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Tents

Book 1. (22 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	3	As the caravan mounted a rise, we saw spread far below us, on the banks of the Vosk, a sight of incredible barbaric splendor—pasangs of brightly colored tents stretching as far as the eye could see, a vast assemblage of tents housing one of the greatest armies ever gathered on the plains of G...	10
11	42	That night I took Talena into the City of Tents, and by the light of torches set on lances we walked arm in arm through the crowded streets, among the colorful tents and market stalls.	10
9	115	There is a camp there such as you have never seen—a city of tents, pasangs of tharlarion corrals; the wings of the tarns sound like thunder overhead.	10
9	125	"To the banks of the Vosk, to the City of Tents," said the warrior.	10
10	32	"In the wagons I have four hundred fully as beautiful, destined for the City of Tents".	10
10	81	"If you like," said Mintar, paying no attention to Talena, "I will arrange her sale in the City of Tents and add her price to your wages".	10
11	1	The City of Tents For several days, to the sound of the caravan bells, we made our way through the Margin of Desolation, that wild, barren strip of soil with which the Empire of Ar had girded its borders.	10
11	4	The flags of a hundred cities flew above the tents, and, against the steady roar of the river, the sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries.	10
11	13	The caravan of Mintar did not camp as usual in the heat of the day but moved on, attempting to reach the City of Tents before darkness.	10
11	70	Kazrak was gone, and my suspicion was that he was gone for the night, that he was even now tangled in the sleeping robes of one of the torchlit booths of the City of Tents.	10
15	21	Behind this wall were the innumerable tents of Pa-Kur's horde.	10
15	22	Here and there among the tents siege towers were being constructed.	10
15	40	I brought the tarn down near the far ranges of Pa-Kur's tents, where his camp ended, seven or eight miles from the city.	10
15	64	My luck held, and I scaled the interior corral wall and dropped to the trampled path between the corral and the tents of Mintar's men.	10
15	66	Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', attendants'...	10
15	214	"But it is presumed that she is kept in the tents of Pa-Kur".	10
15	259	"Where are the tents of Pa-Kur?" I asked.	10
16	7	On the other hand, the thought of her in the tents of Pa-Kur enraged me, and I knew I would be unable to restrain myself indefinitely.	10
16	96	In a few minutes I gathered together my own gear and put on the heavy black helmet of the Assassin, left the tent, and turned my steps in the direction of the tents of Pa-Kur.	10
16	99	Inside were the dozens of tents that formed the quarters for his personal retinue and bodyguard.	10
16	121	Inside the second wall, I was escorted among the tents by a tower slave, a black girl whose livery was golden and who wore large golden earrings that matched a golden collar.	10
17	3	In the next days, frequenting the paga tents and markets, I sought, by cornering slaves and challenging swordsmen, to learn the whereabouts of Talena.	10

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	52	It recalled the tarn cots of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, the Compound of Mintar in Pa-Kur's City of Tents on the Vosk, the outlaw encampment of Marlenus among the crags of the Voltai Range.	10
21	8	I slowed to a walk and entered the clearing among the tents.	10
21	12	It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
21	21	I walked between the tents and saw the girl.	10
21	129	He turned to the domed tents.	10
21	134	From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan.	10
22	1	Yellow Cords When the girl had been unchained I lifted her in my arms and carried her into one of the domed tents that had been indicated to me.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	13	It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	133	Coming over a low, rolling hill, we saw a large number of tents pitched in a circle, surrounding a large grassy area.	10

Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	2	When his tarn had dropped, wings beating, into the clearing among the tents, they ringed with a palisade of sharpened logs, some twelve feet high, there had been much shouting, much welcome.	10
14	180	I saw the tents and the fires, and the men talking, and the girls about their tasks.	10
15	201	"Why am I never allowed, late, to serve the men in their tents?" "No man has called for you," said Ute.	10
15	1001	Slave girls staggered under the plunder, carrying it to the tents of the warriors.	10
15	1355	Then the feasting grew less, and the warriors, taking what wenches pleased them, went to their tents.	10
16	8	I could see, some dozens of yards away, the backs of tents.	10
16	119	In some few tents there glowed a dim redness, through the canvas sides of the tent, the light of the tiny fire bowls within.	10
16	258	I watched her being led away, between the tents.	10
17	145	Surely then he could see that she was no different from others, the girls locked in the work shed, the girls in the tents, squirming on their chains, all eager to be called to his tent.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	8	The tents had been struck, and were gone.	10
14	123	I could see the shadows of tents beyond the clearing.	10
17	46	I detected in one of the small, narrow, open tents, abandoned, a movement.	10
17	53	Other tents, and moving women, had been between us.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	317	The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...	10
15	127	In the distance we could see burning tents.	10
17	98	To the north and west of the camp's center I could see the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar and his men.	10
18	16	Many Kurii, springing from their tents, emerging from the leather and fur shelter tunnels, confused, first saw only the sleek, two-legged cattle streaming past, until perhaps axes fell upon them.	10
18	381	Ivar Forkbeard, followed by Tarl Red Hair and Wulfstan of Torvaldsland, heeled by the bondmaid, Hilda, picked his way toward the burned, looted tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
18	454	We made our way toward Ottar, who stood near the burned, fallen tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
18	466	I had seen this, or much of it, earlier in the morning, when I had pursued the Kur to the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
18	624	The Forkbeard and I, and the others, returned to the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10

Book 10. (21 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	91	These tents, typical nomad tents, were small, some ten feet in depth, some ten to fifteen feet wide; they were supported on wooden frames; the ground, within them, leveled off, was covered by mats.	10
3	59	* * * * I was returning to my compartment in Tor, from the tents of Farouk of Kasra.	10
3	75	"Would you be my guest tonight in my tents?" had asked the judge, Farouk of Kasra.	10
3	133	After coming from the tents of Farouk of Kasra, outside the walls of Tor, I was returning late to my compartment, which lay in the district of tenders and drovers.	10
4	55	Occasionally we passed a water hole, and the tents of nomads.	10
4	400	The tents would be pitched.	10
8	90	There were five tents, each of tawny, inconspicuous kaiila-hair cloth, each pegged down on three sides, each with the front, facing east, for the warmth of the morning sun, left open.	10
8	92	At the back the tents were low, stretching to the ground.	10
8	181	I must gather brush and kaiila dung and make fires; I must cook the stews and porridges, and clean the pans and the bowls; I must shake out the mats and sweep the sand in the tents; I must rub the garments and polish the boots, and leather; I must do the mending and sewing; I weave; I make ropes; I ...	10
8	229	"I was punished twice," she said, "once, early in the tents, when I dared to be insolent, a second time when I was clumsy".	10
11	83	During the day it seems menacing, whitish, shimmering with heat, blinding, burning; men must shade their eyes; some go blind; women and children remain within the tents; but, with the coming of the evening, with the departure of the sun, there is a softening, a gentling, of this vast, rocky harsh te...	10
11	103	During the day they do not venture from the shade of the tents.	10
11	104	At night, as the sun goes down, they emerge happily from the tents and romp and play.	10
11	105	They are taught written Taharic by their mothers, who draw the characters in the sand, during the day, in the shade of the tents.	10
23	58	Behind each of the arrangements of lines were hundreds of tents, striped in different colors.	10
23	78	The man gestured and one of those with him led away the kaiila, making a great circuit that would lead him behind the Kavar lines, to the tents.	10
23	79	There were hundreds of pack kaiila in evidence among the tents.	10
23	96	Behind the Kavar lines, among the tents, with the kaiila and other goods, the man would be chained, to await his disposition among masters.	10
23	103	The man had found his way back to his own tents.	10
23	106	Usually an Aretai merchant, selling small goods, would visit the tents of the Khan of the Tajuks, the black kaffiyeh and white agal cording guaranteeing him safe passage, and, at the campfire of the Khan, after his trading, while drinking tea, would say, "I have heard that the Aretai are gathering f...	10
23	277	"Take them to the tents and chain them there as slaves.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	105	There were several tents in the camp.	10
5	116	Others were, I supposed, within the tents, perhaps sleeping.	10
5	465	"The Lady Sabina," he cried, "she is gone! She has been taken!" With a cry of rage the leader, or captain, ran toward the tents, his men racing behind him, I struggling and gasping, jerked and dragged by the thong which held me.	10

Book 12. (21 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	100	I saw you once near the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar".	10
3	118	She was on her knees, to one side, between two tents; she was chained at a short stake, about which she had wrapped her arms, holding it for support.	10
3	158	Down the corridor between tents, now those of the carvers of semiprecious stones, came four men, in the swirling garb of the Tahari.	10
3	247	"They may be found in the vicinity of the public tents near the amphitheater".	10
3	274	I was making my way toward the public tents in the vicinity of the amphitheater.	10
3	293	In a few minutes I had come to the area of the public tents, and there was there no difficulty in determining where the Kaissa lines were to be found.	10
3	295	I would stay in one of the public tents tonight.	10
3	298	In such tents it is not unusual for peasants to lie crowded, side by side, with captains and merchants.	10
3	300	Unfortunately meals are not served in the tents.	10
3	306	There are some compensations in the public tents, however.	10
3	342	Two parties of men, one party from each of the tents, began to make their way toward the amphitheater.	10
3	1304	From the platform, too, I could see the fair, with its lights and fires, and tents and shelters, and the amphitheater in the distance, where Scormus of Ar and gentle Centius of Cos would meet tomorrow, on the opposite sides of a small board marked with red and yellow squares.	10
3	1336	"I did not know you were a slave in the public tents," I said to her.	10
3	1351	It is hard for us to compete with the beauties of the paga tents".	10
4	642	I looked into the darkness between the tents.	10
11	20	Too they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light, narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought.	10
12	29	Many of the women of the red hunters, too, went about so, inside and outside the tents, in the warmer weather.	10
12	372	At certain times in the summer even insects will appear, black, long-winged flies, in great swarms, coating the sides of tents and the faces of men.	10
17	18	It makes good telling in the tents".	10
20	96	Hides, too, were tied on the inside, from tabuk tents, affording additional protection from the cold.	10
21	40	Too, hides, from tents, were hung about the inside of the feasting house, supplying additional insulation and warmth.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	2	"That is it!" I indicated to her, in the shallow valley between the two sloping hills, some half pasang from the southern road, the blue and yellow canvas of the distant tents.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	51	From where I stood I could see many tents, long tents, and holding areas, where there were temporary stockades or circular embankments.	10

Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	32	I could see fires of the camp, and several tents.	10
14	33	I heard music from the distance, from somewhere among the tents, where perhaps girls danced to please masters.	10
14	92	"Hold!" called a drunken voice, as we passed between tents.	10
14	113	I was pulled back into the shadows between some tents.	10
14	116	Most of the tents were dark.	10
14	130	In a few moments we stopped, between some darkened tents.	10
14	203	I rose to my feet, wildly, frightened, and then hurried away between the tents.	10
15	3	Weeping, I fled back among the tents.	10
15	5	He would probably not want it loose among the tents.	10
15	36	I had not seen him, between the tents.	10
15	60	The two girls then began to walk down the lane between the tents.	10
15	89	Too, if we were not slaves and sent to their tents, we would not even know what to do.	10
15	158	Swiftly, then, seeing more men waiting further down the lane, some with loops of chain in their hands, I slipped to the side between the tents.	10
15	162	I made my way among tents, every sense alert, sometimes crawling on my hands and knees.	10
15	418	I could see men below moving about in the camp, emerging from tents and such, but there seemed to be no clear pattern to their activity.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	64	With their wagons and tents, often little more than a skip and a jump ahead of creditors and magistrates, they roam from place to place, rigging their simple stages in piazzas and squares, in yards and markets, wherever an audience may be found, even at the dusty intersections of country crossroads.	10
7	187	She would doubtless make a splendid "golden courtesan" and, after performances, there was little doubt but what she would prove popular in the tents.	10
9	228	"The stage must be set up," he said, "the tents put up, and so on".	10
22	117	"Yes," said Boots, "but I suspect we may soon have to find another brawny fellow, another chap of great strength and modest talent, to help us set up the platform and tents".	10
22	182	Both girls were so beautiful that the mere sight of them, chained by the ankle to the stake in their tents, could drive men mad with desire.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	29	The tents of commanders are usually placed on high ground near the center of the camp.	10
15	404	In her tents she would receive visitors, callers and petitioners.	10
16	1489	Most of the tents were circular, with low, sloping tops.	10
16	1536	They may be used in their enclosures or, more commonly, they are sent to the tents of the men who rent them, usually for the night.	10

Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	868	I might as well have been, as far as he cared, only a curvaceous, beautiful barbarian servant in Epidaurus, or, in the keeping of Crusaders, or in the tents of Mongols, a Persian dancing girl.	10
7	40	These manacles, gags and hoods, and our neck chain, had been removed only in the cages in the slave tents.	10
7	53	In many places tents and temporary buildings, sometimes little more than shacks, had been erected.	10
7	92	I found almost everything I saw different, and interesting, the men and women, the children, the clothes, their accouterments, the streets, the buildings, the tents, the stalls, the trees, the flowers, everything.	10
27	14	Many, perhaps a hundred or more, were doubtless spending the night in the tents of soldiers, signed out to them for the night.	10
27	57	Then I had served them in the darkness, between tents.	10
27	111	If I had truly detected something, as perhaps I had between the tents, the tiny sound, or now, perhaps, a movement in the darkness, subtle, almost unnoticeable, I had little doubt as to what might be its source.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	9	There were, in this vicinity, clouds of tiny tents and shelters, some of them belonging to soldiers, most to civilians, sutlers, merchants, slavers, and such.	10
9	192	There was a scuffling sound outside and, looking up, we saw a stumbling woman, naked, a rope on her neck, her hands tied behind her, being dragged among the tents.	10
9	276	We could hear the pleasure cries of a woman a few tents away.	10
9	332	Others, too, about, from others of the small tents, had emerged.	10
9	349	Those about us, one after another, returned to their tents.	10
24	939	Thereafter they learn to serve their dark masters well, within the recesses of the cool, white buildings of the oases and cities, and out on the desert, in the tents.	10

Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	258	There are some tiny, alcovelike tents within the enclosure, mostly just within the perimeter.	10
1	264	There are often explicit camp rules pertaining to the sizes of fires, as there are for many other things, such as the general ordering of the camp, its defenses, its streets and layout, the location of its facilities, such as infirmaries, commissaries, and smithies, the maintenance of security and w...	10
1	943	I did not think he would be able to get her even as far as one of the small alcove tents within the enclosure.	10
1	1121	I had doubled back through the environing tents, most of which were empty, presumably thanks to the sounds of the paga enclosure and various hastily spreading rumors, such as that of Borton's generosity, that there was to be a parade of slaves, and that a curvaceous woman was now dancing her slavery...	10
1	1151	The tents of the couriers were supposedly near the headquarters tent of Artemidorus himself.	10
1	1157	In moments, not challenged, I was among the tents.	10
1	1204	Like most Gorean campaign tents, at least those set up in large, fixed camps, it was circular, with a conical roof.	10
2	6	I then removed my hand from her mouth and, from behind, my hand on her arm, drew her to her feet, and conducted her to the nearest of the small alcove tents in the paga enclosure.	10
27	369	"And then serving in tents, in the back?" she asked.	10
27	373	Then, later, they enjoy her performances, both on the stage and in the tents later.	10
27	375	"Even in the tents, afterwards?" I asked.	10
27	383	"Ones which perhaps do not involve the tents afterwards?" "More likely special booths, or arrangements, for wealthy patrons," I said.	10
36	6	"See the many tents about the walls, to the north," said Marcus.	10
37	288	From where we were I could have thrown a stone among the tents.	10
44	1	Hunters "Hold," said a fellow, surlily, stepping forth from between low tents, in the camp outside the slave camp.	10
44	61	In a moment they had faded away, among the tents.	10
45	38	I supposed there were others, too, here and there, among the tents, and in the nearby woods.	10
46	20	Some six or seven other fellows seemed to have materialized from among the tents.	10
46	84	I continued for a time in the camp, making my way among tents, and under open, roofed structures, like those of some markets, and under great awnings, through corridors of cages and kennels, past chains of women, the chains secured between great stakes, amongst slave wagons and cage wagons, past pro...	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	2	Phoebe, kneeling, gasping, unclasped her hands from behind her neck, and lifted her head from the dirt, in our small tent, outside the walls of Ar, one of hundreds of such tents, mainly for vagabonds, itinerants and refugees.	10
3	764	After the dance of Tuka, men and slaves departed from the circle, many doubtless to hurry to their blankets and tents.	10
3	1053	Tents were being struck.	10

Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	71	Merchants, dignitaries, soldiers, travelers, artisans, peddlers, tradesmen, citizens, peasants, villagers, townspeople and others were all making their way into the vicinity of the city, some setting up tents and camps, others renting space either within the city, or about the walls.	10
22	435	She paused, looking at the camp, at the men and the fires, the tents.	10
22	511	She did not know where he had gone, doubtless about his business, perhaps in one of the tents of the camp.	10
22	607	In a short time Ellen was beyond the fires and among the tents, most of which were dark.	10
22	620	Men might find their way among the tents with the aid of a lantern, a torch, or such, but she had no such device.	10
22	638	One of the men she saw, this startling her, was Mirus! She crept after them, using the wavering light of the lantern to follow them, it casting strange shadows on the tents and earth.	10
22	643	In one or another of the tents there was a lit lamp, its light visible through the silk or canvas.	10
23	151	Tents and belongings will be ransacked".	10
25	43	The lead girl, whom Ellen understood to be 115, was then put in leading position, bent over, a hand in her hair, and, as she whimpered, she was conducted from the area, amongst various cages, shelters, tents and stakes, toward distant sounds of men, shouts and calls, and the rest of the chain follow...	10
26	254	"That was a ruse, it seems, a hoax, to draw bandits fruitlessly to our tents, where they might be discovered and snared, while in the subtlety of Cos the gold made its way safely, elsewise, to the coffers of Myron, polemarkos at Ar".	10
26	1113	Do not peasants upon occasion hide their daughters? Do not the men of the Tahari order their slaves to the tents upon the approach of strangers, and so on? On Gor, it might be mentioned, that some of these things might be better understood, women tend to be regarded as goods and prizes, as loot and ...	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
73	170	"Return now," said Lord Arcesilaus, "to your habitats, your shelters, your tents, your ships, your bivouacs, and refresh yourselves.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	505	If unable to observe actions from remote, secure, and convenient heights, by means of the glasses of the Builders, they remain behind, in their silken tents, awaiting the announcements of victory, in the keeping of camp guards.	10
18	510	And then the women discover the camp is surrounded, and invaded, and then tents are afire, and then men are about, rude strangers, laughing and shouting.	10
38	28	These would be devastating at sea, as on the 25th of Se'Kara, and perhaps effective against tents and wooden buildings, but I feared they would not seriously discommode an infantry.	10
39	38	"Their tents are spread for pasangs.	10
40	14	Hundreds of tents spread along the beach, perhaps for pasangs, on each side.	10

Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	299	She was kept in his tents for a time, but then it seems that the fancy of the mighty Rask was taken by a mere slave, a blond barbarian collar slut, named El-in-or.	10
3	801	I could see some small tents, and some paraphernalia of the camp, to my left.	10
30	154	I had seen campfires last night; this morning, or early noon, I saw a great number of tents.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	350	"I thought you might live in huts, or tents, or wagons, as the Kataii, or Paravachi".	10

Book 33. (23 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	170	The fog was now torn into patches and, below, I could see the ditches, the breastworks, the hurdles, the stakes, and, a half pasang behind, the tents, many tents, near the ashes of what had been one of the environing villages.	10
9	87	We began with the tents farthest to the south, selecting tents in the kaissa-board fashion, to conserve our incendiary materials, fire jars lit in flight, as this approach is designed to capitalize on the likelihood that a fire consuming one tent may spread to another.	10
1	123	We will need tents, supplies".	10
1	150	Those in the castle area, of those supposedly informed, would assume the camp was at the convergence of the two designated streams, at least until there was a reason to believe otherwise, perhaps in virtue of a fruitless raid, loosed upon unoccupied tents, pitched on an empty field.	10
1	171	It would be difficult for a sortie to reach those tents before alarms could be sounded and resistance mustered.	10
2	128	The sheds and tents had been before me, and there, to the left, the cots, beyond them.	10
9	48	They are composed in tents by lamplight, after a day's march or skirmishing, even in winter quarters, or even in exile, or retirement, as is thought to have been the case with the Field Diaries commonly attributed to Carl Commenius of Argentum.	10
9	86	In moments the remnants of the tarn cavalry, limited now to fifty-one mounts, was streaking through the clouds over the holding, making its way, in formation, though without tarn drum, to the encampment of Yamada, to fire as many tents as possible.	10
9	88	We began with the farthest tents to confuse the enemy as to our mission, that he would merely see us pass overhead, and, more importantly, that the enemy in the fore would see fire behind him, and the mountain and holding before him.	10
9	101	But in moments their cries were behind us, as was the smoke rising from burning tents.	10
11	3	It had been but a few Ehn since our lookouts had spotted the approaching tarn, which soon alit in a flurry of wind and dust, on the small assembly ground amongst the cots and tents of the new encampment.	10
38	154	We then, in the pourings of rain, in the flashings of lightning and the crashings of thunder, with startled, confused men rushing about, slipping a bit in the mud, scrambled away, to lose ourselves, as we might, amongst the corridors of tents.	10
41	8	"Nonetheless, friend Haruki," I said, "have you located the unimportant, even despicable, slave, in whom Tajima has little, or no, interest?" We moved back a bit amongst the tents, as a squad of glaive-bearing Ashigaru, in double file, sped past.	10
41	26	Large camps, transient cities of tents, attract their multitudes, rather as a flowering meadow its cloudlike swarms of tiny, four-winged zars.	10
41	58	"Eight of the enclaves are slave pens," said Haruki, "and four are slave tents".	10
41	71	"In only three of the four tents are slaves available for public purchase," he said.	10
41	89	He at point, he first in our group, should be able, easily, and at a distance, to detect the approach of a squad of searchers, and will be able to signal us, enabling all of us, if all goes well, to disappear amongst the tents.	10
42	41	The tent, as most such large, long tents depended on several poles to support its roof, and was further secured by a number of tent pegs, or, as the Americans will have it, stakes, and ropes outside.	10
54	183	There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or, often, to dis...	10
54	289	After the attack on the south camp and the siege works associated with it, I had circled about the mountain of the holding, burning hundreds of tents, blasting earthen ramparts, and pouring fire into better than a hundred trenches.	10
61	130	That night, about the Twentieth Ahn, the silhouette of a tarn was cast briefly on the white moon, and, a bit later, the snap of mighty wings disturbed the canvas of several tents.	10
61	172	I seized up a large, thick, burning brand from the nearest fire, and held it to a tent, and then, to another tent, and another, until there were four tents afire.	10
61	1185	"It is true, Master! Do you not know this from as long ago as the tents of Mintar?" "Clever she-sleen," I said.	10

Book 36. (32 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	68	"Break camp, strike tents, extinguish fires, gather the men, get the Dorna and Tesephone into the water, masts and sails down.	10
18	156	It is like a city of tents, with its own streets, water tanks and dumps, a city often larger than its host city".	10
18	164	One can always peruse slaves in the markets, and there is no dearth of brothel and tavern tents".	10
19	126	The long street, dusty and bordered by stalls and tents, was crowded.	10
22	11	The vast sprawling fair, its perimeters changing day by day, as new tents were pitched and stakes drawn on older ones, like cells in a body, was like a transient canvas behemoth, its body breathing, expanding and contracting.	10
22	13	In this city of canvas what could be bought and sold was bought and sold; copper met silver and silver met gold, and often enough, gold once more met copper; here, amidst concessions, exhibits, and emporiums, mingled with stalls, pens, brothels, taverns, markets, gambling tents, and theaters, friend...	10
22	22	"I have made my way about for three days, to dozens of paga tents".	10
22	164	There are few things which may not be purchased somewhere in that city of tents which constituted the vast, transitory metropolis of a Fair of the Farther Islands.	10
25	6	Large patches and tracks of grass were gone, patches where tents had been pitched, tracks where streets had been formed.	10
34	4	The scene was much the same as before, except for a number of newly pitched tents and the semi-circular, defensive ditch, with its heaped sand and shield wall, its back to the sea, by means of which a number of corsairs, those denied boarding on the ships, had cordoned off a portion of the beach.	10
34	6	This seemed clear from the newly pitched tents on the beach.	10
34	83	"On the beach they are striking the tents," said Aktis.	10
41	95	We were looking toward the many tents of the main encampment of the mercenaries, some two hundred yards behind the second of the two siege ditches.	10
41	137	We were then silent, and looked over the wall, past the double ditch and the now-quiescent engines of war, the three mighty catapults, to the many tents of the enemy, plentiful in the distance, like scattered, disorganized litter.	10
41	203	"But, as you know, several, with the Builder's Glass, have counted the tents as being in the neighborhood of five hundred".	10
43	122	Yet the flashing ring of struck steel was bright under the moon and surely that sound would carry well beyond the catapults, even were it not noticed amongst the distant tents.	10
43	125	My four archers drew, and ignited, from the flaming wicks of unshuttered dark lanterns, one by one, five arrows, each tufted with oil-soaked, shredded cloth, which fiery missiles they launched toward the distant tents.	10
43	134	Four tents there were already, visibly, afire.	10
43	144	In the distance, now, several tents were afire.	10
43	145	Silhouetted against the light I could make out numbers of small figures rushing about, striking tents, carrying water.	10
43	147	I stood, for a time, looking back across the field, at the many burning tents.	10
44	52	"Recall the meeting before the tents," I said.	10
44	55	Doubtless an account of such episodes had reached even to the command tents of the enemy, and even to the command cabins of the corsair fleet.	10
44	81	"This morning, in the Builder's Glass," I said, "we saw a large number of mercenaries congregated about the high tents in the distance.	10
44	89	"We saw no burning tents, no stormed redoubts, no impaled officers," said Thurnock.	10
44	109	We noted that violence did not ensue upon the visit to the tents of the corsairs' land command.	10
48	2	One could still smell smoke from the burned tents of the enemy.	10
48	60	It had been put in place several yards beyond where had stood the remoter tents of the enemy.	10
50	21	Almost at the same time as the impact the early morning fog parted and, briefly, I glimpsed several tents, many men, some seizing up weapons, some great heaps of stone blocks, of the sort which had been used in the great catapults of the mercenaries near Mytilene, and a flare of fire to the right.	10
53	28	"Tents in the sea, like sails, men with ladders?" said Thurnock.	10
53	47	There was much screaming, much confusion, a splintering of ladders, a tumbling of rectangular blocks of stone, intended originally to be ammunition for the great catapults, the tearing loose of tent pegs which had been pounded into the flesh of the island, and a scattering of tents rising from the b...	10
56	36	Then it submerged, and the water was filled with startled, struggling men, ladders, tents, supplies, and a camp's debris.	10