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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5	3	Ko-ro-ba lay in the midst of green and rolling hills, some hundreds of feet above the level of the distant Tamber Gulf and that mysterious body of water beyond it, spoken of in Gorean simply as thassa, the Sea.
5	5	Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious thassa bey...

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

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26	258	I wondered at the things she said to me for they seemed strange, perhaps more so to my ears than they would have to one bred and raised from infancy as a Gorean, one as much accustomed to the submission of women as to the tides of gleaming thassa or the phases of the three moons.
28	226	Indeed, it is through the control of gravity that the Priest-Kings had, long ago, brought their world into our system, an engineering feat which might have been otherwise impossible without perhaps the draining of gleaming thassa itself for its hydrogen nuclei.
31	182	I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the...

Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
1	20	The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from gleaming thassa and the mountains of Ta-thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet.
21	189	We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the Tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming thassa itself.
15	49	Already the herds had been eased westward, away from Turia toward thassa, the distant sea.
17	35	It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, p...
20	161	This, I knew, was the morning on which the wagons moved away from Turia, toward distant thassa, the Sea.
23	192	Whether, after we had moved the wagons and bosk some pasangs away, we should remain there, or proceed toward the pastures this side of the Ta-thassa Mountains, or return toward Turia, was not decided.
24	141	"You would have found out long ago," said Harold, "had you not rushed off to Turia again immediately after our return—when the wagons were moving toward Ta-thassa.

Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	49	The ashes, Kuurus judged, since the body had been wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, would be scattered from tarnback, perhaps over distant thassa, the sea.
2	193	Their whereabouts were unknown, but it was thought they had hoped to found a colony on one of the islands of thassa, farther north than even Cos and Tyros.
15	95	Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen.
17	331	It is said that men once having seen thassa are never willing to leave it again, that those who have left the sea are never again truly happy.
17	333	The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Po...
19	363	"Would such not be pleased to be served his paga by such as these? Would he not care to see them dance for him? Would the sight of them, eager, lips lifted, in the shadows of a tavern's alcoves, not soothe his weary eyes aching from the sun and salt of gleaming thassa?" The crowd roare...
19	366	"Would they not be a fitting gift for the palace of the very Ubar of Port Kar, beautiful jewel and mistress of gleaming thassa?" The crowd was silent.
19	368	Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous thassa.
19	438	Deferentially the auctioneer regarded the Slaver of squalid, malignant Port Kar, mistress and scourge of gleaming thassa.
19	439	"Does Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, mistress and jewel of gleaming thassa, now care to express interest?" "He does," said Samos, dispassionately.

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	63	The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terrac...
18	43	I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh...
1	1	The Blood Mark I could smell the sea, gleaming thassa, in the myths said to be without a farther shore.
1	3	thassa could not be far beyond.
1	50	On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming thassa, the Sea,...
1	60	The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming thassa, th...
1	93	I had been in the delta now for some sixteen days, drifting and paddling toward thassa.
1	95	And the great, vast clean smell of thassa was clear.
3	35	Coming from the Sardar, I knew only that I was to travel to Port Kar and there make contact with Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, scourge of thassa, said to be trusted of Priest-Kings.
7	117	Still, the escape of a slave girl, or of a male slave, must indeed be rare from canaled Port Kar, protected as it is on one side by the Tamber Gulf and gleaming thassa, and on the other by the interminable marshes, with their sharks and tharlarion.
9	56	It was well known among the pirate captains of Port Kar, scourge of gleaming thassa.
9	91	Port Kar, squalid, malignant Port Kar, scourge of gleaming thassa, Tarn of the Sea, is a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals.
9	214	Port Kar seemed sovereign on thassa.
9	655	And then the dawn came and, over the buildings of Port Kar, beyond them, and beyond the shallow, muddy Tamber, where the Vosk empties, we saw, I for the first time, gleaming thassa, the Sea.
9	665	I stood up, wearily, and looked out over the sea, gleaming thassa.
9	701	One of the men stood forward, a tall man, lean, young, but with a face that showed the marks of thassa.
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.
10	40	It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea.
10	134	We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...
10	199	Tersites had also, it might be mentioned, though he had not presented these ideas in his appearance before the council, argued for a rudder hung on the sternpost of the tarn ship, rather than the two side-hung rudders, and had championed a square rigging, as opposed to the beautiful lateen rigging c...
10	212	My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free islands, in thassa, administered as free ports by members of the Merchants.
10	270	I expected I would again, however, return to thassa.
11	107	Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other ...
11	150	I looked out over the harbor, and over the muddy Tamber to the gleaming vastness beyond, my thassa.
11	266	His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings.
11	493	If he had known this, I asked myself, why had he not spoken before? "Perhaps," I asked, "Samos will propose that we now withdraw our patrols from thassa?" Samos looked at me, and the look was as cold and hard as Gorean steel.
11	516	It then seemed to me, so simply, that there was for the first time the possibility of peace on thassa, among her three major Ubarates.
11	540	"And," Samos went on, "it should preferably be one who is not well known to Cos and Tyros, one who has not angered them, nor proven himself to them a blood enemy upon gleaming thassa".
11	573	"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent...
11	591	The possibility of peace on thassa was an attractive one to me, a merchant.

Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	4	He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called thassa.
7	7	At the mouth of the Laurius, where it empties into thassa, is found the free port of Lydius, administered by the merchants, an important Gorean caste.
7	8	From Lydius goods may be embarked for the islands of thassa, such as Teletus, Hulneth and Asperiche, even Cos and Tyros, and the coastal cities, such as Port Kar and Helmutsport and, far to the south, Schendi and Bazi.
9	229	They begin near the shores of thassa, the Sea, in the west.
11	1274	Skjern is an island in thassa, muchly distant from Ko-ro-ba.
13	76	The tiny village, Rarir, in which she had been born, lay south of the Vosk, and near the shores of thassa.
13	128	"Oh," had said Ute, casually, "I cannot swim thassa.
17	279	Samos himself was abroad upon thassa, in ventures of piracy and enslavement, and it was through a subordinate that I was purchased.
18	10	I have much for which a man might wish, the beautiful Telima, considerable wealth, a great house, wines and allegiances, and before me, gleaming thassa, the Sea.
18	23	Sometimes she comes with me, to the great keep, which once we defended, and we look sometimes toward thassa, the Sea, and I look sometimes towards the northern forests.
18	61	I looked out over thassa, and the marsh, in the moonlight.

Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	16	And I could smell the sea, thassa, and the intermingling of the Laurius, with its fresh water, feeding into gleaming thassa.
18	409	We three stood together on the beach, on the sands, among the stones, and observed thassa, the murmuring, gleaming, elemental vastness, thassa, the sea, said in the myths to be without a farther shore.
22	42	Then there was the roar of thassa but not of thassa but of the crowds in the Stadium of Tarns, in Ar.
1	211	When they wearied of me, I was taken, leashed and manacled, to a lonely beach, at the edge of thassa, bordering on the western edge of the forests".
2	50	One of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our ship, off shore, on the green waters of thassa.
2	154	"We have been abroad on thassa," said Rim.
2	319	We had come north, along the western shore of thassa, the forests on our right.
2	522	"Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.
2	619	"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of thassa".
3	33	Tabor is an exchange island in thassa, south of Teletus.
3	38	Most commercial voyages, needless to say, are carried out in deeper-keeled, broader-beamed ships, the famed round ships of thassa.
3	45	The governance of Lydius, under the Merchants, incidentally, is identical to that of the exchange islands, or free islands, in thassa.
3	50	Most ports and islands on thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils.
3	109	Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in thassa, little mor...
5	152	The morning tide from thassa was running in, swelling the river.
5	157	The tide from thassa, lifting the river, makes the entrance to the Laurius less troublesome, less hazardous.
5	349	Ta-thassa," said I, in Gorean.
5	366	Then the sail fell, snapping and tugging, and took its shape, billowing before the gentle wind from thassa.
6	175	Unfortunately for Ar, or perhaps fortunately for the maritime powers of thassa, it is almost impossible to bring a large ship or barge through the Vosk's delta to the sea.
6	910	The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp.
7	30	We would make a splendid couple, she and I, the beautiful Talena, daughter of the Ubar of Ar himself, and the great Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa.
7	42	We would make a splendid couple, she and I, the beautiful Talena, daughter of the Ubar of Ar himself, and the great Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa.
7	122	Let official word then be sent to Ar that his daughter now sat safe at my side, consort of Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa.
9	334	I might then, when it had pleased me, have had official word sent to Ar, that his daughter now sat safe at my side, my consort, the consort of Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa.
11	49	It would lie through the forests to the west, above Lydius, on the coast of thassa.
13	238	The two ships would then proceed to Lydius, and thence to an exchange point on the shore of thassa, north of Lydius.
15	97	The men of Tyros, I knew, familiar with islands and the sweeps of gleaming thassa, were inexperienced in the forest.
18	1	The Shore of thassa "The sea! The sea!" cried the man.
18	10	Then, as the water moved again, in the stirrings of thassa, the sea, in its broad swirling sweep touching the beach, he lifted his head and stood upright, the water about his ankles.
18	20	And it had been he who had first glimpsed thassa.

Book 9. (21 results) Marauders of Gor

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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...
1	32	It was thus that I had become a captain in Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa.
1	80	Wounds had I at the shore of thassa, high on the coast, at the edge of the forests, when one night I had, in a stockade of enemies, commanded by Sarus of Tyros, chosen to recollect my honor.
1	146	I could not recover my honor, but I could, and did upon one occasion, recollect it, in a stockade at the shore of thassa, at the edge of the northern forests.
1	149	But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea.
1	303	My present master, noble Samos of Port Kar, purchased me at the shore of thassa.
1	340	Yet, for a girl, late in the season, high on the coast of thassa, it was a marvelous price.
2	62	Too, the town is surrounded by a wall, with two gates, one large, facing the inlet, leading in from thassa, the other small, leading to the forest behind the town.
6	464	Many men of Port Kar has he given to the bosom of thassa".
9	59	Then, like any bondmaid, she found herself plunged beneath the cold green surface of thassa.
10	147	Such duels, commonly, are held on wave-struck skerries in thassa.
15	270	From where we stood we could see the black ruins of Svein Blue Tooth's hall and holdings, the desolated Thing-Fields, the sea, thassa, with the ships at the beach.
18	592	Then we followed further, even up the slope of the valley, and to a high place, cliffed, which overlooked thassa.
18	596	Behind him, green and beautiful, stretched thassa.
18	600	On thassa, some hundreds of yards offshore, were ships.
21	231	You gave, on the coast of thassa, freedom, and life, to me and my men.
21	233	"You were a good leader," I said, "to bring your men, some wounded, from high on thassa's coast to Tyros".
21	246	The plan of Tyros might thus, foiled upon the coast of thassa, be in effect accomplished in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, at least with respect to he known as Bosk of Port Kar.
22	34	In the distance I had seen the Torvaldsberg, and, to the west, gleaming thassa.
22	86	There was a sweet wind on thassa.
22	213	Slowly the tarnhead prow of the Forkbeard's sleek craft turned toward the sweep of thassa.

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1	15	I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...
1	263	I looked at the heavy, squarish face, burned by the wind and salt of thassa, the clear eyes, the white, short-cropped hair, the small golden rings in his ears.
15	13	It may be that, in remote times, an arm of thassa extended here, or did extend here and then, later, in seismic dislocations or continental drift, became isolated from the parent body of water, leaving behind one or more smaller salt seas.

Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4	979	In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein...
7	19	The growing power of the Salerian Confederation was not viewed with favor by the city of Ar, which, lying in Gor's northern hemisphere, is the major power between the Vosk and the Cartius, and between the Voltai Range and thassa, the sea.
10	54	The Vosk is a mighty river which flows westward, emptying into a vast rence delta, finding its way eventually to thassa, the sea.
11	205	The merchant caste, too, maintains certain free ports on certain islands and on the coasts of thassa, such as Teletus and Bazi.
16	155	I could not believe the freshness of the air, the winds of thassa, the brightness of the sky.
16	224	I knew the waters of thassa were plied by many ships, and, among them, were the ships of pirates.
22	39	One often fishes from the ships on thassa, and the diet of the sailors consists, in part, of the catch.
22	48	I had seen, yesterday, the long neck of a marine saurian lift from the waters of gleaming thassa.
22	58	The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters.
22	184	Suddenly I felt on my feet the cold water of thassa.
22	465	Outside, from time to time, from the movement of ships, the cries of men, the hiss of catapults, it was clear that men were still at their games, that war was still afoot on the deep, green precincts of beautiful thassa, the sea.
22	627	There was still fog on thassa.
24	26	"Clitus Vitellius of Ar, and his men," said the man, "by accounts rendered to me by Samos of Port Kar, of the Council of Captains, participated creditably in the action of the day before yesterday on behalf of the Jewel of thassa".
24	27	Port Kar is sometimes spoken of by her citizens as the Jewel of thassa.
24	34	"Sound and hale," said the man, "on the ship of Samos, the thassa Ubara".

Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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2	320	The world's end was said to lie beyond Cos and Tyros, at the end of thassa, at the world's edge.
2	323	Some said that thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence...
2	346	It seemed to me such a ship would be too heavy to manage well, that it would be clumsy and slow, that it might be better fitted to cargo service when protected in a convoy than entrusted to confront, elude or brave the lean, lateen-rigged wolves of gleaming thassa, hungry for the cargo...
2	589	They follow the shore of thassa north, cross Ax Glacier here, like dark clouds on the ice, then continue to follow the shore north here, until they then turn eastward into the tundra of the polar basin, for their summer grazing.
2	619	He crouched over the mosaic where it delineated the sea, an arm of thassa, crescentlike, extending northward and eastward, tangent upon the polar shores.
2	633	They break from glaciers, usually in the spring and summer, and drift in thassa, moving with the currents.
5	8	"Perhaps he feared to paint the eyes, perhaps he feared to commit his dream to the realities of thassa".
5	45	"You must take another ship, the Dorna or the Tesephone, or you may take my flagship, the thassa Ubara".
6	14	I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side.
12	202	These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters.
12	205	These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of thassa rimming the polar basin.
12	233	They are surely not a barrier, however, in the sense that the Voltai Mountains, or even the Thentis Mountains or Ta-thassa Mountains, are barriers.
38	8	I looked out to the shore of the polar sea, that northern extending branch of thassa.

Book 13. (26 results) Explorers of Gor

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6	57	The Kamba, as I may have mentioned, empties directly into thassa; the Nyoka, on the other hand, empties into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, its waters only then moving thence to thassa.
1	194	The Kamba flows directly into thassa.
1	195	The Nyoka flows into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, and moves thence to thassa".
1	200	"We now know that the thassa Cartius and the subequatorial Cartius are not the same river".
1	206	The actual source of the tributary to the Vosk, now called the thassa Cartius, as you know, was found five years later by the explorer, Ramus of Tabor, who, with a small expedition, over a period of nine months, fought and bartered his way through the river tribes, beyond the six catar...
1	207	The thassa Cartius, with its own tributaries, drains the highlands and the descending plains".
1	216	Who would have understood, of the cities, that they were not the same?" "Even the bargemen of the Cartius proper, the subequatorial Cartius, and those of the thassa Cartius, far to the north, thought the rivers to be but one waterway".
1	219	It was convenient then, for trading purposes, to make use of either the Kamba or the Nyoka to reach thassa".
1	221	"Particularly since it was known of the hostility of the river tribes on what is now called the thassa Cartius".
1	240	"It might avoid, too, the dangers of shipment upon thassa," I said, "and provide, as well, a road to conquest and the acquisition of new territory".
1	730	Out of Ushindi flow the Kamba and the Nyoka, and those flow to thassa".
3	7	I could smell thassa, the sea.
4	570	Bejar had left the port yesterday, to again try his luck upon gleaming thassa, the sea.
4	717	If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets thassa, the sea.
4	928	The long oars dipped into thassa and rose, dripping, from the greenish sea.
4	961	I smelled the sharp freshness of gleaming thassa, the sea.
6	5	The sails were full and the waters of thassa streamed against the strakes.
6	45	Soon I could see a brownish stain in the water, mingling and diffusing with the green of thassa.
6	55	These stains extend for pasangs into thassa.
16	65	One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r...
16	83	Waters from the overflow of Lake Ngao entered the great marsh between Ngao and Ushindi, and, thence, made their ways to Ushindi, which, by means of the Kamba and Nyoka, drained to gleaming thassa, the sea.
24	60	Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of thassa.
27	99	The shells were from thassa islands and their types were unknown in the interior.
36	31	How could I tell Kisu, who was of the land, of the feelings of those who had known the waves of thassa? "You will not free me, will you, Master?" asked Janice.
50	7	We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of thassa.
57	63	When Lakes Ushindi and Ngao had been joined by the canal a continuous waterway would be opened between thassa and the Ua.

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	132	The major towns west of Port Cos, discounting minor towns, were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus, Ven at the junction of the Ta-thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself.

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	5	At the second Ahn, long before dawn, the herald of Samos had come to the lakelike courtyard of my holding in many-canaled Port Kar, that place of many ships, scourge of thassa, that dark jewel in her gleaming green waters.
1	369	"I," asked Samos, "first speak to such as they, I, who am first captain in the high city of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming thassa?" "Correct," I said.
1	610	"I bring you greetings," said Samos, "from the Council of Captains, of Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming thassa".
2	101	It might be mentioned in passing that Port Kar's location, with its access to the Vosk Delta, its position in the Tamber Gulf, and its having gleaming thassa herself lapping at her sea walls, is a not unenviable one for commerce.
2	189	Some, larger boats and light galleys, such as might be used in the Tamber Gulf or, abroad, on thassa, were being rowed from thwarts.
8	395	This same standardization, in the region of the Tamber Gulf and south, along the shore of thassa, tends to be effected by the golden tarn of Port Kar.

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
35	18	The Dorna was a ship, a tarn ship, a ram ship, shallow-drafted, straight-keeled, single-banked, lateen-rigged, carvel-built, painted green, difficult to detect in the rolling waters of thassa, out of Port Kar.

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	139	"It is thassa, the Sea, Mistress," said the girl.
3	141	"That is how we think of her," said the girl, "as the sea, thassa".

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	991	This had primarily to do with her situation, in the northwestern portion of the estuary of the Vosk, the waters of the Tamber Gulf and thassa before her, the vast, trackless marshes of the Vosk's delta behind her.
2	1005	It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar.
3	151	"To be sure," she said, "my sympathies lie with Cos and Tyros, thassa's foremost citadels of enlightenment and civilization.
6	211	Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re...
6	276	Anango, like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in thassa, administered by members of the caste of merchants.
6	1379	"I am interested particularly in one given city," I said, "a port on the coast of thassa, one south of the Vosk's delta".
12	8	In all this time we had been gradually moving north and westward, slowly toward the coast, toward thassa, the Sea.
22	1	What Occurred on the Coast of thassa; It Has Begun "We were afraid!" cried Boots.
22	22	The wagons of the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit were drawn up on the height of a hill, amidst trees, overlooking thassa.
22	29	I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.
22	254	We stood for a long time, all of us, on the summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	312	Already on thassa the winds would be chill and the cold waves would be dashing and plunging to the bulwarks and washing the decks with their cold floods.
14	25	This inclination, incidentally, is not all that uncommon among individuals whose fortunes tend to be intimately involved in such matters as importation and exportation, the location and exploitation of foreign markets, and, in general, the overseas trade, the thassa and island trade.
14	27	The navies of Tyros and Cos, for most practical purposes, command the green waves of gleaming thassa.
25	1238	"Where are you from?" "From the northwest, near thassa," I said.

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	407	Too, the river galley, for those whom it might interest, is normally shorter masted than a thassa galley, seldom has more than one mast, and seldom carries the varieties of sails, changed on the yard according to wind conditions, that are carried by a thassa galley.
20	406	It must be remembered, too, that these were river galleys and, on the whole, smaller than the galleys of thassa.
21	1036	Conquerors have ever led away the women of the enemy, making them theirs, to be used for their purposes, for love, service and breeding, from the thonged, stripped, switch-driven captive females of defeated cave dwellers to the contemporary, crowded holds of slave ships plying the latitudes of gleam...
24	96	But there were compasses and landmarks, as palpable to me as the stars by which I might navigate on thassa, as solid and undoubted as the great brick structure of the pharos of Port Cos itself.

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	476	"From Port Kar," I said, adding, "Jewel of Gleaming thassa".
12	71	I was Tarl, of Port Kar, city of the great arsenal, city of many canals, Jewel of Gleaming thassa.
21	127	In time, perhaps a few months, it might even find its way to the Tamber, and, perhaps, in time, to the surgent green washes, the vast rolling swells, of thassa herself, the sea.
36	32	One could see the harbor and, of course, beyond, gleaming thassa, the sea.

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	422	Too, far off now, like the sounds of thassa breaking on a distant shore, we could hear the crowds.
18	603	He is known from the steaming jungles of Schendi to the ice packs of the north, from the pebbly shores of thassa to the vast, dry barrens east of the Thentis range!" "What is his name?" inquired Marcus, eagerly.

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	306	In that direction would lie thassa, the sea, and perhaps the port of Brundisium.
21	49	White clouds, unhurried, insouciant, pursued their leisurely way inland, floating, drifting, in the currents of the wind, like ships on an invisible ocean, like remarkable, protean creatures risen majestically from the cold waters of gleaming thassa, the sea.
26	1168	How alive the collar makes us! How welcoming and sentient we become in so many ways in this so sentient world! We welcome its myriads of sensations, its aromas, its colors, its sounds, its textures and tastes, the feel of wet sand beneath our bared feet, that of the wind on our bared arms and legs, ...

Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	50	"Many, I trust, have already been answered by our unfortunate Grendel, whose repellant appearance we trust did not overly disgust you, and others by our dear colleague and friend, Peisistratus, of the lovely island of Cos, in thassa.
67	108	The thought crossed his mind of the mad shipwright, Tersites, filled with his dream of a ship so sturdy and mighty that it might see what lay on the far side of thassa, to go so far that no mariner who had attained only to the first knowledge would dare to ply one of its oars, for fear...
79	499	I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port Kar, having b...

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	1	That Which Occurred at the Mouth of the Alexandra; The Ship of Tersites Has Entered Upon thassa; The Salute There was much shrieking and splintering of wood far below, on both sides, as the ship of Tersites, undeterred, made her way to gleaming thassa.
1	2	"How could it be so beautiful?" She stood on the beach, thassa, calm, the sea, before her, the forest behind her.
1	14	To be sure, I knew we were somewhere in the vicinity of the northern forests, north of the Tamber gulf, east of thassa, well south of Torvaldsland.
2	67	To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...
2	177	"Jewel of Gleaming thassa," I said.
2	410	He was probably not abroad upon turbulent, green thassa on that remarkable and unusual day".
3	516	One of the glorious sights of Gor is the wheeling, the maneuvering and flight, of such cavalries in the sky, a lovely sight, in its way not unlike that of a fleet of lateen-rigged galleys abroad on gleaming thassa, the sea.
3	554	One thinks of "Thentis, Famed for her Tarn Flocks," rather as one thinks of "Glorious Ar," of "Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning," of "Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming thassa," and so on.
3	796	It rained heavily that night, the storm coming in from thassa.
4	4	It was very pleasant near the shore, with the smell of thassa, with the cool, penetrant air, the sense of the salt of her churning waves, the sound of the surf, the incoming tide, the wash of sea weed on the shore, the water with its soft, fluid rush across the sand and amongst the sto...
4	73	There had been a storm last night, and it had moved in from the west, from thassa.
4	104	"You cannot drink the water of thassa," I said.
5	282	Surely Tyros has one of the most formidable fleets on thassa.
5	499	Because of the vast, triangular spreading of the Vosk river, into dozens of smaller rivers, often mutually interfluent, flowing into the Tamber Gulf, which leads to thassa herself, the sea, that area is known in Gorean as the Delka, or, better, the Delka of the Vosk.
5	708	There was a cool breeze sweeping in from thassa.
5	1112	thassa, it seemed, might be jealous of her secrets.
7	24	thassa, the sea, is generally green.
9	62	It may be remembered that its key had been cast into thassa, long ago.
9	377	I had little doubt that the true agent had been disposed of, doubtless long ago, probably cast to the nine-gilled sharks of thassa.
22	416	The waterway would drain to thassa.
22	419	The waterway would provide access to thassa.
25	194	I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upo...
25	196	Another theory held that the world did, indeed, end at some horizon, for in a finite world there could be no infinite number of horizons, but maintained that at the final horizon, or final shore, as in a lake, thassa would find her final limit.
25	197	But, interestingly, thassa herself, in one such theory, constituted this limit, at that point being hardened, or frozen, a part of her, like a wall, holding back the rest.
25	199	A similar theory maintained that thassa was restricted within her bounds by a great wall of stone, constructed eons ago by Priest-Kings.
25	202	To be sure, they often thought the lower surface of the sphere, below embedded thassa, likely to be uninhabitable.
28	121	A time was approaching in which the temperamental vagaries of restless thassa would predictably begin.
28	124	In such a season Gorean mariners refrain from taunting mighty thassa.
28	126	Let thassa close her roads then as she will.
28	133	No, the winter is not a time to venture forth on thassa.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
24	35	Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open ...
1	60	"And then thassa, dark, cold thassa," said a man.
7	149	Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it...
7	155	Let thassa shrink and tremble before Tersites and his mighty ship! He subdues her! He humbles her! He breaks her to the yoke of his will! Yea, I, Tersites, whom men scorned, whom men ridiculed and banished, whom men despised and mocked for years, now, first of all men, at last, mighty ...
7	158	My ship cleaves your waves, braves your winds, and scorns your storms! We tread upon you, mighty thassa, passing as we will and please! Do your worst, mighty thassa! You are mocked! You are scorned!" Dusk came early, and it seemed the cold never left.
12	40	You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, ...
13	52	Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and...
1	23	"And debouched onto thassa from the Alexandra," he said.
1	42	Outside, away from the portal, down the slope a bit, if one listened, one could hear the water lapping against the pilings, where the vast glory of looming thassa, in the darkness, deigned to touch the small works of men.
1	67	I did not think it unlikely he had indeed ventured upon thassa.
1	84	"thassa," said a man, I think a mercenary.
1	85	"Dark, cold thassa".
1	127	"thassa accepted them, as she would not accept me," said the man.
1	351	Few of the men of Ar reached the Tamber Gulf, thassa, or Port Kar.
1	401	"Meanwhile," said another, "the larls of thassa have returned to their lairs".
2	4	We detected it first, by the glass of the Builders, from the stem castle, far off, through the fog, not clear, seemingly risen from the sea as might a mountain, as the islands that thassa sometimes lifts from her bosom, in southern waters, with a roiling of waves, a casting of stones, ...
2	13	We were two days out from the port of Telnus, terraced Cos's southern window to the sea, our mother, mighty thassa, on routine patrol.
2	20	The season was nearly over, the time when ships were taken from the water for their wintering, the time when rational mariners withdrew wisely from lashing, gleaming thassa, leaving her, the mother, to her moods of violence, to her towering, rushing, lifting waves, higher than the mast...
2	178	There was a wrenching of wood and the cries of men, and the stem and stern of the long ship began to rise out of the water, and the planking amidships, shattering, pressed down, sank into the sea, and then the stem, I clinging to it, collapsed back into the water, and doubtless, on the other side, f...
2	229	She stands between you and the deep, cold waters of thassa.
2	238	The ship, reassuringly, was not green, for pirates often paint their ships green, that they be the less seen on mighty, rolling thassa.
2	239	Many of the vessels of Port Kar, that den of thieves and cutthroats, that scourge of thassa, were green, almost invisible, under oars, low in the water, the mast down.
4	66	I would learn later that they had found, or built, a ship in the north, a great ship, that on which I now found myself, and had debouched into thassa from the Alexandra.
4	116	"If the world had an edge," said Lord Nishida, "would not thassa have drained away, falling into the void?" "Perhaps there is a wall," I said.
4	170	thassa grows cold, and angry.
4	172	This is no time to tempt the indulgence of Priest-Kings, no time to tempt the season, or the patience of thassa.
5	11	Oil, and wine, and salt are poured into thassa, the oil to calm her waters, the wine that she may be warmed and pleased, and the salt, in its preciousness, for honor, prestige, life, and hope, and, too, that it may be mixed with her own, that she may accept the ship as one with her, to...
5	15	thassa was restless.
5	18	This was no time to be abroad on thassa.
5	109	Those who did not drown were executed, with but one exception, the sleen before you who was mistakenly spared, who should have been bloodied and given to thassa's hungry children, an offering to her justice, that he not soil our ship with his unclean, impenitent, criminal presence".

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
31	21	She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th...
8	625	It was well to the north and west, where the waterways of the Vosk's delta drained into the Tamber Gulf, the city's sea walls fronting the gulf on the south, thassa, the sea, on the west.
8	626	Was it not from the sea gates of Port Kar that the galleys of the dreaded Bosk, Bosk of Port Kar, clove the dark waters of restless thassa? "At least," she said, "I was not sold in Port Kar".
10	845	He companions to forge alliances, protect borders, acquire cities, extend dominions, obtain access to trade routes, a port on the shores of thassa.
23	109	"You are not out on thassa".

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
15	478	Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But thassa, I supposed, vast thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave ...
27	59	I would not be aboard when she descended the Alexandra, and would open the wings of her canvas to the winds of thassa, capricious, vast, turbulent thassa, the sea.
54	193	"By now," he said, "it has either been destroyed at the mouth of the Alexandra, where it debouches into thassa, or it is somewhere abroad on thassa, its course set for the farther islands, and, I fear, beyond, to the World's End".
8	388	The moods of thassa are capricious, and the might of her winds and waves prodigious.
9	397	Before we entered the trees, I looked back, briefly, at the cold beach, and the restless, shimmering expanse of thassa, and the horizon beyond it.
13	3	On the fourth day, after the shore of thassa, we reached the large, sprawling, extensive set of buildings and shops called Tarncamp.
14	38	"There is a company? You will then barge furs down river to thassa?" "Perhaps," he said.
14	491	"thassa guards her secrets".
14	492	"Some," he said, "are curious to inquire into those secrets which thassa guards".
14	499	It is said he is at war with thassa, and would challenge her".
15	442	The journey from the cold, stony beach of thassa, brushed by the wind, to Tarncamp had taken the better part of four days, and the similar journey from Tarncamp to Shipcamp had been much the same.
15	462	It is intended, then, to negotiate thassa.
15	480	Would it not be an island of wood, a world of sorts, sufficient onto itself, indefinitely scorning land, cresting indefinitely the dark turbulence of proud, dreadful, beautiful thassa? "Kneel," said a stern voice, and I instantly knelt.
20	204	"I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of t...
20	235	The barks to which they trust their lives, the skies, even thassa herself, they note, do not read.
21	151	I think it is madness to essay such a voyage, to embark so, thusly tempting the cruelties of thassa, but those above me, higher in the rings, will risk much, even the cargo itself, which on this world is unique and invaluable, on the slim chance that the voyage will be successful.
21	288	He dares dispute the will of thassa, known for a thousand years, that none may venture beyond the farther islands.
21	290	The ship is great, but thassa is greater.
23	143	Many of those were painted green, that they might be difficult to detect on the billows of thassa, until, mast down and oar- propelled, it was perhaps too late.
25	309	Certainly it was not a river ship, and, I was told, one does not take to thassa, the sea, in the winter.
39	207	It was planned then to dispatch a small, but swift, terrible force, perhaps only two hundred men, to destroy this ship before it could reach thassa".
43	1070	Also, of course, within this interval, the great ship would presumably be abroad on thassa, and any intelligence borne by the slaves would be outdated, irrelevant, and useless, even should they dare to impart it.
44	10	I knew there was eagerness at Shipcamp to bring the great ship to thassa before the possibility of ice in the river.
44	12	Many, I knew, thought it madness to take the great ship, or any ship, abroad on thassa this late in the season.
44	14	In such seasons thassa grows capricious and turbulent.
50	181	There they know something of thassa.
50	601	So I decided to show the masters! I would run, I would escape! They would never catch me! And I would hate you, hate you with all my heart, for you had scorned me! And I knew I must flee at the first opportunity, as who knew when the great ship might depart? Who could escape if chained in one of its...
50	903	thassa will not permit it".
51	7	What is such a ship, even so stout and strong, in the merciless grip of thassa?" "Doubtless it will be grievously tested," said Tyrtaios.
52	66	Were they not slaves, goods, to be sold or traded at the World's End, or the farther islands, whatever might be the destination of that mighty frame now poised for its journey downriver to thassa? Why, I wondered, had they been hooded? Surely it was not necessary for purposes of securi...

Book 33. (29 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	26	The voyage from the Alexandra to the World's End had been long and perilous, beset by trials, those of thassa, the sea, and those of men, as well.
1	71	Of the one hundred and forty tarns which we had managed to bring across thassa to the World's End, we now had fifty one, including the two which Pertinax and I had brought to the castle weeks ago, in reporting to Lord Temmu.
1	490	It seemed likely, however, given the mysterious appearance of Pani in the northern forests, and the work on a great ship, so far from civilization, a ship which might be capable of crossing thassa, that this business would have to do, somehow, with Kurii, or Priest-Kings, or both.
6	14	Eventually the primary remnants of the land forces of Lord Temmu, those separated from the holding, to which portions had retreated, cut off and undersupplied, had been driven to the very shore of thassa.
12	40	"Faraway," he said, "across the shimmering breadth of thassa, it is my understanding that slaves are dressed differently".
12	65	But I do not think our free women, here in the islands, have quite the pompous, exalted status inflicted on free women across thassa".
12	220	"Across thassa," I said, "there are places where the livers of verr are examined, where formations of clouds are noted, the flights of birds observed, such things".
14	66	You brought it across thassa, nurtured, sheltered, and protected it.
17	113	I had taken the key to her collar from her and cast it into the chill waters of thassa, that she might, whether free or not, know that the device was locked on her neck, and that she had no means wherewith to remove it.
17	123	"It is unusual," he said, "but there are others, bought for fukuros of rice from Lord Temmu, also from across thassa, who are similarly characterized, whom I have placed amongst my palace women, given to high officers, and such".
21	71	Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be...
21	87	But how could that defeated remnant of the forces of Temmu, removed to a far coast, return to the war, whose fields lay across the vast, turbulent breadth of thassa, beyond even the Farther Islands, from whose waters no ship had returned? Let there be then a ship, a great ship, an unus...
21	88	Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of thassa...
25	80	Much of thassa lay outside the laws of Brundisium, the range of the mercantile ports, the waters of Port Kar.
31	90	"Challenge, rather, the rising of Tor-tu-Gor, the tides of thassa".
36	72	"Reasons are as easily found as Ka-la-na grapes in autumn, as easily as grains of sand on the beaches of thassa".
37	18	"Yes," I said, "and as thassa, as fields of Sa-Tarna, as the crags of the Voltai, the skerries of bleak Torvaldsland, the steaming flower-strewn basin of the Ua, beyond Schendi, the gleaming stars of the sky".
43	41	"But since the ship of Tersites has proven that thassa can be crossed, if with great hazard, such stock may be brought to the islands, perhaps in the next few years.
54	155	Indeed, perhaps the very waters of thassa herself might, after an Ehn, or after months or years, disarm the defensive devices presumably implanted in the machine.
54	290	Following this, I had turned the dragon east, and, over thassa, set a course as directly as I could for the Sardar Mountains, the supposed domicile of the gods of Gor, the Priest-Kings.
54	307	"That is thassa beneath it," said Tajima.
61	2	At the wharf, restless at its moorings, was the River Dragon, with its large, battened sails and high poop, brought across thassa from Brundisium, on the continent, by Captain Nakamura.
61	3	The ship of Tersites had demonstrated the possibility of reaching the World's End, and, then, the River Dragon, in turn, inspirited by the success of the ship of Tersites, had dared thassa, as well, but then eastward, and had managed to make the great harbor at Brundisium.
61	531	"Perhaps I was curious, perhaps it suggested adventure, perhaps the daring of thassa, the seeking of the World's End, and such, riches perhaps, perhaps the challenge of forming, equipping, training, and testing in battle a new form of tarn cavalry".
61	533	Lord Okimoto had commanded at Shipcamp, from whose wharf the ship of Tersites had taken the Alexandra downstream to thassa.
61	539	Ahead lay vast, green, turbulent thassa.
61	962	Unknown to herself, aside from her brief role in meeting a tarnsman on the shore of thassa, at the edge of the forest, and seeing that he was brought to Tarncamp, she had been preselected, in virtue of a standing order, for a Gorean collar, and would be delivering herself, as well, to ...
61	1292	I then turned my attention to the east, and the vast, swelling billows of thassa, extending before me to the horizon.
61	1297	thassa lay ahead, and, far off, the continent.

Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
34	175	"I know of thassa," I said, "and of lesser lakes or seas, but none that are comparable to thassa".
7	261	I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming thassa...
11	26	They are found in fresh water, but return, through the delta of the Vosk, to the salt water of vast, turbulent thassa to spawn.
11	32	Gorean sharks, in their several varieties, of course, are much more common in the waters of thassa herself, particularly near the shallower banks, where sunlight encourages the growth of plants, and the plants attract several varieties of smaller fish, the parsit and others, on which t...
20	35	There is only one city I am aware of in which the caste of thieves is explicitly recognized, which is a port on the Tamber Gulf, bordering thassa, the sea.
24	27	I do not know where, for the body hood, in the vicinity of Brundisium, that the tarn rider brought his immense, broad-winged beast to earth, but I think it must have been near the coast, probably south of the port, as we had come from Ar, for I heard gulls and smelled thassa, the sea.
26	207	As my master continued his watch, or prolonged his inquiries, I was occasionally allowed out of the court, usually to fetch water from the stone steps under the Cloth Maker's Bridge, which, with other bridges, spanned the Lena, one of the two streams that flowed through the city and debouched into <...
27	7	The lesser wharves, or piers, are the southern wharves or piers, where they are divided by the Dacia, as it feeds into thassa.
34	174	She has her turbulent, mighty thassa, but she has no second, vast sea, like that you speak of as the Pacific".
61	907	Was it her fault that her form, and her wholeness, the whole of her, should so disturb, stimulate, provoke, and stir a male of her species, should bring about such mighty feelings, overwhelming and irresistible, of desire, lust, passion, and possessiveness? How was she to blame? Had these realities ...

Book 35. (17 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
36	52	I wondered if this were a heritage from the days when there was no Home Stone in Port Kar, when she was known broadly as the "Scourge of thassa," a den of thieves, pirates, and cutthroats, rather than as she now chose to speak of herself, as the "Jewel of Gleaming thassa"...
2	56	Some women sold here were imported from what was called The World's End, which was lands, or islands, across green, turbulent, mighty thassa, the Sea.
5	59	"Then it is Port Kar, her raiders, outside, in the streets, the scourge of thassa!" cried a slave.
6	21	Containers, on their ropes, are cast into gleaming thassa, and make their way, passed from hand to hand, to be cast upon the fire".
6	130	Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...
8	603	"It is green, like the green of thassa," she said.
8	605	I supposed such a color would blend in well with a common mood of thassa, the sea.
8	621	"It is a long ship," she said, "no sail set, the mast down, thus less detectible at a distance, painted green, not easily noticed in the swells of thassa".
11	8	And beyond the Tamber, less than an Ahn's rowing, lies thassa, the sea.
11	41	By means of four large, deep canals, in which even two round ships could pass one another, one could, passing through the arsenal sea gates and the western and southern sea gates, communicate with the Tamber, and thence, shortly, with thassa, the sea.
11	44	Port Kar is sometimes referred to as the "Scourge of thassa".
11	49	There are few who have met the long, low, swift, knifelike ram ships of Port Kar, often painted green, which color blends in with many of the moods of thassa, either as corsairs or attack vessels, who do not respect, even dread and fear them.
11	50	As the story goes, Cos and Tyros, some years ago, built, equipped, manned, and launched a mighty fleet, to destroy Port Kar, to be done at last with "the Scourge of thassa".
11	62	Those of Port Kar do not, of course, speak of their city as the "Scourge of thassa," though, as I understand it, they find it convenient that others should do so.
11	64	Amongst her citizens, Port Kar is often spoken of as the "Jewel of Gleaming thassa".
24	128	"Seriously, noble patrons," he continued, "you know the taste and discrimination of the noble Samos of your own city, lovely Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming thassa, he with whom you share a Home Stone.
33	600	In my situation the rising tide in thassa and the Tamber Gulf will wash back into the marshes.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
33	1	The Parley "You are, I take it," I said, "the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, come from that port known to many as the Scourge of thassa, that Bosk of Port Kar come to mercilessly pillage and plunder the innocent, peace-loving Farther Islands of thassa, Thera, Chios, and Daphn...
1	66	We were on Chios, the closest of the three 'Farther Islands', Chios, Thera, and Daphna, those islands beyond Tyros and Cos, once taken as marking the end of a world, beyond which lay only terror and mystery, and the devouring, waiting, stirring vastness of turbulent thassa, the sea, fi...
1	67	Were there not rumors of monsters, behemoths, the strike of whose thrashing tails could shatter hulls, of watery countries of impassable, seeking, floating, thick, clutching vines, avid to ensnare travelers, of inescapable spinning wells in the sea, capturing and sinking even the largest of vessels?...
1	257	"Even from east of far Cos and Tyros, from a shore so dreadful and far that even thassa herself will go no further".
1	259	"Yes," said he, "where lies a citadel of ruthless cunning, of envy, violence, wrath, murder, and greed, of arrant ambition, a lawless, bestial port, feared from Torvaldsland to Schendi, a port the scourge of turbulent thassa, a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates, near who...
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.
3	14	It was not unknown on thassa, particularly in the contested waters between Port Kar and the major marine ubarates, Cos and Tyros.
3	22	Few vessels on thassa, I thought, could match its speed, or close with it at close quarters.
4	82	thassa becomes restless.
4	134	"Our poor vessel, the Doris," said the first, "was beset by pirates, two days ago, by the dreaded corsair, the merciless Bosk of Port Kar, rogue of thassa!" "The crew was slaughtered," said the second.
5	67	"I think few vessels on thassa could match their speed.
5	93	"What is the likelihood," I asked, "that in the wide and open waters of mighty thassa one might encounter a tiny, listing fragment of a shattered vessel, with three passengers, free women, in desperate need of succor?" "Little likelihood, indeed," said Clitus.
7	140	Let him not know he is stalked, that he is destined for a rendezvous at sea, one as bitter as the waters of churning thassa herself".
9	63	Similarly, on the voyage from Nicosia to Sybaris, after painting the Tesephone white and yellow, colors of the Merchants, so that it would stand out, and not be difficult to detect amongst the billows of thassa, we had again failed to encounter the small, dark island.
13	75	"You are the worthless, lying minions of the nefarious Bosk of hated Port Kar, scourge of gleaming thassa!" "No, no!" cried more than one man.
13	141	Smoke curled into the sky, mingling its fumes with the fresh salt air of thassa.
18	28	The fresh, salt smell of thassa was in the air.
18	65	"Better to die at sea, in the open air," he said, "on treacherous, beautiful, mighty thassa than in an alley in Sybaris".
18	144	We continued to stand at the rail, regarding thassa.
22	28	I will shortly burn my robes and blanket and wash in thassa".
22	162	"Gleaming thassa awaits".
25	11	A land breeze was moving toward thassa.
28	4	thassa was in one of her quiet, pleasant moods.
28	95	"You have been, if not wholly immersed, much drenched in the waves and spray of thassa.
33	63	Consider the value of a mighty alliance between you, the Peasantry of the Farther Islands, and the sea-scouring navies of Port Kar, the Jewel of Gleaming thassa".
37	1	What Cannot Speak May Say Much The salt scent of thassa, borne inland over the piers, was bright in our nostrils.
39	60	Why not blow trumpets in your stealth, or carry torches to offend a needed blanket of darkness?" "All right," said Thurnock, "we will paint her green, the green of thassa, green as night is to the sleen, green as high, tawny grass is to the larl".
46	70	"Their collars would not protect them from fire or the high, cold waves of thassa".
49	128	"She is the jewel of gleaming thassa," said the voice.
49	205	"Who but the bold and desperate will risk thassa in the darkness?" "It is light now," said Aktis.