| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 24 |
But tonight a pride of larls was hunting, and the cries of the three beasts were driving cries, herding the prey, usually several animals, toward the region of silence, herding them in the direction from which no cries would come, the direction in which the remainder of the pride waited. |
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| 2 | 128 |
Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode". |
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| 3 | 21 |
The Goreans I had seen in the past few weeks had tended to be meticulous in their dress, taking great pride in their appearance, but Torm apparently had better things on which to spend his time. |
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| 3 | 65 |
The Code of the Warrior was, in general, characterized by a rudimentary chivalry, emphasizing loyalty to the Pride Chiefs and the Home Stone. |
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| 4 | 58 |
He was bursting with pride. |
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| 5 | 23 |
My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance. |
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| 9 | 137 |
I have heard she has the temper of a tharlarion and a face to match!" Talena stiffened, her pride offended. |
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| 15 | 114 |
Hitherto I had worn the ring almost arrogantly, but now it seemed to me that discretion, to alter a saying, was the better part of pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 92 |
"Ar the Glorious," he said, weak, but with pride. |
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| 9 | 90 |
They seemed to me to be without energy, without pride, to be flat, dry, crushed men, men without self-respect. |
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| 12 | 85 |
"A handful of bread for a song," was a common Gorean invitation extended to members of the caste, and it might occur on the lips of a peasant or a Ubar, and the poet took great pride that he would sing the same song in both the hut of the peasant and the halls of the Ubar, though it won for him only... |
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| 14 | 42 |
I know this sounds strange, but I believe some animals have pride, and if any did, I knew that this monster was one of them. |
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| 15 | 42 |
Her tarnsmen might be mercenaries, or perhaps men like Thorn, Captain of Tharna, who in spite of their city thought well of themselves and maintained at least the shreds of caste pride. |
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| 19 | 53 |
To my pride none of the men suggested that we follow them, none begged that we might steal our freedom before the general alarm could be given. |
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| 22 | 150 |
Remember your pride and weep. |
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| 23 | 148 |
I gathered that he had not enjoyed the performance of his duty, and that perhaps his heart lay with the rebels, but the pride of his caste had kept him at his post. |
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| 24 | 121 |
You fought for your pride and your freedom, not against that girl". |
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| 24 | 126 |
And Kron looked on the beautiful girl who stood before him with such grace and dignity, with no trace of pride or cruelty, or fear. |
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| 25 | 110 |
The hatred she bore me, her cruelty, her pride, were as tangible as some physical phenomenon, like waves of heat or the forming of ice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 17 |
I had offended her pride. |
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| 16 | 140 |
I think that you may have sensed there was no escape and thus, perhaps as an act of pride, returned to the scene of the letter". |
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| 23 | 20 |
Yet I myself I knew would have preferred to see the assailant and so I found myself wishing that this brief, terrible privilege had been Vika of Treve's, for I remembered her as a woman of courage and pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 254 |
How she had challenged him, how she had walked, how insolent she had been! Perhaps in that moment she thought how amused the man might be could he see her now, that proud girl, now in the Sirik, her head to the pelt of a larl, kneeling to barbarians, begging to be a slave girl; and if she thought of... |
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| 9 | 463 |
Kamchak had, by means of the very pride of Aphris of Turia, of Kamras, and the offended Turians, brought the girl by her own will to the stake of Love War. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 578 |
There was an anger in the song, and a triumph, a defiance and a pride, a pride of men in their city, Glorious Ar. |
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| 17 | 527 |
It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more; Sura's pride and her position in the House, though she was slave, had been resented by many of the men and staff; perhaps even Cernus felt she had overstepped herself; surely he seemed pleased that she would now be hum... |
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| 22 | 142 |
Its feathers lacked the fiery sheen of the young tarn; its beak was not the gleaming yellow of the other birds, but a whitish yellow; its breathing was not that of the other birds; but its eyes were those of the unconquerable tarn, wild, black, fierce; gleaming with pride and fury; determined that n... |
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| 22 | 212 |
And what I saw seemed to be a young bird, in the fullness of his strength, at the pitch of his prime and pride, his cunning and swiftness, his fury and power. |
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| 22 | 261 |
"And pride," added another man. |
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| 24 | 499 |
The garments suggested the slave girl and yet insisted, almost demurely, on the reserve, the pride and dignity of the free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 235 |
I do not think they cared to forsake their piracies, but, too, I think they felt a pride in serving one who was said, now, after the incident of the paga tavern, to possess one of the finest blades in Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 935 |
"Your pride," he said, "that of both of you". |
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| 18 | 938 |
Your pride demanded either the perfection of the myth or the perfection of its most villainous renunciation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 380 |
It was no wonder that some men, even warriors, hated and envied the arrogant, regal tarnsmen, one night rich, the next impoverished, always at the elbow of adventure, and war and pleasure, wearing their pride and their manhood in their walk, in the steel at their side and the look in their eyes. |
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| 11 | 801 |
As I ran through the darkness I suddenly saw, before me, some fifty or sixty yards away, four pairs of blazing eyes, a pride of forest panthers. |
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| 14 | 594 |
How shocking that she should speak so! Had she no pride? If such thoughts were entertained by her, surely she should have carefully concealed them, keeping them as her forbidden secret! I, at least, hated men! But tomorrow one of them would own me—fully. |
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| 15 | 974 |
There was only one thing left to me, in which I might take pride, that I was not as other women. |
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| 15 | 1179 |
How I envied her her freedom, her beauty, her pride, and even the simple opacity of the brief garment she wore. |
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| 16 | 341 |
"You danced your pride, your defiance, your contempt and scorn". |
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| 16 | 422 |
For those moments, briefly mingled with the dancing of my pride, my insolence, my contempt and scorn, I had, not fully aware, yet sensing with fear what I did, in the dance of a slave girl, piteously begged for the love of my master. |
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| 17 | 135 |
He would take every shred of dignity or pride from me, as though a slave girl might be permitted either, and turn me into a thrashing, begging, maddened animal, a woman in heat, the lowest sort of female, a slab of worthless, helpless, writhing, enflamed, kicking slave meat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 364 |
There was incredible pride and superiority in her gaze and carriage. |
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| 10 | 217 |
And I understood then that our simple words for emotions, such as pride, and hate, and fear, are gross and inadequate. |
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| 11 | 198 |
"Disregard," said Marlenus, "the obvious things, her pride, her anger, the clenched fists". |
10 |
| 11 | 227 |
"In her, as yet," said Marlenus, "there is a coldness, an arrogance, a loftiness, a stubborn defiance, a pride, an ice". |
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| 11 | 581 |
Her pride, her obstinacy were gone. |
10 |
| 12 | 112 |
Gorean pride runs deep. |
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| 16 | 35 |
They now marched, at their own pace, their heads high, with pride. |
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| 16 | 47 |
Not only do earrings enhance a woman's beauty, but they speak openly to all, both men and women, regardless of social pressures and repercussions, of the pride and pleasure she takes in her womanhood. |
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| 16 | 320 |
It is interesting to note a woman, in the process of her vending, who attempts, out of self-hatred, or hatred of men, or pride, to conceal this deprivation, this need. |
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| 22 | 745 |
Her pride stood between herself and her womanhood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 375 |
In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is... |
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| 6 | 203 |
But, when the iron had been pulled back, from deep within her flesh, smoking, she, her pride gone, her will shattered, had screamed with pain, long and miserably, revealing herself as only another branded girl. |
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| 7 | 9 |
How incredibly feminine they were, so living and uninhibited and delightful, so utterly fresh, so free, so spontaneous, so open in their emotions and the movements of their bodies; they now moved and laughed and walked, and stood, as women; pride was not permitted them; joy was. |
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| 11 | 208 |
If the Priest-Kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the Priest-Kings might finally be isolated and destroyed. |
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| 13 | 267 |
Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, would have insisted on the fee for his rescue being paid in genuine stones, as a matter of pride. |
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| 21 | 54 |
Her pride is gone, like her clothing, save for brand and collar, stripped away. |
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| 22 | 258 |
When I had been crippled she had derided me; she had expressed contempt, pride; she had then held herself too good for me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 385 |
"There is a difference," laughed Hassan, "between the pride of a free woman and the pride of the slave girl. |
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| 25 | 386 |
The pride of a free woman is the pride of a woman who feels herself to be the equal of a man. |
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| 25 | 387 |
The pride of the slave girl is the pride of the girl who knows that no other woman is the equal of herself". |
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| 1 | 156 |
Further, he has not been conditioned with counterinstinctual value sets, programmed with guilt, taught self-hatred; he has been taught pride and has, in the very air he breathes, imbibed the mastery of females. |
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| 1 | 347 |
"I know the chief of the hunting pride. |
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| 2 | 157 |
Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd... |
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| 4 | 173 |
He lives miserably, of course, unfulfilled, frustrated, and subject to hideous diseases, and has little to console himself with other than the ignorant servility with which he has worn his chains, taking smug, righteous pride in his allegiance to them". |
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| 4 | 282 |
Her eyes shone with pride. |
10 |
| 4 | 584 |
Let her keep that bit of pride, I thought, until some master takes it from her, and she, shattered, prone on the tiles, or submission mat, knows then, truly, she is only slave. |
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| 5 | 752 |
Proud women, their pride stripped from them, belong at the feet of prouder men. |
10 |
| 5 | 794 |
Let such weaklings rejoice in their unmanning, and pride themselves on their lack of virility. |
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| 8 | 133 |
"Slaves are not permitted pride," she said proudly. |
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| 10 | 379 |
The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child... |
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| 14 | 94 |
Tafa, no longer under the eye of her master, the feared Ibn Saran, had a slave girl's pride. |
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| 24 | 476 |
Although we kneel and wear our collars, I think sometimes that we in our bondage are the free, and they, in their pride, and freedom, and in their slippers, and layers of brocade, are the slave". |
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| 24 | 690 |
One of the many pleasures of bondage from the point of view of the female, aside from such things as her pride in her master, her joy in serving, the ecstasies associated with her frequent and profound usage, and such, is understanding herself as, what she is, a feminine woman, a true woman, categor... |
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| 24 | 1024 |
Please forgive me, Master!" Gone now was the pride of lovely Vella. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1140 |
In the glade, in the darkness, among the trees, so much his, I had almost compromised my identity and integrity! I, a girl of Earth, had wanted to yield to him, a harsh barbarian! Was I not a free individual, a person? Had I no pride? How furious I was with myself. |
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| 3 | 300 |
Girls pride themselves on their evasive skills in Girl Catch; they strive with every fiber in their small bodies to be cunning, elusive quarry, not to be easily caught; with delight do they struggle to elude the predator; with relish do they know, belled, their capture and seizure is inevitable. |
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| 4 | 658 |
How misplaced and foolish then seemed my resentment, my petulance, my pride! Such luxuries belonged to free women, not to such as I. |
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| 4 | 675 |
I had no honor to protect, no pride to uphold, for I was slave. |
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| 5 | 8 |
Then, one after the other, she added the freedom veil, or veil of the citizeness, the pride veil, the house veil, and street veil. |
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| 5 | 190 |
Many of the daughters of merchants are proud sorts, for the merchants themselves, by virtue of their power, tend to vanity and pride, and agitate, justifiably or not, for the inclusion of their caste among the high castes of Gor. |
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| 5 | 420 |
The flesh of my face was now concealed from the direct vision of the strong males by only three veils, the pride veil, the veil of the citizeness and the sheer fifth, or last, veil. |
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| 5 | 426 |
"The pride veil will be next, if you do not speak," said the man. |
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| 5 | 433 |
The pride veil was ripped from me. |
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| 6 | 55 |
I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel... |
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| 7 | 1382 |
Then you seemed magnificent in your power and pride". |
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| 7 | 1419 |
"Your feelings, then," he asked, "have been fully engaged, and you are now mine, at my complete mercy, fully and vulnerably, with no shred of pride or dignity left?" "Yes, Master," I whispered. |
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| 9 | 874 |
"I am Tupelius Milius Lactantius, of the Lactantii, of the merchants, of Ar," he said to me, "but we fell upon hard times, and I, though only eight at the time, fell as well, it being my duty, caste discipline, family pride and such". |
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| 9 | 1005 |
Though there are doubtless difficulties involved with caste structure the caste situation lends an individual identity and pride, allies him with thousands of caste brothers, and provides him with various opportunities and services. |
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| 9 | 1008 |
The caste system is not inflexible and there are opportunities for altering caste, but men seldom avail themselves of them; they take great pride in their castes, often comparing others' castes unfavorably to their own; a Gorean's caste, by the time he reaches adulthood, seems to have become a part ... |
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| 13 | 423 |
Free women, desiring to yield, pride themselves on their capacity not to yield, to maintain their quality and integrity; slave girls, on the other hand, are not permitted such luxuries; they, whether they desire to yield or not, must yield, and totally; perhaps free women wish they did not have to b... |
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| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
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| 26 | 611 |
I could also detect a bit of pride in her voice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 |
Hate them for their pride and power. |
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| 1 | 418 |
Then I thrust again and again into her, in the strong, increasingly intense rhythms of a savage master until the collared she of her, once that of a civilized girl, screamed and shuddered, and then lay mine, without dignity or pride, shattered, only a yielded, barbarian slave, in my arms. |
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| 3 | 1340 |
"Is a girl to be permitted no pride?" she asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 224 |
It is a matter of pride for members of that caste to avoid the use of poisoned steel. |
10 |
| 9 | 40 |
"The silly pride of men offends me," said she. |
10 |
| 12 | 39 |
Let her retain for a time a shred of her pride and dignity. |
10 |
| 14 | 71 |
Near her was her mother, Tatkut, beaming her pride in her daughter. |
10 |
| 14 | 253 |
"A man does have his pride," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 358 |
"He encouraged me to try to resist him, that I might keep my pride and freedom". |
10 |
| 15 | 1066 |
"I must have my pride," she said. |
10 |
| 22 | 325 |
"Sleen have their pride". |
10 |
| 24 | 263 |
It was all I could do to keep from crying out with pleasure and delight, and my pride in the skill of the slave I owned. |
10 |
| 24 | 431 |
"Do you leave me no pride?" she wept. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 127 |
It is a premise of the dance that the girl moves and twists, and squirms, in her need, as if she is completely alone, as if her need is known only to herself; then, supposedly, the master surprises her, and she attempts to suppress the helplessness and torment of her needs; then, failing this, surre... |
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| 2 | 165 |
The female slave, in the fullness of her womanhood, and helplessness, attains heights of passion from which the free woman, in her pride and dignity, is forever barred. |
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| 6 | 416 |
I saw something, incipiently, of the joy and pride of the slave girl, the girl who knows that though her body is being placed in bondage her self and womanhood, paradoxically, are being freed—perfectly, completely, utterly. |
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| 13 | 409 |
"You no longer have any pride to guard," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 410 |
"A slave is not permitted pride". |
10 |
| 16 | 210 |
Behind us, further down the workway, too, men were shouting with pride, many lifting their shovels. |
10 |
| 32 | 353 |
"Does the slave have pride?" I asked. |
10 |
| 32 | 812 |
"Am I not to be permitted the least vestige of my pride?" she asked. |
10 |
| 48 | 260 |
Too, as often as not, city pride enters into such matters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1073 |
Gone then was the illusion of her freedom and independence, and her arrogance and pride. |
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| 8 | 32 |
"Perhaps," she said, "those who pride themselves on the denial of their manhood deceive themselves. |
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| 9 | 45 |
I did not tell them that I came from a world in which almost all the males were perfectly tamed, indeed, a world in which males were supposed to pride themselves on their inoffensiveness and agreeability. |
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| 13 | 54 |
In this milieu, then, of suspicion, pride, autonomy and honor, the four cities of Saleria represented a startling and momentous anomaly in the politics of Gor. |
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| 15 | 105 |
There was a pride in her voice. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride. |
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| 18 | 178 |
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, impoverished, ruined, had little now to pride herself on save the name of her family and the splendor of her lineage. |
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| 20 | 193 |
They are not permitted pride. |
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| 22 | 249 |
"How I have despised you in your pride and pretensions, how I hated you, how I held you in contempt! And now you are fully mine, helpless and at my mercy!" The girl sobbed. |
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| 24 | 129 |
A free woman is permitted pride, inertness, petulance, and frigidity; a slave is not. |
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| 27 | 519 |
"That shred of pride, at least, I have," she said. |
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| 34 | 185 |
And the girls themselves, of course, are well aware, those beauties in their collars, the luscious little beasts, that they are an important and precious, and valuable and beautiful, element in Gorean society, domestic animal or no, and accordingly they commonly walk with pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 111 |
Many Gorean women, in their haughtiness and pride, do not choose to have their features exposed to the common view. |
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| 22 | 134 |
Could she have even understood it? Did she know how she was looked at, could she have suspected it, that she was looked at, despite her prescribed garmenture, despite her ideology and views, her smugness, her vaunted pride, as a woman is looked at by a man? Had I not a thousand times, in my mind, se... |
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| 25 | 46 |
They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 705 |
"Would you be seen here," I asked, "as a naked slave, leashed, lying upon the street?" "Slaves have no pride," she said. |
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| 19 | 297 |
"Please give me your collar! I know I am of Earth, and am thus unworthy of a Gorean slave collar, but still I beg it! And are we not put in them, and kept in them? Is it not why we are brought here, to wear your collars? Is it not right for us? How fortunate we are, to be accepted by the men of Gor ... |
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| 19 | 342 |
Most girls, in fact, sooner or later, wear their collars with pleasure and pride. |
10 |
| 19 | 402 |
A third reason why girls tend to wear their collars with pleasure and pride, aside from the attractiveness of the collar and its seductiveness, is seldom mentioned. |
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| 20 | 1787 |
It is not unknown, for example, for a Gorean warrior, even one of a bandit pride, to admire flowers, if only secretly. |
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| 21 | 474 |
Many are the girls in Victoria who will envy me such a master! My heart swells with pride to be the slave of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 21 | 757 |
Is that not a source of pride for a girl, at least one of Earth, that a man is strong enough to make her his slave, and see to it that she is an excellent slave? On Gor, of course, one does not need strength for the mastery, for that is cultural, and expected of a man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1094 |
It is only that they do not take pride, commonly, in doing so. |
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| 8 | 352 |
That she had been brought clothed into the hall surely argued that her dignity and pride would continue to be respected, at least to the degree that she was now concealed. |
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| 13 | 1657 |
"The taking of a free woman," I asked, "in which, to some extent, her dignity, pride and status are respected, or the taking of a slave?" "I am a slave, Master," she said. |
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| 14 | 267 |
It is little wonder that the free woman, concerned with her putative identicality, her status, her image, her dignity and pride, is often inhibited and sexually inert in the furs. |
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| 18 | 207 |
"It will be my people who will be the most dangerous," said the youth, with pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 383 |
What more did Hci want? I myself suspected that the matter went deeper than Hci's tribal pride and sense of propriety. |
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| 1 | 464 |
The canhpi of the Yellow Knife had done more than strike flesh and bone; it had cut, too, deeply, perhaps unaccountably, or mysteriously, into the vanity, the pride and self-image of a man. |
10 |
| 2 | 59 |
Too, for example, many warriors, despite being of high caste, take great pride in being strangers to letters. |
10 |
| 4 | 88 |
I recalled her vanity, her arrogance and pride. |
10 |
| 4 | 267 |
Hunters pride themselves on making single-arrow kills. |
10 |
| 7 | 82 |
This probably had to do with pride, vanity, jubilation, high spirits, and such. |
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| 9 | 175 |
It tends to be far more feminine, which is understandable, given the realities of her female bondage, liberating her womanly pride and sexuality, and it tends as well, to speak honestly, to be more innocently seductive, and sometimes not so innocently. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 151 |
Where was my pride and freedom! "Let us see," insisted Ligurious, "what Claudius has sent us". |
10 |
| 24 | 261 |
"If any of you retain any pride or courage," he said, "I will remove it from you. |
10 |
| 24 | 263 |
Do any of you retain any pride or courage?" "No, Master!" we cried. |
10 |
| 24 | 307 |
"Do you now have any pride?" he asked. |
10 |
| 32 | 295 |
My pride, and my freedom, had kept me from him. |
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| 33 | 738 |
I was now an exonerated slave, at least of her crimes, if not of mine, those of pettiness, of pride, of selfishness and cruelty, crimes for which a woman on Gor can be regarded as fittingly enslaved. |
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| 33 | 954 |
"For years," said Hassan, "I have heard of the Tatrix of Corcyrus, of her tyranny, of her fabled pride and beauty. |
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| 35 | 95 |
"I have never confused objectivity with municipal pride," responded Drusus Rencius. |
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| 36 | 308 |
Free women were so different from me, with their ornate garmenture, their imperious bearing, their regal carriage, their pride, their insolence, their position, their status, their power. |
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| 36 | 769 |
These things, doubtless in part because of his pride and self-image, his reluctance to accept tenderness, his fear of feeling and sentiment, his lofty conceptions of the attitudes and behaviors proper to his caste, had driven him half mad with frustration. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1111 |
Binding or chaining to saddle rings or stirrups is usually used if there is more than one capture, as in, say, a successful raid or group hunt, these usually conducted by a coordinated pride of tarnsmen. |
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| 16 | 380 |
Their disrobing, leaving only scarves about their necks, concealing their collars, and round, adhesive patches on their thighs, concealing their brands, was done mostly in character, with apprehension and reluctance, with piteous whimperings, suitable lamentations, and such, but Bina, in the matter ... |
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| 16 | 710 |
"Against one such as you, doubtless they will be of small avail," said Chino, meditatively, "but against lesser warriors, war generals, high captains, pride leaders, battle chieftains, instructors in swordsmanship, and such, they have proven more than adequate. |
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| 16 | 139 |
Too, they are but ill used when put forth to praise what may be actually only frigidity, sexual inertness, sexual anesthesia, an incomplete or stunted development, a neurosis, an ignorance or stupidity, or false pride. |
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| 16 | 547 |
Was it not appropriate that I permit her to do what she thought was expected of her, to raise and flutter defiantly, predictably, however reluctantly, for a moment, the futile, pathetic, meaningless little flag of the supposedly righteous free woman, to permit her to enact her pretense, to protect h... |
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| 25 | 707 |
"For several days, I suppose as a matter of pride, she was pretending to resist slavery," said the woman, "though, clearly, to a trained eye, she wanted it, more than anything". |
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| 4 | 203 |
"They deserve to have us take their world from them, to be thrust aside with words and writs, to be superseded by contrived legalities, to be relegated by statutes and slogans to the peripheries of power, to become trammeled, and crippled, and incapable of action, like tied sheep, bleating contented... |
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| 4 | 284 |
You have taken all pride from me. |
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| 6 | 265 |
It seemed that she had only wanted that excuse, really, that sop to her pride, to eagerly serve men with perfection. |
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| 10 | 125 |
It deprived us of even the last excuse which our pride or vanity might have left to us not to be perfect in our bondage. |
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| 11 | 1243 |
And I think he took pride in the simple handling of such a slave. |
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| 13 | 641 |
I was now without pride. |
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| 13 | 893 |
I would not be permitted to retain a shred of dignity or pride. |
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| 17 | 99 |
Market of Semris is not a large town, and it is mostly famed, as I have earlier noted, for its markets for tarsks, "four-legged" and "two-legged," as it is said, but like most Gorean towns, its square, even as small as it was, was a matter of civic pride. |
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| 24 | 509 |
"Or even that they should walk in power and pride?" "I do not understand," I said. |
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| 29 | 430 |
It was hard to understand otherwise the pride, the grandeur, with which he spoke. |
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| 29 | 1138 |
Mirus looked at him weakly, but in fury and pride. |
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| 32 | 202 |
How absurd was my question! How shamed I was at my pride! How bold I had been! How could I even think of such a thing? Did I not know I was from Earth, and only a slave! But I loved him, and with the whole heart and body of me! I tendered to him the wholeness of my helpless slave's love, worthless t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 22 |
Sometimes public funds are lavished upon them, as they are objects of civic pride. |
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| 5 | 132 |
It is the difference between being a person and being a property, between being a respected, legally autonomous entity, entitled to dignity and pride, and being a domestic animal. |
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| 5 | 763 |
"Thus, even though I must shamefully serve, I can still, ultimately, retain my pride and dignity". |
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| 8 | 711 |
Later, as she is noticed, the friend may regard her, and as a slave may be regarded, and inquire, "Is the slut any good?" Whereas the girl may sense the natural diminution in the referral, and perhaps lingeringly resent it, at least slightly, she will also, in her slave's pride, accept the designati... |
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| 11 | 118 |
The pride and glory of their rank and elevated status precludes this; it would not be dignified. |
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| 16 | 214 |
The emotional depths of the slave are beyond the ken of the free woman, with her egotism, her defensiveness, her pride, her self-absorption, her shallowness, her superficiality, her artful self-promotion. |
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| 21 | 749 |
"If such were her intent, and I do not doubt it," said Calliodorus, "she misjudged the interests, the pride and temper of Port Cos. |
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| 21 | 857 |
After such an experience, it is not only difficult but somewhat unrealistic and absurd for a free woman to attempt to retain her haughtiness, her arrogance and pride. |
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| 21 | 1264 |
Perhaps to some extent, too, such garmenture, in its lovely degradation, protects the slave from the fury of free women—is the slut not already sufficiently exposed and shamed, but why do they bear their beauty with such defiant and brazen pride? What right have they to be so content, so radi... |
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| 22 | 99 |
"The whip is an excellent device for taking pride from a woman," I said. |
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| 24 | 316 |
"Surely Ar herself will cry out for vengeance," I said, "for the loss of Ar's Station, her pride upon the Vosk". |
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| 24 | 498 |
"Yes!" I saw then that her small rebellion had been no more than a foolish sop to her pride, one perhaps she thought in order, I wondered if she had uttered her silly noise only because I was there, who had known her when she was a mere free woman. |
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| 24 | 500 |
But in any case, whether because of her own pride, in itself, or her concern that I who had known her as a free woman was about, or because of the strangers in the crowd, or the other slave girls, or whatever, how woefully out of place was that absurd utterance in her new reality! But then I saw in ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 597 |
"Bring me a woman!" This had been a great blow to her vanity, her self-esteem and pride, as she, like most free women, had regarded herself as some sort of marvelous prize. |
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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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| 37 | 410 |
"She may then, barefoot in the streets of Telnus, or Jad, or wherever, where once she may have walked in haughty pride, wear her collar, as any other slave". |
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| 6 | 41 |
In further defense I might point out that many warriors, for no reason that is clear to me, seem to take pride in a putative lack of literacy. |
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| 8 | 176 |
Accordingly his attitude toward his art is less likely to be one of pride than one of gratitude. |
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| 8 | 689 |
Why should others be permitted lapses, faults and errors, particularly ones in which they took arrogant pride, for which she herself would promptly and predictably suffer? Accordingly, slave girls are often zealous to see masters immediately and mercilessly correct even small lapses in the behavior ... |
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| 10 | 2 |
The city was subdued, save for some idealistic youths, who seemed to take pride in its downfall. |
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| 10 | 378 |
Most masters take pride in their properties. |
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| 10 | 433 |
"No," I said, "but of their pride, as well". |
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| 11 | 232 |
"And it is a mark of the old Ar, the Ar I knew in war, the Ar of spears and standards, of rides and marches, of dust and trumpets, of tarns and tharlarion, the Ar of imperialism, of glory, of valor, and pride. |
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| 12 | 149 |
Finally he cannot even look upon her without desire and pride. |
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| 13 | 198 |
Naturally self-pride and health stimulates sexual vitality. |
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| 13 | 199 |
Contrariwise, of course, as sexual vitality is stunted and crippled, so, too, will be masculine pride and health. |
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| 14 | 388 |
"Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you to keep them that way! Arres... |
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| 14 | 655 |
"You had an opportunity here to strike a blow for Cos, to humiliate the men of Ar, to further reduce and degrade them, to force them to submit even to the insolence and arrogance of slaves, to further subdue and crush them, to remind them of their sorry lot, of their political and military weakness,... |
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| 18 | 410 |
"The Delta Brigade," I said, "is restoring courage and pride to Ar. |
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| 21 | 337 |
She, in all her loftiness and pride, cannot begin to bear the thought of another learning that her throat, that of a free woman, such a free woman, is encircled by the slave band. |
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| 28 | 86 |
How angry I was, even though I was not of Ar, that they had, for all their loyalty and sacrifice, for all their service, courage and devotion, received little but scorn and neglect from their compatriots, a scorn and neglect engineered by factions hoping to profit from the perversities of such polit... |
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| 28 | 108 |
And so I thought of Ar under the yoke of Cos, and of hope, and pride, and of the Delta Brigade. |
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| 7 | 151 |
But often they would not so spare my pride and would have me at their feet, licking and kissing, and begging explicitly. |
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| 11 | 1488 |
I might be displayed with pride to a master's acquaintances, or perhaps, as a state slave, to foreign diplomats or merchants. |
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| 16 | 403 |
"I thought that Earth women were supposed to pride themselves on their frigidity," he said. |
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| 18 | 158 |
I knew so little of this world! When I did understand it I became aware, more seriously than hitherto, of the nature of the men in this city—of their skill, ferocity and pride, and their sense of honor. |
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| 19 | 139 |
Involved, it seems was a matter of umbrage, one of offended pride, indeed, a matter construed somehow, correctly or incorrectly, as one of honor. |
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| 24 | 841 |
How could this be? Was she not a free woman? Did she not know better? Had she not been taught? Had she no pride? But I saw her now, before me, as a slave girl in the arms of her master. |
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| 43 | 130 |
But her pride had been stripped from her, and before one she despised. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 447 |
Was she not to be permitted pride? But then it occurred to her that she was a slave girl and that slave girls were not permitted pride. |
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| 16 | 464 |
She would show them! She would pride herself on her superiority to feeling and vitality. |
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| 17 | 286 |
Could any man, the brutal, massive, callous monsters, have done that to her? What had become of her, and her pride and dignity? Surely she could not become one of those worthless women who could not help themselves, who were sexually needful. |
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| 18 | 114 |
Indeed, she had taken a certain pride in her ineptness in such matters, an ineptness which had seemed appropriate to her for one of her education, interests and station. |
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| 19 | 753 |
As she stood there in the basket, in the wind, holding to the side of the basket, the blanket clutched about her, being sped through the night, beneath the moons, she had an odd sense of contentment, and pride. |
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| 20 | 676 |
Despite their youth, and her reluctance, and her pride, she was prepared to beg for their touch. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Interestingly, too, many of the warriors, and that is a high caste, pride themselves on an inability to read, seeing that homely, and somewhat magical, skill, as one not for them, if not actually beneath them. |
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| 24 | 474 |
The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo... |
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| 25 | 326 |
And did you not flirt with the men? Was your veil not disarranged as though inadvertently when you drank? Did you not sit in a certain fashion, turned to the side, legs together, as a slave girl might sit, if she were permitted to sit? Did you not insolently, haughtily, arrogantly, put a naked slave... |
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| 26 | 1161 |
Let them in their pride and separateness scorn the vitality of slaves, she thought. |
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| 26 | 1289 |
Usually they wear them with pleasure and pride, as visible tokens of their interest to men, as badges, unassuming as they are, of their desirability. |
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| 26 | 1292 |
And do not think that slaves do not take pride in this. |
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| 27 | 1378 |
She discovers that her beauty, unlike when she was a free woman, is nothing to be ashamed of, but is rather something in which to rejoice, something in which to take pleasure and pride. |
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| 27 | 2252 |
To be sure, sooner or later, the slaves fires are kindled in every girl and eventually even those who took the greatest pride in the inertness of their bellies will come weeping to the master's feet. |
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| 27 | 2480 |
This is, I think, a sop to the pride of free women. |
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| 27 | 3102 |
It was merely his Gorean pride, that he would grant no concession to a foe, not a tarsk, not even an urt? "May I speak, Master?" cried Ellen. |
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| 27 | 3292 |
To be sure, in her ideological pride and her sense of political propriety, she had made it a point to learn little or nothing of cooking on Earth, feeling such a homely task, and one so often associated with women, was wholly inappropriate for her, a female intellectual. |
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| 27 | 3298 |
In time, as her skills increased, and the sting of the switch became less frequent, she began to take pride in her performance of such tasks, those expected of a female slave. |
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| 28 | 6 |
"Master," she whimpered, "I am no longer a free woman, as once I was! I can no longer pride myself on my frigidity. |
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| 28 | 32 |
Indeed, some women even pride themselves on their supposedly inert bellies and alleged superiority to sexuality. |
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| 30 | 491 |
So pity the poor free woman who would yield herself as a slave to her lover and does not do so, for her enmeshment in the chains of pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 356 |
Her own womanhood insists on this, as does her pride, her self-image, her concern for her own desirability, her sense of her own worth and value as a female. |
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| 1 | 1254 |
Did the blonde not even know enough to cover herself, as did the brunette, at least to the extent possible? Many facial expressions and bodily words, so to speak, in the human species are presumably genetically coded, at least with respect to their templates, as they are amongst other Earth primates... |
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| 23 | 138 |
"Not permitted to die in the arena?" "Certainly not, not with honor, but in some lengthy, degraded fashion, one fit to satisfy the affronted pride of Agamemnon". |
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| 29 | 130 |
"Of the helpless, loving slave, needing and wanting men, desiring to please and serve them, moaning and ecstatic in their arms, and the independent free woman, with her frigidity and pride, who is most likely to replicate her genes?" "The master," she said, "would chain the slave to his bed". |
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| 45 | 73 |
After all, what beautiful woman, however sweet, gentle, tender and modest, does not want her beauty recognized, noted, honored, and admired, even celebrated? And what beautiful woman, too, however sweet, gentle, tender, and modest, does not want to be looked upon by males with interest, and avid, ke... |
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| 56 | 205 |
Who better in such a cause than a human warrior to bear to Kur warriors the ring of Arcesilaus, mightiest of Kurii, mightiest of the foes of Agamemnon?" "I think," said Cabot, ruefully, "that they might have been shamed to face a fellow Kur in such role, one still with pride and status, who did not ... |
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| 78 | 25 |
She has no real conception of the haughtiness and power of the Gorean free woman, in her pride, in her regalia, her robes and veils. |
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| 79 | 179 |
On Gor and in the world poetry is not the labored, esoteric possession of a delicate, pretentious minority, as it might prove to be in less civilized or more decadent climes, but is a matter of life, robust pride, and zestful living. |
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| 12 | 301 |
The expression 'pride', in this context, was a metaphor, of sorts, taken from the usual grouping of larls, such a group being commonly called a pride. |
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| 15 | 221 |
To refuse such a gift might injure one's pride, and it is not wise to injure the pride of one of the Pani, as they are a well-intentioned, sincere folk, and take such things very seriously". |
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| 5 | 216 |
Gorean free women were famed for their arrogance and pride. |
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| 5 | 551 |
The honor and pride of a man such as Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ar, Ubar of Ubars, refused to sustain indignities of this enormity. |
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| 5 | 716 |
On the other hand, Gorean free women often have quite long hair, in which they take great pride. |
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| 5 | 719 |
There are various reasons for this, as I understand it, for example, the slave learns that she is no longer a free woman, that her hair, its length, dressing, and such, is now at the disposal of masters, that the distinction between her and the free woman is to be clearly drawn, even in a matter as ... |
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| 8 | 185 |
Such things might be taken more seriously by him than other fellows, might rankle with him, might fester within him, might eat away at his pride, might not be forgotten, might seem to require attention. |
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| 10 | 242 |
Do masters not sometimes bind and lash their slaves for their insolence and pride, until, at his feet, they offer him their beauty's placation, piteously reminding him that it is his to do with as he wishes. |
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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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| 15 | 219 |
"To refuse such a gift might injure one's pride, and would certainly generate bad blood. |
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| 16 | 35 |
The cavalry was not, of course, a simple flock, or pride. |
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| 16 | 44 |
Groups of tarnsmen are often referred to as prides, so, in a sense, any of the divisions, including the cavalry as a whole, might be accounted a "pride". |
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| 16 | 48 |
Also, this tends to produce a sense of unit, and pride in unit, which is good for responsibility, camaraderie, mutual support, and morale. |
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| 22 | 546 |
"What is wrong with you? You are of Earth! You are a woman of Earth! Where is your pride, your dignity! Be ashamed of yourself. |
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| 23 | 127 |
Thus, rather than being ashamed of her bondage, the typical slave finds in it a source of reassurance and pride. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 32 |
One is familiar with the haughtiness, the arrogance, the pride, of the typical free woman, defended by guardsmen, ringed by the walls of her city, well-veiled, well-robed, secure in her status, unassailable in station, ensconced in society's regard, but there is another pride, too, little spoken of,... |
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| 1 | 221 |
"I think," said another, "it is even more delicious to take a Gorean woman, one of those haughty she-sleen, so arrogant and lofty in their pride, so pretentiously superior, and strip them and teach them the collar". |
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| 4 | 148 |
"She will, of course," said Lord Nishida, "fear them, and fight them, with all weapons of her pride and will". |
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| 6 | 44 |
The free woman has pride in her status, the slave in her sex, in her holistic fulfilled womanhood. |
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| 8 | 67 |
Tersites, in his arrogance, his pride, and waywardness, had not deigned to give his vessel eyes. |
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| 8 | 385 |
Commonly though, they, and barbarians, as well, come to revel in the lack of veiling, and, indeed, in the shame of their commonly brief and revealing garmenture, if allowed garmenture, become insolent in their shameful pride, so deplored by free women, of revealing their beauty, of both face and bod... |
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| 12 | 656 |
Few free women can so conquer their pride. |
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| 12 | 657 |
Slaves, on the other hand, are not permitted pride. |
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| 12 | 666 |
How natural then her pride, her aloofness, her struggle to maintain the pretenses demanded of her. |
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| 13 | 52 |
Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and... |
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| 17 | 95 |
Many masters, in their pride and vanity, and as evidence of their wealth, good fortune, or taste, enjoy displaying their slaves, much as owners of various goods, of various sorts, enjoy displaying other sorts of properties, statuary, rare coins, artworks, fountains, veminium gardens, classical czeha... |
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| 18 | 32 |
A slave is permitted the pride of a slave, of course, but not that of a free woman. |
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| 18 | 34 |
In her, such pride is a travesty, a joke. |
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| 36 | 496 |
Some Warriors take pride in their inability to read, regarding that skill as unworthy of them, as being more appropriate to record keepers, tradesmen, clerks, and such, and some who can read take pains to conceal the fact. |
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| 37 | 300 |
"Cry out now," he said, angrily, "with all the pride, fury, and rage of the free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 |
Perhaps you will value it more if you could see it, if only for a moment, through the eyes of another, one astonished, one from a quite different world, a world which was much like a charnel house, or a smoke house, a world with little pride, but much vanity, a world of crowding, scrambling about, c... |
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| 2 | 59 |
She will speak of cities, and secret places, of a metal box, a Metal Worker, of beasts, large, hirsute, and dangerous, of an underground workshop, of pride, ambition, and devotion, of warriors and slaves, of gold and steel, of cords, and silk, of ships and worlds. |
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| 5 | 46 |
I have spoken of collar pride. |
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| 5 | 47 |
I soon learned collar pride. |
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| 7 | 746 |
I had encountered something of these distinctions on Earth, and even in the sorority, in which we had tended to pride ourselves on our station, our aloofness, and, in a sense, our frigidity. |
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| 8 | 222 |
Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride. |
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| 8 | 1303 |
You are a free woman, and here, on this world, as I had not on Earth, I have begun to sense what that might be, its unchallenged force, and pride, and power, and here I am a slave, only that, and here, naked on an auction block, being sold, I have begun to sense what that might be. |
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| 18 | 494 |
"It will have its phases, its swiftness, and its slowness, its emotions, insolence, pride, defiance, apprehension, recognition, fear, struggle, defeat, surrender, and submission". |
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| 18 | 793 |
I so desperately wanted to speak to him, to return myself to his favor, such as it might be, to express my shame and sorrow at my overweening, unconscionable pride, my insolence. |
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| 24 | 104 |
"This is the work of a larl," said Trachinos, "a pride of larls". |
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| 46 | 104 |
As one from a different world, a grayer, more dismal, more crowded, more polluted world, a mass world of homogenized humanity, a world in which excellence is suspect, and must be concealed, a world of cunning and greed, of envy and duplicity, of hatred and fanaticism, a world alien to honor, a world... |
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| 52 | 383 |
A slave is not permitted pride". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 109 |
Even a slave has her pride, though it may be no more than the pride of a slave. |
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| 6 | 148 |
They seemed most interested in men who had retained their weaponry, and their pride. |
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| 7 | 234 |
Eighteen was not popular, given her pride, her airs, her pretensions to superiority. |
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| 8 | 345 |
It was true that many Gorean males found the pride and pretensions of free women annoying. |
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| 15 | 42 |
Sometimes, if only lfom a chagrin at my lowliness, or perhaps in an attempt to recover something of my former free woman's independence and pride, I had resolved to resist the attentions to which I found myself subjected, but I had soon found myself succumbing as might any other collar slut, which I... |
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| 15 | 302 |
You cannot know the freedom we have, the pride, the nobility, the splendor, the power, the raiment, the veiling, the dignity! Men defer to us. |
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| 15 | 346 |
How could a man respect a woman who is no more than a helpless, spasmodic toy in his grasp, squirming and begging? Where was refinement, sophistication, self- control, dignity, pride, personhood, and respect? How could a woman respect herself when she reveals herself as no more than a helpless, unco... |
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| 17 | 22 |
How it betrayed me with its health and need, with its eagerness, its responsiveness, its helplessness, and vitality! I must be at war with it! How could I be myself in a collar? And how could I be myself other than in a collar! In my heart I knew I belonged in the collar, but I was determined to den... |
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| 17 | 76 |
I hate him, I hate him! All my pride of Earth welled up within me. |
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| 20 | 230 |
Many men at arms, for example, pride themselves on their illiteracy, regarding reading as a pursuit more appropriate to merchants and scribes than to those of the "scarlet caste". |
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| 21 | 385 |
"We permitted it to save face," said Tyrtaios, "pretending to accept the matter on the leader's vaunted terms, as a test of our pride, and probity". |
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| 25 | 86 |
These were not men of Earth, conditioned for years, for political purposes, into devirilized, malleable weaklings, males taught to deny their blood, taught to pride themselves on their lack of manhood. |
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| 29 | 77 |
Why were Panther Women, or Panther Girls, so different, so hostile to men, and to themselves? Did they hate a womanhood which they lacked, or doubted they possessed? Was this a matter of pride of some sort, of striving to realize some sort of an unusual image? Why had they fled to the wilds, to fors... |
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| 39 | 179 |
"Where now," said the leader, "are your pride, your weapons, your golden ornaments?" "They are not in evidence," said a fellow. |
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| 41 | 160 |
I swelled with pride. |
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| 42 | 146 |
How formidable she had seemed, in her freedom, her pride, her size and sturdiness, in her rude skins, in her barbaric ornaments, with her dagger and spear. |
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| 43 | 503 |
On the other hand, though it was no more than a sop to my foolish pride, I did not much care to depart without that for which I had come. |
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| 43 | 507 |
But might not pride be involved? Would Tyrtaios, or Lord Okimoto, or others, believe I had truly captured the quarry? Why should they believe me? Would they believe me? There was a simple way, of course, to convince them of my veracity. |
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| 48 | 84 |
Laris may pride but they usually frequent, as well, areas where game is abundant, and the prides themselves can be competitive. |
10 |
| 50 | 699 |
"Let her pride absorb that!" "Forgive me, Mistress," I said to her. |
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| 50 | 954 |
"How deprived, and lonely they must be," I said, "in their pride and misery". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 502 |
"Oh!" "Indeed," he said, "I know of places where such biological denials and maimings are the object of indoctrinations, and are to be praised, where nature is to be subordinated to superstition and ideology, in the interests of pathological minorities, whose interests and livelihoods are involved, ... |
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| 61 | 798 |
There, in the holding of Samos of Port Kar, your then master, you were brought before me, and you, in your impatience, pride, and anger, scorned, derided, and mocked me". |
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| 61 | 862 |
"You are a fool of Earth, as all the others of that smug, feeble orb! You have been nurtured into futility from the cradle! You are sweet, kind, sensitive, thoughtful, understanding, weak, stupid, and manipulable! Beware, lest I shed a tear, or reproach you for ambition, pride, vulgarity, bullying, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 53 |
Why had I not seen the master in his eyes, in his mien, in the nature of his regard? In my vanity, and pride, I had displeased him. |
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| 3 | 107 |
"Her homeliness," said the leader, "has nothing to do with her coloring, her figure, or such, for many men are found of such a configuration, but with her character, her impatience, her personality, her vanity, her nastiness, her pride". |
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| 9 | 135 |
In this way, self-esteem, pride, and high intelligence tends to be spread rather evenly throughout the population, rather than being drained, over generations, into a limited number of professions. |
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| 9 | 138 |
The typical Gorean cares for his caste, and takes great pride in it. |
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| 9 | 185 |
On Earth I would have denied, in my vanity and pride, that I could be mastered, but I had found on Gor that I could be mastered, and would be mastered, and wanted to be mastered, and was mastered. |
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| 17 | 29 |
But I think it is really because they hate us, so virulently, and want to humiliate and hurt us, even in small ways, they with all their pride, power, and goods, and we, utterly helpless and powerless, with nothing, not even a rag or collar we can call our own. |
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| 51 | 77 |
But later, reveling in the freedom of their collars, and having no choice but to move as what they are, women, and slaves, they, now perfect and real, having found their identity, and rejoicing in it, brazen in the recognition of their uniqueness, their specialness, and desirability, move with a nat... |
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| 52 | 303 |
"You thought only of yourself," he said, "and your pride". |
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| 53 | 204 |
She drew herself up, then, with pride. |
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| 61 | 534 |
She is the pride and treasure of a city, to be elevated and honored, to be exalted and revered, to be defended to the death, unless she should fall slave, in that case, of course, she is then only another animal, to be bought and sold as the stock she then is. |
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| 64 | 14 |
She had even seemed to take a sort of pride in these trivial, homely accomplishments. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 299 |
We take great pride in giving our masters a clean, well-kept, attractive home. |
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| 10 | 81 |
It is difficult for the Gorean free woman, with her pride, assumptions, background, behaviors, and attitudes, to pass herself off as a slave. |
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| 11 | 323 |
Yet what woman, slave or free, does not thrill to the curious, admiring scrutiny of a handsome, powerful male who one day might prove to be her master? Ambivalences warred within me, excitement, rage, joy, warmth, shame, humiliation, pride! How dare these monsters take for granted, so easily and una... |
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| 13 | 195 |
No more than fifty pasangs from the caravanserai of Hogarth it was set upon, in a desolate area, by a small pride of rogue tarnsmen, or, possibly, licensed raiders from Treve. |
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| 20 | 5 |
How helpless one is as a slave! My pride was gone. |
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| 20 | 18 |
My pride was gone. |
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| 20 | 22 |
My pride was gone. |
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| 47 | 121 |
This is not Earth where a woman may pride herself on her sexual inertness, live a life of sexual nothingness, and compete with her sisters on her superiority to sex". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 293 |
"He has his pride," she said. |
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| 35 | 39 |
"Thanks to Xanthos, and his fellows," said Aktis, "emissaries are contacting and enleaguing villages, carrying messages of pride and resolution, urging vigilance, preparedness, and a common defense". |
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| 36 | 101 |
"I prefer one of flesh and blood, of pride and strength, who sees me as, and treats me as, the slave I am". |
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