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Waters

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	133	However, I took the pellet from my tunic and dropped it into the wide waters of the Vosk.	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
7	118	Then the muck crept upward to her horrified eyes, and her head slipped under the greenish waters, her hands clutching wildly at the air.	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

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
9	24	The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos.	10
15	14	There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring.	10
16	15	"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup...	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	115	There are, as I mentioned, many pools in the Capacian Baths, and they differ in their shapes and sizes, and in their decor, and in the temperatures and scents of their waters.	10
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

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	155	What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ...	10
7	8	By the time that dawn's gray knife had touched the waters of the marsh the work of the men of Port Kar was mostly done.	10
8	148	We listened to the shouts and cries, the clash of weapons, the screams, carrying to us over the calm waters of the marsh.	10
9	500	Then, suddenly, falling to my hands and knees, I threw up into the dark waters.	10
9	575	The giant urts, silken and blazing-eyed, living mostly on the garbage in the canals, are not stranger to bodies, both living and dead, found cast into their waters.	10
12	20	The men were now hastening forward, to hurl the sack into the dark waters.	10
12	32	Already I could see the sleek, wet muzzles of urts, eyes like ovals of blazing copper, streaking through the dark waters toward the bag.	10
12	33	I leaped into the cold waters, the knife between my teeth.	10
12	39	It was gagged as well as bound, and I saw its eyes wild, inches over the murky waters of the canal.	10
12	42	Then I saw Clitus' net flash over my head and heard the confused protesting squeal of another urt, and then Clitus, again and again, was thrusting into the dark waters with his trident.	10
13	374	The man then called out, "Up oars! Ready oars! Stroke!" Again we found our rhythm, and again the Rena moved through the waters.	10
14	91	Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.	10
14	93	From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass, that of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering.	10
16	326	I could see the shining eyes of urts, their noses and heads dividing the torchlit waters silently, their pointed, silken ears laid back against the sides of their heads.	10
16	421	I could see the canals far away, over the heads of the people, crowded even to the distant waters bordering the great piazza.	10
16	422	And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water.	10
17	88	The Dorna rested, rocking on the waters, her oars inboard.	10
17	109	The wind was very cold now, and the Dorna shook in it, the windward waters striking at her hull.	10
17	141	Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos.	10
17	184	Then I opened the glass and studied the waters to the north.	10
17	186	Above the waters to the north there was now a towering blackness.	10
17	209	We had lifted them that she might swing into the wind, and had then dropped them once more, but still she shook and reared, lifted and dropped into the waters.	10
17	220	Even they, broad-beamed and deep-keeled, pitched and bucked in the roiling waters of late Se'Kara on Thassa.	10
17	236	From both the north and the south, like distant black slivers knifing through the cold waters of Thassa, masts down, came the fleets of the fifth wave.	10
17	400	My men were forcing the defenders of the ship over the side, into the cold waters.	10
17	430	The last of the men of Tyros aboard the ship leaped free to the cold waters to swim to their own ships.	10
18	34	The deck was suddenly washed with cold waves, and then the waters had slipped back.	10
18	37	When it was it was like a fist striking the sail and the mast screamed, and the bow, for a terrible moment, dipped in the water and then, dripping the cold waters, the bow leaped up and tilted to the sky.	10
18	144	Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari...	10
18	974	And then, on the height of the keep, looking out across the city, we watched the dawn, beyond the muddy Tamber Gulf, softly touch the cold waters of gleaming Thassa.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	41	Something, with a twist of its great spine, had suddenly darted from the waters under the pier and entered the current of the Laurius.	10
8	46	Several of the girls looked after it, the fin cutting the waters and disappearing in the fog on the surface.	10
11	837	Then, rising, I entered the stream, feeling its cold waters on my ankles, and waded downstream.	10
13	742	Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates.	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	50	One of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our ship, off shore, on the green waters of Thassa.	10
2	93	With the men at the oars, ready, and others with the thrusting poles, she might be swiftly sped, if need should arise, at a word, into the deeper waters.	10
2	505	Soon the two seamen, with their black, bending temwood poles, were thrusting the Tesephone backward, into the deeper waters.	10
18	158	He stood before the glaring, sunlit waters.	10
18	408	I looked out to sea, across the vast, placid waters of Thassa, now bright with oblique moonlight.	10
18	453	They must be, to survive in the bleak, fierce northern waters, wind-whipped and skerry-studded.	10

Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	159	The clinker-built construction, as opposed to the carvel construction of the south, with flush planking, is somewhat more inclined to leak, but it is much stronger in the high waters of the north.	10
2	176	They can be brought to land in either direction, a valuable property in the rocky, swift northern waters.	10
4	38	It is commonly relied on, however, only in unfamiliar waters.	10
4	39	Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river.	10
4	108	The helmsman studies the sky and the waters ahead of the serpent; beneath clouds there is commonly wind; and he avoids, moving a point or more to port or starboard, areas where there is little wave activity, for they betoken spots in which the serpent might, for a time, find itself becalmed.	10
8	215	"I cannot swim!" The Forkbeard then hurled her from the window and she fell, twisting and crying out, some hundred feet to the black waters below.	10
9	71	Once he thrust away one of the white sharks of the northern waters.	10
10	42	Immersion in the waters of the Ax Glacier country, unprotected, will commonly bring about death by shock, within a matter of Ihn.	10
18	611	Thorgard, seizing his opportunity, had turned and plunged to the waters below.	10

Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	8	The raft, in the dark, sluggish waters, stirred beneath our feet.	10
16	85	But it was not the lelts nor the salamanders which explained our interest in the waters.	10
16	106	The waters were calm.	10
16	122	The waters were still.	10
16	124	The waters were calm.	10
16	135	"That the Old One is still with us," he said, looking down at the dark waters.	10
16	178	The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world.	10
16	255	T'Zshal looked out over the dark waters.	10
17	82	The waters were dark, seemingly empty.	10
17	118	He studied the waters about the raft, black and quiet.	10
17	120	The waters were quiet.	10
17	258	Even for the Old One, in the black, almost barren waters, food would be scarce.	10
17	337	In time their hunger would bring them, nosing and nibbling, to its bulk, and the blind feast in the black waters would begin.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	142	Sea sleen are found commonly in northern waters.	10
15	256	One regulates the temperature by mixing warmer and cooler waters.	10
16	172	They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port.	10
16	173	The ship on which I was carried was the round ship, or cargo ship, Clouds of Telnus, registered in Cos, but with shipping papers clearing it for the waters of Schendi.	10
16	224	I knew the waters of Thassa were plied by many ships, and, among them, were the ships of pirates.	10
21	152	The oars, in unison, twenty on each side, dipped into the waters of the harbor, drew and lifted, the water falling from them in bright droplets, splashing back into the harbor.	10
22	48	I had seen, yesterday, the long neck of a marine saurian lift from the waters of gleaming Thassa.	10
22	58	The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters.	10
22	734	I could not see her! Surely I was not to be denied her! Despite the pleas of my men from the water, begging me to join them in seeking safety, I continued to scrutinize the turbulent waters, the debris, some flaming, the pitching wreckage, port and starboard, fore and aft.	10

Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	49	Perhaps even now the ships of Kurii flamed toward Gor, as purposeful and silent as sharks in the waters of space's night.	10
2	323	Some said that Thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence, until the ti...	10
2	612	"The waters north of Ax Glacier are ruthless," said Samos.	10
4	552	I thought again of the herd of Tancred, which had not appeared in the north, and of the "mountain that did not move," the great iceberg which seemed, somehow, independent and stable, maintaining its position, fixed and immobile, in the midst of the restless, flowing waters of the polar sea.	10
10	99	He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman.	10
12	202	These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of Thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters.	10
12	216	They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...	10
18	1	We Hunt in the Vicinity of the Permanent Camp I studied the waters carefully.	10
18	4	The chill waters seemed very quiet.	10
18	12	The waters did not stir.	10
18	18	The waters seemed very still.	10
18	62	I looked down at the placid waters.	10
18	64	The waters seemed very calm.	10
22	72	He spoke out, over the icy waters.	10
22	130	"It is a broad-head, and they are rare in these waters in the fall.	10
37	121	"If it did not die in the rooms and halls, surely it died, scalded or drowned, in the surrounding waters".	10
37	128	I took one last look at the distant, churning, steaming waters, erupting and boiling, where the polar sea, as though offended and startled, hissing in indignation, recoiled from the fiery touch of a mechanism contrived paradoxically by the wit of rational creatures.	10
37	140	I lifted my hand to the roiling, steaming waters in the distance, beneath the high, spreading cloud.	10

Book 13. (38 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	118	I tied her hands behind her back, and then took her by the ankles and held her upside down, thrusting her head and shoulders, and upper body, under the cold waters of the canal.	10
4	929	The vessel moved slowly outward, into wider waters.	10
4	962	I heard her waters lick at the strakes.	10
6	5	The sails were full and the waters of Thassa streamed against the strakes.	10
6	57	The Kamba, as I may have mentioned, empties directly into Thassa; the Nyoka, on the other hand, empties into Schendi harbor, which is the harbor of the port of Schendi, its waters only then moving thence to Thassa.	10
6	115	I, too, now had little doubt what ships these would be, as it was the northern spring, and we were in the waters of Schendi.	10
6	132	"We are in the waters of Schendi," said Shoka.	10
6	133	"If they were to attack Schendi ships, it does not seem likely they would do so in these waters".	10
6	188	The waters here were richly brown, primarily from the outflowing of the Nyoka, emptying from Lake Ushindi, some two hundred pasangs upriver.	10
6	211	Soon, to his calls, the oars drew against the brownish waters about the hull.	10
6	354	Many fish in these tropical waters are poisonous to eat, a function of certain forms of seaweed on which they feed.	10
6	520	In a few moments Sasi, too, swung from a golden ring, she too suspended over the brownish waters outside Schendi.	10
6	539	They hung as splendid ornaments, two slave beauties, dangling over the brownish waters, from rings set in the ears of a beast.	10
6	559	The equatorial waters about Schendi, of course, are open to shipping all year around.	10
16	83	Waters from the overflow of Lake Ngao entered the great marsh between Ngao and Ushindi, and, thence, made their ways to Ushindi, which, by means of the Kamba and Nyoka, drained to gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
16	85	The area between these walls, the marsh waters diverted on either side, was then to be drained and readied for the digging of the main channel.	10
24	75	There, suddenly, over the waters of the marsh, roared the war cry of Ko-ro-ba.	10
24	116	Indeed, even a canoe which is not one of war or raiding may carry extra paddles, particularly if it is to be propelled through turbulent waters.	10
25	10	We had come to the sill, that place where the marsh gives way to the waters of Ngao.	10
25	12	Then the marsh reeds parted and I saw, before us, sparkling in the sun, broad and shining, the waters of Lake Ngao.	10
25	16	The sun shone on the wide, placid waters.	10
25	42	It floated free now, fully, at the outer edge of the Ngao waters.	10
25	56	We then set forth, paddling calmly, on the broad, shining waters of Ngao.	10
27	3	From the scaffolding, a double row of peeled logs, about ten feet apart, with numerous connecting bars and crossbars, fastened together with vines, more than a hundred yards in length, extending out into the flowing waters, hung numerous vine ropes, attached to which were long, conical, woven basket...	10
27	14	Other men, too, some eight or nine of them, and some seven or eight boys, of various ages, came out farther on the platform, balancing themselves expertly over the flowing waters, to bid us be on our way.	10
27	145	Did he think men would fear to pursue him upon its lonely waters, penetrating such a lush, perilous, mysterious region? Surely he must know that I, and others, to seek the ring, would follow him even into the steaming, flower-strewn wilderness of the Ua.	10
31	44	He says there are hostile tribes, dangerous waters, great animals, monsters, and talunas, white-skinned jungle girls".	10
33	3	The sound of the falls, to our left, plunging some four hundred feet to the waters below, was deafening.	10
33	192	"Follow me, Bila Huruma, if you dare!" His voice was almost indistinguishable against the roar of the waters.	10
49	62	We returned to the canoe and thrust it again into the muddy waters of the wide Ua.	10
49	92	We then heard, drifting over the waters, from upstream, singing.	10
50	3	We guided our canoe over the shining, placid waters of a broad lake.	10
50	7	We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of Thassa.	10
53	60	Waters from the lake circulated through the city and fed this moat.	10
53	61	In it, as had been demonstrated, by the hurling of a haunch of tarsk into the waters, crowded and schooling, were thousands of blue grunt.	10
55	8	The earth shook, the waters of Lake Shaba roiled.	10
55	28	I then lowered my paddle and thrust back against the waters of the lake.	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 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	105	Then, kneeling or standing, as was fit, humbly, Miss Beverly Henderson, with the oils and sponges, and rinsing waters, bathed me.	10
29	3	The deck of the low river galley shifted beneath our feet, as the ship nosed through the inlet waters toward the secluded stronghold of Policrates.	10
29	82	The chain will keep the pirates of the western Vosk out of the waters of Port Cos".	10
29	84	"Besides, how do I know this is not a pirate trick to lure the fleet of Ar's Station into an ambush in cramped waters?" "You have my word on it," said Callimachus, "the word of a warrior".	10
29	127	"The ships of Ar's Station are not welcome in the waters of Port Cos".	10
29	175	We can then send supporting forces through the narrow waters to the wall.	10
30	4	My hair was still wet from the dark waters of the lakelike courtyard of the holding of Policrates.	10
32	92	On the other hand, it seemed puzzling to me how the Voskjard's scout ship could have appeared in these waters if the chain had not been cut.	10
32	339	Then, discarding the sword, I ascended the parapet and leaped feet first to the waters far below.	10

Book 16. (15 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	113	The longboat rested on the waters, rocking in the darkness, silent.	10
2	150	It was cold and dark in the waters of the Vosk.	10
3	66	Twenty others lay to in the waters near the south guard station, which post was held by Callisthenes.	10
3	88	She slipped behind us on the waters of the broad, muddy Vosk.	10
6	12	There was a grinding astern and a dozen men from one of the Voskjard's pressing ships, close in the crowded waters, leapt aboard.	10
6	158	Now, it seemed, they had failed, too, even to prevent the third fleet of the Voskjard from making an unimpeded entry into the waters east of the chain, from which position, of course, they could take the defensive fleet in the rear.	10
7	38	They were hunting the waters.	10
16	149	The waters beneath me now fairly churned with activity.	10
16	275	Timbers and wreckage strewed the waters between the ships.	10
16	398	The waters off the Victoria wharves seemed crowded, but many of the ships were aflame.	10
16	558	The drag of its subsidence pulled momentarily against the headway of the longboat and then, after churning ripples, the narrow, shallow-drafted ship gone, the waters were smooth.	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	1448	"Please accept me! I beg to be your slave! Want me! Oh, want me! Please, Master! I beg to be your slave, Master! Want me! Please want me, Master!" Perhaps he glances to the dark, stirring waters of the eel pool, to the side of the out-of-doors, marbled banqueting area.	10
21	182	"My Master waters me," she said, looking at me, from her hands and knees, the chain hanging from the collar on her neck.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	At the second Ahn, long before dawn, the herald of Samos had come to the lakelike courtyard of my holding in many-canaled Port Kar, that place of many ships, scourge of Thassa, that dark jewel in her gleaming green waters.	10
2	109	Too, it is not unknown for Gorean ships, particularly merchantmen, to carry various flags and pennons, and fly whichever seem appropriate or politic in dangerous or contested waters.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	18	The Dorna was a ship, a tarn ship, a ram ship, shallow-drafted, straight-keeled, single-banked, lateen-rigged, carvel-built, painted green, difficult to detect in the rolling waters of Thassa, out of Port Kar.	10
35	28	The northern waters are cold.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	298	Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him.	10
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

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	188	Its waters are usually shallow, seldom rising above the chest of a tall man.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	133	Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t...	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	18	Its sluggish, muddy waters vary from channels deep enough to float a round ship, to washes of a few inches deep.	10

Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	151	Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the m...	10
12	788	I did hear a stirring in the waters somewhere beneath.	10
12	982	"Is she not of the Peasants?" called the free woman from her cage, angrily, suspended over the dark waters.	10
13	144	A small pressure could have forced me over the wall, tumbling to the dark waters below.	10
13	347	The slightest tug on the cord would spring the latch, dropping the floor of the cage, which was its gate, plunging her helplessly to the cold, dark waters below, to the jaws of the waiting beasts.	10
37	714	We spun about and saw the Lady Ilene, her small ankles tied together, her hands tied behind her back, a rope under her arms, swinging over the dark waters of the urt pool.	10
37	1017	I suddenly realized his attention was not on the pathetic figure in the pool but on the waters behind it and about it.	10
37	1035	He was intensely considering, rather, the waters to the side and back.	10
37	1063	His attention was elsewhere, on the waters behind the figure and the thing at his back.	10
37	1190	There was a splash in the dark waters below.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	98	Others were not now in obvious contact with the stream but were nearby, perhaps fed by waters which had occasionally exceeded the normal boundaries of the stream, or by waters which had drained downward naturally, overflowing the sunken walls, filling the area, cisternlike, the expected result of th...	10
20	195	The moons were reflected in the waters.	10
20	196	It took several Ehn to traverse some of these waters.	10
21	49	White clouds, unhurried, insouciant, pursued their leisurely way inland, floating, drifting, in the currents of the wind, like ships on an invisible ocean, like remarkable, protean creatures risen majestically from the cold waters of gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
21	144	In this case that presented her with no anxiety as the bridge was little more than a yard or so above the waters of the shallow stream.	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	1	A Saurian is Encountered It was some days later, perhaps five, for the records are unclear on the point, that Cabot and his pretty beast reached the sloping shores, and the graveled beach, against whose stones lapped the waters of Lake Fear.	10
29	229	Cabot was standing on the shore, looking out over the waters of the lake.	10
33	1	A Return to the Habitats is Contemplated The light was bright on the lake, and it was not well to look too long on its waters.	10
34	52	Cold waters washed over the raft.	10
46	92	"Others," said another, "in the cries of volcanoes, in the openings of the gates of earth, in the flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, in the rush of waters, in the great winds".	10

Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	19	Too, sharks are less plentiful in colder, northern waters, than in warmer, southern waters.	10
5	258	Such signals are silent, and in waters where it might be wise to be wary, drums or horns would not be used.	10
5	410	I then noted, lastly, another form of cargo, one that had not been on the earlier ship, items strung together, which were then rudely, unceremoniously, disembarked, plunged overboard into the chilly waters.	10
7	215	In certain waters, there are sea sleen, and so on.	10
14	129	"Too, I have seen some others frequent that area, and I do not think for the warmth of the waters".	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
29	42	Amongst those who know what they are doing in such waters things can become subtly tense.	10
36	3	Should she reach Thassa, the sea, I supposed, would be gifted with wine and salt, and oil would be poured into the waters, that they might be soothed in her path.	10
37	3	Should she reach Thassa, the sea, I trusted, would be gifted with wine and salt, and oil would be poured into the waters, that they might be soothed in her path.	10
38	18	The shark, being a hunter, is likely to frequent prey areas, the banks, and the shallower waters.	10
38	21	The waters are too cold.	10
38	350	I feared, rather, given the coming of winter and its season of storms, that the walls of this city, so to speak, would be shortly breached, that they would be unable to resist the raging blows of green Thassa, the blows of her towering, mountainous hammers, that the city must soon fall, succumbing t...	10
40	6	The waters on both sides were filled with debris and struggling men.	10
40	30	There was shouting from the shore, as we passed, of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men, and a drumming, rhythmic, that carried over the cold, green waters of gleaming Thassa.	10
41	32	Perhaps they frequented these waters.	10
41	33	Still we were far from shore, and the sea sleen, as other forms of predatory sea life, tends to range the fishing banks, so to speak, shallower waters closer to shore where sea plants can get sunlight, these plants then forming the basis of a rich marine ecology.	10
41	75	"Stop, Commander! Do not!" I heard the officer of the watch cry out, and then I saw the flash of the mighty rudder to my right, and entered the cold waters of gleaming Thassa.	10
42	7	I did not think I could last long in waters of this temperature.	10

Book 30. (24 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	4	We detected it first, by the glass of the Builders, from the stem castle, far off, through the fog, not clear, seemingly risen from the sea as might a mountain, as the islands that Thassa sometimes lifts from her bosom, in southern waters, with a roiling of waves, a casting of stones, and smoke and ...	10
2	7	"These are open waters.	10
2	8	Familiar waters.	10
2	16	No ship, no vessel, might ply these waters without papers, bearing the seal of either Tyros or Cos.	10
2	57	The patrol fleet was being expanded, that the waters between Tyros and Cos might be better secured, better protected against unregulated shipping, this posing an unwelcome, yea, unacceptable, threat to the welfare and profits of our merchantry.	10
2	220	It was late in the season, and the waters were cold, and I knew not how long I or another, in the sweep and washing of the water, might be able to cling to so negligible a support.	10
2	229	She stands between you and the deep, cold waters of Thassa.	10
2	237	Odd that a Cosian long ship, another Cosian long ship, would be in these waters.	10
5	11	Oil, and wine, and salt are poured into Thassa, the oil to calm her waters, the wine that she may be warmed and pleased, and the salt, in its preciousness, for honor, prestige, life, and hope, and, too, that it may be mixed with her own, that she may accept the ship as one with her, to be sheltered ...	10
5	77	"And thus," I said, "they would not survive, perhaps to enlighten others as to the existence of a great ship, a mysterious, monstrous vessel, unlicensed in our waters".	10
5	115	You were in Cosian waters.	10
6	98	"The waters are cold," I said.	10
11	77	I saw the huge paddlelike appendages of the creature, briefly, and then they were again concealed in the dark waters of Thassa.	10
12	26	It is different, of course, if one is in dangerous waters, fears an attack, or such.	10
13	30	The strange ships were flat-bottomed, and so could navigate rivers, perhaps by poling or towing, and shallow waters, as well as the sea.	10
14	65	The waters seemed placid.	10
15	273	"I am informed by Lord Nishida that these are dangerous waters".	10
17	38	Did they know that war had been done on this very deck, now sanded and smoothed clean? Did they know of the fleet of Lord Yamada? Did they understand that these waters, so glasslike, so serene, might be fraught with peril? I supposed not.	10
17	207	"Do you know the name of these waters?" he asked.	10
18	91	"You are far at sea, in waters scarcely suspected, even by those of the far islands.	10
19	94	The waters churned about her, and she was smote as with discordant, hurtling rivers in the sea, and I feared her timbers, though of mighty Tur wood, might be stove in.	10
20	12	We had the sense that some, if not us, found these familiar waters.	10
22	71	The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.	10
36	15	One could conceive then, eventually, of the navies of warring shoguns extending their concerns beyond their embattled local waters, and beginning to compete for trade routes and access to distant ports.	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	626	Was it not from the sea gates of Port Kar that the galleys of the dreaded Bosk, Bosk of Port Kar, clove the dark waters of restless Thassa? "At least," she said, "I was not sold in Port Kar".	10
35	16	I detected not even a brazier, within whose coals implements of one sort or another might be heated, nor a tank within whose iced waters implements of another sort might be chilled.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	155	Considering that the coast is generally kept in view, it seemed unlikely it would have been lost at sea; considering how long it had been with us it seemed unlikely it would have encountered difficulties of which we would have been unaware; and now, considering our position, and how far north we wer...	10
14	37	"You are building a fort at its head waters, for trading inland?" I asked.	10
20	171	For what had it been built? For what waters had so mighty a keel been laid? What storms had it been framed to withstand? What broad, trackless, landless wildernesses might it hazard? What strange harbors might so monstrous a vessel seek, by what unfamiliar, far ports of call might it be lured? "No, ...	10
50	288	"Master?" I said, gazing across the broad, shimmering waters.	10

Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	330	"I do not think you were aware of these waters, and their currents".	10
17	113	I had taken the key to her collar from her and cast it into the chill waters of Thassa, that she might, whether free or not, know that the device was locked on her neck, and that she had no means wherewith to remove it.	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	80	Much of Thassa lay outside the laws of Brundisium, the range of the mercantile ports, the waters of Port Kar.	10
25	124	Indeed, the waters of the pool still stirred, and more than once I saw the glistening back of an eel break the surface, and then snap away with a spattering of water.	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
54	155	Indeed, perhaps the very waters of Thassa herself might, after an Ehn, or after months or years, disarm the defensive devices presumably implanted in the machine.	10
61	7	"There is peace now, in the local waters," said Captain Nakamura, "save for occasional pirates".	10
61	1045	Waters were now high on the wharf's palings, only a few horts below the planks.	10

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	689	The cold waters of the river plunged through the bars, and swirled about me, and then, as I tried to rear up, and lift my head, as I could, it swirled about my head, and over my head.	10
11	32	Gorean sharks, in their several varieties, of course, are much more common in the waters of Thassa herself, particularly near the shallower banks, where sunlight encourages the growth of plants, and the plants attract several varieties of smaller fish, the parsit and others, on which the sharks feed...	10

Book 35. (16 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
7	56	"Not everyone knows," said another "that the fountains of Torcadino are fed from an aqueduct, its waters drained from the heights of the Voltai".	10
8	163	To be sure, such creatures are most likely to be found in the vicinity of shallower waters, where the sunlight encourages the marine growth which lures in smaller fish to feed.	10
8	937	I looked out at the horror some yards away, at the rocking, awash, beleaguered long boat, the struggles, the knives and clubs, the bloodied waters, the screaming men, the stirrings about of inquiring sharks.	10
11	1	Euphrosyne; I Encounter a Former Acquaintance, One I Had Known on Earth, Who Now Sees Me as I Am Within the sprawling seawalls of Port Kar there are many canals, perhaps hundreds, fed with the waters of the Tamber Gulf.	10
11	3	The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself.	10
11	4	In this way, many of the buildings, worn and stained, often touched with lichen, dampened by the lapping waters, swelling and ebbing with the tides of the gulf, are, in effect, island fortresses.	10
11	25	Whereas slave girls are not allowed on the walls unaccompanied, some will seek escape by scrambling to deserted segments of the walls and diving into the marsh waters below.	10
11	184	Usually, after a few days, they find their way back to the open waters from whence they came.	10
11	197	I recalled the movement in the waters, the brief appearance, softly gliding, that movement, so silent, and smooth, of the gray spine, and high fin.	10
29	21	In the north, muchly distant, in the vicinity of Torvaldsland, and in the waters of Torvaldsland itself, small, isolated, uninhabited skerries are often used as dueling places.	10
29	30	On the game ship, as it plied its way through the cold, choppy waters to the deemed "Skerry of Lars," I knelt at the knee of the seated Bruno of Torcadino.	10
31	183	As the game ship, well oared, smoothly rowed, clove its way through the choppy waters toward the Southern Gate, Bruno of Torcadino spoke.	10
33	124	Some yards before the canal boat the waters stirred, swelling up, and then parted, revealing, shedding water, a rising, monstrous head.	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
43	163	Then the boat shook and rolled, free in the troubled, stirring waters of the Tamber Gulf.	10

Book 36. (52 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	143	"In any event," said Sakim, "certain waters, feared waters, waters often avoided and seldom crossed, are now behind us".	10
18	17	"I entered the waters," he said, "these waters".	10
2	74	"You are in unfriendly waters," said Aktis.	10
2	75	"If I contact your intruders," I said, "it is they who will find themselves in unfriendly waters".	10
3	14	It was not unknown on Thassa, particularly in the contested waters between Port Kar and the major marine ubarates, Cos and Tyros.	10
4	1	What Was Encountered Later; Three Women; I Decide Against Performing an Act of Mercy "These should now be frequented waters," said Thurnock, standing beside Clitus and myself on the stem deck.	10
4	46	"These are dangerous waters," said Thurnock.	10
4	70	They are not unknown in Gorean waters.	10
5	86	"We are now in Theran waters," I said.	10
5	93	"What is the likelihood," I asked, "that in the wide and open waters of mighty Thassa one might encounter a tiny, listing fragment of a shattered vessel, with three passengers, free women, in desperate need of succor?" "Little likelihood, indeed," said Clitus.	10
5	100	A wise corsair would do better to range the waters more broadly".	10
7	3	"He is of a smitten village, Nicosia, on Chios?" said Nicomachos, dark-haired, and impatient of manner, First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, Thera, Chios, and Daphna, leaning forward, an action which caused the medallion and chain of his office ...	10
7	18	"I and others hope to trade freely and profitably in these waters," I said.	10
7	26	Pertinent waters have been sectioned, apportioned, and examined.	10
7	30	"It sails far away, beyond the waters of the Islands, and waits, and then, when ready, returns to strike again," said Nicomachos.	10
7	40	The numbers of attacks and the times of the attacks preclude an account involving lengthy withdrawals from, and returns to, local waters".	10
7	107	We must avail ourselves of any opportunity which might serve to bring peace to our troubled waters.	10
7	140	Let him not know he is stalked, that he is destined for a rendezvous at sea, one as bitter as the waters of churning Thassa herself".	10
7	141	"What does a stranger, an insignificant merchant from Brundisium, perhaps a dealer in contraband, know of these things, of espionage and intrigue, of war at sea, of Bosk of Port Kar? Has he been cleared by the harbor authorities in Telnus? Is he authorized to trade in these waters?" "Patience, dear ...	10
8	7	Several local families made their living by fishing in the nearby waters, families amongst whom Clitus, master of the trident and net himself, had sought to make friends and cultivate informants.	10
14	18	"Perhaps there are several such tiny islands, or skerries, in these waters," I said.	10
16	79	"Perhaps you are unfamiliar with these waters," said a fellow.	10
17	78	He apparently deemed it prudential, at least at present, to continue to dissociate himself from any possible relationship to the corsairs who had terrorized coastal villages and the local waters.	10
18	2	"These are the waters of which you spoke?" I asked.	10
18	20	"I am sure many ships come and go safely in these waters," I said.	10
18	21	"These were the waters where it occurred," he said.	10
18	63	"I chart my course in dangerous waters.	10
18	86	"I am sure many ships come and go safely in these waters," I had said.	10
18	87	"These were the waters where it occurred," had said the mariner, Sakim.	10
18	178	Presumably he seeks clues as to the whereabouts of the feared corsair, Bosk of Port Kar, who has so plundered the coast and ravaged the local waters".	10
18	240	"In these waters," I said, "I think that is an excellent idea".	10
26	109	"You know the waters you have just plied?" said Sakim.	10
26	116	"We traversed these waters safely when first we sought to attend the fair," I said.	10
26	131	"You would have lured the enemy into a trap, having him follow you, having him pursue you, possibly to his doom, into the waters of the powerful, gigantic, territorial, aggressive hith".	10
28	5	The sky was blue, the clouds a congenial white, the waters gentle and calm from horizon to horizon.	10
28	9	"These waters are seldom frequented," I said.	10
37	58	Such eschew deeper waters and live on tiny fish and garbage.	10
49	154	"I was terrified, and seized with a desire to flee, even be it across the waters of the hith," said Sakim.	10
49	155	"We crossed those waters earlier," I said.	10
50	5	But these waters were free of reefs.	10
50	133	"I know these waters," he said.	10
51	16	"You know the waters we are in?" I said to Sakim.	10
51	18	"We passed these waters, safely," I said, "and under oars as well, when we first came to Chios, to warn Mytilene of the intentions of the corsairs".	10
51	76	They are fools, or do not know the waters they ply".	10
51	138	In that time it would be relatively safe to ply these waters".	10
51	142	"Then the other two ships will follow us," I said, "even through these waters?" "I do not doubt it," said Sakim.	10
52	14	I was sure that the two unharmed corsairs we had sighted near the coast, their masts now down, now that they would be past the waters in which the hith was feared, must be close.	10
52	74	"Sakim brought us to waters in which there lurked a territorial hith," I said.	10
60	90	Hundreds of rivers and streams, for centuries, had been bringing salt into its deep, turbulent waters.	10
62	74	"Have you detected a foreign fleet in your waters?" I asked.	10
62	77	"Who," asked Archelaos, "sped the coordinates of the corsair fleet to Nicomachos? Who led him at just the right moment to the waters of Mytilene?" "Do you not conjecture implausibly, recklessly?" I asked.	10
63	226	"Stroke," called the keleustes, and his mallet struck the metal drum, and oars, as one, dipped into the waters of gleaming Thassa.	10