Results

Stroke

Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	187	During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest.	10
3	253	One stroke of those wings would hurl me yards from the top of the cylinder.	10
5	84	She paused, and the wind whistled past, a steady sound mingling with the rhythmical stroke of the tarn's beating wings.	10
5	160	I turned, raising the tarn-goad, which was looped to my wrist, to ward off the stroke of his blade.	10
6	75	I shuddered as the beast paused near me, and I felt the light stroke of its forelegs, felt the tactile investigation of the sensory hairs on its appendages.	10
9	18	What would happen to Talena if we did, by some outstanding stroke of fortune, reach Ko-ro-ba? Would she be publicly impaled, returned to the mercies of the Initiates of Ar, or would she perhaps spend the rest of her days in the dungeons beneath the cylinders? Perhaps she would be permitted to live a...	10
18	143	One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	37	Thorn lifted the instrument to lay my back open with its harsh stroke.	10
16	82	The other warrior lunged at me with his sword and I side-stepped the stroke and seized the wrist of his sword arm.	10

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	16	I rolled and scrambled back further for the stroke of the larl had dashed me into the radius of its mate.	10
3	17	My cloak and garments were torn from my back by the stroke of the second larl's claws.	10
4	147	It was the third stroke.	10
6	137	Then came the second rumbling stroke of the distant gong, and Vika seemed to tremble in my arms.	10
6	151	And then came the third and final stroke of that distant gong and at the same instant the energy bulbs in the room dimmed and I understood that now somewhere in the long corridors of that vast edifice there walked the Priest-Kings of Gor.	10
27	161	I told myself that perhaps the stroke in the vicinity of the brain-nodes had been his undoing.	10
27	167	Once again Sarm leaped in, his bladed projection lifted to strike, but this time Misk suddenly straightened himself promptly on the leg which had seemed to fail him and whipped his antennae back behind his head an instant before the stroke of Sarm's blade and when Sarm struck he found his appendage ...	10
31	233	With one stroke of my blade I broke open its head.	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	585	When she had stood sideways I had favored the left, so that if the stroke was in error, the lance would miss the tospit altogether; but now, as she faced me, the stroke must be made for the center of the fruit; nothing else would do.	10
8	580	If well done, this is a delicate and beautiful stroke.	10
20	75	I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall.	10
25	677	I had little doubt that I could bring Miss Cardwell around quickly enough, if she thought me in earnest, for example, by a stroke or two of the slave lash, and would then have her crawling to me, to fearfully kiss the whip, lest she once more feel it, crawling to me aghast, petitioning to kiss that ...	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	121	He with the missing teeth laughed and looked about the crowd, his eyes bright, seeing that they waited with eagerness for his stroke.	10
6	39	There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent.	10
13	81	Then she rolled onto her stomach and began to stroke easily toward the far edge, looking back now and then.	10
13	86	At that point, looking back once more, and noting that I was still moving quickly toward her, and not willing to lose a possible rare day's freedom, she began, with the marvelous, strong trained stroke of her legs and arms, to slice swiftly through the water.	10
13	95	She lost her stroke.	10
13	96	She threw all her energies now into her panic-stricken flight; but the beauty of the rhythm, that powerful, even rhythm, was gone; her stroke was uneven; she lifted too much water; she missed a breath; she thrashed; but still she fled wildly for safety, kicking madly, trying to escape.	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
22	195	I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last.	10

Book 6. (19 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	210	When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,...	10
10	193	I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m...	10
18	39	"Stroke! Stroke!" The beating of the copper drum of the keleustes took up maximum beat.	10
4	5	One holds the stem of the plant in the left hand and, with the right, with a small, curved, two-inch knife makes a diagonal upward stroke.	10
6	154	It is an elementary stroke, one of the first taught a warrior.	10
8	26	That path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars.	10
11	156	I expected the power of the four Ubars, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, might have been, at a stroke, diminished by a half.	10
13	289	He would mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum.	10
13	303	"Stroke!" called the oar-master.	10
13	338	"Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum.	10
13	364	"Port oars! Stroke!" We lifted our oars, and then those of the port side only entered the water and pressed against it.	10
13	367	"Stroke!" "What shall we do?" whispered the slave before me.	10
13	369	"Silence!" cried one of the seamen, and struck us each a stroke with the whip.	10
13	374	The man then called out, "Up oars! Ready oars! Stroke!" Again we found our rhythm, and again the Rena moved through the waters.	10
13	388	The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw.	10
13	477	"You are worthy," said I, "of calling stroke on a ram-ship".	10
14	182	"Stroke! Maximum beat!" The stern of the enemy ship was already under water as we slipped past her.	10
16	202	In this bold stroke I saw not the hand of Lurius, Ubar of Cos, but of the brilliant Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen.	10
18	38	"Stroke!" called the oar-master, his cry almost lost in the sleet and wind.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	764	"To begin," he was saying, "you will receive one stroke for each letter of the word 'Liar', then one stroke for each letter of the word 'Thief', and then a stroke for each letter of the word 'Traitress'.	10
13	719	I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...	10
7	206	Even I smiled, to see him leaping about, his arms waving, his face first transformed with mock horror and then, at last, after a wild stroke, as though with a spear, transfigured with a mock triumphal ecstasy.	10

Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	522	"Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.	10
5	362	"Port oars! Stroke!" called Thurnock.	10
5	369	Stroke!" The Tesephone began to move upriver.	10
5	381	"Stroke!" called Thurnock, in his rhythm.	10
5	382	"Stroke!" I strode to the stern castle and, with a Builder's Glass, looked back toward Lydius.	10
12	8	At a stroke, companionship with such a woman, coupled with my position and riches in Port Kar, would have made me one of the most significant and prominent men on Gor.	10
18	29	Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar.	10
18	474	In the legends of others they appear as blond giants, breathing fire, shattering doors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears and eyes like fire and hands like great claws and hooks; they are seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with killing, with braided hair, clad ...	10
21	244	"Stroke," called Thurnock.	10
21	273	The glittering surface of the water, broken by the stroke of the oars, seemed to swirl.	10

Book 9. (16 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	37	"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...	10
5	176	"Stroke!" called Ivar.	10
5	181	"Stroke!" called the Forkbeard.	10
5	283	The oar stroke's spacing was such that I knew them not in flight.	10
5	327	"Stroke!" The serpent turned its prow to sea, and the oars moved down, entered the water, and pulled against it.	10
5	328	"Stroke!" called the Forkbeard.	10
7	5	"Put more back into it!" The men cried out with pleasure as the blade then, with a single stroke, split through the post.	10
9	128	The first stroke threw her against the post; I saw the astonishment in her eyes, then the pain; the daughter of Thorgard seemed stunned; then she howled in misery; it was only then that she realized what the whip might do to a girl.	10
9	130	"I will obey you!" Ivar Forkbeard, experienced in the disciplining of women, did not deliver the second stroke for a full Ehn.	10
10	226	"Moreover, the arc of your stroke is wider than mine, and your blade heavier.	10
10	241	With a cry of rage the shield bearer of Bjarni of Thorstein Camp rushed at me, to thrust me back, stumbling, hopefully to put me off my balance, for the following stroke of his swordsman.	10
14	152	A man not more than a yard from me was cut half in two, from the head to the belt, in one stroke.	10
14	250	I heard a Kur below me scream with pain; I looked down, and hauled myself up to avoid the stroke of an ax; one Kur reeled about; the left side of its furred head, wet, drenched in oil, was aflame; it screamed hideously; it clawed at its left eye.	10
18	550	As each one passed Olga, she, below the small of the back, was expedited with a sharp stroke of the switch.	10
18	568	I could tell the weight of the stroke by the way it fell on the blade, and how the Forkbeard's blade responded to it.	10
21	199	"On the tenth day, on his arms and legs, and twice, transversely, across his right cheekbone, that his face be scarred and his shame known, I drew the poisoned blade, drawing blood with each stroke".	10

Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	70	The stroke in question was the back-handed, ascending face stroke.	10
26	713	After the fourth stroke she screamed out, weeping, "I have been punished! Stop! Stop! A girl has been punished! Stop!" After the sixth stroke she cried out, "Please stop, I beg of you, Master!" "Master?" I asked.	10
3	3	I turned the stroke with my own sheathed blade, it, too, in the light, ornamented exercise sheath.	10
3	71	Even though the blade was sheathed I had held the stroke, holding it short, a hort from his face.	10
3	74	Unsheathed, followed through, of course, such a stroke would have taken off the top of his head, slashing upward through the hood of the burnoose.	10
5	642	It had been a stroke of brilliance, or of fortune, I surmised, to have brought the wench south.	10
7	205	Even a light stroke of such a blade, falling across an arm, would drop through the flesh, leaving its incised record, a quarter of an inch deep, in the bone beneath.	10
8	301	It would be ripped from its pegs, the frame shattered, but he, leaning down from the saddle, would have his stroke.	10
11	91	Sometimes he would, in these times, stroke her hair, or touch the side of her face, almost gently, almost as though her throat were not encircled by a collar.	10
11	632	None of us, because of the animals, could get a good stroke at the other.	10
13	3	I heard the stroke of the lash behind me, and another cry, long miserable.	10
14	3	I straightened in the slave hood, my head thrown back by the stroke.	10
24	343	There was a sudden, unexpected stroke, loud, reverberating, on the summoning gong, placed just outside the entryway to the larger room outside, that with the alcoves.	10
24	358	Again was the summoning gong sounded, this time, it seemed to me, from the nature of the stroke, impatiently.	10
26	518	She had come through the corridors from the audience chamber on her hands and knees, carrying the whip, head down, in her teeth, between two lines, moving with her, of slave girls, girls running, when she had crawled by them, to be again at the head of the line, to have again their lashing stroke, t...	10
26	761	Some masters test the slave in this fashion, holding short a stroke or two, to see if the slave will respond truthfully.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	413	It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...	10
5	487	His stroke, in the context, had not been difficult.	10
21	151	"Stroke!" he called.	10
22	129	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
22	142	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
22	143	"Stroke!" The convoy fell behind.	10
22	491	"We understand its symbolism, but of course, too, its stroke.	10
22	493	Few things so impress my bondage upon me as his right to lash me, and, of course, the stroke of the proprietary lash itself".	10
24	237	"Stroke!" Slowly the galley began to swing about.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	229	A stroke of the whip and a day in the collar would teach her more than a hundred seminars.	10
2	343	It was said the deep keel would slow the ship; that the two masts would take too long to remove in the case of naval combat; that so large an oar would constitute an impractical lever, that it could not be grasped by a man, that the oarsmen could not all sit during the stroke, that if more than one ...	10
3	595	To be sure, a stroke now and then helps them to keep in mind what they are.	10
15	82	Arlene received the first stroke, Audrey the last.	10
22	139	Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle.	10
22	283	"The nature of your stroke, and its depth," said Imnak.	10

Book 13. (16 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	242	Through them one can make one's way only tortuously, cutting with the machete or panga, stroke by stroke.	10
4	733	Then the first stroke of the whip hit her.	10
4	927	"Stroke," called the second officer, he acting as oar master.	10
8	30	This way she could not, still, reach the blindfold, and her back was fully exposed, as was doubtless intended, for the stroke of the herding switch.	10
12	485	She tensed at the ring, preparing for the stroke.	10
12	495	He gave her several Ihn, that she might begin to feel the pain of the first stroke.	10
12	498	Then the second stroke fell upon her and she screamed with misery, her grip lost on the ring, half thrown against the wall, scratching at it with her braceleted hands, the side of her face against the heavy boards.	10
12	500	Her body, sensitized by the first stroke, helpless, raw, aware, expectant, exposed, felt the second, as was intended, mingling with the burning echoes, the searing, throbbing wounds of the first, a thousand times more cruelly.	10
14	463	A free woman, captured, whose hair her captor unbinds, usually the first time by the stroke of a knife, a precaution against poison pins and other devices, knows full well by this act that she will soon be made his slave.	10
18	99	By one word and a stroke of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their companionship.	10
24	218	She tried to approach the canoe more closely but Kisu, as she would approach, would, with a powerful stroke, move the canoe more swiftly forward, keeping her at the length of the tether.	10
25	9	More than once Kisu had struck her across the shoulders with his broad-bladed, ornately carved paddle when she, weary, arms aching, had faltered in the rhythm of the stroke.	10
26	10	She trembled, but did not lose the stroke of the paddle.	10
32	991	"Strange," I mused, "that in the dream of a naive Earth woman such details should occur, details such as the differential tension of the wrist straps in a beating and the extra stroke, given sometimes to remind a girl that she is a slave.	10
34	25	This time, suddenly, before it could turn again, I, with a clear stroke, thrust the spear through its thick-set body, behind the right foreleg.	10
43	141	Janice and Tende, too, could no longer keep the stroke.	10

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	38	"You are a woman," I said, half turned from her, stung by the fierce stroke of her whip.	10
8	20	The blades, in their stroke, burned cruelly on my back.	10
13	239	A squadron of Ar's tarn cavalry, the stroke of their wings synchronized with the beat of the drum, passed by, overhead.	10
25	141	He was thus not in a position to protect against the upward stroke with which I caught him.	10
25	170	This brought his head into position for the upward stroke of my right fist again.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	162	"And one more stroke," I told her, "to remind you that you are a slave".	10

Book 16. (23 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	115	"Stroke! Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
5	158	"Two points to starboard! Stroke!" "Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
9	93	"Helmsmen, hard to starboard! Oar Master, full stroke!" "Full stroke!" called the oar master.	10
3	7	I could hear the stroke of the hortator's hammer even on the Tina.	10
3	24	"Stroke!" His officer, by hand signals, conveyed his message to the helmsmen and oar master at the stern.	10
3	149	"Quarter stroke," said Callimachus.	10
3	150	"Quarter stroke!" called the officer to the oar master.	10
3	151	"Quarter stroke!" he called to his men.	10
3	213	The rowers were working only at quarter stroke.	10
4	129	"They are approaching at only half stroke," said a man.	10
4	135	"She is at full stroke!" said a man.	10
4	149	"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound...	10
4	188	"Stroke!" called Callimachus.	10
4	189	"Stroke!" called his officer.	10
4	190	"Stroke!" cried the oar master.	10
5	44	It had been a clumsy stroke.	10
5	149	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
5	162	"Now, stroke!" called the oar master.	10
6	95	"Stroke!" And the five ships of our small line sallied forth to meet the stately advance of the Voskjard's fleet.	10
6	165	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
8	216	The stroke caught her across the back and buttocks and struck her to her stomach on the floor, amidst the wood and glass.	10
16	446	A single stroke could have severed his spine.	10
19	243	Often it functions as little more than a stroke for, say, good measure.	10

Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	99	He had chosen, for some reason, to spare her its stroke.	10
13	68	Indeed, much may be done with means so simple even as the stroke of a hand, the twisting of an arm, the manner in which her body is penetrated.	10
13	476	I awaited the stroke of the whip.	10
13	493	How horrifying, doubtless, to kneel head down, helpless, naked, chained, awaiting the fierce stroke of a man's claiming lash.	10
14	422	How else could the test prove significant? She cried out, thrown to her belly by the first stroke.	10
14	423	I then administered the second stroke.	10
14	858	I bent down and kissed her on the side, on one of the long welts raised by the whip stroke, one of the blows in virtue of which she was assessed.	10

Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	138	It had been given to him by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a long-handled, stone-bladed tomahawk, or canhpi.	10
5	56	"Say that again," said Wasnapohdi, pausing in her work, breathing heavily, "when you find yourself on your knees, stripped, your wrists bound before you, to the whipping stake, every inch of your body bared to the stroke of his quirt".	10
7	42	"I was struck from my knees by almost the first stroke.	10
12	522	I gave her another stroke.	10
12	525	Another stroke.	10
13	210	"Surely she, now, honored and denied, celebrated and deprived, would be ready to beg for her own stripping, for the stroke of a man's lash, for the feel of her ankles being tied apart, widely and securely, in a leg stretcher".	10
24	7	He must fend the stroke with his own lance.	10
26	60	I met the lance of the man on my left with the shield, turning its stroke.	10
32	140	It is a stroke worthy of Iwoso's high intelligence".	10
43	146	With one long, even, swift stroke of the knife I opened the back of the lodge.	10
47	135	I turned the stroke of a lance with my small shield.	10
47	174	As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke.	10
47	266	We moved quietly, a stroke at a time, through the sunlit vapor of the cloud.	10
47	290	Such reins are not made for leading and the stroke of the wings, so close to my bird, was irregular, uneven and frantic.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	79	Even the least displeasingness may bring a stroke of the lash.	10
36	1113	I had pleaded for the stroke of the whip that I might, in my joy and pain, in tears, reveling, experience his dominance over me, and know myself his.	10

Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	940	A swift stroke or two is usually sufficient to correct a momentary lapse in a slave, to recall her to the civilities and proprieties attendant upon her condition.	10
2	976	The high stroke has various disadvantages.	10
6	454	"If you detect that I am not within it," she said, "then might you not, boldly, infer me bare?" "Oh, telling stroke, bold blow!" he cried.	10
7	203	"I have the cups and a pebble, by some stroke of luck, in my wallet," said Boots.	10
9	391	"That we have acquired her," said Boots, "we may account a stroke of great good fortune".	10
10	241	It might amuse their students, could they see them eating from pans on the floor, hurrying to serve, perhaps expedited by a stroke of a switch across their naked flanks, kneeling before a man, waiting to be commanded, on their hands and knees, naked, collared, scrubbing his floors, polishing his boo...	10
10	857	The question is usually repeated three times, each time receiving the same response, and followed by the same swift admonitory stroke.	10
13	97	"It was a brilliant stroke of yours, incidentally, giving the proud Lady Yanina for a gown only a flour sack".	10
14	170	"Would not the stroke of the sword be quicker?" I asked.	10
15	63	Yes, she would look well, properly attired, or properly unattired, cringing at my feet in a collar, knowing that her least discrepancy from the absolute perfections of slave service would instantly bring upon down her the stroke of the five-stranded slave lash, or worse.	10
16	719	Her outburst had earned her a smart stroke from Lecchio's switch.	10
16	764	"Move, Lana!" said Lecchio, speeding her into motion with a swift stroke of the fierce, supple switch.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	200	There are many points which might be made here, but I will limit myself to three, which may be succinctly recounted: First, exemplified by what had just occurred, a woman may wish to feel its stroke in order that the reality of her longed-for bondage be impressed upon her; one does not, of course, w...	10
4	265	He cut the air with a stroke or two.	10
15	205	It is a powerful and decisive stroke.	10
23	11	Hurtha's elbow, with a lateral stroke of great force, discouraged a fellow from snatching at the ribbon.	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	860	I suppose that this might have been an effect only of the startling alarms of my imagination, they informing me with some vividness as to what it might be to feel its stroke, but I suspect, really, that there was more involved.	10
6	791	With its stroke oars, it seemed, entered the water.	10
9	235	Indeed, the first sensation that I had been aware of on this world had been the stroke of Teibar's whip, awakening his "modern woman" to her new reality.	10
11	259	Perhaps most of them did not expect me, really, to be brought out on the stroke of the nineteenth bar.	10
16	62	"Now," she said, "I have my vengeance on you! You think you are more beautiful than I, but you are not! You thought you would have an easy life, and be most desired among the girls of Hendow, but you will not be! I have seen to it! You thought to take Mirus from me, too, but soon I could have won hi...	10
26	229	He was still following! One stroke of his sword, I knew, if it were his decision to be swift with me, could remove my head.	10

Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	258	It could be seen from the wall even more clearly than from the landing, I suppose, the steady, blade by blade, stroke by stroke, expansion of Cosian territory below, its burgeoning from the gate.	10
1	426	In another stroke of lightning, I caught sight, again, of the swinging "grease bucket," it filled presumably with tar and tallow, hanging on its strap from the axle housing of the wagon ahead of me.	10
2	79	Taking Ar's Station would, in a stroke, diminish the major citadel of Ar's power in the area, and, in effect, drive a wedge between the Salerian Confederation and the Vosk League".	10
2	110	It also, in effect, seemed to negate the bold stroke of Dietrich, to slow the Cosian advance, and give Ar time to organize, to arm and march.	10
11	116	Some women occasionally desire to be bound and feel the whip, for at least a stroke or two, as it reassures them that they are in truth their master's slave.	10
24	80	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
24	85	"Stroke!" called the oar master.	10
24	460	Its stroke was appropriate, of course, for she had not been fully pleasing.	10

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	157	Free women, I suppose, cannot even understand these things, how a slave chained at her master's slave ring can whimper in need, how a slave, tears in her eyes, can kneel before a man, and tenderly lick and kiss his feet, soliciting his attention, even the stroke of his whip if it should please him.	10
2	21	Too, in a formal whipping, as opposed to an occasional stroke or two, perhaps called forth on a given occasion, not even as meaningless, fragile or symbolic a shield as slave silk is allowed to obtrude itself between the slave and the justice, or mere attention, of the lash.	10
12	155	Now Ar has been lured into the delta! It is no mystery, I tell you, or stroke of unaccountable fortune, that hundreds of craft, of various sorts, were available in Turmus and Ven for the delta expedition.	10
13	429	It could be thrust in, and drawn across, in one motion, a disemboweling stroke.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	439	To be sure, she might be given a stroke or two, if only to remind her that she was a slave.	10
8	694	To be sure, such a girl, particularly a love slave, occasionally desires to feel the stroke of the lash, wanting to feel pain at the hands of a beloved master, wanting to be whipped by him because she loves him, in this way symbolizing to herself her relationship to him, that of slave to master, her...	10
8	836	This permits outflanking, the engagement by one, the death stroke by the other.	10
19	682	I hardly ever felt the stroke of the house master's switch".	10
19	1195	Then, with the last backhand stroke, I struck her from her knees, to her side, and she was lying on her side, twisted, her palms down in the white dust.	10

Book 26. (21 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	839	Only on the tenth stroke, which, before its delivery, he informed me was the last, did he let me glimpse even a particle of the strength with which a stroke, if he so chose, might be delivered.	10
24	762	One tried to stand, just a little, her knees flexed, her hands and arms raised to fend blows, but she was then, blow by blow, stroke by stroke, returned to her knees, and then when another blow fell she cried out for mercy, and threw herself to her belly, her hands over her head, sobbing.	10
29	9	I counted the sounding of the bars, stroke by stroke.	10
37	191	The smaller animal continued to feed, being struck with stroke after stroke.	10
8	343	Twice, in training, I had felt the lash, each time a single stroke.	10
8	743	Let them be stripped, I thought, angrily, and knelt down, and collared, and feel a stroke or two of the lash! I conjectured then that they, as quickly as we, would hasten to obey, and strive desperately to be found pleasing.	10
9	200	Twice I had heard drums and rushed to the bars to see perhaps twenty such winged monsters aflight, the second stroke of the wings keeping the cadence of the drums.	10
11	685	I had felt the whip before, twice in the pens, a stroke each time.	10
12	637	With one upward diagonal movement I had little doubt it could part my garments, with one stroke revealing me from my lower belly to my throat.	10
13	848	I had been well punished by the first nine strokes, I assure you, but that tenth stroke told me more than the first nine.	10
14	894	I recalled that my own posture, slovenly from Earth, had been corrected in the pens with the stroke of a switch.	10
24	202	Its rider, now dismounted, drew his sword, and, with one stroke, cut its throat.	10
24	433	Perhaps some in the group had known one of the entrances but had refused to divulge the information, and had, thusly, honorably, at a stroke of the sword, perished.	10
24	636	"A stroke or two of the whip and they immediately understand the nature of their new life," said the officer.	10
29	10	Shortly before the last stroke the outer door to the chamber, that leading to the hall outside, opened.	10
31	464	"You have one stroke, that is all," said the lieutenant.	10
31	467	He himself had not been authorized to strike by his captain, and the single stroke which the officer might be expected to initiate might well be intended for him.	10
31	708	The first darting stroke toward the peasant had been parried smartly.	10
37	190	The larger beast lifted its head from the leader of the strangers, its jaws flooded with blood, part of the body in its grip, it bleeding itself from the stroke of the leader's blade.	10
39	41	One enters at that point, first, because it is the foot, and, second, because most masters are right-handed, and it is thus, as they turn to their side, more convenient for them to stroke and caress the slave.	10
46	549	He apparently was quite clear about informing me of his displeasure that I had tried to turn the dagger against myself, even if it had been only my intent to relieve him of his dilemma, to resolve, at a stroke, so to speak, the fearful predicament in which he found himself, to protect him, to save h...	10

Book 27. (18 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	659	Commonly the slave will ask permission to speak, but not always; she may behave in one way before her master if a free woman is present, in another way if only another man is present, and in yet another way if she and the master are alone; sometimes she knows her master delights to hear her speak el...	10
14	175	The last stroke of the bar rang out, and the eighteenth Ahn had been announced in the house.	10
16	126	No longer did it wear the thin, flat, light, graceful, lovely metal band with which she had become familiar, which she had scarcely been aware she had worn, until perhaps a sharp word or a stroke of the switch had recalled to her attention its significance.	10
16	683	She could not believe the shocking fire with which, after but one stroke, she was enveloped.	10
16	693	After the next stroke she shrieked for mercy.	10
17	884	A stroke of the switch or lash, of course, tends to encourage an awareness of such things, and thus to minimize such lapses.	10
24	852	"I would suppose that a tarsk-bit a stroke would be sufficient, as the slave is stupid, rather than willful or wayward".	10
25	38	And can it be that she behind me, so beautiful, is less beautiful than I? Surely we are all much the same, and yet men, the brutes, rank us, and will buy and sell us! As it pleases them! As goods! But, of course, as the goods we are! But might not I bring a higher price than any of these others? But...	10
25	585	Surely a life of wealth, of luxury and pampering would have done little to prepare her for chains, exposure, degradation, the searing heat of the pressing, held, iron, for the sudden, sharp, instructive stroke of the whip, for the grasping, imperious hands of men, for the sawdust of the sales block.	10
25	639	There was no stroke of the whip.	10
27	679	And a stroke of the switch had then encouraged her to return her attention to her lessons, in how to please men.	10
27	1340	She remembered incidents in the house of Mirus, many in her training, her sometimes almost hysterical despair of ever being able to please her instructors, their impatience with her, her deferent and lengthy serving of formally clad diners, she naked and in a collar, her abuse at the hands of Mirus,...	10
27	3020	It seized Selius Arconious by the shoulders and opened its great, cavernous, fanged jaws, and bent toward his throat, and the slave screamed, and suddenly, almost at her ear, almost like being enwrapped within a clap of thunder and a stroke of lightning, there was a loud report, the blast, of a pist...	10
28	4	"Will you not content your animal? Will you not pet her? Will you not stroke her, just a little, Master?" "You, an Earth woman, beg as a slave to be touched?" he asked.	10
30	153	She recalled her beating and her surprise, and horror, at the first stroke, and how it was like fire and snakes and wire, and how she could scarcely believe what was being done to her.	10
30	278	He then put the first stroke to her, and she spun in the ropes, to look at him, protestingly, in misery.	10
30	280	The second stroke was then put to her.	10
30	313	But, as stated, Ellen was almost never beaten, save for an occasional stroke of the switch.	10

Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	565	Might her charms then, and her tricks and wheedling, so irresistible on Earth, be unavailing on Gor? Might they even bring her an impatient stroke of the switch or lash? Finally, one morning, she awakens, discreetly attired in her lovely night gown, just as when she retired, though it is now thrust ...	10
21	65	"Yes," said Cabot, "of war, and the march, sometimes to measure the stroke of oars, occasionally to signal the opening and closing of markets, of gates, and such".	10
21	217	Occasionally an adult Kur, with a stroke of his whip, turned one of the confused cattle back toward the center of the arena.	10
21	434	At the same time, a side stroke from a bar struck Grendel on the left arm, and the arm jerked, useless, for the moment paralyzed.	10
22	92	Too, she suspected how she, bound, might understand, and gratefully welcome, even the stroke of the whip, unfit for free women, but confirming for her as it would her status as object and property, as something subject to the whip, as something owned by her master.	10
24	134	He is not worth your stroke".	10
36	305	"When an error in diction or grammar brings a stroke of the switch, one learns quickly and well," she said.	10
38	9	Cabot let him approach until he had drawn back his ax for its stroke, and then killed him.	10
47	195	"It is unlikely," said Lord Grendel, "that without intelligence he would have anticipated, and prepared so carefully for, even to the removal of guards, so unlikely and bold a stroke as an attempt on the arsenal itself".	10
50	22	Scarcely had she dared hope for this that night when, to the double stroke of a whip, she was dragged in chains from the auction block.	10
54	56	"We will risk all, on this bold stroke," said Flavion.	10
74	32	Tarn cavalries, as it is explained to me, have similar exercises, and maneuvers, to the beating of drums, these often coordinating the stroke of the great wings.	10
77	108	This scratching, this slow scuffling sound, which you so vainly tried to conceal, is as readily detected as the stroke of a broom, the dragging of a rake".	10
79	60	How her heart cries out to kneel before him, to kiss his feet, to be bound by him, to feel the stroke of his switch, to be mastered by him, and yet she dares not speak.	10
79	196	After only the second stroke she had gone to her belly.	10
79	296	But how the whip hurt! If he cared to admonish her in the future, she hoped he would be content, at least for the most part, to use a stroke or two of the switch, as had the girls in the pleasure cylinder, charged with improving her Gorean.	10
79	300	They loved and revered it as a symbol of their treasured bondage, of the preciousness of their collars, put on them, and kept on them, by masters, but would do much to evade its stroke.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	266	"The next time your Jane's behavior, in any way, whether verbal, physical, or attitudinal, asks for such a stroke, or even seems that it might ask for such a stroke, see that she receives it.	10
18	267	You will learn shortly thereafter that her behavior will then seldom ask for such a stroke, or even seem to ask for such a stroke".	10
10	243	And do they not even smile, or laugh, under the lash, until, say, the third or fourth stroke, well reassured of their effect upon him.	10
14	10	In this engagement no mortal blows were to be dealt, of course, and when a stroke which would have spelled death or disablement was held up short, the adjudicator pronounced his verdict, and one of the fellows would politely withdraw from the contest, in effect having been ruled dead or, one suppose...	10
14	38	It is one thing to face a fellow with a wooden sword, say, who will hold his stroke, or try to do so, and quite another to face a fellow armed with finely edged steel who has every intention of killing you.	10
19	140	"His stroke can descend like lightning, cutting in two a grain of sa-tarna placed on the forehead of a man, without creasing the skin," said another.	10
19	142	"One stroke can cut through seven bodies," claimed another.	10
22	170	Many are even unaware of their journey, having perhaps been sedated in their own beds and then transported to Gor unconscious, only to awaken later in the pens, sometimes to the stroke of a slaver's lash.	10
23	37	Why demand that she lacerate herself on the nails of lies? How merciful, quick, and how easily done with, is a cuffing or the stroke of a switch.	10
28	27	But there was then another stroke of the whip, and another cry of pain.	10
28	51	"Mercy, Masters!" cried one, on her knees in the mud, lifting her hand piteously, and her outcry, unacceptable and importunate, was answered with a stroke of the switch.	10
40	110	She may fear such much more than the stroke of a switch, or whip, to which she, as a slave, is subject.	10

Book 30. (28 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	153	"I was terrified to feel another! I knew what it would be like! One stroke and I knew! I cried for mercy after the second stroke.	10
22	72	"Stroke!" called Cabot, "stroke!" The fellow who had haplessly wept was now beside me at the oar, steady, and strong.	10
1	194	A misstep or loss of balance must be reported to the master, and is commonly met with a stroke of the switch.	10
2	99	"Stroke!" "Withdraw," urged the second officer.	10
2	100	"Stroke," called the captain.	10
2	106	"Stroke," called the captain.	10
2	109	"Stroke," called the captain, softly, peering into the fog.	10
2	153	He called for no further stroke.	10
2	243	The stroke of one of those levers can kill a man.	10
3	65	On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships.	10
5	306	A lucky stroke might fetch him freedom".	10
9	82	It is impressive to see such mighty beasts in flight, the stroke of the wings to the beating of the tarn drum, the wheelings and maneuvers, in unison, to the signals of banners and trumpets.	10
9	143	Three men were dead in the corridor; one was of the Pani, probably the room guard, posted outside the door, and two others, who may have fallen to his swift, small sword, each, apparently, by a single stroke.	10
16	192	Nodachi drew back, readying himself for another stroke.	10
20	145	"After what stroke?" I asked.	10
20	181	To be sure, it is occasionally useful, like a stroke of the switch, to remind a girl that she is a slave.	10
20	191	"It scalds me, and burns me, and each stroke immerses me in fire," she said.	10
20	232	"I am terrified of its stroke".	10
20	237	"I will do anything to avoid its stroke".	10
21	344	What is the value? Is the stone in the box a pebble or a diamond, is the slave in the hood or sack a beauty or a she-tarsk? Hooded slaves may also compete in various games, as in locating objects scattered about a room, arranging objects by size or weight, threading beads, fitting puzzle pieces toge...	10
22	71	The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.	10
22	110	"Oars," called Pertinax, taken aback, his voice cracking with misery, "Stroke!" The galley now captained by Philoctetes had already moved from shore, outside the light of the torches.	10
23	63	I had seen such a stroke more than once, twice in the early morning, in a park in Ar, once shortly after dawn on the Plaza of Tarns.	10
25	87	A warrior might remove the head of a Peasant, to try the quality and stroke of a sword before its purchase.	10
26	94	This innocent ignorance was not without its consequences, of course, and the girls were often subjected to castigation, scorn, kicks, slappings, and the stroke of the bamboo switch.	10
34	189	Knowing it is there, she will commonly do her best to avoid its stroke, will commonly do her best to be pleasing, fully pleasing.	10
34	217	Sometimes, as though for good measure, I gave her a stroke of the switch below the small of the back.	10
36	330	It took a single, measured stroke, delivered at the base of the neck.	10

Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	703	How could it be otherwise? Neither had been switched as I had, but each, more than once, when deemed less than fully pleasing, had felt a sharp stroke, sometimes a merry stroke, across the back of her legs.	10
8	236	I knew the stroke.	10
8	795	"It was the ninth ringing, the ninth stroke, was it not?" "I think so," she said.	10
21	232	I want your collar, the stroke of your whip, should you be pleased to lash me! Whip me if you want, but I want to be yours! I beg you to buy me!" "Only a slave begs to be bought," he said.	10
28	25	More often I was given a harsh scolding before the other girls, concluded with a stroke or two of the switch.	10
48	218	"I have waited long for this day," said Lucius, "years of secret thoughts, of hypocrisy, and deception, months of planning, days of strife, weeks of withdrawal, of hiding in tunnels, and waiting, and then, by means of an unexpected, bold, and glorious stroke, victory!" He then signaled to his two co...	10
52	8	"Desmond of Harfax!" He then gave me another stroke.	10

Book 32. (16 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	6	A stroke or two of the whip and they are silent, and obedient.	10
4	7	Another stroke or two and they are on their bellies, extending their hands to the buyers, begging to be purchased.	10
8	96	"It will not be necessary for her to count the strokes," I said, "as she may find that difficult after the third or fourth stroke, nor need she thank you once you are finished.	10
8	99	Then she cried out as the first stroke was administered.	10
8	436	She may have supposed it a guard, and did not wish to invite the instructive stroke of a switch.	10
10	112	When the fellow who had attacked me went to the rail, grasping his bleeding arm, Tyrtaios, with a brief stroke of his blade, cut the spinal column at the back of his neck.	10
14	2	"Good stroke," said Tyrtaios.	10
15	44	In my training, as brief as it was, I had been taught the lash of the switch and, once, the stroke of the whip, and would go to great lengths to avoid both.	10
23	81	Meeting the eyes of a free woman, uncommanded, I am told, is likely to result in the stroke of a switch, which many of them carry with them.	10
25	405	I did not even know his name! I cried out with misery as the forest was suddenly illuminated about me, and, almost simultaneously, was shaken by a great stroke of thunder.	10
26	136	He suddenly lifted his hand, and I heard then the first stroke of the bar, beginning to signal the tenth Ahn.	10
29	19	I then heard, again, the stroke of the switch, this time twice.	10
29	30	Had I not heard the stroke of a switch? Each individual in the group, rather, was a woman, though there the similarity amongst them stopped.	10
31	70	"Ho! Move!" The first stroke of Tuza's switch was across the left shoulder, and the second a lashing sting across the back of the thighs.	10
37	146	Though we were not struck, Tula, Mila, and myself cringed, reacting to each stroke, for we had felt the switch of Tuza, and well knew its air-parting hiss, its crack, and sting.	10
37	149	"Do not call me 'Mistress'!" screamed Tuza, and gave her another stroke.	10

Book 33. (11 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	49	"Why can there not be grace and beauty in all things," he said, "the curve of a spoon, the touch of ink on silk, the arrangement of flowers, such things?" "Perhaps even," I said, "in the flight of an arrow, the stroke of a sword".	10
20	246	Slaves, as other beasts, know the whip, and will do much to avoid its stroke.	10
25	35	"Perhaps a sudden blow, while she is unconscious, the stroke of a glaive," I said.	10
43	95	It also guarantees, of course, that there will be nothing between the body of the slave and, if it is desired, the stroke of a switch or whip.	10
46	115	"The stroke was short!" laughed the skeptical officer.	10
46	118	"Brilliant stroke!" said a man, awed.	10
47	63	"The sword is as his hand, the blade like the stroke of lightning, a flash, and the matter is done".	10
47	291	This choice of weapons gave him the advantage of length of blade, as well as heaviness of stroke.	10
58	180	Pertinax gave her two smart blows, one high on the left arm, the other, a back stroke, high on the right arm.	10
59	130	The shogun then seized Kameko's long hair and, with a stroke or two of his blade, cut much of it away.	10
60	280	I saw an officer fall before the stroke of Yasushi, once a pupil of Nodachi.	10

Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	411	I determined to do much to avoid its stroke.	10
7	412	Later, once I had felt it, I would be shudderingly, keenly, desperately anxious to avoid its stroke.	10
8	275	In any event, Goreans, male and female, slave and free, by whatever glimpse of wisdom and truth, or by whatever stroke of fortune, have never been taught to suspect themselves of some shameful unworthiness for the crime of being alive and human.	10
26	112	How heavy then would be her chains, how cruel the stroke of the lash! Too, the recovered slave girl risks at least a severe beating, but perhaps, as well, a hamstringing, or being disposed of, perhaps being fed to sleen, or being cast, naked and bound, amongst writhing, ravenous leech plants.	10
34	265	From each stroke, pain, like a ripple in boiling water, spread about my back.	10
65	339	Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t...	10

Book 35. (20 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	96	"Stroke, stroke!" screamed Seremides.	10
43	140	"Stroke, lads, stroke!" "What if they do not draw away?" said Vas of Anango.	10
43	160	"Now, on, on, through the gate, to victory, to safety and riches, to the Skerry of Lars! Stroke, lads, stroke!" I looked back.	10
46	227	To be sure, an occasional stroke of the whip is an excellent reminder that she is not a free woman but a slave; and, indeed, she may even, upon occasion, beg for a stroke or two, that she be reassured of her servitude.	10
8	392	Could the free women be actually jealous of slaves, such meaningless, worthless beasts? Do they envy them their brands and collars? Do they themselves wish to feel the kiss of the searing iron and the clasp of the degrading metal collar? I screamed in misery and writhed on the wood for the first str...	10
8	694	At a second stroke on the drum, with the other mallet, the oars moved.	10
8	697	Sometimes the stroke, by the hortator or an officer, is called from amidships, even softly.	10
8	950	"Slow stroke.	10
37	39	The sound of the ringing seemed to continue, even past the last stroke, ringing in my memory, seemingly unwilling to vanish.	10
37	135	"I shall have to consider giving you an extra stroke of the switch for that".	10
42	128	There was a brief interval of swordplay and then weapons were being cast to the ground, and intruders were kneeling, head down, the backs of their necks exposed to the stroke of swords.	10
43	95	But no stroke was called.	10
43	124	Now, stroke!" The boat lunged ahead.	10
43	138	"Stroke!" "Can you not see?" cried Vas of Anango.	10
43	145	"Stroke!" cried Seremides.	10
43	149	"Stroke!" "We are doomed!" said Vas of Anango.	10
43	151	There will be kindling in the water, glad feasting for sharks!" "Stroke!" cried Seremides.	10
43	259	Twice I heard Seremides call, "Pause, wait, be ready, lads, now, now stroke," when, I suppose, the rhythm of the oars had begun to lapse from some desiderated regularity.	10
46	447	I heard Daphne cry out in misery and she collapsed to the floor after the second stroke of the whip.	10
46	566	I continued, waiting for the stroke of the leather.	10

Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	85	As it was, my blade, so lightly engaged in my earlier stroke, leapt up and easily parried the savage downward stroke of the mercenary's blade, a fierce, heavy, frenzied stroke which might have cut away the head of a saddle tharlarion.	10
50	28	"Stroke! Stroke!" I heard the mallets of the keleustes strike the cadence drum, first one blow, and then, after several Ihn, the next.	10
21	61	"But," he said, "if I could achieve a master stroke, if I could ignite a blaze of glory visible across the seas, even to the towers of Cos, I could no longer be ignored.	10
28	76	The oarsmen returned to the benches and the great levers dipped into the water, ready for the first stroke.	10
32	76	We had, at Zeuxis, and on the road, profited enormously from the element of surprise, but the chances of repeating such a stroke were now minimal.	10
36	162	"Do you know the name of he who perpetrated that hoax, who wrought that trap, who nearly, at a stroke, brought about the end of the corsairs?" "No, Master," said Margot.	10
40	72	Gold has opened more gates than the stroke of the battering ram".	10
43	82	The first man I caught by the ankle as he tried to climb from the ditch, pulled him back down, and cut him across the back of the neck, swiftly and cleanly, no deeper than necessary, a warrior's stroke.	10
43	88	"You had your stroke," I said.	10
55	54	"It is not like a reluctant slave girl who, to her misery and tears, grasps, with a single stroke of the whip on her stripped fair body, that she will henceforth obey the least of commands and suggestions with perfection, instantly and unquestioningly".	10
58	183	"It intends a ram stroke to the bow," said Clitus.	10
60	288	"Warrior," he said, "do not let me die by a common felon's stroke".	10
63	225	"Stroke," I called.	10
63	226	"Stroke," called the keleustes, and his mallet struck the metal drum, and oars, as one, dipped into the waters of gleaming Thassa.	10