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Book 1. (18 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	28	The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.	10
4	116	The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time.	10
4	117	If we were on the high bridges, it would have been more than a thousand feet away.	10
6	2	As I dropped closer, I saw that the bridges were lined with the celebrants of the Planting Feast, many perhaps reeling home drunk on paga.	10
6	3	Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t...	10
6	7	At last, satisfied, he brought his wings against his body and remained still, except for the alert movements of his great head and the flash of those wicked eyes scrutinizing the streams of men and women on the nearby bridges.	10
15	26	When it came time for Pa-Kur to attack, bridges would be constructed over the ditches.	10
15	27	Over these bridges the siege towers would be rolled to the walls of Ar; over them his tharlarion cavalry would march; over them his horde would flow.	10
15	173	"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher...	10
16	17	Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch.	10
16	28	It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.	10
16	74	When Ar falls, the bridges will be hung with garlands, there will be free paga, slaves will be freed, enemies will pledge friendship".	10
17	19	Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense.	10
19	19	"Look for me hereafter in the streets and on the bridges," he said, "on the walls and in the hidden rooms of the highest cylinders.	10
19	30	I noted grimly, as I flew, that large portions of the horde of Pa-Kur were crossing the great bridges over the first ditch and moving toward the city, the sunlight flashing on their weaponry.	10
19	174	Thousands of the great birds, their wings clapping like thunder, were descending on the city, flying onto the bridges and down to the streets, darting among those spires no longer protected with the terrible defense of the tarn wire.	10
19	176	Across the bridges of the great ditch, rivers of warriors were flowing.	10
20	32	Shimmering strings of bells pealed in the wind, and festive lanterns of a thousand colors swung from the innumerable flower-strewn bridges.	10

Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	47	I had thought this pointless, and perhaps dangerous, but Kron had said simply, "Let those who fear to walk the high bridges not walk the high bridges".	10
2	38	For the Gorean, though he seldom speaks of these things, a city is more than brick and marble, cylinders and bridges.	10
4	2	It was a nightmarish journey, and a foolish one, trying to rush on through the night to find my city, bruising, falling, scraping myself in the darkness, yet driven on by such a torment of doubt and apprehension that I could allow myself no rest until I stood again on the lofty bridges of Ko-ro-ba.	10
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	10
8	8	Normally the caste colors of Gor would be in abundant evidence, enlivening the streets and bridges of the city, a glorious spectacle in Gor's bright, clear air.	10
8	13	Indeed, it was known that some free women actually envied their lightly clad sisters in bondage, free, though wearing a collar, to come and go much as they pleased, to feel the wind on the high bridges, the arms of a master who celebrated their beauty and claimed them as his own.	10
8	54	It was railed, as most Gorean bridges, high or low, are not.	10
26	37	New paint blazes upon the bridges.	10
26	46	One change that I find of interest, though I cannot heartily approve, is that the rails have been removed from the high bridges of Tharna.	10
26	111	Outside on the bridges I hear the cry of the Lighter of Lanterns.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	37	It was only with difficulty that she had been restrained from hurling herself in mortification from one of the high bridges.	10
10	58	I looked about me and found myself on a high, railed platform, overlooking a vast circular artificial canyon, lined with bridges and terraces.	10

Book 5. (24 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	11	Its walls, its countless cylinders, its spires and towers, its lights, its beacons, the high bridges, the lamps, the lanterns of the bridges, are unbelievably exciting and fantastic, particularly as seen from the more lofty bridges or the roofs of the higher cylinders.	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
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 faction patch, even...	10
2	198	"When one goes out at night, even on the high bridges, one must have men with one.	10
3	52	Further, there is a harsh competition among themselves, for positions in certain streets and on certain bridges.	10
3	53	The most favorable locations for play are, of course, the higher bridges in the vicinity of the richer cylinders, the most expensive paga taverns, and so on.	10
4	50	I had little doubt but that in an Ahn the story would be in all the paga taverns of Ar, on all the bridges and in all the cylinders.	10
5	15	In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...	10
5	513	She still wore the brief, exciting leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl and, when striding the high bridges, her hair in the wind, she attracted much attention, not only, obviously, from the men, but from women, both slave and free.	10
5	514	Once a slave girl bumped into her on one of the bridges and struck at her, thinking she was only slave, but Elizabeth, with a swift blow of her small fist, downed the girl, and managed to seize one ankle and prevent her from tumbling from the bridge.	10
5	532	"If you are free," said one of them, "you should be ashamed of yourself, being seen on the bridges so clad".	10
5	541	"Well then," said Elizabeth, "what are you ashamed of?" Then Elizabeth strode to her and, to the girl's horror, on one of the public high bridges, face-stripped her.	10
13	9	The entire city was humming with the news and a hundred rumors ran rampant through the alleys and streets and on the bridges of Glorious Ar.	10
13	254	I have always been amazed at the grandeur of Ar at night, the bridges, the lanterns, the beacons, the many lamps in the windows of countless cylinders.	10
13	302	We looked about, at the cylinders and lights and bridges.	10
13	308	The lights of Ar, and the lanterns on the bridges, flew past below me, the roofs of cylinders looming up out of the darkness of the streets far below.	10
14	144	Otherwise, given the splendor of her robes, she might have been on the highest bridges the envy of all the free women of Ar.	10
16	27	The great bars suspended about the walls of the city then ring out for more than an Ahn with their din, and the doors of the city burst open and the people crowd out onto the bridges, clad in the splendor of their finest, singing and laughing.	10
16	30	When the lanterns on the bridges must be lit the people return home, singing, carrying small lamps, and give the night over to feasting and love.	10
16	34	On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel...	10
17	140	Gangs of men, often armed, roamed streets and bridges, apparently undisturbed by Warriors, their depredations not curbed; and, startlingly, when captured and sent to the Central Cylinder, or to the Cylinder of Justice, pretexts would be found for their release, customarily on legal technicalities or...	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 the next sever...	10
17	597	"Be silent, slave," said I, poking about, and then I saw in the bottom of the chest, almost colorless, ragged, not more than a foot high nor a few ounces heavy, a small worn, tattered doll, dressed in faded Robes of Concealment, of a sort little girls might play with on the bridges or in the corrido...	10
22	338	The strike was made doubtless from the back of a racing tarn, a small swift tarn, maneuverable, darting among the bridges".	10

Book 6. (11 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	65	In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island.	10
5	66	I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival.	10
5	194	Together they disappeared in the darkness, going over one of the raft bridges to another island, one far from the firelight, the crowd, the noise, the dance.	10
6	198	In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island.	10
6	203	The rafts, the bridges, I thought, the rafts! Carrying Telima in my arms I sped about the periphery of the rence island, meeting no one.	10
6	207	"Get the girl! I want the girl!" I came to one of the raft bridges I had helped to fasten in place that morning, shortly after dawn.	10
7	2	The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...	10
7	4	We saw several running across the bridges, crying out, being whipped toward the torches by those of Port Kar.	10
17	63	There were crews on these ships armed with grappling irons and each of the ships carried two or more "grappling bridges".	10
17	72	And if the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros should use their rams, we hoped that, in the moments it would take to disengage the ram, the grappling irons and the grappling bridges might be brought into play.	10
17	75	In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1085	The smoke of two of these fields had been visible even from the high bridges of Ko-ro-ba herself.	10
12	721	It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one.	10
14	444	Others, with a psychological subtlety perhaps surprising in a primitive culture, recognize that a girl may covet the collar, and will thus court it, for example, walking at night on high bridges, frequenting certain areas of the city after dark, taking unnecessary journeys, and such.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	451	For it she might be suspended naked, bound by the wrists, on a forty foot rope from one of the high bridges, to be lashed by tarnsmen, sweeping past her in flight.	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	178	Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...	10
26	316	There she lived, free but of no status; she was no longer recognized, in the sight of its Home Stone, as a citizen of Ar; she had not even the collar of a slave girl for her identity; she was kept sequestered by Marlenus in the central cylinder, that his shame not be publicly displayed upon the high...	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	830	Who knew to what new chains one might be taken? Was it not even said that occasionally free women, lonely and miserable, their most profound needs unsatisfied, desperate for love, frequented high, lonely bridges at night, putting themselves in peril of capture and enslavement? Surely a slave girl wo...	10
14	42	I saw the tracery of the bridges against the sky, the people moving about on them.	10
18	125	She began to take to walking upon the high bridges.	10
29	1	A Warrior's Vengeance; the Furs of My Master We were but four bridges from the Towers of the Warriors when Clitus Vitellius turned suddenly, regarding me.	10
29	52	We were but a short way from the Towers of Warriors, on the third of its approaching high bridges, when again Clitus Vitellius turned and faced me.	10
29	225	We heard men later upon the bridges outside.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	700	He ruled the high bridges of Ar with his Kaissa board.	10
2	701	No other player might call "Kaissa" on those bridges until he had bested the young Scormus.	10
15	294	Many of these cities consist largely of high cylinders, joined by traceries of high bridges".	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	384	The larger canals in Port Kar, incidentally, have few bridges, and those they have are commonly swing bridges, which may be floated back against the canal's side.	10
3	61	Some free girls, runaways, vagabonds, girls of no family or position, live about port cities, scavenging as they can, begging, stealing, sleeping at night in crates and under bridges and piers.	10
4	380	I quickly crossed two bridges, leading over canals, each joining the sea.	10
4	386	The swing bridges are normally fastened back, except from the eighth to the tenth Ahn and from the fifteenth to the seventeenth Ahn.	10
5	515	Such women often, eventually, take to walking the high bridges or frequenting exposed areas, sometimes outside the city walls.	10
47	29	The marchers, forming living bridges of their own bodies, clinging and scrambling on one another, crossed it also.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	441	Sometimes when there is an especially beautiful sky many people will close their shops and men will flock to the high bridges to watch.	10
16	235	"You could risk slavery," he said, "expose yourself to possible capture, walk the high bridges at lonely Ahn, picnic in the country, go to paga taverns alone, take dangerous sea voyages".	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	497	I looked up at the moons and stars, beyond the cylinders and bridges.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	204	Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov...	10
18	415	On the other hand, there have been cases when a free woman, boldly, has donned such a garment and dared to walk in the streets and upon the bridges, masquerading as a mere slave upon an errand for her master.	10
18	420	Perhaps they take to walking the high bridges, under the Gorean moons.	10
20	581	Outside, the surfaces on which she walks, the bridges, and such, are usually smooth, especially in the larger cities.	10
20	612	So she begins to wear her veils loosely, her robes above her ankles, to frequent lonely streets, to traverse high bridges at night, or perhaps in a slave tunic she begins to loiter about markets where women are sold, or decides to satisfy her curiosity as to the interior of a paga tavern, and see fo...	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	9	The bridges of Tharna had been gray and cool in the soft, long, slow rains.	10
39	108	"And in the cities," she said, "it is so beautiful, the towers, the bridges and sunsets, the people, the flower stalls, the market places, the smells of cooking".	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	642	The towers, streets, and bridges are often bright with color, strikingly in contrast with the passive urban monochromes, the browns and grays, with which you may be familiar.	10
36	654	There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a...	10

Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	712	This seems a likely explanation, too, for the women who frequent lonely bridges at night, or dangerous areas of a city, or, say, publicly provoke and challenge strong young men, treating them badly, pretending to detest them, but perhaps, on some level, longing for their bonds.	10
2	554	To be sure, there was more money to be made in the Kaissa clubs and on the high bridges.	10
19	1	A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium.	10
19	2	Such bridges are a feature of many Gorean cities.	10
19	3	They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own...	10
19	7	Other than in their military significance, of course, such bridges tend to be quite beautiful and, functionally, serve to divide the cities into a number of convenient levels.	10
19	49	The bridges served very well for me, and I had a simpler exit in mind.	10
19	77	"Surely, had he done so, he would have passed me on the bridges".	10
19	89	He had not passed me, with a retinue, on the bridges.	10
19	161	That for which I searched had probably been extracted from that coffer even before I had begun to climb the high bridges.	10
21	123	Other men I have outside, but at a distance, on the bridges, outside the gate to the garden".	10
21	271	"The other is walking back and forth on the tarn wire strung between two bridges".	10
21	681	Outside, in the garden, off in the distance, on one of the bridges, I saw some men approaching.	10

Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1935	The particular bridge, colorfully paved, graceful, narrow and ascendant, on which she walked, barefoot, blonde, her hair moving in the wind, in her exquisitely brief leather, gave entrance to the tower at something over half its height; it was one of several such bridges about, some giving access at...	10
20	31	Many of these towers, I knew, were joined by traceries of soaring bridges, set at different levels.	10
20	32	These bridges, however, save for tiny glintings here and there, could not be well made out at this distance.	10
26	1790	We were on one of the lower bridges.	10
26	1932	They are usually approached only by the higher, narrower bridges.	10
26	1936	Gorean cities, given the bridges, can be traversed, often, at different levels.	10
26	1937	The bridges, like traceries amongst the soaring towers, are very beautiful.	10
26	1938	Such bridges, even the loftiest, are usually narrow, and railless.	10
26	1940	Such bridges, it might be mentioned in passing, also have their military applications.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	747	That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...	10

Book 23. (22 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	24	As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descendin...	10
17	160	In places along the wall defenders sought to get their poles under the bridges, between them and the crenelation, and, using the wall as a fulcrum, to lift the bridges back up.	10
16	319	They had now aligned themselves, and the dropping of the bridges, when the towers were in position, would be simultaneous.	10
16	523	"The bridges will drop and you will think an avalanche of iron has spilled upon you! How shall you meet it? Let it spill on your heads? Clever fellows! Bring poles! Bring stones! You, fetch grapnels and ropes.	10
17	1	Battle; We Will Withdraw to the Landing The bridges of the towers were still raised.	10
17	2	These bridges were each about eight to ten feet in width.	10
17	5	The lower sills of the bridges, from whence they would swing down, clapping, thundering, on the crenelation, were about four or five feet above the height of the wall.	10
17	23	At a single blast of trumpets, the eleven bridges were loosened, rattling, to the crenelation.	10
17	32	At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall.	10
17	36	This, given the height of the openings, revealed by the dropped bridges, made it possible to fire at point-blank range, the shovel of one catapult containing a thousand bits of rock and metal, the shovel of the other a large boulder, weighing perhaps fifteen hundred pounds, requiring five men for it...	10
17	39	In both cases defenders then climbed to the bridges to meet the foe, driving him back, thrusting him down to the lower level, stopping the ascent at the ladders.	10
17	54	At both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike.	10
17	65	At both bridges, following the success of the devices of the fishermen and huntsmen, the temporary consternation of hesitant successors permitted defenders to take their place, too, on the shaking bridge, where, in moments, they had pressed their way back even to the edge of the flooring, that of th...	10
17	138	Along the wall, at two of the towers, men chopped away at the housings for the chains which controlled the bridges.	10
17	139	Some of the bridges, but most not, were raised and lowered by ropes.	10
17	145	Too, it makes it much easier to prevent the dropping of the bridges, by blocking them with beams or poles, or, in some cases, by fouling one or both of the chains, usually with metal pins.	10
17	161	Sometimes Cosians and defenders, fighting, were on the very bridges being pried upward.	10
17	162	At two towers the poles had thrust the bridges up and back.	10
17	164	But other men, Cosians, within, dozens, some with axes, half breaking the bridges apart, from the inside, forced them down again.	10
17	296	I saw the bridges, burned through, collapse beneath some of them, plunging them to the ground.	10
21	1159	Why else would they wander the high bridges at night, why else would they take passage in small caravans, why else would they embark upon dangerous voyages? Many is the veil which has inadvertently slipped in public places, to be hastily and with obvious embarrassment readjusted and repinned.	10
21	1293	Is it not with their voice and tongue, as well as their beauty, that they have softened hearts and won velvet victories, have built bridges and roads between hearts, indeed, have swayed armies and launched fleets? Certainly their tenderness and lyricism, the arrows of their eyes and the engines of t...	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	157	Her bridges could be, as the Goreans have it, washed in blood.	10
12	571	I will dare to walk the remote districts, and to tread high bridges!" "Must a command be repeated?" I asked.	10
27	1135	Will you fear to enter a room alone, or a corridor unescorted, for fear someone may be there, waiting? Will you fear dark places, or shadows? Will you fear high bridges, and roofs, and promenades, because you fear the loop of a tarnsman tightening on your body, dragging you into the sky, his capture...	10

Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1574	Many of the "high bridges" in a city such as this would be regarded as quite alarming, at least initially, by most of those of Earth, as they might range from a foot to four or five feet wide, and arch over frightful drops, sometimes to a maze of bridges below, but these people, who have grown up wi...	10
24	251	In many the only access is in virtue of bridges which are often high above the ground level, bridges which may be easily defended, even destroyed.	10
7	106	It is one thing to writhe naked before guards, one's body obedient to the slightest tremor of the flute, and quite another, for example, to swirl in a belt of jewels on the dancing floor of one of the golden taverns, reached only from the high bridges.	10
11	1575	The point of the high bridges seems to be twofold, first, they are lovely in their traceries against the sky and between the cylinderlike buildings, and such things are important to these people, who seem to have an unusually developed aesthetic sense and, second, they have military value, inasmuch ...	10
11	1577	To me, of course, traversing these bridges, particularly in the beginning, constituted a nightmare of terror.	10
11	1580	I am still uneasy on such bridges.	10
11	1583	But fortunately insouciance and thoughtlessness on the high bridges, common to those of this world, are not required of us.	10
13	554	We did this on narrow, metal bridges.	10
13	555	These bridges were not such as the earlier "bridge," that which had led toward the surface of the turret, or tower, which had been little more than a flat rail.	10
13	556	These bridges, while frightening, were considerably less harrowing.	10
13	561	The bridges were locked in place on pegs.	10
13	564	Given the narrowness of the bridges a single man, armed, could have defended them against several foes, for they could approach him only singly.	10
18	84	It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind.	10
34	14	One had been pierced by a concealed spear, spring-released from the side of a corridor, another in crossing one of the narrow bridges over a crevice, it buckling as weight was placed at its center, another when an apparently solid portion of the corridor had fallen away beneath him, plunging him scr...	10
39	133	We began to ascend winding stairs, and were soon traversing high bridges.	10
39	135	I am frightened on the higher bridges.	10

Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	143	The bridge, as with most Gorean bridges, even the high bridges in the cities, was without railings.	10
13	42	It was one of the "high cities," a forest of cylinders, a city of towering, spaced cylinders, many of them in bright colors, and, joining these cylinders, at various levels, like light curving, colored, rail-less traceries in the sky, were numerous bridges.	10
13	43	She could see individuals on many of the bridges.	10
13	60	The bridges amongst them were narrow and could be successfully defended by a handful of men against hundreds.	10
13	61	And the bridges, given their construction, could be easily broken, thus isolating the individual fortresses from other, similar fortresses, which might have fallen to an enemy.	10
18	140	Most inhabitants of the tower, free and slave, would leave the tower at various levels, utilizing the bridges amongst them, those stretching from tower to tower, or using them to descend to the street.	10
18	142	Ellen avoided these bridges as they were often frighteningly narrow, at least from her point of view, and lacked railings.	10
18	394	Just as Ellen was not permitted, nor would be many slaves, to leave the domicile of the master without permission, so, too, she was not permitted, without express permission, to open the interior door of the apartments of Portus Canio, that leading to the interior stairwell, giving access to various...	10
18	397	We mention the matter of the interior door because, interestingly, usually in the evening, sometimes late at night, unidentified visitors, sometimes several of them, would arrive at the door, visitors who may not have, in their approach, availed themselves of the outside bridges.	10
19	45	"Guardsmen, on the bridges! They may be coming here!" "Why?" asked Selius Arconious.	10
21	89	Here and there there were tiny, wooden bridges over the stream.	10
25	403	"If your bondage is important to you, and you understand it as your one possibility to obtain your total fulfillment as a female, you may always again expose yourself to the risk of the collar, disarranging a veil, walking lonely bridges at night, lifting the hem of a garment, as though to avoid soi...	10
30	505	They might, for example, wander the high bridges at night, or frequent low markets and gloomy streets.	10

Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man the walls and d...	10
3	164	"What are tower cities?" "The name is presumably because of the architecture of the primary defensive structures, keeps, usually reached by means of unrailed, narrow bridges".	10
18	178	Sometimes they are put on the bridges late at night, in the light of the moons, and when a marauding tarnsman makes his strike, the city's tarnsmen may take flight and close in upon him.	10
80	199	The high cities, as it is explained to me, are usually larger cities, with many towers, and bridges amongst the towers.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	292	Few slaves will happily bring a master his cloak if he is in no condition to walk the high bridges, or, more dangerously, enter for some reason unarmed amongst enemies.	10
3	383	One wonders why some women place themselves at risk, why they undertake hazardous journeys and voyages, why they walk the high bridges at night, such things.	10
4	390	Other situations are also regarded as ones in which the woman has voluntarily, or inadvertently, divested herself of the social and cultural mantles usually sufficient to protect her freedom and honor, such as walking the high bridges at night, undertaking dangerous expeditions or voyages, traversin...	10
5	350	And, indeed, was her disguise not required of her, that she might, in relative safety, arousing little suspicion, negotiate the realms of Gor, her markets and streets, her fields and bridges, her wharves and roads? To Goreans, a free female of Earth would be surprising, at least.	10
5	824	Enemies were at hand, ransacking houses, scouring bridges, searching towers, closing in upon us.	10
7	101	Slaves, on the leashes of their masters, are a common sight in the high cities, in the streets, on the bridges, and so on.	10
12	96	Children should not be permitted to romp on the high bridges.	10
17	16	A similar approach may be used on the high bridges or against unsuspecting loungers or sunbathers on the roofs of high cylinders.	10

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	363	Tides of hate, unleashed, irresistible, swept through the streets, through the plazas, into the towers, across the bridges.	10
3	230	"Those of Ar had risen, everywhere, it seemed, from doorways and cellars, from within the cylinders and on the bridges, rushing forth, seizing up as weapons things so simple as clubs, poles, staves, and rocks, overwhelming in their numbers even armed men".	10
3	327	Too, to such an event, there must have been a number of witnesses, not only on the roof, but in the sky, tarnsmen, others in cylinders and on bridges, the crowds in the street below, and such.	10
12	331	They can be used at gates, fords, bridges, and such.	10
19	172	On the high bridges she will feel wind on her legs and arms, and in her hair, and on her unveiled features, on which men may look with impunity.	10
21	338	Such a woman, commonly, in her misery and loneliness, in her shame and humiliation, in her uncertainty and confusion, begins to roam the high bridges, frequent lonely streets, and wander unescorted outside the city gates.	10

Book 31. (43 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	1050	After that, for four trips, though I was terrified of the bridges, I had ascended a tower several Ehn from that of Six Bridges and warily made my way, by stairwells, and connecting bridges, to the tower of Six Bridges.	10
10	1021	I had taken a roundabout way to Six Bridges, to avoid encountering the laundry slaves of the establishment of the Lady Daphne, a private laundering house in the vicinity of Six Bridges.	10
10	1069	Accordingly, it took Lady Daphne's ruffians, both natively Gorean, little time to extend their surveillance to the local bridges, this easily done from a higher bridge, or even from the roof of the tower of Six Bridges itself.	10
8	84	At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, both that of men ...	10
8	145	It is understood that the streets in a Gorean city, local bridges, and such, are the responsibility of those in the neighborhood, not of the city or state.	10
8	1809	These towers, at various levels, were joined by narrow, graceful bridges.	10
8	1810	In times of peace, one might move from one tower to another, through one tower to another, by means of these bridges, to many parts of the city, without once descending to the streets.	10
8	1811	The bridges for the most part are unrailed but traversed with ease by urban Goreans used to them.	10
8	1820	In any event, you traverse the high bridges with the same thoughtless nonchalance with which those of Earth traverse their own walks.	10
8	1821	Your bridges, slender and graceful, are often arched and curved, almost like branches in a forest, for you have an aesthetic sense, it seems, in so much that you do, evinced in things as intricate as the soaring melody of a skyline to things as simple as the carving on an oar or a wooden spoon.	10
8	1829	Here and there women, unattended, grace the bridges in their promenades, while below a troop of guardsmen may tread with care.	10
8	1834	One thing I did not realize originally about your bridges is the military utility involved in their design, that they may be blocked and defended by small groups of armed men; five may defend against a hundred, because of the hundred only five can engage at a time.	10
8	1835	Too, the bridges may be broken, this preventing access to the towers, turning each into a solitary, soaring, nigh-impregnable citadel.	10
10	596	I avoided, whenever possible, the bridges.	10
10	620	Too, it was scarcely the sort of thing to parade on the bridges or keep in some exclusive residential tower.	10
10	770	* * * * I made my way toward the tower of Six Bridges.	10
10	1017	* * * * And so I made my way toward the tower of Six Bridges.	10
10	1023	Six Bridges was in the district of the house of Lady Daphne.	10
10	1048	"The tower of Six Bridges," said the other, "belongs to the house of Daphne".	10
10	1052	I kept to the center of the bridges as much as possible, kneeling to the side if a free person was passing.	10
10	1053	The bridges I utilized were not really narrow.	10
10	1060	How superior they felt to me! How superior they were to me! Too, you tread roads, paths, and bridges to the left.	10
10	1067	In any event treading on the left, for a long time, made me uneasy, particularly on the high bridges.	10
10	1099	"Perhaps we could avoid the district of Six Bridges," I said.	10
10	1100	"If it were not the district of Six Bridges," said the Lady Bina, "it would be another district".	10
10	1102	"Too," she had said, "Six Bridges houses several of our best customers".	10
10	1104	And so it came about that I was taking a roundabout way to Six Bridges, this time, at least, again on the street level.	10
10	1115	I was within fifty paces of one of the lower entryways, a back entryway, to Six Bridges when, to my dismay, I saw my two nemeses, one emerging from a doorway to the left, the other from a doorway to my right.	10
10	1362	On the wall opposite the back entrance, one of several, to Six Bridges, there was a faded, half-torn poster.	10
11	156	I immediately recalled the faded, half-torn poster, the remains of which were affixed to the wall opposite one of the rear entrances to Six Bridges.	10
11	270	One such residence was Six Bridges.	10
13	7	It was there that I, hands bound behind me, in half a tunic, had been ordered to my knees by a surly, imperious stranger, he who had later protected me at Six Bridges, but had seen fit to take his reward from my lips, I helpless to prevent his arrogant presumption.	10
15	22	The beast, I was sure, might have most of the city at its disposal, moving from roof to roof, traversing the darkness, saving perhaps the towers and bridges.	10
15	331	I recalled that from the vicinity of Six Bridges.	10
15	334	Let him pine then in vain! I recalled how he had commanded me to my knees in the Sul Market, leaving me half-stripped and tied at his feet, how he had pressed himself upon me in the vicinity of Six Bridges, I unable to resist.	10
16	235	"Perhaps Master remembers, from Six Bridges," I said.	10
16	253	"I tasted your lips, at Six Bridges," he said.	10
17	223	Was I not different now than I had been, now that I was collared? Had I not been stalked by the Metal Worker? Had he not stood between me and a beast? To be sure, he had treated me with abruptness and authority in the market of Cestias, long ago, and had availed himself of my lips near Six Bridges, ...	10
17	355	My most memorable experience along these lines, of course, was the interlude with the Metal Worker himself, in the vicinity of Six Bridges.	10
19	195	I recalled this from Six Bridges.	10
26	447	"You did such things to me in Ar, by Six Bridges," I said, "with your kiss, your touch".	10
46	95	Too, I have little doubt that the kajira, like the colorful buildings and soaring bridges, the spacious parks and wide boulevards, adds to the charm of Gor.	10
51	194	"Had a free man spoken so," said Lykos, "it would doubtless be daggers on the high bridges".	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	216	"I have met men on the bridges," I said.	10
17	120	And why do some of them join small caravans, and risk dangerous journeys to far places, or wander dark, unguarded streets, or stroll the high bridges alone, in the bright moonlight? Are they so smug, so sure of themselves, that they do not understand the perils of such things? Do they court the coll...	10
39	161	Then the knife continued its rude work and Emerald and Hiza lay at men's feet, no different from other free women, perhaps more refined, gentler creatures, who might, say, have been driven from sacked, burning cities, snared on bridges by soaring tarnsmen, netted on outings, lured into taverns, seiz...	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	483	Finally, unable to stand things longer, distraught, frightened, miserable, she may take to courting the collar, traversing high bridges at night, moving on dismal streets after dark, wandering unescorted outside the walls, renting rooms in cheap inns, booking passage on lightly guarded caravans.	10
25	323	Why do some undertake perilous journeys, wander outside guarded walls, frequent lonely streets in poor districts, insult strangers, as though it might be done with impunity, walk the high bridges unescorted in the moonlight, and such? This is sometimes spoken of as "courting the collar".	10
30	348	"In the high cities, on the continent, particularly on holidays, masters often promenade their slaves, on the boulevards, in the plazas, on the high bridges.	10
60	310	Indeed, on some of the narrow, graceful, soaring bridges of the high cities of the continent, arching amongst lofty keeplike cylinders, there were many accounts of such high and dangerous passages being defended by one or two men against dozens.	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	47	Ar, I gathered, was a typical "high city," with its noisy, colorfully garbed, bustling crowds, its affluent quarters and its sorrier districts, some of which were not to be frequented at night; here were places of lofty towers, often linked by graceful, narrow, arching, railless bridges, which I fea...	10
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 T...	10
39	77	I could see buildings about, and, in the distance, several of the lofty towers of Ar, lights in many of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the passage of a body, and several of the narrow, graceful, lamp-lit bridges that, like delicate traceries, at various levels, linked the towers.	10
49	88	The best players are entitled to set their boards on the highest bridges.	10
53	30	These towers, which are almost always brightly colored, as Goreans are fond of bright colors, inside and outside, in both private and public buildings, in fountains and walls, and so on, are often joined, as well, at different levels, by narrow, graceful, colorful, arching, railless bridges.	10
53	31	These bridges allow communication and movement amongst the cylinders, facilitating, in case of need, the passage of supplies and reinforcements, and, given their narrowness, may be easily defended, and, if it is thought judicious, may be broken, denying entrance to intruders.	10
53	45	Most Goreans, of course, at least those of the "high cities," are familiar with such bridges, and think nothing of availing themselves of their convenience.	10
53	52	The Goreans have a saying, "Let those who fear the high bridges not walk them".	10
53	55	Even so, even Goreans recognize that it is not likely to be much in one's best interests to negotiate the high bridges while in desperate need of sleep or profoundly drunk.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	35	I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an in...	10
10	94	Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o...	10
11	33	One may pass over the canals to the other side by means of bridges.	10
11	36	One conjectures, similarly, that the vulnerability of many of the bridges in Port Kar, like ornamented, lanterned, lovely, painted tinder, is unlikely to be mere coincidence.	10
17	3	Too, there are few, if any, major parts of the city which may not be accessed by walkways and bridges.	10
17	4	To be sure, if the bridges, which are invariably of wood, and which are usually light, carved, ornate, arched, narrow, and colorful, and lanterned at night, were destroyed, the city would become a defensible maze of fortified islands.	10
17	6	A judicious burning or destruction of bridges can also isolate portions of the city, which may trap, and deny retreat, to invasive, hostile forces.	10
21	69	Far off, ahead, I could see one of the small, narrow, colorful, wooden bridges spanning the canal.	10
24	114	There is little public lighting in Port Kar, with the exception of the bridges and sea gates which are regularly illuminated by lanterns.	10