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Book 1. (28 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 9 It was given to me by my father, who disappeared when I was quite young.
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1 12 Biographical details are tedious, so suffice it to say that I was a bright child, fairly large for my age, and was given a creditable upbringing by an aunt who furnished everything that a child might need, with the possible exception of love.
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1 24 I admit I was annoyed by the suspicion that I had been given the appointment largely on the grounds that I would be faculty exotica.
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1 43 I was not frightened, being confident that walking steadily in any given direction would be sure to bring me to one highway or another, or some stream or another, and that it would be impossible to become lost, or at least for long.
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2 39 The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it.
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2 235 There was another possibility I mentioned to my father—perhaps the planet had been in our system all the time, but had been undiscovered, unlikely though that might be, given the thousands of years of study of the skies by men, from the shambling creatures of the Neander Valley to the brillia...
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3 53 And I learned these things, or as much as I could in the time I was given.
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3 58 I was given some prayers to the Priest-Kings to memorize, but they were in Old Gorean, a language cultivated by the Initiates but not spoken generally on the planet, and I never bothered to learn them.
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3 86 "The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.
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3 140 The caste system was socially efficient, given its openness with respect to merit, but I regarded it as somehow ethically objectionable.
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3 268 Later, of course, the adult birds are not fastened, but the conditioning given them in their youth usually holds, except when they become abnormally disturbed or have not been able to obtain food.
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4 87 For example, I would have given my name as Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, or, more simply, as Tarl of Ko-ro-ba.
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5 51 The details of the rituals are arranged and mostly executed by the Initiates of a given city.
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5 62 Two girls were supposed to die that I might have time to escape with the Home Stone before the alarm could be given.
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5 100 I took from my tunic the key my father had given me, the key to Sana's collar.
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5 132 Sana had insisted that I keep the pellet of poison which the Council had given her to spare her from the otherwise inevitable tortures that would follow the disclosure of her identity in the cylinders of Ar.
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5 173 And to this day I bless the tarn keepers of Ko-ro-ba for the painstaking training they had given the great bird.
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8 76 I suppose now that I would have spared him, but I was not given the opportunity.
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9 16 Theoretically, given the seclusion of the High Caste women of Ar, their gilded confinement in the Walled Gardens, it should be reasonably easy to conceal her identity.
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13 39 For whatever reason, the larl will always prefer ruining a hunt, even one involving a quarry of several animals, to allowing a given animal to move past it to freedom.
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14 152 In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below.
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15 33 Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ...
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15 231 "And rumor has it," said Mintar, not looking up from the board, "that she pledged herself to Pa-Kur only that some tarnsman she loved might be given a small chance of life".
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17 55 The thousand most beautiful women of Ar would be given as pleasure slaves to Pa-Kur, for distribution among his highest officers.
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18 7 How much I would have given to have had Marlenus and his men at my side, few though they might be! Then, as if the pieces of a puzzle had suddenly, unexpectedly, snapped into shape, a plan sprang into my head.
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18 59 There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, ...
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19 138 That sort of thing would be effective only once with a given player, but in swordplay once would be sufficient.
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20 65 I have given much more time to traveling, to reading, and to keeping myself fit.
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Book 2. (26 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 7 Given the lesser gravity, feats of prowess which might seem superhuman on earth were commonplace on Gor.
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4 109 Its heart had given me strength.
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6 11 I would have given much for a tarn in my journey, though I knew no tarn would fly into the mountains.
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6 17 Asking no questions, as was suitable given the absence of insignia on my garments, they feasted me on my own kill, and gave me fiber, and flints and a skin of wine.
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6 102 At the end of her dance, she is given a cup of wine, but she may not drink.
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6 128 One may have, at a given time, an indefinite number of slaves, but only one Free Companion.
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7 102 "Soon, when you have been properly prepared, you will be dressed in costly pleasure silk, given sandals perhaps, scarves, veils and jewels, garments to gladden the heart of a maiden".
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11 194 "Thus," said Thorn, "to make it seem he had not given the money to this warrior, or assassin as the case may be, he pretended it had been stolen from him.
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12 129 "You should not have given yourself to the High Council," I said.
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14 14 I rejoiced in this new freedom, in the absence of the yoke, though I knew it was given to me only in order to improve the spectacle.
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14 155 What I would have given for a tarn saddle and the broad purple strap that fastens the warrior in the saddle! As soon as it felt my weight, the tarn cried again and with an explosion of its broad wings sprang into the air, climbing in dizzy circles.
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17 84 The life expectancy of the mine slave, given the labor and food, if he does not die under the whips of the overseers, is usually from six months to one year.
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17 89 The word had not yet been given which would allow them to fall upon it.
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19 53 To my pride none of the men suggested that we follow them, none begged that we might steal our freedom before the general alarm could be given.
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19 132 "Are you truly of the Caste of Poets?" "Never more truly than now," said Andreas, "for how could my songs be more important than the things they celebrate?" I marveled that he had said this, for I knew that the young Andreas of Tor might have given his arm or years of his life for what might be a tr...
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20 10 In the office of the Administrator of the Mines, he who once had given the command, "Drown them all," I found a stripped body, slashed almost beyond recognition.
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21 45 The collar of a given girl may be changed countless times, but the brand continues throughout to bespeak her status.
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22 29 "Surely you wish to exact your vengeance? Have you forgotten it was I who put you in a yoke, who whipped you, who condemned you to the Amusements, who would have given you to the tarn? That it was I who betrayed you and sent you to the Mines of Tharna?" "No," I said, my eyes hard.
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22 49 "You have given me much to think about," I admitted.
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22 125 "I would not," she said, "have given up his collar for all the gold and silver in Tharna, not for all the stones of her gray walls".
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25 114 I wondered how it was that Thorn had given his life for this woman.
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25 117 I suddenly knew the answer, that Thorn somehow had loved this cruel woman, that his warrior's heart had been turned to her though he had never looked upon her face, though she had never given him a smile or the touch of her hand.
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25 155 She would be given a mat of damp straw and a camisk, leavings from the tables of the dining rooms above, and lashings if she should dare to leave the room or shirk her work.
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26 9 They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
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26 58 Too I recognized that there was no longer any adequate provision—given the destruction of Tharna's institutions—for the indefinite shelter of large numbers of free women within her walls.
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26 71 Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place.
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Book 3. (29 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 34 The place in which I found myself was considerably wider than the path on which I had trod, for the path had given suddenly onto a fairly large circular area in which I had found the chained larls.
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5 83 From within any given room, one could not look into any other.
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6 18 I had tasted some only once before, having been introduced to them at a feast given in my honor by Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna.
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7 96 Never before had I been so aware of the thin margin of reality admitted into the human nervous system, little more than a razor's width of apprehension given the multiple and complex physical processes which formed our environment.
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10 29 For example, in English 'bit' is one morpheme but three phonemes, as will appear clear if given some reflection.
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11 69 "Do not think badly of us, Tarl Cabot," said Misk, "for on the holidays those of the lower orders who labor for us—be it even in the pastures or fungus trays—are given surcease from their labors".
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12 76 I think he had not forgiven me the start I had given him on the platform high above the canyon, near the elevator.
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12 115 "Can you guess," asked Sarm, "which one has been synthesized?" I must have given quite a start.
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13 78 "The journeys between portals are timed," said the first slave, "and if she dallies she will be given a record-scar".
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13 88 "Why have they not given her a transportation device?" I asked.
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14 77 The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk.
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14 84 I was given a translator by Misk and I would utter Gorean expressions into it and then wait for the translation into the language of the Priest-Kings, and in this way, after a time, I became capable of recognizing numerous meaningful odors.
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14 144 It was the same day that Sarm ordered her given five record-scars for the growths on her head and had her destroyed".
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15 94 "What you know—even a creature such as yourself—" said Misk, "depends on the charges and microstates of your neural tissue, and, customarily, you obtain these charges and microstates in the process of registering and assimilating sensory stimuli from your environment, as for example wh...
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17 26 He might have asked Mul Translator Engineers for such an expression and an explanation of it, and I supposed they might have given him the expression "friend" and explained it for him, more or less adequately, in terms of the normal consequences of the relation designated, such things as tending to ...
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17 32 "Perhaps you would like to be given a female Mul?" "No," I said.
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17 124 Suddenly one of the cubes we passed locked onto a given scene and no more did the scenery move past me as though in a three-dimensional screen.
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18 17 "No," said Mul-Al-Ka, "we were given by Kusk to Sarm as a gift".
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20 161 "Perhaps she has been given a new collar?" I asked.
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23 10 I recalled vaguely that Misk had once said to me that in deference to the Golden Beetle it was given only free women.
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27 102 He had given Gur to the Mother.
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27 365 The message was given to my ears as would have been any message.
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28 163 The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...
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29 42 Moreover, I knew that the cage plastic with which my own ship was protected would be no more protection than tissue paper against Sarm's weapons, the nature of which was not to pierce or melt but, from a given center, radiating outwards, to shatter material gravitationally, breaking it apart and sca...
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29 154 Nonetheless, reasoning analogously from my own controls, I managed to locate the guidance sphere, by means of which one selects any one of the theoretically infinite number of directions from a given point and the dials for the height and speed control.
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30 172 She was later given charge of my feeding and she seemed to enjoy throwing me scraps of fungus or watching me lap at the water in the pan she placed on the disk.
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30 192 Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops.
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32 262 Given the gravitational alteration, this was no easy task.
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33 114 The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture.
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Book 4. (32 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 3 Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them...
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2 75 The years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names, toward their end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish the year.
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2 181 "Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th...
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4 6 It seemed scarcely had he passed than the kaiila had wheeled and charged again, this time given free rein, that it might tear at me with its fangs.
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6 12 The lance cleared the ground, given the height of the kaiila, by about five feet.
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8 274 Lastly, but perhaps not least, Elizabeth Cardwell had been given for her garment the pelt of a larl, while she, Tuka, must go about the camp like all the others, clad Kajir.
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8 402 "If you win for us," Albrecht said to her, grinning down from the saddle of the kaiila, "this night you will be given a silver bracelet and five yards of scarlet silk".
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8 426 "I have given her several such things," said Albrecht.
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9 370 I remembered that two years before, as I had learned, he had brought Aphris of Turia a five-string diamond necklace, which she had scorned, and had, according to her report at least, given to a slave.
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9 387 I then suspected that she had not actually given the five-string diamond necklace to a slave.
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9 435 I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most beautiful of th...
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9 479 It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male relative is a...
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10 394 When more than one wish to fight for a given woman, incidentally, the Turians decide this by rank and prowess, the Wagon Peoples by scars and prowess.
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11 246 "It was given to me by two travelers".
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11 378 When the girl had finished and Elizabeth had given her a dipper of water from the leather bucket that hung near the door, Aphris extended her wrists to Kamchak.
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12 5 I would have given much for a tarn.
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12 502 Moreover, not every man wants to own an untrained barbarian slave, for such, even if given to them, must be fed—and, this spring, as I could tell from walking about the camp, there was no shortage of girls, freshly collared and branded perhaps, untrained perhaps, but yet, and most importantly...
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16 22 At last, at a given point in the tunnel, Harold disappeared beneath the surface and I followed him.
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17 2 I had not been given back my sword but the quiva I had carried was now thrust in my belt.
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23 46 In a few Ehn I had overtaken my Thousand and given the tarn over to five men, who would keep it until its wagon should, following the tracks of the riders, reach them.
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25 25 Harold had said that Elizabeth Cardwell had been given by Kamchak to a warrior.
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25 104 "And now," she said, bitterly, "Kamchak has given me to you.
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25 209 I noted she had scarcely sipped what she had been given.
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25 307 It would have been better, I told myself, if Kamchak had not given me the girl.
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25 319 I wondered indeed that Kamchak had given the girl to me.
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25 322 And then he had given her to me, when there might have been other commanders.
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26 89 I even saw some slaves leaving the compound, and these, though they were slave, were given the four stone of gold as well, perhaps the more to insult those free men who had accepted the bribes of Tuchuks.
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26 560 Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...
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27 5 Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as escapes from ...
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27 9 Kamchak, as a Tuchuk, could not bring himself to be quite as generous with the city's women, and the five thousand most beautiful girls of Turia were branded and given to the commanders of Hundreds, that they might be distributed to the bravest and fiercest of their warriors; the others were permitt...
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27 79 Dina, wondering, opened the package and within it she saw the cups and rings, and pieces of gold, which Albrecht had given her for her victories in the runnings from the bola.
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27 164 "You will be given riches".
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Book 5. (67 results) Assassin of Gor

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9 9 On the other hand, considering the large number of slaves on Gor, only a small fraction are carefully bred; a larger fraction is bred, but more haphazardly, as when a given male of one private house is mated, for a price, with a given female of another house.
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13 227 Mip, for some reason, seemed to like me, and he spoke much during the evening, as we drank together, of the factions, of the organizations of the races, of the training of tarns and riders, of the hopes of the greens and the other factions, of given riders and given birds.
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16 53 We met in Sura's training room and I, who was to be in charge of this expedition, given that I would let no other guard Elizabeth, was given a leather sack of silver and copper coins by Ho-Tu, for the expenses of the day.
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16 216 It is to the advantage of any given faction that there should be a small number of factions in competition and so the riders of an older faction, if unable to win themselves in given races, will often attempt to prevent a good race being flown by the riders of the new faction.
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1 48 The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small Scribe.
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1 90 The faction patches are worn in Ar by those who favor a given faction in the racing.
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2 204 Moreover, the caravans of Merchants are now given large and free guard".
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2 210 "Further," said he, "Merchants arm and train squads of such men and rent them, for high wages, to the citizens of given streets and cylinders".
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2 298 "True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".
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2 360 I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of...
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4 40 She had then been collared and turned over to Caprus, to be combed and cleaned, for the smell of the pens was on her, given two sets of slave livery and instructed in her duties.
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5 139 At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...
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5 185 He had been overjoyed at the receipt of the egg and it had immediately been given over to eager attendants that it might be incubated and hatched.
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5 620 It was not simply that Thentis was an ally of Ko-ro-ba, but also that this Warrior had been, it seemed, slain in my stead, and that thus his life had been given for mine, and was thus mine to avenge.
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6 101 I resolved that most of my problems in this matter might be solved if I simply refused to release Elizabeth until she had given her word, which she takes quite seriously, to be at least civil.
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9 21 Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...
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9 28 As at many of the larger markets, there are Musicians near the block, and a girl is given enough time to present herself well.
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10 60 They are given mats to sleep on, and later in their training, furs.
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11 18 The cages of female slaves were mixed in with those of the male slaves, presumably on no other basis than what cage happened to be empty at a given time.
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11 53 I then understood for the first time that it is not just any girl who is picked up by the Gorean slavers, but that the acquisition of each of these doubtless had been planned with the same diligence and care that is given to a slave raid on Gor itself.
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11 71 There are various porridges given to slaves and they differ.
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11 97 "Each girl in her processing," said Ho-Tu, "after her fingerprinting, is given five strokes of the lash, that she may feel it and know what it means.
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12 107 I noted that two of the tarns in this race were not of given factions, but were the property of private owners, not associated with the faction corporations; their riders, similarly, were not faction riders; the rider, incidentally, is quite as important as the bird, for an experienced rider often m...
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12 115 I did note that a young slave girl, however, perhaps about fifteen, with a coin given her by her master, did purchase a small candy from the little Hup.
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12 119 I wondered if the golden tarn disk, that of Portus, which I had given to him at the tavern had been used to buy a vending license.
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12 312 "If your training goes well," said Flaminius to the girls, "you will in time be given a pretty collar".
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14 40 To this point the tall, angular, dour Scribe had given us no information.
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14 41 "He tells me," said she, "that he has at last bribed the chamber slave in the compartments of Cernus to allow him access to the compartments at given times.
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14 57 This was prior to the slaying of the Warrior of Thentis, who resembled me, which had given me independent reason for coming to Ar, and in the guise of an Assassin.
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14 144 Otherwise, given the splendor of her robes, she might have been on the highest bridges the envy of all the free women of Ar.
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15 183 The upshot of these disquisitions, predictably, was that what had happened to them was appropriate given certain laws of intraspecific competition, of conflict and dominance, of the rightful orders of nature.
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15 219 The foods given them also changed with the advance in their training, and the desire to have varied, tasty fare, and sometimes a small bowl of Ka-la-na with their supper, drove them to perform well.
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15 220 Further, each must eat the same, so pressure was brought on each to come to a given level, for the food of all remained the same until each had attained the desired next level of training.
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15 228 Later, in the eighteenth week of their training, they were given brief silken slave livery, sleeveless, fastened by the loop on the left shoulder.
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15 229 Virginia and Phyllis were given white livery, Elizabeth red.
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15 230 It was at this time also that Virginia and Phyllis had been given their lock collars, white-enameled, and that the slave anklets, the identification bands, had been removed from their left ankles.
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15 386 Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attribut...
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16 191 Rather he looked about on the ramp until he found the small coin he had given her to buy him bread and honey, which coin she had dropped when the four men had seized her.
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17 58 We were given some small cups of tin, containing some diluted Ka-la-na that the girls had probably stolen.
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17 210 He was given a full military funeral; his ashes had been scattered from tarnback over a field where, as a general some years before, he had led the forces of Ar to victory.
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17 644 "It was given to me," she said, "by my mother".
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17 832 "Anyone who displeases Cernus might be given to the beast.
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18 169 They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in Dar-Kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is...
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18 298 A given thought kept going through my mind, for no reason that I was clearly aware of.
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18 467 With him also was the guard to whom I had given the paga.
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18 476 The guard to whom I had first given paga came over to Caprus and tore the bottle from his hand.
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18 517 "And there will be no quarter given".
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19 67 There is another set of interesting mosaics, each portraying a chained beauty, identified as being of a given city, kneeling before a Warrior, identified as being of Ar.
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19 74 The sale at the Curulean is carefully planned, and the lots prepared and scheduled with much attention to such matters as variety and the attention of the buyers; for example, two consecutive lots are not likely to wear the same first silks upon ascending the block, yet each girl, given her complexi...
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19 77 I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...
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19 105 As well as I could, given the wooden screens about the box of Cernus, I examined the interior of the amphitheater.
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19 121 Still, given the size of the crowd, they seemed to have little difficulty retailing their goods in short order; they would then disappear down an exit, soon returning with more.
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19 187 Then I understood what was going on, perhaps belatedly, for I knew the girl, Red Silk before the black ships, was extremely responsive, and had even been used in the hall of Cernus for the amusement of his Warriors and guards; she had known the caress would be given; she had been ready; she had perh...
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20 312 "If you win," said Cernus, "you will be given a hundred gold pieces".
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20 551 I had known, of course, that Cernus would never free me, but it had given me great pleasure to see his charade of honor unmasked, to have seen him humiliated and publicly exposed as a traitor to his word.
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22 119 "No, Fool, not Gladius of Cos!" "Assassins lurk!" "Flee, Rider, flee!" "Flee, Gladius of Cos!" "Be silent," said the man with me, he who had given me the mask, the leader of the crossbowmen, quieting with his command the cries and admonitions of those about us.
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22 245 In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings.
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22 360 I saw that he had been given another knife, a tarn knife, of the sort carried by riders.
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22 493 He, supposedly favoring the Greens, had apparently given orders to them as well that I should not win.
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24 47 "Doubtless the girls of the Street of Pots will be given some male slaves," said Hup.
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24 114 The palace guard, I had learned from Hup, would be, on a staggered basis, rotated, in order that the honor of serving the Ubar would be more broadly distributed, and, further, presumably, that no given faction of men could come, in time, to dominate the guards; the pay of the guards, incidentally, w...
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24 164 Kneeling on the tiles before their Ubar, they pleaded no mercy nor were they given any.
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24 173 They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides.
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24 179 When the men had taken their pick the girls were released from the common chain and the key, that which served to unlock collar, bracelets and anklet, was given to he who had chosen his prize.
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24 230 I had been given the thousand double tarns of gold for the victory in the Ubar's race.
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24 259 Further, at their request, they had been given several of the guards of the House of Cernus, including Vancius.
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24 292 The girls were being unshackled, to be given to Warriors.
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Book 6. (44 results) Raiders of Gor

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13 520 It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn...
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14 87 The important thing, as I saw it, was not so much the absolute numbers of ships involved as the numbers of ships that could be applied at a given place and given time.
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15 687 "And have I not given you great pleasure?" "Yes," she said, "you have given me many things".
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2 33 This was a paraphrase of a saying common on Gor, given by passing strangers to those through whose territories they would travel: Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more, and that but for the time it takes to pass.
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3 4 Thus, over a period of months, a given layer of rence, after being the top layer, will gradually be submerged and forced lower and lower until it, at last, is the deepest layer and, with its adjacent layers, begins to deteriorate.
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3 15 At a given point, when it is felt safe, several of these skiffs will be tied together, forming a platform on which rence may be woven, and a new island will be begun.
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3 77 A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons.
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4 329 I had been given the kiss of the Mistress to the male slave.
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5 140 I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another.
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6 80 It was he who had given me a piece of rence cake in the morning, when I had been bound at the pole, who had been punished by his mother for so doing.
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7 56 In marsh barges there is no time-beater, or keleustes, but the count to the oarsmen is given by mouth, by one spoken of as the oar-master.
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8 104 This was to prevent given barges from being boarded separately, where the warriors on one could not come to the aid of the other.
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8 478 "Eechius had given him rence cake when he was bound at the pole," said Telima.
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9 122 The supply lines of such a force, given the barges of Port Kar and her tarn cavalries, might be easily cut.
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9 280 I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island.
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10 28 Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it.
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10 231 But two who challenged me for the captaincy I slew within a dozen strokes, and the others, thus given pause, chose to confine their disgruntlement, if any, to their cups and conclaves.
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10 280 Not only did free men render more efficient service at the oars, but, when they were given the opportunity, I found them eager to train with arms, and so hired masters to teach them weapons.
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10 298 If there is a light snowfall in a given year, the price of timber is often higher.
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11 101 I was confident that the men of the arsenal, in their hundreds, almost to the count of two thousand, would, given the opportunity, control the fire.
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11 151 At any given time most of the ships of Port Kar are at sea.
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13 126 "I did not know," I said, "that the promise had been given".
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13 300 She is accordingly given eyes, that she may see her way.
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14 14 She has a rather straight keel, and this, with her shallow draft, even given her size, makes it possible to beach her at night, if one wishes.
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14 51 The thole ports in a given group of three are about ten inches apart and the groups themselves, center to center, are a bit less than four feet apart.
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14 55 The use of the extended rowing frame, permitting the leverage necessary for the great oars, and the seating of several oarsmen, each with his own oar, on a given bench, conserving space, are important in this regard.
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14 192 By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us.
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15 123 For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
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15 335 When again I sat down I said to the serving slaves, "Feast the singer well," and then I turned to Luma, slave and accountant of my house, braceleted and chained at the end of the long table, and said to her, "Tomorrow, the singer, before he is sent on his way, is to be given a cap of gold".
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15 352 She had felt ill, and had begged to remain behind in my quarters, which leave I had given her.
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15 453 I had not given her permission to leave.
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15 496 She dropped her head, acknowledging the name I had given her.
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15 609 How rich a joke it was, to have enslaved the girl who would have been Ubara of Cos, to have put her to work in my kitchens, to have given the use of her to a mere slave boy! This story would soon be told in all the ports of Thassa and all the cities of Gor! How shamed would be Tyros and Cos, enemies...
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15 686 "But I have given you many things," I wept.
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15 688 "And have I not," I demanded, "given you great pleasure!" "Yes," she said, "you have".
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15 769 I had given her the richest of silks, the most precious of jewels.
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17 37 Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike.
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17 111 I was given my admiral's cloak and I put this about my shoulders.
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17 156 Instead I had given them a Home Stone.
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17 171 I saw the lines of Cos and Tyros shortening, compressing their formations to bring more ships into play at given points.
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17 328 "If I can control the bird," I said, "follow me, and keep the instructions I have given you".
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18 22 My admiral's cloak, brought with my returning men from the round ship, was given to me and I wrapped it about my shoulders.
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18 98 He drew the sword I had had given him.
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18 424 "The most miserable of tasks were often given to me," continued the girl.
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Book 7. (55 results) Captive of Gor

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11 166 In the private pens we were given better food, lean meats and vegetables and fruits, and, if our group had trained acceptably, after the evening meal, before being returned, hooded, to the public pens, we would be given candies or pastries, or, sometimes, a swallow of Ka-la-na wine.
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16 200 Too, I gathered that she had been given to Verna, and, of course, only animals, slaves and such, can be so given.
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1 99 Whether my fortune on a given day was something over a half million dollars or something over three quarters of a million dollars did not much interest me.
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4 163 Further, of course, we do little more, normally, with the large craft than arrive and depart, at given points.
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7 123 However, most of the camisks that I have personally seen, and those we were given, were belted with black or brown binding fiber; sometimes, instead, a long, thin strap of leather, "binding leather," is used.
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7 146 The belt of binding fiber, or leather, not only makes it easier to adjust the camisk to a given girl, but, of course, it serves to remind her that she is in bondage.
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7 177 Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat.
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7 238 I was given a comb.
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8 251 When we emerged from the cage, one by one, we were given our camisks, and placed in throat coffle, fastened therein with a long length of binding fiber, the fiber looped about the neck of each, knotted, and then passed on to the next girl.
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8 354 I was given the task of feeding her.
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8 387 But, interestingly, at a given building, one guard would separate me from the others and together, the guard and I, we would go into the building, while the others continued on to the market.
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8 435 I was leashed, given a burden, and, together, we all returned to Targo's compound.
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8 438 On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence, and the first shot in the Stabilization Series.
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8 706 Lana begged hardest and was given the most pieces of meat.
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8 754 We were different! I recalled how a guard had once given me his spear, and it had been so heavy, I could throw it only a few feet.
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8 846 A girl, however, was given a pan of food to give me for the new girl, chained in the dormitory.
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8 857 When I went outside I returned the water bag to its hook outside the door of the dormitory, and gave the pan back to the girl who had given it to me.
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8 979 I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it cost only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave.
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8 1056 And most, perhaps, mixed therein were the fury and the frustration, and terror, of the spoiled, rich Earth girl, Elinor Brinton, resenting her station, repudiating the role that had been given her so undeservedly on this barbaric world.
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9 44 I was given no aid.
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10 464 "I was not brought to Gor, was I," I asked, "to be a simple female slave, simply to be given, or sold, to a master?" "I told you," he reminded me, "that at the age of seventeen you were marked for abduction.
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10 567 Surely the men of Earth would have given almost anything for a mere glimpse of me disrobed, let alone for the unbelievable ecstasy of taking me in their arms! "Am I not beautiful enough, Master?" I asked.
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11 107 The cord makes it possible to adjust the garment to a given girl.
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11 152 Another reason for a master to board a slave at the private pens, of course, is that she might, while there, be given training, or further training, that she might be a more delicious slave to him upon his return.
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11 304 We were given no utensils.
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11 312 It was said that a year ago in Ar, Marlenus, Ubar of that city, had created a sensation at a banquet given for his high officers, by presenting a slave-girl dancer before them who, though she was not in his private pleasure gardens or compartments, he had had put in earrings.
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11 343 In the evening, at the private pens, we were fed well and our group, myself, Ute, Inge and Lana, were among those groups given pastries following their meal.
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11 876 They are apparently given young slave girls on which to practice.
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11 932 He had not given me permission to face him.
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11 1124 It was said that when he used a woman, he then branded her, with his name, as though she, once used, no matter to whom she might afterwards be given or sold, could truly belong only to him.
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11 1360 "Tonight," said Lana, "if you are given a pastry, you must give it to me".
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12 31 Given that the common camisk is, substantially, open on the sides, it is a provocative garment, presenting a delicious, substantially bared, vertical "stripe" of slave on each side, while, with charming reserve, as she faces toward you, it shelters the attractions of her bosom, or, away from you, th...
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12 32 To be sure, even so, given the common nature of the fabric, which is usually rep-cloth, it is seldom difficult to conjecture with some accuracy the lineaments of its lovely, half-naked occupant, or prisoner.
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12 36 On the side, of course, given the opening of the garment on each side, her brand is exposed.
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12 57 Girls are given only about a foot of chain fastened to their ankle rings, which is looped about the central bar, locked in place, in the slave wagon.
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12 314 Doubtless Marlenus had given orders that she be exhibited in various cities and villages on the route to Ar, his prize, that she might thus, this beautiful captive, an outlaw girl well known on Gor, considerably redound to his prestige and glory.
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12 451 One wagon at a time, for a given interval, Targo permitted his girls, in wagon sets, to enjoy freedom of movement.
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13 668 It is normal for the girl, given to understand that her behavior has not been perfect, to kneel before the master and beg to be punished.
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13 793 I would probably just be sold, or given away.
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14 96 I had even been given a swallow of Ka-la-na wine, which exquisite beverage I had not tasted since the time of my capture, long ago, by Verna outside of Targo's compound.
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14 223 I wondered, too, if those chests might contain the light, precious chains of silver and gold, wrought by slavers so cunningly, to hold a girl in given positions, while she was subdued at a master's leisure.
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14 433 Most Gorean free women, if they are not companioned, given the constraints of the culture and its customs, are virgins.
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15 156 We were not given advantages and privileges over them! Surely I, at least, should have received some consideration, for I had known Ute for many months, and we had been friends.
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15 878 After I had done this, naked, and had washed my body and hair thoroughly, I was again given the tunic of a work slave.
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15 915 Before him it is hard for a female not to know herself as a female, and, in knowing this, recognizing herself as smaller and weaker, and thus to be given the tasks he does not care to perform.
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16 75 Rask of Treve had given me some pleasure, of course.
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16 178 "Rask of Treve," said Verna, smiling, "has given you no choice".
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16 193 "Rask of Treve has given her to me.
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16 209 But doubtless even a greater blow was to have been given away by Rask of Treve, and to a woman! I did not doubt but what Verna appreciated the ironies of this situation.
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17 31 They had been given to the huntsmen, Raf and Pron.
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17 32 In the fashion of Gorean huntsmen, both girls had then been freed and given a head start of four Ahn, that they might escape, if it were in their power.
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17 282 Tellius, who would, upon occasion, need new girls in the kitchen, as others were given away or sold, was intrigued.
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17 325 I had loved the tiny animal, which had played with me, and had given me the affection, the love, which my parents had denied me, or had been too busy to bestow.
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17 471 I have learned that Rask of Treve did indeed come to Port Kar to find me, and this has given me indescribable joy, though it is mingled now with great bitterness, and sadness, for I shall never again be his.
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17 484 When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba.
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Book 8. (45 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 502 Prices, of course, tend to fluctuate with given markets and seasons.
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2 503 If there are few such on the market in a given time, their prices will tend to be proportionately higher.
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2 563 Each was given a yard of chain.
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2 682 After their meals, candies had been given them.
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5 145 She might now, I speculated, be well induced to serve me with exceeding fervor and diligence, should I assign her tasks in accord with her thieving skills, for fear that she be given to the massive, handsome Arn.
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6 341 There would also, of course, be much attention given to the deadwork of the ship, and to her lines and rigging, and the fittings and oars.
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6 572 I had given Verna, and her band, her chance.
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6 586 We had given them good prices, in gold or goods.
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6 1007 And, of course, of all women, only a slave girl may truly belong to a man, only a slave girl can be truly his, in all ways, utterly, totally, completely, his, selflessly, at his mercy, his ecstatic slave, helpless and joyous in the total submission which she is given no choice but to yield.
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7 27 I had given Verna and her band their chance.
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7 58 I had given Arn no definite answer on his request to purchase Tina, his object in coming to my camp.
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8 4 Much depends, of course, on the number of slavers, the nature of the quarry, and the particulars of a given chase or hunt.
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9 316 Perhaps, if it had pleased me, I would have given her Verna, as her personal serving slave, a souvenir of her ordeal in the forest and the glorious triumph which culminated that ordeal.
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9 321 The jewels and robes which I would have given her would have been the finest in Port Kar, the finest on all Gor.
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11 97 She had been stripped and, hands tied over her head to a post, had been given ten lashes.
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11 121 Verna had stood before him, waiting to be given the skins of panthers.
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11 153 She was taken to the kitchen tent, where she was given lessons, as a slave girl, in the preparation and serving of food.
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11 331 She was braceleted and leashed, and given to the slaver.
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11 351 "And given the scent of her blanket there will be no difficulty in picking her up, even if we begin to search days from now".
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11 918 "Have you been given a name?" I asked.
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12 30 In the past years, in Port Kar, since I had given up the service of Priest-Kings, my ambitions had enlarged.
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14 9 In some places there was burned canvas, indicating that a given tent might have been set afire.
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14 28 Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack.
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14 33 The men of Ar had given a good account of themselves.
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14 329 He might then be given a name more fitting a slave than Marlenus.
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15 27 The slave girl, of course, is given no choice but to be feminine, to be a female.
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15 31 That her owner had given her no choice but to yield totally is not considered.
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15 413 At two ends, then, of a given length of chain, links had been opened, thrust through the welded rings, and then hammered shut again.
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16 286 That morning, given the history of their march, was perhaps, by them, felt to be their darkest, their most hopeless.
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16 290 Perhaps he had given up the chase, the hunt.
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17 9 Even Ilene, in her slave silk, had a switch, and was given her pair of girls to command.
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18 42 I recalled the girls, with momentary irritation, red-haired Vinca, the two other girls, and the slim, light-skinned, dark-haired Earth girl, she of Denver, Colorado, to whom I had given the slave name, Ilene.
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18 250 It was natural that the pairs had been arranged as they had, particularly that of Cara and Tina, given their location in the coffle.
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19 162 He had doubtless risen through the ranks to a position of prominence, which, given the aristocracies of Tyros, was unusual.
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21 174 I had given her no choice but, if she would live, to deliver the tools.
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22 196 I had taken his sword from him, and given it to one of my men.
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22 201 She had given the crossbow to one of the men of Ar.
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22 230 Orders were given.
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22 458 "I would not have minded much," said she, "if he had given me to you, as your slave!" "You have well earned your freedom, wench," said Turus.
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22 550 They were given supplies, and medicine.
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22 614 They would be given gold, and conducted in honor and safety to their cities.
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22 731 Verna had given them their choice, had indeed forced the choice upon them.
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22 768 This gift, this choice, which she had refused for herself, Verna had given them.
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22 776 But he had given her the signet of Ar.
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22 823 One was given to Rissia.
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Book 9. (52 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 518 Relius, given her, had freed her; his friend, Ho-Sorl, given another Earth girl, Phyllis Robertson, had kept the latter in a collar; Relius was younger than Ho-Sorl, and a romantic.
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11 208 If the Priest-Kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the Priest-Kings might finally be isolated and destroyed.
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1 282 "I was given no choice.
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1 291 Further, I have you to thank, I gather, that I have been given the opportunity to wash the stink of the pens from my body".
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1 495 The wounds were deep, and severe, and would doubtless, from time to time, cause me pain, but the paralysis, given the nature of the injury, seemed to them unaccountable.
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1 505 He had, in the course of his practice in Turia, once given treatment outside of its walls to a young Tuchuk warrior, whose name was Kamchak.
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1 506 For this aid given to an enemy he had been exiled.
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1 515 The findings of Iskander of Turia matched those of the other physicians, but, to my astonishment, when he had replaced his instruments in the pouch slung at his shoulder, he said, "The wounds were given by blades of Tyros".
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1 610 It was just as well that the remains had been given to the tharlarion.
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3 240 He carried a sack of plate at his back, heavy and bulging, which had been given to him by other men, that he might carry it.
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4 39 Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river.
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4 69 In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to...
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4 254 The slender blond girl, who had been giving the men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bondmaids.
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4 271 The slender, blondish girl, called Thyri, though now, actually, she had no name, not having been given one by the Forkbeard, did not respond to Aelgifu's taunt.
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5 42 I could see that the Forkbeard, though expecting the variation, given the preceding four moves, was delighted when it had materialized.
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6 168 Sometimes bondmaids are given descriptive names.
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6 464 Many men of Port Kar has he given to the bosom of Thassa".
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6 495 Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...
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9 370 Gunnhild had been given by the Forkbeard to Gorm for the night.
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9 373 The Forkbeard had offered me Pudding, but, generously, thinking to have Thyri, I had, after using her once, given her for the night to Ottar.
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10 150 Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...
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10 249 In the second charge, though I do not know if it were elegant or not, given the proprieties of the formal duel, I tripped the shield bearer.
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10 346 He was given a silver tarn disk as prize.
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10 430 The Forkbeard was given the tarn disk, which he placed in his wallet.
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10 517 On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; Gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had been, one of s...
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10 623 Long had I enjoyed his hospitality, and he had given me many things.
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12 7 The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.
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12 11 At night ship's lanterns may be used, but there is no standardization in their use, even among the ships of a given port.
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13 79 The issues seemed reasonably clear, though I could catch only snatches of what was said; they concerned the pleasures of boiling the Forkbeard and his retinue alive as opposed to the dangerous precedent which might be set if the peace of the Thing was sundered, and the loss of credit which might acc...
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13 154 When the Forkbeard, and I, and other followers, many of them bearing riches, entered the hall we had been given a room to one side, in which we might wash and dry ourselves before the feast.
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13 171 He had handed off Pudding and Gunnhild to his men, for the night, and had ordered to his furs Honey Cake, the former Miss Stevens of Earth, and the wench, Leah, the Canadian girl, whom I had won at archery and given to him as a gift.
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13 227 Had Ivar Forkbeard broken into song I would have given little for our chances.
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13 230 Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas...
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15 55 I could imagine the words on Misk's translator, one after the other, ticked off mechanically, "We have given our word".
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16 78 Sometimes they are kidnapped, and, after the season's singing, given much gold and freed.
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17 30 Among them was the lad called Tarsk, formerly Wulfstan of Kassau, to whom Thyri had once been given for the night.
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18 7 Furthermore, when a sleen would fasten on a given girl she would permit herself, rapidly, to be returned to the pen.
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18 295 Not an instant had they been given to regroup themselves.
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18 549 "You will be given to men!" The girls began to run.
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18 684 In my pouch now lay the armlet, which Ho-Hak had given me in Port Kar, that found where Telima had been attacked.
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19 35 I was pleased that I had not given her clothing.
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21 66 And then, too, later, at first given no choice, then, excited, helplessly aroused, unrestrainable, abandoned, uncontrollable, had performed superbly, serving me well, in the furs.
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21 70 I was pleased that the Forkbeard had given her to me.
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21 158 His accent was not of high caste; it had been formed on the jetties of the island Ubarate of cliffed Tyros, where he had for years, I had learned, led gangs of ruffians; caught, he had been dragged before Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, for sentencing to impalement; rather, Chenbar had liked the looks of hi...
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21 159 It was to him, as soon as Chenbar, freed of the dungeon of Port Kar, to which I had seen him consigned, had returned to Tyros, that the task had been given to hunt and capture the Ubar of Ar, Marlenus, and an Admiral of Port Kar, Bosk.
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22 74 The other girls, resenting the tunic she had been given, had stripped her.
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22 113 I had given her a brief, woolen slave tunic, which came high about her hips; it was sleeveless; it was split to the belly, belted with binding fiber.
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22 182 Perhaps they fear to be whipped if they are not pleasing? Perhaps, behaviorally, given no choice but to act as a passionate female slave, they find, suddenly, through simple psychological relationships, they, to their horror, have become only a passionate female slave.
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22 200 No choice is given her.
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22 204 No choice is given her.
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22 232 We had given it to him.
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22 310 She fell to kissing me, with the lascivious, wanton joy of the slave girl, given no choice but to reveal and liberate, and act upon, completely and with perfection, her deepest, most hidden desires, even though she might, in misery, scorn herself for possessing them.
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Book 10. (59 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 157 Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
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1 273 Passwords, appropriate to different levels and portions of the house, were given and acknowledged.
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1 388 It is common for the girl to be given to the recipient of the message.
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1 857 She who had once been Miss Priscilla Blake-Allen, a free Earth girl prior to her enslavement, struggled to her feet, her eyes wide with horror, trying to struggle backward, but the guards' hands on her arms, she now only a nameless slave, for her master had not yet given her a name, held her in plac...
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2 29 A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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2 187 Given her complexion and coloring, I thought, and Samos concurred, we could get a good price for the wench in Tor, or in the interior, at an oasis market.
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2 206 To me it seems obvious that one must experiment with the given girl.
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2 321 I paused before a given stall, where light, walking chains were being sold.
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2 575 "There is no name given".
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2 579 "No name was given, apparently," he said.
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2 601 Each individual strip, interestingly, given the strength of the rein, is little thicker than a stout thread.
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4 172 In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his demasculinization.
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5 100 It had been given to her by an agile, broad-shouldered, handsome young nomad.
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5 132 Yes, she was a pretty slave, and the small, diaphanous veil, now with its bit of blood in the silk, where the young nomad's teeth had cut her lip, given her nudity, was a delightful irony.
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5 134 But then, of course, she had never expected to be a slave, and on another world; she would not have known that she was on some slaver's list, and perhaps even from puberty; I was pleased with their judgment; I thought that, in time, given greater familiarity with her collar, the former Miss Blake-Al...
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5 285 Its name had been given to it centuries before, when thirsty men, who had moved at night on the desert, had come upon it, discovering it.
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5 406 My own recommendation, though it may be imperfect, given that I have not scouted the terrain, would be to depart, with haste, south".
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5 798 Can one not hear the boots of totalitarianism approaching, ringing ever more clearly, ever nearer, on the terrified, deserted streets? Was a woman, I wondered, really better off on Earth? Was she happier there, I wondered, posing as a pseudo-male, amidst the remnants of ruined men? I wondered how ma...
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6 100 "Pretty Zaya," said he, "has given witness that it was the accused who struck Suleiman Pasha".
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7 337 "But you," said he, "who attempted to assassinate our noble Suleiman Pasha, will not be given light assignments".
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7 573 "I often summon her to the slave ring at the foot of my divan," he said, "and it would doubtless amuse you mightily, given your earlier acquaintance with her, your recollections of her, to note how eagerly she hurries to me, and kneels naked before me, on the mat of submission, and begs to please me...
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7 731 If it had been drugged with a quick-acting agent, the quarter of an Ahn I had purchased, delaying my escape, in demanding that the collar be removed, rather than the links broken, would have given the drug time to be evident in the behavior of the beast.
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8 109 Her master had not given her undergarments.
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10 25 Only she now wore the name which she had borne as a free woman as a slave name, to shame her, given to her by her master, Hassan, the bandit.
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10 373 "I have given her no choice," he said.
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10 378 One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...
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10 379 The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...
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11 379 It is pleasant to see beautiful women worked, at the command of men, carrying burdens, given leather to polish, put to the cleaning of floors, forced to launder and sew, ordered to the markets, sent to the kitchen to cook, such things.
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12 663 "I will guarantee, my dear," I said to her, "that, hereafter, you will be given to men".
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14 280 "You have given Kurii, and their agents, much trouble," said he.
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14 387 Sometimes, for one reason or another, it is useful to separate or isolate given girls; too, it common to secure slaves at night, and the alcove makes this a simple matter; a single guard, with a lamp, can check a hundred girls in a few Ehn; too, if one is not in her place, it is easy to know instant...
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14 393 They are usually furnished with cushions, and comfortable, silken bedding, and they may contain a small chest, in which the slave may keep small articles whose use has been given to her, rings, bracelets, armlets, bangles, cosmetics, silks, such things.
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14 430 We were given little to eat, but much water.
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16 31 The crew of a given raft performs this work.
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16 37 There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks.
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17 70 "You could have given it to me," said the man near me.
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18 73 Water had been nearby, but we had not been given any.
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21 5 I realized then that he had been pointing to his destination, whatever it might be, which lay within the dune country, as though I might know what it was, but that the route which he wisely selected would parallel the dune country, until he reached a given point, at which point he would strike out o...
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21 232 He had given me the last of his water.
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21 236 He had given me, it seemed an inexplicable gift, water and salt from his own body.
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21 239 You have given me the water and salt from your own body.
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21 293 After the failure of the major probe in Torvaldsland, it seemed not unlikely a given party or tribe might have fallen from power.
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21 445 The field about me, I conjectured, diverted and reconstituted these waves in their original patterns; thus, a given wave of light in the normal visual spectrum which might strike me and be reflected to the visual sensor of another organism did not now strike me but was diverted; similarly patterns o...
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21 477 Given the attitude of the ship, however, the ladder was roughly at a twenty-degree angle to the ground, and some twenty feet from the sand; it was useless to me.
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21 539 The interior of the ship, given its attitude, seemed oddly askew.
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22 32 Too, the kaiila, given its head, is excellent in locating water.
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22 33 It seemed not improbable to me that there might be a recognition signal, to be given by the approaching riders in the vicinity of the ship, to be answered by a countersignal, before they would bring the kaiila in.
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23 102 More than two hundred years ago a wandering Tajuk had been rescued in the desert by Aretai riders, who had treated him well, and had given him water and a kaiila.
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23 137 "Yet they are given prominence in the left flank!" I could see a small group of riders hurrying from the Aretai center to their left flank.
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23 143 It was not impossible, in order to demonstrate their displeasure, that they would choose to go over to the Kavar side, assuming that they would be given prominence in the Kavar left flank.
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23 280 The tethers of the wretches were given to a rider.
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23 282 Orders were given.
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24 61 Sooner or later, given the acuity of her intelligence, she understands what she has become, what she is, that she is slave, simply and irremediably slave.
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24 317 You would be given one of the deaths of a slave girl, who has not been pleasing.
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24 318 In Port Kar, doubtless, you would be given the Garbage Death—bound naked and hurled to the urts in the canals".
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24 592 "You were not given permission to rise, Slave Girl," I said.
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24 626 I had, of course, given the cloak of the ring, experienced no difficulty in moving about.
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24 869 She sat, bound, the rag I had given her high about her thighs.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 126 Also, it was felt preferable by many for a player to be able to decide for himself, under the conditions of a given game, the duration of his speculations on a given move.
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15 499 The second reason for the bliss of many slave girls, that sequent upon the appropriateness of bondage for the beautiful woman itself, her female joy in being made to be true to herself, slave, was that, given the flesh transactions in a given city, sooner or later, masters tended to find girls who w...
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15 701 "Many women are auctioned from the block in a given year in a given city," I said.
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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 106 Sometimes a girl is given her own name as a slave name; sometimes she is given another name; it depends on the master's will.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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18 82 This lack of privacy, to be expected, given the lowly condition of the slave, is revealed even in details so obvious as almost to be taken for granted, such as the fact that slave kennels and slave alcoves are almost invariably barred, rather than given opaque portals, say, with observation aperture...
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20 367 "We divided them among various wholesalers, with the understanding that no more than one of them will be sold in any given market, in any given city or town, or village or fair.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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11 15 A given girl, then, by thongs on her collar, is tied to the left ankle of the girl on her left, and to the right ankle of the girl on her right; similarly, the girl on her left is thonged, by thongs passing about her collar, to the given girl's left ankle, and the girl on the given girl's right is t...
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4 141 It seemed to me not unlikely that an influx of barbarian females, in a given area, at a given time, might depress prices.
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6 41 These peregrinations, as would be expected, tend to take a herd in and out of the territory of given tribes at given times.
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8 473 Yet no woman could be so stupid as not to understand, on some level or another, at least, given that she was kneeling, and given the spreading of her knees, indicative of openness and vulnerability, and the placement of her hands down and to the sides, indicative of defenselessness, and the lifting ...
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 103 On the streets this is understandable, given the common veiling of women, particularly of the upper castes, but what of more informal situations, and such? The usual explanation given is that the necklace is reminiscent of the slave collar.
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4 21 A given individual may, for example, for one reason or another, not want others to know that a given woman is his slave.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 303 A given rank, with its pay grade, for example, might be occupied without its owner being assigned a given command.
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36 863 It was only substantially, in a given tradition, in a given world, in little more than a recent period, that she has been taught to deny herself, and suspect her most natural urges and impulses, as natural to her as her breathing and the beating of her heart, and to claim to prize life-denying, path...
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Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 374 She may be given the name afresh, but now to be worn as a slave name chosen by her master, or, sometimes, presumably that she may better understand her dependence on men's will, and her subjection to male domination, she may be given another Earth-girl name.
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25 375 When more than one Earth girl is in the same lot, their names may be switched, the name 'Audrey', for example, being given to the former Karen, and the name 'Karen' now being given to the former Audrey.
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Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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11 1619 To be sure, she still had the name 'Doreen', but that now was her only name, and she had it only as a slave name, a name given to her as an animal is given a name, a name put on her, like a collar, by the will of a master, a name to which she must then, like any other named animal, respond, and in a...
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13 731 It is not unknown, of course, for a girl who serves at such a supper, and is genuinely disinterested, or repulsed, by a given guest, to be given to him for the night.
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25 215 He had taken advantage of me, even warning me to silence! Was it not my master's fault, for letting me go out of the tent in what was little more, in effect, than a collar and a G-string? To be sure, I did yield well, but what was I to have done? What did Aulus expect? I was a slave! Surely in his o...
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27 144 Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s...
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Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

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12 152 "It had not given me what I wanted! It had not even given me missions to Ar.
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12 163 "Cosians, like those of Ar, or elsewhere, expect those whose allegiance has been freely given to serve as those who have given their allegiance freely, and not as merchants or mercenaries".
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15 470 Does she not prove that there may be free women, at least at a given time, in a given place, no matter how horrifying they may be or whatever one may think of them? To be sure, she has not been in the arms of a master.
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21 1454 He had given it to Aemilianus, who had, in turn, given it into the keeping of Surilius, his aide.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 27 "You have given yourself to Milo, but Milo is mine, and can own nothing, and thus you have given yourself to me.
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1 29 What is given to the slave is given to the master".
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2 104 Given the anger in Ar at Ar's Station, and the fact that the Home Stone of Ar's Station had been sent to Ar, supposedly, according to the rumors, not for safekeeping, given the imminent danger in the city, but in a gesture of defiance and repudiation, attendant upon the supposed acceptance of a new ...
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Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

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13 38 In such a humble act I acknowledged, and honored, not only the maleness of a given individual, of a given master, but, in a sense, all maleness, and the might of the mastery, and expressed, lovingly, in joy and tenderness, my femaleness.
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13 787 He knew my name, that which I had been given, that on my collar, which, perhaps, had been worn by many others before me! I recalled that some of the guards in the pens did not care to administer a formal whipping to a woman, as opposed to some admonitory blows now and then, until they knew her name,...
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14 476 "It is not merely that it is a way in which a given woman makes clear her relation to a given man, that she is his slave, that he is her master.
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14 1526 As a last note, I might add that there does seem to be general agreement among authorities on the importance of a given number of types of kisses, and perhaps that is more important than whether one accounts a given kiss A to be a variation of B, or B to be a variation of A, and so on.
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15 52 The signal given the two sleen rushed upon it and tore it to pieces, ignoring the other meat, to which they had not been given access.
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18 89 For example, let us suppose that several women of a given city, say, A, are now slaves in a given city, say, B.
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33 44 The five most common trainings are those of the war sleen, which may also be utilized as a bodyguard; the watch sleen, to guard given precincts; the herding sleen, which will kill only if the quarry refuses to be herded rapidly and efficiently to a given destination, usually a pen or slave cage; the...
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35 41 I think then that I should mention, perhaps, particularly given the fact that an earlier paragraph might be misconstrued, and that the frightening condition it references might be understood as being typical of a given form of relationship, that there is a lovelier, warmer, more beautiful, benign se...
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Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

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1 50 Let us suppose, rather, as a matter of speculation, if nothing more, that a given physical process normally, or customarily, takes a given amount of time, say, that it normally proceeds in a given amount of time through phases A, B and C, and so on.
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4 271 "Doubtless, as an informed, intelligent person," said the young man, "you are aware of the existence of many worlds, and the overwhelming statistical probability that many of these, indeed, given the numbers involved, millions of them, are suitable for life as we know it, and that, further, given th...
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13 218 It is difficult to make judicious assessments, as you might suppose, given the brief amount of time at his disposal, time enough for little more than a glimpse, given the distance, the swiftness of the flight, the press of pursuit, and such.
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23 43 The position accentuates the breasts and, given the position of the hands, is provocatively emblematic; I think that even a male of Earth, one who, if there are any such, had never given a thought to the possibility of female slavery, or even of a particular woman, stripped, and bound hand and foot,...
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25 63 "Oh, please, masters, let me out!" Selius Arconious, she recalled, had suggested that she be confined "straitly," and the scribe, to whom he had given some fifteen tarsk-bits, buying her blows, had found this not only agreeable, but, given his earlier rancor, eminently fitting.
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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75 47 For example, given the "kill" command the sleen will locate and destroy the quarry, given a "drive" command, it will conduct the quarry to a predetermined location, or, if the quarry should prove recalcitrant, tear it to pieces.
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Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 621 It is interesting, I thought, what may be the effect of will, and a given leader, on a course of events, how such things, will and a given leader, as though by magic, can generate storms, can shake the earth, may turn even urts into larls, jards to tarns.
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22 694 Too, they dared to look at my legs and ankles! How could they help themselves? You have them bared, you brute! Then we were knelt and we must still cling to the rope! Ahn later our waists were encircled, and we were permitted to recline! Only then we were given gruel and water! I was the last to be ...
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38 294 I had given him, perhaps unwisely, given his treachery and crime, an opportunity for escape and freedom, an opportunity which, as it turned out, he had been unable to turn to his advantage.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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15 26 Thus our sea road might be cut in a direction which seemed hopeless on a given day, given the tentacles of the garden, but, given the movements of the sea, might beckon on the next.
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21 191 It was my impression, given the increasing restlessness of the men, which might approach the level of danger, given the excitements of the sight of land, that they thought it might be unwise, unless clearly called for, to order a clearing of the deck.
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26 95 Happily, I learned, Saru, the slave given by Lord Nishida to Lord Temmu, and the ten slaves given by Lord Okimoto to Lord Temmu, were more patiently and gently treated.
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37 1546 It seemed she had hoped to be given a beautiful name, and had long hoped that a particular name, one which much appealed to her, would be given to her.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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13 33 I must have passed given stalls and vendors, given shops, an indefinite number of times.
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20 34 This has to do, doubtless, with a great many things, but, one supposes, it has to do, given its pervasiveness, with nature, nature given the institutional enhancements of civilization.
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20 50 He had not ignored me, so hurting me, as he had when I was under the sentence of the mute slave, but, too, he had given me no more attention than he would have given Jane, or Eve.
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35 66 Given the limited numbers of Kurii on Gor at this time, they will begin by forging alliances with dissident elements in given cities, the resentful, envious, and jealous, those of thwarted ambition, and such, for there are always such, to bring them to power in their own cities, and then it will be ...
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Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

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2 15 They recognized that they had been placed in a given position, and realized they had not been given permission to alter that position.
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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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14 268 The chances of encountering a single slave at a given time at a given point would be minimal, at best.
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15 172 I thought 'Relia', which name had been given to her just before mine had been given to me, was a nice name, and it was, of course, at least, a Gorean name.
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43 577 In any event, the name 'Laura' had been given to the barbarian, and it was the only name she had, a name given her at the pleasure of masters, a slave name.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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15 62 "Surely, given its shape it would lack the penetration of a blade," I said, "and, given its shape and weight, it would lack the distance and accuracy of an arrow".
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Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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53 14 Some are related to a plowed line, often attributed to a legendary figure; others might be determined, given the auspices, by a given number of hides that are cut into exceedingly narrow strips, these strips later being joined to form a cord, the cord then used to circumscribe a given area.
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37 120 I was pleased that I had not given away the location of my master's domicile, and was eluding any possible pursuit, but, in another way, I was frightened as I had been given no message to convey to my master, for it seemed clear, then, that Decius Albus, whose business Paula was discharging, was no ...
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 264 How appropriate it was that it should be on me, not only displaying my bondage so clearly, and indisputably, but, as I had been given to understand, given the number and legend, proclaiming, or making public, to whom or what I belonged! How right a collar seemed on my neck! How pleased I was! I love...
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34 77 I gathered then that there was little importance now attaching to the former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar, or, more likely, given Adraste's recent withdrawal from the tavern, that I had been given false information, and that Adraste's former identity was not that of a Lady Julia Leta, of Ar.
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45 68 How their life is changed! Will they be given permission to speak? Will they be given a rag to wear? Will they be fed? When they were free, did they ever anticipate that they would one day crawl to a master, a switch in their teeth? They soon learn, as we all do, to throw their legs apart at a snapp...
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