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Book 1. (15 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	9	His desk, a vast wooden table, was piled with papers and pots of ink, and pens and scissors and leather fasteners and binders.	10
6	70	When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.	10
6	134	Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open.	10
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	8	I said nothing, knowing in my heart that I, in my way, had been responsible for this vast martial array on the banks of the Vosk.	10
11	21	That night we brought the caravan into the palisaded keep prepared for Mintar by Pa-Kur, the Master Assassin, who was the Ubar of this vast, scarcely organized, predatory horde.	10
11	47	This vast city of silk would surely have its Street of Brands.	10
12	57	The current soon caught it, and it began to spin in slow circles farther and farther out into the midst of that vast force of nature called the Vosk.	10
12	83	Savagely those vast talons struck and closed on my body, forcing the frame for an instant beneath the water, then the tarn was beating the air angrily with his wings, struggling to lift his prey, and suddenly both myself and the heavy frame were pulled free from the water.	10
12	93	And somewhere in that vast array, among the flags and the booming of tarn drums, would have been the girl who had betrayed me.	10
17	61	Perhaps I alone of that vast horde, with the possible exception of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, felt like weeping.	10
18	111	The end of the tunnel widened into a vast chamber, lit by hundreds of energy bulbs.	10
19	26	And I, too, if a higher duty had not called me, might have chosen to follow Marlenus, ruthless Ubar of that vast and violated city.	10
20	15	The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting...	10
20	71	But if I am so summoned, they will do so with the understanding that I am resolved to be no pawn in their vast games.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	4	Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf.	10
20	78	The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who...	10
20	97	Its vast wings futilely, wildly, struck out, uncoordinated and frenetic, like the limbs of a drowning swimmer.	10
24	12	Behind the counter the thin, bald-headed proprietor, his forehead glistening, his slick black apron stained with spices, juices and wine, busily worked his long mixing paddle in a vast pot of bubbling Kal-da.	10

Book 3. (17 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	33	At last there was a great creak and the vast portal parted a hand's breadth and then the width of a shoulder and the width of a man's body.	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
7	66	I am a warrior of Ko-ro-ba and I issue the challenge of a warrior to the Priest-Kings of Gor! Let us do battle! Let us make war!" My voice echoed for a long time in the vast chamber, but I received no response to my challenge.	10
9	234	It had six legs and a great head like a globe of gold with eyes like vast luminous disks.	10
10	58	I looked about me and found myself on a high, railed platform, overlooking a vast circular artificial canyon, lined with bridges and terraces.	10
10	59	In the depths of this canyon and on the terraces that mounted its sides were innumerable structures, largely geometrical solids—cones, cylinders, lofty cubes, domes, spheres and such—of various sizes, colors and illuminations, many of which even towered to the level of the platform whe...	10
12	1	Two Muls On a marble circle of some half pasang in width, in the bottom of that vast, brilliantly lit, many-colored artificial canyon the oval disk diminished its speed and drew to a stop.	10
18	88	"Sometimes this is spoken of as the Home Stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome.	10
18	122	Sarm, standing on that high platform with me, over the bluish dome, over the refulgent power source so far below, lifted his antennae and turned, sweeping them over this vast, intricate, beautiful, formidable domain.	10
18	175	"Good," said Sarm, and we began to trace our way downward around that vast bluish globe that sheltered the power source of Priest-Kings.	10
25	109	In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope.	10
27	326	She seemed not to understand my question and I was afraid for her as I saw her ancient brown carcass begin to shake with spasmodic tremors which I feared might herald the close of that vast life.	10
29	74	My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...	10
31	230	He stood thusly on the walkway at the top of the vast blue dome beneath which burned and hissed the power source of Priest-Kings.	10
33	11	From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within.	10
34	7	But the little fellow's sandy hair and pale, watery eyes were hidden in the vast sleeve of his blue robe as he leaned against my side and wept unabashedly.	10
35	33	It would be long before the powers of the broken Nest could be restored, before the Scanning Chamber could function again, before the vast damages done to the Nest could be repaired, but men and Priest-Kings were even now at work, side by side.	10

Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	33	These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.	10
2	9	What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do...	10
2	59	Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the...	10
3	129	It was like a sea or a vast natural phenomenon slowly approaching.	10
3	131	Now, also, for the first time, I could clearly smell the herd, a rich, vast, fresh, musky, pervasive odor, compounded of trampled grass and torn earth, of the dung, urine and sweat of perhaps more than a million beasts.	10
5	14	I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...	10
7	4	The wagon itself was the largest in the camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these...	10
7	5	The hides that formed the dome were of a thousand colors, and the smoke hole at the top must have stood more than a hundred feet from the flooring of that vast platform.	10
7	8	A large dais had been built, vast and spreading, but standing no more than a foot from the earth.	10
9	20	I say "in effect" because the fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the Caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the Sardar Fairs, ...	10
14	58	The sewn, painted boskhides that had covered the domed framework over the vast wagon of Kutaituchik hung slashed and rent from the joined tem-wood poles of the framework.	10
18	116	About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden.	10
21	189	We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the Tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming Thassa itself.	10
23	133	Then again we heard the bosk horns and the Paravaci, in vast ranks, like sweeping crescents, like steel scythes of men and animals and arms, far extending beyond our own lines, began to move slowly towards us, gaining steadily in momentum and speed with each traversed yard of stained prairie.	10
26	134	He dismounted and picked up a lounging garment from the vast sleeping platform in the room, holding it to the noses of the two sleen.	10
27	6	Indeed, Saphrar's secret hordes alone, kept in dozens of vast underground storehouses, would have been enough to have made each and every Tuchuk, and perhaps each Kataii and Kassar as well, a rich man—a very rich man—in any of the cities of Gor.	10

Book 5. (18 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	179	Kazrak had offended the Caste of Initiates primarily by levying taxes on their vast holdings throughout the city and upon occasion upholding the rulings of the administrative courts over the courts of the Initiates.	10
2	194	The new Administrator of Ar was a man named Minus Tentius Hinrabius, an unimportant man except for being of the Hinrabian family, prominent among the Builders, having the major holdings in the vast, walled Hinrabian kilns, where much of Ar's brick is produced.	10
2	235	"Ar is a vast city," said Portus.	10
9	21	Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...	10
13	50	There were dozens of pools in the vast, spreading Capacian Baths.	10
13	132	She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...	10
13	234	The cot was one of six in a vast and lofty cylinder containing many of the offices and dormitories of those associated professionally with the Greens.	10
13	265	I turned about and walked back on the perch and again stood on the thick, beamed framework of tem-wood that formed the vast housing for numerous racing birds.	10
13	320	I waited on the height of the stadium, looking down into that vast, open structure, empty and white.	10
15	113	For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...	10
16	255	The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.	10
19	368	Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous Thassa.	10
21	42	"By betting secretly on the Yellows, whom he controls," said Vancius, "Cernus has accumulated, through agents, vast fortunes in the races".	10
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat...	10
22	214	When the bird came first to the perches of victory there was no sound from the crowd, that vast multitude totally silent.	10
22	353	I think there were none in that vast stadium who did not for the moment, even in the sun of summer, feel a swift chill, suddenly fearing themselves endangered, suddenly feeling themselves unwitting intruders, trespassers, wandered by accident, unwilling, into the domain of that majestic carnivore, t...	10
23	184	One with a vast portal open to the air, sheer on all sides.	10
24	106	At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...	10

Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	50	On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...	10
1	95	And the great, vast clean smell of Thassa was clear.	10
9	91	Port Kar, squalid, malignant Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa, Tarn of the Sea, is a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals.	10
13	5	Some four months ago I, in my swiftest ram-ship, accompanied by my two other ram-ships, and escorted, as well, by five ram-ships of the arsenal, heavy class, had come to the vast, wall-encircled harbors of Telnus, which is the capital city of the Ubarate of Cos.	10
13	178	"Are you not the one who, in the delta of the Vosk, was overcome by vast numbers of rencers, and forced to abandon your barges, and a treasure of rence paper and slaves?" "This man is dangerous," said Lysias to Chenbar.	10
16	437	We looked out over the vast throng, shaken in its jubilation and its tears.	10
16	441	And I saw tears, too, in the eyes of the vast crowds, with their torches, before me.	10
18	297	We could, from the ramparts, look out over the marsh, stretching far beyond, that vast, beautiful delta of the great Vosk, through which I had come, so long ago.	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	101	It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height.	10
7	75	Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck.	10
8	54	They were scaled, vast and long-necked.	10
8	84	The land tharlarion can swim barges across the river, but he is not as efficient as the vast river tharlarion.	10
8	711	The piece of meat disappeared into that vast, fanged orifice and the large, round eyes blinked sleepily, contentedly.	10
9	203	And they could fight with knives and knew the trails and trees of the vast forests.	10
9	330	In the dark sky the moons were vast and bright.	10
11	1094	Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit.	10
11	1105	It lay somewhere among the lofty, vast terrains of the rugged Voltai, perhaps as much a fortress, a lair, of outlaw tarnsmen as a city.	10
11	1275	It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests.	10
13	516	It was not long before I realized that if I did not alter my direction I would have departed the vast thicket, in which I had taken refuge.	10
13	522	The din, the beating on pans and kettles, and the shouting, was now sweeping towards me, in a vast semicircle.	10
16	149	Then I dared to look again upon the vast, looming moons of Gor.	10
16	298	I knelt alone then, chained, on the summit of the grassy hillock, beneath the vast, looming moons.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	166	Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her...	10
18	26	There were no sails, no distant particles of yellow canvas, bespeaking the ships of Tyros, that cluttered that incredible vast margin, the meeting place of the great elements of the sky and the sea.	10
18	408	I looked out to sea, across the vast, placid waters of Thassa, now bright with oblique moonlight.	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	113	And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former Free Companion, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and resol...	10
1	580	He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta.	10
2	65	The slender, striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and fall, be taken in great numbers.	10
16	91	We came then to a great arch, which marked the entrance to a vast room, lost in darkness beyond the flickering spheres of our uplifted torches.	10
18	306	We passed the poles of the vast pen.	10
18	634	Single, or scattered, Kurii might, as before, forage south, but I did not think they would again regroup in vast numbers.	10
20	123	It tottered, eyes wild, not understanding, then understanding, the hilt protruding from its chest, stopped only by the guard, the blade fixed in the vast eight-valved heart.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	14	I regarded the vast map on the floor of the chamber.	10
1	15	I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...	10
1	708	On the map at our feet, where we stood, where Samos had indicated, was a representation, several feet in extent, of a vast desert, the greatest desert of known Gor.	10
1	811	Even in the reduced scale of the map the desert seemed vast.	10
1	820	It is a vast area, and generally rocky, and hilly, save in the dune country.	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
14	630	In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered.	10
17	205	The Old One turned, its vast sicklelike tail snapping across the beams.	10
17	226	The long, vast body hurtled through the water, tail switching.	10
25	405	I dragged Tarna by the rope to her vast couch, and flung her to the yellow cushions.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	123	I looked out upon the vast fields of grass.	10
1	138	The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff...	10
1	190	Then I turned and walked from the rock, some five feet, and looked out over the vast grassy fields.	10
10	54	The Vosk is a mighty river which flows westward, emptying into a vast rence delta, finding its way eventually to Thassa, the sea.	10
12	116	I had stood there, looking out over the wall, at the vast fields about.	10
21	30	Did I not know I was a slave girl? What did I expect? To be treated as a free woman? How vast a thing, how vicious and disproportionate it was that I, a mere slave girl, for so small a fault, if fault it was, had sentenced him to the tortures of the galleys.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	136	It is as though two families lived separated in a vast remote area.	10
18	28	Four feet of the shaft disappeared into the side of the vast mammal.	10
37	5	Behind us, in the winter sky, looming, streaming hundreds of pasangs upward into the sky, shimmering and flickering, extended vast, subtle curtains of chromatic lights, yellows, and pinks and reds.	10

Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

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1	46	I had met Half-Ear there, in a vast northern complex, an enormous supply depot intended to arm and fuel, and otherwise logistically support, the projected invasion of Gor, the Counter-Earth.	10
1	251	I conjectured that it must have been a marvelous moment when Shaba and his men, toiling with ropes and poles, wading and shoveling, brought their two craft to the clear vista of vast, deep Lake Ngao.	10
1	261	"And it was there that he discovered that Lake Ngao was fed, incredibly enough, by only one major river, as its eastern extremity, a river vast enough to challenge even the Vosk in its breadth and might, a river which he called the Ua".	10
1	485	The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.	10
6	364	It was a smell of vast greeneries, steaming and damp, and of incredible flowers and immensities of rotting vegetation.	10
18	138	It was not in the best interest of Shaba, or myself, or Msaliti, for the power of the ring to come to the attention of the sovereign of this vast equatorial ubarate.	10
33	5	There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards h...	10
42	12	It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast.	10
50	1	The Lake; The Ancient City; We Will Enter the Ancient City "It is so vast," said Ayari.	10
53	110	In these maps and records, for those who can understand them, lie the first glimpses of new and vast countries.	10
53	124	"What of the moneys, those vast sums wrought from the Kurii, the notes negotiated in Schendi?" I asked.	10
54	5	To it led the several flights of broad stairs, ascending from that vast marble landing, with its marble mooring posts, which lies at the western edge of the ancient city, that landing to which we had first come, days ago, after our crossing of the lake.	10
54	9	We looked out over the placid, vast lake.	10
55	7	There was a vast, spreading billowing cloud of dust and leaves.	10
57	49	I thought of Shaba, and his voyages of exploration, the circumnavigation of Lake Ushindi, the discovery and circumnavigation of Lake Ngao, and the discovery and exploration of the Ua, even to the discovery of its source in the placid waters of that vast lake he had called Lake Bila Huruma.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	291	"More likely than your scenario for the future," I said, "would be times of great conflict and tumult, the precipitation of horrifying and vast wars".	10
7	947	"Statistically, of course," I said, "there are vast and obvious differences between them, both psychological and physical, but some men can be found who are very feminine and some women can be found who are extremely masculine.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	102	Beyond that door lay not the bricks, the gutters, the dingy air, the hurrying of traffic, the triviality and misery, which had previously lain outside it, but now, as the door opened, we saw open fields, vast and green, and a sky that was gloriously blue, studded with scudding clouds.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	68	It contrasted strongly with the vast, organic smell of the river.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	901	"But it is surely improbable that the paths of the man and the helper should cross in the vast, trackless wastes of the snowbound Barrens," said Samos.	10
1	1243	I recalled the destruction of the vast supply complex in the Gorean arctic.	10
2	212	They are, in fact, substantially, vast tracts of rolling grasslands, lying east of the Thentis mountains.	10
6	89	I opted, accordingly, taking them for my authorities in the matter, for a weapon similar in design to theirs, one which had, apparently, proven its usefulness in the abrupt, sudden and fierce engagements characteristic of war on the vast grasslands of the Barrens.	10
14	375	Too, the men of Gor were human, certainly derived from Earth stock, brought perhaps long ago to this world, in the Voyages of Acquisition, when Priest-Kings, the golden lords of Gor, were still young, and curious, about the universe and its vast and mysterious contents.	10

Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	713	A thousand memories rushed to my mind, of the vast, tawny Tahari, of its bleakness, and its dunes, of its caravans, of its oases and palaces.	10
32	57	In my own concerns, in my own purposes in the Barrens, to locate and warn Zarendargar of his danger, I had given too little thought to the obvious role of the fierce Kurii in the military politics of the vast grasslands east of the Thentis mountains.	10
41	140	The universe was surely vast and mysterious.	10
50	164	The horizons in the Barrens are vast and beautiful.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	14	I was on a vast bed, or couch.	10
33	836	A vast, intense and lengthy search was undertaken to recover her.	10

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	991	This had primarily to do with her situation, in the northwestern portion of the estuary of the Vosk, the waters of the Tamber Gulf and Thassa before her, the vast, trackless marshes of the Vosk's delta behind her.	10
2	133	The ticket is of rence paper, which is cheap in Port Kar, owing to its proximity to one of Gor's major habitats for the rence plant, the vast marshes of the Vosk's delta.	10
6	1063	"Be gone, scamps, scoundrels, rogues!" cried Boots, with a vast, wild threatening gesture.	10
14	71	Much of this stone, in its great surrounding, irregular alignments, seemed almost to form the serrated ridge of some vast, ancient, natural bowl, now muchly crumbled and weathered.	10
14	256	"The people do not hurt Nim Nim!" I wondered if somewhere in that vast pack of animals there might be other representatives of the urt people.	10
14	318	Every animal in that vast pack was now oriented toward that location, that sound.	10
16	36	"Back, even in your vast numbers, you warriors and foes," cried Petrucchio, grimly, "lest I slice you like roast tarsk, lest I shred you like tur-pah and peel you like suls!" Chino and Lecchio, understood as two simple travelers on the road, come unexpectedly on Petrucchio and his companions, looked...	10
16	780	I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles.	10
18	339	A sudden vast hissing flow of boiling oil spread eagerly, deeply, outward, away from the tilted rim.	10
22	335	I stepped away from the grassy height from which we surveyed the vast, distant fleet.	10
22	378	It was a vast fleet.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4	119	They were not isolated in vast plains areas, for example, as were certain subequatorial Wagon Peoples, such as Tuchuks and Kassars.	10
15	209	You may remain indefinitely in Torcadino with these vast quantities of supplies.	10
18	143	"Perhaps I shall find I own vast estates, that funds in trust have been left for me, that I am of noble family, that I am one of the richest and most powerful women in Ar!" "Why should you think such things?" I asked.	10
20	21	"I had not realized how vast was the city," said one of the men.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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10	153	I could see the vast, hairy chest, crossed by the two belts.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

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24	95	I felt so small, like a particle adrift on a vast sea, beneath a vast sky, a particle taken here and there, at the mercy of the tides, the currents, the winds, not understanding.	10
1	11	This arrangement, incidentally, is not common with the southern wagon peoples, such as Tuchuks, if only because of the vast numbers of wagons.	10
8	632	I was aflight! For a time I muchly gave the bird its head, and then, some pasangs out, drew it about, to sweep the sky in a vast circle, this centering about the inn, far below.	10
17	388	I then went to the wall and looked out, once more, on the vast panoply before me, across the burned, leveled ground, at the engines, the troops, the hulks and shells of buildings in the distance.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3	99	By now, too, it seemed likely, over the winter, that Myron would have been able to rebuild his vast stores.	10
13	327	"It is so vast, so green, so much the same, yet everywhere different," said another.	10
17	202	"Such vast clouds, so black," said a man.	10
19	340	Most female slaves on Gor, indeed, the vast majority, almost all, needless to say, are branded.	10
21	127	In time, perhaps a few months, it might even find its way to the Tamber, and, perhaps, in time, to the surgent green washes, the vast rolling swells, of Thassa herself, the sea.	10
46	346	From this vantage, too, of course, I could look about, over the vast floor of this open structure, beneath its wooden roof, supported on numerous tall, squared pillars.	10
46	364	I did not think, however, that Ina would have been likely to have been able to reach the roof, or, if she could, that she would be likely to think of such a place, one so vast and open.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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18	603	He is known from the steaming jungles of Schendi to the ice packs of the north, from the pebbly shores of Thassa to the vast, dry barrens east of the Thentis range!" "What is his name?" inquired Marcus, eagerly.	10

Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

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8	588	I looked out, at the narrow ledge, the beautiful mountains, the vast, bright, late-afternoon cloudy sky over the mountains.	10
10	298	Women such as I, on this world, are much at the mercy of men! There was suddenly, to my left, out from the ledge, a piercing scream, a great smiting sound, and, on my right, on the cliff, as though flung there, twisting, a vast moving, wheeling shadow.	10
10	428	Perhaps we might feel small before the mountains, in their vast, mute grandeur, but men, here, had made themselves a part of this, making for themselves a lair, an aerie, in this very magnificence, like eagles.	10
13	99	Certainly the vast majority of us did not have caste.	10
13	107	And, indeed, the vast majority of female slaves on this world would surely be native to this world, and would, thus, presumably, have once had caste.	10

Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	345	Secondly, it is useful to keep in mind that the cultures of this supposed world have not been affected by the development of certain vast, far-reaching, centralizing, reductive, dehumanizing, mechanistic technologies; they have not been affected by, for example, global industrialization, socially en...	10
15	426	Such papers, as may have been mentioned, are unnecessary and are not kept on the vast majority of slaves.	10
17	1187	She knew that throughout vast periods of human history, indeed by far the most of it, the human chattel had been an article of commerce.	10
22	628	But where along those vast walls was the stockade of the sutlers? She crouched down in the dirt, and wept.	10
26	336	As these matters are complex and subtle I will mention no more than a tiny corner of the concealed fabric, of the vast hidden tapestry into which are woven so many persistent, whispering truths.	10
27	10	By the time, several pasangs away, the nature of the diversion was understood, the flighted tarns being regained, or it being understood that most, if not all, had been riderless, it had become morning and the vast camp, bit by bit, shortly after dawn, had been broken, the thousands of men, their go...	10
27	670	Perhaps it had succumbed to geological upheavals, or other natural catastrophes, perhaps meteoritic bludgeonings from space, eradicating entire species, or from sun flares which might scald a world, or from an uprooting which might produce a moon and leave behind a vast basin to be filled with water...	10
27	1108	They are supposedly an area of vast prairies somewhere far away, far to the east.	10
27	3259	The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung.	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	145	The putative location of the at-that-time-fugitive Zarendargar was the vast prairies of the Gorean Barrens.	10
1	971	It is understood that there is a vast and unbridgeable chasm between the priceless free woman and the worthless slave.	10
40	129	With power weapons, Gor, and Earth, might be broken into fragments, each too small to hold an atmosphere, but here an atmosphere may be the more easily lost, escaping through vast ruptures, ruptures easily consequent upon the charges of the larger power weapons".	10
69	51	In any event, a skimpy, rent, castoff tunic may be more precious to a slave than a vast, expensive wardrobe to her free sister.	10
79	435	"Matched?" "Yes, by a vast intelligence, one beyond our grasp".	10
79	490	"I do not like being manipulated," said Cabot, "even by vast, incomprehensible intelligences".	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	20	On the other hand, the greater numbers, indeed, the vast majority, of Gorean slavers, one supposes, as Goreans of other sorts, had never seen such a ship.	10
2	24	Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth.	10
3	204	I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...	10
5	483	Many of the best forces of Ar, her finest troops, her best officers, by intent, to divert them from the defense of the city, had been earlier ordered to the vast delta of the Vosk, to engage there in an alleged punitive expedition against supposed incursions from Cos and Tyros.	10
5	499	Because of the vast, triangular spreading of the Vosk river, into dozens of smaller rivers, often mutually interfluent, flowing into the Tamber Gulf, which leads to Thassa herself, the sea, that area is known in Gorean as the Delka, or, better, the Delka of the Vosk.	10
35	35	Lord Okimoto smiled, a small smile, almost lost in the bloated mass of that vast countenance.	10
36	62	I had suspected some form of subterfuge, or hoax, from the apparent absence or inaccessibility of Tersites, from my inquiries amongst those of the green caste, and from the igniting of the vast pyre after dark.	10
37	50	She was stately, majestic, surely no lightness like that of a Vosk gull, given her bulk, but as serene and mighty, and as unchallenged here, as might be some vast lake or river tharlarion in its own domain, some ponderous thing, unable and awkward on land perhaps, but, in the water, oddly graceful, ...	10

Book 30. (22 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	40	You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of Thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, intriguing, be...	10
1	42	Outside, away from the portal, down the slope a bit, if one listened, one could hear the water lapping against the pilings, where the vast glory of looming Thassa, in the darkness, deigned to touch the small works of men.	10
1	346	Informed that the invasion force had withdrawn into the delta, the forces of Ar, under the orders of conspirators, entered the extensive, treacherous wastes and swamps of the vast delta in pursuit.	10
2	164	The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies.	10
2	177	Emerging from the fog, literally upon us, suddenly visible, was the vast bulk of the great ship.	10
2	178	There was a wrenching of wood and the cries of men, and the stem and stern of the long ship began to rise out of the water, and the planking amidships, shattering, pressed down, sank into the sea, and then the stem, I clinging to it, collapsed back into the water, and doubtless, on the other side, f...	10
3	1371	This is a vast, floating thing".	10
8	32	Thassa had reserves on which she might draw, the vast pressures of her solidifying surface.	10
8	399	"Perhaps," she said, "but one could flee anywhere, to Torvaldsland, to the deeper recesses of the formidable Voltai, to the vast Barrens, to the long Valley of the Ua, anywhere.	10
9	190	Some spoke of them, as well, as the "cots," though they bore little resemblance to the common tarn cots, if only because of their vast dimensions, even to those which might be maintained by professional tarnsters in the high cities, specializing in freight and haulage.	10
13	34	The mystery of the parsit was solved, of course, as this wilderness of efflorescent plant life in the sea, floating like a vast park of life, drew myriads of small creatures, and these would draw the parsit, and the parsit would draw the shark, the grunt, and the unusual tharlarion.	10
13	52	Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and...	10
13	100	Had helmsmen failed to keep the charted course? The Vine Sea moves, like a vast garden in the sea, but perhaps it had not moved as much as had been thought.	10
14	60	Suddenly, ahead, some twenty yards, between the galleys and the numbers of ship's boats, the gigantic body of the wounded tharlarion emerged, its vast body, neck, head, and wide paddlelike appendages running with water, bright in the sunlight.	10
15	49	What a beautiful sight it was, to see the shaking, and then the lifting, and swelling, of those vast breadths of canvas.	10
15	62	Rather we felt the sharp, salted air of bright, vast, green Thassa, fresh and clean, once more in our nostrils, in our lungs, and blood.	10
17	36	They are so beautiful! It was delightful to see them, too, in their free Ehn on deck, hurry to the rail, throw back their heads, and drink in the keen, rushing fresh air of vast, glorious Thassa.	10
19	89	I suddenly cried out, in horror, "Seize the ropes! Seize the ropes!" Before us, the sea had opened, and, before the ship, with steep sides, there appeared a valley, water pouring down its sides, as into a vast hole.	10
21	222	There was something rather deceitful or meretricious in all this, of course, as the Pani had surely not brought these goods across the vast width of turbulent, green Thassa without plans for their disposition.	10
29	42	They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s...	10
33	199	Thassa was vast before him.	10
37	1457	It seemed then, at last, that Tersites had made his peace with vast, mighty Thassa.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	35	In this narrative I am to deal, at least largely, with certain dark matters, political and military, matters which few here suspect, matters certainly unbeknownst to the vast majority of you, you who, in your scattered communities, in your villages, your towns, and walled cities, inhabit this fresh,...	10
15	346	He drew me back, into a small side street, little more than a space between buildings, from which we had just emerged, for I had sought a most clandestine, unfrequented route to the shop of Epicrates, and, holding me tightly against him, covered my mouth tightly with one vast paw.	10
23	89	Shortly thereafter a vast, loose quantity of mud, some fifty paces wide, and perhaps fifteen deep, moved past us, before us, downward, slowly, then more rapidly, to plunge into the valley below, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant.	10
27	114	In any event, whatever may be the truth in these matters, the decor and structure of the vast "Cave" was not uniform, and, from the human point of view, certain areas were more pleasant than others.	10
35	53	"Let us suppose," he said, "that there is a vast conspiracy afoot, with one or more worlds at stake.	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	128	In the house, and here, as the girls spoke, I had heard of lovely Ko-ro-ba, busy Harfax, mighty Ar, and even vast, remote, Turia.	10
15	478	Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But Thassa, I supposed, vast Thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave her wrath where a hundred co...	10
25	134	Relia had told me that in the vast grasslands far to the east, the Barrens, the white slaves of red masters must chew and swallow the root raw.	10
27	59	I would not be aboard when she descended the Alexandra, and would open the wings of her canvas to the winds of Thassa, capricious, vast, turbulent Thassa, the sea.	10
44	23	I did know that a small unevenness in one's pace, a tiny difference in the stride of one foot as opposed to the other, common in almost anyone, save perhaps those trained in a measured stride, such as warriors, might result in one's eventually describing a vast circle, but I did not think I had cove...	10

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	6	I buckled the safety strap, and snapped the reins, and my mount leapt from the wall, spread its vast wings, and, after soaring a few Ihn, struck against the air and surged upward.	10
21	87	But how could that defeated remnant of the forces of Temmu, removed to a far coast, return to the war, whose fields lay across the vast, turbulent breadth of Thassa, beyond even the Farther Islands, from whose waters no ship had returned? Let there be then a ship, a great ship, an unusual ship.	10
25	273	"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...	10
44	292	"The brutality, the size, the fangs of steel, the scales, the vast, skinlike wings, the ridged, spikelike tail, the claws of steel, the shining eyes about the head, the breath of fire?" "Yes, great lord," I said.	10
45	31	Long ago, in the Nest of Priest-Kings, in the Nest War, I was familiar with such things, the flat, circular transportation disks which could be used to speedily negotiate the vast intricate corridors and halls of the nest.	10
51	14	"Search then for such a vast chamber," I said.	10
53	45	Do not all dragons have vast, fearful batlike wings? In a sense then, the wings were quite essential, to convey the illusion.	10
54	212	* * * Following the benign display of the dragon over the vast, southern camp, which we took, from its location, its proximity to the northern road, facilitating communications with, and the movement of supplies from, Yamada's heartland, to be the headquarters of the besieging forces, we moved, in a...	10
57	160	"The palace is vast and the rooms many".	10
61	36	It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, freezing country b...	10
61	164	How would the rider, whom I surmised would be either Tajima, Pertinax, or Ichiro, locate me? Whereas the camp was not nearly as large as the vast road camps of the earlier advance of Lord Yamada on the holding of Temmu, it was large enough.	10
61	187	If the altercation between these two houses was indeed wagered on by mysterious gamblers, perhaps treading the depths of a vast nest in the Sardar, or in orbiting worlds of steel, it would lack a resolution.	10
61	539	Ahead lay vast, green, turbulent Thassa.	10
61	1292	I then turned my attention to the east, and the vast, swelling billows of Thassa, extending before me to the horizon.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	446	Those I was familiar with, those with whom I commonly associated, were refined, effete, tentative, weak, apologetic, reluctant, well-trained, correct, embarrassed by their sex, taught to suspect it, if not despise it, so concerned they were to conform to the required stereotypes of the lubricated, w...	10
9	144	For example, one might have a large, undifferentiated, individually competitive population in which millions struggle for a trag­ically limited quantity of desiderata, which must, mathematically, be beyond the reach of the vast majority, for example, a limited number of favored professions, a lim...	10
11	26	They are found in fresh water, but return, through the delta of the Vosk, to the salt water of vast, turbulent Thassa to spawn.	10
33	163	"Surely this is not some vast, inexplicable, overwhelming coincidence".	10
34	174	She has her turbulent, mighty Thassa, but she has no second, vast sea, like that you speak of as the Pacific".	10
63	156	We cried out in fear for there was a sudden sound, striking us like a bludgeon, a sudden snap of wings, great wings, not twenty feet from us, over us, air rushing about us, buffeting us, we covered for an instant by a vast, fleet shadow.	10
64	68	The best known public bath in Ar is the vast Capacian, almost a small city in itself with shops, restaurants, libraries, and gymnasiums.	10
65	198	At that point, from the darkness, a voice called out, "Deploy, Sleen of Mintar, the urts are in the trap!" Lucilius may have understood little of this, but the men with him were only too aware of the might of the merchant, Mintar, his vast web of agents and informants, his generous rewards for the a...	10

Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	883	Almost at the same moment, amidst cries of terror and distress from across the water, there was a sudden, vast sound of buckling, broken, ruptured, splintering, shattering planking.	10
11	7	The northern and eastern seawalls of Port Kar abut on the vast marshes of the Vosk delta, the western and southern on the Tamber.	10
11	40	I was well within a pasang of the great arsenal of Port Kar, with its warehouses, shops, vast shipyard, and inner harbor.	10
15	178	Now, apparently, despite hundreds of bounty hunters and vast searches, she had arrived safely in Cos.	10
33	29	Would it not be interesting to look in on such a meeting?" The delta is vast, of course.	10
33	119	Some speculate that the humans who had long ago taken to the vast, formidable delta marshes, perhaps fleeing to them, might have realized the possibility of rence islands from the nest building of the marsh kite.	10
33	120	Certainly the vast, trackless, treacherous marshes would discourage invasion or pursuit; would they not constitute a barrier more immense and impenetrable than a thousand walls of stone? Shortly thereafter the three notes were repeated.	10
33	300	"Whatever vast intelligence resides within or speaks through the dreadful housing before me, know that I have long sought your acquaintance," called Bruno of Torcadino.	10
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
47	366	"There was a monster in the delta, seemingly of supple metal, powerful and vast, consorting with Pa-Kur," I said.	10

Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	134	Now, in the vast darkness of failure and disappointment, I glimpsed a tiny light.	10
11	139	My first Gorean had been learned in Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, in the western, northern latitudes of the vast Gorean continent.	10
14	44	"In the vast Tahari," I said, "thirsting men have rushed upon the lances of foes, have tried to drink one another's blood".	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	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
23	25	From its decks he sees vast skies and the glory of the sea.	10
25	10	They were vast, desolate, and lonely.	10
32	95	"What could they have to hope for but a swift and bloody death, pitting themselves against our vast numbers".	10
32	96	"'Our vast numbers'?" said Xanthos.	10
51	91	"The hith, nearly exterminated on land," said Sakim, "took to cover and plenty, to the vast world of the sea".	10
53	88	Tab had the Dorna backoared from the Brigand Island, whose tremors had now subsided, and whose pilots were already struggling to rekindle fires in which irons might be heated, enabling them to control the course and speed of their vast mount.	10
59	396	The sea is vast.	10