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Spring

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
9	28	Toward morning we ate some of the rations and refilled the water flasks at a secluded spring.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	43	He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	46	I would learn later that in the ball at the end of its forelegs from which the smaller prehensile appendages extended, there was a curved, bladed, hornlike structure that could spring forward; this happens spontaneously when the leg's tip is inverted, a motion which at once exposes the hornlike blad...	10
32	331	The second larl, enraged, roared and crouched to spring.	10

Book 4. (24 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	72	In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...	10
2	73	It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...	10
8	2	I had hoped to go to Turia, there to seek the answer to the mystery of the message collar, but it was not to be, at least until the spring.	10
8	4	The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac...	10
8	5	It is in the spring that the omens are taken, regarding the possible election of the Ubar San, the One Ubar, he who would be Ubar of all the Wagons, of all the Peoples.	10
8	9	"In the spring there will be the games of Love War and I will go to Turia, and you may then, if you wish, accompany me".	10
8	21	It did not seem likely, either, that one would be elected in the spring.	10
8	29	How was it, I wondered, that Kamchak was going to Turia in the spring? I sensed him to be a man of importance with the wagons.	10
8	635	The bosk were moving south with the coming of the spring.	10
9	83	We did not attract as much attention as I had thought we would, and I gathered that every spring, at least, visitors from the Wagon Peoples must come to the city.	10
9	175	There had been no surviving male heir and the considerable wealth of Tethrar of Turia was now that of his daughter, Aphris, who would assume control of these remarkable fortunes upon attaining her majority, which event was to occur this spring.	10
10	82	But she was kissing me and by my arms was being lowered to the grasses of the spring prairie.	10
10	261	The games of Love War, of course, are celebrated every spring between, so to speak, the city and the plains, whereas the Omen Year occurs only every tenth year.	10
10	262	The games of Love War, in themselves, do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples, for normally the herds and the free women of the peoples do not approach one another at these times; only certain delegations of warriors, usually about two hundred from a people, are sent in the spring to the ...	10
11	188	I knew, of course, that it was spring and, in this hemisphere, most birds, if there were any migrating, would be moving south.	10
11	193	"In the spring, when the ice breaks in the Vosk, they fly north".	10
11	196	The migrations of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until later in the spring.	10
12	44	Indeed, in the spring, with the results of caravan raids already accumulating, it is a rare night on which one cannot see one or more such dances performed.	10
12	502	Moreover, not every man wants to own an untrained barbarian slave, for such, even if given to them, must be fed—and, this spring, as I could tell from walking about the camp, there was no shortage of girls, freshly collared and branded perhaps, untrained perhaps, but yet, and most importantly...	10
15	14	There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring.	10
16	84	I was chilly in the spring night and my clothes, of course, were soaked.	10
19	36	Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o...	10
20	15	Although the wall was several feet from the top of the tree I managed, by springing on one of the curved branches, to build up enough spring pressure to leap to where I could get my fingers over the edge of the wall.	10
24	26	The time of the year was the late spring and the prairie's climate was not unkind, though occasionally long rains must have made the lot of the refugees fleeing toward other cities miserable.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	147	The staff, incidentally, had been increased in the last month, largely due to the increasing number of slaves being processed by the House but perhaps also, in part, in preparation for the approaching spring, which is the busiest season on the Street of Brands, for then, after the winter, slave raid...	10
17	159	Meanwhile the intrigues of Cernus, of the House of Cernus, threaded their way through the days and events of the spring and summer in Ar.	10
17	218	He did so late in spring, on the sixteenth day of the third month, that month which in Ar is called Camerius, in Ko-ro-ba Selnar.	10

Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	2	It was late in the year to cut rence, but some quantities of the rence are cut during the fall and winter and stored on covered rence rafts until the spring.	10
10	2	It was now near the end of the first passage hand, that following En'Kara, in which occurs the Spring Equinox.	10
10	3	The Spring Equinox, in Port Kar, as well as in most other Gorean cities, marks the New Year.	10
16	196	We had not expected the launching of the fleet to take place until the spring.	10
16	198	Most sailing, save by round ships, is done in the spring and summer.	10
17	8	As I may have mentioned, most Gorean sailing, particularly by tarn ships, is done in the spring and summer.	10

Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	14	It was not strange, however, for it was spring, and spring is the great season for slave raids.	10
1	38	The woman resigned from the school that Spring.	10
5	169	If this world had seasons, as I supposed it must, I would have guessed it was in the spring of their year.	10
7	21	Beyond this, Targo had speculated that since no city had recently fallen, and the house of Cernus had been destroyed in Ar, one of the great slave houses, that the market would be high this spring.	10
13	113	They were then transported overland in slave wagons to the Sardar, where they were sold at the great spring fair of En'Kara.	10
13	417	And as I was going away, I heard it spring and heard an animal".	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	281	The early spring is the favored time, in order to have the girls partially trained and to market prior to the spring and summer festivals in many cities.	10
5	155	It was late in the summer and the river was not as high as it is in the spring.	10
8	286	The Gorean slave trap is not held by a simple, heavy spring as would be the trap for a panther or sleen.	10
8	287	Such a spring, by a strong man, with his hands, might be thrust open.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	65	The slender, striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and fall, be taken in great numbers.	10
4	82	In that same year, in its spring, in Port Kar, the Council of Captains had assumed its sovereignty, thus initiating Year 1 of its reign.	10
4	83	Most Gorean cities use the Spring Equinox as the date of the New Year.	10
4	85	The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the Rune-Priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland.	10
4	175	In the spring, of course, before the ships are brought from the sheds on rollers to the sea, they are completely recaulked and tarred.	10
7	45	Then, in the warmth of the spring, in the softening soil, the plants, hardy and rugged, again assert themselves.	10
7	46	The yield of the fall-sown Sa-Tarna is, statistically, larger than that of the spring-sown varieties.	10
14	200	The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le...	10

Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	39	Smaller water sources are used in the spring, for these are the first to go dry, larger ones later in the year.	10
2	358	The finest wool, however, is sheared in the spring from the bellies of the verr and hurt, and would, accordingly, not be available until later in the season.	10
4	50	There is little to fear from it, except, in the spring, should it rise and shift to the east, or, in the fall, should it blow westward.	10
4	427	They put honey about her, to attract the tiny black sand flies, which infest such water holes in the spring.	10
5	880	He seemed a silken panther, lithe, tensed for the spring.	10
11	27	"Be pleased that now, in the spring, the wind did not blow from the east".	10
11	56	Nomad boys learn this in the spring, when the water holes are filled.	10
14	26	It was difficult to believe then, in the cool of that morning, as early as late spring, that the surface temperatures of the terrain we would traverse would be within hours better than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.	10
14	72	It smoked, and burned oil, probably from tiny rock tharlarions, abundant south of Tor in the spring.	10
14	161	It was cool, even chilly at that hour in the late spring.	10
14	442	The sun was the sun of the late spring in the Tahari.	10
14	445	The marches to Klima are not made in the Tahari summer, only in the winter, the spring and fall, that some will survive them.	10
19	116	"It is spring," said Hassan.	10
19	151	"It is spring," he said, shrugging, in the manner of the Tahari.	10
19	156	"It is spring," he said.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	27	When I had flung down the vertically sliding gate behind me, two notched projections, bolts, welded to the flat bar at the gate's bottom had slipped into iron-enclosed spring catches, heavy locks, one on the bottom left, one on the bottle right, the gate being thus secured.	10
8	148	It mates once a year in the Gorean spring, and there are usually four young in each litter.	10
8	150	The young are commonly white furred at birth, the fur darkening by the following spring.	10
8	159	They usually take place, as would be expected, in the spring, during the mating season.	10
8	175	Their rutting, however, is usually confined to the spring.	10
8	179	The heat of the she-sleen occurs in the spring.	10
25	215	"I took her from two men near the country of the Salerian Confederation," said Clitus Vitellius, "in the early spring".	10
27	641	"Your hair," he said, "will be too short, I wager, until the spring".	10

Book 12. (24 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	586	In the spring, short-haired and hungry, they emerge from the forests and migrate northward".	10
2	633	They break from glaciers, usually in the spring and summer, and drift in Thassa, moving with the currents.	10
3	189	In the end, of course, the Ubar returns gratefully to his throne and the peasant, to his relief, manages to return to the fields in time for the spring planting.	10
3	198	Though the weather was cool in the early spring he was stripped to the waist.	10
3	1197	In such a locale, particularly in the spring, at a great fair, such as the fair of En'Kara, her chances of interesting and obtaining a well-placed, affluent, civilized master are, all things considered, quite good.	10
4	41	At this time, particularly in the spring, the sun sparkling on the snow-strewn peaks, the mountains can be quite beautiful.	10
4	541	His caravan had been delayed in arriving at the Sardar because of spring floods on the Cartius.	10
6	697	"Indeed, thousands of birds migrate each spring to the nesting cliffs of the polar basin".	10
7	130	"Is it common," I asked, "for the hides to be so plentiful in Lydius in the spring?" Normally hide hunters prefer the fall tabuk, for the coats are heavier.	10
7	138	"Never have there been hides in this quantity in Lydius," said Ram to me, "either in the spring or fall".	10
10	79	"It is possible in the spring and summer," said Sarpedon.	10
12	354	In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape.	10
12	355	At such times the red hunters will dwell by the sea, in the spring and fall by its shores, and, in the winter, going out on the ice itself.	10
15	614	"It is my guess," I said, "that both Thimble and yourself will be traded south next spring for tea and sugar".	10
20	103	At the end of the summer these groups, loosely linked save in the spring or early summer, would make their ways back to their own camps.	10
23	254	"We learned from Sarpelius, from what he had learned from Drusus, that there was a headquarters farther north, one which could be reached only in the late spring, summer, or early fall".	10
26	207	I tied the forepaws of the sleen to its rearmost hind paws, the power, or spring, paws.	10
26	282	I thrust it into the face of another sleen, its head up, crouching to spring at the wall.	10
27	48	Its suppleness permitted this, but it was under great tension, of course, to spring straight again, resuming its original shape.	10
27	50	The sinew, of course, held the baleen together, in effect fastening a stout spring into a powerfully compressed position.	10
32	36	"The lights are most normally seen in the fall and spring," I said, "near the time of the equinoxes".	10
36	5	Some would be sold to traders in the spring; others might be kept in the camps, to serve the red hunters; they, male slave beasts, would be stronger than female slave beasts.	10
36	266	I slipped one of the darts into the weapon's breech, and let the bolt spring shut.	10
38	287	To my left, in the east, was the first, tiniest glimmering of light, a dawn that would begin the long day of the arctic spring and summer.	10

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	115	I, too, now had little doubt what ships these would be, as it was the northern spring, and we were in the waters of Schendi.	10
6	174	In the northern autumn they would return, to be refitted and supplied again in Schendi, and would then, a few weeks later, in the southern spring, ply their way southward.	10
6	570	Jungles, which usually spring up along rivers or in the vicinity of river systems, can thrive in a soil which would not nourish fields of food grains.	10
8	87	I used the Telnus Defense on the fellow, a response to his Ubara's Gambit, which I thought might be unknown in Schendi, as it had first been seen only last spring at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	45	The spring and summer are the busiest seasons, for these are the seasons of heaviest river traffic and, accordingly, the seasons when pirates, after their raids, are most likely to bring in their loot.	10
27	115	The intended purchaser had defaulted on his contract and the stone was to be stored over the winter, beside the quarry warehouse, until the following spring, when it was to be auctioned.	10
27	116	In the spring prices tend to be highest on such materials.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1017	Too, generally girls bring higher prices in the spring.	10
19	1018	I have little doubt that there is some intensification of the slaving done on Earth at a certain time of year, that the captured girls may be brought to the spring markets.	10
19	1019	Many Earth-girl slaves, on Gor, comparing notes, discover that they were sold in the spring.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	9	The morning, in early spring, was chilly.	10
1	1220	The shields, too, are made of the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck, where the skin and musculature are thick, to support the weight of the trident and turn the blows of other tridents, especially in the spring buffetings, attendant upon which follows mate selection".	10
8	315	The girl watched in horror as the remains of her silken slip was cast upon the flames, causing them to spring up anew.	10
9	21	For those who might be interested in such things, we came to the wands in the early spring, early in Magaksicaagliwi, which is the Moon of the Returning Gants.	10

Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	976	"But only to increase them again, in the spring," he said.	10
44	665	"Of what value is a trap from which what is trapped may withdraw?" "Without others," said Cuwignaka, "we cannot spring the trap".	10
47	435	We had been the bait, on Council Rock, to lure the Yellow Knives and soldiers into a trap, a trap which these other tribes, acting in coalition, were to spring shut.	10
54	133	Then, if he had not sold them in the meantime, presumably they would accompany him back to Kailiauk in the spring, whence, after selling his goods and making his profits, and restocking his stores, he would presumably return once more, trading, to the Barrens, this time presumably in the company of ...	10
54	184	They will accompany him to the country of the Dust Legs, helping him in the transportation of goods to that point, and will then, before the winter, continue on to Kailiauk, there to arrange buyers for Grunt's hides, to be delivered in the spring.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	73	The left foot of each tarn, by a spring clasp, which could be opened by hand, and a chain, was fastened to the perch.	10
13	50	In her nose there was a small, circular, wire apparatus which had apparently been held open, thrust through her septum, and then permitted to spring shut.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	33	The fair of En'Kara occurs in the spring.	10
1	72	The Waiting Hand, the five-day period preceding the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, is a very solemn time for most Goreans.	10
1	172	Slavers remain active all year on Gor, but the peak seasons for slaving are the spring and early summer.	10
7	85	Too, it is my impression, from what I have seen here and elsewhere, that there is an unusual amount of high-quality merchandise available this spring.	10
21	385	Her bit of slave silk, suddenly parted, had seemed to spring from the blade.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	174	Then, in the spring, after obtaining a war contract, sometimes obtained by competitive bidding, they begin anew, almost from the beginning, with recruiting and training.	10
9	69	Mercenaries, as I may have mentioned, are often mustered out in the fall, to be recruited anew in the spring.	10
17	8	There was shade, and a spring nearby.	10
26	145	They were two in number doubtless to spring a trap in a tunnel.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	484	It was spring.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	717	A circular, overlapping pin had been spread and one end inserted through her septum, drawn through and allowed to spring back, forming a nose ring.	10
24	320	"The forces of Ar in the north," I said, "should move south with rapidity, before the spring, to engage the main power of Cos.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	289	It was now late spring.	10
5	19	Its average depth, at this time of year, after the spring thaws upriver, is three to five feet.	10
32	26	She seemed quiet now, but somewhere within her those fires lay smoldering, ready to spring again, persistently, predictably, mercilessly, into flame.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	47	It can be next to impossible to reach such cities in the spring, because of the rains.	10
14	649	It is a beautiful moment when a woman comes to learn, and love, what she is, when she comes to understand herself, and has the courage to accept this understanding, when in joy the ice breaks in the rivers, when the glaciers melt, when spring comes, when she loves and kneels.	10
15	21	I had recognized the first youth to spring upon the cart.	10
25	446	I feared she would spring to her feet, rush to him, and embrace him, weeping.	10
26	403	She tried to spring to her feet on the couch, clawing at it, but fell.	10

Book 26. (6 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1432	They preferred, it seemed, to take their women, perhaps to stalk them with stealth, as game, then to spring the nets or snares at some time of their choosing, some moment of unsuspected ripeness, or to seize them in capture strike, or to take them by theft, perhaps roping and gagging them in their o...	10
13	347	The slightest tug on the cord would spring the latch, dropping the floor of the cage, which was its gate, plunging her helplessly to the cold, dark waters below, to the jaws of the waiting beasts.	10
31	549	Save for the metal band, the bow, or spring, mounted crosswise, now drawn, and the cable, arched back, the devices, with their triggers and stocks, were not unlike stubby rifles.	10
34	14	One had been pierced by a concealed spear, spring-released from the side of a corridor, another in crossing one of the narrow bridges over a crevice, it buckling as weight was placed at its center, another when an apparently solid portion of the corridor had fallen away beneath him, plunging him scr...	10
37	735	He had remained back, like a coiled spring, ready to fire.	10
45	82	They seemed to spring away.	10

Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	51	She turned it, as she could, a little, on her ankle, searching for the simple catch, or spring, which, at a touch, would release it.	10
13	123	She thought it must be early spring, assuming this world had a periodicity of seasons.	10
13	161	"It is spring," said Laura, "and that is a popular time for the hunts of tarnsmen, not that those monsters need any seasonal excuse for their predations".	10
26	1168	How alive the collar makes us! How welcoming and sentient we become in so many ways in this so sentient world! We welcome its myriads of sensations, its aromas, its colors, its sounds, its textures and tastes, the feel of wet sand beneath our bared feet, that of the wind on our bared arms and legs, ...	10
27	2243	How quickly she had learned to do that, how naturally! The grasslands are commonly dry, but this was in the spring, and storms sometimes erupt, and, when they do, it is often with a sudden rage, a blackening of the sky, a rising of wind, a rushing of clouds, a shattering of lightning, a beating, pou...	10
30	524	Even if it should be forbidden, or feared, or dreaded, it will have its way, as the spring and the tides, and bloom.	10

Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	268	Should friends not have dissuaded the evildoer from his actions? Should they not have anticipated it, and intervened? Should they not have suspected it, and reported its likelihood to authorities? Is there not a festering hotbed of criminal potentiality somewhere to be rooted out, from which soil an...	10
39	62	This cry, if nothing else, seemed to break the spirit of the besiegers, and determine them to action, for they then began to spring up, and mill about, uncertainly.	10
67	71	It seemed that a winter had been set aside, to be replaced with a damp, fragrant spring.	10
70	23	Ramar crouched back, watching, while Cabot, with a considerable effort, struggled with the huge spring which, if one of its several pedals was tripped, would fling shut the sharpened teeth of the device.	10

Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	22	Two important fairs take place in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, in the spring and fall, that of En'Kara in the spring, and Se'Kara in the fall.	10
4	105	"If there is a spring about, it is not here".	10
4	109	"I was looking for the spring," she said.	10
20	170	Both had their blades drawn, were ready to spring within.	10
22	111	In her belly, smoldering, ready to spring into flames, seldom far from the surface, was the heat of a slave, and of this, perhaps, a brand on her thigh, a collar on her neck, might be understood as little more than institutional tokens hinting at the possibility of a far deeper bondage.	10
22	676	The slave fires were always ready to spring into flame in her belly.	10
28	122	Goreans seldom brave her churning, often towering, violent green waves between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.	10
28	380	If there were ships there, they could not make voyage, of course, until the spring.	10
28	384	He surely could not be mad enough to contemplate braving Thassa unseasonably, between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.	10
28	411	Spring is a good time for selling slaves.	10
32	39	When one looked upon him one had the sense of a quiet, coiled spring, or, perhaps better, that of a clever, cunning, coiled, watchful ost.	10
33	115	"You intended to winter here, until spring, did you not?" I asked.	10
38	31	Catapult stones, too, were brought aboard, in hundreds, and "heavy arrows," almost spears, which might be sped either singly, as from ballistae, or, from a springal, in showers, their flight propelled by a single fierce blow, that from a horizontal spring-driven board.	10
43	17	"I think it has to do with scent, and with changes in a body, reticences, tensings, an incipient readiness to spring, restrained, such things".	10

Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	596	I tried to spring to my feet, but a hand in my hair, twisted, held me on my knees.	10
5	8	After a lean dark winter spring is welcome.	10
9	103	The ideal weapon in closed spaces would be the crossbow, not only because of its size and maneuverability, but, even more, because the bolt or quarrel may wait patiently in the guide, the cable back, ready to spring forth instantly, at the press of a finger on the trigger.	10
10	104	Today, I realized, was the first day of En'Kara, the first day of En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring.	10
11	41	And spread sails, formed into great basins, given the frequency of spring rains, had supplied more than enough water for tarns and slaves.	10
14	346	I saw the sky, a bright blue in the spring afternoon.	10
20	91	"Behold," laughed a man, "young, unmated she-sleen!" "Yes," said another, "in the late spring!" I guessed it was not easy to reach into that turning, twisting, rolling, screaming, sobbing, hysterical, biting, scratching frenzy but one fellow managed to get one hand in Iole's hair and one in that of ...	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	753	She had graduated the following spring.	10
17	431	I felt tears spring to my eyes, dampening the cloth of their prison.	10
26	211	She tried to spring up, but stumbled, shackled, and was then again on her knees before Astrinax.	10
29	13	Though the guard seemed quiescent, even distant, I knew that those huge shaggy forms, sometimes almost like an enormous ball of muscle and fur with eyes, could spring alive in an instant, raging and snarling.	10
33	32	I supposed he would not return, if he were to return, until the spring.	10
33	84	Later in the year a camisked girl in the Voltai would presumably die of exposure, if she were not first devoured by beasts which, in the late fall, winter, or early spring, being half-starved, become unusually aggressive.	10
37	42	I do not expect them to return in the spring.	10
37	52	"It will be safest to pretend we suspect nothing of this," said a man, "and wait until spring".	10
37	54	"I am not eager to be hunted down by Kurii," said another, "now, later, in the cold, in the snow, in the thaws of spring, in the heat of summer, anytime".	10
49	76	One supposed some of the men at least, and perhaps all, would attempt to return to civilization in the spring, when the passes would be open.	10
49	132	Many men expected to leave the Cave in the spring, rich.	10
49	142	Kleomenes, who had been the leader of the tarsk hunters, was with us, but not his hunters, who had chosen to remain in the Cave until spring.	10
49	190	He would doubtless be unaware of the downfall of Agamemnon until at least the spring.	10
49	406	Indeed, this domicile is doubtless under surveillance, now that spring has come.	10

Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	9	Why did I not book passage for Daphne, where the spring rendezvous was to take place? The gray sky ship does not linger long, even in that remote place.	10
11	40	Two handfuls of this, the hands cupped together, may then be dampened in a spring, or stream, and eaten.	10
16	10	The winds would rise, and the rains come, and the winter, with its ice and snow, and the awakening, green spring, and in two or three years the insistent, patient forest would repair and cover what men had done.	10
25	60	I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit...	10
25	65	It molts in both the spring and autumn, and in the autumn its coloring is much like that of the fruit and leaves of the bush itself.	10
25	96	The boar can be dangerous, with its short temper and curved, slashing tusks, but I saw no boar here, and, in any event, they are most dangerous in the spring, when marking out territory They were rooting, of course, and this meant food.	10
39	572	The beast then, as though satisfied, circled me twice, and then crouched down, eyeing me, clearly ready to spring.	10
43	942	When I lower it, a wind of death will spring from the forest, a raging blast of feathered death.	10
43	1290	This has to do with the softness and width of the paws, like broad, velvet cushions from which knives might spring, curved knives, for anchoring prey.	10
48	118	Suddenly the larger beast, as though some spring in that great body had been released, charged, scrambling, through the center of the circle, and I was buffeted, spinning, to the side, for it struck me in its passage, I felt its ribs, and it hurled itself on the smaller beast which was rolled to its...	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	68	How unworthy I was of the scarlet! The night continued to be muchly dark, but now and again, as occasionally before, the wind tore away patches of cloud, suddenly, and the mountainous terrain below would spring into view.	10
17	51	I had thought of the frightening, martial grace of a swordsman faraway, a short, unkempt, thickly bodied, ugly man known as Nodachi, Sword, ugly save when his blade was drawn, and his unprepossessing persona seemed somehow enlarged and transformed, transformed into something different, something awe...	10
30	693	But I did not think he was eager to, or cared to, or was able to, spring up, rush to the rice, place it on the cart, seize up the handles, and haul it away.	10
40	123	They seemed to spring from everywhere".	10
46	14	It was estimated, given the hardships of the early spring, the rigors of the first siege, the threat of the second siege, the overwhelming superiority in numbers enjoyed by Lord Yamada, and the fearful advent of the iron dragon in the skies over the holding of Temmu, that better than two hundred mer...	10
47	257	Some of the deflected arrows, given the force with which they were sped, lingering even after the deviation suddenly introduced into their trajectory, had seemed to spring to the clouds, and others had bounded over the walls of the enclosure, or struck against the far wall.	10
52	21	Some message in Kur would spring the lock and open the panel".	10

Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	567	With what force it might spring forward! I could not move.	10
42	206	I attempted, wildly, irrationally, in sudden panic, to spring to my feet, but, my ankles bound, I fell heavily to the flooring, before the door.	10
49	103	Indeed, most campaigns begin in the spring, and may continue through the summer and early fall.	10
49	328	For example, spring tends to be an attractive time to buy livestock, including slaves.	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	547	If I had my way, we would hold them off the market until spring, but they eat.	10
10	122	But might not others clap their hands in gladness, spring to their feet, and cry out with joy? Might this not be a world long ago lost, now refound, a world surrendered on one world but never surrendered on another? And what if one of these males from my old world, one who knew me there, should enco...	10
11	262	"Well, pretty Zia," said Master Leander, "you may now spring up, and hasten on your way".	10
45	24	We were tense, ready to leap forth, and spring to the pier.	10

Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	23	"Do not spring up," I said.	10
7	111	What captains come and go, and what are their ships? Do surprising meetings take place? Do rumors spring into life, and spread? Do some patrons possess coins likely to be beyond their supposed resources? Do strangers appear? Are men recruited for voyages of an undisclosed nature? Be vigilant.	10
13	1	We do Business, on a Lonely Beach on Daphna The fellow's eyes suddenly widened, and he made to spring up, from the shadow of the beached hull, against which he had been reclining.	10
19	31	Sometimes one can roll under the net before it settles, and then spring up, blade ready, between the net and the fisherman.	10
20	168	"Yet, one spring," said Thurnock, "the stump, inch by inch, is drawn from the soil".	10
32	39	What hunter is so foolish as to spring a trap prematurely, what fisherman so foolish as to draw his net too soon? Thurnock's knuckles seemed white, grasping his strung bow.	10
43	136	I was about to turn, and make my way to the second catapult, that which had been assigned to Thurnock, when I saw it spring, almost in an instant, into flame.	10