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Skills

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	19	Perhaps the mark would be more suited to your skills".	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	163	The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...	10

Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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8	221	But if I had indeed acquired skills with those fierce articles, such skills, in the current contests, were to be tested to the utmost.	10
5	14	I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...	10
8	487	Her skills must be subtle, her timing marvelous.	10
10	395	In short, in their various ways, something like seniority and skills determines, of two or more Turians, or two or more warriors of the Wagons, who will take the field.	10
15	17	He lacked siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities.	10
25	371	"But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co...	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	27	With them they would have brought their customs, their skills, their habits, their games, which, in time, would presumably have undergone considerable modification.	10
3	50	There is also some money for the masters in the annotation of games, printed on large boards near the Central Cylinder, in the preparation or editing of scrolls on the game, and in the providing of instruction for those who would improve their skills.	10
5	286	Her skills will grow.	10
5	361	"Perhaps," I said, "they feel it encourages martial skills, courage and such".	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	217	It angered me, suddenly, drunkenly, that those of Port Kar, wicked as they were, should possess so superbly the skills of seamanship.	10
9	351	Further, I gathered, on the islands, Telima, with her beauty, her skills and arrogance, had not been popular, and it pleased them no little that she should be, in effect, slave for them as well as their masters.	10

Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	208	On the other hand, I was encouraged because it seemed to me then that these individuals, if they spoke the same language, must possess the technological skills to return me to my native world.	10
11	349	"That is how it is done! That is how the body of a slave girl moves!" But I wanted to learn, that I might use my skills to enhance my fortunes on Gor.	10
11	594	I found it necessary now to apply my full attention and intelligence to master the increasingly subtle and intricate skills of the female slave.	10
11	597	We were learning, we were increasing our skills.	10
11	620	In acknowledgment of my skills, perhaps, Lana began to take me into her confidence, and, though I hated her, I became her friend.	10

Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	1021	There are skills required, sometimes delicate skills.	10
3	190	I am an admirer of skills, of efficiencies of various sorts.	10
3	396	I told myself I might find use for her skills.	10
4	345	I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces.	10
5	137	She possessed skills.	10
5	145	She might now, I speculated, be well induced to serve me with exceeding fervor and diligence, should I assign her tasks in accord with her thieving skills, for fear that she be given to the massive, handsome Arn.	10
6	271	I wondered if Sarpedon would have beaten her, for concealing from him her skills.	10
6	668	"No!" "On the contrary," I said, "it is my wish that you keep your skills fresh.	10
6	1024	"Requiring skills or not," I told her, "such tasks are servile".	10
7	103	And the new girls would beg the paga slaves to impart to them something of their skills, that they might be more pleasing to men.	10
16	250	"Then, with your skills, you should be able to return undetected to your place in the camp".	10
18	93	The female slave, celebrated on Gor for her beauty, her skills and her delights is prize booty.	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	169	Do we not learn to live by doing, as we learn to speak by speaking, to paint by painting, to build by building? Those who know best how to live, sometimes it seems to me, are those least likely to be articulate in such skills.	10
10	649	The gift of a female is sufficiently trivial that the honor of the Forkbeard as my host would not be in the least threatened; further, this was a desirable wench, whose cuddly slave body would be much relished by the Forkbeard and his crew; further, being trained, she would be a rare and exquisite t...	10
16	67	To have a scribe's skills would tend to embarrass a man of arms, and tend to lower his prestige among his peers.	10
20	110	"I have admired your strategies, your efficiency and skills.	10
21	158	His accent was not of high caste; it had been formed on the jetties of the island Ubarate of cliffed Tyros, where he had for years, I had learned, led gangs of ruffians; caught, he had been dragged before Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, for sentencing to impalement; rather, Chenbar had liked the looks of hi...	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	79	Too, she taught her skills useful to a Tahari female, the making of ropes from kaiila hair, the cutting and plaiting of reins, the weaving of cloth and mats, the decoration and beading of leather goods, the use of the mortar and pestle, the use of the grain quern, the preparation and spicing of stew...	10
14	374	Vella's perfume, I thought, doubtless a tribute to the skills of some perfumer, had suited her superbly.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	300	Girls pride themselves on their evasive skills in Girl Catch; they strive with every fiber in their small bodies to be cunning, elusive quarry, not to be easily caught; with delight do they struggle to elude the predator; with relish do they know, belled, their capture and seizure is inevitable.	10
4	129	The sexuality, qualities and capacities, and skills, of a slave girl, not a free woman, are discussed on Gor with the same openness that men on Earth might bring to the discussion of paintings and music, and that Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century might have brought to the discussion of dogs and h...	10
13	379	My responsiveness, like my intelligence, my service and my skills, such as they were, came with my price.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	151	"Too," said he, "I know the skills of my men.	10
24	205	You will someday, doubtless, given the sellings and exchanges, and your growth in skills and beauty, find love".	10
29	64	"From what I have heard of your skills in the ice," I said, "too, it did not seem likely that a beast would have slipped past you, or, if it did, that you, trailing it, would have taken so long to apprehend it".	10
38	198	Another is, "I was found beautiful enough for a Warrior to brand!" Girls compete, so to speak, with one another in many ways, the quality and nature of their brands, the comfort, lightness, and attractiveness of their collars; at whose command they were branded and collared, the quality and texture ...	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	634	I would have her improve her slave skills considerably before I would let her have so much as a rag.	10
12	235	"I would like to see further evidence of your skills," I said.	10
12	259	"I would see evidence of your skills," I said.	10
32	869	Its construction paid tribute to the engineering skills of his people.	10
34	650	One reason for supposing this to be the case is that a girl's growth in certain forms of dance skills does not follow a normal learning curve.	10
48	168	He will have perfection from his slave, in movement, in position, in speech, in dress, if it is permitted, in obedience, in deference, in docility, in manifold service, and, in the furs, in the vulnerable, zealous application of her skills, those of an amorous slave hoping to please her master, and,...	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	8	It is possible, though it is seldom the case, that members of a caste are not permitted to practice specific caste skills, though they may be permitted to practice subsidiary skills.	10
16	13	Caste membership, for Goreans, is generally a simple matter of birth; it is not connected necessarily with the performance of certain skills, nor the attainment of a given level of proficiency in such skills.	10
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
19	48	Some small men, as is well known, are extremely fine fighters, though, of course, they do not have the size and weight to consistently best larger men, assuming that the distribution of skills is similar.	10
26	236	I had little doubt but what one who was the master of such skills could make short work of me.	10
32	70	"No," I said, "that you might, through sedulous practice, improve your skills as a slave".	10

Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	465	Indeed, boys are commonly trained in these skills once they reach adolescence.	10
4	466	It is thought, correctly I suppose, that they will not be likely to need these skills until that time.	10
4	473	These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.	10
23	146	"His skills seem adequate," said Kliomenes.	10
23	371	"She is trying hard to improve her skills," he said.	10
24	252	Her linguistic skills in this respect, and I have unusual aptitude in such matters, approached my own.	10
26	246	"How then, as I am a worker on the docks, could I have had the leisure to develop skills with the blade which might be the match of yours?" Angrily Miles of Vonda thrust his sword back in its sheath.	10
26	247	He need not know that I had taken the leisure, and much of it, as it pleased me, to develop blade skills, nor need he know I was, for my times of training, reasonably adept with the blade.	10
26	253	And beyond these things, I did not wish for those of Victoria to know of my skills with the blade.	10
32	10	If he would have handled them with adequate skills I had little doubt that each, indeed, would have striven desperately to outdo the other, each trying to be the favorite.	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	35	Temus, who had been the captain of the Mira, had been taken aboard the Olivia, that he might, by his skills of seamanship, give aid to the men of Ar.	10
7	58	The infantrymen of Ar, in their numbers, inordinate for the vessels involved, and their skills in war, uncommon on the river, stiffened the resistance of the remnants of our small fleet.	10
15	74	I had underestimated the skills of my captors.	10
20	20	It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo...	10
20	26	Miles of Vonda had had her trained in these skills.	10
20	69	She might spend years in low taverns, or as a carnival dancer, or even as a street dancer, for provocation and use, on her leash, before her skills develop to a point at which she is good enough, as it is said, "to be permitted to dance before a Ubar".	10
20	1146	He would draw forth from her by his skills rhapsodies of movements, cries, moans, utterances and admissions, a music to the ears of both the conquering master and the delicious, yielding slave, she who finds, and can find, her most glorious victory only in her most complete and devastating defeat.	10
20	1497	Such skills are alien to the free woman.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	914	"Skills such as yours," he said, "do not bring their highest prices in the vicinity of the perimeter".	10
10	46	"If we were being followed by red savages," he said, "I do not think that you, with your present level of skills, would be aware of it".	10
13	1377	"Your skills and talents are surely as much, or more, at his disposal, as they are at the disposal of any other male," I said.	10
13	1381	"I would want to serve my love master, to the best of my ability, with whatever skills or talents I might have".	10
14	1177	He had perhaps discounted their possible numbers or skills.	10

Book 18. (12 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
1	386	Hci, in spite of his skills and courage, had not yet received such an honor.	10
1	390	I suspected that the reason that Hci had never been given the command of a raiding party was not because he was not admired and liked among the Isbu, nor because his trail and war skills were not respected, but because his judgment was not trusted.	10
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
2	183	Such games, of course, have their role to play in honing skills and sharpening reflexes that may be of great importance in adulthood.	10
12	420	Until her slave skills improve her place will be on furs, or a mat, or on the bare stones or tiles, at the foot of the couch.	10
14	454	"But not once," she said, angrily, "have they put me to their intimate service, forcing me to perform with the skills and talents of the female slave".	10
26	74	That sabers are not used more widely on Gor is, I think, a function of the tendency of many mounted warriors to rely too exclusively, in my opinion, on their skills with the lance.	10
44	585	The delicate balances of tribal power would not have been sustained for generations, in my opinion, had radically disparate distributions of martial skills been involved.	10
47	197	Due to lack of competition their battle skills, originally developed in connection with the kaiila, would presumably have declined.	10
47	199	On the other hand, the shield and lance skills of the Kaiila were fresh, and our men were tried warriors.	10
56	50	I was apprehensive when I thought of the skills of red savages on the kaiila.	10

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	298	Promotion to the fourth rank is usually automatic, following the demonstrated attainment of certain levels of martial skills.	10
4	305	His skills with the sword, I suppose, had been what had called him to the attention of Ligurious.	10
6	419	Doubtless the men in the audience were intent on the bouts, observing the styles and skills of the contestants, tallying points, and assessing the play.	10
9	211	He has had me only a few times, and I have improved my skills, considerably, since then".	10
14	120	Her skills suggested that she might be a camp slave, a girl from one of the strings of camp slaves, strings of girls owned by authorized merchants, holding contracts for certain seasons or campaigns, kept within the camp, and traveling with it, for renting out to soldiers at fees stipulated in the c...	10
27	182	You have been familiarized with only a small selection of basic skills, apprised of only a handful of fundamentals.	10
27	188	Some years from now you may begin to grasp an inkling of what can be the skills, the sensitivities and talents, the emotions, the depths of feeling, of the slave.	10
31	718	What a tribute to their attractiveness, and their skills as a slave! How they must compete with one another, I thought, to become the favorite! But how much better, I thought, to be the single slave of one's master, and to learn him, and serve him, with heat and devotion, regularly, day in and day o...	10
36	470	"Yes," he said, "you, with your intelligence, your beauty, your vulnerability, your sensuousness, your glances and movements, your bondage skills, your insidious slave wiles, the perfections of your servitude, made it impossible not to desire you, not to lust for you, inordinately, not to want you, ...	10
36	473	I had tried, with all the skills I had been taught, and with all the devices, and instincts, of the natural slave, which I was, to attract and lure him.	10
36	1584	"Such skills would seem to have a very low priority," he said.	10

Book 20. (9 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	431	His skills, however, I conjectured, must be considerable.	10
2	868	It takes time for a girl to develop adequate skills.	10
2	1658	"You would not have her experience, her skills, her training.	10
7	294	This multiplicity of skills, incidentally, is not all that uncommon with players.	10
7	373	I did not realize my skills with magic were still that mysterious and baffling.	10
10	379	"Your skills leave something to be desired," she said.	10
12	105	I had little doubt, however, that, in playing with him, my skills in Kaissa had been considerably sharpened.	10
18	59	There are few on Gor who do not stand in awe of the skills of high players.	10
21	184	Prepare now to try the skills of another member of the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit, but one whose sword is of steel".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	9	We were now within the laager of Genserix, a chieftain of the Alars, a nomadic, wandering herding people, and one well-known, like the folks of Torvaldsland, for their skills with the ax.	10
15	84	One supposes they would not have the temerity to regard themselves as, say, good architects or good shipwrights in the absence of suitable training and developed skills.	10
19	242	Such men, with their internal esprit de corps, their identification with their own units, their allegiance to their personal commanders, their status, privileges and skills, their proximity to the delicate fulcrums of power, hold in their hands the power to enthrone and dethrone ubars.	10
19	250	One does not gain admittance to their coveted ranks in virtue of mediocre skills or poor condition.	10

Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	207	I was told that my skills in these matters, as they had now ascertained, and confirming reports on my "papers," or "records," were already far beyond the rudiments that I would obtain in such a class.	10
5	271	Strive constantly to improve your skills, and value".	10
11	713	Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them.	10
11	714	Such skills, too, tend to be appreciated by other Goreans, and are not looked down on.	10
11	913	But I think, too, more simply, that there are skills involved, and that I was an excellent dancer, even at that time.	10
20	229	On the other hand, it usually tends to have a far more limited pool of skills than that of the "free gangs" and, accordingly, it is usually employed in ruder, less demanding labors, or even in labors which, because of their arduousness, or their onerous nature, would be distasteful to free gangs.	10
24	138	She apparently worked very hard to keep her position with this chain, carrying water, sometimes double bags, frequently and uncomplainingly, and, in the evening, zealously, and desperately, and with subtle and delicious skills, well pleasing the guards.	10
24	329	Though I had had, because of the relatively advanced state of my dancing skills, for a new slave, very little instruction in dance in the house of my first training, I had been taught at least that much.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	64	For example, usually it is the most beautiful women who are enslaved, which doubtless skews the matter considerably, and then, after their enslavement, they are commonly muchly improved, and rigorously so, by exercise, diet and training, training, for example, in posture, movement, diction and defer...	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	145	When a Gorean woman meets a Gorean man she is probably well aware that he likely to be familiar, and from his very youth, with various skills, such as the tetherings of such as she, those of her sex.	10

Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	942	Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ...	10
17	342	They are skills, skills".	10
7	53	"There is a great pool of skills and talent in Ar.	10
11	411	The board had a thousand sides, and surfaces and dimensions, the pieces were of an unknown number, and nature and value, the rules were uncertain, often you did not know whom you played, or where they were, often the moves must be made in darkness, in ignorance of your opponent's position, his piece...	10
12	502	"Surely you, in his place, in his helplessness, lacking your sword, your skills, would have done as much, or more".	10
17	17	I am fond of such things, and a great admirer of the subtlety, the adroitness, dexterity and skills which are often involved in making them possible.	10
17	343	"The magician, too," I said, "has his skills.	10
18	451	It would be an insult to my skills! There is no challenge!" "It is too easy?" I asked.	10
18	525	"If you were to attempt to accomplish this, with your particular subtlety and skills, there would indeed be danger, perhaps unparalleled peril.	10
27	561	Similarly, bred slaves, beauties raised on the slave farms for later distribution and sale, would not be likely to possess such skills.	10

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	92	Such skills were not deemed needful for one such as I.	10
14	1541	Later, as our skills improved, the guards permitted us, sans blindfolds, to practice upon them.	10
38	83	Such skills are expected of us, as I have indicated.	10

Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	138	Similarly, she learned that the skills of needlework of various sorts were indeed skills, and not at all easy to acquire.	10
27	3296	There she had become desperately zealous, often naked, on her knees, in the shadow of a switch or whip, to master a battery of domestic skills, cooking amongst them, skills expected of a female slave.	10
7	133	With respect to cooking she had prided herself on "knowing only the basics," but it seems that here, on this world, her skills did not extend even so far.	10
11	238	The Gorean culture, with its penchant for naturalness and beauty, and with skills doubtless honed in slave houses over generations, had learned well how to dress and adorn its lovely chattels, so natural, and essential, and beautiful a part of its rich and complex world.	10
18	7	Then she enthusiastically and provocatively displays, with skills that might be the envy of a dancer, sometimes with seeming shyness, timidity, reluctance or fear, the well-curved, delectable merchandise which is herself.	10
18	117	Needless to say, these are skills routinely expected of a slave, any slave, even one whose price is largely indexed to her passion and beauty.	10
20	939	To be sure, her experiences in the streets of Ar did not suggest that men would be likely to bid upon her with their eyes intent upon her skills as a cook or seamstress.	10
22	134	Did they not know that dancers might train, and hone their skills, for years, gaining greater and greater control over their body, adding dances to their repertoire, becoming more and more adept at this sensuous, delicious, intricate art form? To be sure, she supposed, there was a basic, biological ...	10
24	123	When her attributes had been recorded, her height, weight, measurements, identifying marks, collar size, languages, literacy, skills and such, she had been asked about dancing but she had, of course, responded negatively.	10
24	289	The two girls knelt facing one another, and Feike, having recourse to the tiny pans and dishes, and the pencil-like applicators on the low cosmetics table, applied her skills to the countenance of the barbarian.	10
24	546	Doubtless lovely Dara would bring a high price on the block, being valued not only for her skills as a dancer, but for her obvious possibilities as a common pleasure slave.	10
27	3293	Indeed, she would have felt embarrassed to have such skills.	10
27	3298	In time, as her skills increased, and the sting of the switch became less frequent, she began to take pride in her performance of such tasks, those expected of a female slave.	10

Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	689	It spoke not of ideas and theories, or verbalisms, or of the fencings and cant in which she had sought to perfect herself, of the skills which brought status in her world, but of a different world, one of which she knew but little, one in which she had little part, one in which she did not belong, o...	10
11	200	"In any event," said Cabot, "putting aside her skills as a dancer, which are doubtless considerable, she is obviously a luscious piece of collar meat".	10
19	60	The hunting sleen was a much larger animal, and had been bred through generations not only for its hunting skills, but for size, ferocity, and aggressiveness.	10
30	82	"And you will improve in your skills, and learn the slow slave use of your tongue, and the slave use of your lips".	10
30	87	"Yes!" "There are skills involved in all slave acts," said Cabot, "even in so simple a thing as the kisses of slaves".	10
36	323	"As a slave," she said, "I am no stranger to bonds, and have I not been helpless many times, while my Master, with his patience, and skills, worked his will upon me, forcing me, whether I willed it or not, to endure ecstasies, and then ecstasies beyond ecstasies?" "Such things may be done to a slave...	10
46	24	"I wish," said Cabot, "that I had his skills".	10
46	26	"Such skills," thought Cabot, "might have been the envy even of the Red Savages, of the Gorean Barrens".	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	401	Miss Wentworth could not be expected to have such skills.	10
12	211	"So let him improve his skills," said Tajima.	10
12	300	Once we have a hundred or more men who have flighted a tarn and lived, we will begin a more disciplined endeavor, and will try to form riders, with such skills as they will then have, into prides, which you may then form into a cavalry".	10
14	25	These, I gathered, were less surrogate weapons than training devices, to quicken reflexes, and enhance skills.	10
14	193	"Your weapons, your skills, your talents, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Tajima, "are not ours".	10
14	214	"So that his skills might one day equal or exceed mine?" asked Tajima.	10
18	59	"And do you possess his skills?" I asked.	10
18	78	"My skills increase," said Pertinax.	10
22	28	Too, I suspect that the choices of slavers are not always clear to those lacking their training and skills.	10
22	249	The skills involved in such a display are rare.	10
31	21	His skills increase.	10
32	47	So simply, I thought, does Lord Nishida, and Lord Okimoto, select amongst skills, and divest themselves of superfluous minions.	10
38	277	I knew he had sword skills but they would do him little good when, weakened, scarcely able to stand, he would find himself ringed by glaives.	10
43	39	Its tracking skills had doubtless been evolved for the pursuit of game, but, in the domesticated sleen, often carefully bred for generations, they often proved of great value to humans.	10
43	134	"And," said Lord Nishida, "should we not account ourselves fortunate to be successors to the skills of one who commanded such a guard?" "Doubtless," I said.	10
43	137	"And thus his skills with the blade are less surprising".	10

Book 30. (8 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	304	"He may not have the skills of one who stood first spear, but we deem his skills adequate for our purposes, that of adjudicating a war right to a berth.	10
5	43	"When have you last drawn, fenced, put your skills to the test?" he asked.	10
5	59	Perhaps he did not know, as I did, the skills of the former captain of the Taurentians.	10
5	229	The tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, I gathered, did not know the skills of Seremides.	10
5	231	Even were he, somehow, a match for the former Taurentian's skills, it would be wrong of me to accept his intervention.	10
19	168	Of what value is a woman to a man if she lacks slave skills? Even a brilliant woman, witty and articulate, learned, of the high Scribes, collared, her blue robes exchanged for a rag, must apply herself to new studies, the use of her lips and tongue, of her small fingers and glossy hair.	10
36	292	Whereas I had gathered from the tale of the stranger that he did not much credit his skills with the blade, I now realized that they were far from indifferent.	10
37	12	I wondered how much that had to do with her market skills, and how much might have had to do with her smiles and the brevity of her tunic.	10

Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	206	Indeed, from what I had heard of the Voltai, I gathered that blade skills might be as important as wagon skills.	10
4	411	"People sometimes need their skills and knowledge, even desperately.	10
7	248	One learns the kisses and caresses, the kneelings, the manner of tying sandals, of dressing and bathing masters, and such, but most attention was devoted, interestingly, to the acquisition of Gorean, and a number of servile skills, such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, laundering, and such.	10
7	251	I do not think there was anything surprising or anomalous in this, for the linguistic skills of women, for whatever reason, tend to be considerable.	10
7	257	Whatever may be the truth in such matters, my skills proceeded apace.	10
7	262	I came from a class in which such things were for other sorts of women, low women, and such skills were, however important they might be, below me, and my kind.	10
7	297	As my progress in Gorean continued, and I became more adept in servile skills, being permitted to launder for the guards, and do some simple cooking for their mess, I was granted a tunic.	10
18	205	He would be accompanied by Lykos, whose opinion, because of his blade skills, it seems, would be relevant and perhaps important.	10

Book 32. (16 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	29	What then was different about him? He appeared agile, and strong, but do not many? How might he make his living? What skills might he have? I wondered about that.	10
6	162	More frighteningly, at least to many, was the level of weapon skills which were being sought.	10
7	52	During my training, how often I had sneaked little glances about me, at the guards, the visitors, prospective buyers, trainers, physicians, and attendants, hoping to see him! I knew myself too poor a slave to be of interest to such a man, perhaps one of skills, position, and wealth, but, still, I ho...	10
10	121	"You saw his skills," he said.	10
11	109	Happily, most carnivores, if young, if fresh in their skills and strength, if healthy, are unlikely to attack humans, as the human is not their natural prey.	10
14	106	"You have skills," he said.	10
14	347	"For that," he said, "I suspect your skills would be insufficient".	10
15	217	"In it they also hone their capture skills".	10
15	227	"You spoke," I said, "of honing their capture skills".	10
20	233	Many mariners, too, incidentally, do not read, despite the fact that many are of fine mind, and are the masters of much lore and remarkable skills.	10
41	426	Those with the highest skills in such matters would be the most likely to survive, to please, to be used for the purposes of reproduction, and such".	10
46	66	I lacked their size, their power, their skills, their hatred, their masculinity, their ferocity.	10
50	136	I supposed the weapon skills of my captor and Master Axel would be similar.	10
50	137	Few men, I was sure, saving perhaps workmen, some mariners, and such, had been hired north without the assurance that they possessed one or another of the dark skills.	10
52	337	"It is true," said Axel, "that I do not know the nature of your skills".	10
52	345	If your skills are such as I suppose, you will know that.	10

Book 33. (20 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	273	"The splendid officer, fearful Tyrtaios, so wise in council, so adept with the sword," said Lord Nishida, "has departed the holding, and placed his cunning and skills at the service of great Yamada".	10
1	328	"He of whom you speak," said Lord Okimoto, "is not of my command, but his skills in the dojo, displayed in Tarncamp, were well remarked".	10
11	72	And this strange, short, thickly built man, so unprepossessing, so commonplace in appearance, so ragged in garments with hair so unkempt, this man so solitary, and lonely, so shy, so quiet, so dignified in speech, sought a kindred perfection, but it had to do with a finely honed blade, with skills, ...	10
11	84	Now you see him grown in strength, in skills, in learning.	10
11	95	"I shall try to improve his skills".	10
13	254	Assets and skills were turned to profiteering.	10
19	25	"He would not waste the subtleties, the delights and skills, of contract women on such as we?" inquired Tajima.	10
30	126	In the slave houses, girls being trained for the pleasures of men, namely, being taught the subtleties, skills, behaviors, and dispositions of the pleasure slave, are taught how to move, and now not to move.	10
30	405	Some modalities may be as simple as the exposition cage in which girls may be displayed prior to being brought to the block, or as subtle as the skills of the auctioneer presenting merchandise for the interest of possible buyers.	10
47	69	"It might be sport to try your skills," said Lord Yamada.	10
47	128	"Tomorrow," said Lord Yamada, "we will test your skills on the archery range".	10
47	171	But, too, in virtue of your alleged skills, and my own curiosity pertaining to the accounts I have of you, we are putting aside the straw jacket, crucifixion, and such".	10
47	316	"I am sure, great lord," said Katsutoshi, "from what I have seen in the town, Chrysanthemum of the Shogun, and here, that his skills would be remarkable".	10
54	10	And who but Kurii might manage the enormous mechanical beast? Who else might risk bringing such a dreadful thing forth from its lair? Who else might dare to pilot such a thing? And who else would have the skills to do so? Most likely it would be supposed that we had failed to obtain an entrance to t...	10
59	160	I had no doubt as to the skills of Katsutoshi, were he the finest sword in the shogun's guard.	10
59	275	He had spared Tajima and Pertinax, neither a match for his skills.	10
60	30	I did not expect Lord Yamada to stand long against Nodachi, but I did not know his skills.	10
60	77	"I must improve my skills," said Nodachi.	10
61	296	I must perfect my skills.	10
61	954	In her great financial institution, she had functioned as a solicitor of investment capital, a project in which she well utilized the assets of her intelligence, beauty, and meretricious, seductive skills, promising much and delivering nothing.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	146	"Surely this has to do with clerical skills, with office work," I said.	10
25	21	Who knows what lurks in the darkness, what might emerge from the night? Too, skills and strengths honed in, and augmented under, adverse conditions prepare one well for the tests of the common day.	10
25	32	"Rather," said Tyrtaios, "one is unwilling to allow certain skills to languish".	10
26	59	He is to devote himself to his skills, and to his tools, the dagger, the quarrel, the wire noose, the dart, the brewing of poisons, to deception, patience, disguise, and ruthlessness.	10
60	236	My skills reach beyond excellent.	10
61	366	"I could not stand against his skills," said Kurik.	10
61	951	I had gathered, from earlier in the afternoon, that it was understood that the skills of Tyrtaios were well known, and that he might have easily killed either Kurik or Drusus Andronicus, either singly, or together.	10
64	19	These interests and skills, such as they were, on Paula's part, were some of the reasons I tended to feel compassion for her.	10

Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	130	"Houses" register swordsmen, accrediting them in virtue of tests of skills.	10
31	20	I had little doubt that he, when whole, would have been a most dangerous swordsman, and I had little doubt that some remnant of fearsome skills might be retained.	10
31	45	I suspect that he had placed but one tarsk on the table to suggest either limits to his affluence or some diffidence as to his skills.	10
31	149	"Your skills are formidable.	10
45	158	It was the young swordsman, Alan, of the red company, he of the unusual hair, so red with the incongruous slash of blonde, he of remarkable blade skills, who had been called to my attention by Seremides weeks ago.	10
46	220	Often, when a girl dances, unless her skills are familiar, recognized, and indisputable, a taverner's man, with a whip, is discreetly in the background.	10
46	462	But her alcove skills, as doubtless some of you know, are considerable".	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	8	He deems his experience, qualifications, and skills overlooked.	10
38	23	I would suppose he lacks diplomatic skills.	10
48	17	What could stand against their skills and numbers? Desperation, ugly and gloomy, fell like unlit, unwelcome night.	10
58	92	The most common form of disadvantage, assuming a parity of weaponry and skills, is to be outnumbered at a given time and place.	10
63	81	"You miss competing with one whose skills with the bow match your own," said Clitus.	10