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Yet she had sat upon the throne, presided on public occasions, issued the decrees prescribed, and made the appointments recommended. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 24, Sentence #295)

She might be now struck, no differently from any other slave. Who, at one time, would have dared to think of striking Talena, Ubara of Ar? Now, a slave, she was subject to the whip of a child. Had she had true power in Ar, had she been a true Ubara, and not a puppet of the occupation, her word might have created and destroyed fortunes, humbled generals and exalted common armsmen; armies might have been marched at her word, and tarn cavalries launched, wars begun and wars ended, but she had had, for the most part, only the trappings of power, not power itself. Yet she had sat upon the throne, presided on public occasions, issued the decrees prescribed, and made the appointments recommended. She had seemed to have power, and I do not doubt but what the unastute thought it hers. Now she was approaching, coffled. I had attended, as a guardsman, many of her fetes and banquets, and had attended her, and others, at the theater, at concerts, and song dramas. - (Mariners of Gor)