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Swords

Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	132	Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity".	10
2	133	"Swords?" I asked.	10
5	176	I crossed swords with the nearer of the two warriors in a brief passage that could have lasted only an instant.	10
19	74	Swords were drawn.	10
19	90	They feared the word, the curse, of this old man without weapons more than they would have feared the massed swords of a thousand foemen.	10
19	186	The Assassins of Pa-Kur were throwing down their swords and removing their helmets.	10
20	66	I have even joined a fencing club, to keep my eye alert and my wrist strong, though the puny foils we use are sorry weapons compared to the swords of Gor.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	150	Such men made fearsome antagonists, even though their swords might be pledged to the most despicable of causes.	10
23	202	Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole.	10
23	215	Chains were grasped more firmly; the few swords lifted toward me; even the sharpened poles inclined toward my breast.	10
24	168	And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart.	10
24	205	"Your swords are pledged to your city, to its walls, to your people and your Tatrix! Serve her!" "I shall serve the true Tatrix of Tharna!" cried the young warrior.	10
25	106	"Stay as a Tatrix, and our swords are bound in your service.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	94	"My father and Tarl, the Master-of-Arms, are two of the finest swords on Gor".	10
35	11	"What is it?" I and the others leaped to our feet, swords drawn, to see where he had pointed.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	506	Two swords were brought, Gorean short swords, forged in Ar.	10
10	449	In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities.	10
18	89	The remaining two guardsmen, who had no crossbows, simultaneously whipped out their swords.	10
21	279	Two men leaped toward him with swords drawn and I leaped in front of him and engaged them, dropping one and wounding the other.	10
26	87	Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in...	10

Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	99	The other three men, hired swords, perhaps once of the Caste of Warriors, laughed at the frantic efforts of the tiny, sniveling wad of flesh to free itself.	10
2	207	"There are swords for hire?" asked Kuurus.	10
12	81	Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...	10
12	83	He had been such that standing before men and lifting his hand, a thousand swords would be unsheathed in the sun, a thousand throats would cry his name, a thousand men would march or a thousand tarns would fly.	10
15	146	I supposed they had succumbed to gold, for slavers pay high for their hired swords.	10
16	3	The men of the House of Portus, who had been Slavers and mercenaries the equals of those of the House of Cernus, had now been disbanded, some leaving the city, some taking their gold from new masters, some even hiring their swords to the House of Cernus.	10
17	227	Cernus had been proclaimed, as the Taurentians lifted their swords in salute and the members of the High Council had stood on the tiers of the Council Chamber and cried out and applauded, Ubar of Ar.	10
21	198	"Raise your swords!" called a man.	10
21	282	Slowly, swords ready, the picket advanced on me.	10
22	502	My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa...	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
23	78	The other two Taurentians, one after the other, drew their swords and threw them to the tiles.	10
24	28	I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to lift their swords in his name.	10
24	110	Only the day before their purple cloaks and helmets had been taken from them before the great gate; their swords had been broken and they had been conducted by common Warriors, to the music of flute girls, a pasang beyond the walls of Ar, and ordered from her environs.	10
24	149	Warriors saluted as I entered, lifting their swords from their sheaths.	10
24	415	I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath.	10

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
6	84	Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons.	10
6	91	I saw warriors of Port Kar rushing forward, clubbing him senseless with the pommels of their swords, the butts of their spears.	10
6	104	These rencers were guarded by two warriors with drawn swords.	10
7	5	Then the tetherings on the two burning islands were cut away with swords and they floated away, free, afire into the marsh.	10
9	89	"One of the finest swords in Port Kar," said another.	10
9	594	"That is Surbus, one of the finest swords in Port Kar".	10
11	38	Its great weight, to screams of horror, fell crushing upon men who, with shields and swords, were closely pressing the captains.	10
13	72	I heard two swords leave their sheaths behind me.	10
16	271	I saw weathered seamen weep and cry out, brandishing their swords.	10
17	403	Moreover, my men outnumbered them by some hundred swords.	10
18	521	Standing even on the mantelets under the tarn wire, with spears and swords, we thrust at the tarnsmen dropping to the wire, letting go of the ropes to which they had clung.	10
18	588	The girls took up stones and swords, and stood beside us.	10
18	595	We heard the men nearing us, on the other side of the wall, the scraping of swords and spears on the vertical stones of the keep.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	211	Rather, to my surprise, even amusement, they wore at their sides small swords.	10
6	220	The swords they carried in scabbards slung over their left shoulder.	10
6	222	Several of them, besides the small swords, carried a knife as well, this attached to a leather belt.	10
8	745	How clever they thought they were! They were beasts, all of them! I suppose they were big, brave men, with their spears and swords, and if the beast charged at them, they would just stand there and kill it, while we, only women, fled like screaming children.	10
8	905	The men then removed their sword belts, holding the short swords and scabbards in their left hand, the belts in their right.	10
11	1118	It was said that he was one of the master swords of Gor.	10
12	658	Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	147	How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo...	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	212	The swords of others will set you your limits".	10
1	669	"There are two swords over my couch," said I to Thurnock.	10
10	150	Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...	10
10	256	Our swords met twice, and then I was under his guard, the point of my sword under his chin.	10
13	192	"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl.	10
13	421	I heard swords clashing against the sides of plates, spear blades clattering on shields, and ringing, one against the other.	10
15	344	We drew our swords.	10
17	27	Captains and rovers, farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers of nets, smiths, carvers of wood, tradesmen and traders, men with little more than leather and an ax to their name, and jarls in purple cloaks, with golden pommels on their swords.	10
17	232	Swords were withdrawn from scabbards; arrows were fitted to the string, spears more firmly gripped.	10
18	578	Too, of course, the weight of such blows, particularly with the long, heavy swords of Torvaldsland, take their toll from the striking arm, as well as the fending arm.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	265	I knew he could stand against a hundred swords, unflinching.	10

Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	83	Had I known more of Gor I would have speculated that my masters might have sworn their swords to the defense of Thentis, that they were of that city, but, as I was later to learn, they were of another city, one called Ar.	10
5	654	Swords lay at their throats.	10
5	664	The four slave maids crouched terrified, under swords, in the center of the tent, including she who had been beaten.	10
12	515	I heard the striking of swords.	10
27	228	Then I heard six swords more leap from the sheaths.	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	175	But never have I crossed swords with one such as he.	10
10	314	We had then four swords, and two spears.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	49	This entrance was protected by two guardsmen, armed with spears and swords.	10
13	280	Sheathed swords, short, were slung at their left shoulders.	10
26	289	A moment later I heard the hilts of short swords pounding on the door.	10

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	17	I felt the points of the two swords, through my tunic, against my flesh.	10
20	80	I felt again the points of the swords of the two pirates at my chest.	10
26	230	I saw the hands of several on their swords.	10
26	245	I had little doubt Krondar would charge against several of these men, though he might take five swords in his chest doing so.	10
28	275	Two swords, as one, leapt from their sheaths.	10
30	161	"I crossed swords with the courier of Ragnar Voskjard in the great hall," said Kliomenes.	10
32	238	Kliomenes glanced to the two men nearest him, those with their swords drawn.	10
32	280	"Put down your swords," I told them.	10
32	283	"Put down your swords, Fools!" said Kliomenes.	10

Book 16. (14 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	23	"Wait! Bucklers and swords! Bucklers and swords, Lads!" Almost at the instant that he had spoken grappling irons looped over the bulwarks and snapped back, the points anchoring in the wood.	10
1	132	The men in the longboats carried swords and grapnels.	10
2	102	I, and five others, swords drawn, boarded the other craft, hacking and slashing about us.	10
5	40	We crossed swords five times.	10
5	204	Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov...	10
6	119	Even soldiers of Ar, at our benches, crying out, seized up shields and bucklers, and smote them with the blades of spears and the flats of swords.	10
10	200	I cut my way through men and swords.	10
10	210	Swords were flung down.	10
16	16	But a moment later the charging citizens, like thundering, horned kailiauk, like uncontrolled, maddened, stampeding bosk, pikes and spears leveled, chains flailing, swords flashing, boat hooks, and axes and shovels upraised, struck the dumbfounded, disarrayed throngs of astonished buccaneers.	10
16	31	Still more citizens were running forth, from buildings, from further down the wharves, with spears and swords.	10
16	51	Swords slashed down at the mooring ropes.	10
16	261	Policrates and Callisthenes drew their swords.	10
16	272	Behind me, in a moment, I heard the sound of swords.	10
20	1226	"The finest swords on the river will be eager to place themselves in your service".	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	52	"We are hiring swords," she said.	10
8	537	Two of them had drawn swords in their hands.	10
8	961	They will come with their men, with crossbows and swords.	10

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	176	Swords were held at the man's neck.	10
6	389	These were contests of sheathed swords, the sheaths chalked with red, so that hits might be noted.	10
9	120	We will soon have them beneath our swords".	10
10	47	Three swords then left their sheaths.	10
10	54	I heard swords clashing.	10
12	15	The wagon within the portal, they threw off their harnesses and from beneath the grain drew forth swords.	10
33	674	Surely Goreans, with their swords and spears, by themselves, could not have resisted them.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	366	Men swarmed about it, thrusting with their spears, some hacking downward with their swords.	10
20	383	Again men charged, with spears and swords.	10
20	399	Spears and swords struck at it, again and again.	10
21	183	"Can you imagine that? A mere player, a member of a troupe, daring to cross swords with me?" "You have done well against one untrained in arms," I said, "one who dared to face you with only courage and a wooden sword.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	70	"These days," he said, "dozens of captains are buying swords.	10
16	1409	The pommels of some swords are made, too, in such a way as to unscrew, revealing such a compartment.	10
16	1411	Needless to say, some of these, too, contain, daggers or thrusting swords.	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	232	"Do not draw your swords!" cried the small fellow.	10
29	233	"Do not draw your swords! It is harmless.	10
29	234	It is harmless!" The beast then regarded the men, who shrank back from it, their hands at the hilts of their swords but not daring to draw them.	10
29	1266	"And both their swords were drawn".	10
29	1577	It was only the swords of Callisthenes and Sempronius which separated him from me.	10
29	1583	Callisthenes, first, then Sempronius, hurled their swords, blade first, into the earth at their feet.	10
29	1620	The graves of the men had swords thrust in the earth, that they might thus be marked.	10
29	1658	He paused, on his way, to pick up the swords of Callisthenes and Sempronius.	10
30	129	They then had their swords returned to them.	10
33	167	Gorean men usually sharpen their own swords.	10

Book 23. (19 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	787	"I am now well practiced in smiting walls with my back, but I have had very little experience in dodging swords, leaping about unarmed, you understand, in the darkness, in the middle of a sword fight".	10
8	16	It seemed he might hesitate a moment, but he took in my appearance, the blue of Cos, the insignia of the mercenaries of Artemidorus, the helmet, my weapons, indeed, two swords.	10
15	141	I did, however, exchange swords, removing his from its scabbard and placing therein the one I had taken from the other guard.	10
16	96	The ringing of swords came to my ears.	10
16	522	Were Cosians not to know their swords had been warmed and nicked in their romp? "Ho, fools!" I cried, striding down the walkway.	10
17	461	I could hear the ringing of swords, the clash of metal on shields, from both the right and left.	10
17	608	We crossed swords in the opening three times.	10
17	671	Suddenly swords were drawn for men blocked the passage, come doubtless from the walls.	10
18	7	"Hail, Captain!" called others, lifting their swords.	10
18	205	He had hardly spoken when the interior gate, leading out to the landing, swung inward, and a stream of Cosians waiting within, a moment later, helmeted, with shields, thrusting with spears, slashing with swords, pressed out against the defenders.	10
18	253	"To the gate!" Their swords bloodied they turned and sped to the vicinity of the gate.	10
18	351	Among them strode men, some with bloodied swords.	10
20	242	They crouched there, with overlapping shields, their swords drawn.	10
21	797	Several hands grasped the hilts of swords.	10
21	1524	Swords are often drawn on Gor over women, and particularly over lovely slaves.	10
24	240	Hands clasped the hilts of swords.	10
24	275	Swords were drawn.	10
24	276	"Sheath your swords, beloved friends," said Aemilianus.	10
24	312	Swords were sheathed.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	467	"He is one of the best swords in the camp," he warned me.	10
1	1128	I supposed, however, that dozens of men, perhaps some carrying torches or flaming brands, or lanterns, would be wading about, slipping in the mud, parting reeds, and so on, swords drawn, at the bank of the Vosk, looking for me.	10
3	327	The three of them, together, drew their swords.	10
13	26	"Soon," said he, "the swords of the lads of Ar will drink the blood of the sleen of Cos".	10
17	144	I heard swords drawn.	10
27	200	Let them perish in the delta then, or at its edges, under the swords of mercenaries, thought I.	10
29	56	Some others, too, hacked at it with their swords.	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	72	"Your swords are pledged to Ar," said the officer, "Ar under the hegemony of Cos!" "Is that other than to Cos herself?" asked a man.	10
14	491	"Swords are forbidden," said a fellow.	10
15	19	Men drew swords but the officer restrained them.	10

Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	282	Men with swords drawn stood about.	10
24	292	Intruders at its periphery tensed, swords raised, to strike down the first who might leap up, who might try to run.	10
24	421	Two of the intruders, from the group at the center of the terrace, hurried toward the wall, swords drawn.	10
24	472	In what seemed a breath later I saw guardsmen of Treve, swords drawn, burst onto the terrace, come, too, doubtless from the bridge.	10
31	43	They attended to their equipment, they sharpened their swords.	10
31	639	"Sheath your swords, set your bows".	10
31	665	Swords darted at the peasant but none reached him, he protected in the whirling shield of chain and stone.	10
34	84	Two others had been, wheeling about amongst them, slashing and biting, destroyed by swords.	10
35	122	In a moment we were thrust out into the corridor, men, most with drawn swords, some with armed bows, behind us.	10
37	99	Swords were loosened in sheaths.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	332	For example, on such a world, on this supposed other world, instead of adjudicating differences with, say, bombs and bullets, or thermonuclear weaponry, destroying life indiscriminately, irradiating soil, poisoning atmospheres, and such, points at issue might be adjudicated rather with the fire of t...	10
19	397	Within, clattering out, there were several swords, two war axes, some crossbows, and some wired bundles of short, metal-finned quarrels.	10
26	839	Too, until it is time for their departure for the rendezvous point, the place of concealed tarns, we will have at our disposal the swords of our friends, Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus, of Ar's station".	10
27	1708	Motioned by swords and spears the three surviving beasts were herded, shambling, blinking, seemingly docile, toward the wagon.	10
27	2323	Swords were drawn.	10

Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	572	"'How many swords have we?' he is said to have asked, and then demanded maps of the city, that he might be shown the locations of intrusive garrisons.	10
5	899	"This aroused suspicion, and, forced to speak, the foreignness of the accents of some of us, for not all were skilled in the intonations of Ar, unsheathed the swords of men of Ar".	10
10	6	Beside him, one on each side, lay two swords, one short, one long, each with a large, slightly curved hilt, wrapped in silk, and a curved blade.	10
10	7	The longer of the two swords was not unlike that carried by Tajima, thrust in his belt, edge uppermost.	10
10	144	One of the long, curved swords, with the large hilt, was placed in the hands of Pertinax, at which he looked, apprehensively.	10
10	155	Four fellows now stood there, two armed with glaives, two with swords.	10
15	430	"I am learning swords," he said.	10
16	258	"The sharpest of swords has an edge of gold".	10
18	7	"Swords still cross," I informed him, looking about.	10
18	71	"Do not do swords with Tajima," I said to Pertinax.	10
18	509	But the camp guards have reconnoitered, and have hurriedly departed, that their swords may be saved for the defense of their Home Stone.	10
19	76	In his belt, blades uppermost, were the two swords, the companion sword and the longer blade.	10
23	280	The Pani had largely placed their long swords in racks near the edge of the feasting area, but none who bore them had surrendered the companion sword.	10
24	180	"Have you ever crossed swords with an Assassin?" "Once," I said, "long ago".	10
40	160	Many Gorean warriors, in private matters, will not cross swords with a foe they do not respect".	10

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	50	I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for passage, for life, from the ...	10
5	146	In his sash were two swords.	10
5	339	"Hail, Callias!" cried men about, and the swords which had been drawn were lifted, in salute.	10
5	356	"You would not have fought," said Lord Nishida, touching the unusual, curved hilt of one of the swords in his sash, "for I would have cut off your head, before the blades could touch".	10
9	135	Most of the weaponry, spears, swords, crossbows, longbows, javelins, glaves, maces, axes, Anango darts, gauntlet hatchets, edged battle weights, bladed chains, and such, was gone.	10
9	230	The Pani, silently, swiftly, their long-hilted, tasseled swords grasped in two hands, fell upon armed men from behind.	10
12	111	I had seen in Ar, more than once, how the most seemingly innocent discourse could be suddenly, cleverly, twisted into a provocative quarrel, and an exchange of insults, leading to swords, commonly in a park or in the Plaza of Tarns, at dawn, when few were about.	10
16	76	"I feared this," said Lord Nishida, winding his sash about his widely sleeved robe, and thrusting two swords, both curved, a longer and a shorter, within the sash.	10
19	18	More than one man had died under their swords.	10
21	284	Were they to use their swords? To be sure, such an act would doubtless have cost dozens of men, and forever divided the Pani from the mariners and armsmen.	10
22	77	Swords flashed in the torches.	10
22	253	Some were slain with thrusts of glaives, others with swords.	10
22	320	They could not reach the enemy with their glaives, or swords.	10
22	329	Some enemy officers struck about themselves with swords, trying to stop the rout, but these, too, were as often struck by terrified men who, in the darkness, were unclear as to their foe, his power, or even his nature.	10
27	165	He had his two swords with him.	10
35	67	"Tal," said a thin, angular fellow, in an unusual, sashed robe, in which were two curved swords, a larger and a smaller, who stood at the bulwarks, to the right of the gangway, as one would look toward the ship.	10
35	80	Two of the Pani, at the height of the gangplank, had instantly removed the longer of their two swords from their sash, and, two hands fixed on the long, tasseled handle, drew back the weapons.	10
35	118	Neither of the Pani warriors at the top of the gangplank lifted their swords.	10
36	317	Had they failed to earn their fee, our swords would have spoken".	10
36	376	"I will have warm water and dry cloths brought," said Demetrion, "that you may wash and dry your swords".	10
36	497	Swords, not words, rule cities, it is said.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	459	"But we have obtained no new men, no new swords," said Lykos.	10
23	12	In the third wagon there had been some weaponry, some spears, two swords, a crossbow with a dozen quarrels.	10
51	195	"Axes outside the great gate, swords at dawn, on the Plaza of Tarns," suggested Astrinax.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	97	Some had sold even their swords.	10
6	147	Sometimes swords crossed.	10
8	556	"Do you still want swords for the north?" I asked.	10
9	272	"But if so, as you are here, if you are men, welcome, and rejoice, for it is your good fortune, as that of your fellows, armsmen or not, to have sold your swords north.	10
10	130	Two men, Pani, in their short, unusual robes, white, with red sashes, each with two swords thrust within the silk, one with the strange banner, waited for us by the trees.	10
14	56	He was usually accompanied by Pani warriors, in their short robes, with the two swords, their hair pulled back and knotted behind the head.	10
43	721	He bore two light hunting spears, and two belts, with swords and daggers, presumably those of Axel and myself.	10

Book 33. (50 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	112	The men of two swords were looking up, angrily, their swords already sheathed or sashed.	10
44	273	"Even a sword worth a dozen swords," said Lord Temmu, "is useless against a thousand swords".	10
45	179	"That one sword, I gather," I said, "may do the work of a thousand swords, perhaps that of ten thousand swords".	10
59	251	Tajima was familiar with the two swords of the Pani warrior, and we had often sported in the dojo, he with one or both of the Pani swords, and I with the familiar gladius.	10
60	205	In the pause which followed Nodachi's swift, almost casual, felling of Lord Akio's two men, that small, eager, ill-fated vanguard unwisely addressing themselves, woefully unsupported, to their foray, both he and Lord Yamada had replaced their companion swords in their sashes and drawn up their field...	10
2	159	"Greet me!" Where, I asked myself, are they? Surely there would be several here, the Ashigaru and officers, warriors of the two swords, to guard the place, to watch for others, to dispatch the patrols and kill squads.	10
3	9	"Swords of Temmu," I called, softly, from the saddle.	10
3	68	"Swords of Temmu," it whispered.	10
4	191	"Hired beasts," he said, "sellers of swords to the highest bidder".	10
6	137	What Pani, at least of noble birth and refinement, would burn a well-wrought fan, a samisen, a lovely painted screen, or a poem? "Is it true," asked Lord Nishida, "that you ask Pani warriors, many of whom are men of two swords, to surrender?" "Surely not, Lord," said Tyrtaios, hastily.	10
7	94	Such squabbles were not only deleterious to discipline, but might result in bloodshed, which might reduce the number of swords at the disposal of the holding.	10
9	23	The siege was done; gold lay in the clouds; officers sought to muster and organize men, but already hundreds of Ashigaru, and men, even of two swords, were hurrying up the long trail.	10
9	78	Nodachi then, I am told, cleaned his swords and returned them to his sash, and went to the side, where he sat, cross-legged, and silent.	10
9	85	I did not doubt but what, the banner flying, he would race to the courtyard, with two swords, but the delay, I hoped, would be sufficient to reduce the numbers of, and the brunt of the resistance of, the enemy.	10
10	102	Hardly had the first notes rung out than we heard another sound, the war blast of the horagai, and blades in their dozens thrust up through the canvas of dozens of wagons, cutting and ripping, and, emerging from the shreds of rent canvas, were screaming, armed men, many of two swords.	10
11	166	"They will be ronin, men of the waves, men with no lord, mercenaries, free swords".	10
11	179	Few would become men of two swords.	10
27	6	As he had not been a warrior, he had not carried the two swords.	10
27	65	"We are no match for gentlemen of two swords," he said.	10
30	85	"He has two swords," said the fellow, looking uneasily at Tajima.	10
30	104	"He is ronin," said the peasant, regarding Tajima, "one of the waves, two swords with no daimyo".	10
30	105	"But two swords," said Haruki.	10
30	672	"I am sure," said the innkeeper, "the noble one, he of two swords, is generous, as are all of his quality, and would not mind an additional round of sake, to warm friends on the road".	10
30	749	"You have two swords".	10
30	772	"The shogun always has a place for those who manage sharp swords well," said the voice.	10
31	5	"Excellent swords," I heard, from the other side of the screen.	10
31	20	"Others had arrived," he said, "among them one with two swords.	10
31	67	"He is a fool, to risk his life and swords, to inquire after foragers".	10
31	136	Their swords and knives, however, given their exquisite smithing, were of considerable value.	10
31	186	Arashi had one of the swords, a field sword, and, grasping the tasseled handle in two hands, divided the air with it, twice.	10
32	26	Clubs and swords, knives, and one glaive, were in the grip of the intruders.	10
33	2	Several yards away, rising from the grass, was a tall figure, clearly a man of two swords.	10
44	272	Where is Nodachi? His sword is worth a dozen swords".	10
44	274	"What if the thousand swords are wielded by but one hand?" I said.	10
44	276	"One sword," I said, "applied in a certain way, at a certain time, might do the work of ten thousand swords".	10
45	214	"If swords are sheathed," said Tajima, "how does one know a master swordsman?" "We furnished Haruki with a description," I said.	10
45	218	"But what if two swords are not carried, or are not obviously carried?" Nodachi's cast of feature and form of body suggested a peasant origin.	10
46	176	But now, gripped in two hands, he carried a different sword, the heavier, longer of the two swords often carried by a warrior, the field sword.	10
46	217	"Peasants," cried the officer, glaring at the magician, "are not permitted two swords, or one.	10
47	72	The shogun does not cross swords with upstarts, vagabonds, mountebanks, magicians, common warriors".	10
53	39	Swords are raised in salute".	10
57	56	Later he, and his colleague, took flight, it was rumored to pledge their swords to the house of Temmu, to which house they had seemingly been long devoted, and in whose interest they had labored secretly.	10
59	149	"You understand, magician," said Lord Yamada to Nodachi, "that I cannot cross swords with you, as you are not of my level".	10
59	171	Both Tajima and Pertinax whipped out companion swords, taken from the trophy room, and stepped between Nodachi and Katsutoshi, who descended, lightly, from the dais.	10
59	253	The Pani swords, like the rapier, the foil, and saber, are designed for both defense and offense.	10
60	1	Swords Meet Amongst Flowers; The Insects are not Disturbed; A Gate is Sundered "Let us consider matters, here, on the raked sand," said Lord Yamada, "that we may not risk trampling flowers".	10
60	386	"Swords ready!" cried Lord Yamada.	10
60	387	The storm of men, like lava pouring through the gate, bearing arsenals of stolen weapons, glaives, and swords, and dozens of implements of farming, rushed forth upon us, and was as though it would engross us, when it stopped, but yards way.	10
61	247	"They came to the holding," said Lord Nishida, "pledging their swords to the house of Temmu.	10
61	306	"I will have a hundred sons, a hundred swords at my side".	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	17	Law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.	10
26	74	I have seen the plates of weapons and devices borne to the training chambers, the daggers, the balanced throwing knives, the easily concealed hook knife, the swords, the darts, the loops of wire, the chain garrotes, and, in particular, the crossbow and quarrel, the favored striking weapon of the cas...	10
47	6	"No," said Kurik, "too many quarrels and swords would lie between you and the throat of Decius Albus".	10
54	124	It is almost certain to fall within the perimeters of permissible weaponry, knives, swords, pikes, spears, staffs, axes, and such, and most likely axes, for Kurii, like the men of Torvaldsland, are fond of the ax".	10
60	237	I fear only two swords on Gor, that of the High Master of the Caste of Assassins, and that of an obscure warrior who, long ago, on the roof of the Central Cylinder of Ar, bested him".	10
61	793	Spears were leveled, swords grasped more securely.	10
61	799	"Put up your spears, lower your swords.	10
61	831	"Kurii may be wary of my parasol," she said, "and we must consider the blows of two axes, the quarrels of a crossbow, the swords and spears of several fellows who would rather get their hands on kajirae than feed them to monsters, and so on".	10
65	205	And, guards of the caravanserai, unsheathe your thirsty swords, to drink the blood of those who would rob within the protected precincts of the caravanserai of Hogarth!" Those with Lucilius looked wildly about.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	83	"I hear no axes on gates, no clash of swords, no screams of slaughtered men," said the first slave.	10
11	138	One shop dealt with weapons of various sorts, swords, daggers, balanced throwing knives, spears, darts, javelins, and such.	10
30	95	That is one of the swiftest, keenest swords I have seen in dozens of cities, or on the islands".	10
31	72	It is common to oil swords, lightly, to protect them from rust.	10
33	217	"The swiftest, sharpest, and most cunning of swords is innocuous in its sheath," said the man.	10
33	367	Some men, with torches and drawn swords clambered over the side of the canal boat and were wading about.	10
41	105	"I hear it," I said, "swords".	10
41	200	In that moment loot was strewn about, slaves screamed, men cursed, and swords flashed.	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

Book 36. (16 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
60	112	"It is swords!" he cried, and, at the same moment, the six hooded fellows flung off their hoods and drew forth swords, discarding the amphorae.	10
1	69	"Those who did these things," he said, "those who came with axes, flaming brands, swords, and chains".	10
19	85	Swords were at their belts.	10
20	68	A moment later swords were slashing through the walls of the tent.	10
20	129	"You are at the point of their swords," said he who was the leader of the uniformed men.	10
20	132	How can these be regulars of Cos? Have they overlooked or forgotten their primary weapons? And consider the variety of swords carried by these men, variously hilted, variously edged, single and double, with diverse reaches.	10
31	42	Within a few Ihn, the corsairs, met with arrows from the front and swords from the sides, withdrew into the village and swung shut the seared leaves of the gate, closing themselves inside, where the blackened huts had now mostly collapsed and the flames were subsiding.	10
32	55	He fitted a signal arrow to his bow, an artifact whose nature and use I had learned from the high warriors of the Pani, the men of two swords, at the World's End.	10
32	84	Should any enter the grass, give way before them, and lead them to the waiting swords.	10
33	78	"However," I said, "in your safe, uncontested passage to the sea, generously allowed to you, you may bear no arms, either offensive or defensive, no swords, no spears, no knives or axes, no shields, no helmets, no bucklers, or such".	10
56	2	A trumpet blared, hundreds of voices screamed cries of war, metals clattered, wood creaked, helmeted visages appeared, eyes wild, ladders sagged, swords thrust, quarrels and arrows passed in flight, men bellowed, men screamed, shields were pressed back, ladders were thrust back and to the side.	10
57	18	"Keep swords, knives, bludgeons, axes, ready".	10
57	117	At the same time our men, bearing swords, axes, knives, and even clubs, rushed out from behind the screens, sure footed from the bits of nails fastened in their sandals and boots, and fell, like butchers on verr, on the numerous discomfited and often helpless foes, most unable to regain or maintain ...	10
60	15	"Deep enough to hold swords," I said.	10
60	114	"Why, you are right," I said, "swords".	10
63	20	"Perhaps it would have been better, cleaner, less ambivalent," said Thurnock, "had you crossed swords with Ctesippus".	10