| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 3 |
Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed, and codes which I, in the Chamber of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, had sworn to uphold. |
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| 2 | 126 |
Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. |
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| 3 | 92 |
I had learned enough of Gor by now to know that one could not always count on the Caste Codes being observed. |
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| 5 | 116 |
It occurred to me that there was at least one reply which she, bred in the honor codes of Gor, should understand, one reply that should silence her. |
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| 7 | 56 |
After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water lizards. |
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| 7 | 181 |
In anger I had dragged her, helpless, mine by all the Codes of Gor, to the shelter of the trees. |
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| 8 | 198 |
I cursed her, for she took unfair advantage of the Warrior Codes of Gor. |
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| 9 | 141 |
"Yield her or I will have my tharlarion trample you," he snapped, "or would you prefer to be spitted on my lance?" "You know the codes," I said evenly. |
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| 10 | 49 |
He would have had a man killed rather than risk the loss of a tenth of a tarn disk, so well he knew the codes of his caste. |
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| 14 | 30 |
"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that the... |
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| 14 | 34 |
Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 114 |
"My codes permit me to kill you". |
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| 4 | 55 |
Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns... |
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| 24 | 30 |
"Free Kal-da for all!" cried Kron, and when the proprietor, who knew the codes of his caste, tried to object, Kron flung a golden tarn disk at him. |
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| 24 | 168 |
And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart. |
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| 25 | 116 |
He had broken the codes of his caste to support the treachery of Dorna the Proud. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 102 |
I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes. |
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| 1 | 38 |
Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques among Caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes, in spite of the fact that their respective cities may be hostile. |
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| 6 | 78 |
Had I now become so much the Gorean warrior that I could disregard the feelings of a fellow creature, in particular those of a girl, who must be protected and cared for? Could it be that I had, as the codes of my caste recommended, not even considered her, but merely regarded her as a rightless anim... |
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| 33 | 90 |
Their codes forbade them to kill but I knew that they hired men of other castes for this purpose. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 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... |
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| 25 | 456 |
"You know your codes, do you not?" she challenged. |
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| 25 | 457 |
"The codes of the warrior of Gor?" "Do not," I said. |
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| 25 | 467 |
"Then acknowledge your codes betrayed," she said. |
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| 26 | 87 |
Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in... |
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| 26 | 176 |
"I am a warrior and I know my codes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 209 |
Initiates, incidentally, are not permitted by their caste codes to bear arms; nor are they permitted to injure or kill; accordingly, they hire men for these purposes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 268 |
In my eyes in that moment it seemed I had lost myself, that my codes had been betrayed, Ko-ro-ba my city dishonored, even the blade I had carried soiled. |
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| 8 | 162 |
I had betrayed my codes. |
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| 8 | 438 |
I knew, in my heart, that it had been I, I myself, who had betrayed me, I who had fallen short of the warrior codes, I who had dishonored my own Home Stone, and the blade I bore. |
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| 8 | 535 |
And I now saw myself a fool for having espoused codes, for having set above myself ideals. |
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| 8 | 798 |
"It is not in the codes," I said. |
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| 8 | 799 |
"I thought," said she, "you no longer kept the codes". |
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| 11 | 411 |
Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsib... |
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| 14 | 114 |
Whereas I did not know exactly the codes employed by the treasure fleet, I had little doubt that our hesitation was being signaled about the fleet, and then I heard other trumpets, and saw the round ships drawing apart, and tarn ships streaking between them, fanning out in our direction. |
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| 15 | 122 |
A similar consolidation and unification had taken place, of course, in the realm of inspections and taxations, penalties and enforcements, codes and courts. |
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| 18 | 899 |
I betrayed my codes". |
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| 18 | 901 |
"I betrayed my codes!" I cried. |
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| 18 | 902 |
"It is only in such moments," said Samos, "that a man sometimes learns that all truth and all reality is not written in one's own codes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 13 | 1057 |
I suppose that a woman, like a man, has buried instincts, of which they may not even become aware, but these instincts lie within them, dispositions to respond, dispositions locked into the very genetic codes of her being, instincts awaiting only the proper stimulus situation to be elicited and emer... |
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| 18 | 46 |
I knew that I had once betrayed my codes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 158 |
"Yes," laughed Verna, "according to the codes of the warriors and by the rites of the city of Ar, no longer is Talena kin or daughter of Marlenus of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 105 |
He had betrayed his codes. |
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| 1 | 108 |
By that act he had cut himself away from his codes, his vows. |
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| 1 | 211 |
How should one live? In the codes of the warriors, there is a saying: "Be strong, and do as you will. |
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| 1 | 218 |
"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar". |
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| 1 | 219 |
"Steel is the coinage of the warrior," say the codes. |
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| 1 | 383 |
"You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos. |
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| 1 | 398 |
"Coward! Traitor to your codes! Sleen!" cried Talena. |
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| 1 | 420 |
How revolting and incredible that one such as you, a coward and betrayer of codes, should have aspired to touch me". |
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| 1 | 435 |
"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar". |
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| 1 | 436 |
"Steel is the coinage of the warrior," say the codes. |
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| 1 | 523 |
"Such is contrary to the codes," I said. |
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| 1 | 528 |
Such a device, like the poisoned arrow, was not only against the codes of the warriors, but, generally, was regarded as unworthy of men. |
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| 11 | 216 |
It was possible, too, of course, that the Kurii had become gentle beasts, fond of farming, renouncing their warlike ways, and turning humbly to the soil, and the labors of the earth, setting perhaps therein an excellent example for the still half-savage human animals of Gor, so predatory, so savage,... |
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| 22 | 92 |
Once there had been a boy by this name, one with simple dreams, naive, vain, one shattered by a betrayal of his codes, the discovery of a weakness where he had thought there was only strength. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 192 |
They are sometimes, too, used by assassins, though the caste of assassins itself, by their caste codes, precludes their usage; the member of the caste of assassins must make his own kill; it is in their codes. |
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| 9 | 1526 |
"It is the codes," said Thurnus. |
10 |
| 9 | 1527 |
"The codes are meaningless noises, taught to boys," said Bran Loort. |
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| 9 | 1528 |
"The codes are the wall," said Thurnus. |
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| 9 | 1530 |
"It is the codes which separate men from sleen and larls," said Thurnus. |
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| 9 | 1566 |
I sensed that the codes were to be invoked. |
10 |
| 9 | 1567 |
What Bran Loort and his fellows had done exceeded the normal rights of custom, the leniencies and tacit permissions of a peasant community; commonly the codes are invisible; they exist not to control human life, but to make it possible. |
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| 9 | 1569 |
"Taking from," in the sense of the codes, implies the feature of being done against the presumed will of the master, of infringing his rights, more significantly, of offending his honor. |
10 |
| 13 | 78 |
The serums of stabilization effected, it seemed, the genetic codes, perhaps altering or neutralizing certain messages of deterioration, providing, I supposed, processes in which an exchange of materials could take place while tissue and cell patterns remained relatively constant. |
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| 25 | 112 |
"Can all codes be broken?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 25 | 115 |
Codes require code books. |
10 |
| 25 | 116 |
Codes, in effect, cannot be broken. |
10 |
| 25 | 118 |
Codes are vulnerable in one way, ciphers in another". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 134 |
But what did she know of the codes? I met his attack, turning it, and he fell, shield loose, at my feet. |
10 |
| 6 | 165 |
"And he has labored within the permissions of his codes". |
10 |
| 7 | 225 |
Too, their codes forbid it. |
10 |
| 23 | 98 |
I sensed then it was not a simple beast, the degenerate and irrational descendant of survivors of a Kur ship perhaps crashed generations ago, descendants to whom the discipline and loyalty of the ship codes were meaningless, descendants who had for most practical purposes, save their cunning, revert... |
10 |
| 27 | 1 |
The Face in the Sky; The Codes; Imnak Will Take First Watch We pressed on, further northward. |
10 |
| 27 | 232 |
"That is acknowledged in the codes," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 233 |
"What are the codes?" she asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 238 |
Without the codes men would be Kurii". |
10 |
| 27 | 242 |
"You need not keep the codes," she said. |
10 |
| 27 | 243 |
"I once betrayed my codes," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 248 |
"None would know if you betrayed the codes," she said. |
10 |
| 27 | 251 |
"It is to keep the codes," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 258 |
"It is the codes," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 259 |
"Abandon your codes," she said. |
10 |
| 27 | 260 |
"One does not speak to a slave of the codes," I said. |
10 |
| 30 | 95 |
The assassins take in lads who are perhaps characterized by little but unusual swiftness, and cunning, and strength and skill, and perhaps a selfishness and greed, and, in time, transform this raw material into efficient, proud, merciless men, practitioners of a dark trade, men loyal to secret codes... |
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| 35 | 1269 |
"Is there so much of value here," I asked, "that you would be willing to destroy it?" "The supplies here, and the disposition maps, the schedules and codes, will not fall into the hands of Priest-Kings," it said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 252 |
"Except betray his merchant codes," said he who was called Kunguni. |
10 |
| 11 | 257 |
It was for this reason that they were forbidden by the codes. |
10 |
| 32 | 358 |
"Hidden in every cell in your body, in the genetic codes of each minute cell, the product of a long, complex evolution, lie the marvels of which I speak. |
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| 32 | 1032 |
Perhaps it has something to do with the decentralization of city states, the multiplicity of traditions, the diversity of the caste codes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 131 |
Had you not been concerned to keep the codes, you might have gone far. |
10 |
| 11 | 335 |
It lies latent and obdurate, in ambush, if you like, in the genetic codes. |
10 |
| 22 | 212 |
"Has it come to this," I asked him, "the glory, the codes, the steel?" "I want a drink," he said, sullenly. |
10 |
| 22 | 270 |
"He grew more fond of paga than of his codes," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 27 |
Then when he had recalled himself to the codes of his caste he had resolved to forgo the victories and the rights, and the joys and triumphs, of the mastership until certain serious, projected works had been accomplished. |
10 |
| 25 | 44 |
Victoria knew him still as only a fallen man, one defeated, one lax in his caste codes, one inert and whining in traps of his own weaving. |
10 |
| 25 | 46 |
They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 178 |
"It has to do with codes," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 180 |
"One to whom codes were once familiar," I said, "one by whom they have never been completely forgotten". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 16 |
Such had seemed in accordance with codes to which I had once subscribed, codes which I had never forgotten. |
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| 2 | 229 |
Feathers, each one significant and meaningful, in the codes of the Kaiila, recounting their deeds and honors, adorned their hair. |
10 |
| 11 | 52 |
In the coup codes, opaque red circles on feathers usually stand for enemies slain. |
10 |
| 17 | 117 |
It must be a terrible thing for a father to realize that his beloved son has betrayed his codes. |
10 |
| 27 | 3 |
I did not know the codes, nor, for the most part, did Cuwignaka, as he had not been trained in the whirling, shifting tactics of his people, but Hci, and others, knew them well, much as Gorean soldiers know the meaning of the movements of standards, the blasts of battle trumpets and the beating of t... |
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| 35 | 75 |
Thus admit the Codes". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 34 |
Could it be normal? There was nothing in the codes of the warriors, as I recalled, that explicitly demanded resistance to brigands, though perhaps it was presupposed. |
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| 9 | 193 |
To be sure, manual labor was not exactly prescribed by my own caste codes either. |
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| 27 | 199 |
Is the morality and truth of these matters to be found in external proclamations, in alien agendas, scratched by self-promoting, dictatorial vandals on cold sidewalks, scribbled on labyrinths of confining fences by the ignorant and violent, inscribed on the billboards of intolerant, manipulative, se... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 195 |
Their caste codes discourage it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 90 |
Warriors, it is said in the codes, have a common Home Stone. |
10 |
| 21 | 343 |
"Whether the degree of your exposure was sufficient to violate the codes of decorum is a subtle point," said Aemilianus, "but I will not press it". |
10 |
| 21 | 484 |
For example, in the present case, a judge would be expected to decide whether or not the behaviors of the sort performed, for example, the seeming misrepresentation of caste, the baring of certain portions of the body, perhaps violating codes of decorum, the adoption of exciting habiliments, with th... |
10 |
| 24 | 97 |
There were the codes, and honor, and steel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 |
He who cannot think is not a man, so saith the codes. |
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| 14 | 191 |
I do not know their codes". |
10 |
| 28 | 139 |
"What is the 97th Aphorism in the Codes?" inquired Labienus. |
10 |
| 28 | 149 |
"The 97th Aphorism in the Codes I was taught," I said, "is in the form of a riddle: What is invisible but more beautiful than diamonds?" "And the answer?" inquired Labienus. |
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| 28 | 158 |
"But I have, in my time," I said, "betrayed such codes". |
10 |
| 45 | 152 |
It is not in the codes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 526 |
His idealism had more to do with Home Stones, and codes, and honor. |
10 |
| 8 | 862 |
He, too, knew the codes. |
10 |
| 10 | 242 |
Too, he was of the Warriors, and his codes, in a situation of this sort, their weapons drawn, entitled him, even encouraged him, to attack, and kill. |
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| 19 | 902 |
Such is not only permitted in the codes, but encouraged by them. |
10 |
| 24 | 293 |
My codes permitted it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 121 |
Did we really constitute such dangers, I wondered, to the pervasiveness and mightiness of their eccentric conditioning programs? Was it not enough for them to exercise an almost perfect control over media and education? Did they fear a tiny whisper of truth so much? Was it truly so dangerous? Must a... |
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| 19 | 73 |
At night, beacon fires, which may be shielded and then unshielded, in codes, may be used. |
10 |
| 22 | 56 |
In not complying, however, I did not doubt but what he had betrayed oaths, or even codes. |
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| 24 | 868 |
"Curse the codes!" he cried. |
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| 46 | 453 |
"It is from the codes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 58 |
At last, too, and more importantly, they are in their place in nature, with its endemic codes of dominance and submission, selected for in the long biography of a planet's evolution, codes pervasive throughout all animal life. |
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| 6 | 65 |
They also gave her some understanding of the social arrangements common in what were called the "high cities," in particular, the caste system, and the existence of codes of honor, and such, apparently taken seriously on this world. |
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| 9 | 53 |
Too, there are the codes, and honor. |
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| 17 | 728 |
"It seems to be a word for a male who subscribes to, and conforms to, codes of behavior requiring, among other things, substituting convention for nature, propriety for power, self-conquest for self-liberation, restraint for command, inaction and conformity for dominance and mastery, and, in short, ... |
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| 26 | 186 |
The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 |
This was in conformance, incidentally, with certain recommendations of his caste codes. |
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| 1 | 102 |
One can learn much, even from the codes of humans. |
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| 1 | 666 |
To be sure, given his codes, Tarl Cabot would be less encouraged to indulge in fruitless speculation and laborious self-searching than biding his time, attempting to obtain a weapon, plotting an escape, and such. |
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| 1 | 667 |
The codes encourage attention to the future and action, rather than to the past and speculation. |
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| 1 | 900 |
Neither woman, he then suspected, was a slave! He had been placed in the container with two beautiful free females, and his codes, his honor. |
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| 1 | 903 |
He was to be torn then between his nature and his codes, between his passion and his honor. |
10 |
| 1 | 904 |
Sooner or later, rather as a starving man put in with food, he would feed, and would then in this way betray his codes. |
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| 1 | 930 |
There were the codes. |
10 |
| 1 | 1047 |
The codes do, you see, recommend respect for the status of the free female, if not for the female herself. |
10 |
| 1 | 1048 |
To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a Home Stone. |
10 |
| 1 | 1050 |
Whereas there are clear cases in which the codes apply or do not apply, they, as most recommendations, rules, principles, and such, perhaps unavoidably, were occasionally afflicted with a regrettable penumbra of obscurity. |
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| 1 | 1051 |
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes. |
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| 18 | 170 |
"There are codes". |
10 |
| 20 | 38 |
"You could not know the shuttle codes". |
10 |
| 20 | 40 |
"I had codes from him, though I do not now recall them. |
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| 25 | 150 |
"We do not know the codes!" "Some will know them," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 26 | 55 |
"You have access to the codes to the sport cylinder, and can access the barracks of the killer humans, and the cattle pens". |
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| 81 | 128 |
"When you spoke with Lord Zarendargar, on the day of the great breakfast, that night, did he not speak to you of these things?" "We spoke of many things," said Cabot, "of war and weapons, of beasts and ships, of stratagems, of honor, of codes, and such, and we again drank paga". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 400 |
"Your codes! Your codes! You must protect me!" "My codes do not require that," I said. |
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| 1 | 259 |
She had been one of the two women who had been enclosed with me in the small, transparent container on the Prison Moon, two who had been deliberately, carefully selected by Priest-Kings, with all their shrewdness and science, with all their malevolent expertise, to constitute exquisite temptations f... |
10 |
| 2 | 272 |
Too, in the codes there is a saying that he who strikes first lives to strike second. |
10 |
| 4 | 331 |
You have codes. |
10 |
| 4 | 336 |
Such women put a strain on the codes. |
10 |
| 4 | 357 |
"Women such as you strain the codes". |
10 |
| 4 | 368 |
"But it is true," I said, "that you are a free woman of Earth, at least as far as those women can be free, and thus that my codes, though the matter is controversial, much depending on interpretations, do suffice to give me pause". |
10 |
| 4 | 385 |
In the codes such matters are gray, for it is commonly supposed that a Home Stone would be shared. |
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| 5 | 261 |
Needless to say there are codes involved, which may be changed when deemed appropriate. |
10 |
| 5 | 872 |
If one is of the Warriors the codes then require one to either slay the captive or accept the submission. |
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| 15 | 57 |
Indeed, she had originally been intended, as a free woman, unbeknownst to herself, to tempt and torture me from my codes, to play a role in my humiliation and downfall. |
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| 15 | 422 |
"Are there such things in the codes?" asked Pertinax. |
10 |
| 15 | 423 |
"There are many things in the codes," I said, "similar, and different. |
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| 15 | 434 |
There was something much like that in the codes. |
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| 25 | 50 |
Is it honor and the codes, I wondered, which separate us from animals, or, rather, is it they which bring us closer to the innocence of the animals. |
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| 26 | 57 |
Our signals, particularly such simple ones, might well be understood by means of espionage, but, on the other hand, the colors were in general accord with the color codes familiar in many cities. |
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| 26 | 101 |
How often had I fallen short of my codes! How striking are the enlargements of time! And one supposes, as well, that there must be a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes, better men, nobler men, who have no songs. |
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| 26 | 140 |
As a free woman she could not be touched, given the codes, but it was as though steaming, juicy, roasted meat had been put before a starving larl, one forbidden to so much as touch his tongue to its heat, to its temptation. |
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| 26 | 143 |
No longer did scruples and codes, of whatever world, divide us. |
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| 26 | 189 |
It is disapproved of in the codes. |
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| 26 | 190 |
In this way he showed respect for my caste, and, simultaneously, if I observed the codes, as he apparently expected would be the case, he assured his own security. |
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| 27 | 20 |
He owed that duty to his daimyo, as I might owe similar duties to captains in whose commands I might serve, or to those codes which did so much to define and clarify my caste, the scarlet caste, that of the warriors. |
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| 31 | 9 |
"The codes". |
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| 43 | 160 |
The codes, of course, did not see things in this fashion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 65 |
Is it not a saying of warriors that one does not sell one's blade, that steel is to be prized above gold? And honor above life? How came then such a man here, if he were such a man, on this ship, amidst this unlikely, motley crew? Had he betrayed the codes? But it is difficult to forget the codes. |
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| 5 | 66 |
There were always the codes, the codes. |
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| 1 | 111 |
There are caste codes pertaining to such matters. |
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| 3 | 687 |
This act is scorned in the codes, of course, but it is not without precedent in the field. |
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| 5 | 63 |
Such men may betray the codes, but they are not likely to forget them. |
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| 5 | 64 |
It is hard to forget the codes. |
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| 26 | 42 |
The Pani, I had discovered on the ship, were familiar with such devices, and, as I later learned, with ciphers and codes, as well. |
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| 37 | 623 |
"You are fortunate," I said, "that my caste codes discourage robbing armed warriors". |
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| 37 | 931 |
"One lacking civilization, or derived from some civilization which is unnatural and inferior, perhaps one which is complex, selfish, polluted, crowded, and uncaring, one unfamiliar with suitable customs and proprieties, with codes and castes, with literature, music, and poetry". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 408 |
"That is in their caste codes," said Mrs. |
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| 4 | 416 |
"The caste has its traditions, and codes," she said. |
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| 4 | 423 |
"There are the traditions, the codes," said Mrs. |
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| 7 | 742 |
Upper-caste women doubtless were subject to the same needs and drives as other women, and I would learn that affairs and assignations were not infrequent amongst them, and that many free women, particularly those most sensitive to the demands of their codes, who had most internalized society's expec... |
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| 8 | 2025 |
Was I not intelligent, was I not beautiful, at least amongst women of Earth, if not compared to Gorean collar girls? But is the word 'clever' not a mere disparagement, on the part of some, of true intelligence, that which is expedient, and prudentially wise, that by means of which one may pursue one... |
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| 10 | 227 |
Might it be, somehow, familiar with the scarlet codes? The beast had informed me that it was self-exiled, and had accompanied the Lady Bina to this world, from their former world, as a guard. |
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| 43 | 11 |
It was thanks to him that we came to a clearer understanding of the card codes, though he was not then clear as to how the messages were conveyed. |
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| 43 | 12 |
Thanks to him, we later managed to adopt the very Kur device, the card codes, to our own purposes. |
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| 52 | 330 |
I knew myself desired, and not as a free woman might be desired, in all her lofty, precious, august dignity, encircled with customs, codes, traditions, conventions, proprieties, and rights, but as a slave is desired, with all the raw, uncompromising, unmitigated lust with which a slave is desired, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 175 |
Only certain parties, properly instructed, entrusted with the codes, can open the containers with impunity". |
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| 43 | 1171 |
Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant Law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs. |
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| 50 | 138 |
Some here, I speculated, might even be of the caste of Warriors, though in such a case, perhaps renegades or exiles, possibly men who had fared badly in city revolutions, even men who may have forsworn Home Stones or betrayed codes, desperate men, dangerous men. |
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| 52 | 802 |
"Am I a fool, a joke, a weakling, a traitor to codes?" He looked down at me, and I was frightened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 134 |
Once, long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, I had betrayed my codes. |
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| 9 | 51 |
And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reckless men who h... |
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| 11 | 145 |
"But perhaps," said Tajima, regarding me narrowly, "there are codes?" "Perhaps," I said. |
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| 11 | 146 |
"I suspect the codes are not clear on the matter," said Tajima. |
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| 31 | 206 |
"We do not share codes," said Arashi. |
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| 59 | 289 |
You are worthy of the codes of steel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 31 |
"Ela, dear fellow," said a man, "I fear the codes of your betrayed caste yet linger". |
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| 26 | 50 |
In the case of the dark caste, however, there is no devotion to the codes of honor, which might spare a disabled foe, which might temper victory, say, with the recognition of opposed valor, no generous companionship of the blade, no brothers in arms. |
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| 26 | 69 |
Amongst applicants might be found the dishonored and failed, the disappointed and abandoned, the despised and hated, the hopeless and resigned, the mocked and ridiculed, ones who have fled from Home Stones, who have repudiated codes, perhaps fugitives who seek a sanctuary behind dark walls, possibly... |
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| 26 | 72 |
If they have codes, I do not know what they would be, saving perhaps a relentless fidelity to a commission. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 197 |
"The codes, the codes". |
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| 63 | 18 |
"There may be wisdoms unknown to the codes, wisdoms beyond the codes". |
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| 1 | 4 |
"The codes?" he asked. |
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| 4 | 90 |
Codes do not permit it. |
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| 8 | 81 |
That has something to do with the codes. |
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| 10 | 69 |
Could it be that some genetic combinations are selected for, those which lead to survival, health, happiness, and thriving? But such questions are perhaps outside the scope of the codes. |
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| 19 | 204 |
"Peasants," I said, "have their codes, like other castes. |
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| 41 | 131 |
"It can be hard to keep the codes," said Clitus. |
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| 41 | 147 |
"It has to do with codes?" he asked. |
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| 41 | 160 |
"The codes?" said Thrasymedes. |
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| 44 | 140 |
"My codes do not oblige me to courage, or its semblance". |
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| 51 | 195 |
"Codes," I said. |
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| 51 | 196 |
"Codes". |
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| 51 | 201 |
"Codes?" said Sakim. |
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| 51 | 202 |
"Yes, codes," I said. |
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| 57 | 203 |
"It is a matter of codes," I said. |
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| 60 | 141 |
I recalled the codes. |
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| 60 | 285 |
"I betrayed my codes," he said. |
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| 60 | 295 |
"It has to do with codes," I said. |
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| 63 | 9 |
"His codes were betrayed, his scarlet was soiled". |
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| 63 | 17 |
"All wisdom may not be in the codes," said Sakim. |
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