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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	100	On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled out for the flame death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire, so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame.
2	210	"It is flame death merely to possess a weapon of the interdicted sort.
2	211	Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the flame death, but sooner or later they are struck down".
19	95	"Die the flame death," he said.
19	96	I had heard of the flame death from my father and from the Older Tarl—that legendary fate which overtook those who had transgressed the will of the Priest-Kings.
19	101	"Die the flame death," repeated the old man, once again jabbing that long finger in my direction.
20	72	Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the flame death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challeng...
14	118	"The tarn death is an ugly death".
1	173	I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back.
1	176	I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll.
1	184	The thought came to me that the ring, which I had dropped in my pocket, might similarly burst into flame, but, unaccountably perhaps, I doubted it.
2	107	It had been roasted over an open flame.
2	208	"From time to time they are, but their owners are then destroyed, bursting into flame".
14	9	He was a gigantic man, larger even than the Older Tarl, and in his eyes, wild and green, I saw the masterful flame which had, in its way, also burned in the eyes of Talena, his daughter.
19	113	Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind.
20	12	Perhaps the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountai...
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
2	168	"Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet.
2	188	My own speculation, which I judge as likely or unlikely to be true as the more popular superstitious stories, is that it is death to learn the secret of the Priest-Kings".
4	14	I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death.
5	135	If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.
6	45	I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
6	114	"I was tricked by her I supposed to be the daughter of the Ubar, thrown from my own tarn, and saved from death only by your web.
6	215	She shuddered at the memory, and I pitied her for what must have been a horrifying experience, lashed helpless to the saddle of a giant tarn reeling in a death struggle for the mastery of a flock, high over the trees of the swamp forest.
7	12	Perhaps your death will be made easier in consequence".
7	113	She was screaming wildly, all control lost in the face of the slow, ugly death awaiting her.
8	24	"Do not fear—though there are many in Ar who rejoice in your deed, your death will not be pleasant or swift".
9	12	It would be death for us both.
9	149	Hooded, she cowered there, the prize, her ears filled with the sudden violent ringing of blade on blade as two warriors fought to the death to possess her.
12	34	"And you will die the death of a fool," he said.

Book 2. (25 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	17	The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous flame death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as m...
6	63	It would be to invite the flame death of the Priest-Kings for one or the other, perhaps both of us.
6	64	I had seen a man die the flame death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
14	8	Hideous though the death might seem to the silver masks of Tharna, they did not know that I was a tarnsman, and knew these birds, their power, their ferocity; that in my way I loved them; and that as a warrior I would not find a death by tarn ignoble.
9	65	On each side of the door, in a small niche sheltered from the drizzle, there sputtered the yellow flame of a small tharlarion-oil lamp.
24	17	Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the ...
1	45	I knew that I had been an instant from death.
1	130	How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?" "You're drunk," I said, smiling.
3	29	One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.
4	40	It glided away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone, a young animal ready to neglect and overlook those slight traces that can spell the difference between death and survival in Gor's brutal and predatory world.
6	129	Such relationships are not entered into lightly, and they are normally sundered only by death.
11	211	I gathered the sentence to the mines was equivalent to a sentence of death.
11	228	Should I have thrown them away?" "These coins," said Lara, holding the tiny sack in her hand, gloved in gold, "were to buy my death".
11	240	"Someone is apparently willing to pay highly for my death".
11	241	"Not your death," I said.
12	76	He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and
12	88	Nine cities, long after his death, claimed the man who, centuries ago, had called Ko-ro-ba the Towers of the Morning.
13	153	I wondered if my death would be quick.
14	7	Perhaps the Amusements of Tharna were not spoiled at all; perhaps the best was yet to come? Surely my death beneath the beak and talons of a tarn would provide a gratifying spectacle for the insatiable masks of Tharna, adequate compensation for the disappointments of the afternoon, for...
14	10	Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...
14	114	I knew that the warriors of Tharna would have to kill two of us, for the tarn would defend me to the death.
19	55	Cell after cell was emptied of its wretched chained occupants, only to be refilled with shackled guardsmen and Whip Slaves, men who knew that the least sign of resistance would bring only a swift and bloody death.
19	156	Yes, I knew that the power of the Priest-Kings—rumored even to extend to the control of gravity—could lay waste cities, scatter populations, separate friends, tear lovers from one another's arms, bring hideous death to whomsoever it might choose.
20	29	Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men.
26	62	Also it should be noted that it was not realistic to offer the silver masks the alternative of exile, for that would simply have been to condemn them to violent death or foreign enslavement.

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	3	There seemed to be very little heat from the bluish flame of the Mul-Torch but, considering the size of the flame, a surprising amount of light.
16	79	For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the flame death Mechanism".
16	80	I had once seen a man die the flame death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
17	83	"I once saw a man die the flame death," I said.
17	85	"The projection points for the flame death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room.
27	35	Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by flame death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous m...
27	111	I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the flame death.
28	3	These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the flame death Mechanism.
33	36	Perhaps they expected me to be cut down by the flame death before their very eyes.
33	50	He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the High Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former High Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the flame death years earlier.
14	186	He broke the end of the rod off and it began to burn with a bluish flame.
16	131	"It was saturated with flame Lock, and its combustion index was set for twenty Ehn following opening".
24	24	The creature did not fear me nor the flame.
29	56	While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the...
31	143	As I climbed, to my elation, I saw the tube's flame sputter and stop and knew the weapon was at last discharged.
32	268	At last he wadded enough in for the pressure to hold it tight and, using the silver lighter, sucked a stream of flame into the bowl.
1	51	If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.
1	61	Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities.
1	67	The contests at the fairs, however, I am pleased to say, offer nothing more dangerous than wrestling, with no holds to the death permitted.
1	99	He had disobeyed and he had been destroyed, immediately and with grotesque dispatch, but the important thing was, I told myself, that he had disobeyed, that he could disobey, that he had been able to disobey and choose the ignominious death he knew must follow.
1	102	I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.
2	85	I advanced, my spear ready for its cast, my shield ready to be thrown over my body to protect it from the death throes of the thrashing beast should the cast be successful.
2	125	For some reason I did not fear death but felt only anger that these beasts might prevent me from keeping my rendezvous with the Priest-Kings of Gor.
8	5	I had meant to scare her half to death and I was pleased to see that I had.
12	185	Had it been combat to the death in that brief instant I would have finished him, leaping over him and gouging my heels into his stomach, rupturing the diaphragm.
14	148	"It seems to me," I said, "that you should not blame yourself for the girl's death, but Sarm".
14	155	To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
15	128	"Do Priest-Kings believe in a life after death?" I asked.
18	99	With one brush of a foreleg he might have sent me hurtling to my death some hundreds of feet below.
18	124	I wondered if hurling my weight against Sarm I might have tumbled him from that platform to his death far below.

Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	49	I hoped that I would be granted death in battle, if death it must be.
17	9	Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more be...
2	37	Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to c...
2	53	It is said they remove the hood only when the sentence is death, so that it is only condemned men who have seen whatever it is that lies beneath the hood.
7	188	Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
7	208	Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.
9	173	Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.
9	311	"It is one thing to order the death of a Tuchuk," he said.
9	435	I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most b...
10	182	For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty Tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle.
10	475	"I want him slain," she cried, "cut into tiny pieces, the death of a thousand cuts!" "Withdraw," I advised Kamchak.
10	530	"Better, my friend," I said, "that than death".
10	531	"No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".
12	254	It would not have been wise, of course, for even were she successful, her consequent hideous death at the hands of the Clan of Torturers would probably, all things considered, have made her act something of a bad bargain.
12	257	Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon.
13	106	The punishment of a runaway slave is often grievous, sometimes culminating in death.
15	57	Since the death of Kutaituchik, Kamchak had turned ugly in manner.
16	241	I wondered what death he might have in mind for me.
17	62	I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia.
18	19	The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia.
21	55	It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean c...
21	117	In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death.
23	191	Already the bosk were growing uneasy at the smell of death and already the grass about the camp was rustling with the movements of the tiny brown prairie urts, scavengers, come to feed.
25	158	"Yes," she said, "I will reveal myself, but know that I will fight you to the death".
26	390	Kamchak grinned at me, the first time since the death of Kutaituchik.
27	187	"It was after her death," said Harold, "that Kutaituchik first tasted the rolled strings of kanda".

Book 5. (20 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	71	Only a bit of wood now, here and there, missed by the chilled wine, clung to flame; some of the logs, however, still smoked, and others held as though within themselves the redness of the fire they remembered; but most were simply charred, now dead, stained with the oil, wet from the w...
2	187	It was argued that the citizens of Ar could scarcely remain strong and fearless unless accustomed to the sight of blood, of danger and death.
4	93	He had come to the allied city of Ko-ro-ba, and had there found his death, for no reason that was clear to me other than the fact that he had had the misfortune to resemble me.
5	524	"Forgive me!" When one who is slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
7	77	"To speak of what you see is, of course, death," said he.
10	120	"Do not be curious, Killer," said he, "for commonly those who look upon the beast do so only in death".
12	78	Marlenus, because he had lost the Home Stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death.
13	182	"When he was publicly refused bread, salt and fire on the height of the central cylinder, when he was exiled from Ar, not to return on pain of death, do you know what he said?" "No," I said, "I do not".
15	79	I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...
15	97	Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets.
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 ...
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...
18	173	"There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death".
19	136	"Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the spor...
21	245	With a cry of rage he threw himself at me and the cry died in his throat, he sprawling in his astonishment, his death and his blood, crosswise in the sand.
22	73	Do not approach the tarn now or it will mean your death".
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
22	376	I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings.
23	238	"What is death?" I asked him.
23	241	"If death is nothing," I said, "then the little that life is must be much indeed".

Book 6. (21 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	420	Bemused, I had burned it in the tiny flame of the candle on the table near me, now little more than a twig of wick in a puddle of clear, melted wax, and then I had, with the palm of my hand, snuffed out the tiny flame.
4	172	A small flame was kindled into which she thrust a bit of rence stem, like a match.
5	187	She, like the other, spit then in my face and turned away, now moving fully, enveloped in the music's flame.
5	223	In this tiny flame I thrust a bit of rence stem, from a bundle of such, and, with it, lit the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp set in its copper bowl.
11	533	I scratched with my fingernail in the wax, breaking up the bits of charred paper that had been the note I had burned in the candle flame.
16	311	We heard the cry about us sweeping the city, like a spark igniting the hearts of men into flame, that now in Port Kar there was a Home Stone.
3	295	How could I face myself, or anyone? I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
3	301	I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
3	340	"I should have thought," said he with the headband, formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, "that you might have preferred a man for a slave, one who is proud and does not fear death".
3	346	I had feared death.
4	78	I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
8	160	I knew myself for one who had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
8	169	My last thought before the sweet darkness of sleep was the remembrance that I was one who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death, and that I was alone.
8	338	I had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
9	70	And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
17	155	What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ig...
18	121	"At what age," asked he, "is a man ready for death?" "To go where I am to go," I told him, "and do what I must do, is the action of a fool".
18	614	There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them.
18	893	"We anticipated," said Samos, "that your humanity would assert itself, that faced with a meaningless, ignominious death in the marshes, you would grovel and whine for your life".
18	896	"You chose," said Samos, "as warriors have it, ignominious bondage over the freedom of honorable death".

Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	498	The flame from the match was but an inch short of the cigarette.
13	176	How pleased I was when I saw the small, pointed stick whirling in its wooden pit, and saw the dried flakes of leaves suddenly redden and flash into a tiny flame, which we then fed with leaves and twigs, until it would burn sticks.
13	254	"Hurry!" Then, at last, a tiny flame appeared, eating at the flakes of dried leaves wedged about the pit.
15	505	"Splendid!" Now the melody became more swift, and it burned like flame in the girl's slave body.
9	111	"One of these," said Verna, "or myself, you will fight to the death".
13	103	Such an exile, commonly for a Gorean, is equivalent to enslavement or death.
17	68	And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons.
17	143	"Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded...
17	270	death by ost venom is among the most hideous of deaths.
17	307	I had been told there was enough there to bring a hundred men to an excruciating death.
18	47	I knew that I was one who had once chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	18	The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game.
18	196	In a moment, like a wind-torn explosion, flame leaped in a breadth of a dozen feet on the still shores, on that lonely beach, of Thassa.
22	112	What had seemed a dim sun, a flame in darkness, became a ship's lantern, swinging on its iron ring.
1	99	I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
22	223	"Is there any among you," she said, "who wish to fight me to the death?" They shook their heads.
22	227	"Do you wish to fight me to the death?" demanded Verna.
22	828	"You are to fight to the death," I told her.

Book 9. (29 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	99	The invisible barrier about the Sardar is evidence of that, and the policing, by flame death, of illegal weapons and inventions.
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 Por...
9	386	I had intended to permit her to smolder for a time, she much aroused, and then later, when she had been much heated with need and desire, when, cruelly deprived, she had been aching to break into flame, throw her to my furs, but, unfortunately, I had forgotten about her.
16	9	This tinder flared immediately into flame.
1	25	I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea.
1	28	After the death of Surbus, the woman had been mine.
1	31	To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall,...
1	106	There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
1	141	Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarr...
1	383	"You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.
2	28	Sometimes those who insisted on retaining the old ways, or were caught making the sign of the fist, the hammer, over their ale, were subjected to death by torture.
2	54	It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.
2	55	It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his ways and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of Priest-Kings.
2	56	Such a conversion, even though it be in death, would be a great coup for the Initiates.
2	120	For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
2	236	Ivar Forkbeard, in death, if not in life, was making pilgrimage to the temple, that his bones might be anointed at the hands of the High Initiate, would he so graciously deign to do so.
2	241	Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings.
2	293	He comes in death to the temple of Priest-Kings, that his bones may be anointed with the grease of Priest-Kings.
2	313	It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar.
2	330	But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.
3	152	I shall first choose death!" "Very well," laughed the Forkbeard.
6	58	They did not leave the fields; such a departure, without permission, might mean their death; they were thralls.
10	42	Immersion in the waters of the Ax Glacier country, unprotected, will commonly bring about death by shock, within a matter of Ihn.
11	114	"Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction".
13	373	For a bondmaid to speak in such a situation might be to invite a sentence of death.
13	419	Never in the north had there been such a coup of honor! Though it might mean the death of us all, those who followed the Forkbeard, and that of perhaps hundreds of the men of Svein Blue Tooth, we cheered.
17	219	As slaves, they were commanded; as slaves, did they fail to comply, they would be put to death.
21	254	"If he dies," he said, "your death will be neither swift nor pleasant".
22	195	As a note, it might be added, that the slave female, in her master's arms, must, if he so commands, under the threat of the whip or death, vocalize her sensations, thus ventilating and reinforcing, multiplying, deepening, and increasing and intensifying them.

Book 10. (21 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	290	The Tahari would, from east to west, flame with war.
5	228	Before Suleiman, now, there lay five stones, three sereem diamonds, red, sparkling, white flecked, and two opals, one a common sort, milky in color, and the other an unusual flame opal, reddish and blue.
10	219	"The desert will flame".
13	117	It might have been in the design of a stylized lance, or flame or leaf.
1	476	It would not have been a pleasant death.
3	11	In thirty-two I had been adjudged victorious, nineteen times to the death cut.
7	300	So struck, four times, I found it not difficult to believe that the animal, even if unfound, would have sought a dark place, and there, in silence, bled to death.
7	428	"The message collar," said Ibn Saran, "failed to bring about your death, the termination of your quest for the last egg of Priest-Kings".
7	659	"And Hamid," I said, "by intent, did not strike Suleiman to the death, but feigning clumsiness, wounded him only".
10	190	I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it.
10	294	They will, presumably, be put to death".
11	314	The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death.
14	252	"Your death would be swift".
17	32	How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe...
18	16	"In return, you ask only your own death?" "No," I said.
19	98	The alternative to the gamble was not security but certain death.
21	142	It would be madness and death to enter them.
23	44	"Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked him.
23	82	"Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked.
24	316	"No such honorable death would be yours.
25	637	Your death would surely be one of the deaths of a slave girl, who has not been pleasing".

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	784	Slowly then I made my way, inch by inch, through encumbrances, through the close, flame-lit darkness of the basket, the flickering light from outside oddly in small moving patches illuminating the flesh, the gold, within, to the edge of the basket, so that I might see out more easily t...
13	15	It now fell below my shoulders, and swirled behind me, shaped into the "slave flame".
7	1348	"I must yield, Master! I cannot help myself! I cannot help myself but yield to you!" "Must you yield," he asked, "even though it might mean your death?" "Yes, Master!" I cried.
9	1518	Were she not so she would be subject to severe punishment, including even torture and death, should it be the master's wish".
20	302	To be caught looking upon a free woman could mean death for them.
27	145	Rather than permit himself to be seen in tavern work by Thurnus, Caste Leader of Tabuk's Ford, I thought he might choose death.

Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	105	"Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" I knew then I had won.
4	707	We could hear the flame of the lamp, tiny, soft, in the silence of the tent.
23	153	It takes some time to get water boiling over an oil lamp, though, to be sure, the flame can be elongated and enlarged by manipulating and trimming the wick moss.
33	28	I thought of the melting of copper, the flame of sulfur, the structure of salt, of jagged Eros in its orbit, of the crags of Titan, of the interactions of compounds, the stirring of molecules, the movement of atoms, the trajectories of electrons.
3	9	When a male is forced beyond the wall he is removed from the competition and may not, upon pain of death, re-enter the area for the duration of the contest.
3	478	She is subject to the whip, and torture, and even death should the master please.
3	1145	As hunters they live with blood and death.
6	176	There is a swiftness, a sorcery, a savageness in his steel which in a hundred fights to the death I have never encountered.
9	53	death was too good for her.
20	198	"There is no one in the feasting house who is of my people, who is not a child," he said, "who has not seen people starve to death.
23	244	"Their information was not so precious to them that they preferred to retain it in the face of death by torture," said Ram.
26	308	"Imnak," said Poalu, "does not fear the sleen of death".
26	348	A sleen can kill itself in this manner, licking at the blade until it bleeds to death.
26	350	But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur.
29	61	The recognition and comprehension of a detail, sometimes subtle, can sometimes make a difference between life and death.
33	7	If I was found, it would be conjectured that the death, violent though it might have been, was not one unnatural for the Gorean north.
35	59	Not only was dispatch of tactical significance but exposure to the arctic winter could bring a swift death on the summit of the ice island.
36	269	"In the disruption consequent upon this place's destruction," I said, "his death would be hideous".

Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	10	"Askaris might see the flame through the walls of the room," he said.
1	571	In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found".
18	82	The askari was ordered to be speared to death by one of his own kin.
44	143	They wished me, for some reason, to leave her there, helpless, unable to free herself, lying there at the mercy of the jungle, surely either to starve or thirst to death, or, more likely, to fall victim to some new predator.
47	62	There is no quick death for those who fail to escape the column.
48	87	"Insubordination," I said, "will be punished with death".
48	228	Surely death is a thousand times more preferable".
53	159	"When I fled there would be no reason for Msaliti to plot his death.

Book 14. (22 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	152	She then shook the straw, extinguishing it and, with her fingers, moved the bit of moss about, spreading it, and the tiny flame there dissipated into scattered glowing points which then, rapidly, disappeared.
12	44	The wooden cubes sprang immediately, briefly raging, into flame.
12	425	I saw the last of my clothing burst into flame.
21	11	"Taphris," said Barus, "put more sticks in the flame ditch".
21	16	Her flesh, in the light from the flame ditch, it almost encircling the buried clutch before us, glowed reddishly.
21	32	We watched Taphris, on her hands and knees, carry a stick to the edge of the flame ditch and, shutting her eyes, drop it in, then quickly draw back.
21	49	She was crawling about, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying sticks in her mouth, feeding the slow fires in the flame ditch.
21	395	When I turned about Taphris, again, had been set about her homely duties, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying the sticks in her mouth, of feeding the fires in the flame ditch.
22	556	The music began to swirl and flame.
23	150	There was a shower of sparks and then a tiny flame.
27	22	I had then taken her by the arms and thrown her, in a kneeling position, onto the blackened sticks and gray ashes of the flame ditch.
27	30	I scuffed away my tracks back to the flame ditch.
2	341	"The termination of his miserable existence," said one of the men, "death".
2	344	"Let the sentence be death," said another one of the men.
7	729	Disrespect in a slave can be punished by death.
12	181	She, and those who were masters, held the power of life and death over me.
14	48	To so much as touch one of the mistress' slave girls without her permission could be punished by death.
15	39	"I could have you beaten to death," she said.
15	53	"I could have you beaten to death, or tortured, and slain," she said.
18	140	She held over them, of course, the power of life and death.
18	152	On the other hand he knows that such an act can be punished by death.
19	41	One might kick but holds to the death were not permitted.

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	197	"Of course," she said, "they hold over me the power of life and death".
23	250	Such men, of course, held over her the total power of life or death.
25	228	Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently...

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	1475	How could I not be hot in my collar? My belly burns! My thighs flame! My heart calls out to you!" "Perhaps I should now kennel you for the night".
15	72	I feared I might bleed to death.

Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	247	Samos, carefully, held the tiny flame to the wick of the now-unshuttered dark lantern.
13	601	And she wants to flame with passion in his arms.
13	1760	To be sure your needs will flame regularly, and thus you will continue to be much at his mercy, rather as in the matter of food and drink".
2	269	"The death Squad is already on Gor," I said.
2	314	"He may not know that the death Squad has landed on Gor," I said.
4	10	"It can be death to enter them".
14	61	It is death to a slave, incidentally, to remove such a collar without permission.
14	682	In the camps, and among the tribes, our red masters keep women such as I in our collars, to remove one of which without permission is death".
16	10	"Much death might lie about in the grass".
16	54	"death," I said.
16	55	"But no common death".
16	193	"Are you so brave," I asked, "that you faced the beast so calmly?" "What is life? What is death?" he asked.
16	271	"death holds few terrors for those who have never known life," said Grunt.
16	272	"What is life? What is death?" asked the fellow.
17	299	Better death! I refused.

Book 18. (20 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
47	5	This beacon, whether used for the emission of smoke in daylight hours, or for its flame at night, could be seen for pasangs across the prairie.
1	326	It is death, incidentally, for a slave to remove such a collar without permission.
11	90	For too long had I been inactive in my true mission in the Barrens, that of attempting to contact the Kur war general, Zarendargar, Half-Ear, and warn him of the death squad, determined remnants of which still survived, that was hunting him, that commanded by Kog and Sardak, the latter...
12	432	He may then decide whether or not your least difficulty or disobedience is to be punished by death.
14	72	She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.
22	73	"Yes," I said, "but death will not.
26	37	Some men have bled to death from wounds of which they, in the heat of battle, in the excitement and press of combat, were scarcely aware.
27	28	Many sang their death songs.
29	125	"It is fortunate that you did not bleed to death," I said.
30	113	It was Sardak, the leader of the death squad from the steel worlds.
32	35	This gave me a figure of seventeen Kurii in the original death squad, including its leaders, Sardak and Kog.
32	54	I did not think that any one Kur, singly, would be likely to look forward to meeting Zarendargar, Half-Ear, in a battle to the death.
35	151	It takes a long time to starve to death, weeks.
39	165	"That we may, at our master's whim, be subjected to miseries or terrors, even to torture and death, if he wishes, makes clear to us that we are truly slaves, that we are truly owned, that the domination to which we are subject is truly total and absolute".
40	707	"Claim her, and then punish her with death," said a man.
41	155	"Sing my death song," he said.
50	61	"This being a slave," said Mahpiyasapa to the members of the council, standing about him, "clearly it is not fitting that she be subjected to the honorable death of a free woman".
50	92	"No longer is it fitting that they be subjected to the honorable death of free women".
56	64	The sentence of death, according to the beast, had been rescinded against Zarendargar.
56	93	"In this fashion I sought to draw the death Squad into the Barrens where they might be dealt with and sought, too, to enlist your aid in my battle with them".

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	248	Slave fires, once kindled in her belly, cannot be extinguished; if not raging, they smolder; or lie dormant, ready to be conveniently and quickly reawakened into flame.
24	249	Indeed, often they seem of their own accord, like a force of nature to burn and flame anew in the slave, and she then will find herself crawling even to the feet of a hated master, begging for his caress.
27	55	* * * * "And this cut," said the woman, herself a slave, though permitted a brief tunic, "is called the slave flame.
36	236	I had seen to it, many times, that passions would flash and flame in Drusus Rencius, which I would then, haughtily, refuse to satisfy.
36	1118	Still my back seemed to burst into flame.
31	142	Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I ...

Book 20. (15 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	668	Predictably, periodically, these fires burst into open flame.
2	974	The flame of the tiny lamp had flickered, too, in this shifting of air.
7	348	Things which the male may not regard as sexual, or particularly sexual, might flame for a woman.
20	308	Instantly a torrent of flame blasted upward from the vat.
20	317	For one terrible moment it had seemed as though the air itself had burst into flame.
1	295	"In spite of the fact that I am willing to accord you the dignity of a swift and honorable death, one fitting for a free woman, you would choose instead, and prefer, the degradation of slavery?" "Yes," she said.
2	1183	"I wished to warn him of the death Squad searching him out.
11	59	Such a behavior would be likely to be followed by hideous punishments, if not death by torture.
12	691	If intent is involved in such an omission, it can be an occasion for death by torture.
12	698	"death? A thousand lashes?" "I beg to be permitted to become a perfect slave, in all things!" she wept.
12	720	"What punishments, in lieu of death, then, do you suggest for her?" asked Boots.
16	132	"Do you doubt my capacity to defend these damsels to the death, against even armies?" asked Petrucchio.
16	689	"Then," said Chino, "we must substitute a duel to the death".
16	690	"To the—death?" inquired Petrucchio.
16	703	I have never yet lost a fight to the death with them".

Book 21. (21 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	646	Smoldering fires have not been set in your belly, never far from the surface, ready to leap into flame at the smallest touch.
26	622	Goreans do not smoke, of course, but, as they commonly use natural flame for cooking and light, they find such a device, and others like it, utilizing springs and pyrites, with cartridges of oil-saturated tinder moss, and such, of great utility.
27	190	They, too, of course, can exert their spell upon a property girl, and they tend, as do many other forms of bonds, to prod and kindle the ever-smoldering embers of her slave fires into open flame.
2	98	"It would be death for you to be found".
3	196	It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.
3	268	She had just escaped death or crippling.
5	266	"That would be a fate a thousand times worse than death".
9	63	The choice between riches and death is one that few men will ponder at length.
15	177	I suspected it might be death to cross his will.
15	234	In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them.
16	778	It is punishable by death".
19	491	Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them.
19	493	He had sought to steal protection but had purloined only death.
25	189	I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live ...
25	2237	Who knows what conflagrations and explosions may be consequent upon the denial of nature? Or will the end be only a continual weakening, a sickness, and then death? Only one thing seems reasonably clear.
26	234	"It is a matter of life and death".
26	776	Their message, according to the fellow who had been on the right, had been a matter of life and death.
26	780	But it had turned out to be a matter of my life and their death.
26	1049	"You have saved me from an unspeakable fate," she said, "one worse than death, that of a man having his way with me, against my will".
29	127	"It appears," said Hurtha, unshouldering his ax, "that a battle to the death is in order".
29	134	He enjoyed being on good terms with fellows he was preparing to fight to the death.

Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
32	126	It made me flame between my thighs.
33	315	I attended also to the few remaining tiny flares of flame about, those left from the scattering of the fire.
34	484	The slave fires in my belly had now burned low, but I knew they could be stirred into flame at a touch.
3	232	I danced for some time, lost in my delights, and I danced, or tried to, as would have, as I had planned, a mere slave, needful and fearful, before those who held over her the power of life and death, before her masters.
6	55	Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and proud, so muc...
11	1608	And failure to obey, and be pleasing, can be cause not only for grievous punishment, but death.
13	76	Some free women, captured, when such stuff is thrown to them, profess to prefer death to putting it on, but when this choice is that which is actually offered to them they put it on quickly enough.
13	874	When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death
13	875	In short, as deception is impossible, the girl must either choose death or the reality of true bondage.
19	23	"Better death in the streets, or a collar, than that I should so demean myself, and my station, as to avail myself of your generosity".
28	102	In the case of a master's death the slave, like other property, passes to the heirs, or, if there are no heirs, to the state.
29	755	"I will defend her to the death!" cried Mirus.
33	199	They had lain contorted in death.
33	356	It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky.
33	357	Only to those who have been closest to death is the value of life most clear.

Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	166	Fires have occurred in the city, from saboteurs, from fire javelins, from flame baskets catapulted over the walls.
9	30	She blew on the small flame, encouraging it.
9	36	She added sticks to the small flame.
21	985	One view is that the slaver who marches his lovely beasts naked is doing this as a form of advertising of wares; the other view is that the slaver who marches the girls sheeted is interesting men in what they cannot see, allowing their imaginations to flame with speculations.
24	755	Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w...
1	128	"Do not condemn us to death!" begged the leader.
11	329	"Hanging is too swift a death for a spy".
16	100	Two were cut down and a third climbed back over the wall and leapt away, plunging to its foot, preferring to risk the consequences of such a fall rather than face certain death on the walkway.
17	115	But if eye contact is made, then there is not unoften a fight to the death.
17	320	A false step on the narrow battlements might have plunged her to her death.
21	821	"Even a fate 'worse than death'?" he smiled.
21	863	"If it were truly a fate worse than death," I said, "or even so miserable or unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand their happiness, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their masters".
21	864	"Perhaps then," he said, "for all its demands and duties, it is not truly a fate worse than death".

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	11	I lowered the flame so it was little more than a flicker.
19	222	Let it meet then, I thought, one of man's most dangerous allies, the mystery of flame.
19	243	In a moment, though it would be only for an Ehn or so, the rence about me burst into flame.
28	54	At night the flame of a tharlarion-oil lamp can be seen hundreds of yards away, even the flash of a fire-maker.
32	26	She seemed quiet now, but somewhere within her those fires lay smoldering, ready to spring again, persistently, predictably, mercilessly, into flame.
3	528	"No," he said, "they purchased death".
20	37	"Such things, upon occasion," I said, "might be the difference between life and death".
27	212	Surely death to the men of Ar, I thought.
35	16	If he were stopped, of course, and it were found in his pack it might be regarded as equivalent to a death sentence.
43	43	Marcus normally tended, of course, to be a somewhat moody fellow, taking things somewhat more seriously, such as life and death, than seemed necessary.
47	177	I hoped, of course, if Octantius did not have the gold with him, that there would now be doubt, in the event of the death of Saphronicus, as to its eventual appearance.
49	13	The nature of his death remains somewhat mysterious, and there are many rumors concerning it.

Book 25. (18 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	79	"But how are we to explain the Weapons Laws, the flame death?" he asked.
8	516	The infant touches the pretty flame, and is burned.
21	232	'I should burn it in the flame of one of these tiny lamps.
4	94	"Yes, I suppose you could," I said, "and probably without much difficulty, but if your intent is its rescue, and not your death in its attempted rescue, this is not the time to strike".
5	33	"Ar will be defended to the death," said a man.
6	2	"Ar will defend herself to the death," said a man.
6	144	"We will fight to the death," said another.
6	176	"We must fight to the death," said a man.
8	555	They see only what they think is before their eyes and adamantly refuse to consider either the general impact of their views or their inevitable spawn in the future, stagnation, imprisonment, mediocrity, misery, poverty and death".
8	836	This permits outflanking, the engagement by one, the death stroke by the other.
9	351	"Kill the Hinrabian! death to her! Let her be impaled! Weight her ankles!" "And at night, do you serve your masters in the furs?" inquired Claudia.
9	354	"death to the Hinrabian!" cried men.
10	450	It is like vulos legislating for tarns, the end of which legislation is the death of the tarn, or its transformation into something new, something reduced, pathological and sick, celebrated then as the true tarn".
16	233	"I think his broken bones, his bruises, his blood, his groans, his gibbering, his accounts of what occurred, his terror, such things, would better serve the Delta Brigade than his death".
18	151	"You realize," said Marcus, "that the fellow may elude us, over the roofs, or climb out on a ledge, and fall to his death, or lower himself by means of a rope to the alley from the room?" "Or disappear into thin air?" I asked.
18	319	"It is also one in which, if you fail, you will be apprehended and subjected to ingenious, lengthy and excruciating tortures, to be terminated doubtless only months later with the mercy of a terrible death".
18	499	"Even though you should fail in this enterprise and die a horrible death, I want you to know that you have the gratitude of Ar's Station!" "Thank you," said the fellow.
21	234	"'It could mean his death if it were so much as glimpsed by one of the Council, or by Seremides, or Myron, or his master, or perhaps any free man,' she said.

Book 26. (19 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	349	They were fanned into flame, until we found ourselves their victims and prisoners, frequently, helplessly, profoundly, periodically, recurrently dependent upon men for their quenching.
7	656	Rather one might as well scold helpless, oil-drenched straw for bursting gratefully into flame at the touch of the torch.
11	1707	It was almost like waves of flame.
13	316	The brunet slave held the torch back that its flame might not be extinguished by the drenching water.
13	1353	The monster, bent over, picked up the tiny lamp, its flame long lowered, from the table, and, moving slowly, went to the kennels which, one by one, lifting the lamp a little, he checked.
13	1536	He blew out the tiny flame of the lamp.
28	76	We watched as the clerk struck a fire-maker, one used to melt wax for seals, and set the flame to the necklace.
31	735	flame flickered in the damp straw, then disappeared.
31	738	The flame did not take in the damp straw.
11	1230	Indeed, being able to please and placate a male can sometimes mean the difference between life and death, between being ordered to the furs, there to be incontestably ravished and subjugated, there, gratefully, to be totally conquered—and being hurled to ravening sleen.
19	1204	The failure to confess might mean far worse punishment, perhaps even my death.
24	615	"And many," he said, "in receiving their death strokes, cried out 'Glory to Ar!'" Dorna was silent.
24	664	But, too, after men have risked death, it often pleases them to be served by naked women.
37	196	A blade then found its heart, and in its death throes, not releasing its new prey, it rolled and shook, and half of it fell free to the side.
37	524	A normal Gorean male, I was sure, would have defended a jeopardized kajira to the death.
40	246	"One cannot leap to one's death every day".
44	226	We are permitting you to dictate the manner of an enemy's death.
44	240	"It is neither mine to prescribe, nor dictate, the manner of another's death.
46	32	You would surely suspect that you would be marking him out for death.

Book 27. (16 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
27	3501	"As I understand it," said Mirus, who now joined the group, "the Priest-Kings enforce their laws by the flame death".
8	222	Tutina's eyes flashed like blue flame.
12	330	In her heart, it seemed, there had begun to burn, even then, in a small way, small at first, like a tiny glowing flame, not fully understood, the longing to know the deepest and most profound of loves, the most complete of loves, the most helpless and self-surrendering of all loves, a ...
27	1346	It is little wonder that slaves hope for a private master, one who will notice them, who will speak with them, who will care for them, who will be kind to them, one who will stoke their slave fires and force them to flame with helpless ecstasy, but, in all, one who will well rule their...
1	31	But the clock is indifferent to what it counts; it considers with equanimity the antics of the foolish, the ecstasies of saints, the sweet, lovely nonsense of dreamers, the delusions of realists, the comings and goings of nations and empires, the passing of immortal faiths and eternal truths, life, ...
1	42	What is being suggested here, or better, I think, noted, is that time does not dictate reality, or life or death, or change, but measures it, and that it is indifferent to what it measures, that it is independent of what it measures.
17	976	It is death to conceal weapons.
20	608	The "leech death" is not a pleasant one.
22	163	Had primitive women been feminists the human race would have been extinct thousands of years ago; it is the ideology of death.
22	257	And, of course, the least bit of resistance, recalcitrance or such may invoke severe discipline, even death.
26	698	"death to the traitress!" said a man.
26	699	"death to the Ubara!" "She shall know the penalties for betraying the Home Stone, those to be suitably inflicted upon a traitorous free person," said a man.
27	158	They range from death to such lesser penalties as the amputation of a foot, the breaking of the teeth out of a jaw, and such.
27	2078	"If he should kill me, see then that he dies a lengthy, unpleasant death".
27	3178	"A lengthy, unpleasant death," said one of the soldiers, menacingly.
29	356	"Mirus spoke to me of monstrosities of indiscriminate death, contrived by the clever and mindless, of crowdings, of manipulations, of hatreds, pollutions, diseases and famines.

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
69	107	The steps of the palace were gouged with flame, chips of stone showered aflight, exploding from the steps, dark lines of flame laced them, the very air was smoking and burning, and Lucullus and Crassus, and several others, those who could, fled in rout back to the shelter...
1	657	Surely the flame death does not explain itself, but simply strikes.
1	692	Several times she had awakened in her bed, from such dreams, twisted in the covers, heated and thrashing, tormented by sensations that seemed to enliven and enfire every cubic inch of her, and turn her skin into a mottled sheet of living flame.
11	141	Once the slave fires flame in the belly of a woman her freedom is behind her.
19	2	The trunk did not bleed as the flame had seared shut the avenues of blood within that large body, and the head, or the parts of it which remained, slid slowly downward, descending from the rock wall behind him.
26	126	"An ally," said Peisistratus, "but I have no intention of dying on a flame rack to convince you of my position in these matters".
53	114	At that moment a burst of flame erupted in the grass near them, and Cabot and Grendel quickly slipped away, amongst rocks.
63	157	The remains of Agamemnon's Kurii then raised their rifles, but were almost immediately cut down in a withering torrent of flame.
72	16	Some of it blackened and burst into flame just over his head.
78	60	"I flame," wept the brunette.
80	176	And surely she knows it is she, ready to flame alive in its exposure, as much as any other aspect of her, her mind, her features, her emotions, the needs of her belly, all such things which constitute the wholeness of her.
1	140	When it became clear that Zarendargar had survived the destruction of the staging area, a death squad was dispatched from the Steel Worlds to hunt him down and kill him, for he had, after all, failed the people.
1	141	The policies and decisions connected with the transmission of the death squad were controversial, incidentally, in the councils of the Steel Worlds, and the decree of termination, some months later, would be rescinded.
1	142	This, of course, could not have been anticipated by the personnel of the death Squad.
1	143	Representatives of the death Squad contacted Samos of Port Kar, clearly an agent of Priest-Kings, and Tarl Cabot, for assistance in hunting down and executing Zarendargar.
1	146	Tarl Cabot, however, instead of lending his assistance to the death Squad, himself entered the dangerous Barrens to warn Zarendargar and, if possible, protect him.
1	147	This effort, of course, was not only contrary to the desires of the death Squad, but, too, seemed clearly to be an act not in the best interests of Priest-Kings.
11	265	"He was intent to rescue a friend, with whom it is told he had once shared paga, to save him from death or dishonor at the hands of Priest-Kings, a noble endeavor, but instead he brought him unwittingly into the grasp of Agamemnon".
19	90	The gift of life is a loan, as the Kur commonly sees it, a loan for which one is grateful, a loan which, when due, is to be willingly repaid with the coin of death.
20	75	"Did you or did you not seek the death of the human, Tarl Cabot?" "I did," said Pyrrhus.
20	87	"He confessed to seeking my death," Cabot reminded Peisistratus.
20	118	The hereditary coils have cast their countless lots, and nature has made her innumerable decisions amongst them, according to her mysterious wills and ways, denominating her fortunes of extinction and prosperity, of defeat and victory, of death and life.
23	137	"You will be done with in horror, put to death in unspeakable ways".
24	69	"You are bringing us all to death!" she said.
31	53	"It is death to be on the lake," she whispered.
31	54	"It may be death to be on the beach," said Cabot, "if discovered".
36	42	"It is not for nothing the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the bird of death.
37	32	"And a moment's hesitation may mean one's death.
39	43	Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe...
39	72	Kurii, he trusted, are rational animals and would seldom choose certain death.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	218	"If you possessed such a weapon, you would be in violation of the weapon laws of Priest-Kings, and liable to the flame death".
18	178	They do enforce them, however, mercilessly, with the flame death.
33	65	That would be the flame death.
26	46	Commonly the price of a death is another death, or more.
5	184	It had burst suddenly into flame.
22	676	The slave fires were always ready to spring into flame in her belly.
25	267	And, too, when the slave fires, long ago ignited, and then never far from the surface, begin again to flame in her fair belly, as under the cruel and shameful imperatives of biology they frequently must, earning her the contempt of free women, her seductiveness is then, soon, far less ...
34	43	"He sees you at his feet," I said, "scarlet and braceleted, illuminated in the flame of his lust".
36	12	The wrapped form in the canvas, sail canvas, was consumed in a torrent of flame.
1	189	And, after that, I do not know what fate they might have planned for me, perhaps a hideous death, perhaps a wandering life of exile, beggary, and shame.
2	140	One might balance, say, freedom, misery, and death, against bondage, happiness, and life.
4	13	With equanimity, not caring, it brings forth life and death, flourishing and destruction, growth and decay.
5	55	Life and death sometimes hung on the outcomes of a kaissa match, and war or peace.
5	917	And better, surely, the degradations of collars and their fair lips pressed to the feet of masters than the slow, lingering death of the impaling pole.
10	171	His action was so quick that I, familiar with the reflexes of warriors, which often spell the difference between life and death, must admire it, and Pertinax, startled, gasped, his blade still haplessly lowered.
12	135	A thousand arrows could be loosed in an instant, like death rain, on a foe, and then the riders were gone.
12	136	And then, again, the storm of death might appear on another horizon, tiny dots on the horizon, and then, in moments, be upon one again.
12	271	The male which retreats one day, of course, may not retreat another day, and then a fight to the death, or to the disabling of the defeated, is likely to take place.
12	383	"One recovers honor in life," I said, "not in death.
13	176	"Does the proscription list not mean death?" she asked.
13	177	"Strictly," I said, "it means apprehension, but it is true, that it is commonly a warrant for death, certainly for males, and often for women, free women".
14	10	In this engagement no mortal blows were to be dealt, of course, and when a stroke which would have spelled death or disablement was held up short, the adjudicator pronounced his verdict, and one of the fellows would politely withdraw from the contest, in effect having been ruled dead o...
14	29	Understandably, a reasonable amount of care was taken in the dojo to reduce injury and, certainly, to prevent death, the holding of strokes, and such, but, nonetheless, bloodshed was not infrequent, and broken limbs, wrists, and arms, were not unknown.
15	393	"One does not sell life and death," he had informed Tajima.
15	414	"One who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding," said Pertinax.
16	78	I suppose, to many, certain things might seem dreadful, the blast of the war horn, the thunder of tarn drums, the soaring descent to the attack, the scream of the tarn, the music of the bowstring, blood's lyre, with its song of death, but, too, to some, there is little which so speaks ...
18	28	When charged they melted away only to reform again in a circle of death, where the turning warrior, confused and frightened, could defend himself on only one side.
18	144	One supposes that some warriors might have supposed, as well, that their foes might have been intimidated by their scorn for body armor, or perhaps they regarded, interestingly, body armor as effeminate or unworthy a courageous warrior, who should not fear wounding or death.
19	33	I have never much favored tharlarion in combat, as, if they are confused, or wounded, they become uncontrollable, and are as likely to turn about and plunge into their own troops as those of the enemy, thereby, indiscriminately, wherever they trod or roll, whether amongst friends or foes, spreading ...
25	102	They were not dupes, fools, madmen, too stupid to understand how they had been manipulated by others, young men drunk with the wine of death, who think they will somehow thrive in the cities of dust.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	200	The Priest-Kings, on the other hand, by various manifestations of their power, doubtless the flame death, and such, had made clear the wisdom of retaining Gorean.
3	1216	'death by the impaling spear,' she said, 'is a terrible death.
3	1507	"death by impalement," I said, "is doubtless a most miserable death, and not the swiftest.
30	6	"On the continent the desertion of a single man is usually punished by his death, the desertion of a unit, its impermissible flight from the field, not routed, its refusal to engage, or such, by decimation, putting to death every tenth man, this determined by lots".
24	161	On the other hand, when a city falls, when walls crumble in flame, and the streets run with blood, the free woman, unlike the slave, has much to fear.
24	264	Her reddish hair, like a flame, burned to her very calves.
32	19	Suddenly the entire width of the trail, within its walls, for better than forty yards, began to roar with flame.
33	91	How helpless she will be, now the property of men, once they flame in her belly.
37	500	"I am heated! I flame! Please, please, Master!" With a great cry, he seized her in his arms, turned her, and flung her beneath him, across the scrap of tunic which had been brought to the room earlier by Captain Nakamura.
2	165	Its talons can clasp a kaiila and carry it aloft, to drop it to its death, thence to land and feed on the meat.
5	124	I recalled how he had so persistently urged my death in the meeting below decks yesterday.
5	179	"This Cosian sleen," said Seremides to Lord Nishida, while not taking his eyes off me, "is an enemy, to be put to death, one who wished us harm, not to be tolerated amongst us".
5	196	"To put to death this enemy," said Seremides.
5	248	So let my death soil him, and cling to him in the eyes of men, marking him, proclaiming him for what he is in fact, a wretch, a dissembler, a fugitive, a criminal, a coward, a butcher".
5	282	Now I was to be matched, to the death.
7	83	To be sure, unless honor is thought to be involved, which may lead to blood and death, such matters are usually resolved amicably, perhaps by an apology and the payment of a use coin, A's putting one of his slaves, B's choice, at the disposal of B, or such.
8	493	But what might that be? Also, as she could recognize him, her death might be worth far more to him than the gold her delivery to Ar might bring.
9	236	I saw disruption, confusion, blood, carnage, and death, both of men and beasts.
9	272	Yes, I thought, yes! It was the sort of blade to which one might grow accustomed, the sort of blade to which one might entrust one's life, placing its sharp, narrow wall of agile metal between oneself and death.
9	289	He was fond of such death play.
9	302	But such an effort would be irrational, and would presumably conclude not with a sack of gold, but with the death of both on the ice.
9	407	"Disloyalty," said Lord Okimoto, "is to be punished by death.
12	347	The mistake was tiny, but it was enough to assure his death.
12	468	It is hers, is it not, as an animal, to await the outcome, and learn her disposition? To meddle may be to invite death.
14	372	"He will bleed to death," said another armsman.
16	207	Meanwhile, in accord with the instructions of Lord Okimoto, the great ship had come about, toward the warning ship, and there was a rending crash, as the great ship crushed the smoldering remains of our galley, almost at water level, and eight or ten of the small boats, caught between the grinding h...
19	142	Had we not been on the ship, I feared we might not have escaped death.
22	79	The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death.
22	169	Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death<...
22	179	Indeed, in some cities, men returning with such wounds are put to death.

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
35	64	Their power makes clear their existence, for example the flame death, selectively used, usually to enforce the weapon and technology laws, the policing of the skies, to seek out and destroy intruding ships, the inability of tarns to fly over the palisaded Sardar, and such...
8	1135	And I did not realize at the time that already such things, such fires, slave fires, had been kindled, subtly, in my belly, but, merely, had not yet leaped into flame.
8	1192	Violations of their weapon, transportation, and communication laws are often, when discovered, followed by sanctions of fearsome import, the destructions of cities, the seizures and flingings of tides, the melting of mountains, the geysers and floodings of fiery magma, inexplicable bursts of f...
27	143	We flame, in need.
14	119	If you do not obey with perfection, you will undoubtedly die a quick and most unpleasant death.
15	27	Why was I obeying the beast? Was I moving to my death? But, if so, why had he given me the instructions he had? Would that not have been meaningless, and excessive, or might it have been calculated, to assuage my anxieties, to put me off my guard? He had informed me that I would not be...
15	204	It had been supposed it had bled to death somewhere below the streets.
23	17	It can be death for a slave to touch a weapon.
39	34	The choice accorded to humans was, in effect, certain death or participation in the conflict, supporting one faction or the other.
48	329	"His eyes mean death".
51	213	How could I sue for mercy? How could I perform the desperate placatory behaviors which I had learned in the house of Tenalion, behaviors which might mean the difference of life or death for a slave? "She cannot plead for mercy, Mistress and Masters," said Jane.

Book 32. (17 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	386	"There is the flame death.
21	166	"You have heard of the flame death of the Priest-Kings?" asked the first beast of Tyrtaios.
40	28	A cofifle of a hundred naked, neck-chained beauties from the Polluted World might be marched openly between cities, whereas a small communication device, or a weapon small enough to be held in one hand, capable of emitting small metal projectiles, would court the conflagration of the flame...
43	942	When I lower it, a wind of death will spring from the forest, a raging blast of feathered death.
39	427	Let us suppose a city has fallen, buildings are roaring with flame, blood is in the streets, walls collapse, the air is thick with choking, stinging smoke.
50	702	When she had exited the kennel I had seen that the hair, despite its length, had been cut in the "slave flame".
50	704	The "slave flame" is usually used with medium-length hair, just behind the shoulders.
52	198	Behind us the stockade was raging with flame.
9	157	"You would be put to death as a deserter," said the newcomer.
14	226	"I fear there is little honor in this camp," I said, "little here but the hope of gain, and the fear of the forest, and of death".
19	80	There were rumors, whispers, stories, of course, of lightning sticks, tubes of fire, bows which cast quarrels so swift and small one could not even see them in flight, of metal rocks which burst apart like ripe pods in the Schendi death plant, and such.
36	15	"Certainly," he said, "until they are collared, and then it might mean their death to touch one, even inadvertently".
39	133	She would be expected to prefer decrepitude, withering, aging, and death to a collar on her neck, and a master in whose arms she would be no more than a begging, enraptured chattel.
43	864	Those are not terrible odds, when the alternative is sure death.
43	1285	That would mean your death".
46	62	How lonely it was in the forest! Is it an escape, I wondered, to be dragged down by beasts, and eaten? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one starves, or freezes to death? Is it an escape, I wondered, if one manages to do nothing but change collars? I no longer feared being captured by Pa...
53	46	It is an unpleasant death.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
50	136	Indeed, a version of the blasting flame death itself might be linked to such an unauthorized inquiry.
1	239	"That is a death for heroes, a noble death, scorning life, preferring honor.
19	146	"If her slave fires have been lit," I said, "she would flame in your arms".
32	94	The sleeping loft, once the fire reached the straw matting, would erupt with flame.
44	234	A burst of flame rushed forth from what seemed the maw of the thing and the bird and rider, in a flash of fire, were incinerated before our eyes, and, blackened and smoking, enridged for a moment with lingering fire, a scattering of remains tumbled to the valley below.
52	75	I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes.
57	65	Who would choose to hold ground or counterattack under a sky in which might suddenly appear the stern, beating wings of fate's implement, a gigantic dragon sprung alive from legend and myth, capable of palpable arson and destruction, appearing in a world where the canvas over one's head might burst ...
57	75	Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity.
61	36	It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, free...
1	240	Would not rushing about, when all is hopeless, and known to be such, be undignified, even shameful, an act of desperation, contemptible, base, and disgraceful, like the bound tarsk squirming and squealing on the sacrificial altar? If our foes break into the holding and discover, to their dismay, onl...
2	143	death need not be a defeat; to die well is the final victory.
2	146	Life, I thought, sometimes requires a greater courage than death.
8	61	From my point of view, of course, living was a more plausible route to honor than death.
9	68	"death!" he cried.
9	72	"death!" they cried.
10	18	The tarn commonly kills in hunting by breaking the back of its prey, but it can seize a verr and bear it aloft, to drop it to its death, after which it feeds, or carry it to its nest, where fledglings fight for the meat, the swiftest and most aggressive surviving, often at the expense ...
15	55	"So, now," I said, "it is a circle, a wheel, of sorts?" "A circle of terror," he said, "a wheel of death".
20	125	It is his intention to have Sumomo put to death, I gather most unpleasantly".
21	114	In actuality, Lord Yamada, fearing his plans had been jeopardized by her clumsiness, had had her recalled not for her protection or for a new employment, suitable to her beauty and intelligence, but because he wished to visit his disappointment and displeasure upon her, in a most grievous manner, me...
21	121	Whereas I had little love for the vain, smug, supercilious Sumomo I certainly would have had no wish for her to be put to some prolonged, horrid death, of the sort which might be contrived by Lord Yamada's torturers and executioners.
21	249	Then there had been the incidents of the reader, Tatsu, and the subsequent attack of the presumed assassin, whose charge of death had been disrupted in its progress by Pertinax.
21	424	"To protect you," I said, "to shield you from a prolonged, unpleasant death".
21	523	"To the chamber of the long death," he said.
22	93	"It shall not be the long death," he said, "but something public, something which will make clear to many, daimyos, warriors, Ashigaru, retainers, many, to all, the justice of the House of Yamada.
22	94	She shall tread the narrow board of the high platform of execution, thence to plunge into the deep pool of death eels far below".
23	184	"The plunge to the pool of death eels".
24	3	From where I was, in the stands, I could see both the platform of execution, far above and to my left, and the wide surface, some ten paces in width, of the deep, stone-encased pool of death eels.
25	85	I knew that an unpleasant death of some sort was connected with this practice, but only now, recalling some casual remarks heard earlier, having to do with festivity and illumination, and recalling a glimpse of unusual objects, like cylindrical bundles, lining both sides of the avenue ...
25	339	The masked Ashigaru, Lord Yamada's secret death squad, the ten who had been waiting at the foot of the platform, and the two who had taken Sumomo to its perilous height, had now departed the stadium.
27	25	In battle, if troops are massed, the kaiila can be penned in, and immobilized, this rendering it susceptible to a common form of attack, being stabbed from beneath in the belly, by a crouching, lunging foe, following which the animal becomes unmanageable, is likely to throw the rider, and may eventu...

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
54	116	There have been several well-documented instances of the flame death.
51	56	"It can be death to a slave who is not a serving slave to touch them," I said, "and it can be death to any slave who dares to wear them".
2	145	You can no more hold a promise than a sieve water, you can no more resist the temptation to gossip than straw, seeking one excuse or another, can resist flame".
16	178	My belly began to flame.
19	59	In the darkness I heard the snap of a fire maker, and, a moment later, by means of its tiny flame, the tharlarion-oil lamp was alight, and I saw the room about, flickering, yellow, eerie, and empty.
33	591	The three beasts, now illuminated from the side by the fallen lantern, it inert but still burning, to our left, the flame oddly vertical, the lamp horizontal, shuffled a pace closer.
33	695	A sheet of flame then obscured the area.
33	728	"Is voracious flame not stimulating? Does it not excite and stimulate, does it not, in all its brightness and heat, speak of violence and power, does it not rage as it wishes, go whithersoever it will, devour as it chooses, destroy what it pleases without heart, qualm, or conscience?" ...
34	18	Gratefully I imbibed the fluid, a wine, a ruby wine, how it purred in one's mouth and throat, like a soft, stirring, liquid flame.
39	68	"Master!" I cried, and I ran to the door at the top of the stairs, and seized the handle, which was hot, and threw open the door, and then staggered back, shielding my face with my arms as a burst of flame and smoke roared into the room.
39	174	I heard not only a crackling of flame, nearby, but a snapping sound, almost beneath my feet.
39	211	At this point there was a cry of awe, and alarm, from the throng, for, with a great crash, the roof of the building we had just abandoned collapsed, and a torrent of smoke, sparks, and flame roared upward.
44	182	It then bent down, and whisked my tunic from the floor, and cast it into the brazier where, for a moment, it smoked, and then, a bit later, the dampness steamed away, and the cloth dry, the tunic disappeared in a bit of flame.
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.
9	163	Each helmet, of leather and metal, crested with a mane of animal hair, with its y-shaped opening, muchly enclosed a face, a face that might, in a moment, I supposed, be fearsome, and menacing, that might, peering out, aware of risk and war, of danger, of the moment that might part life from de...
15	199	I feared that Tullius Quintus, whom I supposed was not a drayman, might drive them to their death.
29	91	"He intends you harm, death.
33	646	Not her death then, but her acquisition, it seemed, had been the object of the dreadful intrusion.
34	115	Still, despite their passivity and aloofness, their singular lack of imperialism and aggression, they will protect the integrity of their habitat to the death".
40	152	Where a man might be summarily bitten to death and eaten, a woman would be seized and bartered for food or coin.
42	229	As a lying, displeasing slave you may well be cast naked to leech plants or fed to sleen, or, more mercifully, perhaps, to save time, be simply, swiftly, bitten to death".
46	59	"A touch would be instant death," said Surtak.
50	539	"Please, Master," I begged, "do not resign her, even though she be an enemy and free, to so horrible a death!" "Do not be concerned," said Lord Grendel, "I informed Lyris that if she so much as touches the Lady Alexina, I will kill her".
60	156	"I thought," said Master Albus, "to have you witness the slaughter of the beasts, four-legged and two-legged, and then have you eaten to death, prolonging it as long as possible, eaten bit by bit, bite by bite, by our noble allies, the High Ones, but, as you have seen, some members of ...
61	72	"We will spare her the death of teeth or spears.
61	325	Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ...
61	534	She is the pride and treasure of a city, to be elevated and honored, to be exalted and revered, to be defended to the death, unless she should fall slave, in that case, of course, she is then only another animal, to be bought and sold as the stock she then is.
61	687	Prepare now to do death to our common enemies!" "Meet me!" cried Surtak, lifting his ax.
61	805	First, as I understand it, none of you, even those of you, most of you, it seems, who will obey orders, no matter how stupid and ridiculous, to the death, are enthusiastic about the prospect of having certain vulos in the vicinity fed to unpleasant, ravening beasts.
64	213	"Thus, we need not fight to the death".

Book 35. (15 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	141	It seemed to me as though I must be enveloped in a blaze of flame, but there was no flame, only, apparently, a sudden, fierce interaction of substances, freed or precipitated, I supposed, by the administration of water.
3	456	My body, I fear, was a scarlet sheet of flame.
18	32	"Their bellies flame; they become more pathetically needful; they become more desperate to please; they improve".
22	133	The air about me shuddered, trembled, and fled, as if from flame.
30	89	It was red like flame, but parted with a broad band, or stripe, of blond hair on the left side.
46	574	How wild, sensuous, exciting, and provocative are the dancing melodies of Gor! How they swirl and flame! The lash had not yet fallen.
21	87	I would later learn it was a familiar article of war, a metal bird of death, the quarrel of a crossbow.
30	123	"Last Blood" matches are duels to the death.
33	229	To do it a second time means death".
33	602	A more remote possibility, but not one to be ignored, was death by exposure or from a simple lack of sustenance.
38	194	"It requires very little time to thirst to death," said Florian.
38	206	In some cities this is a crime punishable by death, particularly if the woman shares one's Home Stone.
42	72	Then there was a cry of death, and he was heard no more.
42	80	Then, from the other side of the barricade, now back several yards, I heard Pa-Kur cry out, "Be done with it! Swiftly! Sweep them aside like vulos, trample them like urts! Kill all! Spare none!" There was a scrambling, the sounds of slipping, of breaking wood, cries of anger, and death...
42	186	Then, sheltered and unnoticed, at the wall of the inner vestibule, as men milled about, bustling, hearty and hale, laughing and joking, now free of the neighborhood of death, Talena, as I may now speak of her, accompanied by hobbling Seremides, as I shall now speak of him, made their w...

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	239	The rumors of responsibility spread from village to village, from port to port, from island to island, spread like the wind, spread like raging flame through straw.
2	79	"Bosk of Port Kar has red hair, like flame and blood.
20	57	"Next," cried Aktis, "will it be you who hears axes on the gate? Will it be your fields which will smoke to the sky, your homes which will be consumed in flame, your blood upon the hearth?" "Summon guardsmen!" cried a man.
43	136	I was about to turn, and make my way to the second catapult, that which had been assigned to Thurnock, when I saw it spring, almost in an instant, into flame.
58	135	"Ready oil and flame," I said.
61	5	A trembling of the lip, a blinking of an eye, a trickling tear, will speak of crumbling walls, of cities in flame, of cosmic conflagrations, of ruined, lost, and dying worlds".
1	158	On the continent, there are thousands of villages, sovereign and proud, prosperous and free, too costly to attack, defended by flights of the birds of death".
4	140	We are helpless, and desperate! You cannot leave us here! We will drown or thirst to death! There are dangers in the water.
9	2	"They have been active," I said, "but not in the business of looting and death".
14	43	"Others, at last, will rush to the shore, gorge themselves with fluid, and die the hideous salt death".
19	161	"The terrible bow," he said, "from which fly the birds of death".
20	130	"Regulars of Cos are spearmen," said Aktis, "veterans of the defense and attack of two spears, long spears and casting spears, masters of the fence of death, stalwarts whose lines of braced spears deter even tharlarion.
21	160	Nicomachos, I was sure, for better or for worse, would have died a terrible death.
26	18	It is a horrible death to be struck by, almost enveloped by, a descending, barrel-sized, clinging ball of burning pitch.
29	173	They might have been imbibed inadvertently, or thoughtlessly, or possibly unknowingly, by someone unaware of their nature, perhaps even a thief, soon to discover that what he stole was no more than his own death.
32	95	"What could they have to hope for but a swift and bloody death, pitting themselves against our vast numbers".
33	41	In two or three days you will thirst to death.
35	35	Brigands look for loot, not death".
41	56	"If so," I said, "it is the madness which is your only hope, the madness which stands between you and death, between you and the end of Mytilene, between you and the destruction of your Home Stone".
41	158	He who draws the short straw is quickly and mercifully put to death, that his fellows may feed".
42	146	"He has bled to death," I said.
45	12	A common punishment in such cases is to bind and hood the thief and then beat him to death.
45	39	The man who loses in the gambling is then put to death by his fellows.
47	8	This plenitude of striking force was applied both singly and randomly and, occasionally, in thick volleys, falling like a dark, torrential rain of death.
48	94	"They are unworthy to look upon the glory of the sky, even in death".
52	55	But death will take care of itself.
53	198	"There is little point in capitulating," I said, "if it means the death of every man aboard the Dorna and the Tesephone".
57	68	Had it not been for the screens I fear the deck would have been raked with death.
57	132	"They fight for gold, not death".
60	41	"The spines are deadly, for days, even when the thing is dead, and it is not always dead, and, for some time after death, it may, like the ost, toss and twitch.