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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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11 46 "I want to see the market," Talena said eagerly, and I knew the market she meant.
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11 58 I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant.
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2 122 The Home Stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.
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4 79 I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.
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11 42 That night I took Talena into the City of Tents, and by the light of torches set on lances we walked arm in arm through the crowded streets, among the colorful tents and market stalls.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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8 26 Though it was apparently a market day, judging from the numerous stalls of vegetables, the racks of meat under awnings, the tubs of salted fish, the cloths and trinkets spread out on carpets before the seated, cross-legged merchants, there was none of the noisy clamor that customarily attends the Go...
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5 7 The actual word Ko-ro-ba itself, more prosaically, is simply an expression in archaic Gorean referring to a village market.
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8 31 But this market was not like other markets I had known on Gor.
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8 33 Even the bargaining that went on, for there are no fixed prices in a Gorean market, seemed dreary, grim, lacking the zest and rivalry of other markets I had seen, the glorious expletives and superlative insults traded between buyer and seller with such incomparable style and gusto.
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8 38 In this market, on the other hand, a steward would simply approach a vendor and point to some article, and hold up a certain number of fingers.
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21 206 An ordinary girl, of low caste, comely but untrained, might, depending on the market, sell for as little as five or as many as thirty tarn disks.
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26 40 On market day I saw a peasant, his sack of Sa-Tarna meal on his back, whose sandals were tied with silver straps.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 75 The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ...
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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10 297 The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing...
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10 299 They are a kind of combination paga tavern and slave market.
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21 53 The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me.
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21 81 I glanced behind me to see that the girl who carried the market basket had inadvertently fallen in front of the warriors.
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21 108 She carried a broken market basket.
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Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 41 Those who play the game for money have a hard lot, for the market is a buyer's market, and commonly men will play with them only on terms much to their satisfaction.
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19 57 Most were doubtless on their way to the ticket booths, for there is a small charge to enter the Curulean; the fee, though minimal, helps to defray the expenses of the market, most of which are met by commissions on sales transacted on its premises; the fee also tends to some extent, but I suspect no...
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1 4 It is an old word in Gorean, Ko-ro-ba, meaning a village market, though few considered its archaic meaning.
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2 14 A woman carrying a market basket moved to one side, watching him, that she might not touch him, holding a child to her.
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9 13 Slavers are angry, incidentally, when a city does fall, for then the market is likely to be depressed for months, due to the influx of new slaves, sometimes numbered in the thousands.
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15 150 I knew that Cernus intended to market Elizabeth, and the two other girls, on that feast.
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17 195 While the men of Cernus did their work in the paga taverns, and on the streets and in the market squares, and on the ramps and in the tiers of the games and races, the gold of Cernus, and the steel of Cernus, was apparently plied elsewhere.
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17 427 "Tonight I am to be sent to the Waiting Cells, where girls are kept who will be sent to the market tomorrow".
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19 5 Many were the furious Gorean slave girls who found themselves, early in the Love Feast, forced to ascend the block while buyers were still waiting, before the larger quantities of gold would be spent, to be sold for prices less than they might otherwise have won for themselves under the conditions o...
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19 73 We passed tables on one side, and rooms where medical examinations could be held; there were also facilities for washing prisoners; here and there I saw the office of a market official; there were also rooms where I saw silks, cosmetics, vials of perfumes, chains and such.
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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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19 138 Prices of girls vary considerably with her caste, the supply of her general type and the trends of the market.
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19 142 An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.
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19 178 The crowd was taken aback, for such a wench would scarcely be presented on the meanest block of the smallest market in the city.
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19 198 "Barbarians are nothing!" The auctioneer conferred with a market official, who kept lists of lot numbers and confirmed the bids and final sale with the buyers or their agents at the side of the block.
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24 304 "It was clear months ago that Cernus would attempt to market the girls, among other barbarians, on the Love Feast in the Curulean".
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 83 The rence growers market their product either at the eastern or western end of the delta.
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10 278 I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free.
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13 48 "Put him in a market chain," said Lurius, "and sell him at the slaves' wharf".
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13 228 On the slaves' wharf I was, with little ceremony, added to the market chain.
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13 249 Unsteadily he went elsewhere, to examine others farther along the market chain.
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13 276 "Whatever the market will bear," he said.
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14 440 The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo...
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18 386 "I was taken slave at the age of seven in a raid," she said, "and Samos, at a market, bought me.
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Book 7. (17 results) Captive of Gor

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7 445 Many an angry young man of modest means returns, disappointed and frustrated, from the market, leading home on his tether the most that he can afford, an item of what he takes to be second-rate merchandise; but he discovers, perhaps after introducing her to the house, and tying her and giving her th...
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1 98 In the settlement of the estate my mother received most everything, but I did receive some three quarters of a million dollars, primarily in stocks and bonds, a fortune which fluctuated, and sometimes considerably, with the market, but one which was substantially sound.
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7 19 Two gold pieces is a high price for a raw girl, delivered in Laura, but if the same girl can be brought safely to a large market city, she will probably bring five or more, even if untrained.
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7 21 Beyond this, Targo had speculated that since no city had recently fallen, and the house of Cernus had been destroyed in Ar, one of the great slave houses, that the market would be high this spring.
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7 33 It is not always easy to bring a beautiful girl to the market at Ar, where the highest prices are traditionally paid.
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8 227 There is little market in simple Laura for the more exquisite goods of Gor.
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8 290 "Yes," said the guard, "but there is a good market for white silkers".
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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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8 388 Returning from the market they would call at the building, at which time I and my guard would go outside.
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8 566 I wondered if I could bargain shrewdly with his coins at the market, if he would like my cooking.
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9 476 But I hated men! I wondered what price my body would bring in a market.
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10 209 "But it is pleasant," he said, "to see Elinor Brinton put herself on the market".
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13 1127 Sometimes an auctioneer commands the girl to market herself, and woe to her if she does not obtain a good price.
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15 415 She would bring a high price on the market.
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15 580 "I am charged with the protection of my market value?" I asked, ironically.
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16 276 Without the reality of the whip how can she be a slave? Indifference on the part of the master is often a sign that she is soon to be led to the market.
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17 209 I was on my way to the market.
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Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 281 The early spring is the favored time, in order to have the girls partially trained and to market prior to the spring and summer festivals in many cities.
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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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3 25 I must seek Talena! Thurnock, at my command, had this morning sold the two panther girls, Tana and Ela, at the slave market.
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5 206 To my surprise, he led me to the wharf slave market.
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5 222 Clearly the market was now glutted.
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5 227 It was in this market that Thurnock had disposed of them.
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5 230 That is not uncommon in a cheap market.
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5 274 Such often bring their captures to a market late, after dark.
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5 337 When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest.
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6 951 "When in the slave market at Lydius," she challenged, "when you saw me chained at the bar, did you think then only of your plans, your purposes?" "No," I admitted.
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7 35 "When we reach Lydius again," I told Sheera, "I will dispose of you there, in the slave market".
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7 128 I would dispose of her in the slave market at Lydius.
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12 170 But that, of course, would be left to the lotteries of the market.
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15 315 It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city.
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16 322 Before the auctioneer closes his hand on a price for her, it will be clear to all in the market, including the woman, that her beauty is truly for sale, and fully.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 79 There are villages about, however, which use Kassau as their market and meeting place.
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2 268 He had not gone to the fields, nor to the fishing banks, nor to the market.
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9 104 In almost any market she would surely have drawn a high price.
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10 302 In the south, a girl is sometimes sent to the market clad only in her brand and collar; not infrequently, upon her return home, she begs her master for his touch.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 218 There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets.
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2 224 The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares.
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2 319 I turned from the market streets into a street of shops and stalls, the bazaar, which, in Tor, is most commonly reached through the market gate.
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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2 110 I followed them as they would be going to the market streets, near which was the bazaar.
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2 126 I continued down the sloping street, toward the bazaar and market.
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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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2 359 The wool market, as was to be expected, was now slow.
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7 508 "That enriches the market".
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9 167 "You have lost some money on these women, haven't you," I asked, "if you brand her before bringing her to the market".
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26 732 "As though I might be any girl, brought home from a market?" "Yes," I said.
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26 1107 Or what if, in time, your sense of vengeance for Klima is satisfied? I fear then that you might, if you wished, simply have me hooded and leashed, and led to the market, as any other girl".
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Book 11. (25 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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28 154 At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in...
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2 719 In a market, in the crowding and jostling, for instance, a girl may follow so closely she pressed against the back of his left shoulder.
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3 545 To meet this market various brands are developed and utilized.
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4 173 Few girls, for example, enjoy being sent nude to the market, to do shopping.
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5 147 It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market.
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5 836 It is a rare girl who, having tasted the mills or sul fields, does not beg her proprietor to be sold again on the open market, that she may attempt anew, and perhaps more successfully this time, to be pleasing to a man.
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7 131 "My ransom will be far higher than any price you could realize on me in a market".
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7 211 You will then be taken to the city of Ar and, from an unimportant block, in a cheap market, sold to the highest bidder".
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7 389 What had she then to look forward to but the degradation of the sales block, being exposed to men as a slave and being vended in a public market; being owned by a succession of hard masters, accustomed to the management of girls such as she; onerous work and strict discipline; and the continuous exp...
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7 1149 "You can be bought or sold in any market," he said, "for a handful of copper tarsks".
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8 299 Might I not bring a high price in a market? Too, I had little doubt that if I were so foolish as to attempt escape a second time I would be maimed, if not worse.
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9 1141 Surely I would be worth at least four or five copper tarsks in any market.
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13 25 This was not bad for an Earth girl in the current market.
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13 339 "It is not your fault," he said, "that the market is slow".
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13 378 He had exacted from the crowd the highest possible price in the given market before he revealed, unexpectedly and to her dismay, the delicious richness and vulnerability of the girl's exploitable latencies, they as much a part of her as her block measurements, and as much for sale.
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13 410 I would rather there had been only men in the market.
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17 23 "It is well known," said the tall man, the leader of the others, "that you deal in black-market slaves".
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24 105 In some cities, however, there is a slave praetor, who will make inquiries where the doings of slaves may be involved, and will be in charge of resolving squabbles, for example, in the market, assigning punishments for offenses, and so on, functions commonly thought beneath the attention of the civi...
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26 60 "Today," she said, "in the market, I saw a man beating a slave girl, tied to a ring.
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26 65 I had not accompanied her today to the market.
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27 359 How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ...
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27 447 He had made a profit on Slave Beads whom he had had, I understood, for less than one silver tarsk in the market, and had yet retained the good will of Thandar of Ti, a valued customer.
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28 149 Men are, commonly, still entering the market at that point.
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28 153 It was, as far as I knew, a normal night at the market.
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28 285 At the height of the center aisle, high, framed in the portal of the market hall, stood a warrior, in full panoply of war.
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Book 12. (26 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 237 She did not know that she was the sort of goods which, in a fair market, commands excellent prices.
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3 112 He turned toward the nearest market.
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3 149 I hoped the fellow from Torvaldsland would be able to buy a good piece of meat at the market.
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3 177 Certain positions and platforms at the fairs are usually reserved for the black slavers, where they may market their catches, beauties of all races.
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3 270 Before I left the fair I would inspect the major market, that beyond the smithies and chain shops, where the most numerous exhibition platforms were erected, near the great sales pavilion of blue and yellow silk, the colors of the slavers.
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3 381 I turned my steps toward the main market.
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3 435 Given the number of girls at the fair, and the fact that new ones are constantly being brought to the platforms, it is impractical to hope to market them all from the block.
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3 869 "This is a slave market," said the dark-haired girl, "and we are slaves".
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3 1246 There is something charged and exhilarating about a slave market, the color, the movement, the excitement of the crowds, the bidding, the intensity, the lovely women being sold.
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3 1298 I no longer wished to attend the market.
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4 537 The market had been slow, as I had thought it would be, and as I had hoped it would be, because of the game earlier between the Kaissa titans, Centius of Cos and Scormus of Ar.
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4 538 Indeed the market had been almost empty, save for the displayed wares and their merchants.
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4 545 I had had the lot for a silver tarsk, a function of the slowness of the market, a slowness which I had anticipated and on which I had been pleased to capitalize.
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7 181 I knew where, on the wharves, there was a slave market.
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7 199 I strode toward the market.
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8 75 "I suppose you would bring something in the neighborhood of a silver tarsk in the market," I said.
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9 228 Men come, and the young male is tied and taken to the market.
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9 229 If the young slave is a female she may or may not be sent to a market.
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15 401 'You will bring a good price in the market.
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15 493 She may always dread, if she wishes, that in the night men will come again for her, hooding her, and carrying her to a distant city, to be again put on the block of a steaming market, that once again her throat will be encircled by a steel collar and that she will kneel at the feet of a new master.
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15 506 Too, of course, if a relationship should weaken, or not prove enduringly satisfactory, the girl is simply put in cuffs and taken to a market.
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15 886 "On Gor there is a market for beautiful Earth girls.
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15 1129 "I think you would bring a good price in a market".
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21 386 If one is going to pay good money for a girl, if one were, say, to buy her in a slave emporium, or a street market, or off a sales block, one would want her to be hot, indeed, as it is said, "slave hot".
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23 386 "The market was slow," admitted Imnak.
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35 455 After she has served her purpose, there is always the collar, the market.
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Book 13. (38 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 409 "I would say about five copper tarsks, in a fourth-class market, perhaps even an item in a group sale.
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2 1 I Attend the Market of Vart The girl screamed, fighting the sales collar and the position chain.
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2 10 In a higher-class market girls are usually fed a cathartic a few hours before the sale, and forced to relieve themselves shortly before their sale, a kettle passed down the line.
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2 11 In the current market such niceties, especially in large sales, were seldom observed.
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2 177 Her secret, doubtless long hidden on Earth, that she had a deep, latent sexuality, had been ruthlessly and publicly exposed in a Gorean market.
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2 290 The tall black then turned and left the warehouse, which was the market of Vart.
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4 296 If she is not sold in five Ehn then take her to the public market shelves and chain her there, taking the best offer which equals or exceeds the cost of her branding".
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5 351 It then made sense that provisions would be made to retrieve her in a Port Kar market should she be taken and enslaved.
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5 364 "He usually handles no more than two or three hundred slaves in an open market".
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6 599 "If you want to sell them, bring them to the market of Kovu," called one of them, an ugly fellow, his right cheek disfigured by a long scar.
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7 1 The Market of Uchafu There are many fine slave markets in Schendi, in particular, those of Ushanga, Mkufu, Utajiri, Dhähabu, Fedha, Marashi, Hariri, Kovu, and Ngoma.
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7 2 The market of Uchafu, on the other hand, is not numbered among these.
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7 21 It was muddy in the market, for it had rained yesterday afternoon and evening, after our arrival in Schendi.
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7 24 Uchafu's market was back of the merchant wharves, nearer the harbor mouth.
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7 26 It is adjacent, on the south, to a large market where river fish are peddled for consumption in Schendi.
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7 27 These are brought literally through the harbor by canoes, moving among the larger ships, from the fishing villages of the Nyoka and then delivered via the canal to the market.
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7 29 The official name of the canal is the Tangawizi canal, or Ginger canal, but it is generally called, because of the market, the Fish canal.
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7 32 There were only, by my conjecture, at the time I was in the market of Uchafu, some two hundred and fifty girls there.
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7 60 Surely one would not search for a valuable girl in such a market.
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7 83 There were weeds and grass growing about the interior perimeter of the low board fence encircling the market.
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7 137 She was the only one blindfolded in the market.
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7 154 Uchafu, as it turned out, had not taken a direct route to his market.
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7 191 He had put the price a bit high for this girl and this market.
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7 193 I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks.
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7 216 I then left his market.
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8 12 I had observed her sale by means of a glass of the builders, from a roof top near Uchafu's market.
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8 24 She had never seen, I knew, Uchafu's market and she did not know where she was being driven.
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8 31 Uchafu's collar had been removed from her in the market and another collar had been snapped on her throat.
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11 245 "I do not even know in what market I was sold".
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12 133 You appeared at the market of Uchafu.
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12 134 You trailed Msaliti from the market.
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14 393 I did not know such women could exist, until I saw several in Cos, when I was free, and some on the wharves of Port Kar and Schendi, after I myself, sold in a market, became a slave".
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18 92 He would be hung, a hook through his tongue, in a market.
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27 183 I awakened, perhaps days later, chained in a Gorean market".
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34 819 I once saw a girl in her chains dragged from the very market block and raped in the aisle for no other reason, apparently, than that the auctioneer had mentioned that her name was Helen.
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34 963 "You have a market value, however minimal.
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43 78 Also, of course, he may wish to form a conjecture as to its market value or the amount of pleasure he will force it to yield to him.
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57 188 Until that time let her be put out again and again on the market.
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Book 14. (37 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 814 I then considered how she might look in a market.
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2 238 "She is to be shipped to another world, one called Gor," he said, "where she will be branded as what she is, a slave, and then sold on the open market for whatever she will bring".
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2 369 "I think I know a little market where you might be of interest".
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5 1 I am Taught to Pour Wine; I am Punished; I Hear of the Market of Tima "Pour, Jason," said the Lady Gina.
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5 209 "Tomorrow you are to be appraised by woman slavers from the market of Tima".
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5 210 "The market of Tima?" "Yes".
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5 211 "What is the market of Tima?" I asked.
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8 94 "Deliver him to the market of Tima," I heard the Lady Gina say.
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9 1 I am Goods Bound for the Market of Tima "Smell a slave girl, Master!" taunted the slave.
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9 2 The slave box in which I was being transported to the market of Tima had been placed on the stones near a trough at which the carrying slaves, now chained, were being watered.
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9 32 They had market baskets on their arms.
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9 36 "For what market are you bound?" asked the other woman.
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9 37 "The market of Tima," I said.
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9 44 "The market of Tima is famous for her tamed slaves".
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9 84 "He is bound for the market of Tima.
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9 100 They turned away, their market baskets on their arms.
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9 110 I saw market stalls and heard the cries of vendors hawking their goods.
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9 120 "Make way for goods bound for the market of Tima!".
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11 677 "I think I know a little market where you might be of interest," he had said.
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11 683 "Welcome to the market of Tima," she said.
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12 1 The Market of Tima "I have a bid of four tarsks!" called the girl in the white gown, it concealing the shameful Ta-Teera she had worn while pretending to be an Earth-girl slave.
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12 377 There are always market variables, and buyer and slave variables.
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13 335 I did not wish to risk crawling on my stomach, over stones, under whips, perhaps for pasangs, to the nearest slave market.
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13 550 Such information, of course, would be publicly brandished to buyers in a slave market.
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13 567 I was sold from the market of Tima.
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16 9 For example, one who is of the metal workers might not be permitted to work iron, but might be permitted to do such things as paint iron, and transport and market it.
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16 224 If your companion bought you, naked and collared, in a market, he would doubtless prize you highly".
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19 83 "I am to be taken to the market.
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19 93 She would then be hooded and bound, and placed in the wagon for transport to the market.
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19 330 The girls know that there is always a market for their hair.
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19 363 In the wagon, hooded, head down, tied on her knees, bound hand and foot, her shoulders shaking, was Telitsia, an animal bound for the market.
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23 176 "Very well," said the mistress, "when she is placed naked on a block and sold to the highest bidder let it be in a market which sells pleasure slaves".
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24 9 Taphris, naked, and chained in a slave sack, was now on her way to a market in Vonda.
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30 50 "Am I not to be led to the market on a strap, like a tethered she-tarsk?" "I shall use the leash after dark," I told her.
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32 215 "It is common to take a girl to and from a market on a leash," I said.
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34 164 Their values, of course, as that of other domestic animals, tend to fluctuate with market conditions.
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34 274 "She who came in chains from some market in Vonda?" asked another.
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Book 15. (31 results) Rogue of Gor

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10 317 "If you had been worth a silver tarsk in a Gorean market," I told her, "you would have brought a silver tarsk in a Gorean market".
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1 344 Who wants to be served by a stupid slave? Many a girl in a Gorean market, accustomed to, and resigned to, the values of Earth, a world seemingly so enamored of simpler women, is surprised to find herself sooner brought helplessly to the chains of a master, sooner put to her knees, sooner subjected t...
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1 366 Lastly one might note, though one supposes this is of no interest to the slaver, who will have his eye on the market value of the girl, they seem to have a need for, and a capacity for, love.
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2 64 "Your market and goods?" I asked.
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2 65 "The market was burned," she said, "and the goods and slaves taken".
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2 91 "You had an assistant," I said, "a superb actress, who, pretending to be a mere Earth-girl slave, even to the collar and Ta-Teera, well prepared me for my sale in your market".
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4 477 Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their cumbersome robes and veils, that they are ...
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6 124 Indeed, I had little doubt but what I might find Miss Henderson, if I could but find in what market, or markets, Kliomenes would see fit to dispose of his most recent prizes.
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6 149 "It is little more than a market and slave town".
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6 150 "There is an important slave market there?" I asked.
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7 181 "Good hunting in the slave market!" called the man after me.
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8 3 I did not know how much a slave might go for in the market of Lysander, but I wished to have enough to be confident that I could bid realistically and effectively on one item of merchandise, should it be offered to the public.
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8 7 I might have taken more time and enticed more challengers to face me but I wished to be at the market of Lysander when the biddings began.
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9 70 In this market, to her indignation, she had gone for only fourteen copper tarsks.
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10 457 You must buy me clothing and go to the market.
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10 467 It had not looked bad in the shackle at the market.
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12 31 "Did you bring the suls from the market?" she asked.
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12 39 "You brought nothing from the market," she said.
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13 26 You could go to the market.
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13 45 "I heard people in the market speaking of it".
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13 156 "Take me to the market, and sell me," she said.
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14 63 On the way home I stopped in the market to buy a few things, some articles for which I thought I might find a use.
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16 28 "The market was on what wharf?" I asked.
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16 30 "The market was on what wharf?" I asked.
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16 32 "The market was on what wharf?" I asked.
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16 53 "You will never find her!" "When did you take her to the market?" I asked.
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18 75 "Those in your situation before," said the leader of the guardsmen, "stripped such women and took them, bound, to the market, where they sold them".
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21 153 What true man, in his vitality, does not want a beautiful woman as a slave? Two major differences between the men of Earth and the men of Gor are, first, that the men of Gor are perfectly straightforward and open about this and, secondly, that such women may normally be purchased at a modest price i...
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21 203 It is, of course, a market wall.
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24 424 I think they did not wish, for some reason, to sell too many Earth girls in a given market.
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31 54 When, in my dreams I would encounter a slave girl, perhaps suddenly turning to greet me; perhaps in a market, imploring me to buy her; perhaps on a rounded slave block, I with a purse of gold in hand, having ready the means with which to buy her; perhaps an escaped slave, pilfering in my compartment...
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Book 16. (27 results) Guardsman of Gor

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19 1016 A girl who is sold in a prestige market and, in the afternoon before her sale, placed with other lovely inmates within the chromed, ornate bars of an exhibition cage, has moved and posed upon the instructions of prospective bidders, is almost certain to bring a higher price than another girl, who by...
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8 63 To be sure, much depends on the market.
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8 82 I saw that she would indeed bring a high price in a slave market.
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8 471 That was indisputable, the master, the market, decides the worth of the slave.
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9 231 I would lie alone, twisting in the darkness, while he reveled elsewhere, contenting himself, in the lascivious embraces of obedient slaves, painted, bangled girls, such as might be purchased in any slut market.
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17 23 What free woman would dare to walk upon such a street, particularly at night? Her throat might suddenly feel the capture loop of a slaver and, by morning, branded, gag-hooded and chained, she might be fifty pasangs downriver, on her way to a market in Ven or Turmus.
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18 426 When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master.
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19 417 The pressures of the market itself brings the softest, the most feminine, the most desirable, the most beautiful of women to the slave block.
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19 421 When he leads his chain to market he wants it to be a chain of beauties.
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19 1012 "I do not know my current market value".
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19 1013 I, too, did not know her current market value.
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19 1015 They are subject to considerable variance, being functions of many factors, such as the girl herself, her intelligence, and training and beauty, the money in the economy, the conditions of supply and demand, and even the market in which she is sold and the time of year that she is put upon the block...
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19 1022 "The market is flooded now," I said, "with slaves".
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19 1080 There did not seem much point, at least at the moment, in sending her to a market.
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19 1085 It might well take months for the market to readjust to a condition of normality.
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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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20 614 What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust between cities, to a...
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20 770 "How could I take to my bed in honor one who had dared to confess her slave needs? Such girls I could buy at the market.
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20 777 "I did not wish to languish, scorned and neglected, in a cold bed, while you contented yourself with market girls.
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20 1008 On their way to the market they may, if they wish, reflect upon what they, at that time, are likely to regard as their folly.
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20 1586 It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not f...
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20 1837 What audacity she had to express her love, that of a mere slave, for a free man! Surely he should bracelet her small wrists behind her back, and hood her, and leash her, and then lead her hastily, angrily, to the nearest market.
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20 1839 She is only a slave! How insulting, to suggest that he, a free man, might care for a mere slave! He can buy a dozen like her in the market! But perhaps he accepts her as his love slave, and she, to her joy, realizes he is now her love master.
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20 1955 She could be disposed of in a market, and must expect such if she were less than fully pleasing, as easily as any other slave.
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20 2038 "In a market," I said, "you would not be sold in the chain".
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21 80 "You could have taken me to the market and sold me.
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21 196 If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market.
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Book 17. (23 results) Savages of Gor

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1 623 A trained sleen in a sleen market will usually bring a higher price than even a beautiful girl sold naked in a slave market.
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8 8 To be sure, there is, it seems, from market to market, and from city to city, an almost infinite variety of ways in which women may be, and are, displayed and sold.
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1 349 Now, however, instead of finding herself the slave of one of her allies, or being simply disposed of in a slave market, she found herself the slave of one of her former enemies.
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2 120 "We are passing a market," said Samos.
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2 130 The only fully floating market authorized by the Council of Captains occurs in a lakelike area near the arsenal.
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2 135 The market forms itself about the monument.
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2 156 "We are passing another market," I said.
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2 198 We were now passing an open slave market.
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2 200 One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no...
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3 100 "Perhaps you have warned her that if she does not belly to the first man in the market she is to be whipped," I smiled.
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3 112 A girl in a market knows she is to be sold.
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4 117 They are not good for the market".
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4 138 Earth girls, brought to Gor after years of sexual starvation on Earth, finding themselves suddenly subjected to total masculine domination, finding themselves absolute slaves, even to the market and the whip, the brand and the collar, the touch of an insolent master, finding themselves given no choi...
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4 139 "Still," said the young man, "they are not good for the market".
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6 123 I had come to Seibar's market out of curiosity.
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8 134 "Strip her!" "But I hasten to assure you," continued the slaver's man, giving no heed to the fellow's enthusiastic contribution, "that the market will remain open for yet another Ahn following this auction.
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8 368 These girls, at any rate, understood something of the nature of a Gorean market.
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8 864 I had not found this sort of thing before in a Gorean market.
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8 872 Permit me to remind you all that the market is not yet closed.
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8 1051 "She would bring a high price," I said, "in almost any market with which I am familiar".
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13 322 "I wished to avoid the imminent and obvious fate of the debutante," she said, "to be bartered for position and power on the marriage market".
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13 1097 They had also informed them that, in many towns, such an animal might, in a market, bring a higher price than they themselves.
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17 150 "In a common Gorean market you would bring a good price for a medium-grade slave girl.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 91 She comes to understand herself as, in Gorean eyes, no more than an animal obtained from afar and brought to a market.
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14 192 It would be difficult, in a slave market, even to give away such women.
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33 270 It was little wonder that even free women sometimes secretly affixed collars on their own necks and examined themselves in mirrors, perhaps speculating on what prices they might bring in a market or on how well one such as they might please a master, before hastening to remove them and, weeping, cas...
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37 260 It might also be mentioned, however, that there is a market for handsome male slaves which caters to rich free women, and, to a lesser extent, to rich free men.
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39 108 "And in the cities," she said, "it is so beautiful, the towers, the bridges and sunsets, the people, the flower stalls, the market places, the smells of cooking".
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39 132 Sometimes a girl is captured in her own bed, raped and hooded, and carried to a market, all in the same night.
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44 687 He viewed her as candidly as a tarsk or kaiila, or as less, as a stripped price girl in a village market beyond the Barrens, as a thonged, bared captive in a warrior's slave camp, as a marked slave in one of the high cities, in a exposition cage, naked save for a sales collar.
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Book 19. (35 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 146 One must always be a bit suspicious of the putatively rare and valuable coin which seems to appear inexplicably, with no certifiable background, on the market, particularly if it lacks the backing of an established house".
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4 40 Such a mistake could necessitate a shearing and a lowering of the market value of a girl for months.
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4 114 "It was only an open-air market," he said, "a small one.
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4 116 "A market!" I said.
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4 391 I forced from my mind, angrily, the memory of the women in the market, naked, chained in place, awaiting the interest of buyers.
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4 515 I forced from my mind the memory of the slaves I had seen earlier, the girls in the street, in their one-piece, skimpy garments, heads down, kneeling, chained together by the neck, the girls in the market, in their chains, stark naked, kneeling, too, their heads down to the warm cement, being public...
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4 658 I did not think that a man would think twice about it, for example, if he found her in a slave market.
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5 177 It is, I think, about what she would bring in a slave market".
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5 236 "Do you think," I asked, lightly, "that I might bring a silver tarsk in a slave market?" "It would be difficult to say, without assessing Lady Sheila naked," he said.
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5 241 "But, from what you know of me," I said, "do you think that I might bring a silver tarsk?" "As a Tatrix," he asked, "or only as another woman in the market, another mere female, up for vending, one about whom there is nothing politically or socially special, one who, like most others, will be priced...
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6 222 Generally I had been able to see little or nothing, usually only the narrow, gloomy doors, often of iron, of grim, almost fortresslike buildings, but, sometimes, there would be an open-air market or some girls, as displays, would be chained outside.
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6 239 "That way the goods will not be so bruised when they come to the market".
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6 241 If I were such a girl I would not wish to be brought bruised to the market.
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6 310 It was quite commonly the case, I had learned, that for a concert by Lysander one could not buy admission at the gate, but must present ostraka purchased earlier in one of the market places or squares.
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6 322 It is too easy to snatch them from about the neck in the market place.
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6 463 Too, Miles of Argentum had speculated that I might bring as much as even a silver tarsk in a market.
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11 103 Girls like you, on the other hand, can be found in any market.
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14 123 The fees for their use are not contractually controlled, as are those of the regular camp slaves, but the fees of the camp slaves, of course, being fixed and almost nominal, tend to exert a considerable, informal influence on the market; they set competitive standards, ensure realistic pricings and ...
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17 5 The street was apparently an important one in Venna, and led down to a market square.
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17 6 My platform was on the left side of the street, looking down toward the square, and at the forward corner, nearest the street, of a public slave market, some fifty feet in length, along the street, and some fifty feet in depth.
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17 100 "Please, kind lady!" The woman, who had been keeping her eyes straight ahead, as though not wishing to see any of the girls in the market, suddenly, angrily, stopped.
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18 252 I followed Speusippus of Turia through the streets of Venna, even through the great market square.
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26 347 Had you bought them in an open market they doubtless would have cost you more".
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26 360 "You can buy in the market".
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27 174 Indeed, I think there is not one of you would not bring a silver tarsk on the open market".
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30 89 I stood at the northwestern corner of the Teiban Sul Market, at the intersection of Teiban and Clive.
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30 102 As Clive borders the Teiban Market on the north, so Venaticus borders it on the south.
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31 229 I recalled that he had conjectured in the great hall, much to the fury of many of my retainers, that that might be about my value in a slave market.
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32 156 In a slave market we might have been sold as a matched set.
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32 291 The conditions would be almost as favorable as those of a slave market.
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36 645 The Gorean responds to beauty, even in small things, like the carving on the handle of a spoon, the weaving on a market basket, the clasp on a cloak, and that is perhaps why he surrounds himself with it.
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36 654 There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a...
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36 691 The secret, however, which seems to elude many free women, though perhaps they suspect the truth, to their fury, is that preferred slaves, or favored slaves, though no more than owned animals, perhaps purchased in a market, as might be goods of any sort, do sometimes share the surface of the couch.
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36 885 It is usually, I understand, a buyer's market.
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36 1631 "In a normal market, under normal conditions, of course".
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Book 20. (25 results) Players of Gor

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1 546 Such women constitute marvelous bargains in a slave market.
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1 699 Commonly the market they are sold in is one in a city enemy to their own.
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2 929 There is a market for hair, incidentally, for wigs, falls, and such.
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3 251 She would bring a high price in a slave market.
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5 77 She would doubtless, as I had earlier thought, bring a high price in a slave market.
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5 95 There was no doubt about that slave-market price.
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6 93 An unveiled woman, for example, may find other women turning away from her in a market, perhaps with expressions of disgust.
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6 94 Indeed, she may not even be waited upon, or dealt with, in a market by a free woman unless she first kneels.
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6 490 Women are sometimes tied in this posture in a slave market.
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6 721 "No! No!" "And if you return to your village I think you will find little waiting for you there but a rope collar and a trip in a sack to the nearest market".
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6 1091 "If that were all one wished," said Boots, "one could go to the nearest market, to see girls naked in their chains".
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6 1097 In a rich house the girl pit may be of metal and smooth-sided; in a country market it may be little more than a hole, and have for its railing, if it has a railing, only a rope strung about it on sticks.
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6 1115 One wishes to bring it to the camp or market in prime condition.
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6 1234 This does not mean, of course, that they may not be sent to the market, and given coins for errands, and such.
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7 135 His reasonableness in this matter, I suspect, was due at least in part to the slowness of the market.
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7 136 Indeed, some of the girls in the market, I suspected, would go for as little as that same ten copper tarsks.
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7 157 It is unusual, incidentally, for a woman to be tagged in a regular market, except in so far as she might be marked "Sold" or have a "Hold" put on her.
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7 158 It is not hard in a Gorean market, for example, where the women are usually stripped, or will be stripped for the buyer's inspection, to see who is most beautiful or interesting.
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7 159 Too, of course, women in such a market can be literally made to display their beauty and pose and perform in various ways for the viewers.
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7 214 It was a good price, and it was a particularly good one for a slow market.
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7 216 "Are you pleased with your buy?" I asked Boots later, when we were leaving the market, the girl following behind us, heeling us, her wrists tied behind her back with a string.
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9 364 I had little doubt but what she would bring a fine price in a slave market.
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13 116 "Many times Belnar has even considered making short work of her, having done with it, simply branding her and putting her on the open market".
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16 415 The movements, of course, were not, nor were they intended to be, those of an actually displayed slave in such a predicament, say, in a market or capture camp, being commanded, say, to "move" before men, the adagio movements, the sudden movements, the melodious movements, the incredibly sensuous mov...
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16 759 It is time to herd these pretty little she-tarsks to market".
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Book 21. (19 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 255 Then, when I wished, I could give her away, or dispose of her in some market.
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2 134 I had had it put on her two days after leaving the vicinity of Samnium, at the town of Market of Semris, well known for its sales of tarsks.
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5 129 After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and tr...
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6 35 I pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals.
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16 238 I have often wondered if he might not have cared more for me if he could have found me in a market, and picked me out of his own volition, perhaps to satisfy his own desire, at least for a time.
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16 1194 I supposed if Hurtha had encountered Boabissia under somewhat different circumstances his relationship to her would have been considerably different, for example, if he had bought her in a slave market.
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18 181 "They are probably on their way to a market, somewhere," I said.
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21 6 "We need no more of you refugees here," snapped a woman, a seller of suls at the Teiban Market.
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23 68 He was the fellow I had spoken to in the Teiban Market.
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24 87 They can be taken anywhere, anytime, and as one pleases, in a garden, on a bench, against a wall, in a doorway, on a carpet, across coils of rope, over a saddle, cast upon bales of produce, beside a highway, in the gravel or mud, on a street, on a polished hardwood floor, on the tiles of a plaza, in...
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24 487 "The market is depressed," he said.
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25 337 And if the auction does not turn out well, because of foul weather, poor timing, considerable competition, market conditions, or such, one could be ruined.
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25 356 For example, many women on Earth who are implicitly taught by their culture, for example, through pictures and accounts, that they do not fulfill culturally approved stereotypes of feminine desirability and beauty, might discover, presumably to their horror, that they would bring a high price in a G...
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25 372 It is sometimes amusing to Goreans when an Earth girl shows up in a Gorean slave market, insisting that her name is such and such, a name taken on Gor to be a slave name.
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25 570 They were such as men might pay for in a slave market.
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25 1641 This was one of the major wines, and perhaps the best, served in Ar's public slave gardens; indeed, it had originally been commissioned for that market; hence the name.
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26 1403 On the other hand, perhaps you would be simply shipped out of the city to a distant market, there to be put on the block for your first sale".
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26 1889 "Something, surely, would have to be done with her, even if she were sold for a tarsk bit, as a kettle-and-mat girl, or a pot girl, or laundress, out of a cage in a public market".
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27 153 "You have very unrealistic concept of the market," he said.
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Book 22. (56 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 270 He could have bought me at the house, at a discount, if he had wanted me, not waiting, not following me for great distances, not almost certainly paying more in an open market, not risking losing me to a higher bidder in a place such as Market of Semris.
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11 716 Teibar had done it on Earth, in the library; it had been done in the house of my training, shortly after I had arrived there; it had been done outside Brundisium, by the wholesaler there, and in Market of Semris twice, once when I had arrived there, by the men of Teibar of Market of Semris, and once...
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1 154 I wept then, again, wondering if perhaps I had not been born elsewhere, perhaps time and time again, in other times, if I had not lived in Egypt or Sumer, or Chaldea, in rocky Hellas, or verdant Sybaris or bustling Miletus, if I had not been kept in the great palace in Persepolis, if I might not hav...
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5 286 He had "gathered" me, as he might have put it, so simple and unpretentious a verb, suggesting the casualness of his efforts, at a certain time of year pertinent to his own world, at a time when I would have enough time to be delivered here, trained, at least to some extent, and then, at an optimum m...
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6 530 Our value, even if we were desirable and beautiful, on the other hand, would be finite, a function quite simply of fluctuations in the market, and what men were willing to pay for us.
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7 3 "It will depend on the conditions of the market," said another.
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7 33 These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and other...
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8 5 We were not in Samnium, but in Market of Semris.
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8 7 It is best known, interestingly enough, ironically enough, as an important livestock market.
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8 12 "It is Market of Semris".
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8 64 During the morning and afternoon of the day before, when we had first arrived in Market of Semris, after we were caged, other wagons had arrived, and unloaded their own fair occupants, they, too, in short order, to be caged.
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8 210 I had learned that this place was an appurtenance of the house of Teibar, who was a well-known slaver in Market of Semris.
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8 212 This particular complex was, it seemed, one of the best-known areas in Market of Semris for the sales of tarsks.
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8 350 * * * * I sat, waiting, on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised a foot or so above the dirt floor of the exposition area, it located in the annex to Teibar's sales barn, he of Market of Semris, a dealer in tarsks, as they said, four-legged and two-legged.
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9 14 It was Teibar, he of Market of Semris.
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10 151 This was the first time I had been in his presence, to my knowledge, since my sale in Market of Semris.
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10 161 He had stopped at Market of Semris on his way back to Brundisium, boarding his girls overnight at the house of Teibar.
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10 180 The man who owned me might indeed be, as I had first perceived him, in Market of Semris, he free, looking up at the slave block where I, a naked slave, displayed in high manacles, was being vended, too corpulent, too broad of girth, too gross, too scarred, too loathsome, too hideous, but now that I ...
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10 276 Ironically, it had been I, purchased in Market of Semris, a barbarian, who had been brought back to Brundisium.
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10 293 We were not fed by the house of Teibar, of Market of Semris, that morning, as we were no longer its responsibility.
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10 403 You are curious to know what you might bring in an open market".
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10 411 Too, thousands of females from Torcadino alone, over the recent months, in virtue of one coup or another, have been put into the market.
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10 414 Crowding, and the influx of refugees, too, in such cities as Ar, refugees who are often beautiful and defenseless, and easily taken, have contributed to the depression of the market".
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10 448 "I think," he said, "in that market, that night, even if you had not been a virgin, you would have brought more than your friends.
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10 468 "Are you pleased," he asked, "aside from questions of the price I paid for you, or my reasons for it, to learn that you are valuable, that you might well bring a price in the neighborhood of two silver tarsks in an open market?" I did not know, precisely, how to respond to this question.
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10 482 One fellow had bid that much! Too, perhaps most importantly, most significantly, no other girl had sold for so much that night as I! I had brought the highest price in the whole market that night! This astonished and delighted me.
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10 483 To be sure, it was doubtless an isolated market, and we were probably all only semitrained girls, or less, girls being sold that night as little more than "slave meat," as my master had put it, so frightening me.
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10 484 But still, even as "slave meat," it was I who had brought the highest price! I wished Teibar could have known that, that his catch from the library on Earth had brought the highest price in the market, and on her first sale, too! But I supposed that he, the monster, the beast, would have merely cong...
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10 708 Even to strangers he would bring a hundred times what you would bring in the market".
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10 848 I recalled that he had paid the highest price for me of any girl at the market.
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11 694 I knelt as I had been taught, and as the sort of slave I was, the sort of slave I had first learned I was in Market of Semris, a pleasure slave.
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11 934 Yes, I thought to myself, what are you doing, Doreen? What has gotten into you? Why are you doing this? Why is your belly so alive? Why are you so excited? Why is your body so hot? Why is it moving like this? You are dancing more like a purchasable slut, a common girl from a market, a girl who has b...
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13 297 I had had to do this in Market of Semris.
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13 616 "I beg it!" "Since first I saw you, when I had unroped the shipping blanket, and put its folds to the sides, revealing you, helplessly manacled, when you first came to the house from Market of Semris," he said, "I dreamed that you would one day be so hot and needful before me, and would beg me for m...
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17 1 The Square of Market of Semris "Come along," he said.
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17 66 We were in the streets of Market of Semris.
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17 99 Market of Semris is not a large town, and it is mostly famed, as I have earlier noted, for its markets for tarsks, "four-legged" and "two-legged," as it is said, but like most Gorean towns, its square, even as small as it was, was a matter of civic pride.
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17 144 "Interestingly," said my master, "this monument celebrates a victory in which Market of Semris was only indirectly involved.
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17 149 It is here because, at the time of that war, Market of Semris had been of great service to Ti as a supply ally".
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17 199 I wondered if the general would have had the Tatrix sold in a cheap market or if he would have kept her for himself, perhaps as the least of his own slaves.
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17 255 But, also today I was charged with seeing the square, the buildings, and the people of Market of Semris.
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17 257 Market of Semris might have been a town in Hellas or Latium.
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17 334 "I have come to Market of Semris looking for a certain type of slave.
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20 164 He told the story there, and put the stone in the market place.
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20 200 Whereas they welcome currently lower prices on produce and greater assurances of its variety and quantities, they also tend to regret the withdrawal or loss of the local peasantry, which provided them not only with a plethora of individual suppliers, tending to generate a free market, complex and co...
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20 252 Also, I supposed, later on, after he had some more use out of me, he would sell me off in some market or another.
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20 257 A girl's first sale, at least her first public one, as mine was at Market of Semris, when she is exposed on a block naked to buyers, and such, is probably the hardest for her.
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20 260 I wanted to be beautiful, to please men, and to bring the highest price in the market.
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22 31 "My first public sale took place in Market of Semris," I said, "at the sales barn of Teibar, of that town.
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22 35 It was from him, in Market of Semris, that I was purchased by you, my master".
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22 76 I felt that my intelligence was small compared to that of most Gorean males, but I did not feel intellectually inferior, at least generally, to the women I had met on Gor, either girls from Earth, such as Gloria and Clarissa, who had been with me at Market of Semris, or those native to Gor, women su...
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24 79 Perhaps much depends on the individual man, and how much we interest him? Perhaps I had been sold before the agent had come to the market? Too, my former master, Gordon, had paid fifty copper tarsks for me, and that was undoubtedly a great deal of money for him.
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29 309 "As you can imagine it would be difficult for them to enter a town, go to the market and purchase goods".
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32 164 "Yes," he said, "for months, from Market of Semris, to Brundisium, to Samnium, to Argentum, to Venna".
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34 225 "Such garments," he said, "though perhaps too indecent for the streets or market place a Gorean master might require of his slave in the privacy of his own quarters".
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34 754 And, of course, what was a slave worth? A few copper tarsks, or silver tarsks, in a market? Or everything to someone, perhaps everything in the world to someone? I looked at my master.
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Book 23. (21 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 522 Perhaps, if his plan worked, in such a case, he might then be kind enough to discard the individual beneath the wagon, ridding himself of it, its work accomplished, in some market or other.
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2 322 I thought she might bring as much as sixty copper tarsks in a market.
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2 367 "You would probably bring more than that in a slave market," I said.
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5 58 "You would probably bring a decent price in a market," I said.
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6 407 And what better recompense, particularly if she is desirable, and might bring a good price in a market, than to make her his own, to own her then, as a pig or dog might be owned.
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8 127 "And few masters, indeed, I assure you," I said, "even if so lenient as to let her venture to a market with a coin or two in her mouth, on a specific errand, would permit her to scamper about with a trove such as that which now seems to be in your keeping".
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8 776 Such, as I have mentioned, particularly in times of siege, though there is always a market for it on Gor, is highly prized for the making of catapult ropes.
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9 590 "I think," I said, "you might bring a fine price in a market".
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9 591 "A market?" she said.
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9 592 "A slave market," I said, "—one in which women are sold".
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10 9 As I have indicated there was an excellent current market for female hair.
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13 53 If that is the case, they might not depress the market as much as you feared".
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13 234 "If you had first met me in a slave market, I on a slave shelf or bench, chained there, a property, waiting to be purchased, would you have considered buying me?" "Certainly," I said.
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15 162 I saw that, indeed, she would bring a high price in a slave market.
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17 114 I have sometimes seen a man walk among combatants, threading his way here and there, almost as though among crowds in a market, no one bothering to challenge him or pay him the least attention.
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18 58 In actuality, of course, I surmised that many would be distributed to continental markets, if only to take a quicker profit on them and avoid deflating the market on the islands.
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21 706 I did not doubt but what she would bring a good price in a slave market.
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21 713 I think that any man might have been impressed with her, whether he found her as a free prisoner on the deck of the Tais or in some slave market, chained on a bench, awaiting a buyer.
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21 1134 I have seen more than one young woman chained in a slave market wearing the remains of such a costume, then considerably rent and apparently much shortened.
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21 1237 Indeed, Gorean free women of affluence, and sometimes even those with relatively modest means, might have, depending on the market conditions and the cheapness of the girls, one or more female serving slaves.
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24 131 I had given Ephialtes my permission, of course, to do much with the women as he wished, for example, renting them, trading them, selling them, reducing them to bondage, and so on, as the conditions of the market might seem to make most judicious.
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Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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2 154 It depends on other things, for example, on the market, and how much he has, and is willing to spend.
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19 308 Indeed, if she had been branded and collared, I did not think that anyone would have thought twice about seeing her under a sun trellis in an open market, on a warm day, chained by the ankle to a ring, displayed in a booth, or being herded upward, with a whip, to the surface of a sales block.
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21 94 Many different sorts of women bring high prices in the slave market.
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26 135 "Too, sometimes on an occasional shelf market".
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26 136 "You might see some good chain work on a shelf market," I said.
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26 191 Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values i...
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36 119 Also, of course, from the camp they could be transported to hundreds of destinations on the continent, for example, Market of Semris, Samnium, Besnit, Harfax, Ko-ro-ba, and elsewhere.
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39 100 What now would be done with her? Even though she had then been turned in effect into a pleasure slave, much as might be purchased in any market, he had, it seems, considered having her serve in his city as a mere house slave, or even, in spite of what she had now become, if it pleased him, denying h...
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44 219 She would not be likely, at this point, to draw more than a silver tarsk in the market".
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46 258 She could be lying somewhere now, trussed like a vulo in a market.
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47 86 A standard price in an average market under normal conditions would run from a few copper tarsks for a nice kettle-and-mat girl to one to five silver tarsks for an average pleasure slave.
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 367 "She is a delicacy," I said, "worth at least two silver tarsks, in any market".
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3 392 Her dance, thusly, was rather like the "Buy me, Master" behavior of a girl on a chain, the "slaver's necklace," or in a market, the sort of behavior in which she begs purchase.
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3 393 A girl on such a chain, or in a market, who is too much passed over has reason for alarm.
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3 731 Indeed, it is by means of such tiny indications, fillings in the teeth, and such, that a certain sort of girl, for which there is a market on Gor, is often recognized.
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8 448 This would, I suppose, depress the market for stone in various cities, perhaps even as far away as Venna.
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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3 391 "A market!" "A slave market, of course".
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4 173 "Beast!" "I told you, did I not, that I thought you would bring a good price—in a market, a slave market".
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5 164 But had he not assured her that he thought she would sell well, that she would bring a good price in market of the right sort, a slave market? "Do you have any objection," inquired Peisistratus, "to enlightening this stupid little vulo, this ignorant little tasta, as to what she is?" Cabot shrugged.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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12 125 Usually, she is just sold in a market, commonly a low market where her sale is not likely to attract much attention.
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Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 972 Was it, in spite of its appearance, a high market? Perhaps, I thought, for how could one such as I be sold in any but a high market? Surely I was much too beautiful to be sold in any but a high market.
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13 3 It was now late afternoon, and I was in the closest, sizable market to the domicile of Epicrates, the market of Cestias, in one corner of which was the Sul Market.
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15 359 Shortly after dawn the lantern on its pole at the edge of the market of Cestias would be extinguished, and, a bit later, the market pennon would be hoisted to the height of the pole, above the lantern arm, after which, at the praetor's signal, guardsmen would open the market.
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7 7 The Tarsk Market has its name, obviously enough, I suppose, because it is a general market for tarsks.
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8 61 Now, as I was being marched through streets I could not see, naked, back-braceleted, a bead fastened in this small slaver's necklace, the wind and sunlight on my bared body, I knew I was being taken, for the first time, to market, a market where I would not buy but be bought, as much as a verr, or a...
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8 1120 How was it that one of my beauty was in this market, such a market? I wondered how it was that a price, an actual, finite price, could be set on beauty such as mine.
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9 7 The Tarsk Market has its name, obviously enough, I suppose, because it is a general market for tarsks.
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14 11 "The market, the market of Cestias," I said.
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14 36 There were two market praetors in the market of Cestias.
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15 23 Why was I obeying the beast? Why was I moving, as I could, toward the market of Cestias? Would it not have been better to flee anywhere else? Why would he want me there, rather than somewhere else? Was it in the market, near the praetor's platform that he wished to apprehend me? Was I proceeding bli...
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15 135 Was I to stay here all night? I then became afraid, even though it was the middle of the night, that I might be apprehended in the market, in the morning, when guardsmen, at the praetor's signal, opened the market to the stallsmen, merchants, and dealers.
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15 148 The market was again bathed in cool light, and then, again, with the rolling of clouds, the moon was obscured, and the market became once more a jumble of shadows, a weird terrain of the night, a frightening desert of darkness, so different from the brightness, the bustle, the noise and tumult of th...
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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53 7 "Is Victoria not a market town," I said, "a major market for slaves, wholesale and retail? Are not many slaves disposed of there? Do not buyers come there, even from far beyond the Vosk basin?" "It is the major slave market on the Vosk," he said.
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 199 "A girl of modest market value, not much market value".
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15 205 "Are you mad? Come about! Onto the ferry!" I knew that a waterway, a barge canal, separated east Market of Semris from west Market of Semris, and gathered we had reached that point.
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31 198 Surely I had seen the eyes of masters on me, a slave is aware of such things, surely as much as a free woman with a slackened veil or an exposed ankle, when we, I heeling my master, had approached the market, when we had entered the market, when we had climbed the tiers and found our place, even as ...
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62 47 "Phyllis, then," said Drusus Andronicus, "would be sold in a smaller market, a lesser market?" "Yes," said Kurik.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 112 "I think," said the second man, "she was a woman of position and power, perhaps well known, say, the daughter of an administrator, high merchant, or judge, stolen by a disgruntled petitioner, a dissatisfied customer, an unsuccessful litigant, to be disposed of discreetly, as an act of vengeance, or ...
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24 123 Here is the Lesser Al-ka Market with some bargains beyond even those of the Greater Al-ka Market.
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33 6 That afternoon, Bruno of Torcadino, at the market quay inside and near the Delta Gate, the Delta Market, had purchased a rence craft.
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