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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	131	From the back of Nar I could see the marsh, with its reeds and clouds of tiny flying insects below.
6	188	"Spiders are, as a matter of fact, particularly clean insects," I remarked, my eyes informing her that I was inspecting her comparatively filthy garments.

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	13	Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road.
6	189	"I have fled from those men for six days," wept the girl, "living on berries and insects, sleeping in ditches, hiding, running".

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	140	We came upon a Golden beetle though none had ever been seen in that place and I wanted to go to the beetle and I put down my head and approached it but the girl seized my antennae and dragged me away, thus saving my life".
23	52	But still, as the Mul-Torch burned lower and I yet encountered no sign of the Golden beetle, my thoughts turned ever and again to the still form of Vika lying in the cavern of the Golden beetle.
24	54	How horrible I thought it would be to be trapped in these tunnels, waiting for the beetle, able to avoid it perhaps for hours, perhaps days, but not daring to sleep or to stop, not knowing if one were going down a blind passage, if the beetle were suddenly to confront one...
25	2	They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...
27	5	I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the t...
30	72	The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them help...
31	213	Then to my amazement when the beetle neared Sarm the Priest-King sank down on his supporting appendages, almost as if he were on his knees, and suddenly plunged his face and antennae into the midst of the waving mane hair of the Golden beetle.
32	158	I could now see the antennae of both Misk and Kusk turning towards the beetle, and I could see the beetle stop, and the mane hairs begin to lift.
32	180	With a cry of joy I rushed upon the beetle and Vika and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and their women joined me and together, kicking and pushing, avoiding the tubular jaws, hurling rocks, we forced away the globe of the Golden beetle.
10	2	What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another.
10	106	Now I may still look forward someday to the Pleasures of the Golden beetle".
13	113	"It scavenges on the kills of the Golden beetle," said the first slave.
13	114	"What does the Golden beetle kill?" I asked.
14	142	"The pain was excruciating," said Misk, "and I could not but follow her in spite of the fact that I wanted to go to the Golden beetle.
14	143	In an Ahn of course I no longer wanted to go to the beetle and I knew then she had saved my life.
14	151	"Is it not possible," I asked, "that Sarm wished you to die by the Golden beetle?" "Of course," said Misk.
14	158	The Second, Third and Fourth Born, in the long ages, have, one by one, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden beetle.
15	69	"How long," I asked, "does a Priest-King live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "Priest-Kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are found by the Golden beetle".
15	76	"One by one we succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden beetle.
15	127	"Once," said Misk, "we rejoiced and lived, but now though we remain young in body we are old in mind, and one wonders more often, from time to time, on the Pleasures of the Golden beetle".
20	166	"He means," said Mul-Al-Ka, "that she has been sent to the tunnels of the Golden beetle".
20	182	"No," said Mul-Al-Ka, "we are simply to tell you that Vika of Treve awaits you in the tunnels of the Golden beetle".
20	183	"That is the weak part of Sarm's plan," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "for you would never go to the tunnels of the Golden beetle to seek a female Mul".
20	185	"You will not go to the tunnels of the Golden beetle," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "because it is death to do so".
22	1	To the Tunnels of the Golden beetle I slung the translator on its chain over my shoulder and went to the bars near the door.
22	86	"Yes," said Mul-Al-Ka, "find yourself some secret place and stay, and perhaps someday Sarm will succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden beetle and you can emerge in safety".
22	102	"What was sad," said Misk, "was that I might not have been able to give Gur to the Mother, and that thought troubled me grievously for the days in which I retained Gur, but now thanks to you I will be able to give Gur to the Mother and I will stand forever in your debt until I am slain by Sarm or su...
22	121	"We will come with you, Tarl Cabot," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to fight the Golden beetle".
22	123	"The girl Vika of Treve lies in the tunnels of the Golden beetle," I said.
22	156	"You are foolish," he said, "to go to the tunnels of the Golden beetle".

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	10	I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	47	Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered; it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh water were plentiful.
4	118	The sun was low now and insects moved in the sedge.
8	31	insects, undistracted, hovered about his head, moving in his hair.

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	172	But I was less eager to sample the small amphibians she caught in her hands or the fat, green insects she scooped from the inside of logs and from under overturned rocks.
13	489	There were insects about.
13	500	I was surely not tempted to sample the small amphibians or the loathsome, fat, green insects Ute had called to my attention.
15	846	It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told me were edible.
15	851	I saw Ute, through the slit, take one of the insects and bite it in two, eating it.
15	855	They, such insects, and water, were my food for the remainder of my time in the tiny slave box.
16	121	I heard night insects.
16	123	Far off, in the tarn compound, a tarn screamed, and then there was only the silence, except for the sounds of the insects.

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	913	I heard the sounds of insects.
7	181	I listened, patient, to the drone of insects.

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	49	These were the gray men, the hurrying men, the efficient, smug, tragic insects, noiseless on soft feet, in the billion iron hills of technology.

Book 10. (9 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	36	Crawling insects of various sorts, and predator insects, however, are found in many areas, even far from water.
10	39	When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects.
10	40	This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide.
2	350	The dyes used in the making of these rugs are, on the whole, natural dyes, vegetable dyes, some made from barks and leaves, and roots and flowers, others from animal products, crushed insects, etc.
7	27	Vints, insects, tiny, sand-colored, covered them.
10	35	Normally, flying insects are found only in the vicinity of the oases.
10	38	It feeds on insects.
11	67	Suddenly, like darting, black, dry rain, the insects swarmed about us.
1	762	Their most intense, pleasurable experience was perhaps to immerse their antennae in the filamented, narcotic mane of the golden beetle, which would then, piercing them with its curved, hollow, laterally moving jaw-pincers, drain them of their body fluid, feeding itself, slaying them.

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	495	I heard insects.
5	645	"Pity her!" I heard the sounds of the night outside the tent, the insects, the cries of fleers.
6	105	It was high, and conical, and floored with rough planks, set some six or seven feet on poles above the ground, that it might be drier and protected from common insects and vermin.

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	719	insects swarmed about it.
12	372	At certain times in the summer even insects will appear, black, long-winged flies, in great swarms, coating the sides of tents and the faces of men.

Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	94	They perish in the heat, they die in the sun, they are killed by hostile tribes, they are destroyed by insects, they are eaten by tharlarion.
11	144	They can be closed by a rod from the floor, in the case of rain or during the swarming seasons for various insects.
16	90	I slapped at insects.
22	9	I brushed insects away from my face.
32	201	Monkeys and tree urts, and snakes and insects, however, can also be found in this highest level.
32	203	Here, too, may be found snakes and monkeys, gliding urts, leaf urts, squirrels, climbing, long-tailed porcupines, lizards, sloths, and the usual varieties of insects, ants, centipedes, scorpions, beetles, and flies, and so on.
32	208	Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects.
32	231	I listened to the noises of the jungle night, the chattering, and the hootings, and the clickings and cries, of nocturnal animals, and birds and insects.
47	93	Now, near the rear wall and spreading toward the center of the village, it seemed there was a growing, lengthening, rustling, living carpet of insects.

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	67	We could hear insects in the hedged gardens beneath and beyond the balcony.

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	1022	Such wood, in the long process of smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks.
12	7	There were insects on its brown snout, and about its eyes.
12	20	insects swam in the air above several of the bodies.
12	229	I turned about in the saddle to view once more the torn, bloodied grass, the motionless figures, the insects and birds, the place where, yesterday, in brief compass, carnage had touched the prairie.
14	310	It would be hot under the robe, in the sun, and there would be insects in the grass.

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	932	They come to feed on the insects stirred up in the grass, activated by the movements of the beasts' paws.
22	289	'Hala' is Kaiila for the Gorean hinti, which are small, active insects.
45	94	The men, in great numbers, like insects, now illuminated, clung precariously to the rock.

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	365	How few children of Earth, I thought, are taught the names and kinds of the trees and shrubs, the plants, the insects and birds, which surround them constantly.

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	840	"Eaten in a moment by ravenous insects?" "No!" "You were attacked by cloth workers with scissors, who desired to replenish their stores?" "No!" "Magic?" asked Lecchio.
8	273	It was very quiet, save mostly for the rustling and clicking of insects.
13	247	Why had we not been chained close to the wall, and forced to fight with insects and rodents for our food? Gorean prisoners are seldom pampered, either of the male or female variety.
14	427	I could see three swarming locations in the pack, almost as though gigantic tawny insects infested the area, clambering about atop one another.

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	185	It is infested with insects, snakes and tharlarion.
22	132	"They control the insects, the beetles and lice, and such".

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	129	I was their captive! Surely somewhere in nature there must be an accounting for them, as there was an accounting for the dances of bees and the fragrance of flowers, for the fleetness of the antelope and the teeth of the lion, for the migrations of fish and birds, for the swarming of insects
28	220	Were he to come upon me here how could I escape? Perhaps he would lower the rope and bucket for the others, and not me? Perhaps he would throw great stones down upon me? Perhaps he would lower poisonous insects or snakes into the pit? Perhaps he would leave me here to starve? Tupita th...

Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	160	In this fashion you may better make the acquaintance of certain nocturnal insects, such as the marsh beetle".
5	5	I gritted my teeth against the insects crawling on my body.
12	75	"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches".
17	178	The zarlit fly preys on small insects, usually taken in flight.
17	217	Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse.
17	261	Too, I had felt many more insects on my body, alighting upon it, then clinging to it.
19	33	The marsh beetle crawls upon the sand at night and its tiny passage can be marked in the sand.
19	34	Of the footprints I saw several were traversed, like valleys, by the path of the marsh beetle.

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	227	Was it for this that they had done their duty, was it for this that they had faced the delta, the tracklessness, the tharlarion, the insects, the hunger, the arrows of rencers, the blades of Cos? "Some of these lads, former "Cosians" and others," I said, "are apparently little better, ...

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	1175	One then smears her face, and body, and hair, with honey and leaves her there, her presence being soon noted by a large variety of unpleasant insects.
37	969	Some birds impale insects on thorns, for a similar purpose.
44	200	"Shall we throw her to leech plants? Shall we stake her out to be eaten alive by insects?" I was silent, disconcerted.

Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	62	Too, she doubted that it had been saturated with preservatives, or coated with poisons, to discourage the predations of insects.
27	3466	The insects of conformity swarm and sting.

Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	457	If the male were a Kur, she would groom him, smoothing and licking his fur, and searching for insects.
5	350	There are no noxious insects, or such, either, to compete for the food, as we have not allowed their entry into the areas.
47	58	From the distance they resembled slowly flying insects.

Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	25	I could not have expected this in a Gorean domicile, and if, unaccountably, it had occurred, I would have expected the slave to have been subjected to a sharp, immediate discipline, that presumably to be followed by a period of punishment, perhaps being chained uncomfortably for several Ahn, perhaps...
5	486	These troops, as planned, had been decimated in the delta of the Vosk, and largely lost, the prey of heat and insects, of salt water and quicksand, of armed rencers, of serpents and tharlarion.
6	29	I also suspected that there would be a scent, or a flavor, to such a thing, that it would attract insects who would eliminate any possible residue.
16	272	In the distance, far off, coming from the south, it seemed a cloud had formed, obscure, uncertain, at first, and then swift and dark, and then, in a moment or two, it seemed the cloud might be a flight of insects, a dark swarm, a plague of predators.
40	5	Other ships, with bolder governors, many with ladders and irons, clung to her flanks, clustered about her, like insects, but their ladders were unavailing, foolish against this behemoth's sides, and what arm had the strength to cast an iron so high that it might engage the railings tow...
5	78	The remnants of the older order might, by now, dispossessed and superseded, neglected and scorned, have long ago sought the pleasures of the Golden beetle.
5	136	Sarm, of course, years ago, had succumbed to the pleasures of the Golden beetle.

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	350	The enemy they encountered, of course, was not the expected foe, but the delta itself, with its insects, heat, humidity, uncertain footing, quicksand, tharlarion, and rencers, denizens of the delta, almost invisible, subtle in warfare, masters of the bow and ambush.
13	41	I brushed away insects, hovering about.
15	42	The expansive blanket of odor, of the blossoms of the Vine Sea, with their clouds of insects, surely pervasive, yet seldom noticed for days, seemed suddenly rent.
15	59	By evening the great ship was free of the Vine Sea and, sails furled, and sea hooks cast, she waited, a pasang west of the vines, the odor, and insects, while the numbers of ship's boats, and the four galleys, rejoined her.
16	138	They reminded me of a swarm of insects, as in the Vine Sea.
25	20	This mammal, which usually preys on insects and small urts, like several species of birds, is communally territorial.

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
31	26	Poling in the trackless delta, the rope on their neck, they are well aware of the wilderness, the vastness, the treacherous byways, the quicksand, the heat, the insects, leeches, delta sharks, winged, predatory uls, and, in particular, marsh tharlarion, which often scout the boats, and...
51	207	"A dark cell filled with hungry urts, a garden of leech plants, smearing her with honey and staking her out for insects, ants, jards, or such".

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	97	Too, consider eyes, and how widely spread they are amongst diverse life forms, insects, fish, mammals, birds, and such.

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
30	390	"I trust you do not subscribe to the practices of the savages of the Barrens, the staking out, the insects, the smearing with honey, such things".
30	451	I will tidy camps, I will prepare couches, I will gather nuts and berries, I will gather wood, I will carry water, I will cook!" "The torment I have in mind for her," he said, "is not one of insects, or burnings, not one of irons, not one of tongs and pincers, not one of the lash of le...
53	56	What else so ennobles life? Without his symbols and gestures man has only the dumb succession of pointless seasons, the repetitive, meaningless cycles of insects, the vacuous rootings and ruttings of tarsks".
60	1	Swords Meet Amongst Flowers; The insects are not Disturbed; A Gate is Sundered "Let us consider matters, here, on the raked sand," said Lord Yamada, "that we may not risk trampling flowers".
60	53	In the silence we could hear Lord Yamada breathing, and the hum of insects.

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	37	There are many differences in animals, as well, and in birds and insects.
26	8	There were the subtle night noises of the marsh, the calls of small amphibians, the humming of insects.

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
51	145	I watched it capsize, men swarming then like insects on the overturned hull.