| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 165 |
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
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| 3 | 196 |
This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains. |
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| 3 | 198 |
Also, the primitive weapons guaranteed that what selection went on would proceed with sufficient slowness to establish its direction, and alter it, if necessary. |
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| 3 | 199 |
Besides the spear and sword, the crossbow and longbow were permitted, and these latter weapons perhaps tended to redistribute the probabilities of survival somewhat more broadly than the former. |
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| 3 | 200 |
It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety. |
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| 3 | 203 |
The Older Tarl, my redoubtable instructor in arms, did not care for them, regarding them as secondary weapons almost unworthy for the hand of a warrior. |
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| 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. |
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| 7 | 208 |
I have to find out if you have any more weapons". |
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| 8 | 104 |
"As you can see, I carry no weapons". |
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| 10 | 4 |
One who has shed your blood, or whose blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you formally repudiate the blood on your weapons. |
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| 10 | 107 |
It seemed the routine of the journey would never end, and I grew enamored of the long line of wagons, each filled with its various goods, those mysterious metals and gems, rolls of cloth, foodstuffs, wines and paga, weapons and harness, cosmetics and perfumes, medicines and slaves. |
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| 11 | 15 |
We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon. |
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| 12 | 45 |
"It was her wish that you die the death of a villain," he said, "on the Frame of Humiliation, unworthy to stain our weapons". |
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| 14 | 173 |
I had weapons again, and my tarn. |
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| 16 | 59 |
I was confident that there would be cisterns and canisters of water in the palace, and I supposed that Marlenus, as an enlightened precaution, in view of the unstable politics of Ar, would have outfitted his cylinder as a keep, laying in stores of food and missile weapons. |
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| 17 | 37 |
It signifies a truce, literally the temporary putting aside of weapons. |
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| 18 | 162 |
They were drenched with sweat; their clothing was torn; their weapons, drawn, were red with blood. |
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| 18 | 182 |
I slowly walked up the stairs, my hands open, free of weapons. |
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| 19 | 14 |
The men of Ar discard their weapons!" "Will you not try to save your daughter?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 20 |
Wherever the free men of Ar retain their weapons, there you will find Marlenus". |
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| 19 | 90 |
They feared the word, the curse, of this old man without weapons more than they would have feared the massed swords of a thousand foemen. |
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| 19 | 183 |
Moreover, with the closing of the great gate, there was no refuge in the city; they were trapped against the walls, packed like cattle for the slaughter, trampling one another, unable to use their weapons. |
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| 19 | 236 |
Beyond the walls the horde had cast down its weapons. |
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| 20 | 66 |
I have even joined a fencing club, to keep my eye alert and my wrist strong, though the puny foils we use are sorry weapons compared to the swords of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 31 |
I regretted, however, that no bow was among the weapons at my disposal, as I had, in my previous sojourn on Gor, developed a skill with such weapons, and admittedly a fondness for them, a liking which had scandalized my former master-at-arms. |
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| 16 | 80 |
Thorn and the warriors were startled, and in this instant I leapt between their weapons, seized Thorn and a warrior, dashed them together, and threw them both, weapons clattering, to the marble flooring of the pillar. |
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| 2 | 30 |
Indeed, the Gorean spear is such that many warriors scorn lesser missile weapons, such as the longbow or crossbow, both of which are not uncommonly found on Gor. |
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| 2 | 37 |
This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own... |
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| 3 | 32 |
No rations or water flask had been in the leather package found with the weapons. |
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| 7 | 27 |
We resheathed our weapons. |
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| 9 | 79 |
I must have seemed strange to them, a scarlet-clad warrior, bearing weapons, suddenly entering, a man from another city unexpectedly in their midst. |
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| 10 | 2 |
My weapons had been removed while I slept, foolish and trusting in the hospitality of Tharna. |
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| 15 | 121 |
"Sell you for a saddle and weapons," I said. |
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| 15 | 224 |
"And I will need weapons, a saddle, money, gear, food, such things," I said. |
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| 16 | 12 |
"Is it customary," I asked the Tatrix, "for warriors to carry weapons to the Pillar of Exchanges?" "There will be no treachery," said the Tatrix. |
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| 16 | 36 |
"A saddle, weapons, money, supplies, such things," I answered, "and the freedom of Linna of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, and those who fought this afternoon in the Amusements of Tharna". |
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| 16 | 68 |
Thorn and the warriors leaped forward, and I found myself ringed with their weapons. |
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| 19 | 38 |
Armed only with ore and the picks that chip the ore from the walls we stormed into the quarters of Whip Slaves and guardsmen, who had scarcely time to seize their weapons. |
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| 19 | 59 |
I climbed one of the great chains to the huge windlass set above the shaft and found myself among hundreds of cheering men, their chains struck off, their hands boasting weapons even if only a piece of jagged rock or a pair of shackles. |
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| 19 | 78 |
"We do not have the weapons or the training or the beasts we would need to stand against the soldiers of Tharna," I said. |
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| 20 | 5 |
Those who had been killed had been stripped of clothing and weapons, both of which the ill-clad, unarmed slaves required desperately. |
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| 23 | 76 |
Shackles had been struck off and weapons seized. |
10 |
| 23 | 102 |
In time it became dangerous for the small cavalries of Tharna to assault them, to brave the storm of missile weapons which would seem to rise almost from the very ground itself. |
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| 23 | 188 |
On the other hand I did not believe the guardsmen would cast their weapons from the wall. |
10 |
| 23 | 189 |
If they missed, or if they did not, it would necessitate descending from the wall to retrieve the weapons. |
10 |
| 23 | 220 |
"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" At that point, to my wonder, the ragged band lifted their weapons and uttered a wild cheer. |
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| 23 | 228 |
Thus borne aloft, from street to street, in the midst of joyous shouting, weapons raised on all sides in salute, my ears ringing with the plowing song, once a song of the freeholds of Tharna, long since supplanted by the Great Farms, I found myself brought to that fateful Kal-da shop I remembered so... |
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| 24 | 97 |
"Is it right that the men of Tharna lift their weapons against one another, men within the same walls?" "It is a sad thing," said Kron. |
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| 24 | 165 |
Sheathe your weapons. |
10 |
| 24 | 233 |
They had cast down their weapons and, singing, they marched to the palace. |
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| 24 | 238 |
Andreas had brought with him the shield and spear which I had put down in token of truce, and I took these weapons from him. |
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| 25 | 2 |
Both of us cast our spears at the same instant and the two weapons passed one another like tawny blurs of lightning. |
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| 25 | 10 |
His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay. |
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| 25 | 96 |
I had no weapons. |
10 |
| 25 | 138 |
Then as if with one voice soldiers, guardsmen and rebels lifted their weapons and saluted Lara as true Tatrix of Tharna. |
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| 25 | 139 |
"Hail Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna!" they cried, and as was the custom of the city, five times were those weapons brandished and five times did that glad shout ring out. |
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| 26 | 21 |
When found they were dragged forth into the street, unmasked, cruelly bound together and driven to the palace at the point of weapons, their masks hanging about their necks. |
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| 26 | 135 |
My weapons and my shield and helmet are at hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 |
Indeed it is considered a crime against the Priest-Kings to bloody one's weapons at the fairs. |
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| 2 | 105 |
The origin of this hunting practice is lost in antiquity, being as old perhaps as men and weapons and larls. |
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| 3 | 95 |
I gathered my weapons and followed him. |
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| 7 | 82 |
When men stalk one another with weapons it is well to have patience, great patience. |
10 |
| 11 | 11 |
Like Misk it wore no clothing and carried no weapons, and its only accouterment was a translator which dangled from its neck. |
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| 16 | 58 |
I could see that from the Priest-Kings' point of view it would be more dangerous than handing out automatic weapons to chimpanzees and gorillas. |
10 |
| 16 | 79 |
For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the Flame Death Mechanism". |
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| 17 | 41 |
"Tell me why you have been brought to the Nest," said Sarm, and suddenly his antennae snapped downward towards me like whips, and now rigid, they seemed to be trained on me, as though they might be weapons. |
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| 28 | 3 |
These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the Flame Death Mechanism. |
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| 28 | 4 |
Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. |
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| 28 | 12 |
The Muls, I supposed, terrified and confused, had scattered and hidden themselves in their cases, living on their fungus and water, while over their heads hissed the weapons of their masters. |
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| 29 | 42 |
Moreover, I knew that the cage plastic with which my own ship was protected would be no more protection than tissue paper against Sarm's weapons, the nature of which was not to pierce or melt but, from a given center, radiating outwards, to shatter material gravitationally, breaking it apart and sca... |
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| 30 | 74 |
The Priest-Kings themselves said nothing, explained nothing, to their dumbfounded human companions but merely laid aside their weapons and approached the Beetles. |
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| 35 | 14 |
Men seized weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 10 |
But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun. |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
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| 2 | 87 |
The members of these clans, however, like the Year Keepers and Singers, are all expected, first and foremost, to be, as it is said, of the wagons—namely to follow, tend and protect the bosk, to be superb in the saddle, and to be skilled with the weapons of both the hunt and war. |
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| 2 | 134 |
Actually I was later to learn that the jeweled belt is worn to incite envy and accrue enemies; its purpose is to encourage attack, that the owner may try the skill of his weapons, that he need not tire himself seeking for foes. |
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| 3 | 116 |
In their way I knew they were honoring me, that they had respected my stand in the matter of the charging lances, that now they were gambling to see who would win me, to whose weapons my blood must flow, beneath the paws of whose kaiila I must fall bloodied to the earth. |
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| 4 | 23 |
It is a training which begins with blunt staves and progresses through headed weapons. |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 6 | 87 |
She was a captive female, and must, naturally, submit to her assessment as prize; she must also be, incidentally, examined for weapons; a dagger or poisoned needle is often concealed in the clothing of free women. |
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| 8 | 249 |
He had armed himself with castoff weapons, with which he practiced in solitude. |
10 |
| 8 | 251 |
He had, to their satisfaction, demonstrated his prowess with weapons, but they would laugh at him. |
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| 9 | 149 |
Then, later in the evening, when I was drunker on paga than I should have permitted myself to become, I heard them discuss details which could only have pertained to what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, details having to do with specifications of time, weapons and judges, and such. |
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| 9 | 250 |
"Permit me," he said, "to fetch weapons". |
10 |
| 9 | 341 |
"Weapons," said Kamras, "are not permitted at the banquet". |
10 |
| 10 | 208 |
He carried weapons. |
10 |
| 10 | 325 |
Those lovely almond eyes, had they been weapons, would have slain him in the saddle like a bolt of lightning. |
10 |
| 10 | 447 |
"Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be—the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bola—perhaps the quiva?" "The sword," said Kamras. |
10 |
| 10 | 455 |
The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ... |
10 |
| 10 | 462 |
I thought, all things considered, that the stipulation of Kamras regarding weapons was cruel and shameful. |
10 |
| 10 | 479 |
"If it is truly your wish," he said, "I will permit him to choose weapons agreeable to us both". |
10 |
| 10 | 483 |
"All right, Tuchuk," he said, "I will permit you to choose weapons agreeable to us both". |
10 |
| 10 | 493 |
"Remember," cautioned the judge, "the weapon or weapons chosen must be mutually agreeable". |
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| 14 | 8 |
When the bosk horns sound the women cover the fires and prepare the men's weapons, bringing forth arrows and bows, and lances. |
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| 15 | 99 |
* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh... |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
As far as I could gather Harold had little more than the clothes on his back, a boskhide robe, his weapons and his supper. |
10 |
| 16 | 328 |
Their weapons and devices would rust and crumble in the Sardar. |
10 |
| 17 | 76 |
Three men-at-arms, with crossbows, stood ready, the weapons trained on my back. |
10 |
| 21 | 6 |
Somewhere in the wagon, fixed in a sitting position, weapons at hand, was Kutaituchik, who had been Kamchak's friend, and who had been called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
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| 21 | 65 |
It took him only a few moments to discover the value of the stones and, when he did, with a cry of disgust, he hurled them away from the gate into the dust, and the two warriors, while I pretended fright and pain, belabored me with the hilts of their weapons. |
10 |
| 21 | 254 |
I now, not hurrying, removed the weapons from my tunic, removed the cloak and wrapped them inside it. |
10 |
| 22 | 69 |
Beyond them, again in a large heap, were numerous weapons, saddles and harnesses. |
10 |
| 23 | 104 |
It was like a flood of kaiila and riders, weapons flourishing, that broke and piled against the wagons, the rear ranks pressing forward on those before them. |
10 |
| 23 | 135 |
We could now hear the drumming of the paws of the kaiila, growing ever more rapid and intense, the squealing of animals here and there along the line, the rustle of weapons and accouterments. |
10 |
| 26 | 73 |
Rather, to my astonishment, a gate of the compound itself opened and wary men-at-arms, their weapons ready, each carrying a cloth sack, emerged. |
10 |
| 26 | 258 |
"Sheath your weapons," ordered the Paravaci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 10 |
Some had grasped their weapons. |
10 |
| 5 | 21 |
These keys are quite heavy and are carried over the shoulder, and can, if necessary, even function as weapons. |
10 |
| 5 | 320 |
Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs". |
10 |
| 13 | 231 |
We walked through the dark streets of Ar, and though such was perhaps dangerous, none approached us, though some who passed did so with circumspection, their weapons drawn. |
10 |
| 15 | 91 |
Some of them, however, are quite skillful with the weapons of their choice, surely the equal of many Warriors. |
10 |
| 15 | 92 |
The crowd is fond of seeing various types of weapons used against others, and styles of fighting. |
10 |
| 15 | 93 |
Buckler and short sword are perhaps most popular, but there are few weapons on Gor which are not seen over a period of three or four days of the games. |
10 |
| 15 | 94 |
Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome, is net and trident. |
10 |
| 15 | 95 |
Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. |
10 |
| 15 | 374 |
Later we heard the marching of men's feet outside in the streets, the clanking of weapons. |
10 |
| 16 | 11 |
I did know that Cernus had been, for years, trained in the use of weapons. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
He had doubtless hired masters of arms because he wished to acquire skill in weapons, but I think, too, he may, even for years, have had in mind his investiture as Warrior. |
10 |
| 18 | 56 |
Put down your weapons!" Her eyes were closed and she was sobbing. |
10 |
| 18 | 268 |
Both men drew their weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 474 |
The four men with crossbows leveled their weapons on me. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
How seriously the men of Gor understand these representations depends doubtless on the man; but even those who, upon reflection, laugh at them, I have found, do generally regard the women of other cities rather differently than they regard their own, thinking of them almost automatically, particular... |
10 |
| 21 | 281 |
It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,... |
10 |
| 21 | 314 |
Taurentians, perhaps two hundred of them, were filing rapidly to the sand, weapons ready. |
10 |
| 22 | 6 |
I found myself covered by their weapons. |
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 | 400 |
It seemed to me that combat on kaiilaback, and combat on tarnback, had much in common; I suspected that the small bow, though it had never been proven in battle on tarnback, might prove that it had worth in the Gorean skies as well as on the dusty, southern plains; I had further, in many nights of t... |
10 |
| 22 | 403 |
The tarnsmen, of course, centuries before, had been developed from land forces; it had always seemed to me that the tarn cavalries of Gor might be considerably improved by a judicious alteration of weapons and training practices; however, I had never had a command of tarnsmen of my own, and my ideas... |
10 |
| 22 | 550 |
Then, suddenly before me, at the left side rings, closing the rings to us, hovered some ten tarnsmen, weapons ready. |
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| 22 | 600 |
The crossbowmen threw their weapons into the sand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 97 |
Bowmen were setting their weapons; helmets, weapons and shields were being brought up from below decks. |
10 |
| 17 | 378 |
Behind us I could hear shouts and cries, and the sounds of men dropping from their ropes to the deck, and of weapons meeting weapons. |
10 |
| 1 | 15 |
My weapons shared the boat, with a gourd of water and a tin of bread and dried bosk meat. |
10 |
| 1 | 35 |
Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t... |
10 |
| 2 | 49 |
My weapons were taken. |
10 |
| 3 | 9 |
These deep center wells, actually holes cut in the island, permit its movement, though slowly when used alone, without exposing any of its inhabitants at its edges, where they might fall easier prey to the missile weapons of foes. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
Ho-Hak still did not speak, but sat on the shell of the Vosk sorp, looking down at the weapons, mine, before him. |
10 |
| 4 | 73 |
Naked, without weapons, alone in the delta, without aid, I could not escape. |
10 |
| 6 | 84 |
Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons. |
10 |
| 7 | 199 |
"Bring me my weapons," I said to her. |
10 |
| 7 | 202 |
"Bring me my weapons," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 204 |
"And among my weapons," I said, "bring me the great bow, with its arrows". |
10 |
| 8 | 2 |
While she worked I examined my weapons. |
10 |
| 8 | 119 |
In the darkness they met one another, shouting, brandishing their weapons. |
10 |
| 8 | 141 |
When it seemed to me there was enough screaming and cursing on the barges, enough clashing of weapons and cries, I said to Telima, "It is now time to sleep". |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
We listened to the shouts and cries, the clash of weapons, the screams, carrying to us over the calm waters of the marsh. |
10 |
| 8 | 541 |
"We found food and water," said Clitus, "and some weapons, and gold". |
10 |
| 9 | 67 |
Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons. |
10 |
| 9 | 284 |
He had purchased the net in the morning, with a trident, the traditional weapons of the fisherman of the western shore and the western islands. |
10 |
| 10 | 251 |
She is famed for her vart caves, and indeed, on that island, trained varts, batlike creatures, some the size of small dogs, are used as weapons. |
10 |
| 10 | 280 |
Not only did free men render more efficient service at the oars, but, when they were given the opportunity, I found them eager to train with arms, and so hired masters to teach them weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 10 |
Outside, in the distance, through the great door, flung open, I heard cries of alarm, and the clash of weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 24 |
Then, behind him, in groups of four and five, crying out, many bleeding from wounds, weapons brandished, and sometimes bloodied, there came those captains who could. |
10 |
| 13 | 25 |
I had little doubt that he would be highly intelligent, and skilled with weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 74 |
He motioned the men behind me to resheath their weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 130 |
There was some polite striking of the left shoulder with the right hand in the room, which is a common Gorean applause, though not of the warriors, who clash weapons. |
10 |
| 14 | 248 |
Since the principal weapons of the ram-ship are the ram and shearing blades, she is most dangerous taken head on. |
10 |
| 14 | 330 |
The Dorna, by contrast, carried a free crew of two hundred and fifteen men, most of whom were well trained with weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 168 |
"I would learn weapons," he whispered. |
10 |
| 15 | 171 |
"I would learn weapons," said the boy, again, this time boldly. |
10 |
| 15 | 172 |
"Slaves are not taught weapons," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 200 |
He had often, I had heard, sneaked away from the kitchen to observe the ships in the courtyard and the practices of men with weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 215 |
"And beginning tomorrow," I said, "if his work in the kitchen improves to your satisfaction, and only under that condition, he is to be permitted one Ahn a day to train with weapons". |
10 |
| 15 | 231 |
"If you show skill with weapons," I said, "perhaps I shall change your name". |
10 |
| 15 | 237 |
"But," said I, "to have such a name, which is a proud name, one would have to handle weapons very well". |
10 |
| 15 | 244 |
That, I told myself, letting a boy train with weapons, had been a moment of weakness. |
10 |
| 15 | 257 |
I recalled how they had taken a fancy to the boy, Fish, and had helped him with his work in weapons. |
10 |
| 16 | 270 |
And, suddenly, the room was filled with cheers and more than a hundred weapons left their sheaths and saluted the Home Stone of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 16 | 273 |
And there was a belonging, and a victory, and a meaningfulness, and cries, and the clashing of weapons, and tears and, in that instant, love. |
10 |
| 16 | 427 |
"The stone!" There were great cheers, and cries, and shouts, and the lifting of torches and weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 335 |
Others were men who had been slaves, whom I had freed and trained with weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 472 |
"The men will come with weapons," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 524 |
We heard the trumpets of the attack, the running feet, the climbing, the clashing of weapons, the shouting of men. |
10 |
| 18 | 630 |
I had little doubt that having been taught the might of the great bow in the marshes, when I had freed them from the slavers in the barges, they had traded for the weapons and now had made them their own, and proudly, as much as the peasants. |
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| 18 | 632 |
Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate. |
10 |
| 18 | 646 |
We saw men throwing down their weapons and kneeling. |
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| 18 | 706 |
Ho-Hak, solemn and large, removed his weapons, dropping them to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 83 |
The engines of the ship, and its weapons, if weapons it had, must have been operated from the control room. |
10 |
| 10 | 455 |
"Don't you have weapons, powerful weapons," I asked, "with which you might kill it?" The man smiled. |
10 |
| 5 | 106 |
Frightened, I ran through the ship, wanting to find food or weapons. |
10 |
| 5 | 186 |
They carried silverish tubes, or wands, of some sort, perhaps weapons. |
10 |
| 5 | 189 |
Some of the men deployed themselves about the ship; others, carrying their weapons, entered. |
10 |
| 6 | 210 |
The men I now noted, held as I was, did not carry pistols and rifles, or even small weapons, such as my captor had had, or the silverish tubes, or wands, which had been carried by the men from the silverish ship. |
10 |
| 9 | 275 |
I could imagine her, straight in her skins and golden ornaments, with her spear and weapons, watching me. |
10 |
| 9 | 289 |
Their weapons had been discarded. |
10 |
| 9 | 337 |
Then suddenly, to my amazement, Verna cried out in anguish, a wild, moaning, anguished cry, and threw from herself her weapons and tore away her own skins and leaped into the circle, turning, and clawing and crying out like the others. |
10 |
| 9 | 366 |
At last the girls, one by one, rose from the grass, drew on again their skins, and took up their weapons. |
10 |
| 10 | 456 |
"It is unwise to carry weapons of power on the surface of Gor," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 350 |
As a warrior applies himself to the arts of his weapons, so I applied myself to the arts of the female slave, which I was. |
10 |
| 11 | 1279 |
Their weapons, for they were a goodly number of warriors from a distant state, were surrendered at the great gate, to be returned to them upon their departure. |
10 |
| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
10 |
| 12 | 297 |
Beautiful, barbaric Verna! Nothing, save her weapons, had been taken from her. |
10 |
| 13 | 772 |
His hands were large, and rough, fit for weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 368 |
By order of Rask of Treve they, by their skill in weapons and their mastery of the techniques and lore of the hunt, and pretending to be of Minus, a village under the hegemony of Ar, made petition, and successfully so, to participate in the retinue of the great Ubar". |
10 |
| 15 | 1002 |
"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared. |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 94 |
I heard more shouts, the clanking of weapons. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 280 |
"He will require food, clothing, what weapons he chooses, a room, drink". |
10 |
| 1 | 367 |
"I require weapons". |
10 |
| 3 | 191 |
I admire the skill of the leather worker with his needle, that of the potter's strong hands, that of the vintner with his wines, that of warriors with their weapons. |
10 |
| 6 | 387 |
I stood near the fire, and lifted my arms, that they might see I held no weapons. |
10 |
| 6 | 403 |
"Remove your sword belts and weapons," said the woman. |
10 |
| 6 | 426 |
With her foot she kicked the dropped weapons closer the fire, away from my men. |
10 |
| 6 | 547 |
My men leaped to their feet and seized their weapons. |
10 |
| 6 | 866 |
"Slave girls are not permitted weapons," I laughed. |
10 |
| 7 | 207 |
I stripped her of her skins, and pouch and weapons. |
10 |
| 7 | 217 |
The girl's pouch, its contents, and her weapons, I threw into the brush. |
10 |
| 8 | 1 |
We Wait in the Camp of Verna There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers. |
10 |
| 8 | 5 |
The fact that we numbered ten, including myself, and that the girls of Verna's band numbered some fifteen, and that they were skilled with their weapons, and dangerous, dictated the nature of our approach. |
10 |
| 8 | 22 |
It was to besiege the girls in their stockade, cutting them off from food and water, and merely wait until they, hungering and thirsting, following our orders, threw down their weapons, stripped themselves and emerged, backing toward us, their wrists crossed behind their backs, one by one, at interv... |
10 |
| 8 | 54 |
We would use sleen nets, casting them over more than one girl at a time, tying them together, making it impossible for them to utilize their weapons. |
10 |
| 9 | 409 |
They had set aside their weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 5 |
I carried my weapons, even the great bow, recovered from Verna's camp, days before. |
10 |
| 13 | 299 |
The men of Marlenus are, usually, exceptional in intelligence and the use of weapons. |
10 |
| 14 | 292 |
Vicious, sinuous, clawing, lithe, these savage beauties, in their skins and gold, with their knives, their light spears, weapons darting, danced. |
10 |
| 14 | 300 |
Their weapons leapt at the bound men, but never did the blows fall. |
10 |
| 14 | 309 |
The girls now put down their weapons and crowded about the bound figure of Marlenus, looking at him, inching closer, breathing heavily, not speaking. |
10 |
| 15 | 72 |
Their weapons and accouterments I threw to one side. |
10 |
| 17 | 85 |
Their clothing, weapons, pouches, everything was removed from the panther girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 25 |
They carried weapons. |
10 |
| 19 | 257 |
Then cut the skins from them, and their weapons, and then, tightly, fastened the wrists of each behind her body. |
10 |
| 19 | 410 |
"You may surrender your weapons," I told them. |
10 |
| 20 | 125 |
One of them, I saw, found her weapons. |
10 |
| 20 | 138 |
"Get your weapons!" screamed Hura. |
10 |
| 20 | 166 |
They had no weapons. |
10 |
| 20 | 179 |
He had little concern with the women, particularly inasmuch as their weapons had been destroyed, or had vanished. |
10 |
| 21 | 30 |
Slaves are not permitted weapons. |
10 |
| 21 | 143 |
"Weapons ready!" cried Marlenus. |
10 |
| 22 | 10 |
Several were armed well, with weapons taken from those of Tyros. |
10 |
| 22 | 524 |
"Return to them their weapons," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 553 |
Their weapons, too, were returned to the other men. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 27 |
Weapons are not to be carried in the temple of Priest-Kings but I had been taught, long ago, by Kamchak of the Tuchuks, at a banquet in Turia, that where weapons may not be carried, it is well to carry weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
This would now be no simple matter of policing primitive weapons, crude attempts at the art of gunnery or explosives, but of protecting themselves against perfected weapons of great technological power. |
10 |
| 18 | 654 |
Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ... |
10 |
| 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 | 99 |
The invisible barrier about the Sardar is evidence of that, and the policing, by flame death, of illegal weapons and inventions. |
10 |
| 2 | 299 |
They wore long cloaks; they carried no weapons; no shields; they wore no helmets. |
10 |
| 2 | 300 |
Weapons, I knew, were not to be carried within the temple of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 3 | 301 |
"Greetings from Ivar Forkbeard!" The men looked at him, tense, hunched over, weapons ready, angry. |
10 |
| 3 | 325 |
Then the others, agonized, unable longer to resist, scurried to the left and right, their weapons discarded, and fell to their knees snatching coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 131 |
The weapons you use best perhaps you should retain". |
10 |
| 7 | 38 |
The ax of Torvaldsland is one of the most fearful of the weapons on Gor. |
10 |
| 7 | 280 |
"Weapons!" cried the Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
I heard hands striking the left shoulders; weapons struck on shields. |
10 |
| 10 | 74 |
The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained. |
10 |
| 10 | 79 |
Each man, generally, save he in the direct hire of the Jarl, is responsible for the existence and condition of his own equipment and weapons. |
10 |
| 10 | 82 |
When the war arrow is carried, of course, all free men are to respond; in such a case the farm may suffer, and his companion and children know great hardship; in leaving his family, the farmer, weapons upon his shoulder, speaks simply to them. |
10 |
| 10 | 144 |
The free duel permits all weapons; there are no restrictions on tactics or field. |
10 |
| 10 | 206 |
"I appreciate the mad bravery," said I, "of the good fellow Thorgeir of Ax Glacier, but, as we all know, the men of Ax Glacier, being of a hospitable and peaceful sort, are unskilled in weapons". |
10 |
| 10 | 317 |
The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched... |
10 |
| 10 | 682 |
Many grasped their weapons more tightly. |
10 |
| 11 | 188 |
They carried primitive weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 250 |
Weapons were brandished. |
10 |
| 11 | 290 |
There was more angry shouting, brandishing of weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 298 |
"And tomorrow night we shall feast!" There was much cheering, much brandishing of weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
There was much cheering, much shouting, much lifting of weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 50 |
There was not one of his men who did not tense, and reach to his weapons, reassuring himself as to their readiness. |
10 |
| 13 | 37 |
About the edges of the hall hung the shields of warriors, with their weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 39 |
At night, each man would sleep in his furs behind the tables, under his weapons. |
10 |
| 13 | 297 |
Weapons were grasped. |
10 |
| 14 | 2 |
Kurii leapt down the long sides of the hall, slashing, cutting men down as they fled to their weapons. |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
More than once the blades of the Kurii axes bit through the spines of men, reaching for their weapons, and splintered, gouging, in the beams of the hall. |
10 |
| 14 | 41 |
Few men could as much as draw their weapons. |
10 |
| 14 | 90 |
Surely at least two or three hundred lay dead, most at the walls, at the foot of the walls, under the weapons which, for the most part, they had been unable to touch. |
10 |
| 14 | 94 |
The Kurii now, on both sides, stood between us and the weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 238 |
The two closest to us had left their weapons below, with the others. |
10 |
| 15 | 342 |
We loosened our weapons. |
10 |
| 16 | 152 |
At the foot of the couch were weapons; at its head, hanging on the wall, under a great shield, were two spears, crossed under it, and, to one side, a mighty sword in its scabbard. |
10 |
| 16 | 191 |
From among the weapons at the foot of the couch, from one of the cylindrical quivers, still of the sort carried in Torvaldsland, I drew forth a long, dark arrow. |
10 |
| 16 | 233 |
He sorted through the weapons there. |
10 |
| 17 | 103 |
Hundreds of sorties had penetrated the hills and valleys, burning farms, and gathering goods, generally tools and weapons, and livestock. |
10 |
| 17 | 230 |
"Loosen your weapons," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 18 | 31 |
Many were the men of Thorgard who fell beneath the teeth and steel of Kurii, and several were the Kurii who fell to the weapons of Thorgard's men, as they fought madly to defend themselves. |
10 |
| 18 | 123 |
"Free them," he said, "and give them weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 125 |
Eagerly the slaves, when their manacles had been struck away, picked up weapons and sought Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Not ten yards before the clash took place, Svein Blue Tooth and his lieutenants before the running line, as the girls, under the whips of Kurii, fled, terrified, seeing the axes, the leveled weapons, toward them, made a sign no bondmaid of the north mistakes, the belly sign. |
10 |
| 18 | 182 |
Most lay prone, trembling, as the feet shifted about them, weapons clashing over their heads. |
10 |
| 18 | 457 |
They were stripped of their helmets, belts and weapons. |
10 |
| 18 | 641 |
The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th... |
10 |
| 18 | 689 |
"They were among weapons in the loot". |
10 |
| 21 | 94 |
But as the men cried out, and cheered, and the weapons clashed on shields, I looked to a place in the hall where, mounted on a great stake, was the huge, savage head of the Kur which I had slain on the Skerry of Vars. |
10 |
| 21 | 161 |
"The weapons of my men and myself, unknown to us, before we left Tyros," said he, "were treated with a toxin of the compounding of Sullius Maximus, once a Ubar of Port Kar". |
10 |
| 22 | 36 |
There had been much shouting, much clashing of weapons. |
10 |
| 22 | 38 |
I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i... |
10 |
| 22 | 64 |
He carried a great ax, weapons, a sleenskin bag filled with gear. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 24 |
To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, r... |
10 |
| 7 | 160 |
"Unsheath your weapons," cried he to his daunted men. |
10 |
| 7 | 701 |
"Weapons?" I asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
In a normal family situation the household articles and the possessions of the women are kept on the left side of the area, and the goods of the men, blankets, weapons, and such, are kept on the right. |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
Men rushed forth from the darkness, with weapons, encircling us. |
10 |
| 11 | 380 |
The men then gathered their saddles, their weapons, the other water and goods, and their belongings. |
10 |
| 11 | 646 |
They rushed toward us, the two with sheathed scimitars last, freeing their weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 702 |
"Discard your weapons," said Tarna. |
10 |
| 12 | 678 |
"One of the guards outside the outer door," I said, "may perhaps be persuaded to loan you garments, weapons and accouterments". |
10 |
| 22 | 108 |
I took what I needed, weapons and boots and clothing from the fallen rider. |
10 |
| 23 | 116 |
The primary engagement weapons are lance and scimitar, and the primary defense is a small round buckler. |
10 |
| 24 | 878 |
Weapons are not for them, no more than for verr, tarsks, or kaiila. |
10 |
| 26 | 1274 |
There was a jangling of kaiila harness, the movement of weapons. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 674 |
I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons. |
10 |
| 2 | 1041 |
He had now, with the coming of darkness, taken up his weapons and erased the small signs of our brief camp. |
10 |
| 2 | 1178 |
I could see the weapons of the men. |
10 |
| 4 | 979 |
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein... |
10 |
| 5 | 76 |
He turned about and, with his weapons, strode from the camp. |
10 |
| 6 | 168 |
He had driven the yellow stake of claimancy into the dark soil, near the Verl, and had stood there, his weapons at hand, beside the stake, until the sun had reached the zenith and then, slowly, set. |
10 |
| 12 | 410 |
Turian soldiers ran to the walls, to seize at their weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 418 |
His men were throwing down their weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 781 |
Was this to make it difficult to conceal weapons, or to assist in their summary assessments of the catch? Or was it merely because they were raiders and we were woman? To be sure, we were slave girls, animals. |
10 |
| 16 | 220 |
Weapons were fetched, and sand and water. |
10 |
| 20 | 184 |
But when the men had disembarked, carrying their sea bags and weapons, none had stopped to stand before me. |
10 |
| 20 | 379 |
I saw he carried no weapons. |
10 |
| 22 | 120 |
Weapons reposed at the foot of the benches. |
10 |
| 22 | 124 |
Missile weapons were not readied. |
10 |
| 22 | 533 |
I heard shouting, and, on another ship, the clashing of weapons. |
10 |
| 24 | 291 |
In the hold there were many supplies, and weapons, and riches. |
10 |
| 27 | 355 |
These strictures, of course, do not deny us our weapons, or our power. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 160 |
"I, too, am skilled in weaponry," it said, "in various weapons traditional with my people, and in modern weapons, as well". |
10 |
| 1 | 6 |
My weapons lay to one side. |
10 |
| 1 | 244 |
Thurnock, and Clitus, and Publius, and Tab, and others, weapons in hand, stood at the door. |
10 |
| 1 | 248 |
I went to fetch a knife from my weapons. |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
Weapons are not permitted. |
10 |
| 5 | 112 |
I turned and seized the crossed spears of the guards, twisting and pulling them toward me, flinging them, they surprised, not swiftly enough releasing the weapons, to the tiles. |
10 |
| 5 | 118 |
Men's feet began to pound in the halls; I heard the clank of weapons. |
10 |
| 7 | 221 |
"The bolts," said the man, indicating the missiles at rest in the guides of the weapons, "are tipped with kanda. |
10 |
| 10 | 99 |
He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman. |
10 |
| 10 | 324 |
Return to me my weapons and place yourselves again in chains. |
10 |
| 10 | 348 |
Hurrying toward us we could now see some forty or fifty guardsmen, weapons at the ready. |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
I had permitted them their weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 69 |
"If you surrender now I will permit you to retain your weapons and withdraw in peace". |
10 |
| 23 | 71 |
The men hurried to their huts to gather weapons. |
10 |
| 23 | 95 |
The other men, behind me, lifting their weapons and shouting, hurried after me. |
10 |
| 23 | 96 |
The beast turned to look at us, hurrying toward him, shouting, weapons brandished. |
10 |
| 23 | 128 |
In moments the Kur would be surrounded by a swarm of men, screaming, striking at it, hurling their weapons into its body. |
10 |
| 23 | 485 |
The man then put his weapons near the rear wall of the feasting house and walked, carrying the sack he had brought with him, to the clearing on the dirt floor. |
10 |
| 27 | 252 |
"You may think that to be a warrior is to be large, or strong, and to be skilled with weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet, to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one's countenance, but these things are not truly needful; they are not, truly, w... |
10 |
| 27 | 253 |
Many men are strong, and large, and skilled with weapons. |
10 |
| 27 | 254 |
Any man might, if he dared, don the scarlet and gird himself with weapons. |
10 |
| 29 | 4 |
The weapons had carved wooden stocks, reminiscent of a time in which rifles were the work of craftsmen. |
10 |
| 30 | 66 |
But then he saw the lowered dart-projectile weapons circling him. |
10 |
| 30 | 202 |
I was then ringed with the dart-firing weapons. |
10 |
| 30 | 235 |
There were some six of the tubular weapons in evidence. |
10 |
| 30 | 241 |
I sped toward those who held the tubular weapons. |
10 |
| 30 | 246 |
Two of the tubular weapons clattered down. |
10 |
| 30 | 252 |
More men fell, struggling to rise and draw their weapons. |
10 |
| 30 | 273 |
A steel dart, fired from one of the riflelike weapons, caromed about the steel walls, and then suddenly, twisting about, wheeling end over end, burst between the tiers and the wall, leaving an explosive scar of blackened metal in the wall, a foot long, and scattering about a shower of flaming splint... |
10 |
| 30 | 282 |
Another man I saw groping for one of the dart-firing weapons, it fallen on the tiers. |
10 |
| 30 | 290 |
I threw myself to the sand and, dropping the sword, rolling, seized up one of the weapons. |
10 |
| 32 | 64 |
"Electrical equipment, explosives, weapons, supplies, vehicles," it said. |
10 |
| 32 | 165 |
"I am not fond of modern weapons," it said. |
10 |
| 35 | 11 |
Yet two weapons had been discharged. |
10 |
| 35 | 12 |
The tubular weapons discharge with a hiss. |
10 |
| 35 | 63 |
I gathered in the two weapons which they had carried. |
10 |
| 35 | 86 |
I stepped back and depressed the firing switch on one of the tubular weapons. |
10 |
| 35 | 115 |
"Here," I said, handing Imnak one of the tubular weapons, and several of the darts from the bag which I carried. |
10 |
| 35 | 344 |
Each carried one of the dart-firing weapons. |
10 |
| 35 | 995 |
I saw several of the dart-firing weapons in the room, indeed a crate filled with them, on small wheels. |
10 |
| 35 | 1010 |
"I took what women, and weapons, and things, I could," said Imnak. |
10 |
| 35 | 1064 |
We stood back, dart-firing weapons ready. |
10 |
| 35 | 1094 |
A few cowered, their weapons discarded, herded together by domesticated snow sleen, ravening and vicious, on the leashes of their red masters. |
10 |
| 35 | 1102 |
Imnak handed the dart-firing weapons to some of them, hastily explaining their use. |
10 |
| 35 | 1135 |
Imnak explained to some of them the nature of the dart-firing weapons. |
10 |
| 35 | 1213 |
But there had been too many red hunters, and too many weapons. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 141 |
The wall on the rowing frame, of course, tends to protect the oarsmen against high seas and the fire of missile weapons. |
10 |
| 16 | 63 |
There was, as far as I knew, nothing on Gor to compare with it except, of course, the advanced technological equipment at the disposal of the Priest-Kings and Kurii, equipment of a sort generally forbidden, in the weapons and communication laws, to most Gorean humans. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
Askaris about us were lifting their weapons over their heads and shouting with pleasure. |
10 |
| 24 | 170 |
We had placed weapons in the canoe, the shields and stabbing spears from the two askaris, and some spears and another shield, from the raiders. |
10 |
| 34 | 3 |
It swerved, slashing with its curved tusks, and I only managed to turn it aside with the point of the raider's spear I carried, one of four such weapons we had had since our brief skirmish with raiders, that in which we had obtained our canoe, that which had occurred in the marsh east of Ushindi. |
10 |
| 34 | 16 |
It is not simply a matter of reduced visibility but it is also a matter of obtaining free play for one's weapons. |
10 |
| 43 | 74 |
She is not to be permitted to conceal weapons. |
10 |
| 45 | 10 |
Her weapons were at the side of the hut. |
10 |
| 46 | 3 |
The talunas, more than forty of them, plunged after us, brandishing their weapons, in hot pursuit. |
10 |
| 52 | 134 |
"Why do you think I adopted the stabbing spear for my soldiers?" "We have such weapons!" cried Kisu. |
10 |
| 52 | 135 |
We had two such weapons. |
10 |
| 53 | 324 |
Four others might then, swarming upon the beast, drive their weapons repeatedly into it. |
10 |
| 53 | 376 |
Weapons clashed at the line of war. |
10 |
| 56 | 13 |
Both Mwoga and Kisu had now removed these tiny strips from their weapons. |
10 |
| 56 | 48 |
Kisu handed his weapons to one of the villagers. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 617 |
I had heard men nearby, the sound of weapons. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 |
Even the crew, other than oarsmen, their weapons ready, had congregated there. |
10 |
| 4 | 149 |
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound... |
10 |
| 10 | 109 |
I wondered how many of the hands of the fellows, mostly of Ar's Station, tensed on their oars in the Tuka, anticipating the reach below their benches to where their weapons lay concealed. |
10 |
| 12 | 144 |
Already pirates, their weapons discarded, were kneeling before our men. |
10 |
| 16 | 7 |
I heard weapons unsheathed and clashed. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
Almost at that very moment, from the seemingly deserted buildings of Victoria, running and screaming, charging, brandishing an incredible assortment of chains, tools and weapons, there issued hundreds of the outraged citizens of Victoria. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
I saw pirates throwing down their weapons, and kneeling on the wharf. |
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| 16 | 197 |
They were waving and brandishing their weapons. |
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| 20 | 212 |
"I have carried weapons," I said. |
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| 20 | 405 |
"Free men fight with weapons," said Miles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 488 |
"Now, if one of these beasts were to touch the hand, or paw, of another, the hand, or paw, of each being open, indicating that weapons were not held, that the touch was in peace, at how many points would contact be made?" "At six," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 513 |
The symbolism of the creature's action, the lifting of weapons, and then the setting aside of them, was clear. |
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| 1 | 778 |
That such beasts, on this world, carried primitive weapons was a tribute to their fear of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 779 |
Carrying such weapons they might be mistaken for beasts of their race who now, for all practical purposes, were native to Gor, beasts descended from individuals perhaps long ago marooned or stranded on the planet. |
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| 1 | 781 |
They are permitted to live as they will, where they may, on Gor, following even their ancient laws and customs, providing these do not violate the Weapons Laws and Technology Restrictions. |
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| 1 | 1202 |
From him they derive not only food, but clothing and shelter, tools and weapons". |
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| 5 | 4 |
The men, some afoot, some on kaiila, with the clank of weapons and the rattle of accouterments, filed past me. |
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| 5 | 9 |
They wore various uniforms, and parts of uniforms, and carried an assortment of weapons. |
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| 9 | 108 |
I checked my weapons. |
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| 12 | 29 |
"I see no kaiila," I said to Grunt, "no weapons. |
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| 14 | 1193 |
The red savages, I speculated, if they wished, with their numbers, and their unity, conjoined with an approximate technological parity in weapons, should be able to hold the Barrens indefinitely against white intrusion. |
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| 15 | 37 |
"Do not reach for your weapons," said Grunt. |
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| 17 | 178 |
"In a moment, then, behind us, suddenly, rising from the grass, on foot, screaming, brandishing weapons, there arose, it seemed, hundreds of savages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 11 |
"Weapons! Get weapons!" cried Hci. |
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| 42 | 64 |
What need had he of weapons who controlled the medicine of Wakanglisapa? And what medicine or weapons might hope to prevail against it? Unfortunately, when the leader had drawn back his tarn he had seemed to do so more in surprise than fear. |
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| 1 | 188 |
One's weapons could be broken. |
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| 2 | 376 |
"Let us destroy his lodge and break his weapons. |
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| 3 | 78 |
I could see the marks of various weapons in the bark of the tree where, perhaps two or three days ago, the young men had charged to it, to be the first to reach it, in their race for coups. |
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| 3 | 138 |
Scarlet bands, in number from one to five, are commonly used by Kaiila warriors to mark their weapons, in particular their lances and arrows. |
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| 21 | 56 |
"My weapons are there. |
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| 22 | 30 |
"Where are my weapons?" I asked Wasnapohdi. |
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| 25 | 149 |
We adjusted our weapons. |
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| 26 | 69 |
Such blades, of course, are infantry weapons. |
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| 26 | 72 |
They are long enough to outreach a dagger-armed opponent and short enough, and maneuverable enough, to work their way, beating and thrusting, behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons. |
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| 27 | 27 |
Still others spoke to their shields and weapons, telling them what would be expected of them. |
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| 28 | 129 |
It is difficult for a naked woman to conceal weapons. |
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| 28 | 315 |
This type of formation is generally not useful against an enemy which is protected by breastworks, pits or stakes, or a settled infantry, its long pikes set, fixed butt down in the turf, the weapons oriented diagonally, the points trained on the breasts of the approaching mounts. |
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| 37 | 259 |
Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the... |
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| 40 | 295 |
We loosened our weapons. |
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| 42 | 63 |
I did not reach for weapons. |
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| 42 | 72 |
I then, to my dismay, saw the five riders freeing their weapons. |
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| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
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| 45 | 16 |
Hci, Cuwignaka and I, then, leaving our weapons at the lodges, dropped down to our hands and knees and then, in a few moments, to our bellies, crawling forward. |
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| 46 | 54 |
Their small bows, generally so ideal for their purposes, so advantaged in rapidity of fire, so useful from the back of a racing kaiila, lacked the driving power, naturally enough, of heavier weapons. |
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| 46 | 173 |
Our weapons and shields slung about us we then climbed these ropes to the height of the escarpment. |
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| 47 | 119 |
My weapons were handed to me. |
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| 47 | 218 |
I had slung my weapons about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 9 |
"I have no weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 129 |
The checking of the weapons is accomplished as follows: One surrenders the weapons and the guard, in turn, tears a ticket in two, placing one half with the weapons and giving you the other half. |
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| 2 | 115 |
We had checked our weapons before entering the piazza. |
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| 2 | 124 |
I myself had voted in the council for the checking of weapons before entering the piazza during carnival. |
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| 2 | 131 |
In reclaiming the weapons one matches the halves, both with respect to division and number. |
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| 2 | 1263 |
I would go to my holding; I would make arrangements; I would obtain weapons, moneys, letters of credit. |
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| 2 | 1736 |
I turned to proceed to the check point where I would turn in my numbered receipt and reclaim my weapons. |
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| 4 | 269 |
"He enters the alcove, puts aside his weapons," she mused, "and then my men, in the small quarters, he confined on three sides, set upon him". |
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| 5 | 149 |
What if he does not immediately put aside his weapons?" "I do not understand," she said. |
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| 5 | 359 |
While she was doing this I disarmed the guards, slinging their weapons about my shoulder. |
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| 5 | 373 |
These weapons I carry, too, save for those I reserve for my own use, I shall give to skillful, worthy fellows. |
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| 7 | 412 |
To be sure, there was little there but a bedroll, some supplies and weapons, purchased at the fair. |
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| 7 | 414 |
Such things, I feared, might mark me as one to be reckoned with, or watched, one perhaps familiar with weapons. |
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| 8 | 356 |
"I found it nearby in the woods, when I returned to my camp, to fetch weapons, a few Ehn ago". |
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| 12 | 140 |
"I cannot so much as touch the pieces of the game without permission without risking having my hands cut off, or being killed, no more than weapons". |
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| 14 | 18 |
I saw the menacing movement of weapons. |
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| 14 | 474 |
I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments... |
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| 16 | 60 |
"Doubtless filled with weapons," surmised Petrucchio, twirling the fearsome mustache. |
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| 16 | 596 |
"It was hard to make out, for all the shouting and the clashing of weapons. |
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| 16 | 697 |
"But you have no weapons," said Petrucchio. |
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| 16 | 709 |
"Are they efficient weapons?" inquired Petrucchio, shuddering. |
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| 18 | 355 |
Weapons were drawn. |
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| 20 | 248 |
Even if they had been regrouped and set, the distance was so short and the attack of the beast so precipitous and swift that there had been no time to align their weapons in a practical, properly angled, defensive perimeter. |
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| 20 | 251 |
Then another, and another, to scattering men, to wildly striking weapons, and then the last! "Behind the ubar's box!" said the beast to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 39 |
In my wallet was a scrap of paper with a number on it, a number which matched another, that left with my weapons, left behind near the weapons table, that set up at the entrance of the camp. |
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| 1 | 297 |
I gathered my shield and weapons from the grass near us, where they lay with my pack. |
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| 3 | 162 |
"You own your own weapons?" he asked. |
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| 3 | 168 |
If one owns one's own weapons, of course, one need not be armed at the expense of the company. |
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| 3 | 169 |
Too, if one owns one's own weapons, it may usually be fairly assumed that one knows how to use them. |
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| 3 | 201 |
Most impressive to me, perhaps, was Dietrich of Tarnburg's coordination of air and ground forces, and his transposition of certain techniques and weapons of siege warfare to the field. |
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| 3 | 342 |
It is not difficult to infiltrate spies into mercenary troops, incidentally, where the men come from different backgrounds, castes and cities, and little is asked of them other than their ability to handle weapons and obey orders. |
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| 9 | 51 |
In a moment, in a rush of bodies and blue, with the sound of weapons, the Cosian contingent had swept by. |
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| 12 | 3 |
I heard no clash of weapons. |
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| 12 | 23 |
If one does not know what is occurring, it is sometimes wise to find out before leaping up, perhaps into the weapons of enemies who might be as close as one's elbow. |
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| 13 | 34 |
We had surrendered our weapons at the entrance to the wagon camp, as, in the company of Mincon, we had left it a few Ehn ago. |
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| 13 | 35 |
A strict weapons control had been instituted in Torcadino. |
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| 15 | 221 |
"Their weapons were seized. |
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| 15 | 779 |
"My weapons, and goods," I asked, "and those of my party?" "Give the receipts, yours and those of your friends, to the officer outside," he said. |
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| 16 | 1008 |
"I have had your weapons, and other things, brought," he said. |
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| 16 | 1412 |
Such concealed compartments and weapons, and sometimes even builders' glasses, sun chronometers, and compasses, and such, are found in such objects. |
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| 26 | 625 |
It is regarded as constituting a violation of the Weapons Laws imposed on Goreans by Priest-Kings. |
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| 26 | 1669 |
Some warriors enter battle with no more than their battle straps, and their shield, helmet, and weapons. |
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| 26 | 2014 |
But it is also an arsenal of wiles, of cunning weapons and dangerous devices, of misdirections and subtleties, of snares and traps. |
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| 29 | 101 |
Too, none of the men had lowered their spears or drawn their weapons. |
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| 29 | 108 |
Surely he realized men do not lightly surrender their weapons. |
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| 29 | 110 |
I wondered if it were his intent to encourage such a movement on my part, in order that this might provide a plausible, legitimizing circumstance for the employment of their own weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 947 |
I pretended to shrink down within myself, to desire to crouch down, and conceal and cover my nudity, but then I straightened up, fearfully, as though I had heard commands to desist in such absurdities, and then I extended my hands to the sides, to various sides, as though pleading for mercy, to be r... |
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| 20 | 168 |
Weapons were then laid aside, and peace pledged. |
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| 25 | 203 |
Still I did not doubt that Aulus could handle weapons. |
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| 26 | 91 |
"Some of them can handle weapons. |
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| 29 | 240 |
Do not draw your weapons. |
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| 29 | 1564 |
I think they, even Gorean girls, in a culture where the knife and sword were familiar, common weapons, had never seen anything like this. |
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| 29 | 1586 |
He motioned Callisthenes and Sempronius away from their weapons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 354 |
Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among Priest-Kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, the rumbling of their chariots, the trampl... |
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| 1 | 413 |
Too, it makes it difficult to conceal weapons. |
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| 1 | 423 |
The stripping of prisoners of war, if it is done, is generally a temporary matter, having to do with marking them out, as many Gorean soldiers, particularly mercenaries, do not have distinctive uniforms, and preventing the concealment of weapons. |
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| 4 | 61 |
It is thought to be very bad form, incidentally, to carry weapons in the baths, and, in large public baths, they must often be checked upon entry. |
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| 6 | 58 |
I do not think it is a good idea for women to carry such weapons, incidentally. |
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| 8 | 16 |
It seemed he might hesitate a moment, but he took in my appearance, the blue of Cos, the insignia of the mercenaries of Artemidorus, the helmet, my weapons, indeed, two swords. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 341 |
Those weapons, if weapons they were, were no longer at our disposal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 331 |
They were weapons such that with them man might meet man, weapons requiring closure, and risk, weapons requiring skill and courage, not engineer's weapons, not weapons with which the pretentious, petty, effete and craven might effortlessly outmatch and overcome the might of heroes, surpass and vanqu... |
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| 13 | 693 |
"What weapons have we, we, in our collars? Our weapons are our intelligence, our beauty, our body. |
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| 27 | 884 |
"If you would have your captain live," cried Arconious, "throw down your weapons, and be on your way!" "Throw down your weapons!" cried he who was held by Arconious. |
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| 28 | 332 |
Yes, they were different weapons from those with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar, but she suspected that here, on this world, he would learn them, such weapons, and perhaps master them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 23 |
The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont... |
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| 13 | 93 |
The men about put their weapons to the ground, the weapons facing away from him, as though he might be ringed with points arranged to defend him, or to be directed by him. |
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| 19 | 75 |
The larl did not understand of course the menace of the power weapons, and their scope, so unlike single arrows, weapons which might have transformed him in a moment into a little more than a mound of burned meat, like a small mountain, smoking and bubbling, beneath a descending, gentle scattering o... |
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| 40 | 129 |
With power weapons, Gor, and Earth, might be broken into fragments, each too small to hold an atmosphere, but here an atmosphere may be the more easily lost, escaping through vast ruptures, ruptures easily consequent upon the charges of the larger power weapons". |
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| 60 | 97 |
"We brought concealed weapons to the theater of death, and when they readied their weapons, to fire upon us, it was we who first fired, and attacked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 7 |
Indeed, the common Gorean warrior tended to hold the bow, even the peasant bow, in contempt, as weapons unworthy of the hand of a warrior, whose proper weapons were the shield, spear, and sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 6 |
A weapons inventory had been ordered for the loyal armsmen, and all weapons more serious than daggers were to be put into the great dojo, or training house, to be counted. |
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