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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	107	"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ...	10
20	71	But if I am so summoned, they will do so with the understanding that I am resolved to be no pawn in their vast games.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	4	Four times a year, correlated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are fairs held in the plains below the mountains, presided over by committees of Initiates, fairs in which men of many cities mingle without bloodshed, times of truce, times of contests and games, of bargaining and m...	10
15	260	"No," I laughed, "it is back to Tharna with you!" I still wore the golden scarf about my neck, from the arena, that scarf which had initiated the games, and which I had picked up from the sand to wipe away the sand and sweat.	10
24	219	You were first in the military games of En'Kara in the second year of my reign".	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	199	Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea...	10

Book 4. (35 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	111	"Of course," said Kamchak, "she has been raised to be a fit prize in the games of Love War".	10
8	9	"In the spring there will be the games of Love War and I will go to Turia, and you may then, if you wish, accompany me".	10
8	16	I wondered on what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, said to take place on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes.	10
8	18	"After the games of Love War," said Kamchak, "the omens will be taken".	10
8	30	There were perhaps negotiations to be conducted, perhaps having to do with what were called the games of Love War, or perhaps having to do with trade.	10
8	225	She, and others like her, had been encouraged and spoiled from childhood in all their whims, unlike most other Tuchuk women, that they might be fit prizes, Kamchak had told me, in the games of Love War.	10
9	149	Then, later in the evening, when I was drunker on paga than I should have permitted myself to become, I heard them discuss details which could only have pertained to what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, details having to do with specifications of time, weapons and judges, and...	10
9	154	"I can arrange that she is chosen for the games," Saphrar was saying, "but it must be worth my while".	10
9	471	"But it will be after the games!" cried the girl.	10
10	5	Some of the judges, now wealthy, had officiated several times at the games.	10
10	159	"That much for her at least—maybe more—because she was skilled in the games of the bola".	10
10	218	Beside the tharlarion walked other men-at-arms, and even citizens of Turia, and more vendors and musicians, come to see the games.	10
10	236	"They are as fond of the games as we, and do not wish to spoil them".	10
10	261	The games of Love War, of course, are celebrated every spring between, so to speak, the city and the plains, whereas the Omen Year occurs only every tenth year.	10
10	262	The games of Love War, in themselves, do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples, for normally the herds and the free women of the peoples do not approach one another at these times; only certain delegations of warriors, usually about two hundred from a people, are sent in the ...	10
10	263	The theoretical justification of the games of Love War, from the Turian point of view, is that they provide an excellent arena in which to demonstrate the fierceness and prowess of Turian warriors, thus perhaps intimidating or, at the very least, encouraging the often overbold warriors...	10
10	266	I once asked Kamchak if the Wagon Peoples had a justification for the games of Love War.	10
10	271	It was only then that it had occurred to me that both girls might have been acquired in the games; as a matter of fact, however, I later learned that only Tenchika had been so acquired; Dina had first felt the thongs of a master beside the burning wagons of a caravan in which she had p...	10
10	278	As I knew, not just any girl, any more than just any warrior, could participate in the games of Love War.	10
10	285	This meant that she was quite possibly the most beautiful woman in Turia, certainly at least among those in the games this year.	10
10	290	Thus, to interfere, a Turian would have to cross the space between the stakes, and so, too, would one of the Wagon Peoples, thus clearly calling themselves to the attention of the judges, those officials supervising the games.	10
10	354	This aspect of the games was extremely humiliating for the Turian girls, but they understood its necessity; few men, especially barbarian warriors, care to fight for a woman on whose face they have not even looked.	10
10	414	Albrecht was not even at the games.	10
10	445	Fortunately, however, the warrior of the Wagon Peoples could withdraw from the combat any time before his name had actually been officially entered in the lists of the games.	10
11	174	This year, as it turned out, the Wagon Peoples had done exceedingly well in the games of Love War—a bit of news we picked up with the paga—and about seventy percent of the Turian maidens had been led slave from the stakes to which they had been manacled.	10
12	38	The little wench from Port Kar, whom Kamchak and I had seen in the slave wagon when we had bought paga the night before the games of Love War, was this night to perform the chain dance.	10
12	330	"I saw," said Kamchak, "how at the games when you thought the men of Turia charging you were prepared to rescue the wench".	10
12	481	Somehow I thought of her still as the frightened girl in the yellow shift—caught up in games of war and intrigue beyond her comprehension and, to a great extent, mine.	10
12	501	He had, however, I knew, recently won a Turian girl in the games.	10
15	99	* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh...	10
16	287	Clearly he had little stomach for whatever games the Paravaci or Saphrar might have in mind.	10
16	298	I did not know, of course, if the technology at his disposal was his own, or that of his kind, or if it were furnished by others—unknown—not seen—who had their own stake in these games of two worlds, perhaps more.	10
16	326	Kamchak himself had told me the golden sphere was worthless—poor Tuchuk! But now, I said to myself, poor Cabot! However it came about—and I could not be sure—Others than Priest-Kings had now entered the games of Gor—and these Others knew of the egg and wante...	10
21	73	It was that of Kamras of Turia, Champion of the City, whom Kamchak had so sorely bested in the games of Love War.	10
26	388	"You, however," he said, "now that he knows of the stakes in these games, may meet him again.	10

Book 5. (52 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	105	Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games.	10
2	186	He had further imposed restrictions on the games and contests of Ar, such that the loss of life had become infrequent, even among competing slaves.	10
2	254	"Without the gold of this house, how could the Administrator and the High Initiate have sponsored the races and the games that won them the favor of the lower castes?" "But the lower castes do not elect the Administrator or the High Initiate," said Kuurus.	10
2	267	"My own house could not begin to sponsor the games of even two days—we would be bankrupt".	10
2	286	"I thought for a time," he said, "that they intended to sell at a radical loss until the other slave houses were forced to close, and then to recoup their losses with profit by setting their own prices—but then when I considered again the gold which sponsored the games and races...	10
3	14	As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t...	10
3	27	With them they would have brought their customs, their skills, their habits, their games, which, in time, would presumably have undergone considerable modification.	10
3	29	It might be mentioned that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of ...	10
3	50	There is also some money for the masters in the annotation of games, printed on large boards near the Central Cylinder, in the preparation or editing of scrolls on the game, and in the providing of instruction for those who would improve their skills.	10
3	54	These positions, or territories, are allotted by the outcome of games among the Players themselves.	10
5	459	"I have a stake in these games," I said.	10
5	611	Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by...	10
6	50	There are games and sports, and wagers and song.	10
7	141	It was undoubtedly such gold which permitted the House of Cernus to gain significant influence in the city, sponsoring races and games, as well as permitting the house to undersell, when it pleased, other Merchants.	10
9	51	Other such sheets, hanging on wires, proclaimed games and tarn races.	10
9	52	The common thread in these various matters was that the House of Cernus was involved, either in presenting the sale or in sponsoring the races or games.	10
15	79	I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Bl...	10
15	84	The games in the Stadium of Blades finished their season at the end of Se'Kara, a month following the season of races.	10
15	85	I attended the games only once, and found that I did not much care for them.	10
15	87	I do not choose to describe the nature of the games, except in certain general detail.	10
15	93	Buckler and short sword are perhaps most popular, but there are few weapons on Gor which are not seen over a period of three or four days of the games.	10
15	103	Both the games and the races are popular in Ar, but, as I have indicated, the average man of Ar follows the races much more closely.	10
15	104	There are no factions, it might be mentioned, at the games.	10
15	107	The one time I did attend the games I suppose I was fortunate in seeing Murmillius fight.	10
15	112	He was strange to the minds of those who watched the games.	10
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...	10
16	6	Further, because of his services to the state, including the sponsorship of games and races, Cernus was, upon the petition of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, invested in the scarlet of the Warrior, thus honoring him with High Caste.	10
16	15	Cernus celebrated his investiture by sponsoring the first games and races of the new season, which began in En'Kara.	10
16	33	The following day would begin the races and games sponsored by the House of Cernus.	10
16	39	The games and the races began with great enthusiasm and excitement.	10
16	40	Murmillius, in the games, returned with more brilliance than ever and, on the second day of En'Kara, with superb swordsmanship downed two foes, wounding them again and again, until even the crowd did not regard them as worth slaying, at which time Murmillius sheathed his sword, turned ...	10
17	141	But, as this lawlessness grew, and it became such that men would not walk the bridges without arms, the frenzy over the races and the games grew more rabid; it became rare on the streets and bridges to pass a person who would not, either for himself or for someone he knew, wear a facti...	10
17	142	People seemed to care little for anything save the races and the games.	10
17	150	I knew myself involved in games of a dangerous sort, but I had agreed to play, not clearly understanding the object or the goal of what I did.	10
17	154	Equaling and perhaps exceeding the fame of Gladius of Cos was that of the swordsman Murmillius, of the cruel games observed in the Stadium of Blades.	10
17	165	"He has sponsored many games," said a Tharlarion Keeper.	10
17	195	While the men of Cernus did their work in the paga taverns, and on the streets and in the market squares, and on the ramps and in the tiers of the games and races, the gold of Cernus, and the steel of Cernus, was apparently plied elsewhere.	10
17	196	His loans to the Hinrabians, a wealthy family in itself but surely unable to carry the incessant burdens of supporting games and races, became fewer and then stopped.	10
17	199	Further, games and races which he had sponsored in the name of the Hinrabians now ceased, and those they had jointly sponsored ceased to bear the name of the Administrator.	10
17	228	Processions took place on the bridges; there were tournaments of the game organized; poets and historians vied in praising the day, each more ecstatically than the last; but, perhaps most importantly, holiday was declared, and great games and races were sponsored without cessation for ...	10
18	128	"The games of Kajuralia can be dangerous," remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips.	10
18	251	"At the games on the second of En'Kara, in the Stadium of Blades," said he, "I saw the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus".	10
19	3	It is also a time of great feasting, of races and games.	10
19	7	The fifth day, special races and games are celebrated, regarded by many Goreans as the fitting consummation of the holidays.	10
19	8	These games are among the most heavily attended and important of the year.	10
19	50	This was the evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast, the climax of the feast insofar as the sales of slaves was concerned; this was the night Cernus would put his barbarian beauties on the block; tomorrow would be the concluding races and games, wild, dizzying hours in the Stadium...	10
20	366	My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ...	10
21	29	"Races in Ar being more popular than the games, it is only appropriate that Cernus preside".	10
21	203	It was done much as though we were actually trained arena fighters, instead of, supposedly, poor fools and criminals brought in for the sport of the patrons of Ar's cruelest games.	10
21	211	Men in these games, in actual blind helmets, often, not really knowing, exchanged opponents; sometimes several would join in a slashing melee.	10
21	247	"I do not play games," I told him.	10
21	266	The fans of the games of Ar had been fooled.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	90	At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant; singing; games; contests and courtship, for the young people of the rence islands too seldom meet those of the other communities.	10
5	85	The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another.	10
15	511	They might serve as prizes in games or as inducements to serve me better, that one might be received as gift in token of good service.	10
16	68	And in the moments before she yielded, when I sensed her readiness, to her faint protest, then joy, I removed from her throat the slave collar that her yielding, our games ended, would be that of the free woman, glorious in the eager and willing, the joyous, bestowal of herself.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	792	Some of the girls began to play tag, and games.	10
18	12	I want no longer any part of their dark games.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	26	I had studied, too, the games of masters, in particular those of the young, handsome, lame, fiery Scormus of Ar, and of the much older, almost legendary master of Cos, gentle, white-haired Centius, he of the famed Centian opening.	10
15	589	"You needn't play games with me," she said.	10
18	390	Both had been swept up, helpless slaves, both beautiful, in the harsh games of men.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	328	Such men, from boyhood, in harsh games, had learned to run, to leap, to swim, to throw the spear, to wield the sword, to wield the ax, to stand against steel, even bloodied, unflinching.	10
4	59	On the other hand, feeling my way on the board, I had lost the first two games to the Forkbeard.	10
4	67	His wiliest tricks, of course, I knew, he would seldom use, saving them for games of greater import, or perhaps for players of Torvaldsland.	10
5	34	Twice yesterday, in long games, until the Torvaldsland gulls had left the sea and returned inland, I had failed to meet the gambit.	10
10	50	He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to ...	10
10	54	Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of t...	10
10	94	Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she...	10
12	36	"I distinguish myself, and enter into the history of our land," said the Blue Tooth, "in being the high Jarl to award these talmits in the games.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	427	"Certainly not!" "I am tired of playing games with you, Slave Girl," I said.	10
24	1034	She knew herself secured, a slave girl bound helplessly as a warrior's prize, awaiting her disposition, as much as a tarsk or kaiila, a disposition contingent on the outcome of the harsh games of men.	10
25	228	I had crossed steel with hundreds of men, in practice and in the fierce games of war, who could have finished her, swiftly and with ease, had they chosen to do so.	10

Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	228	They were rough, strong men, who played cruel games.	10
4	477	I was a nameless slave girl on an alien world, at the mercy of primitive warriors in a barbarian camp, an object for their sport, a lovely, two-legged plaything, a mere prize, in their cruel games.	10
4	566	Four times I ran as quarry in the cruel games of that evening.	10
9	2148	The free woman may be coy; she may play her games; she may tease; she may wheedle to be wooed, or coaxed, or cajoled.	10
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.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	400	I enjoyed sharing with them the cruel, mortal games of war.	10
3	54	The games, however, were quite similar.	10
4	105	games are adjudicated, when capture of Home Stone does not occur, by a team of five judges, each of which must be a member of the caste of players, and three of which must play at the level of master.	10
4	197	His games, in recent years, had seemed less battles, less cruel, exact duels, than obscure attempts to achieve something on the Kaissa board which even many members of the caste of players did not profess to understand.	10
4	258	Some games, in a sense, do not begin until the twentieth move.	10
4	261	Some of the most brilliant games on record, incidentally, have been spun forth from openings now often regarded as weak or anachronistic.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	807	She had been a pawn in the cruel games of worlds.	10
31	98	They do not play games.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	373	I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	206	She may be garbed, for example, in netting, as the "Hunter's Catch"; or she may be bedecked in jewels and leather, and shimmering chains, dancing under a whip in a tavern in Port Kar; or she may have flowers intertwined in her chains, as when she is awarded to a victor in public games ...	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	246	Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements...	10
14	490	Common games are lots, dice and stone guessing.	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	649	For example, in ancient Greece the times of certain games, such as the Olympic games, constituted a truce period during which it was customary to suspend the internecine wars of competitive cities.	10
2	183	Such games, of course, have their role to play in honing skills and sharpening reflexes that may be of great importance in adulthood.	10
40	768	"Do you think I cannot see through your games, your trickery?" he cried.	10

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	34	These are the fellows who make their living from the game of Kaissa, playing it for prizes, charging for games, giving instruction and exhibitions, annotating games, and so on.	10
6	33	He had won his games easily with the exception of one, with a quite minor player, which he had seemed to prolong indefinitely, as though attempting to bring about some obscure and particular configuration on the board.	10
6	48	"And did you get to see your precious Centius of Cos finish his final games?" I asked.	10
6	381	Drusus Rencius occasionally took me to see various portions of local games.	10
6	384	On the whole I found such games boring.	10
18	25	"Do not play games with me".	10
36	939	"Hereafter," he said, "do not try to play stupid games with me".	10

Book 20. (19 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	382	They appeared to be covered with the notation of Kaissa, as though various games, or fragments of games had been recorded on them.	10
12	398	"I think," I said, "that it is highly unlikely that they are games, or parts of games".	10
12	400	"They do not seem to be games, or parts of games.	10
1	86	There are processions and various events, such as contests and games.	10
1	1055	I won both games easily, the first with a battering ram of Spearmen and Riders of the High Tharlarion on the Ubar's side, and the second with a middle-game combination of Ubara's Scribe, Ubara and Ubar's Tarnsman.	10
2	181	In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females i...	10
2	508	"I can understand such games," said the paunchy fellow.	10
2	767	To be sure, the game of Favors, like most games, customs and practices, was undoubtedly complex and multiply motivated.	10
2	771	That certain games, such as that of Favors, provided a mechanism for establishing desirability rankings among females, something in which they seemed much interested, seemed clear.	10
7	205	This game, like many such games, of various types, involves guessing.	10
7	300	His Kaissa games, for what it is worth, usually brought in a few coins.	10
12	366	"We must have played a hundred games," he said.	10
12	392	"Are they games," I asked.	10
12	393	"Parts of games?" "They might appear to be so," he said, "if not looked at closely".	10
12	426	In originally looking at the papers I had interpreted them simply as a device for identifying or listing the games or game fragments.	10
12	547	"Thank you for the games," I said.	10
12	548	We had played five games this afternoon.	10
20	106	I considered the cleverness of Belnar, and the probable audacity and daring of such a man, one deviously implicated, I suspected, in the intricate and dangerous games of Gorean high politics, and how easily I had been earlier outwitted in my first attempt to close with him, in my first...	10
21	83	I had found what I had been looking for in a room apparently devoted to Kaissa, in the midst of what were apparently merely the records of games, jotted on scraps of paper.	10

Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	1378	Another danger, and perhaps one more serious, is that a misdirected response would be provoked in which, say, angry males, perhaps unable to take direct action because of the numerous, carefully wrought political traps and snares trammeling them, would think themselves, consciously or subconsciously...	10
9	70	To be sure, in these latitudes, cold though it might become, the red games of war need seldom be canceled.	10
21	174	The lower castes are fond of him for he frequently, at his own expense, distributes free bread and paga, and sponsors games and races.	10
21	185	"Commoners, then, can look upon the regent," I asked, "other than from afar, as in state processions or at official games?" "Of course," said the man.	10
22	216	Many Gorean games, incidentally, have features which encourage the development of properties regarded as desirable in a Gorean youth, such as courage, discipline, and honor.	10
22	217	Similarly, some of the games tend to encourage the development of audacity and leadership.	10
22	219	Such games, in short, thus, encourage the lad, almost from infancy on, to reality and nature, to manhood and mastery.	10
25	502	"Does he look like the kind of man you could play your silly little games with, does he look like the kind of man you could manipulate with pity? Can you not see he knows what slaves are, and knows how to handle them.	10
26	1668	Nudity is also common in races and athletic games.	10

Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	24	He was not interested in my pretenses, my games.	10
2	118	"It was a world of tides and gods, of spears and Caesars, of games, and wreaths of laurel, of the clash, detectable for miles, of phalanxes, of the marchings of legions, in measured stride, of the long roads and the fortified camps, of the coming and going of the oared ships, of the po...	10
3	242	"Do you think to play games with me?" he inquired.	10
6	235	These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches.	10
10	127	Too, sometimes, he is amused to indulge a girl's "secret" recalcitrance, well aware of her games, her transparent reservations, her supposedly so carefully guarded and secret resistance, letting her think it is unknown, even unsuspected.	10
10	494	To be sure, Gorean men do not play the games of some fools of Earth, pretending that the bodies of women are not of interest to them, but only their minds, or such, or whatever the currently prescribed cultural values recommend.	10
17	56	Things such as races, and games, for the cities who can support them, particularly on a regular, or seasonal basis, usually occur in the afternoon, under natural light.	10
20	202	Accordingly some cities have been willing to offer inducements to farmers to remain in their vicinity, such as a liberalization of the requirements for citizenship, the performance of rural sacrifices, the holding of games in rural areas, subsidizing the touring of theatrical and music...	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	141	This suggested that either Ar's Station was to be sacrificed in these harsh games, or that it was the thinking of Ar's commanders that a move to Brundisium would lift the siege of Ar's Station, the Cosians there perhaps then being withdrawn to protect Brundisium.	10
21	234	Gorean masters do not play games with their slaves.	10
21	1034	As women, of course, they were spoils in the games of men.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	34	The land, its fall and lie, wells, watercourses, their breadth and depth, their swiftness, fords, climate, time of year, visibility, precipitation, footing, and such, provide the four-dimensional board on which are played the games of war.	10
32	176	I did not think I would have entered any of them in the Sardar games, held at the fairs.	10
47	121	Conveniences, facilities, refreshments, and such, are commonly available in large camps, as they are, for example, at games, tharlarion races, and Kaissa matches.	10

Book 25. (19 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	100	I suspected that he was at worst a dupe, a trusting man, perhaps even one of considerable talent, who had found himself, through no real fault of his own, a pawn in games of state, games in which there seemed to be no rules other than survival and victory.	10
3	88	At such festivals there are often various games, and contests and prizes.	10
3	852	There are many forms of dice games on Gor, usually played with anywhere from a single die to five dice.	10
3	879	On the other hand, it is not unusual for female slaves, like kaiila and other properties, to serve as stakes in such games, as in races, contests and such.	10
5	81	I had little doubt, personally, from what I had learned of the intrigues in Ar that this offer had some role to play in the complicated political games afoot in that metropolis.	10
8	306	Indeed, sometimes masters, with their individual slave or slaves, and even owners of feast slaves, managers of slave houses, taverns, brothels, and such, will bring a chain of slaves to various events, such as races, contests, games or performances.	10
8	309	What girl wishes to be left behind, in her kennel, while her chain sisters enjoy an evening at the theater or games? Marcus had had a brief altercation with the taker of ostraka at the entrance, not wishing to pay an entrance fee, or at least the entire entrance fee, for a slave.	10
8	949	I recalled, too, the games of war.	10
9	273	She had figured as a pawn in the dark games of Cernus of Ar, to bring down the house of Portus, his major economic rival in the city.	10
9	679	"Or perhaps such as might figure as contestants in games, or as prizes, and such".	10
10	395	She is freed of the burdens of the games free women must play with men; she must obey and serve, and at as little as a snapping of fingers.	10
11	407	"I do not like such games," he said.	10
11	413	Yet I had known men who enjoyed such Kaissa, the games of politics and men.	10
11	437	"That I do not care for such games," said Marcus, "does not mean I cannot play them".	10
13	18	Such teams, drawn from various parts of the city, competed in various games, in hurling the stone, in hurling the thonged javelin, both for distance and accuracy, in races of various sorts, in jumping, in wrestling, and such.	10
14	743	"The city championships in the palestrae games will take place soon," I said.	10
15	43	"She was at the palestrae games last week," he said.	10
18	332	"You should consider a future in recruiting," said the fellow, "say, one of those fellows who recruits for the forbidden arena games, held secretly, those in which almost no one emerges alive.	10
27	855	Most, seeing you participate in state ceremonies, holding court, opening games, and such, will think you are truly the Ubara.	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	16	At other times there was the laughter of children, running, sporting in games, games which might be common, I suppose, to children anywhere.	10
13	822	One does not play games with the master.	10
23	36	First, the pit master had been well aware, it seems, and far more so than I had realized, of my little games with the Lady Constanzia, the frequent imposition of my slave girl's vengeances upon her, a free woman.	10
38	277	Some games are such, that the outcome depends not on the pieces of power, which may balance one another, but on the smallest move of the most insignificant piece on the board.	10
38	278	I suppose that this may upon occasion be true in greater games, as well, that even a child, or slave, properly placed, at a critical juncture, might serve to topple empires.	10
40	90	Most Gorean matches, as I understand it, consist of an odd number of games, for example, eleven or twenty-one.	10
40	92	Their current match had been set at eleven games.	10
40	93	Each had, if I had not lost count, won five games.	10

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	771	"Do not play your silly Earth games with me," he said, angrily.	10
26	361	Pretenses, games, are at an end.	10
27	1468	Had she feared or resented men? Had she delighted in frustrating or tormenting men? Had she scorned men? Had she attempted to use them for her purposes? Had she attempted to twist their needs and use these needs, like knives, against them? In any event, the maneuverings, the fencings, the negotiatio...	10
30	726	There are even games, held within large low-walled enclosures, with spectators in attendance, in which lads compete, each hunting another lad's slave, she doing her best to elude capture, that her own master may score more highly than her pursuer.	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	206	"Children are fond of games.	10
30	144	"I gather she may not play the games of the free woman," she said.	10
30	148	"Perhaps men sometimes grow impatient with the games, and play, of the free woman," she speculated.	10
30	150	"games, and play, not available to the slave," she said.	10
44	36	The humans at the disposal of the rebels were ill-armed, most with sharpened sticks, and many of the killer humans, bred for the arena games, were not only unspeeched, but dangerous to their Kur allies and to one another, as well.	10
67	110	He thought of the forest humans, of the men of Peisistratus in the pleasure cylinder, of killer humans, bred for arena games, of the ponderous cattle humans, bred for stupidity and meat.	10
67	141	Is not each the artist and designer of the other? Does not each, in his way, make the other more beautiful? And thus are played out the dark games of the Nameless One.	10
73	130	They will share our joy, and participate in our games, and festivals.	10
73	171	Prepare jewelries and festive garments, for tomorrow there will be music, enactments, martial dances, and games.	10
77	137	"I did not think you would care to resume your games amongst the habitats," said Cabot.	10
78	147	Lord Grendel had won one of the agons of the ax in one of the festival games, splitting a post, at a distance of some fifteen Kur paces, which would correspond, approximately, to some twenty human paces.	10
79	175	Muchly about the fire were conversations, shoutings, songs, recitations, games, proposals, projections, and plans.	10
81	206	"games may be afoot," said Cabot.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	53	"games are for children," he said.	10
10	628	"You have been unwittingly a slave for months, even for some weeks when you were still engaging in your petty, deceitful games on behalf of your firm, plying your wiles and charms, seemingly so innocently, to wheedle and coax wealth from clients, pathetically dazzled males as you saw i...	10
13	106	Rejoice, the games are over.	10
15	217	I had little doubt but what she would use every trick, every subtlety and wile, every cleverness, every asset of beauty and wit available to her, to reduce him again to the pathetic level of a typical male of Earth, something at her disposal, and that he would be muchly challenged to resist such art...	10
38	155	The tiring, complex games of the free woman are now behind them.	10

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	291	Eleven times I, and others, had been invited, in the dawn, in the square before the Central Cylinder, or in one park or another, to witness his games.	10
12	207	I did not care for the slave's games, nor her expressions.	10
20	255	I sought to stand against them, rather than kneel gratefully at their feet! I flung myself, with like-minded women, into the games of power, exploiting my liberty to narrow and circumscribe that of men.	10
21	124	Several had tried to goad him into seizing up a sword, placed before him, and entering into the games of steel, but he had not done so, enduring rather abuse and jeers, insults and ridicule, the raillery of many, and some, fools who, in his day of power, would have feared to speak befo...	10
21	343	Hooding may also figure in certain games, as when a hooded slave, or one fully concealed in a slave sack, is gambled for.	10
21	344	What is the value? Is the stone in the box a pebble or a diamond, is the slave in the hood or sack a beauty or a she-tarsk? Hooded slaves may also compete in various games, as in locating objects scattered about a room, arranging objects by size or weight, threading beads, fitting puzz...	10

Book 31. (21 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	341	How useful was that little suit in your trivial, pretentious girl games".	10
6	23	I did not understand this, for the tables, the games, did not close until the early morning.	10
7	27	Rather they should choose and again match ostraka, hazard another turn of the wheel, another placement of the stones, another roll of the dice! We must serve our paga and ka-la-na modestly, of course, for the men must be kept at the games.	10
8	671	And is not flirting, I thought, even on my former world, an act of display, hinting, alluding, presenting oneself as something vivacious, attractive, sparkling, as something of interest, something worth investigating, and acquiring, an object of desire? I had muchly enjoyed such games,...	10
8	2032	I had enjoyed such games, sometimes for gain, sometimes for sport.	10
9	80	The blood shed in such games is largely unseen, doubtless, but, I fear, it is there.	10
9	81	I did know that men bet on tarn races, which could be dangerous at the rings, sometimes a body broken, a limb lost, a wing torn away, and that some cared for arena sports, sword games.	10
16	141	They do not care for such games, and the whip is theirs.	10
18	952	Do you not enjoy such games? And are you not, as much as we, prepared upon occasion to put your beauty to use, to barter it for position and wealth? For example, it is my supposition that, in the markets, and on the boulevards, and elsewhere, handsome slavers, perhaps disguised in the ...	10
19	90	"I did not know those games.	10
19	104	"No more than other games?" "One guesses not," I said.	10
19	190	"Import I am sure is borne within those cards which has little to do with the games of men".	10
19	192	"games?" I said.	10
19	193	"Dark games," he said.	10
33	112	She had been for them no more than a piece in their games, of value only for her possible effect on Grendel, but now, given his lack of concern for her, even his contempt for her, she was no longer even that.	10
35	92	"My role, and that of the others, was primarily to keep men at the games".	10
35	141	"Records are kept of some games.	10
35	142	Some games are annotated, criticized, discussed, and such".	10
35	227	"In the house of chance," he said, "there were games involving cards, were there not?" "In the back of the large room, at the far tables," I said, "but I did not attend on those tables.	10
35	356	"They invite men to the tables, some seek them by themselves, games are suggested, drinks are brought, decks are produced, and opened, men divide the decks, disarrange the cards, distribute them to the players in certain fashions, depending on the game.	10
52	333	"You have played your games enough," he said.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	334	Informed that their games are done, they then strive to be wholly pleasing, as the slave they now know themselves to be.	10
10	50	It is one thing, of course, to engage in such games in a theater, a street, or plaza, and quite another on a ship at sea, far from taverns, the relief of paga girls, and such.	10
15	89	I wondered on what world such a thing might have emerged from the dark, grisly, unforgiving, demanding games of nature, certainly not on my former world, nor, I suspected, this world.	10
19	35	"games are afoot," I said, "in which the dice are to be judiciously weighted".	10
50	479	So the games of the free woman are far from the slave.	10
50	481	But, too, such games can be dangerous.	10
52	416	"Surely something which might secretly and unfairly alter the outcome of a world's games".	10

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	492	It seems her games, pretenses, deceits, and machinations had been more transparent than she realized.	10
43	116	"It is," I said, "one of the shrewdest devices in the quiver of games, including the game of war".	10
45	81	"As many games," I said.	10

Book 34. (28 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
60	131	"I fear he knows little of the games of Kurii," said Kurik, "the dark games of the rings".	10
20	223	"I heard larls at the games," she said.	10
25	22	Why do you think runners train in heavy sand, and hurlers of the stone use stones twice in weight to those they will cast in the games? Why do you think that some, in training beasts, tharlarion, tarns, and slaves, weight saddles, and such things?" "This is a place of police," I said, ...	10
34	94	"Dark games are afoot," he said.	10
34	96	"What is life without its games?" he said.	10
34	97	"Surely these games are not yours," I said.	10
34	98	"I choose my games," he said.	10
34	101	"What games can compare to those of blood and steel?" "Those of flowers, and love," I said.	10
36	150	"Master will not withdraw from the dark games?" I said.	10
40	132	"Abandon these terrible games".	10
44	113	It not infrequently figured, I was given to understand, in the "games of the rings," whatever they might be.	10
49	210	Free women, of course, play games with their veils, with their adjustings and slackenings, and raisings, and lowerings, much as might be done with fans, or even a parasol.	10
57	118	"I would think contests, games," said Lord Grendel.	10
59	90	"Such trumpets announce the games," said one of us, in the darkness.	10
59	91	"What games?" I asked.	10
59	92	"Arena games!" said another.	10
59	119	There are games.	10
59	121	It is common in arena sports, in the killing games, the beast fights, in the tarn races, the races of kaiila and tharlarion, as in the contests of dramas, of choral song, of music, and poetry, to include kajirae amongst the winnings, amongst the spoils of victory.	10
60	34	It was that trumpet, I supposed, that had emitted the blast that had initiated the games, if one might so refer to them.	10
60	129	"And now," called Decius Albus, swaying in the box, then steadied by Drusus Andronicus, "let us salute our revered and mighty allies, our friends from afar, whom we honor with these games".	10
60	135	Understand then that these games are in their honor, and not ours.	10
61	63	Now, let the games continue! See how I add to them! I have planned a surprise! Look to the gates!" Decius Albus lifted and lowered his hand, signaling.	10
61	82	"We will now add to the games," called out Decius Albus, "as being of special interest, two kajirae, one who failed to well serve the House of a Hundred Corridors, a house that is reluctant to accept embarrassment or failure, and one that attests the good faith, the good will, the gene...	10
61	84	So, too, we do not stint on the quality of our sponsored games.	10
64	192	This change of command had been effected at the games of Decius Albus.	10
64	197	"Perhaps he has forgotten the events of the games," said Lord Grendel.	10
64	202	I recalled Lucilius had slain Aelius when the latter had sought the relative safety of the box of honor at the games.	10
65	165	"Where is Grendel, who would not oath to Lord Agamemnon, Grendel, who freed the traitor, Surtak, Grendel, who disturbed the games of Decius Albus? Where, too, are the others of your party, the monster, Eve, and the two humans?" "They will return shortly," said the Lady Bina.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	380	How often I had played such games with men! "You did such things deliberately, and were petty, cruel, and worthless," he said.	10
29	7	Who cares if a Centius of Cos or a Scormus of Ar can push tiny pieces of wood about on a hundred-squared, red-and-yellow board better than ten hundred thousand others? Is it really so superior to the planting of suls and the harvesting of Tur-Pah, the fishing for eels or parsit, the shaping and smoo...	10
29	10	And, I fear, for those who are attracted to such things, outcomes are similarly clear in the games of steel.	10
30	127	Promoters vie for, and bid for, Houses, particularly well-known, successful Houses, to participate in their games.	10
31	28	One seemed angry, very angry, perhaps thinking Bruno of Torcadino's presence mocked the games.	10
35	189	How painful can be its comings and goings, its games, tricks, and jests! And how can one distinguish between an authentic memory and a seeming memory? Falsity would not be falsity did it not hide under the claim of truth.	10

Book 36. (9 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	359	Did she not understand that the games, jockeyings, ambiguities, tensions, frictions, maneuverings, and competitions of the sexes, so pervasively afflicting her former world, were now over for her? For her those wars were done.	10
22	138	"In The Gambling Tent of the Golden Urt," said Sakim, "business flourished for them, pouches and wallets of coins were lavished on the games".	10
27	71	In the crowded room there were more than two dozen tables devoted to various games of chance.	10
27	73	There are several such games.	10
27	77	There were also 'Urn games', playable for different amounts.	10
27	78	In these games, one generally draws marked ostraca from an urn, with one result or another.	10
27	119	"I am not here for the games," I said.	10
36	125	Its games are reportedly as dishonest and unfair as before.	10
60	14	Who were we, really? What did we want? What did we know? Did we have a role in these dark games? Might we not have something to sell the governor? Information? Silence? "There are six more, hooded, farther away," said Clitus, "those fellows carrying amphorae".	10