| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 34 |
"Her sale price would not bring half the hiring price of a sword such as that of Kazrak of Port Kar". |
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| 10 | 53 |
"She is not for sale". |
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| 10 | 81 |
"If you like," said Mintar, paying no attention to Talena, "I will arrange her sale in the City of Tents and add her price to your wages". |
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| 11 | 53 |
To my surprise, most of the girls seemed excited by their sale and displayed their charms with brazen gusto, each seeming to compete with the one before to bring a higher price. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 43 |
If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart. |
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| 15 | 158 |
"Would you truly," she asked, her voice faltering, "put me up for sale?" I looked at her without answering. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 |
Many are the objects for sale at the fair. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 179 |
"She is not for sale," said Kamchak. |
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| 9 | 185 |
I had seen him use it several times while discussing the possible sale of little Tenchika to Albrecht in the wagon. |
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| 13 | 221 |
"Besides," said Kamchak, "the wagon grows crowded—and she must be readied for sale". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
10 |
| 19 | 78 |
I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma... |
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| 13 | 131 |
He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liq... |
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| 19 | 71 |
Outside the Curulean also, on sale days, actual slave girls are exhibited, some in suspended plastic cages fastened to the roof of the portico, others in a tier of cages lining the interior wall of the portico; these are not, however, the exposition cages within the Curulean; they are merely, so to ... |
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| 5 | 592 |
Elizabeth was much amused by the forged slave papers prepared for her, giving in detail an account of her capture and exchanges, complete with endorsements and copies of bills of sale. |
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| 9 | 22 |
Many of these, of course, are simply put in pens and retained there until removed for sale; some lots are wholesaled to minor slavers, usually coming in from distant cities to pick up merchandise, which tends in Ar to be abundant and, on the whole, reasonably priced. |
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| 9 | 26 |
It is a great mark of prestige among slave girls to be selected for sale from the great block in the Curulean, and girls tend to compete viciously among themselves for this honor. |
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| 9 | 50 |
It advertised a sale. |
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| 9 | 52 |
The common thread in these various matters was that the House of Cernus was involved, either in presenting the sale or in sponsoring the races or games. |
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| 14 | 194 |
"Perhaps her sale could be private?" I said. |
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| 15 | 124 |
There had been nothing clandestine about her sale, and it was unlikely that she would not be able to convince her master, eventually, that she was of high family in Ar and might be richly ransomed. |
10 |
| 15 | 148 |
On the other hand, the single greatest period for the sale of slaves is the five days of the Fifth Passage Hand, coming late in summer, called jointly the Love Feast. |
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| 15 | 362 |
Many houses would doubtless have put them up for sale in En'Kara, but Cernus, as I had heard, was saving them for the Love Feast, which occupies the five days of the fifth passage hand, falling late in the summer. |
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| 15 | 363 |
There was a variety of reasons why he was postponing their sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 386 |
Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attribut... |
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| 16 | 18 |
Little then remained for them except to review their lessons, eat and sleep well, and be in prime condition for their sale in the late summer, during the Fifth Passage Hand, on the Love Feast. |
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| 16 | 49 |
Further, as Ho-Tu pointed out, their sale was not to be until the late summer; thus there was plenty of time to use the sights and scenes of Ar, judiciously mixed with review and practice, diet and rest, to bring them to a height of vitality, interest and excitement before putting them on the block. |
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| 19 | 1 |
The Curulean The sale of Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with that of Cernus' other trained barbarians, did not take place on the first night of the Love Feast, though they had been transported to the cages of the Curulean early in the first day. |
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| 19 | 65 |
From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ... |
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| 19 | 74 |
The sale at the Curulean is carefully planned, and the lots prepared and scheduled with much attention to such matters as variety and the attention of the buyers; for example, two consecutive lots are not likely to wear the same first silks upon ascending the block, yet each girl, given her complexi... |
10 |
| 19 | 76 |
The sale of women, like that of any other merchandise, can be a difficult and time-consuming business, calling optimally for good judgment, experience and imagination. |
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| 19 | 85 |
This was surprising because the hour was still early; I supposed the crowd this night would be unusually large, even for the fourth night of the Love Feast; none of the citizens had paid much attention to my being brought under guard to the box of Cernus; he was Ubar; it is not unusual on Gor for a ... |
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| 19 | 102 |
"Do not raise your voice during the sale," said Cernus, "or your tongue will be cut out". |
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| 19 | 132 |
There was the sudden crack of a whip, loud and sharp, and the crowd leaped to its feet, for the sale had begun. |
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| 19 | 140 |
This is largely, doubtless, because the Curulean refuses to accept women for sale who are not genuinely attractive. |
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| 19 | 198 |
"Barbarians are nothing!" The auctioneer conferred with a market official, who kept lists of lot numbers and confirmed the bids and final sale with the buyers or their agents at the side of the block. |
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| 19 | 457 |
The ordeal of the sale over, Virginia and Phyllis were weeping. |
10 |
| 19 | 484 |
I knew that behind me, on the block, there would be a new lot for sale, more to please the buyers of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 588 |
"You saw yourself her sale. |
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| 13 | 185 |
"The money that we obtain from your sale," he said, "will be applied to the outfitting of our fleets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 445 |
It is interesting to note that a woman who has fallen slave, particularly an urban woman, particularly from one of the proud "high cities," is extremely likely to be kept a slave, even if she should, eventually, sale by sale, handed from master to master, chained in wagon after wagon, find herself a... |
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| 7 | 9 |
And, from Lydius, of course, goods of many sorts, though primarily rough goods, such things as tools, crude metal and cloth, brought on barges, towed by tharlarion treading on log roads, following the river, are brought to Laura, for sale and distribution inland. |
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| 7 | 306 |
And as I knelt on the chain, before this man, I realized, again, and again, the thought devastating me, that I was an item of merchandise, that I, Elinor Brinton, was for sale, that I could be bought. |
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| 8 | 557 |
I found myself looking forward eagerly to my sale. |
10 |
| 10 | 196 |
Indeed, they were not for sale. |
10 |
| 10 | 316 |
I expected that it would be there that you would be put up for sale". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 337 |
In it, too, hung a miserable wretch, put up for sale by panther girls. |
10 |
| 3 | 138 |
We would use part of the proceeds from their sale to purchase our lunch. |
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| 4 | 345 |
I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces. |
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| 6 | 163 |
So, why might she not, provided the sale is secret, sell Talena to me, regardless of the outcome of her pursuit of Marlenus?" "Perhaps she would fear you would simply, for gold, return Talena to Marlenus," said Thurnock. |
10 |
| 6 | 526 |
But as I looked into her eyes, I realized that Talena was not for sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 774 |
The auctioneer, in his skill, would have demonstrated undreampt-of latencies in the wench on sale, that her desirabilities were not merely placid and visual, but organic, reflexive and sensual, that she, properly handled, was the sort of woman who, as the Goreans say, could not help but kiss the whi... |
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| 16 | 322 |
Before the auctioneer closes his hand on a price for her, it will be clear to all in the market, including the woman, that her beauty is truly for sale, and fully. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 332 |
They are not for sale, though many are sold from the platform. |
10 |
| 10 | 427 |
There were some one hundred bondmaids for sale in the shed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 532 |
A month before her hair is regrown, and she is fit for sale, wash her and put her in a stimulation cage and train her intensively". |
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| 2 | 387 |
At one place, on a stone shelf, under awnings, several girls, chained naked, were for sale, interestingly, at set prices. |
10 |
| 2 | 388 |
It was a municipal sale, under the jurisdiction of the courts of Tor. |
10 |
| 24 | 83 |
Rather, perhaps, she might be vended in light, ample, gleaming golden chains, from the purple booths, none but the richest allowed access to the venue of her pricing, and sale. |
10 |
| 26 | 28 |
The sale must be widely and thoroughly advertised, in many cities. |
10 |
| 26 | 67 |
I wished her good fortune in her sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 161 |
A woman may wear earrings on the block early in the sale, or even ornate, expensive garments and veils, if one wishes, but before the conclusion of the sale she will be absolutely naked, that the buyers may see her without adornments, without the least enhancement, that they will see her then as she... |
10 |
| 28 | 165 |
If a Ubara of a conquered city, for example, were to be sold, it would, customarily, be in such a special sale, unless the victorious Ubar, he who had conquered her city and captured her, chose to have her sold, for his amusement, in a common sale and from an unimportant block. |
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| 7 | 390 |
But such thoughts would not be likely to be prominent in the mind of a leashed girl, helplessly braceleted, being dragged to her first sale. |
10 |
| 13 | 28 |
When the figure pertinent to my sale had been entered in the two ledgers the wire loop, from which dangled the silver leaf, had been cut from my ear. |
10 |
| 13 | 59 |
I had spent eight days in the slave pens, waiting for the night of the sale. |
10 |
| 13 | 183 |
All were fully clothed, save I, who wore only a light chain, locked, with its attached disk of sale. |
10 |
| 13 | 214 |
In the slave pens, of course, a girl's measurements are taken on a tape measure marked in horts and entered on her sheet of sale. |
10 |
| 13 | 378 |
He had exacted from the crowd the highest possible price in the given market before he revealed, unexpectedly and to her dismay, the delicious richness and vulnerability of the girl's exploitable latencies, they as much a part of her as her block measurements, and as much for sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 144 |
From what she had said I gathered the collar had not been made recently, that it had not been made following the sale in the house of Publius, in which my various measurements, those of a slave, had been made public. |
10 |
| 16 | 26 |
First, the sailors may then, for their pleasure, gaze upon the lovely prisoners of the cages; secondly, the girls, when they reach their port of sale, will be tanned perfectly, completely. |
10 |
| 16 | 31 |
Their virginity usually does not last more than an Ahn beyond their first sale. |
10 |
| 24 | 50 |
Are we for sale? We are desired. |
10 |
| 24 | 186 |
"She is not for sale," said Clitus Vitellius, angrily. |
10 |
| 24 | 192 |
But she is not for sale. |
10 |
| 27 | 645 |
In most markets girls are displayed publicly in exhibition cages prior to their sale. |
10 |
| 28 | 87 |
Thus, if a lash is used, the girl will be more conveniently directed toward the end of the tunnel near the foot of the block, toward her sale, rather than away from it. |
10 |
| 28 | 109 |
It would not be said, however, that she was an appetitious girl who had welcomed her sale, or that she hungered for a man. |
10 |
| 28 | 148 |
The sales begin in the early evening and usually, unless there is something special for sale, they begin a bit slowly. |
10 |
| 28 | 150 |
Often the seats are not entirely filled until the second Ahn of the sale. |
10 |
| 28 | 152 |
There was, as far as I knew, nothing special for sale this evening. |
10 |
| 28 | 156 |
Although this does tend to bring in larger early crowds the slavers feel that, often, they do not get on these girls what they might have, had their sale taken place later in the evening, in the heat and press of more determined bidding. |
10 |
| 28 | 158 |
The ideal, of course, is to be sold at the height of the sale. |
10 |
| 28 | 160 |
Late in the sale, of course, it is not uncommon for buyers to be weary and to begin to drift away. |
10 |
| 28 | 161 |
These remarks, incidentally, pertain to a normal "long" sale, usually held four times a week at a large house. |
10 |
| 28 | 172 |
Early in the sale, for the first twenty girls, the chain had been intact, one chain for us all. |
10 |
| 28 | 173 |
With each sale we had moved one position. |
10 |
| 28 | 180 |
The effect of this, being for a time relatively at ease, and then being forced suddenly to move ten times closer to the block tends, suddenly, to whet one's fears and anticipations anew; when one, psychologically, in spite of herself, had begun to feel a little safe one is suddenly hurried even clos... |
10 |
| 28 | 227 |
I listened to the sale of the girl in the house tunic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 733 |
For example, a free woman who, before her sale, is cold may become, after her sale, knowing herself then as a vended slave, helpless and torrid in the arms of a master. |
10 |
| 3 | 723 |
Indeed, there is not much point, usually, in coming early to a sale. |
10 |
| 3 | 876 |
"I am for sale," said the dark-haired girl, "and so, too, are you, and the rest of us". |
10 |
| 3 | 877 |
"Yes," whispered the blonde, suddenly shuddering, "I—I am for sale". |
10 |
| 3 | 908 |
But there seemed little chance of this for there appeared to be much more choice merchandise for sale upon those long, darkly varnished, slatted platforms. |
10 |
| 3 | 966 |
I wondered if they had ever been as beautiful on Earth as here, on sale, in their light tunics and chains. |
10 |
| 15 | 474 |
It is harder for the woman, but she, too, at times, is in a position to influence her sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 712 |
"—in a minor sale in a small city," I added. |
10 |
| 15 | 722 |
"How does one know, on the block," she asked, suddenly, "if a girl is any good?" "A certification of a girl's heat, in certain cities," I said, "is sometimes furnished, with the slaver's guarantee, among the documents of sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 723 |
Her degree of heat, in such a situation would also be listed, of course, among her other properties, on her sales sheet, posted in the vicinity of the exhibition cages, available twenty Ahn before her sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 724 |
It would also be proclaimed, of course, in such a situation, along with her weight and collar size, and such things, from the block, during her sale". |
10 |
| 15 | 784 |
"Normally there is no time for a lengthy sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 786 |
A sale often takes no more time than one or two Ehn. |
10 |
| 24 | 416 |
"How strange it is to be helplessly owned," she marveled, "to be subject to sale or exchange". |
10 |
| 38 | 174 |
But, untrained, and in an early sale, she would doubtless go for no more than a handful, though perhaps a double handful, of copper tarsks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 10 |
In a higher-class market girls are usually fed a cathartic a few hours before the sale, and forced to relieve themselves shortly before their sale, a kettle passed down the line. |
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| 3 | 23 |
I had not wished to leave immediately after her sale, for that might have indicated, had there been a curious observer present, that that sale had been the one in which I had been interested. |
10 |
| 1 | 409 |
"I would say about five copper tarsks, in a fourth-class market, perhaps even an item in a group sale. |
10 |
| 1 | 687 |
"I will attend her sale, in disguise," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 163 |
Her responsiveness, though not unusual for a slave girl, was surely impressive for an unmarked Earth girl in her first sale. |
10 |
| 2 | 169 |
Yes, the responsiveness of the girl on sale had been impressive. |
10 |
| 2 | 262 |
The slave on sale was not a silver-tarsk girl. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
I had stayed at the sales in the warehouse of Vart for a time after the sale of the blond barbarian. |
10 |
| 4 | 295 |
"Then let her be placed on sale outside the shop for five Ehn, to be sold to the first buyer for the cost of her branding. |
10 |
| 4 | 596 |
I did not wish to speak, for I would, then, have revealed myself as having been at the sale. |
10 |
| 8 | 12 |
I had observed her sale by means of a glass of the builders, from a roof top near Uchafu's market. |
10 |
| 8 | 80 |
I recalled clearly that silver had exchanged hands in her sale. |
10 |
| 11 | 262 |
"Perhaps he would give them to an agent," said the girl, "to be brought to Schendi for sale to Shaba". |
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| 12 | 546 |
"Several days ago," said he to the kneeling girl before him, "your sale to Pembe was arranged. |
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| 20 | 37 |
"We were put up for sale!" "Where is Sasi?" I called. |
10 |
| 20 | 63 |
Soon thereafter, apparently, they had been put up for sale. |
10 |
| 57 | 86 |
"If you wish," he had said, indicating Tende, who knelt beside them, "I will take this slave and arrange for her sale in Schendi. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 142 |
The same girl who in her first sale was frigid is likely to be, by the time of her second sale, even should it be within the year, a wonder of lascivious appetition, needful of love and the touch of an uncompromising owner. |
10 |
| 1 | 853 |
"Would you have bought me?" "What else was for sale?" I asked, smiling. |
10 |
| 2 | 222 |
It occurred to me that its contents, Miss Henderson, if she were truly a slave, would one day, doubtless, be put up for sale. |
10 |
| 10 | 135 |
"I am attending to the details of tomorrow evening's sale," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 31 |
"It is in such rooms as these that slaves are often readied for their sale". |
10 |
| 11 | 330 |
"This was sent here, doubtless," she said, "that it might, for the instruction and amusement of buyers, be used in your sale". |
10 |
| 11 | 688 |
"Let the sale begin," said the Lady Tima. |
10 |
| 12 | 68 |
The crowd, enlisted in the sale, was in a splendid mood. |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
"No!" She seemed amused, but I could tell she was not pleased at the sudden turn the sale had taken. |
10 |
| 12 | 138 |
"Let him draw an oar!" "Bring forth the next slave for sale!" called yet another. |
10 |
| 12 | 139 |
"Begin the next sale!" called yet another. |
10 |
| 12 | 297 |
"Tendite," said the Lady Tima to me, "is not skilled in conducting a sale. |
10 |
| 12 | 326 |
And, in time, she will conduct a sale as skillfully as any female slaver". |
10 |
| 12 | 435 |
Has not your lovely auctioneer, the Lady Tendite, well prepared him for his sale?" "Six tarsks!" I heard. |
10 |
| 12 | 439 |
It had been where the Lady Tendite had prepared me for my sale, even to having me, unwittingly, dress myself as a man of Earth. |
10 |
| 12 | 440 |
It was there that she had laid the snares and set the traps, earning my trust, building up my hopes, which had made me so additionally vulnerable to the humiliations and miseries of my sale. |
10 |
| 16 | 132 |
There are also, of course, many shops which specialize in the sale of, so to speak, foreign goods. |
10 |
| 17 | 117 |
"I was in Ar negotiating the sale of this house," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 132 |
"Tomorrow," she said, "with the moneys I will have from the sale of this house I will recoup all, in a single afternoon. |
10 |
| 17 | 146 |
Perhaps, even, in time, she may ruin your Mistress, and force your sale". |
10 |
| 18 | 170 |
As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races. |
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| 19 | 135 |
Too, however, it should be noted that Kenneth, permitting the bedding of the lovely slave girl at this time, had assured himself that she would be warmed for her sale. |
10 |
| 19 | 139 |
For example, a truly frigid girl is almost certain to be a first-sale girl. |
10 |
| 19 | 169 |
"Yes, and I think she is now well ready for her sale". |
10 |
| 29 | 81 |
"Doubtless such young men," I said, "invited to a private sale, one suitably secret, will bid high against one another to have you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 91 |
"You had an assistant," I said, "a superb actress, who, pretending to be a mere Earth-girl slave, even to the collar and Ta-Teera, well prepared me for my sale in your market". |
10 |
| 2 | 99 |
"Please have mercy on me!" "The sale must have been amusing," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
My financial resources, the ten silver tarsks, obtained from the sale of my former Mistress, the Lady Florence of Vonda, to the slaver, Tenalion of Ar, had been severely depleted. |
10 |
| 6 | 84 |
They were being taken to one of the stout log warehouses, whose doors were marked with the Kajira sign, to be held for sale. |
10 |
| 7 | 85 |
"Doubtless they will use the proceeds from our sale to supplement their income," said one of them. |
10 |
| 9 | 28 |
"Are these all the items that remain for sale?" I asked the attendant. |
10 |
| 9 | 43 |
There were some two hundred men at the sale. |
10 |
| 9 | 191 |
She was for sale. |
10 |
| 21 | 40 |
Will each woman, sooner or later, in one sale or another, passing through various hands, sometimes many, find the master of her dreams? It is not known. |
10 |
| 21 | 332 |
Slavers, not unoften, deprive a female slave of a man's touch for two or three days before her sale. |
10 |
| 23 | 372 |
"I think she will be ready for sale in another month. |
10 |
| 24 | 425 |
I found my own sale indescribably thrilling. |
10 |
| 24 | 677 |
She can then influence her sale, guided by the auctioneer's whip, only in such a way as to present herself as the most luscious slave meat she can, hoping thereby to improve her price, that she may be purchased by a more well-to-do master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 209 |
This may be because such garments have been associated with Earth females brought to Gorean slave markets, garments which are sometimes permitted the girls during the early portions of their sale, or, perhaps, independently, because they are soft, sensual and slavelike. |
10 |
| 19 | 354 |
If he has only a few girls he may "try her out" before putting her on sale. |
10 |
| 19 | 423 |
It is thus in his best interest to put up for sale the highest quality merchandise he can obtain. |
10 |
| 19 | 731 |
"I think I shall put you up for sale, you pretty, meaningless little brute," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 737 |
"But before you could be put up for sale," I said, "you must learn certain lessons, which apparently you have earlier failed to master, on the position, and condition, of the Gorean slave girl". |
10 |
| 19 | 1016 |
A girl who is sold in a prestige market and, in the afternoon before her sale, placed with other lovely inmates within the chromed, ornate bars of an exhibition cage, has moved and posed upon the instructions of prospective bidders, is almost certain to bring a higher price than another girl, who by... |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
Tomorrow, at noon, on the same ship on which their master had booked passage, they were to be shipped to Port Cos, and from thence, via Turmus, eventually to the island of Cos, in some city of which, probably Telnus, they would be put up for sale. |
10 |
| 20 | 982 |
She had retained, by means of diet and exercise, her block measurements, those measurements which were hers when she, after having been prepared for sale, was marketed from a slave block. |
10 |
| 20 | 1024 |
In the first case, where no true distinction exists, which is the authentic case, the girl, in effect, says, "I am for sale. |
10 |
| 21 | 126 |
I was forced to memorize these things before my first sale". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 202 |
The women were chained nude, of course, for that is the way that slave girls are commonly displayed for their sale, particularly in low markets, and, indeed, even in a private sale from one of the purple booths in the courtyard of a rich slaver there will come a time when the slave, even an exquisit... |
10 |
| 7 | 144 |
"Barbarians for sale! Barbarians for sale, cheap and pretty!" called the fellow on the platform. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
The slave pits, as the men may look down upon the girls, might serve, I supposed, much the same purpose as the pre-sale exhibition cages in more urbanized areas. |
10 |
| 6 | 150 |
"There is better stock inside, I hear," said the man, "hidden away until the time of the sale, some even in the barbarian garments in which they were captured". |
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| 7 | 1 |
Ginger "Barbarians! Barbarians for sale!" called the fellow, standing on the circular wooden platform, outside the opened gate of the large, palisaded enclosure. |
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| 7 | 3 |
"Barbarians for sale!" called the fellow on the platform. |
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| 7 | 32 |
In most Gorean cities it is illegal to offer an unbranded woman in a public sale. |
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| 7 | 36 |
"Barbarians! Barbarians for sale!" now continued to call the fellow on the wooden platform outside the gate to the compound of Ram Seibar. |
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| 7 | 39 |
They will be put up for sale within the Ahn. |
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| 7 | 130 |
"Barbarians! Barbarians for sale!" he called. |
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| 7 | 133 |
Buy at the house of Ram Seibar! Barbarians for sale, cheap and pretty!" "Solicit elsewhere," I told her. |
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| 8 | 61 |
The sale, technically, would not take place until after the young woman was branded. |
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| 8 | 76 |
The rapidity with which the girls were being placed on sale, incidentally, is not unusual at the perimeter. |
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| 8 | 107 |
"Noble Sirs!" called a voice, that of the fellow in the soiled blue-and-yellow shirt who had, earlier, been advertising the sale outside the compound. |
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| 8 | 145 |
Some of the girls auctioned earlier had also been presented to the buyers initially clothed, to one extent or the other, their clothing then being removed, sometimes sardonically and ceremoniously, during the course of their sale. |
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| 8 | 224 |
I had encountered her outside the compound of Ram Seibar, before the sale. |
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| 8 | 256 |
I did not think Ram Seibar would wish girls soliciting in his hall, particularly during the course of a sale. |
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| 8 | 541 |
"Do not break the peace! Sheathe your steel! There is a sale in progress". |
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| 8 | 560 |
The presence of two such luscious tavern girls at the sale might surely distract the attention of at least some of the buyers. |
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| 8 | 658 |
"We have here, for sale," laughed the auctioneer, "two of the prettiest tavern girls in Kailiauk. |
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| 8 | 768 |
"Do you think free women would be so rudely stripped and brazenly displayed? We, and these others, are on sale! Do you doubt that we are slaves? See our brands!" She turned her left thigh to the central platform. |
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| 8 | 780 |
"Then I, too, at least in theory, could be put up for sale," she said, aghast. |
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| 8 | 782 |
"You are up for sale". |
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| 8 | 785 |
I cannot be for sale!" "You are a nameless slave animal, being vended for the pleasure of Masters," said Ginger. |
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| 8 | 786 |
"I am not for sale!" cried the girl. |
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| 8 | 817 |
"If there is no one here now who wishes further to examine the tavern girls, prior to their sale, I will have them removed to a holding area," said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 885 |
A woman's first sale, I suspected, is often the hardest. |
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| 11 | 272 |
It had been done in the throes of the misery of her sale, when she had pleaded not to be brazenly exposed to the buyers. |
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| 13 | 320 |
"The clothing in which you were exhibited to the buyers," I said, "which was removed for their interest, in your sale, did not seem to me the clothing of a debutante. |
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| 13 | 1094 |
She had seen animals of this sort in the streets of Kailiauk, in the dawn of the day following her sale, when she and the others had been marched out towards the Ihanke. |
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| 13 | 1191 |
"Too, you will note that civilization has increased the control of the girls and the effectiveness of bondage, the marking, the identification of masters, the papers of sale, and so on. |
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| 14 | 464 |
Grunt apparently did not wish to release the red-haired girl in a common sale. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 104 |
Aside from the obvious fact that it might improve the price of a girl in her sale or resale, it can also be sheared and sold. |
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| 47 | 50 |
"I am doing it to improve your appearance," he said, "much as one might water an animal before its sale, that you will look your best for the Yellow Knives". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 129 |
I had seen owned, displayed human females, women who were merchandise, women who were literally up for sale. |
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| 4 | 133 |
What a horrifying and categorical thing it would be, I thought, to be subject to sale. |
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| 4 | 515 |
I forced from my mind the memory of the slaves I had seen earlier, the girls in the street, in their one-piece, skimpy garments, heads down, kneeling, chained together by the neck, the girls in the market, in their chains, stark naked, kneeling, too, their heads down to the warm cement, being public... |
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| 5 | 252 |
"And if I were such an animal, and for sale, what do you think I would bring?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 119 |
"Curves like that should be up for sale". |
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| 8 | 277 |
* * * * "We are readying her for her sale," said Hermidorus. |
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| 17 | 13 |
They were for sale. |
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| 17 | 15 |
I had been given to understand that if I were not claimed within ten days, I, too, would be put up for sale, even if I might be a free woman, if only to cover the cost of my keep. |
10 |
| 17 | 286 |
"She is not for sale," the Archon's man told one fellow. |
10 |
| 18 | 211 |
Yet, was I not in his power, as much as might have been a slave? I thought of myself momentarily as a slave, obliged to obedience, subject to sale, owned, collared, and became almost giddy with the thought. |
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| 24 | 104 |
On the other hand it had not been an open sale. |
10 |
| 31 | 149 |
For all I knew, there were detailed slave papers on me, which might accompany me in a sale. |
10 |
| 36 | 278 |
How much more so, then, must this be the case with the female slave, whose new master, one who will have total power over her, is likely to be a total stranger, a fellow whom she has probably never even seen before her sale. |
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| 36 | 886 |
Before a girl's sale she is often denied the touch of men. |
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| 36 | 888 |
And then they are well readied for their sale, each vying to best display her master's merchandise. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 17 |
Here it seemed there were a thousand things for sale and a hundred shows. |
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| 6 | 304 |
"I had hoped to make a sale," he added. |
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| 6 | 340 |
This was not because there was anything special about it, of course, but only because it was not for sale. |
10 |
| 6 | 1309 |
He held out his hand with the five silver tarsks, accrued but moments earlier from the sale of the Brigella. |
10 |
| 6 | 1363 |
"She is for sale, I believe, at this very fair," I smiled. |
10 |
| 6 | 1365 |
"There are thousands of girls for sale here, in the care of hundreds of owners". |
10 |
| 7 | 53 |
I had then conducted Boots to the area where the agents of Samos had his hundred girls on sale, sent out from Port Kar for vending during the Fair of En'Kara. |
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| 7 | 76 |
The ideal impression to convey to the customer is perhaps that you have marvelous merchandise for sale, that even now many people are interested and buying, that it is moving fast, and that if he sees a girl he wants, perhaps he should snatch her up before someone else does. |
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| 7 | 188 |
Too, getting her for two silver tarsks, though perhaps somewhat more than Boots cared to pay, left him a full three silver tarsks, the residue of his profit from the sale of the Brigella. |
10 |
| 7 | 213 |
The slaver's man, of course, was well pleased with the sale. |
10 |
| 9 | 130 |
"I suppose it does mark me as a free woman," she said, "and in that sense might perhaps raise my price somewhat in case they were readying me for sale to a slave merchant". |
10 |
| 9 | 365 |
Indeed, those slave curves of hers, even routinely put up for sale on a block, would be almost certain to elicit active and serious bidding. |
10 |
| 10 | 370 |
"Surely it had little purpose other than to display you well for sale to a slaver and, in its piteousness, to invite its casual removal". |
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| 10 | 518 |
That might have been done for many reasons, perhaps to conserve food, perhaps to make them more needful and docile, perhaps to apprise them of their dependence on their captors, perhaps even to slim their figures somewhat before their projected sale. |
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| 10 | 520 |
In the Tahari a woman is often stuffed with food for days before her sale, even force fed, if necessary. |
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| 14 | 16 |
To be sure, a girl will usually be scrubbed up and made presentable before she is brought up for sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 343 |
Slave training is offered in the houses of many slavers, and, of course, they often train their own girls to one extent or another before putting them up for sale. |
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| 9 | 166 |
"If it were not for the bringing of free females into the toils of bondage, capturing them, getting them properly marked, seeing to the legal details, putting them up for sale, and so forth, there would be few slaves". |
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| 11 | 106 |
"I received them from the sale of poems, my poems!" he said, shaking with emotion. |
10 |
| 11 | 109 |
"I had thought it must be from the sale of numerous rich gems, doubtless sewn in your jacket," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 747 |
There you will be evaluated, bid upon and purchased, as different animals, as separate properties, merely as independent items up for sale, solely on your own merits. |
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| 25 | 329 |
Even girls who are to be auctioned are commonly available, in exposition cages or display spaces, for inspection before a sale, that one may determine whether or not he wishes to make a bid, and, also, of course, how high he might be willing to go to acquire her. |
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| 25 | 883 |
"If someone were interested in her," I asked, "would she be for sale?" "She is the only wench we have from the villas of Noviminae," said my hostess. |
10 |
| 25 | 893 |
"She is then for sale?" I asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 894 |
"All our slaves are for sale," said my hostess. |
10 |
| 25 | 930 |
"The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks". |
10 |
| 26 | 539 |
"You could be branded and collared before morning," I said, "and shipped out of the city, then a slave, hooded, gagged, and helpless, for your first sale". |
10 |
| 26 | 1403 |
On the other hand, perhaps you would be simply shipped out of the city to a distant market, there to be put on the block for your first sale". |
10 |
| 26 | 1404 |
"My sale," she whispered, excitedly. |
10 |
| 27 | 61 |
Such things might disrupt a sale. |
10 |
| 27 | 62 |
"Have you ever seen a sale of female slaves?" he asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 214 |
"I shall enjoy having her in my pens for a time, the lovely Lady Lydia, before her sale". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 252 |
These would be my "block measurements," those which were mine as of now, on the date of my sale. |
10 |
| 9 | 570 |
Too, the greatest danger of those things is during the early moments, or the final moments, of a sale. |
10 |
| 10 | 46 |
Too, it had been checked by his man the morning following my sale, before I had been prepared for shipment here. |
10 |
| 10 | 141 |
"What was wrong with you, at the end of your sale?" he asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 151 |
This was the first time I had been in his presence, to my knowledge, since my sale in Market of Semris. |
10 |
| 10 | 186 |
"The sale is over," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 215 |
"I was not displeased that your performance on the block was as ambiguous as it was, toward the end of your sale," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 289 |
We had spent the night of our sale in the cages located in the exit corridor. |
10 |
| 10 | 484 |
But still, even as "slave meat," it was I who had brought the highest price! I wished Teibar could have known that, that his catch from the library on Earth had brought the highest price in the market, and on her first sale, too! But I supposed that he, the monster, the beast, would have merely cong... |
10 |
| 11 | 531 |
"We shall reopen the sale of ostraka presently," called Mirus. |
10 |
| 11 | 886 |
He had let me go! But I had sold for two and a half silver tarsks, on my first sale! I had been purchased by Hendow, of Brundisium, who, I had gathered, was noted in this city for having an excellent eye for the selection of slave meat! Certainly the girls in his tavern, Inger, and Tupita, and Ina, ... |
10 |
| 13 | 225 |
Here, on Gor, women such as I, surely, would be swiftly sorted out, taken in hand, prepared for sale, and sold. |
10 |
| 13 | 296 |
Before her sale a girl is sometimes even forced to drink a liter or so of water, to round her belly more. |
10 |
| 17 | 332 |
"She is not for sale," said my master. |
10 |
| 17 | 343 |
"She is not for sale," said my master. |
10 |
| 20 | 38 |
Gorean masters, incidentally, almost never deprive a girl of sex, though it can, of course, be done with an end in view, for such purposes as punishment, increasing her need for a later time, or bringing her to a good, hot ready point for, say, her sale from a slave block. |
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| 20 | 255 |
I did not much fear another sale. |
10 |
| 20 | 257 |
A girl's first sale, at least her first public one, as mine was at Market of Semris, when she is exposed on a block naked to buyers, and such, is probably the hardest for her. |
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| 22 | 31 |
"My first public sale took place in Market of Semris," I said, "at the sales barn of Teibar, of that town. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 252 |
Certainly it was no secret that slavers, particularly in the more expensive houses, occasionally planned the sale of women in great detail, carefully regulating the order, arrangement, style, pacing and presentation of the goods, sometimes, in effect, even choreographing or staging the sale. |
10 |
| 1 | 482 |
The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women. |
10 |
| 1 | 599 |
"That was taught to me weeks ago by the slaver who captured me!" "You are probably not for sale," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 487 |
Sometimes a woman does not learn for weeks, sometimes until, say, the very night of her sale, where she is, in what city she finds herself. |
10 |
| 8 | 644 |
"You must now be seen not as a pretentious, lofty, secure, arrogant, sacrosanct free woman, shielded and sheltered in societal immunities, snug in status and privileges, but rather now as something quite different, rather, now, as exquisitely feminine, as radically and unutterably female, as lovely,... |
10 |
| 10 | 201 |
It had been put on her within moments of her sale. |
10 |
| 21 | 1153 |
Even a captured ubara put up for sale would hear his call to the effect, perhaps to her fury, "How much am I offered for this girl?" Slaves, of course, soon become accustomed to being referred to as, and thinking of themselves as, girls. |
10 |
| 21 | 1266 |
Few men care to risk their lives to take a woman who, disrobed and unveiled, may prove to be worthy at best of no more than a kettle-and-mat sale. |
10 |
| 21 | 1538 |
Did they look back, I wondered, on the days of their freedom, or did they look forward, perhaps with fear, to what might lie ahead, to their branding and collaring, to their sale, perhaps by public auction, to the hazards and duties, the labors and perils, of their new condition, to the strangers in... |
10 |
| 23 | 236 |
Sometimes the woman is required to appear proud, even contemptuous, for there are then fellows who will, so to speak, lie in wait for her at her sale, and bid high for her, hoping to bring her within the scope of their power, to get her, who was proud and contemptuous, into their collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 |
'She is for sale, or my sword will have it so!' cried the mercenary. |
10 |
| 1 | 907 |
Some slavers, with certain markets in mind, such as certain of the Tahari markets, deliberately fatten slaves before their sale, sometimes keeping them in small cages, sometimes even force-feeding them, and so on. |
10 |
| 1 | 961 |
"She is not for sale!" cried Philebus. |
10 |
| 1 | 965 |
"She is not for sale," said Philebus. |
10 |
| 1 | 970 |
"She is not for sale!" said Philebus. |
10 |
| 1 | 1028 |
"She is not for sale," said Philebus. |
10 |
| 1 | 1096 |
Coinless, chained, naked, utterly without means, absolutely helpless, he would have been held at the Crooked Tarn until his bills were paid or he himself disposed of, say, as a work slave, his sale to satisfy, as it could, his bills. |
10 |
| 19 | 1460 |
"I want to be subject to sale, to exchange, to commands!" she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 100 |
But similarly, if you were being examined on a mat in the Tahari you might find yourself regarded as insufficiently fleshy, and find yourself forced, under the whip, to eat rich creams and such, being thereby fattened for sale like a she-tarsk". |
10 |
| 26 | 69 |
Afterwards, they are usually conducted home by one of the young men, often he whose cords have bound them, and who may be interested in their acquisition, on his leash, usually to the home of their mother's owner, usually their father, to whom, in virtue of such a ceremony, they now legally count as... |
10 |
| 28 | 698 |
The saying "Modesty is not permitted to slave girls," is a saying then which is usually reserved for particular occasions, as, for example, if a girl might exhibit distress at being stripped for her sale, or, say, be tempted to balk at performing floor movements naked for business acquaintances of h... |
10 |
| 36 | 25 |
To be sure, most of the females encountered with such accents in this area would be likely to be in collars, already serving masters, or perhaps in transit, say, chained in slave wagons or being marched nude in coffles, or in temporary holding areas, on chains or in slave cages or slave pens, awaiti... |
10 |
| 37 | 147 |
She is no longer a free person; she is now goods, a property, a domestic animal, subject to sale, barter, and such. |
10 |
| 46 | 333 |
Removed from such a device then, for sale, or processing, or whatever, no time would be lost in placing chains on their fair limbs. |
10 |
| 46 | 384 |
I did not know if the injury would be likely to delay her sale in the camp or not. |
10 |
| 46 | 385 |
I did not think it would if she were an item in a lot due to be wholesaled, for then she would not be likely to be retailed for weeks, but it might if she was intended for an immediate retail sale. |
10 |
| 48 | 297 |
She wanted to know what she had brought, in her sale. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 403 |
They would be simply chained together, for later distribution or sale. |
10 |
| 3 | 346 |
One wore a sign that said, "I am for sale". |
10 |
| 3 | 388 |
The girl who wore the sign, "I am for sale," danced before us, as she had before others, displaying her master's proffered merchandise. |
10 |
| 3 | 397 |
The girl for sale was a short-legged brunet, extremely attractive. |
10 |
| 3 | 404 |
There are many reasons why a master might put his girl, or girls, up for sale, of course. |
10 |
| 3 | 454 |
"She is not for sale!" he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 462 |
On the other hand, she was no longer for sale. |
10 |
| 3 | 529 |
"I do not think she is for sale," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 547 |
For example, many a girl in the pens is deliberately starved for sex, that to assist in readying her for her sale. |
10 |
| 14 | 211 |
Surely she would bring a good price in a stock sale. |
10 |
| 14 | 402 |
Yes, I thought, she would probably bring a high price in a stock sale. |
10 |
| 14 | 624 |
Sometimes a girl is deprived of attention for days before her sale, that she will show well on the block, that her body and person, easily readable by experienced Gorean men, will make evident her keen discomfort and acute distress, her sexual misery, and thus her readiness for, her eagerness for, h... |
10 |
| 18 | 139 |
Daughters, too, in some cities, are subject to such seizure and sale. |
10 |
| 20 | 163 |
As she had come into the keeping of Appanius in virtue of the couching laws, she had had only one sale, that to me for a few copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 22 | 419 |
Needless to say, all Gorean slave girls find themselves sooner or later, perhaps after a renaissance of manhood in the master, or a new sale, or some change of hands, kept under perfect discipline. |
10 |
| 23 | 330 |
"She is not for sale, anyway, for any price," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 23 | 355 |
"She is not for sale". |
10 |
| 25 | 213 |
"I have one for sale," said Appanius. |
10 |
| 25 | 336 |
Actually I thought Talena might bring that much, not as a common slave, of course, but perhaps in some situation of great dignity, as, say, a stripped, chained Ubara, being bid on in a private sale, perhaps by the agents of Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, Ubar of Tyros, and Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos. |
10 |
| 25 | 339 |
"He is not for sale," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 513 |
"But master did not sell me, nor offer me for sale," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 562 |
"But you are not, as of this moment, for sale," he said. |
10 |
| 27 | 35 |
That is something fit for sale". |
10 |
| 27 | 561 |
Similarly, bred slaves, beauties raised on the slave farms for later distribution and sale, would not be likely to possess such skills. |
10 |
| 27 | 660 |
"You are not for sale," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 972 |
"If you were to be sold in a Tahari market," I told her, "you might find yourself forced to drink a large amount of water, like this, shortly before your sale". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 652 |
They make us, totally, the properties of men, and such that we can change hands and collars in a moment, and then act as though our exclusive passion must accompany, in effect, a bill of sale. |
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| 8 | 722 |
Too, sometimes new girls would be brought in, naive, ignorant, cringing, terrified, in their chains, as we had once been, and other girls, more trained, would be taken away, presumably to other places of incarceration, perhaps where they might await their display and sale. |
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| 9 | 103 |
Even within her garments I sensed her naked body palpitating in his presence! What possible interest could she be to such a man, other than perhaps to be seized, stripped and caged, for an eventual sale? "You need have no fear," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 689 |
The hair of kajirae who are up for sale, incidentally, is never dyed, or, if dyed, that is made clear to the buyers. |
10 |
| 11 | 879 |
"We had her on her first retail sale," said another. |
10 |
| 11 | 917 |
It, too, could be put up for sale! Men could buy it! It could be purchased with the rest of me. |
10 |
| 12 | 597 |
'No,' said another, 'and if she dared to do so, she would doubtless be remanded to the pens, for sale outside the city. |
10 |
| 13 | 173 |
They might also be presented in such garments in their sale—at the beginning, I should say, of their sale. |
10 |
| 13 | 933 |
Indeed, we must accustom ourselves to hearing it candidly discussed, particularly in situations in which our sale may be in question. |
10 |
| 13 | 935 |
As earlier suggested, it is the whole slave, all of her, every bit of her, that is for sale. |
10 |
| 14 | 1196 |
Some booths were set up on the terrace, for the sale of fruit and flowers. |
10 |
| 14 | 1341 |
Did she not know that he must have handled hundreds, perhaps thousands, like herself, in their chains and collars, appraising them, determining their order of sale, taking his profit on them? They were now well across the terrace. |
10 |
| 14 | 1477 |
"It is not a state collar," he said to me, "but, as she is in your custody, one gathers that she must be in the keeping of the state, for some reason, perhaps pending her sale". |
10 |
| 14 | 1584 |
"When is she to be put up for sale?" he asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 873 |
"You want to know your category, your future brand, your likely disposition, your period of training, a possible place and time of sale, such things?" I asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 141 |
"Is there no word as to when you will be put up for sale?" he asked. |
10 |
| 29 | 425 |
But then he said, menacingly, "But you are not for sale". |
10 |
| 29 | 427 |
"Oh, you can whine, and beg, and kneel, and grovel and weep, and plead to be sold," he said, "to anyone other than the House of William, in Harfax, for as little as a tarsk-bit to anyone, for any service, but you are not for sale! We have waited long to obtain you. |
10 |
| 34 | 152 |
We are very curious to know, vain beasts that we are, what men might pay for us, if we were to be offered for sale. |
10 |
| 42 | 107 |
"She had a private sale. |
10 |
| 43 | 45 |
Indeed, it marked me as a very lowly slave, or, more likely, one who had now been put, for one reason or another, in a temporary collar, perhaps for purposes of transit, or prior to her sale, or such. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 790 |
She, too, here, was for sale, up for sale in this cheap, miserable market, in this terrible place. |
10 |
| 16 | 1285 |
Why is she not to be for sale? I am for sale. |
10 |
| 11 | 202 |
"Put the little Ubara up for sale!" said another. |
10 |
| 13 | 524 |
"All three were put up for sale yesterday," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 551 |
Stripped of all conventional and social dignities and merits, as well as of their clothing, bereft of all artificialities, what is for sale there is, generally, assuming that there is nothing special about the item, that it is not the daughter of a Ubar, or the daughter of one's worst enemy, or such... |
10 |
| 15 | 416 |
How unfortunate that this insight comes so late for some women, say, as they lie sobbing, beaten, their wrists bound to a whipping ring anchored in heavy planks, or as they lie cold and hungry, curled up, clutching a tiny blanket about themselves, on the cement flooring of a kennel, or as they are d... |
10 |
| 16 | 490 |
Would I yield to him? If this were not a cruel sport of Mirus, my master, pretending to abandon me, pretending to put me up for sale, such as he might buy me! I will not permit myself to yield to men, she thought. |
10 |
| 16 | 789 |
Yes, slave girls, too, were for sale in this market, and she was such a girl. |
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| 16 | 902 |
Too, objectively, given what she now was, collar meat, a commodity, an object for sale, she had no doubt but what it was true. |
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| 16 | 946 |
If they are drunk enough, we might make a sale". |
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| 16 | 1002 |
"To make a sale they would have us interest a tharlarion," said another. |
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| 16 | 1246 |
"No, Master!" said Ellen, who feared her sale. |
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| 16 | 1277 |
The other girls, too, Targo approaching, began to appeal to the crowd, uttering the attraction call of the common girl for sale. |
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| 16 | 1284 |
Is she not to be for sale, wondered Ellen. |
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| 16 | 1286 |
Then she almost fainted with shock, for she understood what she had said, that she was for sale. |
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| 17 | 137 |
How nicely and naturally she, with her affected severity of manner and her carefully chosen, mannish, businesslike tailored suits, had seemed to fit in with them! She was now chained on a shelf, a naked slave, for sale. |
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| 18 | 170 |
She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s... |
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| 20 | 927 |
Presumably they would not have so many coins at one time until they were responsible for their own fields, and the sale of their own crops. |
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| 21 | 204 |
They were livestock, doubtless being readied for its sale. |
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| 22 | 301 |
Those girls who did not have names were given names, for clerical purposes, which might or might not be kept on them after a sale. |
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| 22 | 377 |
Then, she wanted to press suddenly against him, whimpering, but she knew she was not to be used, not until after her sale. |
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| 22 | 393 |
She knew she was, in effect, guaranteed a sale to the highest starting bid, even if no one in the entire camp cared to bid even a tarsk-bit more. |
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| 24 | 304 |
They could be stripped, bit by bit, during the sale, until the buyers have no difficulty seeing what they are paying for. |
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| 24 | 308 |
And she had understood that, whereas it was not unusual to strip a woman, little by little, during her sale, to increase the heat of the bids, that the slaves were always, when all was said and done, exhibited as only slave, raw. |
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| 24 | 641 |
How much more then a lowly slave! Or have you come for a girl, but not one such as I? You would have no way of knowing that I was here! Then you have not come for me! Are you surprised to see me here, and to see me as I am, in bells and silk? There is a great sale. |
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| 24 | 655 |
None could have her until her sale, she knew. |
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| 25 | 16 |
Or perhaps she knew more than Ellen, and feared this sort of sale. |
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| 25 | 98 |
The strategy of the vendors, it seemed, was to mix lots in such a way as to have excellent goods available for all three nights of the sale. |
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| 25 | 99 |
The average sale took only two or three Ehn. |
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| 25 | 136 |
"You will stay here until shortly before your sale. |
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| 25 | 148 |
And how else is a girl to speak if she may not ask for permission to do so?" "How long, Master," asked 115, "before our sale?" "How bold she is," thought Ellen. |
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| 25 | 182 |
There was the sound of a gong, which signified that another sale had been concluded. |
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| 25 | 216 |
They carried sticks, and it was not without jabbings, pokings and blows, and impatient expostulations, that they sped their linked, disconcerted, intimidated charges, those lovely, chained she-animals, forward, presumably to a final staging area prior to their sale. |
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| 25 | 235 |
It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c... |
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| 25 | 253 |
That liquid, of course, will not have time to pass through their body before their sale. |
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| 25 | 410 |
Another sale had been concluded. |
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| 25 | 486 |
It is common to water stock, she knew, prior to its sale. |
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| 25 | 525 |
So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as fr... |
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| 25 | 720 |
Ellen was pleased with the sale of the slave. |
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| 25 | 742 |
There was a little dampness, perhaps from first-sale girls who had preceded her on the block. |
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| 25 | 820 |
Show these rugged, virile brutes that your slightness and softness, on sale before them, are worth at least a silver tarsk! Earn yourself a rich master, Ellen! Perform, thought Ellen. |
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| 25 | 946 |
And then the image was gone, and Ellen was again herself, on the exotic world of perilous, barbaric Gor, illuminated in the light of torches, standing on the concave surface of the block, her ankles in sawdust, the lights of Brundisium in the distance, the men calling out, being offered for sale, be... |
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| 26 | 14 |
This was the morning after their sale, something like an Ahn before noon. |
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| 26 | 600 |
Slaving, after all, is a business; accordingly the great majority of women brought to Gor would be put up for sale, usually publicly. |
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| 27 | 520 |
"She is not for sale," said Selius Arconious. |
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| 27 | 937 |
They might have trailed her, presumably from a scent lingering in her cage, from before her sale. |
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| 27 | 1424 |
"It was my intention, after forcing her to undergo the indignity and shame of a public sale, to buy her back". |
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| 27 | 1458 |
And they are for sale. |
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| 30 | 383 |
Her sale now seemed an option within the purview of her master, one he might plausibly view with favor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 355 |
"Am I to understand that, despite their beauty, they are for sale?" "It is largely because of their beauty," said Cabot, "that they are for sale". |
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| 1 | 179 |
And as such, as any other form of such an animal, an owned animal, for example pigs or verr, they are subject to barter, exchange, gifting, sale, and such. |
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| 1 | 1004 |
If convenient, it will doubtless take place on the next sale day. |
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| 1 | 1008 |
How beautiful and exciting then she must be! She looks forward to her sale. |
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| 16 | 62 |
As a result of such an act a slaver might put her up, instantly, for sale. |
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| 18 | 114 |
Might she not be better in a cage, preferably a tiny one, instructive for her, awaiting her sale? He had no hope of eluding sleen indefinitely, and he did not wish to bring humans of the forest into additional jeopardy. |
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| 55 | 96 |
Indeed, for a male, what other object of interest can compare? Out-group females, in particular, have often been regarded as subject to barter, to sale, to capture, and such. |
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| 63 | 50 |
"Put her up for sale," suggested Cabot. |
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| 78 | 58 |
"Is he readying you for a sale?" "I trust not," said the brunette. |
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| 79 | 683 |
"My master may exhibit me, and put me up for sale," she said. |
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| 80 | 194 |
Commonly she would be denied harnessing only in the privacy of her master's dwelling, while being exhibited for sale, while serving certain feasts, and such. |
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| 80 | 358 |
"Then," she said, "it is appropriate for them, as they are slaves, that they be for sale". |
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| 80 | 408 |
"What do you want for her?" "She is not for sale," said Cabot, "not now". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 326 |
I had seen them in markets, awaiting their sale, and during their sale; I had seen them trekked in coffle, transported in slave wagons, reclining in cages, looking out at men who might buy them; I had seen them hurrying in the streets, bargaining with vendors, busy on the quays, laughing, and teasin... |
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| 3 | 786 |
Expecting to be returned to Earth, to power and riches, they would commonly find themselves incarcerated, perhaps thrust into tiny cages, bewildered, grasping the bars, awaiting their sale. |
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| 5 | 544 |
Later, on the northern coast, she was exposed for sale. |
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| 9 | 460 |
"Also, of course, it is not unusual for women to come into our keeping as a result of sale, of raiding, of war, and such". |
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| 12 | 125 |
Usually, she is just sold in a market, commonly a low market where her sale is not likely to attract much attention. |
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| 22 | 36 |
Perhaps some behavior, or attitude, a rudeness, a glance, a hasty word, an insolence, or such, displeased a fellow, and it was decided then that the fair creature will pay for her indiscretion, the matter made clear to her while she is awaiting her first sale. |
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| 22 | 65 |
It was common, of course, to water women before their sale. |
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| 26 | 137 |
"She is not for sale," I said. |
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| 26 | 152 |
Is it not pleasant to have a woman so? "Every woman is for sale," he said, angrily. |
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| 28 | 187 |
Many of the new slaves brought to Gor from Earth, who are, naturally, not yet familiar with Gorean, are startled, in their sale, while they are being exhibited, to understand that the bidding on them has suddenly become much more heated. |
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| 32 | 82 |
We have need of men who will place steel before gold, honor before advancement, whose service, once pledged, is inalterable, men whose loyalty is not for sale, men who cannot be divided, and cannot be bought. |
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| 38 | 143 |
Most slaves are purchased, of course, in the markets, where their captors put them up for sale. |
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| 40 | 113 |
Behold such, stripped, and put up for sale! See her turned, extolled, exhibited! Would you not bid on such goods? Who would wish to take anything less off the block? Who would wish to own anything less? Surely you would not wish to have anything less in your collar? So bid well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 301 |
The shame of Talena infuriated proud Marlenus, obsessed with his name and honor, particularly as it became clear, later, in the northern forests, when Talena was put up for sale, that, hoping to be freed and returned to Ar, she had begged to be purchased, a slave's act, for in such an act one acknow... |
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| 3 | 446 |
"I would suppose," I said, "as confiscated goods, they would become the property of the state, later to be distributed, put on sale or such". |
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| 3 | 1329 |
It is not unusual for slavers to save the best merchandise for late in the sale, when late comers are present, the audience is settled in, interest has been whetted, emotions are running high, purses are most open, and so on. |
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| 3 | 1331 |
A clever mix of goods is perhaps the most common manner of staging a sale. |
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| 3 | 1332 |
On the other hand, I think it does not really make much difference, as the merchandise is commonly available for inspection, though through bars, in pre-sale exposition cages. |
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| 17 | 14 |
It was doubtless particularly unpleasant for the some two hundred kajirae aboard, intended for gifts, eventual sale, trade goods, and such, on their chains in the keeping areas. |
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| 17 | 81 |
The Pani did, of course, keep slaves, as the gifting of Saru would make clear, as well as the likely disposition, sale or such, if land were ever reached, of the lovely beasts normally housed in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas. |
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| 18 | 111 |
"You are not for sale," I said. |
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| 18 | 112 |
"If I were for sale," she said, "would you bid for me?" "I would think about it," I said. |
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| 20 | 217 |
"Perhaps after your sale, by whoever buys you". |
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| 36 | 472 |
We did not put it on the floor as it is a gift, and not for immediate sale". |
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| 36 | 473 |
"But perhaps for later sale?" I said. |
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| 37 | 865 |
"She must have understood," I said, "that she, in all likelihood, if found on such a world, would be captured, and would soon find herself stripped and in the chains of a slave, awaiting her sale". |
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| 37 | 1329 |
Later I was processed, washed, brushed, combed, and such, preparing me for my sale". |
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| 37 | 1332 |
"Did you enjoy your sale?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 12 |
The removal of the original collar suggested that my sale might be imminent. |
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| 8 | 53 |
"You are being readied for sale," she said. |
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| 8 | 289 |
Too, such a sale requires few arrangements, and little time. |
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| 8 | 477 |
I was suddenly reminded of a shop window on Earth, a window before which passers-by might stop, and, at their leisure, peruse what might be for sale. |
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| 8 | 478 |
And I, and the others, would be for sale! I looked to the other occupants, the other merchandise, six girls, in the cell. |
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| 8 | 653 |
She was a confined female, who would be for sale. |
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| 8 | 663 |
The analogy was imperfect, of course, as we were for sale. |
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| 8 | 680 |
Accordingly, it is recommended, as a prudential matter, to display oneself in one's sale as attractively as possible. |
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| 8 | 712 |
Was it to demean her that she was put with us? Or did some estimate her beauty as equivalent to ours, worthy only of such a vending? I wondered if some might be interested in her, tracking her, informing themselves as to her market, and time of sale. |
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| 8 | 760 |
For all I knew I was still owned by the house, and I was merely being vended through this outlet, and the small fellow might be merely a professional auctioneer, hired for each sale. |
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| 8 | 917 |
I looked about, wildly, at the open gate, then through the bars, to the street outside, to the men, intent upon the object for sale. |
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| 8 | 1025 |
A sale of slaves, particularly in a low market, was a familiar, commonplace thing, I gathered, worthy of no particular attention. |
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| 8 | 1102 |
In a moment she appeared on the block before the small crowd, and the auctioneer began her sale. |
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| 8 | 1150 |
She had been unpleasant to me, earlier in the cell, and just before her sale. |
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| 8 | 1180 |
The sale proceeds in three phases, in each of which the girl is turned, and exhibited, first in the brief sheet, then, the sheet removed, in the tunic, and, lastly, neither in the sheet nor tunic. |
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| 8 | 1227 |
"Perhaps you suspect," said the auctioneer, "that this is her first sale". |
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| 8 | 1777 |
Too, the owner of the voice must have seen my sale some weeks ago. |
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| 10 | 184 |
What shall I name her? Too, I had gathered, during my sale, that the Lady Bina had wished to reassure herself that I might be of interest to men. |
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| 10 | 864 |
"Then the Ubara of less consequence," he said, "will be demoted to bondage, and then kept, or put up for sale, or such". |
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| 16 | 314 |
I recalled the small cell, facing the market area, behind the bars of which I, with others, as merchandise to be vended, were publicly displayed to passers-by, and then my sale, being turned about, exhibited naked, on the small cement sales dais. |
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| 17 | 56 |
I remembered the man, Astrinax, from Ar, as it was he who had arranged my sale to the gambling house. |
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| 18 | 199 |
In the house of Tenalion, I had heard certain slaves, being readied for their sale, beseeching Priest-Kings that they not fall into the clutches of a free woman. |
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| 30 | 29 |
"Your hair," he said, "is far from slave long, but I have seen many barbarians whose hair, in their first sale, was no longer, or not much longer". |
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| 31 | 34 |
"I sold for two silver tarsks," said Nora, "and in my first sale". |
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| 46 | 81 |
I knew from the house of Tenalion that it was common to deny sex to a slave girl for four or five days prior to her sale, that she might be presented to buyers in a more needful state. |
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| 52 | 501 |
"Many will be for sale". |
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| 52 | 591 |
Often enough I had heard of deprived slaves, being readied for sale, moaning, and scratching at the walls of their kennels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 52 |
The most interesting aspect of her sale occurred late in the sale, when the auctioneer chose to display her slave reflexes. |
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| 39 | 436 |
Her first sale, as her captor may wish to put her up for sale, might occur that very night, following her marking and collaring. |
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| 2 | 55 |
I thought that, in a first sale, she might bring something like a half tarsk. |
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| 2 | 65 |
I found her personally of interest, but I doubted if, in a first sale, she would bring more than a half tarsk. |
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| 4 | 19 |
I would suppose the items are not likely to forget their first sale. |
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| 4 | 20 |
For most, I would suppose, as well, the first sale is the most difficult. |
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| 4 | 22 |
If it is learned that a given item was once a free woman of an enemy city, even a third or fourth sale may be terrifying. |
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| 4 | 45 |
It is common, time permitting, the market conditions appropriate, to isolate such items, in their boxes or cages, for some days before their sale. |
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| 4 | 89 |
Had she lost some small register of weight; was her waist narrower, her figure trimmer? Before a sale, a house tries to bring its goods to ideal block measurements, customized to the item, differing from item to item. |
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| 4 | 132 |
The usual reason a slave is brought to an auction is merely that their masters enjoy having them at hand, relish them, and do not wish to leave them at home, caged, kenneled, chained to a couch ring, or such; on the other hand, many masters enjoy being seen with slaves whom others might envy, the ow... |
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| 4 | 155 |
Some receive a percentage of the sale. |
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| 4 | 160 |
The goods had been exhibited in exposition cages this afternoon, prior to the sale. |
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| 4 | 183 |
There are many strategies for organizing a sale. |
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| 4 | 188 |
Interestingly, some unusual buyers, of a garb and sort with which I was unfamiliar, had made a number of purchases in the first and second phases of the sale. |
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| 4 | 213 |
The item had been clearly identified as a first-sale barbarian. |
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| 4 | 217 |
Had she been auburn she would doubtless have been placed in the third or fourth segment of the sale. |
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| 4 | 257 |
I had conjectured that she would bring, as a first sale girl, and a barbarian, a half tarsk, half a silver tarsk. |
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| 5 | 115 |
One night, I returned home, a Wednesday evening in November, a cool night, late from the store, for we had been open later than usual, for a sale, prepared a small supper, and then, weary from the day, retired. |
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| 5 | 259 |
I remember little about my sale, until near the last, the straw, the block, the torches to the left and right, the darkness in the house, the sense of faces and bodies, the calls of the auctioneer, the occasional responses from the house, the touches of the whip, helping me, guiding me, turning me, ... |
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| 6 | 43 |
I did attend her sale. |
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| 6 | 45 |
It was clearly her first sale. |
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| 6 | 95 |
Some of those vended in the recent sale I had attended were former high women of Ar, now naked properties worth only what men were willing to pay for them. |
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| 6 | 128 |
Agents of Pani, for example, had purchased several of the girls in the recent sale I had witnessed, including the one whom I had found of some negligible interest, whom I had originally seen in a large emporium on another world. |
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| 7 | 51 |
After our encounter in the warehouse, in which he failed to recognize me, or it seems so, I did not see him again until the afternoon before my sale, in the exposition cage. |
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| 7 | 56 |
It makes it possible for prospective buyers to inspect the merchandise before the sale, take notes, make comparisons, and such. |
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| 7 | 79 |
There were several of us in the cage, perhaps more than was appropriate for suitable viewing, but the sale, I had gathered, was a large one, which would last several Ahn. |
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| 7 | 81 |
Accordingly, the various houses represented in the sale were anxious to participate in so attractive a market. |
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| 9 | 331 |
"Before my sale, in Brundisium," I said, "I enclosed in an exposition cage". |
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| 9 | 332 |
"Did you see him at your sale?" he asked. |
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| 11 | 170 |
I had seen him but once more, through the bars of an exposition cage, prior to my sale, in a place called Brundisium. |
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| 15 | 533 |
I had seen him through the bars of an exhibition cage, prior to my sale. |
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| 20 | 199 |
"They will take us with them," said Relia, "if not for the common purposes of slaves, the services and delights derivable from our ownership, then as goods, objects for sale, for barter, and trade". |
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| 22 | 50 |
This was so, particularly after a third or fourth sale. |
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| 38 | 113 |
I thought of another world, one on which beauty was seldom for sale, except on its own terms. |
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| 48 | 28 |
I was rightless goods, merchandise, a slight, collared, curvaceous beast, subject to purchase and sale, and knew myself such! But I was no ordinary slave. |
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| 49 | 17 |
"They bought a large number of women and, I think, not primarily for the use of mariners and mercenaries, but for sale, or use as trade goods, somewhere, where I am not sure, presumably wherever the great ship makes its eventual landfall, doubtless one of the farther islands, for who would dare vent... |
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| 49 | 56 |
"Also," I said, "I do not think there were many Pani women for sale inBrundisium" "I saw few in Tarncamp, or Shipcamp," she said. |
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| 49 | 100 |
Sometimes along the side of a road, where a number of slaves, neck- chained, may be knelt for inspection and possible sale, the slave is expected to lift her head and, as she is examined, utter the phrase, "Buy me, Master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 56 |
The slave is to be treated with the same consideration and solicitude as any other domestic beast; nothing is to be done to her which might reduce or impair her value; you may wish, later, to put her up for sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 172 |
Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian, one clearly b... |
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