Thorists

"This man founded a secret order known as Thorists and preached a gospel of class hatred called Thorism.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

It was a ship from a land called Thora; and on board it was a man from Havatoo, who was a prisoner of the Thorists.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

He was captured by the Thorists, but he escaped the Room of the Seven Doors in the seaport of Kapdor.

Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

The Thorists still hunt us; and there are still occasional raids, but now they are for a very different purpose.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

Gamfor warned Kiron not to divulge our plan to any prisoner who too openly avowed his hatred of the Thorists.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

Another result is that the radius of Amtorian maritime exploration has been greatly circumscribed; so much so that I believe there are enormous areas in the south temperate zone that have never been discovered by the Vepajans or the Thorists, while the very existence of the northern hemisphere is even unguessed by them.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

I wished that I might have been on deck to view the fascinating sights of this strange world, and my precarious situation as a prisoner of the hated Thorists engendered less regret than the fact that I, the first earth man to sail the seas of Venus, was doomed to be cooped up in a stuffy hole below deck where I could see nothing.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

He was unusually intelligent, and although he had taken part in the revolution, he was now bitter in his denunciation of the Thorists, though this he was careful to whisper to me in secrecy.

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

"Principally about his grievances against the Thorists."

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962

"Certainly," he replied, "if I could find some one who would be kind to me and protect me from the Thorists."

Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962