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Book 1. (20 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	101	My eyes suddenly noted her one piece of jewelry—a light, steel-like band she wore as a collar.	10
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.	10
3	249	My first impression was that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awe-stricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the...	10
4	156	About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head.	10
5	172	As we crashed in the air, I sharply jerked back the one-strap, bringing the steel-shod talons of my war tarn into play.	10
6	5	I brought him to rest on one of the steel projections that occasionally jut forth from the cylinders and serve as tarn perches.	10
6	6	The great bird opened and closed his wings, his steel-shod talons ringing on the metal perch as he changed his position, moving back and forth upon it.	10
10	158	I snapped the slender steel collar on her throat, placing the key in my pouch.	10
10	171	She pulled at the circle of steel on her throat.	10
12	24	It was a large steel bow, wound and set, the iron quarrel placed in the guide.	10
12	101	I was conscious in that mad, terrible instant of the flash of steel-shod talons at the breast of my bird, and then my bird shook as though seized with a convulsion and opened his talons.	10
12	108	High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work.	10
12	113	And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority.	10
13	49	Somehow the shock of that great, wild cry gripped me in a steel fist of terror.	10
16	28	It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.	10
16	37	Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.	10
18	138	Ripping savagely with his steel-shod talons, slashing with his scimitarlike beak, my sable war tarn in a matter of seconds left the attacking tarn a shuddering heap of feathers.	10
18	139	With one of the great steel-shod talons on the body of his fallen foe, my tarn emitted the challenge scream of his kind.	10
18	169	I remember them pressing downward, so many, and my blade, terrible, moving as if wielded by a god, meeting their steel, cutting its path upward.	10
19	43	The tarn's steel-shod talons struck the marble roof of the cylinder with a flash of sparks.	10

Book 2. (18 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	40	He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood.	10
6	222	"Her price is steel," I said.	10
7	98	I looked at the girl, now after her long days of suffering and flight at last a captive, her slender wrists encircled at last by Thorn's hated bracelets, beautifully wrought bracelets, like many, of exquisite workmanship, bright with color, set even with jewels, but like all slave bracelets, of unyi...	10
9	60	The gates, bound with their bands of steel, studded with brass plates dull in the mist, the black wood looming over me in the dusk, were closed.	10
13	73	"Let them begin!" We were thrown on our feet again, and, to my horror, our yokes were fitted with steel horns, eighteen inches in length and pointed like nails.	10
13	86	His eyes were blue like steel.	10
13	126	Once I was not so fortunate and a steel horn furrowed my side, leaving a channel of blood.	10
14	49	I noted with satisfaction that its talons were shod with steel.	10
14	199	Its talons, shod with steel, dropped like great hooks; it seemed to tremble almost motionless in the air; and then its wings, parallel, lifted, almost enfolding me, and were still.	10
14	211	Its steel-shod pinioning talons closed like great hooks on the body of the screaming Tatrix.	10
15	36	How frightful for her must have been those minutes of flight, grasped in the talons, hundreds of feet above the plains of Tharna, not knowing if she might be dropped at any instant, or carried to some ledge to be ripped to pieces by that monstrous beak, those hideous steel-shod talons.	10
16	22	The great giant landed on the marble pillar, its steel-shod talons ringing on the stone.	10
19	8	Those blue eyes like steel looked about the unyielding faces of the chained slaves.	10
19	105	I saw that those eyes, usually like blue steel, seemed softer than I remembered them.	10
20	9	Not a piece of steel remained in the arms shed; not a crust of bread remained in the tubs in the commissary huts.	10
21	238	Better the arms of a master than the cold steel of the ankle ring.	10
24	89	Then regarding me evenly with those steel-blue eyes he said, "We are always of the same chain".	10
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...	10

Book 3. (41 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	258	And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw...	10
3	3	Both animals were jerked up short as mighty chains, fastened to steel and bejeweled collars, terminated their vicious charge.	10
5	60	It was a collar like most others, of steel, secured with a small, heavy lock which closed behind the girl's neck.	10
5	197	"And instead," she cried, "I have only these walls of stone and the steel collar of a slave girl!" She helplessly, enraged, tried to tear the slender, graceful, obdurate band from her white throat.	10
5	200	The steel of a Gorean slave collar is not made to be removed at a girl's pleasure.	10
7	21	Vika of course had worn a scarf and these girls did not, but now Vika no longer wore her scarf; now her collar, steel and gleaming, locked, encircling her fair throat, was as evident and beautiful as theirs, proclaiming her to the eyes of all, like them, only a slave girl.	10
8	199	Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea...	10
12	51	I had been pacing back and forth in the long room, nervous without the feel of the sword steel at my thigh.	10
13	3	We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.	10
13	116	I would surely have pressed forward this inquiry but at that very moment we arrived at a tall steel portal in the hallway.	10
13	117	Looking up I saw beneath the square of scent-dots fixed high on the steel door the stylized outline picture of what was unmistakably a human being.	10
15	42	These spheres in turn were connected by slender, woven cables of wire to a large, heavy boxlike assembly, made of steel and rather squarish, which was set on wheels.	10
19	17	From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.	10
20	33	Mul-Al-Ka swung the transportation disk suddenly down a side tunnel and, accelerating fiercely, flowed like sound down the tunnel for several portals and then stepped off the accelerator strips and, as the disk slowed and stopped, brought it neatly to rest at a tall steel portal.	10
20	38	Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta said nothing but stepped from the transportation disk and, pressing the portal switch, opened the steel portal.	10
20	126	These collars are normally measured individually to the girl, as is most slave steel.	10
22	160	I tried the balance, and dropped the steel back into its sheath.	10
22	162	I liked the blade which seemed so simple and efficient compared to the manifold variations in sword steel that were possible.	10
23	70	I then took my sword and wiped the oil from one side of the blade and set the shining steel against the lips of the girl from Treve.	10
25	140	I knew that she was faithless, vicious, and treacherous, and because of her glorious beauty a thousand times more dangerous than a foe armed only with the reed of a Gorean spear and the innocence of sword steel.	10
27	7	I had not walked far from the Vivarium before I was able to regather my general directions in the Nest and, as I walked impatiently along, I spied a transportation disk docked, so to speak, hovering on its cushion of gas, outside one of the tall steel portals of the Hall of Commissaries.	10
27	39	I had spent but a few Ehn on the disk before I came to the barricade of heavy steel bars which separated those portions of the Nest open to Muls from those which were prohibited to them.	10
27	64	From one of these openings I could see that I was already behind the steel barricade with its Priest-King guard, who was standing as I would have expected, in that almost vertical, slender, golden fixity that was so characteristic of his kind.	10
27	68	There were perhaps a thousand Priest-Kings in the Nest, and I supposed that this might be almost all the Priest-Kings in the Nest, save perhaps those that might be essentially placed at a few minimum posts, such as the guard at the steel barricade and perhaps some in the Scanning Chamber or, more li...	10
27	71	To one side I could see four Priest-Kings handling the knobs of a large scent-producer, about the size of a steel room.	10
29	27	Vika took the cloth from his wound and, ripping it and using a small steel bar from the sheared wall, quickly fashioned a tourniquet, wrapping it securely about the remains of the man's arm.	10
29	78	With grim decision I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and there was a shattering burst of fire and I heard and felt branches of steel and tubing flying back against my armored transportation disk.	10
29	144	Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel...	10
30	6	My arms and legs were bound with bands of steel to a flat, narrow, wheeled platform; my throat and waist were similarly locked in place.	10
30	49	Further, my ankles wore manacles and my wrists were fastened behind my back with steel cuffs.	10
31	131	I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword.	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
31	148	Slowly I climbed the walkway, stepping with care past the ruined portions of the steel steps leading to the crest of the dome.	10
31	170	Sarm reached to the steel bar that formed the railing to his left on the walkway and with the incredible strength of Priest-Kings with one motion twisted and tore free a length of perhaps eighteen feet.	10
31	174	"Primitive," said Sarm, regarding the club of steel which he held, and then he looked down at me, his antennae curling, "but fitting".	10
31	186	Sarm lifted the bar and I sensed the murderous intensity that transformed his entire being, how each of those golden fibers like springs of steel would leap into play and the long bar would slash in a blur toward my body.	10
31	189	Rather to my wonder the bar of steel lowered and Sarm seemed frozen suddenly in an attitude of the most rapt perception.	10
31	199	The steel bar fell from Sarm's appendage and slid from the top of the dome to fall with a distant crash far below in the rubble.	10
32	295	Soon we had reached a steel portal and Parp threw back a switch and it rolled upward.	10
34	131	"Until you find Talena," he said, "your companion is peril and steel".	10
34	138	"Peril and steel," said he.	10

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	It could not be evaded, but only countered, and countered it was by the Koroban steel in my hand, a sudden ringing, sliding flash of steel and the knife was deflected from my breast.	10
2	127	He wore a flopping cap of white fur, which did not conceal the conical outlines of the steel beneath it.	10
2	149	They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break.	10
5	23	She wore bells locked on both wrists, and on both ankles, thick cuffs and anklets, each with a double line of bells, fastened by steel and key.	10
5	25	The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is a flat, snugly fitting steel band.	10
7	13	There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla...	10
9	416	There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...	10
9	478	"Unless you permit it," said Kamras sternly, "I may never have an opportunity to cross steel with this barbaric sleen".	10
9	487	The circle of steel gleamed on the silk at her throat.	10
10	263	The theoretical justification of the games of Love War, from the Turian point of view, is that they provide an excellent arena in which to demonstrate the fierceness and prowess of Turian warriors, thus perhaps intimidating or, at the very least, encouraging the often overbold warriors of the Wagon ...	10
10	346	I saw Hereena standing insolently at her stake, but her brown wrists, of course, were bound to it by steel.	10
10	531	"No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".	10
10	562	Each time the Turian struck and I would have thought Kamchak slain, somehow, incomprehensibly, at the last instant, nearly causing my heart to stop, with a surprised, weary little twitch, the blade of the Tuchuk would slide the Turian steel harmlessly to the side.	10
10	566	For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand.	10
10	588	Then he turned and advanced to the stake of Aphris of Turia, who stood there, her wrists bound in steel, regarding him, speechless with horror.	10
11	181	"She could use a bit of whip and steel, that wench," Kamchak muttered between swallows of paga, pretty much draining the bottle.	10
12	271	There is a kind of implicit claim of ownership involved in putting a wench in slave steel.	10
12	344	"Did you not observe," asked Kamchak, "how she moved and breathed when you locked the steel on her?" I hadn't thought much about it.	10
12	349	"And it is as I thought—your steel kindles her".	10
13	87	"Did you not see the secret blood of her?—That she is eager and ready—that she is fit prize for the steel of a master—that she is female, and," he added, "slave?" "No!" cried Elizabeth Cardwell.	10
16	116	We had scarcely cleared the portal and set foot in the street when we heard a swift rustle of heavy wire and, startled, looking up, saw the steel net descend on us.	10
21	296	I stepped back, getting my back to the wagon, trying to keep their steel from me.	10
23	133	Then again we heard the bosk horns and the Paravaci, in vast ranks, like sweeping crescents, like steel scythes of men and animals and arms, far extending beyond our own lines, began to move slowly towards us, gaining steadily in momentum and speed with each traversed yard of stained prairie.	10
25	305	His companion, as it is said, is peril and steel.	10
25	470	I encircled her lovely throat with the steel and she looked up at me, angrily.	10
25	619	I saw on her lovely throat the harsh ring of Turian steel, gleaming and locked, so contrasting with, so barbarically accentuating the incredible softness of her beauty, the tormenting vulnerability of it.	10
25	891	"Do not forget," I said, "that on your throat you wear a collar of steel".	10
25	931	"Girls," mumbled he, "do not forget you wear my steel".	10
26	560	Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...	10
27	157	Kamchak's hands were at the small, heavy lock at the back of the steel, Turian collar she wore.	10

Book 5. (75 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	149	Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st...	10
2	258	"And there are many in the High Councils of the City who, if forced to decide between the steel of the hook knife and the feel of gold in their pouch, will choose gold to steel".	10
2	314	"When gold will not do, only steel can meet steel".	10
15	118	And during such times, before the bracelets and chain were removed, a steel slave anklet would be placed on her left ankle, in order that there be no time that her body would be completely free of slave steel; this anklet she wore even in her bath; it would be removed only after the bracelets and ch...	10
21	323	Steel rang on steel and then we stood back to back, cutting and jabbing.	10
21	327	"You were long in coming," commented Murmillius, meeting steel upon steel, dropping a foe.	10
23	143	"Well," I said, "will it be my steel or the impaling spear of Ar's justice?" "Let it be your steel," he said.	10
1	79	There is only gold and steel.	10
2	21	Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over...	10
2	124	Hup opened his eyes, startled at not yet having felt the deep, cruel movement of the steel.	10
2	148	No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table.	10
2	199	It is not well to walk among the cylinders after dark without torches and steel".	10
2	230	"There is only gold and steel," said he.	10
2	260	"There is only gold and steel," he said.	10
2	348	He fingered the collar on her throat, yellow enameled over steel.	10
4	77	Mixed with the blood and fluids of the body there was a smear of white at the end of the steel, the softened residue of a glaze of kanda paste, now melted by body heat, which had coated the tip of the blade.	10
4	110	"As you presumably know these are difficult times in Ar, and a good sword is a good investment, and steel in these days is upon occasion more valuable than gold".	10
5	35	Such a demand might seem importunate or to evince a concern for secrecy not in place in a house where I, supposedly, had taken gold for the use of my steel.	10
5	517	Then, when they had their hands in one another's hair, kicking, the slave girl suddenly stopped, terrified, not seeing the gleaming, narrow band of steel locked on Elizabeth's throat.	10
7	148	About the left ankle of each there was locked a steel identification band.	10
11	6	The expression "The Iron Pens," incidentally, generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only...	10
11	62	A blond girl, wearing the steel band locked on her left ankle, crouched at the barred gate, and extended her hands through.	10
11	300	"What is the band of steel locked on your left ankle?" he asked.	10
11	331	"You wear on your left ankle," said Flaminius, "a locked band of steel".	10
11	409	We then, following Ho-Tu, retraced our steps on the iron walkway, descended the steps, and, taking our way between the metal branding rack and the glowing, perforated steel drum containing irons, left the room.	10
12	98	War tarns, whose talons are shod with steel, tend to be extremely dangerous birds, even more so than other tarns, none of whom could be regarded as fully domesticated.	10
14	148	On each small wrist, locked, she wore a slave bracelet, of simple, unadorned steel.	10
14	151	"I want her," said Cernus, "to feel steel on her wrists, the weight of a chain".	10
14	154	Then crouching over, with first one hand and then the other, she tried madly to push and slip the encircling, resisting steel over her other hand.	10
14	155	She ran even to the bath and took oils, rubbing them on her wrists, but still the steel would not release her.	10
15	21	She no longer wore the band of steel on her left ankle.	10
15	52	The left, as was the case with Phyllis, was now no longer encircled with the steel band, the identification band.	10
15	98	Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men.	10
15	110	It was not known if he had been originally slave or not, but had he been he surely would have won his freedom ten times over and more; again and again, even after he would have won his freedom had he first been slave, he returned to the sand of the arena, steel in hand; I supposed it might be the go...	10
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...	10
16	204	Indeed, there had never yet been a Steel in a race in Ar.	10
16	257	I saw the talons of the tarn were shod with steel.	10
17	156	Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...	10
17	158	The crowd, each time he fought, went mad with pleasure, thrilling to each ringing stroke of steel, and I suspected that that man most adored in Ar was the huge, mysterious Murmillius, superb and gallant, a man whose very city was unknown.	10
17	195	While the men of Cernus did their work in the paga taverns, and on the streets and in the market squares, and on the ramps and in the tiers of the games and races, the gold of Cernus, and the steel of Cernus, was apparently plied elsewhere.	10
17	524	The guard twisted this wire about the red-enameled steel of her collar.	10
18	219	"Besides," said he, "the men of Initiates, did we begin again, would only need bring torches and steel once more".	10
18	483	One of the guards, putting his crossbow in the hall, brought forth heavy steel manacles.	10
18	485	I felt the heavy steel close on my wrists.	10
18	533	I wished that I might break the steel from my wrists and seize his throat.	10
18	547	My wrists fought the steel.	10
19	11	Hooded, a chain on my throat, my wrists in steel behind my back, I stumbled after a tharlarion wagon, to the back of which my throat chain had been bolted, through the streets of Ar.	10
19	61	My wrists pulled futilely against the circles of steel that confined them; I felt the point of a short sword in my back.	10
19	70	How seriously the men of Gor understand these representations depends doubtless on the man; but even those who, upon reflection, laugh at them, I have found, do generally regard the women of other cities rather differently than they regard their own, thinking of them almost automatically, particular...	10
19	92	Hooded, my wrists locked in steel, my throat chained to the chair of my enemy, I knelt for perhaps two Ahn.	10
19	409	"Which of you would like to put me in steel?" The crowd roared and stamped, and its men rose to their feet, shouting, pounding their right fists on their left shoulder, in Gorean acclaim.	10
19	463	The girls turned and then Elizabeth, peering out into the crowd, for the first time, saw me, in the rag of a slave, my wrists bound behind my back in steel, the helpless captive of Cernus, Slaver, Ubar of Ar.	10
21	31	Within the closed steel locked on my head I smiled.	10
21	40	Involuntarily my wrists fought the steel that shackled them.	10
21	99	"Now, Vancius," I heard, "you are mine!" I tried to tear the steel helmet from my head with my manacled wrists.	10
21	111	I felt a man's hands then fumbling with the steel hood I wore.	10
21	227	The steel struck my own and I parried the blow, moving the blade aside easily.	10
21	230	Then the Taurentian struck again and again I moved his steel to one side.	10
21	233	I laughed, the keen ring of the fine steel still burning in my ear.	10
21	238	I had heard the ring of steel.	10
21	252	The man turned and attacked and I laughed suddenly with the thrill of the steel, the flashing ring of work upon the Warrior's anvil.	10
22	31	I saw that even the steel-shod talons of the bird were bloodied.	10
22	351	The steel-shod talons of the war tarn tore for a moment at the heavy beams of the platform on which it stood, furrowing it.	10
22	529	Ubar of the Skies suddenly uttered a scream that terrified even me, raising the hair on my neck and arms; it was not simply the challenge scream of his kind; it was a scream of pleasure, of horrifying eagerness, of the tarn's lust for blood and war; steel-shod talons grasping, screaming, beak tearin...	10
22	530	Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt...	10
22	534	Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit.	10
22	542	Again and again the Tuchuk bow fired and again and again unwilling tarnsmen felt the lightninglike kiss of the barbed steel.	10
22	565	With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t...	10
23	138	In an instant our blades had met in the swift discourse of flashing steel.	10
24	5	But it was my old sword, the fine, familiar steel, remembered even from the siege of Ar, many years before, that I dropped into the scabbard.	10
24	120	About her left ankle is normally locked a gray steel band, to which five simple bells of gray metal are attached.	10
24	337	Phyllis, her eyes bright with tears of happiness for Virginia, turned her back to Ho-Sorl, that he might similarly remove from her throat the degrading band of steel that marked her as only slave.	10
24	339	"And I will accept you as my companion!" Her face was radiant as she waited for him to unlock the steel that encircled her throat.	10
24	372	She drew back her wrists, seeing them closely confined in steel.	10
24	486	Hup gave me the key to Elizabeth's collar and anklet and I freed her of the steel that marked her slave.	10

Book 6. (47 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	Yet, as a weapon, it has serious disadvantages, and on Gor the crossbow, inferior in accuracy, range and rate of fire, with its heavy cable and its leaves of steel, tends to be generally favored.	10
1	35	Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...	10
4	171	She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence.	10
5	222	I did so, fumbling in the darkness, striking together the flint and steel, sparks falling into the small bowl of dried petals of the rence.	10
6	54	Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor.	10
8	5	I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc...	10
8	129	And then I heard the clash of sword steel, wildly, blindly.	10
8	137	I whispered to Telima to bring the rence craft in again, and put down my bow, taking out the steel sword.	10
8	139	There were more cries and clashings of steel.	10
8	536	What could there be that could stand above the steel blade? Was not honor a sham, loyalty and courage a deceit, an illusion of the ignorant, a dream of fools? Was not the only wise man he who observed carefully and when he might took what he could? The determinants of the wise man could not be such ...	10
8	537	There was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and steel.	10
9	67	Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons.	10
9	255	At my side I wore a sword of steel.	10
9	325	She turned to face me, tears in her eyes, fingering the gleaming band of steel.	10
9	399	I noted her slim ankles, enclosed in the ankle rings, and her lovely wrists, so closely linked together, clasped beautifully, snugly, in the steel of the bracelets.	10
9	430	Trembling she fumbled with the flint and steel, to strike sparks into the moss bowl, whence by means of a Ka-la-na shaving the lamp might be lit.	10
9	464	"It is a long time since I have worn a steel collar," she said.	10
9	595	Our discourse with steel was brief.	10
9	597	I kicked him from the blade and withdrew the bloodied steel.	10
9	602	Several of the men around the tables, roused by the flash of steel, had awakened.	10
9	689	The proprietor brought a key and removed his steel from her throat.	10
10	43	Indeed its nearest paga tavern was that at which Surbus and I had met, and had crossed steel.	10
10	100	Her collar, however, that she might not grow pretentious, was of simple steel.	10
10	195	These are huge quarter-moons of steel, fixed forward of the oars, anchored into the frame of the ship itself.	10
11	14	So, too, did my steel leave its sheath.	10
11	46	On its height they met Bosk, in his hands the wine-tempered steel of a Koroban blade.	10
11	207	Should the forces of Sevarius emerge from his holdings we shall meet them with steel".	10
11	271	It occurred to me then, with a shudder which I did not betray, that such a man could serve only the Others, not Priest-Kings, those Others, in the distant steel worlds, who surreptitiously and cruelly fought to gain this world and Earth for their own ends.	10
11	493	If he had known this, I asked myself, why had he not spoken before? "Perhaps," I asked, "Samos will propose that we now withdraw our patrols from Thassa?" Samos looked at me, and the look was as cold and hard as Gorean steel.	10
12	43	I felt my leg then caught in the jaws of an urt, like triple bands of steel, set with needles, and was dragged beneath the surface.	10
14	29	They resemble quarter moons of steel and are fastened into the frames of the ship itself.	10
15	6	It stood for too many things, and its steel was deep with too many memories.	10
15	323	"There is gold and steel!" I said.	10
15	324	"Gold and steel!" cried my retainers.	10
15	344	There were, in the end, only gold and steel, and perhaps the bodies of women, and perhaps songs, the meaningless noises that might sometimes be heard in the mouths of the blind.	10
15	736	About her throat, locked, was a simple, steel collar.	10
15	799	I looked on her, kneeling barefoot before me, my steel collar locked on her throat, in the scanty, miserable, stained garment of the Kettle Slave.	10
16	120	"There is gold and steel," she said.	10
17	283	Mine own had been black-plumaged, a giant tarn, glossy, his great talons shod with steel, a bird bred for speed and war, a bird who had been, in his primitive, wild way, my friend.	10
17	289	"My pledge is steel," I said.	10
18	203	I could see, as they did not, a shadow moving swiftly behind them, it, too, rapidly shifting its position, moving about amidst the frantic shadows of men, torches and confusions, but always staying in the background, like an absence of substance but one which carried a blade of steel.	10
18	213	I saw the boy, with a lightning thrust, flash four inches of steel through a body, returning to the on-guard position before the man realized he had been struck.	10
18	220	Then, from one side, from the passageway, from the door to the kitchens, a number of other men came forth, carrying torches and steel.	10
18	518	As I climbed the ladder I was glad that the old blade, the familiar steel, with its memories of another life and time, when I had been Tarl Cabot, was at my side.	10
18	527	I heard the ringing of the steel of Samos, the cries of the men behind me.	10
18	542	He raised his own to strike her but I had my steel beneath his left shoulder blade and had turned again before he could deliver his blow.	10
18	548	Samos thrust his blade into the Y-shaped opening of a helmet, parried a spear thrust from his body, and met the steel of another man.	10

Book 7. (78 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	101	It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height.	10
2	7	It had been placed on me while I was unconscious! About my throat, snugly, there was a graceful, gleaming band of steel.	10
2	46	It was almost as if it were a piece of melted, steel chocolate.	10
2	57	I could see the great walls of brick, and steel and concrete and glass.	10
2	60	It was my world! But I stood behind the glass nude, on my throat a band of steel, which I could not remove.	10
3	188	About her throat there was a band of steel.	10
3	213	I buttoned the collar of the black blouse high about my neck, to conceal the steel band on my throat.	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
3	251	I felt the steel beneath it.	10
3	253	Did he know? Could he know that there was a band of steel on my throat? I was foolish.	10
3	320	I was only a terrified girl, fleeing from what she knew not, a bewildered, confused girl, a terrified girl, one with a mark on her left thigh, a circle of steel locked snugly on her throat.	10
3	375	I was Elinor Brinton! Irritably I examined the steel band at my throat.	10
3	390	Tomorrow I would have the steel band removed.	10
4	57	The men freed the girls, removing from them the gags and collars, and fastening on the left ankle of each what appeared to be a steel band.	10
4	132	I could briefly see men, in black tunics, inside, fastening it to plates in a steel flooring.	10
4	152	I could see that it was steel.	10
4	155	Then I stood before them as I had, in the tan slacks, in the black, bare-midriff blouse, save that I now wore a steel anklet.	10
4	157	As I watched it, it seemed that lights began to flicker on its surface, and then it seemed that tendrils of light began to interweave across its steel, and, before my eyes, it began to change in color, turning a grayish blue, streaked with white.	10
4	183	I ascended the steel ramp.	10
4	194	The steel ramp swung upward and locked in place, shutting me in the ship.	10
4	241	But shortly thereafter one of the men in a black tunic, wearing sandals with metal plates on the bottoms, stepped carefully, step by step, across the steel plating.	10
5	36	Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass.	10
5	65	It was torn open, the steel plating split and bent, scorched and blistered.	10
5	68	I looked inside, through one of the great rents in the steel.	10
5	70	In places there were frozen rivulets of steel, as though heavy trickles of paint had run from a brush and then hardened.	10
5	75	Barefoot, on the steel plating, buckled under my feet, the bolts broken, I entered the ship, holding my breath.	10
5	88	A small, furred animal scurried past me, its claws scrabbling on the steel plating.	10
5	95	But if there had been survivors, where had they gone? Might they return soon? I returned to the main portion of the ship, and looked again at the great rents in the steel.	10
5	136	I would have to starve! Then I sat down on the floor of the steel galley and wept.	10
8	13	Where the tunic parted, at her throat, I caught the glint of a steel collar.	10
8	380	It was no wonder that some men, even warriors, hated and envied the arrogant, regal tarnsmen, one night rich, the next impoverished, always at the elbow of adventure, and war and pleasure, wearing their pride and their manhood in their walk, in the steel at their side and the look in their eyes.	10
9	428	It contained steel arrow points.	10
10	275	I remembered, too, that on Earth, at the location called point P, before I had boarded the ship, a heavy steel anklet, doubtless an identification device of some sort, had been locked on my left ankle.	10
11	16	He then fixed two tiny steel rods, with threaded ends, through the wounds.	10
11	17	To each end of each of the rods he threaded a tiny steel disk, that the tiny rods might be held in the wounds.	10
11	60	Ute had now had her left, as well as her right, ear lobe pierced, and had had the tiny steel rods and disks fixed in her ears.	10
11	99	The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the northern cities.	10
11	227	When I opened my eyes, blinded with tears, I saw the leather worker approaching my face with a tiny, steel ring, partly opened, and a pair of pliers.	10
11	246	When she returned, she, too, wore a tiny, steel ring in her nose.	10
11	272	I looked at the tiny steel rods holding open the wounds in her ears.	10
11	278	I knew only I, Elinor Brinton, once of Park Avenue, once of the restaurants and boulevards of New York and the continent, now wore in my nose a tiny ring of steel.	10
11	338	No one ever need know that Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, had once had a steel ring fixed in her nose.	10
11	689	The next morning, when the guard unbound our hair from the crossbars, Inge and I collapsed to the steel plating that floored our cage.	10
11	691	I lay in the straw, my face pressed into it, feeling the obdurate steel beneath it.	10
11	715	I rolled over on my back in the straw and stared at the ceiling, more steel plating, the flooring of the cage in the tier above us.	10
11	749	I rolled over on my back in the straw and again stared at the ceiling, that obdurate steel plating, the flooring of the cage in the tier above us.	10
11	750	I lay there naked in the straw, feeling the steel plating beneath my back.	10
11	758	Odd, I thought, how Elinor Brinton, she who had been so rich, so elegant, so arrogant, she who had been of Park Avenue, she who had owned the Maserati, was now, on a distant world, only this, a common slave, naked, on her belly in straw, steel plating beneath it, behind heavy bars, caged, merchandis...	10
11	984	I lay on my belly, in the straw, in the cage in Ko-ro-ba, poking with a bit of straw at the steel plating.	10
11	1009	But if not all women were slaves, I knew one who, to her fury, and chagrin, was, Elinor Brinton! I struck the steel plating in fury, with my small fist.	10
11	1074	I shrieked with misery and ran across the cage, flinging myself into its back wall, pounding on it, and then I sank to my knees by the wall and, in rage and frustration, weeping and screaming, pounded on the steel plating of the floor.	10
11	1121	Women feared the steel of his slave collars.	10
11	1178	I felt the steel plating beneath the straw.	10
11	1225	I stood at the back, right-hand corner of the cage, on the steel plating, on the straw.	10
11	1294	He inserted the tip of this instrument, consisting of a pair of small, hinged rods, like opposing crescents, into the steel nose ring and then, with his two hands, pulling outwards on the handles, slowly, carefully, opened the instrument, spreading the ring.	10
11	1372	I lay awake in the straw, looking up at the steel plating above me, dim, metallic, in the flickering of a lantern hung outside the cage, on a peg fixed into the wall on the opposite side of the corridor.	10
11	1410	Then I lay still, looking up at the steel plating of the ceiling.	10
12	10	But now the dimly lit cells, the steel and cement, the stomach-wrenching heat and dampness, the close, foul air, the soiled straw, the stink, the crowding, the heavy bars, were behind us.	10
12	300	Her cage, mounted on the cart, was not of branches, but of steel.	10
12	659	The clash of steel carried dimly to the hill, where Ute and I watched.	10
13	854	My captor was trying to close with him, to bring him within the range of his own steel, his now-drawn, swift, unadorned blade.	10
13	869	"Her price is steel!" was the answer that met the attacker.	10
13	871	Then the tarns swooped together again, side by side, saddle to saddle, while blades flashed over my head, in a swift dialogue of steel, debating my possession.	10
13	878	And then again, saddle to saddle, they fought, and once more steel flashed about my face and body.	10
13	880	Sparks from the steel stung my body.	10
13	882	My captor's steel interposed itself.	10
13	889	Once more, over my head, there was a flash of steel, and I heard a cry of pain, and then suddenly the other tarn veered sharply away, and I saw its rider, clutching his shoulder, reeling in the saddle.	10
14	696	It was an opened, steel slave collar.	10
15	26	I wore only my bonds and, locked about my throat, a collar of steel.	10
15	132	I felt the steel collar, so smooth and obdurate, fastened on my throat.	10
15	1453	There had been only the jangle of bells Ute had tied to the steel.	10
16	105	My throat had been encircled with slave steel, and I had been taught its meaning.	10
16	129	I threw myself against the chain, running toward his tent, and fell in the grass, my ankle burning, scraped, from the steel that obdurately clasped it.	10
16	472	"A steel-collar girl," I said, "should not have so fine a cloak!" He laughed.	10
17	39	About the throats of the girls were locked new collars, again of inflexible steel, but now those of huntsmen, vine engraved and bearing the names of their masters.	10
17	68	And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons.	10
17	102	I now understood how girls could weep and scratch at the walls of their kennels, how they could squirm, moaning, shackled in their pens, how they could press their face and flesh against the cruel bars that confined them in their tiny cages, moistening the obdurate, grasped steel with their tears.	10
17	199	There was now a fresh, but locked, steel collar on my throat.	10

Book 8. (36 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	215	"Do you recall your price?" "Two steel knives," said the man, "and fifty steel arrow points".	10
2	463	"A steel knife for each," I proposed to Sheera, "and twenty arrow points, of steel, for each".	10
11	87	On her throat, half concealed by her long blond hair, was a collar of steel, the steel of Ar.	10
1	27	He was flanked by two guards, standing slightly behind him, helmeted, Gorean steel at their sides.	10
1	177	I wore steel at my side.	10
2	36	There was a steel sword at his side.	10
2	158	"I managed to exchange the threat of steel for some paltry baubles of gold," said Arn.	10
5	182	As she stood before him, her back to him, delighted, he wrapped it in and about the steel of her slave collar.	10
6	244	I shook it, that she might well feel the steel retainers on her wrists.	10
6	846	Rim, from his own pouch, handed up to her a tiny steel half crescent, ground from the blade of a shaving knife.	10
6	999	I supposed that I, in the hold of the Tesephone, had perhaps taught her something of the import of the obdurate steel on her fair throat.	10
7	2	At my hip was slung the quiver, with sheaf arrows, twenty of them, of black tem wood, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
7	158	At the hemp string, whipped with silk, was a temwood arrow, piled with steel, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
7	187	I carefully fitted the black, steel-piled temwood shaft to the string.	10
8	282	There was suddenly a great, heavy steel snap at my feet.	10
8	284	Locked on his right ankle were the heavy, sharp steel teeth of a slave trap.	10
8	285	I fought the heavy, curved steel jaws, but they had locked shut.	10
8	289	The heavy steel curved snugly about his ankle.	10
8	314	I felt slave steel locked on my wrists.	10
10	161	They fastened steel collars on their throats.	10
10	223	He nodded with his head toward the line of girls, pressed back on the grass, steel at their throats, struggling bound in the arms of captors.	10
10	233	Each one, steel at her throat, her eyes glazed, hair before her face, was held before Verna.	10
11	431	She dug her fingers between the neck and the steel and jerked it, twice.	10
11	457	"I will give you a steel knife," said Marlenus, "and forty arrow points for her".	10
11	750	On Gor, for better or for worse, the reality in which a woman, terrified, might find herself is not altogether unlike that of her most feared dreams on Earth, but on Gor it is not a dream; it is as real as the steel of slave bracelets and the commanding touch of a master.	10
12	152	If there were any who cared to dispute it, we could debate the matter with steel.	10
12	188	At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull.	10
13	322	I took her by the hair and pulled her head back, and put the steel of the knife at her throat.	10
14	344	The steel-piled arrow, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull, had pierced his heart.	10
16	219	I found the arrow, removed the wadding and replaced the steel pile.	10
18	123	And women, one by one, or in groups of twos and threes, had disappeared, quite possibly to find their fair limbs in the sudden, inflexible clasp of slave steel.	10
18	145	What did she care if most, or all, of her girls fell slave, as long as it was not she who found the bracelets locked on her wrists, as long as it was not she who must now live cowering as a collared girl subject to a man's pleasure, to his touch, and to the steel of his chains and the leather of his...	10
19	43	It would be too easy for them, after a time, to bring me within the range of their steel-leaved crossbows.	10
20	173	And they knew I stood, somewhere, within the stockade, unseen, with a steel blade.	10
21	2	"Step away from your steel," ordered Thurnock, gesturing that they should stand to one side.	10
21	131	I took the key from Thurnock and, with it, unlocked the steel which confined Rim and Arn.	10

Book 9. (40 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	52	The full extent of the strategy, however, I suspected, was known only on the steel worlds, the steel worlds in space, on which it had doubtless been constructed and from which, perhaps, it might be conducted.	10
1	215	But I could still command steel, that of my men, who, for no reason I understood, they Goreans, remained true to me, loyal to a cripple, confined to a captain's chair in a darkened hall.	10
1	219	"Steel is the coinage of the warrior," say the codes.	10
1	348	Samos, with a general key, one used for many of the gray collars, unlocked the band of steel which encircled her lovely throat.	10
1	436	"Steel is the coinage of the warrior," say the codes.	10
1	524	"Poisoned steel," he said.	10
1	527	"I would not have thought Sarus of Tyros would have used poisoned steel," I said.	10
2	328	Such men, from boyhood, in harsh games, had learned to run, to leap, to swim, to throw the spear, to wield the sword, to wield the ax, to stand against steel, even bloodied, unflinching.	10
3	134	Indeed, some of the men of Torvaldsland regard Torvaldsland to be wherever their ships beach, as they took their country, and their steel, with them.	10
6	393	Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship Law.	10
6	495	Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...	10
10	317	The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...	10
10	572	Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would...	10
10	640	I took it, from these indications, she had learned her collar in the south; probably originally it had been a lock collar, snugly fitting, of steel; now, of course, it had been replaced with the riveted collar of black iron, with the projecting ring, so useful for running a chain through, or for pad...	10
11	28	What made them such dreaded foes was not so much their intelligence or, on the steel worlds, their technological capacities, as their aggressiveness, their persistence, their emotional commitments, their need to populate and expand, their innate savagery.	10
11	78	I wondered if they might be from the steel ships, either recently, or within too few generations for a snow-adaptation pattern to have been developed.	10
11	163	They spoke together in one of the languages of the Kurii, for there are, I understood, in the steel worlds, nations and races of such beasts.	10
11	191	I had little doubt but what the Kurii, perhaps organized by Kurii from the steel worlds, were to begin a march in Torvaldsland, which might extend, in a generation to the southern pole of Gor.	10
11	196	These beasts, over the centuries grown numerous and strong, might now be directed by the Kurii of the steel worlds.	10
11	198	I expected the speaker himself was of the steel ships, painfully taught Gorean.	10
11	203	I had strong doubts, of course, as to whether a Kur invasion of the south was practical, unless abetted by the strikes of Kur ships from the steel worlds.	10
13	53	Svein Blue Tooth, held in the arms of his men, struggled to unsheath his great sword of blued steel.	10
15	56	But if Priest-Kings, eventually, should halt the invasion, that, too, might be of interest to the Kurii of the steel ships, remote, prowling outside the fifth ring, that of the planet on Earth called Jupiter, that on Gor called Hersius, after one of Ar's legendary heroes.	10
16	14	I saw that, near some of the patches of moss, were pieces of flint and steel, near others tiny piles of iron pyrites.	10
16	23	The piles of tinder and flint and steel, or iron pyrites, lay now behind us, or to one side.	10
17	291	I heard the grinding of teeth on steel, the sound of men biting at their own flesh.	10
18	31	Many were the men of Thorgard who fell beneath the teeth and steel of Kurii, and several were the Kurii who fell to the weapons of Thorgard's men, as they fought madly to defend themselves.	10
18	259	I expected he stood as a commander from one of the steel worlds themselves, sent to unite and command native Kurii.	10
18	638	The demonstration would not have been lost, either, on the advanced Kurii of the steel worlds.	10
18	653	The great plan of the Others, of the Kurii of the steel worlds, their most profound and brilliant probe of the defenses of Priest-Kings, had failed.	10
18	654	Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ...	10
18	663	But already, I suspected, Kurii, fresh, brilliant, calculating, masters in the steel worlds, in their command rooms, their map rooms and strategy rooms, were, even before the ashes in this remote valley in the north had cooled, engaged in the issuance of orders.	10
18	665	New coded instructions, doubtless, had already been exchanged among the distant steel worlds.	10
20	80	It had been he, doubtless a Kur from the steel worlds themselves, who had commanded the Kurii army, who had been the leader of their forces.	10
20	122	Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him.	10
21	189	'Do you, Sarus, retain the poisoned steel?' inquired my Ubar.	10
21	191	'In ten days, wretched Sullius,' decreed my Ubar, 'your flesh will be cut with the steel of Sarus.	10
21	228	If anything, he wants you well and strong, that he may meet you, evenly, with cold steel".	10
22	281	Somewhere, beyond the fourth ring, mixed in the belt of asteroids, intruding within the perimeters refused to them by Priest-Kings, were the patient, orbiting steel worlds.	10
22	313	I left the sleeping bag and drew my clothes about me, belting, too, to my side, the steel sword of Gor.	10

Book 10. (78 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	755	Everywhere there was swordplay, the ringing of steel, on steel and on bucklers.	10
1	233	She was conscious of the departure of the ship, and the grass beneath her body, and the chain lying across her legs, and the steel of the wrist-ring.	10
1	471	"On a rock there was scratched this message: Beware the steel tower".	10
1	490	"Beware the steel tower," I repeated.	10
1	494	"Beware the steel tower," said Samos.	10
1	499	He would feed himself only with the hand which, wielding steel, could take blood.	10
1	622	On this rock was inscribed 'Beware the steel tower.	10
1	808	"And what," I asked, "of the message on the stone, 'Beware the steel tower'?" "It is a mystery," said Samos, "and the answer lies here".	10
2	190	In Kasra I had learned the name, and father, of the boy who had found, in pursuing a kaiila, the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower'.	10
2	649	I returned to the bazaar, and inquired where steel might be purchased, and kaiila.	10
3	41	"In your hand," he said, "steel is alive, like a bird".	10
3	79	It had been he who had, enroute in a caravan, months before, discovered the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower.	10
3	138	Questioning nomads, doubtless to be found here and there in the wastes, and the inhabitants of various oases, many of them off the main caravan routes, I hoped, eventually, to obtain enough data or information to make it possible to find the mysterious tower of steel.	10
3	141	Towers of steel do not figure in the hallucinations, the delusions of the desert mad.	10
3	146	But yet, for some reason, he had fought his way, presumably eventually on foot, dying, through the desert, toward civilization, to warn someone, or something, of a steel tower.	10
5	350	The steel, razor-sharp point of the lance was at her bosom.	10
5	885	"Assassin!" I spun about, facing steel on all sides.	10
7	36	"Surrender Gor," had come the message, presumed from the steel worlds.	10
7	38	And, earlier, months ago, a caravan boy, Achmed, the son of the merchant, Farouk of Kasra, had found the inscription on a rock, "Beware the steel tower".	10
7	76	"Beware the steel tower".	10
7	339	"It is the steel of Ar," he said.	10
10	12	The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.	10
10	366	I knew that the metal collar of a female slave, that obdurate circlet of steel, locked, which she could not remove, so contrasting with her softness, so proclaiming its vulnerability and rightlessness, often transformed even an inhibited, hostile, cold wench, hating men, into an abandoned, yielding,...	10
10	401	"A steel tower," he said.	10
11	3	"Have you seen, or heard aught, of a tower of steel?" "You are mad!" cried the man.	10
11	9	"Perhaps there is no steel tower," I suggested to Hassan.	10
11	78	"Where, friend," asked Hassan, of another nomad, "is the steel tower?" "I have never heard of such," said he, warily.	10
11	79	"Surely in the Tahari there are no towers of steel".	10
11	94	"No," said a man, "I have seen no tower of steel, nor have I heard of such.	10
11	115	"Young warrior," asked Hassan, of a youth, no more than eight, "have you heard aught of a tower of steel?" His sister, standing behind him, laughed.	10
11	162	"Have you seen, or heard, aught, young warrior," asked Hassan, "of a tower of steel?" The boy looked at him and laughed.	10
11	407	"Have you heard aught of a tower of steel?" Hassan was asking the master of the inn.	10
11	408	* * * * None, it seemed, at Red Rock had either seen, or heard, of so strange an architectural oddity as a tower of steel in the desert.	10
11	413	I had little doubt, nor did Hassan, that it was within the dune country that lay the steel tower, if there was indeed such an unusual edifice.	10
11	419	A message had been inscribed on a rock: Beware the steel tower.	10
11	432	"None here seem to know of a steel tower".	10
11	442	Indeed, they would tend to avoid Aretai and Aretai-dominant oases, at least until they could come in force, paying the respects of the Tahari with steel.	10
13	397	Let who would, with steel, dispute my caste with me.	10
14	592	"The right ear," said the next man, grasping the long, slim lance, eight feet Gorean in length, marked with red and yellow swirling stripes, terminating in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, and lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.	10
14	677	Hassan and I had not found the steel tower.	10
15	150	"We order ourselves by the arrangements of skill and steel.	10
17	8	None had been ordered; not one upon the raft had, under the uplifted whip coil, nor upon the advice of unsheathed steel, been commanded.	10
17	106	It is steel alone, and will, which prevents catastrophe and slaughter.	10
18	101	I seized the stake in my right fist, to do war with steel.	10
21	305	This would eliminate a world, but, with it, Priest-Kings, and leave Earth unsheltered, vulnerable, to the attack fleets of the steel worlds.	10
21	327	I opened my eyes, and saw, briefly, before me, not more than a hundred yards away, in a fleeting gap in the storm, swiftly closed again by the hastened, stinging sand, crooked, leaning to one side, half buried in the sand, a cylinder of steel; it was perhaps twelve feet in diameter, perhaps forty fe...	10
21	334	Was it real? Is it some sort of illusion, or mirage? Then, for a brief moment, I saw again the cylinder of steel, and then, again, it was gone, lost in the blackness of the driven sand.	10
21	354	I shuddered when I thought of the power concealed in that casing of steel.	10
21	357	"Beware the steel tower," had been written on the rock.	10
21	411	This Kur, of all, in the cruel selections of the steel ships, had survived.	10
21	414	This Kur, of all, in the cruel selections of the steel ships, had survived.	10
21	434	Suddenly I felt the steel of the ship at my back.	10
21	439	A blast from the hand-held weapon struck the steel of the ship.	10
21	468	He scrambled, claws slipping on the leaning steel, and then crouched in it.	10
21	476	A steel ladder, twisted, fitted the rounded side of the ship.	10
21	480	I scraped the side of the steel.	10
21	487	A diversion would be ineffective, for what could draw the Kur from his position? If the blood of the slaughtered humans about had not been sufficient to override his obedience to the dark imperatives of the steel worlds, I did not think anything I might contrive could lure him forth.	10
21	513	Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod...	10
21	521	I heard the Kur's claws swift on the steel outside, scraping, climbing.	10
21	567	I crouched on a steel beam athwart the cylinder, opposite the six dials.	10
22	38	I tossed the steel flask of water down, too.	10
22	80	It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.	10
23	246	At his saddle hung a conical steel helmet, oddly fashioned with a rim of fur encircling it, bespeaking a tradition in armory whose origin did not seem likely to be the Tahari.	10
24	1	I Bind a Girl, Reserving Her for Myself; I Then Address Myself to the Duties of Steel The outcome of the battle, some twenty pasangs from the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, had never been in doubt.	10
24	305	"Perhaps those on the steel worlds will not believe your protestations.	10
24	899	I must be about the business of steel.	10
24	1029	Here, on the different, alien, exotic, perilous, primitive, cruel, beautiful world of Gor, she was no more than a collared slave, an item of lovely merchandise, at the mercy of the wealth and steel of powerful, lustful men.	10
25	118	He had once been of the Tahari, and then, with a scattering of sand, men following him, returned to the desert, again to supervise his men in their encircling ring of will, steel and kaiila flesh.	10
25	149	"May your eye be keen, your steel swift," said Suleiman Pasha.	10
25	223	I did not lay the weight of my own steel on hers, that I not tire her arm.	10
25	228	I had crossed steel with hundreds of men, in practice and in the fierce games of war, who could have finished her, swiftly and with ease, had they chosen to do so.	10
25	235	This time I moved toward her, letting her feel the weight of the steel, the weight of a man's arm.	10
26	167	Her neck was encircled by a band of steel, the slave collar.	10
26	237	It contained a slave girl, an exquisitely feminine girl, blond-haired and blue-eyed; she was richly veiled and bejeweled; it was said she was the preferred slave of the great Haroun himself, high Pasha of the Kavars; it was said her name was Alyena; she was of high station; she wore silks, and veils...	10
26	920	I took the chain and collar in the cell, and locked it on her throat, over her close-fitting steel collar, that identifying her as mine.	10
26	1188	He then entered the desert to investigate rumors of a tower of steel.	10
26	1200	Somewhere up there, beyond atmospheres, beyond the orbits of Gor, and Earth and Mars, in a boulder-strewn, enigmatic blackness of space, in the silence of the fragments of the asteroid belt, were the steel worlds, the lairs and domiciles of Kurii.	10
26	1220	When this had occurred I had been at the steel tower in the Tahari, the half-buried ship which had housed the destructive device.	10

Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	211	He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened.	10
2	248	I felt the man's hand and arm, through the steel of the dagger, flex for the movement of his arm.	10
2	461	I had always had a fear of steel blades, even knives.	10
2	462	Now I knelt bound and nude, helpless, utterly exposed and vulnerable, in the vicinity of fierce men, skilled and strong, who with intent and menace, with edged, bared steel, addressed themselves to the savageries of war.	10
2	511	In a swift, though measured fashion, he had exercised himself, sharply and well, respecting his foe, not permitting the foe to understand his full power with the blade, the devastating and subtle skill which now seemed to lend terrible flight to the rapid steel.	10
2	1045	Did they contain enemies, with steel, approaching even now? Might we be set upon, ambushed or attacked? There was a rustle in a thicket of brush, at which the man had been directing his attention.	10
2	1058	My single and only defense was the steel and prowess of the man who stood between me and what, some yards away, rustled in the dark brush.	10
2	1192	He had fought with savage steel to possess me; he had candidly, upon his victory, to my horror, appraised my flesh; he had kept me bound for hours; he had made me carry his shield, and heel him like an animal; he had cuffed me, and put me under discipline! He had not treated me as the free and right...	10
3	35	Her only jewelry was a sturdy steel band, looped closely, quite attractively, rather snugly, about her throat.	10
3	561	She indicated the steel band she wore on her throat.	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	273	A steel dart, fired from one of the riflelike weapons, caromed about the steel walls, and then suddenly, twisting about, wheeling end over end, burst between the tiers and the wall, leaving an explosive scar of blackened metal in the wall, a foot long, and scattering about a shower of flaming splint...	10
35	159	In the ceiling were the slave tracks, those steel guides determining, by virtue of the steel spheres and neck chains, the permissible movements of various girls.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	180	The heavy man put the case down on the steel table, made a note of something in a small notebook, and then threw one of the steel devices to the fellow who stood by Miss Henderson, he who had gagged her unconscious body.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	97	Attached to the end of the chain, on the other side of the beam ring, now descending, was a wide circle of steel, a steel ring, some six inches in diameter.	10
23	125	Whereas one may turn aside steel deftly one may also, if one chooses, turn it aside with power, which necessitates an additional exertion on the part of the antagonist to return his steel to the ready position.	10
26	32	The soft, rounded flesh of her forearms, below the steel, and the sweet, swelling flesh of her palms, above the steel, were lovely.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	12	He had then chained her in the girl wagon, in one of the open, steel-floored, steel-sided kennels, and retired.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	612	Steel struck steel, sparks leaping forth.	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	233	In a short time she was in her kennel area and was urged up the steel ladder until she reached her tier, at which point she was forced to crawl painfully on all fours over the steel grille work until she reached her kennel.	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	39	Then, as the circle was nearly completed, there was a sound as of a single blow, abrupt and impatient, on the other side, perhaps a small explosion, and the steel protruded into the hallway, as though it had been struck by a fist, and then there was another such blow, or explosion, and there was a s...	10
6	102	"But you are here, on the Steel World, this Steel World," said Cabot.	10
27	22	"It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...	10
47	44	He took several more steps and suddenly his feet left the steel, and he turned about, helplessly, in the air, and he spun about, and tried to thrash toward the steel, and floated some feet from it.	10
71	15	It was equivalent to more than he would be likely to earn in more than two revolutions of the steel worlds about Tor-tu-Gor, or Sol, the common star of Earth, Gor, the steel worlds, and a wheel of worlds, satellites, fragments, and debris.	10
80	54	Soon, Cabot had heard, there would be a slave market for such established on the world, and soon thereafter, he supposed, some of these slaves, doubtless in chains, would be carried to others of the steel worlds, and then it would be but a matter of time until the useful and practical, and delicious...	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	225	He deserved, I thought, the woods or forests, the plains or mountains, the openness and freedom, of Gor, not the steel platings and inserted gardens, the contrived geography, of a Steel World.	10
20	84	He himself will be where steel meets steel.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	213	The sound of steel on steel was now bright and sharp.	10

Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	203	Apparently this warrior not only declined to accept this commission, but became involved somehow in the politics of the steel world itself, participating in a revolt which brought about, in the steel world in question, a change in governance.	10
29	191	"I am well-known and influential on one of the steel worlds, the steel world of Arcesilaus, Theocrat of the World, Twelfth Face of the Nameless One.	10
49	51	It may be recalled, as well, that Agamemnon had desired Grendel, a former hero of the very revolution on the steel world which had dethroned Agamemnon, to return to the steel world and use his station and prestige to influence its support of his schemes on Gor.	10
49	52	As I understand it, this was not as impractical as it might seem as, first, Grendel's word would be taken seriously, and might be persuasive; second, the current establishment on the steel world would be in no way threatened; and, third, and perhaps most importantly, those of the steel worlds had lo...	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
59	189	"You must be as in the dojo, alert, and calm, cool, quick, steady, but not as in the dojo," said Nodachi, "for here you must be more, even more, for here it is different, for here you are facing steel which intends to cut you, swift steel intent upon entering your flesh, quick steel which is intent ...	10
1	478	Cecily, the former Virginia Cecily Jean Pym, an aristocratic English brunette, had been mine since her acquisition on a pleasure cylinder associated with a steel world, formerly that of a Kur called "Agamemnon," for the phonetic convenience of humans, claimedly the "Eleventh Face of the Nameless One...	10
44	292	"The brutality, the size, the fangs of steel, the scales, the vast, skinlike wings, the ridged, spikelike tail, the claws of steel, the shining eyes about the head, the breath of fire?" "Yes, great lord," I said.	10
61	753	Then there was smoke, blasts of light, a vehicle which moved like a cloud of steel, or a steel bird without wings, and I lost consciousness.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
54	99	"But such things, surely, for the most part," said Lord Grendel, "are on the steel worlds, or carried in the ships of the steel worlds".	10