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Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	156	Oddly enough, one of the expressions in the tongue of Gor for our sun was Lar-Torvis, which means The Central Fire, another Pythagorean expression, except that it had not been, as I understand it, originally used by the Pythagoreans to refer to the sun but to another body.	10
2	239	It has the same plane of orbit and maintains its orbit in such a way as always to keep The Central Fire between it and its planetary sister, our Earth, even though this necessitates occasional adjustments in its speed of revolution".	10
4	174	"And there," he said, poking downward with his finger, "is the City of Ar, hereditary enemy of Ko-ro-ba, the central city of Marlenus, who intends to be Ubar of all Gor".	10
5	20	Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.	10
15	191	"Strike for the Home Stones of those cities tributary to Ar—they are kept on the Central Cylinder.	10
16	53	Moreover, the ubiquitous tarn wire heavily netted in the area of the Central Cylinder would ward off any attempts at rescue, unless perhaps by a large force.	10
17	14	In addition to my own failures, I received no word from Kazrak, and reports from Ar on the stand of Marlenus in the Central Cylinder became obscure and contradictory.	10
17	15	As nearly as I could determine, he and his men had been overcome, and the height of the Central Cylinder was again in the hands of the Initiates.	10
18	1	In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea...	10
18	2	I thought of Marlenus who, if he survived, might be able to see much of the same sight from the arrow ports of the Central Cylinder.	10
18	46	"In the Central Cylinder," growled the man.	10
18	64	I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place.	10
18	124	Surely I was now beneath the Central Cylinder, and the embattled Marlenus and his men were somewhere above me, sealed off by the guardsmen of Ar.	10
18	125	At the top of a broad series of stairs I saw the door that must lead to the Central Cylinder and noted with satisfaction that its dimensions were large enough to permit the passage of a tarn.	10
18	141	At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder.	10
19	1	The Duel Marlenus and his men and I raced down the long stairs to the main hall of the Central Cylinder, where we came on the remains of the grisly feast of the tarns.	10
19	9	In a minute we had attained the roof of the Central Cylinder and had all Ar and the surrounding countryside spread beneath us.	10

Book 2. (13 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	63	This blade had fought its way up the stairs of the Central Cylinder of Ar, when I had rescued Marlenus, embattled Ubar of that city.	10
10	34	It was a far cry from the broad-portaled central cylinders of many of the Gorean cities, through which a brace of golden-harnessed tharlarion might be driven with ease.	10
18	2	These slaves were fortunate, for they had access to the central shaft.	10
18	6	It is through the central shaft that the mines of Tharna are supplied.	10
18	9	I myself, and my fellow slaves, had descended the central shaft.	10
18	11	Beginning with the slaves who worked the pulleys that controlled the supply platform in the central shaft, the news had spread, from one mine to another, until at last it had reached even ours, which was the deepest on the shaft.	10
18	65	And, too, they told of the strange, new things that happened in the mine at the bottom of the central shaft, how men helped one another, and could find the time and will to remember a tune.	10
19	41	"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind.	10
19	43	At last we stood by the Central Shaft.	10
19	70	I leaped to the windlass and raised my arms, the darkness of the central shaft looming beneath me.	10
20	54	The full expression is En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, which means, rather literally, The First Turning of the Central Fire.	10
20	58	As might be expected there are related expressions for the months of the solstices, En'Var-Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or, again rather literally, The First Resting and the Second Resting of the Central Fire.	10
23	4	Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen...	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	13	It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...	10
22	38	"Is there some central organ that I might attack?" I queried.	10
27	57	"Thank you, Noble One!" I cried and turned the transportation disk almost as if it had a vertical central axis and sped off.	10

Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	178	The four chief haruspexes of the peoples remained at the huge central altar, to which a white bosk was being slowly led.	10
19	68	Here we climbed several low, broad marble steps and passed down a columned porch and entered the central building, finding ourselves in a dim, lamp-lit hall, bestrewn with carpets and cushions and decorated, here and there, with carved, reticulated white screening.	10
19	77	Soon Harold had left the central hall and was making his way down a long, carpeted, lamp-hung corridor.	10
19	79	We then examined other corridors and other rooms, and finally returned to the main hall and started off down another way, again encountering corridors and rooms; this we did four times, until we were moving down one of the last corridors, leading from one of the five main corridors off the central h...	10
19	203	In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...	10
21	122	"I have very little," I said, taking the pouch and spilling the stones in a glittering if not very valuable heap on the small table in her central room.	10

Book 5. (28 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	55	In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar.	10
3	98	Moreover, having the first move, he might more speedily develop his pieces, bringing them into the central areas of the board where they might control crucial squares, the crossroads of the board.	10
5	223	But, from a central, guarded panel, and from individual transmitters, those of their owners, a signal may be transmitted which causes the two bracelets and the two anklets to immediately snap together at the flat plates, thus, even at a distance, binding the slave.	10
5	603	He would set a central bar, running lengthwise in the wagon, in place, locking it in.	10
5	607	She would then climb into the wagon where, with two ankle rings, joined by a foot of chain looped about the central bar, she would be fastened in the wagon.	10
5	627	In such a small thing as these knots I was again reminded of the central differences in sex and personality that divide human beings, differences expressed in thousands of subtleties, many of which are often overlooked, as in the way a piece of cloth might be folded, a letter formed, a color remembe...	10
12	144	There were various races to follow but the afternoon sun was now below the roof of the central cylinder in the distance and I decided to leave the races.	10
13	5	It seemed she had vanished from the central cylinder, in those portions of it devoted to the private quarters of the Administrator and his family and closer associates, almost under the very noses of Taurentian guardsmen.	10
13	27	If Marlenus had wished to strike the Hinrabians he presumably would have flown his tarn to the central cylinder itself and cut his way to the throne of the Administrator.	10
13	182	"When he was publicly refused bread, salt and fire on the height of the central cylinder, when he was exiled from Ar, not to return on pain of death, do you know what he said?" "No," I said, "I do not".	10
13	222	There had apparently been no tarns near the central cylinder during the time, and, according to report, no strangers were known to have entered the cylinder.	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	215	The Scribes of the Central Cylinder examined the records and, to their horror, discrepancies were revealed, in particular payments to members of the Hinrabian family for services it was not clear had ever been performed; most outstandingly there had been a considerable disbursement for the construct...	10
17	247	I was further cheered by the thought that Caprus had informed me his work was coming along very well and he hoped to have the documents and maps copied by the beginning of Se'Kara; I gathered that now with Cernus spending much of his time in the Central Cylinder as Ubar, Caprus' opportunities for wo...	10
18	304	And Caprus, now that Cernus was often in the Central Cylinder, attending to the numerous duties of Ubar of the city, had more time for his work.	10
20	27	The Slaver who had been chief competitor to the House of Cernus was brought forward, doubtless from the dungeons of the Central Cylinder of Ar, on order of its Ubar, Cernus, once of the Merchants, now of the Caste of the Warriors.	10
20	91	"How could the men of Portus enter the Central Cylinder and carry you away?" he inquired.	10
24	1	The Court of the Ubar In the Central Cylinder of Ar, that in which the Ubar has his palace and holds his court, in a room assigned to me, I drew upon my body the tunic of a Warrior.	10
24	105	We began the long journey through the halls of Ar's great Central Cylinder, almost a city in itself.	10
24	108	There were now no Taurentians in the Central Cylinder.	10
24	111	Saphronicus, their Captain, with other high officers, including Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, now lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder.	10
24	115	Most of the individuals in the Central Cylinder were men of lower caste, attending to their duties, with the exception of numerous Scribes.	10
24	215	"That you may be kept locked in a compartment of the Central Cylinder, not as slave but prisoner, a high-born woman, to be mated in the future as best accords with the politics of Ar, as I see fit?" There were tears in her eyes.	10
24	268	There was a darkness in my heart as I walked alone in the halls of the Central Cylinder of Ar.	10
24	489	Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.	10
24	525	I looked down and saw now that another figure stood on the roof of the Central Cylinder of Ar, a giant figure, one who wore the purple of the Ubar.	10

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	6	Later, about an Ahn before dawn, the two other rence islands, tethered to the central island, were similarly set afire, their fugitives, too, being driven to the nets and binding fiber of the men of Port Kar.	10
7	12	Surely there was more being loaded than could have been on the central island alone.	10
9	693	In the large central room of the tavern, we stopped.	10
11	20	The scribe at the central table, that before the empty thrones, stood numb behind the table.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	205	I was forced down the central aisle, between the racks of tubes on the left and right.	10
4	228	The two men then, standing in the central aisle, seemed to brace themselves, one holding to the racking on the left, the other to the racking on the right.	10
8	198	Through the great doors I could see large central areas, and various floors, reached by more ramps.	10
12	57	Girls are given only about a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon.	10
12	70	The central slave bar was then locked in place.	10
15	899	In the high cylinders, in Gorean cities, there are often public slaves who tend the central kitchens in cylinders, care for the children, but may not instruct them, and, for a tiny fee to the city, clean compartments and do laundering.	10
15	908	If she does not wish to prepare a meal, she and her companion may go to the public tables, or, should they wish, order a girl to bring them food from the central kitchens.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	113	Long ago, more than a year ago, when he had first captured Verna on a hunting expedition, prior to her escape and acquisition of Talena, and her return to the forests, he had intended to bring her to Ar in triumph and there, in the great square before Ar's central cylinder, publicly enslave her.	10
18	112	If necessary, all might have been, in a moment, abandoned, secured perhaps about trees or rocks, save Marlenus, their chief prize, the central object of their endeavors, their expedition of abduction.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	447	I knew that Marlenus would keep her sequestered in the central cylinder, that her shame not reflect upon his glory.	10
4	119	I now had a Singer on a central square, but he had freed his Ax Four, on which he might now situate the Jarl for an attack on the Jarl's Woman's Ax's file.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	757	Their antennae were their central organs of physical transduction.	10
13	36	The battlements, square and looming, of which there were seventeen, assuming a general symmetry and counting the two flanking the central gate, soared to ninety feet.	10
13	119	There were men within, seated about a central figure, on rugs, on a dais.	10
25	154	I looked to the central building of the kasbah.	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. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	112	Near the central tent, almost as large, was a brown, turreted tent, with a pennon flying from a central pole.	10
5	107	I saw one of the girls, with bare arms, robed in classic white, unveiled, emerge from the central tent and, with a gourd dipper, go to the stream, where she filled the dipper and thence returned to the tent.	10
5	232	"What is going on here?" demanded a man, emerging from the central, dark tent, which I took to be that of the headquarters of the camp.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	218	It is radically central to your very being.	10
4	393	The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, Scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
10	166	I do not think it was a mistake that I was in one of the more central chains.	10
15	718	"But in the end I think you might be worthy of the central block, at the Curulean in Ar".	10
35	483	"Forty-two," he said, "Central Level Minus one, Mu corridor".	10
35	736	Then, on a given level, four below the central level, we saw four men approaching.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	717	If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea.	10
7	48	By means of the loop of chain and lock she is attached to the central chain.	10
7	130	She, like the others, was, by the loop of chain and lock, run through the chain ring on the ankle ring, attached to the central chain of her shelter, that strung between the two heavy posts, one at each end of the shelter.	10
12	270	The relation of master and slave, of course, in a psychophysical organism, of a high order of intelligence, such as the human being, is a beautiful and profound expression of the fundamental and central truth of animal nature, that of order and structure, and dominance and submission.	10
16	87	In the event that the central channel, when completed, would not prove sufficient to handle the overflow of Ngao, as seemed likely, conducting it geometrically to Ushindi, side channels were contemplated.	10
18	74	Fairness is a central thesis of sound governance.	10
45	4	I made my way quietly, crawling, stopping upon occasion to listen, toward the more central huts.	10
56	1	What Occurred in Nyundo, the Central Village of the Ukungu Region "Where is Aibu?" cried Kisu.	10
56	2	We stood in the clearing of Nyundo, the central village of the Ukungu region.	10
57	85	Before Bila Huruma had left the village of Nyundo, central village of the Ukungu villages, he had spoken to Kisu.	10

Book 14. (16 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	143	This shop is located on the great avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is more than four hundred feet wide, an avenue used in triumphs, dominated by the Central Cylinder of Ar itself, which stood at one end of it.	10
1	613	"Sexuality," I said, "is radically central to the human phenomenon".	10
11	404	The man of Earth might conceive of the territory as bounded by the circumference; the man of Gor would be more likely to think of the territory as a function of the sweep of the radius which emanates from the central point.	10
11	427	There can be a point without a circle; but there can be no circle without its central point.	10
13	118	Then I wish to proceed to the avenue of the Central Cylinder, to examine the silks in the shop of Philebus".	10
13	192	The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.	10
13	319	I looked down the avenue of the Central Cylinder, down which the troops had disappeared.	10
13	801	I stood on the stones of the avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
18	3	We knelt in the sunlit, central stable yard of the mistress' stables, which were extensive.	10
23	2	It was the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected.	10
23	92	"Tomorrow," said he, "meet her in the tunnel, near the junction between the central tunnel and the side tunnel to Storage Shed Four, at the fifteenth Ahn".	10
23	100	Then, from several yards away, I heard, soft and light, the movement of bare feet on the central board, that guide board set in the floor of the tunnel.	10
24	1	Another Girl in the Tunnel I stood again in the absolute darkness of the tunnel, the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected.	10
24	3	"Wait in the central tunnel, near its juncture with the side tunnel leading to Storage Shed Four".	10
24	25	Interestingly from the sound of the footsteps on the central board, as they touched it, I detected that she was wearing slippers.	10
25	292	A central metal bar, hinged at one end, near the wagon box, and locked at the other, near the wagon bed's gate, usually occurs in such wagons.	10

Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	75	Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from this central nucleus, expanded.	10
6	106	The floor areas are commonly wood except for a central strip of dirt some twenty feet wide.	10
14	306	"And these calves and thighs," I said, "and the luscious, central curves of her, and these breasts and shoulders".	10
19	73	One of the central coins on Gor is the golden tarn disk of Ar, against which many cities standardize their own gold piece.	10
24	343	Then, a day later, still hooded, I was returned to the central dungeon".	10
28	159	There was a tiny knock on the door leading to the central room of the tavern.	10
32	37	Her head was covered with semi-transparent, scarlet cloth, the central portions of such a cloth which had been cast over her, a large cloth, which fell to her calves.	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1	Miles of Vonda and I Observe Slaves, Utilizing the Screened Balcony Above the Central Slave Quarters "Would you care to join me, my friend, Miles of Vonda?" I asked.	10
11	5	It led onto a narrow balcony, screened by intricate grillwork, which, some twenty feet above the floor, encircled the area of the central slave quarters.	10
11	46	What woman could respect a man who is not strong enough to put her under the whip? We continued to look downward into the central room of the slave quarters.	10
11	62	The fellow who had brought Lola to the central room of the slave quarters took her by the hair and shook her head.	10
11	67	I had instructed Lola, clearly and firmly, prior to her confinement in the central room of the slave quarters, that she was to mention to no one that I was present in the holding.	10
11	223	Miles of Vonda and I continued to look downward, into the central room of the slave quarters, upon the confined inmates.	10
12	87	She, Lola, with another of my slaves, Shirley, I was keeping, for my convenience, in the central room of the slave quarters, with the captured beauties of the pirates.	10
20	614	What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust between cities, to a...	10

Book 17. (27 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	144	They can be most easily closed, of course, by moving the narrow, vertically mounted, central wooden lever, but this lever, as would be expected, is on the outside.	10
2	340	In the bow of the boat, crouching there, nude and shivering, she coiled, in careful circles, in the shallow, wooden rope bucket beside her, the central length of the rope, that between her neck and the bow ring.	10
6	22	As would be expected it has several inns and taverns aligned along its central street.	10
7	31	Too, even more luscious merchandise you may seek from the central block in open bidding!" I wondered if the woman knew that she was, in all likelihood, to be soon branded.	10
7	126	"The central street seemed busy tonight," I said.	10
8	1	Grunt I turned my attention from the apparently lovely young woman, though she was fully clothed, who was strung up by the wrists near the central block.	10
8	5	A distinction must be drawn between the side blocks and the central, or main, block, in a vending area.	10
8	10	In the central hall of the sales barn of Ram Seibar, which is open to the public, there are twenty-one blocks.	10
8	18	The central block, which must be ascended by stairs, lies at the far end of the hall as one enters, opposite the door.	10
8	26	It must be admitted there is more prestige in being auctioned from a major, or central, block than there is in being casually purchased from a side block.	10
8	109	"We are ready for the final auction of the evening!" This announcement was greeted with a murmur of interest and the men in the hall began to move toward the front of the room, to the vicinity of the central block.	10
8	110	It was near the central block that the fully clothed, apparently lovely young woman was strung up by the wrists.	10
8	121	She squirmed a moment in the bonds, and then hung still, near the central block.	10
8	404	Three men were now climbing carefully to the height of the central block.	10
8	415	The attendant then carried the girl, the rope trailing beside him, to the height of the central block.	10
8	431	The rack and the brazier, the iron returned to it, were removed from the central block.	10
8	460	He then, following the instructions of the fellow, sat the girl down, near the front of the central block, her left leg under her, her right leg extended and flexed, her right side facing the fellow, her shoulders back, her head turned sharply to look at him.	10
8	464	The auctioneer then knelt the girl near the front of the central block.	10
8	504	I gave my attention again to the central block.	10
8	605	"The first man who attacks," said the auctioneer, from the height of the central platform, "is a dead man".	10
8	676	The man pointed to the naked red-haired girl, her hands bound behind her, on the central platform.	10
8	758	"Miss, oh, please, Miss!" called the red-haired girl, plaintively, on her knees, stripped, her hands tied behind her with the cord, from the central block.	10
8	768	"Do you think free women would be so rudely stripped and brazenly displayed? We, and these others, are on sale! Do you doubt that we are slaves? See our brands!" She turned her left thigh to the central platform.	10
8	829	The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat then pointed to the girl on the central block.	10
8	875	In a lesser house any one of them would doubtless be worthy the central block.	10
13	81	I think that I had suspected these latencies in her even from the time I first saw her, suspended by the wrists, fully clothed, near the central block in the compound of the slaver in Kailiauk, Ram Seibar.	10
14	715	"That is the central tenet of the Waniyanpi".	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	118	It is a central phenomenon in their life, and much of their life revolves around it.	10
4	85	She lived now, free, but sequestered and dishonored, in the city of Ar, in the Central Cylinder itself, perhaps the most fortified, best-defended tower or keep in that huge city.	10
4	89	In the Central Cylinder, if nowhere else, she was surely safe from the bracelets and nooses of marauding tarnsmen.	10
9	136	She then, again, aligned it, setting the central knot under her chin.	10
28	58	It had been the central target of the initial attack of the Kinyanpi, the Flighted Ones.	10

Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	119	The central chain, where it dangled down from the wrist rings, lay on the floor before the throne, before it looped up to where it was closed about a central link of the ankle-ring chain.	10
13	11	The crowd seemed to part, scurrying to the sides about the central aisle.	10
14	9	I could feel the extension of the central chain, below the manacles, too, on my body, and then it passed between my legs, lying on the iron floor, then making its rendezvous with my shackled ankles.	10
21	53	It, too, had contained several girls, their individual neck chains strung to a common central chain, their hair cropped as insolently short as mine.	10
24	53	My ankles were shackled about the central bar.	10
30	56	"We received commands from the Central Cylinder itself, from the very palace itself, not to do so.	10
30	74	* * * * I turned from the Street of Hermadius into Silver Street and ran from there to the avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
30	85	I saw sleen, and those with them, turning onto the avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
30	90	I had come west from the avenue of the Central Cylinder on Clive.	10
30	97	I had gone to the avenue of the Central Cylinder and had kept to busy streets in the hope that the sleen would lose my scent, it being mingled with that of so many others.	10
30	208	"You are not now on Hermadius or the avenue of the Central Cylinder".	10
33	19	Two soldiers, from a side room, dragged the golden sack across the floor and put it before the central table, that table where sat Claudius, the members of the high council and other significant guests.	10
33	158	This central, or middle, chain was about three and a half feet in length.	10
36	22	I watched them all, one by one, naked, ankle-chained, then climbing into the wagon, threading their chains about the opened central bar, then taking their places.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	I myself, whose Home Stone was already placed, preferred a much earlier and more central placement of the Home Stone.	10
1	23	Similarly, although a somewhat more central location of the Home Stone exposes it to more lines of attack, it also increases its mobility, and thereby its capacities to evade attack.	10
14	436	Then it seemed I stood in a clear place, an open place, an empty place, a central place, almost like a dry, lonely pool, separated out from, isolated in the midst of, those tawny bodies.	10

Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	203	"The audiences are held near the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder," he said.	10
21	314	The chair and soldiers were making their way north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, toward the Central Cylinder.	10
2	10	They were blown to and fro, like dry, brittle fugitives, on the small, central commons between the huts.	10
5	170	He then padlocked the other end of the chain to a stout ring, the central ring, at the rear of the wagon.	10
5	419	There were three rings there, the central ring, to which Tula had been chained, generally used for tethering, and two smaller, side rings, auxiliary rings, sometimes used for tethering, sometimes used for drawing a second wagon or cart.	10
12	147	"That is the central cylinder of Torcadino," he said, "the administrative headquarters of her first executive, whether it be Administrator or Ubar".	10
14	56	"Why is it not being administered from the central cylinder, or its arsenal?\".	10
14	60	"Your captain, however," I said, "is doubtless reigning in the central cylinder".	10
20	23	"There is the Central Cylinder!" said a man, pointing.	10
21	20	"What about east of the Avenue of the Central Cylinder?" I asked.	10
21	139	"He is as loyal as the stones of the Central Cylinder itself".	10
21	156	For years she has lived in obscurity, sequestered in the Central Cylinder.	10
21	181	"One does not simply walk up to the Central Cylinder and knock on the door," he said.	10
21	191	Who could one trust? Too, I surely had no wish to attempt to cut my way through the corridors of the Central Cylinder to effect a private audience with the regent.	10
21	259	I led them east on Venaticus, to the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
21	267	Many girls, incidentally, have been on Wagon Street, being brought down it on their first trip to Ar, though perhaps they did not see much of it, their ankles chained to the central bar in the blue-and-yellow slave wagons, those delivering them, according, say, to the disk numbers on their collars, ...	10
21	269	"The Avenue of the Central Cylinder," I said.	10
21	345	I watched the chair move down the street, toward the Central Cylinder.	10
21	376	We could go south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, some four or five pasangs, and then make a left on Wagon Street, taking it over to the Avenue of Turia.	10
23	4	He was having difficulty falling, however, unconscious though he might be, for the press of folks about the far end of the velvet rope, leading to the Central Cylinder, fighting for places on it.	10
24	17	Hurtha and I had returned around noon to the insula, after leaving the area before the Central Cylinder.	10
25	558	I assumed that they would attempt to make the first contact, either having seen me, presumably near the Central Cylinder, or having some sort of description.	10
25	974	In the human condition sexuality is radically central, and the machine has no need of innate sexuality.	10
25	2348	Presumably the individual, or individuals, would be familiar with my appearance, either from the plaza near the Central Cylinder or from a description.	10
27	131	Your life will now be a sexual one, a life in which your femaleness, for the first time, will be of undeniable and paramount importance, a life in which it will be overwhelmingly central.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	154	Then I went right, making my way along the hall-like way toward the open, central section of the library, where the information desk was, and there went left, toward the reference section.	10
3	303	I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keep biographies and fiction.	10
3	460	I then turned off the light in the ladies' room and, to the small sound of the bells on my ankle, returned to the central area.	10
6	138	To be sure, they were generally transported naked, in closed wagons, their ankles chained to a central bar.	10
6	492	But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m...	10
7	8	We were naked in a slave wagon, our ankles chained to a central bar.	10
7	120	We sat quietly, not meeting his eyes, naked, the chains on our ankles about the central bar.	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
20	294	But I did not feel the scorn of his foot, thrusting me to the side, toward the central gutter in the street, nor did I feel his hand in my hair, yanking my head up, to lash my face back and forth with what would undoubtedly have been a well-deserved cuffing.	10
23	107	In these wagons our chained ankles were threaded about the central bar, which was then locked in place.	10

Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	266	"It is under guard near the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder," he said.	10
2	104	In the intrigues of the time, and to divert suspicion, Gnieus Lelius, high councilor, and first minister of Ar, he who was acting as regent in the absence of Marlenus, Ubar of the city, had even had me brought to the Central Cylinder under guard, as though I might have been arrested, and was to be e...	10
2	115	I had then been kept in Ar for weeks, a guest in the Central Cylinder, waiting, and waiting.	10
8	508	After she had been returned to Ar by Samos, of Port Kar, into whose chains she had fallen, Marlenus, shamed, had had her sequestered, freed, but statusless, in the Central Cylinder.	10
9	51	I had no wish to risk a quarrel's penetrating that beauty, which, properly refined and improved, would, in my opinion, not have shamed even the central block of the Curulean.	10
14	143	I doubt that even those at the central crenels, those on the towers, those defending the gate itself, feed as well this morning".	10
17	108	It was the most central location on the land wall.	10
17	397	"Take the slave," I said, "and put her on the central walkway, behind the upper battlements.	10
17	407	It will be delivered from the central walkway, behind the upper battlements".	10
17	423	I watched them descending the steps to the central walkway.	10
17	435	He was behind their lines, facing the central walkway.	10
17	439	He, too, was looking back, toward the central walkway.	10
17	444	I then descended to the central walkway.	10
17	534	The Cosians were now leaving the central walkway, and hurrying to the stairwells, those to the east and west.	10
21	623	The sturdy collar of the sirik, from which the central vertical chain depended, could not be seen on her in front, or at the sides, because of her veil.	10
24	746	Some coins of Port Cos, for example, have the pharos as the "head," and some of Ar the image of her central cylinder, and so on.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1158	"Fellow," said I, "where lies the tent of Borton, of the command of Artemidorus?" I had approached the headquarters tent of Artemidorus himself, not only its central location, on a rise, and its standard, but its size making it prominent.	10
12	58	"It seems to me unusual," I said, "that such a woman, disowned, disinherited, surely once sequestered in the central cylinder, in disgrace, should be able to post an observer in the delta".	10
13	179	The most common sort is a stout wagon with a central, locking bar running the length of the wagon bed, to which the girls are shackled, usually by the ankles.	10
28	6	Labienus, their captain, whose rank was high captain, and had been commanding officer in the vanguard of the central columns in Ar's entry into the delta, sat upon a rock.	10
46	190	In some of them there were slaves, who, startled, turned about, with a sound of chains, their ankles fastened about the central bar, near the floor of the wagon bed, parallel with its long axis.	10
46	194	She was also chained by the neck to one side of the wagon and a shackle was about her left ankle, below the ropes, attaching her to the central bar.	10

Book 25. (94 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	65	This platform could be ascended by two ramps, one in the back, on the side of the Central Cylinder, and one in front, opposite to the Central Cylinder, on the side of the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
2	105	This was done in the vicinity of the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
4	18	The enclosure was within sight of the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
7	63	"Look, too, the Central Cylinder!" cried a man! At the edge of the circular park, within which rears the lofty Central Cylinder, a platform had been erected, presumably that thousands more, gathered on the streets, could witness what was to occur.	10
8	159	"The decorative marbles on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and those about the Central Cylinder itself, and on the Cylinder of Justice are still there," he said.	10
1	79	It was in the Metellan district, south and east of the district of the Central Cylinder.	10
1	82	It is the sort of place, far enough from the broad avenues of central Ar, where assignations, or triflings, might take place.	10
5	58	"Long was she sequestered in the Central Cylinder," said another.	10
5	65	She still lived, as I understood it, in the Central Cylinder, a surmise which, it seemed, given one of the fellow's remarks, was now additionally confirmed.	10
6	15	These boards, however, were along the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and were state boards, on which official communiqués, news releases, announcements and such, could be posted.	10
6	148	Now, moving south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, toward the great gate of Ar, were several riders of tharlarion.	10
6	188	"Hiding in the Central Cylinder," said another.	10
6	226	Then, in a moment, we left, retracing our steps, moving north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, past shops, fountains, columns and such, until we would make our left turn, toward Emerald Street, Phoebe heeling him, her hands now fastened behind her in the bracelets.	10
6	227	"Look," I said, while still on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, pointing upward.	10
7	13	It was in the open area near the Central Cylinder, which loomed in the center of a circular park, the territory open enough for defense, midway in the avenue.	10
7	19	There had even been sporadic mutinies of small contingents of guardsmen, determined to hold their posts, but these for the most part dissipated when it became clear that the orders were from the Central Cylinder itself.	10
7	93	He pointed in the direction of the Central Cylinder from which, but moments before, Gnieus Lelius, and his escort, had emerged.	10
7	95	Seremides, whom I had not seen this clearly since long ago in Ar, in the days of Minus Tentius Hinrabius, and Cernus, of Ar, with others, members of the High Council, I gathered, now, from the side of the Central Cylinder, ascended the platform.	10
7	103	Then the High Council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface.	10
7	104	The ringing of the bars then ceased, first those of the Central Cylinder and then those near it, and then those farther away, about the city.	10
7	105	This happened so quickly, however, that it was doubtless accomplished not by the fellows at the bells apprehending that those most inward in the city had ceased to ring but rather in virtue of some signal, presumably conveyed from the Central Cylinder, a signal doubtless relayed immediately, success...	10
7	109	I did not doubt, however, that the approach north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder was still in progress.	10
7	339	"She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and Home Stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged signal, the great bars of the Ce...	10
7	356	He fell twice in my view, after which incidents he was struck by spear butts and pulled rudely again to his feet, to be again hastened, with more blows, on his way south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
7	420	Too, at this time the great bars in the Central Cylinder ceased their ringing.	10
7	533	It now seemed quiet at the park of the Central Cylinder, save for the sounds of the workmen, striking apart the boards of the platform.	10
8	22	Demetrios Street, like most Gorean streets, had no sidewalks or curbs but sloped gently from both sides to a central gutter.	10
8	164	Many of the functions originally discharged within its precincts had long ago been assumed by the newer Cylinder of Justice, located in the vicinity of the Central Cylinder.	10
8	419	I had lingered by her path to the theater, with others in a crowd, but I had been able to see only her palanquin, its curtains drawn, borne not by slaves but by stout fellows apparently of the staff of the Central Cylinder.	10
9	3	There were cheers, and applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the crowd standing about the edges of the huge, temporary platform, the same which had earlier served near the Central Cylinder for the welcoming of Myron, in his entrance into the city.	10
9	190	The Home Stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our Home Stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude?" "No gift would be too great!" cried men.	10
9	277	For several years, she had been a resident of the Central Cylinder.	10
9	313	"I stood higher in the Central Cylinder than you," she said.	10
9	316	No longer had you even citizenship! Because of what you once had been, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, you were permitted to live in the Central Cylinder.	10
9	429	"In the Central Cylinder," said Claudia, "I have been lonely, more lonely than I ever knew a woman could be.	10
9	626	At that point the bar for the fifteenth Ahn sounded from the Central Cylinder, across the city.	10
9	652	"Captain," said Talena, "in the room of the Ubar, in the Central Cylinder, we are planning a small supper this evening.	10
9	875	When I had threaded the chain back through the arms of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, incidentally, I did not mention to her that she had been selected to entertain at a late supper to be given by Talena of Ar, her Ubara, in the room of the Ubar, in the Central Cylinder.	10
10	8	Marcus and I were on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, the major thoroughfare in Ar.	10
10	15	At last, in view of the distinct unrest in the city, and the possible danger of riots and demonstrations, a communication was received from the Central Cylinder, jointly presented by Talena, Ubara of Ar; Seremides, captain of the guard; Antonius, executive officer of the High Council; Tulbinius, Chi...	10
10	97	"Interesting," said Marcus, "that they would parade them so publicly down the Avenue of the Central Cylinder".	10
10	100	It would be as though the Central Cylinder wished to conceal the fate imposed upon them, as though they were afraid of its becoming public, as though it might not be legitimately defensible.	10
10	104	"Those in the Central Cylinder are clever," said Marcus.	10
10	130	"The Central Cylinder," I said, "seems now to be very sure of its power".	10
10	135	We watched the coffle of prisoners move away, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
10	183	We walked on then, not speaking, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
10	405	So Marcus and I watched the free woman make her way back down the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, hobbled, wrists back-bound, face stripped.	10
11	476	"Enough to take the Central Cylinder?" he asked.	10
13	3	Marcus and I, some days after the incident of the shop, were strolling on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is, I suppose, in a sense, the major thoroughfare in Ar.	10
13	4	It is at any rate her most famous, if not busiest, avenue, and it gives access to the park of the Central Cylinder, which edifice is itself, of course, located within the park of that name.	10
13	170	The mistake of the Central Cylinder in this case, of course, was in attempting to impose such reductionism on adult males, even defeated ones, who actually understood what was involved.	10
14	741	Marcus and I turned about then, and continued as we had been originally, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
15	9	This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as i...	10
15	22	It had been he who, some days before, had cut the defiant delka deeply into one of the public boards on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
15	62	"Where is she, then?" "In the Central Cylinder, I would conjecture," I said.	10
15	100	"What if the records are in the Central Cylinder," he asked, "already at the war office?" "That is where I expect they are," I said.	10
15	103	"You are not planning on burning down the Central Cylinder, are you?" he asked.	10
16	225	"In the morning see that it is found on the steps of the Central Cylinder".	10
16	285	"Not if you do not know the truth," I said, "but have at your disposal only the propaganda of Cos and the lies of a traitorous government in the Central Cylinder".	10
18	387	"You wish the Central Cylinder moved? You wish the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight? You wish a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon?" "He is a magician!" said Marcus.	10
20	333	Its legend read, "RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER".	10
20	595	This street actually entered the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, from the west.	10
21	66	"Tell me of what occurred in the Central Cylinder," I said.	10
21	68	"I approached the Central Cylinder.	10
21	81	She had, of course, reported to the guards at the Central Cylinder back-braceleted, with the message tube about her neck.	10
21	89	I had removed the bracelets from her and the thong, the tube attached, from about her neck, of course, when we had had our rendezvous, after her departure from the Central Cylinder.	10
21	111	"I was then conducted by five guards within the double gate of the Central Cylinder," she said.	10
21	117	I had no idea where I was in the Central Cylinder.	10
21	203	"'He has given performances in the Central Cylinder,' I continued, 'readings, and such.	10
21	583	"RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER" read the legend on the collar.	10
22	503	Could she bear a message from someone in the Central Cylinder, say, from one of the many free women in the entourage of even the Ubara? Too, they may have remembered her from the theater, and from Aulus.	10
23	2	"Let it be spattered with the spew of urts!" He seized up the Home Stone from the plank on which it sat, the plank resting on two inverted wastes vats, of the sort used in insulae, in the park of the Center Cylinder, within which lies the Central Cylinder.	10
23	68	We then walked away, across the park and thence across the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.	10
23	87	"Surely you remember his recounting of his powers? Surely you remember him asking if I wished the Central Cylinder moved, if I wished the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight, if I wished a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon!" "Yes," I said.	10
23	90	"Perhaps you should have asked for the Central Cylinder to be moved, instead," I said.	10
23	91	"Purloining the Home Stone would be child's play," he said, "compared to moving the Central Cylinder".	10
23	98	"He only asked you if you wished the Central Cylinder moved, and such things.	10
23	103	"It is obviously one thing for him to find out if you wished to have the Central Cylinder moved, and quite another for him to move it".	10
25	489	"As this was the morning of the putative assignation, I supposed it might be a disguise prescribed by her Mistress, that the curious, if they saw her in this neighborhood, would not be likely to link her with the Central Cylinder".	10
26	55	"You will never believe the difficulty I had in escaping from the Central Cylinder!" she said.	10
26	355	"That I could do in the Central Cylinder," she said.	10
26	451	"You can attest to my identity! You have seen me in the Central Cylinder! So, too, has that slut of a slave!" "Stand," said Tolnar to Lavinia, who immediately complied.	10
26	524	"While," said Tolnar, "another woman, suitably coached, and veiled, would take your place in the Central Cylinder.	10
27	612	"He will think only that you were foolish enough to leave the Central Cylinder without guards and perhaps fell in with brigands and were robbed.	10
27	625	"I will be in the Central Cylinder!" she said.	10
27	712	"Although this doubtless does not compare with the provender of the Central Cylinder," I said, "which is reputed the best this side of the palace at Telnus, it is such that you should not come to expect it as a slave".	10
27	868	"Besides," I said, "it amuses me to think of you in the Central Cylinder".	10
27	1072	"No!" "And what good would you be in a paga tavern, or brothel, if the slave fires were not ignited in your belly?" "I shall be safe in the Central Cylinder," she said, "surrounded by walls, ringed by guards!" "Perhaps after I come to collect you," I said, "I will rent you to a brothel, perhaps one ...	10
27	1131	"Tomorrow," I said, "guardsmen will come to free you of your bonds, and return you to the Central Cylinder.	10
27	1132	You must not forget, of course, even in the Central Cylinder, that you are my slave girl.	10
28	46	I had already arranged that a sealed message, conveyed by courier, would reach the Central Cylinder tomorrow, after the tenth Ahn.	10
28	50	How frantic would then be the Central Cylinder.	10
28	56	They would then convey her back to the Central Cylinder, secretly, that none in Ar might know what had occurred.	10
28	103	To be sure, Cos could certainly count on those who regarded their best interests as being served by Cosian rule, and many of these were highly placed in the city, even in the Central Cylinder.	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	140	I sensed this from his position, central and prominent among them, and from the nature of his gaze upon me, which I could meet only for an instant.	10
7	281	Most often, it seemed, we were moved about in wagons covered with blue and yellow silk, our ankles chained to a central bar aligned with the long axis of the wagon bed, a bar which can be lifted up and down, and locked in place.	10
16	203	Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for s...	10
41	55	It was said he was welcome, even, in the central cylinder of the city.	10

Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	94	These three parts of the apparatus were then fitted together, the two side straps over a staple welded to the central portion of the device which had been lifted up between her legs and was now at the small of her back.	10
16	1035	"Not for the central block," said Jasmine.	10
19	39	"Talena will address the population from the Central Cylinder," said Selius Arconious.	10
19	60	He then, crying out angrily, and twice defending himself with the goad, returned to the central area, latching the gate behind him.	10
28	299	"Perhaps she is already a slave, and even now waits in terror, on her throne, in the loneliness of her chamber, in the empty halls of the Central Cylinder, startled by the least sound, even imagined, fearing to be claimed by her master".	10
30	643	It is said she hides within the fortresslike Central Cylinder.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	99	"I think it is important in these matters, too," said Peisistratus, "not to treat our selections from Earth otherwise than as common slaves, which they are of course, lest too much curiosity be aroused, and so, thus, we have recourse to the coffle, the wheeled cages, the chaining of their ankles abo...	10
44	33	On the seventh night, however, one of the alternative power stations, designed to act in lieu of the central power source in the case of a failure in that facility, was seized by the rebels.	10

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	481	Could they not heed the plaints of refugees, hear the drums of spearmen, sense the ponderous tread of war tharlarion? It soon became clear to many that conspiracy and treachery reigned within the Central Cylinder, and that the throne itself might now be festooned with the promises and wealth of the ...	10
5	482	Ar, pathetic, confused, disorganized, and distraught, was unable to muster more than the feeblest of resistances, and these were muchly betrayed by commands from the Central Cylinder.	10
5	553	What an insult, profound and grievous, was this to his blood, and to the throne of Ar! He thus disowned her as his daughter, and had had her sequestered in the Central Cylinder, that her shame might be concealed from the city and the world.	10
5	757	I recalled that several women had been brought publicly, on various days, before the judgment of Talena, in her open-air court on the platform near the Central Cylinder.	10
12	306	An analogy, though quite imperfect, might have been the early transition from cavalry as a supportive arm, used to reconnoiter, harass, and ride down stragglers, to a central arm, a shock arm, of stirruped lancers fit to strike, split and disrupt serried ranks.	10
13	243	"But, as of the Serisii, whose fortunes were closely intertwined with those of Cos and Tyros, I, and others, were often entertained in the Central Cylinder".	10
13	267	Indeed, Claudia's claim to stand high in Ar was far sounder than that of Talena herself, who had been disgraced, and sequestered shamefully, in effect imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder, while Marlenus carried on the business of the state, prior to his hunting trip to the Voltai, in which it had be...	10
13	274	She was never again, of course, permitted by the polemarkos to dance at the entertainments in the Central Cylinder.	10
13	304	She would not leave the Central Cylinder.	10
13	335	The Central Cylinder was surrounded even before the bars sounded the rising".	10
13	338	I was sure the Central Cylinder would have been examined with care, each chamber, even to measurements of the thickness of walls, and such, being considered.	10
13	341	"By tarnflight, from the Central Cylinder," I suggested.	10
15	22	"I was entertained many times in the Central Cylinder itself!" said the slave, her face judiciously to the floor.	10
17	50	I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins.	10
19	241	"Great, central plains," I said.	10
22	163	"They will take the prisoner in charge, and, too, will conduct Saru to the central camp".	10
22	420	We saw some torches, down the road, approaching, from the central camp.	10
22	531	The Ashigaru approaching from the central camp were now closer.	10
22	647	A leash was then snapped about her neck, and she was led from the fire, toward the road, toward the central camp.	10
22	650	I then bid goodnight to Tajima and returned toward the central camp, and the hut I shared with Pertinax.	10
23	228	I recalled one I had met, long ago, on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins.	10
26	206	We held her, to make use of her, to use her as a counter, if necessary, in bargaining for our lives, our tarns ready, the crowds crying out below, the rebels climbing upward, on the height of the Central Cylinder".	10
26	207	"The Central Cylinder!" I said.	10
26	262	When it became clear that Marlenus had indeed returned, he recognized by some meaningless female slave in the city, and that the rising would be successful, we took our way to the height of the Central Cylinder, from which point we hoped to either escape or negotiate our way to freedom, turning the ...	10
26	326	Either Priest-Kings or Kurii must have taken Talena from her captors on the height of the Central Cylinder.	10
27	74	Slave girls are often conveyed in slave wagons, their ankles chained about a central bar locked in place and aligned with the long axis of the wagon, but these were afoot.	10
27	108	Surely she could have been taken as she had been taken, from the very height of the Central Cylinder, if Seremides' account was at all correct, only by means of either Kurii or Priest-Kings.	10
28	235	I recalled that the scent of a sleen had also been detected back in the vicinity of Tarncamp, on the road between the central camp and the training and storage area.	10
28	389	But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...	10
28	393	Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty...	10

Book 30. (23 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	314	Accordingly, when she arrived in Ar, she was not returned to glory, to position and power, but removed from public sight, being sequestered, for most practical purposes, imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder.	10
1	329	Talena relished not only the powers permitted to her by the occupation forces, exercised at their discretion, and often in accordance with their direction, but filled her coffers in the Central Cylinder with abundant, secret wealth.	10
2	58	And so it came about that I, who had been a spear of Cos, even a first spear, a leader of nine, who had served in the occupation of Ar, who had served even in the Central Cylinder itself, whose wallet had once been heavy with gold, who had walked proudly, who had been feared in the streets, whom non...	10
3	159	I recognized her, from my duties in the Central Cylinder, during the occupation.	10
3	239	I myself, with my unit, had been withdrawn from the Central Cylinder on the second day of the uprising.	10
3	255	"We had sealed off the upper floors of the Central Cylinder.	10
3	256	We were on the roof of the Central Cylinder.	10
3	845	"I awakened several hours later, toward noon, as though I might be in my own compartments, waiting for my girls to open the draperies and bring me steaming black wine and fresh, honeyed pastries, but then, suddenly, flooding back to me were the horrors of the past two days, the roof of the Central C...	10
3	1107	But this stratagem, to bargain with her for our freedom, even if those of Ar were prepared to bargain, came to naught with her disappearance, her rescue or abduction, from the roof of the Central Cylinder.	10
4	29	I wondered if he knew the former Lady Flavia was on this ship, and I wondered if she knew that Seremides, now calling himself Rutilius of Ar, co-conspirator and traitor, he who had abandoned her on the roof of the Central Cylinder, was also aboard.	10
4	33	Might that not be to her advantage? Yet, in his haste to make a swift, unencumbered escape, she had been abandoned, left on the roof of the Central Cylinder.	10
5	164	Who would be more likely to know the Ubara, her habits, her hiding places, than Seremides of Ar, from whom she had been stolen on the height of the Central Cylinder months ago? I wondered how he came to be on this ship, and for what reason.	10
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	336	We used them, for example, in the Central Cylinder, in Ar, during the occupation.	10
24	237	Indeed, why would she have been so mysteriously swept from the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, long ago? She must have some importance to Pani, or to someone, or something, but what it might be, I did not know.	10
25	176	"Callias," she whispered, "Callias of Jad, Cosian, spearman, first of nine, guardsman, the occupation, the Central Cylinder".	10
25	206	"But on the roof of the Central Cylinder," she said, "there was sudden confusion, and darkness, and I was seized, and rendered unconscious.	10
25	254	An embarrassment to the city, you were sequestered in the Central Cylinder.	10
25	350	"What happened on the roof of the Central Cylinder?" asked Alcinoë.	10
26	270	She indicated a place, across the grounds, near some shrubbery, not far from the large, central portal of the castle, perhaps fifty yards away.	10
28	3	Many were the savory odors which emerged from behind the screen, from sauces, stews, and soups, rich with shoots, herbs, nuts, spices, vegetables, and peppers, even tarsk and vulo, as well as parsit, crabs, and grunt, emanating from pots brought in from the central kitchens, which served the long ta...	10
36	293	In that quick moment I understood how it was that he had held the rank of First Spear, and had been assigned duties, long ago, in the Central Cylinder of Ar itself.	10
37	1319	"—were transported naked and collared in a closed slave wagon, with blue and yellow silk, our ankles chained to a central bar, it run the length of the wagon bed.	10

Book 31. (28 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	492	This was surely not the Curulean, a market of which I had been apprised, a palace of an emporium with its statues, carvings, columns, fountains, tapestries, and cushioned tiers, with its exposition cages of silver bars, with its great, torch-lit, golden auditorium which might hold more than two thou...	10
8	846	"The finest beads drawn from the finest of the slavers' necklaces, each worthy of the central block of the Curulean, each fit for the Pleasure Garden of a Ubar," said the auctioneer.	10
10	783	In this way, the wholesaler, so to speak, need not march coffles about, bundle his beasts into closed slave wagons, ankles chained to the central bar, ship them bound hand and foot in tarn baskets, and so on.	10
10	871	"Perhaps if I presented myself at the Central Cylinder," she said.	10
10	946	I had not been within a hundred paces of the Central Cylinder when a lowered spear had blocked my way.	10
11	43	It was fortunate, I thought, that she, the Lady Bina, had not ventured herself to the Central Cylinder several days ago, when I had been belabored with boots and spear butts in proxy for her naive importunity.	10
16	5	I drew back, with a rattle of chain in the wagon bed, the chain sliding along the central bar.	10
16	9	The central bar runs linearly the length of the wagon bed.	10
16	11	My ankles were shackled, and a foot of chain joined them, the chain looped about the central bar.	10
16	12	If one wishes to remove a girl from such a wagon, one either unshackles her, or, more commonly, that she remain ankle-shackled, for example, in a camp, one lowers the back of the wagon and unlocks the bar from the coupling at the rear of the wagon, which, lifted, allows the girl to leave the central...	10
16	164	I was at the back of the wagon bed, to which I had retreated, drawing back along the central bar, to distance myself from the Gorean scrutiny of the unexpected, offensive intruder.	10
16	189	He dropped it inside the wagon, to the right of the central bar, just behind the wagon box.	10
17	60	It would have been easy enough to have left me in the wagon, in the fenced-in wagon lot, shackled to the central bar.	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	210	"Am I to be put on the common chain at the camp, or am I to be fastened to the slave post, nearer the wagons, with Jane and Eve, or am I to be merely left in the slave wagon, shackled to the central bar, or what?" "Have you ever been in a paga tavern?" he asked.	10
18	312	At night, we will probably be shackled to the central bar, in a slave wagon.	10
19	172	"Buy me! Please buy me!" Shortly thereafter I was shackled to the central bar.	10
20	79	"Then you would let him find me as I am, still bound?" I asked, my wrists angrily, futilely, fighting the cording, my ankles, as I was sitting, jerking back, again and again, in frustration, rattling the shackle chain looped about the central bar.	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	233	"I am a slave, and I want to be yours! Please, Master, buy me! Buy me!" With two clicks my ankles were fastened in the shackles, the chain looped about the central bar.	10
26	169	After the abandoning of the wagons, several days ago, after the tharlarion had been driven away, we could no longer be shackled to a central bar.	10
48	2	Timarchos and Lysymachos stood beside the central container.	10
48	3	"Tal, noble Desmond," came a voice from the central container.	10
48	9	One would suppose it would be in the central container, not so much for its location, as for the fact that Timarchos and Lysymachos were in attendance on that container.	10
48	43	"What of yours?" cried Desmond of Harfax leaping to the dais, thrusting the central container to the floor, and falling upon it with his knife.	10
49	117	Presumably the possibility likely to be of greatest interest to the fugitives would be that of concealed passages, by means of which important areas of the Cave, central halls, major chambers, and such, might be conveniently at hand.	10
49	186	Given his downfall in the Voltai it would, at least for a time, lack central direction.	10
52	208	"Your ankles," he said, "which are attractively slender, looked well shackled to the central bar".	10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
54	73	"The central sphere is the major control device," I said.	10
61	610	* * * "This way," had said Lord Okimoto, leading me through one of the long corridors in the castle of Temmu, the central keep of the mountaintop holding.	10
61	739	"You had begged to be purchased," I said, "a slave's act, and thus you shamed Marlenus, and he confined you, in effect, to chambers in the Central Cylinder.	10
61	748	We tried to hold the Central Cylinder, but could not do so.	10
61	751	We would make our last stand on the roof of the Central Cylinder.	10
61	757	In her removal from the roof of the Central Cylinder, I saw the work, of course, of either Priest-Kings or Kurii, or both.	10
61	783	"You were disowned," I said, "following your shaming of Marlenus, prior to your sequestration in the Central Cylinder".	10
61	814	"And so," I said, "as you had shamed Marlenus, he saw to it that you would be kept from public view, that you would be hidden, that you would remain sequestered in the Central Cylinder".	10

Book 34. (25 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	370	Domestic tasks, too, I had been instructed in, to some extent, cooking, cleaning, sewing, and such, tasks that I would once, as a free woman, have regarded as beneath me, for a slave is many things to a master, tasks that I now loved as they would help me, in their humble way, to better serve a mast...	10
36	82	"Why do you think I ordered you, for three days now, to frequent the central portions of the city, the Central Cylinder, the Plaza of Tarns, the market of Cestias, and such?" "That I might become more familiar with the city," I said.	10
8	388	"Surely not," I said, "not simple, plain Paula!" "She will be disposed of in Ar," he said, "on a high block, at the Curulean, perhaps even from the Central Block.	10
13	55	I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill.	10
14	33	Guests occupying the central position on the couches are, as would be expected, served from the inside, namely, from within the arrangement.	10
16	105	Why are you not, amongst the porticoes and colonnades, chatting and gossiping with your collar sisters, seeking news, a word dropped in the tiers of the Central Cylinder becoming common knowledge by nightfall, not comparing collars and masters, not complaining about the recent quality of the tunic c...	10
19	138	Then I had heard it said that she was the beauty of our shipment, and had heard it speculated that she might bring as many as five silver pieces, presumably silver tarsks, in a first sale, that she might be marketed on a high block in the Curulean, perhaps even from the Central Block.	10
27	5	The greater wharves are the central and northern wharves.	10
27	84	We have, without fortune, prowled the northern and central wharves, and will do so again, and time and time again, if necessary.	10
31	18	"I have seen worse marketed from the central block of the Curulean".	10
32	148	The roof over the central area of the house was lost in shadows.	10
35	5	From where we were we could see the Central Cylinder towering toward the sky.	10
35	48	"The Central Block," she said.	10
35	102	Was that not unusual? Why had she been vended in the Curulean, and from the Central Block, and why was she a display slave? "It must be nice," said Paula, "to know the arms of a master".	10
35	128	"So close to the Central Cylinder?" I said.	10
36	13	"She was sent to Ar shortly after arriving on this world," I said, "and sold in the Curulean, from the Central Block".	10
36	42	"That is far," he said, "from the market of Cestias, from the Central Cylinder, from the Plaza of Tarns".	10
36	63	"Too, as she is doubtless highly intelligent, she may have wished a rendezvous in a popular place where two slaves might attract little attention, and, more importantly, one far from the Central Cylinder and the Plaza of Tarns, where she might be recognized".	10
39	78	I could even see, across the city, the beacon fires of the Central Cylinder.	10
47	40	"She once sent a slave, who returned muchly belabored, to the Central Cylinder, to propose her as companion to Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, that she might become Ubara".	10
49	323	I recalled that Paula had been marketed from the central block.	10
51	143	"What news from the Central Cylinder?" she asked.	10
52	46	And many of these men, these intelligent, powerful, virile brutes, these men who carried the blood of masters in their veins, seemed to prefer Paula! It was she they wanted at their feet! Indeed, Paula had sold for a golden tarsk, had been bought from the central block of the great Curulean auction ...	10
52	229	It was to be my vengeance on Paula for her being so preferred to me, my vengeance on her for having sold for a golden tarsk, for having been sold at the Curulean, from the central block!" "You would try to seize the affections of he for whom she, your friend, might care?" "I did not want his affecti...	10
60	237	I fear only two swords on Gor, that of the High Master of the Caste of Assassins, and that of an obscure warrior who, long ago, on the roof of the Central Cylinder of Ar, bested him".	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	18	We are commonly brought to the towns and cities in naked, scorned, marched coffles, subject to the impatient whips and straps of masters, or naked in slave wagons, our ankles shacked to a central bar, parallel to the sides of the wagon bed.	10
2	119	"Such a woman is worthy the central block in the Curulean".	10
2	123	Why, I wondered, should she fear being sold in Ar, and from such a famous block as the central block in the Curulean? Might not thousands of slaves dream of such a sale? Too, I had gathered that the wealth of Ar, hub of trade in the northern hemisphere of this world, was being recouped.	10
4	11	I recalled that two of the slaver's men, before I had ascended the block, had been bemused that such an item, supposedly worthy of the central block of the Curulean, whatever that was or wherever it might be, should be offered in this market, near the wharves, in an evening sale.	10
10	28	The Golden Chain was a very large tavern, but it did not really seem so, as it contained many sections away from the large central area, to the side of which was the dancing floor, each of which constituted a relatively enclosed, private area, an enclave, so to speak, with its own intimacy and ambia...	10
10	217	How faraway was my former world! I climbed the stairs to the main level, and, looking down the corridor, past the area to the side, where most of the girls were caged, I could see the beaded curtain that led to the central area of the tavern.	10
31	172	"The palace guard, of the Central Cylinder of Ar," said Alan, "the private guards of Ubars, of Ubaras".	10
40	123	Se'Var-Lar-Torvis is the "Second Resting of the Central Fire," the sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home Stone.	10
41	50	The central concern of this attack, I was sure, was not a general harvesting of slaves, but the acquisition of one particular slave, Adraste.	10

Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	2	The long tent, save for a long, central aisle, was crowded, so crowded that all stood.	10
21	177	"Central Cos," he said.	10
45	113	These three areas, moving from west to east, were what we referred to as the 'Grain Room', the 'Central Room', and the 'Harbor Room'.	10
45	116	The 'Central Room' was what was left of the antechamber of the Council Room where I had first addressed Thrasymedes and other members of the Council of Mytilene.	10
45	117	It was the 'Central Room' from which had been noted the absence of certain supplies earlier in the day, and at which Thrasymedes and I had, in consequence, reluctantly, placed a guard.	10
45	126	The fourth act, an act which failed, was the attempt to treat the 'Central Room' similarly.	10
53	51	Some parts of the island, more central parts, remained dry, but elsewhere, like tides, water washed its surface to a man's knees and then his waist.	10
59	211	The central figure on the float was swathed with chains.	10