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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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6 174 Her Robes of Concealment were splattered with mud and marsh water, and in several places the heavy brocade had stiffened and cracked.
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6 175 The dominant colors of her Robes of Concealment were subtle reds, yellows, and purples, arrayed in intricate, overlapping folds.
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6 177 Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a Ubar's daughter.
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6 178 The Robes of Concealment, in function, resemble the garments of Muslim women on my own planet, though they are undoubtedly more intricate and cumbersome.
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6 180 In the barbaric world of Gor, the Robes of Concealment are deemed necessary to protect the women from the binding fibers of roving tarnsmen.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 31 I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the Free Companion.
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6 133 She was clad in Robes of Concealment, but their texture and color were a far cry from the glorious vanities often expressed in such garments, the silken purples, yellows and scarlets that the Gorean maiden delighted in; the robes were of coarse brown cloth, tattered and caked with dirt.
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8 12 I missed in the crowd the presence of slave girls, common in other cities, usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped slave livery of Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heavy, cumbersome ...
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8 18 Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ...
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8 21 Each of these women wore resplendent Robes of Concealment, rich in color and workmanship, standing out among the drab garments of the men, but instead of the veil common with such robes the features of each were hidden behind a mask of silver.
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23 7 Lara stood beside me, clad as a free woman but not in the Robes of Concealment.
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23 18 She had refused the customary Robes of Concealment.
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Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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20 62 In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder.
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20 116 She was now contained precisely as she had been originally save that she had exchanged the thick, multitudinous, ornate Robes of Concealment, the proud, cumbersome insignia of the free woman of Gor, for the simple garment of a Chamber Slave and a burning wound on her left thigh.
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30 93 Though her features were concealed in the folds of a silken veil and she wore the Robes of Concealment there was no mistaking her voice, her eyes, her carriage.
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31 31 I stood ready now to receive the blast of Sarm's silver tube which he had whipped from its place of concealment and trained on my breast.
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31 37 "No," cried Vika, "I discharged it this morning!" The girl ran to my side in a swirl of many-colored silks and from beneath the Robes of Concealment she withdrew my sword and kneeling at my side lowered her head and placed it in my hand.
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31 93 "It is similar to that of the others," I said, and swept her from her feet and carried her, Robes of Concealment swirling, from the room.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 122 The free women, shamelessly to the mind of the rather prudish Kamchak, lowered their veils and threw back the hoods of their Robes of Concealment, enjoying the feast, eating with much the same Gorean gusto as their men.
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9 164 Her face could not be seen, for it was veiled, a white silken veil trimmed with gold, nor even her hair, for it was hidden in the folds of the free woman's Robes of Concealment, in her case, of course, done in the colors of the Merchants.
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9 193 All eyes, it seemed, were on the girl on the stairs, slim, said to be beautiful, veiled, clad in Robes of Concealment of white and gold.
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10 276 One by one, clad in the proud arrays of resplendent silks, each in the Robes of Concealment, the damsels of Turia, veiled and straight-standing, emerged from their palanquins, scarcely concealing their distaste for the noise and clamor about them.
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10 308 Yet I knew that beneath those Robes of Concealment many wore the shameful Turian camisk, perhaps the only time the hated garment would touch their bodies, for should their warrior lose this match they knew they would not be permitted to leave the stake in the robes in which they came.
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10 353 At the request of any warrior of the Wagon Peoples, a judge would remove the pins of the face veil of a Turian girl and push back the hood of her Robes of Concealment, in order that her head and face might be seen.
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21 53 The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me.
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21 105 She was dressed in veil and Robes of Concealment.
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22 68 Further on down the wall there were great piles of cloth, mostly silk; I recognized them as Robes of Concealment.
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25 217 "You could always wear Robes of Concealment," I ventured, "and carry about your person an unsheathed quiva".
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Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 17 Then free women, veiled and in Robes of Concealment, each carrying a jar or canister, approached the structure.
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5 512 Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman.
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5 542 The girl screamed but no one came to her aid, and Elizabeth spun her about, peeling off layers of Robes of Concealment until, in a heavy pile of silk, brocade, satin and starched muslin the girl stood in a sleeveless, rather brief orange tunic, attractive, of a sort sometimes worn by free women in t...
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5 580 "No, you will not," she said, with one foot kicking Relia's discarded Robes of Concealment from the bridge.
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14 143 The hood to her ornate, marvelous robes of concealment had been taken from her; and her veil.
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15 116 She was commonly permitted to wear lavish and luxurious robes of concealment, save for hood and veil.
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17 597 "Be silent, slave," said I, poking about, and then I saw in the bottom of the chest, almost colorless, ragged, not more than a foot high nor a few ounces heavy, a small worn, tattered doll, dressed in faded Robes of Concealment, of a sort little girls might play with on the bridges or in the corrido...
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19 149 The third lot was a High Caste girl of Cos who stood before us clad in the complete robes of Concealment, which, piece by piece, were removed from her.
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24 495 Virginia was clad in garments cut from the beautiful, many colored robes of concealment of the free woman.
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24 497 She wore the robes of concealment in such a way as not to conceal but enhance her great loveliness.
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 20 Her hips were sweet, her belly a rhythm made for the touch of a man, and her breasts, full and beautiful, magnificent, tormenting me, strained against the brittle rence cloth of her tunic with an insolence of softness, as though, insistent, they would make clear their contempt for any subterfuge of ...
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8 15 I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.
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14 374 She wore swirling, dazzling robes of concealment, of purple and golden cloths, brocades and silks.
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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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9 91 This, it seems to me, is a suitable number, for protection, for feeding, for concealment in the forest".
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 12 I overheard an argument, between a seller of vegetables and two low-caste women, in simple robes of concealment.
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8 1 We Wait in the Camp of Verna There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers.
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9 177 I had little doubt that panther girls, in disguise, perhaps veiled, in Robes of Concealment, or perhaps even as scantily clad, haughty, brazen slave girls, knowing their collars were meaningless, occasionally penetrated towns such as Lydius or Laura.
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11 320 Similarly, slave girls, attempting to escape, can be separated out from free women, even when all are veiled and wear the robes of concealment.
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12 63 Marlenus, as was his right, she being an ex-citizen of Ar, would free her, and return her, in simple robes of concealment, in disgrace, to her former city.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 308 From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl.
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13 388 Roughly the Forkbeard, then, his hands at her shoulders, tore away the robes of concealment.
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Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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9 178 Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...
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16 63 It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.
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24 475 Do you not think they tremble inside those bulky garments, their precious Robes of Concealment, when a handsome, strong man passes by? Do you not think they ever consider what it would be to kneel naked before him, the boards beneath their knees, feeling the slightest movement of air on their bodies...
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Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 522 Should not the face then, if one is concerned with concealment and privacy, be veiled? Is the face not more personal and revealing than the body? Does it not make sense then to consider it a proper object of concealment in a free person? Is one not entitled, so to speak, to privacy in the matter of ...
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5 523 Veils seem correct, and right, with the robes of concealment.
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5 535 My face, though I wore robes of concealment, was as naked as that of a slave girl.
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5 550 He put the sword at my left ankle, and, curiously, lifted the robes of concealment a bit.
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7 4 She wore the shreds of what had once been the last undergarment beneath her robes of concealment.
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7 68 The Lady Sabina, in her robes of concealment, stood with her belly to this tree, her wrists fastened about it, locked in the steel of slave bracelets.
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7 156 He then, with his knife, to her horror, cut away her cumbersome robes of concealment, until she was clad only in the last of her undergarments.
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7 170 "I think now," said my master, standing back, regarding the girl, and his work, "that that constitutes a far more practical traveling costume than the robes of concealment for a long, overland journey afoot.
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9 1933 The lust of Gorean males has much to do, doubtless, with the robes of concealment worn in most cities by Gorean free women.
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22 356 The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo...
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27 497 "It must have been difficult," she said, "for you to tell, I clothed in the robes of concealment, if I pleased you".
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 118 The security of the message, as is often the case, is a function not of the opacity of the message, in itself, but rather in its concealment, in its not being recognized as a message.
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7 84 Who would recognize in her the former lofty lady of Lydius, the rich Lady Tina, who had often trod these streets aloof and hidden, probably escorted, in her several veils and multitudinous robes of concealment? Looking upon her, and look they would, they would see only a bond girl, only a lovely, ha...
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9 207 It is said that skilled slavers can detect a slave even when clad in the robes of concealment.
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35 418 A guard and a free woman, in robes of concealment, had passed.
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35 467 I caught sight of a flash of ankle beneath the heavy robes of concealment worn by the women.
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35 505 She wore the robes of concealment.
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35 695 Her modesty had made it unlikely that many in the complex would recognize her body or features, which had, I gathered, been generally kept from view by the multitudinous robes and veils of concealment common to the Gorean free women of the high cities.
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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 806 "The hypocrisy of the free woman, her concealment, her subterfuges, her lies, are not permitted to the female slave".
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 254 The concealment of feelings, particularly where male slaves are concerned, is a deceit not often practiced by Gorean women.
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13 422 "Please take me home, Publius, and touch me," I heard a woman, in robes of concealment, say to he who walked with her upon that street.
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27 380 "Can you not simply look upon me and see that I am free?" "Perhaps if I saw you in the robes of concealment, and veiled, being carried in a palanquin through the streets of Vonda by slaves," I said, "I would think you free".
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33 86 Her robes of concealment had been torn away to her waist.
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Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

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29 240 "The Robes of Concealment of Cos are not the Robes of Concealment of Ar," I called.
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4 113 Similarly the robes of concealment worn by many Gorean women are doubtless dictated by similar sentiments.
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4 115 One justification for the veiling and for the robes of concealment, which is not regarded as inconsiderable, is that it is supposed to provide something of a protection against abduction and predation.
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12 37 Her shoulders stiffened under the robes of concealment and her eyes flashed angrily over the silk of the house veil.
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23 57 The concealment of his identity is essential to his work".
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30 26 It is not easy always, of course, to recognize a slave who wears the robes and veils of concealment; the identification becomes simple, of course, once she has been put in a collar and slave tunic.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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11 57 When the fellow had thrust Lola into the room, earlier in the afternoon, I had, from the concealment of the balcony, wishing to keep my presence in the holding unknown to the brunette, observed what had ensued.
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11 171 There are few garments which, in their cunning balance of concealment and exposure, better impress upon a woman, and on all who gaze upon her, her bondage, than the common camisk.
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20 728 From the kitchen there had emerged, in the robes of concealment, the figure of a woman.
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20 735 The woman in the robes of concealment seemed timid, frightened.
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20 746 "Gentlemen," said Calliodorus, huskily, "this is the free woman, Lola, of Port Cos!" Suddenly the girl, sobbing, wildly tore away her veils and the robes of concealment, revealing that she wore a slave tunic and collar.
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20 1682 I do! She dressed with reserve and concealment.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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2 99 We were now using the barge, of course, for purposes of concealment.
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5 18 On a curule chair, fixed on the high cart, under a silken canopy, proud and graceful, bedecked with finery, garbed in the ornate Robes of Concealment, veiled, sat a woman.
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8 1037 And here, doubtless to her astonishment and consternation she found herself being positioned and displayed before such men, all veneers of culture and politesse put aside, not a thread of indulgent shielding permitted her, far even from the recollection of courtliness, remote from every hypocrisy, p...
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13 652 It is not always a concealment and lie.
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17 328 In this, once the garments, and the tiresome robes of concealment, had been removed from her, once she had been exposed to the view of masters, fully, it had been determined that her face and figure, in themselves, did not militate against the plausibility of her being embonded; they were desirable ...
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Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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14 476 She had worn the robes of concealment, but only a wisp of diaphanous silk, presumably by intent, had feigned to hide her features.
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35 99 Her figure, veiled, clad in the robes of concealment, had vanished, gone from the corridor.
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37 43 Yet as a slave is clothed her clothing is often less of a concealment than it is a device to make her seem more vulnerable, more helplessly, whether she wishes it or not, tantalizingly attractive.
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40 164 "To be sure," I said, "the universalization of slavery is its best concealment".
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44 331 Not a pasang away, across the prairie, all attempt at concealment discarded, waves of Yellow Knives, feathers flying, dust billowing behind them, charged toward Council Rock.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 22 Little more now could be seen of me, as is common with the robes of concealment, but a bit of the bridge of my nose and my eyes.
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6 61 By the robes of concealment this is made easy.
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7 10 I then began to remove the veils and robes of concealment.
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10 55 I was turned to the side and my robes of concealment were pulled forward and down, over my head.
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12 25 She adjusted my robes about me, concealing, in the fashion of the robes of concealment, now not thrown back, but drawn up, my hair and much of my head.
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36 664 Hangings are not unusual, which serve not only for purposes of decoration, but also for the division of spaces, and the concealment of doorways, alcoves, and such.
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 122 Her robes of concealment, silken and flowing, shimmered in the torchlight.
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1 145 We now returned our attention to the woman in the silken, shimmering robes of concealment, standing before our table.
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2 154 A free woman, in swirling robes of concealment, veiled, appeared before me.
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3 20 She was veiled, and clad, too, in robes of concealment, sumptuous robes which seemed incongruous in the open terrain, the grassy field, in which I found myself.
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5 53 In this fashion we will not have to devise hiding places for them, nor risk the loss of time, and perhaps noise, perhaps alerting Bosk of Port Kar, of their emergence from concealment".
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6 178 Her robes did seem a bit unnecessarily voluminous, even for Robes of Concealment.
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16 34 The three women seeming to cower behind him, covered from head to toe in robes of concealment, huddled together, ducking its great swings.
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16 61 The girls in the robes of concealment, cowering behind Petrucchio, cried out in fear.
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16 212 The girls, protesting, squeaking with outrage, turned away from the men, bending over and thrusting about under their cumbersome robes of concealment.
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21 102 The true concealment of the papers, one assuredly calculated to deceive those individuals who might have some just notion of their value, one worthy of Belnar's brilliance, was to have them lying about, almost casually, mixed in, and seemingly belonging with, papers of no great importance.
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Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 81 Her hands went to the stiff, high brocaded collar of her robes, the robes of concealment, to the numerous eyes and hooks there, holding it tightly, protectively, about her throat, up high under her chin.
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9 50 It would not do for the curve of that delicious, branded flank, that of Feiqa, I believe, to suggest itself beneath the dark concealment of the heavy blanket.
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13 338 In advance, of course, when one enters them upon the lists as free women, and one has seen them, if at all, only in the robes of concealment, one does not know which are the most beautiful".
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21 333 After all, might there not be some danger, as the fair occupant entered into, or descended gracefully from, the sedan chair, that there might be the careless movement of a veil, revealing a bit of throat, or the inadvertent lifting of a robe of concealment, giving them the glimpse of a briefly expos...
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26 1294 Otherwise, I suppose, it would be very difficult to explain their unusual success in deciding which women, even of women in crowds, and veiled and clad in the robes of concealment, are likely to be the most beautiful and make the best slaves, and those women, of course, are the ones most profitably ...
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26 1361 "You call upon him, dressed in your finest veils and robes of concealment," I said, "probably first having made an appointment.
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26 1641 For example, in public, she can be as jealous of her brief tunic as a free woman of her veil and robes of concealment.
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26 1695 The contrast between the cumbersome, voluminous robes of concealment and slave garb is, of course, markedly dramatic.
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26 1912 Also, slavers cannot possibly know in all cases, given the large numbers of free women, in various cities and villages, the veiling, the robes of concealment, and such, who is most beautiful or desirable.
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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23 72 She had seen it once, long ago, when she had been a rich, spoiled, beautiful free woman, in her robes of concealment, from her palanquin.
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23 75 No longer did she wear ornate robes of concealment.
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29 274 As large as these things were they were apparently not unskilled at concealment, and perhaps stalking.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 423 The stripping of prisoners of war, if it is done, is generally a temporary matter, having to do with marking them out, as many Gorean soldiers, particularly mercenaries, do not have distinctive uniforms, and preventing the concealment of weapons.
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8 280 Doubtless this was in major part because she was very lightly complexioned genetically, but it was, too, in part, doubtless, because she would have commonly worn the ornate, heavy, stiff, cumbersome robes of concealment affected by most well-to-do Gorean women.
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8 281 The contrast between the robes of concealment and her present revelatory vestiture, more suitable for a property girl, must be particularly, and shockingly, dramatic to her, who knew her own antecedents and station.
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9 88 Another advantage of the body hood is that it is intriguing and attractive on a woman, baring her legs but usually, unless the arms are also intriguingly bared, concealing the rest of her, this sort of thing exciting male interest, and yet, in virtue of the predominant concealment afforded, making h...
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15 382 You could perhaps imagine the difficulty of getting out of the customary robes of concealment while on your knees".
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15 792 "You are not even in the Robes of Concealment," he said.
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16 363 Slavers, and others, it is well known, can often pick out a slave from among women all clad in the Robes of Concealment, by simply having her walk, or speak, or by looking in her eyes.
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16 398 Thus, in this fashion, she could reveal her hidden truth, thereby alleviating her acute mental conflicts, and her sufferings, attendant upon its concealment, and by another, as she has no legal power in the matter herself, be restored to freedom.
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18 279 A free woman, bundled in the robes of concealment, spit on her as she passed.
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21 336 "You have not charged me," she said, "with not wearing robes of concealment".
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21 337 "In Ar's Station," he said, "as in Ar, robes of concealment, precisely, are not legally obligatory for free women, no more than the veil.
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21 1073 "Be it only a camisk or slave strip!" "Perhaps you would like veils, and robes of concealment," said Calliodorus.
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21 1085 "Robes of concealment, then?" inquired Calliodorus.
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21 1132 It is doubtless a relief to be freed from the cumbersome envelopments of the prescribed, ponderous robes of concealment.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12 26 She was small and her figure, obscured to be sure under the heavy fabrics of the robes of concealment, surely uncomfortable, and seemingly incongruous, in the delta, seemed cuddly.
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12 81 "Doubtless your robes of concealment are uncomfortable in the delta, given the moisture, the heat," I said.
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12 209 "The robes of concealment must be bulky, hot, uncomfortable in the delta," I said.
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18 2 By means of this, particularly if the opening of the stem is kept near the surface of the water, and those in the vicinity are not familiar with marshcraft, if they are not vigilant and keenly alert to the possibility of such techniques, one may often travel about in relative security and concealmen...
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27 9 Sometimes such pools are extremely treacherous, as when they have a natural concealment, the sand at their top, supported by surface tension, seemingly continuous with adjacent sand, or when covered with algae or swamp growth.
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27 349 Perhaps when you were a free woman, that is, not yet a captive, in your barge, on the islands, and such, in your robes of concealment, you often wished you might go about stripped, or, say, in slave strips, that sort of thing, surely, at least, barefoot in the scanty garments of a female rencer".
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32 100 "The resplendent, many-colored robes of concealment?" I asked.
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35 11 We had attempted to teach the new fellows, those who had been pursuing Marcus, both by instruction and example, such things as the concealment of camps and survival in an enemy area.
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48 611 "This is not exactly the robes of concealment," I said.
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Book 25. (12 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 2 She struggled in the net, dropped from the ceiling, then held about her by guardsmen sprung from concealment at the sides of the room.
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1 187 Also they commonly wear the robes of concealment which cover them, in effect, from head to toe.
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7 296 Myron then, however, from the same package, drew forth a set of the ornate robes of concealment, displaying these to the crowd, as he had done with the veil.
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8 300 When we were finished we thought it a job rather well done, an approximation to the robes of concealment, hood and veil.
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10 419 "Sleen!" said a free woman, bundled in the robes of concealment, heavily veiled, hurrying by.
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12 492 "As a warrior," said I, "surely you are aware of the virtues of concealment, of subterfuge".
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17 410 Presumably most folks would think, if at all about these matters, in terms of a false bottom, or back, or something, but, as you saw, such considerations would have been immediately dismissed as the construction of the palanquin made them impractical, for example, its openness, and its bottom being ...
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21 136 There was a dais a few feet before me, and on this dais, resplendent in robes of concealment, beautifully veiled, on a curule chair, there sat a regal figure.
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22 385 This well displayed her curves to me, even beneath the robes of concealment.
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22 671 I would then, in the concealment of one of the doorways, put her in the small cloak she had worn before, now folded in my wallet, and we would then make our way home.
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26 300 She did not detect the net, of course, as she was not looking for it, and it was recessed in the structure of the ceiling, the ceiling having been designed for its concealment.
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27 548 It seemed paradoxical to see a woman in the robes of concealment kneeling.
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Book 26. (31 results) Witness of Gor

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7 279 Normally there was little concealment, or secrecy, involved in our movements.
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10 489 For example, if stalking, or careful hunting is involved, or if an escape must be made quickly, then the robes of concealment, as they are often called, might give some pause to a hunter.
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12 35 To be sure, they function quite effectively with free women, as well, who, it must be noted, unless surprised in their boudoir or bath, are often impeded by the cumbersome robes of concealment.
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12 845 In this cage, standing within it, veiled, in robes of concealment, was a woman.
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12 847 Her robes of concealment seemed soiled and, at the hems, were torn.
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13 168 The contrast with the robes of concealment is obvious.
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13 169 I think, incidentally, that the robes of concealment must be terribly uncomfortable in the summer.
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14 313 She unwound the veil from her features, carefully, gently, where she had wrapped it about herself, and brushed back the hood of her robes of concealment.
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14 510 "It is difficult to exercise in the robes of concealment," I said.
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14 639 "I would put on again the veil and the robes of concealment," I said.
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14 885 "In the robes of concealment, we must walk sedately, with carefully measured tread, with dignity".
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14 1201 "A slave!" cried the figure in the robes of concealment, in horror.
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14 1205 "Filthy slave! Filthy slave! Filthy slave!" screamed the figure in the robes of concealment.
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14 1695 She was now, of course, in her cell, in the robes of concealment.
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16 6 These were not altogether unlike the free woman's robes of concealment but the materials were not so inflexible and ornate.
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16 88 A smaller veil may be used, of course, with hooded robes of concealment.
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16 90 Many robes of concealment are hooded.
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16 606 Indeed, it is said that a skilled slaver can tell the difference between a free woman in the robes of concealment and a slave in them merely by having them walk about.
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21 38 "Hasten now, and don the robes of concealment.
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21 45 Forgive me! I will obey! I will obey!" Hurriedly then she put on the robes of concealment.
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24 4 Far off I saw a woman in the robes of concealment rushing away.
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26 55 Hasten! Don the robes of concealment!" "No," she wept.
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26 60 I seized up her robes of concealment and flung them over her as though they might have been bedclothes.
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28 5 The Lady Constanzia, clad in new, rich, ornate robes of concealment, fully hooded and veiled, was conducted forward, between two guards, from the pits.
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28 140 She is then to be placed in an outer robe of concealment, the outer robe only, but also hooded and veiled.
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29 94 It must have been tight as it had, pinned beneath it, the cloth of the outer robe of concealment, the hood of that garment, and the veil.
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29 177 Put your head to the tiles!" She, kneeling, in the outer robe of concealment, in the hood, in the veil, thrust her head down to the tiles.
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29 614 He then went behind her and cut the remains of the outer robe of concealment away from her bound wrists.
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29 775 The two court guards then entered, conducting, between them, a woman in the robes of concealment, fully veiled.
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29 782 I noted impatience in the manner, and contempt in the eyes, of the woman in the robes of concealment as I approached.
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29 837 The pit guard then, holding to her ankle, lifted her foot, lifted it up so that the lower portion of the robe of concealment came forward, to lodgment behind the knee, this revealing something of her calf, and also, of course, her foot, the ankle in his grasp.
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Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

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13 211 On the other hand, it is said that beneath all the clothing, the veils, the Robes of Concealment, and such, of a free woman there is still, after all, only the body of a naked slave".
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16 525 What they are wearing, she thought, those must be the Robes of Concealment.
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16 526 Whereas in the laundry she and the others had often washed garments of free women, those garments had seldom been the cumbersome Robes of Concealment.
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16 529 The street himation is far less bulky and protective than the usual Robes of Concealment, less stiffness, less brocade, less embroidery and such.
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16 547 Ellen thought that perhaps the Robes of Concealment were not to be entrusted to common laundries.
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16 550 Yet, despite the bulkiness and clumsiness of the Robes of Concealment, most of them were very beautiful, in an ornate way.
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16 554 Needless to say, veils are invariably, or almost invariably, a portion of the ensemble associated with the Robes of Concealment.
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17 106 She was clad in a child's version of the Robes of Concealment.
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18 812 The heavy outer curtains, and even the light inner curtains, of the palanquin were drawn open and, from her knees, as she worked on the laundry, she could see a free woman reclining within the palanquin, veiled, hooded, clad in the Robes of Concealment.
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22 12 The woman, clad in the Robes of Concealment, sat on a stool near one of the fires.
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22 236 Then Ellen thought again of the free woman in her slippers, and veils, and cumbersome Robes of Concealment.
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23 78 "Here within the concealment of the tent," said another.
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24 478 It was as though two or three men, unseen, might be tearing at the concealment, she fighting them, she trying to restore it.
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25 280 "I can tell your voice! You are the free woman by the campfire, in the Robes of Concealment, with the necklace, and the jewels on your robes.
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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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26 822 Our friends, Marcus, of Ar's Station, and Bosk, of Port Kar, who have been instrumental, with others, in the purloining of the gold, and its subsequent temporary concealment, will in a few days attend a prearranged rendezvous with diverse cohorts, at a place of concealed tarns.
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26 1431 Perhaps if she had been enveloped within, bundled within, the cumbersome Robes of Concealment? But surely not if they had once glimpsed her in the brief tunic of a slave, or seen her chained, in rags, in a market or exhibited nude on a block.
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26 1598 Complex veiling and the Robes of Concealment are most common, of course, in urban areas, and particularly so amongst women of the higher castes.
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27 1159 Indeed they, and others, were involved in its seizure and concealment.
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29 85 One woman, however, was standing, and clothed, or partially so, in the remnants, or residual rags, of what might have been the final undergarments worn beneath the cumbersome Robes of Concealment.
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

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1 241 It can serve, of course, as a decoration, a symbol of status, a concealment of provocative or vulnerable areas, and so on.
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2 354 A common principle of warfare is surprise, others being such things as concealment, deception, and so on.
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31 29 Sometimes a slave, in attempting to flee a bondage of great cruelty, perhaps that of the laundries or mills, might don the garments of a free woman, hoping to elude recapture, but, to the alert, practiced eye, even beneath the cumbersome Robes of Concealment, and the veils, might be detected the bod...
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32 72 She was unfamiliar with the cumbersome intricacies of the usual Robes of Concealment, their arranged foldings, the abundant drapings, and such, which vary from city to city, but she had simulated something akin to them, doubtless with the aid of Grendel, who would have been familiar with such things...
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32 82 "Commonly free women, or certainly those of high caste, wear gloves with the Robes of Concealment.
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32 89 In the full Gorean Robes of Concealment little of the free woman can be seen saving her eyes, over the veiling, and beneath the hood.
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55 268 "It seems clear," said Lord Grendel, "that she was in hiding, for some reason, and perhaps for some time, and was then discovered and flushed out of concealment by the killer humans".
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67 56 But the small streams which in a more equable time might have provided some trail's concealment were of little value now.
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80 197 "She is clad in the robes of concealment, and veiled," said Cabot.
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80 211 She was resplendent in the multicolored robes, so carefully assorted and arranged, of concealment.
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80 285 Gorean free women commonly conceal their throat, which, of course, is easily done with the robes of concealment, the veils, and such.
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Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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4 25 Kurii, as many predators, are fond of concealment, until they act.
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4 61 In approaching the shore, I had left an easy trail leading to the beach, but had then doubled back, and waited in the shelter of some trees, a few yards back, and to the side, from which point of relative concealment I could both survey the beach and monitor my original trail.
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5 208 He held it briefly to his nose, and then, with an expression of disgust, returned the loop and ring to a concealment within his tunic.
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10 597 "It need not be clothing of Earth, expensive, well-tailored, tasteful, elegant, fashionable, chic, and such, such as I was accustomed to on Earth, for I well understand that such might be difficult to obtain here, but, you understand, it should be concealing, ample, and decorous, perhaps robes of co...
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13 82 How like a stupid free woman was she still! Did the free woman not think there was nothing more to attracting a man than that she be a woman? To be sure, the hint of a bosom, the suggestion of the sweet width of hips, within the robes of concealment, was indeed attractive, and even free women unders...
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13 97 For example, the robes of concealment, prescribed for, and almost universally accepted by, Gorean free women, certainly of the higher castes, were not uniform, drab garmentures imposed on them by, say, an oppressive society which regarded women as inferior, unclean, and morally dangerous, but, in th...
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13 98 One may not see that much of a woman in the robes of concealment but there is no doubt that there is one in there somewhere, and there is no missing that.
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13 99 Yes, a woman can be quite attractive in the robes of concealment, and there is no doubt of that.
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13 101 To be sure, the robes of concealment are, in their way, a tease, a provocation.
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13 354 Her vanity, her arrogance, the insolence with which she had abused power, her betrayal of her Home Stone, and such, militated against her concealment.
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18 161 As is well known the usual Gorean free woman is more concerned with the concealment of her facial features than her body.
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22 527 Certainly it is a change from the stiff, heavy, ornate, cumbersome robes of concealment, and the multitudinous hoods and veils, of the high cities.
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29 58 Much may be concealed beneath the "Robes of Concealment," but a slave tunic conceals almost nothing.
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30 163 It was not built for speed, and its low bulwarks and lowered masts, for concealment.
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37 16 The robes of concealment in winter are much like those of gentler weathers, save for darker colors, more absorptive of, and retentive of, heat, heavier materials, some additional layering, and such.
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38 46 He recalls the slight sound of her silk, almost inaudible, as she knelt by the table, and how it fell about her, with its diaphanous mockery of concealment, as she preceded him obediently to the alcove.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 429 She could never manage even the secret interior fastenings of my robes of concealment, and a kaiila might have draped my veils more tastefully.
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5 379 "The concealment of the northern forests proved insufficient," said Lord Nishida.
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9 172 "Follow me!" cried Aristodemus, brandishing the sword, now removed from the concealment of his furs.
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12 179 Similarly, the scantiness of common slave garb, though its principal purpose is to display the slave's beauty, has the additional advantage that it tends to render the concealment of a weapon impractical.
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19 216 It suddenly occurred to me that we must be at least two or three days from land, else the tarns, the concealment of whose existence seemed a matter of such moment to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, would remain concealed.
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21 107 This makes possible the concealment, and the ready availability, of a sleeve dagger.
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21 324 The concealment of beauty, of course, might be only one motivation for hooding a slave.
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24 233 That Talena's presence on board might have been disruptive was clear, and that the concealment of her presence was prudent was also clear.
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26 167 Too, given the scantiness of her garmenture, such speculations can be more securely grounded than in the case of a free woman, wrapped away somewhere within the layers of her robes of concealment.
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37 947 "Do not we all, perhaps glimpsing an ankle, a bared wrist, a fluttering veil, the turn of a hip within the robes of concealment?" "Master!" protested Alcinoë.
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Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 490 You do not know the drapings, the foldings, the layerings, and fastenings of the robes of concealment, the arrangement of the veils, and such".
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7 729 I was not wrapped in the lengthy, ornate folds of the Robes of Concealment, that the lineaments of my figure should not betray the delicate canons of modesty, or no more so than might provoke inevitable speculation.
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8 80 Within the robes of concealment, it seems, following the views of the guards, there was always a slave, lacking only the collar.
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9 161 I did not even know the subtle fastenings of the robes of concealment, the layerings and arrangements of veils, the order of a woman's bath, or such.
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10 890 I supposed the Gorean free woman was entitled, as with her veils and concealing robes, to balance concealment with revelation, mystery with the hint of possible abandon, even rampant disclosure.
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35 157 Accordingly, the first level of concealment is that the sheet is not what it initially appears to be, and might not attract particular attention, certainly not from those unfamiliar with kaissa, and probably not from your average player, who would not be likely to inquire into the annotation of a ga...
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35 160 The second level of concealment, of course, is that these seemingly meaningless signs are mostly related to the alphabet".
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35 209 New sheets would presumably be prepared from time to time, to continue to pluralize possibilities, and, if it were suspected that copies of the original sheets were in the possession of an enemy, new sheets would be instantly prepared, or, more likely, an entirely different method of communication a...
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35 254 I suspect a concealment is involved".
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35 255 "Perhaps in the manner of the preceding concealment," I said, "a different card standing for a different letter, more than one card for a single letter, perhaps some cards standing for nothing".
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35 264 "In the case of the kaissa concealment," he said, "we were fortunate enough to obtain, and later copy, crucial sheets, materials in virtue of which the message might be concealed, and then, later, revealed.
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35 287 "You are thinking of something like the kaissa concealment".
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47 49 Surely it would have been better had she been clad in the Robes of Concealment.
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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8 194 What woman would not wish to be "slave beautiful?" To be sure, given the robes of concealment, the veilings, and such, it is often difficult to know whether or not a free woman is "slave beautiful".
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9 243 The most obvious way to mark this distinction publicly and conveniently is the collar, or its absence, and garmenture, say, the robes of concealment as against a tunic, or camisk.
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9 250 The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the risks involved, and such, is ...
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29 57 There was nothing here of layered, shimmering veils, of golden sandals, of cloaks, hoods and scarves, of jeweled purses, of the rich, flowing, colorful, intricately draped robes of concealment, common to the Gorean tree woman.
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29 58 Too, there was nothing here of the grace, and beauty, and femininity, of the provocative softness, of the promise of secret delights, of the implicit, whispered needs, of the typical Gorean tree woman, obvious even in, and perhaps even enhanced by, the robes of concealment.
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37 40 There are some free women of the upper castes, wealthy women, who from childhood have never dressed themselves, who do not even know the intricate clasps and closures of the robes of concealment they wear, let alone their blendings and drapings, the best colors for the time of day and the season, th...
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52 442 The delight of my instructresses, in regaling us with accounts of its effects, had to do largely with its administration to free women, who might sip it discreetly behind their veil in some assignation or tete-a-tete, in their rich robes of concealment, and later awaken naked and in chains, perhaps ...
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Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 181 It sees it in terms of what might be done, and not done, and how easily, sees it in terms of movement, columns, the marshaling of men, the arrangement of troops, the order of battle, in terms of passage, heights, time, concealment, attack, marches, and tactics.
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12 168 After all, she was not a Gorean free woman, as across the sea, veiled, hidden in the robes of concealment, a woman exalted and resplendent in status and dignity, a woman safe in her station and secure in her privileges, even one who possessed a Home Stone.
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13 309 Surely much could be done with the robes of concealment, with their layerings and drapings, their bright colors, so ingeniously arranged, with veils slack or disarranged, even diaphanous, the street veil brazenly neglected, with loose, casual hoods from which strands of hair might escape, as though ...
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16 103 I sensed his hands had suddenly grasped one another within the concealment of those wide, hanging sleeves.
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20 644 Slave garments, incidentally, are almost always extremely comfortable, surely more so than the cumbersome robes of concealment prescribed for the free woman of the continent.
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25 317 There are the robes of concealment, the veils, the gloves, the slippers, and such.
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29 45 "How is it you are here?" I asked "One supposes for the same reason that you are here," said Tajima, "the need for shelter and food, for concealment, the desire for a refuge unlikely to be suspected, one not fond of the exactions of the shogun".
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46 12 Pertinax and I were hooded, but not in such a way as to suggest an intended concealment.
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58 148 "She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone.
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61 182 Surely, in his long concealment with the tarns, waiting for Tajima, Pertinax, Haruki, and myself to return, he would have had an opportunity to form some interest in Aiko's lovely and delicate lineaments.
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61 639 She was garbed in the colorful robes of concealment common in the high cities, and gracefully veiled.
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61 1049 Behind him were two Ashigaru, and, between them, in their keeping, was a woman, shamefully unveiled, but otherwise decorously clad in the many folds and colors of the robes of concealment.
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61 1143 I surveyed the greenish cast in those flashing eyes, the olive skin, the loose, black hair, rich and abundant about her shoulders, the delicacy of her features, so deliciously and exquisitely feminine, so exciting, the hint of a marketable figure beneath those clumsy robes of concealment.
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61 1153 Dramatic was the contrast between the rich, abundant, colorful robes of concealment, suitable for a free woman of a high city on the continent, and her feet, as bared as those of a low slave.
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Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

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8 253 Consider the lack of veiling and concealment, the brazen display of their faces, the frequent flaunting of ankles and calves, even of arms and shoulders, the styles of summer wear, the garments of beaches, the nature of night wear, the sheerness of hose, the pleasantries of lingerie, the use of cosm...
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16 115 Might not one then, possibly cultivating obscurity, or concerned with secrecy, think of choosing such a concealment? Who, on a beach, would be likely to attend to a single grain of sand? And yet it seemed notice had been taken of such an individual, for those of Ar, following seasons of invasion and...
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20 94 But she is clad in the Robes of Concealment, save for veils.
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40 18 The large woman was not clad in the robes of concealment, and was not veiled.
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40 24 It is difficult to move about, and work, of course, in the cumbersome Robes of Concealment.
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41 95 From the utilitarian point of view they have less to do with sheltering the bit of a woman's face that might be unveiled as to keep much of the robes of concealment shaded, this lessening the build-up of heat within the raiment.
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45 218 "You led us promptly to the concealment of Kurik of Victoria".
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46 334 "In its way, it provided a good concealment," I said.
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50 396 Angrily, with hot, bitter tears, the Lady Alexina tore at the robes, frenziedly, ripping loose hooks, and fastenings, and then she stood before him, the bulky, cumbersome robes of concealment beside her, discarded.
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51 55 How, once we were collared, these put us at the mercy of our masters, at whose mercy we soon begged to be! "How do you like the Robes of Concealment?" he asked.
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61 177 Surely that house had provided him and his fellows with a haven of concealment and support on Gor, and a base of operations in the vicinity of the most populous city in the northern hemisphere of the planet.
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61 428 "Better, put her in the Robes of Concealment," said another.
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61 508 The free woman was clad in the full regalia of the Robes of Concealment, and yet, surely to the shock and dismay of some of the soldiers, and the awe or delight of others, had disdained veiling.
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69 118 It is interesting, a woman clad in the silly raiment of your world and a fine Gorean woman, resplendent in the full robes of concealment.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

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5 181 Whereas its common purpose is concealment, it may also be used to provoke interest or curiosity.
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11 255 Free women, in their unwonted arrogance, in their unwarranted, unconscionable, preposterous vanity, in their well-recognized stupidity, commonly take themselves to be far more beautiful than slaves, but it is difficult to assess this claim, even if one were to take it seriously, given the common imp...
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11 261 She could be in a hundred cities, or remote villas or strongholds, incognito, well secure within the robes of concealment and multitudinous veils befitting her lofty station, as a free woman.
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22 15 She was clad in the Robes of Concealment, and veiled.
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23 29 Surely it was not the Robes of Concealment, so rich, abundant, beautiful, and colorful.
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33 77 We had been long in our place of concealment.
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37 99 I could easily outrun Dorna, encumbered as she was in the voluminous splendor of the multicolored robes of concealment.
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37 101 Indeed, a ribald joke heard in the taverns, where no free woman is present, is to the effect that the point of the robes of concealment is not only to pique male curiosity but to render their occupant easier to apprehend.
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37 102 If this is the case then an interesting covert parallelism would exist between the concealment of the free woman and the exposure of the slave.
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47 187 You must remember that Port Kar is far from Ar, and that few, given facial veiling, hooding, and the robes of concealment, had, even in Ar, looked upon the features of the Ubara.
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Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 16 One who speaks freely, unthreatened, of his own will, with no obvious motivation to lie, is more likely to tell the truth, even in its miserable plenty, than one intimidated, or one seeking profit by means of its distortion or concealment.
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1 202 "Even if it were not," he said, "I would not reveal its concealment.
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11 224 The woman, fully clothed, in the robes of concealment, perhaps lifting the glass to her lips, beneath her veil, eyes seductively lustrous over the veil, imbibes the beverage.
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43 30 "What would satisfy the desiderata of concealment and the shortest tunnel?" "The inner ditch," said Thurnock, "where digging and the removal of dirt might take place unseen".
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