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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	143	There were only three statuses conceivable to the Gorean mind outside of the caste system: slave, outlaw, and Priest-King.	10
15	119	The other man, a gigantic man, wore the robes of one of the Afflicted, but wore them as a king might.	10
20	26	There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...	10
5	27	The thought struck me that I, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, a mortal, here in the night on this road, might be looking upon the face of a Priest-King.	10
5	38	"Are you," I asked, "a Priest-King?" "No," he said.	10
5	122	It was said no man had returned alive from those mountains, that no man had looked upon a Priest-King and lived.	10
12	81	Had it been suggested to a poet that he had been inspired by a Priest-King the fellow would have been scandalized.	10
12	82	"I, So-and-So of Such-and-Such a City, made this song," he would say, "not a Priest-King".	10

Book 3. (225 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	84	"It's not much of a name for a Priest-King, but then I'm not much of a Priest-King".	10
10	18	Moreover, if not too much time is allowed to elapse, a Priest-King may leave a message in his chamber or in a corridor for another Priest-King, and the other may arrive later and interpret it.	10
11	30	Impatience, for example, is often indicated by a tremor in the tactile hair on the supporting appendages, as though the creature could not wait to be off; a wandering of attention can be shown by the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks from behind the third joints of the forelegs, suggesting ...	10
11	31	In this case there is again the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks but there is in addition an incipient, but restrained, extension of the forelegs in the direction of the object toward which the Priest-King is well disposed; this suggests to me that the Priest-King is willing to put its cle...	10
12	234	If it is the wish of a Priest-King that they die they do so with great joy; if it is the wish of a Priest-King that they live, they are similarly delighted".	10
15	45	I held the torch high and looked at the Priest-King, who was rather small for a Priest-King, being only about twelve feet long.	10
15	118	"You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a Priest-King and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a Priest-King".	10
16	220	"Are you not a Priest-King?" "Because I am a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
18	40	"Must a Priest-King learn to be a Priest-King?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
21	69	He was followed by another Priest-King, and then another, until all but one Priest-King had departed the chamber.	10
29	13	Here and there where a human or Priest-King would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or Priest-King, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder.	10
34	22	"Of course," said Torm, "after all a Priest-King is only a Priest-King".	10
3	79	It seemed a strange name for a Priest-King.	10
3	86	"Are you a Priest-King?" I asked.	10
3	93	I found it strange that a Priest-King should fear a larl.	10
4	113	"Is a Priest-King frightened of a larl?" I asked.	10
4	119	"You are a Priest-King," I said, "why do you not simply lift your hand and destroy it?" "Of what use is a dead larl?" asked Parp.	10
5	168	"But there is only one Priest-King," I said, "who calls himself Parp".	10
6	63	"Parp, the Priest-King," I said.	10
6	150	"He is not a Priest-King," she said quietly.	10
7	89	If it were a matter of waiting I acknowledged that the Priest-King, if such it were, who followed me had had the best of things.	10
7	90	For all I knew, a Priest-King could wait like a stone or tree, nerveless until necessary.	10
7	119	I had caught the scent of a Priest-King.	10
8	26	There was nothing about them to encourage me to believe that the Priest-Kings, or King as it might be, were ultimately unfathomable or incomprehensible beings.	10
8	27	Moreover in the corridor beyond I had sensed the traces, tangible traces, of a Priest-King.	10
8	29	Yes, I had smelled a Priest-King, or its effects.	10
9	1	The Priest-King I would allow Vika to share the great stone couch, its sleeping pelts, and silken sheets.	10
9	248	"I am a Priest-King".	10
9	268	I followed a Priest-King.	10
10	1	Misk the Priest-King The Priest-Kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor permit identifications of individuals.	10
10	15	For example, does a Priest-King have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by Priest-Kings, some of w...	10
10	17	For example, an odor can carry, to the sensory appendages of a Priest-King, much farther than can the shout or cry of a man to another man.	10
10	22	The simplest and one of the most fascinating is a chemically treated rope of clothlike material which the Priest-King, beginning at an end bearing a certain scent, saturates with the odors of his message.	10
10	23	This coiled message rope then retains the odors indefinitely and when another Priest-King wishes to read the message he unrolls it slowly, scanning it serially with the jointed sensory appendages.	10
10	40	I followed the Priest-King for a long time through the passages.	10
10	47	The Priest-King halted before what appeared to be a blind wall.	10
10	49	A panel slid back and the Priest-King stepped into what seemed to be a closed room.	10
10	52	The Priest-King looked down at me and the antennae quivered as though in curiosity.	10
10	55	* * * * After perhaps four or five minutes the elevator stopped and the Priest-King and I emerged.	10
10	56	The Priest-King rested back on the two posterior supporting appendages and with a small cleaning hook behind the third joint of one of his forelegs began to comb his antennae.	10
10	62	"This," said the Priest-King, still grooming the golden hairs of his antennae, "is the vestibule of our dominion".	10
10	65	"Notice the energy bulbs," said the Priest-King.	10
10	71	"It's harmless," said the Priest-King.	10
10	75	"See what you have done," said the Priest-King.	10
10	78	"They are timid creatures," said the Priest-King, "and I am afraid they have never been able to accustom themselves to the sight of your kind".	10
10	79	The Priest-King's antennae shuddered a bit as they regarded me.	10
10	81	I laughed, not so much because I supposed what it said was absurd, but because I supposed that, from the viewpoint of a Priest-King, what it said might well be true.	10
10	82	"It is interesting," said the Priest-King.	10
10	85	"What is a laugh?" asked the Priest-King.	10
10	90	Or perhaps a Priest-King simply could not understand the notion of amusement, it being perhaps genetically removed from his comprehension.	10
10	92	"I think I understand," said the Priest-King.	10
10	93	"It is like shaking and curling your antennae?" "Perhaps," I said, now more puzzled than the Priest-King.	10
10	94	"How stupid I am," said the Priest-King.	10
10	96	Then the Priest-King ceased to rock and its antennae uncurled, almost reluctantly I thought, and it once again rested quietly back on its posterior appendages and regarded me.	10
10	105	"Irrational, yes," agreed the Priest-King, "but the lower orders are often irrational.	10
10	109	"Is Sarm a Priest-King?" I asked.	10
10	111	"Then a Priest-King may be mistaken," I said.	10
10	112	This seemed to me significant, far more significant than the mere fact that a Priest-King might not understand a human laugh.	10
10	117	"But it would not have mattered," said the Priest-King.	10
10	124	"It is the beginning of the Nest," said the Priest-King.	10
11	1	Sarm the Priest-King I turned from the railing to observe the great ramp which for pasangs in a great spiral approached the platform on which I stood.	10
11	2	Another Priest-King, mounted on a low, oval disk which seemed to slide up the ramp, was approaching.	10
11	3	The new Priest-King looked a great deal like Misk, save that he was larger.	10
11	99	I would never find myself fully able to adjust to the incredible stillness with which a Priest-King can stand.	10
12	120	It was built over a period of two centuries by Kusk, the Priest-King, as a way of escaping in his leisure hours from the burdens of his serious biological investigations".	10
12	150	Neither Priest-King however seemed in the least disturbed by this oath which might have brought tears to the eyes of a member of the Caste of Initiates.	10
12	167	"Why do you not," I challenged, "have your Kusk, or whoever he is, synthesize a Priest-King?" Sarm seemed to shiver with rage.	10
13	3	We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.	10
13	5	When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the Priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a q...	10
13	21	With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, a...	10
13	31	The Priest-King, for all his intelligence, tends to be fond of established patterns, at least in basic cultural matters such as Nest mores and language, subscribing to them however not because of genetic necessity but rather a certain undoubtedly genetically based preference for that which is comfor...	10
13	32	The Priest-King, somewhat like men, can change its ways but seldom cares to do so.	10
14	5	Viewing me antiseptically through this shield was the face of a Priest-King.	10
14	11	The Priest-King behind the shield did not seem to notice my remark.	10
14	13	As I dangled there to my irritation further devices manipulated by the Priest-King emerged from the wall and extended towards me.	10
14	16	Considering the size of a Priest-King and the comparatively small scale of these operations I gathered that the reduction gearing on the mechanical appendages must be considerable.	10
14	94	Actually the walls, ceiling and floor were covered with what, to a Priest-King, were excruciatingly beautiful scent-patterns.	10
14	176	The Priest-King then straightened and stalked to my case.	10
14	189	I knew that the Priest-King had no need of the torch.	10
15	26	With extreme gentleness, almost tenderness, the Priest-King touched the palms of my hands with his antennae.	10
15	31	"Somewhere here," he said, "but unscented and toward the floor, where a Priest-King would not be likely to find it, is a small knob which will look much like a pebble.	10
15	33	It was but a moment's work to locate the knob of which he spoke though I gathered from what he said that it might have been well concealed from the typical sensory awareness of a Priest-King.	10
15	44	Eight wires led from this box into the body of a Priest-King which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.	10
15	69	"How long," I asked, "does a Priest-King live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "Priest-Kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are found by the Golden Beetle".	10
15	82	"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...	10
15	90	I puzzled on the machine in the room, the wiring that seemed to feed into the young Priest-King's body at eight points.	10
15	96	My torch lifted, I regarded with awe the inert body of the young Priest-King on the stone table.	10
15	101	"He is a Priest-King," said Misk, "and has eight brains, modifications of the ganglionic net, whereas a creature such as yourself, limited by vertebrae, is likely to develop only one brain".	10
15	137	I looked again at the young Priest-King lying on the stone table.	10
16	1	The Plot of Misk I took my eyes from the young Priest-King and looked up at Misk.	10
16	13	I turned in rage on the tall, gentle creature who stood, unmoving, behind that strange table and that still form of the young Priest-King.	10
16	14	"If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".	10
16	105	Misk looked down at the young Priest-King on the stone table.	10
16	210	I was silent and Misk did not speak and the only noise in that paneled metallic laboratory that was the cradle of a Priest-King was the soft crackle of the blue torch I held.	10
17	1	The Scanning Room Though the moss in the case was soft I had great difficulty in falling asleep that night, for I could not rid my mind of the turbulence which had been occasioned in it by the disclosures of Misk, the Priest-King.	10
17	6	I rubbed my eyes and stood up, and through the transparent plastic of the case I saw a Priest-King.	10
17	91	I was told by Sarm that there were four hundred such cubes in the room, and monitoring each, I could see a Priest-King, tall, alert, unmoving.	10
17	122	"No," said Sarm, "I am a Priest-King".	10
17	139	The Priest-King monitoring the observation cube touched a knob on his control panel.	10
17	168	"What if I claimed it was?" "Then I should reply," said Sarm, "that nothing below a Priest-King is truly rational".	10
18	44	I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest-King who lifted his antennae quizzically as we shot past...	10
18	45	"The one who was not a Priest-King," quickly said Mul-Al-Ka, "was a Matok and is called a Toos and lives on discarded fungus spores".	10
18	62	"I have never seen even a Priest-King do that," said Mul-Al-Ka, with something of awe in his voice.	10
18	72	"Do you think," said Mul-Ba-Ta loftily, "that a Priest-King would have done so foolish a thing with a transportation disk?" "No," said Mul-Al-Ka, his face beaming.	10
18	114	I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young Priest-King's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber.	10
18	141	"I suppose if I were a Priest-King I would not wish to see it pass".	10
18	161	"He for all his guilt and treason is yet a Priest-King".	10
18	163	"There can be no Nest Trust between a Priest-King and a human," said Sarm.	10
19	20	Where would one strike a Priest-King? To my surprise Sarm then jerked at the door of the compartment from which he had withdrawn my sword.	10
19	55	"By the way," I asked, "how does one kill a Priest-King?" As I asked this I found myself unconsciously measuring my distance from Sarm.	10
19	87	I said nothing for a moment, but simply looked at the Priest-King who loomed above me.	10
19	99	"Sarm is your friend," came from the Priest-King's translator.	10
20	3	"We are instructed," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to take you to the Priest-King Misk, whom you are to slay".	10
20	80	"On the other hand," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "it is the wish of a Priest-King and thus we also rejoice".	10
20	191	"A true Priest-King," said Mul-Al-Ka.	10
21	57	Many times was a golden vessel held for a Priest-King as it slowly yielded whatever had been stored in its abdomen to the Muls.	10
21	65	At last I saw one Priest-King move from the ceiling and climb backwards down the wall.	10
21	68	The Priest-King, escorted by Muls, then began to move slowly, step by majestic step, down the passage outside of the chamber.	10
21	70	In the light of the last torches which left the chamber I could see that there remained one Priest-King who, though emptied of Gur, still clung to the ceiling.	10
22	44	"Then there is no swift way to kill a Priest-King?" I asked.	10
22	84	I turned to the Priest-King.	10
22	106	"Let there be Nest Trust between a Priest-King and two Muls," said Misk.	10
22	107	"There can be no Nest Trust between a Priest-King and Muls," said Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
22	108	"Then," said Misk, "between a Priest-King and two of the human kind".	10
22	120	"It is much the same thing with a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
22	171	"Is it as difficult to slay a Golden Beetle as a Priest-King?" I asked.	10
22	178	I turned to go but then turned once again to face the Priest-King.	10
22	179	"Could you, Misk," I asked, "with those bladelike structures on your forelegs slay a Priest-King?" Misk inverted his forelegs and examined the blades.	10
22	189	And we turned, the Priest-King and I, and went our separate ways.	10
24	2	The Golden Beetle was not nearly as tall as a Priest-King, but it was probably considerably heavier.	10
24	28	It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a Priest-King, much depended on this sense.	10
24	61	How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level.	10
25	2	They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...	10
25	139	The last time I had seen this woman conscious had been in the chamber where she had tried with the snares of her beauty to capture and conquer me for my archenemy, Sarm the Priest-King.	10
26	36	"You will be a girl brought from the surface," I said, "for you are still unshaved, and you are to be delivered to the Vivarium on the orders of Sarm, the Priest-King".	10
27	6	The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their Priest-King Masters.	10
27	32	I wondered about the young male Priest-King in the secret chamber below Misk's compartment.	10
27	40	There was a Priest-King on guard whose antennae waved quizzically about as I drew the disk to a stop not twelve feet from him.	10
27	42	It took a moment for me to understand the Priest-King's consternation.	10
27	46	At last his antennae fastened on me but I am sure the Priest-King was annoyed that he did not receive the strong signals he would have if I had been wearing my own scent-infixed tunic.	10
27	50	The only Priest-King in the Nest who could have recognized me immediately, and perhaps from a distance, was probably Misk, who knew me not as a Mul but a friend.	10
27	52	The Priest-King seemed relieved to hear me speak.	10
27	56	"Return to whence you came and inquire," said the Priest-King.	10
27	58	I glanced over my shoulder and I could see the Priest-King still straining to sense me.	10
27	64	From one of these openings I could see that I was already behind the steel barricade with its Priest-King guard, who was standing as I would have expected, in that almost vertical, slender, golden fixity that was so characteristic of his kind.	10
27	72	There were perhaps hundreds of knobs on each side and one Priest-King on each side with great skill and apparent rhythm touched one knob after another in intricate patterns.	10
27	77	It was undoubtedly of the Priest-King kind, and it now was unwinged, but the most incredible feature was the fantastic extent of the abdomen.	10
27	78	Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary Priest-King, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus.	10
27	81	Her coloring was not that of the normal Priest-King but darker, more brownish, and here and there black stains discolored her thorax and abdomen.	10
27	95	As the musicians continued to produce their rhapsodic, involute rhythms of aroma on the scent-producer, one Priest-King at a time, one after the other, would slowly stalk forward and approach the Platform of the Mother.	10
27	105	I watched as one Priest-King and then another approached the Mother and repeated the Gur Ceremony.	10
27	117	I had watched for perhaps an hour and then it seemed that the ceremony might be over, for some minutes passed and no further Priest-King approached the Mother.	10
27	146	Before the Platform of the Mother, facing Misk, rearing perhaps two feet over him, Sarm stood with what, even for a Priest-King, seemed a most terrible quietude.	10
27	157	I wondered how long it would take to kill a Priest-King.	10
27	176	Had the translator been turned on, I would have heard "Lo Sardar"—"I am a Priest-King".	10
27	178	He could not slay a Priest-King.	10
27	192	"Hold, Priest-King!" I cried.	10
27	240	"A silver tube to kill only a Mul?" asked the Priest-King.	10
27	242	"I spoke in jest," said Sarm to the other Priest-King, who made no response but, unmoving, regarded him.	10
27	245	"It is a great crime to threaten a Priest-King," he said.	10
27	248	"If you are dead," I asked, "how will you have them sent to the dissection chambers?" "It is a great crime to kill a Priest-King," said Sarm.	10
27	283	Another Priest-King and then another pressed more closely and I went with them to the platform.	10
27	304	The other Priest-King who had come with a syringe examined her antennae and the brown, dull eyes.	10
27	340	"Half larl, half Priest-King".	10
27	362	Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a Priest-King, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutching, trying to sense someth...	10
28	157	"We were bred in this Nest," he told the Priest-King, "and it is ours as well as yours".	10
28	162	And so it was that the former Muls, humans, bringing with them the basic food supplies of the Nest, began to flock to the side of the Priest-King Misk and his few cohorts.	10
28	178	What sensory data might escape the antennae might well be discovered by the sharp-eyed human, and what subtle scent might escape the human senses would likely be easily picked up by the Priest-King in the group.	10
28	180	Once a brave Priest-King of Misk's forces was slain and the humans who had fought with him wept.	10
28	181	Another time a Priest-King braved the fire of a dozen silver tubes to rescue one of the spidery Gur Carriers who had been injured.	10
28	234	Misk would pilot the craft upon occasion but it was, in fact, rather cramped for him and he could not stand within it, a fact that bothered him no end for a Priest-King, for some reason, becomes extremely agitated when he cannot stand.	10
28	247	Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below.	10
29	68	Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were ...	10
29	72	For once I was sure I could outwait a Priest-King.	10
29	74	My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...	10
29	88	At that moment I saw the hatch on the injured but threatening ship fly up and the head of a Priest-King emerge.	10
29	127	A forward door opened and a Priest-King stepped into view, puzzled, startled at the sensing of the open hatch.	10
29	128	I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and it gave forth with a short, abortive scorching blast and was cold, but the golden body of the Priest-King blackened and, half sliced through, reeled against the wall and fell at my feet.	10
29	129	Another Priest-King followed the first and I pressed the firing switch again but there was no response.	10
29	134	I seized the sword which I had never ceased to wear and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba rushed forward but as I did so I suddenly threw myself to the ground beneath those extended projections and slashed away at the Priest-King's posterior appendages.	10
29	135	There was a sudden fearful scream of odor from the signal glands of the Priest-King and he tipped to one side, reaching for me with his grasping appendages.	10
29	140	So this was how a Priest-King might be slain, I thought, somehow here one must sever the ganglionic net in mortal fashion.	10
29	142	Then, as though I were a pet Mul, the Priest-King extended his antennae toward me.	10
29	144	Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel...	10
29	146	Now that it was not being controlled, it hovered where the second Priest-King, probably its pilot, had left it when he had come to investigate the fate of his companion.	10
30	5	To one side I saw a brownish Priest-King, very thin and angular, wearing the appearances of age but yet his antennae seemed as alert as those of any one of the golden creatures.	10
30	7	"May I introduce the Priest-King Kusk," said Parp, gesturing to the tall, angular figure who loomed to one side.	10
30	35	Kusk, who was a wise Priest-King and perhaps aware of the psychology of humans, turned to Parp.	10
30	70	Most savage and unnatural of all, at least to the mind of a Priest-King, was the release of the Golden Beetles from their various tunnels in the vicinity of the Nest.	10
30	115	I myself was pleased that it had taken a Priest-King to have me chained at Vika's feet, that it had not been I myself who, in the hope of her favors, had fastened about my own throat the collar of a slave.	10
30	163	"Do you think a Priest-King is incapable of love?" * * * * Now my imprisonment on the rubber disk seemed less irritating than it had.	10
30	176	"What a piteous thing you are," she said to me, "and how golden and strong and brave and fine is a Priest-King!" And Sarm would extend his antennae down to her that she might delicately brush the small golden hairs which adorned them.	10
30	187	This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational...	10
30	212	"Sarm is a Priest-King," he said.	10
31	18	How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a Priest-King, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us.	10
31	138	Then I had the curve of the dome between me and the Priest-King.	10
31	152	At last I stood not more than a dozen yards from the Priest-King.	10
31	162	"No," he said, "there is only one Priest-King, the First Born, Sarm—he who did not betray the Nest, he who was beloved of the Mother, he who kept and honored the ancient truths of his people".	10
31	163	The bladelike figure of the Priest-King seemed to waver on the walkway and the antennae seemed blown about as though by the wind.	10
31	202	The Priest-King could not move.	10
31	213	Then to my amazement when the Beetle neared Sarm the Priest-King sank down on his supporting appendages, almost as if he were on his knees, and suddenly plunged his face and antennae into the midst of the waving mane hair of the Golden Beetle.	10
31	214	I watched the pincerlike jaws grip and puncture the thorax of the Priest-King.	10
31	223	I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ...	10
31	225	Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great Priest-King, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me.	10
31	227	"Die, Priest-King," I said softly.	10
32	19	The purple mass of bubbling fury poured over the rubble toward the Priest-King.	10
32	21	But the Priest-King paid me no attention, trying to move a great block of stone which had fallen across one of the supporting appendages of the dead Sarm.	10
32	26	"Leave him!" "He is a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
32	30	"Because he is a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
32	32	"But he was a Priest-King," said Misk, and he touched the crushed, torn figure of Sarm gently with his antennae.	10
32	65	They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest.	10
32	140	"I am a Priest-King," he said.	10
32	141	"The probability is not such that a Priest-King, who is a rational creature, would act upon it".	10
32	145	"It is not becoming to a Priest-King to scramble about like a human—still scratching here and there when there is no likelihood of success".	10
32	172	"You do not understand, my children," said Kusk, "what the Golden Beetle means to a Priest-King".	10
32	192	"I wish you well, Misk, Priest-King," I said.	10
33	42	There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...	10
35	1	The Night of the Priest-King It occurred last night.	10
35	17	Outlined against the largest of Gor's three hurtling moons was the black silhouette, as sharp and keen as a knife, of a Priest-King.	10
35	22	"Misk!" I cried, rushing to the Priest-King and lifting my hands to receive the antennae which were gently placed in them.	10
35	41	He had been a great enemy, a great Priest-King, and had lived as he had thought he should.	10
35	66	"Who am I," asked Misk, "to decide how a Priest-King should live—or die?" I was silent.	10
35	163	"I wish you well, Priest-King," I said.	10
35	168	Together we watched the tall figure on the hill, outlined against the moon, not moving, standing in the uncanny, marvelous immobility of the Priest-King, only its antennae blowing back over its head in the wind.	10
35	177	How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a Priest-King? "I can hurl my spear through it," said the man with the spear.	10

Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...	10
2	17	And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Onc...	10
2	20	"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational".	10
2	21	But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a...	10
16	294	"For all I know," said Saphrar, "the man is a Priest-King.	10
16	295	How else would he dare to use the name of Priest-Kings on the message in the message collar?" I knew, of course, that the man was not a Priest-King.	10

Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	150	On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a Priest-King.	10
5	152	The Priest-King took a step toward me on its four supporting posterior appendages, and stopped, as though it dared not move more.	10
5	159	The cleaning hooks behind the third joints of the Priest-King's forelegs lifted and emerged delicately, and extended toward me.	10
5	216	I myself had much to speak of with Misk and with other friends of the Nest, notably Kusk, the Priest-King, and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, who were humans, and fondly remembered.	10
5	219	A Priest-King named Serus, whom I had not known in the Nest War, but who had been of the cohorts of Sarm, had developed an interesting device for slave control, which I might mention.	10
5	228	Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the Priest-King kind.	10
5	237	Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl.	10
5	244	"In educating a Priest-King," I said, "wires were used—eight—one to each brain".	10
5	245	"We now dispense with wires," said Kusk, "even in the case of a Priest-King.	10
17	230	I saw in his elevation a portion of the plan of Others being unfolded; with one of their own on the throne of Ar, they would have a remarkable base in Ar for the advancement of their schemes, in particular the influencing of men, the recruitment of partisans in their cause; as Misk had pointed out, ...	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	176	When at last I had brought her safely back to the Sardar I had thus told her I would arrange with Misk, the Priest-King, that she be returned to Earth.	10
18	883	"Did Misk," I asked, "the Priest-King, know of any of this?" "No," said Samos.	10
18	937	"When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either Priest-King or beast.	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	95	He had been instrumental in the Nest War, and had earned the friendship and gratitude of the Priest-King, Misk, glorious, gentle Misk.	10
2	218	It is regarded as blasphemy to attempt to picture a Priest-King.	10
18	644	I thought of golden Misk, the Priest-King, of once, long ago, when his antennae had touched the palms of my uplifted hands, and Nest Trust had been pledged between us.	10
20	113	Though I am only human, neither Kur nor Priest-King, I give you salute".	10
20	138	Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the Priest-King, had told me that Priest-Kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	734	"Misk, a Priest-King," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".	10
11	199	Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the Priest-King is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world.	10
13	383	The Priest-King is a relatively gentle organism, delicate and stately.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	14	"It is not unlike men," had once said Misk to me, a Priest-King.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	2308	It is like the English king who in the legend sat upon the beach and forbade the incoming waves to touch his robes".	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	352	I thought that Misk, the Priest-King, my friend, might have been fascinated, if puzzled, by this behavior.	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	308	To be sure, perhaps a Priest-King might show up and say, "No, that is not what I wanted, at all".	10
19	309	But how would you know it was a Priest-King? How would it establish its identity? Perhaps it could uproot trees, or kill people, or something.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	35	It was large, deep and luxurious, the sort of bed on which a sovereign might have sported with concubines, or a virile king with his pet courtesans.	10
16	252	It is hot enough to burn the turban of a Priest-King".	10
27	754	"Have you ever seen a Priest-King?" asked one of the strangers, of the fellow who had spoken.	10
27	2057	"I am now the equal of a Priest-King," said Tersius Major.	10
27	2839	"I am the equal of a Priest-King!" Then Tersius Major turned to the officer.	10

Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
79	543	"A king?" "More powerful than a king," said Cabot.	10
5	44	When necessary, we shall refer to the Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, not inappropriately we trust, by the name of a powerful war leader and king, Agamemnon.	10
20	3	He refused a diadem of gold, as he felt himself no ruler, no king, no baron, no Ubar, no Administrator, or such.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	204	I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...	10
5	135	"You received this message," I said, "from the great Priest-King, Lord Sarm?" "—Yes," he said.	10
23	174	It is said that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.	10
23	175	So, too, it might be said that in the kingdom of the addled and staggering, he is king who is sober, swift, and purposeful.	10
28	389	But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	92	"Agamemnon," I said, "was an ancient king, on Earth".	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	425	"Have you ever seen a Priest-King?" "No," I said.	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	353	You are no more likely to see one than a Priest-King".	10
36	122	"That is the name," I said, "of a Greek king".	10
36	123	"An Argive king," said Kurik, my master, "a name chosen doubtless with something in mind".	10