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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	177	These beasts, yoked in braces, were drawing mighty wagons, filled with merchandise protected under the lashings of its red rain-canvas.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	40	And twice he had stolen the pile of ore I had accumulated, poking it into the canvas sack we slaves wore about our necks in the mines.	10
17	76	About his neck hangs a canvas bag in which pieces of ore are carried back to the scales.	10
18	7	Down that shaft comes not only food but, when needed, canvas, tools and chains.	10
21	6	Through the trees I could see tent canvas, a tharlarion wagon, the strap-masters unharnessing a brace of low tharlarions, the huge, herbivorous draft lizards of Gor.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	314	Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the...	10
21	190	I watched the merchant wagon, large and heavy, wide, with planked sides painted alternately white and gold, covered with a white and gold rain canvas.	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	12	The other bird was apparently only stunned, and it was being rolled to the edge of the net where it would be dropped into a large wheeled frame, drawn by two horned tharlarion, onto a suspended canvas, where it was immediately secured by broad canvas straps.	10
5	600	Then she had lain down on a flat piece of rain canvas which Al-Ka and I had rolled about her, and, concealed in this fashion, we had carried her to the wagon.	10
5	602	There Al-Ka would release Elizabeth from the rain canvas and busy himself with the wagon.	10
5	604	Then he would change the white and gold rain canvas to a covering of blue and yellow silk.	10

Book 7. (35 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	159	The two wagons he bought were merchant wagons, with red rain canvas.	10
7	172	Moments after lying down on the canvas, spread over the polished floor boards of the wagon, in spite of the movement and the bumping and jostling, I fell asleep.	10
7	342	I loved to lie on it, after the canvas spread over the hard boards of the wagons.	10
7	354	I awakened in a cold sweat, but safely chained in the wagon, on the canvas.	10
7	355	It was raining outside, and I could hear the rain beat on the squarish roof of red rain canvas stretched over our heads.	10
7	357	I snuggled down again on the folded canvas beneath my body and, with a rustle of chain, listening to the rain, soon fell asleep again.	10
8	3	I, and the other girls, with the exception of the new girl, freshly branded, hooded and gagged, bound on her side, had crawled between the layers of canvas on which we rode in the wagon.	10
8	4	I, and some of the other girls, lifted up the side canvas of the square-canvassed wagon and peeped out, into the early morning fog.	10
8	14	Suddenly the butt of a spear struck at the canvas where we were looking and we quickly put down the side wall.	10
8	21	The canvas was damp, and stained from the dew and fog, and an early morning rain.	10
8	970	The fire was very beautiful, and the shadows on the wagon canvas.	10
11	981	That night, stripped in the slave wagon, lying on the canvas, my ankles chained to the ankle bar, fed, I slept soundly, happily.	10
12	44	I, by standing on my tip toes in the grass, on the low hill on which we were gathering berries, could see the squarish tops of the wagons, with their blue and yellow canvas coverings.	10
12	58	There are only some folds of canvas to serve as a cushion between your body and the hard boards of the wagon.	10
12	74	The canvas was then tied down.	10
12	87	In the wagons, with the canvas tied down, chained, we listened to the crowds.	10
12	88	By this time it was full daylight outside, and much light filtered through the wagon canvas.	10
12	93	I cursed the canvas.	10
12	103	I turned about, kneeling, twisting the ankle chain, and dug with my fingers under the edge of the rain canvas.	10
12	105	I lifted up an edge of the rain canvas and peeped through.	10
12	123	The other girls, too, watched excitedly, all of them coming to my side of the wagon, wedging among us, lifting up the rain canvas, peeping out.	10
12	140	I peeped again through the tiny opening between the canvas and the wooden side of the wagon.	10
12	190	Inge was now looking again, out of the tiny opening between the canvas and the wood.	10
12	199	I struck at her, but she caught my hair and pulled my head down to the canvas.	10
12	205	She gave my hair a vicious yank, twisting my head on the canvas.	10
12	309	"Hit her!" I screamed through the canvas.	10
12	335	The canvas was then tied down again.	10
12	640	Men there tore back the coverings of blue and yellow canvas, that they might be seen.	10
14	201	I stood before a large, low tent of scarlet canvas, suspended on eight poles.	10
14	202	Inside, through the opened tent flap, I could see the scarlet canvas was lined with silk.	10
15	221	When I could, I would manage, in my daily tasks, to pass by the tent of Rask of Treve, that large, low tent, on its eight poles, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk.	10
15	349	"Ena!" I whispered, through the canvas of the tent.	10
15	1155	Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles.	10
16	119	In some few tents there glowed a dim redness, through the canvas sides of the tent, the light of the tiny fire bowls within.	10
17	20	Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles.	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	71	In foul weather, if there is not high wind, or in excessive heat, a canvas covering, on poles, is sometimes spread over the thwarts.	10
2	690	The object had been covered with a canvas.	10
2	710	Their catch, returned to the Tesephone, in a cage, covered with canvas, carried on the back of Thurnock, had been six, rather large forest urts, about the size of tiny dogs.	10
6	345	Canvas sheets, like rough awnings on stakes, are tied to the Tesephone, and these provide shade from the sun and protection in the case of rain.	10
6	1065	By the arm I thrust her, stumbling, to the darkness of the small canvas shelter at the side of the Tesephone.	10
6	1069	I sat then beside her, in the darkness, in the sand, under the canvas.	10
11	5	Here and there were piled boxes, and rolls of canvas, and, too, at places, were poles and frames on which skins were stretched, trophies of his luck in the sport.	10
14	9	In some places there was burned canvas, indicating that a given tent might have been set afire.	10
15	266	Some are of leather, others of canvas.	10
18	26	There were no sails, no distant particles of yellow canvas, bespeaking the ships of Tyros, that cluttered that incredible vast margin, the meeting place of the great elements of the sky and the sea.	10
18	459	They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low...	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	32	I remembered finding the carcass of the animal beneath the fallen, half-burned canvas of the Forkbeard's tent.	10
18	495	She went to a piece of tent canvas, which, casually, loosely, was thrown over some object.	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	45	The canvas covers of the wagons, too, were thrown back, that the goods taken at Red Rock could be seen in their abundance and richness.	10
15	84	"I jest not!" He wore desert boots, canvas trousers, baggy, a red sash; in the sash was thrust a dagger, curved.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1167	I could see that, on the first carried platform, there were some five figures, those of women; on the second there were several chests and boxes, some covered with sheens of glistening material; in the wagon, under a loose canvas, were other boxes, but simpler and grosser in appearance, and poles an...	10
5	682	I supposed not, for the glow of the burning silk and canvas in the night sky might too soon apprise the camp's soldiers of what had occurred.	10
6	121	In the winters, which are not harsh at this latitude, such huts are covered on the outside with painted canvas or, among the richer peasants, with ornamented, painted bosk hides, protected and glossed with oil.	10
7	617	I did see a white ankle, not covered by a piece of canvas.	10
7	619	"You had best cover this ankle, or you will be soon found, Slave Girl," I said, angrily, jerking the canvas over it.	10
7	620	Donna shrank even smaller, covered by the canvas.	10
7	706	It illuminated what appeared to be a pile of canvas.	10
7	713	How miserable she must have felt, huddling beneath the canvas, how tense and terrified, how apprehensive.	10
7	716	Did they know where she was? Were they playing with the beauty, tormenting her? Longer yet did they stand there, and then, exchanging glances, one of them, with a sudden, loud cry, pounced on the pile of canvas.	10

Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1244	I handed him a tarsk bit from my pouch, and pushed through the canvas.	10
3	1297	Behind me two men slipped into the tent, through the cut canvas.	10
4	575	I tore aside a stake on which canvas was sewn and forced my way between booths.	10
4	576	I thrust aside boxes and another sheet of canvas and stumbled into the adjacent street.	10
4	582	I thrust through the roped canvas which closed off the selling area.	10
4	603	I heard the dagger cutting at the canvas.	10
4	610	The cutting at the canvas, of course, had been a feint.	10
4	618	The canvas at the front of the booth was being torn away.	10
4	621	I thought him now of the assassins for the trick with the canvas was but a variant of the loosened door trick, left ajar as in flight, a lure to the unwary to plunge in his pursuit into the waiting blade.	10
4	623	We stumbled, locked together, grappling, to the back of the tenting, and, twisted, tangled in the rent canvas, fell to the outside.	10
4	632	Two more men looked through the rent canvas, who had entered through the front.	10
4	646	I bent down and brushed aside the canvas, re-entering the booth.	10
4	692	I remembered the coolness of his subterfuge at the back of the booth, waiting beside the rent canvas for me to thrust through it, thus locating myself and exposing myself for the thrust of the knife.	10
4	774	I went to the front of the booth, to the front margin of its selling area, bordering the walkway, and thrust back a shred of dangling canvas, it sewn to a broken pole, and then turned to regard them.	10
7	213	Two woven canvas straps, some two inches in width, had been looped about the girl's throat and drawn close about it.	10

Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	353	Obvious ways of hiding would be to conceal herself among the boxes and bales at the wharves, to creep into a crate, or barrel, or to cover herself with sheets of sail canvas or with heavy coils of mooring rope.	10
4	921	Canvas fell from the long, sloping yards.	10
4	959	Canvas snapped in the wind over my head.	10
5	644	I then lay on the blanket, my hands under my head, looking up at the canvas and stars.	10
6	96	How vulnerable seemed the ship, the masts high, with their sloping yards and billowing canvas.	10
6	107	Since I, from my lower elevation, a few feet above the deck, by the mainmast, could see their canvas, I knew that their lookouts, from their superior elevations, could see the Palms of Schendi.	10
6	108	Yet the ships were not taking in canvas.	10
6	209	Canvas was dropped from the long, sloping yards.	10
6	335	There must then have been a great many more ships in the harbor, for most ships, naturally, take in their canvas when moored.	10
6	536	As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings.	10
14	590	It was of heavy blue material, canvas, and tied with a white rope.	10
32	1089	The wagons of slavers often have blue and yellow canvas.	10

Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	207	One of these wagons had a cover of blue and yellow canvas, buckled shut with broad straps.	10
13	211	I saw a girl lifting up the canvas a bit, and peeping out.	10
13	214	Then the canvas was pulled down, quickly.	10
16	136	The place of general stores is taken largely by bazaars and markets where, quite close to one another, in various booths, sometimes of canvas, one may find a large variety of goods.	10
16	337	It had a canvas cover.	10
16	358	The canvas on the wagon, then, would have been shut and secured.	10
18	9	To be sure, in barns and such the color yellow usually predominates, whereas in the colors of slavers, exhibited in such places as in the blue and yellow of the canvas covering slave wagons or in the blue and yellow of the tenting of slave pavilions, the blue and yellow is, or tends to be, more equa...	10
25	291	A common type, used to transport female slaves, is covered with blue and yellow canvas.	10
25	303	It was a heavy wagon, with high sides and covered with a brown canvas.	10
33	2	"That is it!" I indicated to her, in the shallow valley between the two sloping hills, some half pasang from the southern road, the blue and yellow canvas of the distant tents.	10
33	84	I could see the camp in the distance, with the blue and yellow canvas, the cages, pens and wagons.	10
34	30	Another man was pulling down the canvas over the square frame mounted over the wagon.	10
34	33	Another slave wagon, empty, its canvas high on its frame, was entering the camp.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	36	The drivers of these wagons, with their escorts, had only thrown back the canvas to reveal that they carried chained women.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	818	The man who had applied the pigments to that hide canvas had been both patient and skillful.	10
4	51	The common Gorean slave wagon has a long bed, surmounted with a rectangular frame, usually covered with blue-and-yellow canvas.	10
16	31	In none was the canvas covering intact.	10
16	33	The curved supports for the canvas, which were metal, in most cases remained.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	155	Then, in a few moments, we came to a place where a low, sloping shelter, of travois poles, sticks and canvas, had been erected.	10
14	233	I walked over to the vicinity of the hooded Waniyanpi women, those near the closest shelter of sticks, poles and canvas.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	118	When men passed between the fires and the canvas wall of the tent we could see their shadows on the canvas.	10
4	149	Some of these had canvas sacks slung about their shoulders.	10
14	115	Then, again, we threaded our way amongst the canvas-lined lanes of the camp of the men of Argentum.	10
27	118	I kissed the wet shoulder of the man in the bath, and then kissed his cheek, through the wet canvas hood drawn over his face.	10
36	25	The canvas had not yet been put in place, to be tied down, stretched over the frame, to its rings on the outside of the wagon bed.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	16	It was ringed with booths, and platforms, and stages and stalls, and booths, and platforms and stalls, too, with colorful canvas, with their eccentrically carved wood, with their fluttering flags, and signs, like standards, illuminated by lamps and torches, throngs gathered about them, and flowing b...	10
6	1101	Girls may also be exhibited on flatbed wagons, or even in common slave wagons, the blue-and-yellow canvas removed.	10

Book 22. (18 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	2	Some hoods are little more than sacks, of canvas or leather, with drawstrings.	10
6	117	I then heard the sliding of canvas, and its being pulled down and adjusted, and the sound of various buckles.	10
6	348	Too, I was sure the cage had been covered, as I had heard the drawings-down, and tightening, of canvas, and its bucklings, but, to be sure, there might have been a flap, or peephole, or something, perhaps behind the wagon box, from which, from time to time, we might have been observed.	10
6	372	We heard some canvas being thrust up, near the gate.	10
6	376	The canvas was then pulled down, again.	10
6	645	Then, suddenly, startling me, I heard canvas being unbuckled and pulled away.	10
6	784	I then heard the dropping and unfurling of canvas from above me.	10
6	786	I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t...	10
7	9	The high, squarish framework of the wagon was covered with blue and yellow silk, under which was common canvas.	10
7	11	We had thrust up the canvas and silk, an inch or two, at the top edge of the wagon bed, and, turned and kneeling, some half sitting, half lying, eager, curious, our ankle chains twisted, were peeping out.	10
7	90	I delighted to look out through the crack between the wood and the canvas and silk.	10
7	113	"Pull the canvas down, quickly," said one of the girls.	10
7	114	"We are coming to the gate!" We pulled the canvas and silk down, as best we could, and then, very quietly, turned about and sat in the wagon.	10
7	119	The canvas at the front of the wagon was opened, and a man, from the floor space before the wagon box, looked in upon us.	10
7	126	Then he closed the canvas again.	10
8	10	"This is not Samnium!" had cried Ila, when the canvas and silk had been pulled aside, and the central bar unlocked from its socket.	10
11	369	Mirus had a canvas sack slung at his belt.	10
17	246	I could hear, beneath its narrow, sewn canvas surface, the crinkling of the straw within.	10

Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	41	In another flash of lightning I saw the wagon in the ditch, tipped on its side, its canvas-covered, roped-down load bulging against the restraining cover, the tharlarion also on its side, lying tangled in its harness, its feet flailing, its long neck craning about.	10
1	513	Its canvas cover was drawn down.	10
8	808	The canvas covering of the wagon had been drawn back, probably to air the contents from the dampness of the storm.	10
9	73	Most body hoods are made of leather or layers of stout canvas.	10
9	74	I have seen at least one in which two layers of canvas were sewn about a lining of linked chain.	10
20	332	It was there that one of the cloaks of canvas had been placed, perhaps to conceal a name.	10
20	336	"If I were to remove this canvas would I see the name 'Tina'?" The fellow on board looked sharply at the man with me.	10
20	344	I lifted up the canvas a bit, and then let it drop back, in place.	10
20	426	It is more than tackle and blocks, beams and planks, canvas and caulking.	10
21	10	Aemilianus sat on the deck, rather before the steps leading up to the helm deck and, above that, to the height of the stern castle, leaning against a backrest of canvas and rope.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1214	Then I shook the canvas of the threshold curtain and, not receiving a response, entered.	10
2	14	She was pretty there, now naked, save for her collar, inside the canvas.	10
37	233	The common slave sack, incidentally, is much simpler, commonly little more than a sturdy canvas or leather sack which may be tied, buckled or chained shut.	10
43	54	One could not see under the wagon as some canvas had been stretched from the upper, far side of the wagon bed to the ground.	10
43	61	From about the wagon, and about the concealing canvas, timidly, and yet beautifully, leashed, in a belly cord, a mere lace, and a narrow, yellow slave strip, her hands behind her, probably braceleted, came a beautiful young woman.	10
43	124	Then, helpless, drawn by the leash, she was turned by force, and drawn, stumbling, after Liadne, behind the wagon, behind the canvas screen which had been fixed there.	10
46	204	I then pulled down the canvas.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	26	The wagons were covered with canvas, roped down.	10
8	51	Instead of having one driver, or a driver and a fellow, a relief driver or one to help with the unloading, and perhaps a lad to help through the city in the darkness, each wagon had at least four or five full-grown men with it, armed, usually two or three on the wagon box, and another two or three o...	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	360	There was something on it like a stirrup, and, above that, something like a canvas bag.	10
10	407	I felt no tearing of canvas, no breaking, or pulling away, of stout threads, one by one, from straps.	10
10	542	How helpless I felt, kneeling on the platform, my upper body pinioned helplessly within that stout canvas sheath.	10
10	960	It had been uncomfortably warm in its tight canvas enclosure, from the pressure of my limbs held so closely to my body and the general heat and constraint of the sack.	10

Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	105	Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...	10
19	626	In another place, within a rectangle of canvas walls, on a small stage, as the music of flutes and a czehar drifted upward, she saw acrobats, jugglers and fire-eaters.	10
20	55	To her left, yards away, tent pegs jerked from the earth, poles lifted and lowered, colorful, striped canvas seemed to collapse in upon itself, to be gathered and rolled, and tied.	10
22	621	She put out her hand and touched something that loomed wall-like in the darkness, canvas.	10
22	643	In one or another of the tents there was a lit lamp, its light visible through the silk or canvas.	10
23	210	She could see the illumination of the lantern through the canvas.	10
27	384	Another man removed two crossbows from beneath a canvas cover.	10
27	3193	A litter was rigged of canvas wrapped about two spears.	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	76	"There is little or no gravity there, but an atmosphere, of course, as elsewhere in the cylinder, and thus wing harnesses, of canvas and leather, reinforced by stays, may be used to negotiate those spaces.	10
27	22	"It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...	10
40	159	"By the canvas and leather wings, beating against the atmosphere".	10
47	60	As they neared, discernible became the slow, rhythmic beat of gigantic canvas wings, harnessed to massive bodies.	10
47	62	The canvas wings sought their purchase in the world's atmosphere, thrusting against it, cleaving it, as they neared.	10
47	122	At the same time Lords Grendel and Statius pushed from the ledge and with a blow of the wide canvas wings were each entangled with a foe.	10

Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	12	The wrapped form in the canvas, sail canvas, was consumed in a torrent of flame.	10
13	9	They were sewn of heavy, striped canvas, and stuffed with straw.	10
22	168	It is not uncommon for them to awaken in a stout, canvas slave sack, in which they can barely squirm, or bound hand and foot, say, on a carpet in an empty tent, or chained to a ring in the darkness.	10
24	12	"The canvas of a tent may be rent," I said.	10
28	114	Small fires, fueled with sheltered, dried kindling, collected earlier and brought hither, in the wagons, could be set under the roofing of canvas shelters, permitting some cooking.	10
38	11	Great quantities of water were also brought aboard, this despite the common expedient, on round ships, of adding to one's stores by capturing rain in extended volumes of sail canvas, thence conducting it to on-ship reservoirs.	10
38	24	There were naval stores, too, lumber, tars, resins, and such, in abundance, and additional canvas.	10
40	29	And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward.	10
41	14	Perhaps a galley might have weathered it, without even sheeting itself with canvas.	10
44	129	I could occasionally hear the snap of the canvas of the three large, square sails, adjusting to the wind, and the creak of the yards from which they were suspended.	10

Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	132	The square sail is an all-purpose sail, whose single canvas may be adjusted to the wind.	10
5	359	I heard the snapping of canvas overhead.	10
12	476	Her head had been covered, wrapped about or hooded, with some light material, cloth, or canvas.	10
12	480	I jerked the sacking, which was of canvas, back down, over her head.	10
15	49	What a beautiful sight it was, to see the shaking, and then the lifting, and swelling, of those vast breadths of canvas.	10
16	322	"Hard to port! All canvas!" called Aëtius from the stern castle.	10
16	342	But she had good lines, six masts, and an enormous spread of canvas.	10
17	197	I recalled the coating on the sails some days earlier, the staining on the canvas, the granular, sootlike darkness on the deck, the brief sense of something stifling about, how, for a moment or two, it had been hard to breathe.	10
17	220	"Surely," he said, "you note we have spread no more than a fifth of our canvas, and are moving slowly".	10
19	101	The bit of canvas we had flown was soaked, and heavy, and could barely move in the breeze which, but moments ago, had gentled us our course.	10
19	105	The ship, the breeze shaking in the soaked canvas, turned west.	10
32	40	I heard a flood of canvas loosed from a yard, with a great, snapping noise, and then another.	10
32	54	Much canvas had now been spread, but it hung slack.	10

Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	154	With two hands, he thrust open the canvas curtains at the head of the wagon and light, and fresh air, surged into that narrow, rectangular, hitherto oppressive wood-and-canvas enclosure.	10
16	8	The canvas was a common white, not the blue-and-yellow covering, sometimes silk, usually decorating, covering, a slave wagon.	10
16	90	"If you were to peep out, between the side boards and the canvas, you might occasionally see a tharlarion ranch".	10
16	95	Perhaps he had noted, for all I knew, several times, the tiny lifting of the canvas.	10
16	205	I knew that, from the sound, earlier in the afternoon, the light patter on the canvas.	10
17	446	I was collared! How excited was the crowd! How often might a kajira have the opportunity to see such things? Did I prefer the shackles looped about a central bar, and the tied-shut canvas of a wooden slave wagon? Too, this was all new and different, and thrilling, to me.	10
18	213	"If I were to exhibit enthusiasm," I said, "would you then be certain to shackle me in the wagon?" "And tie shut the canvas?" he asked.	10
21	125	Master Desmond seized me by the upper right arm and right ankle, and thrust me into the wagon, over the wood, under the canvas, and I found myself on all fours, over the central bar.	10
21	138	Desmond of Harfax lifted the canvas and peered out.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	139	In some places, through the high, narrow, barred windows in the walls, through which light may filter, they would hear the calls of longshoremen, their loading chants, the rumble of wheels on the planks, the creak of timbers, the stirring of slack canvas on a round ship, the water washing against th...	10
8	395	Sometimes it had been easy enough to identify the goods, as tools, such as axes, adzes, planes, wedges, clamps, and saws, or materials such as tar, turpentine, canvas, paint, and cable.	10
8	523	I saw the yard being raised, foot by foot, tackle creaking, followed, foot by foot, by its increasing expanse of unfolding canvas.	10
9	73	Two large boxes, which had been lashed down on deck, and covered with greased canvas, were lowered over the side on ropes, with great care, to several men.	10
9	302	Interestingly the two large boxes, which had been covered with canvas on the open deck, concerning which the mariners had been so careful, were consigned to four men each, who managed them, each box, by lashings and two poles.	10
27	59	I would not be aboard when she descended the Alexandra, and would open the wings of her canvas to the winds of Thassa, capricious, vast, turbulent Thassa, the sea.	10
29	40	Each, in a common Gorean fashion, balanced her load, a large, canvas-covered, squarish, roped bundle, on her head.	10

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	95	As I had feared the blade slipped through the canvas, encountered a layer of rice, supported by another canvas, stretched taut beneath the rice, and then met nothing.	10
10	102	Hardly had the first notes rung out than we heard another sound, the war blast of the horagai, and blades in their dozens thrust up through the canvas of dozens of wagons, cutting and ripping, and, emerging from the shreds of rent canvas, were screaming, armed men, many of two swords.	10
42	45	When two Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition.	10
10	94	I drew my blade and thrust down at the canvas which covered the contents of the wagon.	10
40	11	"I had thought we might cut the canvas, at the rear of the tent," said Pertinax.	10
40	113	The interior of the tent was protected by layers of canvas from the outside, and weather, and, with its furnishings, its mats, chests, screens, and such, would burn splendidly.	10
40	114	As soon as I emerged in the early morning light from the slit I had made in the canvas, I cut several of the tent ropes.	10
40	116	Once finished I no longer hurried, but walked slowly about, and even stopped, for a time, with several others, to watch the steam rise from the damp, collapsed canvas, this generated by the heat from within.	10
40	127	"The prison tent abandoned, left unguarded, we cut the canvas in the back, reached Tajima, severed his bonds, and drew him forth".	10
42	50	We joined Ichiro and the officer, both now well within the tent, as soon as we had dragged the four Ashigaru to the back of the tent, outside, and tucked them under the sagging canvas.	10
42	51	We then slipped into the tent under the canvas, as well, as that was most convenient.	10
42	56	Interestingly, there was, within the tent, a canvas partition which separated the main portion of the tent, in a linear fashion, from the area where the slaves were housed.	10
42	59	I suspect the reason for this division in the tent, by means of the canvas partition, was less to protect the slaves from roving, appraising eyes, for slaves are accustomed, as other animals, to being openly regarded, than to minimize the possibility of a particular slave being identified, even casu...	10
57	65	Who would choose to hold ground or counterattack under a sky in which might suddenly appear the stern, beating wings of fate's implement, a gigantic dragon sprung alive from legend and myth, capable of palpable arson and destruction, appearing in a world where the canvas over one's head might burst ...	10
61	130	That night, about the Twentieth Ahn, the silhouette of a tarn was cast briefly on the white moon, and, a bit later, the snap of mighty wings disturbed the canvas of several tents.	10

Book 34. (15 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	306	I was leaning back against a rented wood-and-canvas backrest, set in the sand.	10
1	394	In a short while, the wood-and-canvas backrest returned, I, fully clothed, uneasy, and frightened, left the beach.	10
15	103	"Then ensconce her, and tie shut the canvas".	10
24	43	Putting my head back, in the hood, I could feel canvas behind my head.	10
24	44	Had I not been hooded, as I was alone in the wagon, I think I could not have resisted trying to peep beneath the canvas, to see where we might be.	10
32	20	On the knife ships the masts were down; on the round ships no canvas was slung to the yards.	10
32	22	On some of the ships, the knife ships, canvas was stretched between the bulwarks, to shield the deck.	10
32	23	Sometimes mariners sleep beneath such canvas.	10
33	538	At that moment one of the two fellows who had opened the crate, he who had been sent to fetch a blanket, or such, returned, bearing a sizable scrap of canvas.	10
33	543	Bending down she picked up the canvas, with two paws, and prepared to put it about her shoulders.	10
33	638	But they struck her, those terrible, mighty things, until she whimpered and cringed, and then they hooded and bundled her in the very sheet of canvas in which Kurik had expected to conceal her, to take her through the streets of Brundisium in the night.	10
40	65	Indeed, some vase artists are as well-known as artists who work in fresco, or in gold, wood, or canvas.	10
43	9	I had heard canvas being drawn, so I supposed the wagon was a closed wagon.	10
63	13	It was a large, closed wagon, with bright, yellow canvas stretched over the high, rectangular frame rising from its sides.	10
65	403	"We must remove the emblem of Mintar from the wagon, take down the banner, change the canvas to brown, harness the tharlarion, be on our way".	10

Book 35. (13 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	158	An opaque, lined canvas hood was then pulled over my head and buckled under my chin.	10
6	164	Little remained of it now but part of that which had had hooded me, now enclosed within the canvas hood, and, I suspect, a shred or two caught under the gag's fastening.	10
6	296	I felt the hands of a man unbuckle the lined, canvas hood I wore, and then it was thrust up, and pulled from my head.	10
7	309	The lined canvas hood was then drawn over my head, and buckled under my chin.	10
8	69	I loved the sound of the timbers of the ship, creaking, the sound of the long yard, responding to the wind, the occasional snap of the canvas.	10
8	183	There was a snap of canvas, and the ship surged ahead.	10
8	956	The long, slanting yard turned on the mast, and the open, dropped sail, with a snapping of canvas, responded, swelling and tautening, curving, and was filled to the "brim," as the mariners sometimes put it, with the "wine of the wind".	10
26	25	Was this not madness? In the canals, and when we had passed under the chain, leaving the city, I had lain bound, on my stomach, my wrists crossed and bound behind my back, my ankles crossed and bound, closely, under a canvas.	10
26	30	Some four or five Ehn past the chain, Bruno of Torcadino stopped plying the oar, and, as the small craft drifted, pulled away the canvas.	10
26	67	After a time, wearied, permitted, I lay down in the bow, on my back, on the discarded canvas.	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
30	48	The walls of the enclosure were not of stone or wood, but of brightly painted red-and-yellow canvas, suspended from high poles.	10
31	30	The third judge gestured, almost surreptitiously, to two attendants to approach, presumably to escort him back to his seat, if not from the high-walled, canvas enclosure as a whole.	10

Book 36. (13 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	142	From where we stood fire raged, loud, hissing, devouring wood and canvas, heated air leaping past us.	10
16	308	"Board, board! The oars are waiting, the canvas is slack.	10
18	228	Down came the yard, the canvas folding and crumpling.	10
20	3	Clitus, Thurnock, and I were to one side, our backs to the canvas.	10
20	71	"Stay where you are!" Uniformed, armed men had thrust through the rents in the canvas, pushing men closer together, until, in a moment, there was no longer an aisle in the tent.	10
20	147	At this point the leader of the uniformed men cried out, turned about, and fled through the slashed canvas, while his men took their exits similarly.	10
20	170	The rent canvas moved a little, responding to a soft wind, coming in from the harbor.	10
20	173	We then, each one of us, took one of the torches which illuminated the interior of the long tent and set fire to the rent canvas.	10
22	11	The vast sprawling fair, its perimeters changing day by day, as new tents were pitched and stakes drawn on older ones, like cells in a body, was like a transient canvas behemoth, its body breathing, expanding and contracting.	10
22	13	In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and theaters, friend...	10
41	150	"In the great rains, recently," said Thurnock, "much water was gathered from stretched sail canvas and entered into many containers, dozens of barrels and kegs".	10
41	151	This canvas had been obtained from naval stores held in Mytilene, supplies on which the harbor would normally draw.	10
60	36	The two closer men stopped now and then, began to cast scraps into the water, these extracted by handfuls from canvas sacks worn at their belts.	10