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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	266	He had not spoken to me of my role or destiny, whatever it was to be.	10
9	5	Talena seemed to be animated, as if excited beyond comprehension at her escape from the seclusion of the Walled Gardens and the role of the Ubar's daughter.	10
10	140	She glared at me, knowing that she must play her role, at least in the presence of Kazrak.	10
18	90	Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone.	10
20	21	Marlenus, in spite of his heroic role in the victory, submitted himself to the judgment of Ar's Council of High Castes.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	19	It was rumored they used men as one might use pieces in a game, and when the piece had played its role it might be discarded, or perhaps, as in my case, removed from the board until it pleased the Priest-Kings to try yet another game.	10
12	76	He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death...	10

Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	77	This pilgrimage to the Sardar, enjoined by the Priest-Kings according to the Caste of Initiates, undoubtedly plays its role in the distribution of beauty among the hostile cities of Gor.	10
2	94	The most significant reason, however, becomes clear when the role of the last man on the file, who is spoken of as Last Spear, is understood.	10
10	38	There is an expression in their language which translates into English as "Nest Trust," however, and seems to play something of the same role in their thinking.	10
26	14	"You play your role well," I said, "and nearly was I fooled, Vika of Treve".	10
26	17	How convincing she had been in her role of the enamored slave girl, hopelessly, desperately mine, undoubtedly waiting her chance to betray me.	10
30	168	The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest...	10
33	114	The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture.	10

Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	26	Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki...	10
2	8	Could I—Tarl Cabot, a human and mortal, find this object and, as Priest-Kings now wished, return it to the Sardar—return it to the hidden courts of Priest-Kings that it might there fulfill its unique and irreplaceable role in the destiny of this barbaric world—Gor, our Counter-E...	10
6	56	My role, as I conceived it, was to remain silent.	10
10	450	The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill...	10
16	297	I was confident that the man was the same as he who had brought Elizabeth Cardwell to this world—he who had seen her in New York and decided she would play her role in his perilous sport—and that thus he had at his disposal an advanced technology—certainly to the level of at lea...	10

Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	252	Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen...	10
5	430	"There will be danger for you even in Ko-ro-ba," said he, "for the Others doubtless know of your role in acquiring the egg of Priest-Kings.	10
5	743	Both goads, interestingly, emit a shower of yellow sparks when touched to an object, a phenomenon which, associated with the pain involved, surely plays its role in producing aversion to the goad, both in tarns and men.	10
7	95	I myself, from my conversations with Misk, probably suspected more of its role and purposes than any other on that shelf, with the exception of Cernus himself.	10
19	133	A girl, wild, clad only in a brief tunic of gray toweling, as though fleeing, ran to the surface of the block, weeping, circling it, her hands outstretched to the crowd; this was done to the music of the Musicians; she turned this way and that, acting the frantic role of the fleeing slave girl.	10
24	65	"And the Steels," I said, "the new faction, had their role to play in bringing about the downfall of the influence of Cernus, and later, his downfall as Ubar".	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	563	"It only seems to me," said I, "that so single an honor, and a role so weighty, ought to be reserved for one more august than I, indeed, for he who is most prominent among us, one who could truly negotiate on equal footing with the Ubars of powers so mighty as those of Cos and Tyros".	10
12	3	In my role as captain I was often about the city, accompanied by Thurnock, and Clitus, and a squad of my men.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1056	And most, perhaps, mixed therein were the fury and the frustration, and terror, of the spoiled, rich Earth girl, Elinor Brinton, resenting her station, repudiating the role that had been given her so undeservedly on this barbaric world.	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	703	For example, it would not occur to a Gorean to speak of the "role" of a female sparrow feeding her young or the "role" of a lion in providing meat for its cubs.	10
15	593	If you wish, for your vanity, I shall play the role of a slave girl when they are about, but I assure you that I am not a slave.	10
15	662	"Am I playing a role?" she asked.	10
18	126	Mira, of course, knew better, but she could not speak without revealing her knowing role in the drugging of Hura's women.	10
19	52	She would dare not reveal to him her capture and return, thus making clear her role in the affair of the wine, but she might well convince him of what she believed, what she had mistakenly inferred from her experiences in the forest, while blindfolded, while being interrogated by Vinca.	10
22	715	The sparrow does not feed her young because the society has fooled her into playing that exploitative role.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	19	He knew well, now, what had been her role, her willing role, in the plan of the Kurii.	10
2	102	That is where the role of the Initiates becomes most powerful.	10
21	163	The others had been Chung, Nigel, Eteocles, and Henrius Sevarius, the last of which, however, had ruled in name only, the true power being controlled by his uncle, Claudius, acting in the role of regent.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	302	Even Ibn Saran, with all his brilliance, did not, I supposed, conjecture his role as dupe in this plan, precipitating tribal warfare, thus effectively, for almost all practical purposes, closing the desert to intruders, strangers, agents either of Priest-Kings or even of alternative Kur parties.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	592	In part it is doubtless a matter of a plainer, simpler diet, containing less sugar; in part, I suspect, the culture, too, may have a role to play, as it is a culture in which undue chemical stress, through guilt and worry, is not placed on the system either in the prepubertal or pubertal years.	10
3	515	And, too, there had been the cry of "Kajira canjellne," which had seemed to play some ritualistic role in the fierce contest which had brought me, helpless, into his uncompromising power.	10
5	183	I did not understand my role in the events which were transpiring.	10
17	64	It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi.	10
25	142	"Further," said he who was called Bosk of Port Kar, "the slave herself did not understand the nature of her role in these matters.	10
26	543	That the collar was locked did not simply mean that she could not remove it, a fact which played its important role in guaranteeing slave recognition and identification, but, perhaps even more importantly, was momentous in its significance of bondage.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	293	Even the performance of small servile tasks, such as the polishing of his tarn boots, which she must perform, plays its role in her preparation for the night.	10
3	498	The role of the chain is not only to constrain but to display.	10
9	357	Its role in the plans of Kurii seemed clear to me.	10
13	30	I now began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played their role in their popularity.	10
21	23	For one thing they are generally short and heavy, a body configuration which tends to conserve heat; for another there are serological differences between them and even other red races of Gor; these serological differences, presumably selected for in the course of generations, doubtless play some ro...	10
37	73	I do not wish to return to Earth, to adopt again the role of pretending to be a man.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	245	But surely, even if you are not familiar with the role of Bila Huruma in these things, you have heard of the further discoveries of Shaba".	10
6	295	Then I turned my attention away from the blond-haired girl, her intended role in my plans and what might lie ahead in Schendi.	10
12	117	We speculated that you would discover or reason out the girl's role in our business and try to use her as a lead to find us.	10
12	228	In order to play my role more effectively here I have even permitted my body to be branded".	10
12	294	I saw that she thought she was playing a role.	10
16	61	Needless to say Bila Huruma had adopted and improved this device and it had played, and continued to play, its role in the effectiveness of his military machine and in the efficiency of the administration of his ubarate.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	58	He thought himself attempting to escape to freedom, abetted by a woman of his own world, which role was played by the lovely Lady Tendite".	10
12	146	"You played your role well, pretending to be imperfectly tamed".	10
34	161	Gorean slave girls, on the other hand, do have a significant role in the Gorean economy, rather as domestic animals in general.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	128	"In your role as a free woman in the slave training you deliberately spilled wine and blamed me, and ordered me whipped.	10
21	297	It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for her; she is slav...	10
24	70	Slave hoods are much more common in such a role.	10
31	129	This comprehension doubtless played its role in keeping order amongst us.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	22	"You have thus far played a significant and handsome role in our business, Miles of Vonda," I said.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	117	They also have a role to play in her arousal.	10

Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	183	Such games, of course, have their role to play in honing skills and sharpening reflexes that may be of great importance in adulthood.	10
2	462	"Has it been decided," I asked, "who will perform this crucial role in the ceremony?" "Yes," said Cuwignaka.	10
26	19	They may also have a role to play in the intimidation, and consequent inhibition, of the enemy, perhaps in virtue of making one seem a more fearsome or terrible foe.	10
30	58	The real role of such belief systems, thus, is not to tell people about the world, for they are actually irrelevant to the world, but to supply them with psychological and social benefits.	10
32	57	In my own concerns, in my own purposes in the Barrens, to locate and warn Zarendargar of his danger, I had given too little thought to the obvious role of the fierce Kurii in the military politics of the vast grasslands east of the Thentis mountains.	10
40	909	"You see the significance of your role?" I asked.	10
44	379	"Are you proud of yourself, and of your role in this?" asked Hci.	10
44	397	"You have played your role well," said Hci.	10
44	398	"My role?" she asked.	10

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	336	In effecting this stratagem she was educated in the identity and role of the Tatrix, in which role, occasionally at least, she performed.	10
3	695	What woman's sexual responses are not aroused most profoundly by the vigorous, commanding, aggressive, uncompromising dominant male? What woman does not sense in him he whose role it is to rule? Better to kneel at the feet of one such man than manipulate a thousand indoctrinated, pusillanimous cowar...	10
12	98	I wondered if I still had a role to play in these contingencies.	10
18	154	"Thank you, Master," I whimpered, playing my role.	10
28	11	One of his aides was there, playing the role of a banqueter.	10
28	71	"Perhaps what you have to serve is of interest," said the aide, playing the role of a banqueter.	10
29	98	It was not my role, in a situation of this sort, to truly distract him.	10
32	98	The slave brought in with him in this role, put back in proper slave garb, has already been sold to an officer in the palace guard.	10
33	803	I know little more, specifically, in these matters than my own role.	10
36	562	You will discover that I will respond well to you in that role".	10
36	989	Many of the garments I wore had been those which I myself had worn, when I had been playing the role of the Tatrix.	10

Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	Sometimes, however, to distinguish it from differing forms of the game, it is spoken of as Merchant Kaissa, from the role of the Merchants in making it the official form of Kaissa for the fairs, Player Kaissa, from the role of the Players in its codification, or the Kaissa of En'Kara, for it was off...	10
1	35	These fairs, and others like them, play an important role in the Gorean culture and economy.	10
2	268	The role of the Golden Courtesan, incidentally, when it occurs in more sophisticated Gorean comedy is usually played, like the other roles in such comedies, and in most forms of serious drama, masked.	10
2	291	Somehow, within the outlines of the role, and the traditional business associated with it, these actors manage to make their versions unique and special onto themselves.	10
2	312	Doubtless he needed the money, but what would he do without a Golden Courtesan? She probably also played the role of the Desirable Heiress.	10
6	36	Usually, if she is playing the role of a free woman it is simply "not seen," so to speak, being ignored by the audience, in virtue of a Gorean theatrical convention.	10
6	39	The covering of the brand, thereby suggesting that for the purposes of the play and the role it does not exist, or does not yet exist, is another Gorean theatrical convention.	10
6	221	I had little doubt, however, that she would now perform marvelously, that she would now play superbly to the entire crowd, that she would now make a special effort to be as deliciously skillful and juicily appealing in her role as possible.	10
6	263	She then, pouting and affecting her expression of dainty, ladylike consternation, prepared to resume her role in the interrupted farce.	10
6	264	"Continue," signaled Boots Tarsk-Bit, himself returning to his comedic role.	10
6	1204	The Bina, then, in her garments of a free woman, she who had played the brief role of the Lady Tipa, the fellow villager of the Lady Phoebe, emerged onto the stage.	10
10	240	Their life can be a paradox, openly aggressively feminist, as is expected of them, and required for advancement in the current academic world, and playing that role well, but privately being their master's obedient chattel.	10
10	548	"Your role will not be difficult," I said.	10
10	552	"This role calls for a free woman," I said, "otherwise it would not be nearly so interesting or impressive".	10
14	355	Clearly, it played a role in calling forth the attack response, or in transmitting its message to the other members of the pack.	10
15	89	How she was straining to seem a leader, how she must have studied what she took to be its lessons well, how she must have firmly resolved to act that role with determination.	10
16	52	That role now, of course, was played by Boots's slave, "Lady Telitsia".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	352	The permanent garrisons of the fortified camps, too, of course, exercise a significant peace-keeping and holding role in the outer districts of a city's power.	10
11	302	Some free women believe that their role in lovemaking consists primarily in lying down.	10
13	181	He was preparing her, in a small way, not for what would be her role in her new life, but for what in her new life would be her total and uncompromising actuality.	10
26	1566	I then, ruthlessly, angrily, swiftly, caring nothing for her feelings or sensibilities, exploiting her, employing her in the role of a mere, lovely object, used her unilaterally for my pleasure.	10

Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	203	It was a culture in which they had their role, and utilities.	10
11	61	It would soon be the height of the evening, the time for the special entertainment, an entertainment in which I had a prominent role.	10
11	833	It is not exactly a story dance, but more of an emotional or attitudinal piece, more in the nature of a "role dance," a dance in which the slave dances as though she might be a virgin, but knows she is to be ravished, and that she is expected to be pleasing.	10
11	965	I was a helpless, aroused slave! This now was no role.	10
22	77	I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...	10
27	147	No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom.	10

Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	1463	Indeed, one of the reasons for slave garb, aside from such things as its identificatory role, its stimulatory nature, both to the master and slave, its instructive role, and such, is its capacity to display the girl beautifully.	10
8	629	There is even the legend of the tarntauros, or creature half man, and half tarn, which in Gorean myth, plays a similar, one might even say, equivalent, role to that of the centaur in the myths of Earth.	10
8	793	That was not their essential role in my plans.	10
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.	10
15	695	"If she is to be me," said Lady Publia, suddenly, frightened, looking at Lady Claudia, wearing her former rags, veil and scarf, "what then is to be my role in this farce?" While we had been talking I had taken the cloth which Lady Claudia had brought from the side earlier, that which she had cut fro...	10
16	372	It can be shown by such things as her profound psychological dispositions to selflessly serve and love, her desire for, and response to, male domination, her understanding of chains and the whip, the quickening, deepening and intensification of her sexuality under conditions of bondage, her happines...	10
21	1310	Too, the slave recognizes the legitimacy and appropriateness of the stricture, and its role in her bondage.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	49	This tail, with its termination, too, I think, had its role to play in flight, primarily one of increasing stability.	10
27	385	"In any sort of role?" I asked.	10
27	552	"I trust you will play your role well," I said.	10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	841	So, too, the sight of the moons, and their rhythms, and such, so interestingly approximating the periods of feminine sexual cycles, may at one time have played a role in mating cycles.	10
5	81	I had little doubt, personally, from what I had learned of the intrigues in Ar that this offer had some role to play in the complicated political games afoot in that metropolis.	10
6	97	To be sure, he might have been of that party, and might have been, in the developments within that party, outmaneuvered, to find himself suddenly cast in the role of a scapegoat, something to be thrown to the crowd, to satisfy it and protect others.	10
8	943	Perhaps there is then a role for the lonely fellows on the wall, for the border guards, for the garrisons of far-flung outposts, for the guardsmen in the city treading their lonely rounds.	10
9	705	In bondage, they find an identity, and a meaning in life, and they learn that they are now such as to fulfill an exciting and important role in a beautiful culture.	10
18	293	Were I a member of the troupe I had no doubt but what he might have been persuaded to step aside, withdrawing from the role of bearer in my favor.	10
21	87	She did know, of course, its general purport, and its role in our plans.	10
22	691	They had their supposed role to play, doubtless, in the attempt on the part of Cos to depress the sexual vitality of the males of Ar, to devirilize them and make them easier to manage.	10
24	314	Too, of course, she had been similarly in contact with the Ubara, only in that role, of course, in a collar purporting to be that of the house of Appanius.	10
25	389	"You yourself, often enough, if I am not mistaken, have acted in the role of the seduction slave.	10
25	449	"You well acted your role," said he, "for I, an enamored fool, well believed your words, your cries, that you were smitten with me, that you desired me, even that you loved me".	10
26	229	He would not recognize the note, of course, but he would immediately realize it must have had some role in my business, in which he was now so deeply involved.	10
27	121	It is not that he acts a thousand roles and we cannot identify him from one role to the next.	10
27	615	"You will then resume your role as Ubara of Ar," I said.	10
28	57	She would then, within an Ahn or two, be restored to the role of the Ubara, and perhaps even be seated again upon the throne.	10

Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	769	Now she had another role to play, I suspected, one which had doubtless been projected for her earlier, one independent of the entry of the determined, tenacious black-tunicked men onto the walkway, the role of a dangling lure, one which might serve, for some purpose, as a distraction to urts.	10
8	725	There was clearly a place and role for my kind on this world.	10
38	104	"As I understand it, you had some role in that".	10
45	203	"You do not know your role in these things, do you?" "No, Master," I said, "nor is it important".	10
46	153	"And in hating you, and loving you," he said, "I sensed the role you had to play, and the dangers which might attend upon it.	10

Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	86	Lastly, she had insisted, in anger and confusion, on fashionable postmodernistic analyses, on the alleged social aspect of, and role of, "truth," as a weapon of ideological warfare, on the right of the scholar activist to alter, conceal, suppress, invent and falsify in order to comply with political...	10
2	134	The lead role had been sung by a famous Italian soprano, a visiting artist.	10
2	146	She was idolized by young feminists, and regarded by some in the "movement" as an ideal, as presenting a superlative role model for young women.	10
4	378	In those days the pathological virago would not have been a role model but a poor joke, as she is in actuality today, though a joke it is unwise to recognize.	10
6	53	She did not seem to have the same easy familiarity with them as with the others; they did not, for example, seem to see her in the role of a dignified older woman, one entitled to respect in virtue of her years, and weakness.	10
9	129	To be sure, how would one know that, if one had not seen her? But she herself had only an anklet, the role of which, it seems, was more notational than anything else, little more than a way of keeping track of her in this house, whatever sort of house it might be.	10
11	462	"Did you let them know my role in this, that it was I who designated them for their fates?" "Certainly," he said, "and you may well conjecture their dismay, their wild cries, and tears, their helpless rage, how they pulled at their chains, trying to rise, or seized and shook, in futile fury, the bar...	10
11	997	His role, I fear, has been rather an embarrassing, frustrating one, much like that in which many Earth males spend their lives, but he is patient, and knew that his patience would be eventually rewarded".	10
15	573	To be sure, the young, slim, sweet curvatures of her body were of a piece, of a whole, an indissoluble, coherent delight, from her small feet and ankles, to her calves and thighs, her hips, her love cradle, her narrow waist, and sweet bosom, to her soft, white shoulders and lovely throat, all a melo...	10
18	474	Like other aspects of the garment, its brevity, simplicity and such, it has its meaning, its role and symbolism.	10
26	120	"But, nonetheless, they have inadvertently played their role in such things".	10
27	96	Lastly, and most important, as she learns her collar and is mastered, she comes to understand that she is a woman, deeply and truly, and in a sense far more profound than that of merely the attractions of her delicious lineaments, which have called her so to the attention of men, and have had their ...	10

Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	123	And are they not useful in subverting stagnation, and improving bloodlines? And if such things occurred, it is not impossible that they may have had a role in this business.	10
1	328	In order to understand the nature of this torture, one might note that the two females involved had not been selected for their role in this matter at random.	10
1	391	It had its role to play in what would prove to be an interesting and remarkable, if duplicitous and guileful, gambit of Priest-Kings.	10
1	822	In any event, the fact that the female spoke his native tongue, as well as the hitherto noted excellencies of her face and figure, which seemed customized, so to speak, to his own tastes, informed him, as he had suspected, that her presence, and doubtless, too, that of the blonde, in the container, ...	10
1	1276	What if she were marginalized, or neglected? What if the little animal should become, so to speak, his favorite? How would this affect her plans, her role, in this tiny space? There was a single male, and two females.	10
7	14	"What is your role here, in this moment, now?" inquired Cabot.	10
18	46	Later, however, as she learns her collar, and realizes its proclamation of her desirability, attractiveness, and beauty, and learns the joy of bondage, and her role in, and importance in, Gorean society, she is likely to walk proudly, head high, shoulders back, and brazenly display her master's prop...	10
18	177	One of the few times a female slave is permitted to don the garments of a free woman without being slain is when she is used in such a role.	10
18	181	Free women, incidentally, are almost never used in such a role.	10
24	268	Should friends not have dissuaded the evildoer from his actions? Should they not have anticipated it, and intervened? Should they not have suspected it, and reported its likelihood to authorities? Is there not a festering hotbed of criminal potentiality somewhere to be rooted out, from which soil an...	10
26	110	The girl kneeling beside them, her head to the floor, her wrists bound behind her, trembled, understanding then that she was not unique, and that there was a familiar and established role for such as she on the Gorean world.	10
31	12	The role of the free woman to her would now be shallow, empty, and meaningless.	10
43	345	"And such a garment," he said, "has its role, too, to play in the protection of free women".	10
54	57	"Your role in this is significant, Lord Flavion," said Lord Grendel, "for, as you know, we must have a secret gathering to marshal our forces and coordinate our plans".	10
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 ...	10
63	102	"Its leader is the cattle human from the time of the slaughter bench, he who noted the Lady Bina, he who understood in his simple, doltish, stupid way her role in leading others to the slaughter bench, he who would have her blood!" "No!" cried Flavion, in dismay.	10
64	87	She had not understood, of course, her unwitting role in the attempt on the life of Lord Grendel, who was certain to follow her.	10
64	106	Beyond the matter of the betrayal of Peisistratus and Lord Arcesilaus, she had, incidentally, as it turned out, no particularly active role in either the debacle of the arsenal or the projected massacre in the Vale of Destruction.	10
76	24	The ideal then is that she finds herself fulfilling a recognized, accepted, approved, and valued societal role, and finds her personal fulfillment and happiness in doing so.	10
76	25	And this role may, of course, require the collar.	10
77	219	In our plans the rubies will obviously have their role".	10
81	137	"Lord Zarendargar made clear to the Sardar your refusal to accept his plans, and your role in his downfall".	10

Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	20	How much they knew of their role in these matters I was not sure.	10
4	325	"What if someone should see me as I am?" "What is your role here?" I asked.	10
4	371	"But you have not yet explained your role here," I said, "nor that of Pertinax".	10
9	93	When it became clear to her, however, that the offer was to be withdrawn, and her dreams of unusual wealth were fading, she swiftly relented, agreeing that it might be amusing to play such a role, that of a mere slave.	10
10	230	They come to understand the magnificent complementarity of nature, and their lovely role in this complementarity.	10
10	369	A shogun was nominally subject to an emperor, but the emperor's role was largely ceremonial, and the true power, as is commonly the case, lies with those who are the masters of men and weapons.	10
10	380	To complete the disguise I would require a subordinate to play the role of a master, and for that purpose I had no difficulty in recruiting a suitable male weakling, a minor employee in the very firm in which I worked, a fool, one of several, hopelessly besotted with my beauty from afar, who would t...	10
12	8	"My role here, I am given to understand, is to form and discipline a tarn cavalry," I said.	10
12	307	The latter role on Gor, of course, belonged to war tharlarion.	10
15	57	Indeed, she had originally been intended, as a free woman, unbeknownst to herself, to tempt and torture me from my codes, to play a role in my humiliation and downfall.	10
15	187	"Why else," I asked, "would she, of all others, have chosen you to accompany her to Gor, to complete her role on Gor, that of seeming to be her master?" "She brought me with her to have a manipulable weakling," he said, "one to despise, one to do her bidding, unquestioningly".	10
16	55	It also has its role to play, particularly in tumult, in distinguishing one's fellows from the enemy.	10
25	56	To be sure, if the assassin were also a spy, or the spy, to be sure a role unusual for one of that caste, I supposed that Lord Nishida was in no immediate danger, for the spy would wish to gather information, and would be unlikely to make his strike, until his reports were complete, or no longer req...	10
35	104	It was her role, it seems, merely to inform you of a menace, one she would take, naturally enough, as emanating from us, things to be made clear to you later".	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	351	"Philoctetes played his role well," observed Tarl Cabot.	10
7	138	This is clear in a hundred ways, from their brand, their collar, their clothing, if permitted clothing, their behaviors, their demeanors, their diction, their deference, their expressions, their place in society, and, once they are broken to the collar, their softness, their radical femininity, thei...	10
13	135	I wondered if it did not have its role to play in this strange place.	10
15	8	Tyrtaios, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida, had a somewhat similar role, but, if he were latently more dangerous than Seremides, he did not have the temper, and the character of Seremides, which had much to do with intimidation, humiliation, and the drawing of blood.	10
15	16	Tyrtaios, who had been of the retinue of Lord Nishida, had now been requisitioned by Lord Okimoto to fulfill the role which had been that of Seremides.	10
22	161	Given the irregularity of the beat, I took it that its role was tactical, signaling orders.	10
24	29	Aside from Tersites and Aëtius, who refused to come ashore, some officers, and a handful of mariners, only Pani were allowed on board, and their role, one supposed, was to prevent a general return to the ship, if not now, later.	10
29	31	Most of the men knew me, directly or indirectly, by accounts, from early in the voyage, my retrieval from the Metioche, and the test by Lord Nishida, early in the voyage, with Philoctetes, and later, from my attendance on Tarl Cabot, my actions in the Vine Sea, my role in the evacuation, my frequent...	10
36	107	"He was to see to your death, for your role in foiling the desertion".	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	447	"It will be your role to serve the feast.	10
5	77	Here we have a role and an identity, to be sure one inescapable and imposed upon us, whether we will have it so or not, for we are only animals, only slaves.	10
7	406	My condition, my treatment, my training, my collar, my tunic, my brand, doubtless played some role in an awakening within my body that I sensed, day by day, was becoming ever more obvious and irresistible.	10
8	14	One role of the original collar was presumably to encourage a girl to do well in her lessons, that she may the sooner be brought to the block.	10
8	300	The sexes are quite different, and on Gor such picayune details have their role in helping to make the distinction clear.	10
10	58	To be sure, ropes, thongs, bracelets, chains, and such, are not only attractive on the slave, but, as she understands her confinement, her vulnerability, and her helplessness, they have their role in intensifying her sexuality, in heightening her receptivity, her readiness, and passion, as well.	10
31	114	Some role may be found for select humans, grooming, fetching, carting wastes, perhaps decorative objects, as exotic fish or colorful birds, and, certainly, for those who enjoy the taste, food.	10
33	33	I was not clear, nor was Master Desmond, as to the role the unusual cargo which had been borne by the wagons was to play in the affairs of the Cave.	10
35	92	"My role, and that of the others, was primarily to keep men at the games".	10
41	4	Many Kurii recognized the need for societal order, and recognized their role in maintaining that order.	10

Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	90	I think I played my role well.	10
5	101	How was it that one such as I had been born here, in this place, in this time? Must it not be a mistake? I was not, and did not wish to be, an identical, a neuter, an artifact, a product, a role, an adversary, an enemy, a foe.	10
14	512	"I think," said Tyrtaios, "that one player, and perhaps neither, is content to resign himself in these matters to the role of a passive, uninvolved spectator".	10
14	528	"And what is my role here?" I asked.	10
20	194	"Our role in this is clear," said Relia.	10
47	69	It is his role to warn against illegal moves, and to announce captures, threats to the Home Stone, and such.	10

Book 33. (18 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	15	I strode out to meet Tajima, who was, I suppose, though he did not care for the role, my eyes and ears at the holding.	10
13	180	And Sumomo's role, I anticipated, was largely that of communicating Daichi's information, available from Lord Temmu, to the enemy, by so simple a contrivance as casting missives over the parapet, to be retrieved below.	10
14	172	Do you think I would entrust so sensitive a role to a contract woman?" "She is not a contract woman?" I said.	10
17	91	"The female has her role in nature," he said, "to work, to please, to provide inordinate pleasure to her master".	10
19	195	Each, unbeknownst to herself, had her role to play in the machinations of Priest-Kings.	10
20	121	Lord Yamada is now well aware of the disclosure of Sumomo's secret commission, the detection of her action on the parapet, that the nature of her role in the holding of Lord Temmu has been brought to light, as she apparently is not.	10
20	123	He fears plans are in jeopardy, even that the role of Daichi in influencing the shogun might be suspected.	10
20	144	"That was a guise, a role behind which I might abet the projects of my father".	10
20	177	Perhaps, given my value in the north, I am to be permitted an even more important role".	10
21	439	"I played that role well," she said.	10
21	458	"But you played your role so excellently," I said.	10
21	514	Your role was revealed.	10
52	129	"What is the role of the six spheres and the six dials?" asked Pertinax.	10
57	72	The role of the cavalry in all this was not clear, and it had remained a substantially independent force since the betrayal of its commander to the house of Temmu's foe, Lord Yamada.	10
60	477	That is not the role of a shogun".	10
61	377	I am sure that Tajima had wanted her from the first moment he had seen her, when she was feigning the role of a contract woman in the quarters of Lord Nishida.	10
61	959	Apprised she should have a male colleague to aid in dissembling her true status and role on Gor, she had enlisted Gregory Smith, well aware, from small incidents, of his remote, hopeless, infatuation with her.	10
61	962	Unknown to herself, aside from her brief role in meeting a tarnsman on the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the forest, and seeing that he was brought to Tarncamp, she had been preselected, in virtue of a standing order, for a Gorean collar, and would be delivering herself, as well, to Tarncamp.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	251	I assumed she arrogated this role to herself in view of her more expensive, more fashionable attire.	10
9	134	The caste structure apparently lends a great deal of stability to Gorean society, as most Goreans respect their caste and recognize the nature of, and the value of, its role in society.	10
9	578	The Merchant class is undoubtedly the richest of the Gorean castes, which doubtless has played its role in its pretensions to constitute a high caste, but there are low merchants as well as high merchants, poor merchants as well as rich merchants.	10
15	286	I did not understand what their role might be.	10
26	14	Indeed, it is highly likely that, long ago, in the beginning, the caste was formed to supply a need, or perform a role within society that was perceived as being not only fully justified, but desirable.	10
46	147	"I no longer need maintain my pose, no longer need play my hateful role.	10
49	142	"Deception, it seems," said Kurik, "has its role in business as well as in war".	10
59	48	What other contribution to an entertainment might be expected of verr? What else could be their role? Too, these were familiar verr, not the related beast, the larger, belligerent, territorial mountain verr I had heard of, horned and agile, which are dangerous to approach, particularly on precipitou...	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	248	In the southern hemisphere, the coinage of Turia plays a similar role to that of Ar in the north.	10
11	66	It is our role, as negligible beasts and vendible properties, mocked and scorned, bought and sold, derided and despised, to serve and please our masters.	10
13	262	"Your role in this is simple," said the voice.	10
25	109	I also realized that Adraste's present "captors" or "holders," my work and role having been compromised by my abduction and my now being in the keeping of the one-legged man, might not only not need me any longer, but might regard it as judicious to have me disappear, and far more effectively than h...	10
32	97	Was not Addison Steele treacherous and disreputable, dishonest and dishonorable, a stranger to loyalties? If one is on all sides, how can one help but be on the winning side? Yet this was a dangerous role to play.	10
33	197	Never before had I been so explicitly conscious of the enormous role in communication and understanding effected by how a thing is said as opposed to what is said.	10
34	66	"Doubtless they have their role," said Ho-Tosk, "perhaps to weaken resistance, to induce a greater susceptibility to suggestion, or such".	10
38	104	The role of the spy or informant, witting or unwitting, is not always the acquisition of information; it can extend, as well, to the propagation of misinformation.	10
40	128	Certainly I, myself, would not have cared for such a role.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	2	Ror is the first of the four divisions left of Ta-Sardar-Var, which, in its orienting role, would be similar to our magnetic north.	10
35	160	"The Peasantry is perhaps most organized on Chios, from the fair, and from the role of our men at Nicosia, on Chios, in spurring on resistance, and in distributing bows and demonstrating the subtleties of their making".	10
60	14	Who were we, really? What did we want? What did we know? Did we have a role in these dark games? Might we not have something to sell the governor? Information? Silence? "There are six more, hooded, farther away," said Clitus, "those fellows carrying amphorae".	10
60	330	And what actor would not be eager to reprise his greatest role?" "And if he is reluctant to do so?" asked Clitus.	10
61	17	Accordingly, the role was a challenge, one which might not merely have daunted, but might have crushed, a lesser actor.	10
61	61	"What is the nature of my imminent role?" he asked.	10