her wrists apart.	10
20	2177	"But I am chained!" she cried, trying, futilely, to pull her wrists apart.	10
21	12	"I cannot slip it," she had said, trying to force the collar from her.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	822	"I think," I said, "in spite of other possible considerations and advantages which might have been involved in her behavior and attitudes, she was trying to be kind to you, trying to make it clear to you what you were, trying to encourage you to be true to your own nature".	10
1	31	I, sitting up, looked down at her, trying to cover herself from the sight of Thurnock.	10
1	535	"It is trying to imitate a human smile".	10
3	2	"I am trying to locate the whereabouts of a trader, one called Grunt," I said.	10
3	50	She has had, of course, other sorts of slave responses and behaviors before this, such things as squirmings, strugglings, cringings, pain and fear, and behavioral presentations and pleadings, making herself pretty and holding herself in certain ways, presenting herself as a helpless, desirable femal...	10
8	538	The tavern girls seized my arms, trying to make themselves small, behind me.	10
8	582	In their way, given my lack of knowledge in these matters, they had been trying to take advantage of me.	10
13	338	"Your aunt was then, perhaps, trying to convey to you that your most congenial and appropriate destiny, what might be best for you, what might be most natural for you, would be for you to find yourself naked in the arms of a man".	10
14	316	Was Grunt trying to hide her? I saw leather thongs put on the necks of Ulla and Lenna, the beaded collars thrust up to admit them.	10

Book 18. (16 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	74	She is now, in compensation, unwilling to accept these startling, alarming insights, trying to restore her former self-image, trying to be pronouncedly defiant".	10
12	151	I had thought that I had seen the particular animal I sought, shapely and blond, trying to hide itself in the herd.	10
14	411	"They may be only trying to fulfill the stereotypes of their culture".	10
20	23	You are trying to make me look foolish".	10
22	12	"It is safer in such an exchange," I said, "to strike from the outside, fending his lance away, trying to make your strike above and across it".	10
25	116	Indeed, in my opinion, Hci was, at least in his own mind, trying to be courteous and helpful.	10
39	261	"He is perhaps trying to conceal that the tarn is not wild," said Cuwignaka.	10
40	69	"Get out of here! There is no place for such as you here! Get out! You are an animal! Go graze with the verr! Go swill with the tarsk! Get out! Get out!" Mira, frightened, trying to cover her head, looked to me.	10
40	714	She looked up at him, shuddering, tormented by conflicting emotions, tears staining her cheeks, gratitude warring with terror in her eyes—trembling, trying to read her fate in his eyes—looked up at him, from her knees, naked, helpless, fearing, bound, she now a claimed slave, he now he...	10
43	186	Bloketu made piteous, tiny noises, trying to attract the attention of Cuwignaka.	10
43	254	Iwoso, then, began to whimper timidly, piteously, trying to attract my attention.	10
43	395	Some men and women, too, stood near the nearby lodges, as though trying to grasp what might be taking place.	10
44	457	Still more Yellow Knives, not clear on what was ahead, were trying to force their way upward on the narrow trail.	10
44	463	Men trying to crawl among the paws of the milling, frenzied beasts were trampled.	10
44	464	Some riders near the barricade, halted in their charge, seeing the impossibility of advance under the current conditions, were trying to back their beasts from the barricade.	10
46	73	She is now trying to fight them.	10

Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	324	Needless to say some profiteering occasionally takes place in connection with the ostraka, a fellow buying a few for a given price and then trying to sell them for higher prices later outside, say, the stadium or theater.	10
6	744	"That might be interesting," I said, as though considering it, trying to keep the excitement out of my voice.	10
7	35	I tugged it down, at the hem, at the sides, trying to make it cover more of my thighs.	10
8	298	There, kneeling on straw, trying to pull towards us, her wrists tied behind her back to a ring set in the wall, was a blond girl.	10
14	72	He, then, with a variety of keys and picks, and small tools, swiftly, expertly, trying one thing and then another, addressed himself to the upper lock.	10
24	59	I recoiled, wildly, frightened, trying to cover myself.	10
29	12	I then rose to my feet, trying to compose myself.	10
29	230	"Yes, Master," I gasped, trying not to feel.	10
30	486	It seemed she was trying to press herself down into the flagstones.	10
31	734	I shook my head, helplessly, trying to deny his accusation.	10
32	198	"It is that of a slave!" "Yes, Master," she wept, trying to crouch down and cover her breasts with her hands.	10
35	61	Susan, I suspected, knowing my feelings for Drusus Rencius, was trying to be kind, giving me the liqueur that he was almost certain to choose.	10
36	591	I shrank down in the ropes, trying to make myself appear smaller.	10
36	784	"I am tired of trying to fool you," I said.	10
36	916	"I love you! I love you! I love you!" I cried, jerking in his hands, pressing against him, trying to cover him with kisses.	10

Book 20. (23 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1548	And then, in a few moments, she was trying to move her body beneath my mouth, trying to bring me to other positions on her body.	10
1	460	"She is trying," I said.	10
1	466	"She is trying desperately to please," I said.	10
1	525	She is trying to please.	10
5	115	"What are you doing?" she asked, trying to draw back.	10
5	337	She moved her head to the side, trying to free her face of hair.	10
6	156	It would be like trying to get along without a comic merchant, a Brigella, a Bina, a Lecchio or a Chino.	10
6	258	The Brigella anxiously surveyed the crowd, trying to guess who it might be who had expressed interest in her.	10
6	515	"Oh!" she cried in horror, cringing and half crouching down, trying to cover herself as well as she could, in maidenly distress.	10
6	712	"Perhaps you are merely trying to save yourself from sleen," he mused.	10
6	763	"Forgive me, Lady," said Boots, trying not to laugh.	10
6	777	"I must soon be on my way," said Boots to the Brigella, chuckling, trying to return to the play.	10
6	809	"You are trying to frighten me," she said.	10
7	288	Boots was now trying to make do with his Chino and Lecchio, two other fellows, his Bina and his new "golden courtesan".	10
10	346	The Lady Yanina was not a foolish, panic-stricken Earth girl, new to bondage, its possibility scarcely having earlier entered her ken, frenziedly, absurdly trying to remove fetters from her body, but a Gorean woman.	10
10	862	It is amusing to sense a slave trying to ferret out information, indirectly, with seemingly irrelevant remarks or observations, or such.	10
12	14	"Are you trying to put me off my game?" he inquired.	10
13	43	For example, it has saved us the problem of trying to conceal the tharlarion, the presence of which might have aroused your suspicions".	10
14	342	Other urts pressed forward, many of them squealing and trying to clamber over their fellows, in order to reach what was now left of Nim Nim.	10
16	1086	He was then no longer interested in trying to please her.	10
16	1158	The purpose of the neck ropes, stretched from holes drilled near the top of the vat, is to hold the victim, whose hands are usually bound behind him, in place, preventing him not only from attempting to leave the vat but also from trying to drown himself.	10
18	346	I saw a man screaming, trying to put out flames at the foot of his robe.	10
21	392	She lay near me, shuddering, trying to comprehend what had been done to her.	10

Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	372	She was trying to find herself, I think, trying to ascertain her own identity.	10
1	63	"I am tired of trying to be like a man!" she said.	10
3	32	Then, amusing himself, the driver tossed some bits of bread into the air and watched the desperate, anxious women crowd and bunch under it, pushing and shoving for position, and trying to leap upward, thrusting at one another, to snatch at it.	10
3	122	Feiqa, on her rope, moving, shrank small before her, trying to cover her face and body.	10
4	433	Not identifying with the women, or being accepted by them, and perhaps coming to bitterly envy the men, their position and status, their nature and power, it seemed she may have turned toward trying to prove herself the same as them, turning then to mannish customs and garb, attempting thusly, despe...	10
11	161	"I am trying to breathe," I told him.	10
11	335	Perhaps she was trying, even now, in her depth of her femininity, to understand what had been done to her, to come to grips with her feelings, with those sensations which men had seen fit to induce in her.	10
13	269	"There is little point in trying to hide in the city," said Mincon.	10
15	695	"You are trying to buy Ar time," I said.	10
16	134	It is not like having a foolish free companion, one who knows no better, who will patiently work with you for years, trying to help you become a woman".	10
16	155	"I am trying to tell you an end to lies".	10
16	849	"We are not talking here about weaklings who call themselves 'true men,' trying to disguise their weakness under false titles, but true men".	10
23	100	"He was just trying to get your place".	10
25	481	"She is trying to influence my choice by extraneous considerations," I said.	10
25	672	She knelt there, as though trying to come to grips with what had been done to her, with what had occurred within her.	10
25	1008	To be sure, here and there, on Earth, I supposed, there must be men who saw through these educational traps and nets, these political endeavors and artifices, men who understood what their enemies were trying to do to them, and simply did not accept it.	10
25	1253	"They are just trying to frighten us".	10
25	1864	But of course, even if she should manage this, trying desperately, determinedly and elatedly, with wild hopes, to free herself, she would discover shortly, at least in this case, this discovery dashing these wild, absurd hopes, mocking all her efforts, and plunging her into despair, the fiber's ster...	10
26	278	Then they seemed, both, to fall to the side, and then, it seemed, one was trying to move away, crawling.	10
26	336	She whimpered, perhaps trying to call attention to her desire to speak.	10
26	533	"You see," I said, putting my hand on her thigh, she trying to pull back, "this is not really much of a punishment.	10
26	735	Her eyes seemed filled with disbelief, as though she might be trying to understand what had been done to her.	10
26	1019	It did amuse me to think of her trying to make her way back to wherever she lived, probably a good way from here, as she seemed an educated, refined, perhaps affluent woman.	10
26	1972	She spun about, wildly, trying to free her hands.	10
27	96	It was almost like trying to hold a small sleen.	10

Book 22. (26 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	38	I should have rejoiced, I suppose, that he had gone his way, he who was so fierce and had hated me so keenly, doubtless never to lay eyes on me again, content doubtless now to merely ponder, upon occasion, with amusement, the fate to which he had consigned me, but, to be honest, I would not have min...	10
11	470	In a moment or two, as Mirus solicited further interest among the customers, I heard the sounds of the instruments, the czehar and kalikas being tuned, the flautist trying passages, the drummer's fingers light on the taut skin of his instrument, the kaska, then adjusting it, then trying it again, th...	10
3	324	I held them with both hands, trying to keep my ankle absolutely still.	10
4	372	I looked at him, trying to understand what was being said to me.	10
5	97	A week ago I had, not because I wanted to starve, or die, as some of the Earth girls in my group had proclaimed hysterically in their own cases, and not even because I was trying to be difficult, really, I had refused to eat.	10
5	100	Too, I think I was trying to find out the limitations within which I was functioning, what I might be able to do, and might not be able to do.	10
5	103	I was trying to find out where the fences were, the location of the walls.	10
6	92	I was trying to stand well.	10
6	322	Perhaps she hated men and it was thus an insidious, half-understood way of attacking them, by attempting to spoil and ruin us, by trying to make us inert and like herself.	10
6	324	At any rate there seemed no objective justification for her trying to make us like her.	10
6	536	I lay there, hooded, a new slave, trying to understand, down in my belly, what it was, truly, to be a property.	10
6	642	A popular sport with young men is trying "chain luck".	10
11	1512	A girl is seldom punished for trying to be pleasing, at least at first.	10
11	1599	I lay there, trying to cope with my feelings.	10
11	1630	I still had no clear understanding as to how it was that a girl could bruise herself against the bars of her cage, trying to touch a guard, or crawl naked on her belly to a hated master, if only to feel the blow of his hand or foot.	10
13	810	I was trying, wildly, to recollect that feeling, that hint of feeling, which I had just felt.	10
13	964	I would obey with perfection, trying to please them! "What is it that you would wish to have again?" he asked.	10
23	147	They are looking forward to trying you out".	10
24	632	If I had been aware of it, dimly and far off, I think I must, in my frustration and joy, trying to reach them, and yet helpless in their hands, have accepted it willingly.	10
25	241	I wondered if she were trying to get even with me, for the time I had had her iron the tunics? But I had paid her back for that later, surely, when I, too, had done them all! I liked Tela, and she had been very kind to me, even though I think she liked Aulus, and might have preferred to be the only ...	10
26	126	That is cheaper than going about, trying to replace these fellows in other ways.	10
27	31	I strained forward, trying to kiss at his legs, but the chain on my wrists, pulling against the back of the post, held me back.	10
29	890	She was trying to untie them.	10
29	946	I thought it might want to break Borko's neck, but then I realized it was only trying to expose the throat.	10
31	217	I moved as beautifully as I could, and as though in fear before him, trying to please him, begging to placate him.	10
31	232	Then, bit by bit, sometimes on my knees, sometimes as though I had tried to rise, and had then again been thrust to my knees, sometimes on all fours, sometimes as though trying to rise to my knees, and being forced again to all fours, I made my way to Mirus.	10

Book 23. (47 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	495	In that sense, paradoxically, it is further evidence of her slavery that she, the slave, eager to please, and trying to fulfill the expectations of others, will even, at least for a time, try to deny her own nature, ultimately unsuccessfully, of course, as is witnessed by her frustration and unhappi...	10
5	83	Did they hope, in their light-hearted banter and glances, in their pretended indifference and nonchalance, in the seemingly meaningless froth of the evening, that a man would look upon them, and understand what they were trying to tell him, though perhaps they were only partially aware of it themsel...	10
5	394	Trying it, with one spoonful or another, from one vial or pot, or another, I seasoned it to my taste.	10
5	680	"She is trying now to interest him, to be pleasing, to entice him.	10
6	55	"Forgive me, Lady," I whispered, "I am trying to reach my space".	10
6	71	Her small hands were futile, trying to pull my hand from her mouth.	10
6	73	"I am only trying to get to my place".	10
6	91	"There are folks here who are trying to sleep".	10
6	144	"People are trying to sleep".	10
6	231	"Yes," she said, angrily, trying to hold herself still, her hands behind her, tied.	10
6	239	"It is on me," she said, seething, trying to hold herself still.	10
6	448	She writhed briefly, trying to reach back, but could not escape.	10
6	644	"Nothing, of course!" said the fellow, trying to get his breath.	10
8	517	I wondered what she might look like, naked and in chains, or writhing at my feet, trying to interest me.	10
8	541	Yes, she would, I thought, considering the matter carefully, look well in chains, or writhing at my feet, trying to interest me.	10
8	589	"He has probably not paid his bills, and is trying to escape," speculated the attendant.	10
8	597	"He seems to be trying to come in this direction," said the attendant.	10
8	599	If the fellow was really trying to escape without paying his bills, and this was a peculiar direction for him to be coming if that was the case, then I could hardly blame him.	10
8	920	I then began to caress her, she before me, weeping, trying to resist, captive and servant, clinging to the pommel.	10
8	943	"Master! Master!" I then held her still, trying to calm her for a time.	10
9	94	It is sometimes very trying, though also perhaps very instructive, for a new slave, perhaps a woman of a conquered city, to be marched thusly through the streets, stung with pebbles, pinched and slapped, subjected to the most intimate forms of raillery, jocosity and abuse.	10
9	139	I had also considered trying to enter the city through its main gate, in the confusion, when it opened for sorties by the defenders.	10
11	94	Gorean masters, incidentally, seldom strike a slave; they are prepared to do so, of course, and this the slave knows; thus she tries to be pleasing; few Gorean masters will punish a girl who is honestly trying to be pleasing; there would simply be no point to it.	10
11	97	Accordingly, few masters would strike a girl who is sincerely trying to please him.	10
12	269	"You are lying! You are trying to save yourself! You, too, are a spy!" "Perhaps," I said.	10
13	65	If they did, perhaps they would have been at the door, trying to force it open.	10
15	750	"The spear, as I understand it," I said, trying to recall the words of our warder earlier to Lady Claudia, "is a solid piece of polished metal, very long, and less than a hort in width.	10
15	816	Lady Publia struggled wildly, trying to pull her head up, against the thick collar and heavy strap.	10
15	836	"Sometimes they wriggle well," he said, "perhaps because they are afraid, or because they think they can get off the spear somehow, or because they are trying to end it.	10
16	332	Then hold yourself tense, trying not to move".	10
17	57	At the bridge of the huntsmen loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge.	10
17	141	Cosians were trying to run planks out from the tower, to span the crevice between the tower and wall.	10
17	179	One fellow was trying to climb past the nearest fellow on the ladder.	10
17	196	Below I heard yet another fellow trying to climb higher, and another.	10
17	236	Men were trying to hold it from below.	10
18	231	Some men below stood even on bodies trying to reach men above them on ropes.	10
18	270	Some fellows near the wall urged the women and children to stream behind these, trying to reach the piers.	10
19	5	Other boats trying to flank our position, for using their crossbows, were met and turned back by those of Ar's Station.	10
19	223	He was trying to climb the piling, but slipped on it.	10
20	162	Surilius was shaking Aemilianus, trying to arouse him.	10
20	168	The other three Cosian ships were trying to make a landfall at the sides of the harbor.	10
20	170	The fellows at the rafts were trying to close the chains, to close the harbor.	10
20	393	She struggled to her feet, and then, obedient to the leash, and trying to hurry before the cruel incitements of the stick, she ascended the plank.	10
21	646	She held her head up, her neck in the closely fitting, now-visible collar, not trying to hide anything.	10
21	897	Then, suddenly, in a moment, as of panic, seemingly unable to help herself, she tried the chains, those on her wrists, trying to slip them from her wrists, then jerking at them, but they held her well.	10
23	156	"I thought you were trying to protect me, like a gentleman," she laughed.	10
24	558	She was trying to distract him from the suspended slaves.	10

Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1216	I did not think there was any point, under the circumstances, given my conversation with the fellow outside, and so on, in trying to keep it a secret that someone was within the tent.	10
2	57	She was trying to gain control over herself.	10
17	269	I did not plunge away indefinitely, but only for a few Ehn, trying even, as I could, to count paces, that I might have some idea of my distance from the column.	10
18	223	He had, I supposed, been trying to cut the string.	10
19	172	She twisted about, wildly, trying to see me.	10
19	650	I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound late...	10
19	806	In trying to reach me with these claws, of course, it lost aerial stability, and began to fall, twisting downward.	10
19	1232	I was gasping, trying to catch my breath.	10
19	1255	I am trying to make a point.	10
19	1724	"They would think me a liar, one trying to improve her condition or obtain favorable treatment".	10
27	16	Of course, if no one is about, and one will otherwise inevitably sink, it makes sense to attempt to free oneself, by wading, or, in effect, trying to swim free.	10
27	117	"Your greatest danger would be in trying to leave the delta," I said.	10
27	387	I thought with amusement of what it might be to see the former Lady Ina, then a slave, hurrying about on a stage, crying out, trying to evade, but never quite managing it, the paddles of a Chino or Lecchio.	10
27	741	I think she was still trying to cope with the feelings she had felt, with the insights she had obtained.	10
29	53	We had lost a shark once at this point, it thrashing about, twisting, trying to move back to the water.	10
32	29	I would scout out the edge of the delta, at night, trying to find an avenue of escape for myself, for Ina, and the others.	10

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	315	She, in keeping with her lingering Earth values, and fearing to become merely another slave girl on the world of Gor, had attempted to remain as cold and inert as possible, trying to distract herself with irrelevant thoughts, trying not to feel, trying not to respond.	10
17	43	The Gorean males, on the other hand, the monsters, tend to remain complacent, content to let these slaves compete with one another, each trying to outdo the other, each trying to see if it cannot be she who most pleases the master.	10
17	1229	"Tarns! This is a place of tarns!" She cried out in misery and, naked, hooded, wrists braceleted behind her, chained by the neck, scrambled to the far corner of the stall, bruising herself, and tried to burrow down in the straw, trembling, trying to hide there, trying not to move.	10
25	987	Ellen then knelt, facing the men, but with her head down, her knees closely together, trembling, her arms crossed before her, trying to cover herself as best she could, trying to conceal as much of the slave as possible.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	371	He shook his head, trying to restore his vision, trying to resist the saberlike afterimages which seemed to slide and glow, and emerge again and again, on the walls and surfaces of the world before him.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	69	It seemed I was struggling, futilely, trying to regain consciousness, trying to awaken, unsuccessfully, while the men conversed nearby, with low voices.	10