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Merchandise

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	177	These beasts, yoked in braces, were drawing mighty wagons, filled with merchandise protected under the lashings of its red rain-canvas.	10
10	87	He undoubtedly had better merchandise, more reasonably priced.	10
11	23	The caravan, with its varied goods, was needed by the camp, and its merchandise would command the highest prices.	10
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.	10
11	59	How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical...	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	8	If, in the case of a singer, the song is rejected, or, in the case of a merchant, his merchandise is rejected, he is slain out of hand.	10
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...	10

Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	278	"Does it not offend you? Are you not outraged? Even in terms of merchandise and prices cannot you see what it would mean? Even now the lesser houses find it difficult to acquire premium slaves, and when we obtain them, we are undersold.	10
2	284	"No," said Portus, "they must have sources of gold other than the income on their merchandise".	10
2	287	I am convinced the house of which I speak has major sources of gold other than the income on their merchandise".	10
5	616	It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ...	10
7	169	On the other hand these men were slavers and not accustomed to take chances with merchandise.	10
9	22	Many of these, of course, are simply put in pens and retained there until removed for sale; some lots are wholesaled to minor slavers, usually coming in from distant cities to pick up merchandise, which tends in Ar to be abundant and, on the whole, reasonably priced.	10
11	387	Excellent merchandise, some risk, but every likelihood of achieving a status of considerable value.	10
12	371	Here there were lines of booths in an extended arcade, where merchandise of various sorts might be purchased, usually of an inexpensive and low-quality variety.	10
15	400	The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.	10
18	370	I gathered that most, or a great many of the cells, on this level, might be filled with such merchandise, whatever it might be.	10
19	65	From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ...	10
19	74	The sale at the Curulean is carefully planned, and the lots prepared and scheduled with much attention to such matters as variety and the attention of the buyers; for example, two consecutive lots are not likely to wear the same first silks upon ascending the block, yet each girl, given her complexi...	10
19	76	The sale of women, like that of any other merchandise, can be a difficult and time-consuming business, calling optimally for good judgment, experience and imagination.	10
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...	10
19	165	Usually the better merchandise is saved for later in the evening, and many of the buyers were waiting.	10
19	452	The girls were now on their feet and whip slaves were braceleting their wrists before their bodies and attaching the lead chains to the bracelets, preparing to conduct the purchased merchandise from the block.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	18	These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds for merchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war.	10
13	230	The slave master, in my opinion, wanted far too much for his merchandise, considering we were merely fodder for the benches of the round ships.	10
14	71	I had even had it observed by men at the various slave wharves, presumably inspecting the merchandise.	10
18	412	These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	218	I was being delivered by women, another woman, but a weakling, one who was only a piece of merchandise, one who, on this harsh world, could be only merchandise, to my master.	10
7	16	It was to collect this merchandise that Targo was venturing to Laura.	10
7	53	Lana was always placed at the end of the display chain, that the most attractive merchandise be glimpsed last.	10
7	291	And suddenly, the thought struck me, and seemed to shake me, as it had not before, that I was merchandise, that I could be sold, and would then belong, like a dog, or a cat, or a pig, to a master, and would then be his to do with as he pleased—perfectly.	10
7	306	And as I knelt on the chain, before this man, I realized, again, and again, the thought devastating me, that I was an item of merchandise, that I, Elinor Brinton, was for sale, that I could be bought.	10
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...	10
8	262	I gathered that we were good merchandise.	10
8	956	Tomorrow, Targo, and his men and his merchandise, would make their way to Laura and, crossing the river there, begin their long, overland journey to Ko-ro-ba, called by some the Towers of the Morning, and from thence to luxurious Ar itself.	10
11	149	In the public pens, state slaves are kept as well as the merchandise of slave caravans passing through the city.	10
11	758	Odd, I thought, how Elinor Brinton, she who had been so rich, so elegant, so arrogant, she who had been of Park Avenue, she who had owned the Maserati, was now, on a distant world, only this, a common slave, naked, on her belly in straw, steel plating beneath it, behind heavy bars, caged, merchandis...	10
11	1191	Was she not only of the scribes! Could she, sticklike Inge, be more attractive to a man than I? The man regarded her, appreciatively, sizing her up, as a master appraises truly high-quality feminine merchandise.	10
11	1196	"She is excellent merchandise," said the man.	10
11	1432	How he had appraised me, as I had stood helpless, naked, behind the bars, on the straw of the slave cage, his to be seen as he wished; how he had examined me, candidly, objectively, every inch of me, Elinor Brinton, female slave merchandise! How I hated him! How I hated men! How I hated most Soron o...	10
12	77	We were merchandise on our way to Ar.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	390	"Verna, I have heard," volunteered Rim, "sells by far the best merchandise".	10
3	97	In such houses, too, sometimes among the other merchandise, there are pleasure slaves, trained girls, imported perhaps from Ar.	10
5	229	None of the merchandise was clothed.	10
15	777	No longer would she be a mere four-gold-piece girl, standard merchandise on a Gorean slave block.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	37	Ar, populous and wealthy, the greatest city of known Gor, was regarded as a symbol of quality in merchandise.	10
8	56	"You insult me," said Hilda the Haughty, "to present me with such miserable merchandise! Is this the best that great Ar can offer?" Had I been of Ar I might have been angry.	10
10	627	I was on my way to the shopping booths, those near the wharves, where the best merchandise is found, when I stopped to observe the shooting.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	226	She knew it must be a receipt for merchandise received.	10
2	24	To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, r...	10
2	228	Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise.	10
7	369	It is useful to our purposes, in infiltrating houses, in obtaining secrets, in seducing officers and important men, and, of course, to reward our followers and, naturally, as a simple item for exchange, a form of currency; the slave girl is usually in demand, particularly if beautiful and trained; a...	10
8	39	The packs of kaiila were being slashed, to determine the value of the merchandise carried, and whether it would be of value to raiders.	10
9	152	I had little doubt that it would be the Tahari brand which, white hot, would be pressed into the thigh of the new slave, marking her thenceforth as merchandise.	10
24	1029	Here, on the different, alien, exotic, perilous, primitive, cruel, beautiful world of Gor, she was no more than a collared slave, an item of lovely merchandise, at the mercy of the wealth and steel of powerful, lustful men.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	540	Some merchants invent brands, as the dina was invented, in order to freshen the nature of their merchandise and stimulate sales.	10
10	1	I am an Item of Merchandise I swam out in the pool to the end of my neck tether, and splashed in the water.	10
11	322	Beyond it, in the corridor, lay storage rooms for truly valuable merchandise, worthy of having a guard posted in the passage.	10
12	489	Gate after gate I tried along the passageway below the steel door, those gates giving access to the storage areas for larger, less valuable merchandise, but all were locked.	10
13	53	I had earlier been exposed in the exhibition cages, that prospective buyers might scan the merchandise at close hand, forming their suppositions as to its value, that their bids later, if they cared to make them, might be shrewd and realistic.	10
26	41	The merchant would then fill her order, tie the merchandise about my neck, put the change in the leather capsule, close it and, sometimes with a friendly slap, dismissing me, reminding me that I was pretty, regardless of being a woman's slave, send me back to my mistress.	10
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...	10
28	239	The girl in the house tunic, seemingly not yet broken in, not yet humbled and trained to the collar of pleasure, might have whetted the appetite of the buyers for an even more virginal, innocent form of merchandise, but, on the block, as I gathered from the remarks of the auctioneer and the response...	10

Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	71	It is not permitted to fight, or kill, or enslave within the perimeters of the fairs, but there is no prohibition against the buying and selling of merchandise within those precincts; indeed, one of the main functions of the fairs, if not their main function, was to facilitate the buying and selling...	10
3	724	Merchants usually exhibit their best merchandise only later in the evening.	10
3	908	But there seemed little chance of this for there appeared to be much more choice merchandise for sale upon those long, darkly varnished, slatted platforms.	10
3	968	A beautiful woman is the most attractive form of merchandise.	10
4	546	I happily slapped the pouch at my side which contained the receipts for the fair merchandise and the shipping vouchers.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	239	"It could mean the opening up of a considerable number of new markets, the enhancement of trade, the discovery of a valuable commercial avenue for the merchandise of the north and the products of the south".	10
1	430	Whether she is up to the normal standards of their merchandise is another question".	10
2	276	He might have been a clerk adjusting merchandise on a counter.	10
6	534	On the wharves and in the warehouses, whose great doors were generally open, I could see much merchandise.	10
20	64	They had been good merchandise, it seemed.	10
33	150	The matter is further complicated by the buying and selling of girls and their shipment, as merchandise, among cities.	10

Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	235	"You treated her like merchandise," I said, angrily, to the heavy man.	10
2	236	"She is merchandise, a slave," he said.	10
13	479	There, her tunic had been hitched up to her hip, presumably the better to expose her beauty and the mark which identified it as merely that of an item of merchandise.	10
16	135	This is inconvenient, perhaps, in some respects, but, at least, one knows that the shopkeeper one visits knows his goods and that the quality of his livelihood is intimately connected with the excellence of his merchandise.	10
22	736	"She is a piece of property," he said, "an item of merchandise.	10
25	299	In such cases usually one side of the flat wagon bed is used as an auction platform, a small but suitable scaffolding on which may be well displayed the lineaments of the girl's beauty, and on which may be exacted from her the provocative performances demanded by cruel and merciless vendors of their...	10
34	32	This protects the merchandise from the sun and weather.	10
34	197	Surely they are Gor's most delicious commodity, her most precious merchandise.	10

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	159	"That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates".	10
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.	10
24	665	She can do no more than present herself, displaying her owner's merchandise as attractively as she can.	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1023	In such displays there can be, though there often is not, a subtle psychological distinction, detectable in the behavior, between the merchandise, so to speak, and the girl who is displaying herself as merchandise.	10
20	1026	Are you not interested in her?" In the second case, of course, the Gorean is interested, though the girl may not understand this clearly, in not only the merchandise but the girl who is displaying the merchandise.	10
20	1027	She might truly be terrified if she understood that it was she herself he intended to own, and, in fact, was going to own, she the exhibitor of the merchandise as well as she, the merchandise exhibited.	10
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.	10
19	404	It, like a wired seal of quality, attests to the value of the merchandise upon which it is fastened.	10
19	423	It is thus in his best interest to put up for sale the highest quality merchandise he can obtain.	10
19	981	You are then merchandise.	10
20	160	It was a form of merchandise with which he was quite familiar.	10

Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	61	I had gathered, on the other hand, that much of the best merchandise was not exposed in the pits, but was in the stable or in the nearby sales barn.	10
7	12	"In addition to our usual stock of fine merchandise," called the corpulent fellow, "we have just received a new lot of barbarians!" These would be the same girls of whom I had seen several this afternoon, in the slave pits within the compound.	10
7	20	To be sure, the most luscious merchandise, presumably to be sold rather late in the evening, I had gathered, had not even been put in the pits.	10
7	31	Too, even more luscious merchandise you may seek from the central block in open bidding!" I wondered if the woman knew that she was, in all likelihood, to be soon branded.	10
7	37	"In addition to our usual stocks of fine merchandise, we have just received a new lot of barbarians.	10
8	127	Some of the merchandise looked angry; no longer were they the centers of attention; they, though naked and chained, and on slave blocks, had been simply put from mind; they must remain behind, alone, precisely where they were, chained, while masters chose to ignore them, bestowing their attention on...	10
8	128	Already the merchandise was exhibiting the vanity of slaves.	10
8	484	They had been excellent females, in my opinion, but they had not seemed to be, at least on the whole, the choicest merchandise available to him, and for similar costs.	10
13	533	They are animals, and merchandise.	10
13	1188	She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".	10
14	98	If I gave away goods, or traded them too cheaply, this would suggest that I was delivering cheap or inferior merchandise, an inference it would not be in our interest for the red savages to draw.	10
15	84	It is you who are the merchandise, the beauties, the slaves, not he.	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	129	I had seen owned, displayed human females, women who were merchandise, women who were literally up for sale.	10
28	79	For example, how do you act when you see his eye roving you, and you note indications of interest? Do you dare to seem to express outrage or resentment under his frank examination, do you feign boredom and mechanical compliance, that he may be tempted to turn you into a squirming slut begging for hi...	10
31	90	If we were prizes, then, too, were we not objects, merchandise, of a sort.	10
36	888	And then they are well readied for their sale, each vying to best display her master's merchandise.	10

Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	144	Too, clad as a slave, so openly, so slightly and revealingly, the girl is much more aware of her body than would be a free woman, its appearance, its mien and its movements, and this can be reflected in anything from a shy gracefulness, appealing to many masters, to a frank, welcoming acceptance of ...	10
2	855	The purple booths are normally maintained by slavers, used as locations in which girls, usually higher-quality slaves, more expensive merchandise, may be inspected and tried by bona-fide buyers or their agents.	10
2	1014	He had once been banished from Ar, and nearly impaled, for the falsification of slave data, misrepresenting merchandise as to its level of training and skill.	10
6	1095	The advantage of a girl pit, from the point of view of the seller, is that the merchandise cannot be seen unless one comes to the edge of the pit, perhaps standing behind the railing, and looking down.	10
6	1096	This reduces to some extent casual viewing, and brings prospective customers into the proximity of the seller, who may then extol, and elaborate on the quality of, the merchandise.	10
7	74	If there are no empty collars then customers may think that no one else is interested in the merchandise, perhaps that something might be wrong with it, and then go elsewhere.	10
7	76	The ideal impression to convey to the customer is perhaps that you have marvelous merchandise for sale, that even now many people are interested and buying, that it is moving fast, and that if he sees a girl he wants, perhaps he should snatch her up before someone else does.	10
7	85	Too, it is my impression, from what I have seen here and elsewhere, that there is an unusual amount of high-quality merchandise available this spring.	10
10	452	Showing off the merchandise cleverly, alluringly.	10
10	454	I suppose on any world women understand such things, choosing garments with care and intent, displaying themselves as sexual merchandise, and then pretending confusion, dismay, outraged innocence, and such, when the display is only too clearly understood.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	410	"A lovely form of merchandise," I said.	10
25	331	Such sales are private, of course, and usually involve high-grade merchandise being proposed to an affluent clientele.	10
25	336	For example, it requires a venue, the services of an auctioneer, which do not come cheap, ideally a large amount of merchandise, adequate holding facilities, and much organization, planning, staging, and policing, and preferably a good deal of advertising.	10
25	937	What counts ultimately, in my opinion, is not the cost of the merchandise, but its value, its quality; it is not what one pays that is ultimately important, but what gets for one's money.	10
25	952	They seem superb merchandise.	10
27	66	"Usually the merchandise is exhibited stark naked and sold to the highest bidder," he said, "whose slave they then are, in all ways".	10

Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	693	"Do not touch the merchandise," laughed a guard.	10
8	359	This was intentional on the part of the masters, being connected with a concept of latitudes suitable for the appropriate display of merchandise.	10
8	365	At any rate, they would do what they wanted, the same as with any other sort of merchandise.	10
9	470	"Am I bid only two," inquired the auctioneer, "for this luscious merchandise?" I felt the whip touch my flank and waist, on the left.	10
16	76	I have delivered the merchandise to you".	10
20	258	After that she has some sense of what it is to be vended merchandise.	10
29	91	They had even seen fit, as, under the circumstances, would have seemed superfluous, to conduct, or seem to conduct, critical examinations of the merchandise.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	657	Others put their best merchandise later on the chain, saving it for last, so to speak.	10
24	861	I had wondered if perhaps the name had not been chosen more to lure fellows inward, than to supply an objective assessment of the commercial competitiveness of the contained services and merchandise.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	642	It is in some ways not unlike certain fashion shows of Earth, except, of course, that its object is generally not to merchandise slavewear, though it can have such a purpose, but to present the goods of the house, so to speak, for perusal.	10
1	827	The reference to "block melodies" had to do with certain melodies which are commonly used in slave markets, in the display of the merchandise.	10
1	829	Such melodies tend to be sexually stimulating, and powerfully so, both for the merchandise being vended, who must dance to them, and for the buyers.	10
29	78	Yes, I thought, it might not require a great deal of imagination for a fellow to be willing to pay an excellent price for her, that is, if she were not a free woman, but only a slave, merchandise.	10
37	139	Much of this becomes obvious when it is kept in mind that the last thing a slaver wants to do is to diminish the beauty, and, thus, the sales value, of his merchandise.	10

Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	388	The girl who wore the sign, "I am for sale," danced before us, as she had before others, displaying her master's proffered merchandise.	10
3	396	Needless to say, this behavior is soon corrected and, in a short time, only too eager now to be off the slaver's chain, they are displaying themselves, and proposing themselves, luscious, eager, ready, begging merchandise, to prospective buyers.	10
5	18	Such slaves, when captured, if not slain in disgust by the victors, were usually herded together like slave girls, and chained for disposition in markets catering to their form of merchandise, markets patronized largely by free women.	10
10	370	It is their view, a reasonably plausible view, given Gorean preconceptions, that that would cheapen the merchandise and make it seem tawdry.	10
25	438	"It was I who, in effect, brought the cruel, burning iron to your thigh, I who in effect had you marked, who saw to it that your lovely neck would be ringed with the indisputable, locked circlet of bondage, who had you, a noble free woman, reduced to no more than meaningless goods, merchandise to be...	10
26	119	It is not unusual, however, for coffled women to be kept naked, for example, being marched between cities, or being brought into a city, as displayed merchandise.	10

Book 26. (6 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	950	They had been very particular in their requirements, requirements which, incidentally, might be difficult to satisfy conjointly, not being likely to be found combined in any single item of merchandise.	10
9	73	Earth women are shabby stock, third-rate merchandise, inferior goods.	10
11	127	One learns to display oneself, and well, as the merchandise one is.	10
19	83	This city serves as a clearinghouse for a great deal of such merchandise.	10
24	859	"You are merchandise!" he wept.	10
40	351	"You are all excellent-quality merchandise," he said.	10

Book 27. (21 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	270	In the festival camp there were many forms of merchandise, other than the flesh loot, such as she, of Cosian conquests, merchandise such as produce, meat, leather and metal work, cloth, cabinetry, artifacts, tools, weapons, remedies, wagons, carts, precious stones, and such.	10
13	547	At one moment a woman is free and priceless, and then, in another moment, suddenly, she becomes a very practical, tangible commodity, something very real and very factual, something with a specific value, like any other piece of merchandise.	10
16	606	Understand at once how meaningless you are, small, soft, well-curved items of merchandise, but, too, how precious, special and wonderful you are! The tharlarion will be scrubbed, the kaiila combed.	10
16	1278	Such a change, thought Ellen, wrought by the imminence of the masters, formerly inert female merchandise, suddenly, in fear of the whip, become luscious, active flesh goods, attempting to allure buyers, attempting to entice customers for their master.	10
17	311	Several times, later in the afternoon, men came to the surface of the shelf to inspect one or another of the items of merchandise there displayed.	10
17	610	Doubtless Cichek, and the others, thought that she had moved like that on purpose, that she was brazenly, shamefully, trying to interest a buyer in the merchandise which was she herself.	10
18	7	Then she enthusiastically and provocatively displays, with skills that might be the envy of a dancer, sometimes with seeming shyness, timidity, reluctance or fear, the well-curved, delectable merchandise which is herself.	10
19	766	Despite what masters say I suspect we are the most valuable form of merchandise on this world.	10
21	74	She trembled, thinking of the sales block, the eager, virile, possessive, bidding men, the whips, of being exhibited dramatically, specifically, callously, in intimate detail, rawly, as the lovely, helpless merchandise she was.	10
21	207	It would want them to be appealing, attractive items of merchandise when it came time to offer them to buyers.	10
22	321	This was far better, thought Ellen, than the cruel, cement shelf, boiling in the sunlight, on which Targo had exhibited her, a shelf to which buyers were free to ascend and handle the merchandise, and were even encouraged to do so.	10
22	331	If it were significant, and the lower numbers meant the more desirable merchandise, surely she would be entitled to a high opinion of herself as goods.	10
24	518	The very raison d'être of the female slave, that form of item and article, of object and possession, that form of luscious, living merchandise, is the service and pleasure of men.	10
25	100	But it was rumored, nonetheless, that the next day's sales, the third day's sales, would begin in the early afternoon, to ensure the disposal of all the merchandise.	10
25	105	Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...	10
25	235	It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c...	10
25	524	They would be instantly, unquestioningly obedient; there would be no doubt in the buyers' minds of the docility, the piteous, abject servility, of the merchandise.	10
25	872	One may then take note, under favorable conditions, of merchandise in which one might be interested.	10
25	935	"Do not handle the merchandise," said he, laughing, "until you own it".	10
25	1164	She turned her head toward the crowd, to see he who had bid so high on the miserable, pathetic piece of helpless flesh merchandise which was she.	10
27	86	The collar enhances their beauty not simply as a lovely ornament, attractive on any woman, but even more by its meaning, that its wearer is a slave, that she is merchandise.	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	221	She is, after all, merchandise, and, hopefully, good merchandise.	10
1	165	At that point presumably only carefully selected, high-quality merchandise would be brought to her shores.	10
5	155	Had not the Priest-Kings seen to that? But, too, he did not doubt that she was, objectively, an incredibly beautiful young woman, who would be of interest to almost any connoisseur of her form of merchandise.	10
36	269	To be sure, at that time she was unfamiliar with a particular form of merchandise, Gorean kajirae.	10
43	408	You, you lovely piece of goods, you delightful bit of merchandise, are worth coins".	10

Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	149	"He doubtless deals in various commodities, in various forms of merchandise," I said.	10
1	173	"They are the most fitting, appropriate, and natural form of such merchandise".	10
1	174	"'Merchandise'?" she said.	10
5	305	This misunderstanding was presumably fostered by the fact that the great majority of Earth females brought to Gor were, in their variety of ways, choice merchandise or, to speak vulgarly, superb "block meat".	10
10	489	"But we concern ourselves, of course," said Thrasilicus, "not only with acquisition lists, but want lists, as well, and a new customer, whom we were muchly concerned to please, for various reasons, had specified a particular form of merchandise.	10
13	409	They had regarded the chain as raw, poor stuff, as largely worthless slut merchandise, little better than free women.	10
13	410	Could they not see the females as what they might become? Washed, combed, brushed, trained a bit, silked or tunicked, their slave fires ignited, taught to fear the whip, they might prove exemplary merchandise.	10
18	482	They are exactly what he expects in a given form of merchandise, a property girl, a collar slut, a luscious, needful, obedient, owned female, a slave.	10
26	160	This plenitude of attractive, available merchandise is not, of course, unusual for a slave-holding culture, and the collar, too, is not easily come by.	10

Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1329	It is not unusual for slavers to save the best merchandise for late in the sale, when late comers are present, the audience is settled in, interest has been whetted, emotions are running high, purses are most open, and so on.	10
3	1332	On the other hand, I think it does not really make much difference, as the merchandise is commonly available for inspection, though through bars, in pre-sale exposition cages.	10
7	30	The slaves, I gathered, had been, on the whole, purchased here and there by the Pani, over several months, perhaps for the contentment of themselves and others, perhaps as trading goods, perhaps as merchandise, to be eventually sold in one market or another.	10
7	117	Although many of the slaves were now filthy, and ill, and frightened, I had no doubt that, scrubbed and groomed, they would prove to be excellent merchandise.	10
12	126	How desperately they strive to please the auctioneer, to present themselves as superb merchandise, as goods well worth bringing home! How they strive to win a buyer! It is not pleasant to be returned to the cage, unsold.	10
17	144	Indeed, most seemed at, or near, ideal block measurements, those measurements sought by professional slavers before bringing their merchandise to the large, sawdust-covered pedestal from which they would be vended.	10
21	748	"These are obviously beautiful slaves," I said, "high-grade merchandise, which would bring good coin off the block, but, as you have suggested, I see no particular reason for their hooding".	10
24	228	The nonsense of extraordinary beauty, though the slaves were clearly high-quality merchandise, was to conceal the identity of one slave, Talena, of Ar.	10
25	380	Even on the shelves, of course, as well as in the purple booths, a girl may be expected to perform to some extent, that some sense might be conveyed to the client of the possible value of the merchandise.	10
36	23	This boast of Demetrion, on behalf of shapely, quality merchandise available in Brundisium, brought to my mind, naturally enough, a particular slave, one whom I would have liked to purchase, but could not afford.	10
37	1334	"I found myself turned about, and positioned, delicately, expertly, by the auctioneer's whip, exhibited as merchandise, displayed, as a slave, while men cried out, and called bids on me".	10

Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	113	What is the point of beauty, if not to open doors, to bargain, and to enhance one's prospects? Were we not prostitutes, in a way, ready to sell ourselves, high-priced merchandise, for power, position, station, and wealth? You have probably guessed the nature of the "inappropriate literature" discove...	10
5	8	These remarks, and those which had followed, recounted earlier, were not unprecedented in exchanges between native Gorean slaves and imports, such as I, merchandise brought from Earth, particularly when they are unfamiliar to one another.	10
5	20	This was doubtless, in part, a result of a different and exotic cast of merchandise, but, too, I think there was little doubt that the prices paid for us were not unrelated to the quality of the goods sold.	10
8	38	"Goods, merchandise".	10
8	48	"So, then," she said, "what are you doing here?" "Mistress?" "You are goods, merchandise," she said.	10
8	49	"Yes," I said, "I am goods, merchandise".	10
8	478	And I, and the others, would be for sale! I looked to the other occupants, the other merchandise, six girls, in the cell.	10
8	530	"And you are now yourself merchandise," laughed one of the brunettes.	10
8	691	It is that way when one is oneself merchandise.	10
8	892	She is merchandise, I thought.	10
8	1068	Interestingly, to me at least, a slaver who misrepresents merchandise, for example, claiming former high caste for a girl who was actually formerly of low caste, or who tries to pass off a dyed blonde for a natural blonde, may be banished and ruined, his goods confiscated, his house burned to the gr...	10
8	1803	"Astrinax," said Menon, "whom I have long known, is an agent, who receives orders, requests and such, screens merchandise, and buys for others".	10
16	314	I recalled the small cell, facing the market area, behind the bars of which I, with others, as merchandise to be vended, were publicly displayed to passers-by, and then my sale, being turned about, exhibited naked, on the small cement sales dais.	10
18	141	"Surely you could not be thinking of taking merchandise of this quality into the Voltai?" said the slaver.	10
52	287	"You are shoddy, inferior, meaningless merchandise".	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	2	First, most were supine, so it seemed suitable, more aesthetic, if the merchandise, in this wholesale lot, was positioned uniformly.	10
2	5	When the merchandise had been secured, each item had been placed in the bara position, though they did not know the name for the position as yet, each on her stomach, head facing to the left, her wrists crossed behind her and her ankles crossed, as well.	10
2	18	All these things are indications of high intelligence in merchandise, and perhaps of something else, as well, something related, perhaps a welcoming, a readiness, a relief, an understanding, such things.	10
4	36	They are merchandise, being displayed.	10
4	53	How well they display the house's merchandise, sometimes subtly, so cleverly, sometimes brazenly, so boldly, invitingly, seductively! Many men who lack the coin to make a realistic bid frequent the emporia, the selling wagons, the shelves, the cages, the platforms, the camps, and barns, to gather th...	10
4	101	We were used to excellent merchandise, of course.	10
4	186	Normally that merchandise adjudged the most likely to bring high prices will then be offered.	10
7	56	It makes it possible for prospective buyers to inspect the merchandise before the sale, take notes, make comparisons, and such.	10
17	77	How horrifying that I should be here, on a remote world, a marked, half-naked, collared slave! How incomprehensible and lamentable was my fate! I looked after him, enraged, and hated him! It was he who had brought me to this, to the indelible marking of my body, to the shame and degradation of a col...	10
20	192	"Articles of commerce, objects for vending, stock, properties, wares, commodities, goods, merchandise," said Relia.	10
25	400	He had observed me in an exposition cage in Brundisium, and turned away from me, rejecting me, doubtless, as inferior merchandise.	10
35	19	How unbridgeable is the gap which separates the free from property, from goods, from merchandise, from the owned animal, from the slave! Why had I awakened? I did not know.	10
48	28	I was rightless goods, merchandise, a slight, collared, curvaceous beast, subject to purchase and sale, and knew myself such! But I was no ordinary slave.	10
53	101	"You may have labored in the tasks of the Slavers for the pleasantries of the merchandise, but I think there was more involved, for you seem now to be thinking of dealing with other goods.	10

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	335	"They are mere goods, merchandise, animals, beasts, slaves, and may be worked, tethered, chained, and penned, and enjoyed, as masters wish".	10
8	103	They are merchandise".	10
30	405	Some modalities may be as simple as the exposition cage in which girls may be displayed prior to being brought to the block, or as subtle as the skills of the auctioneer presenting merchandise for the interest of possible buyers.	10
30	573	It is common in slave houses, prior to sales, to deprive the merchandise of relief for two or three, even for four or five days, prior to the sale.	10
61	1127	To be sure, she was a beautiful object, a lovely article of merchandise.	10

Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	261	And Gor, after all, has a use for its pot girls, and its kettle-and-mat girls, as well as for better, more delicious merchandise".	10
4	28	You will not be shipped immediately, as other merchandise is currently en route to the embarkation point.	10
6	78	It is to that world you will be transported, shipped as the merchandise you are for her markets.	10
6	85	You are now, as in the case of diverse high civilizations, ancient and modern, merchandise, goods, properties".	10
10	54	"The money saved, applied to the prices of the merchandise, redounds obviously to the benefit of the customers".	10
10	77	Obviously a given item of merchandise may be displayed in any number of ways.	10
12	2	She is an article of merchandise.	10
27	12	Many are the markets of Gor, and some are supplied by contraband merchandise, of dubious origins, and evasive of taxes and harbor fees, such as rogue silver from the mines of Tharna, to be exported to Cos and Tyros, and the Farther Islands, even to the World's End; the beans from which Black Wine is...	10
30	263	One does not wish to lower the value of merchandise.	10
31	110	"Do not sell me!" "Well, Adraste, mediocre slave," said the auctioneer to his charge, the merchandise being vended at the moment, "it seems we can get no more for you than a silver tarsk ten".	10
49	200	Is she truly so great, and important? What would she bring, stripped, on the block? Would she be worth bidding on? The particular nature of these speculations may be most germane to slaves, whose chains and collars have well accustomed them to thinking of themselves as properties and merchandise, an...	10
49	329	Accordingly, the actual acquisitions of earlier-selected merchandise are often timed to allow for transportation and training prior to a given, projected sale, at one time or another, in one market or another.	10
49	492	The house of Portia does not use display slaves to exhibit their merchandise.	10
49	493	They regard that as demeaning to the merchandise, and to free women.	10

Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	61	I personally suspect that the motivations of the Gorean free women who object to our importings as cargo and merchandise, as domestic animals, are not so much a matter of fittingness or propriety as of personal animosity, even jealousy.	10
1	282	I wonder if they understand, or care, for the feelings of their properties, their goods, if they are aware of, or care about, the interior life of the merchandise they have purchased, the joy a woman can find in bondage.	10
2	93	I wondered what the merchandise had gone for.	10
2	192	What merchant is not aware of such things? It is not unusual to display a plainer woman first, in order to dramatize the greater value of the subsequent merchandise.	10
3	14	A house can be burned if it misrepresents its merchandise.	10
3	179	The whip, coiled, of course, may be used to call attention to one feature or another of the displayed merchandise.	10
3	225	"The House of Anesidemus," said the auctioneer, "as you are doubtless aware, places no reserves on its merchandise, but, if it is not satisfied with any bid, it reserves the right to bid in its own name".	10
3	315	How better can one reduce and degrade a woman? Later, however, one does not object, per se, to this display of merchandise, oneself.	10
3	418	I am sure now that he had realized that I would try to reach up, to ease the pain on my hair, and, in attempting this, would lift my breasts, further displaying the merchandise which I was.	10
11	458	A slave dealer who falsifies his merchandise can be mobbed, and his emporium burned".	10
24	64	If an individual is seriously, or even moderately, interested in obtaining a slave, or, say, adding another to his chain, he is likely to ascend the steps, examine the merchandise more closely, consult with a slaver's man, speak with the slave, and such.	10
24	122	"Noble, generous masters, and noble, beautiful mistresses," he called, "consider the finest of moderately priced girl merchandise in Port Kar.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	45	"I see," I said, "as you are collared, that you are indeed a slave, an animal, an object, an article of merchandise, which might be bought and sold".	10
59	168	In each of these, samples of the merchandise were displayed in such a way that there could be little doubt about its charms.	10