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Book 1. (13 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	128	I climbed the stairs that led to the portal into the cylinder, turned the valve, and as soon as the portal began to move, raced down to the tarn cot and swung open that barred gate which lay nearest the foot of the stairs.	10
6	27	From a short distance away I heard the shouts of men and the clank of arms as warriors raced up the stairs to the roof.	10
18	125	At the top of a broad series of stairs I saw the door that must lead to the Central Cylinder and noted with satisfaction that its dimensions were large enough to permit the passage of a tarn.	10
18	126	Fortunately, almost at the foot of the stairs lay one of the gates of the tarn cot.	10
18	151	In two or three minutes I led my own tarn up the stairs and through the opening.	10
18	157	Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn.	10
18	170	One man, two, three sprawled down the stairs, and then another and another.	10
18	174	Suddenly I stood alone on the stairs, except for the dead.	10
18	176	Slowly I climbed the remainder of the stairs until I came to the barricade which had been erected by the guardsmen.	10
18	177	I called out, as loudly as I could, "Marlenus, Ubar of Ar!" To my joy, from somewhere above, around the curve of the stairs, I heard the voice of the Ubar.	10
18	182	I slowly walked up the stairs, my hands open, free of weapons.	10
18	183	I turned the bend in the stairs and, several yards above me, observed a wide doorway, jammed with chests and furniture.	10
19	1	The Duel Marlenus and his men and I raced down the long stairs to the main hall of the Central Cylinder, where we came on the remains of the grisly feast of the tarns.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	63	This blade had fought its way up the stairs of the Central Cylinder of Ar, when I had rescued Marlenus, embattled Ubar of that city.	10
24	21	Behind me down the stairs came Kron and Andreas, followed by Lara and Linna.	10
25	1	The Roof of the Palace The war cries of Tharna and Ko-ro-ba mingled as Thorn hurled himself down the stairs toward me and I raced toward him.	10
25	57	I thrust her behind me and, my hand on the wall, climbed the dark stairs as rapidly as I could.	10
25	58	At the top of the stairs I pressed against a trap and flung it open.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	43	At places there were well-worn paths, at others even stairs had been cut in the sides of mountains, stairs worn smooth in the millennia by the passage of countless feet.	10
31	137	Then suddenly he wheeled and saw me and seemed startled but then the silver tube flew up and I threw myself rolling back down the walkway, the steel stairs bubbling away following me.	10

Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	193	All eyes, it seemed, were on the girl on the stairs, slim, said to be beautiful, veiled, clad in Robes of Concealment of white and gold.	10
9	196	Now she descended the last three stairs and, stopping to nod her head and grace an eager fellow here and there along the tables with a word or gesture, she began to approach the head of the table.	10
9	489	The girl cried out in helpless rage and turned, stumbling and clutching at the banister on the stairs.	10
9	490	Then she ran up the stairs, weeping, veil disarranged, both hands jerking at the collar.	10
12	50	I bounded up the stairs and entered the wagon.	10
12	391	Once at the foot of the stairs she stopped and stood for a long moment.	10
14	63	Kamchak leaped from the back of his kaiila and, seizing a torch from an iron rack, leaped up the stairs and entered the wagon.	10
15	76	"There both of you will wait for the Iron Master," he snarled, and turned abruptly, and went to the stairs to the wagon.	10
24	175	I bounded down the stairs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, and sped through the inner and outer courtyard and out into the street, leaving the startled guards trying to salute me as a commander.	10
26	125	Not hurrying Kamchak walked his kaiila up the stairs of the house and, on kaiilaback, entered the main hall of the House of Saphrar.	10
26	129	He would throw furniture down stairs towards us, but we would step around it.	10

Book 5. (32 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	18	Even from where Kuurus waited he could smell the perfumed oils, the unguents and spices, which the women, climbing and moving about the pyramid slowly, as though on stairs, sprinkled about or poured over the wood.	10
2	68	Suddenly a small figure burst through the door of the tavern, stumbling and rolling down the stairs, crying out.	10
6	76	The girl turned and withdrew, then approached again, climbing the stairs, delicately, as though timidly, head down.	10
6	86	She poured the diluted wine into my cup, bowed her head and with a shy smile, backed gracefully down the stairs behind me, then turned and hurried away.	10
10	32	On the way down the stairs to the lower portions of the cylinder, several floors of which, incidentally, are below ground level, we passed the office of Caprus.	10
11	40	Against the far wall there were thirty kennels, five rows of six each, tiered, with iron runways and iron stairs giving access to them.	10
11	135	We then climbed up the stairs to the fourth level.	10
12	193	The guard braceleted one of Phyllis' wrists to the rail and then snapped bracelets on Virginia, confining her wrists behind her back; he carried Virginia down to the main level and set her on her knees there, before Flaminius and Ho-Tu; Elizabeth and I were in the background; then the guard went bac...	10
15	30	A girl in a tunic of white silk, gracefully, carrying a large pitcher of diluted Ka-la-na wine, approached our table from the rear, and climbed the stairs, delicately, and as though timidly, head down.	10
15	38	Virginia served me, bowed her head and backed gracefully down the stairs behind me, then turned and hurried away.	10
15	47	Elizabeth, angry, backed down the stairs and hurried away.	10
16	243	"No, Master! Phyllis will not speak!" I turned to my left and began to follow the tier, until I came to a narrow set of stairs, leading to the lower portions of the stands, which I then followed, descending.	10
16	248	Then he was left on the stairs, and I was descending again, alone.	10
18	261	I found a long set of stairs, and I followed them.	10
18	337	Grimly, the paga bottle in my hand, I went back into the corridor and found the stairs that took one to lower floors in the cylinder, and eventually to its depths.	10
18	349	Descending a last spiral of iron stairs I came to the lowest level of the cylinder.	10
18	365	I picked up a torch and lit it in the light of a lamp near the swirling iron stairs.	10
18	372	I heard the guard calling out from near the stairs.	10
19	80	Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...	10
19	195	The auctioneer, as though in the throes of misery, almost threw the poor girl back down the stairs of the block, kicking her bit of dark blanket angrily after her.	10
19	216	Then, regally, in black cloaks, with hoods, three women, two girls and their leader, climbed the stairs to the block, backs straight, heads high, their features concealed in the folds of the hood.	10
19	251	As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ...	10
22	113	I strode from the bird's side and made my way through the readying compound of the Steels until I climbed the stairs inside the low wall separating it from the area leading out onto the broad path leading to the starting perches; I dropped over the wall and made my way across the sand until I came t...	10
22	114	I ascended stairs there until I stood, with many others, on the dividing wall, and from there could watch the race.	10
23	165	He looked over his shoulder, saw the door from the hall which led to the stairs and passage leading to the chambers of the beast.	10
23	169	I let him reach the door, jerk it open, take his stumbling flight up the stairs, into the passage.	10
23	170	At the head of the stairs, I at the foot, he turned.	10
23	172	"You are a fool, Tarl Cabot!" He hurled his sword down the stairs at me.	10
23	175	I climbed the stairs slowly.	10
23	176	At the head of the stairs I saw that the room at the end of the passage was open.	10
24	106	At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...	10
24	489	Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.	10

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	32	The oar-master, crying out, leaped up the stairs to the tiller deck, and angrily seized the helmsman by the shoulders, shaking him, then saw the eyes.	10
8	310	Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me.	10
8	426	Telima rolled and then, jerked up short, half choked, by the tether, she lay at the foot of the stairs.	10
8	458	I nodded to Telima, who, head down, knelt at the foot of the stairs.	10
8	558	I myself turned and walked slowly down the gangway between the rowers' benches, and then climbed the stairs to the foredeck of the barge.	10
8	695	Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot at the bottom of the stairs to the tiller deck, addressed herself to me.	10
8	711	"This time," she asked, "will you perhaps throw me up the stairs?" "The mouths of rence girls," commented Clitus, "are said to be as large as the delta itself".	10
9	320	"And then," I cried, "we will return and make a feast!" Thurnock, Clitus and I once more clashed and emptied goblets, and then, leading Midice, first in the coffle, by the lead end of the binding fiber, I stumbled through the door, finding my way down the stairs, with the others, hunting for a smith...	10
9	496	I left the room, going down the stairs.	10
9	651	I bent and put the arm of the dying man about my shoulders and, lifting him, with the girl's help, went back through the kitchen of the tavern and, one by one, climbed the high, narrow stairs to the top of the building.	10
9	682	I, followed by the slave Luma, left the roof, descended the long, narrow stairs.	10
13	383	The officer, with a cry of rage, then turned and ran up the stairs to the main deck.	10
17	27	I climbed the stairs past the helm deck to the captain's deck of the stern castle.	10
18	714	We went outside, and saw Ho-Hak slowly climb the long, narrow stairs beside the delta wall, until he stood behind the parapet, at its height.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	224	I turned and ran toward the stairs.	10
3	225	I stopped at the height of the stairs.	10
3	226	Far below, on the steel-reinforced, broad cement stairs, ringing hollowly in the shaft, I heard the footsteps of two men, climbing.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	276	A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface.	10
3	412	As Thurnock, by her arm, led the girl down the stairs of the wagon, the other slave girls, who had moved the wagon, struck at her, spitting and jeering.	10
12	7	I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo...	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	49	"He who calls himself Thorgeir of Ax Glacier," proclaimed Svein Blue Tooth, "let him approach!" Ivar Forkbeard eagerly bounded up the stairs toward the dais.	10

Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	254	It was reached by climbing a narrow flight of wooden stairs between closely pressing walls, and opened off a narrow corridor, lit by a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp; off this corridor, too, were the doors of several similar rooms.	10
3	323	I then turned and began to climb the narrow wooden stairs to my compartment.	10
7	117	It is a narrow threshold, lying at the foot of a set of narrow, twisting, concave stairs.	10
7	227	No longer was the outer threshold, that opening onto the twisting, ascending stairs, guarded.	10
7	286	I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs.	10
7	713	I climbed the stairs.	10
11	478	"To the roof!" I took the stairs four at a time, climbing to the second floor.	10
13	102	At the foot of the great stairs, marble and spiraling, leading to the upper rooms, we, and our guards, those accompanying us, some dozen men, paused.	10
13	118	This portal lay at the end of our trek, through several halls, and up more than one flight of stairs.	10
24	747	Men leaped from their kaiila, climbing, scimitars flashing, up the narrow stairs, toward the walls.	10
25	473	I took her by the arm and, Hassan preceding us, I conducted her down the curving, narrow, worn stairs, deep below the kasbah.	10

Book 11. (33 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	442	He then thrust me toward the stairs and I, stumbling, descended the stairs, on the side opposite from that from which I had ascended the block.	10
6	302	Then he turned and went down the stairs.	10
9	770	She looked at me, and then she went up the stairs into her hut, and, soon, returned, with a coil of rope.	10
9	1453	Melina emerged from the hut and descended the stairs to the ground.	10
9	1459	Melina stood at the bottom of the stairs.	10
9	1467	"Come out, Thurnus," called Melina, from the foot of the stairs below the hut.	10
9	1508	Then he again turned to face Thurnus, who stood, not speaking, at the height of the stairs, some six or seven feet above the level of the ground, in the doorway to his hut.	10
9	1629	Slowly, step by step, Thurnus descended the stairs from his hut.	10
9	1630	Melina, eyes glittering, stepped back from the foot of the stairs.	10
12	165	When I was descending the stairs and had come to the courtyard between the walls, the gate had been opened, and the party, with their prisoner, had entered.	10
12	716	In a few Ehn we emerged, after climbing stairs, on the roof of one of the buildings, and, thence, by a narrow bridge, crossed to one of the parapets.	10
13	6	I looked at the worn stairs of solid wood, leading in their spiral upward.	10
13	12	Slowly I began to ascend the wide, concave stairs, worn by the bare feet of countless slave girls before me.	10
13	35	"Hurry, Slave Girl," called the man at the foot of the stairs.	10
13	44	I heard the step of the man on the stairs behind me.	10
13	110	I fell on the stairs.	10
13	343	I turned to descend the block, on the stairs on the opposite side from that from which I had ascended the block.	10
16	52	A hatch was thrown open, and a man descended the stairs into the hold.	10
16	239	Then I, too, was thrown through the hatch, striking the stairs, rolling, chained, tumbling, to the flooring of the hold.	10
18	180	I felt the sack being lifted through the opening, and then it was dragged along a wooden-floored passage; then he threw it lightly to his shoulder, and began to descend short flights of stairs.	10
22	254	She mounted the stairs.	10
22	258	She came angrily back down the stairs.	10
22	272	She had ascended the stairs, going to the deck.	10
22	273	Behind her, unnoticed, I crept to the height of the stairs.	10
22	284	"I shall comply with your wishes, Captain," she said, angrily, and descended the stairs.	10
24	289	The large man descended a short flight of stairs, leading downward from an opened hatch.	10
26	636	"Do you not hear the step of your master, descending the stairs outside the compartments?" I asked.	10
26	852	I heard them climbing the stairs to the roof.	10
26	856	In time I heard steps approaching, climbing stairs to the level of the compartments.	10
28	199	She moved carefully, feeling the stairs, creeping upward.	10
28	202	The man with the tablet quickly thrust the girl in the house tunic from the tunnel to the foot of the stairs leading to the block.	10
28	223	He did not order me immediately to the foot of the stairs, those leading to the surface of the great block at the Curulean.	10
28	235	The man with the tablet thrust me toward the foot of the block, and I stumbled to the place at the foot of its stairs.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1056	The slaver then swiftly, easily, by short stairs, descended to the walkway before the platform.	10
3	1307	I descended the stairs of the platform and turned my steps toward the public tent where I had, earlier in the morning, reserved a lodging for myself.	10
4	39	I climbed the stairs to the platform.	10
4	78	I hurried down the stairs of the platform.	10
9	102	He turned and went down the stairs of the platform.	10
9	138	I accompanied her down the stairs of the platform.	10
35	410	I descended some stairs to a lower level, following the path set by the sliding chain.	10
35	878	We hurried up a flight of stairs.	10
35	880	We began to ascend another flight of stairs.	10
35	890	I threw her over my shoulder and ascended the stairs.	10
35	954	We, together, I carrying the girl, made our way up another flight of stairs.	10

Book 13. (19 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	502	Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...	10
29	201	The slave, lying on the narrow stairs, leading from her dungeon, wept.	10
34	459	The hands of the small, naked slave girl hidden in the dungeon, crouching on the damp, narrow, stone stairs, pressed upward against the iron door which had been bolted shut above her.	10
34	470	Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...	10
34	471	Fearing to move, blinded by the sunlight, she knelt trembling on the stairs.	10
50	34	At the height, on that level, set far back, was a great, ruined building, with stairs and white columns.	10
50	39	At places, and flanking the huge building at the top of the flights of stairs, were more of the huge figures of warriors, with shields and spears.	10
50	83	I started up the stairs, Kisu a step behind me.	10
51	137	The room was reached by a broad flight of stairs.	10
51	138	And, in the rear of the room, there was another broad flight of stairs, leading upward to another landing and walk.	10
52	173	The voice came from the height of the stairs behind me, and to my left, that leading to a higher level in the building, an open court, which lay above us.	10
52	174	We all looked to the height of the stairs.	10
53	59	Too, about this enclosure, at the foot of stairs leading from it, was a broad, shallow moat.	10
53	196	Askaris rushed up stone stairs to the height of the walls, where the lateral walkways had not crumbled.	10
53	379	I sprang upon the worn stone stairs leading at this point to the wall.	10
54	5	To it led the several flights of broad stairs, ascending from that vast marble landing, with its marble mooring posts, which lies at the western edge of the ancient city, that landing to which we had first come, days ago, after our crossing of the lake.	10
54	86	Kisu climbed the stairs to where we stood.	10
54	90	Kisu nodded and returned down the stairs to where the galleys and canoes were moored.	10
54	129	I turned to face him, and he descended the stairs until he reached where I stood.	10

Book 15. (21 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	462	I indicated the stairs, and she preceded me up the stairs.	10
10	465	The stairs were dark, save for small, trembling yellow pools of light, cast from flickering tharlarion-oil lamps.	10
10	466	I considered her ankle as she ascended the stairs before me.	10
12	81	She went through the living room and, going through the hall, passing the kennels, began to ascend the stairs.	10
12	95	I then walked through the house to the stairs, and climbed them.	10
12	117	I seized her by the hair and pulled her, naked beside me, down the stairs.	10
13	9	I had fetched down from the bedroom near the top of the stairs a robe.	10
13	151	She went toward the stairs.	10
13	152	At the foot of the stairs, she turned, again, to face me.	10
13	186	"What is wrong?" she asked, from the stairs.	10
14	6	"Who is she?" asked Miss Henderson, from the head of the stairs.	10
14	14	Miss Henderson stood aghast at the top of the stairs, that a slave should have so spoken.	10
14	26	She descended the stairs, took some coins from the kitchen, unbolted the door, and left.	10
14	292	I stepped aside and let her precede me down the stairs.	10
14	349	She rose from the table and, lifting the hem of her robes, went to the stairs.	10
14	352	Angrily Miss Henderson ascended the stairs.	10
25	203	"Excellent," said Tasdron, "excellent," and he rose from the table, letting himself out of the room with a key, by means of a side door, one which led up a flight of stairs, presumably to private compartments.	10
30	33	About the curule chair of Policrates, nestling about his feet, and on the stairs about the chair, were several of his girls.	10
30	121	"Yes, my Master," said the short, dark-haired girl, and she, smiling, barefoot, descended the marble stairs of the dais and, taking her place on my left, lowered herself gracefully to lie on her side beside me.	10
32	192	Across the courtyard, some hundred yards or so of deep water, I could see the walkway at the foot of the outer wall, and the stairs leading to the parapets.	10
32	325	They hurried down the stairs.	10

Book 16. (13 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	361	I then heard him laugh again, and then turn about and climb five stairs, which must have led to the main deck, from a short companionway.	10
8	551	There was a step on the stairs leading down to the companionway.	10
12	230	"We would hold it against ten thousand men!" I followed Callimachus up the stairs to the height of the wall.	10
16	257	Callimachus looked up the stairs to the height of the stem castle.	10
16	327	I hastened down the deck and raced up the stairs to the stern castle.	10
19	1282	I hung the slave whip on its hook, and then went to the stairs, and, wearily, began to climb them.	10
19	1284	When I reached the height of the stairs and stood upon the landing before my bedroom door, I turned to look down upon Lola.	10
20	1210	On the street, below, at the foot of the stairs, he ordered her to precede him.	10
20	1227	He then casually thrust Peggy ahead of him through the door, and she hurried, bound, down to the first landing of the stairs, some yards above the street.	10
20	1240	He then went down one or two stairs, and then turned, and again faced me.	10
20	1252	"Yes, Master," she laughed, and hurried down the stairs ahead of him.	10
20	2200	"You are going to carry me like this," she asked, "upside down and in front of you?" "Yes," I said, "and as I ascend the stairs slowly, you will please me".	10
20	2202	At the top of the stairs I stopped, and shuddered, and cried out.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	18	The central block, which must be ascended by stairs, lies at the far end of the hall as one enters, opposite the door.	10

Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	27	* * * * "This is the house of Kliomenes," had said Drusus Rencius, climbing the stairs to the narrow, heavy iron portal, recessed some feet back, at the end of a narrow tunnel, in the wall.	10
8	582	He would see if anyone was about, or if we might, unobserved, make our way up the back stairs to the room.	10
8	596	He then snapped his fingers and I leaped up and, at a gesture, preceded him into the inn, and up the rear stairs.	10
12	122	He then backed down the stairs.	10
30	402	Its portal was sturdy, not unusual in a Gorean house, and was reached by a high, narrow flight of stairs, this leading to a broad landing.	10
30	403	In this arrangement defenders have a secure footing, given the breadth of the landing, but unwelcome guests, in the absence of ladders, must face the difficulty of negotiating an unpleasant approach, that afforded by steep, narrow stairs.	10
30	408	Five of Hassan's men ascended the stairs and reached the landing, which was not defended.	10
30	442	Rather she was thrust, half stumbling, down the stairs, to the yard.	10
30	444	She stood, half crouching, terrified, at the foot of the stairs.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	870	I would climb the stairs in a normal manner, certainly without stealth, and would make it a point to noisily remove the padlock from the door, and let it fall back against the side of the door, suspended on its short chain.	10
16	890	Suddenly the player, the hooded player, he called the "monster," he who now had Bina's use, rose from his place at a table and climbed the stairs to the stage.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	7	It was at the foot of the stairs, where the slop pots could be emptied into it.	10
22	12	"Follow me," said the proprietor, beginning to ascend the stairs.	10
22	81	"You should have lamps illuminating the stairs," said Boabissia.	10
22	115	We continued up the stairs.	10
22	118	We could hear her bare feet for a time on the stairs.	10
22	247	She was near the stairs.	10

Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	331	There, at the opening to my side aisle, in the main aisle, tall in the darkness, looking down at me, loomed a man, one of the three whom I had seen, he, I think, who had followed me about so quietly and tenaciously, originally to the lower level, up again by the other stairs, down the hall-like way,...	10
3	254	I fled, with a jangle of bells, down the stairs, to the lower level.	10
3	266	Hearing the man, or one of them behind me, I then fled to the other stairs, and thence upward again, to the main level of the library.	10
3	303	I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keep biographies and fiction.	10
3	304	My bare feet sounded strange to me, striking on the surface of the stairs.	10
3	307	The corrugated surface of the stairs, too, felt strange on my feet.	10
3	332	I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor.	10
3	334	I hurried down the stairs.	10
3	336	I heard him coming down the iron stairs behind me.	10
13	1190	I then rose to my feet and followed her down the passageway, to the stairs leading to the basement, where most of the kennels were.	10
14	305	I removed the whip from the box and rose to my feet, and returned to the dais, where I climbed the stairs and knelt before Hendow.	10
15	72	In this fashion she could help me up the stairs.	10
30	41	Its door, in the back, was reached by a short flight of broad, wooden stairs.	10
31	8	There he took me by the arm and conducted me down the stairs.	10
31	377	I heard the door being locked, and then heard his steps descending the stairs.	10

Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	26	The second and third levels, incidentally, were reached by narrow stairs, rather than ladders, as in some inns.	10
6	41	When he finished with her he would probably carry her from the floor, either to his wagon and, if interested in her, leave with her, or leave her tied below somewhere, perhaps to the railing at the stairs, or perhaps in the stable, where she would attract little attention until morning, after his pr...	10
6	568	"Do you hear him, on the stairs?" "No," she said.	10
16	524	The crews to the catapults, now! Yes, to the engines! You men there, you can see where this tower will come, there by the stairs.	10
17	40	At the termination of another bridge we had broken away an opening in the walkway, enlarging a gap about stairs.	10
17	41	Here charging foes leaping from the wall found no footing but only an opening beneath them, half pit, half stairs.	10
17	65	At both bridges, following the success of the devices of the fishermen and huntsmen, the temporary consternation of hesitant successors permitted defenders to take their place, too, on the shaking bridge, where, in moments, they had pressed their way back even to the edge of the flooring, that of th...	10
17	133	Suddenly, on the approach from the right, a fellow, breaking away from a knot of embroiled fighters, raced up the stairs, toward me, sword drawn.	10
17	372	He hastened down the stairs to the right.	10
17	396	"We have withdrawn to just west of the west gate stairs," said the young fellow, reporting from the western walkway.	10
17	496	Others stood back, near the heights of the stairs, to watch.	10
21	47	Back by the port side of the stairs leading to the helm deck, a few feet from where Aemilianus sat, knelt Shirley, his beautiful blond slave.	10
23	273	She did so, carefully, holding to the sides of the ladderlike stairs.	10
23	277	By means of the moonlight I could see a reticulated pattern of light and shadows there, which fell across two girls, one, Publia, sleeping, the other, Claudia, still standing, near the bottom of the ladderlike stairs, who looked up at me.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	102	I put down my head, and followed the officer through the small door and down the two stairs, to the interior of the cabin.	10
13	194	The officer looked up, puzzled, and then, paying me no mind, went up the stairs to the stern deck.	10

Book 25. (13 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	170	In a moment, however, we heard the stairs shaking and creaking, from flights above, and then, in a bit, expeditiously, presumably orienting himself expertly by the walls at the sides of the stairs, down came the bulk of the large fellow, his paunch swaying, his robes flying behind him.	10
5	20	For example, many of the fellows who attended to the great refuse vats usually kept at the foot of the stairs in insulae were male slaves.	10
18	27	The interior, the hall and foot of the stairs, was lit by the light of a tiny tharlarion-oil lamp.	10
18	29	At the foot of the stairs, as is common in insulae, there was a great wastes pot, into which the smaller wastes pots of the many tiny apartments in the building are emptied.	10
18	43	Children sometimes use the stairs to relieve themselves.	10
18	44	This is occasionally done, I gather, as a game, the winner being decided by the greatest number of stairs soiled.	10
18	56	"I can be up the stairs in an instant," said Marcus, "and open him like a bag of suls".	10
18	104	I think he did not relish the thought of being on the landing if the occupants of the building should suddenly, in their hundreds, begin to stream forth in vigorous, or even panic-stricken, haste, down the stairs.	10
18	159	He then turned about and began to climb the flights of stairs upward, toward the least desirable, hottest, most dangerous levels of the insula.	10
18	162	An urt hurried down the stairs and darted along the side of the wall and through a crack in the wall.	10
18	176	"He knows the stairs," I said, somewhat irritably.	10
18	573	He then turned about and, with considerably less speed than he had manifested in his descent, began to climb the stairs.	10
28	79	I heard a sound outside, on the stairs.	10

Book 26. (22 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	983	She then hurried down the stairs and, going behind me, seized my hair and held it up over my head, knotted securely in her grip, with both hands.	10
14	42	Coming down the stairs was a man.	10
14	44	"Do not dawdle!" With a little cry of pain she followed me up the stairs, the leash straight between us.	10
14	64	"I am tired," she said, climbing the stairs.	10
14	66	I looked up and down the broad stairs.	10
14	69	She sat on the stairs.	10
14	1080	I then, head down, avoiding their eyes, as a slave normally does with unknown free men, turned about and led the free woman up the stairs.	10
14	1081	I think the men watched us ascend, and then, at their own pace, also ascended the stairs.	10
14	1097	"Do you remember what the man said on the stairs, as we left?" "Do not concern yourself with the matter," I said.	10
14	1116	"Like the men on the stairs!" she laughed.	10
24	465	The men at the stairs, as far as I knew, had not had to defend them, unlike the men at the bridge.	10
39	133	We began to ascend winding stairs, and were soon traversing high bridges.	10
43	13	I had been carried down a long, winding flight of stairs.	10
43	51	Shortly after we had first come to this place the box had been put on the floor and one of the men had ascended the stairs again, to pull down the trapdoor, and lock it shut, from the inside.	10
43	152	I heard the other man climbing up the stairs, toward the trapdoor.	10
44	66	It seemed, rather, that it was to he who had come most recently down the stairs that I belonged.	10
44	290	The slave box, by the first man, with his foot, was thrust before me and to my right, rather toward the foot of the stairs.	10
44	310	It was carried up the stairs, and then, the first man opening the trap, thrusting it up, through the opening.	10
44	312	I heard the steps of the men, heavy with the weight they were bearing, cross the floor above, and then, in a moment, as they set themselves to a new flight of stairs, diminish.	10
46	626	"We shall ascend the stairs," he said.	10
46	646	He then lifted me in his arms and carried me up the stairs.	10
46	649	In a few moments, after ascending another flight of stairs, and moving through a large room, we were outdoors, on the street.	10

Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	96	She backed down the stairs and then knelt again before the dais, as she had before, in obeisance.	10
16	99	Behind that door there was a hallway, with cramped, dark, narrow, cement stairs leading down for some thirty feet.	10
16	100	At the foot of those stairs there was a basement level, and on this level there were several basement rooms, some with stout, security doors.	10
19	393	"Assist Selius," said Portus, looking about, as though he feared to hear at any moment the cries of men and the rushing of footsteps on the stairs, the rude, insistent smiting of spears against the inner door.	10
25	579	The former free woman raised her eyes piteously to the attendant who held her left upper arm in a grip of iron, perhaps then understanding what it was to be a woman and a slave, but he was not even aware of this, keeping his gaze fixed on the attendant toward the top of the stairs.	10
25	1176	She had been sold! She now belonged, in the full meaningfulness of Gorean servitude, to her new master, Selius Arconious! The auctioneer's assistant half dragged her to the stairs, and there handed her down, into the arms of another assistant.	10
30	247	One time, however, several days ago, he did strip her, tie her wrists together before her body and conduct her down the stairs to the hall of the building, where it opened at the street level.	10
30	248	Two children, and, later, a free woman, were passed on the stairs.	10
30	301	"You are to crawl up the stairs".	10
30	311	"Now, up the stairs".	10
30	312	"Yes, Master," she said and crawled to the stairs, across the dark boards of the hall, and then, on all fours, her back doubtless rich with stripes, ascended the steps, landing by landing.	10
30	512	Soon ropes are fastened on them, plenteously, perhaps to convince them that they are now other than they were, and they are carried between buildings, and down stairs, to be left in a basement, gagged, and bound hand and foot, heavily, until nightfall, when they will be placed in a wagon, perhaps wi...	10

Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	250	And once again, who knows, it may again, if it is not already there, ascend the stairs of specialness and regard.	10
20	322	"He will have it soon," said Cabot, ascending the stairs.	10
80	20	This conversation, and meeting, was taking place outside the palace, on its broad porch, to which led a long flight of wide stairs, some fifty yards in width.	10
80	124	"Lord Grendel," said a Kur, "is within the gate, and at the foot of the stairs".	10
80	152	He then raised his hand, lifting it toward the outer gate, well beyond the foot of the long, wide stairs leading upward to the dais.	10
80	154	These three figures then began to approach the foot of the stairs, the small figure first, and then a Kur on each side, and slightly behind it.	10
80	165	The small figure was now, flanked by the two Kurii, ascending the stairs, slowly.	10
80	189	"It is a human female, a woman," said Cabot, observing the approach of the small figure up the stairs, flanked by the two Kurii.	10
80	202	The small figure approached, climbing the stairs.	10

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	126	I then dressed, and drew my sea cloak about me, left the cabin, ascended the stairs in the companionway, and went to the main deck, and thence to the stem castle.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	408	Some of the men then, after briefly looking about, exited the compartments, to pound on other doors, and some of them began to ascend the stairs, leading to the next level.	10
3	1173	I recalled that when I, in my escape, had been descending the stairs in the cylinder, I had heard her, relieved of her gag, above, seemingly joyfully, gratefully, cry out the word 'Masters!' 'I burned your robes,' she said, 'that they might not give your scent to sleen.	10
3	1546	"They are going to kill you!" And then she fled up the stairs to a higher deck.	10
9	3	Outside our crew area, one of several, I could hear feet running in the corridor, others climbing the stairs in the nearest companionway.	10
9	95	I heard the snap of a bowstring above, and a fellow, on the flooring above, dark, briefly outlined in the light of a tharlarion-oil lamp, turned about, slowly, and then tumbled part way down the companionway, toward us, some five stairs.	10
9	98	The arrow had been broken in the fellow's fall, against the stairs.	10
9	121	Standing on the stairs, Philoctetes called out, "Friend! Friend!" "Beware!" I called to him.	10
9	124	"Friend!" He then, from the stairs, peered into the corridor.	10
10	62	Hearing the step of her master on the stairs, or beyond the door, she may suddenly become aware of the exact feeling of the collar on her neck, his collar, which she cannot remove, a sensation of which she had been heretofore totally oblivious.	10
27	6	I climbed the stairs to the parapet of the interior wall, of the three walls, which was the highest wall.	10
34	230	Do they not put her in bondage more than her brand, her collar, and chains? I opened the door, and watched her go down the balcony, and descend the stairs, leading to the street.	10
37	770	Two lamps were posted at the head of the stairwell, and, in their light, one could negotiate not only the stairs but, though with more difficulty, the balcony, which tended to the left of the stairwell.	10

Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	26	I then turned about, and fled, running down the stairs to the apartment, and then, past the Lady Bina, down stairs, to the street.	10
5	99	I descended the stairs, frightened.	10
5	110	Another blocked the stairs.	10
10	731	I heard her descend the stairs.	10
10	917	The Lady Bina, perhaps on the advice of the Lady Delia, chained me so that my mat would lie across the threshold, at the height of the stairs.	10
11	52	As the weeks had sped forth, however, particularly at night, when I was chained across the threshold of the apartment, at the head of the stairs, I had grown increasingly uneasy.	10
13	2	"Come back, Allison!" had called the Lady Bina, but I had rushed, weeping, past her, down the stairs, and emerged on Emerald.	10
13	16	The trap opening to the roof was open, and I climbed the stairs, and, the cloths over my shoulder, and two hands on the bucket handle, emerged on the roof.	10
14	23	I had crept up the stairs, and knelt, head down, before the Lady Bina and the beast.	10
15	355	It was with relief that I, on the beast's leash, it following me, slipped into the doorway to the left of the shuttered front of the shop, and climbed the stairs to the domicile of the Lady Bina and Lord Grendel.	10
49	119	As a result of this investigation, he had eventually discovered a trap, which led by a flight of stairs, to a private passageway which, in turn, connected with a network of such passages.	10
49	299	"No, Mistress," I said "Be careful on the stairs," she said.	10
49	329	* * * * I hurried up the stairs to the second floor of the house of Epicrates, where we maintained our domicile.	10
51	1	Fruits and sauces in hand I was ascending the stairs to the domicile.	10
51	2	"Jane! Eve!" I had cried, delighted, for both were at the top of the stairs.	10

Book 32. (26 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	30	These often wheedled the guards for information, calling up from the bottom of the stairs, for we were not permitted on the stairs, save to be entered into the place or removed from it.	10
7	126	Without a command, or the accompaniment of guards, we were not permitted on the stairs, those high, narrow, rail-less stairs, a wall at one side, at the height of which, giving access to the lower holding area, was the barred gate.	10
4	210	I could see four or five figures below, and at the side of the block, the left, as we faced it, at the foot of its stairs.	10
4	263	I climbed the stairs, and exited the emporium I recalled that her lot number had been 119.	10
5	213	Several stairs lead up to a barred door.	10
5	272	How faraway then was the store, the men I had known! I was ordered away from the block, and was carried down the stairs, for my legs would not support me.	10
5	275	I hear the gate at the head of the stairs being undone.	10
6	140	I am familiar with such places as I have brought slaves to them How they moan and cry out, and sob, when herded down the stairs to the straw, and rings! It is not pleasant to be confined in such a place, for they are often dark, cold, and damp, the straw soiled, the chains heavy.	10
7	1	I, and certain others, had been kept in that basement, or dungeon, at the foot of the stairs, with the damp, soiled straw, and the dim light, filtering in from above, in its narrow, dust-sprinkled shaft of illumination, for days.	10
7	12	Within it we were helpless enough, were we not, considering the walls, the barred gate at the top of the narrow stone stairs, our nudity, the men about, and such, but, one supposes, our chaining, of one sort or another, must have had its purpose, or purposes; perhaps it was intended to be mnemonic o...	10
7	106	*** The gate at the head of the stairs had been opened.	10
7	121	Three fellows were descending the stairs; one held some short lengths of cord, and some strips of dark cloth, and another several loops of rope.	10
7	157	This impediment was removed, and cast to the side of the stairs.	10
7	166	She leaped to her feet, darted with a scattering of straw past the fellow in blue, and, scrambling, sobbing, stumbling, falling once, leaping up again, fled toward the stairs, at the top of which, high above, was the dark, barred gate.	10
7	167	Then she screamed with misery, several feet from the stairs, caught by the hair, and yanked back, that by the fellow who carried the loops of rope.	10
7	198	"It is fortunate that in your brief, foolish, and ill-advised flight you did not reach the stairs," he said.	10
7	231	To be sure, she had not managed to reach the stairs.	10
7	244	Why had they not lashed her? Then I recalled she had not reached the stairs.	10
7	245	I found myself wishing that she might have reached the stairs.	10
7	246	I wondered if her punishment might have been measured to the number of stairs climbed.	10
7	249	In any event, she had not reached the stairs.	10
7	290	No wonder, I thought, that she might have broken in the strain, and irrationally, so foolishly, tried to run toward the stairs.	10
7	325	The rest, unencumbered, had been at liberty to move about the room as they wished, saving that they might not, without permission, as noted, ascend the stairs leading to the barred gate.	10
7	350	"Be careful of the stairs," said a male voice.	10
15	160	It was she who had fled toward the stairs in the dungeon, but had been precluded from reaching them by one of our keepers.	10
52	384	Would it not be the same with kaiila, or verr? I became aware of men calling out, from down the beach, by the stairs.	10

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	223	Men coughed, many seeking the ladders and stairs to the ground below.	10
49	232	"Then the stairs, then the fifth level".	10
55	51	The stairs are at the end of the corridor".	10
55	101	"Here are stairs.	10
58	190	* * * Following the tiny swordlike scratches on the tiles, landings, and stairs, scratches which were spaced at different intervals, we had descended from the fourth level to the second level, and, eventually, had arrived at what seemed a stout wooden wall.	10

Book 34. (33 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	126	I was lifted in the arms of someone, presumably one of Lysander's men, and carried from the room and down the stairs, and, after a time, down another flight of stairs.	10
31	175	The block is commonly ascended by means of the stairs on the auctioneer's right, and descended, as in this case, by means of the stairs to his left, as he would face the auditorium.	10
50	179	At that point there was a scuffling on the stairs, and, turning, I saw a small, roped, bundled, face-swathed figure, her arm in the grip of a bearded figure, descending the stairs.	10
1	282	I heard him descend the stairs, his step placid and measured.	10
10	341	"There are stairs," he said, "leading down to the basement.	10
10	342	Be careful of the stairs".	10
10	354	"Down the stairs," he said.	10
10	376	Holding tightly to the banister, half turned, with two hands, I descended the steep stairs, one at a time.	10
15	130	At the foot of some more stairs, I was carried on a level for some time, at least for seven or eight minutes.	10
15	146	Shortly thereafter the men stopped, and there were more stairs, these ascending, and then, again, I was on a level, and sandals were treading planks and crushing straw.	10
21	20	I could see the stairs leading upstairs.	10
22	1	At the head of the stairs, he turned right, kicking open the door of the sleeping chamber.	10
31	210	We then left our place, descended the stairs, and took our leave of the house of Anesidemus.	10
39	9	"It would be a bold fellow to climb the stairs in the dark, knife in hand, when he might be expected, would it not?" he said.	10
39	10	I, released, rose to my feet, and hurried to the portal, at the head of the stairs.	10
39	33	I shut the door at the head of the stairs.	10
39	38	I could see smoke curling up through the opening at the bottom of the door at the head of the stairs.	10
39	39	I was sure the stairs were aflame.	10
39	58	"What if they fear we might have left the building?" I saw no hope, now, save in some frantic rushing forth, attempting to descend the flaming stairs and bolt into the night and into whatever might be there, if anything, waiting for us.	10
39	68	"Master!" I cried, and I ran to the door at the top of the stairs, and seized the handle, which was hot, and threw open the door, and then staggered back, shielding my face with my arms as a burst of flame and smoke roared into the room.	10
39	76	He then swept me up, into his arms, and, shortly thereafter, climbing the narrow stairs leading up, from the kitchen, we had reached the roof.	10
41	11	"Perhaps I should have rushed up the stairs, despite Master Epicrates, and intruded upon Lord Grendel," I said.	10
41	78	I was curious to see who might, if anyone, descend those stairs.	10
41	126	I saw a figure hurrying down the stairs across the way.	10
41	141	I tried to crawl to the door, the stairs, but the woman blocked my way, and ordered me to position, facing the monstrous thing!" Clearly Paula had never seen a Kur before, or anything Kurlike.	10
48	20	"Someone is on the stairs," he had said.	10
48	86	I darted from the room, and hurried down the stairs.	10
48	88	She was at the bottom of the stairs, leaning against the wall, gasping for breath.	10
50	417	"Yes, Master," I said, and hurried to the stairs.	10
52	162	Past the stairs, on the street, I knelt before Drusus.	10
52	191	He then lifted and turned me, placing me, seated, against the wall of the building, near the foot of the stairs.	10
56	153	Drusus Andronicus then turned about, went to the stairs, and descended to the street.	10
56	154	Paula leapt up, smiled, gave me a quick kiss, and followed him down the stairs.	10

Book 35. (27 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	136	Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea...	10
2	164	If you soil the ramp, or the stairs, you will lick up and feed on your own discharge, and the residue you will mop with your hair.	10
2	198	I was thrust forward, up the ramp, and, stumbling, saw the stairs leading up to the block.	10
2	199	A slaver's man was at the foot of the stairs.	10
3	2	"Ascend the stairs.	10
3	177	"Andar," he said, and his man, the one who had been at the right side of the block, to my left, as I had climbed the stairs, ascended to the surface of the block, and hooked his own whip to his belt.	10
3	519	We do want you to stumble on the stairs.	10
3	524	I then left the block as the auctioneer had specified, on all fours, and descended the stairs similarly.	10
10	138	I had lost no time in leaving the kitchen, climbing the stairs, and making my way to the office of the taverner, the tavern master, my master, Ho-Tosk, whose office is on the second basement level of the tavern, one level above the kitchen level, one level below the level of the main floor.	10
10	217	How faraway was my former world! I climbed the stairs to the main level, and, looking down the corridor, past the area to the side, where most of the girls were caged, I could see the beaded curtain that led to the central area of the tavern.	10
11	79	I had been to the left, as Goreans keep to the left side of paths, walkways, roads, stairs, and such.	10
11	188	Can you sense it on your neck? What then are you? One looks up, frightened and awed, at the high walls, reached by narrow, open, ascending stairs.	10
11	666	Clutching the tarsk-bit in my hand I then turned about and hurried down the stairs, to the office of the proprietor of the tavern, Ho-Tosk, my master.	10
20	124	I went down the stairs from the level of Ho-Tosk's office to the kitchen.	10
21	7	He indicated that I should follow him down the stairs, to the long pantry, adjoining the kitchen.	10
21	21	"There are stairs," he said, leading me.	10
28	20	I heard him descend the stairs, the strokes of the mighty crutch gradually diminishing.	10
31	21	Yet he seemed a pathetic, perhaps demented, figure as he struggled down the stairs toward the sand.	10
31	115	Then, suddenly, the man turned about and fled away, up the stairs, and disappeared in the crowd, which then began to disperse.	10
32	21	There was a sound on the stairs, and then someone was on the landing outside.	10
35	54	Four times I was lifted and carried up flights of stairs.	10
38	59	Shortly thereafter we turned from the hallway and began to make our way downward, descending steep, ill-lit, narrow stairs.	10
38	295	I had shortly thereafter found myself leashed and braceleted, and following him down steep, ill-lit, narrow stairs.	10
39	10	The passage, well below the house, was lit no better than the stairs, only a small tharlarion-oil lamp every few yards.	10
40	312	How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w...	10
42	13	I was the last to reach it, and be admitted through the hastily constructed barricade which essentially sealed it off from the holding as a whole, for, being bound, I had been obliged to move with great care on the steep, narrow stairs.	10
47	2	"There are stairs inside," said Addison Steele.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	33	Thurnock then descended the stairs to the helm deck.	10
23	20	The landsman may think of a ship as an object or artifact, little different, in essence, save in size and purpose, from a cabinet or chair, a wall or flight of stairs.	10