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Mercenaries

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	196	"Surely not all of Pa-Kur's horde are adventurers, mercenaries".	10
20	15	The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting...	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	109	Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the Caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no longer esteemed mercenaries ...	10
15	42	Her tarnsmen might be mercenaries, or perhaps men like Thorn, Captain of Tharna, who in spite of their city thought well of themselves and maintained at least the shreds of caste pride.	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	54	They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
15	13	I presume that the mercenaries, being tarnsmen—a proud, headstrong breed of men—made the Turians pay highly for the supplies they carried, the indignities of bearing burdens being lessened somewhat by the compensating weight of golden tarn disks.	10
15	22	"They are mercenaries," growled Kamchak.	10
20	114	It was a common name in Ar, whence many of the mercenaries had come.	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	3	The men of the House of Portus, who had been Slavers and mercenaries the equals of those of the House of Cernus, had now been disbanded, some leaving the city, some taking their gold from new masters, some even hiring their swords to the House of Cernus.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	56	The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives.	10
18	137	The environs of Port Kar might now be filled with tarnsmen, other mercenaries, but in the hire of the rebellious Ubars, and Claudius, regent of Henrius Sevarius.	10
18	336	Others were seamen, and two others were mercenaries, who had refused to leave my service.	10

Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	517	"You were foolish to hire mercenaries to guard you," said Targo.	10
8	829	They had been hired in Laura, known men, vouched for, not drifting mercenaries.	10
12	686	Others, mercenaries, he must have recruited in the city.	10
13	330	They were warriors, mercenaries.	10
13	376	They were rough, cruel men, mercenaries, ruthless.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	121	They were probably mercenaries.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	370	"We two have much in common, for we both are mercenaries.	10
13	481	I give you, too, a woman, for your manhood, and for we are two of a kind, mercenaries in higher wars".	10
24	2	That Ibn Saran met us at all, with the twenty-five hundred mercenaries he could muster does him much credit.	10
24	6	Many of the mercenaries, unable to escape, discarded their bucklers and dismounted, thrusting their lances and scimitars into the ground.	10
24	669	There were new mercenaries in the kasbah.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	148	The men were mercenaries.	10
21	212	"Who is the captain of the mercenaries who fly for Vonda?" I asked.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	77	In the skies our tarnsmen turned aside the mercenaries of Artemidorus.	10
6	27	Thandar of Ti, interestingly, had not challenged Ar in the skies, but had deployed the mercenaries of Artemidorus of Cos in actions against Ar's supply lines.	10
6	62	Ar's Station, incidentally, is near the site where there was a gathering, several years ago, of the horde of Pa-Kur, of the Caste of Assassins, who was leading an alliance of twelve cities, augmented by mercenaries and assassins, against the city of Ar.	10

Book 16. (1 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

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	140	A military outpost, flying the banners of Thentis, garrisoned by mercenaries, was later established at the same point.	10
5	6	They were mercenaries.	10
5	134	The lines of mercenaries then moved forward, with the wagon in their midst, northward, toward Kailiauk.	10
6	91	Already, early this morning, the Lady Mira of Venna, and Alfred of Port Olni, with their mercenaries, had left Kailiauk.	10
14	1169	The second must have been the mercenaries of Alfred, a captain, from Port Olni.	10
14	1236	It was important for me to determine the fate of the Kurii who had been with the mercenaries.	10

Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	72	She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.	10
14	73	The military command of these mercenaries, also under Kog and Sardak, who would have retained supreme command, had been in the hands of Alfred, a mercenary captain from Port Olni.	10
14	475	I recalled the first time I had ever seen her, on her curule chair, on her high cart, in the column of the Kurii and mercenaries.	10
32	7	"They were with the mercenaries of Alfred, the captain from Port Olni.	10
32	20	On one side of it sat Alfred, captain of the mercenaries, with certain of his lieutenants.	10
34	442	Never before had I seen the shield of Kahintokapa outside of its shield cover, even when I had first seen him, long ago, with Canka and the members of the All Comrades, near the site of the battle of the wagon train, near, too, where the mercenaries had fought, and Alfred had escaped with a continge...	10
56	98	"They had to make other arrangements, with mercenaries".	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	270	"Various mercenaries are within our services," said Ligurious.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	974	"On Cos, as our spies have it," said Samos, "there is much training of men, and a recruitment of mercenaries".	10
4	176	Finally a large force of mercenaries, in the hire of the merchant caste, in a campaign that lasted several months, put an end to the spurious reign of Clearchus, driving him from the forest and scattering his men.	10

Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	144	To be sure, many of its contingents were composed of mercenaries sworn to the temporary service of diverse fee captains, and not Cosian regulars.	10
3	182	Most mercenaries, of course, join their captains voluntarily.	10
5	93	We were in the camp of the wagoners, one of those associated with the supply trains of the soldiers of Cos and the Cosian mercenaries.	10
8	78	"Mercenaries," said Hurtha.	10
8	87	"Cosian mercenaries?" asked Hurtha.	10
9	69	Mercenaries, as I may have mentioned, are often mustered out in the fall, to be recruited anew in the spring.	10
9	93	"Mercenaries, from the north," said Mincon to the captain, indicating Hurtha and myself.	10
15	830	"But it was done by mercenaries," I said.	10
16	265	I am 261, among the catches of mercenaries.	10

Book 22. (17 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	412	Too, mercenaries and raiders abound.	10
25	179	It seems madness, with an army of Cosians, and mercenaries, at Torcadino, but I am not a general, not the regent of Ar.	10
25	181	It is nothing, however, happily, as we are dealing with mercenaries, that some gold, some fees for their clamorous brigades, cannot straighten out.	10
26	1	Mercenaries "Pietro Vacchi!" exclaimed Aulus, drawing back his tharlarion, "I should have known it would have been you!" I was terrified at his stirrup, the chain on my neck.	10
26	139	I did not want to go to the mercenaries' camp.	10
26	146	"Master," I begged, pressing myself against the side of Aulus's tharlarion, looking up at him, "please do not take me to the camp of the mercenaries, please! Please!" "Why?" he asked.	10
26	226	I had heard mercenaries sometimes enjoyed fastening women down in such a way.	10
26	243	Surely in a camp of mercenaries they would have other girls.	10
27	8	Mercenaries, following the demands of their business, the exigencies of their trade, frequently move their camps.	10
27	38	I had danced that night between campfires, for the mercenaries.	10
27	44	I think the mercenaries had found me pleasing.	10
27	160	He had used me as a display slave, to enhance his appearance, to add to the effect he might make when he came into the presence of mercenaries.	10
27	165	Also, he may have had in mind that I might dance for the mercenaries and serve some of them, and their captain.	10
27	167	Perhaps a tribute, or, more carefully put, a friendship fee, might even be arranged, such that the chains of Ionicus might, at least for a given time, enjoy immunity from the depredations of the mercenaries.	10
27	208	We were in the midst of the mercenaries' camp.	10
28	184	Who is going to gainsay him with his company of mercenaries?" "True," I said.	10
29	126	It is indicative of this sort of thing that Tharnan mercenaries usually command high fees.	10

Book 23. (17 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	235	Artemidorus was a Cosian, the captain of a band of flighted mercenaries.	10
1	423	The stripping of prisoners of war, if it is done, is generally a temporary matter, having to do with marking them out, as many Gorean soldiers, particularly mercenaries, do not have distinctive uniforms, and preventing the concealment of weapons.	10
2	65	"I have heard there are thousands of Cosians, their auxiliaries, and their mercenaries, at Ar's Station," he said.	10
2	99	I had been in Torcadino several weeks ago, indeed, at the very moment when the city, housing Cosian siege engines and supplies, serving as a depot and staging area for the eastward advance of Cos, had, in a daring stratagem, been seized by Dietrich of Tarnburg with no more than a few thousand mercen...	10
2	122	It seemed to me that my chances of successfully delivering my message to Aemilianus, whatever might be its contents, might be improved if it were borne not by a tarnsman but by one afoot, one who might, say, among mercenaries, or civilians, mix inconspicuously.	10
6	538	It was invested by Cosians, and mercenaries.	10
8	16	It seemed he might hesitate a moment, but he took in my appearance, the blue of Cos, the insignia of the mercenaries of Artemidorus, the helmet, my weapons, indeed, two swords.	10
10	79	"Sirs," cried Klio, "soldiers of Cos, warriors for truth and justice, redressers of wrongs, kinsmen from across the sea, I am Lady Klio, of Telnus, of Cos! I am a free woman! I beg your kindness, your indulgence, your protection! Rescue me from this barbarian! Clothe and honor me! Return me in digni...	10
10	92	Those who were not of Cos, and were mercenaries, fighting only for their fees, and some loot, perhaps a female or two, and gold, would presumably not be much moved by appeals to Cosian heritages or patriotism.	10
10	322	The countryside swarmed with Cosians, and their mercenaries and allies.	10
11	151	Some mercenaries chose their causes with care.	10
11	268	You must realize that even here the majority of the men who face you are not Cosian regulars but allies and mercenaries".	10
12	163	"Cosians, like those of Ar, or elsewhere, expect those whose allegiance has been freely given to serve as those who have given their allegiance freely, and not as merchants or mercenaries".	10
17	157	From where I stood I could see, outside and below, hundreds of Cosians, and their mercenaries and allies.	10
18	411	Cosians, mercenaries mostly, broke free from their rearward ranks and ran to the wall, to claim females.	10
18	426	The Cosians, regulars and mercenaries, responsive to the orders of their officer, advanced some yards onto the walkway.	10
21	334	I had scattered it behind mercenaries, to clear a passage.	10

Book 24. (33 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	315	In dealing with mercenaries, it is extremely important to know the sort of mercenaries with which one is dealing.	10
1	266	To be sure, this camp was largely one of mercenaries, and, as such, was lax in many of these particulars.	10
1	267	It is difficult to impose order and discipline on mercenaries.	10
1	370	There were several thousand Cosians, and mercenaries, in our camp, but the forces of Ar, by repute, were in the neighborhood of some fifty thousand men, an incredible force for a Gorean community to maintain in the field.	10
1	1285	To be sure, many of the men in this camp, both regulars and mercenaries, were skilled warriors, perhaps even trained to hunt men.	10
3	43	This party, except for myself, consisted of five men, mercenaries, under the command of a Cosian regular.	10
3	100	Too, now, the winter over, he could bring his numerous mercenaries together again, recalling their standards from a dozen winter camps.	10
3	311	Many mercenaries do not wear uniforms.	10
3	324	"You are mercenaries," I observed, "in the pay of Cos".	10
3	438	The best evidence that these were indeed fellows from Ar, of course, was that they had ridden down the mercenaries, unhesitantly, mercilessly, giving no quarter.	10
3	522	"These fellows were following you?" asked the leader, indicating the fallen mercenaries.	10
16	43	"Mercenaries," said he scornfully.	10
27	200	Let them perish in the delta then, or at its edges, under the swords of mercenaries, thought I.	10
32	75	To be sure, I suspected that he, or his informants, would not be likely to discriminate nicely between complete and selective surveillance, between closed patterns, such as manned perimeters, and random patrols, or even between Cosian regulars and mercenaries.	10
32	83	Presumably the balance of Cos' northern forces, mostly mercenaries, would have retired to that city, for mustering out, or reassignment.	10
32	146	Perhaps they were actually Cosians, or mercenaries, dressed to lure in fellows of Ar, and the fellow, himself, might be of Ar, in the uniform of a Cosian.	10
32	153	To be sure, they might be all Cosians, or mercenaries, enacting some charade to put us off our guard.	10
32	158	They were then, I gathered, not likely, any of them, really, to be Cosians or mercenaries.	10
34	34	"These fellows, as nearly as I can tell, are not even mercenaries, but brigands of some sort".	10
39	84	Although most of them were doubtless fellows from Brundisium, citizens of that polity, there were many others about, as well, in particular, oarsmen from the galleys in the harbor, not far away, and soldiers from the camp outside the walls, mostly mercenaries, on which Cos depends heavily, but some,...	10
39	102	There had been some other slaves, too, following the slim line of mercenaries on the road, beauties serving as pack slaves, bearing burdens.	10
39	121	This evening I had seen a line of mercenaries, perhaps a hundred in all, with some slaves, mostly pack slaves, some eight or ten of them, approaching Brundisium.	10
39	122	The leader of the mercenaries, and several of them, astride their tharlarion, wore wind scarves, rather like those worn in the Tahari, protecting themselves from the dust of the journey.	10
39	124	I would have thought little of the passage of these mercenaries, what with so many hundreds about, here and there, coming and going, had I not recognized the slave at the leader's stirrup, and, indeed, later, one of the beauteous pack slaves.	10
39	128	This was not difficult for most mercenaries in the vicinity of Brundisium were not quartered in the city but in the Cosian camp.	10
40	27	In the group there were dock workers, oarsmen, merchants, mercenaries, Cosian regulars, others.	10
47	282	"I hired mercenaries," said he.	10
47	285	"You had no gold to hire mercenaries," I said.	10
47	298	"We will take these fellows a few pasangs from Brundisium," said the leader of the mercenaries, "strip them and set them loose".	10
47	304	"He is dealing with Edgar, of Tarnwald," said the leader of the mercenaries.	10
47	330	The leader of the mercenaries hefted the bag of gold in his hand.	10
47	361	"What a mercenary fellow," said the leader of the mercenaries.	10
48	569	Too, as the mercenaries might still be about or be thought to be about, and the gold was gone, I did not think that we would have much to fear, at least immediately, from that quarter.	10

Book 25. (27 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	246	The last time I had seen her had been in Brundisium, among the slaves belonging to various mercenaries, men of the company of a fellow who was then identifying himself as Edgar, of Tarnwald.	10
7	524	Her seat of power was overseas and her forces were largely composed of mercenaries who were difficult to control and expensive to maintain.	10
8	327	Too, many Cosian mercenaries were in the city, with their identifying armbands, scarves, and such.	10
8	328	Myron, probably intelligently, however, had limited the numbers of such mercenaries who might enter the city at any one time.	10
9	61	Too, as mentioned, there were regulars of Cos in the city, and, at any given time, various mercenaries, usually on passes.	10
9	62	Some mercenaries, it might be mentioned, had been transferred into the auxiliary guardsmen.	10
11	9	Among the shards and wreckage, by count, there were seven bodies, all Cosian mercenaries.	10
11	67	"It was the same five days ago," said one of the men, "with the five brigands found slain in the Trevelyan district, and the two mercenaries cut down on Wagon Street, at the second Ahn, only the bloody delka left behind, scrawled on the wall".	10
11	68	"In the blood of the brigands, and of the mercenaries," said one of the men.	10
11	145	"It seems that some good fellows of Cos, esteemed mercenaries, in the service of her Ubar, with all good will and innocence, entered this shop, to purchase wares for loved ones, and were treacherously set upon by assailants, some twenty in number".	10
14	115	"I was taken in the suburbs," she said, "by mercenaries, collected with others.	10
16	9	"Release me!" cried the bearded fellow to the two mercenaries.	10
16	14	"Do not interfere!" warned one of the mercenaries.	10
16	19	"Doubtless that is how the mercenaries recognized him as a member of the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
16	23	"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i...	10
16	29	Men surged about the two mercenaries.	10
16	48	"Doubtless he will be impaled," said one of the mercenaries.	10
16	50	"I wonder if those mercenaries realize they are in danger," said Marcus.	10
16	74	"Who are you?" cried one of the mercenaries.	10
16	82	I trusted the crowd would not now close with the mercenaries, for if it did I genuinely feared there would be little but pulp left of them.	10
16	88	Indeed, it was the mercenaries whom Marcus and I, I believe, as it was turning out, were rescuing.	10
16	248	"And so, too, did the mercenaries".	10
23	336	"After all, that will give us something to do in leisure moments, fighting off armies from all directions, fending away clouds of mercenaries, battling bands of brigands, attempting to turn back innumerable waves of eager, lustful ruffians, and such".	10
25	331	"So much money would pay the mercenaries of Cos for a year," I said.	10
27	830	"The might of Cos on the continent," I said, "as opposed to her naval power, is largely dependent on mercenaries".	10
27	832	"Mercenaries, on the whole," I said, "saving some companies with unusual allegiance to particular leaders, such as those of Pietro Vacchi and Dietrich of Tarnburg, are seldom trustworthy, and are almost never more trustworthy than their pay".	10
27	872	"Particularly as you grow ever more apprehensive, and more frantic, sensing Ar slipping away from you, mercenaries departing, your power collapsing, your ambitions and hopes blighted, and realizing yourself, a former puppet and traitress, now no more than a masquerading slave illicitly occupying an ...	10

Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	299	Not brigands, but mercenaries! But who could hire mercenaries, she asked herself.	10
30	630	Skirmishes occur between crowds and the garrison forces, the mercenaries and the Cosian regulars, but, too, sometimes between the mercenaries themselves and the Cosians.	10
13	163	"Those of the Warriors, or sometimes mercenaries, or outlaws, or raiders, or bandits, whoever mounts, masters and rides tarns".	10
19	438	"Indeed, the greater portion of these forces are mercenaries in the pay of Cos.	10
19	440	They have been supported largely by the routine, methodological looting of Ar, but the mercenaries are many and impatient and Ar grows poorer, and there is only so much silver, so much gold, so many women, only so much wealth which can be seized and distributed".	10
19	444	"Portions of this wealth will come to Ar, to content the mercenaries," said Portus.	10
19	448	"Do you think the mercenaries, and their captains, will simply submit to being dismissed?" asked Portus.	10
19	455	It is pay for the mercenaries, and it is intended that it will be delivered to them on the feast of the accession of Lurius of Jad to the throne of Cos".	10
19	617	Many mercenaries, particularly of the smaller companies, are not above brigandage.	10
20	298	Mercenaries, she thought.	10
26	250	"No alarms have been sounded! There has been no attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar a...	10
26	252	Indeed, she suspected, though it was scarcely a matter of which slaves might speak, that Portus Canio and Fel Doron, and, supposedly, Tersius Major, had planned to strike at this treasure, in order to weaken and worsen the occupation in Ar, to outrage the garrison posted there, to outrage both the m...	10
26	826	Ellen had seen many scarlet tunics in Ar, mostly those of mercenaries and Cosian regulars.	10
27	1149	"He bought a slave with Cosian gold, that slave," he then indicating Ellen who, finding herself under the eyes of a free man, immediately knelt, not wishing to be punished, "gold seemingly of the trove which was diverted from the paymasters of the mercenaries in Ar".	10
27	2018	"What do you know of the robbery of the paymaster's trove, the fee to be disbursed to regulars and mercenaries in Ar?" "Very little," said Portus Canio.	10
28	272	"The last we have heard," said Bosk of Port Kar, "this from those with whom we spoke at the rendezvous, the mercenaries grow increasingly restless, indeed, unpleasant.	10
30	629	Mercenaries grow ugly.	10

Book 29. (42 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	21	Between the mercenaries and the platform, some yards between the first row of mercenaries and the platform, there was a table of sorts, formed of planks mounted on two trestles.	10
2	73	The last thing Port Kar, or these other powers, needs is a land war, which would have to be primarily conducted by mercenaries.	10
2	280	' Who are they?" "Brigands, assassins, mercenaries," he said.	10
2	450	"Bandits, mercenaries, assassins, outcasts, men without captains, strangers, all strangers," he said.	10
5	441	"Most here are fee fighters, mercenaries".	10
5	469	"Mercenaries, and mercenary bands, were recruited from dozens of states, even from brigand bands, from outlaw leagues, eager for loot".	10
5	803	I was not surprised then that the three paga slaves, former free women of Ar, would accompany the mercenaries willingly, even eagerly.	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	29	Those brought to Tarncamp were, I had gathered from Pertinax, mercenaries, bandits, brigands, thieves, murderers, wanderers, low men, cast-off men, men lost from Home Stones, and such.	10
13	314	I and some others were taken in hand by mercenaries and, stripped, and self-pronounced as slaves, and neck-roped, were used by them as a ruse to approach the walls, they pretending to be citizens of Ar conducting us to impaling stakes.	10
16	62	Scarves are often used in Gorean warfare, particularly by mercenaries, because uniforms are by no means universal.	10
16	65	To be sure, some mercenaries will die for a given commander.	10
16	176	Some twenty percent were Pani, and their discipline was as iron and they steadied the mercenaries about them.	10
17	45	On the ground, of course, the tarnsman was a common infantryman, and I had no doubt their incursion, despite their superiority in numbers, would be fiercely met by the Ashigaru of the Pani and several of our mercenaries.	10
18	47	I called to my side Tajima and Pertinax, and some dozen or so mercenaries, who well knew the sword.	10
18	54	"Bucklers and blades," I said to the mercenaries.	10
18	81	I then, with some dozen or so men, mercenaries, together with Tajima and Pertinax, addressed myself to the path which led to the housing area.	10
18	545	We were followed by some mercenaries, and glaive-bearing Ashigaru.	10
19	6	He communicated with mercenaries through their officers.	10
19	301	I turned to two of my fellows at hand, mercenaries.	10
20	172	As I had hoped, his cohorts, mercenaries, as well, would be more willing to act on my offer than Licinius himself.	10
22	39	Given the number of Gorean mercenaries in the camp I had not doubted that Tassa powder would be available in the camp, and it had been.	10
25	81	Interesting, I thought, how mercenaries, outlaws, renegades, even those who have betrayed and repudiated their Home Stones, remember such things.	10
27	49	Ashigaru prowled the edges of the road, lest any of Lord Nishida's minions, primarily mercenaries, be tempted to avail themselves of an unobstructed highway to another prince, one with perhaps a deeper purse.	10
28	113	Tenting would be set up for the men, the Pani, the craftsmen, the teamsters, mercenaries, and others.	10
28	140	Had it not been for the female slaves I do not think the discipline at Tarncamp, particularly with the mercenaries present, could have been maintained.	10
28	423	It was trying to stanch the flooding stream bursting from its body with its free hand, and then it was thrown to the mud amongst us, several mercenaries and Pani now having hurried forward.	10
29	94	Orders were being given, behind us, by various wagon masters, and drovers, Pani, mercenaries, and all, began to withdraw to the wagons.	10
30	190	Therefore it is mercenaries, preferably those less skilled, who will have to be thinned".	10
31	33	"They are mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "and the dregs of such, chosen for skill and venality, brought from a hundred cities, from the ruins and rubble of Ar, from the alleys of Besnit and Harfax, from the wharves of Brundisium and Schendi, men without Home Stones, thieves, outlaws, murderers, ou...	10
31	42	"They are mercenaries," said Lord Nishida.	10
32	10	Matters had been explained by crier to hundreds of mercenaries.	10
32	14	Some mercenaries, I supposed, who did not die on the beach, would be forced back, wading, fighting, into the river, to die there and be washed downstream.	10
32	20	In response to this signal a long column of men, in rows of ten, mercenaries, armed and accoutered, came about the platform, made its way to the beach, spread itself along the water's edge, in five rows of pairs, and then turned, so that these rows of pairs, of which there was a large number, faced ...	10
32	63	From behind the platform, Pani archers rushed forth, standing between the platform and the mercenaries.	10
32	73	"They are mercenaries," cried the herald.	10
32	101	I watched the mercenaries filing past the coffer, each receiving his coin.	10
36	11	Pani, too, were with us, and a number of mariners, and mercenaries.	10
38	111	As we were speaking, numerous Pani, and mercenaries, were ascending the ramp, boarding.	10
38	249	Most of the men, artisans, storesmen, smiths, tarnsters, Pani, mercenaries, and others, marshaled and hastened by Aëtius, had now boarded.	10
43	97	"He entered the camp, and slew two mercenaries, guards, before the tent of Lord Okimoto, as proof of prowess, and demanded to be presented to his Excellency.	10
43	123	"Many of our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "have chosen names for convenience, to distance themselves from records of crime and blood, to elude pursuers, to escape justice, to begin new lives, such things".	10

Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	44	Her patronage was mostly that of ruffians, mariners between voyages, their coins now mostly spent, left in the higher taverns, drifters, wanderers, peddlers, exiles, some mercenaries, willing to unsheathe their blades for a bit of silver, or a fight.	10
1	322	The eventual outcome of these machinations, hailing policies of concession, appeasement, and surrender as victories of beneficent statecraft, as demands of an overdue justice, was the conquest of Ar, and her occupation by Cosians, those of Tyros, and large numbers of mercenaries.	10
1	334	Mercenaries exacted "taxes" with impunity amongst Merchants.	10
3	25	Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a Home Stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangerous men, mercenaries, of a sort, recruited by mysterious leaders, in an obscure cause...	10
3	627	'Corso, Corso, mercenaries!' Corso, I gathered, was the fellow to whom I had first presented myself, he whom I took to be in command at this point of the perimeter.	10
3	628	It seems that a group of mercenaries, perhaps fifteen or twenty, with some women in tow, roped together by the neck, had determined to take advantage of the distraction my presence had brought about at the perimeter.	10
3	632	They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city.	10
3	640	Looking up, frenziedly, I saw some other mercenaries, several, rushing toward the perimeter, and, some hundreds of yards away, guardsmen of Ar, regulars, hastening to the perimeter.	10
3	643	I suspected that many were proscribed free women who had stripped, knelt, and embonded themselves before mercenaries, perhaps only shortly before, that they might be saved, that they might be taken from the city, if only as nude slaves.	10
3	660	I soon realized that the bolts flighted from the crossbows had the mercenaries as targets, and not the women.	10
3	731	To be sure, it had been the port at which the invasion fleets of Cos and Tyros, unopposed, even welcomed, had made their landfall on the continent, thence to rendezvous with numerous companies of mercenaries, for the march to Ar.	10
4	80	"Several from Cos are numbered amongst our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida.	10
9	55	And of others, mariners, soldiers, artisans, and such, perhaps two thousand, these recruited variously, many, particularly the mercenaries, in Brundisium, often fugitives from the restoration in Ar.	10
9	70	I gathered that tarns might be unknown at the World's End; else why would they be aboard? The Pani seemed to have no shortage of resources, given their financing of the ship of Tersites, the hiring of hundreds of mercenaries, the purchasing of slaves, and such.	10
9	399	They were a motley lot, mostly mercenaries, several from the free companies, many once of the occupation forces in Ar.	10
22	169	Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death.	10
23	115	Our men, who are mercenaries, and hired as such, save for the Pani, prefer to choose their wars intelligently, to weigh odds, to balance gold carefully against blood, to fight for a presumed victory, with loot and pay in the offing, not for defeat, not for the chains of a slave, not for a likely dea...	10
25	70	I had no doubt that our mercenaries were formidable, but they were no more so, or less so, one supposed, than the forces likely to be arrayed against them.	10
26	8	A robust exploratory force of some five hundred men, a hundred Pani warriors of the men of Lord Temmu, and four hundred of our mercenaries, our armsmen, had been sent forth eight days ago.	10
29	22	The men were mostly mercenaries, fee fighters, and they had already riches.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	1114	Men sometimes became embroiled, as mercenaries, in the disputes between the laundering houses, but the routine policing of territories was generally entrusted to slaves.	10
29	188	"Mercenaries who know nothing, who do not look beyond their fee," he said, "or fools who believe they would be enriched by a Kur victory, in a world to be shared".	10
33	38	I supposed it was unlikely that large quantities of gold or silver, for obtaining goods, would be carried in the wagons, as such an indiscretion, difficult to conceal, would be likely to attract the attention not only of outlaw bands but of some of the less savory "free companies," assemblages of me...	10
48	145	I supposed mercenaries, even if armed, if they knew at all of this small war, would not regard it as their affair.	10
49	163	It might also be noted in passing, that considerable wealth had been amassed by Kurii and their agents in the Cave, by means of which mercenaries were to be paid and subversion purchased in various cities.	10

Book 32. (24 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	278	Many had fallen slave following their flight from the city, females alone and defenseless in the fields, and many had purchased their conduct from the city from escaping mercenaries, at the cost of the collar itself, mercenaries unwilling to be burdened by free women.	10
4	203	They had attracted attention, for their apparent wealth, for buying slaves and hiring ships, and taking men into fee, many of them refugees, armed mercenaries, escaped from Ar, given the sudden, devastating, bloody restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, sometimes spoken of as the Ubar of Ubars.	10
6	87	Bands of mercenaries not quartered outside the city often had to fight their way to the countryside.	10
6	154	They were not reluctant, it seems, to recruit vagabonds, likely bandits, rogue mercenaries, cutthroats, boasters, liars, gamblers, and thieves.	10
8	47	Ships were being hired, and men recruited, not merely shipsmen, pilots, helmsmen, oarsmen, and such, but men-at-arms, as well, hundreds, mercenaries, many lacking Home Stones, many perhaps indistinguishable from ruffians, vagabonds, brigands, thieves, and cutthroats.	10
8	389	Some small groups of armsmen, probably mercenaries, drifted past us.	10
8	415	Several men, mercenaries, docksmen, and others, had gathered in the vicinity of the coffle.	10
9	267	This account ignited protest, and an angry muttering, amongst some of the men, perhaps mercenaries, and perhaps some regulars, lost from their units, unable to rejoin them Tears coursed down the cheeks of more than one man.	10
13	2	I am not even sure that they respect their mercenaries, and laborers.	10
14	58	It was by means of some of these that he usually communicated with the common mercenaries.	10
14	187	The men brought here were mostly mercenaries, strong, rough men, many of whom were fugitives from the forces which had garrisoned and exploited Ar.	10
14	203	Some days ago there had been a failed attempt on the life of Lord Nishida, which attempt had been shortly followed by a presumably coordinated, large-scale attack on the camp, one beaten away, on the ground, by Pani and mercenaries, and in the air, by Lord Nishida's tarn cavalry, commanded by the ta...	10
15	434	Shipcamp, though garrisoned with its mercenaries, was less a training and housing facility than a shipyard.	10
16	19	Most of us were mercenaries, some mariners, many ne'er-do-wells, some landless men, and some fugitives.	10
23	150	It was easy to see why even sturdy men, harsh fellows, callous fellows, mercenaries, even seasoned mariners, might flee.	10
26	132	"Should you not be accompanied, by mercenaries, by several men, by Pani?" I asked.	10
43	992	In his group, counting himself as one, there were ten mariners, and five mercenaries.	10
43	996	We expected a small group of Panther Girls, and perhaps one or two mercenaries".	10
43	1116	The mariners and their five mercenaries rummaged through the packs, and relieved the bound prisoners of their wallets and whatever paraphernalia they deemed worth gathering in.	10
43	1122	We then watched the leader of the mariners, with his men, and attending mercenaries, and four neck-roped slaves, leave the camp.	10
47	85	I supposed she would be unlikely to move east on the Alexandra for in that direction lay Shipcamp and if she moved west that would put her in the wake of the mariners and mercenaries who had surprised Genserich's camp.	10
49	17	"They bought a large number of women and, I think, not primarily for the use of mariners and mercenaries, but for sale, or use as trade goods, somewhere, where I am not sure, presumably wherever the great ship makes its eventual landfall, doubtless one of the farther islands, for who would dare vent...	10
52	236	But near the foot of the stairway there were several men, mostly mercenaries.	10
52	487	Both Genserich and Master Axel had independently sought the Panther Women, Genserich from the south, from the vicinity of the Laurius, to preclude their reporting to forces gathered at the mouth of the Alexandra, and Master Axel, from the north, to locate them as spies and summon assistance, were he...	10

Book 33. (22 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	37	Following the defeat of the exploratory force Lords Nishida and Okimoto had retained some three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred mercenaries and mariners, the latter most recruited in, or in the vicinity of, the great port, Brundisium.	10
1	231	"Our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "do not know our ways nor share them".	10
2	33	I ranked high amongst the mercenaries, and certainly, as least as I understood it, in the cavalry, regarded as so crucial to the strategic intentions of the shogun.	10
6	27	Might they not, too, perhaps by the recruitment of mercenaries, assuming the requisite voyage could be made, manage to achieve a military balance with the numerically larger forces of Lord Yamada? Perhaps, particularly if a new arm were incorporated into their arsenal, an unprecedented arm, unpreced...	10
6	169	They removed the silken covers and we noted the hampers were heaped with fruits, vegetables, cakes of rice, smoked fish, layers of dried, salted meat, and stoppered vessels which I supposed might contain sake, and perhaps, considering the continental mercenaries in the camp, none of whom had been pe...	10
6	226	"Recall that I served you faithfully and well, both as guard and as liaison to mercenaries".	10
7	93	Not only might their presence be distractive, for who does not fail to note the flanks and figures of slaves, their glances, and the turns of their heads, but, too, it was feared that, if they were about, openly, rather like tabuk amongst starving larls, the mercenaries might seize them and fight am...	10
7	200	"Amongst hirelings, fighters for fee, mercenaries?" I said.	10
7	378	"The mercenaries would not," I said.	10
9	74	At the same time more than a thousand mercenaries streamed forth from the barracks, sheds, ancillary buildings, and the castle itself, crying out a hundred war cries from a hundred cities.	10
11	166	"They will be ronin, men of the waves, men with no lord, mercenaries, free swords".	10
14	64	You took soldiers and mercenaries and forged tarnsmen.	10
30	191	"It is well known there are several barbarians, mercenaries, amplifying the forces of Lord Temmu.	10
31	126	"Mercenaries have no loyalty, save only to gold or rice".	10
41	96	There are several deserters in the camp, barbarian mercenaries, fled from the holding of Temmu.	10
45	77	"To balance the matter," I said, "foreign mercenaries, and, more importantly, tarns, hitherto unknown in the islands, were to be supplied to Temmu".	10
46	14	It was estimated, given the hardships of the early spring, the rigors of the first siege, the threat of the second siege, the overwhelming superiority in numbers enjoyed by Lord Yamada, and the fearful advent of the iron dragon in the skies over the holding of Temmu, that better than two hundred mer...	10
48	65	"The mercenaries, Torgus and Lysander," he said.	10
57	68	Lords Nishida and Okimoto had at their disposal, from the continent, something like three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred barbarian mercenaries and mariners.	10
61	336	Some mercenaries, intent on returning to the continent, were boarding, as well, packs on their back.	10
61	686	Both Torgus and Lysander had elected to return to the continent, with many other mercenaries, on the River Dragon.	10
61	1038	Some mercenaries rushed past me, hurrying to the gangplank.	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	15	He was, in effect, a strong man, of considerable economic power, who, by means of a coalition of personal supporters, mercenaries, and the military, controlled the city.	10
26	69	Amongst applicants might be found the dishonored and failed, the disappointed and abandoned, the despised and hated, the hopeless and resigned, the mocked and ridiculed, ones who have fled from Home Stones, who have repudiated codes, perhaps fugitives who seek a sanctuary behind dark walls, possibly...	10
61	749	"They are then," she said, "mercenaries".	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	117	"Following the defeat of Ar by Cos, Tyros, and their allies, mercenaries and others, and before the restoration of Marlenus, thousands of women of Ar were taken as spoils and distributed throughout hundreds of markets".	10
3	79	And their shameless women, their faces as naked as those of slaves, abet these crimes, and, fearing only that they might not profit in their turn, barter, as the shallow mercenaries they are, their smiles and favors for gain".	10
43	69	"We do not carry mercenaries".	10

Book 36. (95 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
41	23	In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whol...	10
53	55	Given the unexpected action of the Dorna, its inadvertent plunging into the ranks of the mercenaries, scattering all and crushing many, and the ensuing behavior of the injured, perhaps maddened, beast, war was far from the minds of most of the mercenaries, that despite the urgings and howling of cer...	10
3	70	Perhaps, even, they might be mercenaries, professional soldiers.	10
19	84	They were borne, I noted, not by slaves, but free men who had more the look of mercenaries than bearers.	10
36	130	Following the withdrawal of the corsair fleet from Daphna, after the Daphna incident, many mercenaries left the corsair fleet, and few enlisted to take their places.	10
36	133	Mercenaries are again taking fee for participating in dark enterprises.	10
36	135	"If these mercenaries are not mariners and are not intended to be risked against villages, one wonders as to the purpose of their recruitment," I said.	10
36	227	That mercenaries were now being recruited afresh in Sybaris also suggested the likely prospect of such an action.	10
37	31	"Well," said Thurnock, "I do not think that many of these fellows about, even the rough, coarse fellows who may be corsairs or mercenaries, are likely to tell you what you want to know, whether, or when, Mytilene is to be attacked".	10
37	32	"I suspect that there are few corsairs or mercenaries on the piers," I said.	10
39	43	"For all we know," said Thurnock, "the mercenaries are already at the rendezvous point".	10
40	83	"This is a formidable force of perhaps two thousand men, mercenaries, supported by seven ships.	10
41	17	Cos and Tyros are essentially naval powers, and, traditionally, rely on continental mercenaries when faced with warfare in the field.	10
41	22	Lastly, the enemy were hastily recruited mercenaries, not intensively trained troops, not disciplined troops, perhaps having the same Home Stone, troops familiar to one another, troops having confidence in themselves and their officers.	10
41	38	One also supposes that the enemy, which largely consisted of mercenaries, knew enough of the facts of warfare to be disinclined to participate in so perilous an endeavor.	10
41	71	On the same day, several hundred mercenaries, who had been landed earlier somewhere north of the harbor, moving overland, invested Mytilene.	10
41	91	Shortly thereafter they were shackled and put to work, with mercenaries, on the first and, later, the second, of two siege ditches, by which the town was then twice encircled.	10
41	95	We were looking toward the many tents of the main encampment of the mercenaries, some two hundred yards behind the second of the two siege ditches.	10
41	227	"Too, we are dealing with mercenaries, not disciplined troops, used to labor, as in building ditched and palisaded fortress camps, as well as fighting.	10
42	126	"Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking.	10
42	127	Outside the gate I could hear, too, cries of consternation, as our men on the wall, those above the gate, hurled heavy stones down upon the startled mercenaries, crowded together outside the gate.	10
42	130	Three mercenaries had been trapped between the leaves of the great gate.	10
43	9	Their informants will be confused, distraught mercenaries, fled back in the darkness from the closed gate of Mytilene.	10
43	110	The three catapults, mighty war engines, were aligned several yards behind the inner ditch, between the ditch and the camp of the mercenaries, a hundred or so yards beyond.	10
43	146	Mercenaries, it seemed, as I had expected, were more interested in preserving their goods than in rushing off, possibly at the risk of their lives, to investigate what might be amiss with ponderous siege equipment.	10
43	148	I hoped my stratagem would prove fruitful, that of bringing about a scaling attack on Mytilene, which presumably would be unsuccessful and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, losses which mercenaries would be unlikely to accept with equanimity.	10
44	17	These simple facts were lost on no one, particularly mercenaries.	10
44	21	Arrows, too, might be fired, largely with impunity, given the crenellations of the parapet, picking targets as they might present themselves, often mercenaries trying to advance ladders to the walls.	10
44	54	I suspect that the ruses of 'pretended traitors' and 'seeming weaknesses' had done much to dishearten the mercenaries.	10
44	56	As most mercenaries fight for loot and pay, their allegiance is likely to be less to the cause of their lord than to his purse.	10
44	81	"This morning, in the Builder's Glass," I said, "we saw a large number of mercenaries congregated about the high tents in the distance.	10
44	100	Thus, supplies and transport, removed from the harbor, could not be seized by the mercenaries.	10
44	101	Moreover, should a mutiny be mounted, the corsair ships need only withdraw, leaving the mercenaries stranded on Chios".	10
44	113	The most obvious compromise would be one in which the command would manage to save face, seeming to have preserved power and surrendered nothing, while the mercenaries would, in effect, achieve their own aim, the aim of the most loot with the least possible risk".	10
45	25	Many of the mercenaries who had passed the outer ditch remained in its vicinity, crouched down, covering themselves with their large, round shields of leather, rimmed and bossed with bronze.	10
45	34	Clearly the mercenaries did not fear decimation.	10
45	50	The mercenaries, obviously, given the nature of their last 'attack', did not fear decimation.	10
45	122	The first act was the surprise of, and murder of, the tunnel guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted at our end of the tunnel, that tunnel which had been opened in the house of Tarchon, that through which mercenaries had sought to steal into the camp and overcome the gate guard, opening the gate to ...	10
47	2	Within two days, the mercenaries, surrounded and beleaguered, harassed, shut off from the countryside, and sustaining dreadful losses, had withdrawn to the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
47	5	The mercenaries, on the other hand, in such a position, were effectively pinned in place, denied access to supplies which might otherwise have been seized in the countryside.	10
47	6	When contingents of mercenaries would leave their ditched fortress to attack the peasants, they found they could not close with them, for the peasants would withdraw before them, leading them farther from their fellows and isolating them from support, where, soon, ambushed and wearied, surrounded an...	10
47	7	Exacerbating the predicament of the mercenaries was that the range of the peasant bow exceeded that of the crossbow, allowing the peasants to, in effect, remain out of range of the shorter, heavier, quarrels while being able to discharge their own weapons with comparative impunity, and the almost in...	10
47	9	I, and others, my men and the fighters of Mytilene, from the town walls, watched the mercenaries' harried retreat to the sea, through a corridor flanked by lifted shields.	10
47	10	The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships.	10
48	3	The bodies of the dead mercenaries, gathered together by men wearing scarves about their faces, had been, or would be, stripped, placed in small boats, and carried out to sea, to be disposed of in locales soon to teem with welcoming sea life.	10
48	107	"Why would Tarchon have been killed by the mercenaries?" I asked.	10
48	110	"The affair of the tunnel turned out badly for the mercenaries, costing them men and, soon, by means of the same tunnel, in your attack, the loss of the great catapults.	10
48	111	On whose side was Tarchon? How could the mercenaries know? Might he not be a patriot of Mytilene? He doubtless told them of our shortage of supplies, but their scouts doubtless, too, reported the sounds of singing and feasting from within the walls.	10
48	113	Had Tarchon known of the gathering and rising of the Peasants? Was he trying to falsely inspirit the mercenaries, lulling them into patience and quiescence, holding them in place to be slaughtered?" "Interesting," I said.	10
48	131	"Mercenaries, in their vengeance, in their haste and fury," said Thrasymedes, "did this dreadful thing".	10
48	132	I did not doubt that mercenaries had been guilty of destroying the instrument, probably before Tarchon's very eyes, before his impalement.	10
49	139	"Mercenaries suffered grievous losses," said Clitus, "and soon, as they could, under fire, those who could, sought to avail themselves of the hospitality of the corsair fleet".	10
50	21	Almost at the same time as the impact the early morning fog parted and, briefly, I glimpsed several tents, many men, some seizing up weapons, some great heaps of stone blocks, of the sort which had been used in the great catapults of the mercenaries near Mytilene, and a flare of fire to the right.	10
50	56	I would guess that the mercenaries associated ships with feedings, an easy enough thing to do.	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	83	"The mercenaries are heartless and cruel," said Sakim.	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
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	68	We could see files of helmeted men, mercenary warriors, not mariners, doubtless mercenaries embarked from the beach near Mytilene.	10
51	119	I guessed that there might be two hundred and fifty to three hundred men in the water, as the corsair ships were crowded with evacuated mercenaries.	10
51	123	I recalled that it was not far from this point that, in clearing the battlefield, bodies of dead mercenaries, as that of Tarchon, had been disposed of at sea.	10
51	146	The second longboat was now amongst the floating debris, but four mercenaries, with spears, were thrusting at those trying to clamber aboard.	10
51	159	It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore.	10
51	197	"They are mercenaries, killers," said Sakim.	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
52	108	"They were doubtless heavily crewed," I said, "and had the services of transported mercenaries, making possible frequent shifts of rowers".	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	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	53	The faces of many of the mercenaries were pale with horror.	10
53	57	The hill-like mound of flesh which had risen under the Dorna, reacting to its inadvertent, bloody intrusion, had shrunk down, considerably, almost immediately, a moment after the Dorna's plunge amongst the mercenaries.	10
53	89	Mercenaries, outraged but no longer discomfited, shouted, brandished their weapons, and shook their fists.	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	157	"I do not think the enemy will mind expending his mercenaries in that endeavor," said Sakim.	10
53	161	The pay of mercenaries is often much in the form of whatever booty they can manage to seize and carry.	10
53	298	The mercenaries fear it.	10
55	61	"I expect they will be lavish in expending their mercenaries," I said.	10
56	15	"I want it closer," I said, "and I want the mercenaries to mass together, crowded, shield to shield, intent on naught but war, each hoping for his place on a ladder, each eager for a kill".	10
56	32	The war cry of the mercenaries was deafening.	10
57	10	"The decks are crowded with mercenaries!" said a man.	10
57	27	Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart.	10
57	33	Several mercenaries had plunged into the sea with hand axes, and, reaching and climbing upward in the rolling sea, assisted by oars thrust forth from the corsair, dipping and rising, had clambered onto the few remaining oars of the Tesephone which were still holding the corsair at bay.	10
57	46	The oars of the enemy, to which the mercenaries had clung, had been withdrawn, forcing them from the oars, into the water.	10
57	74	Mercenaries were trying to clamber over the corsair ship's railings, to force themselves to the muchly leveled deck of the Dorna.	10
57	116	Almost at the same time dozens of mercenaries, unopposed, uttering war cries, leapt over the rail of the corsair ship on our starboard side, and landed on the smooth, glistening deck, only to cry out in dismay and alarm, as they slipped, skidded, and lost their footing.	10
57	118	Other mercenaries, dozens on the corsair ship, milled behind its railing, unwilling to follow their fellows, much aware of the hazard of placing themselves on so treacherous a surface.	10
57	120	In this interval several of our men, moving the screens forward like walls, thrust mercenaries from the slick deck.	10
57	121	Some other mercenaries, comprehending their predicament, had already cast aside their shields and weapons and had crawled or rolled to the railless edge of the Tesephone and plunged overboard, preferring the jeopardy of Thassa to the near certitude of extermination.	10
57	131	"Mercenaries can take only so much," said Clitus, folding his net.	10
57	161	"No!" I heard, a long scream from the water, presumably from one of the mercenaries forced from our deck, or one of those who had earlier preferred the risk of Thassa to that of our crew.	10
57	173	Instantly spreading fire, like a striking, scarlet snake, raged about the ankles and legs of the mercenaries.	10
57	175	We knew, as the mercenaries presumably would not, that on a flat deck coated with a layer of oil, that the flames, after their initial flaring, would provide little impedance to the business of war.	10
57	180	It allayed fear in some of my men and the sight of them being presumably so protected against fire would most likely further alarm mercenaries, realizing they lacked such putative protection.	10
57	218	We watched the corsair ship take aboard her mercenaries, one by one.	10