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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	1	Nar the spider I had a little difficulty making out the tallest tower in Ar, the cylinder of the Ubar Marlenus.
6	84	When freed, I was lifted lightly in the mandibles and carried to the edge of the web, where the spider seized a hanging strand and scurried downward, placing me on the ground.
6	87	It said, "My name is Nar, and I am of the spider People".
6	102	The spider People do not hurt rational creatures".
6	106	"That is pleasing to me," said the insect, "for the men of Ar do not behave well toward the spider People.
6	126	We had proceeded for perhaps an hour when Nar, the spider, abruptly stopped and lifted his two forelegs into the air, testing the odors, straining to sift out something in the dense, humid air.
6	160	I called out "Nar!", looking for my spider comrade, but he, like the girl, had disappeared.
6	171	She seemed to have no fear of Nar, perhaps because of the familiarity of the citizens of Ar with the spider People, but it was obvious she loathed the touch of his mandibles, and she shivered slightly as she tried to wipe the exudate from the sleeves of her gown.
6	199	Apparently the spider Person was not as harmless as she had arrogantly assumed.
7	17	"Well, Brother," I said, remembering the insult of the daughter of the Ubar, "shall we continue our journey?" I wanted Nar to understand that not all humankind were as contemptuous of the spider People as the daughter of the Ubar.
7	26	"Wait," I said to Nar, and the giant spider paused.
7	80	I led her by the hand toward Nar, helped her to the glossy, hairy back of the spider, and climbed up after her.
7	88	It is dangerous for the spider People".
7	95	"I do not ask your name, Warrior," he said, "nor will I repeat the name of your city before the Submitted One, but know that you and your city are honored by the spider People".
5	59	According to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discarding the former in the sw...
5	150	The third day's camp was made in the swamp forest that borders the city of Ar on the north.
5	154	But an hour before midnight, on the day I knew was the Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna, I climbed again to the saddle of my tarn, drew back on the one-strap, and rose above the lush trees of the swamp forest.
5	155	Almost simultaneously I heard the raucous cry of a patrol leader of Ar, "We have him!" They had followed my tarn, trailing it back from its feeding in the swamp forest, and now, like the points of a rapidly converging triangle, three warriors of Ar were closing in on me.
5	177	I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below.
6	57	"Once we're beyond the swamp forest, I'll set you down on some highway to Ar.
6	70	When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.
6	73	Approaching me, stepping daintily for all its bulk, prancing over the strands, came one of the swamp spiders of Gor.
6	124	"I will take you to the edge of the swamp if you like," said the insect.
6	125	I assented, thanking him, this rational creature who lifted me gently to his back and moved with such dainty rapidity, picking his way exquisitely through the swamp forest.
6	129	Luckily I did immediately as he had advised, fixing my grip deep in the long black hairs that covered his thorax, for Nar suddenly raced to a nearby swamp tree and scuttled high into its branches.
6	138	Without thinking, I leaped from the back of Nar, seizing one of the long, tendril-like vines that parasitically interlace the gnarled forms of the swamp trees.
6	141	A shattering squeal of pain rent the heavy air of the swamp forest, and the tharlarion actually reared on its hind legs and spun about in pain, sucking the brown stump of its tongue back into its mouth with an ugly popping noise.
6	152	About its flanks, as it settled into the mud, there was a stirring in the water, and I realized the small water lizards of the swamp forest were engaged in their grisly work.
6	154	Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at its base.
6	162	Idly, with repulsion, I watched the body of the tharlarion in the swamp.

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	66	"I do remember," I said, "a spider in the swamp Forests of Ar".
16	67	"The spider People are a gentle race," said Misk, "except the female at the time of mating".
16	69	"The spider People are soft," said Misk.

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	6	It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wood...
4	154	She had now turned the stem of the craft toward the rence island, which lay some pasang or two through the swamp, and, as I cut rence here and there, began to pole homeward.

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
18	54	I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slav...

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	122	I recalled her from the fields near the swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free C...

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	44	They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones.

Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	55	He, like a clever spider in its web, was the center of an intelligence network that might have been the envy of many a Ubar.
29	23	This afternoon, late, when we had come inland, almost in the dusk, she had become entangled in the web of a rock spider, a large one.
29	27	A thin line runs from the web to the spider.
29	28	When something strikes the web the tremor is transmitted by means of this line to the spider.
29	29	Interestingly the movement of the web in the air, as it is stirred by wind, does not activate the spider; similarly if the prey which strikes the web is too small, and thus not worth showing itself for, or too large, and thus beyond its prey range, and perhaps dangerous, it does not re...
29	30	On the other hand, should a bird, such as a mindar or parrot, or a small animal, such as a leaf urt or tiny tarsk, become entangled in the net the spider swiftly emerges.
29	32	When the blond-haired barbarian stumbled into the web, screaming, trying to tear it away from her face and hair, the spider did not even reveal itself.
29	34	Curious, as she, sobbing, cleaned herself with leaves and saliva, I located the gentle, swaying strand which marked the location of the spider.
32	209	The rock spider has been mentioned, and termites, also.
44	91	Approaching her now, moving swiftly across the web, was a gigantic rock spider.
44	97	I flung it head-on into the spider.
44	124	It reposed there, gigantic and globular, in the fashion of the rock spider, its legs tucked beneath it.
1	375	Tiny tharlarion, similar to those in the swamp forest south of Ar, dropped, snapping, from the bared hook.

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	50	"From stragglers," he said, "from fellows found in the swamp, from men separated by rencer attacks from their units".
27	9	Sometimes such pools are extremely treacherous, as when they have a natural concealment, the sand at their top, supported by surface tension, seemingly continuous with adjacent sand, or when covered with algae or swamp growth.
33	4	Two nights ago, wading, we had reconnoitered the edge of the swamp.
33	6	The bounty hunters would apparently discard the bodies in the swamp, after they had removed the heads, these to be presented for bounty fees.

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
14	180	Many are the strands of intrigue, and a tremor in one strand, as in the web of the urt spider, is often registered in several others.
14	182	Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits.

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
61	800	"You were always of Earth, the world of slaves and fools! I had once thought you a man, but how wrong I was! Though I had twice tried to kill you, once in tarnflight over the great spider swamp south of Ar, and once in its vicinity, with a knife, you neither slew me nor p...
13	260	Even blackened bricks were carted away and cast into the great swamp.

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	437	"Tharlarion, swamp fish, knife-teethed fish," suggested another.