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Book 1. (28 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	131	As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs in width, which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Tamber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar.	10
5	133	However, I took the pellet from my tunic and dropped it into the wide waters of the Vosk.	10
5	138	Shortly after crossing the Vosk, I had descended and made camp, thereafter traveling only at night.	10
9	60	What I would do when we reached the Margin of Desolation and the broad Vosk River, I didn't know.	10
9	104	It is a city in the delta of the Vosk and as much a den of pirates as anything else.	10
9	114	"Now, while the men of Ar fight among themselves for the cylinders, an army is gathering from fifty cities, massing on the banks of the Vosk to invade Ar.	10
9	125	"To the banks of the Vosk, to the City of Tents," said the warrior.	10
11	2	Now, in the distance, we could hear the muffled roar of the mighty Vosk.	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	14	As it was, my fellow guards and I earned our pay those last few pasangs to the banks of the Vosk.	10
11	27	The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba.	10
12	3	I turned my head, sick to my stomach, and threw up into the turbid waters of the Vosk.	10
12	51	Then, each of the men of Pa-Kur, as is the custom before a frame is surrendered to the waters of the Vosk, spit on my body.	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	60	I knew that I would not, some days hence, reach the delta of the Vosk and the cities in the delta except perhaps as a bound corpse, withered by exposure and the lack of water.	10
12	62	It was far more likely that one of the water lizards of the Vosk or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would seize my body and drag it and the frame under the water, destroying me in the mud below.	10
12	67	My throat was parched, and, hanging only an inch or so above the Vosk, I burned with thirst.	10
12	78	The sun swept into the sky again, and my second day on the Vosk began.	10
12	88	The Vosk became a broad, glimmering ribbon in the distance.	10
12	91	As nearly as I could determine, we did not pass over or near the great highway that ran to the Vosk.	10
12	152	As nearly as I could determine from the map and my memory of the location of the Vosk and the direction I had been carried, I was somewhere in the Voltai Range, sometimes called the Red Mountains, south of the river and to the east of Ar.	10
13	8	In the far distance I could see the silver wire I knew must be the great Vosk, could see the abrupt shift from the grassy plains to the Margin of Desolation.	10
13	10	To the southwest I could see dimly the evening light reflected from the spires of Ar, and to the north, approaching from the Vosk, I could see the glow from what must be thousands of cooking fires, the night's camp of Pa-Kur.	10
15	87	"For two days I rode down the banks of the Vosk.	10
15	93	"I found the frame," Kazrak said, "half a pasang from the Vosk, broken.	10
19	142	I remembered the incident of the crossbow and the tarn disk over the Vosk.	10
20	18	Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	22	Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moons might occasionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk.	10
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
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...	10
21	229	And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de...	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	43	It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.	10
8	147	Thus when the tarnsmen of Treve came to the grain fields of Ko-ro-ba, which lie for the most part some pasangs from the city, toward the Vosk and Tamber Gulf, they would find her tarnsmen arrayed against them.	10
8	152	Treve's other needs seemed to be satisfied much in the same way as her agricultural ones, for her raiders were known from the borders of the Fair of En'Kara, in the very shadow of the Sardar, to the delta of the Vosk and the islands beyond, such as Tyros and Cos.	10
35	3	We had left the Fair of Se'Var and were making our way around the perimeter of the Sardar Range before crossing the Vosk on the way to Ar.	10

Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	On the north they claimed lands even to the rush-grown banks of the Cartius, a broad, swift flowing tributary feeding into the incomparable Vosk.	10
1	22	The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the Cartius.	10
2	90	It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache...	10
3	97	"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples".	10
7	154	Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper, made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the Vosk.	10
7	168	This again suggested the delta of the Vosk.	10
11	192	"Those are Vosk gulls," said Kamchak.	10
11	193	"In the spring, when the ice breaks in the Vosk, they fly north".	10
11	197	This is the time that the Vosk gulls fly".	10
12	220	Lastly it might be mentioned, thinking it is of some interest, musicians on Gor are never enslaved; they may, of course, be exiled, tortured, slain and such; it is said, perhaps truly, that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.	10
17	28	It might, too, be a Vosk turtle.	10
17	30	Yet, if it had been a tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air.	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	102	Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges...	10
5	198	The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of masters, is Port Kar, which lies in the delta of the Vosk.	10
12	372	There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...	10
15	3	The music was wild, a melody of the delta of the Vosk.	10
15	388	I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Vosk, far to the south and west of Ar.	10
17	135	The only exception to this that I know of is Port Kar, in the delta of the Vosk.	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

Book 6. (37 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
3	190	Ho-Hak once again sat down on the curved shell of the great Vosk sorp, that shell that served him as throne in this his domain, an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk.	10
1	5	It was formed of pliant, tubular, lengthy Vosk rushes, bound with marsh vine.	10
1	6	To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.	10
1	56	No one had been found who would guide me into the delta of the Vosk.	10
1	57	The bargemen of the Vosk will not take their wide, broad-bottomed craft into the delta.	10
1	58	The channels of the Vosk, to be sure, shift from season to season, and the delta is often little more than a trackless marsh, literally hundreds of square pasangs of estuarial wilderness.	10
1	65	I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.	10
3	16	"So," said Ho-Hak, regarding me, "you are on your way to Port Kar?" He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which, for these people, I gather it was.	10
3	95	On his forehead there was tied a headband formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	97	Ho-Hak still did not speak, but sat on the shell of the Vosk sorp, looking down at the weapons, mine, before him.	10
3	128	He handed the bow to the fellow with the headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp bound about his forehead.	10
3	165	Ho-Hak looked at the man who wore the headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	192	"Torture him for festival," suggested the fellow with the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	233	"That rightless he should serve the Growers of Rence as a beast of burden?" "Let us rather throw him to tharlarion," said the man with the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	262	I found I desperately wanted the respect of this calm, strong man, he most of all, he once a slave, who sat before me on the throne, that shell of the giant Vosk sorp.	10
3	284	There was a great laugh from those gathered about, and, too, in those peals of merriment I heard the laugh of he who wore the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, and, most bitter to me of all, the laugh of contempt of the girl who stood beside me, her thigh at my cheek.	10
3	305	There was a great laughter, and rich in that humiliating thunder was the snort of the fellow who wore the headband, that formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp.	10
3	340	"I should have thought," said he with the headband, formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, "that you might have preferred a man for a slave, one who is proud and does not fear death".	10
4	65	The sun, though it was late afternoon, was still hot, and it was humid in the delta of the Vosk, and my hands ached, and were blistered.	10
4	229	Then on an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk I had learned myself, that I was, in the core of myself, ignoble and craven, worthless and fearing, only coward.	10
5	87	It was he who wore the headband of the pearls of Vosk sorp about his forehead, who had been unable to bend the bow.	10
5	157	I saw, in the crowd, Ho-Hak, clapping his hands and singing, and the others, and he who had worn the headband formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, who had been unable to bend the bow.	10
6	43	I saw the rencer who had worn the headband of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, who had been unable to bend the bow.	10
8	11	Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.	10
8	57	My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting...	10
8	339	In the marshes of the delta of the Vosk I had lost Tarl Cabot.	10
8	345	As I, in the chair of the oar-master, faced the bow of the vessel, he, as slave at the benches, faced its stern, and the chair of the oar-master, that which now served me as Ubar's throne, in this small wooden country lost in the marshes of the Vosk's delta.	10
9	109	Further, of course, it is next to impossible to bring large bodies of armed men through the delta of the Vosk, or, under the conditions of the marsh, to supply them or maintain them in a protracted siege.	10
9	291	Piles he had already commissioned from a smith; and Thura, on his command, this afternoon, with a bit of stick, had struck down a Vosk gull, that the shafts he fashioned, whether from Ka-la-na or tem-wood, would be well fletched.	10
9	655	And then the dawn came and, over the buildings of Port Kar, beyond them, and beyond the shallow, muddy Tamber, where the Vosk empties, we saw, I for the first time, gleaming Thassa, the Sea.	10
13	12	I put to them, the Ubars of Cos and Tyros, as well as I could, the proposals of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, that there would be concord, and doubtless an opening of commerce, between the two Ubarates and the maligned city in the Vosk's delta, my own Port Kar.	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
13	512	By the end of the second month the flag of Bosk, carried by one ship or another, was known from Ianda to Torvaldsland, and from the delta of the Vosk to the throne rooms of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	153	Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk...	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
18	618	For an instant, white-faced, wild, I saw below Lysias, with his helmet with its crest of sleen hair, and beside him, with the string of pearls of the Vosk sorp about his forehead, the rencer Henrak, who had, long ago, betrayed the rencers for the gold of Port Kar.	10

Book 7. (16 results) Captive of Gor

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7	12	The Laurius, like the Vosk, flows in a generally westerly direction, though the Laurius inclines more to the southwest than the great Vosk.	10
13	744	Seldom did Vosk pirates ply their trade where the Vosk bordered the regions of Ar.	10
13	749	If it was now possible, or soon would be possible, to bring a land army easily southward to Ar, once the Vosk was traversed, by the same token, it would be similarly possible for Ar to bring, swiftly, a considerable force of men northward, to the very shore of the Vosk.	10
7	11	It does not have the breadth and current which are the terrors of the titanic Vosk farther to the south, well below Ko-ro-ba, though well above Ar, which is said to be the greatest city of all known Gor.	10
12	422	"We have not yet even come to the Vosk".	10
12	423	The Vosk is a great river, which borders the claims of Ar, on the north.	10
13	76	The tiny village, Rarir, in which she had been born, lay south of the Vosk, and near the shores of Thassa.	10
13	134	If I were to go with Ute, I would surely prefer to go to an exchange island, with some of the amenities of civilization, rather than to a rude village south of the Vosk.	10
13	739	Once, he said to me, "We are crossing the Vosk".	10
13	740	I knew then we were within the territory of Ar, and must be high over the Margin of Desolation, a barren area, now recovering itself, which, years ago, had been cleared and devastated, that the northern fields of Ar by such a natural barrier, by such a wall of hunger and thirst, might be protected, ...	10
13	742	Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates.	10
13	750	Of tradition, the northern shore of the Vosk was disputed by various cities.	10
15	433	Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself.	10
17	238	I was taken, on tarnback, braceleted and hooded, to the city of Port Kar, in the delta of the mighty Vosk.	10
18	42	"You have not forgotten the delta of the Vosk?" she asked.	10
18	45	I could never forget the delta of the Vosk, and my degradation.	10

Book 8. (16 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	177	Tyros' financing of Vosk pirates, over the past century, was an attempt to deprive Ar of the Vosk markets, and make those markets more dependent on overland shipments of goods, originally debarked at shore ports, brought to them by the cargo ships of Tyros, and other maritime powers.	10
1	99	I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.	10
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
6	170	The bad blood between Tyros and Ar had primarily to do with Tyros' financings of Vosk pirates, to harry river shipping and the northern borders of Ar.	10
6	171	Vosk pirates now little bothered the realm of Ar, but the memories remained.	10
6	172	Vosk traffic, to Ar, which has no sea port, is important.	10
6	175	Unfortunately for Ar, or perhaps fortunately for the maritime powers of Thassa, it is almost impossible to bring a large ship or barge through the Vosk's delta to the sea.	10
6	176	Ar remains substantially a land power, but the river traffic, on the Vosk and, to the south, on the Cartius, is important to her.	10
7	2	At my hip was slung the quiver, with sheaf arrows, twenty of them, of black tem wood, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
7	158	At the hemp string, whipped with silk, was a temwood arrow, piled with steel, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
12	188	At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull.	10
13	40	My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body were at right angles to the target line; my head was turned sharply to the left; the first sheaf arrow was drawn to its pile; the three half feathers of the vosk gull were at my jawbone.	10
14	13	Bending over I found a string of cheap beads, formed from the shell of the vosk sorp, broken.	10
14	344	The steel-piled arrow, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull, had pierced his heart.	10
19	445	"Yes," I said, "once long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, I lost my honor.	10
22	863	Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself.	10

Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

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1	6	It was long since I had tasted the fiery paga of the Sa-Tarna fields north of the Vosk.	10
1	23	Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her head with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp.	10
1	103	And then he had ventured to the delta of the Vosk, to make his way through it, to make contact with Samos of Port Kar, agent of Priest-Kings, to continue in their service.	10
1	104	But in the delta of the Vosk he had lost his honor.	10
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	144	But I had no right to such thoughts, for I had surrendered my honor, my courage, in the delta of the Vosk.	10
1	376	"I took the liberty," said Samos, "though at the time I did not know of your injuries, your paralysis, to inform her of what occurred in the delta of the Vosk".	10
1	383	"You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.	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
8	41	In my opinion the goods of Ko-ro-ba were as good, or better, than those of Ar but, it is true, she did not have the reputation of the great city to the southeast, across the Vosk.	10
10	666	I put twenty sheaf arrows into the target, until it bristled with wood and the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10
16	195	Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.	10
22	93	That boy had died in the delta of the Vosk; in his place had come Bosk of Port Kar, ruthless and torn, but grown into his manhood; and now there was another, one whom I might, if I wished, choose to call again Tarl Cabot.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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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

Book 11. (23 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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6	125	We had traveled the Vosk road after crossing the Vosk on barges.	10
5	125	Ti lies on the Olni, a tributary of the Vosk, north of Tharna.	10
6	38	Tabuk's Ford receives its name from the fact that field tabuk were once accustomed, in their annual migrations, to ford the Verl tributary of the Vosk in its vicinity.	10
6	39	The Verl flows northwestward into the Vosk.	10
6	40	We had crossed the Vosk, on barges, two weeks ago.	10
6	123	It is some twenty pasangs or so from the "Vosk road".	10
6	124	The Vosk road was apparently one of the roads used many years ago by the horde of Pa-Kur, of the Assassins, in its approach to the city of Ar.	10
7	18	The companionship was to weld commercial and political relationships between Fortress of Saphronicus and the Salerian Confederation, which was an aggressive and expanding league of cities northeast of the Vosk.	10
7	19	The growing power of the Salerian Confederation was not viewed with favor by the city of Ar, which, lying in Gor's northern hemisphere, is the major power between the Vosk and the Cartius, and between the Voltai Range and Thassa, the sea.	10
7	22	As geopolitical matters now stood a plurality of disunited cities, most of them rather small, lay scattered in the territories north of the Vosk.	10
7	43	The great margin of desolation which once flanked Ar on the north, just south of the Vosk, has not been maintained.	10
7	293	The girls of Clitus Vitellius, I among them, stood at the line scratched in the dirt within the peasant village of Tabuk's Ford, some four hundred pasangs to the north and west of Ar, some twenty pasangs or so, west, from the Vosk road.	10
10	53	I had heard there was fighting between Ar and Cos, it having to do with the alleged support by Cos accorded to Vosk pirates.	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
10	55	The motivation of the hostilities was apparently mostly economic, having to do with trade monopolies sought by both cities in the territories bordering the Vosk.	10
10	56	Ar claimed the southern shore of the Vosk.	10
16	183	Cos lies north of Tyros and west of Port Kar, which latter city is located in the Tamber Gulf, which lies just beyond the Vosk's delta.	10
16	225	Cos and Ar, I had heard, were now at war, the matters having to do with the piracy on the Vosk not having been satisfactorily adjudicated.	10
16	226	But Ar had no navy, though it did have a fleet of river ships that patrolled the Vosk.	10
20	137	Below me I saw a line of prisoners, men of Ar who had been captured on the Vosk River in the river fightings.	10
20	138	Cos and Ar, I knew, were at war, contesting commerce rights on the western Vosk.	10
20	158	Better it were Clitus Vitellius in their place! But he was a noble captain of Ar, and would not be involved in the insignificant skirmishes on the Vosk.	10
24	61	Oh, I was sure that they were both excellent judges of women, yes, but of what sort of women, I asked myself, women stripped or lightly clad, women in collars or chains! And in what sort of venues had this superb taste in women been developed and honed? In the streets of Ar, seeing girls on leashes ...	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	528	It had been delayed because of the war between Ar and Cos, having to do with piracy and competitive commercial claims on the Vosk.	10
3	3	He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna.	10
11	348	The arrow was winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull.	10

Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
1	491	The situation on the Vosk is further complicated by the presence of Vosk pirates and the rivalries of the river towns themselves.	10
1	198	"It was, at one time, conjectured," said Samos, "that the Cartius proper was a tributary of the Vosk".	10
1	201	"It had been thought, and shown on many maps," I said, "that the subequatorial Cartius not only flowed into Lake Ushindi, but emerged northward, traversing the sloping western flatlands to join the Vosk at Turmus".	10
1	202	Turmus was the last major river port on the Vosk before the almost impassable marshes of the delta.	10
1	206	The actual source of the tributary to the Vosk, now called the Thassa Cartius, as you know, was found five years later by the explorer, Ramus of Tabor, who, with a small expedition, over a period of nine months, fought and bartered his way through the river tribes, beyond the six cataracts, to the V...	10
1	213	It was more irritating, of course, to realize that even considerable areas of territory above Schendi, south of the Vosk, and west of Ar, were unknown.	10
1	214	"There was good reason to speculate that the Cartius entered the Vosk, by way of Lake Ushindi," I said.	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	479	Cos, for some years, had been preoccupied with struggles on the Vosk.	10
1	480	These had to do with competitive spheres of influence on the Vosk itself and in its basin and adjacent tributary-containing valleys.	10
3	19	It was a crowded city, built up from the marshes themselves, in the Vosk's delta, and space was scarce and precious.	10

Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	34	Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying at the juncti...	10
11	412	Such borders generally do not exist on Gor, though, to be sure, certain things are commonly understood, for example, that the influence of, say, the city of Ar, has not traditionally extended north of the Vosk River.	10
13	33	All four of these cities lie on the Olni River, which is a tributary to the Vosk.	10
13	45	Ti, Port Olni and Vonda lie on the northern bank of the Olni; Lara lies between the Olni and the Vosk, at their confluence.	10
13	47	It could, if it wished, prevent Olni shipping from reaching the markets of the Vosk towns, and, similarly, if it wished, prevent shipping from these same towns from reaching the Olni markets.	10
13	50	This made it difficult for the pirate fleets, following their raids, to descend the Olni and escape into the Vosk.	10
21	169	"He has his hands full these days with Cos and his troubles in the valley of the Vosk".	10
21	170	There was a reference to the rivalry of Ar and Cos for the markets and resources of the broad regions drained by the Vosk.	10

Book 15. (21 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	46	This would give Ar political leverage at the confluence of the Olni and Vosk, a strategic point if Cos should ever choose to move in force eastward along the Vosk.	10
6	132	The major towns west of Port Cos, discounting minor towns, were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus, Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself.	10
15	144	If it does, the major forces of the pirates of the eastern Vosk would achieve unification, at least for a time, with those of the western Vosk.	10
19	74	Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta.	10
1	227	"Lara!" This was a town in the Salerian Confederation, at the confluence of the Vosk and Olni.	10
3	298	It would be difficult to get them to the river markets, which lay beyond Lara, down the Vosk, and higher prices, presumably, could be obtained for them in the markets of the south.	10
4	21	The inn was that of Strobius, in Lara, at the confluence of the Olni and Vosk.	10
6	3	I turned away from the block in the barnlike structure in Fina, one of the many towns on the Vosk.	10
6	47	Lara was the pivot between the Salerian Confederation and the Vosk towns.	10
6	69	It was established four years afterward, as an outpost and trading station, on the south bank of the Vosk.	10
6	71	This is also the road popularly known as the Vosk Road, particularly by those viewing it from a riverward direction.	10
7	2	"What am I offered for this girl?" It was a blond-haired peasant girl, thick-ankled and sturdy, from south of the Vosk.	10
7	126	"Doubtless they also harry the trade routes circumventing the delta of the Vosk?" I asked.	10
29	81	"The pirates of the eastern Vosk are more your concern than mine.	10
29	82	The chain will keep the pirates of the western Vosk out of the waters of Port Cos".	10
32	66	Siba is one of the Vosk towns.	10
32	361	I could always cross the channel northeastward, at my convenience, under the cover of darkness, to move toward Victoria, or I might, if I chose, move simply to the southern shore of the Vosk.	10
32	363	Small ships abound on the Vosk.	10
33	8	Far off, unseen, I heard the cry of a Vosk gull.	10
33	124	I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls.	10
33	230	"You are mad!" I heard only the water at the strakes, the creaking of the chain, the sound of oars restless in the thole ports, the far-off cries of occasional Vosk gulls.	10

Book 16. (52 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	126	And, surely, such a league would prove detrimental to Ar's ambitions on the Vosk and in the Vosk basin.	10
1	110	Off our port bow we saw one of the pirate vessels slip beneath the muddy waters of the Vosk, a kill of the Mira.	10
2	26	They were emerging from longboats and must climb up and over the bulwarks; they could not, bulwark to bulwark, leap to our deck; the advantages were fully ours; only one reached the deck, and we threw his lifeless body, thrust through in a dozen places, back into the Vosk, after its retreating fello...	10
2	150	It was cold and dark in the waters of the Vosk.	10
2	156	I spit into the Vosk.	10
2	192	"Pirates will own the Vosk," said another man.	10
3	21	The first galley, its oars stroking, slashing at the Vosk, its hull twisting, careened forward and to the side.	10
3	70	The naval tradition of Cos is an ancient one, and many of the officers of Port Cos were native Cosians, mercenaries or veterans of the Cosian navy, on detached duty to the colony, that the interests of the mother island might be defended on the Vosk.	10
3	88	She slipped behind us on the waters of the broad, muddy Vosk.	10
3	99	Huge spumes of water rose into the air as the great rocks plunged into the Vosk.	10
3	178	"Port Cos is the hope of the Vosk," said Callimachus.	10
3	193	If our fleet did not have time to group, or if our flank were turned, it would be indeed a tragic day for our forces upon the Vosk.	10
4	7	It had been broken in the north, but here, closer to the southern shore of the Vosk, it had held.	10
4	9	Too, the left flank of our position was protected, still, by the mighty links of the Cosian chain, transported to the Vosk, slung between its pylons.	10
4	13	Even this far south, and from the height of the stem castle, one could not see the southern shore of the Vosk.	10
4	156	I did not see how Ar, in her disputes with Cos upon the Vosk, could hope to match such ships and men.	10
4	162	Ar, I thought, might be advised to tread lightly in her politics on the Vosk.	10
4	169	How could Ar, I asked myself, compete with such men and ships upon the mighty Vosk? Laughable were the miserable, squat ships of Ar's Station when compared with the sleek carnivores of Port Cos or, indeed, those of Ragnar Voskjard.	10
4	195	That island of wood in the midst of the Vosk, those grating, striking ships, twisted at the chain.	10
4	208	Vosk gulls dove and glided among the carnage, hunting for fish.	10
4	275	The bronze horns of battle then smote with their shrill trumpeting the air of the Vosk.	10
5	64	We forced them to the railing, and over it, those who were not cut down, into the Vosk.	10
5	87	"She is the ship which, in the Vosk, east of the chain, with the Telia, captained by Sirnak, of the men of Policrates, took the Flower of Siba!" These things I had learned while held captive in the holding of Policrates.	10
6	162	Battle horns, then, from off our bows and astern, shattered the air of the Vosk.	10
6	166	The Tina shuddered in the water, and then, once more, with her sisters, the Olivia and the Tais, her oars catching at the water, her ram half lifting, dripping, from the Vosk, defiant and gallant, leapt forward.	10
7	15	It was like a lake of bloody wood in the center of the Vosk.	10
7	67	A Vosk gull had alit on the wreckage to which I had earlier clung.	10
8	140	More importantly, I gathered from her response what I had been truly after, that the Tamira had made her rendezvous with the Voskjard's fleet in the western Vosk, and not at his holding.	10
8	181	She drew back her arms, holding the bound lead sheets over her head, to hurl them into the Vosk.	10
8	190	The lead weighting, of course, would carry them to the mud at the bottom of the Vosk.	10
10	88	"Who owns the Vosk?" "Those who own the ship that sails the topaz sea".	10
12	72	It seems the sealed documents pertaining to these signs and countersigns had been lost with the Tamira, that they were now in the mud at the bottom of the Vosk.	10
14	21	"Ask the Vosk, and your captains, the sorry lot of them," responded Policrates.	10
15	21	Overhead a Vosk gull was soaring in the wind.	10
16	230	Too, among other pennons, I saw colors hailing from so afar east as White Water and Lara, at the very confluence of the Vosk and Olni.	10
19	48	Was she to be cast from this height into a pit of sleen or perhaps into the cold waters of the Vosk? Then I lowered her again to my shoulder, her head this time forward.	10
20	23	Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his slave, Florence.	10
20	114	"To the Vosk League!" said Aemilianus, commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station.	10
20	115	"To the Vosk League!" we said, fervently.	10
20	116	Two of the men at the table had been signatories to the treaty of the Vosk League, solemnly signed under festive canopies on the wharves of Victoria yesterday at the tenth Ahn, Glyco, who had signed on behalf of Port Cos, and Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria, who had signed on behalf of Victoria.	10
20	125	Ar had had difficulties enough with the Salerian Confederation, to the east, not to welcome the formation of a new league along the Vosk.	10
20	130	They would wait, it seemed, to see whether or not the league became an effective, practical political reality upon the Vosk.	10
20	342	"They might have been useful as bastions for the Vosk League," I said.	10
20	343	"The Vosk League," smiled Tasdron, "is a simple league, whose intent it is merely to control piracy on the river".	10
20	353	"The headquarters of the Vosk League, as I understand it," I said, "is to be located in Victoria".	10
20	886	It is done rather differently in different cities but the variations practiced in the river towns and, generally, in the Vosk basin, are, in my opinion, among the finest.	10
20	1162	"The forces of the Vosk League are soon to be organized," said Tasdron.	10
20	1166	"The appointment was made earlier this afternoon, in a secret session of the High Council of the Vosk League," said Tasdron, "that body sovereign in the league, composed of representatives drawn from all the member towns".	10
20	1192	There, from the shore of the Vosk, we shall select a common stone, not much unlike others.	10
20	1216	"Tasdron," said I, "when the council arrives at the shore of the Vosk, it is my hope that I may be there".	10
20	1229	"The temporary headquarters of the forces of the Vosk League," he said to me, "will be in the private serving room of the tavern of Tasdron.	10
21	727	"Callimachus has selected you to be his second in command, in the forces of the Vosk League," she said.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	101	It might be mentioned in passing that Port Kar's location, with its access to the Vosk Delta, its position in the Tamber Gulf, and its having gleaming Thassa herself lapping at her sea walls, is a not unenviable one for commerce.	10
2	117	The fellows in the delta, however, will normally pass barges through to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the western Vosk region, though usually for a toll.	10
14	1258	"It is in the delta of the Vosk".	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	49	It was like a Vosk of horn and hide.	10
34	480	Even now, among certain articles on the travois, brought from the lodge of Grunt at the festival camp, was the story hide, acquired long ago in the delta of the Vosk, some four pasangs from Port Kar.	10
54	114	I must begin the long journey back to the Ihanke, and thence to the Thentis Mountains, and the Vosk, and the Tamber Gulf and Port Kar.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	127	"Corcyrus," said the girl, "is south of the Vosk.	10
9	109	This was a northwestward-flowing river, tributary to the Vosk, far to the north.	10
16	376	In its more northern lengths this road is commonly thought of as the Vosk Road.	10
28	26	There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.	10
33	39	It consisted largely of a number of ships on the Vosk River, largely wharfed at Ar's Station.	10

Book 20. (7 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
1	983	The power of Ar in the Vosk Basin would seem a much greater threat to their influence, and their sphere of trade".	10
1	985	"Matters are complicated there now, of course," I said, "by the formation of the Vosk League".	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
2	629	In Port Kar, and generally in the Vosk Basin, there are ten tarsk bits to a copper tarsk and one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.	10
2	1005	It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of Thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar.	10
6	1379	"I am interested particularly in one given city," I said, "a port on the coast of Thassa, one south of the Vosk's delta".	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	74	Two aqueducts now brought fresh water to Torcadino from more than a hundred pasangs away, one from the Issus, a northwestwardly flowing tributary to the Vosk and the other from springs in the Hills of Eteocles, southwest of Corcyrus.	10
15	180	"Do you know the delta of the Vosk?" he asked.	10
15	636	First, a movement of Cosian troops, originating in Brundisium, apparently several regiments, are moving eastward, parallel to the Vosk".	10
15	638	This was Ar's stronghold on the Vosk.	10
15	667	"Why did you ask me about the delta of the Vosk?" I asked.	10
19	257	Such an appointment, of course, that of one of Tyros to such a post, later would have been unthinkable, given the developing frictions between Ar and Cos, and her mighty ally, Tyros, frictions largely consequent upon competitions in the valley of the Vosk.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	33	These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and other...	10
25	178	The forces of Ar, almost entirely, have marched north, toward Ar's Station, on the Vosk, there to meet with an expeditionary force of Cos.	10

Book 23. (75 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	80	To be sure, in virtue of their mutual distrust of Ar, Cos and the Salerian Confederation normally maintained close relations, and the Vosk League, a confederation of towns along the Vosk, originally formed, like the Salerian Confederation on the Olni, to control river piracy, was, at least in theory...	10
2	82	If Ar were out of the way in the area of the Vosk, of course, I did not doubt but what friction would develop quickly enough between Cos and the Salerian Confederation, and perhaps between Cos and the Vosk League, and for much the same reasons as formerly between Cos and Ar.	10
2	135	Indeed, Ar's Station, in effect, secured the northern terminus of the Viktel Aria, or Vosk Road, at the Vosk.	10
2	145	Ar's bastion on the Vosk, Ar's Station, was being treated as expendable, which it was not, if Ar wished to maintain its power in the Vosk Basin.	10
20	187	Due to its patrols and presence piracy, and certainly large-scale, institutionalized piracy, had been largely removed from the Vosk, from east of White Water, near Lara, a town of the Salerian Confederation at the confluence of the Vosk and Olni, to the delta.	10
20	361	"It seems to me unlikely that these could be ships of the Vosk League," said the fellow beside me, "for the Vosk League, as is well known, is neutral.	10
1	25	The wagon was moving north on what, in this latitude, was usually called the Vosk Road, but farther south was generally known as the Viktel Aria.	10
1	102	As I had anticipated the contents of their wagon was a miscellany of cheap loot, taken from other wagons, and from refugees moving south on the Viktel Aria from the vicinity of Ar's Station, on the Vosk.	10
1	388	It suggested the sorts of names not uncommon in many of the Vosk towns, however, names reflecting the cultural mixtures of many such places, reflecting influences as diverse as those of the island ubarates, such as Cos and Tyros, on one hand, and those of southern cities, such as Venna and Ar on the...	10
2	78	As you know much of the friction between Cos and Ar has to do with their economic competitions in the Vosk Basin.	10
2	79	Taking Ar's Station would, in a stroke, diminish the major citadel of Ar's power in the area, and, in effect, drive a wedge between the Salerian Confederation and the Vosk League".	10
2	81	I say 'in theory' because one of the charter cities in the Vosk League is Port Cos, which, although it is a sovereign polis, was originally founded by, and settled by, Cosians.	10
2	83	Some well-known towns in the Vosk League are Victoria, Tafa and Fina.	10
2	87	Ar's Station, although it was apparently active in the altercations with pirates on the Vosk, never joined the league.	10
2	89	The headquarters of the Vosk League is located in the city of Victoria.	10
2	90	I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian Confederation.	10
2	92	Geographical position, accordingly, at least with respect to approximating the midpoint between the delta and the Olni, was apparently not the paramount consideration in locating the headquarters of the Vosk League.	10
2	137	It sped almost directly from Ar to the Vosk.	10
3	97	"On the Vosk Road," I said, warily.	10
8	63	Probably at one time or another, before the founding of Ar's Station, it had served to garrison troops, perhaps concerned to monitor the more northern reaches of the Vosk Road.	10
8	64	This was suggested, too, by its distance from the Vosk, which was approximately one hundred pasangs.	10
8	669	On the left, far below, I could see the Vosk Road, like a bright thread in the sun.	10
8	821	Below me now lay the Vosk Road, and we flew north.	10
8	845	I looked down at the Vosk Road, below.	10
9	49	I had escaped the second time only with considerable difficulty, by taking my way over the citadel and harbor, past the chained rafts closing the harbor, and across the Vosk itself, eluding my pursuers only after a long run, under the cover of darkness.	10
9	147	An additional problem, at least to a swimmer, I had gathered, from talking with some of the soldiers, were Vosk eels.	10
10	104	"South, on the Vosk Road," I said, "at the Crooked Tarn".	10
10	428	I took it from a courier of Artemidorus, south of here, on the Vosk Road, at an inn, the Crooked Tarn!" "Hooded, and on a rope, I do not think you will learn much of our defenses," said a voice.	10
11	156	"I took it from a courier for Artemidorus at the Crooked Tarn, an inn, south on the Vosk Road.	10
11	186	"May I ask where the report claims them to be?" "The report claims they are in winter quarters at Holmesk, one hundred pasangs south of the Vosk".	10
11	252	She wants power in the Vosk Basin, that is the best for which she can hope.	10
12	153	Too, do you think that I, a person such as I, wanted to remain out here, on the Vosk River, all my life?" "What happened then?" I asked.	10
16	117	This was the flag of Ar's Station, signifying the power of Ar on the Vosk.	10
17	44	At another bridge, Vosk fishermen, from the vicinity of Ar's Station, fought, perhaps men who had merely been trapped in the city when the Cosians had taken their positions, and, at another bridge, huntsmen, from the interior, perhaps similarly detained.	10
19	95	Sometimes river sharks, like Vosk eels, hang about piers and pilings, in their shade, and are, I am afraid, often rewarded by garbage, or other organic debris.	10
19	151	There was the cry of a Vosk gull overhead.	10
20	31	It was one of the largest of the ports on the Vosk.	10
20	159	"Port Cos is a colony of Cos, the very citadel of her power on the Vosk".	10
20	182	"The pledge of the topaz was originally an agreement between river pirates, a pledge of mutual assistance and, in crisis, alliance, between them, those of the eastern and western Vosk, between Policrates in the east and Ragnar Voskjard in the west.	10
20	184	From such fighting came the formation of the Vosk League".	10
20	185	I knew something of the Vosk League.	10
20	186	Its headquarters was in the town of Victoria, on the northern bank of the Vosk, between Fina and Tafa.	10
20	197	"What has the topaz to do with the Vosk League?" I asked.	10
20	198	"It has nothing to do with the Vosk League itself," said the fellow.	10
20	207	The pledge was renewed privately between them, I think, as comrades in arms, as Ar's Station was not permitted by Ar to join the Vosk League".	10
20	210	"It is speculated that Ar feared such an alliance would compromise her claims in the Vosk Basin".	10
20	308	"Praise the Vosk League!" said a man.	10
20	309	"Glory to the Vosk League!" whispered another man.	10
20	310	"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved in this operat...	10
20	311	"Glory to the Vosk League," said more than one man.	10
20	325	Victoria, of course, was the headquarters of the Vosk League.	10
20	352	"Surely these ships with you, those surprisingly flying no colors, are not of the Vosk League".	10
20	359	"Some may think these are ships of the Vosk League," I said.	10
20	422	The huge, painted eyes of these ships were then turning north, toward the mighty Vosk.	10
21	3	The Tais moved with the current west on the Vosk.	10
21	31	Though she would know that she was on a galley and moving with the current on the Vosk, thus west, she had no real idea as to where she was or what was to be done with her.	10
21	34	Yesterday afternoon, shortly after we had cleared the harbor at Ar's Station, I had drawn the mask of Marsias from my features, and had shaken my head, glad to feel the air of the Vosk about me, so fresh and clear.	10
21	81	"How is my old friend Callimachus, commander of the forces of the Vosk League?" asked Aemilianus of Calliodorus.	10
21	82	The body sovereign in the Vosk League, incidentally, at least as I understand it, is its High Council, which is composed of representatives from the member towns.	10
21	493	We heard a Vosk gull screaming overhead.	10
21	738	"Clearly Ar's Station was abandoned, and presumably therewith the Vosk, and its basin, surrendered to Cos".	10
21	743	Too, in the Vosk League, to which Port Cos is party, we have the nucleus of a vehicle for our alliance, a vehicle for common action if not common governance".	10
21	744	"Ar looks not with favor upon the Vosk League," said Aemilianus.	10
24	21	In his way, he was a hero, and yet, for all he had done, he, and those with him, of Ar's Station, were coming to this town, once their greatest rival on the Vosk, as refugees, with little more than the clothing on their backs.	10
24	316	"Surely Ar herself will cry out for vengeance," I said, "for the loss of Ar's Station, her pride upon the Vosk".	10
24	347	"Between the winter camp and the southern bank of the Vosk," I said.	10
24	357	"Thus, to what end west?" "What lies west on the Vosk," asked Aemilianus.	10
24	359	Turmus, which is the last major town west on the Vosk, is on the northern bank.	10
24	825	I recalled the delta of the Vosk.	10
24	991	It is a town on the northern bank of the Vosk.	10
24	992	It is a member of the Vosk League.	10
24	993	It is the first major town west of Lara, which is located at the confluence of the Vosk and Olni.	10
24	997	They are Forest Port, Iskander and Tancred's Landing, which three towns, like White Water, are members of the Vosk League.	10
24	998	Most of the major towns on the Vosk are on the northern bank.	10
24	1005	Indeed, her interests in the Vosk Basin are well known.	10

Book 24. (52 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	281	This was presumably out of a respect for the power of Port Cos, and her desire to influence, if not control, through Port Cos, the politics of the Vosk league, and, through it, the river, and the Vosk basin, as a whole.	10
16	72	Out in the marsh we could hear various sounds, movements in the water, the occasional bellow of a tharlarion, usually far off, and the cries of Vosk gulls, perhaps Vosk gulls.	10
1	2	"Yes, Master," she said, lifting her head a little from the dirt, where, before me, in the camp of Cos, on the south bank of the Vosk, north of Holmesk, she knelt, head down, the palms of her hands on the ground.	10
1	12	I noted that her hair had grown out somewhat, in the weeks since I had last seen her, a free woman on the chain of Ephialtes, a sutler whom I had met at the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road.	10
1	47	We were overjoyed, thinking to be freed, but found to our dismay that we were put in coffle, to be taken northward on the Vosk Road to the vicinity of Ar's Station".	10
1	68	I listened to the sounds of the Vosk River in the background.	10
1	277	Survivors of Ar's Station, which had been Ar's major bastion on the Vosk, including many women and children, had been rescued from the piers of the burning port by a fleet of unidentified ships, ships with which the Cosians in the north had not had the forces to deal.	10
1	278	Although the identities of these ships were putatively unknown it was an open secret on the river that they were those of Port Cos, supplemented with several apparently furnished by the Vosk League itself.	10
1	349	It had been he who had managed to convey Ar's Station's half of the topaz to Port Cos, which action had resulted in the redemption of the pledge of the topaz, bringing the forces of Port Cos, and apparently, in the process, ships of the Vosk League, as well, to Ar's Station, to evacuate the piers, t...	10
1	360	To be sure, the Cosians had moved in an open, leisurely way, and even along the southern bank of the Vosk, rather than to the north.	10
1	367	To be sure, the southern bank of the Vosk, because of the former extent of Ar's Margin of Desolation, long ago abandoned, is much less populous than the northern bank.	10
1	369	There had been no attempt, at least as yet, for the fine forces of Ar, in all their power, to cut them off, to pin them against the Vosk, or meet them in battle.	10
1	386	Woe to the slave who would dare to serve paga or wine in a dirty goblet! I listened to the Vosk in the background, the murmur of conversation within the enclosure, the sounds of the camp.	10
1	499	"Some weeks ago," said the man near me, "before the fall of Ar's Station, Borton, carrying dispatches for Artemidorus, stayed at an inn on the Vosk Road.	10
1	731	There was the firelight, the men about, the enclosure, the Vosk in the background, the firelight and the slave.	10
1	1114	I then pushed and struck my way through men, most of whom I think could not clearly see me in the throng, broke free, and vaulted over the low railing, to hurry through the darkness toward the Vosk.	10
1	1119	"He is heading toward the Vosk!" called a man.	10
1	1120	But by the time I had heard this I was no longer heading toward the Vosk.	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
2	7	I had entered the enclosure from the Vosk side, under the railing.	10
3	7	It was hard to believe that somewhere northward, perhaps somewhat to the west now, in the vicinity of the Vosk, was the expeditionary force of Cos, and somewhere to the south, beyond Teslit, in the vicinity of Holmesk, lay the winter camp of Ar, supposedly housing a considerable commissary and depot...	10
3	21	Had they sought to engage, it seemed not improbable that they might meet on the Holmesk road, perhaps in the vicinity of Teslit, approximately halfway between the Vosk and Holmesk.	10
3	70	To be sure, he himself, as he had made clear to me, with much firmness and in no little detail, back in the Cosian camp on the Vosk, was similarly ready, in such a situation, to be sacrificed, and cheerfully.	10
3	103	Ar, I was sure, would not come to his relief, any more than they had come to the relief of their own colonial outpost on the Vosk, Ar's Station, now in ashes.	10
3	200	"I was delayed at the Vosk," he said.	10
3	276	"It is likely then," smiled Marcus, "that they are from the camp near the Vosk".	10
3	325	"And you," grinned he, "are also loyal to the cause of Cos, as was clear from your presence in the Vosk camp".	10
3	436	Perhaps, too, the main body had left the winter camp, and was now marching toward the Vosk.	10
7	17	There are many varieties of such shark, some of which, like the marsh shark and the sharks of the Vosk and Laurius, are adapted to fresh water.	10
7	21	Their bodies could still be found along the shores of the Vosk.	10
12	1	It is Thought That There are the Cries of Vosk Gulls "There is one who would see you," said my keeper.	10
12	93	The influence of Cos was strong in the delta, to be sure, there as it was in the western reaches of the Vosk, but I did not think the rencers would be explicit allies of Cos.	10
12	136	"I hear Vosk gulls, out in the marsh".	10
12	418	The Lady Ina had thought them Vosk gulls.	10
13	141	"You are not of this part of the country," I said, "not from the delta, or the Vosk, or Port Kar," I said.	10
13	166	"This barge," I said, "is of a type used in Port Kar, on the canals, and in the delta, for example, between Port Kar, and other cities, and the Vosk towns, particularly Turmus and Ven, for the transportation, in utter helplessness and total ignorance, of female slaves".	10
13	245	"At night they use the cries of Vosk gulls".	10
13	299	An excellent example of this was Cos' backing of Port Cos' entry into the Vosk League, presumably hoping thereby to influence or control the league through the policies of her sovereign colony, while Ar refused this same opportunity to Ar's Station, thereby more than ever isolating Ar's Station on t...	10
14	303	Then he stood very still, and then fell forward, among the tharlarion, the arrow of temwood, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull, in his back.	10
16	59	Then, even if successful in escaping from the delta, the columns would have to manage the crossing of the Vosk to return to Holmesk, or Ar".	10
16	62	"They will expect you to take just that course, to avoid the crossing of the Vosk".	10
16	120	I could no longer hear even the sound of Vosk gulls.	10
18	50	I saw with satisfaction the men of Ar take what shelter they could, digging into the sand, pulling blankets about them, covering themselves with rence, wrapping cloths about their head and eyes, burying their head in their arms, doing whatever they could do to prepare themselves for the imminent arr...	10
19	228	Once I fell but took refuge beneath a tree trunk in the marsh, washed down from the Vosk.	10
19	446	"They speak Gorean perfectly," I said, "though, to be sure, with accents much more like those of the western Vosk basin than those of the courts, the baths and colonnades of Ar".	10
28	510	"Not between Holmesk and the Viktel Aria," he said, grimly, "but in a line between the Vosk and Brundisium, between the delta and Holmesk, to close the path to Holmesk".	10
30	11	They can then point their own arrows and fletch them themselves, of course, as they are normally fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull, which is abundant in the delta.	10
32	68	We had moved southwest for two days after the visit of the young rencer to our camp, and had then adjusted our trek to the southeast, and then to the south, to reach the point at which I wished to exit from the delta, a point far enough from both Brundisium, on the coast, and Ven, on the south bank ...	10
36	7	"Probably mostly those of the Cosians' expeditionary force in the north," I said, "that with which we traveled, south of the Vosk.	10
36	159	I had been afraid Marcus, thinking her of Cos, and hating Cos and all things Cosian, would have cut her throat or injured her, but, fortunately, as it had turned out, she had not been of Cos, but from the vicinity of White Water, on the northern shore of the Vosk, east of Tancred's Landing.	10
42	18	"You accompanied me across the Vosk," he said.	10
43	185	Fortunately, as I have mentioned, she had only been from somewhere about White Water, on the Vosk.	10

Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	85	My companion was Marcus Marcellus, of the Marcelliani, formerly of Ar's Station, on the Vosk.	10
1	273	I had known for a long time, even as long ago as the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road, before the fall of Ar's Station, that she had profound slave needs, but I had never suspected their depth until I had seen her in a camp outside Brundisium, kneeling before Marcus, looking up at him, unbe...	10
2	72	Such things they had been told in their winter camp, near Holmesk, south of the Vosk.	10
16	256	"Better led they could have turned back Cos at the Vosk and stopped her at Torcadino," he said.	10
18	398	"And would you like to take a trip to the north with your troupe, a trip which might eventually bring you to the town of Port Cos, on the northern bank of the Vosk?" "They are staunch supporters of the theater there, are they not?" he asked.	10
22	272	For example, whereas Marcus' speech would have attracted immediate attention in Tyros or Cos, or even in the western Vosk basin, it attracted little, if any, attention in Ar.	10
23	200	"It comes from a very well-watered area, in the Vosk Basin," said Marcus.	10
25	504	"Perhaps I could take you to the Vosk, or the coast, and sell you to a captain.	10
28	85	I thought of the delta of the Vosk, and the disaster which had occurred there, and of the veterans returned from the delta.	10

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	67	More cruelly the woman is sometimes stunned by a throwing stick, a method which is used, I have heard, in a place called the delta of the Vosk.	10
12	68	The Vosk, I gather, is a body of flowing water, a stream, or river.	10
46	39	The underground in Ar, you see, the resistance to the occupation, in particular, a band of brigands, the Delta Brigade, mostly veterans of the campaign in the delta of the Vosk, must not locate him.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1142	"I juice at a touch!" "I am from the valley of the Vosk," said Jasmine.	10
16	1307	She is from the valley of the Vosk, and you know what they are like, particularly the ones from Victoria, only a stone's throw from Jasmine's native village.	10
19	415	"It is an organization," said Portus, "formed largely, but not entirely, from veterans of the great disaster of the Vosk delta, where they were betrayed by treason in high places, denied supplies, abandoned, left to die, who muchly suffered in their retreat from the delta, and found themselves despi...	10
28	323	The men clasped hands, and embraced, and then Bosk of Port Kar, Port Kar a port on the Tamber Gulf, rumored to be a den of cutthroats and pirates, and Marcus, of Ar's Station, once an outpost of Ar on the distant Vosk, took their leave.	10
30	601	It is written on large sheets of rence paper, from the delta of the Vosk, in pen and ink.	10

Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	87	"It is large, like a Vosk gull, is it not?" asked Cabot.	10
34	90	"From the feathers of the Vosk gull," said Cabot, "arrows may be excellently fletched".	10
35	21	He had fletched those arrows earlier finished with feathers of the lake bird, that apparently, in Cabot's mind, at least, resembling the Vosk Gull, binding the feathering to the shaft with stout threads, these obtained from the hem of his tunic, such threads being coarser, and stronger, than those w...	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
29	89	Its width could not begin to approximate that of the Vosk, in much of Vosk's length, but it was wide, wide enough, some hundred yards or so in width.	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	486	These troops, as planned, had been decimated in the delta of the Vosk, and largely lost, the prey of heat and insects, of salt water and quicksand, of armed rencers, of serpents and tharlarion.	10
5	501	The core of the Delta Brigade was surmised to be composed of veterans returned from the misdirected and ill-fated campaign in the Vosk's delta, and thus the term "Delta Brigade".	10
5	608	Many troops had been recalled to the island ubarates themselves, others to the Cosian principalities on the Vosk".	10
25	194	I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...	10
26	60	In this fashion signals could be relayed from post to post, rather in the nature of beacons on the Vosk.	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. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	345	Accordingly, much of the might of Ar had been dispatched to the vicinity of the Vosk river, supposedly to counter a massive invasion of Cos and Tyros in this area.	10
1	353	Some remnants, haggard, exhausted, disheveled, half-starving, ill, harried, pursued, managed to fight their way back to the Vosk, and of these some managed, overland, fugitives amongst swarming enemies, to return to Ar.	10
1	354	Some of these veterans of the delta campaign, now embittered, realizing how they had been betrayed, and dismayed at the Ar to which they had returned, formed the nucleus of a resistance, the "Delta Brigade," the natural symbol of which was the letter "Delka," scribbled or scratched secretly, in bold...	10
2	154	Then we heard the cry of a Vosk gull.	10
2	159	There was then another cry, but it was not the cry of the Vosk gull.	10
11	39	He who drinks the water of Thassa, with its salt from a thousand rivers, from the Alexandra, to the Vosk, to the Kamba and Nyoka, soon dies, of misery and madness.	10

Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	21	She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th...	10
8	625	It was well to the north and west, where the waterways of the Vosk's delta drained into the Tamber Gulf, the city's sea walls fronting the gulf on the south, Thassa, the sea, on the west.	10
31	27	Chloe had changed hands several times in her eastward journey on the Vosk, town to town, but, in the end, she had been sold in the great clearing station of Victoria, from which point she had been sold southeast to Torcadino, and then, eventually, in Ar, where some agent of the Kurii had apparently ...	10
43	65	"Is it north of the Vosk?" he asked.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	7	"Is Victoria not a market town," I said, "a major market for slaves, wholesale and retail? Are not many slaves disposed of there? Do not buyers come there, even from far beyond the Vosk basin?" "It is the major slave market on the Vosk," he said.	10
20	52	"How many eggs does the Vosk gull lay?" "I do not know," I said.	10
53	3	We will cross the Laurius by ferry, inconspicuously with others, at one point or other, and continue south, eventually to reach the Vosk, following which we will seek Victoria".	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	134	Once, long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, I had betrayed my codes.	10
8	64	On the other hand, who am I, who once abandoned honor, long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, to speak of it to others? Paths are many; let each seek his own.	10
16	120	It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the d...	10
61	867	I learned of you in Ar, when you dishonored Marlenus, not in begging to be purchased in a far place, but in conspiring with other traitors to secure the throne of Ar, when you undermined and dissipated her military in the delta of the Vosk, when you opened the gates of the city to her enemies, when ...	10

Book 34. (22 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	196	"He mocks you, that you chose the name 'Tenrik of Siba' as a concealing name," I said, "for it is foolishly and clearly close to that of 'Kurik', and he finds it pathetically inept that you should have claimed to be from Siba, for that is merely another town on the Vosk, as is your true town, Victor...	10
9	344	"I have a Home Stone," she said, "that of Victoria, jewel of the mighty Vosk!" "Yes, Mistress," I said.	10
9	359	"You are not from the valley of the Vosk.	10
9	742	It is most likely an eel, a Vosk eel".	10
10	167	"I am buying work slaves, to sell south of the Vosk".	10
10	306	"We will take a ferry across the Vosk, and then, in waiting wagons, hie south and west".	10
11	23	I had also had it confirmed that the snakelike visitants that had so frightened and discomfited me in my tenure in the mostly submerged cage were not water snakes, which tend to favor still water, but eels, in all probability Vosk eels, a form of river eel.	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
13	55	I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill.	10
14	24	Teletus was somewhere to the west, and Hunjer was north, north even, I gathered, of the Vosk.	10
14	25	Brundisium, apparently a port, was north, but, as I understood, it was south of the Vosk.	10
14	76	There were only the two soups, four vegetables, and two meats, roast Vosk gull and seasoned, boiled verr, followed by fruit and nuts.	10
15	112	The wagons of Raymond of Ti, which had transported me, and others, from the Vosk to Torcadino had been drawn by bosk.	10
28	186	How could things proceed more smoothly? And consider the absurdity of the name, 'Tenrik', obviously reminiscent of his real name, 'Kurik'! Could he not do better than that? And he alleges to be of Siba, he, of Victoria! Siba is another of the towns on the Vosk, like Victoria.	10
28	187	Why could he not, at least, have pretended to be from somewhere else, away from the Vosk, Corcyrus, Helmutsport, Besnit, Bazi, Tor, anywhere apart from Victoria? What a fool, a fool!" I fell, weeping, and, by the collar and stick, it turned on my neck, was yanked to my feet.	10
30	203	"Victoria is the ruby of the Vosk," she said.	10
35	96	"That is somewhere on the Vosk.	10
40	212	"It is a petition from the master potter, Tenrik of Siba," he said, "he whom you well know by reputation, that I refrain from marketing my purple-and-white craters in the Vosk markets for at least one year".	10
40	221	"I have never sold anything in the Vosk markets," he said.	10
48	133	I had reason to suppose that, from long ago, from a wharf on the Vosk.	10
63	350	Two other important marketing centers in the northern hemisphere were the port, Brundisium, and, on the Vosk, Victoria.	10
63	354	And Victoria, as I understood it, was the largest port on the Vosk, this providing a favored access to one of Gor's major arteries of commerce.	10

Book 35. (15 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	21	In transport, Rencers guide and maintain barges, poled, sailed, and drawn by large, swimming tharlarion, this linking, through the trackless marshes of the delta, the Vosk towns with Port Kar and the coast, and Port Kar and the coast with the Vosk towns.	10
15	169	Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price...	10
6	130	Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...	10
10	241	Along the course of a single river, such as the Vosk, Cartius, and Ua, there may be many accents.	10
10	242	Peasantry north and south of the Vosk, I have been told, their villages divided only by the river, may have accents almost unintelligible to one another.	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	22	Trade has primarily to do with rence, but some attention is devoted elsewhere, for example, to salted fish, mostly parsit and grunt, to tharlarion oil and leather, and to feathers, in particular those of the Vosk gull, which are commonly preferred in the fletching of arrows.	10
15	43	"You are from Ti," he said, "or from west, on the Vosk".	10
15	174	Without her treacheries, betrayals, and collaborations, and without the absence of Marlenus of Ar, and without the costly, ill-advised campaign in the delta of the Vosk, Ar might not have been defeated, occupied, humbled, and looted.	10
17	66	Almost all local trading, fish, feathers of the Vosk Gull, favored for fletching, rence, and such, metalware, cloth and leather goods, ka-la-na wood for bows, wines and paga, and such, between the delta and Port Kar takes place in the Delta Market.	10
17	67	Some produce and goods, however, come through the marsh from as far away as the towns of the lower Vosk.	10
33	377	The water in the marsh, at this point, was mostly fresh, from the great Vosk river, feeding the delta.	10
33	649	I suspected it had come from the side of the canal boat, from the right side of the canal boat, in the darkness, and somehow, in the mix of waters, that of the exiting freshwater flow of the Vosk, draining through the marsh, and the incoming, rising tide of the Tamber, had turned and moved behind me...	10
38	127	And some men, when the twig snaps and the branch moves, when birds rise unexpectedly from the grass, when the calls of the marsh kite and the Vosk gull cease, are more attentive than others.	10
46	65	Whether or not it might manage the same in a retreat to the Vosk was not clear.	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	53	"And there are many strong-winged birds, shore birds and sea birds, for example, the sea kite, much like the Vosk gull".	10
18	74	I myself had seen, once, dug out of sand in the Vosk basin, the petrifaction of a titanic, fanged, serpentine skull, and once, washed free of collapsed strata in the Voltai, petrifications of the knobs of a spine far longer than those of any known form of tharlarion.	10
30	24	"Luring them into treacherous terrain," said Thurnock, "as in the debacle of Ar in the Vosk's Delta?" "Or leading them into the Tahari, where water is precious and scarce, or into canyoned areas where passes are narrow, easily blocked, and can be fired on from cover," said Clitus.	10
58	163	I recalled an afternoon long ago, in the delta of the Vosk.	10