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Signals

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	258	"Certain natural signals in the radio band of the spectrum," said my father.	10
10	114	They responded to voice signals, conditioned into their tiny brains in the training years.	10
11	4	The flags of a hundred cities flew above the tents, and, against the steady roar of the river, the sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	97	"I will tame you at my pleasure," replies the young man, and signals to the musicians.	10

Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	40	It might be possible, of course, to use some type of penetrating beam which if subtly enough adjusted might permit the reception of signals through walls and then relay these to a distant screen, but I doubted that such a device, though perhaps within the capacities of the Priest-Kings, would be use...	10
8	149	There was also a system of signals whereby the towers could communicate with one another and the city.	10
10	2	What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another.	10
10	3	The slightly acrid odor I had noticed tends to be a common property of all such signals, much as there is a common property to the sound of a human voice, whether it be that of an Englishman, a Bushman, a Chinese or a Gorean, which sets it apart from, say, the growling of animals, the hiss of snakes...	10
10	16	Communication by odor-signals can in certain circumstances be extremely efficient, though it can be disadvantageous in others.	10
15	52	"No," said Misk, "and observe I had to make my own mnemonic disks, devising a transducer to read the scent-tapes, which fortunately are easily available, and record their signals on blank receptor-plating, from there to be transformed into impulses for generating and regulating the appropriate neura...	10
19	103	To my nostrils, now alert to the signals of Priest-Kings and trained by my practice with the translator Misk had allowed me to use, there came a single brief odor, the components of which I had little difficulty in discriminating.	10
27	46	At last his antennae fastened on me but I am sure the Priest-King was annoyed that he did not receive the strong signals he would have if I had been wearing my own scent-infixed tunic.	10
27	180	If he spoke to her or she to him I did not detect the signals.	10
27	313	At the low volume I received the message the other translators in the room would not be likely to pick it up and transduce the sounds into odor-signals.	10
30	17	I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ...	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	78	And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l...	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	190	About the walls of the room there was much delicate apparatus, reminding me somewhat of instrumentation I had seen in the Nest long ago; complex paneling, wires, disks; the dials, I noted, were adopted for a visually oriented organism, needles quivering against a metric of spaces; a cone was flashin...	10
5	224	There are individual signals and a master signal, permitting an individual slave to be immediately secured, no matter where he is in the Nest, or every slave in the Nest.	10
5	738	Also, clipped to the belt, was a slave whistle, used in issuing signals, summoning slaves, and so on.	10
5	762	The day, I had discovered, was divided by such signals.	10

Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	60	The rence growers, I had learned, communicate by means of such signals, disguised as the cries of marsh gants.	10
8	83	The men of Port Kar knew, as I had not, that rencers communicate in the marshes by the means of such signals.	10
14	167	There were trumpet signals now from the ship that had been pursuing us, and flags on her halyards.	10
17	37	Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike.	10
17	48	I had also arranged signals whereby my ships, those of my task forces and others, might, if the pairs became separated, switch partners, thus retaining the possibility of pair-attacks on single ships even if the members of the original pairs should become separated.	10
18	19	"Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1245	We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignorant free women,...	10
11	1248	But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear moveme...	10
11	1249	Incidentally, we also learned our own responsiveness to certain signals.	10
11	1255	She knows when he does not desire her, and when he does desire her, and when he does desire her, she signals her responsiveness to him, and goes to him.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	7	The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.	10
12	12	There are shield signals, too, however, it might be mentioned, in Torvaldsland, though these are quite limited.	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	216	It is a simple matter of contradictory signals, honey and gall, luring and stinging, a game, a girl's game, raising hopes, then dashing them.	10
15	357	"Signals can be jammed and scrambled," she said.	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	20	I did not know what signs and countersigns, or signals, the white Kur might have had at its disposal to protect itself in this regard.	10
35	28	Again, I did not know any signs or countersigns, or signals.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	59	When one adds to this certain additional drum signals corresponding, in effect, to keys to the message or to certain consonantal ciphers, one has, in effect, a direct, effective, ingenious device at one's disposal, given the drum relays, for long-distance communication.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	419	I realized now I had registered many of her piteous signals, but, somehow, had forced them away from explicit, conscious recognition.	10
13	122	The huge war tharlarion are commonly guided by voice signals and the blows of spears on the face and neck.	10

Book 16. (12 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	83	In an instant, the signals relayed, the Tina leaped forward.	10
3	24	"Stroke!" His officer, by hand signals, conveyed his message to the helmsmen and oar master at the stern.	10
3	127	"They fly distress signals on the stem-castle lines," said the officer.	10
4	46	"Shall I order that the ships be chained together?" These signals could be conveyed by flags and horns.	10
6	164	Notes of answering battle horns, from our stern castle, and from the stern castles of the Olivia and the Tais, almost lost in the din of enemy signals, gave response.	10
8	149	"No," she said, "though signals were exchanged.	10
10	33	The signals were those prescribed in the documents I had obtained from Reginald.	10
10	76	Miles of Vonda, on the stem castle of the Tuka, and Kliomenes, on the walls of the holding, exchanged signals.	10
12	17	"Their identificatory signals emerge now upon their lines".	10
12	71	Signals could not properly be exchanged.	10
20	331	Communications and signals will be of great significance".	10
20	1784	Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march.	10

Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	11	Such signals are common on the plains, but perhaps not so common as mirror signals.	10
15	12	The code in mirror signals, conveyed by the pacing and number of flashes, is very similar to that of the smoke signals.	10
1	490	"The human analogy to such a greeting then might be six similar vocal signals.	10
1	652	If such creatures should come to clearly understand the nature of the Priest-Kings, and the current restrictions on their power, in virtue of the catastrophic Nest War, I had little doubt but what the attack signals would be almost immediately transmitted to the steel worlds.	10
15	13	The signals, incidentally, are not a substitution cipher, for the languages of the red savages, not being written languages, in any conventional sense, do not have a standardized alphabet or syllabary.	10
15	14	The signals, of which there are some fifty or sixty, have conventionalized meanings, such as 'We are Kaiila', 'Who are you?', 'Go back', 'We have counted coup' and 'We are returning to camp'.	10
15	17	At night such signals can be conveyed by the number and placement of fires, or by a single fire, alternately revealed and concealed by the action, again, of a robe or blanket.	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	2	"The Kinyanpi! They are coming!" Several times in the afternoon had the battle whistles, formed from the wing bones of taloned Herlits, blasted in the air, and the feathered battle staffs raised and lowered, communicating their signals to the combatants, not only to the Kaiila but to the Yellow Kniv...	10
28	232	In what consternation must the Kinyanpi have viewed the plethora of yellow signals beneath them.	10
45	35	If certain signals of clear passage are not conveyed there will be standing orders to withdraw.	10
45	36	Such signals I want conveyed.	10
47	201	Signals were conveyed not by tarn drums, however, but, in one of the manners of the Barrens, by Herlit-bone whistles.	10

Book 19. (8 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	472	The specific signals between masters and sleen, signals which, in effect, convey such commands as "Attack," "Hunt," "Stop," "Back," and so on, are usually verbal and private.	10
2	554	It was unlikely that even her fiercest and most desperate signals would be audible more than a yard or so from her tiny prison.	10
3	920	We do have at our disposal, as slaves, however, a number and variety of begging signals, such things as groveling and moaning, and bringing bonds to him in our teeth, wherewith we may endeavor to call our needs to his attention".	10
3	921	"Begging signals?" I said.	10
33	474	The privacy of the signals is important to guarantee that not just anyone can start a sleen on a hunt or call one away from it.	10
33	475	The signals to which they respond, then, are idiosyncratic to the given beast.	10
33	477	For example, in an area where there are several sleen and several keepers, the keepers are likely to know the signals specific to the given beasts.	10
33	479	These signals, too, are usually kept written down somewhere.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	327	The urt people, as I understood it, commonly communicate among themselves in the pack by means of such signals.	10
13	328	How complicated or sophisticated those signals might be I did not know.	10
14	306	Perhaps, too, some of these were signals used by the urts themselves.	10
20	229	"These in the pit respond to verbal signals, regardless of their source.	10
20	232	"Such signals are secret," I said.	10

Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	909	He thinks you may have an instinctive understanding of chain signals".	10
10	759	"Borko is trained to respond to a variety of signals," he said.	10
11	29	Too, I thought, shuddering, as if such things were not enough, my body, and its odors, with my name, such that it might be included with appropriate triggering signals, had been imprinted on the dark, eager brain of a massive hunting sleen.	10

Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1031	In the repertoire of an experienced slave, of course, it is one of her nonverbal signals, one of those numerous signals, such as need knots, body touchings, and such, by means of which she may express herself, even if forbidden to speak.	10
12	110	"Surely there were warning signals, cloth on wandlike rence stems, white, then later red, raised in the vicinity of the rencers' village".	10
14	190	They can be used to convey signals, to communicate.	10
20	138	"If a tharlarion, or such, approaches," I said, "I am sure you will manage some excellent signals.	10
28	211	"Too, with him, and with scouts and points, and whoever may wish to alert the others, there must be natural signals by means of which to communicate with the others".	10
28	212	"Rencers," said a man, "use such signals".	10
28	221	Open spaces, when it is necessary to cross them, will be crossed one at a time, at intervals, when signals of safety are uttered or displayed.	10
29	105	There are many signals by means of which such behaviors can be commanded.	10
31	603	Sometimes she would make a tiny moaning noise, not unlike one of the unvocalized need signals of a slave girl.	10
32	154	By hand signals Plenius deployed our fellows.	10
32	297	But now, I think, the fellows of Ar in the delta, if there are any left, are safe from rencers, or, at least, in no more danger than they would be ordinarily, for example, if they were so rash as to pass warning signals, and such".	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	205	And I had no doubt, Master, that the royal hussy had seen to it that such signals, such signs, such intriguing glimpses, such supposed inadvertencies, and such, had abounded!" "In this," I said, "perhaps she was not so different from you".	10

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	83	The name is, of course, important, as it serves, in conjunction with other signals, to direct and target a hunt.	10
10	869	"You are familiar with gag signals, are you not?" he asked.	10
19	71	I had seen such flashes occasionally from the balustrade, presumably the routine signals of guards.	10
19	72	Smoke signals, too, are apparently sometimes used, but I had not seen them from the balustrade.	10
23	117	I knew the signals.	10
24	161	Even riderless birds, as I understand it, will often respond to these signals, the charge, the wheel to one attitude or another, the ascent, the dive, the retreat, and such.	10
29	221	"Ah," said he, "you have already been taught gag signals! Excellent!" I did not understand his fury.	10
37	144	On the other hand, the pit master had not volunteered the appropriate signals to the leader of the strangers.	10
37	146	One does not need such signals, of course, when one has at one's disposal an article of such utility as the quarry's robes, or tunic, or blanket.	10

Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	523	"Surely you know gag signals, slut," said Selius.	10
19	528	Ellen had been taught gag signals in her training, of course.	10
19	530	It is important for a girl to know gag signals, for it is not unusual for her to be gagged by her master.	10
19	533	In such encumbrances they must learn to respond to a variety of signals, for example, mere touches on an arm, guiding them, or, alternatively, verbal commands which, even though they can see nothing, they must obey with alacrity.	10
20	281	There seemed to have been signals exchanged, or at least a signal given by Tersius Major.	10
27	1895	"And no other here knows the signals!" "You had no sleen in the camp," said the officer.	10
27	1898	They will then respond to general signals, common to many such rented animals".	10
27	1900	"Signals pertinent to these beasts were conveyed to me at the kennels.	10
30	658	Perhaps some of the mysterious, untraceable, coded radio signals on Earth, seemingly indecipherable, perhaps indexed to an unfamiliar language, so perplexing to terrestrial authorities, pertain to this form of merchandising, the transmission of orders, the reports of scouts, the arrangements for, an...	10
30	674	Remember the mysterious, unaccountable radio signals.	10

Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	149	In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals to be displayed on the holdin...	10
1	743	She was in no way unaware of her effect on males, and had often, shamelessly, pleasurably, made use of her sex to tease, torment, and exploit them, even while pretending to a sexless neutrality, putting forth then a charade of impartial personhood which was only too obviously, to an astute observer,...	10
2	75	Why were they here? What did they want? Would the glassine walls not dispermit their access to the container, as effectively as it imprisoned its occupants? Surely the Kurii had no keys, or signals, to open these sturdy cells.	10
13	39	They would presumably have some system of verbal signals, if not a language.	10
19	30	It did not regard it as a living thing, of course, for the signals of sound, and odor, were incorrect.	10
29	316	"Do you know gag signals?" asked Cabot.	10
44	61	In this way, their use of signs and certain guttural signals was significantly augmented.	10
55	218	The two killer humans were not unaware of his arrival, and they, exchanging cries, something between speech and signals, ceased to prosecute their passage through the herd, and made their way back, almost as though through chest-high water, to the company of their colleagues, nearer the exit of the ...	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	258	Such signals are silent, and in waters where it might be wise to be wary, drums or horns would not be used.	10
16	30	I communicated with Ichiro by hand signals as well as voice, and I indicated that we were now to return to Tarncamp, and that bows were to be freed.	10
17	34	They would be, I supposed, little used to riding together, and would presumably lack familiar, common signals and maneuvers.	10
25	228	During daylight hours the signals were conveyed by banners, detectible at better than a pasang by the glasses of the Builders.	10
26	57	Our signals, particularly such simple ones, might well be understood by means of espionage, but, on the other hand, the colors were in general accord with the color codes familiar in many cities.	10
26	60	In this fashion signals could be relayed from post to post, rather in the nature of beacons on the Vosk.	10
26	63	When the guards are not stationary but aflight in concentric circles, some with a much greater radius than others, the timing and synchronization of signals, even with chronometers, is likely to be sporadic.	10
40	103	That is only a part of her life, though surely a part which informs, signals, and makes clear the nature of the whole.	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	82	It is impressive to see such mighty beasts in flight, the stroke of the wings to the beating of the tarn drum, the wheelings and maneuvers, in unison, to the signals of banners and trumpets.	10
12	335	It is not unknown for such signals to be used even in single holdings, if large enough; indeed, such holdings are sometimes labyrinthine.	10
21	280	"The signals are secret," said Lord Okimoto.	10
21	303	"The signals are secret," said Lord Okimoto.	10
22	215	I heard the drum again, now pounding with an intensity that literally suggested vexation, the drummer perhaps having caught the anger, disappointment, or frustration of whoever might be in charge of dictating the signals.	10
23	86	"That seems clear, from the false signals, the matter of the landing," said Cabot.	10
23	88	"It seems likely that the signals were betrayed," said Cabot.	10
25	16	Each station, too, was equipped with a drum, by means of which signals could be conveyed.	10
26	41	Probably secret signals were employed.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	60	To be sure, the very condition of bondage itself, aside from questions of restraint, with its signals, rituals, garmentures, behaviors, accouterments, expectations, and such, is richly and profoundly sexual; it is a way of life, a richly sexual way of life, and, given the radical sexual dimorphism o...	10
24	52	That is clear in the signals.	10
35	237	"And how," he asked, "does the house obtain its advantage? Are there apertures in the ceiling through which an accomplice, perhaps with a glass, might somehow signal the house's player, are there loitering observers nearby, in a position to read cards, and convey signals?" "I do not think so," I sai...	10

Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	162	The beasts responded to certain signals associated with food, which signals were changed from time to time.	10
14	163	One was reasonably safe if one knew the signals.	10
25	366	Their aggression, diverse behaviors, and such, are often triggered by private, secret, verbal signals, sometimes taken from only one person.	10
29	239	"You know gag signals, do you not, Vulo?" she said.	10
39	582	Only he will know the signals.	10
41	282	It conveys the signals".	10

Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	30	There had been three signals, trails of ascending smoke, red, yellow, and green, red betokening that the shore was held, land having been retaken, yellow that the holding of Lord Temmu still stood, and green that all was safe, and, accordingly, a landing might be effected.	10
1	50	One recalled the ambush ship, and its lurking assailants, and the treacherous signals which had lured men ashore to the south, and the fate of the exploratory force, whose march and order, whose route, whose strength and weaponry, may have been as familiar to the enemy as to its own commanders.	10
2	15	The pickets, outpost guards, sentries, and such, had been withdrawn, allegedly on the orders of Lord Temmu, which orders, apparently, had been fabricated, but had appeared authentic, given appropriate seals, and a knowledge of passwords, of signals and countersignals.	10
3	51	Strung cords with their dangling slivers of metal tend to be less favored; they may stir in the wind, like prayer chimes in a temple, which signals a human presence, past or present, and perhaps a camp's periphery.	10
8	40	Presumably signals, messages, and such, could no longer be transmitted from the parapets.	10
11	13	Beyond that, signals were conveyed by battle horn or drum.	10
11	274	"That was necessary to prevent signals or messages being transmitted to the camp of Yamada, which would have betrayed our plan.	10
14	93	"There are a variety of ways in which one can communicate with the holding," he said, "flighted vulos, message arrows, signals from the ground, such things".	10
23	209	And sometimes whistling arrows are used, much like those which convey signals, initiate attacks, and such.	10
49	137	In gag signals, one sound betokens "Yes," and two sounds, "No".	10
50	120	Indeed, if one listened only briefly, or did not listen carefully, one might have supposed that something of that sort was on the other side of the door, perhaps caged, perhaps chained, but, if one attended more carefully, one began shortly to suspect, and it was a most unsettling suspicion, particu...	10
61	221	Signals are emplaced.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
67	97	One sound or whimper, as in gag signals, signifies "Yes," and two sounds or whimpers, again, as in gag signals, signifies "No".	10
2	9	There are difficult-to-explain signals, and many sightings, perhaps of ships harboring in unknown ports, not those of Terra, not those of Earth".	10
22	48	"You understand gag signals, do you not?" he inquired.	10
28	215	I whimpered, but not in response to signals, rather from misery.	10
62	141	There are many begging signals, from things as simple as tying the loose bondage knot in one's hair to kneeling and kissing and licking the master's feet, whimpering in need.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	711	At this point, perhaps in response to signals conveyed by the captain, or one of his officers, the hortator's strokes changed, some too closely together to be matched by the heavy oars, others widely spaced, and then occurring almost unexpectedly.	10

Book 36. (9 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	24	"The Tesephone signals," said Thurnock.	10
4	32	Most commonly, cyphers are involved, as opposed to signals for words or commands, such as 'enemy sighted', 'prepare for battle', 'convene', 'withdraw', 'return to port', and such.	10
22	155	"First," I said, "I must encourage the merchantmen not to respond to signals of distress, not to be solicitous of stranded survivors, the pathetic victims of a casualty at sea".	10
23	12	"I wished I could have seen our 'Three Ubaras', in their contrived gowns, carefully soiled and rent, their ankles in water, apparently piteous and needful, waiting to be rescued, and not being rescued, their signals ignored," said Clitus.	10
27	23	"Do you think he cannot read the signals from the cashier, particularly when more valuable ostraca are purchased? Have you not noticed that sometimes the wheel spins differently than at other times, that it occasionally slows earlier and so stops sooner?" "When I wager anew," said Aktis, "I shall ha...	10
28	53	"How many ships have responded to your signals of distress?" I asked.	10
35	45	"Too," said Thurnock, "watch towers are built, and signals, by day and night, have been devised".	10
55	70	It, by signals, will remain in contact with the main body of the fleet, the four ships held in reserve".	10
58	236	"Look," said Clitus, "one of the pursuing ships signals us".	10

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