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Vessels

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	31	The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo...	10
21	56	While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the...	10
21	67	When there several Muls flanked him on either side, still singing, and holding their torches and carrying their vessels which now brimmed with a pale, milky substance, something like white, diluted honey.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	12	About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver from Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor.	10
9	70	On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities.	10

Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	490	Ho-Hak had been bred a slave, a degraded and distorted exotic, and had served even in the darkness of the stinking rowing holds of the cargo vessels of Port Kar, and yet, before me, he had shown himself a dozen times more man than me.	10
9	53	Other men, of those with Surbus, seized what paga girls they could, and what vessels of the beverage, and dragged their prizes toward the alcoves, sometimes driving out those who occupied them.	10
9	149	They usually possessed no vessels more noteworthy than clinker-built skiffs and coasters.	10
10	19	Both are predominantly oared vessels, but the round ship carries a heavier, permanent rigging, and supports more sail, being generally two-masted.	10
10	134	We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...	10
10	135	The following figures pertain to medium class or larger vessels: The five Ubars of Port Kar, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel, Sullius Maximus and Henrius Sevarius, control among themselves some four hundred ships.	10
14	6	The Dorna, like most other tarn ships, is single-banked; and yet her oar power is not inferior to even the trebly-banked vessels; how this is I shall soon note.	10
14	147	My vessels, as though in terror, were keeping no formation, but apparently scattering across the southeast.	10
14	202	And, of course, as soon as the enemy ships would turn back, they would be vulnerable to my own, presumably faster vessels.	10
14	283	At the treasure fleet itself, while most of her escort pursued my diversionary ships, the other eighteen vessels in my fleet had fallen, suddenly, silently, on the ten tarn ships left behind with the treasure fleet.	10
14	286	Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels.	10
14	359	Eighteen of the ships in my fleet had been arsenal vessels.	10
14	476	Seventeen soon began to move around the fleet, or come about, to face the approaching twelve vessels.	10
14	480	In a quarter Ahn my vessels were aligned for battle.	10
15	10	My ten search vessels had managed to bring in five of the seven missing round ships, four of which had been, foolishly, striking out directly for Telnus in Cos.	10
17	202	I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	108	"Similarly," said Thurnock, "took she the key from the mate of the Rhoda and, when the ships were tied together, and the men of the Rhoda and Tesephone were drunk with her body and the vessels of paga she poured them, she brought it to us.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	67	The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelry and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessels.	10
2	258	Within that rail, about the altar, some in chests, others displayed on shelvings, was much rich plate, and vessels of gold and silver.	10
2	259	There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to Priest-Kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of coins, brought as offerings ...	10
3	20	I saw two men of Torvaldsland loading their cloaks with golden plate and vessels from the sanctuary, hurling them like tin and iron into the furs.	10
3	84	Ivar Forkbeard leaped down from the altar and began, angrily, to hurl vessels of consecrated oils against the walls behind the sanctuary.	10
4	30	The men of Torvaldsland sometimes guide their vessels by noting the direction of the waves, breaking against the prow, these correlated with prevailing winds.	10
10	576	The ship fell to four raiding vessels of Torvaldsland.	10
14	115	I brushed aside one of the hanging vessels of bronze, a tharlarion-oil lamp which, on its chain, hung from the ceiling, some forty feet above.	10

Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	58	Two briefly clad, lovely female slaves withdrew before him, kneeling, heads down, their serving vessels in their hands.	10
2	336	To one side of the wheels, along a wall, sitting among many bowls and vessels, a boy, with his finger, was carefully applying bluish pigment to a large, two-handled pitcher.	10
7	142	Beyond, crumpled on the floor, I saw the remains of the guard, the head, awry, lying on its side, strung by torn vessels to the body, the back of the neck bitten through.	10
13	99	High vessels of gold, some as tall as a girl, gleaming dully in the light of the lamps, were passed on our journey through the halls, into the upper rooms, too, great vases of red and yellow porcelain, many of which were as large as a man, imported from the potteries of Tyros.	10
15	35	Men, in the closed pits, actually descend and, wading, or on rafts, negotiate the sludge itself, filling their vessels and later, eventually, pouring their contents into the lift sacks, on hooks, worked by windlasses from the surface.	10
15	37	It is dragged through the sludge and lifted, the free water running from the vessel, leaving within the sludge of salt, thence to be poured into the retaining vessels, huge, wooden tubs.	10
15	38	The retaining vessels are then emptied later into the lift sacks, a ring on which fits over the rope hooks.	10
16	20	In such areas, paddles, of which each raft is equipped with four, near the retaining vessels, are used.	10
16	23	Each raft contains a low frame, within which are placed the retaining vessels, large, wooden salt tubs, each approximately a yard in height and four feet in diameter.	10
16	30	The retaining vessels are, at the salt docks, lifted from the rafts by means of pulleys and counterweights.	10
16	32	When the retaining vessels are suspended, they are tipped, and the sludge scooped and shoveled from them into the wide-mouthed, ring-bearing lift sacks.	10
16	164	The polemen seized up the broad levers near the retaining vessels.	10
16	195	We clung in the darkness to the retaining vessels, the salt tubs.	10
16	205	I heard splintering wood, the retaining vessels, the salt tubs, struck and shattered, flung bounding and rolling from the frame.	10
17	62	Some salt slaves eat the lelt, raw, taken from the water, or gleaned from their harvesting vessels.	10
17	129	He then laid the lance over the tops of two of the large retaining vessels, the salt tubs, on the raft.	10
20	69	Very slowly it lifted its head, as though literally feeling the water flowing through the vessels of his body.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	88	Most Gorean vessels, on the other hand, like many early vessels of Earth, are double ruddered.	10
6	113	From the walls hung vessels and leathers.	10
12	721	Strings of plates and vessels were tied at the pommels.	10
22	9	There were some twenty vessels in the convoy.	10
22	126	They did not even take the time to lower the yard and drop the mast, which is commonly done in such vessels before an engagement.	10
22	716	No sign of a slave there! Others of her crew, and survivors, were in the water, making for Cosian vessels.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	216	They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...	10
11	248	Wood can be used for sleds, and tent frames and the frames of kayaks and umiaks, the large, broad vessels which can hold several individuals, sometimes used in whaling.	10
18	16	Many times the umiaks, or the light, one-man vessels, the kayaks, do not return.	10

Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	89	She stood there, lovely, holding the tray before her, on which reposed the vessels, the tiny cups and glasses, the bowls, the spoons, the soft, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our hands.	10
6	337	Most of the ships, of course, would be small ships, coasting vessels and light galleys.	10
21	22	"How many vessels?" asked Ayari.	10
21	37	These vessels are too light for even such a galley.	10
21	39	"What manner of vessels can they be?" asked Ayari.	10
21	47	The vessels slipped past us.	10
22	4	There had been three vessels, of the sort which had been prepared in Ianda and brought to Schendi, and then to Lake Ushindi by way of the Nyoka, part of the fleet which Bila Huruma was organizing to support the explorations of Shaba, navigating the Ua, into the far interior.	10
22	5	But there had been only three of the vessels, out of some one hundred.	10
27	77	There were shelves in the hut, of sticks, on which were vessels and masks.	10
28	21	"Doubtless from one of the vessels of Shaba," said Ayari.	10
32	38	They had located sensible geodesic contours and, in traversing the area, had, because of their larger vessels, cut away various trees, vines, and obstacles.	10
33	30	Downriver, several pasangs away, small but unmistakable, moving in our direction, was a fleet of canoes and river vessels.	10
33	85	We could see the flotilla largely because of the size of its galleys and the number of its vessels, both canoes and galleys.	10
50	32	On it were huge pillars, with iron rings, where vessels might be moored.	10
54	87	"The galleys, the vessels, are ready," he said.	10
54	127	I turned away from the Ubar, and began to descend the steps to the waiting vessels.	10
55	12	And then it was quiet, save for the water lapping against the landing and the sides of the wooden vessels.	10
57	111	When we found the talunas being herded along by the small people we had brought our vessels to shore.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	35	In that place there were sunken baths, cisterns of water, and vessels of heating water.	10

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	9	Among them, naked, in collars, were paga slaves, with their bronze vessels on leather straps.	10
23	10	"We shall then," I said, "proceed to Ar's Station, to sack the stores and burn her vessels.	10
23	112	The girls, too, with their vessels and trays, serving, many of them nude, save for their collars and bangles, stood or knelt quietly, not moving, watching.	10
25	183	She placed the tray on the table, and removed three plates of bread and meat from it, a dish of assorted cheeses, a bowl of dates, a pitcher of water, a pot of black wine, steaming, and tiny vessels of sugars and creams, and three goblets.	10
28	168	Peggy knelt before the table and began to place the cups, the vessels and plates on the table.	10
29	151	"Surely," said Callisthenes, "the chain—and, too, of course, the vessels of Port Cos".	10
31	118	I speculated that these activities were largely connected with the coming and going of scout ships, and supply ships and fitting vessels.	10
32	190	Wharfed within the courtyard were only some five vessels, and smaller boats.	10
33	108	Gorean ships, on the whole, even the round ships, are shallowly drafted vessels.	10

Book 16. (25 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	134	Vessels of clay, spreading broad sheets of flaming oil, shattered on the decks of the vessels in the yard.	10
1	109	I could see, even as he spoke, several of the pirate vessels drawing back, abeam of the chain, but far enough behind it to prevent our ram from reaching them.	10
1	110	Off our port bow we saw one of the pirate vessels slip beneath the muddy waters of the Vosk, a kill of the Mira.	10
1	172	The pirate vessels, too, had withdrawn from the chain.	10
2	96	We had actually passed within a few yards of pirate vessels, anchored in the river.	10
2	107	"What is going on out there?" called a voice, from one of the pirate vessels, back from the chain.	10
2	209	We were hailed by men in pirate vessels, as we passed near them, but we did not respond.	10
4	206	Hundreds of oars, like sticks, had been snapped in the stresses involved, even against the hulls of their own vessels.	10
5	7	Others stood on the decks of their own vessels, thrusting and cutting, stabbing, over the bulwarks.	10
5	62	In moments I and the others, now some seven men, cutting at pirates, severing ropes, separated the two vessels and, as they slipped loose of one another, leaped onto the stern of the Tina, falling upon the pirates who had boarded her there.	10
5	142	It was not clear to me why Ar's Station had resorted to such vessels as she had.	10
5	208	In moments had the decks of both pirate vessels been cleared.	10
7	57	They had managed, almost like a fortress of wood, three ships jammed together, surrounded, under fire, beleaguered, to repel assault after assault, pouring over the rails of enemy vessels.	10
7	58	The infantrymen of Ar, in their numbers, inordinate for the vessels involved, and their skills in war, uncommon on the river, stiffened the resistance of the remnants of our small fleet.	10
9	150	Given the men of Ar we had, though only two fighting ships, and the Tuka, crews enough to man at least five vessels.	10
9	165	Beneath the first hold is the lower hold, but this is little more than a damp crawl space, containing the bilge, and sand, which, on Gorean vessels, commonly serves as ballast.	10
10	58	Following the Tuka and the Tais, by prearranged plan, we in the Tina had then rowed southward along the chain until we came to the point where the northward-moving portion of the Voskjard's fleet, that which we had once mistaken for the support vessels of Callisthenes, had cut the chain.	10
10	59	We did not think that the pirate vessels had been brought on rollers about the beach south of the chain's terminal pylons to the south.	10
10	66	When picked up by the vessels of the pirate fleet, turning westward, having discovered the ruse of the Olivia, they would report what they had heard.	10
10	82	While vessels followed our putative course, and the balance of the pirate fleet, regrouping and repairing injuries, waited upon their return, we sped, in alternating shifts, day and night, toward the holding of Policrates.	10
12	104	Other vessels, too, were now being moored at the walk, and others, following them, were being tied up alongside the first.	10
12	105	In a short time the sea yard, if all went well, would be almost filled with vessels.	10
12	132	Men rose up on the walls, lighting fuses of oil-soaked rags, thrust into oil-filled clay vessels; a smoke bomb, trailing red smoke, was lofted from a wall catapult high over the marshes.	10
12	137	They then began to board the moored vessels.	10
16	293	I was now between the two vessels.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	110	There is a joke in the city that Port Kar must have the greatest merchant fleet on Gor, greater than even those of Cos and Tyros combined, given the frequency with which our corsairs encounter the vessels of alleged compatriots.	10
2	114	The safest course for a merchant captain to follow, whether of Port Kar or not, if he is not moving in convoy, with attendant ramships, is to avoid all contact with other vessels between ports.	10
2	190	These vessels were singly or doubly ruddered.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	388	The head lay askew, to one side, held by vessels and skin.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	353	To them most people must come, bearing vessels, for their water.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	9	It was rich with hangings and, about its interior circumference, furnished with suitable appointments, including vessels, cushions, a low inlaid table, cases and trunks.	10
16	8	I pulled her across the low table on her stomach, scattering vessels and plates, and then, turning her, threw her to her back on the tiles behind the table.	10
16	903	Even the numerous naked slaves who were serving the tables and, as men wished them, the banqueters, stopped serving, and, carrying their vessels and trays, stood still, looking, too, to the stage.	10
22	208	Thousands of men, trained to perfection in both Cos and Tyros, embark upon vessels.	10
22	253	In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	73	Wrappings, sackings and broken vessels lay strewn about.	10
13	106	In it were such things as furniture, cushions, rugs, wall hangings, tapestries, bolts of cloth, robes, clothes, chests, coffers, utensils, vessels, and plates.	10
20	64	Sometimes Earth girls, first brought to Gor, do not understand why so many of these two-handled, narrow-necked vessels have such a narrow, usually pointed base, for they cannot stand upright on such a base.	10
20	65	They have not yet learned that these vessels are not intended to stand upright.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1289	What can we be but vessels of pleasure to such brutes, I thought.	10
17	135	Among these offerings were unusual beasts, sheaves of grain, vessels and coffers filled with precious goods, and women, naked, and in chains.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	267	But then, too, I saw the rowers of these small vessels, rest on their oars.	10
21	1442	"And do you noble fellows of Ar's Station not carry flags of Port Cos, and perhaps of other towns, as well, in your vessels, perhaps in the chests in your stem castles?" That was a likely place to stow such paraphernalia.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	68	Do you truly think it is a simple anomaly that so many vessels, flotillas of light craft, on such short notice, could be obtained in Ven and Turmus? Was that merely unaccountable good fortune? And now do you think it is merely unaccountable ill fortune that these same vessels, in a matter of days, s...	10
1	285	The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure.	10
1	1221	There was also a variety of small items, such as vessels and bowls, and small chests.	10
9	123	"Other vessels pass you," said a man.	10
13	169	"Of course, such vessels are used elsewhere, as well," I said.	10

Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	105	In Schendi the white slave girls of black masters are sometimes taught to carry such vessels on their heads without the use of their hands or such devices as the towel.	10
7	261	Sometimes they are marched naked at their stirrups, in chains; sometimes they are marched similarly but among slaves holding other loot, golden vessels, and such; sometimes they are displayed on wagons, or rolling platforms, caged with she-verr or she-tarsks, and so on.	10
8	169	Indeed many Gorean artists seem to regard themselves as little more than vessels or instruments, the channels or means, the tools, say, the chisels or brushes, so to speak, by means of which the world, with its values and meanings, in its infinite diversities, in its beauties and powers, its flowers...	10
8	955	Surely it is not merely to be found in silver plate and golden vessels, nor even in women lying naked in their chains, huddled together, trembling, in the mud, knowing that they are now properties and must please.	10
9	655	"There will be delicacies from as far away as Bazi and Anango," she said, "and we shall open vessels of Falarian from the private stores of the Ubar".	10
11	108	In the back there were many ceramic articles about, vessels of numerous sorts, on tiers, and stacks of shallow bowls.	10
17	28	And if he feels so even about his vessels, then so much more the awed and reverent must he feel when he contemplates the immensity and grandeur, the beauty, the power and the mightiness within which he finds himself.	10
19	334	In the softness of the dust, then amongst the vines, moving across the field, our tharlarion in stately gait, we approached the girl, she at the large wooden tank, filling the vessels which would be slung over her yoke.	10
19	383	I glanced to the two vessels, to the side, now filled with water, and the associated yoke, thrice drilled, with slender leather straps wrapped about it, at the center and near the ends.	10
19	384	The wooden vessels would be heavy in themselves for such a small, lovely creature, let alone when weighted with a filling of liquid.	10
19	1296	I put one of the vessels of water on the yoke.	10
19	1416	The vessels of water were on the ground.	10
19	1423	The small figure was trying to get her legs under her, and rise in the yoke, lifting the vessels.	10
19	1432	She stood, unsteadily, the vessels swinging on the yoke ends.	10

Book 26. (12 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	395	There were also three vessels in the cell.	10
8	399	The yellowish vessels were to one side and the whitish porcelaintype vessel was to the other.	10
8	401	Of the two to one side, the yellowish vessels, one was a flattish bowl, which contained a crust and some meal; too, within it I was pleased to see what I thought were some slices of dried fruit; such things are often included in our diet; they are precious to us; in the other vessel, of the two to o...	10
8	991	In the cell were three vessels, one for food, one for water, and, a larger one, to my left, as I knelt within the blanket facing the bars, for wastes.	10
8	992	The smaller vessels may have been discards from some kitchen.	10
8	996	None of these vessels was made of metal.	10
8	1006	I felt then within me a sudden body's urgency and cast aside the blanket and groped awkwardly toward the larger of the three vessels.	10
9	218	More than once, sometimes in twos and threes, sometimes in tens and twenties, I had seen riders returning with bulging saddle bags, and sacks tied behind the saddle, and about the pommels, and with golden vessels, and candelabra, flashing in the light, slung from the saddles on cords.	10
10	702	But surely I was more attractive than she! She was pouring some liquid from the pitcher into one of the vessels on the table.	10
13	592	There was a pitcher, and a trencher, and some clay vessels on the table.	10
19	18	Vessels of gold were lifted by raiders, displaying them to the crowd.	10
24	273	I saw no plate, or candelabra, no vessels of silver or gold, being brought forth.	10

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	282	It reminded her of similar vessels she had seen long ago in museums, from ancient Greece, and she did not doubt but what the techniques and style of that and similar vessels might own to antecedents of her former world, that they might, in substance, nature and style, be traced back to the work of a...	10
11	484	She set about clearing the table, putting the various utensils, vessels and plates on the serving cart.	10
17	825	Some bustle in the market resumed, though muted now, and water was brushed away from the stalls, and, in places, blankets were again spread and various goods, pans, vessels, jewelries, and such, were arranged on the dark, woolen surfaces.	10
17	1156	Such bowls, or vessels, of course, serve an obvious purpose, and are common in kennels and cells.	10
21	139	Near to it, on towels spread on the grass, were vessels, presumably of cheap oils and lotions.	10
21	223	One by one, painfully, they poured the contents of the vessels into the pool.	10
30	64	They are obedient vessels of sexual pleasure; they are subservient, lascivious beasts, anxious to please; they are summonable; they hope to be summoned; they are needful and zealous; one buys them for pleasure, and from them one will have one's money's worth, and a thousand times more.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	368	It will be the heart, he thought, sought within the cavern of exploded ribs, severed from its vessels, and extracted with a paw, to be crammed into a fanged mouth.	10
8	11	"Such a chamber would surely be more ornate, better lit, crowded with servitors and guards, furnished ostentatiously with precious vessels, statuary, display slaves, a sampling of nude chained beauties, preferably of high caste, ideally the daughters of Ubars, taken from conquered cities, and such".	10
28	55	"It is strange," said Cabot, "but while it is so quiet here, elsewhere, amongst the darknesses separating the worlds, fleets may be locked in dire, fearsome war, a thousand vessels exploding and burning, casting about debris and crews, fleets maneuvering, calculating, firing, escaping, dying, withdr...	10
35	31	While in the habitat village he also purchased supplies of various sorts, among them some biscuits and dried fruit, some vessels, some robes, three blankets, an ax, and two knives.	10
36	354	Cabot and the slave set supplies within reach of the weakened, anguished Kur, water in vessels which were available from the purchases of Lord Grendel earlier, and what was left of edibles suitable for Kurii, meat from huntings, and some of the processed edibles which had been chemically designed fo...	10
51	13	"The vessels are muchly as we left them.	10
56	263	He was one of the few surviving officers, as most, if they had not perished in the fray itself, their ships destroyed about them, melting and fragmenting in the silent fields of space, had hung themselves in shame, some aboard their returning vessels, others, having made worldfall, in the groves abo...	10
67	100	There were some vessels about, one of them an overturned, dented metal bowl.	10
72	8	Cabot was then within the enclave, and saw the vessels, the stores, the half-buried amphora for water, the mats for sleeping.	10
73	163	"Perhaps," said Lord Arcesilaus, "our folk will become less precipitate, and driven, and become somewhat more civil, less inclined to hasty, violent response, if their needs and desires are fulfilled, if vessels are at hand, properties, which they may subject to their will, which they may rule, and ...	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	58	"Yes," I said, "as helpless, vulnerable vessels of pleasure, vessels of inordinate pleasure".	10
1	57	"And, one supposes, as helpless, vulnerable vessels of pleasure," she said.	10
2	231	The corsairs of Port Kar venturing at sea, prowling the merchant routes, unannouncedly visiting coastal towns, and such, often returned to port well freighted with various assortments of goods, fruits and grains, weapons, vessels, tools, leathers, viands and wines, precious metals and stones, divers...	10
3	799	Gorean vessels, incidentally, are usually shallow-drafted, and usually tend to keep in sight of land.	10
4	81	The sight of large metal vessels, coming and going, might make the Priest-Kings seem too comprehensible, remarkable, and powerful, but comprehensible.	10
16	88	Similar considerations pertain to an attack on vessels.	10
18	511	Coffers are being forced open, and precious vessels, and handfuls of coins and jewelry, are being seized; silken hangings are draped on brawny arms; amphorae are unearthed; the odor of paga pervades the camp, and common warriors, perhaps for the first time, taste rare ka-la-na, guzzling it like kal-...	10
23	74	Wine was plentiful, and paga, too, and slaves hurried about, with vessels, and botas, to refill goblets.	10
28	132	Then fit and rig your vessels; then roll your dragons to the shore.	10
28	162	I could imagine them within, amongst rattling pans, shifting vessels, and boxes, bracing themselves against walls, or clinging to supports.	10
30	19	Square-rigged vessels are not unknown on Gor.	10
30	22	On Earth vessels of centuries ago the "steering board" on the right side, as one faces forward, apparently gave rise to the expression "starboard".	10
30	93	Then, in battle, I had released them with riders, primarily to cast vessels of fire upon the ships of Cos and Tyros.	10
30	100	They may be exercised regularly at sea, and then return to their vessels.	10
38	26	Much oil was brought aboard, not so much for the ship's lamps, but for a substance with which to fill clay vessels, with wire handles, of which there were hundreds.	10
38	141	They are booty, as much as vessels, cloths, metals, kaiila, and such.	10

Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	239	Many of the vessels of Port Kar, that den of thieves and cutthroats, that scourge of Thassa, were green, almost invisible, under oars, low in the water, the mast down.	10
3	12	For example, in this fashion, the great ship could use them as concealed, surprise weapons, releasing them on a side not visible to an enemy, or, say, applying them at night; similarly, such ships might facilitate reconnoitering, facilitate communication with the shore, provide vessels for obtaining...	10
3	14	There were many applications for such vessels.	10
5	9	The shed doors are opened, the vessels on their rollers emerge, into the light, as though awakening, and the rigging, refitting, caulking, and painting begins.	10
7	35	Free women, on the other hand, unless passengers on particular ships plying established routes, are seldom aboard Gorean vessels.	10
7	168	The nested galleys, on the other hand, were typical of most Gorean vessels, long or round ships, oar-banked, double ruddered, single-masted, and lateen-rigged.	10
13	5	We did not know how many such vessels might lie trapped in this place, in this welter of tangled, blossoming growth which stretched far about us.	10
16	294	"The small boats are not seagoing vessels, certainly not in their numbers, no more than our ship's boats".	10
16	338	Over the next four days, men, with small files and vessels of caulking, were fastened in the boarding nets, which were moved from port to starboard, and along the hull, and these fellows cleaned and repaired the timbers, removing hundreds of blackened arrow shafts, and sealing fissures and clefts in...	10
32	8	Already the Pani with their vessels of oil, and their torches, had begun the descent of the wharf trail.	10
36	385	Shortly thereafter a lad, employed in the warehouse, brought the stranger and Captain Nakamura two small vessels of heated, colored, scented water, and two soft, brightly white, deeply napped, scarflike cloths.	10

Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	616	Rawlinson's hands, we leapt up and hurried to the kitchen, to bring forth the fare, the sweets, the candies, the nuts, the bowls of fruit, the herbs, the bread, flat, circular loaves of bread, which would be divided into eight wedges, the many covered dishes of boiled vegetables and hot meat, the ve...	10
14	47	Clipped coins are easy to identify but then, of course, one must bring forth the scales, and, not unoften, as well, rough silver or gold, unminted, is presented, perhaps melted droplets, or pieces cut from silver or golden vessels and goblets, which items will also require judicious determinations.	10
51	7	Jane, Eve, and I busied ourselves with the final cooking, the readying of vegetables and salads, the arrangements of vessels and dishes, the setting of places.	10
52	167	I had heard of sky vessels, not those of Priest-Kings.	10

Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	465	Would not a variety of galleys be more practical? For what is so large a vessel required? It is much larger, many times larger, I am told, than even the largest of common round ships, or cargo vessels, which, too, are apparently very different from the long, low, knifelike vessels of war.	10
6	120	Guarded compounds near the wharves are stacked with boxes, barrels, bales, clay vessels, like blunt-bottomed amphorae , tied together by the handles, bulging sacks, and weighty crates.	10
8	17	It was from such wharves that the small ships, mostly coasting vessels, not round ships, one every two or three days, had been plying north.	10
9	71	Several men were in the water, being handed boxes, sacks, and bales, and some sealed vessels, even craters and amphorae.	10
15	466	Until Shipcamp, I had known only the two Gorean vessels which had been en route to the north, and the one other, seen during the voyage, when I, with the others, had been permitted on the deck.	10
20	180	"Vessels of rare metal, black- and red-figured potteries, candles and lamps, perfumes and silks," said Janina.	10
23	141	It was quite different from the other Gorean vessels I had seen, which tended to be numerous, graceful, slender, and beautiful, low in the water, long in keel, and narrow in beam, even the "round ships".	10
23	142	And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars.	10
33	38	We were each given a pitcher, and we then went down to the shore, on our rope, filled our vessels, and returned to the camp.	10
44	16	Even coast vessels, seldom out of the sight of land, would seek their harboring before the onset of winter.	10
52	523	Most Gorean vessels with which I was familiar were double ruddered, with two helmsmen.	10

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	169	They removed the silken covers and we noted the hampers were heaped with fruits, vegetables, cakes of rice, smoked fish, layers of dried, salted meat, and stoppered vessels which I supposed might contain sake, and perhaps, considering the continental mercenaries in the camp, none of whom had been pe...	10
9	44	At the height of the trail lay the holding with its wealth of gold, silver, silk, sake, vessels, jewels, screens, hangings, perfumes, weapons, robes, instruments, ointments, oils, and such, the treasure and loot of generations amassed by the house of Temmu.	10
20	38	They would kneel to receive their dishes or vessels from the table of the kitchen master, the serving table, toward the back and right of the room, rise, approach the guests' table, kneel, and, their arms extended, their head down between their extended arms, place the dish or vessel, held in two ha...	10
30	294	After our small repast, which she cooked and served, naked, utilizing some simple vessels and bowls extracted from the packs of Haruki and Tajima, she was allowed to feed, and don again the rag of the field slave.	10
50	127	I had somehow expected a variety of pipings, a number of vessels, glassware in the form of beakers, cylinders, and retorts, racks of complex equipment, conduits, valves, and tanks of sorts, things more to be expected in a laboratory or workshop.	10

Book 34. (11 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl...	10
27	10	Be this as it may, the southern piers were supposedly a haven for unauthorized, unlicensed vessels, those lacking recognition by the authority, those somehow not appearing in the carefully kept registration lists.	10
27	87	The southern wharves are rife with smugglers, their vessels, their goods.	10
32	25	One could hear the water lapping against the pilings, and hear the occasional creak of ropes and timber, vessels pulling against their moorings.	10
40	12	Shelves lined the walls of the shop, laden with an assemblage of diverse platters, craters, bowls, dishes, pitchers, and vessels.	10
40	13	There were several other larger vessels, amphorae, and such, stacked, inverted, in the corners of the shop, and toward its rear.	10
45	183	Then, after a time, the tiny vessels of black wine, and the liqueurs, were put aside.	10
59	6	Behind me I had heard the tearing of wood, the clatter of vessels flung from overturned tables, the howling of the beasts.	10
60	19	In the stands, too, I saw, here and there, such vessels in the grasp of one Kur or another.	10
62	27	The brand and collar, of course, are indisputable marks of quality, as might be the stampings on plates and vessels, the tags sewn into the rugs of Tor, and the labels fixed on the cloaks of Turia.	10
64	109	In one of the two vessels suspended over the fire, Paula had prepared sullage, a sort of sul soup, or, in this case, given the thickness of the mix, a sul stew, and, in the other, had boiled the bosk cubes, heating and softening them.	10

Book 35. (17 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	130	Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...	10
5	31	"Her tarnsmen are aflight, high in the night, in their hundreds, hurling vessels of fire on Brundisium".	10
5	91	The slave was viewed not as an enemy or combatant, but, as other goods, silks, vessels, coins, and such, as booty.	10
8	16	Most Gorean vessels remain, when possible, in sight of land.	10
8	99	Our cargo, other than ourselves, was largely carvings and vessels of jade, a green gemstone, purchased in Brundisium, and apparently brought in as trade goods from afar, from, as it was said, "the World's End".	10
8	215	We must have passed more than a hundred moored vessels.	10
8	423	"Officers of the port authorize departing vessels, after an examination of cargo," said he who had intervened.	10
8	505	"They follow vessels at sea, the sharks, to seize garbage, anything cast into the sea".	10
9	16	Some brushes were large and flat, for trays and flatware; others were narrower and rounded, for vessels.	10
11	6	The roofs are commonly flat, and equipped with stones, debris, and covered vessels of pitch which, uncovered and ignited, might be cast down toward the water, and, in places, leaders are found through which, suitably adjusted, burning oil might be directed with what, from the point of view of those ...	10
11	49	There are few who have met the long, low, swift, knifelike ram ships of Port Kar, often painted green, which color blends in with many of the moods of Thassa, either as corsairs or attack vessels, who do not respect, even dread and fear them.	10
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...	10
33	271	We must have vessels, too, shallow-drafted and broad of beam, some large enough for the conveying of men, some small enough and quick enough for close work, armed with springals to launch javelins of fire, some sturdy enough to support catapults, for boulders and cauldrons of flaming oil".	10
40	92	Are those not decanters of ka-la-na, ruby red and tawny, like the wet pelt of a fresh-foaled kaiila? Do I not see flasks and vessels common to the liqueurs and syrups of Turia? Might those not even be tospits, short-stemmed and long-stemmed, from the lands of the Wagon Peoples? And do I not smell th...	10
41	175	Several bore vessels and plate; some had rolled rugs or tapestries in their arms or draped over their shoulders; some had wrapped about themselves robes and cloaks.	10
41	188	We, too, were loot, with our market value, in that respect no different from vessels, plates, and such.	10
43	218	Too, I was sure that, by now, boats from Port Kar, and perhaps even vessels from the arsenal harbor, would have passed the Southern Gate, intent upon our apprehension.	10

Book 36. (53 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	127	What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ...	10
38	6	Here he is only the commander of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, of only some twenty heavy vessels, and a miscellany of minor vessels.	10
1	49	Even clay vessels were missing, or shattered, many apparently trodden underfoot in some intended thoroughness of havoc.	10
1	67	Were there not rumors of monsters, behemoths, the strike of whose thrashing tails could shatter hulls, of watery countries of impassable, seeking, floating, thick, clutching vines, avid to ensnare travelers, of inescapable spinning wells in the sea, capturing and sinking even the largest of vessels?...	10
2	158	He regarded us, evenly, his eyes moving from face to face, in the darkness, on the beach, about the fires, two vessels nearby, in the background, only shapes in the night, a larger and a smaller, drawn up on the sand.	10
3	22	Few vessels on Thassa, I thought, could match its speed, or close with it at close quarters.	10
3	46	"Larger items of greater value," I said, "gold plate and silver vessels, if you had them, and women, and such, would not be disposed of locally.	10
5	67	"I think few vessels on Thassa could match their speed.	10
5	81	Larger ships are most comfortable and successful when doing battle with vessels in their own class.	10
7	45	"I do not have the fleet of Cos at my disposal," he said, "only the fleet of the Farther Islands, only twenty heavy ships, and several smaller vessels, all diversely oared".	10
8	54	When it has done its work, it separates into its component vessels and returns, unremarked, one by one, to the harbor.	10
12	14	It might have been seized by peasants from shipwrecked vessels, or even cached inland by pirates, possibly generations ago.	10
13	15	The raiders, so assured of themselves, had not even turned their vessels' bows to the water, from which position the ship can most quickly be brought into action.	10
13	120	"Take these six prisoners to the ships, six to each ship, one after the other, and bring all vessels, kegs, barrels, bottles, and such, of potables, all wine, paga, water, anything drinkable, to this point.	10
13	122	A half an Ahn later a number of vessels, kegs, crates, and such, were heaped on the sand before me.	10
13	144	"Now," I said, "shatter the vessels, break open the kegs and barrels, empty the contents of all containers.	10
22	44	You muchly conceal your vessels.	10
22	71	"Vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands?" I said.	10
22	75	I had no doubt these were replacement vessels for the corsair ships I had burned on Daphna.	10
26	3	Occasionally this is done, particularly on large, ornate, slow-moving vessels, by a flute.	10
26	26	Most Gorean vessels are lateen-rigged and double ruddered.	10
26	34	That is because I usually associate 'port' and 'starboard' with side-ruddered vessels.	10
35	75	"If a living island was threatened," I said, "its population, too, could board their vessels, fishing and otherwise, and abandon the island".	10
35	129	Thirdly, it could support the corsair fleet in action, interfering with attacked vessels, impeding movements, blocking escapes, even delivering reinforcements to the corsairs in the way of boarders equipped with grappling irons and scaling ladders".	10
37	52	There are two harbors at the port of Sybaris, the great harbor, serving the city, and much of Thera, and the smaller harbor, the naval harbor, base of the vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
40	63	Bring vessels of oil to the walls which may be ignited and poured on the enemy.	10
41	72	On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned.	10
43	108	I climbed from the inner ditch, followed by my ten selected men, four swordsmen, four archers, and two men bearing vessels of tharlarion oil and axes, not war axes, but woodsmen's axes.	10
48	178	Commonly Gorean mariners stay within sight of land and beach their vessels at night.	10
49	71	"As Tab and Sakim left no message of any sort to explain their departure, we may infer that the appearance of the corsair fleet was sudden and unexpected, perhaps emerging from darkness in the vicinity of dawn, a situation calling for instant action, getting the Dorna and Tesephone to sea before an ...	10
49	111	Both vessels would, in this place and time, beach stern first, permitting a quicker return to the water.	10
49	112	The lightness and shallow draft of most Gorean vessels makes beaching and half-beaching possible.	10
50	17	Most Gorean vessels south of Torvaldsland are double-ruddered.	10
50	69	The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of...	10
51	40	"I do not think the High Admiral of the fleet will be aboard one of those vessels, each surveying the Tesephone like a hungry sleen eyeing a cornered tabuk.	10
53	62	Many Gorean vessels, when not in port, beach, or half-beach, themselves at night, where a camp is made, one sometimes rudely fortified.	10
53	95	In this way I hoped to shield her from the two corsair vessels to port and the three to starboard.	10
53	106	Then, engaged, we would be at the mercy, as well, of the three corsair vessels in our wake".	10
53	108	"The three corsair vessels to starboard are, for the moment, inert," I said.	10
53	138	"At the possible loss of one or two of their vessels?" I said.	10
53	241	We watched a longboat enter the water and begin to make its way back between enemy vessels to the farthest ship back, the presumed flagship of the corsair fleet.	10
54	15	Muscles ache, men tire, and rhythm, so essential for oared vessels, is impaired or lost.	10
54	169	"Too, gather together some small vessels of tharlarion oil and a supply of small nails.	10
55	30	"As they outnumber us considerably in men, and presumably want our vessels as prizes, they will elect to board".	10
57	3	Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the Dorna, and the ...	10
57	20	The enemy would, to the best of his ability, attack simultaneously at the port side of the Dorna and the starboard side of the Tesephone, but this maneuver, given a choppy sea, intermittent gusts of wind, the difference in vessels, a disparity of helmsmen and command, and the rocking of the target i...	10
57	21	Ideally, from our point of view, the enemy vessels would be unable to attack our 'fort' at the same time, this permitting us to concentrate our forces in such a way as to match, or nearly match, the width of at least a first boarding party on one side.	10
57	27	Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart.	10
57	45	I also heard screams from the water between the vessels.	10
57	55	The sides of the two vessels were coming closer and closer to one another.	10
57	225	"Boarding was intended to secure our vessels, to garner the Dorna and Tesephone, valuable, fine ships, as prizes.	10
60	85	Amphorae are familiar vessels on Gor but, given their shape, as they cannot stand by themselves, they are commonly used buried, to keep contents fresh and cool, or mounted in racks, which, on ships, is something of a waste of space.	10
62	151	"More than two hundred men, stationed about," I said, "are waiting with ignitable fire vessels and accelerants".	10