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Peasants

Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	51	It seemed we had little to fear, and we had passed several of the pasang stones that line the side of the highway without seeing anything more threatening than a line of peasants carrying brushwood on their backs, and a pair of hurrying Initiates.	10
11	43	Not only warriors were in evidence, but tradesmen and artisans, peddlers and peasants, camp women and slaves.	10
14	30	"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that the...	10
17	50	There were a variety of smaller, more intricate concessions desired by the Initiates and granted by Pa-Kur, mostly having to do with the provisioning of the city and the protection of its tradesmen and peasants.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	40	None of course would accept a lower caste, and there were lower castes, the Caste of Peasants, for example, the most basic caste of all Gor.	10
8	11	Even the Caste of Peasants regarded itself as the "Ox on which the Home Stone Rests" and could seldom be encouraged to leave their narrow strips of land, which they and their fathers before them had owned and made fruitful.	10
17	130	Wondering, he watched us, for one of the men, of the Caste of Peasants, had begun to hum a plowing song, and, one by one, the others joined him.	10
19	90	"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles.	10
23	100	The slaves, forewarned of their approach by other slaves or by impoverished peasants, supplanted by the Great Farms, would have made good their departure, only to strike when ready, when unexpected and in strength.	10
26	25	Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
33	115	Suppose that even now if they knew the truth—what would change? Would I really expect them—at least on the whole—to burn their robes, to surrender their claims to secret knowledge and powers, to pick up the hoes of Peasants, the needles of the Cloth Workers, to bend their energi...	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	10	Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage.	10
1	45	Yet the prairie itself was not afire, only the fields of peasants, the fields of men who had cultivated the soil; the prairie grass, such that it might graze the ponderous bosk, had been spared.	10
2	58	I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.	10
21	47	Peasants streamed through them returning to their fields and also hundreds of townsfolk for an outing, some of them to walk even as far as the remains of the old Tuchuk camp, hunting for souvenirs.	10
25	301	Even peasants pick up such women, using them in the fields, until they can be sold to the first passing slaver.	10

Book 6. (22 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...	10
1	29	It was true that the long bow is a weapon of peasants, who make and use them, sometimes with great efficiency.	10
1	32	Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be.	10
1	34	For example, I had even heard arguments to the effect that peasants used the long bow only because they lacked the manufacturing capability to produce crossbows, as though they could not have traded their goods or sold animals to obtain crossbows, if they wished.	10
3	147	"It is with this," he said, "that peasants defend their holdings".	10
3	160	"Are you of the peasants?" asked Ho-Hak of me.	10
3	163	"This bow, though," said one of the men holding my neck ropes, "is of the Peasants".	10
3	164	"I am not of the Peasants," I said.	10
3	167	"It is a weapon of peasants," said the man with the headband, he who had been unable to bend the bow.	10
3	180	"There are peasants who live along the edges of the delta, particularly to the east".	10
3	188	"We are not peasants," said the man with the headband.	10
3	336	It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals.	10
8	361	"I am of the peasants," he said proudly.	10
8	376	Again I regarded the yellow-haired giant, of the peasants.	10
8	388	"Of the Peasants!" "You are, I expect," I said, "a master of the great bow".	10
8	680	"I am of the peasants," Thurnock told her.	10
8	682	"Only of the peasants?" she whispered.	10
8	683	"The Peasants," cried out Thurnock, his voice thundering over the marsh, "are the ox on which the Home Stone rests!" "But I am of the Rencers!" she wailed.	10
8	684	The Rencers are often thought to be a higher caste than the Peasants.	10
9	418	Then Thura, to my amazement, though a rence girl, dancing, revealed herself similarly to the great Thurnock, he only of the peasants, and he, with a great laugh, swept her from her feet and carried her from the room.	10
13	225	Near him, leaning against the wall behind him, wrapped in leather to protect it from the dampness, was a yellow bow, the long bow of the peasants.	10
18	630	I had little doubt that having been taught the might of the great bow in the marshes, when I had freed them from the slavers in the barges, they had traded for the weapons and now had made them their own, and proudly, as much as the peasants.	10

Book 7. (13 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	85	Indeed, other wagons, we gathered, merchant wagons and those of peasants, too, were blocked in the streets.	10
13	501	They might have been a source of protein, but rather than touch such things to my lips I would have preferred to starve! It was easier to steal meat, good bosk meat, from ignorant peasants! I lay on my back, drowsy, looking up at the bright sky between the interlaced branches canopied over my head.	10
13	536	Then my heart sank! There must have been two hundred or more peasants, men, children and women, all shouting, and beating on their kettles or pans.	10
13	546	The peasants had stopped at the edge of the Ka-la-na thicket, in their great numbers.	10
13	559	The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance, the peasants standing at its edge, not moving.	10
13	562	How beautiful it was! The peasants did not pursue me.	10
13	568	I shook my head, no! No! I looked back toward the peasants.	10
13	637	Peasants were crowding about.	10
13	719	I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...	10
13	818	Peasants know well how to treat thieving wenches".	10
13	1161	"I think rather," said he, "I will give you to a village of peasants".	10
13	1162	I remembered the peasants, with their switches and sticks.	10
13	1168	I feared to be owned by peasants.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	5	Thurnock, of the Peasants, standing by me, handed me the glass.	10
4	16	I expect she would have more than she bargained for with great Thurnock, of the Peasants.	10
6	28	"It is not pleasant, I suspect," I said, "to belong to peasants".	10
22	865	Perhaps she would be, even, the slave of peasants.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	56	Huge, yellow-haired Thurnock, he of the peasants, master of the great bow, wished to play Kaissa with me.	10
2	196	Most of the people seemed poor, fishermen, sawyers, porters, peasants.	10
3	273	Many of the peasants, and fishermen, and other poor people, who had not found places in the temple, turned about.	10
10	664	Many marksmen, warriors, peasants, rencers, could have matched my shooting.	10

Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	34	Thurnus was a shaggy haired fellow, with yellow hair, big, broad-shouldered, large-handed, clearly in his bones and body of the peasants.	10
6	43	Thurnus, of the Peasants, of Tabuk's Ford, was one of the best known of the sleen breeders of Gor.	10
6	121	In the winters, which are not harsh at this latitude, such huts are covered on the outside with painted canvas or, among the richer peasants, with ornamented, painted bosk hides, protected and glossed with oil.	10
6	143	It was a common weapon among peasants.	10
6	176	In the fashion of the peasants he kept her.	10
7	47	New wells have been dug, peasants have moved into it.	10
8	62	But she was of the peasants, and I was only a slave.	10
8	290	I had seen them about, large, strapping girls, probably of the peasants, doubtless purchased for the performance of hard labor, in their rough, white tunics, with their rope collars.	10
9	665	I hated peasants.	10
9	994	"My master is Thurnus," I said, "caste leader in Tabuk's Ford, of the caste of peasants, one who makes fields fruitful and is, too, a trainer of sleen".	10
9	997	Sometimes this expression is applied, too, to peasants who are not actively engaged in such pursuits, as an honorific appellation.	10
9	1601	"In the name of Thurnus, he of the peasants, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford," said Thurnus, "I speak.	10
9	1612	The skill of Thurnus with the great bow was legendary, even among peasants.	10
9	1621	"I am of the peasants," he said.	10
9	1761	"Too, to earn the respect of peasants," said Thurnus, straightening up, retrieving his staff, his sandal tied, "the caste leader should be strong".	10
9	1890	It had been torn by the claw of a sleen, in the hand of Thurnus; the same claw, in the hand of Ladletender, had marked the arm of Thurnus; their bloods had mingled, though they were of the peasants and merchants.	10
10	16	I was pleased that he had not sold me to peasants.	10
11	387	"Before that?" "Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Peasants," I said.	10
20	372	He had made me serve him! He had made me love him, and had then, when it pleased him, his sport done, thrown me aside, giving me to peasants! A bold plan, relentless and terrible, formed in my mind.	10
27	143	He had been of the peasants.	10
27	167	To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations.	10
27	209	"And you are of the peasants!" He flung his staff to Bran Loort, who caught it.	10
27	244	"And I," called Clitus Vitellius, "will fee the second round of cups!" "Cheers for the peasants!" cried a man, with bloody face.	10
27	245	"Cheers for the peasants!" they cried.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	180	Two peasants walked by, in their rough tunics, knee-length, of the white wool of the Hurt.	10
3	298	In such tents it is not unusual for peasants to lie crowded, side by side, with captains and merchants.	10
11	15	Some nine men among our forces were of the peasants.	10
11	49	They had not at that time, however, realized that nine of our men, peasants, gripped bows of yellow Ka-la-na wood.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	487	It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta.	10
9	40	"I do not think it is the peasants".	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	14	To be sure, certain skills tend to be associated traditionally with certain castes, a fact which is clearly indicated in caste titles, such as the leather workers, the metal workers, the singers, and the peasants.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	55	I stepped aside as a string of eight peasants, with bundles of Sa-Tarna grain on their shoulders, made their way toward the wharves.	10
7	79	He was of the peasants.	10
7	83	"Peasants are not too fond, generally, of free persons from the high cities," said one of them.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	10	"Does Tyros move?" I asked blond-haired Thurnock, that giant of a man, he of the peasants, who had come to rouse me.	10
17	462	Peasants may even use a length of rope.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	58	I would suppose that almost any Gorean, even of the Peasants, who wishes to learn to read or write could do so, but many find these skills of little interest or use.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1153	I stepped down into the longboat and, shaking him by the shoulder, awakened Thurnock, the blond giant, he of the peasants.	10
2	281	Again and again one meets pompous merchants, swaggering soldiers, fortune tellers, parasites, peasants and slaves.	10
10	437	Too often, however, it seemed they were merely sold to peasants in distant villages as sex and work slaves.	10

Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	20	Needless to say, these movements, particularly when they intrude into more settled areas, often bring the folk of the laagers into conflict with others, peasants and, of course, shortly thereafter, townsfolk and city dwellers who depend on the peasants for their foodstuffs.	10
2	15	Most Gorean peasants live in such villages, many of them palisaded, which they leave in the morning to tend their fields, to which they return at night after their day's labors.	10
2	181	"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Mistress!" wept Feiqa, her head down, doing obeisance to one who was a thousand times, nay, infinitely, her superior, the free woman of the peasants.	10
2	208	Secondly, it is not unusual either for many peasants to keep animals in the house, usually verr or bosk, sometimes tarsk, at least in the winter.	10
3	394	"Even with small strike forces, disguised as peasants?" "Perhaps not," he said.	10
3	407	Peasants, unlike women of the cities, tend to be very practical about such matters.	10
4	113	"Many folks come to the wagons, as you know, informers, slavers, tradesmen, metal workers, craftsmen, peasants who will barter produce for skins and trinkets, and so on.	10
8	104	These women were of the peasants.	10
8	152	Even Tula, of the peasants, was pale.	10
16	1457	"Would you like to be a naked slave of peasants, a community slave, in a peasant village," I asked, "and wear a rope collar, and be taught to hoe weeds and pull a plow, and spend your nights in a sunken cage?" "No!" she said.	10
17	9	Peasants came there to sell produce.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	12	In the morning the peasants come in from the countryside and spread out their blankets, and arrange their baskets of produce.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	354	Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among Priest-Kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, the rumbling of their chariots, the trampl...	10
2	318	"Would you have had us spend the night on the road, like peasants?" demanded the third woman.	10
21	430	In the fields they are often put to the plow and must struggle and strain, aching and sweating, exhausted, pitting their small weight desperately against the traces of their harnessing, their feet slipping in the dirt, to turn the black, resistant soil under the lash of impatient peasants.	10
24	733	Tarsk is found upon the golden plates of Ubars, amongst the triumphs of their chefs, as well as on the simple wooden trenchers of peasants.	10
24	884	"Of the Peasants," she said.	10
24	897	She had very dark hair and very light skin, and, for a girl who had once been of the Peasants, was surprisingly slim.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	133	Peasants, incidentally, are famous for being strict with their slaves.	10
3	136	To be sure, what many of the urban slaves do not understand is that the peasants who buy in the rural markets are seldom looking for their sort of woman, the normal type of beautiful slave commonly sold in the urban markets, but rather for a different sort of woman, one who appeals more to their own...	10
14	224	Peasants from different villages sometimes combine forces to engage in this form of hunting.	10

Book 25. (19 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	378	"A few pitiful regiments and levies of peasants?" asked another.	10
2	229	"Probably peasants," said Marcus.	10
2	234	I admired peasants.	10
2	341	"I hear music outside, the instruments of peasants, I believe," said Marcus, turning to me.	10
3	58	Some peasants were to one side.	10
3	89	Archery is popular with the peasants and combats with the great staff.	10
3	92	More than one urban girl, formerly a perfumed slave, sold into the countryside, who held herself above peasants, despising them for their supposed filth and stink, has found herself, kneeling and muchly roped, among such a set of prizes.	10
3	537	Peasants are not always tolerant of gentlewomen.	10
3	541	Sometimes they are asked if they rejoice to now be owned by peasants.	10
3	898	Mostly, as I have suggested, these folks were of the peasants, but, among them were representatives of many other castes, as well, mostly refugees from Torcadino and its environs, in the west, and from the vicinity of Ar's Station, in the north, folks who had fled before the marches of Cos.	10
3	988	I took him as likely to be of the peasants.	10
3	1056	But most, peasants, seemed to be gathering together their goods.	10
8	14	Indeed, most deliveries, as of produce from the country, not borne on the backs of animals of peasants, are made at night or in the early morning.	10
15	143	He had been of the peasants.	10
16	33	This was only to be expected as many of the vendors in the market were peasants, come in with produce from outside the walls.	10
16	230	I then saw it tied shut over his head, and saw it being dragged behind two peasants toward the far side of the market, to the area where the butchers and meat dressers have their stalls.	10
18	37	"Do not insult the caste of peasants," I said.	10
20	439	I have known peasants who could not do as well.	10
23	413	"It is not as though a village of peasants had hoed suls for it, for a century, or anything".	10

Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	283	"Or perhaps, less," she said, "you are one of those boorish lasses from the fields, that you are of the Peasants".	10
12	286	The Peasants were generally regarded as the lowest of the castes, though why that should be I have never been able to determine.	10
12	289	So, if that is the case, and the Peasants is indeed the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, then it would seem, at least in my understanding, to be a very important caste.	10
12	290	In any event, it would seem to me that the Peasants is surely one of, if not the, most significant of the castes of this world.	10
12	297	"Yes," she said, "you are of the Peasants".	10
12	299	I trusted she would not fall into the clutches of peasants.	10
12	308	"Do not be sensitive that you are only of the Peasants," said the woman.	10
12	318	"As you are merely of the Peasants," said she, "you must fear, terribly".	10
12	982	"Is she not of the Peasants?" called the free woman from her cage, angrily, suspended over the dark waters.	10
13	80	"She told me she was of the Peasants!" said the free woman.	10
13	90	"And was she never even of the Peasants?" asked the free woman.	10
15	116	"You are in the garments of the Peasants," said the leader.	10
15	117	"I am of the Peasants," said the prisoner.	10
15	136	I gathered that he was of the Peasants as he, apparently, wore the rags of such garments.	10
31	696	"You are of the Peasants.	10
31	699	You are of the Peasants.	10
31	701	You are of the Peasants.	10
31	702	Remember you are of the Peasants".	10
31	705	I am of the Peasants".	10
36	29	"Peasants are beasts," said a man.	10

Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	778	Where you are, specifically, in the city of Ar is in one of her most crowded and poorest districts, the district of Metellus, and in the Kettle Market, within walking distance of the Peasants' Gate".	10
18	826	To be sure, the man who was fourth in the line, a line of some ten or eleven men, was a very large man, an unusually large man, but many of those of the Peasants are well built, even massive.	10
20	688	She wondered if any of her sisters of Earth, brought as she to Gor to serve masters, served in villages, as lovely domestic beasts of peasants.	10
21	71	Merchants, dignitaries, soldiers, travelers, artisans, peddlers, tradesmen, citizens, peasants, villagers, townspeople and others were all making their way into the vicinity of the city, some setting up tents and camps, others renting space either within the city, or about the walls.	10
25	1001	The fellow who had halted the auctioneer was plainly clad, in a simple brown tunic, and was surely of low caste, perhaps of the peasants, or a drayman of sorts.	10
26	1113	Do not peasants upon occasion hide their daughters? Do not the men of the Tahari order their slaves to the tents upon the approach of strangers, and so on? On Gor, it might be mentioned, that some of these things might be better understood, women tend to be regarded as goods and prizes, as loot and ...	10
27	2104	"So it is peasants out there," said another soldier.	10
27	2106	"Peasants are commonly placid, even hospitable, until aroused".	10
27	2112	"Then it is not peasants," said a soldier.	10
27	3310	Some peasants, out of a village, use tightly twisted ropes of grass, but one needs a good deal of this, as it burns very quickly.	10

Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	81	"We are not peasants".	10
26	83	"How else do you suppose ten thousand small villages from Torvaldsland to Turia, from Thentis to Schendi, have retained the liberty of their Home Stones for centuries?" "We are not peasants," said Peisistratus.	10
26	84	"Would that you had less prejudice against the bows of peasants," said Cabot, "for they can follow and pierce a jard in flight".	10
36	69	"Peasants are not cowards," said Cabot.	10
53	50	She might be taken in the fields, and find herself owned by peasants, which is a quite unpleasant slavery; she might find herself placed in the mills, the laundries, or the mines, closely shackled, heavily burdened, half starved, and muchly whipped, or such.	10
74	107	The winner of the archery contest was one of the men of Peisistratus, who had originally been of the peasants, of the village of Rarir.	10
74	109	He could, reportedly, draw a bow with most peasants.	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	191	Surely the peasants, supposedly the lowest of all the castes, have this view.	10
5	510	"In any event," said a bearded fellow, "it seems he emerged from the Voltai, thought himself somehow of the Peasants, and labored with them".	10
16	124	The common quiver of the great bow, familiar to the peasants, would contain between twenty and thirty arrows.	10
33	95	It had to do, doubtless, with those left behind, not in the camp, not at the edge of the sea, but others, for whom they had fought, perhaps hundreds of vulnerable thousands of others, townsmen, retainers, peasants and such, in undefended districts, then perhaps at the undisputed mercy of some disapp...	10

Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	107	Peasants might be impressed as ashigaru, but, I suspected, from what I had seen earlier, many of the local peasants might have left their villages and fields, and withdrawn to the mountains.	10
1	281	But even so, it was not unknown in the lower castes, and I have encountered it even amongst the Peasants, the fundamental caste, the "Ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
1	319	Still not knowing his true identity he later escaped from Treve and made his way back to Ar, believing himself to be of the Peasants, and he lived for a time in a village in the vicinity of Ar, as one Peasant amongst others, accepting their hospitality, working in their fields.	10
1	355	To shorten the story, great Marlenus was recognized, it is said by a slave, in a line of Peasants, delivering suls within the city.	10
2	201	It was no wonder that that they were consulted by Ubars bearing baskets of gold, and simple Peasants, with a handful of suls.	10
3	250	Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th...	10
24	259	Perhaps some Peasants might buy them, to hoe suls, to pick beans, to swill tarsks, to draw the plow, to warm their feet in the winter.	10
26	32	I had no idea of how effective lower Pani, mostly peasants, impressed or enlisted as ashigaru, might be, as it was not their way of life, so to speak, as it seemed to be for higher Pani, such as the warriors of Lord Temmu, and Lords Nishida and Okimoto, but I was sure they could be trained, might be...	10
36	188	I did note, however, the brown and black of the Bakers, the black and gray of the Metal Worker, the brown of the Peasants, and several others.	10
36	418	And Lord Nishida is a daimyo, with villages, rice fields, peasants, and ashigaru.	10
36	495	There are Peasants who have never seen a written word.	10

Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	225	Even the Peasants, commonly regarded as the lowest of castes, regards itself proudly, and with justification, as "the ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
8	1410	My first master was Menon, of the Peasants.	10
8	1663	As he was of the Peasants, I supposed his Home Stone, the community stone, so to speak, not that of his domicile, would be that of some village in the environs of Ar.	10
12	133	Near him, similarly withdrawing, was a fellow in the brown of the Peasants, a bundle of the leafy vangis over his shoulder.	10
15	354	In another Ahn or so, some of the smaller gates would open, and many Peasants, with their baskets and sacks of fresh produce, would begin to make their way to the various markets in the city.	10
23	14	Had Trachinos been truly of the Peasants, as his garb suggested, he would have known that weapon, and not been without it.	10
50	63	Attempting to withdraw, they found the building surrounded by a large number of armed men, many armed with crossbows, and some, Peasants, armed with the great bow, the Peasant bow.	10
50	67	The rumors of this I heard in the city universally understood the event as the cornering of a large number of bandits by vengeful Peasants.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	241	"Laborers, common laborers, peasants, verr tenders," he said.	10
11	12	Among the peasants it is not unknown for us to struggle against our harness, dragging our master's plow.	10
25	360	Older animals, of course, may be reduced to hunting slower, less-desirable prey Where the sleen ranges, peasants, foresters, and such, commonly remain indoors at night, or, if venturing out, are likely to do so in armed groups.	10

Book 33. (82 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	102	Certainly we had had the cooperation of certain peasants, putatively his peasants, in our efforts to obtain rice for the holding.	10
38	151	How did you manage it, peasants, and peasants from different villages, suspicious, grasping fellows, wary of men of quality, working together, joining in such a common effort?" "I told them, noble one," said Haruki, "that they were the ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
57	53	Who would dare to attempt to hold, or stop, such desperate, frightened men? In the confusion, the chaos, and disorder, in the sudden disarrangements of power, in the lapse of authority, peasants rose, many following a charismatic leader named Arashi, himself of the peasants.	10
1	81	Tarns were unknown at the World's End and it had been anticipated that their appearance in war would, at least initially, provide the forces of Lord Temmu with a fearsome, unanticipated weapon, the very sight of which might dismay and terrify at least common soldiers, the Ashigaru contingents, commo...	10
6	83	Lower Pani, peasants, fishermen, Ashigaru, and such, seldom share such a reservation, unless speaking to those of a higher station.	10
6	87	I have encountered vulgar aristocrats and aristocratic peasants.	10
6	176	Too, understandably, peasants, uncertain of the war's outcome, and in danger of starvation themselves, had begun to horde and conceal food.	10
9	55	Those in the foremost ranks, gasping, legs aching, bracing themselves, pushed from behind, paused as had their predecessors, the timid peasants sent ahead to reconnoiter, at the large threshold.	10
10	8	Each wagon was drawn by ten to twelve peasants, rope lines leading to the broad leather belts across their bodies.	10
10	75	Why had the peasants in the fields not responded to Ichiro? This seemed anomalous.	10
10	79	Indeed, I did not doubt but what many of the peasants watching from the fields were no more enamored of the policies and practices of Lord Yamada than the fellows who scouted and spied for us.	10
10	86	"Perhaps they would not speak as peasants," he said.	10
10	90	"Unlike peasants," he said.	10
11	124	Our peasants return to their fields.	10
11	155	"Many Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, after the siege was lifted, were fallen upon by peasants".	10
12	95	"And many peasants," I said.	10
16	106	"It is true, of course, that many peasants fashion themselves such raincoats".	10
23	140	"There was once a beautiful young woman," he said, "of poor family, of lowly and ignoble birth, of the peasants.	10
24	28	"Peasants delinquent in taxes, thieves, deserters from villages, defamers, the disrespectful, perpetrators of incivility, those forgetful of rank, and such," said Lord Akio.	10
25	86	I was familiar, of course, with the bulky, coarse raincoats of straw commonly worn by the peasants in inclement weather.	10
26	24	There were twenty prisoners, bound to posts, each heavily enwrapped in a bulky straw jacket, the sort worn by peasants in foul weather.	10
27	28	In this sense, in their way, they resemble the caste of peasants, masters of the great bow.	10
27	136	At such a time one does not commit hundreds of men, perhaps a thousand or more, to a search for a handful of peasants".	10
28	19	"It is such things that peasants wear," he said.	10
29	99	Pani, even of the peasants, are likely to be particular about such things.	10
30	22	The Ashigaru, like most, were of the peasants, and took no umbrage at the annoyance of the innkeeper.	10
30	764	"They are all peasants," said the voice.	10
30	784	"She is obviously of the peasants," said the voice.	10
30	787	"That is the one good thing about the peasants," said the voice, "aside from raising our rice, that they also, upon occasion, produce lovely daughters, suitable for the collar and the contract, useful for serving and pleasing men of quality".	10
31	115	"Despicable peasants!" cried Yasushi, he who had identified himself as the twenty-third of Lord Yamada's march constables.	10
31	164	"What am I to do for inn girls?" "Hungry peasants will bring in other daughters," said Arashi.	10
31	166	It might be mentioned that it is not only hungry, desperate peasants, driven to extremities, who sell their daughters.	10
35	44	Indeed, at certain points, there seemed to be a traffic of sorts from outside the camp into the camp, and from within the camp to the outside, this seeming to consist mostly of local peasants vending millet or vulos, herdsmen with a verr or a tarsk or two, some sellers of salted fish, for the sea wa...	10
36	8	Most were peasants.	10
37	5	"On continental Gor," I said, "the Peasants is a proud caste.	10
37	19	"It is perhaps then not so lowly to be of the peasants," said Haruki.	10
38	8	In this work, I was assisted by two sizable peasants.	10
38	72	I suspected the pen guards had not considered the possibility of concerted action, not amongst peasants.	10
38	73	They would not anticipate any general challenge to the integrity of the facility they supervised, not amongst peasants.	10
38	75	Peasants are expected to abide unquestioningly the will and words of the gentry.	10
38	149	But then I doubted they had any peasants in their party.	10
40	172	"What if the peasants should rise?" asked Tajima.	10
40	173	"Peasants do not rise," I said.	10
41	20	"Too," I said, "considering the size of the camp, the number of fugitives, and the large number of peasants, tradesmen, craftsmen, deserters from the holding of Temmu, and such, in the camp, one might pity the search squads.	10
43	24	"But large women," she said, "work slaves, the slaves of peasants.	10
44	80	"We organized peasants," I said.	10
44	87	"The entire camp," he said, "is being searched for fugitives, you two, some slaves, a young warrior, several peasants, and Arashi, the bandit".	10
46	101	There are rich peasants, and poor warriors.	10
46	217	"Peasants," cried the officer, glaring at the magician, "are not permitted two swords, or one.	10
46	371	It was no wonder that he, though of the peasants, had a string of coins.	10
46	457	"The peasants may be discounted," said Pertinax.	10
54	119	"And then," said Pertinax, "after the fire and the wind, the prowling and rending, the beast returns to its den, and once more there are only peasants, the beast forgotten, and the cycle begins again, the begetting and feeding, the living and dying, the planting, the tending, and harvesting".	10
55	153	"Peasants," he said.	10
55	161	"Wild may be the peasants," said Tajima, "but they did not burn the palace".	10
55	195	"The peasants have gone," I said.	10
55	209	"Peasants will have taken everything of value," said Pertinax.	10
56	6	In a time of peril even its hazards might seem preferable to those of the outer grounds or the open country, which might be roamed by raiding peasants, by bandits, by renegades, by hungry, desperate soldiers, like animals, freed of the rod of discipline.	10
56	31	"Upon the departure of soldiers," she said, "peasants, laughing, curious, angry, riotous, streamed into the palace.	10
57	58	Three days ago the deserted palace had been overrun by looting, riotous peasants.	10
57	100	"Peasants took them," she said, bitterly.	10
57	118	Let her, so situated and so clad, despite what trepidation she might feel, speak openly and clearly of these matters, of her fate at the hands of peasants, of what had been done to her, of her reduction, humiliation, and debasement, of her treatment as no more than a slave, knowing full well how fre...	10
57	122	Perhaps both the ornaments and silks now adorn uncouth tarsks, the homely, gross women of doltish peasants".	10
57	131	"The interests and appetites of the peasants, as I understand it," I said, "were not to be fully satisfied by the mere appropriation of jewelry, clothing, and such".	10
57	197	"She has been in the hands of peasants".	10
57	328	"Perhaps the peasants have found it, and despoiled it," said Pertinax.	10
58	55	None of us put the Lady Kameko to use, this despite her rude handling by peasants.	10
58	58	Was she not attractive? Too, it seemed possible that the attentions to which she had been subjected by aroused admirers, ravaging peasants, might have shaken her in her sexual sleep, and hinted at what it might be to be sexually awake.	10
58	123	"Am I not of interest?" "Perhaps to tarsks, to peasants," said Tajima.	10
58	158	"Noble one," said the Lady Kameko to Pertinax, "am I not of interest?" "Perhaps to tarsks, to peasants," said Tajima.	10
59	54	"The palace was overrun, by peasants," said Nodachi.	10
60	28	Nodachi wore a short-sleeved gray jacket of simple, rough cloth, as many peasants.	10
60	70	"Peasants!" said Tajima.	10
60	384	"Peasants!" cried Yasushi.	10
60	414	"Not today, Lord," said Arashi, gesturing behind him, at the restless, massed peasants.	10
60	427	The peasants behind him stirred, shouted, and lifted, and shook, their weapons of diverse sorts.	10
61	40	Peasants returned to their villages; goods and wives returned to their houses and holdings; ornaments and coins were unearthed; fields were tended; palisades were rebuilt; gates were repaired; traders sought customers; and warriors, hungry and barefoot, weary, weapons in their sashes, drifted back t...	10
61	127	Haruki, not required in our perilous ruse, that of peasants and feigned readiness for war, had made his way to Ichiro's hiding place, which, happily, had not been discovered in the long interval between our early visit to the market village to investigate stories of a mountebank, a master of sword t...	10
61	265	"They were peasants," I said.	10
61	423	So Aiko found herself on the palace grounds, brought by Ichiro and Haruki, while Lord Yamada, Nodachi, I, and some others, and the many peasants of Arashi, advanced to meet, and discomfit, the forces of Temmu on the north road.	10
61	424	Once I had arranged the peasants, and set them about their diversions, and had arrested the progress of Lord Yamada, in such a way as to suggest he was fully ready for battle, but hoped to lure the invasion force farther south, perhaps deeper into a trap, I had contacted Lords Nishida and Okimoto un...	10
61	429	Indeed, without discounting the sometimes marvelous beauty of the daughters of peasants, whose sales tend to fill the ranks of contract women, Lord Yamada suspected, given not only her features and lines, but the obscurity of her antecedents, and her lack of family, that she may not have been origin...	10
61	606	I watched him make his way through the crowd toward the land end of the wharf, toward a cluster of townsmen, merchants, and peasants, each with their case or sack of goods.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	60	For the most part, however, sa-tarna, harvested and threshed, was brought in by peasants, milled, and carried away by peasants.	10
13	61	Masters with us, peasants, who would bind the sheaves we cut and brought to them, looked up, shading their eyes.	10
13	67	I saw two of the peasants seize up their bows, large things, at hand even in the field.	10
46	95	"Do you think peasants will share fields with you?" Lord Grendel remained silent.	10
57	126	"Besides, country slaves, the slaves of villas, of country houses, the slaves of peasants, are seldom restrained, except at night".	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	555	Peasants could apprehend you.	10
8	578	"Why did you leap overboard? Of what were you so terrified, that you would risk sharks, recapture, peasants, hamstringing, or being fed to sleen?" She turned, and looked up at me, tears in her eyes.	10
8	684	"And, even if we were willing to risk villages of rapacious peasants, armed with the great bow, we could not reach the shore".	10

Book 36. (39 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	52	We had hoped that Peasants would listen to Peasants.	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
2	19	"Aktis," I said, "as is Thurnock, is of the peasants, the most fundamental of all castes, the ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
3	86	The Peasants, in its way, might be the humblest of castes, but, in another way, it was amongst the proudest of castes.	10
4	8	"Excellently, as would be expected," said Thurnock, "since he is of the Peasants".	10
8	78	The caste of Peasants, usually ensconced in remote, isolated settlements, tends to be wary and suspicious of other castes, commonly suspecting them of an impressive variety of ill doings, ranging from subtle deceit to outright chicanery, particularly in the spheres of fraudulent bookkeeping and dish...	10
12	14	It might have been seized by peasants from shipwrecked vessels, or even cached inland by pirates, possibly generations ago.	10
13	30	Peasants do their own slaughtering and think little of the spilling of blood.	10
13	176	"I, too, am of the Peasants," said Thurnock.	10
13	177	An inability to read is common amongst the Peasants, and not that uncommon in the lower castes.	10
17	430	"And even headmen and high peasants may attend, from dozens of villages, mostly the larger, richer villages".	10
19	52	"Who could not know that?" said Thurnock, of the Peasants.	10
19	200	"Where is he, what has he been doing?" "Contacting peasants, from many villages," I said, "and particularly, as far as possible, headmen, pleading for an end to apathy, for an awareness of the threat they face, particularly the coastal villages".	10
19	204	"Peasants," I said, "have their codes, like other castes.	10
20	30	I had always entertained a high opinion of the Peasants, their wisdom, foresight, and astuteness, their understandings of seasons and weathers, their stalwart copings with winds and rains, droughts and floods, their somehow making fields rich and bountiful, their somehow bringing forth the harvests ...	10
22	104	"Have you heard other news of possible interest?" "There was a meeting of peasants outside the fairgrounds," said Sakim, "which was disrupted and ended by guardsmen".	10
22	112	"Peasants who seek some word from Aktis, or wish to obtain samples of the great bow, are to contact him there".	10
22	131	"And thousands here are of the Peasants, many of whom are new to colored placards, cupped dice, and whirling wheels, let alone marked placards, weighted dice, and manipulable whirling wheels".	10
24	4	"It is hard to move Peasants," said Clitus.	10
30	13	We, on the other hand, had brought two hundred and fifty men from Port Kar, most of whom were with us, saving some posted as spies in Sybaris; some left at the ruins of Nicosia, in the hope that, following the fair, more peasants would seek arms and direction; and some at the Cove of Harpalos, our d...	10
35	40	"It seems," said Clitus, "the Peasants are rising, if only belatedly".	10
35	167	"I had hoped," I said, "that with communication and cooperation amongst the villages, the building and manning of watch towers, the arming of peasants with an effective weapon, that the land would be closed to the raiders, this protecting both villages and towns".	10
37	123	"Or Peasants," said Clitus.	10
39	77	"In the fields, outside their walls," said Thurnock, "the townsfolk might perish, starving and thirsting, dying of exposure and beasts, driven away from palisades, forced into the wilderness, by hostile peasants, jealous of their lands and resources, their crops, animals, and stores.	10
40	14	"Why should they fear doltish Peasants?" asked Thrasymedes.	10
40	39	"We are not ignorant Peasants.	10
46	48	I reminded myself that Clitus was of the Fishermen and Thurnock of the Peasants.	10
46	49	What do Fishermen and Peasants know of tospits? "We are missing one thing, surely," said a man.	10
47	1	How the Siege Came to an End The rising of the Peasants rendered the issuing forth of the men of Mytilene and their allies unnecessary.	10
47	3	Initially, in alarm and consternation, surprised by the swarming of peasants, their far camp burned, they had fled to the ground within the inner and outer ditch, taking what refuge they could within a circular shield wall.	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	18	The last survivors, say some two or three hundred men, crowded together, abandoned by the longboats, were set upon by irate peasants, armed with staves and axes.	10
48	24	"We expected no succor from Peasants," said Thrasymedes.	10
48	33	"Peasants have arisen from time to time," said Thurnock.	10
48	112	Too, the same night, the Peasants closed in, merciless and determined.	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
49	43	Allies, armed peasants, hold the field".	10
51	172	"If some reach the shore," I said, "they may fall into the hands of the Peasants, or of those of Mytilene.	10
51	191	"Not picking up the survivors, their men, but abandoning them to the sharks, to the sea, to the Peasants, to the citizens of long-suffering, beleaguered Mytilene," I said.	10