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Book 1. (19 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	I was especially counting on the time between the semesters to catch up, or, better, to lengthen my lead on the students.	10
1	45	I trudged along for the better part of two hours before I finally yielded to the weight of the pack.	10
2	153	"But let me begin in my own way, that you may better understand the nature of that whereof I speak".	10
3	7	"Have I nothing better to do? Have I not a thousand scrolls gathering dust on my shelves, unread, unstudied?" "I don't know," I said.	10
3	21	The Goreans I had seen in the past few weeks had tended to be meticulous in their dress, taking great pride in their appearance, but Torm apparently had better things on which to spend his time.	10
3	186	I acknowledged to myself that I was inveterately, stubbornly right-handed, for better or worse.	10
4	9	Without knowing why, and thinking I was better off to have the thing in retreat, I seized my tarn whistle and blew its shrill note.	10
5	25	But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.	10
6	182	Better to steal slaves, where the guilt is less and the charms of the captive are more readily ascertainable in advance.	10
7	176	"I like it better," I said, "being able to see the face of my enemy.	10
7	219	The initial velocity of a quarrel is the better part of a pasang per second.	10
9	66	"We must make a better arrangement than this," she said, pushing away the bracelets.	10
10	87	He undoubtedly had better merchandise, more reasonably priced.	10
10	131	I felt better about this arrangement.	10
13	62	"You'd better come with me.	10
14	105	"Not pleasant, but better than impalement".	10
15	65	Normally, the merchant camp, like the better-organized military camps, not the mélange that constituted the camp of Pa-Kur, is laid out geometrically, and, night after night, one puts up one's tent in the same relative position.	10
15	114	Hitherto I had worn the ring almost arrogantly, but now it seemed to me that discretion, to alter a saying, was the better part of pride.	10
18	59	There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, ...	10

Book 2. (19 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	115	"I knew then that I was no better than he, no better than a beast, worthy only to be a slave".	10
1	73	"Perhaps we had better go home," I said.	10
1	157	"I think," I said, "I'd better go".	10
7	75	"Better you had gone to the Cities of Dust," said Thorn.	10
7	97	"Better to have gone to the Cities of Dust than to be Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," he said.	10
14	181	And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...	10
15	122	I thought it well to alarm the Tatrix, the better to improve my bargaining position.	10
15	132	"Remove the mask," I suggested, "in order that I may better judge what you will bring on the Street of Brands".	10
16	102	Better that than to die under the spear of one of the warriors.	10
18	31	"The tarn carried her off like a tabuk!" His laughter, which spread to the other slaves in the room, those chained to me, was uproarious, and I understood better than I had understood before the affection with which the Tatrix of Tharna was held in the mines.	10
19	28	"You will have a better chance than you gave us," said the bull-like man from Tharna.	10
21	119	"You want a clean, pretty brand, don't you? It will improve your price and you'll get a better master".	10
21	209	In annoyance, looking over the rings of Targo and the sapphires which hung from his ears, I knew he would be a much better judge of their value than I.	10
21	238	Better the arms of a master than the cold steel of the ankle ring.	10
21	263	But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master.	10
23	31	She knew as well as I, perhaps better, the fearful power of the Priest-Kings.	10
23	119	On the wall itself over the gate in huge letters there was scrawled the legend "Sa'ng-Fori," literally "Without Chains," but perhaps better translated simply as "Freedom" or "Liberty".	10
25	133	"Shameless animal," she sneered, "you are no better than they—beasts!" "Yes," said Lara, "that is true".	10
26	56	I do not know that my own decision would have been so harsh, but I admit that Lara knew her city and its silver masks better than I.	10

Book 3. (26 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	56	It had weathered for perhaps better than a thousand years.	10
2	101	This may seem cruel but in the long run it tends to be conservative of human life; it is better, as the Goreans say, for one man to die than many.	10
5	286	I had decided I liked her better with her hair loose.	10
7	91	I had waited perhaps better than an Ahn and I was covered with sweat.	10
10	24	I am told that the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings or, better, what in their language would correspond to phonemes in ours, since their "phonemes" have to do with scent and not sound, number seventy-three.	10
13	5	When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the Priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a q...	10
13	85	"Of course," said the first slave, "but there is no better way, for Muls are extremely inexpensive and are easily replaced".	10
14	43	"You look much better," said one of them.	10
14	68	"You will feel much better," said one of them, "when you have had a bit of fungus".	10
14	82	And then it did not strike me as being better or worse than that of the low-grade Mul-Fungus.	10
14	115	Occasionally after we got to know one another better, he would even allow me to groom him, and the first time he allowed me, with the small grooming fork used by favored Muls, to comb his antennae I knew that he trusted me, and liked me, though for what reason I could not tell.	10
16	30	"So much the better," said Misk, "for the Men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more—but the members of the Caste of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed.	10
16	37	It is better for observing their variations, from the scientific point of view, and it is safer for us if they remain disunited, for being rational they might develop a science, and being subrational it might be dangerous for us and for themselves if they did so".	10
16	200	I puzzled on the many things which Misk had told me, and then I looked up at him, lifting my torch that I might better see that great head with its rich, disklike, luminous eyes.	10
17	150	It is better this way, more economical of material".	10
20	112	"It is better for the Nest".	10
21	33	"We had better hide," said Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
26	81	"Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foo...	10
26	112	"The plastic of the case," said the Attendant, "is cage plastic and the lock is a cage lock, so it would be better not to lose it".	10
26	170	It was better than the one she had had in her own chamber.	10
27	5	I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the ...	10
28	90	I no longer wished her to be confined here now that I better understood how matters stood in the Nest.	10
32	91	Drifting dust obscured the complex and I drew the folds of Vika's robes more about her face that she might be better protected.	10
32	229	"I wished that I could have known her better," said Parp.	10
34	106	And I added, "And I think it will be a better city for you than Treve".	10
34	194	Perhaps it was better that way.	10

Book 4. (38 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	26	Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki...	10
2	174	The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...	10
6	66	Against my better judgment I spoke to her.	10
7	88	It was perhaps only that she was convenient, and, of course, that she was lovely, thus a fitting bearer of the collar, herself a gift with the message to please the Tuchuks, and perhaps better dispose them toward its contents.	10
9	36	I would not have cared to know him better.	10
9	60	"Besides," Kamchak had told me, nudging me in the ribs, "the food and the entertainment are better in the house of Saphrar than in the palace of Phanius Turmus".	10
9	64	The Turian feast usually consumes the better part of a night and can have as many as a hundred and fifty courses.	10
9	103	I liked it better cooked over the open-fires on the prairie, but it was good bosk.	10
9	133	The Turian camisk, unlike the common camisk, will cover a girl's brand; on the other hand, unlike the common camisk, it leaves the back uncovered and can be tied, and is, snugly, the better to disclose the girl's beauty.	10
9	468	"I will stand, I tell you! I will! I will!" "No," said Saphrar, "I cannot permit it—it is better that the people laugh at Aphris of Turia—and perhaps, in some years, they may forget".	10
9	482	"All right," said Saphrar, his eyes cast down, as though making a decision against his better judgment, "I will permit my ward, the Lady Aphris of Turia, to stand at the stake in Love War".	10
10	173	"It would be better," I said, "to get a good night's sleep".	10
10	259	Now the excitement of the throng seemed mostly to course among the warriors of the Wagon Peoples as they rose in their stirrups to see better the swaying, approaching palanquins, each reputedly bearing a gem of great beauty, a fit prize in the savage contests of Love War.	10
10	366	"There are probably several better among the stakes," said Kamchak.	10
10	530	"Better, my friend," I said, "that than death".	10
10	531	"No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".	10
10	574	"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body.	10
11	334	"Much better," said Kamchak, nodding.	10
11	335	"Much better".	10
12	253	Aphris, for her part, though the quivas were still available, seemed, shortly after having begun to sleep at Kamchak's boots, for some reason to have thought the better of burying one in his heart.	10
12	313	"Because I am better than Dina and Tenchika," she said.	10
12	314	"But not better than Aphris," called Aphris.	10
12	315	"Yes," said Elizabeth, "better than Aphris".	10
14	23	It was better, I knew, for her to be secured as she was rather than chained in the wagon, or even to the wheel.	10
15	81	Also, perhaps for no reason better than his suddenly found hatred for Aphris of Turia, he seemed in no hurry to free the girls from their confinement.	10
16	65	Yet, in spite of my better judgment, I found myself somehow admiring the confident young fellow.	10
16	98	"That is all well and good," I said, "but I think it would be better to strike out for the House of Saphrar".	10
16	113	I told myself it might be better, even, to come to the House of Saphrar late, rather than possibly before the twentieth hour.	10
16	165	"I trust," said Saphrar, "that we shall have better fortune".	10
19	137	"I have seen kaiila with better teeth," he said.	10
21	91	Then I decided I had better move across the roofs in the opposite direction, find a sheltered roof, stay there until nightfall and then perhaps try to leave the city.	10
22	21	It was invested by better than two of the Thousands.	10
24	87	"It arrived with the bosk along with better than two hundred other wagons today—including yours".	10
25	307	It would have been better, I told myself, if Kamchak had not given me the girl.	10
26	53	"He is coming to bargain with Saphrar, but I can better whatever terms he is offered—for I have all the gold and women of Turia, and by nightfall I will have the private hordes of Saphrar himself".	10
26	257	"That is better," wheezed Saphrar.	10
26	378	For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia...	10
27	143	"Perhaps not so dangerous," said he, "for I knew the Kataii and the Kassars—better than they knew themselves".	10

Book 5. (42 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	201	Besides it is better for a female slave to be branded by a man; it makes them better slaves.	10
1	42	The men and women of Ko-ro-ba stood circled about the pyre, neither moving nor speaking, for better than two Ahn.	10
2	333	It was lined with red silk, and floored with love furs and cushions, the furs being better than some six to eight inches deep.	10
2	365	"Be silent, Slave Girl," I warned her, and she heeded my injunction, for she then, for better than an Ahn, served in a silence that was exquisite, broken only by our breathing, her small moans and cries.	10
3	141	All eyes turned to the Player and he put his head down for a moment, apparently reconstructing the game from memory, through all of its better than forty moves to that point, and then he smiled.	10
5	206	It had been some eight years or better that I had not seen her.	10
5	609	It was one day to Thentis by tarn, but in the wagon we knew the trip would take perhaps the better part of one of the twenty-five day Gorean months.	10
5	716	"Better than yours?" I inquired.	10
6	53	I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man.	10
7	54	We stood there in the night, in the cold, for perhaps better than two Ahn.	10
7	156	"They will not awaken now," said the man with the Thief's scar, "for better than an Ahn".	10
7	180	She is truly slave, and is likely to remain so, unless, as happens upon occasion, she so pleases a master that he, perhaps against his better judgment, consents to free her.	10
8	132	I shared the breakfast with Elizabeth, who informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves, marvelous though the latter might have been.	10
10	94	"Why is it?" I asked Ho-Tu, whom I felt I had come to know somewhat better in the day, "that when others have Ka-la-na and meat and bread and honey you eat only this porridge?" Ho-Tu pushed back the bowl.	10
11	211	"It will make you feel better".	10
11	326	Moreover, the Gorean culture tends, for better or worse, to be male oriented and male dominated, and in such a culture men naturally look on women much differently than they do in a consumer-oriented, woman-dominated culture, one informed by an ethos of substantially feminine values; the women then,...	10
11	382	The results of the tests I have just conducted are quite affirmative, much better than merely satisfactory, decidedly promising".	10
12	60	"The races were better in the days of Marlenus of Ar," said a man behind me, leaning forward to speak to me.	10
12	161	The racing fan of Ar commonly remains to the last race, and sometimes even later, discussing the races and commenting on how he would have flown such and such a race better than the bird's rider.	10
13	185	"I could speak to you of things I have heard," she said, "but it is better that you not know of them".	10
13	262	"You'd better come in from there," he said, grinning.	10
13	376	"You had better come in from the tarn perch," said Mip.	10
14	135	Between them they handled better than seventy percent of the flesh purchased, exchanged and sold in the city.	10
14	180	The prisoner now seemed in a better mood.	10
15	114	Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, though she had now been gone months from the House, had been kept for better than two months in the cell for Special Captures.	10
15	126	It would be better, of course, if her master, bound to be ignorant of the intrigue, would undertake this business himself.	10
15	365	But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...	10
16	161	"She doesn't know any better," said Elizabeth.	10
17	10	"You had better be indoors," said he, "on Kajuralia".	10
17	25	I decided I had better return to the House of Cernus.	10
17	166	"He would be better than a Hinrabian," said another fellow.	10
17	242	The fewer people who knew of the plan the better.	10
17	249	Still it was better than nothing.	10
17	291	She will serve you better than a silly little White Silker".	10
17	773	"Ubar's Initiate to Scribe Three is the better move," she said.	10
19	79	Here in the area of the exhibition cages there were various citizens of Ar milling about, some meeting their friends, before taking their seats in the tiers; some seats in the tiers, the better ones, are reserved by number, but many are simply available on a first-come-first-served basis; those citi...	10
19	165	Usually the better merchandise is saved for later in the evening, and many of the buyers were waiting.	10
20	450	Philemon looked as though he might choose to reply, but thought the better of it, and glared angrily at the board.	10
21	141	"I like it better," I said grimly, "than the former one".	10
21	222	There is little, I suspect, that I could do better than many others.	10
24	19	"Better Marlenus than Cernus, surely," said he.	10
24	451	"Better surely banishment than torture and impalement".	10

Book 6. (31 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	271	"I had thought the better of you," said Ho-Hak.	10
4	140	"It would be useful to have similar standards for rence paper, to sometimes harvest in common, to sometimes, in times of need, share crops, and, of course, to obtain a better price for our paper than we might if we bargained as isolated islands with the rence merchants".	10
5	1	Festival "I think I shall win you," said a lithe, dark-haired girl, holding my chin and pushing up my head, that she might better see my face.	10
7	161	The fewer who knew that Tarl Cabot sought entry to Port Kar the better.	10
8	578	Once, when I had been bound at the pole, she had pushed up my head, that she might better assess the features of a slave.	10
8	740	"But," said Telima, "is not Telima much better than Midice?" Midice, to my surprise, shook with anger and, bound, tethered, turned to face Telima.	10
8	828	"I—I will serve you better".	10
8	835	"I," she cried, "—I will serve him better!" Telima shrugged.	10
9	192	It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ...	10
9	614	The chains which she had worn while serving paga, and when she had asked for my protection, had been removed, doubtless while she had been in the alcove, sometime after I had left the tavern, that she might have better rendered Surbus, Captain of Port Kar, the dues of the slave girl.	10
10	140	To get a better figure, particularly since the above figures are themselves approximations, let us say that Port Kar houses in the neighborhood of five thousand ships.	10
10	230	Better, they would think, to lie in wait on the open sea for the slave galleys of Tyros or the treasure ships of Cos.	10
11	335	"I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty".	10
11	457	And what better gesture than this mission of peace to the hereditary enemies Cos and Tyros? If the burden of maintaining the conflict were clearly on them, it was possible that allies of theirs might be influenced to diminish or, perhaps, withdraw their support, or, perhaps, pledge it even to Port K...	10
13	157	"Our information is better than you seem to understand," smiled Chenbar.	10
13	176	"Yes," I said, "I remember you perhaps better than you know".	10
13	319	It was now something better than an Ahn past noon.	10
13	519	I think I knew the shipping, the cargoes and the schedules of those two island Ubarates, and several of their allies, as well or better than many of the members of their own high councils.	10
14	222	He looked at her for better than an Ehn, studying the rise and fall, the sweep, of the oars.	10
14	250	I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships.	10
15	176	"You would do better," said he, "to learn the work of the kitchen".	10
15	220	"I will work better than any for you!" "All right, Lad," said Tellius.	10
15	432	"Sandra is better than Midice," she said.	10
15	434	"Sandra is better," wheedled the girl.	10
15	511	They might serve as prizes in games or as inducements to serve me better, that one might be received as gift in token of good service.	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
17	193	* * * * For better than three Ahn I had sat in the basket at the masthead of the Dorna, whipped by the wind, my fingers numb on the glass of the builders, observing the battle.	10
18	43	I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh...	10
18	177	Vina was very young, but Telima should have known better, and yet she, too, the proud Telima, knelt helplessly at the ring, her wrists bound behind her back, securely and expertly gagged, a young and beautiful woman, yet fastened as helplessly to a slave ring as a young girl.	10
18	519	If one must die, how could one better die than with such a blade in hand? * * * * We fought on the height of the keep.	10
18	931	"Both of you now know yourselves as you did not before, and in knowing yourselves you will be better able to know others, their strengths and their weaknesses".	10

Book 7. (50 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	39	I was sorry, but she should have known better.	10
1	53	I liked them better than those I could purchase.	10
1	66	I knew that I was better than other people, and was not afraid to show them, in my manner, that this was true.	10
2	2	It was perhaps better than an hour, judging from the position of the sun coming through the curtains.	10
6	422	I was pleased that she, too, had been switched! She was a slacker! Why should the rest of us pull for her? Was she better than we? "Har-ta!" cried Targo.	10
7	216	How beautiful she was in my clothing! She wore them better than I! Then Targo, protesting, was pulled by two squealing girls to the center of the circle.	10
7	415	How naturally I had carried myself differently than they, better, more arrogantly.	10
7	416	I was better! I was their superior! But now I was taken from my world.	10
7	437	"Despite how plain you are," one said, "you give the impression that, when you learn your bondage better, and understand it is truly on you, you will serve splendidly, and will thrash and moan well in the furs".	10
8	191	We were now better than two thirds of the way across the broad river.	10
8	282	"She now walks better than she did," he said.	10
8	687	The claws, as I saw when they were exposed, upon the order of the mountebank, were better than four inches long, curved and sharp.	10
8	878	"A hungry girl often serves better," said Ute.	10
9	16	To reach the high trees of the forest, the great Tur trees, would be perhaps better than another hour's trek.	10
9	353	"Slaves!" I then knew myself better than they! I was superior! I was above them! Though I was bound and branded I was a thousand times greater and finer than they.	10
10	193	I had toyed with the idea of granting it, not for the hundred dollars, of course, but for piquant frisson involved, the tingling, flattering little thrill of such a transaction, me, Elinor Brinton, selling a kiss, the surprising, unexpected, naughty adventure of it, of pretending, for a moment, that...	10
10	321	"But, unfortunately for us, your capture was effected by slavers, and they wished to take you south for a better price.	10
11	148	The food was better in the private pens, where we were trained, than in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba, areas of which were available for rent to passing slavers, where we were housed at night.	10
11	151	Most masters, however, if inclined to board their slaves, would do so at the private pens, where the food and facilities were better.	10
11	166	In the private pens we were given better food, lean meats and vegetables and fruits, and, if our group had trained acceptably, after the evening meal, before being returned, hooded, to the public pens, we would be given candies or pastries, or, sometimes, a swallow of Ka-la-na wine.	10
11	308	Further, they knew that with their ears pierced, they might bring a somewhat higher price, and thus, perhaps, obtain a somewhat better-fixed master.	10
11	313	Today, however, better than a year later, it was not uncommon to see a slave girl wearing, and insolently, such jewelry, even in public.	10
11	827	I decided I had better keep moving.	10
11	1396	I was better than all of them! I wanted only to be rid of them! I lay there in the straw, and recollected the forest north of Laura.	10
12	154	Perhaps from the mistakes in one collar she would learn to be better in the next.	10
12	374	I was better than them all, put together! If I were to steal a pastry, or lie, what did it matter? Doubtless they were jealous! Doubtless they envied me my beauty! I was not a barbarian.	10
13	388	She had commanded me, Elinor Brinton, though she was only an ignorant Gorean girl, had dared to act as the leader of a girl of Earth, and one such as I! She would learn better.	10
13	433	"Hadn't you better hurry?" I asked.	10
13	683	She was different, higher, better, a woman of Earth! She was refined, educated, sensitive! She was too special, too delicate, to be beaten! Could he not see that? She was not a common slave! She should not be beaten! Could he not see that? But I felt the leather of the saddle beneath my arched back,...	10
13	799	Such strategies, as well, however effective they might be for free women, who can withhold their favors, waiting for better offers, are scarcely effective for slaves, for they are subject, at the master's pleasure, to "bondage caresses," which no woman can resist.	10
13	1090	"I knew no better.	10
13	1092	"Clearly you knew no better," said he.	10
14	137	What could a woman be but the prize of such men? For a moment I wished myself back on Earth where there was little for a man to do which could not be done as well, or better, by a woman.	10
14	352	"We can do better than this".	10
14	355	"Better," she said.	10
14	377	"The camisk," she said, "is perhaps better as a field garment.	10
14	416	The sooner she learns that her body is now that of an animal, and is public to men, the better.	10
14	425	The roving tarnsman, with his leather loops at the side of his saddle, thinking of trying "chain luck," the scrutinizing slaver, with his capture loops and notebooks, engaged in the commerce of women, may surely better assess a half-naked quarry.	10
14	500	Better a collar anywhere, she weeps, than in what was once her own city! Sometimes a fellow of the city who knows her will find her there, in the paga tavern, only another girl, nude, kneeling, rising, hurrying to serve her master's customers.	10
14	623	For better than a quarter of an Ahn I knelt, waiting.	10
15	242	You will be treated precisely as the other girls, neither better nor worse.	10
15	980	I was better than they.	10
15	981	I would be better than they.	10
15	982	I began to do my work with great efficiency and promptness, better than the other girls.	10
15	986	I became arrogant in my virtue, to the irritation of the other girls, but I did not care, for I was better than they.	10
15	991	I used the blade of cooperativeness, of virtue, of diligence, of punctuality to proclaim myself better than the others, all of them.	10
16	20	The other girls sensed this and, pleased, accepted me among them, as another mere slave, neither better nor worse than they themselves.	10
16	268	Better the whip and his anger than his coldness or indifference.	10
17	119	For better or for worse, that is what I was.	10
17	464	I do not understand all of what I have written, in the sense of knowing its implications, or what knowledge others, better informed, may draw from it.	10

Book 8. (22 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	584	"Gorean girls," she hissed, "may be slaves! Not the women of Earth! Earth women are different! They are better, finer, nobler, more refined, more delicate! You cannot make them common slaves!" "You regard yourself as better than Gorean girls?" I asked.	10
2	146	The hair was now better grown, but it was clear now, and it would remain clear, for some weeks, what had once been done to him.	10
2	313	Rim held their heads underwater, for better than an Ehn.	10
3	74	There would be better prices on sleen fur, of course, in Laura itself.	10
4	291	I had treated her no worse, or better, than such slaves are commonly treated.	10
5	48	It was a better garment than she had worn when she had been free, though, of course, it was much shorter.	10
6	42	I lifted the lamp, to better regard her.	10
6	261	It had taken the better part of the morning, but Rim and I, and Thurnock, had found the blazed tree, blazed with a spear point, several feet high on the trunk.	10
6	335	We might be simply, as far as those in Laura knew, attempting to achieve better prices on sleen fur by establishing this camp.	10
7	316	I eased myself upward into the branches of a tree, whence I might command a better view.	10
7	365	Let each of them, on the auction block, as the men bid upon them, consider how their affairs might have been better conducted.	10
8	131	Besides, what if Verna and her band returned tonight, and then, again, departed before dawn tomorrow? "I have a better suggestion," said Arn.	10
11	363	He begged that Verna, who stood nearby, be permitted to display the product, so that I might better judge its sheen and quality.	10
11	750	On Gor, for better or for worse, the reality in which a woman, terrified, might find herself is not altogether unlike that of her most feared dreams on Earth, but on Gor it is not a dream; it is as real as the steel of slave bracelets and the commanding touch of a master.	10
14	201	They would serve one of Port Kar even better.	10
15	96	But in time, I conjectured, they, too, would be slave girls, and piteously begging other slaves for secrets on how better to serve men.	10
15	227	The two girls who were more suspicious fared no better.	10
15	594	I am not a slave! I am a free woman of Earth, different from them, and superior to them! I am better than they!" "And so," I said, "I should show you special consideration?" "Certainly," she said.	10
18	126	Mira, of course, knew better, but she could not speak without revealing her knowing role in the drugging of Hura's women.	10
18	566	"Better the bracelets of a master than the teeth of a sleen?" asked one of the men of Tyros.	10
19	65	I saw a torch lifted higher, that they might better look upon my face.	10
19	468	"It would be better for you," said I, "if I were".	10

Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	47	Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lifted by an addit...	10
15	212	I had suspected earlier that he knew the mountain, this facilitating our ascent, and that this explained why the pursuing Kurii, natively better climbers than men, could do little better than keep our pace, if that.	10
3	361	I had booked better passage to Torvaldsland.	10
4	66	When I felt I knew him better, I played him more openly.	10
5	59	"Very well," said he, "but here, to distinguish you from others in the north, we must do better than that".	10
5	250	"I would have thought better of the mints of Ar," said he.	10
6	515	"I will please you better," said Pudding.	10
6	516	"I will please you better!" cried Gunnhild.	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
8	43	Fashions in Ar are eagerly inquired into; a garment "cut in the fashion of Ar" may sell for more than one of better cloth but less "stylish"; "as it is done in Ar" is a phrase often heard.	10
9	16	"So that," said Ottar, his hands on his heavy belt, inlaid with gold, "is Hilda the Haughty, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar!" "Gunnhild is better!" said Pouting Lips.	10
9	22	"Gunnhild is better!" said Pouting Lips.	10
9	83	"Gunnhild is better!" she cried.	10
9	101	"Gunnhild is better," said Pouting Lips.	10
10	50	He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to me later; he d...	10
10	67	That seemed to me not a bad idea, unless a better might have been to flee for our lives.	10
10	94	Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the...	10
10	105	Some men are better at this, of course, than others.	10
10	300	The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp...	10
10	301	"When we return to Forkbeard's Landfall," said the Forkbeard, "they will be better, for having looked, and having been looked upon".	10
10	378	"These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter".	10
10	571	It was better to say nothing.	10
11	238	"We have better uses for our bondmaids," said Svein Blue Tooth, "than to feed them to Kurii".	10
13	449	In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som...	10
17	119	The commander of a military Kur, thus, might better be thought of as the "brain" or "mind," but continues, in their languages, to be spoken of as the "blood".	10
18	160	There must have been better than two thousand Kurii formed.	10
18	226	It was my supposition that their square contained, now, better than twenty-three hundred beasts.	10
20	108	It was a Kur ax, its handle some eight feet in length, the broad head better than two feet in sharpened width.	10
20	114	"I wish," it said, "Tarl Cabot, I had known you better".	10
20	119	"Had you known me better," said I, "you would not have come to the skerry".	10

Book 10. (42 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	172	Her body involuntarily shuddered as the grease-thick rag slipped over her beauty and clung snug, revealingly, about it; I examined her, walking about her; I tore the neckline down, to better expose the beauty of her breasts; I ripped away a strip from the garment's hem, shortening it; she must now w...	10
1	276	Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...	10
1	509	I then thrust her from me, before the tables, that she might better please the guests of Samos, first slaver of Port Kar.	10
1	773	They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the Priest-Kings understood either.	10
4	193	"She moves somewhat better than she did.	10
5	771	"There are better things to do with a beautiful slave," I told him, "than throw her into the canals, to feed the urts".	10
5	796	Here, for better or for worse, was a natural, male-dominant world.	10
5	798	Can one not hear the boots of totalitarianism approaching, ringing ever more clearly, ever nearer, on the terrified, deserted streets? Was a woman, I wondered, really better off on Earth? Was she happier there, I wondered, posing as a pseudo-male, amidst the remnants of ruined men? I wondered how ma...	10
7	491	"So, too, did we," he said, "but I assure you, she is much better now.	10
7	591	"Whereas you knew her as a free woman, with all her pretensions, petulances, and vanities," he said, "I have much the better of it, for I know her as my slave.	10
8	2	For better than fifty pasangs about the terrain was apparently combed, again and again, but yielded not even a trail.	10
8	4	I patronized an unimportant, rather poor sort of establishment, whose proprietor, I suspected, would have had better things to do than attend trials at the chamber of justice.	10
10	316	"I have never seen a better whip-capture of a girl," I said.	10
10	379	The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...	10
12	136	"Alyena," he said, "who is better, prefers me".	10
12	138	"I do not know if Alyena is better or not".	10
12	557	I scooped up the beads, which were in five strands, and, kneeling behind her, pulling down her gown a bit, from the shoulders, to better display them, fastened them tightly about her throat.	10
12	677	"Surely," said he, "I should be better dressed for riding in the night".	10
13	149	"I expect to have better fortune," said the man.	10
13	338	"Perhaps you would have better fortune than when you in stealth struck Suleiman Pasha," I said.	10
13	456	"I know you better under another name," I said.	10
14	26	It was difficult to believe then, in the cool of that morning, as early as late spring, that the surface temperatures of the terrain we would traverse would be within hours better than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.	10
14	34	The Salt Ubar had speculated that he would enjoy better fortune in this respect.	10
17	37	They had been with the raft now for better than an Ahn, appearing some quarter of an Ahn after we had steadied the sluggish vessel in place.	10
21	306	Better one world than none.	10
24	91	She had better do so, I thought.	10
24	232	"You are better than they, other than they?" "Certainly," she snapped.	10
24	408	"Surely you know me better than that, Tarl," she said.	10
24	414	"You hold yourself better than Gorean girls?" I asked.	10
24	484	There are better things to do with a slave than respect her".	10
24	641	"At the moment she is probably better dressed than you," I said.	10
24	693	Few things better than this help the girl to understand that she is a slave.	10
25	319	"Better torture and impalement on the walls of the kasbah at Nine Wells," said Hassan.	10
25	448	"It might be better," said Hassan, studying the beauty, "if she were completely stripped".	10
26	490	It was no secret in the kasbah that lovely Vella, whom I had found displeasing, had been the favorite of Ibn Saran, that she had been a high slave, that she had been pampered and privileged, that she had been given the luxury of private quarters, and special jewelries and silks, that she had disdain...	10
26	548	Let us do better this time, beloved Tarl.	10
26	708	And what could better remind her of the past than that I should treat her in the present as though the past did not exist, treat her as no more than any other slave.	10
26	842	But I thought she might understand this mark better than the other.	10
26	970	It is better to embrace nature and fulfill her than deny her.	10
26	1083	"But first I think I will have you and that other slut, the red-haired girl, Zaya, both nude, serve black wine and sugars, attending on me, while I sport with a better slave, Tafa".	10
26	1182	Even had they not have been, their information, they, seldom leaving the Sardar, not being as humans, was little better than that of their human agents, widely separated in space and time.	10
26	1280	It was not clear to me, however, that she was better than, say, a hundred of the other women acquired in the taking of the kasbah.	10

Book 11. (36 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	641	Marla and Chanda and Donna and Slave Beads would have been no better! And I did not think Lehna or Eta would have been much better either! How I would have loved to have seen Marla try to pull the plow! She would have done no better than I! Angrily I hoed the suls.	10
4	773	"I am Judy Thornton! I am of Earth! I am not one of your barbarian girls, a slut for your pleasure! I am a refined, civilized young woman! I am better than you are! I am better than you all!" I saw, in the moonlight, the hand.	10
3	39	How disgusting she was! I hated her! I had been in the camp now for better than two days.	10
3	166	Had I not been, in effect, "his"? Was I not physically attractive to him? I knew now I was no Eta, but surely I was better than nothing.	10
3	470	I thought of the boys with whom I had gone out on Earth, those immature young men, many of them rich and well-placed socially, whom I had accepted as escorts and dates, often for no better reason than to display my unusual popularity before the other girls in the school.	10
4	750	"I am better than you all," I cried, "though you abuse me! I am of Earth! You are barbarians! I am civilized! You are not! It is you who should bend to me, not I to you! It is I who should command, not you!" Eta ran to me, to urge me to silence.	10
4	1026	I had thought myself better than what I was.	10
4	1083	He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b...	10
4	1087	He knew the girl better than she knew herself.	10
4	1199	She would help me to be a better slave.	10
5	332	Accordingly, the sooner she could be retaken the better.	10
6	201	"Better," said one of the lieutenants.	10
6	283	I wondered if he had, in his openness with me, been testing my master, to learn him better.	10
7	368	Surely it is better to have a true man on any terms than to have half a man, or no man at all.	10
7	1078	An intelligent girl can do many more things and do them better than a duller girl.	10
9	159	Tipped on its side, to better accommodate humans, it was some six feet in height and four by twelve feet in breadth and length.	10
9	584	It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my ...	10
9	666	What idiots they were! There were better things to do with a beautiful slave girl than hitch her to a plow! "The village is not a good place for you, Dina," Turnip had once said to me.	10
9	989	It is a very different world from mine; in its way, I suppose it is worse; in its way, I know it is better.	10
9	1719	"A better weapon," said Thurnus, hefting the staff.	10
9	1897	"Better," said Thurnus, "that the draught had been poison, and you had drunk first".	10
9	2182	"I will try to be a better slave".	10
12	363	I had fed better than she this evening.	10
12	837	Perhaps things would be better.	10
13	93	"Do the masters not want their slaves healthy and better able to serve them?" "It is true," I said, "Sucha".	10
14	354	"I could win for myself, and you," I said, "if nothing better, an easier slavery".	10
14	433	"Are you feeling better now?" he asked.	10
18	8	I brushed against other girls, and customers, coming and going on the wooden ramps; I managed the tray with care; it is not well to drop a tray; many girls worked at the Chatka and Curla, more than one hundred; I climbed carefully; the ramps have raised, slatted ridges; these are spaced some twenty ...	10
18	78	What man, fortunate enough to own a slave, with all the rights and privileges of the mastery, holding all power over a beautiful woman, even as to how she will wear her hair and whether or not she will be clothed, having at his least beck and call her beauty and its services, and having at his dispo...	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
20	548	"Better to kill him now," said a man.	10
21	11	Better that I, if I could, be chained to a bench, an oarsman slave, than he.	10
22	722	Better for her for her sake to have gone down with the ship, but I would not allow that possible.	10
23	66	Better that it had been I who had been betrayed.	10
24	53	"There are thousands better," he said.	10
24	145	We had better be.	10

Book 12. (48 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	103	We are psychophysical organisms, or better perhaps, thinking, feeling organisms.	10
2	24	Such an act, to deliver such a message, would be little better than a taunt, a gambit, intended to misdirect our attention".	10
2	346	It seemed to me such a ship would be too heavy to manage well, that it would be clumsy and slow, that it might be better fitted to cargo service when protected in a convoy than entrusted to confront, elude or brave the lean, lateen-rigged wolves of gleaming Thassa, hungry for the cargoes of the inef...	10
3	18	The tunics of the young women are cut briefly, to better reveal their charms.	10
3	45	It is easier to gamble on the taking of given girls, and how long they will be at large, if their beauty is better visible to the bettors.	10
3	378	I would have preferred to have had better odds, but I had managed to place my bet before they had more than doubled against poor Centius of Cos.	10
3	520	She and the last two girls would have been extremely similarly attired; they all wore, or had worn, the male-imitation uniform which I gathered must be popular among such girls, girls apparently striving to copy a masculinity which hormonally and anatomically would be forever denied to them; better ...	10
3	1198	Certainly it is better than being sold from a cement shelf in a small town, from a sales barn in the countryside, from a dock in Schendi, and such.	10
4	127	He is thought by many better able to govern his own play when there is only a single time pressure to be considered, that of the full two Ahn.	10
5	108	"To be sure," I said, "I expect they could find better things to do than die on your walls".	10
6	461	The sleen can follow a track better than a larl or a Kur.	10
6	607	"You had better get out of those wet clothes," I told the girl.	10
7	101	"It is better that you remain".	10
9	76	"That's better," she said.	10
9	117	On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one-half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length.	10
10	344	Suddenly a tabuk, better than eleven hands at the shoulder, thrust through the opening, buffeting men aside.	10
10	387	More tabuk now, a river better than sixty feet wide, thundered past me.	10
11	257	"You, too," she said, "had better flee".	10
11	293	This limits the movement of the legs, and better holds the individual in place.	10
12	140	One community is not likely to be much better or worse off than another.	10
12	161	Some animals, doubtless, have better dispositions than others.	10
12	511	"But Thimble and Thistle are better".	10
13	15	A common conversation can be heard for better than half a pasang away.	10
14	157	"Find a better".	10
14	161	"Find a better".	10
15	225	"You are a slave, and you are going to continue to be a slave," I told her, "so you had better learn how to be a good one".	10
15	333	"It is better that they do not know".	10
15	747	Should they be enslaved, of course, it is, for better or for worse, taken from them, like their property and their clothing".	10
20	45	It is better at cutting meat and slicing sinew.	10
20	133	"At any rate, it is better to try to make a song and fail, than not to try to make a song.	10
20	134	It is better to make a song and fail, than not to sing".	10
21	110	I supposed a girl had better know the touch of her master.	10
21	199	"You and Thistle had better watch your step," I warned her, "or I will have Thimble thrash you both".	10
22	345	"If sleen were to talk these things over," he said, "they would probably say that they were immortal and men were not, because they were better at swimming".	10
23	163	It had not escaped his notice, for example, that he had been met by almost every male in the village better than two pasangs from the permanent camp.	10
24	466	Indeed, it, and its withdrawal, may be used to better control the girl.	10
25	77	Let Audrey not think she was privileged, or better, than Arlene.	10
26	311	"I am an even better fellow to live beside," said Imnak.	10
27	140	It is generally better for the fur of the heavy parka to be left in the entrance way, where it is colder.	10
27	143	It is better for the fur not to be constantly put through this cycle of dampening and freezing; also, the heavy parka is rather large for the drying frame, which is generally used for smaller articles, like boots and mittens.	10
30	91	When one has killed one's friend one is then likely to better understand the meaning of the black.	10
35	67	I thought it better to let him ponder what might have happened high above on the surface of that rugged island of ice.	10
35	169	"It is better that you fellows know only your own sections," I said.	10
35	449	Perhaps the female is a better operative.	10
35	935	"Let us see who can fight better," I said.	10
35	1315	"But I would advise you to be better than a Kur Ahn afoot away before the time of destruction," he said.	10
36	186	"You see, I can lick and kiss my chains even better than she, Master," said Arlene.	10
37	36	I stood on the rear runners, lifting myself for a better look.	10

Book 13. (40 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	10	She wore a one-piece tunic of rep-cloth, cut high at the thighs, to better reveal them, her steel collar, which was a lock collar, and her brand.	10
1	281	It seemed to me better that I knew few of the agents of Priest-Kings.	10
4	375	The Ribbon is one of Port Kar's better-known canals.	10
5	343	"Such girls, and better, are cheap in Schendi," he said.	10
5	512	Perhaps it would have been better if she had never tasted nature.	10
6	83	The inland language, or, better, one of its dialects, is, of course, the language of the court of Bila Huruma, Shaba's patron and supporter.	10
6	419	Better than that she would have been chained in the hold, to a ring, or caged on deck, the tarpaulin thrown over the cage, that she might not detract from the splendor of his entrance into his harbor.	10
6	583	The rising of the warm air leaves a vacuum, so to speak, or, better, an area of less pressure or density in the atmosphere.	10
7	79	"Why do you put so many girls together? Would it not be better to space them farther apart, for purposes of display?" "It is easier to feed and clean them this way," he said.	10
11	164	I had thought the slave tunic and collar had made her fit in better with her surroundings.	10
12	172	"You will find it is better without sajel and gieron in it," he said.	10
13	549	"In the little time you permitted me to sleep," she said, "I never slept better in my life".	10
14	755	But, still, it might be better for you not to be recognized as the girl of Tarl of Teletus".	10
15	170	Perhaps it would be better if I slew him.	10
18	173	I thought that Msaliti might have done better on behalf of Teletus.	10
23	239	"You could ask the askaris for a better," I suggested.	10
23	256	Sound does carry better under water than above it, indeed, some five times as well.	10
26	52	"How better," asked Kisu, "to show that one comes in peace?" "Interesting," I said.	10
27	128	"I will try to be better," she said, struggling to her knees.	10
29	184	There are better things to do to a woman, once she is trained, than hurt her".	10
31	19	Unnoticed she drew the skirt down an inch or so on her thigh, to better conceal her own slave mark.	10
31	86	"Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery,...	10
32	199	We may perhaps, somewhat loosely, speak of this first zone as the "floor," or, better, "ground zone," of the rain forest.	10
32	330	The reason for that, however, is not that the sleen is an animal and the mathematician is not, but rather that the mathematician is better at algebra than a sleen.	10
32	378	"That I may better see my female perform".	10
32	533	How much better it is to deny it, or to see it only, as through colored glass, through the softened, tinted lies of civilization.	10
34	117	We had proceeded into the rain forest for better than two Ahn before we had come upon the tarsk.	10
34	246	"May I suggest a better way of putting your question, one more precise?" "Certainly, Master".	10
34	311	"It is a common property of human beings," I said, "that they, for better or for worse, do not pay much attention to the thoughts and feelings of others.	10
35	123	"Do you think you are better than she?" I asked Janice.	10
35	138	"I am a better slave than you," said Alice.	10
39	29	"Perhaps," said Ayari, "they know the river better than us, and do not desire to travel further eastward upon it".	10
43	124	"Perhaps now you will paddle with a better will," I said.	10
48	171	Has she failed as a slave? Who will want her now? Was this her fault? How could she have done better? At whose feet will she wear her next collar? "Do you wish to be a slave girl?" I asked her, the erstwhile leader of the once arrogant, now subdued, talunas.	10
48	338	What better to convince a female of her status as property, and animal? Women speak lyrically and beautifully.	10
53	433	A better translation, however, I think, especially since there is no other way to say this in the Ushindi tongue, is doubtless the simpler one, 'Warrior.	10
53	484	I descended from the stones which had been piled in the threshold by Shaba's men, the better to fortify the walled area.	10
54	118	"I think," said Bila Huruma, "it is better to build than it is to destroy".	10
56	21	"I would make a better Mfalme than Aibu," said Mwoga.	10
56	35	"Better to be first in Ukungu," said Kisu, "than second in the empire".	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	26	"I have not yet been named!" "Better," said I, "better yet".	10
34	334	Then I thought, fiercely, I would have her perform as well for me as for any other, nay, the excruciatingly fascinating, tormenting, beautiful little bitch and slut, even better for me, even better for me! With absolute perfection for me! No, no, I thought.	10
1	616	Better put, it must be placed in its proper perspective.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	408	Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho...	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	688	"Better a collar in the cities," she said, "better to be abused and sold from a public platform, better to be a slave girl fearful and obedient at the feet of her master".	10
15	107	In this way she may be able to better read his moods, and desires, and, accordingly, be able the better to serve him, in the process perhaps saving herself a few cuffings and beatings, such as might be garnered by a less alert, more slothful, laxer girl.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	492	Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble f...	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	614	But why, I asked myself, irritatedly, should a civilization be congenial to nature? Is it not far better, I asked myself, for a civilization to contradict and frustrate nature; is it not far better for it to deny and subvert nature; is it not far better for it to blur natural distinctions and confus...	10
8	193	"Better, better".	10
31	62	Do you think there are no enemies, no hatreds, amongst folk who speak the same language? The better you understand your enemy the better you can understand his hostilities, his ambitions, and the dangers he poses to you".	10
36	77	I had not been taught to read in Corcyrus, probably in order to better keep the politics of the city from me, and in order to guard against my better understanding my position there.	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	278	"The better for themselves, the better for men, the beasts, and the better for noble free women, whom they can then no longer pretend to be like".	10
5	478	In effect, it said, "Behold, I am on a man's neck rope; I wear a slave tunic; I am branded; I am collared; my hands have been tied behind my back; I am desired; I am so beautiful that I have been made a slave; I am better than you, free woman; I am a thousand thousand times better than you!" Boabiss...	10
16	1109	In Feiqa's opinion, of course, Boabissia, having come from the Alar camp, was little better, if any better, than a simple barbarian.	10
25	1999	"Better," I said, "better.	10
26	703	That's better, much better.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	67	Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b...	10
34	216	Would it have been better on Earth if I had known such things were possible, or had it been better if, as in my case, I had not even suspected their possibility? I did not know.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	19	I decided I had better stay rather where I was for a moment or so, to let my eyes better adjust to the darkness.	10
16	60	It is better, I think, for the individual attacker, particularly if the walls are high, over twenty feet, say, to try to enter over the bridge of a siege tower or, even better, through a breached wall or gate.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	103	It is not, incidentally, that Earth girls are better than Gorean girls, or Gorean girls better than Earth girls.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1082	Would they squirm and toss in fear in their silken sheets? I wondered if they better understood, this night, perhaps better than other nights, their dependence on men.	10
12	143	He gets more pleasure from her as she becomes a better and better slave.	10

Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	917	Better to squirm in a tavern, better to trudge behind an army as one of its collared camp followers, better to be harnessed to a peasant's plow, wary of his lash, than to languish in the garden! If I were a flower, let me blossom in the fields, or among paving stones, not in the garden.	10
13	796	"I did not know better! I should have known better! I should have known better!" "You did not think that you were the same as she," said the pit master.	10
18	199	We are better, infinitely better! At the very least the free woman, once she is in a collar, and finds out what it is all about, will be much improved; she will soon be a thousand times, and more, better than she was when she was only another smug, vain, haughty, nuisance.	10
8	315	It may also have side ties, if permitted, strings that tie behind the back, to better conceal, in one sense, and, in another, better reveal the figure.	10
8	702	"I want that silken scarf!" "No, it is mine to wear!" "Oh, you knelt prettily in your serving!" "I knelt as I must!" "No!" "Yes!" "Collar meat!" "Collar meat!" "Slave!" "Slave!" "It is I who will be taught to dance!" "But as a slave!" "Of course, little fool, what do you think we are?" "It was I who...	10
8	838	Too, I wanted to please the men not just for the sake of my safety, or survival, or that I might be better treated or fed, or have a better kennel, or for the sake of my vanity, or because of a sense of power, exerted over rivals, but because, ultimately, of what we were, they men, I a woman.	10
12	295	For example, the leather workers would presumably be better at working leather than the metal workers, and the metal workers would presumably be better at working metal than the leather workers, and so on.	10
14	1023	"I have haltered your breasts high," I said, "the better to emphasize the line of your body, and the better to show you as one subject to bonds, but it is clear, from the way in which this is done, that deception is not involved.	10
16	546	Might I not be able, sometime, to so serve, in some such place? Was I so inferior to them? Could I not serve wine, and tend to the cleaning, and polish silver, as well as they? How much better to be slave in a place such as this than in the pits! And how much better, too, I thought, might it be to b...	10
30	45	"There must be better than a thousand ships, better than a thousand companies".	10
45	51	Now that I had been several months on this world I was much more aware of the subtleties of diverse accents within the language of the masters, that language which I must learn, that I might the better obey, that I might the better understand what was required of me.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	52	The question, then, is what is the age of the process, or, better, one supposes, what is the age of that which exhibits the process? Obviously, in one sense, the entity exhibiting the process continues to age according to the calendar, or any clock, just as, in a sense, the theorems of Euclid contin...	10
17	519	So then, she wondered, would it be better to grow old, and flat, and withered, and tired, and die on Earth, free in some sense, or was it better to be young and beautiful, and healthy and eager, and richly and vitally alive, even though one might be put in a collar and have a mark burned into one's ...	10
24	862	"How cleverly Selius Arconious demeans me! He knows I hate him, that I cannot stand him, that I loathe him! Now he whom I intensely despise chooses to interfere! From where has he come? Why is he here? By what right does he interpose himself betwixt a slave and an agent of her master, the state of C...	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
77	29	I felt abandoned! You did not take me with you! You left me in the camp! Better you had bound me, and whipped me, to hurry me before you! Better you had put me on a chain and dragged me behind you! I could not bear to be left behind! Could you not better have burdened me and struck me with switches ...	10
43	232	"A hood would be better," said Cabot, "and a gag hood even better.	10
45	184	Commonly, however, the Gorean master wishes a slave to meet his eyes, that he may the better see the beauty of her eyes, and the better read her least expression.	10
79	641	"You may then, later, if you wish," she said, "give me away, or, better, as I understand it, sell me, to get some better sense of my value, what I might bring on the sales block".	10
80	436	"I think it better if my hair were seen, attractively flowing, and if my face were visible, that my beauty might be the better noted".	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	127	Too, if they sell for more money, they are likely to have a better-fixed master, a prettier collar, a better kennel, a better diet, an easier life, perhaps even sandals.	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
21	704	"Better," I said, "better".	10
28	197	Must we always be content with a disarranged veil, the hem of a skirt, lifted about an ankle? Better the slave in her collar, given no choice but to be bared before masters! Does not the free woman, in her heart, yearn to cast aside her robes, and show herself as what she is, woman! Does she truly w...	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	27	I frankly see no reason to believe that the women of Earth, in general, are either better looking or not, when compared with their Gorean sisters, nor, of course, that they are better or worse than we.	10
8	679	"Disgusting! Disgusting!" It is a received wisdom that the higher the price for which one goes the more likely it is to obtain a richer, better-fixed master, and to find oneself in a larger, better-appointed, wealthier household where the labors are likely to be lighter and less frequent.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	79	Certainly, when permitted access to mirrors, I had thought I had become much better looking on Gor than I had been on Earth, more relaxed, more vital, glossier haired, smoother skinned, trimmer, better- postured, and more excitingly curved.	10

Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	72	"What would be the value or purpose of such a disclosure? How would it benefit either world? Would it not shatter comfortable visions, disrupt cultures, shake civilizations, alarm and unsettle populations, produce social, economic, and intellectual chaos? No, it is better for Gor to conceal itself, ...	10
6	75	But there are other worlds, better worlds, other civilizations, better civilizations, higher civilizations, civilizations in which nature is not abhorred and denied but celebrated and accepted, civilizations not opposed to nature but allied with her, supportive of her, promotive of her, civilization...	10
8	186	This training will take only a few days, and, at the end, you will be poorly trained, as we have little time, but well enough trained, I shall hope, to survive the block and your first weeks of bondage, in which time, applying yourself, you must strive earnestly to become a better and better, and a ...	10
18	22	"I think it is better, at least a little better, that you do not know it, not now," he said.	10
27	168	Where better could it be concealed? Where better might he move unnoticed? We must thus examine this area more carefully, more thoroughly.	10
61	347	"Surely, as men," called Drusus Andronicus, "you can think of better things to do with such goods, kajirae, can you not, than feed them to hungry beasts, better things to do with them than put them to the purpose of a beast's provender".	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	458	It will help you to better understand that you are a slave and, in particular, it will help you to better understand that you are not a free woman.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	76	How better could one achieve anonymity than under a false identity? How better could one loot and slaughter with impunity than under the name of another? "I fear I will be of little help in these matters," he said.	10