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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	142	During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback.
14	115	Marlenus himself knelt in the darkness to check the knots in the binding fiber, tightening them carefully.
14	116	As he checked the knots at my wrists, he spoke to me.

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	265	Then, with the scarf, using the simple capture knots of Gor, I lashed her wrists together.

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	112	"Not you!" "Yes," he said, "I," turning her about once again, routinely checking the knots that bound her wrists, taking her wrists in his hands, trying to separate them, examining the knots for slippage; there was none.
3	123	Soon the animals would be turned in on themselves, to mill together in knots, until they were stopped by the shaggy walls of their own kind, to stand and graze until the morning.
8	494	Only perhaps a beat or two before the kaiila leapt into the circle had I finished the knots that confined her.
16	33	"The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope".
16	36	The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it.

Book 5. (20 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	661	"No," I said, "simple knots, common Gorean knots".
5	627	In such a small thing as these knots I was again reminded of the central differences in sex and personality that divide human beings, differences expressed in thousands of subtleties, many of which are often overlooked, as in the way a piece of cloth might be folded, a letter formed, a...
5	653	"I do not tie dainty knots," Elizabeth informed me.
5	657	"You seem to like knots," I remarked.
5	660	"Signature knots?" she asked.
5	667	I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand.
5	670	"So you think your knots are neater than mine?" I asked.
5	708	"So you think your knots are neater than mine?" I inquired.
5	715	"All right," she said, "all right! Your knots are very neat, Master".
5	719	"How could the knot of a mere girl, and one who is only slave, compare with the knot of a man, and one who is free, and even of the Caste of Warriors?" "Then you acknowledge my knots are superior to yours in all respects?" I asked.
7	177	Even if a girl should manage somehow, incredibly, because certain important knots are outside the wicker, to free herself, she would still be held in place by the loops on her throat.
8	8	"My knots are a great deal neater than yours," she said.
8	13	"Yes," I said, "it is true—your knots are indeed a great deal neater than mine".
8	163	"Whose knots are neater?" she asked.
8	181	"But my knots," she said, "are still neater".
17	97	"Kajuralia!" said the Warrior, cheerfully, getting to his feet, after checking the knots that bound the wrists of the last girl on the ropes.
24	106	At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...
24	145	I noted the doors here were secured only with signature knots.
24	147	I glanced at the knots on the doors, as we passed them.
24	271	Door after door I passed, most with the heavy ornate locks, some secured merely with the signature knots of lowly men, or even slaves.

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	649	In an instant, with peasant knots, Thurnock had lashed them together.
9	281	"Good, my Captain," said Clitus from one side where he sat working on a net, reinforcing its knots one by one.

Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	133	It fits the girl snugly, tightly, knots well, and holds her with perfection.
15	24	My wrists were still bound, fastened by the leather knots of the tarnsman, Rask of Treve.
15	105	I lifted my tightly bound wrists to the guard, and he undid the knots.
17	183	* * * * I felt the knots on my wrists being checked, and I winced, as they were tightened.
17	200	The man now was checking the knots at the lid of the basket.
17	202	Our ankles were bound together at the center of the basket; our wrists were bound behind our backs, to the wicker; our throats were independently secured, the knots outside, keeping us in place.

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	190	I walked about the girls and checked the knots of the slave star.
17	62	"What is your name?" I asked, as I fastened the knots on her wrists, behind her back.
18	386	I then lowered her to the leaves, rolled her over, checked the knots of her bonds, and withdrew.

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	296	Kurii, howling, fled, knots of men following individuals.

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	345	Some of these rugs have as many as four hundred knots per square hort.
5	115	She stood with her back against the tree, angry, trying to reach the knots behind her.
5	118	She then, weeping, in misery, inched down the trunk of the tree until she knelt with her back against it, leaning back, and tried to reach behind her, again trying to undo the knots.
5	119	This was not an easy task for, again, she could not see the knots, they being behind her, on the other side of the tree.
6	32	Her body was now tight on the rack; her toes were pointed; her hands were high over her head, the rough rope slipped up her wrists, prohibited from moving further by its knots and the wide part of her hands.
24	883	"Free me!" I checked the knots.

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	872	I struggled, with my small, weak fingers, with the knots.
2	875	He knew the knots he had tied could not be easily undone by one such as I.
5	648	Thongs had been used, not rope; the knots, simple and efficient, had been made by a warrior.

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	38	* * * * I used capture knots on her wrists.
11	572	I took a length of binding fiber and knotted it, with capture knots, about her throat.
11	574	Too, the capture knots, those of a warrior, would serve to identify her as mine in the north.

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	258	"Examine the knots," said the praetor.
4	259	"They are capture knots," said the guardsman, smiling.
5	294	"When the assailants were brought to the praetor's desk, too," said he, "it was seen that their wrists had been bound with capture knots".
5	296	"Such knots are tied by a warrior," he said.
6	89	I braced myself, holding my feet together on one of the knots on the rope.
34	779	I checked the knots on her wrists.

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	218	Her small wrists were secured before her body with cord, fastened with cunning knots.
13	220	The knots were under the left wrist, to make it more difficult to reach them with the teeth.
16	364	Slave knots had been used, and Gorean binding fiber, designed for the perfect control of slaves and prisoners.
21	432	The strings contain knots on the side on which the side tunnel occurs.
26	332	She could not reach the knots with her fingers or teeth.
26	359	We had practiced on stable sluts, but the subtleties, the turns and knots, were clearly applicable to any woman, slave or free.

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	14	I fumbled with the knots on the gag.
15	30	I glanced at the knots on her ankles.
15	93	I knelt upon the couch and, turning her head to the side, untied the knots at the back of her neck.

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	352	I tightened the knots that confined him.
20	1048	"I cannot," wept the girl, "nor do I wish to, Master!" I turned her over and examined the knots on her wrists and ankles, and then put her again on her back.
20	1049	"The knots are excellent," I said.
20	1294	I checked the knots.

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	61	Subtle differences in the styles of collars, and in the knots with which they are fastened on the girls' necks, differentiate the tribes.
14	853	I tightened the knots on her wrists.
17	47	The knots near the throat bands, in preventing slippage, serve two functions; they hold the girl's wrists against the yoke and, at the same time, prevent any undue stress from being placed on the throat bands.

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	323	The knots on them had been retied personally by Canka after our arrival at his camp.
39	488	"The knots are tight.
44	1	Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post.

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
36	11	Through my ankles I felt the jerking tight of the knots.

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	246	Lady Yanina put back her head while one of the soldiers fought with the scarf knots.
21	677	"The knots are too tight, Master," she wept.

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	330	I heard the rattle of harness, sensed the attachment of ropes, the tying of knots, the drawing of them tight, their testing.
13	98	The knots were tight, drawn by a man's hand.
16	24	By means of this single strand of rope, and two simple knots, my left ankle had been tied just inside the left ring and my right ankle just inside the right ring.
29	1112	It was hard for her, for the knots had been tied by a man.
29	1116	He then undid the knots.

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	140	He scrambled up the embankment, the lantern in one hand, clutching at knots of wet grass with the other, slipping, sliding back, then regaining his feet, then reaching the surface.
5	157	It served also, thusly, with a minimum of knots to which we might have access, to fasten us together".

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	1031	In the repertoire of an experienced slave, of course, it is one of her nonverbal signals, one of those numerous signals, such as need knots, body touchings, and such, by means of which she may express herself, even if forbidden to speak.
22	32	In this fashion, as the knots were behind her back, fastened opposite her hands, she could not reach them with either her hands or teeth.
26	16	At other times I had her tied as I usually slept her, her ankles crossed and bound in the center of the length of binding fiber, the same fiber, now in its double strand, being brought up and used to tie her hands together before her body, its separated ends then tying behind her back, to keep her h...
26	17	A similar tie may be used, of course, with the girl's hands tied behind her back, the knots then before her.

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	307	I had used capture knots.

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	1539	In a moment, with a dispatch and effectiveness that could only have been the result of long experience in such things, the knots had been jerked tight.
12	852	They prefer on the whole, it seems, to place bonds upon, and to check and test their knots, the arrangement and such, on the bared limbs themselves.
12	970	Her small fingers struggled with the knots.
13	51	She had struggled futilely with the knots.
13	53	The shape then bent down and, with its great hands, undid the knots.
13	950	"The knots, Master," said the brunette.
14	972	Too, if there were any doubts as to the matter, they surely would have been dispelled by the manner in which it was on her, by the height, tightness, and insolence with which it confined her, leaving little of the delights of her lineaments to speculation, the knots jerked tight with c...
16	595	He jerked tight knots on them.
40	229	Andar undid the knots which restrained Fina, and she, unbidden, leapt up and threw herself into the arms of the pit master, sobbing and laughing.

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	733	The knots seemed too close, too tight.
24	878	Then she looked up, for her wrists were lifted, by the scribe, he checking the confining knots which bound them.
27	774	The knots were jerked tight on Ellen's wrists.
27	3274	At least, she thought, it is common rope, and not a leash of knotted leather, or knotted binding fiber, because she knew that knots in such materials might be drawn so tightly that her small, delicate fingers, those of a woman, might lack the strength to undo them.

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	50	The different knots probably identify the master.

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	219	What hand, or paw, I wondered, jerks tight the knots of destiny.
28	117	Bedded, they were kept on their neck-ropes, but their hands were retied, behind them, lest any be so foolish as to try to address themselves to the knots at the ends of the coffle rope.

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	634	I fought the knots binding my ankles together.
3	645	I could not undo the knots.
3	646	I took the key to the collar, which I had hidden in my tunic, and, using it as a wedge, and then as a tiny saw, attacked the knots first, and then the cord itself.
32	10	"Aii!" I said, as I felt the tearing jerk on my hands, anchored behind one of the knots, as I felt my feet pulled away, upward, away from the courtyard, and, for a sickening moment, I saw the ground dropping away below me.
37	1118	I then went behind her, and, with some difficulty, undid the knots binding her ankles together, and then those confining her small wrists.

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	689	And the knots had been warrior knots! I was scarcely aware of its movements so swift it was, and I felt myself seized up, lifted, in mighty paws, and I sensed nails within them, and heard a roar of rage, and I was flung a dozen feet across the room, striking into a wall.
10	61	As I watched my ankles being tied I noted the beast was using warrior knots, the sort which quickly and easily secure a woman.
10	62	As women are common loot on Gor, of greater interest than, say, goblets and tapestries, warriors are instructed in such knots.
10	66	Where, I wondered, would such a beast have learned such knots? Surely it was not itself a member of the Scarlet Caste.
10	226	They had been fastened together with warrior knots.
10	552	"The knots are tight," said the Lady Bina.
20	81	"Let me see the knots," said Eve.
20	85	"I do not think we could undo the knots," said Jane.
26	160	I was not sure she could even manage to undo the knots herself.
50	73	On my former world, which may be called Terra, or Earth, we do not use signature knots, or, perhaps better, have not done so for a long time.
50	74	You secure packages with such knots, boxes, even doors.

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	13	Naturally I had tried the knots on my wrists and ankles, but found them, as I had anticipated, of Gorean efficiency.

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
57	243	As Tajima is a warrior, you would find it difficult to undo the knots.

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
42	232	The Lady Bina then undid the knots of the cords wound about my ankles, and put the cords to the side.
48	13	I crossed her ankles, and looped the cord three times about them, and yanked the knots tight, much tighter than was necessary.
61	332	Several knots of war, in moving, violent tangles, roiled in the field.

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	175	Gorean capture knots are not meant to be escaped.
30	12	Some of the doors were closed with colorful signature knots.