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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	201	I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases.
3	168	Indeed, the largest part of my education was to be in arms, mostly training in the spear and sword.
3	183	My training in the short, stabbing sword of the Goreans was as thorough as they could make it.
3	187	During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest.
3	189	He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing.
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.
4	144	At his feet lay a helmet, shield, spear, and sword.
4	156	About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head.
4	161	"Is it to that city that you pledge your life, your honor, and your sword?" asked my father.
5	2	My shield and spear were secured by saddle straps; my sword was slung over my shoulder.
5	161	sword and tarn-goad met in a ringing clash and a shower of glittering yellow sparks.
5	171	I had no time to think, but somehow I was aware that my sword was now in my hand and the tarn-goad thrust in my belt.
6	44	I drew my sword from its sheath, to cut the mounting ladder from the saddle, but stopped, and angrily drove the blade back into its sheath.
6	139	In an instant I had splashed into the marsh at the foot of the tree and raced toward the tharlarion, my sword raised.
6	146	It snapped again, and I knelt, the jaws passing over me as I thrust upward with the sword, piercing the neck.
6	153	I bent down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade.
6	154	Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.
6	161	Exhausted, I sat with my back against the tree, my hand never leaving the hilt of my sword.
6	166	I leaped to my feet, sword ready.
7	10	She kept her eyes on my sword, as if she expected me to strike her down if she turned her back.
7	110	I tried to reach her with my sword belt, but it was too short.
7	220	The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt.
8	1	I Acquire a Companion I lunged forward, but was checked by the point of the officer's sword.
8	21	The officer prodded me with the sword.
8	34	He jabbed me with his sword.
8	49	The officer sheathed his sword, not taking his eyes from Talena, who drew back.
8	64	He struggled furiously, his hands trying to pry apart my fingers, his sword slipping from the sheath.
8	68	Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger.
8	71	Talena, naked, still held the bloody sword, her eyes glassy with the horror of what she had done.
8	72	"Drop the sword," I commanded harshly, fearing it would occur to her to strike me with it.

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	82	The other warrior lunged at me with his sword and I side-stepped the stroke and seized the wrist of his sword arm.
19	158	The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" But I knew then that I would not ...
2	13	From them, if this were true, I could gather my bearings for Ko-ro-ba, that city of cylinders to which, years ago, I had pledged my sword.
2	55	My Home Stone was the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.
2	57	In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans.
2	81	I donned the helmet, and slung the shield and sword over my left shoulder.
4	89	Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free.
4	90	Then, as sleen hunters do, for luck, and because I was hungry, I took my sword and cut through the fur of the animal and ate the heart.
5	78	"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said, "throw yourself upon your sword".
5	81	"Throw yourself upon your sword," he begged.
5	112	I stood beside the grave, and drew my sword.
5	115	"No, I shall not throw myself upon my sword.
5	117	I lifted the sword toward the valley where Ko-ro-ba had stood.
5	118	"Long ago," I said, "I pledged this sword to the service of Ko-ro-ba.
5	123	I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains.
6	80	He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room.
7	5	I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion.
7	11	Now my sword stood between him and my body.
7	72	My sword was free of its sheath.
7	120	I felt my hand clench on the hilt of my sword.
7	125	I replaced the sword in my sheath, shattered, helpless.
9	106	I leaned my shield and spear against the wall, set the helmet beside the table, unslung the sword belt, laying the weapon across the table before me, and prepared to wait.
11	159	He drew his sword.
19	41	"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind.
20	1	The Invisible Barrier In my hand I held a sword, taken from one of the guardsmen in the mines.
20	18	The sword itself, of course, was gone.
20	23	I thrust my weapon into the empty scabbard, buckled the sword belt and, in the Gorean fashion, looped it over my left shoulder.
20	63	But so far there has been no military victory of Ar over other cities and, accordingly, free of the sword, the Initiates of each city regard themselves as supreme within their own walls.
21	1	I Buy a Girl Out from my scabbard leaped the sword and I splashed across the cold stream, making for the grove of trees across the way.
21	17	I thrust my sword back in the scabbard and took off my helmet.

Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	98	Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword.
2	130	I loosened my sword in its sheath and continued upwards.
2	131	At last I came to the bend in the path and braced myself for the sudden bolt about that corner in which I must cry aloud to startle them and in the same instant cast my spear at the nearest larl and set upon the other with my drawn sword.
4	82	"I shall keep my sword," I said.
4	155	Then seized by an impulse I sat myself down on the great throne in the Hall of Priest-Kings, drew my sword and placed it across my knees.
6	97	I buckled on my sword.
7	73	I spun quickly about, drawing my sword in the same motion.
7	79	Slowly, very slowly, I drew the sword, taking care that it made no sound as it left its sheath.
7	100	And so I uttered the war cry of Ko-ro-ba and leaped, sword ready, to face what might follow me.
7	107	Angrily I stood alone in the passageway in the dimmed light of its energy bulbs, my unused sword grasped futilely in my hand.
7	111	Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would ...
7	120	I resheathed my sword and returned to Vika's chamber.
8	78	I drew my sword.
8	80	She leaped from the stone couch and ran to me, seizing my sword arm, but with my left hand I flung her back and she fell stumbling back against the side of the stone couch.
8	82	Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks.
8	84	I resheathed my sword and wiped my face with the back of my forearm.
9	230	I drew my sword and turned.
10	51	The floor seemed to drop beneath me and my hand grasped my sword.
10	53	I resheathed my sword.
10	73	I reached for my sword.
10	77	My hand left the sword hilt and I wiped the sweat from my palm on my tunic.
11	77	I drew my sword and faced Sarm.
11	106	"I'm sorry," I said to Sarm, resheathing my sword.
12	19	"Is it your intention," I asked, "that I should be so shaved and clad?" My hand was on my sword hilt.
12	43	* * * * "Your sword," said Misk, extending one foreleg down to me.
12	46	For some reason I unbuckled the sword belt and reluctantly handed the weapon to Misk.
12	51	I had been pacing back and forth in the long room, nervous without the feel of the sword steel at my thigh.
14	89	I did not even have a sword, and I was sure that, in any battle with Priest-Kings, I would constitute but a moment's work for their fierce mandibles and the bladed, hornlike projections on their forelegs.
16	14	"If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".
18	174	"Then give me my sword," I said, "and take me to him".

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	52	To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide s...
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, ...
26	389	He draws his sword only in the name of gold, but I expect that now, Saphrar dead, those who employed the merchant may need new agents for their work—and that they will pay the price of a sword such as that of Ha-Keel".
1	66	I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear.
4	15	I retained my sword.
4	69	I went to him and set the point of the Gorean short sword at his heart.
7	192	I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword.
7	195	"Put your sword away and sit down," said Kamchak.
7	242	"Please, please, please!" My hand was on the hilt of my sword, but Kamchak's hand rested on mine.
10	437	Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword.
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	450	The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is mor...
10	458	"The sword," he repeated.
10	461	"The sword," he said, yet again.
10	463	"But how would I, a poor Tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia".
10	495	"I have always wondered," he said, "what it would be like to hold a sword".
10	497	"I will choose the sword," said Kamchak.
10	535	In the last moment I cried out to Kamchak, "For the sake of Priest-Kings, hold the weapon thus!" trying to teach him the simplest of the commoner grips for the hilt of the short sword, permitting a large degree of both retention and flexibility.
10	542	Kamchak was looking at the edge of his sword, turning it about, apparently noting with pleasure the play of sunlight on the blade.
10	555	In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow.
10	560	His sword was in front of his face, apparently blocking his vision.
10	568	Once again, expertly, the sun flashed from the sword of Kamchak in his eyes.
10	569	In terror Kamras blinked and shook his head, thrashing about wearily with his sword.
10	576	Kamras tried to lift his sword but the boot of Kamchak pressed it into the sand, and Kamras lifted his eyes to look dazed into the scarred, inscrutable countenance of the Tuchuk.
10	577	Kamchak's sword was at his throat.
10	579	In that time of the guards of Ar I became First sword".
10	582	Rather he threw the sword he carried into the sand and though he threw it easily it slipped through almost to the hilt.
12	506	He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains.
16	19	I followed him, armed with quiva and sword.
16	183	"You may ask," said Ha-Keel, "how it is that I, a tarnsman of Ar, ride for merchants and traitors on the southern plains?" "It saddens me," I said, "that a sword that was once raised in defense of Ar is raised now only by the beck and call of gold".

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to ...
22	555	A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veer...
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had ...
1	51	He picked up his short sword in its scabbard, his helmet and his shield.
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.
2	57	Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table.
2	130	"Yes, Master," he said, "yes!" "Then you have money," said Kuurus, and stood up behind the table, slinging the sheath of the short sword about his shoulder.
2	133	"There are four of us," said another, putting his hand on his sword.
2	148	No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table.
2	149	Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the ot...
2	155	Once more the short sword lay at his right hand on the table.
2	158	The right hand of Kuurus now lay on the hilt of the short sword.
2	169	The short sword moved from the sheath.
2	233	"Why did you come to speak with me?" "I would hire a sword such as yours," said Portus.
2	312	"I gather," said Kuurus, "that you wish to hire my sword, that you may in some degree protect yourself from the men and the plans of the house of which you have spoken".
2	318	"I shall permit my sword to be hired," said Kuurus.
3	22	The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces,...
3	205	I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield.
4	1	Cernus "Place your first sword before me," I said, "that I may kill him".
4	11	"I am the first sword in the House of Cernus," said Cernus.
4	21	"I have come," I said, "to rent my sword to the House of Cernus".
4	24	"It is understood by me," said Cernus, evidently relaying certain reports which had reached him, "that Portus, of the House of Portus, sought to hire your sword in vain".
4	104	"I now see," said Cernus, "that there is more reason than I suspected in your desire to rent your sword in this house".
4	110	"As you presumably know these are difficult times in Ar, and a good sword is a good investment, and steel in these days is upon occasion more valuable than gold".
4	114	"But for the time," he said, "it is valuable for me simply for it to be known that your sword is in this house".
4	125	I tensed slightly, my hand dropping to the hilt of the short sword.
5	15	In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
5	50	She knelt and watched me as I took one of the thongs and sat cross-legged by the door, and split it carefully over the edge of my sword.
5	88	"Alexander," she remarked, smiling, "cut it with his sword".
5	503	My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Old...

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	3	I wore at my side a jeweled sword, no longer the sword I had worn for the long years when I had served Priest-Kings.
17	391	As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist.
1	16	I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight...
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 t...
2	46	It was pointless to unsheath my sword, or to take up a weapon.
3	39	Ho-Hak looked at the garb of the warrior, the helmet and shield, the sword with its scabbard, and the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, with its roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
6	41	I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loop...
6	47	The tall, bearded officer, sword drawn, stood silently near him.
6	145	He struck down at me with the double-edged sword.
6	149	I seized up his sword.
6	162	A spear flashed towards me but tangled in the net in which my sword had been enmeshed.
6	164	Before the man who had thrust with the spear had his sword half from its sheath I was on him.
6	180	Spitting teeth, his face a mask of blood, he tried to draw his sword.
6	215	Then he was running forward, sword at the ready.
8	5	I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple...
8	129	And then I heard the clash of sword steel, wildly, blindly.
8	137	I whispered to Telima to bring the rence craft in again, and put down my bow, taking out the steel sword.
8	189	In my scabbard was the short sword, carried even at the siege of Ar.
8	237	But many had apparently died of wounds inflicted with spear and sword.
8	246	And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge.
8	411	I held the blade of the short sword at her throat.
8	569	Then, resheathing my sword, I eased her, wrists still bound, down the prow, until her feet at last stood on the rail, on which, beside her, I stood.
9	255	At my side I wore a sword of steel.
11	28	I resheathed my sword.
11	314	He stood before the thrones of the Ubars, before even the large table, which now, on its upper face, was marked by sword cuts and the apertures splintered open by the passage of crossbow quarrels earlier this afternoon.
11	339	Lysias, his body rigid with fury, his hand on the hilt of his sword, stood not speaking before Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.
11	375	In fury, with a shout of rage, Eteocles, cloak swirling, his hand on the hilt of his sword, strode to the table.
11	376	He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table.
13	403	He had a drawn sword in his hand.
13	421	I held out my hand and the officer placed his sword in it, hilt first.

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	905	The men then removed their sword belts, holding the short swords and scabbards in their left hand, the belts in their right.
8	910	I was suddenly stung, smartly, with the fierce slap of a sword belt.
8	921	Suddenly there were three more sharp slaps of the sword belts and, crying out, protesting, begging for mercy, laughing, we leapt to our feet to busy ourselves.
11	1120	Men feared his sword.
12	679	Now Haakon of Skjern stood in the stirrups of the tarn saddle, and waved his sword toward the wagons.
13	860	With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering i...
13	864	Then my captor again had his sword in his grip, but the other dragged his tarn upward, cursing, and its long, curved talons raked downwards, clutching for us.
13	883	I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped.
14	721	Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields.
17	293	Too, there was a young, beautiful girl, named Vina, the woman of a slender, strong youth, a seaman, whose name was Henrius, said to be a master of the sword.
17	369	He held a drawn sword.
17	484	When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba.
18	17	What should I do? What can I do? My old sword, the blade carried even as long ago as the siege of Ar, hangs still in my chambers, in its worn scabbard.
18	54	I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my ...

Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	98	In my hand I held my sword, in its sheath, the sword belt wrapped about the sheath.
2	119	I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head.
1	128	"Do you care to dispute these matters with the sword?" I asked.
1	358	"And, too," said Rim, "prior to my retiring to the Torian room, I would appreciate a sword, with sheath, a knife, and a bow, the great bow, with arrows".
2	36	There was a steel sword at his side.
2	129	I now slung the sword over my left shoulder, in the Gorean fashion.
2	148	"Shall we discuss the matter with the sword?" he asked Arn.
3	203	Sometimes disputes, which otherwise might be settled only by ax or sword, are willingly surrendered to a game of Kaissa, if only for the joy of engaging in the game.
4	321	I fastened the sword, with the sheath straps, to my belt.
6	403	"Remove your sword belts and weapons," said the woman.
6	404	I dropped my belt, with sword and sheath, and knife, to the ground, beside the fire.
9	156	"His hand on the hilt of his sword," said Mira, "and his other hand on the medallion of Ar, his daughter was disowned".
10	172	Each of them is a known man, a sword companion, one of glorious Ar".
12	187	Over my left shoulder, slung, was sword and scabbard.
13	59	White-faced, he threw down his sword.
13	62	"No!" "The sword?" I asked.
13	64	"No, not the sword," said he.
13	112	I removed the sword from my sheath.
13	369	I carried sword, sleen knife, and bow with quiver.
16	278	Sarus slew the man himself, with his sword, but he, Sarus, did not then move to strike the slaves.
18	54	No one, after I had felled the first who had dared to lift his sword to such a purpose, had dared to threaten a slave.
18	536	He held an exposed sword.
18	543	With the blade of his sword the fellow lifted her head, and turned it from side to side.
18	545	He sheathed his sword and, by the hair, pulled her to her feet and faced her to the fire.
18	595	He unbuckled his sword belt and dropped it to the side.
19	66	I carried only my sword, in its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced.
19	457	"Once, on the sands of an arena in Ar, we fought, as sword companions".
20	96	I thrust my sword into the dirt at my feet, and held the spear.
20	99	I seized again my sword, and moved again, to one side, mixing in the shadows.
20	140	I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft.

Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	251	Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
11	90	He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double...
1	26	He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not c...
7	118	"How do you like it, Thyri," asked he, "to find that you are now a girl whose belly lies beneath the sword?" "It lies not beneath your sword," she snapped.
1	29	I had won her from him by sword right.
1	107	He had sullied the sword, the honor, which he had pledged to Ko-ro-ba's Home Stone.
1	109	For such an act there was no atonement, even to the throwing of one's body upon one's own sword.
1	218	"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar".
1	311	"Are you aware," I asked, "that against you, on his sword and on the medallion of Ar, Marlenus swore the oath of disownment?" "I do not believe it," she said.
1	320	Samos' sword was in his hand, thrust under the collar of her garment, ready to thrust in and lift, parting the garment, causing the robes to fall to either side, about her then naked body.
1	435	"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar".
1	443	Marlenus, protecting his honor, on his sword and upon the medallion of the Ubar, had sworn her from him.
1	677	The sword was brought.
2	27	Sometimes, too, the religion of the Priest-Kings, under the control of the Initiates, utilizing secular rulers, was propagated by fire and sword.
2	50	He was said to be fearless, and mighty, swift with sword and ax, fond of jokes, a deep drinker, a master of pretty wenches, and a madman.
2	328	Such men, from boyhood, in harsh games, had learned to run, to leap, to swim, to throw the spear, to wield the sword, to wield the ax, to stand against steel, even bloodied, unflinching.
3	26	At his throat was the point of the sword of Port Kar.
3	81	I sheathed my sword.
3	305	The sword, when carried, and it often is, is commonly supported in its own belt, looped over the left shoulder, which is, it might be mentioned, the common Gorean practice.
3	307	It is called the master belt, doubtless, to distinguish it from the ax belt and the sword belt, and because it is, almost always, worn.
6	144	"Your sword is too tiny," said he.
6	214	In the north, the bondmaid is sometimes referred to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword.
6	260	"I see, Thyri," said he, "that you are now a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword".
9	358	Suddenly she was flung on her back and his huge hand, roughened from the hilt of the sword, the handle of the ax, was at her body.
10	70	I carried my short sword.
10	75	Should she, lying on her back, look back and up, she sees, on the wall, the shield, the helmet, the spear and ax, the sword, in its sheath, of her master.
10	76	They are visible symbols of the force by which she is kept in bondage, by which she is kept only a girl, whose belly is beneath his sword.
10	77	Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo...
10	78	At the Thing, to which each free man must come, unless he works his farm alone and cannot leave it, each man must present, for the inspection of his Jarl's officer, a helmet, shield and either sword or ax or spear, in good condition.
10	80	A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perh...

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	327	I removed my hand from the sword hilt.
1	597	I had, two months ago, returned from Torvaldsland, where I had attended to certain matters of the sword.
2	67	The short sword, now slung over my left shoulder, in the common fashion, would be of little use on kaiila back.
3	119	"You do not handle a sword like a merchant," smiled Farouk of Kasra.
25	77	Hassan sheathed his sword.
26	313	When Talena, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ar, had, in a missive to him, begged her freedom, he had, on his sword and on the medallion of Ar, sworn against her the oath of disownment.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	271	He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots.
2	332	A chained slave girl, whose beauty might belong to him who was the most strong, or most powerful, to him with the swiftest sword, or to the highest bidder? He pointed to me.
2	489	He faced the stranger now, sword drawn.
2	490	The instant he had missed the thrust he had left the weapon, spinning and unsheathing his sword.
2	495	With a cry of rage the bearded man rushed upon him, thrusting with his shield, his sword flat and low.
2	499	The stranger's sword was at his left armpit.
2	501	The stranger's sword moved.
2	662	I heard the sword slip free from his sheath.
2	665	I felt the sword, with an easy movement, as though meeting no resistance, sever the binding on my ankles.
2	846	He was putting a thin coating of oil on the blade of his sword.
2	862	He resheathed the sword.
2	945	He slung his sword, in its scabbard, over his shoulder.
2	1132	He retained the shield, as he did the spear, the sword.
3	189	One man worked on the scabbard of his sword with a small, fine tool.
3	534	One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her.
3	797	He unslung his gear, his sword belt, with weapon and scabbard, and the dagger belt, and, wrapping them in soft leather, put them to one side.
5	200	sword loyalty is a bond of fidelity sworn to the Ubar.
5	204	When the Ubar is thought to be unfit, it is thought, too, he has dishonored the pledge of sword loyalty.
5	207	Only when a true Ubar sits upon the throne is it said the pledge of sword loyalty is binding.
5	233	He carried a sword slung over his shoulder, loosely.
5	265	The camp's leader, he with the sword slung over his shoulder, who had come forth from his tent, looked at the soldier in whose arms the girl had been discovered.
5	547	He drew his sword.
5	550	He put the sword at my left ankle, and, curiously, lifted the robes of concealment a bit.
5	579	He stepped back, but he did not sheath his sword.
5	610	I felt the point of his sword in my belly.
5	612	I felt the point of the sword push in.
12	445	The leader of the intruders was handed a pouch, which he slung about his shoulders, and a sword.
12	616	He placed the sword he carried behind him on the stones of the flooring and crouched behind me.
20	500	His hand had gone to his left hip but the short sword in its scabbard did not now hang there.
20	515	Then two others sped to him, and then there was a sword at his chest, where the tunic of the sailor had been torn away.

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	472	I slung a sword over my left shoulder, an admiral's blade.
2	434	"I am only a tarnsman, a nomad in unusual conflicts, a friend of the sword".
2	469	"It is our hand that will have grasped the hilt of the sword.
7	3	I was through the door, sword drawn.
7	34	The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a Home Stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.
7	106	"Do you know the spear, the bow, the sword?" I asked.
7	259	I was dimly aware of them removing my belt and pouch, and the strap with scabbard and sword.
10	13	At sword point I was hooded and chained".
10	297	His sword I now held in my hand.
10	302	He turned, white-faced, his hand at the hilt of his sword.
10	303	But the sword I carried was at his breast.
11	10	I was of the warriors, and Ram, as it turned out, was quite skillful with the sword.
11	106	Sorgus emerged from the hall, his hands raised, his sword slung still at his hip.
28	204	Over his left shoulder, on a ringed strap, he wore a blade, the short sword.
28	245	"I will take by the sword what women please me".
28	248	"Too," I said, "it is my intention to keep by the sword what women should please me".
29	194	His sword was at his hip.
30	15	He was armed with the Gorean short sword.
30	20	A short sword was placed in his grasp.
30	21	He cut the air twice with the sword, and then stepped back.
30	59	With his sword he gestured to her gown, the jewels, the coronet.
30	67	Laughing he put her to the side, and flung his sword down, blade first, to the hilt in the sand.
30	74	The gate of my cage was opened, and a short sword was placed in my hands.
30	162	Then, bloodied, Drusus, unsteadily, his sword arm down, wavered before me.
30	167	I lifted my sword to that invisible window, in the salute of a Gorean warrior.
30	182	I handed the sword to the third man on the sand.
30	207	Ram's cage was opened and a sword was again placed in his hand.
30	208	My sword, too, was returned to me.
30	209	Ram threw down his sword.
30	211	"I will not fight him!" "Pick up your sword," I told Ram.

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	572	Rather than submit to this stain upon his honor he, the Ubar of glorious Ar itself, had sworn against her, upon his sword, and upon the medallion of his office, as well, the fierce oath of disownment.
26	40	That way, of course, one's sword arm faces the fellow on the other side of the road who might be passing you.

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	70	I remembered Earth, with its pettiness, its greed and vanity, its smugness, its pretensions, its pollutions and poisons, its teeming, crowded, miserable populations, and its endemic fears, fears such as that of not having enough energy to spin the wheels of an exorbitant and largely unnecessary tech...
8	2	Gron, bare chested, stood beside him, resting the point of a great, long, curved sword on the tiles at his feet.
26	4	His right hand held a sword.
26	10	The rough fellow, bearded, grinning, sheathed his sword.
26	20	He could not free his sword or dagger.
26	222	His sword was but half from its sheath when the bench piled into his gut.
27	37	The short sword was grasped in my right hand.
27	46	"Release me," she had demanded but then had gasped, lying on her back, the point of my sword thrust into her belly.
27	234	He carried a drawn sword in one hand, and, in the other, his left, a dangling set of light slave chains, suitable for a female.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	77	"They are now the property of the river pirates, theirs by the rights of sword and power".
8	33	I saw the point of the short sword move slightly.
8	164	I drew on my clothes and hastily slung my sword over my left shoulder.
10	267	One might respond with a knife or sword.
18	37	Too, he does not seem skilled with the sword".
18	69	I picked up my pouch and the sword belt, with its scabbard and sheathed steel.
20	4	My hand, palm sweating, was poised over the hilt of my sword.
20	87	My hand, wet with sweat, fingers moving against one another, opened and shut at the hilt of the sword I wore.
21	66	You are not the master of the sword and even had you been, you were grievously outnumbered.
21	87	The thought of a guardsman who did not even know the sword was an amusing one.
21	178	The last time the pirates of the dark stronghold had carried fire and sword to a dozen wharfed ships.
21	375	I slung the sword belt, with its attached scabbard, with its sheathed steel, over my left shoulder.
22	5	The sword of the pirate, in a drunken swing, had grazed my chest.
22	66	His sword jabbed into the sweet roundedness of her belly.
22	193	I seized the figure, his body poised, hunched over the sword, its point to his belly, its hilt in his hands, braced against the stones of the dark street.
22	196	Then with the bottom of my foot I kicked the sword to one side and it slid upward, tearing through the tunic.
22	197	He dropped to his hands and knees, vomiting, and scrambled for the sword, seizing it.
22	207	Then the blade lowered and the man sobbed, and backed against the wall, and lowered himself, sitting to its base, the sword on the stones beside him.
22	210	"Surely there are others better than yourself against whom you might turn your sword," I said, angrily.
22	342	"No one," said he, "can take the scarlet from me, once it is granted, unless it be by the sword".
22	344	"This," said he, "can be taken from me only by the sword.
22	380	"Teach me the sword".
23	93	"Jason, of Victoria," said Kliomenes, "did not know the sword".
23	144	"I only wished to make test of him," said Kliomenes, "to determine whether or not he knew the sword".
23	154	"I only wished to make test of him," said Kliomenes, "to see whether or not he knew the sword.
25	128	"He is skilled with the sword.
26	206	Miles of Vonda, angry, stood there, his sword drawn.
26	209	Miles of Vonda, sword ready, advanced a step.
26	220	"Will it be necessary to slay you with your sword in your sheath?" inquired Miles of Vonda.
26	246	"How then, as I am a worker on the docks, could I have had the leisure to develop skills with the blade which might be the match of yours?" Angrily Miles of Vonda thrust his sword back in its sheath.

Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	330	He reached for his sword, but the point of my sword was in his belly.
1	58	"Eat a good breakfast, Lads," he called, "for there is work to be done this day!" I resheathed then the sword.
1	155	I met him with the sword and, grappling, kicking, I forced him back overboard.
2	27	Callimachus wiped his sword on his cloak.
2	80	"The sword must drink until its thirst is satisfied," said Callimachus.
3	196	"Sharpen your sword," he said.
3	210	"Sharpen your sword," said he, "and get what rest you can".
4	276	I withdrew my sword from its sheath.
5	42	With two hands, grunting, I jerked the sword from his body.
7	2	I discarded my sword, and seized up a knife from the deck.
9	153	I drew my sword.
9	158	My sword was drawn.
9	183	I stood there, in the darkness, and in the silence, my sword ready.
9	186	I lowered my sword until the point of it was at the back of her neck.
9	261	I sheathed my sword.
9	378	I discarded my belt and sword and dove from the rail of the Tina.
10	40	When freed on the Tina he had first expressed his desire to be put ashore, when possible, to make his way to Turmus, but, upon learning that a certain slave, one called Florence, was confined within the high walls of the holding of Policrates he had begged instead to be granted a place on a bench an...
10	46	Krondar, sword in hand, with many of Ar's Station, crouched below decks in the hold of the Tuka.
10	103	"Loosening your sword," he said.
10	175	Then the sword of Miles of Vonda was at his throat.
10	177	My sword then, too, threatened him, at his belly.
10	193	He threw down his sword.
10	203	I struck the sword from the hand of the pirate within and spun him about, seizing him by the neck.
10	218	He lifted his bloody sword into the air.
12	114	Suddenly, reeling, his sword bloody, I saw he who had been the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, his clothing torn, emerge wildly from the interior of the holding.
12	123	The fellow who wore the mask, then, shouting, waving his sword, distraught, began to leap from ship to ship, trying to make his way toward the gate.
12	146	"You there," I said, gesturing with my sword, "climb to the walk, and kneel".
12	152	He looked at the man kneeling, at the point of my sword.
13	15	Callimachus and I must be surrendered to him, Callisthenes, Reginald and Kliomenes must be freed, else Victoria would be subjected to fire and the sword.
15	15	Then I felt the point of a sword in my side.

Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	165	Also, from the wall, from its peg, I took down the scabbard with its sheathed short sword.
1	244	My hand rested on the hilt of my sword.
1	310	My right hand, across my body, was on the hilt of my sword.
1	533	His hand went to the hilt of his sword.
1	1355	I stood ready with the sword in the guard position.
5	37	"I see that you carry a sword," she said.
5	60	Our blades had not crossed twice before the point of my sword was at the fellow's throat.
5	164	I should not have demonstrated the skill with the sword that I had, I supposed.
17	618	Is this not human cleverness at its most remarkable? Who knows in what way the sword of truth will cut? Some men, it seems, would rather die for their beliefs than analyze them.
19	524	Numbly I unbuckled my sword belt.
19	525	I wrapped the belt about the sheaths, the sword sheath and the knife sheath, and handed the objects to Grunt.

Book 18. (15 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	299	Numbly I had unbuckled my sword belt.
1	300	I had wrapped the belt about the sword and knife sheath, and had given the belt, and these objects, to Grunt.
22	40	I buckled the belt about myself, I lifted the short sword in the scabbard and dropped it back in place.
26	59	The short sword of Port Kar leapt forth from my sheath.
26	77	I rode to one and, sheathing my sword, took it in hand.
33	114	My hand, in anger, had gone to the hilt of my sword.
33	118	"Their blood is not worthy of your sword," said Cuwignaka.
33	124	I took my hand from the hilt of my sword.
35	76	I struck the sword from the hand of Marlenus of Ar.
44	714	Have they not been trained, like dogs, to do so? But there is no authority without the sword.
44	715	Even in the entrapments of law it is by men that the sword is wielded, even when they are tricked into turning it against themselves.
52	1	A Boon "Take up your sword, I beg you," said Alfred.
52	2	He had already seized up his sword from the low, flat rock in the midst of the encircling savages, Kaiila, Dust Legs, Fleer and Sleen.
52	3	I looked at the sword, lying on the rock.
52	23	I took up the sword from the flat rock.

Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	210	Another soldier unsheathed his sword.
4	268	"May I present to you Drusus Rencius, Lady Sheila, my sovereign, he who is first sword among our guards?" Ligurious had inquired several days ago.
4	293	The hilt of the sword in his scabbard, at his left hip, too, was worn.
4	301	That Drusus Rencius was first sword among the guards, then, in this case, as his insignia made clear, was not a reference to his rank but a recognition of his skill with the blade.
4	305	His skills with the sword, I suppose, had been what had called him to the attention of Ligurious.
4	307	To be a proper guard for a Tatrix, however, surely involved more than being quick with a sword.
6	64	The only weaponry he carried, that I could detect, was his sword.
8	143	Goreans commonly pass in this fashion, the sword arms of right-handed individuals being thus on the side of the approaching stranger.
10	31	The sword of Drusus Rencius left its sheath.
10	63	I heard another sword, quite near me, sliding from its sheath.
10	72	I heard a sword laid on the stones behind me.
10	198	"In that fashion my sword arm would be unencumbered".
13	12	Down the aisle, now, approaching, his sword in his right hand, his helmet in the crook of his left arm, came a large, sturdy figure.
13	25	Miles of Argentum sheathed his sword.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	780	I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles.
1	277	Samos signaled to another of his men, who unsheathed his sword.
1	334	The fellow with the sword renewed his two-handed grip on its hilt.
2	116	"I shall have to trouble you for your sword, Sir," said one of the Arsenal Guards, on duty here tonight.
2	123	I surrendered my sword to him, and the knife, too, I commonly carried, a quiva, a Tuchuk saddle knife, balanced for throwing.
2	287	Who would accept the Comic Father if he did not have his Turian accent, or the Desirable Heiress if she did not speak in the soft accents of Venna, north of Ar? What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable woode...
2	1174	I have never pledged a sword to them, never sworn a fidelity oath in their behalf.
6	288	The device of the invisible cloth, or invisible object, a stone, a sword, a garment, a house, a boat, supposedly visible only to those with special properties, is a commonplace in Gorean folklore.
7	416	I did have a sword and I had also purchased a set of Tuchuk quivas, their famed saddle knives.
7	434	I slipped into my tunic and picked up my sword, in its scabbard, the belt looped about the scabbard.
8	70	"If only I had my sword!" cried Petrucchio.
8	71	I really doubted that Petrucchio's huge, clumsy wooden sword, no more than a comic theatrical prop really, would be likely to turn the tide of battle.
8	176	His hand went to the hilt of his sword.
8	231	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow who had struck the leader.
8	242	"Put away your sword," urged the fellow who had been the confidant of the leader.
8	253	The other, he who had struck the leader, tensed, his sword poised to fend any possible blow.
12	509	I was perhaps less of a pledged adherent in their wars than a free sword, a mercenary of sorts, one who accepted one cause or another, as it might please him to do so.
14	170	"Would not the stroke of the sword be quicker?" I asked.
15	13	Petrucchio, with the great wooden sword he used in playing the parts of the "Captain," stood resolutely by.
16	30	"Ho, varlets, craven churls, away!" cried lanky Petrucchio, drawing his great wooden sword from the preposterous sheath which dragged behind him.
16	32	"Away, away!" I say, he kept repeating, and at last had managed, bit by bit, yank by yank, to free the sword.
16	37	"Avaunt, speedily!" cried Petrucchio, swinging the great sword again, the girls behind him ducking once more.
16	58	"Hah!" cried Petrucchio, skeptically, but he rested the point of the great wooden sword on the platform, and, with one hand, beneath that long-nosed halfmask, he characteristically began to twirl one half of that huge, fearsome mustache.
16	170	"By all means, then," cried Petrucchio, and, with difficulty, he sheathed his great sword, and drew three pieces of gold-colored metal from his wallet, stage coins, handing them to Lecchio.
16	255	"Speak, fellow!" cried Petrucchio, yanking at his sword.
16	604	Too, only this morning, as luck would have it, I cleansed my sword from my most recent slaughters and I am accordingly loath to immerse it so soon once more in baths of blood".
16	653	Tremble! Shudder! Quake in terror, for I, Petrucchio, draw upon you!" He then began to try to pull his great wooden sword from its lengthy sheath, dragging behind him.
16	669	"Surrender them to me," demanded Petrucchio, grimly, resting the point of that sword on the platform, its hilt now, in his hand, over his head.
16	674	"Good," said Petrucchio, transferring his sword to his left hand, that he might now twirl his mustache with his right hand.
16	781	"Very well, sword," he said, opening his eyes.

Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	181	More than one fellow has sworn an oath of allegiance with a sword at his throat.
4	44	Besides the ax Alars are fond of the Alar sword, a long, heavy, double-edged weapon.
5	40	"Too," he said, "I purchased this splendid sword".
5	44	It was a long, cutting sword, of the sort called a spatha among the wagons.
5	46	He also carried among his things the short, stabbing sword, similar to the gladius, and doubtless related to it, called by his people the sacramasax.
5	48	"Accordingly," he said, sheathing the sword, "I have with me only some seventeen, two.
7	29	This could well be dangerous! Why did you not listen to me? What if we should be set upon by brigands?" I hoped that would not happen, as I was not certain I could find my sword.
7	36	If I were beheaded by a brigand's sword, I mused, I would be ridded of this headache.
8	28	I stepped down from the wheel and unsheathed my sword.
12	24	My right hand was on the hilt of my sword, my left on the sheath, its straps wrapped about it, to steady the draw.
14	75	"I have gathered that you are familiar with the sword," he said, "and that you are from Port Kar".
14	76	"I know something of the sword," I said.
14	88	In this fashion, to pass him, as is common, one would have to pass him on his sword-arm side.
15	31	On the table, before him, resting on what appeared to be state papers, was a sword.
15	88	"It is not like receiving the weight of your sword in gold coin".
15	257	"Too, it would be difficult, in the time I gave you, to pick up the knife, or sword, without rustling papers".
15	762	"Do you wish me to take an oath, to pledge my sword?" I asked.
16	1080	He had apparently lifted her brief skirt with the blade of his sword, considering her.
16	1429	My hand I put inadvertently against the sheath of my sword.
19	177	"He has a sword," said a man.
26	212	"I am drawing my sword," I said.
26	227	With the sword drawn I did not think either would care to be the first to make contact with me.
26	229	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow on the right.
26	258	"Sheath your sword," said the fellow on the right.
26	302	I then silently drew my sword.
26	304	The sword, the quick, short, double-edged Gorean gladius, was drawn back for a thrust.
26	311	With the sword and quiva, protecting myself first with one and then the other, and probing about, using them alternately, and generally keeping away from the source of the sound, I determined to my satisfaction that the alcove was empty save for myself and the source of the sound.
26	312	Then, using the side of the sword, moving it twice laterally in the darkness, touching the object in the darkness on either side, as it hastily and fearfully, scrambling, pulled its legs back, and up, and whimpered, I specifically located the source of the sound.
26	313	I sheathed the sword.
29	97	"May I have your sword, please?" he inquired.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
29	895	"sword! sword!" said the leader of the beasts, near the fighting animals, beckoning to the bearded man, pointing to the fighting beasts.
34	83	The legalities of simple slave claim, based on active proprietorship, had now superseded, with respect to that collar, the rights contestable by the sword under which I had hitherto been held, those of sword claim.
20	279	He carried, on a strap over his left shoulder, the strap under his cloak, a sword.
24	124	Could I not be given a gesture of mercy, that I might turn about and flee back, scrambling up that loose sand to the comparative safety of the ridge, to seek shelter within the compass of the guard's whip and sword? The guard, however, made no motion.
26	227	But I would be scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and...
26	229	He was still following! One stroke of his sword, I knew, if it were his decision to be swift with me, could remove my head.
29	230	Almost instantly another of the men had begun to draw his sword, but the beast, before the blade was half from the sheath, on all fours, scrambling, tearing the grass behind it, moving with incredible swiftness, not like anything on two legs, seized him and tore open his throat with a ...
29	396	The other was dragging behind itself, through the grass, a belt, with an attached scabbard and sword.
29	562	He stood then, sword drawn, between the beast and us.
29	574	"Defend me!" But he, both hands on the hilt of his sword, holding it at rest now, pointed downward, backed away.
29	581	"I find this," he said to me, "an acceptable and suitable vengeance, superior even to the sword, or to the thousand cuts, that you, my dear Doreen, or Tuka, or whatever masters now choose to call you, you stinking, worthless, curvaceous, treacherous slave slut, should be torn to pieces...
29	582	"Kill, Borko, kill!" he cried, indicating me with the point of his sword.
29	612	See Mina, and Cara! Both are beautiful! You can put sword claim on us all!" Mirus, in fury, lashed back with his hand, striking Tupita from him.
29	620	It seemed he could scarcely hold his sword.
29	627	It had the same stature, and shoulders, and mighty arms, but it was now a bronzed, leaner Hendow, one even more terrible and fierce than I had known, one who held now in his hand a bloodied sword.
29	640	"Your sword is bloody," observed Mirus.
29	670	I can hardly hold my sword.
29	679	"Put the fangs of Borko to that slave," said Mirus, indicating me, "or, if you wish, slay her for me, with your sword".
29	688	"Must we not obey, as we are slaves!" "It seems," said Hendow, "that there is one here whose neck might well be consigned to the sword".
29	694	He gripped the sword again with two hands.
29	705	Moreover, I now put sword claim upon them both.
29	718	"Perhaps both should have their necks to the sword," said Hendow.
29	752	"If you will not put her to the sword," said Hendow, "it seems, then, I must do so".
29	763	He could barely hold the sword.
29	796	"Your sword is bloody," said the bearded man.
29	878	The other beast leaped to the aid of its fellow, but Hendow struck it on the back of its neck with his sword.
29	881	It spun about to seize Hendow, but he thrust at it with his sword.
29	897	With a sword one might perhaps strike from the outside.
29	927	His sword, still clutched in his hand, was down.
29	935	His sword was bloodied.

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	27	I had shortened the straps of the sword sheath, hitching it high, the hilt now before my left shoulder, under the cloak.
1	74	I did not draw my sword.
4	83	He struggled to his feet, to see, in the half darkness, lit by a single lamp, and the reddish embers within the bricked platforms, the unsheathed sword now in the newcomer's hand.
5	502	He wore his sword, on its strap over the left shoulder.
5	504	In this arrangement the sword may be unsheathed and the scabbard and strap discarded in one movement.
5	525	Then in a moment I could have him under my foot or upon my sword.
6	603	Another fellow said something to the newcomer and the newcomer's sword half emerged from its sheath, and the other fellow rolled back, away, quickly, feigning sleep.
6	604	The sword slammed back into the sheath.
6	782	I located the hilt of my sword.
6	787	"I am now well practiced in smiting walls with my back, but I have had very little experience in dodging swords, leaping about unarmed, you understand, in the darkness, in the middle of a sword fight".
6	790	I think the burly fellow reached for the hilt of his sword, but missed it.
6	812	He now had his hand on the hilt of his sword.
6	816	I sheathed my sword.
6	818	He himself had not proceeded further than to get his hand on his sword.
6	833	Too, it is difficult to use a sword in a professional manner in the darkness, and I tend to be vain about such things.
6	834	The sword is less akin to darkness than stealth and the dagger.
7	33	Beneath my cloak, of course, were the belt, scabbard and sword, his wallet, and the rectangular pouch, taken from the tub hook, under the diversion of the sound and blow of kindling to the left, on the tub.
8	75	I spun suddenly about, the sword half drawn.
11	205	I suspect that they, even if you do not, realize that any relieving force should have been here by now, and long ago!" I heard a sword, half drawn, behind me.
13	95	Her presence on the left, thus, is not likely to interfere with his draw or the movements of his sword arm.
14	122	"Cosians will enter, with fire and sword.
15	110	In the same moment I had freed the sword of one of them and I turned, crouching, snarling, to face the man near Lady Claudia.
15	117	He weakly half drew his sword but before it could clear the sheath I was upon him, within his guard.
15	499	"No!" "You would rather accept the sword?" "Yes, gladly!" she said.
15	535	For they would take the gold and then do what they wanted with you, putting you to the sword or not, as they pleased".
15	571	If selections were to be made, it then seems that surely she would be among the first chosen, not for the sword, but for the chain".
15	581	"When you were going through our friends' pouches over there, did you find any small knives, such as a hook knife or a shaving knife?" I had a belt knife myself, which was sheathed on the sword belt, to the right, but at the moment I preferred something lighter-bladed, smaller and shar...
15	1068	This keeps the sword arm free.
16	297	"Well, we had better hang this slave on the spear," I said, removing my sword belt.
16	298	"Why are you removing your sword belt?" asked the Lady Claudia.

Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	116	He looked down once at the sword in its sheath, lying to the side, where it had slipped, the sword belt earlier severed, when he had risen to his knees.
19	777	The jaws snapped downward and the point of the sword emerged through the upper jaw and the lower jaw was tight under the hilt of the sword.
25	203	When I held her back a bit from me, by the upper arms, I saw, as I expected, the mark of my sword belt, diagonal, across her body, and the print of two buckles in her flesh, that of the sword belt, and that of the pouch, or knife, belt.
1	200	'She is for sale, or my sword will have it so!' cried the mercenary.
1	513	Too, his bravery, his skill with tarns and the sword, and such, were valued.
1	526	But I moved the sword just a bit more from the sheath.
1	1078	His sword left its sheath.
1	1081	My sword, too, had left its sheath.
1	1098	Certainly he was here now, not in a good humor, and with a sword in his grasp.
1	1108	With my fist, clenched on the handle of the sword, I struck a fellow to my right.
1	1124	I did, however, as soon as I was among them, sheath my sword and begin walking, pausing here and there to look back, particularly when in someone's vicinity, as though puzzled by the clamor coming from the vicinity of the enclosure.
1	1162	His hand went to his sword.
1	1206	A pennon, one bearing the insignia of the company of Artemidorus, a sword grasped in the talon of a tarn, flew from the main pole, projecting through the roof.
3	328	My sword, too, had left the sheath.
3	334	"Who is first sword?" I asked the leader.
3	341	Too, I suspected the leader would be himself first sword.
3	348	"Who is first sword?" asked the leader.
3	396	"Aii!" The leader looked at me, wildly, and then his sword lowered, slowly.
3	403	"I did not even see your sword move," said Marcus, in awe.
3	421	He had sheathed his sword.
3	424	"Sheath your sword!" called Marcus to me.
3	510	Our sword belts, weapons and accouterments were removed.
4	17	"I cannot reach him!" cried a fellow with a sword, standing unsteadily, almost falling, in one of the light rence craft.
13	490	I felt the point of a sword in my belly.
13	499	"Yes," said one of my captors, the fellow with the point of the sword in my belly.
13	501	I was then held against it, the point of the sword lodged in my belly.
18	85	With the dagger I cut the sword belt from him, disarming him.
18	123	His hand went to his sword but my mien and the movement of the knife at my prisoner's throat gave him pause.
18	192	Plenius wiped flies from his face with his forearm, that of the hand clutching the sword.
18	208	He swung the sword about.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	101	"He has his sword!" "Seremides retains his sword!" cried a man, calling back to those less near the platform.
1	299	In the press there was not even room to draw the sword, let alone wield it.
3	435	As the master holds her hair in the left hand, it leaves his right hand, commonly the sword hand, free.
3	611	From the latter manner of greeting, I gathered this Teibar might be excellent with the staff, or sword.
3	615	I would have suspected his expertise to be with the sword.
3	686	He must then, I suspected, be excellent with the sword.
4	19	I put my hand on Marcus' wrist, not permitting him to draw his sword.
4	68	Indeed, it was with this in mind, that I had come this morning to the city, to lend my sword, a modicum of mercenary iron, to her defense.
4	117	"It is my intention," I said, "to remain within the city, putting my sword at its service".
5	3	"The services of your sword were not accepted," he said.
5	89	"Where?" I asked, standing, my sword drawn.
7	233	He was personally armed with the common gladius, the short sword, the most common infantry weapon on Ar, and a dagger.
7	252	Seremides approached him and, drawing his sword from its sheath, extended it to him, hilt first.
7	253	"Myron does not accept his sword!" said a man.
7	255	Seremides now sheathed the sword.
7	482	"Myron did not accept the sword of Seremides," he said.
7	486	The acceptance of the sword would have constituted a public token of the surrender of Ar's forces, foot and cavalry, both tarn and tharlarion.
7	488	"It is my speculation," I said, "that the sword was surrendered yesterday, in the tent of Myron, or, more likely, before his troops, outside the city, and then, later, privately returned".
8	625	He also gave me his over-the-shoulder sword belt as well, that he might not be encumbered.
8	685	Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword.
8	714	I handed Marcus his things, piece by piece, the sheath, with its knife, and the pouch, both for his belt, and the sword belt, with its scabbard and blade, to be slung over the left shoulder.
8	834	His hand was on the hilt of his sword.
8	923	"Aii," he wept and lunged again, and then, tripped, scrambling about, pressed back with my foot, was on his back, my sword at his throat.
8	927	"Sheath your sword".
8	928	He staggered to his feet, watching me, and sheathed his sword.
8	942	Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife...
8	1013	"Is your sword for hire?" I asked Marcus.
9	355	A guardsman behind Claudia had his sword half drawn from its sheath.
9	358	The guardsman sheathed his sword.
10	1	The sword is Thirsty "I can remember when the men of Ar, those I saw of them in the north, walked proudly," said Marcus.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	27	The officer of Treve, Terence, quietly removed the sword belt, the sheath and sword, from about his left shoulder, handing it to the guard, to his right.
10	400	From the stirrup, incidentally, a sword may be used.
11	1160	"And did you not, even as a free woman, kneel in the dust beside the palanquin, your mask taken from you, and kiss and lick the blood from his sword?" "Yes," she said.
11	1163	"His sword could have won him many women, women whose attractions he would presumably have had little difficulty in detecting," he said.
11	1432	They preferred, it seemed, to take their women, perhaps to stalk them with stealth, as game, then to spring the nets or snares at some time of their choosing, some moment of unsuspected ripeness, or to seize them in capture strike, or to take them by theft, perhaps roping and gagging them in their o...
19	326	Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, i...
24	202	Its rider, now dismounted, drew his sword, and, with one stroke, cut its throat.
24	266	His right hand held a drawn sword.
24	288	Then, a moment later I, shrinking back against the wall, aghast, saw him put to the sword.
24	294	It was a woman! She, too, in a moment, was put to the sword.
24	319	He, too, in a moment, was put to the sword.
24	327	Why did the intruders not fly? Did they not realize the danger in which they stood? I saw another man put to the sword, then another woman.
24	337	I saw another man drawn out of the group and put to the sword.
24	343	In particular I would not have expected them to put women to the sword.
24	345	Another man was put to the sword.
24	364	There were cries of misery as another fellow was dragged out of the group and, before the commander of the intruders, put to the sword.
24	393	A moment later I saw a sword raised over her head.
24	398	"I am a slave!" The sword wavered, then lowered.
24	427	One of the fellows with a sword was well to my left, much farther down the wall.
24	431	"Where is the entrance to your pits, to your depths?" he cried, sword at the ready.
24	433	Perhaps some in the group had known one of the entrances but had refused to divulge the information, and had, thusly, honorably, at a stroke of the sword, perished.
24	438	I had seen even free women put to the sword.
24	440	The truth or the sword was the choice offered to those hapless prisoners drawn forth from the group and put before the commander.
24	441	Again and again he had given the sign that had brought the sword down on a bared neck.
24	450	He raised his sword in fury, in frustration, and I closed my eyes.
24	596	Over his left shoulder hung the scabbard of a sword, the hilt of the weapon visible within it.
24	606	But I had not seen him until now in the garb of war, in the leather of the warrior, the sword at his shoulder, his helmet in hand.
24	925	I recalled the look in his eyes, and the readying of the sword, but he had not struck me.
24	929	None of the slaves had been put to the sword.
24	932	In the sacking of a city, slaves, like other domestic animals, other valuables, and such, are often saved, while free folk may be put to the sword.

Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	112	How often in history, she thought, it had been only a woman's beauty which stood between herself and the sword.
16	827	The man's tunic was scarlet, and he wore a sword belt slung across his body, from the right shoulder to the scabbard at his left hip, facilitating the right-handed draw.
16	831	In times of danger or imminent conflict, the sword belt is looped simply over the left shoulder, so that it, and the attached scabbard, the blade drawn, may be discarded.
16	1126	His sword belt, scabbard and helmet crest were black.
17	451	A sword, or ax, blow at the spinal column, just below the back of the head, is the easiest way to do this, given that one has the leash in hand".
19	404	Each took a sword and a crossbow, and a bundle of quarrels.
20	369	The lead tarnsman loosed, as he could, arrow after arrow into the body of the attacking bird, and then, drawing his sword, for he carried no lance, tried to close with it, to strike it somehow, across the back of the neck, in that tumbling tangle of rage and hunger.
26	667	He had a sword, presumably that of a guardsman, slung at his left shoulder.
26	1530	Too, in this arrangement, the open side of the blanket being to his right, he could leave the blanket instantly, his sword hand free.
28	156	But in a matter of moments Selius Arconious returned to the camp, wading through the grass; in his right hand was a bloodied sword; in his left hand, dangling, was the massive, bleeding head of Kardok.
28	281	If he appears in the streets, sword in hand, standard raised, the people will cry out, and rise up.
28	327	He was given, too, a sword, dagger, and spear.
28	330	How different, thought the slave, the dagger, the sword, the spear, from the weapons with which Mirus had been hitherto familiar.

Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
36	76	"The knife," said Cabot, "outreaches the hand, and the sword outreaches the knife, and the spear outreaches the sword.
36	77	Is the knife then less noble than the hand, and the sword less noble than the knife, and the spear less noble than the sword?" "No," said Grendel.
1	118	Life is very real where they live it, at the edge of a sword.
1	370	Men, of course, compete for females, sometimes with the sword.
7	31	"I prefer a sword," said Cabot, "and something before it, friend or foe".
26	205	"Better one sword," said Cabot.
26	217	"They may be of use?" "More so than a sword, I suspect," said Peisistratus.
36	38	The attack is then most often pressed with the blade, most commonly amongst Gorean warriors, a short sword, typically the gladius.
36	80	"So, too, can the knife, the sword, the spear, even the slinger's leaden pellet or smoothed, rounded stone".
52	33	The sword is the plow which furrows the soil of the future.
55	327	"Many free women, in dire straits," said Cabot, "so plead, and in a thousand other ways, as well, to escape the edge of the sword.
74	110	His preferred weapons, however, as was expected of his caste, were the sword and spear.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	22	These were surrogates for several weapons, in particular the short sword, or companion sword, and the long sword.
18	210	I did note that his sword, the long sword, with its beautifully curved blade, and its tasseled hilt, suitable for a two-handed grasp, was bloodied.
18	346	"He fights, he, sword to sword?" I asked.
22	153	"The sword! The sword!" begged Licinius.
23	282	A similar practice I would learn often obtains in houses and barracks amongst the Pani, a practice in which the long sword is often set to one side, stored or racked, in a hall or vestibule, but the companion sword is kept at one's side, even near the sleeping mats and bl...
43	104	"How can his sword be of great value," I asked, "if it has cost you six men?" "Is such a sword not worth six men?" asked Lord Nishida.
1	121	"You have your bow, some arrows, a sword, a knife," she said.
2	207	"My sword, once, long ago," I said, "was pledged to the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba".
3	164	It was the Gorean short sword, or gladius, light, easily unsheathed, convenient, designed for wickedly close work, to move behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons, to slip about buffeted shields or bucklers.
7	221	"At least you have a sword, a knife," he said.
8	16	He had two hands on an unusual sword, with which he described certain evolutions, thrusts, strokes, a return to guard, and so on.
8	45	He carried a single sword.
8	50	Then, after a time, he had risen, unsheathed his unusual sword, and commenced his exercises.
8	64	After a time, the fellow sheathed his sword, bowed to the southeast, and turned to face us.
10	135	"Put a sword in his hand, and put him against our servitor, Tajima".
10	137	"He knows nothing of the sword".
10	170	Instantly Tajima had whirled about, his sword ready to fend a blow.
10	180	Tajima returned his sword to his belt.
12	327	Near the fellow, also clad in a rather formal kimono, white, stood a fellow with an unsheathed sword, of the longer sort.
12	329	"What is the fellow with the sword doing?" I asked.
12	336	The man with the sword stood to one side, two hands on the hilt of the weapon.
12	399	I then bowed to the fellow with the sword.
12	401	He returned my bow, sheathed the sword, and left.
14	38	It is one thing to face a fellow with a wooden sword, say, who will hold his stroke, or try to do so, and quite another to face a fellow armed with finely edged steel who has every intention of killing you.
14	175	That is merely a name for a battle sword, one to be used in the field".
15	388	"Pertinax," said I, "how do your lessons proceed?" He had been studying for some weeks now with the warrior in the forest, a master of the sword, who was known as Nodachi.
15	414	"One who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding," said Pertinax.
15	431	"And what is the purpose of the sword?" I asked.
15	435	The purpose of the sword is not to fence, not to match blades, and not to exhibit skill, nor is its purpose to reach the enemy, nor even to cut him.
16	188	There is a saying that a man conquers with the sword, the slave with a kiss.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
3	304	'Show thus your allegiance to Ar!' Seremides drew his sword.
4	20	With him was a swordsman, though the sword was of a type with which I was unfamiliar.
4	36	He had been the finest sword in the Taurentians, the palace guard, and doubtless one of the finest in Ar.
5	88	I wondered if Lord Okimoto had instructed Seremides that survivors were to be put to the sword.
5	103	The sword was the gladius, double-edged, some eighteen inches of steel, long enough to outreach a knife, short enough, light enough, dexterous enough, to work behind the guard of a longer, heavier weapon.
5	121	Some men enjoy killing, and I did not doubt but what one of these was Seremides, formerly first sword amongst the Taurentians.
5	331	"Yes," I said, turning my back to him, facing those about, my sword ready.
8	490	Who, after all, would think to seek him beyond the farther islands? Or perhaps he wished to seek a fortune in a new, untried venue, a fortune, like many, obtainable by sword skill? Perhaps, on the other hand, he sought the former Lady Flavia of Ar.
9	110	"Now we have one sword," said a man.
9	118	We took him to be first sword amongst us.
9	143	Three men were dead in the corridor; one was of the Pani, probably the room guard, posted outside the door, and two others, who may have fallen to his swift, small sword, each, apparently, by a single stroke.
9	170	"I have a sword," said Aristodemus, he of Tyros.
9	172	"Follow me!" cried Aristodemus, brandishing the sword, now removed from the concealment of his furs.
9	254	One thrust at him with a spear, doubtless stolen from a weapon room, but he caught the weapon and jerked its wielder forward, startled, wide-eyed, onto the sharp blade of the small swift sword, the warrior's gladius.
9	368	"Stop!" Seremides, at the foot of the ramp, lifted his sword in salute to Lord Okimoto.
9	472	He carried a sword, which seemed almost a part of his hand.
9	481	The figure thrust his sword beneath his sash, and turned away.
12	117	His sword, it seemed, stood between Seremides and Callias.
12	439	"At our destination," said Cabot, "we may need every sword".
14	39	He may have wanted to be attacked, for it was long since his sword had tasted blood.
14	43	Was he so importunate and impatient, or was he, rather, anxious to intimidate our captain, Pertinax, the friend of Tarl Cabot? Certainly there were few whom the sword of Seremides, former master of the Taurentians, could not render diffident and complaisant.
14	54	He had little to fear, given his sword, and his standing with Lord Okimoto.
14	105	Pertinax's face went white and I saw his hand move to the hilt of his sword.
14	192	He did not have his sword, but there was a knife in his hand.
14	300	In a flash of thought I recalled Seremides, from a dozen times and places, images rushing upon me, a goblet lifted, a door opened, a hand gesturing, a pen in hand, signing an order, a sword, reddened, held over an adversary's throat in the early morning.
15	5	Lord Okimoto had found Seremides of use earlier in the voyage; his sword had been formidable, and he had muchly facilitated Lord Okimoto's contacts with those of us not of the Pani.
16	120	But there seemed little need, now, of the sword, the spear.
16	188	The knife, the sword, slashed at the ropes of others.
16	193	I retrieved a sword from the deck, and went to the side.

Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	81	I did know that men bet on tarn races, which could be dangerous at the rings, sometimes a body broken, a limb lost, a wing torn away, and that some cared for arena sports, sword games.
17	55	There were five in our party at the stadium, the Lady Bina; Astrinax, who was our jobber; a man named Lykos, hired, I think, for his sword; he in whose keeping I was; and myself.
18	830	"That is the sword of Trachinos, he of Turia," said a fearsome voice, that of a large, bearded fellow, clad in the brown of the Peasantry.
18	839	"sword pleasure," said the stranger.
18	889	"It seems you have brought a sword to the table," said Lykos.
33	104	It is said the man conquers with a sword, the woman with a kiss.
37	57	The spear and sword, the bolt and arrow, speak to them as well as to us".
37	243	"Not to throw myself on my own sword," said Kleomenes.

Book 32. (24 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	138	Guilt is more cruel than the sword, for one turns the knife in one's own stomach.
6	104	"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin...
6	251	"Berths are won by the sword, I understand," I said.
8	44	I did not think my sword was worth that much more than that of others.
8	560	"Is my sword so valuable?" I asked.
9	147	"My tool is the sword," said the arms man.
10	23	I suspected that my hire had not been purchased for the quickness of a blade, the edge of a sword, not for two staters of gold.
14	112	"Two staters of gold," I said, "is a high price for one sword".
14	206	It was said his sword was quick and his temper short.
16	21	Our tools were the sword and spear, not the ax, the adz, the plane, the saw.
21	66	"It was fortunate I did not fall on them with my sword".
21	258	"Reliability is best guaranteed at the point of a sword".
24	83	Those reluctant to board will be put to the sword".
26	161	"My sword will not accept our parting in the forest, should you decide to pursue another path, another hunt".
28	20	I drew out my sword and slashed down at the vine to the right, severing it a hort behind its pod.
28	22	I sheathed the sword and pried open the pod, revealing the two curved thorns.
38	35	He was bearded, wore a dagger and sword, and carried a spear, a hunting spear.
39	428	Perhaps a free woman flings herself to her knees, before the reddened sword of a helmeted enemy, ready to strike, drunk with the lust of killing and looting.
39	434	A quick, abrupt gesture of the sword and she must disrobe, immediately, completely.
52	311	"It is then the sword?" said my captor.
52	314	"So it would seem the sword," said Axel.
52	365	His dagger remained in its sheath, as did his sword, the gladius.
52	399	"Why do you sheath your sword?" asked my captor.
52	1000	"You would have had to rush upon him, sword drawn, and hope he had no time to react".

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	515	"Of what use is a lance left forever in its rack," I said, "or a sword which fears to leave its sheath?" "The lance is to remain in its rack until grasped," said Lord Okimoto, "and the sword is to be drawn only by the proper hand".
7	95	It was felt that each sword was needed; would not each sword, when the major onslaught came, if it would come, be important and precious? Given the honor and discipline of the Pani, and their sense of propriety, even privately owned slaves had been placed in the indoor ho...
31	225	A decree without the sword is no more than a sword without a blade.
46	176	But now, gripped in two hands, he carried a different sword, the heavier, longer of the two swords often carried by a warrior, the field sword.
47	332	"My sword," said Nodachi, bowing, and handing his sword, hilt first, to Katsutoshi, the captain of the shogun's guard.
59	30	The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword.
59	191	He was no master of the companion sword, nor would he have been of the field sword.
60	328	One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping a...
1	164	Was this not a possible place of wealth, and power? From such a place might not one command, govern, and rule? Might one not find here a suitable aerie for tyranny? From such an ensconcement might one not descend with fire and sword, and to such a place might one not withdraw, with imm...
1	166	"The edge of hunger can be keener than the blade of a sword," said Lord Nishida.
1	273	"The splendid officer, fearful Tyrtaios, so wise in council, so adept with the sword," said Lord Nishida, "has departed the holding, and placed his cunning and skills at the service of great Yamada".
2	67	The stone is hard and does not weep; the sword is silent, and speaks only to flesh, and then briefly, swiftly.
2	111	On continental Gor routed generals, fugitives about, enemy standards advancing, might cast themselves on their sword.
2	132	I did not understand the casting of oneself upon one's sword.
2	145	"I am here! Greet me!" It would be doubtless unpleasant to return to one's city, routed and defeated, clad in ashes and rags, to face its councils, to be denied bread, fire, and salt, but better, I thought, that than flight, or falling upon one's sword, for then one might return to war...
2	150	When things are done, I thought, how might one better sell one's life than splendidly, gallantly, amidst ringing steel? It is not the worst of deaths to perish in sweat and blood, a sword in one's hand.
3	48	My foot snapped a branch, and my hand, without my thinking, sped my sword half from its sheath.
4	166	The field sword may be kept in its rack, in the hall, but the companion blade is commonly at hand.
4	168	I tied the tasseled hilt of the sword, which was unsheathed, about his right wrist.
4	178	I saw but one foe, helmeted, with a field sword grasped in two hands, across the tiny fire.
4	189	"You are a hired sword, a mercenary," it said.
4	193	"We killed many such monsters," it said, indicating the tarn with the point of the sword.
4	217	"Let me put my friend, who is ill and weak, and cannot stand, on the ground, and draw my sword.
4	233	"Do not unsheathe your sword," he said, quickly.
4	241	"Do not draw your sword! You can manage the winged monster! Lord Yamada can use men such as you.
4	243	"Is it accepted?" "Do not draw your sword!" he said.
4	249	"You would have me turn my head, and then you would rush upon me with that little sword".
4	250	"It is a fast little thing," I said, "rather like the companion sword".
6	111	The shadow of his sword is upon your lands.
6	145	The sword has spoken".

Book 34. (29 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
49	31	Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword.
69	20	If one were a warrior, one might even issue a challenge, a challenge in virtue of sword right, the right of beauty to be claimed by means of the sword.
6	187	"It could be death for a free woman to fall into the hands of an enemy, unsated, wild, hot with killing, thirsting for blood, carrying fire and sword into a village, town, or city.
23	232	He had been armed, a short sword in its scabbard slung from the left shoulder, rather than across the body.
25	30	"I favor," said Tyrtaios, "the confrontation, the sword".
26	42	In my time in the black court I occasionally witnessed the admission of clients who sought the services of the "dark sword".
26	67	Few survive to carry the "dark sword".
49	29	I think few of them would have regarded the "pen" as "mightier than the sword".
49	30	Their pen, so to speak, was the sword, and their ink, blood.
49	35	Commonly, popularly, there are five high castes, the Warriors, which claims sword right to the status, and who would deny that right to armed men, the Physicians, Builders, Scribes, and Initiates.
53	16	Still, again, the pomerium may date back to a territorial claim, usually backed by war, in which the pomerium line is scratched in the earth by the point of a sword or the tip of a spear.
53	17	The same sword or spear may be used generations later, to fix the pomerium of a colony city, as Ar's Station to Ar herself.
56	28	They want them all to themselves, even to the sword and knife.
57	32	What rendered me more apprehensive was the positioning of several guards, clearly armed, with spear and sword, about the fringes of the sheltered area.
60	140	What would entitle you to impress your prejudices on others?" "The sword!" cried out Kurik, angrily.
60	150	"You spoke of the sword," said Decius Albus.
60	151	"It is easy to speak of the sword when one is in chains".
60	198	Do not draw your sword.
60	204	"Put a sword in his hand".
60	245	A sword was placed in the hand of Kurik.
60	252	He might, at least, die with a sword in his hand, proudly, arrogantly, not lifted.
61	99	"I have this sword," said Kurik.
61	135	"It will not," said Drusus Andronicus, standing with us, his sword drawn, the blade wet with fresh blood.
61	265	It reached, snarling, for Drusus Andronicus, and the sword of the latter, like a striking ost, swift, clean, and deep, almost invisible in its movement, penetrated that massive body, only to be instantly withdrawn, that it might be freed for another thrust.
61	369	"In a moment, given the fire of that sword, we could be none," said Drusus Andronicus.
61	450	I saw Tyrtaios, standing easily, his sword unsheathed, who had not stirred from his earlier position to the side, regard her.
61	640	"sword her, to the blade, strike her!" howled Decius Albus to a man at arms before the stands.
61	643	"Kill her!" "I will do so!" cried a soldier, whipping his sword from the sheath, and raising the weapon, but it fell, almost immediately, from a lost grip, as the man staggered back a foot or so, turned, and crumpled at the foot of the stands, the metal fins of a quarrel clearly visibl...
61	711	"If the Kurii were wise," said Kurik, his sword in his belt, the bow with its quarrel cradled in his arms, casting a wary glance at Tyrtaios, the Assassin, who still stood to one side, some yards away, "they would forego their sport, and spare the kajirae".

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	110	"Would I had my leg, and a sword!" cried the one-legged man.
8	521	"I should, when possible, seize up a sword or knife," she said.
26	44	Bruno of Torcadino replaced the unsheathed sword which lay beside him, and resumed the oar.
27	25	This served to conceal the short sword, unsheathed, slung from the strap under the cloak, over his left shoulder.
27	137	As Bruno of Torcadino freed his crutch from the chest of the second man, the third man, in the moment, rose up, scrambled to the side, backed off, and drew a sword.
27	140	The third man, clutching the sword, seemed uncertain.
27	154	"Perhaps I will leave you your life," he said, the sword wavering.
27	167	But Bruno of Torcadino's right hand had slipped under the half cloak he wore over his left shoulder, where, suspended by its strap, hung a short, wicked blade, his unsheathed sword.
30	134	They are not only open to recruitment but sometimes acquire male children, even infants, to raise to the sword, so to speak.
31	19	I had also seen the movement of his sword at the edge of the Canal of the Sea Sleen.
31	94	Then, coughing, wavering, seemingly finding it difficult to speak, he lifted his right hand, sword grasped, in the air.
31	104	"Challenge, and Last Blood! Last Blood!" screamed a distraught figure, disheveled and agitated, racing down the steps to the sand, a sword in hand.
31	161	"May I see your sword?" asked Alan.
31	167	"Can you read?" "Ahh," said Alan, softly, awed, holding the sword to the light.
31	178	"Take your sword to Ar," said Bruno of Torcadino.
33	214	"He is thought to be the finest sword on Gor," said the beast.
33	372	He prodded the turned, soaked, capsized rence craft with his sword, and thrust his blade through it several times.
33	448	"As for a whip," said Pa-Kur, "a sword belt, wide and supple, double buckled, will do".
33	459	Out of the corner of my eye I saw that one of the men had freed his sword belt, the sheath put aside.
36	54	His sword had won him a crew and ship, and thus it had begun.
36	112	"It is said he is adept in the kaissa of the sword".
41	1	How Events Proceeded In the Holding of Bosk of Port Kar It was late morning, the Ninth Ahn, when a stranger, in a scarlet scarf, bearded, sword drawn, kicked open the door to the room in which my cage was kept.
41	31	He sheathed his sword.
41	131	You are not interested in slaves! You are interested in a single slave, or in an act of vengeance!" And then he was silent, and wisely so, for the sword of Pa-Kur was poised at his heart.
41	191	Then, to the side, from another portal, emerged another man, short-tunicked, sword in hand, wearing a red scarf.
42	152	Bruno of Torcadino's sword was bloodied.
42	158	Surely you recognize me, Seremides, once first sword of the Taurentians, your beloved servant, always loyally at the foot of your throne.
43	77	"Do so, and die," said Seremides, removing the hitherto concealed wicked short sword from beneath his cloak.
43	79	"I fear we are their business," snarled Seremides, lifting his sword to the man's throat.
43	108	"And put away your sword, cripple.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	84	I had expected him to run, which would have been his best option, in which case I would pursue him for a pace or two and launch my sword with an overhand hilt cast, hoping, if all went well, to penetrate his back below the left shoulder blade, after which one would hope to draw out the...
60	202	"Let us meet," he said, "sword to sword".
1	36	"But you wear a sword, sheathed, on a single strap, the leather not fastened across your body, but loose, over your left shoulder," he said.
2	16	I then introduced Aktis to several of the men about, including Clitus, master of the trident, and handsome Tab, gifted with the sword.
2	95	Too, to be frank, so simple an artifice also tends to reduce unpleasant observations, insults, jokes, altercations, and such, sometimes seeming to require attention, with or without the sword".
7	63	"Would that I had this Bosk of Port Kar within the reach of my sword," said Nicomachos.
13	9	I put the point of my sword to the back of his neck.
13	143	I put my sword to the back of Lysis' neck.
13	147	"Do it!" said Lysis, the tip of my sword bloody at the back of his neck.
17	320	Even if a city falls and the free are put to the sword, the slave, like the kaiila and tharlarion, is spared.
19	162	"It is not like the glorious spear, or the noble sword," said the second man.
19	166	"Farther than the spear can be cast, far beyond the reach of the sword," said the second.
20	88	"Do you wish us to fall upon all here," said the leader, "putting every man to the sword?" "I would not do so," said Aktis, in a voice which touched my spine with ice.
33	45	Shortly you will not be able to carry a shield or hold a sword.
37	20	I myself had left my sword on the Tesephone.
40	52	My hand went to the hilt of my sword, and then, angered, I withdrew it.
41	52	"By that of the sword," I said.
41	54	"This says I can," I said, drawing my sword.
41	129	What hold have we on one whose Home Stone is not our own?" "The hold of the sword brotherhood, the hold of fellowship," said Thurnock.
42	57	"It is not victory," I said, "until the sword's work is done".
43	56	"One hears, on the one hand, from one fellow lost from his unit, that the city is taken and the townsfolk are being put to the sword, man, woman, and child, and, from another, similarly somehow separated from his fellows, that something is amiss, possibly muchly so".
43	81	"Trust no one," I said, easing my sword silently from its sheath, emerging from the tunnel, and thrusting the blade to his heart.
43	83	At the same time I was peripherally aware that the third man had drawn his sword and was rushing toward me.
44	138	"What more dangerous enemy could you face? Who but yourself could be your most dangerous enemy? He who will defeat himself does not deserve a sword".
45	3	I lay to one side, near a wall, on the ground, in a blanket, my sword within reach.
45	68	Instead I reached for my sword, unsheathed, lying beside me.
45	152	"And then little to do but lie still, and hope to sleep, little to hope for other than the strength to climb one last time to the parapet, the strength to once more unsheathe a sword, to lift an ax".
48	152	"Serve me well," says the assassin to his dagger, the woodsman to his ax, the fisherman to his net and trident, the scribe to his pen, the warrior to his sword.
49	122	I heard a sword half freed of its sheath.
51	199	"You would save a fellow whom in battle you would think nothing of driving a sword into his heart?" said Sakim.