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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	80	Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw.
7	43	It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.

Book 6. (11 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	56	It was well known among the pirate captains of Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa.
9	58	He was pirate indeed, and slaver, and murderer and thief, a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar.
9	541	I knew him to be pirate; and I knew him to be slaver, and murderer, and thief; I knew him to be a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar and, as I looked upon him, the filth and rottenness, I felt nothing but disgust.
9	577	I looked upon him, Surbus, slaver, pirate, thief, murderer.
9	646	He was pirate, slaver, thief, murderer.
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.
13	1	How Bosk Came to Be pirate "Paint my ships green," I had said.
13	3	By this time, the Fifth Passage Hand, the flag of Bosk, pirate, had come to be much feared on Thassa.
15	116	Meanwhile, while I had been plying the trade of pirate, the military and political ventures of the Council itself, within the city, had proceeded well.
15	250	I was Bosk, pirate, Admiral of Port Kar, now perhaps one of the richest and most powerful men on Gor.
15	345	Again I was Bosk, from the marshes, pirate, Admiral of Port Kar.

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	58	He was a pirate, a slaver, a master swordsman, a captain of Port Kar.

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	26	He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not c...
2	48	He was a rover, a great captain, a pirate, a trader, a warrior.
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.
8	60	"Who," I asked myself, "is Hilda, the daughter of a barbarian, of a rude, uncouth northern pirate, living in a high wooden fortress, overlooking the sea, to so demean the perfumes of Ar?" One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a bo...

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	7	I had been brought there, bound and gagged, in a closed sack, in a lighter from the pirate ship.
24	330	I was in Sirik, fastened to a ring, chained in the hold of the Dorna, the ship of the dreaded pirate and slaver, Bosk of Port Kar.
25	60	The pirate regarded it.

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	229	I, and other women, placed in a net, were swung to the deck of the pirate ship.

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	50	This made it difficult for the pirate fleets, following their raids, to descend the Olni and escape into the Vosk.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	84	"He who attacked you, the pirate chieftain," I said, "who was he".
6	50	For several weeks I had moved from one river town to the next, examining slave markets and attempting to obtain information on the whereabouts of the pirate, Kliomenes.
6	122	I knew she had been taken recently, and by Kliomenes, the pirate.
7	120	"By a pirate," he said.
7	123	"May I inquire as to what crew it was of which that pirate was a member?" I asked.
7	134	"Are you familiar with a pirate named Kliomenes?" I asked.
8	156	Who is he?" "He is Kliomenes, the pirate, lieutenant to Policrates," said Tasdron.
10	269	Had it not been for him I would doubtless have been slain by the pirate, Kliomenes.
11	15	"Do you recall I was the fellow who challenged in this tavern, and who was threatened by Kliomenes, the pirate, the fellow who was saved, happily, by one called Callimachus".
18	34	"In my own tavern," said Tasdron, "he had difficulty with Kliomenes, the pirate.
19	109	I was startled to hear this name, for it was the name of he who had saved me, some weeks ago, from the steel of Kliomenes, the pirate.
20	1	The Tavern of Hibron; I Return Home Alone "Stand back," said the pirate.
20	5	"Make no unfortunate move," said the pirate, he who had spoken to me before.
20	13	Then, after two Ahn of searching, I had found her here, near the wharves, unattended, in the tavern of Hibron, a miserable tavern, a low place, called the pirate's Chain.
21	59	"Is it also known how I withdrew from the tavern of Hibron, the pirate's Chain, when I sought there the Lady Beverly?" I asked.
21	145	"By now she doubtless wears the steel loops of a pirate's pleasure girl," she said.
22	5	The sword of the pirate, in a drunken swing, had grazed my chest.
22	9	The pirate turned away, laughing.
22	17	I watched the pirates, perhaps some fifty or sixty of them, unchallenged, moving between warehouses and the wharves, where two pirate galleys were moored.
22	28	I heard a woman scream and saw her, thrown over the shoulder of a laughing pirate, a brawny fellow, being carried to one of the galleys.
22	33	The pirate threw the woman to his feet near the nearest galley and there stripped her and handed her to a comrade who stood on board the galley.
22	45	"So, too, were they," said the man, angrily, gesturing to the bound woman at the railing of the pirate galley.
22	48	"You there, Female," called a pirate, his eye roaming the crowd, "step forth!" The men holding the ship's pole, frightened, lowered it.
22	49	"Step forth!" said the pirate.
22	51	"Unhood her, face-strip her," ordered the pirate.
22	59	"Step forth, Beauty," said the pirate.
22	62	Swiftly, before us all, in the light of the flames, was the woman stripped by the pirate's blade.
22	68	The pirate then looked at us, and laughed.
22	78	For a long moment or two the point of the blade remained at her throat, as the pirate considered the girl's plea.
22	85	"We do what we wish with Victoria," said the pirate.

Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	24	I saw a pirate fall over the body of another pirate, who had been struck with an arrow.
1	49	At the chain, settling back, its concave bow lifted fully from the water, its stern awash, was a pirate galley.
1	51	Beyond this ship, too, there was another pirate galley, crippled, listing.
1	109	I could see, even as he spoke, several of the pirate vessels drawing back, abeam of the chain, but far enough behind it to prevent our ram from reaching them.
1	110	Off our port bow we saw one of the pirate vessels slip beneath the muddy waters of the Vosk, a kill of the Mira.
1	117	Other men dove free into the river, swimming back about the bow of the nearest pirate vessel.
1	158	Not more than a dozen feet away I could see a pirate longboat behind the chain, protected by wicker shields.
1	172	The pirate vessels, too, had withdrawn from the chain.
2	71	The pirate boats, at the chain, need only draw back".
2	72	"The longboat," said Callimachus, "should be west of the chain, that it may approach the pirate boats less suspiciously".
2	96	We had actually passed within a few yards of pirate vessels, anchored in the river.
2	107	"What is going on out there?" called a voice, from one of the pirate vessels, back from the chain.
2	209	We were hailed by men in pirate vessels, as we passed near them, but we did not respond.
3	54	As we came about a pirate galley knifed towards us.
3	60	As the ships passed I had looked into the eyes of a pirate.
3	91	Here and there, at the chain, again and again, pirate galleys were striking at the great links, and then backing away, and then again, patiently, renewing their attack.
3	98	Two stones looped into the air and then, gracefully, began their descent toward one of the pirate ships.
3	105	We came upon the wreckage of a pirate galley, broken in two, deserted.
3	107	"There is a pirate galley behind us, a pasang back, lying to!" called out a man, aft on the stern castle.
4	104	The pirate galleys began to back oars, frantically to extricate themselves, but, clumsily, half swung about, they must accept our fire.
4	210	I saw a pirate galley slip under the water, near the chain.
5	5	The other was on the railing of the pirate vessel.
5	10	The port shearing blade of the pirate vessel was torn, splintering strakes, from its hull.
5	18	Only the blood at the pirate's throat marked its passage.
5	20	I leaped onto the deck of the pirate vessel, slashing about myself.
5	27	I nearly struck, by accident, an oarsman from the Tina, too on the pirate's vessel.
5	36	We had ten or more men fighting on the pirate vessel in the vicinity of her stem castle.
5	53	A pirate leaped toward me and I cut him from the platform.
5	55	Behind me I could see another pirate vessel looming.
5	199	These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some ...

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	67	Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b...

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	376	But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar ha...
17	42	Their every move in the delta, for days, had probably been reported to the Cosian commander, perhaps Policrates himself, said once to have been a pirate, by tarn scouts.

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	900	For example, I am not of the slavers, but in Port Kar I am known as Bosk, and he is known as many things, among them pirate and slaver.

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	280	Had she not been so, in one way or another, in her dreams, on the smooth, scarlet tiles of a conqueror's palace, on the deep-piled rug within the tent of a desert chieftain, on the deck of a pirate's vessel? In a pathological culture, of course, many things are kept concealed, often th...

Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	23	I was thus, I supposed, the captive of pirates, for pirate crews are often diversely origined, often recruited from a medley of cast-offs, fugitives, ruffians, murderers, brigands, and such.
3	1357	It was a pirate crew, mixed, without Home Stones, and such, I had speculated earlier.

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
46	124	Who could forget your triumphs in the arena? Would you not care to be one of the founders and leaders of a splendid new order? On Gor, on this world, you are known to the bandit and pirate, Tarl Cabot, and doubtless others, and might, in our interest, well exploit and utilize the bonds...

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	128	It had been the name of the ship of the fearsome Bosk of Port Kar, said to be a slaver, trader, and pirate.
46	16	But, for all I knew, he was himself a pirate and marauder.

Book 36. (15 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	116	More than once we had lowered our masts and sails, and our low ships, painted green, the pirate color, difficult to detect in the waves of Thassa, had lain almost flat in the water.
4	161	"One would expect so practiced a pirate as Bosk of Port Kar to be less careless, more meticulous, more thorough," I said.
5	18	"Would that not have been suspicious in itself," I asked, "three women, to be pitied, so distracting, and not one man?" "Why would a pirate not have seized them for slaves?" asked Thurnock.
5	85	"We have seen no sign of the pirate fleet in our wake since early morning," said Clitus.
7	57	"Why should so notorious a pirate content himself with villages?" asked Nicomachos.
7	155	"The pirate fleet appears from nowhere," said Nicomachos, "strikes, and vanishes".
8	79	I always found this ironic as the average peasant, like the average Tuchuk, is commonly a bargainer whose sense of business shrewdness is not far removed from that of a practiced, marauding pirate.
16	187	"Who has not heard of that dreadful pirate, so elusive and ruthless a corsair?" "Might his predations, on land and sea, be somehow supported and abetted by living islands?" "I should hope not," she said.
17	259	"Perhaps you have heard," I said, keeping my eyes to the side, "of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar".
21	65	"If," I said, "you could encounter and destroy the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar".
21	69	"I am sure that the pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, or his spies, will be at the fair, to assess the wealth of villages, to note the cargos of what ships are bound where, and so on.
33	105	"Is Bosk of Port Kar not a rogue, a pirate and villain, a fellow perfidious and merciless, a cad and scoundrel, one both treacherous and dishonorable?" "No," he said.
58	264	"We would not wish to miss the triumph of Nicomachos, naval hero, victor over the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar," I said.
59	32	"Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but rece...
62	12	"How could it be refused to one who has captured the famous pirate and outlaw, Bosk of Port Kar?" he said.