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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	85	They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk.	10
6	17	The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar.	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	14	On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the Scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of Port Kar.	10

Book 6. (114 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	75	Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif...	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
3	8	Most of those who handle the poles gather on the edges of the island, but within the island there are four deep rectangular wells through which the long poles may gain additional leverage.	10
3	13	Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...	10
4	31	I had spent the night in the open, a foot or two from her tiny hut on the rence island, my wrists tied to my ankles, my neck tethered to an oar pole thrust deep through the rence of the island.	10
5	27	The pole, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood in a clearing near the shore of the island.	10
1	63	The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc...	10
2	21	I supposed the rence island, on which such communities lived, might be nearby.	10
3	3	They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface.	10
3	5	To prevent an unwanted movement of the island there are generally several tethers, of marsh vine, to strong rence roots in the vicinity.	10
3	7	When one wishes to move the island, the tethers are simply chopped away, and the community divides itself into those who will handle the long poles and those who will move ahead in rence craft, cutting and clearing the way.	10
3	9	These deep center wells, actually holes cut in the island, permit its movement, though slowly when used alone, without exposing any of its inhabitants at its edges, where they might fall easier prey to the missile weapons of foes.	10
3	14	Sometimes an entire island is abandoned, the community setting it afire and taking to the marsh in their marsh skiffs.	10
3	15	At a given point, when it is felt safe, several of these skiffs will be tied together, forming a platform on which rence may be woven, and a new island will be begun.	10
3	71	I heard the squealing of a domestic tarsk running nearby, its feet scuttling in the woven rence of the island, as on a mat.	10
3	74	They wandered freely on the island, leaving it to feed, then returning to it later.	10
3	77	A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons.	10
3	87	But I felt there was something strange going on, for there must have been five or six headmen on the island with Ho-Hak at this time.	10
3	112	The roll of sheaf and flight arrows spilled out to the woven mat that was the surface of the rence island.	10
3	149	Then he replaced the bow, putting it with its arrows, on the leather spread upon the mat of woven rence that was the surface of the island.	10
3	190	Ho-Hak once again sat down on the curved shell of the great Vosk sorp, that shell that served him as throne in this his domain, an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk.	10
3	198	He shrugged again, and looked down at the woven surface of the island.	10
4	3	These stores of rence are not used in the making of rence paper, but in the weaving of mats, for adding to the surface of the island, and for the pith, used as a food.	10
4	36	At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me.	10
4	80	I did not even much care that I might spend the rest of my life as an abject slave, abused on a rence island, the sport of a girl or children, the butt of the cruelty and jests of men.	10
4	152	We, each of us, have our own island".	10
4	154	She had now turned the stem of the craft toward the rence island, which lay some pasang or two through the swamp, and, as I cut rence here and there, began to pole homeward.	10
4	163	We had returned her rence craft to the shore of the rence island, fastening it there, along with the rence raft.	10
4	169	Its ceiling was continuous with its walls, and, in its curve, stood not more than four feet from the rence surface of the island.	10
4	229	Then on an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk I had learned myself, that I was, in the core of myself, ignoble and craven, worthless and fearing, only coward.	10
4	277	It was she who had placed her arms about my neck at dawn, on the shore of the rence island.	10
5	59	"Come, come away," said Ho-Hak, gesturing for the girls to go down to the shore of the rence island.	10
5	62	But he did not look upon me, nor notice me in any way, and, followed by Telima, and the other girls, made his way to the shore of the rence island.	10
5	65	In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island.	10
5	99	At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore.	10
5	100	Then the entire group came to my pole, with the exception of Ho-Hak, who went rather to speak with some men carving rence root and talking, on the other side of the island.	10
5	136	Torches, oiled coils of marsh vine wound about the prongs of marsh spears, thrust butt down in the rence of the island, burned in the marsh night.	10
5	140	I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another.	10
5	142	Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans.	10
5	150	The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers.	10
5	173	It was Telima who began first to pound the woven rence mat that was the surface of the island with her right heel, lifting her hands, arms bent, over her head, her eyes closed.	10
5	194	Together they disappeared in the darkness, going over one of the raft bridges to another island, one far from the firelight, the crowd, the noise, the dance.	10
6	4	I saw torches in the night, moving at the periphery of the island.	10
6	21	I dragged her stumbling, screaming, toward the opposite side of the island, the darkness.	10
6	24	We ran with them toward yet another part of the island.	10
6	29	We turned and ran again, stumbling in the torchlit darkness, across the woven mat of rence that was the surface of the island.	10
6	41	I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c...	10
6	63	I saw the nets on the two sides of the island had now advanced, the spears between their meshes herding terrified rencers before them.	10
6	64	Again we ran back toward the center of the island.	10
6	68	Another warrior approached her from behind, with a whip, and with four fierce strokes had cut the rence tunic from her body and she knelt on the rence matting that was the surface of the island, crying out in pain, begging to be bound.	10
6	94	We came to an edge of the island.	10
6	96	There were none on the shore of the island.	10
6	100	We fled back toward the light, the torches, the center of the island, the screaming women and men.	10
6	120	With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island.	10
6	133	Then something, probably a club or the butt of a spear, struck the side of my head and I fell to the matting of rence that was the island surface.	10
6	181	I lifted him over my head and threw him screaming into the jaws of tharlarion churning the marsh at the edge of the island.	10
6	196	Here and there, on the water, apart from the flaming rence island, I could see the flat, black keels of rence craft, which had earlier been cast off and burned to the water, to prevent them from being used for escape.	10
6	198	In the distance I could see, across one of the bridges formed of rafts for transporting rence, one of those I had helped to place earlier that very morning, stripped rencers, men and women, being herded by spears toward our island.	10
6	200	Then I saw another island take fire, one far to the right.	10
6	203	The rafts, the bridges, I thought, the rafts! Carrying Telima in my arms I sped about the periphery of the rence island, meeting no one.	10
6	205	There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction.	10
6	210	The torches were moving towards us, coming from the right, around the periphery of the island.	10
6	212	I had torn loose six when I heard the shout, "Stop!" The nearby island was now burning ever more rapidly and wildly in the night and soon the entire area would be illuminated.	10
6	220	My leg slipped from the island into the water and suddenly a tiny tharlarion struck it, seizing his bit of flesh and backing, tail whipping, away.	10
6	223	I jerked loose the last two fastenings, and tore rence from the edge of the island, heaping it on the raft, covering Telima.	10
7	2	The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...	10
7	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	9	Their slaves, their torches extinguished, were loading the narrow, high-prowed barges, treading long, narrow planks extending from the barges to the matting of the island.	10
7	12	Surely there was more being loaded than could have been on the central island alone.	10
7	25	On the island now, in its center, near the pole, there stood, packed together, a miserable crowd of prisoners.	10
7	38	About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies.	10
7	39	Two wild gants alighted on the island, away from the men and their prisoners, and began pecking about the ruins of one of the rence huts, probably after seeds or bits of rence cake.	10
7	40	A small domesticated tarsk, grunting and snuffling, pattered across rence matting that was the surface of the island.	10
7	64	The barge, deep in the water, began to back away from the island.	10
7	65	Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar.	10
7	67	Then the second barge backed away from the island, turned and followed the first, and then so, too, did the others.	10
7	73	* * * * I stood on the surface of the rence island.	10
7	75	I had taken some of the reeds which had been heaped on the raft and, bundling them, had used them, paddling, to move the raft back to the island.	10
7	77	I had tethered the raft at the island's shore.	10
7	79	I climbed the curve of the matted shore until I came to the higher surface of the island.	10
7	81	A flock of marsh gants, wild, took flight, circled, and then, seeing I meant them no harm, returned to the island, though to its farther shore.	10
7	83	I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting.	10
7	89	There would be something edible on the island, if only the pith of rence.	10
7	162	I would take rence from the island, and marsh vine, and make myself a rence craft.	10
7	163	There were oar poles left on the island.	10
7	168	Before I had finished the bit of food we shared, Telima had risen to her feet and was looking about the island.	10
7	176	She tumbled the body from the island into the water.	10
7	179	Many times we went to the shore of the island.	10
7	190	I took the child in my arms and walked down to the shore of the rence island.	10
7	207	Then I began to gather rence, drawing it from the surface of the island itself, long strips, with which a boat might be made.	10
8	6	I had even, folded and stained from the salt of the marsh, the warrior's tunic, which had been taken from me even in the marsh, before I had been brought bound before Ho-Hak on the island.	10
8	15	I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.	10
8	91	* * * * In the darkness, Telima and I finished some rence cake we had brought from the island, and drank some water.	10
8	452	"You fought well, Ho-Hak," said I, "on the rence island, with only an oar-pole".	10
8	477	"Eechius was killed on the island," said Ho-Hak.	10
8	731	"I told you on the island," I said, "that you are not".	10
9	155	Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ...	10
9	280	I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island.	10
9	373	"Do you recall," I asked pleasantly, looking down into her eyes, "how some days ago, on the rence island, on the night of the festival, in the firelight, when I was bound at the pole, you taunted me in your dance?" "Master?" she asked, her eyes timid.	10
9	471	"He would know him, of course," said I, "from the island".	10
10	68	He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar.	10
10	250	Tyros is a rugged island, with mountains.	10
10	251	She is famed for her vart caves, and indeed, on that island, trained varts, batlike creatures, some the size of small dogs, are used as weapons.	10
10	252	Cos is also a lofty island, even loftier than Tyros, but she has level fields to her west.	10
11	478	More than ever it now seemed possible, or probable, that the two island Ubarates might well be conspiring against Port Kar.	10
13	20	It was her body that would serve to link the two island Ubarates.	10
13	307	Slowly the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus, capital city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar's throne.	10
13	519	I think I knew the shipping, the cargoes and the schedules of those two island Ubarates, and several of their allies, as well or better than many of the members of their own high councils.	10
14	156	I had not realized my importance to the men of the two island Ubarates.	10
15	379	I recalled that she had been caught in capture loops on the rence island, not unlike the two now about Sandra's waist.	10
15	853	Not since I had knelt bound before Ho-Hak on the rence island had such words come from me, so unbidden, so tortured.	10
16	94	"When I was a girl on the rence island," she said, "and later, sometimes at night, when I was a slave, in my cage in my master's house, I would lie awake and think of the songs, and of heroes".	10
16	209	We are strong, and may take an island for our own, one of the northern islands.	10
18	702	"Eechius was killed at the rence island," he said to Henrak.	10

Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1274	Skjern is an island in Thassa, muchly distant from Ko-ro-ba.	10
13	86	At the age of twelve, Ute had been purchased by a leather worker, who dwelt on the exchange island, administered by the Merchants, of Teletus.	10
13	127	Her foster parents might still be on the island.	10
13	131	"Besides," had sniffed Ute, "my foster parents might not even be on the island, still".	10
13	132	This seemed possible, for the population of an exchange island, like Teletus, tends to be somewhat more transient than that of an established city, with a tradition of perhaps a thousand or more years.	10
13	134	If I were to go with Ute, I would surely prefer to go to an exchange island, with some of the amenities of civilization, rather than to a rude village south of the Vosk.	10
13	478	In time, I would use the help of the villagers to find my way to the exchange island of Teletus, where I could find, if all went well, Ute's foster parents.	10
15	64	"From whence," said Ute, "you would have sought the island of Teletus".	10
15	66	"And on that island," she said, "you would have presented yourself to my foster parents, as my friend".	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	33	Tabor is an exchange island in Thassa, south of Teletus.	10
6	165	Tabor, though a free island, administered by the Merchants, would not be eager to affront Tyros, her powerful neighbor.	10
6	388	"I am Bosk, of the Free Island of Tabor," said I.	10
6	757	"We are simple traders, dealers in fur and hide," I told him, "from the island of Tabor".	10
9	93	"I am Bosk," I said, "of the exchange island of Tabor".	10
12	74	Lurius of Jad, Ubar of the island of Cos, was said, by a long-dissolved companionship, to have a daughter.	10
14	322	He would be branded, and taken to the coast as slave, for transportation to Tyros, island of his enemies.	10
18	608	Again the men of Tyros, on the beach, did not notice the log, perhaps from some island or jutting point, washing into shore, some yards from them.	10
19	163	Family was important on the cliffed island, as, indeed it was, too, on the terraces of Cos.	10
19	164	Island ubarates, with their relatively stable populations, over a period of generations, tend to develop concentrations of wealth and power among successful families, which wealth and power, first producing oligarchy, becomes gradually invested with the prestige of dynastic tradition, at which point...	10
20	262	"Greetings," said I, "Sarus of the island of Tyros".	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	165	The camp was of wood, surrounded by a palisade, built on an island in an inlet, called the inlet of Thorstein Camp, formerly known as the inlet of Parsit, because of the rich fishing there.	10
15	70	If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of Gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be smuggled to Gor...	10
18	151	It was like a flag on an island.	10
21	158	His accent was not of high caste; it had been formed on the jetties of the island Ubarate of cliffed Tyros, where he had for years, I had learned, led gangs of ruffians; caught, he had been dragged before Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, for sentencing to impalement; rather, Chenbar had liked the looks of hi...	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	262	She was trying to retain an island in which she would be her own mistress.	10
4	264	I did not see that it was mine to do, but doubtless, in time, her master, when he wished, would shatter her, taking this island from her, making her completely a slave.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	372	"In the morning," she said, "you will be appropriately identified and transmitted as a naked slave by tarn to the port of Schendi, whence, by slave ship, you will be transported to the island of Cos".	10
16	182	Telnus, our destination, is the capital city of the island of Cos, one of Gor's two largest maritime ubarates.	10
28	136	We did have two pairs to be sold tonight, one consisting of a singer and her lyre player, and another of identical twins, from the island of Tabor, named for its resemblance to the small Gorean drum of that name.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	26	I had left the sled at the foot of the ice island and, with the fur of the Kur as a camouflage, had climbed, crag by crag, projection by projection, foothold by foothold, to the height of the island.	10
4	287	I wondered how much gold Centius of Cos had taken that he would so betray Kaissa and the island of his birth.	10
4	310	He had chosen to make his treachery to Kaissa and the island of Cos explicit.	10
4	477	His response to Ubara's Spearman to Ubara's Spearman Five, sequential, in its continuation, was now entitled the Telnus Defense, from the city of his birth, the capital and chief port of the island of Cos.	10
6	673	"Ram," said he, "once of Teletus, but friendless now in that island, one banished".	10
6	677	"One of them stood high in the administration of the island," he said.	10
32	59	"It was simple to gyroscopically stabilize and mine an ice island," it said.	10
34	12	It was indeed an ice island, and one of considerable size.	10
34	16	It was not the only such island in the vicinity.	10
34	17	The Kur had lifted the whip behind me, and I had then turned to continue the journey, the cliffs of the ice island rearing high above and behind me.	10
34	190	I then doubled back and, taking up the traces of the sled, turned back toward the complex concealed in the ice island.	10
35	29	I had climbed the height of the ice island looking for some mode of ingress to the complex.	10
35	59	Not only was dispatch of tactical significance but exposure to the arctic winter could bring a swift death on the summit of the ice island.	10
35	67	I thought it better to let him ponder what might have happened high above on the surface of that rugged island of ice.	10

Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
49	93	"Quickly," I said, "take the canoe to the left, take shelter upon that river island!" We took the canoe quickly to a narrow river island, almost a wooded bar, on either side of which, placidly, flowed the Ua.	10
1	203	"Calculations performed by the black geographer, Ramani, of the island of Anango, suggested that given the elevations involved the two rivers could not be the same.	10
1	477	Cos and Tyros, uneasy allies, one island ubarate under large-eyed Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, and the other under gross Lurius, of Jad, were nominally at war with Port Kar.	10
4	890	I had thought that some wench, probably one to be purchased in Schendi, would have been a useful addition to my disguise, as an aid in establishing and confirming my pretended identity as a metal worker from the island of Teletus.	10
6	82	He speaks several fluently, though his native tongue is Gorean, which is spoken standardly in Anango, his island.	10
8	122	She was skillful and, I suspected, from the use of the hands and beads, had been trained in Ianda, a merchant island north of Anango.	10
18	153	"I bring you greetings from the merchant council of Teletus, that council sovereign in that free island.	10
18	168	I was informed, through Msaliti, the Ubar speaking, that the greetings of Teletus were accepted, that his ubarate expressed similar greetings to those of the island, that his ubarate appreciated our interest in its future and that his wazir of trade would speak to me within the next ten days.	10
23	321	And west, only a pasang away, lies the smiths' island, where men are added to the chain".	10
23	385	In a few moments we clambered onto the smiths' island.	10
23	397	I tied shut the door of the wooden shelter, to keep it from being pushed inward by tharlarion which might crawl to the surface of the small island.	10
23	401	Kisu, I, and Ayari, remained on the island.	10
26	33	"That is an island in the river.	10
26	63	In half of an Ahn the island was on our left.	10
27	30	It lay only an Ahn beyond the first island, one of several, we had encountered.	10
49	94	Scarcely had we beached the canoe and dragged it into the brush than the first of the many canoes rounded the southern edge of the island.	10
49	102	Hundreds of canoes were now passing the small island.	10
51	153	He had not tied her at night since we had seen the forces of the river peoples pass the island on which we had hidden, those forces of incredible numbers which had doubtless wiped out Bila Huruma, his flotilla and his battalions of askaris.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	70	The naval tradition of Cos is an ancient one, and many of the officers of Port Cos were native Cosians, mercenaries or veterans of the Cosian navy, on detached duty to the colony, that the interests of the mother island might be defended on the Vosk.	10
4	195	That island of wood in the midst of the Vosk, those grating, striking ships, twisted at the chain.	10
20	14	They belonged to a fellow who was en route to Port Cos, and thence to Turmus, and thence to the island of Cos itself, where it was his intention to exhibit and vend them.	10
20	92	Tomorrow, at noon, on the same ship on which their master had booked passage, they were to be shipped to Port Cos, and from thence, via Turmus, eventually to the island of Cos, in some city of which, probably Telnus, they would be put up for sale.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	410	It was an island of safety for her, or possible safety.	10

Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	267	I normally worked at the perfume-and-notions counter in a large department store on Long Island.	10
5	5	"Remember that those of Argentum are our enemies, and the enemies, too, of our great ally, the island of Cos".	10
10	209	I did know that we were supposed to have strong ties of one sort or another with the island ubarate of Cos.	10
23	37	"That is amazing," he said, "for Tabor is an island".	10
26	214	How far I had come! How far away, now, seemed the perfume counter in the department store on Long Island, the photographer's studio, my apartment.	10
26	472	I was far indeed from the department store on Long Island.	10
29	234	"I find that unlikely, too, given times and shipping, and the unlikelihood that her presence would be undetected on either island.	10
31	502	How far I was from my small apartment, from the perfume counter in the department store on Long Island.	10
33	35	The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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6	211	Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re...	10
1	46	She, now a love slave, had once been the ward of Chenbar, Ubar of Tyros, and once had been intended to be the free companion of gross Lurius of Jad, the Ubar of Cos, thence to be proclaimed Ubara of Cos, which union would have even further strengthened the ties between those two great island ubarate...	10
3	148	Those two island ubarates were at war with Port Kar.	10
6	276	Anango, like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in Thassa, administered by members of the caste of merchants.	10
12	591	It is also the capital of that island ubarate.	10
16	965	Then five coins altogether, five golden tarn disks, and of Ar herself, as it was pointed out, were offered to the player for his Bina, lifted in the furious, clenched fist of Temenides, of Cos, one of the masters of the high boards of Kaissa in that powerful island ubarate.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1	77	She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos.	10
6	27	"Cos is an island," he said.	10
14	25	This inclination, incidentally, is not all that uncommon among individuals whose fortunes tend to be intimately involved in such matters as importation and exportation, the location and exploitation of foreign markets, and, in general, the overseas trade, the Thassa and island trade.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	388	It suggested the sorts of names not uncommon in many of the Vosk towns, however, names reflecting the cultural mixtures of many such places, reflecting influences as diverse as those of the island ubarates, such as Cos and Tyros, on one hand, and those of southern cities, such as Venna and Ar on the...	10
1	497	When the section was raised, pulled up against the gate, further protecting it, the inn would be, in effect, sealed off, an island in its small sea.	10
5	45	Telnus is the major port on the island of Cos.	10
5	46	Too, it is the capital of that island ubarate.	10

Book 24. (32 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19	713	I then returned to the island, and from the island, back into the rence, to locate the raft, and my things.	10
6	43	An entire village thus, on its island, may be shifted at will.	10
14	314	The bar, that island of sand in the delta, was dark.	10
14	321	The arrows, for an Ehn or so, descended unto the island, like rain.	10
17	323	One that has taken human flesh, of course, for example, in attaching a rence craft, or in ascending a rence island, is particularly dangerous.	10
18	283	I then left the rence and, slowly, smoothly, swam about the island.	10
18	285	I then put these materials in one of the remaining, wretched rence craft, its bottom already half rotted, drew up the mooring rope, and paddled from the island, my knees in the water, back to where I had left the raft.	10
19	259	Perhaps I should have tried to find one on the island before I had made my escape, days ago.	10
19	716	It came from the direction from which I had come, from the direction of the island.	10
19	731	I drew my blade and began to hasten toward the island, intending to intersect the path of the Lady Ina's flight.	10
19	740	Then I again saw her plunging through the marsh, pushing her way through rence, approaching the edge of the island.	10
19	742	Then she emerged onto the island, the sand to her ankles.	10
19	788	I saw what I took to be the island below, to the left.	10
19	822	There was much blood in the water and I waded back toward the island.	10
19	825	I would cross the island, and return, again, to the raft.	10
19	830	I continued toward the other side of the island.	10
19	889	Surely she would remember that the men of Ar were to make me presentable before I appeared before her, during our little interview, that which had occurred on another island, several days ago, that in which I had learned she was a Cosian spy, that in which I had first noted that her ankles would loo...	10
19	923	I did not doubt but what she would recall that she had, back on the other island, days ago, when she had had power, the backing of numerous armed men, been the issuer of such instructions, not their recipient.	10
19	1067	She walked before me, across the small island, and then, first hesitating, then urged forward with a curt word of command, waded into the marsh.	10
19	1068	In a few moments we had come to the small bar, that tiny island, much smaller than the one on which she had been bound, on which I had drawn up the raft.	10
19	1112	"Go to the island," I said.	10
19	1116	Then she turned about and ascended the bar, that tiny island in the marsh.	10
19	1214	I did not want rencers, or animals, to be attracted to the island.	10
19	1627	From the pack I had taken from the island which had been occupied by the men of Ar, in the time of the flies, I took a dry, flat biscuit.	10
23	11	I think the rencers might actually have landed on the small island and not detected our presence there.	10
26	252	There was, to the right, about a hundred yards away, a likely looking island on which to make a camp.	10
26	269	I brought the raft to rest at the island.	10
27	79	"I have behaved dishonorably toward you," he said, "in the matter of the key on the island, when you had fittingly won it".	10
30	7	Nine days ago we had come across the sand island where the tharlarion drive of the rencers had taken place, followed by the rain of arrows.	10
30	12	Five days ago, moving east, we had come to the island where the giant turtle had been killed.	10
31	29	I would suppose that on his rence island he was not used to receiving such attention and deference from beautiful females.	10
31	599	We then left the sand island.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	186	He regarded her, torn with his love for her, and his hatred of the island of Cos.	10
7	471	Temos is one of the major cities on the island of Cos.	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	58	The actual governance is presumably in the hands of a military governor, one named Myron, who bears the title of Polemarkos of Cos, or, more strictly, Polemarkos of Temos, which is the third largest city on the island of Cos.	10
45	184	They were in a city named Telnus, on Cos, which I did know was an island.	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	447	"She wears her collar on the island of Cos".	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	50	"Many, I trust, have already been answered by our unfortunate Grendel, whose repellant appearance we trust did not overly disgust you, and others by our dear colleague and friend, Peisistratus, of the lovely island of Cos, in Thassa.	10
79	198	One of the fellows started up a song, and it was taken up by the others, a song of Cos, a rowing song, from which island Ubarate derived Peisistratus and some three or four of his fellows.	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	471	"These swelled the ranks of the spears of the island ubarates," said a fellow.	10
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	608	Many troops had been recalled to the island ubarates themselves, others to the Cosian principalities on the Vosk".	10
5	938	"The regulars of Tyros and Cos, and their officers and slaves, were soon embarked, and gladly, with songs of joy, for their home islands, but it fared differently with many of us, the gathered mercenaries who had served the island ubarates".	10
12	39	Similarly it seemed that formidable island ubarates such as Tyros and Cos would have little to fear from, say, a squadron of bandit tarnsmen.	10
24	133	"Quintus, and Fabius," I said, "perhaps of Ar, or Venna, Telarion, possibly of Ar, Lykourgos and Tyrtaios, perhaps of the island ubarates".	10
30	126	He had tried later to carry his ideas even to the enemies of Port Kar, Cos and Tyros, but had met with no better success in these island ubarates.	10
30	156	"It is a country, an island of wood," I said.	10
44	131	Beyond these island ubarates would be some small, farther islands.	10

Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	23	"It is no island, no mountain.	10
3	31	Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood.	10
3	824	Although this made me somewhat uneasy, it also reassured me that I was not amongst those who favored either Ar or the island Ubarates.	10
3	826	If they were of the island Ubarates, they would have come, over the time of the occupation and the looting of the city, to think of the women of Ar as suitable only for slaves.	10
6	2	I had never been this far west of Cos and Tyros, but the merchantry of the major island Ubarates, including Cos, of course, traded here, and rogue ships, from Port Kar and Brundisium, did as well.	10
25	258	In his absence, with which you or others may have had something to do, you plotted with dissident factions and the island ubarates; you laid your plans carefully, and put them into patient and subtle execution; and then, eventually, by means of enemies without and treachery within, your schemes bore...	10
26	103	To reach them from the sea, from the north or west, one would have to put into shore, on the other side of the island, negotiate a difficult terrain, and thread one's way through guarded, easily defended passes.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	553	Before I had been brought to Gor it seems a revolution had taken place in the city, Ar, in which upheaval an occupying force deriving from, or given fee by, the island ubarates of Cos and Tyros, and perhaps other states, had been ejected.	10
8	619	"It is from the shape of the island," she said.	10
8	1405	I recalled that the girl from Tabor, the island, had had a different accent.	10
8	1406	And I had heard that the island accents of, say, Tyros and Cos, were clearly different from those of, say, Ar or Venna.	10
19	96	The kaissa of Turia is apparently identical with that of Ar, and that with that of Port Kar, Ko-ro-ba, Anango, Tabor, the island ubarates, and so on.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	102	It was said, too, that various towns and cities, even villages, in the island ubarates themselves were not enthusiastic about the turn of events, that they were less than willing to welcome the return of defeated, penurious veterans.	10
6	104	"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o...	10
14	462	"Ar is free, the island ubarates are quiescent, there are, as far as I know, only the usual raids and skirmishes amongst the cities".	10
15	463	Perhaps it is intended to trade with Cos and Tyros, or various island ports.	10
15	480	Would it not be an island of wood, a world of sorts, sufficient onto itself, indefinitely scorning land, cresting indefinitely the dark turbulence of proud, dreadful, beautiful Thassa? "Kneel," said a stern voice, and I instantly knelt.	10
16	24	I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an...	10
16	49	I examined my slave, the paga girl, the slim, lovely brunette I had named Asperiche, from her island of origin, she purchased from the tavern in Brundisium.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	11	Would it not then be natural, almost immediately, to psychologically situate yourself in accord with the coercions of custom and familiarity? Though I knew myself in a small room, in the palace of an island shogun, I had much the sense of oneness with the enormous beast through whose eyes, so to spe...	10

Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	194	Once, I had heard, a large fleet, an invasion fleet, made landfall there, from the island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros.	10
26	21	The nearest things to nations would seem to be the large island Ubarates, such as Tyros and Cos, where the sea forms natural barriers, or borders, so to speak, but even there power seems centered in particular cities, such as Kasra and Jad.	10
34	120	Who would place at the disposal of an enemy the resources of a planet, who would grant them an island, a platform, from which, in time, to launch a great attack, a mighty armada, against them?" "How is it," I asked, "that Priest-Kings have permitted humans on their world?" "Gods," said Kurik, "have ...	10
63	353	Brundisium, with its great harbor, did not only command the coast, but was the nearest major port to the island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros, and, of late, to the "World's End".	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	4	In this way, many of the buildings, worn and stained, often touched with lichen, dampened by the lapping waters, swelling and ebbing with the tides of the gulf, are, in effect, island fortresses.	10
15	173	In a recent war it seems she had much abetted the ambitions of the island Ubarates, Cos and Tyros.	10
29	18	This morning, at the Southern Gate, Bruno of Torcadino, I at his heels, leashed, and front-braceleted, had boarded a game ship for the Skerry of Lars, not really a skerry, but a small island five pasangs out in the Tamber Gulf, five pasangs beyond the laws of Port Kar.	10
47	351	"From long ago," said Addison Steele, "even from before the war between Ar and the mighty island Ubarates, Cos and Tyros".	10

Book 36. (179 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	65	"Or a single living island controlled by corsairs," I said, "a single living island reacting to the arrival of dozens of message vulos, message vulos surprisingly returning messageless to their cot, a single living island much as that we saw at sea, in departing from Daphna".	10
52	87	"It is done by means of a living island," said Sakim, "that island we speak of as the Brigand Island, a pathetic, enormous aquatic beast under the control of corsairs and mercenaries.	10
1	239	The rumors of responsibility spread from village to village, from port to port, from island to island, spread like the wind, spread like raging flame through straw.	10
16	196	"Then messages might be sent from a living island to a ship," I said, "and from a ship to a given living island".	10
16	221	That is done to fool strangers into thinking that the living island is an ordinary island.	10
16	248	In this way the men help the island and the island, in turn, helps the men, giving the men a rich offshore camp or base".	10
35	75	"If a living island was threatened," I said, "its population, too, could board their vessels, fishing and otherwise, and abandon the island".	10
35	90	"How then could the brigand island, if that is what it is, an island manned by brigands, move so quickly?" "By the application of means less gentle," said Sakim, "gouging, wounding, exacerbating wounds, applying hot irons, torches, and such".	10
35	116	"We do know, or at least believe firmly, that that living island, the Brigand Island, if you like, rescued stranded corsairs, and conveyed them to safety, possibly even to the vicinity of Sybaris, following their ill-fated adventure on Daphna, seeking The Village of Flowing Gold".	10
41	108	"I think," I said, "it was barged to a living island, then near Sybaris, one I have thought of as the Brigand Island".	10
48	214	"The corsairs' living island, the Brigand Island, may be about," I said, "too low to see, with cots of vulos which will home to at least the flagship of the corsair fleet".	10
53	29	"They are using the island, the living island!" cried a man.	10
53	43	The mercenaries on the island, swarming forward, were intent to bring their ladders into play a moment after the island's impact on the Dorna's hull, perhaps then stove in.	10
53	47	There was much screaming, much confusion, a splintering of ladders, a tumbling of rectangular blocks of stone, intended originally to be ammunition for the great catapults, the tearing loose of tent pegs which had been pounded into the flesh of the island, and a scattering of tents rising from the b...	10
57	3	Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the Dorna, and the ...	10
59	1	The Corridor; Events Have Rushed Forward; The Triumph of Nicomachos; We Chat with Glaukos, Proprietor of The Living Island I caught the scent, in the dim corridor, lit by widely-spaced, tiny, tharlarion-oil lamps, in the back precincts of the tavern, The Living Island, of a voluptuous perfume, a sl...	10
2	64	"To conceal their own identity, to mask themselves beneath a plausible, fearful reputation, to precipitate an escalation in the war between Port Kar and the island ubarates, Cos and Tyros?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
3	28	It was there, in Sybaris, that I, in the guise of Kenneth Statercounter, Merchant of Brundisium, in the tavern oddly named The Living Island, had heard the statement that Nicosia had been destroyed, several days before its actual destruction.	10
4	2	We were now two days beyond the small, dark, uncharted, mysterious island whose unexpected presence had so surprised us.	10
5	114	"We passed a small island, did we not?" I asked.	10
6	325	"Even the name of this tavern," he said, "—The Living Island".	10
7	11	"You heard this in the tavern of The Living Island?" asked Nicomachos.	10
7	74	I am speaking of one tavern in one town, a tavern here in Sybaris, The Living Island.	10
7	78	"I know the proprietor of The Living Island," said Archelaos, "Glaukos, a man of impeccable character".	10
7	87	"I know Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island," said Archelaos.	10
7	109	"Observe The Living Island," I said.	10
7	148	How is one to occupy one's time? Has not many an administrator, a general, and even an occasional Admiral, returned wealthy from the wilderness?" "There is the matter of The Living Island, of piracy, and the safety of the seas, to be dealt with," I said.	10
7	166	I shall relay your conjectures and recommendations to my friend Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island, soliciting his scrutiny and cooperation.	10
7	168	I doubt that The Living Island is somehow involved in these dark matters but we shall see.	10
7	178	Why should my suggestions be ignored? Why should The Living Island not be investigated and placed under surveillance? On the other hand, the governor, Archelaos, governor of Thera herself, if his interest was not feigned, would act, and with dispatch.	10
8	99	Fourth, and lastly, I am curious as to an island which seemed to appear from nowhere, shortly after which we came upon a seeming wreck, patent bait in a trap well laid at sea".	10
9	62	I was more troubled by the fact that on the voyage from the Cove of Harpalos to the beach of Nicosia we had not encountered the small, dark island originally encountered on the voyage from Nicosia to the Cove of Harpalos.	10
9	63	Similarly, on the voyage from Nicosia to Sybaris, after painting the Tesephone white and yellow, colors of the Merchants, so that it would stand out, and not be difficult to detect amongst the billows of Thassa, we had again failed to encounter the small, dark island.	10
10	2	"I beg it, Master! Buy me!" I had returned, following my plan, to the large tavern, The Living Island, whose proprietor, as I understood it, was a man named Glaukos.	10
11	1	I Meet Glaukos, Proprietor of The Living Island; Things Go Smoothly, if Not Altogether Pleasantly The girl, Lais, had been dismissed.	10
11	77	Glaukos, as I recalled, was the proprietor of The Living Island.	10
11	108	"I am Glaukos," he said, "master of The Living Island".	10
11	161	"You are in the tavern of The Living Island.	10
11	195	"Yes," cried Glaukos, "all gratitude to our noble benefactor, my dear friend, Fenlon, come from far Ti, who has so generously manifested his approbation of The Living Island, finest of the taverns in Sybaris, and its noble patrons".	10
12	9	In drawing up the false map, which I had arranged to have stolen in The Living Island, I had located the spurious Village of Flowing Gold on Daphna, the least populated of the Farther Islands, in a desolate area, where the raiders might be most easily isolated and discomfited, no civilized enclaves ...	10
12	12	To be sure, who knew what undiscovered riches might occur in remote regions? My seemingly reckless, unguarded distribution of the tiny gold disks in the tavern of The Living Island was intended to overcome any possible doubts as to the reality of The Village of Flowing Gold.	10
13	88	"Next," I said, "you would have me believe ill doings of my friend, Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island".	10
14	1	An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl...	10
14	11	"I did not note that island on our voyage to Daphna," said Thurnock.	10
14	58	"The tiny island," I said.	10
14	62	"So soon, that the island is so distant," I said.	10
15	68	"To seek an island," I said.	10
15	69	"What island?" he asked.	10
16	24	"You are on the brink of land, an island, though one tiny and inauspicious".	10
16	25	"No ordinary island," I said.	10
16	54	At first, I was much aware that the object on which I stood was not still, not anchored in place, was not like an island, but was responsive to the water, that it rested in the water, that it floated.	10
16	66	"How often does the island breathe?" I asked.	10
16	204	How else could they seek food?" "This island," I said, "seems inert, phlegmatic, immobile, passive".	10
16	207	"And the men, conveniently accessing new fishing grounds, share their catch with the island," I said.	10
16	215	"The men told me a living island can go more than a day without breathing," I said.	10
16	218	"I have seen brush on at least one living island," I said.	10
16	222	Too, for those who are familiar with these islands, it makes clear that a given island is spoken for, that it is claimed".	10
16	227	"When one encounters a living island in the wild," she said, "one may be sure the fishing will be good".	10
16	232	In that way, they can help their living island".	10
16	234	"The living island is a predator, and territorial," she said.	10
16	237	But once, when I was a girl, I swam near the head of the island, which is forbidden.	10
16	241	"It is hard to think of a living island, so placid and somnolent, as predacious or territorial," I said.	10
16	245	"The living island is concerned only with its own kind," she said.	10
16	249	"But such," I said, "would require the living island to be moved, and not only to be moved, but to be moved purposely".	10
16	262	"This stimulus is disfavored by the island, and it moves away from the sound.	10
16	266	"There are other ways, too, the island may be moved?" I asked.	10
16	268	That does not hurt the island, as far as we can tell, but it does tend to move away from the annoyance.	10
16	269	There are cruel ways, too, but we do not practice them on the Isle of Seleukos, for we care for our island, ways such as digging in the hide and striking nerves with pointed sticks, and digging in the hide and applying hot irons to the wound".	10
16	270	"It seems that this would make the island an enemy of men," I said.	10
16	310	Thurnock and I, as we took our departure, oars rising, shedding bright water, like drops of light, looked back to the island.	10
16	317	"I spoke to men on the island.	10
17	260	"Much is said of him," she said, "in the tavern, The Living Island, and I am told elsewhere, in taverns and brothels, in bazaars and markets, at the wharves and in the streets, everywhere.	10
21	84	"In Sybaris," I said, "I urged the surveillance of the tavern, The Living Island, the proprietor of which is a man named Glaukos.	10
21	145	Perhaps it was known only to others, say, Glaukos of The Living Island, Archelaos, governor of Thera, the captains of certain ships, the decoy women, or such?" Would he insist that I drink first? He lifted his goblet.	10
21	183	Surely Nicomachos was a confederate of Archelaos, the governor of Thera, and Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island, both deeply involved with the corsairs.	10
22	36	"Ctesippus and Laios, henchmen of Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island in Sybaris, are at the fair".	10
23	7	In this way, though news traveled slowly to us, we were probably better informed, on the whole, than any single town in the Islands, including Sybaris, or Sybaris not counting the precincts of The Living Island.	10
23	63	We had heard of such things, and others, while on the living island, the Isle of Seleukos.	10
23	65	"We have also heard of the Isle of Seleukos," I said, "the living island".	10
23	88	We took to our fishing boats and fled to the Isle of Seleukos, the living island of which you seem to know, with little more than the clothing on our backs".	10
27	46	Too, our men posted in Sybaris report that Archelaos, the implicated governor of Thera, is a frequent guest not only of Glaukos, in the tavern of The Living Island, but of our 'Three Ubaras'".	10
29	28	"On what island is it," she asked, "and what is its name?" "It is a location suitable for my purposes," I said.	10
29	67	In the tavern of The Living Island, she had never served free women.	10
35	58	"The village of Seleukos is being rebuilt, and the living island, the Isle of Seleukos, moves amongst living islands which have spied for the raiders or abetted them in some way".	10
35	59	I recalled the likelihood that, long ago, one such island had transmitted our position to the corsairs.	10
35	78	"One living island," he said, "is not associated with a village.	10
35	80	It was that island which evacuated the corsairs stranded on Daphna, after the quest for The Village of Flowing Gold".	10
35	81	"I think I know the island," I said.	10
35	83	I recall thinking that our speed must be unusually swift, measuring it against a presumably stationary island.	10
35	84	Now I understand that that was an illusion, for the island was moving, too, indeed, moving in the other direction".	10
35	89	"It can take a day to move a living island a pasang," said Sakim.	10
35	93	It is a living island, gigantic and sluggish".	10
35	99	"The living island cannot feel pain," said Clitus.	10
35	105	"It is unlikely that the living island even knows it is inhabited," said Clitus.	10
35	119	Yet the Brigand Island was available, ready to be brought into play.	10
35	139	"It is based," he said, "on something I heard long ago in Sybaris, when I lay in a half stupor in the tavern, The Living Island.	10
35	157	"That," said Sakim, "is where the Brigand Island, as we have spoken of it, becomes relevant.	10
35	158	Consider the corsair fleet, in its full strength, seven ships with crews, supplemented with mercenaries, accompanied by the Brigand Island, itself not only a transport for additional mercenaries, but conveying an arsenal of supplies and siege equipment".	10
36	128	These two notables also patronize the tavern, The Living Island, managed by one of whom you have doubtless heard, Glaukos of Sybaris.	10
36	152	"Perhaps Glaukos could find a place for you amongst the paga girls of The Living Island.	10
37	193	"A living island," said Clitus.	10
37	195	"The Brigand Island," said Thurnock.	10
37	197	"It could kill the island," said Thurnock.	10
37	201	"Who hires the agent?" "Ultimately Archelaos," I said, "but to distance himself from sensitive matters, one supposes such details would be handled through the tavern, The Living Island, which, as we know, is much involved in these matters".	10
38	32	Can he really not suspect that it anchors before him in the harbor of Sybaris? Is he not a patron of the tavern of Glaukos, The Living Island? Does he not game, and suspiciously successfully, as does Archelaos, at The House of the Golden Urt? Does he not profit, as does his colleague, Archelaos, fro...	10
41	109	"It would destroy such an island," said Thrasymedes.	10
47	27	"The son of Seleukos, of the Island of Seleukos," I said.	10
50	11	The Tesephone, tilted, slid down the side of the living island, splashing into the water.	10
50	12	At the same time, I heard cries from the island.	10
50	29	The Tesephone, turned about, sped into the fog, leaving the Brigand Island behind.	10
50	33	"How could the enemy island be so far from Mytilene?" asked Clitus.	10
50	42	"To encounter the Brigand Island was a great misfortune," said Clitus.	10
50	57	In this way, the island would tend to seek out ships, this behavior, when successful, being rewarded by the mercenaries".	10
50	59	"The living island," said Sakim, "can detect the sound of an oar striking the water at a distance of pasangs".	10
50	60	"In the moment the fog parted," I said, "it was clear the island was heavily freighted".	10
50	72	"It is the island, as well," he said.	10
50	74	"Surely you saw the fire kindled on the island, noted the turbulence in the water," said Sakim.	10
50	82	I had learned that much from my brief time on the Island of Seleukos.	10
50	85	They do not respect the island or care for it.	10
50	94	"We can easily outdistance a living island," said Clitus.	10
50	97	"Do not underestimate the effects of jabbing, pointed metal poles, serrated blades, and white-hot irons affecting the Brigand Island," said Sakim, "nor the willingness of the mercenaries to kill it in their attempt to overtake us".	10
50	105	"Should the mercenaries lose touch with us, they need only give the Brigand Island a temporary surcease of its pain, and, soon, it will seek us of its own accord".	10
50	132	"The Brigand Island and the corsair fleet are both between us and Mytilene," I said.	10
51	9	If the Dorna had been detected, possibly in virtue of the activity of the Brigand Island, I did not think it could long elude its pursuers, given the numbers of rested oarsmen on which they could draw, heavily crewed as they were with large numbers of draftable, evacuated mercenaries.	10
51	94	"Like the living island," I said.	10
51	153	"I know that man," I said, "he just drawn aboard! It is Ctesippus, a colleague of Glaukos, proprietor of the tavern, The Living Island, in Sybaris!" "Does it surprise you?" asked Sakim.	10
51	206	"But there is the Brigand Island," said Sakim.	10
52	89	As a sleen, tenacious and swift, can follow scent on land, tenacious and swift, a living island can follow sounds, disturbances, stirrings, in the water, schooling fish, the wake of a passing vessel, and such.	10
52	90	The enemy has taught the island to associate feeding with ships, so it seeks ships".	10
52	97	"The island does not know that," said Sakim.	10
52	99	"The corsairs torture the island with pain, spurring it to greater and greater speed," said Sakim.	10
53	34	Men with burning irons were thrusting them into the body of the island, while it, as if it would escape from the pain, was driving toward us.	10
53	41	The Dorna was between us and the onrushing behemoth, the living island.	10
53	44	But Tab, by oars and rudders, was already struggling to bring the prow of the Dorna toward the island, which maneuver would minimize the width of the expected impact.	10
53	46	The iron-shod ram, mounted in such a way as to withstand the grievous shock of tearing through reinforced planking, cut a short, sharp, linear, bloody furrow in the hide of the living island and then, as it was riding over the beast, the beast, reflexively, reared upward, like a hill of muscles, as ...	10
53	48	At the same time the island, with a great roaring noise, exhaled a towering, violent spume of warm air and water.	10
53	49	This rose a hundred feet into the air, and droplets fell like warm rain, drenching the island.	10
53	50	The flesh of the island then began reacting to the trauma of its wound, to shudder and ripple, contracting and expanding, its edges, or coasts, disappearing on one side or the other for a moment and then rising again, shining and dripping.	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
53	52	"The island is sinking!" screamed a man.	10
53	63	I mention this lest it seem surprising, or improbable, that portions of the Dorna's crew were outboard, attempting to free their ship from the shore of the living island.	10
53	64	Their travail was brief, however, for the shore of the island drew back under them, and inclined downward, as though, water rushing in, it would so rid itself of an unwelcome visitor.	10
53	70	Two enemy ships are blocked by the island.	10
53	71	The island itself is injured.	10
53	88	Tab had the Dorna backoared from the Brigand Island, whose tremors had now subsided, and whose pilots were already struggling to rekindle fires in which irons might be heated, enabling them to control the course and speed of their vast mount.	10
53	94	Soon I had come about in such a way that the Dorna was between the Brigand Island and the Tesephone.	10
53	105	"We would be intercepted by the two corsair ships to port, and possibly the Brigand Island.	10
53	110	Their strategy, I suspect, was to take the Dorna, either by further damaging her or beaching her on the Brigand Island.	10
53	111	Clearly the mercenaries, given their ladders and formation, were intending, if possible, to board her in one way or another, either from the Brigand Island or the beach".	10
53	127	"I suspect they were not immediately aware of what occurred near the island.	10
53	216	"It is Laios, from the tavern of Glaukos, The Living Island, in Sybaris".	10
53	293	"Do not fear the Brigand Island," said Sakim.	10
55	8	"The Brigand Island, in all its simplicity, enormity, and inert sluggishness, has been trained to associate ships, some ships, randomly selected, with a reward, a feeding.	10
55	45	"The Brigand Island," said Thurnock.	10
55	60	"They will bring the Brigand Island alongside, and we shall find our floating citadel besieged," said Sakim.	10
55	65	"The Brigand Island will move to the starboard side," said Sakim.	10
55	73	"The Brigand Island approaches," said Sakim.	10
56	8	At this point the massive, heavy body of the Brigand Island had slipped some seven or eight feet back, away from the side of the Tesephone.	10
56	31	The Tesephone seemed to shudder as the left flank of the Brigand Island slid against its side.	10
56	48	Suddenly, without warning, violently, like a massive, discharged, living quarrel, threatening the sky and clouds, the immense body of the Brigand Island hurtled upward, vertically, twisting, from the water.	10
56	50	It could well be that, in that brief moment, it was the first time the eyes of the Brigand Island had risen above the surface.	10
56	61	"The head of the island seldom submerges," said Sakim.	10
56	77	We had all by now had evidence of the capacity of the Brigand Island, and perhaps other such islands, to detect motion in the water.	10
56	99	"The island rolls over and submerges!" "The observation ship turns about, it flees," said Sakim.	10
56	105	Once more, the enormous living weight of the Brigand Island exploded up from the sea and then, from some sixty to eighty yards above the surface, plunging downward, it fell athwart the retreating corsair ship, snapping it in two.	10
56	116	"What I hoped the island would take for its long-anticipated reward," I said, "bundles of sip root".	10
56	123	"The island gone, the corsair fleet will set itself to rescue survivors," said Clitus.	10
58	220	She was owned by Glaukos, proprietor of the tavern, The Living Island.	10
59	81	"I have been summoned!" She did not remember me, of course, only one, and long ago, amongst the many patrons of The Living Island.	10
59	149	Thurnock, Clitus, and I, then, the slave beside me, conducted, bent over in leading position, made our way toward the door from behind which had come the sound of the gong and the voice of Glaukos, proprietor of the tavern, The Living Island.	10
59	165	Interestingly, there was no float, at least as far as we now had noted, for The Living Island, which was surely one of the better-known taverns of Sybaris.	10
59	286	I kicked open the door in the narrow, dimly lit corridor in the private precincts of the tavern, The Living Island, from behind which had come the sound of the small gong.	10
59	287	Startled, Glaukos, short and thick-bodied, thick-legged, proprietor of the The Living Island, spun about to face me.	10
59	378	"In the parade," I said, "I saw no float proclaiming the glory of Archelaos, nor did I see one representing The Living Island".	10
60	113	Two of these earlier hooded fellows were minions of Archelaos, proprietor of The Living Island, Ctesippus and Laios.	10
60	303	"Glaukos, of The Living Island, Archelaos, the governor?" said Thurnock.	10
62	22	"It is my surmise," I said, "that Glaukos, proprietor of The Living Island, was importantly involved in the recruitment, supply, and organization of the corsairs, and that it was he who engaged, or had engaged, the services of our friend, Bombastico".	10
63	67	Having been a paga girl at The Living Island in Sybaris, she well knew the nature of the paga girl and what was expected of one.	10
63	88	In the unlit, low-ceilinged hold of the Dorna, on the damp sand used as ballast, stripped, her ankles chained to parted rings, lay his slave, Sylvia, former dancer at The Living Island.	10