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Book 1. (12 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	137	Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in...	10
1	192	As the thin, sharp beam struck the face of the compass, my heart stopped.	10
3	2	Out of the robes then popped the sandy-haired head of the scribe, his pale blue eyes twinkling on each side of that sharp needle of a nose.	10
3	32	A tear of amusement formed along the side of his sharp nose, and his pale blue eyes twinkled.	10
3	157	I twisted, and the blade cut my tunic cleanly, creasing the skin with a line of blood as sharp as a razor.	10
3	284	The next thing I knew his beak was open; I caught a brief sight of his thin, sharp tongue, as long as a man's arm, darting out and back, and then, snapping at me, he lunged forward, striking at me with that monstrous beak, and I heard the Older Tarl cry out in horror, "The goad! The goad!".	10
5	156	They apparently had no intention of taking me prisoner, for an instant after the shout the sharp hiss of a bolt from a crossbow passed over my head.	10
13	28	It appeared ready to resume its pace when suddenly it stopped, its head absolutely motionless, its sharp, pointed ears tense and lifted.	10
13	45	Without bothering to think, I seized my spear and, dragging harshly on the four-strap, brought the tarn into a sharp, abrupt descent.	10
14	134	With a sickening lurch and sharp jolt of pain the two tarnsmen brought their birds into the air.	10
14	135	For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.	10
14	144	When the bird drew again, there was a sharp pain as flesh was torn from my hand, but the rope darted off into the darkness, and I was swinging by my ankles from the other ropes.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	252	She snapped it cruelly in the air, and its report was sharp and vicious.	10
16	88	In that moment both the Tatrix and Dorna the Proud plunged sharp instruments, pins of some sort, into my back and arm.	10
21	144	His voice was now sharp and unpleasant.	10
25	10	His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.	10
25	76	I clung to the neck to avoid the snapping jaws, those three rows of sharp, frenzied white lacerating teeth that sought to bury themselves in my flesh.	10
25	85	It reached for me with a whiplike motion of its furred neck and I felt the long sharp white teeth rake my arm but at the same time I heard another squeal of pain and the grunt of horror from the man in wrist straps.	10

Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	22	It turned a knob on its own translator and in a moment the air was filled with the sharp odors of what I take might have been a reprimand.	10
19	17	From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.	10
28	178	What sensory data might escape the antennae might well be discovered by the sharp-eyed human, and what subtle scent might escape the human senses would likely be easily picked up by the Priest-King in the group.	10
30	42	Out of the room he took a small leather box from his pouch, removed a tiny sharp blade from it and scratched my arm.	10
33	47	His eyes, I noted, in contrast with his bland features, his almost pudgy softness, were very sharp and shrewd.	10
35	17	Outlined against the largest of Gor's three hurtling moons was the black silhouette, as sharp and keen as a knife, of a Priest-King.	10

Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	67	Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also...	10
7	40	"Are the quivas sharp?" "One tries to keep them so," said Kamchak.	10
10	454	The saber, incidentally, is not only unpopular among the Wagon Peoples but among the warriors of Gor generally; it is regarded as being too long and clumsy a weapon for the close, sharp combat so dear to the heart of the warrior of the cities; further it is not of much use from the saddle of a tarn ...	10
10	517	"Sharp," he said.	10
14	76	"The quivas—I will try to keep them sharp.	10
15	104	"Are the quivas sharp?" I inquired.	10
20	71	I then heard a sudden, sharp crack, as of a fist meeting bone.	10
28	32	"Are the quivas sharp?" I inquired.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...	10
19	132	There was the sudden crack of a whip, loud and sharp, and the crowd leaped to its feet, for the sale had begun.	10
20	151	She took Claudia's hair in her left hand and held the razor-sharp hook knife at her face.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	134	It was the latter sail which, although it was unusual, the round ships were using for tacking; had they used either of the larger sails, with the sharp wind, they would have heeled dangerously toward the water, perhaps shipping water through the leeward thole ports.	10
18	195	In that instant I heard, from down a passageway, a sharp whistle, and the sound of running feet, those of several men.	10
18	255	Then, with a swift motion, he leaped behind her and, with the flat of his blade, dealt her a sharp, stinging blow.	10
18	672	The exchange was sharp.	10

Book 7. (15 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	234	It was also scarred in several places, as though it had been struck with sharp objects.	10
7	83	There was sharp fighting in the thicket.	10
8	495	It was true that I had never felt as healthy in my life as I did then, nor had the air seemed as clear and pure, the sky so blue, the clouds so sharp and white.	10
8	684	It also had claws on its hindlegs, or feet, which were retractable, as the mountebank demonstrated, issuing sharp voice commands to the beast.	10
8	687	The claws, as I saw when they were exposed, upon the order of the mountebank, were better than four inches long, curved and sharp.	10
8	921	Suddenly there were three more sharp slaps of the sword belts and, crying out, protesting, begging for mercy, laughing, we leapt to our feet to busy ourselves.	10
10	480	I suddenly felt sharp, and cool.	10
11	9	I felt the second pain, sharp, followed by an unpleasant burning sensation.	10
11	223	There was a tiny, sharp click.	10
11	499	* * * * "Awaken, Slaves!" I felt a sharp pain in my nose, excruciating.	10
11	502	I jerked my head and felt another sharp pain.	10
11	532	There was a sharp tug on the nose thong and the two of us, crying out, knelt before Ute and Inge.	10
11	537	There was a sharp twist on the thong.	10
13	226	With a sharp rock and a stick I started to work on the animals.	10
13	600	They were huge, curved and sharp.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	12	Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae.	10
7	364	The lesson they would be taught would be sharp.	10
8	232	Trying to clear my vision, I felt, suddenly, the sharp jab of one spear, and then another.	10
8	284	Locked on his right ankle were the heavy, sharp steel teeth of a slave trap.	10
8	290	The sharp teeth, biting deeply, fastened themselves in his flesh.	10
9	401	Verna had only wished to administer a sharp, not-soon-to-be-forgotten, lesson to her slave.	10
13	281	"The sleen," I said, "has sharp fangs".	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	72	The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away.	10
11	303	In leaving the Thing-Field I saw, in the distance, a high, snow-capped mountain, steep, sharp, almost like the blade of a bent spear.	10
17	222	The sun was now sharp and beautiful on the heights of the Torvaldsberg.	10
18	347	The fight was swift, sharp.	10
18	550	As each one passed Olga, she, below the small of the back, was expedited with a sharp stroke of the switch.	10
22	52	The air was sharp and clear.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	44	There was a clear note of the finger cymbals, sharp, delicate, bright, and the slave girl danced before us.	10
5	103	He had leaped to his feet and, swift, with fingers like pliers, had administered a sharp, jocular bit of instruction to the bold wench.	10
5	350	The steel, razor-sharp point of the lance was at her bosom.	10
7	297	The animal, at least four times, had been struck, and with the razor-sharp scimitars of the Tahari.	10
10	37	The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird.	10
11	72	In less than four Ahn, twittering, fluttering, small, tawny, sharp-billed, following the black clouds, came flights of zadits.	10
14	502	The pain was sharp, rich, and deep, and keen.	10
15	103	The crack was loud, sharp.	10
23	245	His eyes, sharp and dark, bore the epicanthic fold.	10
25	269	I inserted the wickedly curved, razor-sharp blade within her garments.	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	39	Then, lungs gasping, helpless, had at last inhaled, deeply, desperately, taking the sharp, strangling fumes deep into my body.	10
1	138	The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff...	10
2	220	I felt the delicate, razor-sharp edge of the dagger on my throat.	10
2	465	Furious, sharp, was the precision of their combat.	10
2	869	But a sharp word from him, and a gesture, indicated to me that I must first remove the tether from about the trunk of the small tree.	10
2	954	At a sharp word from him I continued to stretch, luxuriously, brazenly, and fully relished doing so.	10
3	477	Before I had been able to put off boys with a glance, a gesture, a sharp word, but what if, now, they should see me as I now was, wearing a brand.	10
9	1838	The plans, sharp alternatives, excluded one another; their common element was I, as payment.	10
16	99	"Please! I will be silent, Master!" The sharp, furred, cold snout of an urt could now, as the gate lay against its bolts, thrust between the gate and the side of the cage.	10
27	35	His hand seized my tunic at the neck and shoulder and prepared to tear it from me, that I might be hurled to the floor at his feet, to be put writhing beneath the sharp discipline of his domination.	10

Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	144	The edge must be sharp, the resolve must be merciless, the instinct to kill must in no way be blunted.	10
9	213	Too, the whip is cruel, the teeth of sleen are sharp, and leech plants blossom.	10
12	395	"She said a sharp word to me," said Thimble.	10
14	313	Her temper and sharp tongue, I think, had made many enemies among the red hunters and their women.	10
23	62	Then, under Poalu's sharp tongue, she perched still on the meat rack, they fled to heat water for the boiling of meat.	10
27	46	He took a long strip of baleen, about fifteen inches in length, and, with his knife, sharpened both ends, wickedly sharp.	10
35	1072	We heard something sharp strike against the steel.	10
35	1210	The fighting in the complex had been sharp and bloody.	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	492	"The engagement was sharp," said Samos, "but the ship, its crew, passengers and cargo, fell to Bejar as prize".	10
2	16	The Vart is a small, sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks.	10
4	956	It was small, precise, deep, clean and sharp, a severe, lovely mark, unmistakable and clear; her thigh now well proclaimed what she was, a Gorean slave.	10
4	961	I smelled the sharp freshness of gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
7	56	The name 'Kikombe' now, however, for the most part, with a set of rough, zigzag lines, had been scratched out, and the name 'Uchafu', with a sharp tool, had been added.	10
10	76	I had little doubt that Kipofu, who was reputed to have extremely sharp senses, might have heard breathing within a radius of twenty feet, even in the square.	10
23	282	With my foot and hands I snapped off some sharp splinters.	10
23	394	The collars, swiftly, were opened and the heavy bands, struck with sharp, expert blows, were bent wide.	10
26	22	We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird.	10
34	1080	"Faster, Slave Girl!" I struck her with the straps, a sharp blow, that she might understand that she was not to dally.	10
47	91	I felt a sharp painful bite at my foot.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	543	I saw that Miss Henderson had a sharp edge to her.	10
2	183	The snap was heavy, sharp, businesslike.	10
20	57	The bar was again struck, a sharp, ringing note.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	24	The battle had been sharp but indecisive.	10
8	138	He does not know, as I do, that your eye is no longer as sharp as once it was, that your hand has lost its cunning, that you are now ruined and fallen, that the scarlet is now but meaningless on your body, naught but a remembrance, an empty recollection of a vanished glory".	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	128	In one of the great links I could feel a concave roughness which then gave way, as the tool had bit in, to a sharp, geometrically precise crevice, too small to feel inside.	10
4	266	He bent the bow, drawing the string back, the arrow at a sharp angle.	10
6	22	I saw, peering through the thole port, the Leda's bow lift suddenly at a sharp angle from the water, the ram and hull dripping water, glistening, and then, in a moment, she slipped back, three-quarters below the surface.	10
10	197	Swordplay there was sharp.	10
15	64	Too, the metal back of the blade, though not sharp, was narrow, and rectangular.	10
16	306	It had come in at too sharp an angle.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	826	The drawings are first traced on the skin with a sharp stick.	10
1	1018	Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long-winged, sharp-billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food.	10

Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	267	A woman's acquisition of the skills of erotic dance, incidentally, like those of a child's linguistic skills, follows an unusually sharp learning curve.	10
7	586	To be sure, it usually takes a sharp print to make these discriminations.	10
9	513	"It is a sharp, stinging kind of thing," she said.	10
30	144	It was almost as though Hci did not see the man, almost as though he was looking through him, almost as though the very real man, and the physical point of the lance, of sharp bronze, were little more than tokens or emblems of something he feared far more.	10
37	22	"I must keep my senses sharp".	10
47	148	Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra...	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	172	Again there are almost no signs of wear and the detail, accordingly, is precise and sharp.	10
2	221	Because of its weight it was impressed, with sharp lines, into the rug.	10
20	221	Then, when no one was looking, I bent down and picked up a small, sharp stone from the edge of the stream.	10
21	4	It had taken me two nights, with the sharp stone, to cut through the wood, under the blanket, in the trunk.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1584	Those of Earth, in urban areas, may never have seen how black, really, the sky can be; perhaps they have never really lifted their heads to the sky; perhaps they have never noted, or cared to note, how sharp and bright the stars can be, how astonishing they are, how beautiful they are, remote, carel...	10
16	497	He did give the girls actual, sharp, smart blows.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	157	"Oh!" cried Feiqa, suddenly, sobbing, recoiling from my kick, and then "Aii!" she cried, in sharp pain, as, my hand in her hair, she was jerked up to a kneeling position.	10
4	58	The tiny baby, not minutes old, with tiny gasps and coughs, still startled and distressed with the sharp, frightful novelty of breathing air, never again to return to the shelter of its mother's body, lost in a chaos of sensation, its eyes not focused, unable scarcely to turn its head from side to s...	10
5	180	Tula cried out, inadvertently, at the sharp crack of the whip, and Feiqa winced.	10
23	166	His voice was not sharp.	10
24	139	Sometimes he poked her with a sharp stick, to hurry her along.	10
26	1073	She cried out in sharp pain.	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	1	The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t...	10
4	29	But I knew that I was in pain, sharp, miserable pain, fiery, burning pain, put on me by a man, and that that was real.	10
8	33	Then, on her hands and knees, swiftly, at a gesture, she crawled, poked by sharp sticks, hastened by the cry "Quickly, she-tarsk!" to the first of the low, narrow cages and scrambled, weeping, within it.	10
25	29	The wire was slave wire, with its closely interwoven latticework of sharp, swaying strands, and, numerous and closely set, at intervals of less than a hort, its barbs and knifelike prongs.	10
26	227	But I would be scarcely less helpless if I were in a tiny slave cage, through the bars of which he might thrust with his sword, perhaps a hundred short, sharp times, or, similarly available to him, for whatever he might choose to do to me, chained with my belly to a tree, my ankles and wrists fasten...	10
29	1196	The blade seemed very sharp, for the sturdiness of the weapon.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	308	He led it from the cot, it stalking beside him, its head moving about, its eyes round, bright and sharp.	10
24	425	These things ranged, in their varieties, from almost imperceptible extensions and shadings, to sharp, forward thrusts, such as bumps and buckings, and from scarcely detectable lateral movements, to tantalizing or abrupt movements, to rhythmical swayings.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	102	It was purple, and gilded, its bow in the graceful shape of the neck and head of a long-necked, sharp-billed gant, its stern carved to represent feathers.	10
19	1666	"Keep a sharp lookout," I advised her.	10
20	93	"Keep a sharp lookout," I said.	10
21	14	It had been purple, and gilded, its bow carved in the likeness of a long-necked, sharp-billed marsh gant.	10
22	16	For this purpose she would use a small, sharp stone.	10
29	216	"The knife is sharp," he said.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	23	"I would have thought," said Marcus, "that Ar might have rejoiced these days to obtain even the services of a lad with a sharp stick".	10
18	225	"I see that your wit is as sharp as ever!" said the ponderous fellow.	10

Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	714	How could we possibly know what that meant? There was suddenly, from well behind me, yards back, back down the line, a sharp, cruel crack, almost as clear and terrible, in the narrow corridor, as the report of a rifle.	10
4	735	Somewhat behind me, to the side, I heard again that terrible sound, that sharp, fearful crack of leather.	10
7	322	My foot was cut, of course, from the sharp stones.	10
12	636	From the manner in which it had earlier parted my robes I knew it was extremely sharp.	10
13	834	The blows had been sharp, but clean.	10
31	583	"Shoot!" The hand of the leader of the strangers raised just a little, preparatory presumably to its sharp descent, doubtless to be consequent upon the issuance of a word of command.	10
31	710	That single, sharp ringing of steel seemed to linger in the cell.	10
35	34	Some truths are hard and cold, and sharp, and if one touches them one might cut oneself and bleed.	10
45	55	The whip snapped again, a strict, sharp, loud sound, like the report of a firearm, a sound that seemed to ring explosively from wall to wall.	10
46	569	But it had been sharp, and it was not one I was likely to soon forget.	10

Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	20	He turned a sharp glance upon the speaker, and, suddenly, her entire demeanor changed, and she trembled, shrinking down, making herself small, and holding her head down.	10
7	177	No sooner had she turned about, to make her way to the cell, than she cried out in pain for the first instructrix had struck her a sudden, sharp stinging blow across the back of the right calf.	10
8	205	Then her master must have at least two women! She heard sharp commands in a female voice, coming from behind her and to her left.	10
12	235	The saw-toothed edges were sharp.	10
12	395	They could be turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a sharp word of inst...	10
16	126	No longer did it wear the thin, flat, light, graceful, lovely metal band with which she had become familiar, which she had scarcely been aware she had worn, until perhaps a sharp word or a stroke of the switch had recalled to her attention its significance.	10
16	695	She received only six strokes, and the blows, while sharp, had not been heavy, surely not delivered with the full weight of a man's arm.	10
16	910	One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the mark...	10
16	1329	There was a sudden, sharp little cry from Lydia, as, Ellen supposed, some hair was drawn from her head to ascertain the veracity of Targo's asseveration.	10
17	381	It was fanged, these, in two rows, being white and sharp.	10
17	987	Then, suddenly, there was the sharp snap of a switch across her derrière and Ellen cried out in pain, and humiliation.	10
20	389	* * * * "March!" came the command, a command accompanied by the crack of a whip, sudden and sharp.	10
22	250	Suddenly she heard a fierce movement in the air, behind her, an unexpected but unmistakable swift hiss, and, almost at the same time, below the small of the back, she felt a stinging stripe, the swift, sharp blow of a supple switch, a yard in length.	10
24	381	It was not only that the sound was unexpected, and sharp, but that its significance carried a special meaning for such as she, a slave.	10
25	578	There was a sound of sobbing, a sharp blow of the whip, a cry of pain.	10
25	585	Surely a life of wealth, of luxury and pampering would have done little to prepare her for chains, exposure, degradation, the searing heat of the pressing, held, iron, for the sudden, sharp, instructive stroke of the whip, for the grasping, imperious hands of men, for the sawdust of the sales block.	10
27	1032	His hands were on the shaft, and he broke it, it snapping with a sharp sound, but then, his eyes glazed, blood running from his mouth, and from about the splintered shaft lodged in his throat, he sank to the grass.	10
27	3162	The report of the weapon was sharp, and close.	10
27	3175	There was a sporadic, inconsequential succession of sharp, metallic clickings.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	170	Indeed, had he owned her, he would doubtless have put her through similar paces, enforced upon occasion with a sharp blow of the switch.	10
13	91	Cabot then held aloft the Kur blade, nice inches in length, tapered, grooved to allow slippage and a path for blood, and wickedly sharp.	10
18	274	There was suddenly a flash of darkness to Cabot's left, and a sharp, sliding, grating sound, as one of the great spears struck against a projecting outcropping, and was then arrested, snapped in two, by the wall behind him.	10
21	629	Suddenly, perhaps on released springs, sharp claws, like curved knives, a foot in length, sprang into view.	10
29	16	"See the edges, almost sharp.	10
35	15	One gathers that ka-la-na wood, common on Gor from her wine trees, would have been preferable for the launching device, or bow, which Cabot had prepared, carved into its gentle arc with a sharp stone, but such are not found in the world.	10
36	374	Too, you might, in time, fray it, and sever it, say, on a sharp stone".	10
44	96	"Sharp, too.	10
66	110	The air was sharp and clear.	10
70	27	Cabot then wiped the cloth with the quarry's scent liberally about the sharp metal teeth.	10

Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	25	I could not have expected this in a Gorean domicile, and if, unaccountably, it had occurred, I would have expected the slave to have been subjected to a sharp, immediate discipline, that presumably to be followed by a period of punishment, perhaps being chained uncomfortably for several Ahn, perhaps...	10
8	102	"Are the quivas sharp?" I asked.	10
8	119	In response to my first question, a Tuchuk would most likely have informed me that the bosk were doing as well as might be expected; to my second question, that one tries to keep them that way, namely, sharp.	10
23	212	The eye must be sharp, the senses acute, the hand steady.	10
26	7	But here, aflight, there was the sharp, cutting, rushing of wind.	10
40	109	A frown or a sharp word may bring tears to her eyes.	10

Book 30. (8 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	6	Even on deck one could hear the crunch of their boots on the ice below, the striking of the posts downward, each handled by two men, on the ice, the sharp crack of the Torvaldslander axes striking on the horizontal, encroaching wall that seemed about to encircle the mighty ship.	10
9	213	The sound of steel on steel was now bright and sharp.	10
9	254	One thrust at him with a spear, doubtless stolen from a weapon room, but he caught the weapon and jerked its wielder forward, startled, wide-eyed, onto the sharp blade of the small swift sword, the warrior's gladius.	10
9	272	Yes, I thought, yes! It was the sort of blade to which one might grow accustomed, the sort of blade to which one might entrust one's life, placing its sharp, narrow wall of agile metal between oneself and death.	10
15	62	Rather we felt the sharp, salted air of bright, vast, green Thassa, fresh and clean, once more in our nostrils, in our lungs, and blood.	10
18	171	I could not resist administering a sharp, stinging slap, below the small of the back.	10
37	13	To be sure, for a slave, one supposed a sharp distinction amongst such things might not be warranted.	10
37	480	He then gave her two sharp strokes with the looped belt.	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	615	Then, at a sharp clapping of Mrs.	10
4	703	How could it be otherwise? Neither had been switched as I had, but each, more than once, when deemed less than fully pleasing, had felt a sharp stroke, sometimes a merry stroke, across the back of her legs.	10
8	25	My question received in response only the sharp sting of a switch on my right shoulder.	10
8	235	What is so special about their terrified, groveling rival, licking and kissing at her master's feet, with her marked thigh, and band-encircled throat? What could she, a slave, an animal, possibly have, or offer, that might begin to compete with the accorded favor of a free woman, standing on her dig...	10
10	1074	How close the edge seemed, the sharp drop much closer than it could have been in reality.	10
18	672	A sharp or unpleasant word may bring her a lashing.	10
18	1086	Suddenly I stopped, for, visible from where I stood, under the high channel of the aqueduct, on a distant hill, I saw a sharp flicker of light.	10
23	103	It had a fair steepness on one side, a chillingly sharp drop on the other.	10
27	170	A bit later I heard Jane gasp, heard a sharp, cutting sound, and, a bit later, the dropping of a light metal object into the tool box.	10
29	22	The guard, who now had the translator slung about his neck, presumably that it might be convenient, as I was about, reached back and, with a small mallet, removed from a peg, struck a hanging bar, which emitted a sharp, clear note, in response to which signal a second Kur shortly appeared at the por...	10
32	22	A few Ehn later, there was a sharp, ringing sound, resulting one supposes from the striking of one of the small bars, to the sounds of which the Lady Bina, amongst other festal tokens, had been welcomed to the Cave.	10
32	77	Tiresias was then, with the sharp sticks, striking and jabbing, hurried from the room.	10
33	25	It was chilly by the portal, but I dallied, for the bright, sharp air, and the vista.	10
50	119	He then gave me a sharp, stinging slap below the small of the back, and I cried out, and stumbled away, before I caught my step.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	244	I rose up, and turned away, but was arrested by a sharp voice, which called, "Kajira!" Instantly I turned about, and knelt, waiting to be commanded, as the slave I was.	10
46	97	I tore a length of it from the trunk about which it clung, its tiny, sharp roots anchored in the bark, and pulled away several of the heavy fleshy leaves.	10
51	120	"Is your dagger sharp?" asked Tyrtaios.	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	772	"The shogun always has a place for those who manage sharp swords well," said the voice.	10
46	223	"Is my sword sharp?" cried the officer.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	446	Those I was familiar with, those with whom I commonly associated, were refined, effete, tentative, weak, apologetic, reluctant, well-trained, correct, embarrassed by their sex, taught to suspect it, if not despise it, so concerned they were to conform to the required stereotypes of the lubricated, w...	10
6	301	At that moment, startling and shocking us, there was a sudden, unexpected ringing of metal on metal, a loud, sharp staccato of sound at the bars, consequent on the dragging of a metal bar back and forth against them.	10
9	156	Two helmeted men, figures on the vase, were sharp and prominent, clearly delineated, red, on a black background.	10
9	211	I then felt, against the back of my thighs, several times, sharp, and stinging, the lash of a switch.	10
15	280	"May I speak?" "No," he said, and lashed my face to the left with a second cuff, a sharp, stinging, backhand slap.	10
24	74	Far off I thought I heard the sounds of men, shouts, and the striking of metal on metal, often quick, and sharp, and sometimes so rapidly I could not distinguish the sounds.	10
61	528	Consider now a culture in which there is a clear, sharp, important, even momentous, distinction between the free and the not free.	10
65	370	I saw Paula cast me a sharp, meaningful look.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	142	It is a small, sharp, decisive sound.	10
8	256	I was then sure that he whom I took to be the leader of my abductors and his fellow, he with the knife, how sharp and cruel it had felt, had now slipped away, doubtless now lost amongst the workers and passers-by on the docks.	10
8	288	Only a few Ehn before, I had been struck below the small of my back, a swift, sharp slap.	10
32	30	Then suddenly, there was a sharp, loud, splintering crash as the door was kicked open.	10
44	24	Talena then, with the knife, which was exquisitely sharp, freed us, even of our gags, and we crouched in the canopied area, waiting, frightened, shocked, trying to understand what had occurred.	10
46	572	I heard no impatient cries nor sharp, angry strikings of goblets on tables.	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	1	Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge...	10
50	87	They spur it to do their bidding; they exploit it, pitilessly, mercilessly, by sharp instruments and blazing irons".	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
56	49	In that terrible moment I saw what few men had seen, even those accustomed to camp upon and inhabit living islands, the monster beneath the placid surface, hundreds of tentacle-like filaments, tiny eyes, and a sharp, hooklike beak.	10