| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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". |
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| 5 | 177 |
I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below. |
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| 7 | 70 |
"For all I know, you may still be an enemy". |
10 |
| 7 | 176 |
"I like it better," I said, "being able to see the face of my enemy. |
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| 7 | 185 |
"I am your enemy". |
10 |
| 8 | 191 |
"For I am of Ar and must remain your enemy". |
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| 9 | 4 |
It is interesting, incidentally, that in the Gorean language, the word for stranger is the same as the word for enemy. |
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| 18 | 26 |
He did not enjoy being summoned by an enemy of Ar, and in particular by one who wore the habiliments of the hated Caste of Assassins. |
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| 19 | 137 |
I supposed what he said was true, but it may have been a calculated remark, something to put the enemy off balance, like announcing an unseen mate in chess to provoke an opponent into making an unnecessary defensive move, causing him to lose the initiative. |
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| 19 | 163 |
For each enemy who fell, it seemed three sprang up to take his place. |
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| 19 | 182 |
It knew only that it had been taken by surprise, at a disadvantage by undetermined numbers of disciplined troops that were pouring down on them, while from above, enemy tarnsmen, unchallenged, emptied their quivers into their ranks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 77 |
Needless to say, the whistle is important and carefully guarded, for should it be lost or fall into the hands of an enemy the warrior has, for all practical purposes, lost his mount. |
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| 3 | 116 |
I could not understand his fear, but I was proud to see him master it, for fear is the great common enemy of all living things, and his victory I felt somehow was also mine. |
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| 6 | 23 |
In that case he is usually regarded as an enemy, to be reported to the patrols as soon as possible. |
10 |
| 6 | 28 |
Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 6 | 92 |
There is no one she knows, or could know, because she has been taken from a hostile city, she is a woman of the enemy. |
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| 7 | 34 |
It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power. |
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| 22 | 152 |
Remember you were my enemy and weep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 116 |
I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target. |
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| 28 | 11 |
Although constantly on the alert, I saw no sign of enemy forces, nor even of Muls or Matoks of various kinds. |
10 |
| 28 | 245 |
If we had used it immediately, decisively, we might have wrought great damage, but neither of us wished to take the enemy by devastating surprise if victory might be won without bloodshed. |
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| 29 | 91 |
The silver tube might be draining its power but it was still a fearsome weapon against an exposed enemy. |
10 |
| 29 | 115 |
I floated above the enemy craft but it tipped, keeping me in the focus of its beam. |
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| 29 | 116 |
Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship. |
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| 33 | 93 |
The words for "stranger" and "enemy" in Gorean, incidentally, are the same word. |
10 |
| 33 | 133 |
Suddenly I did not feel him as an enemy any longer and I sensed that somehow he did not regard me either as a threat or foe. |
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| 35 | 41 |
He had been a great enemy, a great Priest-King, and had lived as he had thought he should. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 41 |
The words for stranger and enemy in Gorean are the same. |
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| 3 | 21 |
More importantly, I did not wish to introduce myself to these people as an enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 31 |
I did not wish to present myself to them as an enemy. |
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| 8 | 65 |
My own thrust had been a full thrust, accurate enough but rather heavily done; in war, such a thrust might have lost me the lance, leaving it in the body of an enemy. |
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| 8 | 250 |
None of those, however, who led raids on enemy caravans or sorties against the city and its outlying fields, or retaliated upon their neighbors in the delicate matters of bosk stealing, would accept him in their parties. |
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| 10 | 100 |
They circled back to find a girl, free though still clad Kajir, clutching in one hand a piece of gold, waving after a departed enemy, laughing and crying. |
10 |
| 10 | 264 |
The secret justification, I suspect, however, is that the Turian warrior is fond of meeting the enemy and acquiring his women, particularly should they be striking little beasts, like Hereena of the First Wagon, as untamed and savage as they are beautiful; it is regarded as a great sport among Turia... |
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| 10 | 450 |
The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill... |
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| 11 | 98 |
He had waited long to laugh that laugh, waited long to see his fair enemy thus before him, thus bound and shamed, his, a slave. |
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| 16 | 74 |
The walls provide a means for defending the water and also, of course, considering the number of wells in the city, some of which, by the way, are fed by springs, provide a number of defensible enclaves should portions of the city fall into enemy hands. |
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| 16 | 161 |
The other warrior, a strong, gaunt man, scarred across the left cheekbone, with shrewd, dark eyes, said nothing, but watched us, considering us, as a warrior considers an enemy. |
10 |
| 18 | 115 |
Angry, I sped about the dome, not wishing to silhouette myself against the sky on its curve, lest there be enemy bowmen within range. |
10 |
| 21 | 55 |
It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean city. |
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| 23 | 76 |
Thousands of animals were already turned toward the approaching enemy and beginning to walk toward them when the Paravaci suddenly realized what was happening. |
10 |
| 24 | 35 |
"And," said Kamchak, "the Wagon Peoples need an enemy". |
10 |
| 24 | 37 |
"Without an enemy," said Kamchak, "they will never stand together—and if they fail to stand together, someday they will fall". |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
10 |
| 27 | 48 |
Was it only because Kamchak believed, as he had once said, that the Wagon Peoples must have an enemy? —or was there some other reason, beyond that? Suddenly there was commotion at the door and three men, followed by some others, burst into the hall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 14 |
The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr... |
10 |
| 3 | 75 |
The Stabilization Serums, which are regarded as the right of all human beings, be they civilized or barbarian, friend or enemy, are administered in a series of injections, and the effect is, incredibly, an eventual, gradual transformation of certain genetic structures, resulting in indefinite cell r... |
10 |
| 5 | 369 |
I think there is little immediate and gross danger, provided the enemy does not learn our current state of weakness". |
10 |
| 5 | 490 |
Sarm, who was my enemy, ordered her slain". |
10 |
| 9 | 106 |
For example it is possible to breed a girl whose saliva will be poisonous; such a woman, placed in the Pleasure Gardens of an enemy, can be more dangerous than the knife of an Assassin. |
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| 15 | 411 |
Surely to come to this place, the house of his enemy, must have been a last recourse in some fearful set of events, to throw himself on the mercies of Cernus, claiming Caste Sanctuary. |
10 |
| 15 | 424 |
"I was your enemy," said Portus. |
10 |
| 19 | 85 |
This was surprising because the hour was still early; I supposed the crowd this night would be unusually large, even for the fourth night of the Love Feast; none of the citizens had paid much attention to my being brought under guard to the box of Cernus; he was Ubar; it is not unusual on Gor for a ... |
10 |
| 19 | 92 |
Hooded, my wrists locked in steel, my throat chained to the chair of my enemy, I knelt for perhaps two Ahn. |
10 |
| 19 | 462 |
"Behold an enemy of Cernus!" cried Philemon to the block. |
10 |
| 21 | 250 |
I am your enemy. |
10 |
| 22 | 427 |
I was certain their riders had had orders from the box of Cernus to see that I did not win; it would be difficult for a single tarn to block a ring, but two together might well manage; further, in not taking the lead immediately, which I believe I could have done, I hoped to postpone the entry into ... |
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| 24 | 199 |
"He was my enemy," said Marlenus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 280 |
Some of the enemy ships, however, in turning back from the chase, had been able to regroup and somewhere, abroad on Thassa, there was doubtless a fleet of some ten enemy tarn ships, still a possible threat. |
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| 17 | 364 |
At this time, before their numbers could have been well ascertained by the enemy, before the enemy could be much aware of anything more than the unexpected flanking attacks, I, followed by the tarnsmen, with the picked seamen, darted through the sleeting, windy skies over the locked fleets. |
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| 1 | 35 |
Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t... |
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| 2 | 34 |
In Gorean, incidentally, the word for stranger and enemy are the same. |
10 |
| 3 | 10 |
In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water... |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
In the darkness, peering out, not seeing, they had no way of knowing which was a marsh gant and which an enemy. |
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| 11 | 540 |
"And," Samos went on, "it should preferably be one who is not well known to Cos and Tyros, one who has not angered them, nor proven himself to them a blood enemy upon gleaming Thassa". |
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| 13 | 478 |
"I was your enemy," said he. |
10 |
| 14 | 17 |
Behind the ram, to prevent it from going too deeply into an enemy ship, pinning the attacker, is, shaped like the spread crest of a tarn, the shield. |
10 |
| 14 | 92 |
Since the ram-ships of the enemy had not yet struck their masts, it would be only a matter of moments before we were sighted. |
10 |
| 14 | 108 |
When they were silent, I could hear the flutes and drums from the enemy ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 124 |
Some of these were from the enemy fleet. |
10 |
| 14 | 182 |
"Stroke! Maximum beat!" The stern of the enemy ship was already under water as we slipped past her. |
10 |
| 14 | 198 |
I could see the wreckage of two of the enemy tarn ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 201 |
I was willing to spend one ship to draw two or three enemy ships from the battle, if battle there was to be. |
10 |
| 14 | 202 |
And, of course, as soon as the enemy ships would turn back, they would be vulnerable to my own, presumably faster vessels. |
10 |
| 14 | 241 |
Doubtless it would soon become evident to our enemy also that she could not outrun us. |
10 |
| 14 | 297 |
This left, after the last of my original eleven ships had returned, twenty of my ships with the treasure fleet, more than enough to counter any returning enemy tarn ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 481 |
The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant. |
10 |
| 17 | 65 |
They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together. |
10 |
| 17 | 75 |
In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value. |
10 |
| 17 | 169 |
Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy. |
10 |
| 17 | 331 |
Why would one who had been a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, let one of Treve, a traditional enemy, take the saddle of a tarn before him? It would not do, of course, to tell him this. |
10 |
| 17 | 365 |
In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 721 |
It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one. |
10 |
| 10 | 298 |
"After the crash," he said, "we detected the approach of an enemy craft. |
10 |
| 10 | 308 |
The enemy was apparently content only to destroy the ship. |
10 |
| 12 | 635 |
Such a perimeter has little meaning when the enemy can strike from above. |
10 |
| 13 | 859 |
My captor had wished to rid his enemy of the spear, because of its reach, but, to do so, his own defense was impaired. |
10 |
| 13 | 936 |
"Haakon of Skjern is my enemy," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 126 |
Rask of Treve, in his way, as other raiders of Treve, carried the war to the enemy. |
10 |
| 14 | 430 |
Too, of course, the capture of a free woman of the enemy is regarded as quite a coup, certainly much more so than carrying off a mere slave, unless perhaps the slave is a high slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 498 |
Her slavery is likely to be harder in her own city than it would be in an alien city, even an enemy city. |
10 |
| 15 | 228 |
He had raided the slave compound of his old enemy, Haakon of Skjern. |
10 |
| 15 | 508 |
"I am the enemy of Marlenus of Ar!" cried Verna. |
10 |
| 15 | 509 |
"Give her to me!" "I, too, am the enemy of Marlenus of Ar," said Rask. |
10 |
| 15 | 532 |
"Your secret camp lies within the very realm of Ar itself! Splendid! And in this camp you keep the daughter of your worst enemy, the daughter of the Ubar of great Ar itself, as slave! Magnificent!" I watched the girl dancing, the slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 210 |
Doubtless she was much pleased to put the daughter of her enemy, Marlenus of Ar, he who had captured her in the northern forests, and had caged her, and exhibited her, in a simple rep-cloth work tunic. |
10 |
| 17 | 317 |
I asked myself, would he, Haakon, such a mortal enemy, release Rask of Treve, even did I keep my bargain? I feared he would not, and yet what choice had I. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 422 |
"You mentioned," said I to Sheera, "that you are an enemy of Verna?" "I am her enemy," said Sheera. |
10 |
| 18 | 63 |
To protect them would, of course, divert the forces of the enemy; to free them, should the enemy not possess heavy tools, which I did not, would be almost impossible. |
10 |
| 20 | 107 |
"The enemy! The enemy!" "Attack!" cried the man with the torch. |
10 |
| 20 | 118 |
"Locate the enemy! The enemy!" The men fought. |
10 |
| 2 | 383 |
Is it not true that she sells from this point?" "I am the enemy of Verna," said Sheera. |
10 |
| 5 | 301 |
"Is it true, Girl," I asked, "that you are the enemy of Verna, the panther girl?" "Yes," she said, sullenly. |
10 |
| 6 | 137 |
Suppose that that girl were a rival of Verna, a personal enemy, one of long standing". |
10 |
| 6 | 169 |
It would be far more likely that the girl would be presented to Tyros, the daughter of their enemy, naked and in the chains of a slave, as a token of good will. |
10 |
| 6 | 203 |
"Tyros," said I, "is enemy to Ar. |
10 |
| 6 | 236 |
"I am the enemy of Verna. |
10 |
| 7 | 312 |
Though she was my enemy and prisoner, her desires would be most fervid for my success. |
10 |
| 9 | 204 |
"Tyros is an enemy of Ar of long standing. |
10 |
| 9 | 243 |
"We were following an enemy panther girl," she said, "one less skilled than yourself, of the band of Hura, who would take my land from me". |
10 |
| 11 | 34 |
Cos, like Tyros, is a traditional enemy of Ar. |
10 |
| 11 | 315 |
Sometimes, when a city is being sacked, high-born free women, fearful of falling into the hands of chieftains of the enemy, have themselves branded and collared, and don slave tunics, and mix with their own slave girls, to prevent their identity from being known. |
10 |
| 12 | 18 |
Subsequently, they are commonly awarded to high officers or men who have especially distinguished themselves in the taking of the city, perhaps an individual who has led a sortie which successfully stormed a gate, or the first man upon the enemy's walls, or one who has captured a member of the city'... |
10 |
| 12 | 147 |
And who else might dare to be enemy to such a man? Who else had he to fear? Who else, as danger, might figure as worthy to be included in the calculations of such a warrior, such a Ubar? Marlenus never miscalculated. |
10 |
| 13 | 263 |
It is a Tuchuk custom, not to leave an enemy behind one. |
10 |
| 14 | 11 |
I noted that most of the blackening on the stockade pilings was on the inside, indicating that the enemy had fired them from within. |
10 |
| 14 | 44 |
I thus conjectured with Rim, and Marlenus, that Sarus of Tyros, leader of the enemy, held some ninety-six men. |
10 |
| 14 | 85 |
We were now in the vicinity of the enemy. |
10 |
| 15 | 263 |
Normally, however, I did not expect to be within earshot of the enemy. |
10 |
| 18 | 114 |
No longer could I count on the slaves constituting for my enemy an impediment to his motions or strategies. |
10 |
| 18 | 118 |
They had not known the numbers or nature of the enemy that pursued them. |
10 |
| 18 | 119 |
Perhaps the enemy had been a group of slavers. |
10 |
| 19 | 4 |
"I am your enemy," I told him. |
10 |
| 19 | 77 |
"I am your enemy," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 260 |
"He is your enemy! Not us! Do not give us up! We are your allies, your allies!" "You are only females," said Sarus. |
10 |
| 20 | 84 |
I do not know if he knew me for the enemy or not. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 465 |
"Would you say," asked Ivar, "that he is your enemy?" "Yes," I said, "I would say that he is my enemy". |
10 |
| 1 | 506 |
For this aid given to an enemy he had been exiled. |
10 |
| 1 | 532 |
He tested it, by pin pricks, on the limbs of a captured enemy, paralyzing him from the neck down. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
"No," laughed the Forkbeard, delighted, "an enemy!" I saw the men of the Forkbeard grinning, one to the other. |
10 |
| 5 | 49 |
"He is an enemy," said Ivar Forkbeard, simply. |
10 |
| 5 | 52 |
"He is, therefore," said I, "my enemy as well as yours". |
10 |
| 6 | 403 |
They were especially pleased when they had managed to harry one into the district of an enemy. |
10 |
| 6 | 462 |
"Is Thorgard of Scagnar not an enemy of those of Port Kar?" he asked. |
10 |
| 6 | 502 |
Thorgard of Scagnar, vicious and cruel, one of the most powerful of the northern Jarls, was my enemy. |
10 |
| 9 | 204 |
Mighty insult had thus been wrought upon Thorgard of Scagnar, enemy of Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 10 | 56 |
Shortly after the first "knock off," in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great... |
10 |
| 12 | 57 |
Ivar Forkbeard, Thorgeir of Ax Glacier, now stood, hooded, on the top stair of the dais, before his enemy. |
10 |
| 13 | 126 |
It was one hundred stone of gold, the weight of a grown man in the sapphires of Schendi, and the only daughter of my enemy, Thorgard of Scagnar". |
10 |
| 13 | 287 |
I shall revoke your outlawry when, and only when, too, you deliver to me the daughter of my enemy, Thorgard of Scagnar". |
10 |
| 14 | 123 |
I knew then it was my enemy. |
10 |
| 14 | 142 |
The eyes of the leader of the Kurii, whom I knew to be my enemy, blazed upon me. |
10 |
| 15 | 245 |
The trap, laid for an enemy by a boy of Torvaldsland many years ago, was still effective. |
10 |
| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
10 |
| 17 | 303 |
I could look only into the valley, where, unsuspecting, lay the enemy. |
10 |
| 17 | 307 |
Below, unsuspecting, they lay, the enemy, the Kurii. |
10 |
| 17 | 313 |
Below lay the enemy. |
10 |
| 18 | 302 |
That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co... |
10 |
| 21 | 84 |
"You are a great man, Svein Blue Tooth," said he, "and you have been a great enemy". |
10 |
| 21 | 186 |
'I have ridded you of an enemy!' cried Sullius Maximus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 |
"Kurii, Others," I said, "following the failure of the northern invasion of native Kurii, halted in Torvaldsland, have been quiet, have they not?" "Beware of a silent enemy," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 245 |
One would not, surely, produce a state of apprehension and heightened awareness in the enemy prior to an attack". |
10 |
| 1 | 392 |
The city's warriors, too, were paid a bounty on women captured from enemy cities, customarily a silver tarsk for a comely female in good health. |
10 |
| 1 | 579 |
"Beware of a silent enemy," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 770 |
Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that Priest-Kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii. |
10 |
| 5 | 330 |
Not much to my surprise the men of the escort of Aretai rushed forth to do battle, but, seeing the numbers of their enemy, which indeed seemed considerable, sweeping down from the hills, wheeled their kaiila and, abandoning the caravan, rode rapidly away. |
10 |
| 5 | 415 |
"Without knowing the nature and number of the enemy?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 7 | 597 |
"Think of her writhing and crying out in my arms, she my slave, perhaps permitted that pleasure, responding obediently, helplessly, to me, her master, Ibn Saran, your victorious enemy". |
10 |
| 9 | 181 |
These arrangements, I suspected, had to do with the attempt of cities to protect their free women who, in numbers, seldom fall to the enemy, unless the city itself should fall, and then, of course, they would find themselves, like slaves, under the victory torches, their clothing removed, completely... |
10 |
| 14 | 180 |
One gains a victory, one loses an enemy". |
10 |
| 14 | 236 |
In Gorean, the same expression is used for stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 14 | 244 |
"One gains a victory," said Ibn Saran, "but one loses an enemy". |
10 |
| 20 | 48 |
Before me lay my enemy, helpless. |
10 |
| 21 | 331 |
You have found it, great enemy, mighty ally, I thought. |
10 |
| 23 | 124 |
One might, if one has the men, use clouds of archers and slingers to hold back the enemy. |
10 |
| 23 | 125 |
One might choose his terrain in such a way as to impede the advancement of the enemy's right flank. |
10 |
| 23 | 230 |
"We have a common enemy, who would put us at one another's throats," said Haroun. |
10 |
| 24 | 748 |
The enemy was within. |
10 |
| 24 | 749 |
The enemy was behind them. |
10 |
| 24 | 970 |
He knew me then for an enemy. |
10 |
| 25 | 73 |
"One loses an enemy". |
10 |
| 26 | 787 |
I regarded her, she who had been my taunting, insolent, beautiful enemy, who was now my whipped slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 976 |
You are a slave with me, pretty little former enemy, lovely little slut, only that, no more than a slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 978 |
Understand clearly my beauty, my former enemy, now my slave, that I now own you, that you are my property, and you are no more than an animal to me, a piece of helplessly, arousable slave meat, with which I may sport and toy, with which I may amuse myself, and which I may humiliate and abuse, as I p... |
10 |
| 26 | 1198 |
One gains a victory; one loses an enemy. |
10 |
| 26 | 1282 |
She had been a lovely enemy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1189 |
Perhaps these men, toward whom he conducted himself as an intruder and enemy, might rescue me! Surely they could be no worse than the brute who held me. |
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| 3 | 271 |
The object of the male is to protect his own women and secure those of the enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 275 |
Sometimes this game is played with the winning side determined by its catches within a time limit, sometimes, in more brutal versions, by the first city which secures the hundred women of its enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 279 |
Accordingly, particularly in the early phases of the game, the young males often devote their acquisitive attentions to those young women of the enemy city who are the most attractive to them personally, to those they would most enjoy taking home with them at the end of the day. |
10 |
| 3 | 534 |
One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her. |
10 |
| 9 | 1723 |
"The first lesson you must learn," said Thurnus, swiftly jabbing the staff deeply, without warning, into his stomach, "is never to give a weapon to an enemy". |
10 |
| 15 | 354 |
"The enemy are not fools". |
10 |
| 15 | 359 |
The enemy swiftly locates and destroys it". |
10 |
| 15 | 382 |
It would be foolish to leave it fixed in your body, would it not, to arouse the puzzlement of the curious, perhaps even to identify you as our message girl to the agents of the enemy?" "Yes, Mistress," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 148 |
"And even if its meaning could be understood, it would be too late for the enemy to act. |
10 |
| 20 | 498 |
"He is an enemy! Seize him!" Clitus Vitellius looked at me, startled. |
10 |
| 22 | 306 |
"If I had fallen into the hands of the enemy," she asked, "what would have been done to me?" "You would have been declothed, unclothed, Mistress," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 420 |
"The enemy are men of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 25 | 119 |
"Do you feel the enemy would risk a code book, or code device, on Gor?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 25 | 147 |
"Worthy of the enemy," said Samos. |
10 |
| 25 | 153 |
"Could the enemy be so subtle?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 25 | 229 |
They were, I gathered, the enemy. |
10 |
| 26 | 334 |
I gathered she had heard of her enemy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 470 |
It is we, not they, who will have met the enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 5 |
The object of the game is to secure the women of the enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 23 |
The win is determined when the young men of one city, or those left on the field, have secured the full hundred of the women of the "enemy". |
10 |
| 11 | 441 |
She was an enemy. |
10 |
| 11 | 502 |
"You are an enemy," I told her. |
10 |
| 15 | 498 |
Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free men for work projects; the... |
10 |
| 17 | 116 |
"I seek an enemy," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 121 |
"You seek the beast with the torn ear? He is your enemy?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 54 |
"Would you like to be harpooned by someone who was an enemy?" asked Imnak. |
10 |
| 22 | 58 |
"Come now," said Imnak, "would you not prefer to be harpooned by a friend rather than an enemy?" "I suppose so," I said, "if I had my choice". |
10 |
| 23 | 221 |
"Thus, if the enemy, if we may speak of them so, knew my location and your intent, to contact me, it would be simple to lay an ambush for you outside of the village". |
10 |
| 23 | 232 |
If it is known where I am, the enemy may attempt to contact me here". |
10 |
| 24 | 328 |
"Perhaps that has something to do with the repudiation and abandonment of egoism, the enemy of love," I speculated. |
10 |
| 27 | 219 |
I had come, after long trekking, to the country of Zarendargar, to the brink of the camp of my enemy, to the brink of the camp of Half-Ear. |
10 |
| 32 | 173 |
"What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 53 |
"Behold, Lady," said Mwoga, indicating Kisu, "the enemy of your father, and your enemy, helpless and chained before you. |
10 |
| 1 | 182 |
"Beware of a silent enemy," I smiled. |
10 |
| 1 | 490 |
In Gorean the same expression is used for 'stranger' and 'enemy'. |
10 |
| 3 | 30 |
Tyros is a city enemy to Port Kar. |
10 |
| 16 | 178 |
"War from the forests," said Ayari, "is effective only against an enemy which is weak or humane. |
10 |
| 16 | 179 |
The weak enemy lacks the power to exterminate the population of the forest. |
10 |
| 16 | 180 |
The humane enemy will not do so. |
10 |
| 22 | 19 |
"If the marsh were an enemy you would have cut it to pieces by now". |
10 |
| 24 | 210 |
"You are the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," said Kisu, coldly. |
10 |
| 24 | 216 |
"Please!" "I hear but the voice of the proud free woman, Tende, daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," said Kisu. |
10 |
| 24 | 240 |
"No! No, please! No, please!" "I hear the voice of the proud free woman, Tende," said Kisu, "who is the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu". |
10 |
| 24 | 385 |
"I claim you, Tende, daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," he said, "as my slave, and now, for the first time, I assert over you the full and uncompromising rights of my mastery". |
10 |
| 26 | 47 |
In Gorean, as in certain Earth languages, the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 33 | 92 |
"This is the woman, Tende," called Kisu, facing his distant enemy, shouting against the roar of the falls, pointing to Tende. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
Tende then, obedient to her master's command, as Kisu clapped his hands and sang, danced on a flat rock in the Ua river, danced before Bila Huruma, so far away, her master's enemy, from whom she had been stolen. |
10 |
| 40 | 16 |
"You are the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu," he said. |
10 |
| 45 | 30 |
She was an enemy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 757 |
After centuries of disparagement why should they not now, with a vengeance, set themselves up as models for their sex? Why should they not now, so long denied the world, attempt now through rhetoric and politics to bend it to their designs? Can you blame them? Can you not understand their hatred for... |
10 |
| 7 | 388 |
I must be my own enemy. |
10 |
| 7 | 976 |
Aggression, displaced, would presumably be ventilated against an external enemy. |
10 |
| 17 | 203 |
"Thus," she laughed, "I, the Lady Melpomene of Vonda, take the silk slave of my enemy, the despicable Lady Florence of Vonda!" I looked up at her, shuddering. |
10 |
| 22 | 214 |
Then, for a moment they struck their left shoulders in Gorean applause, congratulating the Lady Florence on her triumph over her long-term enemy. |
10 |
| 22 | 690 |
"Thank you," said the Lady Florence, regarding her former enemy, now her naked slave, at her feet. |
10 |
| 22 | 782 |
"Your vengeance on your enemy, Lady Florence," said the Lady Leta, looking down at Melpomene, "is surely now complete and perfect". |
10 |
| 34 | 21 |
I saw two warriors, one of Ar and one of Cos, enemy cities. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 120 |
"We were put on the racks as free women," she said, "that we, the women of the enemy, be properly humiliated. |
10 |
| 3 | 299 |
Most of them, I assumed, women of the enemy, would be sold from the slave blocks of Ar herself. |
10 |
| 29 | 166 |
"Would you leave such an enemy at your back?" "It would take ten thousand men to storm that stronghold," said Callisthenes. |
10 |
| 30 | 275 |
I writhed and twisted in the chains, helpless before my enemy, being aroused for his amusement. |
10 |
| 31 | 54 |
When, in my dreams I would encounter a slave girl, perhaps suddenly turning to greet me; perhaps in a market, imploring me to buy her; perhaps on a rounded slave block, I with a purse of gold in hand, having ready the means with which to buy her; perhaps an escaped slave, pilfering in my compartment... |
10 |
| 31 | 121 |
In his own hall, when his girls had finished with me, making me yield in his presence, his enemy, for the amusement of himself and his men, I had heard him, as he had spoken to Kliomenes, declare an intention to move his fleet east. |
10 |
| 33 | 62 |
"By trusted warriors," I asked, "who, too, would have had little opportunity to make contact with the enemy?" I looked at him, angrily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
"Set the catapults! Unbind the javelins! Bowmen to your stations!" I saw, amidships, opposite our galley, on the enemy vessel, two bowmen. |
10 |
| 1 | 22 |
But they were the enemy. |
10 |
| 1 | 31 |
Lifting my head I saw the enemy galley back-oaring on the starboard side, and then, straightened, back-oaring from the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 39 |
No longer did there seem enemy ships at the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 80 |
I doubted that any of the enemy galleys would be so foolish as to draw abeam of the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 85 |
The iron-shod ram slid, grating, over the chain and struck the enemy vessel amidships. |
10 |
| 1 | 101 |
Once more the ram struck deep into the strakes of an enemy vessel. |
10 |
| 1 | 161 |
A man rose from behind the bulwarks of the enemy vessel, bow in hand. |
10 |
| 2 | 86 |
"I have met the enemy," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 3 |
"Superb!" cried Callimachus, commending the enemy. |
10 |
| 3 | 34 |
The forward deck of the enemy was already awash. |
10 |
| 3 | 36 |
The catapult on the enemy's stern castle had broken loose from its large, rotating mount. |
10 |
| 3 | 43 |
The second enemy galley had ridden over the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
The starboard rudder of the enemy galley had been torn away in crossing the chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 56 |
Only our undefended strakes could be presented to the rams of the enemy. |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
Suddenly, as the enemy galley veered to knife between us, and the Mira men with poles, and, too, with oars, on our ship, and on the Mira, thrust the ships apart. |
10 |
| 4 | 95 |
There was a shattering and a scraping but the enemy galley, which had thought with force to press us apart, meeting little resistance was, by her momentum, almost immediately astern of us. |
10 |
| 4 | 127 |
The enemy fleet had reformed. |
10 |
| 4 | 154 |
Almost at the same time the seven ships of Port Cos, fanning out, each choosing an undefended hull, exposed, helpless before the hurtling strike of the ram's brutal spike, to the tearing of wood, the rushing of water, the screaming of men, made contact with the enemy. |
10 |
| 4 | 222 |
They had taken heavy toll of the enemy before he had turned the wedge to face them, and then, as confused, he, struck by our unexpected attack, that of the independent ships and those of Ar's Station, had turned to face us, the Tais and her sisters had renewed their attack on his flank. |
10 |
| 4 | 230 |
"The enemy fleet is marshaling," said a man. |
10 |
| 5 | 122 |
We heard oars of the enemy snapping against our hull. |
10 |
| 6 | 21 |
A spume of water rose like a geyser from the water near us, marking the miss of a huge stone hurled from an enemy catapult. |
10 |
| 6 | 164 |
Notes of answering battle horns, from our stern castle, and from the stern castles of the Olivia and the Tais, almost lost in the din of enemy signals, gave response. |
10 |
| 7 | 57 |
They had managed, almost like a fortress of wood, three ships jammed together, surrounded, under fire, beleaguered, to repel assault after assault, pouring over the rails of enemy vessels. |
10 |
| 8 | 430 |
She had been a woman of the enemy. |
10 |
| 9 | 80 |
"Is it your intention to exploit that aperture in the enemy line?" asked Callimachus. |
10 |
| 9 | 85 |
Yet the enemy will expect us to dart for that opening". |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
Like a majestic torch she would sail into the midst of the enemy. |
10 |
| 10 | 50 |
On the night of our escape from our encirclement on the river, we had set afire the Olivia, our slowest and clumsiest ship, and directed her eastward against the enemy's shifting lines, opened and disarranged by the departure of the Tamira from her position. |
10 |
| 10 | 215 |
These would have been sufficient to hold the fortress against a significant attack, but once the enemy, in numbers, as we were, were within, the defense of the holding would be a lost cause. |
10 |
| 20 | 48 |
This was not the type of party at which, say, the free women of the enemy, captives, stripped, not yet even given the dignity of the collar, clad only in their hair and beauty, are forced to wash and lick the feet of victors, to serve their viands and pour their drinks, to wait upon and clear tables... |
10 |
| 20 | 611 |
How unacceptable, how terrible, for a free woman! Better to be in an alien city, helpless, naked, kneeling, collared, at the feet of an enemy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
10 |
| 1 | 1131 |
This explains some of the eccentricities of tribal warfare; first, actual war parties, though common, are formed less often than parties for stealing kaiila; in this sport the object is to obtain as many kaiila as possible without, if possible, engaging the enemy at all; it is a splendid coup, for e... |
10 |
| 1 | 1065 |
Killing the enemy, thus, in the heraldry of the red savages, ranks far beneath the besting of the enemy, and in a way that supposedly demonstrates one's greater prowess and courage. |
10 |
| 1 | 1063 |
The most highly regarded battle exploit among most tribes, for which the highest honors are accorded, is not to kill an armed enemy but to touch or strike one with the open hand. |
10 |
| 1 | 1066 |
It is thus understandable that touching an armed enemy with the open hand counts among most tribes as a first coup. |
10 |
| 1 | 1068 |
Killing an enemy with a bow and arrow from ambush, on the other hand, might be counted as only a fifth or seventh coup. |
10 |
| 1 | 1115 |
In this type of combat, incidentally, it is not unusual for the warrior to shield himself behind the body of his racing kaiila, and, circling the enemy, rise up, suddenly, to fire over the animal's back or, sometimes, from beneath its neck. |
10 |
| 1 | 1122 |
It could be too easily grasped by an enemy on foot, with the result of perhaps impeding the movement of the kaiila or even causing it to twist and fall. |
10 |
| 1 | 1128 |
He would rather rescue one comrade than slay ten of the enemy. |
10 |
| 1 | 1328 |
"Zarendargar is a dangerous enemy to human beings," said Kog. |
10 |
| 1 | 1330 |
He is your enemy. |
10 |
| 2 | 182 |
"He is a terrifying and dangerous enemy," said Samos. |
10 |
| 2 | 324 |
"It is true he is an enemy," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 34 |
It has occasionally happened that enemy tribes have preyed on such a herd at different points and only afterwards, to their chagrin and amusement, realized their proximity to one another. |
10 |
| 12 | 58 |
"I think," said Grunt, "that it is done in the joy and lust of victory, that it ventilates powerful emotion, that it expresses vengeance and hatred, and, indeed, pleasure and life, and that it is done, too, to show contempt for the enemy and to humiliate him, thereby demonstrating one's own superior... |
10 |
| 14 | 458 |
Is it not pleasant to take the women of the enemy and turn them into one's docile, cringing, frightened, servile beasts, both of burden and pleasure? "Ieska! Wopeton!" called the fellow by the kailiauk hide. |
10 |
| 14 | 967 |
There is only one word in Gorean, incidentally, for stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 14 | 1026 |
"They are fond of carrying off women of the enemy to make their own slaves. |
10 |
| 14 | 1027 |
Surely you can imagine how pleasant it is for these fellows to be served, and as a slave, by one of the enemy's women". |
10 |
| 15 | 134 |
The inverted "U's" indicated kaiila stolen from the enemy, the mark itself being a stylized convention whose heritage, I did not doubt, might be traced back to another animal, and another world and time. |
10 |
| 19 | 766 |
Never as yet, it seemed, had it touched an enemy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 451 |
From that time on he had seemed to live for little more than killing and vengeance, not only against the Yellow Knives but against any enemy, or reputed enemy, of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 7 | 647 |
More than one war party, it is recorded, penetrating deeply into enemy territory, and seeing the high brush walls of a dance lodge, and discovering that it was the enemy's festival time, has politely withdrawn. |
10 |
| 1 | 150 |
Such courage is acknowledged in the Barrens, even though it be in an enemy. |
10 |
| 1 | 249 |
He had been the slave of the hated enemy. |
10 |
| 2 | 66 |
But then have not barbarians often used the sophisticated, educated women of the enemy, embonded, in such a way? Earth-girl slaves brought to Gor will not have such problems, as they will be illiterate in Gorean; their Earth literacy counts for naught; in this respect literate Gorean slave girls hav... |
10 |
| 4 | 177 |
War parties, of course, occasionally utilize this idiosyncrasy, donning moccasins of an enemy pattern when making intrusions into foreign territories. |
10 |
| 7 | 85 |
This practice seems to say, "Ho, this was a woman of the enemy! I brought her to my camp naked, on a rope, like a kaiila! I ran her hard beside my beast! She is rested now. |
10 |
| 7 | 88 |
I am a better hunter and fighter than my enemy. |
10 |
| 7 | 643 |
Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them. |
10 |
| 7 | 652 |
First, the size of these gatherings, the enemy being massed, so to speak, tends to reduce the practicality of attacks. |
10 |
| 11 | 32 |
It would now seem somewhat hypocritical on my part, would it not, to take the warpath not to deal vengeance and destruction to the enemy, but merely for my own selfish purposes, to procure a female". |
10 |
| 11 | 50 |
Males of the enemy are seldom captured. |
10 |
| 12 | 54 |
At the first sign of danger, such as the appearance of an enemy party, they were to bring the herds back to the village, sending one lad ahead to sound the alarm. |
10 |
| 12 | 55 |
Under no circumstances were they to engage the enemy. |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
How marvelous and beautiful are women! How glorious it is to own them, to be able to do what one wishes with them and to love them! But then I thought soberly of she who had once been the Lady Mira, of Venna, who had once, as the agent of Kurii, been my enemy. |
10 |
| 22 | 304 |
Confirming my suspicions in this matter, it might be noted that many warriors will usually reserve such grisly attentions, with the exception of scalping, for adult, enemy males. |
10 |
| 22 | 306 |
There are many putative explanations for these practices, having to do with such things as insulting the enemy, terrorizing others and even delaying or interfering with the deceased's entrance into, or activities within, the medicine world, but I suspect that the deepest, least rationalized explanat... |
10 |
| 23 | 77 |
Their ties, thus, were an indication of the confidence and arrogance of the enemy. |
10 |
| 24 | 24 |
In this position, the enemy to the left, the rider affords himself the protection of the shield. |
10 |
| 26 | 19 |
They may also have a role to play in the intimidation, and consequent inhibition, of the enemy, perhaps in virtue of making one seem a more fearsome or terrible foe. |
10 |
| 26 | 20 |
Most interestingly, such cries, particularly if unexpected, may freeze, or startle, the enemy, thus, for a brief, valuable moment, providing the aggressor with a relatively inactive, stationary target for a particular stab or thrust. |
10 |
| 27 | 47 |
The ground-based archer, on the other hand, the defender, has the solid earth beneath him, and he, because of his nearness to the openings in the network, or loosely linked canopy, can both track the approaching enemy and fire through it with ease and efficiency. |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
While I had busied myself with the prosaic categories of military arithmetic and motivation, I had perhaps neglected the mentality of the enemy, which, in some cases, as in that of red savages, might be eccentric and unusual, at least when viewed from an inadequate or alien perspective. |
10 |
| 27 | 112 |
If glory is more important to the enemy than normal military objectives, calculated in costs and units, then one, accordingly, is advised to make certain adjustments in one's thinking about him. |
10 |
| 28 | 110 |
It is particularly significant when one understands that the women know very well that if they fall into the hands of the enemy, with their hair shorn, they may expect to be sold into low slaveries, such as agricultural servitudes or those of the mills. |
10 |
| 28 | 185 |
The kaiila of the enemy were now aligned towards us. |
10 |
| 28 | 224 |
Again Mahpiyasapa raised and lowered his lance, and then he pointed it toward the enemy. |
10 |
| 28 | 225 |
As one man, kaiila squealing, warriors howling, feathers flying, lances lowering, our lines leapt toward the enemy. |
10 |
| 28 | 315 |
This type of formation is generally not useful against an enemy which is protected by breastworks, pits or stakes, or a settled infantry, its long pikes set, fixed butt down in the turf, the weapons oriented diagonally, the points trained on the breasts of the approaching mounts. |
10 |
| 28 | 317 |
It tends to be effective, however, against an untrained infantry or almost any enemy afoot. |
10 |
| 28 | 321 |
"Fight! Defend the camp!" The lines spun about and the men of Mahpiyasapa, whooping and crying out, dust scattering, sped back under the ropes and between the lodges to engage this new enemy. |
10 |
| 29 | 27 |
Both would fit not into the category of enemy but rather into the category of booty. |
10 |
| 30 | 50 |
The red savage is usually quite willing to grant that the enemy has medicine; it is his hope, however, of course, that his medicine will prove stronger. |
10 |
| 30 | 51 |
On the other hand, if the medicine of the enemy was false medicine altogether, then what had he to fear? The test for the stronger medicine, incidentally, implicitly, appears to be victory or success. |
10 |
| 30 | 99 |
Emerging then from the ranks of the enemy came a gigantic Kur, some nine feet in height, some nine hundred pounds in weight. |
10 |
| 33 | 195 |
Perhaps, on the other hand, it amused you, as it seemed to, that I, someone you seemed to regard, somehow, as a foe of some sort, or lovely enemy, was to be sent to a Waniyanpi compound. |
10 |
| 39 | 198 |
She is a female of an enemy city. |
10 |
| 41 | 74 |
Of its own will it rose, exposing me to the lance of my enemy". |
10 |
| 42 | 134 |
"Wakanglisapa may not be your enemy". |
10 |
| 44 | 566 |
Meanwhile, Kaiila bowmen, firing from behind the first barricade, and crawling over and through it, loosened war arrows into the enemy. |
10 |
| 44 | 849 |
I had also scouted it from a distance, from the presumed perspective of an enemy, from the grasslands below. |
10 |
| 45 | 54 |
Enough men must be allowed to attain the surface to convince the enemy that their approach was undetected, that the orders for continuing the climb be transmitted, but not enough men that they might effectively hold a position behind which further climbers, in numbers, might be able to complete thei... |
10 |
| 46 | 109 |
"The enemy seems now to be suitably positioned for our purposes," I said. |
10 |
| 46 | 155 |
Then over the barricade, now deserted by the enemy, passing between Mahpiyasapa's defenders, came our second group, that which, seemingly, had been held in reserve. |
10 |
| 47 | 446 |
Not too late, however, were they to close off a hundred avenues of retreat, to interfere with a thousand escapes, to wreak havoc amongst a withdrawing, demoralized, terrorized enemy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 18 |
He was from Argentum, our enemy. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
"The enemy, then," I said, "is east of the Hills of Eteocles, and is through the Pass of Theseus". |
10 |
| 9 | 117 |
We will then subject a starving, demoralized enemy to devastating attacks. |
10 |
| 10 | 216 |
"The enemy is already within twenty pasangs of Corcyrus," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 213 |
"The enemy," I said, suddenly, almost faltering, "is within twenty pasangs of Corcyrus". |
10 |
| 11 | 234 |
"Surely the enemy will consider a truce!" I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 240 |
Was the enemy so bitter, so determined? What had driven them to these passions of war? What was it that they desired in Corcyrus? "Sue for peace!" I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 259 |
Out there, somewhere, in the darkness, beyond the walls, was the enemy. |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
"It seems a Sa-Tarna wagon was fleeing before the approaching enemy, seeking to reach the city before being overtaken," said a man. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
In moments the vanguard of the enemy had arrived". |
10 |
| 12 | 85 |
"Do the people resist the enemy?" I heard another man ask. |
10 |
| 31 | 62 |
Do you think there are no enemies, no hatreds, amongst folk who speak the same language? The better you understand your enemy the better you can understand his hostilities, his ambitions, and the dangers he poses to you". |
10 |
| 33 | 739 |
"You have me naked and in chains now before you, I who was once Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus, your enemy," she said. |
10 |
| 33 | 834 |
The slave on my right, she who was brought to Gor as my double, was left behind on the throne, to be captured and, in my place, bear the wrath of the enemy. |
10 |
| 36 | 338 |
"You were an enemy," he said. |
10 |
| 36 | 432 |
The strong man can be bound only by himself; surely the weak and fearful, and hating, know that, and that is why they are so desperate to divide him, and make him of himself his own captor, and prisoner, and his own worst enemy. |
10 |
| 36 | 713 |
"I took you for a Tatrix, and my enemy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 699 |
Commonly the market they are sold in is one in a city enemy to their own. |
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| 1 | 703 |
To be sure, the Gorean warrior usually prefers to steal his own, such a feat being regarded as a coup, a bold affrontery to an enemy, and a victory for himself, the successful culmination of a stimulating adventure, quite apart from the pleasures of enjoying the female. |
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| 2 | 1139 |
"They pertain to the arrest and detention of one who is reputed to be an enemy of Priest-Kings". |
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| 12 | 280 |
A Spearman who attains the rear rank of the enemy has the option of being promoted, if promotion is desired, to either a Tarnsman or a Rider of the High Tharlarion. |
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| 12 | 499 |
This would make travel and communication between them practical in a world where strangers are often regarded with suspicion, indeed, a world on which the same word is generally used for both "stranger" and "enemy". |
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| 16 | 89 |
The saying is somewhat difficult to translate into English, for in Gorean, as not in English, the same word is commonly used for both "stranger" and "enemy". |
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| 16 | 1074 |
These rings may serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities. |
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| 18 | 134 |
"In this trunk, sacked and shackled, at our mercy, lies an enemy of Brundisium, an arrogant fellow who dared to displease our throne, a captain and slaver of Port Kar, one of whom you may have heard, the supposedly mighty and redoubtable Bosk of Port Kar!" called out Belnar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 198 |
He was also the initiator of the oblique advance in Gorean field warfare, whereby large numbers of men may be concentrated at crucial points while the balance of the enemy remains unengaged. |
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| 3 | 199 |
This formation makes it possible for a given army, choosing to attack only limited portions of the enemy, portions smaller than itself, to engage an army which, all told, may be three times its size, and, not unoften, to turn the flank of this much larger body, producing its confusion and rout. |
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| 3 | 215 |
The ranks of the enemy then irremediably broke. |
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| 3 | 289 |
They were apparently far from the vicinity of any enemy. |
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| 3 | 340 |
I supposed, of course, that Ar must be attempting to keep itself apprised of the movements of the enemy. |
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| 3 | 369 |
Surely it seemed that Ar might be expected to apply her tarnsmen to the effort to disrupt the enemy's lines of supply and communication. |
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| 4 | 271 |
The glare from the sun, even if it is not blinding, can be wearing upon an enemy, particularly if the battle persists for Ahn. |
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| 4 | 273 |
It flights one's arrows, increasing their range; it gives additional impetus to one's movements and charges; and whatever dust or debris it might carry is more likely to affect the enemy than oneself. |
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| 10 | 35 |
This could give Ar the time she might require to deploy and arm for extensive action, what time she might need to meet the enemy in detail and force". |
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| 12 | 60 |
"The enemy may be near". |
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| 12 | 61 |
"What enemy?" he asked. |
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| 12 | 97 |
I hoped that the enemy, if there was one, would not now fall upon the camp like a storm. |
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| 12 | 115 |
"No enemy is within hundreds of pasangs. |
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| 15 | 213 |
You have thus scattered and disrupted your enemy. |
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| 15 | 229 |
They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
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| 16 | 1423 |
Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders. |
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| 19 | 25 |
Less obviously, but more deviously, the blade could be tightened, or even fastened, in the sheath by an enemy, by such means as a tiny wooden shim or plug, or a fine wire looped below the hilt. |
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| 24 | 639 |
Sometimes in an ovation or triumph women of the enemy, four or more, naked, preferably of high birth, and ideally the daughters of the conquered ubar, not yet enslaved, are used to draw the chariot of the conqueror. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 66 |
"While you remain a slave, Earth slut," she said, "I will be free! And it is you, my pretty enemy, who will have bought me my freedom! Consider it, slut! Such vengeance is sweet!" I whimpered, piteously, looking up at Tupita. |
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| 21 | 35 |
Such exits have various utilities, such as making it unnecessary for a fellow on the way out to encounter another on the way in, and permitting a fellow to withdraw from the area unnoticed, perhaps thereby avoiding an enemy or enemies, and gaining time on them, perhaps two or three hours, while they... |
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| 26 | 119 |
Some of us, too, serve as embonded camp followers, and will count as part of the loot should the camp fall into enemy hands. |
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| 29 | 1036 |
"But I beg you to spare him!" "Do you really think I am going to leave an enemy behind me?" he asked. |
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| 29 | 1159 |
Too, he had used it to save the life of his beloved friend, Mirus, though in doing the deed he must have understood, opening himself to the blade of his enemy as he had, that he had made his own life forfeit. |
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| 29 | 1477 |
"I choose not to leave an enemy behind me," said Fulvius. |
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| 33 | 46 |
"Fulvius," I said, "who was one of the brigands, did not care, it seems, to leave an enemy behind him". |
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| 33 | 366 |
"You did not choose to leave an enemy behind you," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Who knows the intentions or nature of the approaching stranger? In Gorean, as in many languages, the same word is used for stranger and enemy. |
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| 10 | 69 |
"We should have the best," said a fellow, "as we are the closest to the enemy". |
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| 10 | 336 |
"I am Tarl, of Port Kar," I called, "a city enemy to Cos". |
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| 15 | 542 |
"The first is that you feared that the high castes and the richer castes, such as the Merchants, might be less likely to be spared by the enemy, that they might be the subject of more resentment, perhaps because of envy, or perhaps that they would be particularly sought out for vengeance, on the sup... |
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| 16 | 205 |
"She is perhaps your worst enemy," I reminded her. |
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| 16 | 274 |
"She was your enemy," I reminded her. |
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| 19 | 35 |
The same problems, of course, normally afflict one's enemy. |
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| 21 | 845 |
The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law, in most c... |
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| 21 | 846 |
One of a young tarnsman's first tasks, and sometimes used as a part of his training, is often the capture of an enemy female, to bring home as a slave. |
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| 21 | 1036 |
Conquerors have ever led away the women of the enemy, making them theirs, to be used for their purposes, for love, service and breeding, from the thonged, stripped, switch-driven captive females of defeated cave dwellers to the contemporary, crowded holds of slave ships plying the latitudes of gleam... |
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| 21 | 1047 |
Doubtless it would give an extra pleasure to the master to realize that his new chattel was once a woman of the enemy, now helplessly his. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 344 |
One sacrifices the first board, so to speak, and then has one's first player engaging the enemy's second player, and one's second player engaging the enemy's third, and so on. |
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| 1 | 274 |
In this way, they will usually prove superior to isolated interlopers and, if need be, one may be dispatched to report or summon aid, while the other, or others, may attend to other duties, perhaps those of a pursuit or search, or maintaining a distant contact with the enemy. |
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| 1 | 529 |
That is one reason it is often carried on a loop over the left shoulder, that it may be immediately, lest it prove an encumbrance, or present an encircling strap an enemy may seize, the blade drawn, discarded. |
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| 3 | 345 |
To be sure, the enemy, not unoften, is doing the same thing, or something similar, and so things often even out. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Whereas the main forces of Ar might be well rested in their winter camp, perhaps unexercised, perhaps grown sleek and fat, men such as these, foragers, rangers, scouts, and such, had probably had more than their share of alarms and labors, of suspicions and dangers, more than their share of contacts... |
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| 4 | 49 |
Once, long ago, they had been lieutenants of Cernus of Ar, my enemy, whose machinations, and political and economic manipulations, had been successful in bringing down Minus Tentius Hinrabius from the throne of Ar. |
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| 7 | 6 |
Those behind, in their numbers, for pasangs back, may have thought the enemy himself had been sighted. |
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| 10 | 24 |
"I am your enemy". |
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| 12 | 312 |
"Am I not to be permitted," I asked, "to look upon the face of my enemy?" "Yes," she said, eagerly. |
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| 12 | 313 |
"I am your enemy!" I was silent. |
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| 12 | 316 |
"Look then," she said, reaching to the pin at the left of her veil, "on the face of your enemy!" Like all women she was vain. |
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| 13 | 177 |
For example, it seldom hurts to let a former free woman know that she is now being delivered as a naked slave to the gardens of a mortal enemy. |
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| 13 | 268 |
"He is an enemy!" said another. |
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| 14 | 327 |
Accordingly, like the men of the Barrens, they will often go to great lengths to approach an enemy closely. |
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| 16 | 57 |
It is enemy country. |
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| 18 | 191 |
"Is the enemy upon us?" queried another. |
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| 18 | 316 |
One of the greatest dangers of a fellow in enemy territory, incidentally, is impatience. |
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| 19 | 1463 |
"Forget," she said, "that I am your enemy, that you hate me, that you hold me in contempt, that you despise me, that I have betrayed my Home Stone, that I am a spy of Cos! Think of me now only as a woman who has for the first time begun to feel her womanhood, and hold me! Hold me!" "I do not hate yo... |
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| 21 | 26 |
"It would be common, too, of course," I said, "not simply because you were a conquered enemy, but, in particular, because you are a female, to tie you on your knees. |
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| 28 | 356 |
There is a tendency, of course, to be stricter and crueler with women of the enemy than with others not so distinguished, making them in a sense stand proxy for the foe. |
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| 31 | 509 |
"You are not my enemy, are you?" he asked. |
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| 35 | 11 |
We had attempted to teach the new fellows, those who had been pursuing Marcus, both by instruction and example, such things as the concealment of camps and survival in an enemy area. |
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| 44 | 199 |
We do not know who the enemy is". |
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| 48 | 383 |
"She is an enemy," he said. |
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| 48 | 422 |
"And you are my enemy," he said. |
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| 48 | 424 |
"You are my enemy!" he said. |
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| 48 | 427 |
I am not your enemy". |
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| 48 | 428 |
"You will be treated as my enemy," he said. |
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| 48 | 436 |
"And accordingly," he said, coldly, "you will be treated as an animal and a slave, and a Cosian, and as my enemy". |
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| 48 | 437 |
"It is fitting that I be treated as an animal and a slave, Master," she said, "for that is what I am, but is it fitting that I should be treated, too, now, as a Cosian, and as your enemy?" "You will be so treated," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 471 |
"Enemy of Ar, enemy of the people of Ar, enemy of the Home Stone of Ar, Claudia Tentia Hinrabia," said Talena, "you are to be embonded, and before nightfall". |
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| 1 | 247 |
"If ever she was your enemy," I said, "she is not your enemy now. |
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| 1 | 246 |
"Too," said he, "she is my enemy". |
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| 2 | 125 |
I had little doubt that I had inadvertently become identified as a danger to, and an enemy of, the party of treason in Ar. |
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| 6 | 50 |
The quarrel of Cos is rather with the wicked and corrupt regime, and the dishonest and ruthless policies, of Gnieus Lelius, subverter of peace, enemy of amity between our states. |
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| 6 | 51 |
It was only with the greatest reluctance and most profound regret that Cos found herself, after all avenues of conciliation and negotiation were exhausted, forced to take up arms, in the name of free peoples everywhere, to resist, and call to account, the actions and policies of the tyrant, Gnieus L... |
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| 6 | 159 |
"I have heard," said a fellow, "that Cos is our friend, and that it is Gnieus Lelius who is the enemy". |
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| 7 | 335 |
"The tyrant, our common enemy," cried Myron, gesturing to Gnieus Lelius, "has been defeated!" "Kill him!" cried men in the crowd! "To the walls with him!" cried a fellow. |
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| 9 | 304 |
"I do not deny that my father was enemy to Marlenus of Ar," said Claudia. |
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| 9 | 440 |
"It is one thing to be captured by a man and taken to his tent, and put to his feet and made to serve, or to be sentenced by a magistrate in due course of law to slavery for crimes which I have actually committed, and another to stand here publicly shamed, before my enemy, a woman, in her triumph, t... |
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| 9 | 553 |
Consider one who was once a proud free woman reduced to bondage and now the victim of ignited slave needs who must crawl to the feet of even a hated master, perhaps a former enemy, and, her lips to his feet, piteously sue for his attentions. |
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| 9 | 583 |
In such banquets the former free women of the enemy serve, clad only in collars. |
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| 10 | 26 |
"Just because someone is your mortal enemy," I said, "does not mean that you have to dislike him". |
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| 10 | 213 |
Such things are common where an enemy is feared. |
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| 10 | 214 |
They ape the feared enemy, and hope thereby, as though by some alchemy, to obtain his strength and success. |
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| 10 | 216 |
Knowing they have nothing to fear from their own people, they pretend they are like the enemy, perhaps in the hope that then they will have nothing to fear from him, as well. |
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| 13 | 221 |
Emotions which might better have been spent on the enemy were ventilated on one's own brothers. |
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| 13 | 241 |
Until now they have doubtless been restrained only by the general effectiveness of their political warfare, the policies of spreading guilt, confusion and self-doubt in the enemy, pretending to be not the foe but the concerned friend and ally". |
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| 14 | 755 |
"It is another to deal with a determined, secret, organized enemy". |
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| 14 | 758 |
"But there is no such determined, secret, organized enemy to challenge Cos," he said. |
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| 16 | 280 |
"Cos requires an enemy for Ar which is not herself. |
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| 22 | 469 |
Cases have been reported where an enemy force has literally withdrawn from a city and some of its components have remained in the city, wandering about for a day or two, out of communication with the main forces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1326 |
Were we regarded, because of what we were, rightly, as being worthy of less consideration than the delicate petals of a tiny blossom? Did they know us that well? Was our nature so obvious to them? Did they know, too, I wondered, that we were the secret enemy? Did they understand the secret war? But ... |
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| 14 | 1328 |
It is not simply because they know us, and know us well, as the enemy to be vanquished, that they put us to their feet. |
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| 16 | 642 |
"He is my enemy," he said. |
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| 18 | 78 |
There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars. |
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| 18 | 82 |
Occasionally this is done with a stunningly beautiful woman, which is to say to the enemy, "even the most beautiful of your women is not worthy of a collar in a city such as ours". |
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| 18 | 149 |
Sometimes, however, after an enemy city has fallen, her women, now enslaved, are denied clothing for some six months; at the end of that time they are inordinately grateful, should the least of tunics be cast to them; supposedly we are not permitted modesty, but we are, of course, sensitive to such ... |
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| 19 | 78 |
They have concealed loot camps, many times actually within enemy territory. |
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| 19 | 1191 |
This is not prevented for these captives are, in a sense, women of the enemy, and, in any event, will soon become mere slaves. |
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| 24 | 667 |
There is the foolishly outraged and defiant nudity of the stripped free woman, in her capture noose, who does not yet know how she appears to men and what will be done with her; there is her trembling nudity when she lies upon her belly in a hunting camp, awaiting her shackling; there is the nudity ... |
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| 29 | 377 |
"You will not weaken me! I shall not be weak! I will not be weak! You have been the enemy of our house, and are now my slave! No lenience for you, hated slut! No indulgence for the new slave, Constanzia!" He looked down at her, in fury. |
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| 30 | 53 |
"She is our ancient enemy". |
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| 42 | 70 |
Among many young men the theft of slaves, and even of free women, from enemy cities is regarded as a sport. |
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| 44 | 198 |
She was my enemy. |
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| 44 | 220 |
"She is your enemy," said the second man. |
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| 44 | 226 |
We are permitting you to dictate the manner of an enemy's death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 343 |
Would she not have screamed in terror, and fled? "You are perhaps also aware that at the victory feasts of conquerors not unoften the women of the enemy, the women of the conquered, and, ideally, those formerly of the highest station, the most aristocratic of the enemy's women, those of the richest ... |
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| 11 | 856 |
"Master?" "And you were a woman of the enemy?" "The enemy?" "Of Earth," he said, "but in a sense larger than you know". |
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| 27 | 1106 |
I have heard that there is a saying amongst one of the many Gorean peoples, in this case the "Red Savages of the Barrens," as they are spoken of, to the effect that an enemy afoot is an enemy dead. |
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| 4 | 183 |
It was true; she desperately wanted to please him, to be found pleasing by him, despite the fact that he was a mere male, a mere insensitive, boorish, rude male, an enemy. |
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| 4 | 186 |
How abhorrent, at her age, at her age, and he a man, the enemy! And she remembered vaguely, scarcely with full consciousness, and fighting, even in her animation and delight, to keep the insistent glimmerings from rising forcefully and undeniably before her, how, many years ago, she, then in her lat... |
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| 11 | 871 |
Let it be reborn! "Have you, woman of the enemy, been defeated?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
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| 13 | 61 |
And the bridges, given their construction, could be easily broken, thus isolating the individual fortresses from other, similar fortresses, which might have fallen to an enemy. |
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| 13 | 551 |
Stripped of all conventional and social dignities and merits, as well as of their clothing, bereft of all artificialities, what is for sale there is, generally, assuming that there is nothing special about the item, that it is not the daughter of a Ubar, or the daughter of one's worst enemy, or such... |
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| 16 | 36 |
She knew that she should have, given her ideological commitments, affected mannish nightwear, to be more like men, the enemy, but she had not wished to do so, and her fellow ideologues, her colleagues, and such, need never know that she wore a gown to bed, one that might be thrust up, revealing her. |
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| 16 | 774 |
"But due to the disappearance of her Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, and diplomatic treachery, she has succumbed to a coalition of enemy forces, largely those of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 16 | 832 |
This prevents the belt being grasped in combat by an enemy, which might be to the disadvantage of its owner. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 947 |
It is supposedly delicious to capture a woman of the enemy, and enslave her, and publicly display and humiliate her, leashing her and marching her about, and such, this making clear that even the high-caste women of the enemy are worthy of no more than being abject slaves to the victor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 223 |
And his interest in me, I gather, was primarily that I was the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, his mortal enemy, and the mortal enemy of Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 48 |
It is not unknown for an enemy to avenge the death of an enemy, if the enemy was thought to have been inappropriately slain. |
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| 6 | 197 |
I myself, several days ago, would have preferred a sallying forth from the holding, to charge, however fruitlessly, upon the enemy, that one might at least, enweaponed, facing the enemy, die as befits the warrior. |
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| 9 | 88 |
We began with the farthest tents to confuse the enemy as to our mission, that he would merely see us pass overhead, and, more importantly, that the enemy in the fore would see fire behind him, and the mountain and holding before him. |
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| 11 | 303 |
From the outer parapet it seemed a message to the enemy might be most easily and safely transmitted, by the subtle and unnoted casting of a note below, to be retrieved by the enemy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 43 |
Free women of the enemy make lovely slaves, it seems, but what else are they good for? I had learned that it was far safer to be a slave, or a verr or kaiila, than a free woman in the hands of the enemy. |
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| 57 | 200 |
But an enemy may plant a girl in an enemy household, supply the poison, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 104 |
I pretended to flee and the enemy hastened after me, the fastest enemy naturally closest to me, the second-fastest enemy behind him, and the third-fastest behind him, and so on. |
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| 58 | 148 |
Which of the enemy ships, I wondered, now served as the enemy fleet's flagship? The position of the four enemy ships was now as follows. |
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| 26 | 79 |
By now the enemy ship was uncomfortably close, so close one could see faces at the enemy's rail, but it was not close enough to bring either its ram or shearing blades into play. |
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| 32 | 19 |
Had the enemy been disciplined, and had I assumed command following the attack, and I did not know the nature or numbers of the enemy, I would have ordered the retreat of the double-shield wall, that to reach the beach, my supplies, and additional support. |
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| 44 | 1 |
Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fell backward. |
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| 44 | 138 |
"What more dangerous enemy could you face? Who but yourself could be your most dangerous enemy? He who will defeat himself does not deserve a sword". |
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| 53 | 174 |
The ideal for an enemy contemplating boarding was clearly, if possible, to utilize two ships and draw alongside the target vessel on both the port and starboard side, thus permitting a simultaneous, coordinated attack, analogous to a land action in which an enemy can be attacked both on the front an... |
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| 58 | 141 |
The first is to guarantee that the ship does not fall to the enemy; the second is to attempt to take the enemy down with one. |
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| 58 | 144 |
This means either that one takes the flaming ship to the enemy, or fires the ship unexpectedly when the enemy finds himself in a position from which it is difficult to withdraw. |
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