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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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10 134 Because of the miserable condition of Talena's single garment, Kazrak and I procured from the supply master some changes of slave livery for the girl.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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8 123 The light drizzle of rain, almost a gray mist matching the miserable solemnity of Tharna, had not abated, and had, by now, soaked through my garments.
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9 93 I did not much care for the prospect of emerging again into the cold, rainy night, of tramping once more through the streets, miserable, chilled to the bone, looking for a place to eat and sleep.
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11 122 "How is it," I asked, "that you spare a warrior the whip and would use it on so miserable a wretch as Ost?" "I had hoped you guiltless, Stranger," said she.
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11 161 "What more then do you know, Serpent?" she asked the miserable conspirator.
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21 229 And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de...
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22 106 "Do you know, Warrior," she asked, "why I—now only a miserable slave—hated you so?" "No," I said.
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24 115 She has learned how cruel and miserable are the ways of Tharna.
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25 158 If this miserable fate were to be hers, the imperious Dorna the Proud, stripped and sweating, her back exposed to the ox whip, would learn in harness that a peasant is a hard master.
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26 73 It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 73 I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s...
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26 57 It was a most miserable and bewildered Vika of Treve whom I bundled into a small but comfortable plastic case on the fourth tier of the Vivarium.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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11 125 To be sure there might have been some doubt that the miserable wench thonged behind Kamchak's kaiila could have been first stake.
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11 171 "Is a Tuchuk too poor," she asked, "to clothe a miserable slave?" "I have many diamonds in the wagon," said Kamchak, "which you may wear if you wish—but nothing else will you wear until it pleases me".
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12 383 "Watch, you miserable cooking-pot wenches," he said, "and learn a thing or two!" A silence came over the crowd.
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12 426 "And I," howled Kamchak, "have only miserable cooking-pot wenches!" Kamchak and I were standing up.
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15 71 Roughly Kamchak took her by the arm and thrust her into the sleen cage beside the miserable Elizabeth Cardwell.
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24 26 The time of the year was the late spring and the prairie's climate was not unkind, though occasionally long rains must have made the lot of the refugees fleeing toward other cities miserable.
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25 380 "The Tuchuk women," said Elizabeth, "have a miserable lot".
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25 553 "Very well, Vella," said I, "I will give you but one chance—if you well please me the aforementioned miserable fate will not be yours—at least for tonight".
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Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 109 If one, of course, finds oneself in effect without caste or clan, as was perhaps the case with the small fool named Hup, and one cannot work, one's life is likely to be miserable and not of great length.
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3 37 There are competitions of Players, with purses provided by amateur organizations, and sometimes by the city itself, and these purses are, upon occasion, enough to enrich a man, but most Players earn a miserable living by hawking their wares, a contest with a master, in the street.
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12 180 For days they remained in the cages, cramped and miserable, alone, neglected, apparently overlooked, forgotten.
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17 75 The long-legged girl, doubtless a miserable slave most of the year, seemed intent on humiliating me, taking revenge probably on her master, for whom I now stood as proxy.
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18 411 Indeed, it seemed probable that he had lived under these miserable conditions for a long time.
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19 371 I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw...
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19 421 "But," wailed Elizabeth, "I am only a miserable girl without a master".
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21 191 I noted other men, apparently miserable wretches in blind helmets, being driven to a place before the box.
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Book 6. (19 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 47 Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered; it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh water were plentiful.
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3 12 I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise...
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3 64 She stood proudly beside me, straight, her shoulders back, her chin high, as does a free woman beside a miserable slave, naked and kneeling.
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3 230 "Let us rather keep him as a miserable slave".
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3 308 And how worthless and miserable was the beast, the slave, that knelt, naked and bound, at her feet.
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4 75 But most I was miserable in my heart.
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7 25 On the island now, in its center, near the pole, there stood, packed together, a miserable crowd of prisoners.
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8 200 There was a girl, naked, miserable, bound to the prow, but, tied as she was, she could not turn to see us.
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8 820 I was angry only that I myself had not stripped her and beaten her, and made her a miserable slave as soon as we had come to the barges.
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9 271 I do recall that I was incredibly drunk, and furious, and miserable, and filled with hate.
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9 509 I was alone, and miserable.
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10 116 I did, however, specify that it would be she who must personally wait my table and serve my food each night, that I might each night renew my pleasure at finding my former Mistress, weary from her day's labors, soiled and uncombed, in her brief, miserable, stained rep-cloth garment, serving me as Ke...
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13 284 "The lot of a slave is miserable," I told him.
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13 286 "The lot of a slave is indeed miserable," I lamented.
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15 799 I looked on her, kneeling barefoot before me, my steel collar locked on her throat, in the scanty, miserable, stained garment of the Kettle Slave.
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18 170 They wore the miserable garments of kitchen slaves.
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18 424 "The most miserable of tasks were often given to me," continued the girl.
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18 684 And he stood there, though branded, though collared, though in the miserable garment of a slave, as a young Ubar.
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18 771 At the entryway to that passage leading to the kitchens he stopped, and then, as she laughed and kissed him, he, holding her close to him, in his arms, swept her, once the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only a young, collared slave girl, in a brief, miserable garment, throug...
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Book 7. (16 results) Captive of Gor

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6 9 I was miserable.
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8 119 "Do not be so sad and miserable, El-in-or," said Ute.
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8 738 I think we were all humiliated and embarrassed, so fooled we had been, so miserable and precipitate had been our flight.
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9 190 I was miserable.
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12 413 I wanted to be free of them all! I was miserable.
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13 764 I closed my eyes, miserable.
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15 131 I was lonely and miserable.
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15 214 But they would be exhausted in the morning! In the morning they would be miserable enough! In the morning Ute would almost have to use whips to rout such lazy girls out of the shed! I was pleased no one wanted me.
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15 638 I put my head down, miserable.
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15 759 I hung by the wrists, miserable.
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15 904 Here again, the mere word of the free person, that he is not completely pleased, is enough to earn the miserable girl a severe beating.
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15 978 Gradually, in me, there built up a compensating hatred to counter my shame, and the brands that proclaimed me among the most unworthy and miserable of slaves.
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15 1113 I was miserable.
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15 1509 "You will be treated as what you are," he said, "as the lowest and most miserable slave on Gor".
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16 133 I, Elinor Brinton, wanted to crawl to the tent of my master, to go to my belly before him, to put my head down, weeping, over his sandals, to lick and kiss his feet, in supplication, begging him to deign to bestow upon me, an unworthy, miserable, piteous slave, and only a girl of Earth, his least to...
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16 470 No, let it not be revealed that he, my master, the mighty Rask of Treve, had been tender with a slave, particularly such a low and miserable slave as I.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 222 The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of t...
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2 50 One of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our ship, off shore, on the green waters of Thassa.
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2 220 "Miserable wenches," said Rim, "common stock".
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2 337 In it, too, hung a miserable wretch, put up for sale by panther girls.
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2 398 I lifted my eyes to regard the two miserable wretches bound in the frames.
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10 170 She looked up at him, miserable.
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16 311 When she grew too miserable she would creep to my side for warmth.
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18 200 In the back of the semicircular stockade, miserable, chained, lay Marlenus and Rim and Arn, and the other male slaves.
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18 561 "Take a miserable slave with you! Please, Masters!" "Leave her here to die," laughed one of the men.
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22 176 I looked at Sarus, miserable in his chains, and his men.
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22 723 No man can be blamed for not wishing to make his life miserable.
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Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 106 There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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5 141 Quickly the miserable bond-wenches were pulled back and flung, belly down, some lying on others, between the benches.
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5 154 This would provide the miserable wenches, terrified and fettered, some measure of protection from missiles, stones and darts.
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5 355 She was miserable.
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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.
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8 245 She, on her belly, soaked, miserable, lay silent.
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10 391 "And what," asked she, "would one of Ax Glacier need with all these miserable slaves?" She indicated the kneeling girls of Forkbeard.
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13 346 "You poor, miserable girl," cried Bera.
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15 280 We huddled on a ledge, between rocks, sheltered from the wind, shivering with cold, miserable, listening for Kurii.
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22 88 At that time I had been miserable, and weak, even calling out to a woman, who was only a slave, to love me.
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Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 69 She was terrified, miserable.
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1 79 Yet, looking more carefully upon her, examining her with candor, as she looked away, miserable, I saw that she might not be without promise.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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4 149 History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ...
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5 483 "But how miserable," she moaned, "that I fell slave!" "The more excruciatingly beautiful a woman is," I said, "the more likely it is that she will be put in brand and collar".
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7 547 "Most seem unhappy, lonely, frustrated, miserable, confused, petty, shallow, cold, inert, anesthetic".
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9 125 She lay on her side in the gravel, miserable.
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11 149 "She is a stupid, miserable girl," said Hassan, "who must be often beaten".
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12 638 "Very well," they said, retiring, taking with them the stumbling, miserable fellow in the ruby necklace.
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13 3 I heard the stroke of the lash behind me, and another cry, long miserable.
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13 106 As discipline, of course, what is routine for a girl not of the Tahari, in miserable Tahari enslavement, may be forced on a slave girl whose origin is itself the Tahari.
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23 236 One of the men, miserable, lifted his head.
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24 798 Males who satisfy their nature are vital and joyful, and, statistically, live long; those who deny their nature are miserable and, statistically, shorter lived, their tortured body chemistry falling prey frequently to hideous diseases".
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25 102 Shakar himself rushed forth from the kasbah to take charge of the miserable Hamid.
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26 480 Soon a derisive, moving gauntlet is formed, through which, constantly, the miserable, whip-bearing girl crawls.
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Book 11. (44 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 654 It was not my fault I could not speak to him! But then, as he looked about the field, and the rock, I, in that large, rude circle torn in the turf, put my head down, alone, miserable.
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2 691 Miserable, stumbling, I began running again.
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2 884 How miserable I felt.
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3 456 I lay there, helpless, miserable.
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3 552 The girl who is bid upon and sold from the block wants to be bought because men have found her desirable, so desirable that they are willing to part with their silver, perhaps even with their very gold, to buy her; how miserable she would be to learn that it is only for her brand that she is valued.
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4 45 On Earth invisible chains had kept me cruelly apart from myself and my feelings; conditionings and derisions had put walls between me and my heart and emotions; I had been tight, the miserable victim of bonds of my own acceptance; now, for the first time in my life, though I might wear chains, in my...
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4 275 I did not want to be sold! What a miserable, beautiful girl I saw in the mirror, the poor slave! How sorry I felt for that beauty.
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4 437 I stood there, head down, miserable, frightened.
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4 446 So slight a movement made them sound! I, miserable, was caught in their lewd, delicious rustle.
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4 523 I was confused and miserable.
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4 561 I lay weeping and miserable in the dirt.
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4 1023 I had been confused, scandalized, outraged, miserable, when I had been put up as quarry and prize in the cruel game of the evening.
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5 308 He thrust me from him and I, miserable, confused, began to run.
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5 598 She looked at me and went and lay, miserable, in a corner of the tent.
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5 789 Why did these men not hide their dominance; why did they not pretend it did not exist; why did they not suppress it; why did they not thwart and repudiate the birthright of their nature; why did they not make themselves miserable; why did they not torture themselves and diligently cultivate weakness...
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6 14 I had awakened only this morning, ill, miserable, with a splitting headache, chained with the other girls.
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7 713 How miserable she must have felt, huddling beneath the canvas, how tense and terrified, how apprehensive.
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8 265 I shrank back, miserable, my head to one side, against the bars.
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8 285 On my hands and knees, miserable, in the hot sand, the rope on my neck, I looked about the training pit, at the rack of whips and ropes, the sleen tethers, the cages, the wooden barrier about the training area, and then, on my hands and knees, made my way through the sand and out of the training are...
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8 309 I looked up, miserable, in the dust, the rope hanging from my neck.
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9 126 He then, swiftly, brutally, used me, and I, miserable, helpless, my eyes hot with tears, again could not resist him, and, again, unable to help myself, responded to him, and responded as a slave.
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9 134 I looked up, miserable, at the stars.
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9 907 Again he touched me, and I cried out, miserable, bound.
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9 1638 "Is it because of your beauty, little slave," he asked, "that this has come about?" I could not answer him, so miserable I was.
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9 1795 Bran Loort looked at me, miserable.
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9 1965 In the tiny cage she who had been Melina crouched down, sleen-collared, her face miserable behind the bars, clutching them with her fists.
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11 11 I was miserable, and purchased.
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12 100 "Forgive a miserable girl, Master," I begged.
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12 830 Who knew to what new chains one might be taken? Was it not even said that occasionally free women, lonely and miserable, their most profound needs unsatisfied, desperate for love, frequented high, lonely bridges at night, putting themselves in peril of capture and enslavement? Surely a slave girl wo...
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13 307 I knelt on the block, near its front, miserable, in the position of the pleasure slave, the light chain and sales disk on my throat.
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13 446 He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,...
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19 65 I wanted to scream out to them that I was only a miserable slave, and knew nothing.
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20 344 I was miserable.
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20 444 I remembered myself miserable in his arms, writhing with unwanted ecstasy, then, unable to help myself, unable to hold out longer, suddenly surrendering to my enslavement in his arms.
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22 205 I felt miserable.
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26 67 "Afterwards," she said, "the miserable girl covered his feet with kisses".
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26 282 Within the room, miserable, brandishing her knife, stood Elicia.
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26 484 How offended and miserable she would be, the proud, former Elicia Nevins, to be forced to wear my name, I of whom she had been so contemptuous.
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26 518 She knelt, miserable, collared, branded, her wrists bound before her body, on the thick furs at the foot of the couch.
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27 250 "And what are you doing here, miserable Bran Loort?" demanded Thurnus.
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27 321 We muchly yearn for, and covet, and hunger for, and desperately need, and are excruciatingly miserable without, the touches and caresses, the attentions, of masters.
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27 440 "Master is generous," said Busebius, "to offer so much for so miserable a girl".
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28 342 "Here is something which may cover the cost of the miserable little slave".
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29 165 "What a fool I am," he said, "to care for a miserable Earth-girl slave".
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 229 Take pity on the miserable needs of a girl".
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3 427 She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescriptions, requireme...
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3 470 She then becomes wild, and free, and sexual, and cares not that she might be scorned by the free either for her miserable condition or helpless appetites; she knows she will be what she must; she has no choice; she is slave.
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3 1367 Take pity on the miserable needs of a girl".
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9 251 Is happiness important? If not, why not? And if it is important, why not look for it where it is incontrovertibly found? An individual who finds happiness in love, submission, obedience, and service, and in a guiltless, fulfilling, joyous, liberated sexuality, and such, is not obviously inferior to ...
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11 172 I heard the miserable cries of two girls.
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13 191 We trudged back, wet and miserable, to the encampments of the People.
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13 210 "It is fortunate," she said, "that you are only a miserable fellow with no wife.
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14 207 Imnak looked at me, miserable.
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21 20 Although the red hunters can and do experience intense cold their lives, generally, are not made miserable by their climate.
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21 119 "I would have thought all slaves, all miserable girls in bondage, would be alike," she said.
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21 239 It is no wonder that women, in their helplessness and frustration, their own confusions, turn upon such men, hurting them and making them miserable.
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21 272 Too, slavery, by removing certain inhibitions and demands alien to a female's deepest nature, generally results in an increase in her beauty and energy; she is no longer as constricted and miserable, and needs no longer spend energy fighting to suppress herself and her natural desires, surely a grot...
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Book 13. (19 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 76 Glandularly sufficient men, strong, lustful, and vital, without their slave girls, would find Earth a very dismal place, a miserable and unhappy sexual desert.
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4 201 On the other hand, obviously, the girl would not be likely to linger in the place where she had stolen the she-urt's brief, miserable rag.
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5 142 How miserable, superficially, she seemed in her slavery.
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5 507 Sometimes when a woman is freed, for one reason or another, as can happen upon rare occasions, she becomes, sometimes after an initial elation, restless, and later, miserable.
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11 306 "What a miserable, worthless thing you are," said the girl with the whip to her.
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12 381 The blond-haired girl, miserable, still blindfolded, knelt by the wall.
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12 533 "What a miserable, worthless thing you are," he said.
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13 359 "In the end, the slave craves her own conquest, and is incomplete and miserable without it".
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13 755 To be naked before him, on my knees, makes me miserable with the desire for his touch".
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14 259 "I am too miserable.
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14 601 Miserable, she did so, her hair falling before her face, trembling, her sweet breasts pendant.
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27 188 Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...
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27 256 "It is also said they are the lowest and most miserable of slaves, and are to be used as such".
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27 267 "I am among the lowest and most miserable of slaves.
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34 520 "I note, too, Master," she said, "that this tether is somewhat longer than would be needful to secure a miserable slave".
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34 863 "It is perfectly acceptable for you to lie alone in the darkness, miserable, tormented by your needs," I said, "for you are a slave".
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34 918 "How miserable it would be for men if you were not a slave".
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48 188 He indicated the line of miserable, trussed talunas.
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51 141 Some of the mosaics showed the clothing of miserable captives being taken from them; others showed them being tied and whipped, doubtless to introduce them quickly and mercifully to the concept of being under discipline; others showed them being marked by hot irons and placed in collars; others show...
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Book 14. (28 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 713 "You look ill, miserable," I said.
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1 888 I was miserable.
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1 950 I was silent, miserable.
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1 968 I was miserable.
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1 970 I was miserable.
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1 1075 Then, suddenly, I was again the male of Earth, apologetic, miserable, self-castigating, overcome with anguish.
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2 341 "The termination of his miserable existence," said one of the men, "death".
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3 47 I did so, miserable with embarrassment.
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3 80 What a miserable fate awaited the lovely Miss Henderson and, of course, her fellow captives, or slaves.
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4 164 As I lifted my head, miserable, cringing, my back and legs lacerated and bloody, I saw, truly noticing it for the first time, a deep mark, a lovely mark, about an inch and a half high and a half of an inch wide, incised in Lola's left thigh.
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5 54 In comparison Tela had been very businesslike and efficient with me, treating me with no more than the same severity and contempt than would have been accorded to any other miserable slave who might have been in her power.
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6 24 They would not be easy with men so miserable as to fall into their power as slaves.
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7 26 I was not even, for some reason, miserable that I had been brought to Gor.
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7 39 But if the people, truly, ruled, why and how could their planet's processes proceed in such obvious ways inimical to their welfare? How could their world be so miserable for the people if they were truly kings within it? But perhaps they were not kings within it.
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7 54 Why was I not more miserable than I was that I had been brought to Gor? I pondered this.
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7 70 I remembered Earth, with its pettiness, its greed and vanity, its smugness, its pretensions, its pollutions and poisons, its teeming, crowded, miserable populations, and its endemic fears, fears such as that of not having enough energy to spin the wheels of an exorbitant and largely unnecessary tech...
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7 216 I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an in...
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7 552 I realized then she was waiting for me to take her by the arms and throw her on her back on the straw, claiming her, subjecting her to the ruthless domination, sometimes tender, sometime harsh, always uncompromising, accorded by a master to one who is only a miserable slave.
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8 72 I knelt, naked, miserable, under the blows.
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10 31 I lay there, alone, miserable, I conjecture, for some Ahn.
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10 78 I put down my head, miserable.
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11 124 "I am only a miserable slave," she said.
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12 339 Indeed, even the miserable females in the fields, or those in the kitchens and laundries, know that upon occasion they will be used, usually chained, to slake the lust of their foremen or masters.
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12 453 "Seven eight!" "Show yourself to them as you were in the room of preparation," said the Lady Tima to the Lady Tendite, "when you pretended to be a miserable little Earth-girl slave".
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12 527 I put my head down, miserable.
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23 7 "Yes," I had said, miserable in the straw, lying on my stomach, sick.
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34 37 The miserable slave moaned.
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34 41 She shuddered, and looked after the miserable slave, being conducted to the whipping post.
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Book 15. (15 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 335 I hope, rather, that you will see fit to show kindness to a miserable girl in bondage".
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4 600 "You seem to speak enviously of the miserable women in bondage".
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9 18 Inside, sitting on a wooden bench, behind stout, closely-set bars, miserable, clutching sheets about themselves, some with glazed eyes, sat some ten girls.
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11 30 I am only a miserable slave".
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11 115 "Master is cruel to tease a miserable slave," said the girl.
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11 121 "You are cruel to a miserable slave," she said.
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11 353 We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated and sickened men and women, useful tools in the schemes of others, of cunning and pathological frustrates, themselves often as confused and miserable as the uncritical creatures they would systematically delude.
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13 173 "I envy the miserable creatures".
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14 50 She descended from the platform and, naked and miserable, heeled me as I threaded my way slowly from the place.
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17 57 "I would rather they put thoughts from their heads," she said, "which made them miserable and weak.
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17 58 How can thoughts be good which make men miserable and weak? How can thoughts be wrong which make men great and strong? I am a slave in your arms.
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20 13 Then, after two Ahn of searching, I had found her here, near the wharves, unattended, in the tavern of Hibron, a miserable tavern, a low place, called the Pirate's Chain.
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24 197 And I acknowledge myself as only a miserable slave.
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24 444 "What miserable weaklings they are," she said.
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32 218 A miserable looking crew, I thought.
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Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 169 How could Ar, I asked myself, compete with such men and ships upon the mighty Vosk? Laughable were the miserable, squat ships of Ar's Station when compared with the sleek carnivores of Port Cos or, indeed, those of Ragnar Voskjard.
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9 227 If they could not, or would not, understand me, then I would take my vengeance on them, making them miserable! Even in my hatred, of course, I could never forget that in a corner of my heart, kneeling, there languished a love slave.
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14 42 "Two who were involved in this miserable business," said Policrates, "surmount now, as stripped and helpless prisoners, the shearing blades of my vessel".
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15 67 Then, angry, miserable, I again hung helplessly on the blade, scarcely moved some inches upon it.
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17 883 I am only a miserable Earth-girl slave.
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17 895 "Yes, Master," she sobbed, "but I am the most miserable of slaves!" "Why is that?" I asked.
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18 528 As I am the most miserable and lowest of your slaves, let it be, if it pleases you, the smallest and meanest of your kennels.
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21 812 "How could you expect an Earth girl, one literate, well-read, informed, educated, a student in a sophisticated discipline, and so on, to admit even to herself, let alone to another, that she is miserable and frustrated, and lonely, and sexually and emotionally starved, and fearfully unhappy—a...
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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13 489 How miserable I was then to have awakened and found the palace gone, and the chains vanished.
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13 502 When reproved by them, for one thing or another, I would sometimes cry, in secret, I was so miserable.
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Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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7 110 It seemed a shame that Winyela was so miserable.
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7 215 "I am miserable," she said.
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13 154 "A miserable slave hopes that her pathetic efforts to be pleasing to her master have been successful," she said.
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14 191 Such females, I adjudged, from seeing Radish, and the men, would be unpleasant and rigid, or, more likely, dismal, miserable, drab, lackluster and uninteresting.
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14 204 How miserable and frustrated they might be, to see a real man, and, their womanhood awakening, to know that they, Waniyanpi females, must continue, as though nothing had happened, to devote themselves to gardening and hypocrisy.
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14 388 They are miserable, and filled with hate".
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14 499 "I am miserable," she wept.
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37 230 When at last the miserable slave must breathe she must swallow the beverage.
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40 544 I lied! I tried in my heart to be a man! I pretended to be a man, but I am not a man! I am a woman! I have never been other than a woman! I wanted to be what I was not, not what I was! But I was miserable, and unhappy! I wanted to be the wielder of power, when I should have been subject to power! I ...
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40 778 "Accordingly, miserable, embonded slut," I said, "you must speak the truth".
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44 423 "Why else do you think that you and your miserable slave have been brought forth and roped so prominently to these posts at the edge of the escarpment? That you may, as it amuses us, see what you have brought about!" "No!" cried Iwoso.
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48 57 "Yes!" she cried, miserable.
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Book 19. (23 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 465 And what did that mean, really, other than the fact that we were healthy, alive, vital, needful, and females? Was it truly better to be sickly, confused, neurotic, miserable, depressed, and sexually inert? But perhaps I was, indeed, more needful or vital than many other women.
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3 518 The thought of miserable, competitive, crowded, frustrated, hostile populations crossed my mind.
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6 380 I knew only that I felt empty, miserable and unfulfilled.
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6 453 After supper, when I was alone in my quarters, I was furious and miserable.
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6 511 On Gor my entire mind and body, in the fullness of its femininity, had come alive, but yet, in spite of my new vitality and health, I was in many ways keenly miserable and unfulfilled.
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6 519 On Earth it had been as though I was miserable and uncomfortable without, often, really knowing why, whereas on Gor I had suddenly become aware that I was terribly hungry.
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6 545 "I sometimes feel so empty, so miserable, so uncomfortable, so meaningless, so restless".
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6 603 Why was Susan happy, and I miserable? She was only a collared slave.
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10 221 I felt miserable, and terrified and sick.
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14 26 Often in that miserable journey, suspended in the cage, carried between jeering crowds, I had been pelted with small stones, garbage and dung.
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16 111 I was weak and miserable.
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16 154 I was so miserable.
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22 53 You would go to free persons!" "I am hungry and miserable," I said.
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23 148 It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced...
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23 290 Too, no longer now need I forage for food and shelter as an ignorant, naked fugitive, often fearful, miserable, cold and hungry.
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26 275 I would have been miserable to be in the charge of such.
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30 138 I was bewildered, and confused and miserable.
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31 133 I was miserable.
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32 223 The rope was then secured, and, miserable and frightened, I swung slowly back and forth in the darkness of the sack until, eventually, there was little more movement than that connected with the tension of the rope, and my own small, occasional movements.
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33 666 I must never let him suspect that I was in my heart an enflamed, passionate slave, a miserable, worthless barbarian, deserving only of his contempt and abuse.
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36 231 "I'm glad I made you miserable!" I said, angrily.
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36 344 It is pleasant to provoke men, to arouse them, to make them uneasy and miserable, and then refuse to quench the flames we have deliberately ignited.
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36 871 I now needed men, and was miserable without them.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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1 519 I did not know what true men were until I came to Gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and fulfillments which are mine, ...
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2 927 Better surely to be the silked love slave of a private master about whose feet one learns to curl lovingly than to spend long Ahn over tubs of scalding water, or, yoked, bent over, again and again, miserable, carrying water to mine slaves, or standing aching, seemingly endlessly, at a loom to which ...
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6 904 "I am only a miserable slave, a rightful slave, one pleading for her collar".
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10 605 Too, it is cold and miserable".
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12 694 "Shall you be sold for sleen feed? Shall we contrive exquisite tortures for you, say, cutting off bits of your body and cooking them, and forcing you to eat them, until from the loss of blood and tissue, you die, or should we bind you and sew you in a sack, your head exposed, with rabid urts, or sha...
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16 314 "It seems our suspicions are unfounded," said Petrucchio, relieved, "for these are not Lana, Tana and Bana, miserable escaped slaves, but the ladies Rowena, Telitsia and Bina, of Pseudopolis".
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16 671 "If you surrender them promptly, without a fight, I may be tempted to spare your miserable lives".
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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7 42 "Men are beasts," she said, "tarsks, miserable drunken sleen!" Tula and Feiqa, too, however, if it had to be known, had not been feeling too well.
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26 1800 "But in another I think I am perhaps one of the most miserable and poorest".
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26 2010 There are few things as frustrating, and miserable, for a woman as not being able to speak.
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Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 132 I was lonely and miserable! I wondered if somewhere in nature there might lie not only an explanation for these needs, so seemingly mysterious and inexplicable, given my environment, my education, my training, my conditioning, so different from them, but also some dark complement to them, some respo...
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3 405 I looked down, miserable.
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3 549 I put down my head, miserable.
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4 29 But I knew that I was in pain, sharp, miserable pain, fiery, burning pain, put on me by a man, and that that was real.
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4 186 In my heart I am a primitive woman, one who has been bred upon from the time of caves, an ancient woman, a Medieval woman, a Nineteenth-century woman, a natural woman, a needful, loving woman! I was as alien, and sorrowful, and lost, and miserable, in my world as you were!" "Liar!" he cried.
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8 134 I wondered if the others could possibly be as miserable as I was.
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8 145 Surely none of the girls could be as miserable as I! But I saw them, in their misery, in their cruel discomfort, regard me as well.
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8 147 We were all terribly miserable.
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8 398 Still I was so distraught, so much numbed, so much in shock, so despondent, so much in despair, so miserable over my rejection by Teibar, that I was not even remotely as responsive as I would normally have been.
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9 393 Then again I was awkward and fearful, and only an Earth girl, miserable, confused and terrified, cringing in the sawdust of a slave block on an alien world.
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10 331 Then, in a bit, I heard a cry and the jerking of harness, and that wild scream again, so piercing, hurting my ears, making me again leap and squirm, terrified, miserable, in my bonds.
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11 1426 I sank back, miserable, on the furs.
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14 160 "Thus I must decide whether I will deny, and futilely fight, my slavery, dividing myself, and making myself miserable, or acknowledge what is in my secret heart, confessing it openly, and yielding to it, wholly, and irreservedly, then finding my happiness and fulfillment in it".
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14 333 I screamed, miserable.
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34 431 How glorious it was that he had made me his slave! How few women of Earth, I thought, had known the joy of being taken in hand and mastered! How I pitied the women of Earth, so confused and unhappy, so miserable and not knowing why! How fitting, and marvelous, I thought, that I, on this world a prop...
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 727 She should be miserable and unhappy!" "Doubtless, if you owned her," I said, "you could make her so".
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11 68 In short, in fear and trepidation, reluctant and miserable, she will kneel before him, and remind him of her deserts.
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11 102 His role is not to injure or damage the slave, or make her miserable or terrorize her, except when it serves his purposes, but rather to see to it that she learns to fulfill herself in the beauties of bondage, so right for the human female, to see to it that she becomes his perfect slave.
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13 21 In the citadel now, hungry and miserable, besides the defenders, were crowded hundreds of women and children.
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15 468 I would find that disgusting and terrible, as well as ultimately barren and miserable.
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16 9 Lady Claudia followed, closely, frightened, miserable.
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16 21 Lady Publia, feeling the cool air and wind, emitted a long, helpless, miserable groan.
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17 211 The slave who had been Lady Publia, its burden by means of the ropes, the sheath and sword belt, twisting wildly, throwing her head about as though bewildered, as though she would try to see through the hood, uttered a tiny, terrified, questioning, miserable, helpless noise, her oral orifice, of cou...
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21 863 "If it were truly a fate worse than death," I said, "or even so miserable or unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand their happiness, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their masters".
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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14 280 I lay back, miserable, in the sand.
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17 293 Again, miserable, I moved the leather over and over again against the heavy projection.
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18 38 Indeed perhaps the men, scattered about, here and there, miserable on the bar, thought the flies had gone.
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19 1263 She squirms, she moves her knees, she is helpless, she is miserable.
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28 28 The men of Ar, sullen, hungry, defeated, resigned, exhausted, miserable, terrorized, sick, scarcely seemed to notice her.
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37 168 Too, some people seem to think that is good for plants, and the way they should be, miserable, neurotic, unfulfilled, tortured, lonely, sick, and so on.
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37 344 They now so desperately needed it! How different from the free woman, restless, ignorant and miserable, ensconced within the icy fortress of her pride and egotism! Both were doubtless clinging now to their use-masters, begging them to hold them for a little while longer, to permit them to subside, t...
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 690 And I thought then, too, sadly, of the women of Earth, so many of them so confused, so miserable, so unhappy, women not knowing what they were, or what they might be, women trapped in a maze of ultimately barren artifices, women subjected to inconsistent directives and standards, women subjected to ...
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9 432 I was miserable.
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12 121 At night she will lie sleepless, red-eyed and miserable, lonely, neglected, grieving in her chains.
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19 627 She looked up at me, agonized, miserable.
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19 639 It seemed I was afire! I choked with misery! I was naked! Men were moving about! They could see me! What of my reputation? I struggled! I was afraid! I was angry! I was outraged! I was miserable! I had been betrayed! I was helpless! I fought the net! I fought the net! But I could not free myself!" "...
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19 734 Then I felt futile, helpless and miserable.
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23 42 "Seremides," cried Boots, "tried to throw this miserable rock into a wastes vat.
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24 182 "You were helpless," I said, "miserable, confused, disoriented".
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26 288 She, as her needfulness increases within her, as she becomes more lonely and miserable, more desperate, is left muchly on her own, to wheedle and beg, and such.
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27 568 It is rumored that one of the most miserable of slaveries on Gor is that of a woman's female serving slave.
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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8 30 How frightful the dream! How embarrassing, how terrifying, to learn that one cannot help oneself, that one is astonishingly, helplessly vital! And how miserable and embarrassed I had been when I had learned that this information, of such intimacy and delicacy, and secrecy, had been publicly recorded...
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8 591 I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis...
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11 130 Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, w...
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11 1811 I was miserable.
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12 338 Let their free women rant at them, contradict them, and attempt to make them miserable, for whatever strange reasons might prompt them to do so, but before them, before such men, I am only, and can be only, a slave.
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12 556 I then, exhausted and miserable, threw myself to my stomach upon them, weeping".
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14 430 "I am miserable," she said.
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14 450 She looked down, miserable.
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29 145 What then was to be her fate? If she were not simply fed to sleen, it would be, presumably, oh, miserable fate, the collar! Well, you can well imagine our reluctance to see such a fine lady, and one so special to us, being simply put upon a block, somewhere, and who would know where, and being sold ...
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29 735 Free women may make men miserable, and even attempt to destroy them, but slaves may not do so.
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31 521 How absurd, if for so little, not even comprehended, our throats might be cut! No wonder we were so miserable, so frightened! The peasant stood there now like a beast at bay.
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35 10 I was miserable, and alone in my fear.
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41 163 I was miserable.
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45 23 It was a ring collar, hammered about my neck, suitable for the lowest, the most miserable, the most worthless of slaves.
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46 573 How frightened I was, and how miserable, whipped.
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Book 27. (48 results) Prize of Gor

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25 224 "How pathetic and miserable to be a slave! How glorious it would be to be free, so that I might tantalize and taunt him, that I might make him suffer, that I might make him miserable, that I might punish and torment him, if only with the glimpse of an ankle, with all the cleverness and all the power...
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25 465 I am so miserable, so terribly miserable!" She thought of the scorn with which Mirus would regard her, the contempt in which he would hold her, she, his former teacher, with her once smug, prim attitudes, now the helpless victim of slave needs.
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27 1325 How miserable she would have been under the lash! Was there no end, she wondered, to the hatred, the vengeance, of Mirus? But how little he understood her! In bringing her to Gor and the collar he had undoubtedly intended, for his satisfaction, his pleasure, his amusement and revenge, to place her f...
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2 168 Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the...
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3 9 She lay there for a time, trying not to move, wanting to again lose consciousness, she felt so miserable.
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6 110 She was miserable with hunger that night.
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12 228 No, she said, I am here because it amuses him to put me here, his former teacher, one he perhaps found, to his irritation, troublesomely, even disturbingly attractive, to put me here in this terrible place, here in the laundry, miserable, sweating, no more than a naked work-slave, set to the meanest...
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12 309 She had been free, and had been free and lonely, free and unwanted, free and unnoticed, free and undesired, free and terribly miserable.
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16 400 She remembered her helplessness, she kneeling, facing away, head to the rug, hands clasped behind the back of her neck, astonished, affrighted, outraged, shocked, disbelieving, miserable, yet somehow simultaneously elated, willing, accepting, submitting, and the power of his hands on her body.
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16 619 Are we not, fulfilled, in our collars, a thousand times more free than they? Kneeling, in position, chained by the left ankle to a ring, her throat enclosed in a heavy, clumsy, ringed, iron collar, on a cement sales shelf, before Targo, sensitive to her nudity, and miserable, she noted one and anoth...
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16 700 These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash.
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16 790 She, too, here, was for sale, up for sale in this cheap, miserable market, in this terrible place.
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17 8 Targo had perhaps realized that miserable slaves with roughened skin, scarcely able to move, red and peeling, would have less sales appeal.
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17 705 Often the freest are the most lost, confused and miserable.
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18 147 The first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn.
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20 1 Coffled Ellen, choking in the dust raised by the clawed feet of restless saddle tharlarion, stirring, grunting, snorting, coming and going, seemingly all about her, miserable in the heat, shutting her eyes against the dust and glare, the sun burning on her back, weeping, the tears mixing with the g...
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20 9 She felt miserable, and dizzy.
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20 40 Ellen was confused, and miserable.
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20 102 I am miserable.
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20 136 She was miserable.
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20 513 She was miserable, and felt helpless.
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20 1039 Quickly, as she approached them, miserable, on the chain, covered with dust, she put her head down and brought her hair before her face, to conceal her features.
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21 126 Beside him, chained to him, was Fel Doron! Ellen hurried on, miserable.
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21 132 Surely Portus Canio was miserable enough.
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21 186 whom she had been, she who had specialized in gender studies, she who had been so smug and haughty, she who had been so proud of her degree and her publications, she who had been respected, even esteemed, for her unquestioned political orthodoxies, she who had been invited to attend many conferences...
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21 216 The miserable line, moving slowly, carried large earthen jars on their shoulders, presumably filled with water drawn from the stream.
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21 222 It seemed that the miserable occupants of the chain could scarcely cry out in pain, or groan under the blows.
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22 98 Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau...
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24 282 She was miserable.
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24 645 Why did you have to come here, and make me miserable, reminding me of your imperious strength and mastery! I will go to a richer master! I do not think you could afford a girl whose lot number is less than seven or eight hundred.
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24 697 How could he do other than hold her in contempt? Then, exhausted, miserable, aroused, tearful, she, in a sudden swirl of music, concluded her dance, hurling herself to the sand, to her left side, her legs drawn up, she on her left elbow, her right hand lifted piteously to the crowd.
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25 458 Please be merciful to your slave, future master! I am suddenly so miserable.
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25 469 But I am miserable.
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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.
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25 1180 Not to him! To anyone but him! He hates me! I hate him! I hate him! Oh, Ellen, miserable slave! He has bought you! He owns you! You belong to him! You belong to Selius Arconious! It is his collar that you must wear! She put her face in her hands, weeping.
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26 1615 "Squirm in them, by yourself, cold and miserable, alone in the woods, tied by your neck to a tree".
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27 435 She was miserable.
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27 1326 And so it had been his intention to inflict upon her what he supposed would be the most miserable of lives for a human female, and particularly for one such as she, a life of unutterable terror, misery, lamentation, humiliation, and shame, the life of a female slave.
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27 1337 And it can be miserable to be a slave, of course, thought Ellen.
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27 1572 She then knelt there, miserable, in the shadows beneath the wagon bed, bound, roped in place.
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27 2413 The wounded man who was with the company of Mirus lay bound, weak, miserable, unnoticed, on the grass.
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27 3470 "It is a far different, far sadder, far more miserable world than this one, yours," said Mirus.
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28 59 Is he so arrogant, so sure of me! Perhaps I shall run away! I could show him! I could teach him not to take me for granted! Does he think I am a slave? But, alas, I am a slave! Let him awaken and find me gone! How he treats me! I do not want to be a slave! I am miserable! But where could I, a slave,...
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29 383 "Let us speak no more of your pathetic, miserable, tragic world," said Selius Arconious.
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30 28 Why should we be happy and they be miserable? Is it not because we have found our way home, and they are still lost in the deserts of artifice? It is the paradox of the collar, thought Ellen.
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30 50 Some Goreans seem to prefer Earth women as slaves; others prefer native Gorean women; I would not think it would make much difference; they are all women; doubtless it depends on the particular woman and man, on the particular slave and master, on the particular "chemistry," so to speak; on the othe...
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30 502 First, some free women, disconsolate and lonely, unhappy, miserable, deprived of sex, starved for love, distressed with the numerous circumscriptions and constraints which confine them, realizing the boredom, the emptiness, of their lives, "court the collar".
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30 748 Does she not make a lovely pet? Do not subject her to meaningless cruelty or she will be confused and miserable.
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Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

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2 64 Free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even ...
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4 94 Little wonder then, he thought, that so many of the women of Earth languish, deprived, in sexuality's polar wastes, that so many suffer seemingly inexplicable chronic ailments, that so many are mired in boredom or depression, that so many are twisted in neurosis, that so many are frustrated, miserab...
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31 10 Even if she were to be freed now she could never be more than an unhappy slave, a miserable slave pretending to be a free woman.
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32 455 I will lash her into a terrified, miserable, excellent serving slave".
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34 29 "I am miserable, Master," she said, "and hungry.
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34 150 I want to be well mastered! I need to be well mastered! I beg to be well mastered! I would be miserable were I not well mastered!" "Any man can master you," said Cabot.
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43 325 Clearly Lita, shaken, now stripped, whether she should of or not, felt miserable, reduced, shamed, humiliated, and worthless, before a free woman, and before Grendel and her master.
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51 90 When a society is seized by the ill-constituted, the miserable, the sick, the self-fearing, the weak, the haters, and such, it is natural they would mold, as they can, their world in their own pathological image.
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55 372 She lay on her belly before him, miserable and filthy, in the tattered and stained shred of her tiny garment, weak, doubtless starving, her small hands fastened behind her in the slave bracelets, Statius' rope on her neck.
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64 112 After several days, miserable and half starving, still helplessly braceleted, she had stumbled upon a womb tunnel, in which she took shelter, and in which she managed to feed on the remains of small scavengers and compete with them for the nourishing blood ensuing so liberally from the rent wombs, c...
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66 77 "They are miserable with cold, and the very rope on their neck is stiff and frozen".
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75 50 The slave, miserable, nodded, affirmatively.
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77 27 "I was a miserable and foolish slave.
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Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 493 "What a miserable lot is yours," I said, "that of helpless, abject bondage".
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9 190 "What are you doing, you wanton slut? How dare you! Do you think I am a gross, lustful beast! I am a noble free woman, you miserable, disgusting, salacious hussy, you abject, collared she-tarsk! I am insulted! You will pay for that! Bring me the whip!" "Yes, Mistress," weeps the slave, and hurries t...
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10 283 The prisoner of such a device can make only tiny, miserable sounds.
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11 381 "Commonly," I said, "the bondage of the stable is not miserable, or dreadful, as the stable girls have proper tools for their work, and such.
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13 271 And finally the slave, sobbing, and groveling, trembling and shuddering, bruised, miserable, her pride broken, her spirit vanquished, well informed now that whatever she might once have been, she was now no more than a slave, wholly submitted, and helpless, crawled to the feet of the Ubara, kissing ...
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13 428 It is a miserable slave who is kept as a mere body.
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19 328 It is said that there is only one thing more miserable than a master without a slave, and that is a slave without a master.
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22 558 Is it not amusing, an exercise in power, though one somewhat cruel? Let him see to it that she is distraught, confused, uncertain, and miserable.
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25 172 It was not impossible that enemies, one or more, concealed, terrified, hungry, miserable, might be in the vicinity.
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25 270 Few things are more seductive than a beautiful woman squirming on her belly before you, miserable in her need, her lips pressed fervently to your feet, begging for your caress.
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28 40 How miserable, I thought, they must be.
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28 136 We had assured ourselves thusly that they were well, or, at least, no more miserable than the others.
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29 28 The march had certainly been cold enough and miserable enough, even for the men.
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38 541 Certainly Sumomo and Hana, even though warmly wrapped, seemed miserable, in the background.
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38 562 The fellow who had been in the bow yanked on a chain leash and the first of the figures was yanked its feet, and drawn rudely over the gunwales, and it fell, helpless, and miserable, on the sand.
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42 70 Tajima, Pertinax, and I, shuddering and miserable, then availed ourselves of blankets.
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Book 30. (16 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 845 "I awakened several hours later, toward noon, as though I might be in my own compartments, waiting for my girls to open the draperies and bring me steaming black wine and fresh, honeyed pastries, but then, suddenly, flooding back to me were the horrors of the past two days, the roof of the Central C...
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3 1102 "I was helpless and miserable, and in pain, and overcome with the enormity of what had been done with me, and was scarcely able to comprehend the radical transformation which had taken place in my fortunes, from a noble, lofty, exalted, free woman, a legal person, and one of wealth and station, to t...
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3 1478 "To taunt men," she snapped, "to make them miserable, to let them see what they could not have!" "Most," I said, "might have afforded forty copper tarsks".
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3 1507 "Death by impalement," I said, "is doubtless a most miserable death, and not the swiftest.
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7 63 They were not, after all, males, sturdy quarry slaves, hardened oar slaves, and such, but females, mere females, miserable and pathetic, soft and small, helpless in their collars and shackles, only frightened slave-block goods, so desirably and wonderfully different from men.
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7 97 Many were the shallow pans about, and buckets, utilized by the frightened, miserable, retching slaves.
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10 35 Yea, it is a miserable time, the Waiting Hand, but I tell you nothing.
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10 86 I then, weak, and miserable, fell asleep.
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12 16 Miserable, too, I thought, would be the small thing bound below.
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15 221 I could well anticipate her relief, perhaps delight, to find the man she most feared so reduced, so miserable, so helpless.
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19 15 It must be miserable, I supposed, in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas, as well, the penned beasts sweating on their mats, in their chains.
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21 406 "No, no, Master!" cried the miserable slaves, and they rose to their feet, many sobbing, to return to their keeping areas.
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28 154 The slaves, miserable, trying to hold themselves erect, each holding a dish, emerged from behind the screen.
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30 144 Its likelihood would have been much increased given the miserable return of the exploratory force and the arrival of enemy troops, in force, in the vicinity.
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34 198 In moments, startled, disbelieving, she had rolled, twisting, and miserable, sobbing, crying out for mercy, under the blows of the switch.
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37 873 "I want her! I want her, wholly! I want to own her, completely! Let herself then discover herself, and know herself, as that for which nature has designed her, a man's slave!" "And if you owned her," he said, "and she writhed in her chains before you, miserable in the throes of slave fires, and begg...
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Book 31. (19 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 262 Perhaps you are miserable, bored, unsatisfied.
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4 547 We looked at one another, miserable.
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5 73 But is our lot so miserable? Men and women are different, very different.
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8 975 The former Lady Persinna stood, miserable, small, a slave, the sheet clutched about her.
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8 1035 Three or four of the fellows who had been at the platform were following the pair, jeering at the miserable slave.
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8 1604 I was still on the floor, on all fours, miserable, in pain.
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8 1624 I was not sure he would remember the miserable, frightened slave purchased in the Metellan district.
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9 316 But I was miserable.
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10 10 It took only a startled, miserable instant to recall the occasion of my loss of consciousness, and one of the first sights to greet me were the eyes of that enormous, crouching beast, regarding me, peering out from within that dark, loose, blanket-like robe and hood within which he concealed, as he ...
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10 128 I then lay quietly, enfolded in its mighty arms, miserable, and it moved swiftly, but warily, along the dark street.
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10 931 The next day, about the Seventh Ahn, miserable and sore, walking stiffly, I had returned to the second floor of the house of Epicrates.
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10 983 Certainly I would not have wished him to see me as I was then, stiff and aching, miserable and bruised.
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12 198 "No, Mistress!" I then seized up the handles of the buckets and, step by step, slowly, carefully, for the weight, and that no water be spilled, frightened, miserable, made my way toward the shop of Epicrates.
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16 52 I was uneasy, of course, for a master's hands on my body, for which I subtly longed, but I was in no way in the sorry straits of many miserable girls, the conflagrations of whose slave fires periodically plunged them into acute torment.
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18 815 How helpless and alone, how miserable, one soon is, if placed in the modality of the mute slave! He in whose care I was, and the others, the free persons, ignored me.
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18 1051 "She is miserable! She is penitent! Please, Master!" "It seems," said Master Desmond, "that you two wish to be placed in the modality of the mute slave, as well".
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21 61 I was miserable, and his hands were strong, and I was kajira! "Allison," said a voice, pleasantly.
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49 395 I then, shaken that I had been robbed, miserable in the pain of my bruising, distraught that I had failed to return home with the package, frightened that I would be punished, poured out, in a torrent of tears what had occurred.
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52 589 "They can, of course," he said, "be miserable, know agony, suffer recurrent, excruciating discomfort".
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Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

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8 108 She now lay at the ring, a miserable, punished slave.
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8 256 She would be incomplete and miserable without a master.
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9 1 The voyage to the north, I gather from Brundisium, had taken several days, and for us, kept most of the time in a lower portion of the ship, in darkness, on damp sand, unable even to stand upright, was unspeakably miserable.
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9 67 So, cold, wet, and shivering, miserable, we went to "position," kneeling back on our heels, our backs straight, our heads up, looking ahead, our knees spread, as the slaves we were, the palms of our hands down on our thighs.
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14 213 It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i...
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15 768 I was angry, and miserable.
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17 78 How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl...
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17 114 How horrifying it must be for one of these lofty free women, hitherto so exalted, privileged, and superior, hitherto so smug, petulant, arrogant, and demanding, hitherto so incomparably, so insufferably proud, if she should, to her horror, undergo a catastrophic reversal of fortune, if she should fi...
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20 79 You are a natural slave, a slave in your very nature, a needful chattel, one miserable and unfulfilled otherwise, a needful chattel requiring a master".
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27 19 I stood there in the darkness, my feet in the water and leaves, cold and miserable, and now, again, hungry, very hungry, the rain streaming from my body.
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29 164 Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
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29 253 I could not cry out, for the cruelty of the gag, but tiny, startled, miserable sounds escaped me.
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37 141 How I remembered much of this from my former world, when I had lain in my bed for hours at a time, restless and miserable, knowing myself a slave, but a slave without a master.
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37 156 "Do you think I would permit you the ignominy, the degradation, the raptures, of the kajira?" Darla, laying on her side, miserable, her body well inscribed with the bright records of Tuza's displeasure, looked up at her, confused, and frightened.
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42 96 I would suppose that most "first girls" are judicious and fair but some, doubtless, abuse their authority, have their favorites, distribute ornaments, cosmetics, silks, candies, pastries, delicacies, and such selectively, and make life miserable in a variety of ways for others, less favored, with re...
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43 762 Be miserable, mighty Master! I am Mistress! I amkajira!" "She-urt, she-tarsk!" I said.
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50 600 Walked away! I was nothing! I was scorned! I was miserable, distraught, devastated, furious, helpless, my hopes vanished, my world collapsed! All the seething obstinacy my world had conditioned into me erupted; all the lies and falsities of my former world reasserted themselves, proclaiming nature a...
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50 764 "Speak!" said the guard, shaking the miserable gowned slave by the arm, almost causing her to lose her footing.
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50 839 "Beg her forgiveness, as what you are, a lowly, miserable slave".
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Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

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30 727 I did not think her hair was all that miserable now, as Tajima had tried to remedy the vengeful butchery of his earlier barbering, or, at any rate, not all that miserable, at least for a field slave.
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2 47 Might not some survivors, lost, miserable, desperate, cold, and starving, return, searching for food, perhaps hoping to be rescued? I should have been there.
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12 437 "You would not expect something this miserable, this stinking and foul, to be brought into his presence," said the voice.
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13 483 Finally, unable to stand things longer, distraught, frightened, miserable, she may take to courting the collar, traversing high bridges at night, moving on dismal streets after dark, wandering unescorted outside the walls, renting rooms in cheap inns, booking passage on lightly guarded caravans.
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19 108 "Attend me, field girls, miserable urts, barbarian beasts," said the Ashigaru.
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32 118 I did not know what lay without, in the back, but I did not envy the miserable, fear-stricken bandits who, crying out, burst outward, buffeting one another, into the sunlight.
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46 169 It did not take long for a grain of rice to be brought to the officer, who examined it closely, and then, satisfied, holding it between two fingers, placed it carefully on the forehead of the miserable slave.
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46 339 "The noble one divided a grain of rice on the forehead of this miserable creature, but was paid but once".
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58 68 In the morning, following some residue of the previous evening's meal, sumptuous compared to the miserable fare of the chamber of the Kurii, we had begun our search, the object of which was to rejoin Nodachi and locate the trophy room in which, we hoped, might be found weapons.
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Book 34. (25 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 487 But I was miserable.
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6 453 We exchanged frightened, miserable glances.
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9 756 "Are you cold, and miserable?" he asked.
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11 155 I was miserable, leaning forward, thrusting at the pole.
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13 84 What a worthless, miserable slave, I must be, I sometimes thought.
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15 248 I was miserable with cold, in the predawn air.
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17 99 "You know very well, miserable she-tarsk! Remove your tunic.
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23 21 "You are a hot one, as many barbarians," he said, "you pathetic, miserable, neck-ringed tarsk".
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26 85 Accordingly, most nights I lay in my kennel, untouched, and, I confess, as a slave, deprived, and miserable.
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28 23 Miserable, I felt tears running down my cheeks, to and beneath the curved rods of the device fastened on me, the bit drawn back between my teeth.
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30 357 "Have mercy on a poor, miserable, meaningless slave!" "Perhaps you beg?" he inquired.
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33 384 And then it raised its paws once more, thrusting them yet more forward, and then it made a miserable, half choking noise.
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37 113 Something in her carriage, or gait, hastening, yet uncertain, unsteady, suggested she was miserable, or distraught.
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41 125 I then rose, again, to my feet, shaken, miserable.
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45 203 Miserable, I hastened to him, and knelt, and put my body across the table, my head down, and he locked his two hands, tightly, in my hair.
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52 24 I had only wished to prove something to myself, to interest the fellow, to arouse him, and prove to myself that I could make him desire me, surely more than plain Paula, whom I would easily outdo, and then I, satisfied, the point made, having demonstrated my equivalence to, if not superiority to, Pa...
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52 336 I shook with tears, miserable and desolate, empty and lost.
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53 117 How could I face her? I could not even dare meeting her eyes, given what she must now know, the miserable, stupid, petty, pointless thing I had tried to do.
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53 153 I felt miserable and cold.
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56 162 "No," said my master, and I, disconcerted and miserable, forbidden to speak, was reminded that I was a slave.
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60 36 Distraught, miserable, sobbing, I ran to him.
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61 406 Miserable in one sense, but far from disheartened in another, cheered that I might return to the side of my master, to be with him, no matter what might ensue, I made my way back toward the stake.
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63 233 Many times in the past few days, I had felt the urge to throw myself to my belly before Paula, weeping, and beg her forgiveness for the wrong I had so gratuitously done to her, confessing my miserable attempt to seduce Drusus Andronicus.
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63 291 This is not to deny that coffled women, proportional to their stamina, size, and strength, may not be as weary, worn, driven, and miserable as coffled men.
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65 303 Standing in the water, naked, clutching the bars, I felt miserable.
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 161 "What a miserable lot," he said, in English.
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1 254 I lay there, on the stones, clutching the tiny blanket about me, in pain, miserable, my body aching, the chain heavy on my ankle, but I was not discontent.
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3 26 I supposed there must be Earth women who would prefer to be free and gradually grow weak, decrepit, haggard, miserable, and die, but I supposed that there might be some who would not mind retaining their youth and beauty indefinitely, even at the cost of a collar on their neck.
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3 103 Would not their sick society collapse and their miserable world perish if even a hint of manhood were suspected? And so we have an unnatural, artificial world, a shallow, petty world in which men are to be punished for being men and women are mocked and scorned for being women.
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3 106 "But do not the pathetic sluts of that sorry world have something, after all, to commend them, their exquisite features, their smooth, cascading, glossy hair, their pretty necks, waiting for the collar, their soft shoulders, their bellies and breasts, their thighs and ankles, their luscious bodies s...
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3 118 They are miserable with unsatisfied need.
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