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Sales

Book 5. (17 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	281	I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of the house I spe...	10
5	138	The allusion was to certain practices having to do with the merchandising of Red Silk Girls, in private sales for individual and important clients of the House.	10
9	24	Although there are some private show and sales rooms in the House of Cernus, and private auctions and exhibitions, intended to interest prospective clients, are held, most slaves, of the House of Cernus and others, are sold in one of the five public auction houses, licensed and taxed by the Administ...	10
9	29	At the minor blocks in the small houses, or even the minor blocks in the Curulean, sales are conducted with a swiftness and dispatch that gives the girl little time to interest and impress buyers, with the result that even a very fine girl, to her indignation and shame, may be sold for only an avera...	10
15	366	In postponing the sales until the Love Feast, of course, there would be time to complete, at least substantially, the training of a large number of barbarian girls.	10
15	368	I gather his planning must have been successful, for sales generally in Ar during the first two months of the New Year were down somewhat from seasonal norms, as though Ar's gold for slaves was being held somewhat, in anticipation of the Love Feast.	10
19	6	The evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast is usually taken as its climax from the point of view of slave sales.	10
19	50	This was the evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast, the climax of the feast insofar as the sales of slaves was concerned; this was the night Cernus would put his barbarian beauties on the block; tomorrow would be the concluding races and games, wild, dizzying hours in the Stadium of Tarns and ...	10
19	57	Most were doubtless on their way to the ticket booths, for there is a small charge to enter the Curulean; the fee, though minimal, helps to defray the expenses of the market, most of which are met by commissions on sales transacted on its premises; the fee also tends to some extent, but I suspect no...	10
19	80	Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...	10
19	88	"Cernus will not arrive until the sales begin," said he, "so we have something of a wait".	10
19	94	I wondered if Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, were yet in the ready cells, being prepared; I judged it unlikely, for they would probably be sold late, and would not be prepared until the sales were in progress; the last touches of their makeup might not even be made until minutes before they as...	10
19	122	Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab...	10
19	160	"The sales go well," said Cernus to me.	10
19	162	Some of the girls, as the sales progressed, I recognized as from the House of Cernus.	10
19	211	It was as though the sales were beginning again, and now truly for the first time.	10
20	1	A Game Is Played "This," cried Cernus, lifting his cup aloft, is a night for rejoicing and amusement!" Never had I seen the customarily impassive Slaver so elated as on this night, following the sales in the Curulean.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	471	I had begun to sense, in the coffle, on the sales chain, in the girl cage, how bondage might enflame the sexuality of a woman.	10
12	158	To be sure, she had left him no alternative, really, but to have her put again on a sales block.	10
14	488	In any event, at the very least, they will have her promptly put on a platform outside the walls, one reserved for sales to foreign merchants.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	98	Their sales will either be public or private.	10
16	319	Sometimes their sales are even postponed that their desperation, piteous and supplicatory, their longing to surrender their small bodies, their softness, and beauty, to the hard, strong arms of a master, may be more evident on the block.	10
22	355	The proceeds from their sales will be divided among my men, whose captives they were".	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	200	The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le...	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	276	Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...	10
26	1047	It is entered, often enough, even on her sales papers.	10

Book 11. (22 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	162	They are not meant to apply to special sales, private sales, and in-house sales.	10
3	540	Some merchants invent brands, as the dina was invented, in order to freshen the nature of their merchandise and stimulate sales.	10
7	389	What had she then to look forward to but the degradation of the sales block, being exposed to men as a slave and being vended in a public market; being owned by a succession of hard masters, accustomed to the management of girls such as she; onerous work and strict discipline; and the continuous exp...	10
13	39	On this disk was a number, my lot number, or sales number.	10
13	57	Outside the cage, posted, were our lot numbers, or sales numbers, corresponding with the disk numbers, and a listing of certain of our features, primarily measurements.	10
13	256	I lightly fingered the chain and sales disk at my throat.	10
13	307	I knelt on the block, near its front, miserable, in the position of the pleasure slave, the light chain and sales disk on my throat.	10
13	316	I was very conscious of the sales disk at my throat; it was on a looped, close-fitting chain; I could not remove the chain; it was locked.	10
22	343	"Nonetheless, Mistress, you would be stripped, as clearly and completely stripped as perhaps that which you most despise, say, a vended slave, a property girl on a sales block.	10
28	61	On a slow night it could take as much as eight Ahn, the sales extending into the early morning hours.	10
28	123	"The sales go rapidly," said a girl farther down, to my left.	10
28	128	Even when a girl is not sold, if the sales have gone well, she is less likely to be whipped.	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	151	I was a bit puzzled about the apparent speed of the sales.	10
28	163	Sometimes special sales, well-publicized, are held, in which as few as fifteen or twenty girls, of great quality or interest, are sold.	10
28	185	The sales were doing well.	10
28	193	He inspected her chain number, used in the Curulean as a sales number, which, tiny, was written under her left ear in lipstick.	10
28	194	The Curulean does not use sales collars.	10
28	213	The sales were going too well.	10
28	232	He jotted it down on the sales sheets.	10
28	237	The man with the tablet had apparently decided not to alter the order of sales.	10
28	448	"We have surely delayed the sales of the Curulean too long," said Clitus Vitellius, to the auctioneer.	10

Book 12. (20 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	659	"That is done in certain sorts of sales," I said, "such as purple booth sales in the courtyard of a slaver's house".	10
15	664	"But what of large sales, public sales?" she asked.	10
3	86	The largest, on the other hand, the platforms of slave exhibition and the great sales pavilion, lie to your left, two pasangs away, beyond the smithies and the chain shops".	10
3	270	Before I left the fair I would inspect the major market, that beyond the smithies and chain shops, where the most numerous exhibition platforms were erected, near the great sales pavilion of blue and yellow silk, the colors of the slavers.	10
3	384	In a few minutes I saw the silken summit of the gigantic sales pavilion, its pennons fluttering, its blue and yellow silk billowing in the wind.	10
3	389	I came to the great sales pavilion, but it was now roped off and quiet.	10
3	433	Sales take place at night in the pavilion, from a sawdust-strewn block, under the light of torches, but girls may also be sold directly from the platforms.	10
3	438	These are usually sold in groups at wholesale prices in sales restricted to professional slavers, who will transport them to other markets, to dispose of them there.	10
3	695	A slaver's man, pounding on a bar with a metal rod, called that the sales in the pavilion would begin within the Ahn.	10
3	720	I wanted to watch the sales, or some of them, this evening.	10
3	920	Her hair was now short, and that might diminish her sales appeal for a time, but it would surely grow.	10
3	1198	Certainly it is better than being sold from a cement shelf in a small town, from a sales barn in the countryside, from a dock in Schendi, and such.	10
3	1240	The sales in the pavilion would already have begun.	10
15	665	"Even in most private sales," I said, "the prospective buyer is not permitted to use the girl, fully".	10
15	689	"But there are the purple booth sales," she said.	10
15	694	"But what of large, public sales?" she pressed.	10
15	698	"Such sales are common on Gor," I said.	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	731	Slavers prefer for their sales to be final.	10
21	386	If one is going to pay good money for a girl, if one were, say, to buy her in a slave emporium, or a street market, or off a sales block, one would want her to be hot, indeed, as it is said, "slave hot".	10

Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1	I Attend the Market of Vart The girl screamed, fighting the sales collar and the position chain.	10
2	8	He merely took her arms and lifted them, so that the position chain, attached to each side of the sales collar, lay across her upper arms.	10
2	11	In the current market such niceties, especially in large sales, were seldom observed.	10
2	63	"She is not worth tying at the end of a rope and using in the water as a bait for urts," called out a man, the fellow who had first suggested that she be removed from the sales position.	10
2	246	The girl, too, in the sales collar and position chain, her hands behind her neck, looked at him.	10
2	294	Vart gestured to the slaves at the windlass and they turned its large, two-man crank, and the girl who had been sold was drawn from the sales area.	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
3	42	I had then stayed for only two more sales, and had then left, those of a peasant girl, blond, from southwest of Ar, and a merchant's daughter from Asperiche.	10
4	60	New data had been furnished to him from a wharf runner, who had her sales information in hand, brought from the records of the house of Vart.	10
13	73	If she has not learned it in that time it is likely that her throat will have been cut by some customer, her sales price being then paid to her owner, plus a token tarsk or two, of copper, for good will.	10
34	81	"Your value on the sales block has not been reduced".	10
34	189	I had wanted her shipped to Schendi that I might, by means of her, following her sales and exchanges, be led to the lair of the treacherous Shaba, traitor to Priest-Kings.	10
48	170	She may then fear that she has lost the interest of her master, and that she is to be soon sold, that coins will change hands, and she will be hooded and led away, leashed, to some emporium devoted to the sales of such as she.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	147	If I were to be sold tomorrow I would find out when masters or mistresses were pleased to let me know, perhaps as late as the moment when a sales disk might be wired to my collar.	10
12	270	"You see how he stands unheld on the sales platform".	10
12	536	I was dragged, bloody, from the sales platform.	10

Book 15. (23 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	161	"At what time do the sales begin in the sales barn of Lysander?" I asked.	10
9	44	Such sales occur frequently in the various sales barns of Victoria, sometimes running for several nights in a row.	10
9	78	She wore only her sales collar with her sales disk, on which was written her lot number, wired to the steel.	10
7	1	I Arrive in Victoria; I Hear of the Sales Barn of Lysander "What am I offered for this girl?" called the auctioneer.	10
7	144	"They are to be sold tonight," said he, "at the sales barn of Lysander".	10
7	176	"Tonight," I said, "Kliomenes puts his wares upon the block at the sales barn of Lysander".	10
7	185	I Hurry to the Sales Barn of Lysander.	10
8	1	I Have a Close Call in the Tavern of Tasdron; I Hurry to the Sales Barn of Lysander "Are there any more challengers?" I asked, wiping the sweat and sand from my face with my forearm.	10
8	172	I made my way rapidly toward the sales barn of Lysander.	10
9	1	What Occurred at the Sales Barn of Lysander "This red-haired beauty," called the auctioneer, "is a catch of Captain Thrasymedes.	10
9	46	Many of the men at the sales barn were professional slavers, from other towns and cities, looking for bargains.	10
9	68	"The brunette four sales ago," said the man next to me, "was she not superb?" "Yes," I said.	10
9	145	I could not take my eyes off the girl under the torches, the collar and sales disk at her throat.	10
9	182	She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...	10
10	1	We Leave the Sales Barn of Lysander; Miss Henderson will Share my Lodgings Miss Henderson was thrust from the block.	10
10	6	"Jason?" she asked, from within the bars of the holding cage at the right of the sales block.	10
10	10	I saw the sales disk removed from her collar and put in a small, wooden box.	10
10	58	"Master?" The key to the sales collar was placed into my hand by one of the cage attendants.	10
10	122	Quickly we left the sales barn of Lysander.	10
14	38	The sales had not yet begun.	10
24	219	Who knows through what sales or changings of hands a girl who is mere property such as I might pass? You cannot risk that I might, someday, somewhere, if only by inadvertence, perhaps by a startled cry or gesture, or a too-eager licking at your feet, compromise your secret".	10
24	385	Interestingly, however, we were looking forward to our sales.	10
24	669	"Buy Beverly, please!" I have also seen girls attempt to influence their sales in public auctions, while being exhibited naked on the block, trying to present themselves particularly to a given man, but this disposition is usually curbed by the auctioneer's whip.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	454	The same girl whom he bought as a mere piece of slave meat from a sales block, for his pleasure, we shall suppose, when brought home, and put in a collar at his feet, turns out to be a highly intelligent, sophisticated, vulnerable and delicate organism.	10
19	887	"What do you think you would bring?" "Bring?" "On the sales block".	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	1608	Not every woman is regarded as apt fruit to be picked from the "slave orchards of Earth," or deemed suitable meat for a Gorean sales block, or acceptable for the Gorean slave band, or of sufficient interest to be owned by, and serve, a Gorean master.	10

Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	61	I had gathered, on the other hand, that much of the best merchandise was not exposed in the pits, but was in the stable or in the nearby sales barn.	10
6	67	On the largest building, the sales barn, about seventy feet wide and a hundred and twenty feet in length, there flies the pennon of Ram Seibar, a yellow pennon on which, in black, are portrayed shackles and a whip.	10
7	14	I thought I might look in on some of the sales.	10
7	132	The sales begin in a few Ehn.	10
8	6	I shall describe the situation, specifically, as it exists in the sales barn of Ram Seibar.	10
8	10	In the central hall of the sales barn of Ram Seibar, which is open to the public, there are twenty-one blocks.	10
8	502	It was surely not their business to be standing about observing slave sales.	10
8	558	I deemed now that I better understood why the two girls had not been at their respective taverns, why they, it seemed, in effect, under the pretense of soliciting business for the establishments of their masters, had been hiding in the sales barn of Ram Seibar.	10
8	559	What I did not understand was why the personnel of the sales barn had not driven them away.	10
8	607	Attendants in the sales barn held leveled crossbows trained on them.	10
8	612	They gathered up their two fallen comrades and, supporting them, with dark looks, withdrew from the sales barn.	10
8	1032	Should she not have remembered to have placed them in that position? Or had she hoped that that soft, inviting, exposing and vulnerable attitude might have been idiosyncratic to the sales block? Clearly it was not.	10
8	1124	He had not come to the sales barn, apparently, knowing exactly how many girls he would purchase.	10
11	271	I recalled that the girl, in the sales barn, had proclaimed her virginity.	10
14	915	Sales strategies, too, can enter into the formation of a coffle, as, for example, when a girl is put between two plainer girls to accentuate her beauty, or a superb girl is saved for last, and many other considerations, as well, can enter into the formation of a coffle.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	103	"What lucky, soft little things they are," she said, "being sold naked off sales blocks to the whips and chains of strong masters, with little more to worry about than the heat of the kitchens, the steaming water of the laundering tubs, the dangers, from young, prowling ruffians, of shopping in the ...	10
44	687	He viewed her as candidly as a tarsk or kaiila, or as less, as a stripped price girl in a village market beyond the Barrens, as a thonged, bared captive in a warrior's slave camp, as a marked slave in one of the high cities, in a exposition cage, naked save for a sales collar.	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	291	Such sales would not be uncommon on Gor.	10
8	415	We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were litt...	10
33	643	Who but a slave would permit such delicious, delicate and silken things to touch their bodies? "But few barbarian girls, as nearly as we can tell, come to Gor clothed and, if they do, they are seldom permitted to retain their clothing, or the bits of clothing left to them at that point, past the sal...	10
36	1671	"You are going to make your sales price up to me in value, aren't you?" "Yes," I said, "a thousand times!" "Is that all?" he asked.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	161	One form of tagging is fairly common, however, during sales, and that is tagging during auctions, or in preparation for large sales, as when the girls are in exhibition cages, before being brought, usually serially, later, before the public.	10
6	534	"That way," he said, "they may take you for a mere slave, perhaps not worth the time it might take to put you in a noose and conduct you to a sales point, and me for a poor merchant, perhaps not worth robbing.	10
7	66	"How are the sales going?" I had asked her.	10
7	70	"Perhaps the sales, then, are going well," she said.	10
7	81	"I think the sales are not going as well as they might," I said.	10
7	162	This form of tagging is the sales disk.	10

Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	134	I had had it put on her two days after leaving the vicinity of Samnium, at the town of Market of Semris, well known for its sales of tarsks.	10
5	501	She is more likely to contribute somewhat to the fortune of another, with her sales price.	10
16	471	"I am before my daughter!" "I anticipate that you would be held rather toward the end of the sales," I said, "saved for toward the last, when the men are well in the mood, and the bidding is likely to be heated".	10
25	6	Indeed, it was identical with that on his place of business, which I had passed at various times when in Ar, a large, formidable structure located in the heart of Ar's slaving district, which housed various facilities pertinent to his trade, ranging from beautifully appointed sales rooms to discipli...	10
25	330	In "purple-booth sales," the potential buyer, or his agent, may actually handle the girl, and try her out.	10
25	331	Such sales are private, of course, and usually involve high-grade merchandise being proposed to an affluent clientele.	10
25	341	Private sales, of course, are common, and sometimes slaves are traded, one for another.	10
25	865	"It was only a short trip then," she said, "to the sales rooms of Ar".	10
26	1666	Girls may be sent on errands nude, usually as a punishment, they are often nude in coffles, when chained in sales pavilions, and so on.	10

Book 22. (28 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1	The Platform; The Annex to the Sales Barn I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot above the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weigh...	10
8	213	Indeed, in the very area where I now was, the platforms cleared away and pens put forth, projected sales lots of tarsks were commonly displayed, often prize lots, to be bid upon later in the sales barn itself.	10
6	21	Our sales would then, presumably, take place in various places, and the moneys, except for the retailer's profit, would return to the wholesaler, for his profit, and eventually to Ulrick's people, for theirs.	10
8	8	In particular, it is famed for its sales of tarsks.	10
8	54	* * * * I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot from the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weight muchly on the palm of my right ha...	10
8	151	"This is the annex to the sales barn," he said.	10
8	205	* * * * I sat on the long, low wooden platform, in the annex to the sales barn, in the exposition area, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my right hand supporting most of my weight, the chain on my neck dropping down to the wood, to my ...	10
8	211	He owned this complex and dealt also in the sales of livestock, in particular those of tarsks.	10
8	212	This particular complex was, it seemed, one of the best-known areas in Market of Semris for the sales of tarsks.	10
8	215	To be sure, most of his sales, those of women, apparently took place at another facility, one more precisely adapted to their display and merchandising.	10
8	336	"It is the number of your individual sales lot".	10
8	350	* * * * I sat, waiting, on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised a foot or so above the dirt floor of the exposition area, it located in the annex to Teibar's sales barn, he of Market of Semris, a dealer in tarsks, as they said, four-legged and two-legged.	10
9	1	The Sales Barn; The Block; The Cage Our group would be the next into the shoot.	10
9	32	It is often used before sales.	10
9	226	It was a sales barn.	10
9	299	Now, it seemed, on the sales block, I had done so.	10
9	323	I thought how amused Teibar might have been, to have thought of me, his hated "modern woman," as he thought, being sold, and being sold in this place, a place fit for her, a sales barn, where tarsks, four-legged, and two-legged, like herself, were sold.	10
9	331	Perhaps that I was here, naked in a sales barn, my wrists in manacles over my head, being bid upon by strangers, was part of his vengeance on me.	10
9	516	I had known it, too, from my responses on the platform in the exposition area of the sales barn, at the other end of the long corridor.	10
9	588	Ah, Teibar, I thought, you have your vengeance on your "modern woman" now, indeed! She has been sold like a tarsk, in a sales barn! Too, you would doubtless much approve of the master into whose hands she has now come! Did they think, I wondered, angrily, that I existed only to give pleasure to men?...	10
10	45	It had been in my sales information.	10
10	162	He had stopped in that evening at the sales barn.	10
11	404	"Yes! And you, yes! Yes!" In a little bit the first flurry of sales had lessened.	10
11	467	In a bit, then, these sales had been made.	10
20	335	It did not seem to me important to tell him that Tupita had been attempting to escape, using my sales price to purchase passage from Brundisium.	10
22	27	"I was sold outside Brundisium, in a sales camp," I said.	10
22	31	"My first public sale took place in Market of Semris," I said, "at the sales barn of Teibar, of that town.	10
24	524	I think we would both bring a high price, stripped naked on a sales block.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	795	"Yes," he said, "for example, on a Cosian sales block".	10
18	379	Slavers, too, commonly mark women in this fashion, for temporary purposes, for example, with lot numbers for sales, and such.	10
24	438	In order, however, that you come into the keeping of Cosians, attendance at the auction, save by sales personnel, will be limited to Cosians.	10
24	1028	Her glimpse of the Sardar is likely to be obtained from the height of a sales platform.	10

Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	831	Such women, of course, will doubtless recall such melodies, and at last understand the joke, if they find themselves naked on the sales block, in house collars, dancing to them.	10
19	308	Indeed, if she had been branded and collared, I did not think that anyone would have thought twice about seeing her under a sun trellis in an open market, on a warm day, chained by the ankle to a ring, displayed in a booth, or being herded upward, with a whip, to the surface of a sales block.	10
26	227	The proceeds from the first sales of the girls, when they were first put up for auction, whether out of the city or within it, went to the public treasury of Besnit.	10
27	540	These may have been selected for, considering the high mobility of women, in virtue of practices in exogamous mating, enslavements, sales, captures, and such, assisting them to placate, and accommodate themselves to, foreign masters.	10
37	100	It is common on Gor for female debtors to be enslaved, the proceeds from their sales going to satisfy, insofar as it is possible, their creditors.	10
37	139	Much of this becomes obvious when it is kept in mind that the last thing a slaver wants to do is to diminish the beauty, and, thus, the sales value, of his merchandise.	10
46	84	I continued for a time in the camp, making my way among tents, and under open, roofed structures, like those of some markets, and under great awnings, through corridors of cages and kennels, past chains of women, the chains secured between great stakes, amongst slave wagons and cage wagons, past pro...	10
46	86	There there was a round, sunken area, a sales area for stock lots, one of several.	10
46	87	I could get its fence, about which wholesalers would crowd during sales, bidding on the lots displayed below, in the stock pit, at my back.	10
46	141	I circled the sunken sales area.	10
46	332	I supposed that had to do with the camp being a sales camp, and the likely temporary tenancies of many of the girls in such cages.	10
46	370	I glanced again about the floor, and at the booths in the distance, under the roof, various sorts of booths, for the sales of whips, leashes, collars, chains, jewelry, cosmetics, perfumes, slave garb and such.	10
47	2	In such areas there are usually, at the rear of the sales area, some small, curtained dressing areas.	10
47	7	I would suppose that this business of the sudden presentation of the slave before the master, as he may never have seen her before, and the suspense and revelation, and delight, involved, tends to increase sales.	10
47	10	I was a few yards from him when he strode to the back of the sales area and, one by one, began to fling back the curtains there.	10
47	422	"Earlier this morning," I said, "when I warned you to stay close to me, near the fence of the sunken sales pit, you fled from my side".	10

Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	204	That product would have been more likely to have been, as it still was, available on the "Street of Brands," a district in which are found many of the houses of slavers, sales barns, sales arenas, holding areas, boarding accommodations, training facilities, and shops dealing with product lines perti...	10
6	19	Sales of tharlarion and slaves, too, are commonly thusly advertised.	10
6	23	There are many other forms of communication and advertising, as well, such as the parades of acrobats, jugglers, clowns, animal trainers, mimes and such, and the passage of flatbedded display wagons through the streets, on which snatches of performances, intended to whet the viewer's interests, are ...	10
10	373	Who would not relish getting his bracelets on such a shameless, lascivious slut, so natural a slave, one so meaningless and despicable, one so little deserving of respect or dignity, one so appropriately and perfectly destined for bondage, one belonging in the collar? And needless to say, the common...	10
12	383	I had seen such transformations take place many times at the sales.	10
14	59	What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip...	10
18	134	They are usually then sold, the proceeds from their sales, minus various fees, being used to satisfy, in so far as this is practical, the claims of the former master's creditors.	10
18	333	At the very least you should consider a future in sales".	10
22	432	Perhaps she was now curious as to what she might look like on a sales block, or what the nature of the bids might be.	10

Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	4	And so I lay on my belly, on the colorful tiles, in one of the sales rooms in the pens.	10
7	722	This, I think, was perhaps because some resented the possibility that I might, in chains upon a sales block, guided by the deft touches of the whip, responding helplessly, bring a high price, perhaps one even challenging theirs.	10
8	611	I wondered what prices they might bring, on a sales block.	10
8	949	But for what purpose had I been evaluated and acquired? I did not think it would be merely for the usual purposes for which one such as I might be obtained, say, being purchased off a sales block or being obtained in barter or trade.	10
11	896	There is also, usually, a place for sales endorsements, for when a girl changes hands.	10
11	1349	For example, we commonly strive on the sales block to bring the highest prices.	10
11	1836	It is sometimes called the "dance of the displayed slave," though it is not really a dance; sometimes it is called "block movements" or "circle movements," from the fact that such movements are sometimes called for on the sales block or within the exhibition circle; sometimes they are called "cage m...	10
12	211	It seemed I could have done little more unless I had stood chained on a sales platform, to be literally handled as the curved, tender little beast I was, or had perhaps been conducted behind the purple screen to be tested in a more intimate fashion.	10
12	761	It would doubtless be far more than she, or, I supposed, almost any woman, would be likely to bring on a sales block.	10
13	700	Did they sense, tremblingly, how exciting they might seem to men if they were so adorned, how much this might increase the desire which they might provoke in masters? And were they not, all, slaves? Did they not want to be exciting, beautiful, and desirable? Did they dare to conceive of themselves, ...	10
13	1180	It is easy to insufficiently attend to, or even neglect, or dismiss, these charms when she is merely one of a number of others, chained, say, in a sales barn or on a cement shelf in an open market.	10
14	850	A little later I had often heard them conversing among themselves eagerly, looking forward to their sales, discussing what they hoped for in the way of masters.	10
40	348	The sales will be discreet, and private.	10
40	349	They will be purple-booth sales".	10
46	630	It would be as though I might be a new purchase, naked from a sales barn, being fetched back to a domicile, the master's cloak, for want of something better, cast over me.	10

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	89	In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors,...	10
25	100	But it was rumored, nonetheless, that the next day's sales, the third day's sales, would begin in the early afternoon, to ensure the disposal of all the merchandise.	10
15	428	Sometimes brochures and sales sheets for public postings are compiled from them by judicious selections.	10
16	619	Are we not, fulfilled, in our collars, a thousand times more free than they? Kneeling, in position, chained by the left ankle to a ring, her throat enclosed in a heavy, clumsy, ringed, iron collar, on a cement sales shelf, before Targo, sensitive to her nudity, and miserable, she noted one and anoth...	10
16	1244	To be sure, Targo would have to make sales or go out of business.	10
17	8	Targo had perhaps realized that miserable slaves with roughened skin, scarcely able to move, red and peeling, would have less sales appeal.	10
20	945	How few women are put upon a block and sold for what men find them to be actually worth! Do free women think they are so lofty and precious? Let them be put stripped on a sales block and see what they would bring! Let them then get some idea as to what they are truly worth! Thus, few women, she thou...	10
21	74	She trembled, thinking of the sales block, the eager, virile, possessive, bidding men, the whips, of being exhibited dramatically, specifically, callously, in intimate detail, rawly, as the lovely, helpless merchandise she was.	10
21	206	It would wish to enhance their sales value.	10
22	477	Did she not know her beauty was public? Had she not learned that, forcibly and clearly, in the Kettle Market in Ar, on Targo's sales shelf? It seemed she was being regarded as a mere, interesting, sleek animal, perhaps as a very special sort of tarsk or kaiila.	10
24	17	She knew the sales were to begin soon at the great block.	10
24	313	Such luxuries in any event were usually reserved for the sales of high slaves.	10
25	97	"How I hate him!" The sales had commenced yesterday evening, and some three to four hundred women had been swiftly vended, of diverse quality, some in lots.	10
25	105	Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...	10
25	201	The sales proceeded.	10
25	215	Certainly the men who fetched them, the sales attendants, seemed more like rude herdsmen than solicitous merchants.	10
25	218	She recalled how he had looked upon her, when she had knelt in the silken enclosure, when she had lifted her wrists, and had had them tied, and had then been drawn by them, tethered, to her feet, to be led to the sales area.	10
25	235	It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c...	10
25	238	To be sure, after the days of the sales, there might be some women left over.	10
25	247	Apparently her lane was being held for later in the sales.	10
25	444	"The sales," she thought, "might be moving too slowly".	10
25	585	Surely a life of wealth, of luxury and pampering would have done little to prepare her for chains, exposure, degradation, the searing heat of the pressing, held, iron, for the sudden, sharp, instructive stroke of the whip, for the grasping, imperious hands of men, for the sawdust of the sales block.	10
25	817	So she was safe from them both! How suddenly secure, and free, this made her feel, a strange attitude perhaps for a woman on a sales block.	10
25	868	Actual sales were recorded, and payments arranged, or made, at a table on the ground level, to the left of the block, as one would face the crowd.	10
25	870	It is, of course, easier to see a girl in the exhibition cage, where, if she is not restrained, one may even call her to the bars, than from most of the positions in the tiers, at night, as she is shown illuminated in the torchlight of the sales block.	10
26	264	"In the sales last night," said a man suddenly, "a fellow, a drayman or tarnster I think, gave five gold pieces for a slave!" "Where would such a fellow obtain such wealth?" asked a man.	10
26	1297	They now know they have been found beautiful enough to be put on a sales block and publicly sold.	10
27	378	It was a scent she had experienced once before, on Targo's sales shelf in the Kettle Market, though then it had been so suddenly, so unexpectedly, upon her, almost stifling, almost overwhelming, so hot, so suddenly close and terrible.	10
27	1472	And have not strong men always made slaves of their female prisoners? Is this not what she has hoped for? Were her provocations not intended, though she may have scarcely understood this at the time, to bring her to this very fate? Conquered, she, as other fair antagonists, awaits her brand and coll...	10
27	1492	Too, if the slave should be standing, her hands chained over her head, nude on a sales shelf, or be nude, half kneeling, half lying, chained on a heavy, wooden platform, or such, it is easy to see how she might feel, finding herself the object of a male's scrutiny.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.	10
2	171	What a loss, he thought, to the sales platform.	10
18	291	Others he would distribute as he pleased, amongst his men, and of others he would profit from their sales.	10
23	164	"Sometimes slaves whine, and shriek, and scream in need, in their cages, before their sales".	10
23	165	It is common to deprive red-silk slaves of the touch of men before their sales, sometimes for days.	10
28	43	And how, Cabot thought, they learn to compete with one another, each to be more pleasing to the masters, each to bring a higher price on the sales block.	10
33	44	Yes, Cabot thought, the slave is nicely legged, and that would doubtless, on a sales block, improve her price.	10
43	347	"Suppose you were a slaver or raider," said Cabot, "and you had to choose between a woman so clad, an indisputable beauty, one with an obvious sales value, one who might go for several coins, and an unknown quantity, a woman heavily robed and veiled, who, stripped, might be of little interest even t...	10
79	87	It punishes nicely, but does not mark, for that might lower the slave's sales value.	10
79	641	"You may then, later, if you wish," she said, "give me away, or, better, as I understand it, sell me, to get some better sense of my value, what I might bring on the sales block".	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	279	What have they to bargain with, save their beauty? And will it be enough? Is it sufficient? Is it enough that they will be spared, to be brought, perhaps rather sooner than later, to the sales block? But such a cry was to be expected, not only in any woman at the feet of males, but particularly from...	10
12	110	Indeed, one of the surprises to many Earth women brought to Gor for the sales cages of slavers is to learn that on this world they are not viewed through clouds of misrepresentation and nonsense but, radically and profoundly, as what they are, basically and fundamentally, females.	10
22	266	A man was conjecturing what might be her sales price, what might bring her into the hands of anyone, anyone whomsoever, who possessed the requisite coin or coins.	10
26	37	As the projected social and economic losses he may have sustained by her flight will presumably far outweigh her value on a sales platform one may appreciate his likely disappointment, if not actual disgruntlement, consequent upon her untoward and unacceptable behavior.	10
27	151	Indeed, whip-exhibited on a sales platform she might have brought a few tarsk-bits more.	10
38	144	The sales-platform girls are supplemented, to some extent, by captures brought from Earth, but those captures, though quite numerous, abstractly considered, constitute only a small fraction of Gorean female slaves, perhaps one in two or three hundred.	10
38	158	And what might it be, they might wonder, which has won them this incredible, welcome reprieve, temporary as it might be, from the ax or torch? Could it be that it is their sex and beauty, their exquisite features and lovely slave curves, to which they may have hitherto given little thought, save for...	10
44	29	They adorn sales platforms as objects of value.	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	444	"That is, in part, why I purchased her," said the taverner, "in the sales barn at Market of Semris".	10
3	1330	This is not a universal practice, however, as one is likely to make less on early sales.	10
36	25	On the other hand, the sales barns of Market of Semris are not far from Brundisium, and some fellows from Brundisium like to frequent them, looking for bargains, in particular, paga girls, dancers, and such.	10
37	1327	After some weary hours on the dusty road I was brought to a sales barn, where my tether was freed of the stirrup, and I was unhooded and debraceleted.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	664	A better analogy would doubtless be a sales kennel.	10
8	699	Who can explain such things? Perhaps he has been keeping a collar for just such a one? Certainly a girl can attempt to interest a buyer; consider the differential zeal of the "Buy me, Masters," as one fellow or another peruses a sales line; but, in the end, despite our efforts and hopes, we are not ...	10
8	761	I supposed, beside his fee, he might receive some sort of commission on the sales.	10
8	880	I supposed there was an order to the sales.	10
8	1082	At the beginning of the sales, the slaves had been warned to silence.	10
8	1164	I trusted that the sales were over.	10
16	312	"The house of Tenalion is also known for distributing she-tarsks amongst minor markets, for quick, cheap sales, some even in the Metellan district".	10
16	314	I recalled the small cell, facing the market area, behind the bars of which I, with others, as merchandise to be vended, were publicly displayed to passers-by, and then my sale, being turned about, exhibited naked, on the small cement sales dais.	10
17	87	He then told me to speak, as I would, telling him about my former world, my former life, my capture, my training, my sales, my owners, even my thoughts and feelings.	10
21	97	Apparently this encourages sales.	10

Book 32. (13 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	14	How damp and foul may be the sawdust for subsequent items! To be sure, such things are rare, probably because the sales have been rehearsed.	10
4	61	Though it was late I lingered at the sales, though why I am not sure.	10
4	130	Some of these slaves might have been close enough to the raised sales platform, and its torches, to be visible to the items being vended.	10
6	331	Let them lie about their sales price, the wealth and position of their master, the loftiness of their former station, and such.	10
7	236	Let her learn that! And, too, she had had a lower number than mine, and most of the rest of us, as well, and had been offered earlier in the sales, quite early, in fact.	10
7	240	Supposedly this brightens and freshens the sales, whets anticipation and capitalizes on the delights of surprise, such strategies theoretically keeping the buyers alert and attentive.	10
8	88	"You did not have me beaten when I misspoke my sales price," she said.	10
8	190	Would one not choose, as far as possible, to herd only the finest to the sales pens? It is much the same with women.	10
11	171	I had no doubt it was he who had brought me to Gor, to bondage, and the sales block.	10
38	265	But are not all women pretty much of a muchness when stripped on a sales block? Is there that much difference, then, between a Ubar's daughter and a barbarian recently brought from the sordid towers of an abused world, one recently removed from her slave capsule and branded? "Today, lovely, tunicked...	10
41	351	Am I so little, so meaningless to him, that I am only another item of cargo, another naked woman dragged to a sales block? Is this all a coincidence? Does he truly not remember me, me, in whose dreams he has so often appeared, with his insolence and arrogance, and authority, with his whip and chain?...	10
43	1127	I was confident that long before they could reach a sales block in Brundisium the matter of the great ship would be resolved in one way or another.	10
50	405	Does that not make me more a slave? As I entered the gate, I could see, toward the rear wall of the stockade, something like a barracks or kennel, not unlike my kennel at Shipcamp, and, before it, within the palings, a clearing, which I supposed might function as an exercise yard, an inspection yard...	10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	406	What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ...	10
42	168	The tent was a sales tent, though obviously it had been closed for sales, presumably to better conceal the shogun's daughter.	10
13	33	"I am now needful!" "It is interesting," I said, "on Earth you could use the mere suggestion of sex, with its smiles and movements, as a weapon, a tool, as a device of business, use it in the interests of sales, contracts, and accounts, in the interests of opportunity, promotion, and advancement, an...	10
30	573	It is common in slave houses, prior to sales, to deprive the merchandise of relief for two or three, even for four or five days, prior to the sale.	10
42	169	Being a sales tent it seemed likely it would be equipped with certain devices and goods.	10
49	19	I had not specified the nature of the slave but I hoped she would be a barbarian, namely, a typical Gorean kajira, such as was brought to the islands on the ship of Tersites, primarily as gift objects, sales objects, and trade objects.	10
61	429	Indeed, without discounting the sometimes marvelous beauty of the daughters of peasants, whose sales tend to fill the ranks of contract women, Lord Yamada suspected, given not only her features and lines, but the obscurity of her antecedents, and her lack of family, that she may not have been origin...	10
61	1277	"Doubtless, in time," I said, "you will have dozens of sales, dozens of collars, and dozens of masters".	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	34	Some houses conduct their own sales; others commonly have arrangements with independent markets".	10
7	122	Too, in selling lines, as in sales generally, arrangements are seldom accidental.	10
9	517	"She might be quite average on a sales block.	10
10	70	Men are often attracted to the sales of women.	10
10	71	It is not unusual for them to find such sales of interest.	10
13	56	From that bondage I had been again sold, to me inexplicably, the first of several sales that saw me vended, usually after only a few weeks, sometimes a few days, out of one city or town, or even village, to another.	10
13	115	There is no doubt that the frequency of my sales, which disturbed me, muchly impaired my ease.	10
31	3	I knelt beside him, at his knee, as he sat in the tiers, savoring the sales of women, below.	10
31	198	Surely I had seen the eyes of masters on me, a slave is aware of such things, surely as much as a free woman with a slackened veil or an exposed ankle, when we, I heeling my master, had approached the market, when we had entered the market, when we had climbed the tiers and found our place, even as ...	10
49	319	"Since the Curulean sales of En'Kara," said Drusus.	10
49	320	The En'Kara sales are associated with the time of the vernal equinox on Gor, which, too, is when the Goreans, rather as nature, begin their new year.	10
63	292	But commonly, after two or three days of rest, water, and food, they are ready for the sales block.	10

Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	177	"Sales are to be well-staged, and attractive, not sordid, or disgusting," said the second.	10
2	207	Some men come merely to watch the sales.	10
3	440	There might be several interested men in the tiers, making this impractical, and the merchants are eager to keep the sales moving, one item after another.	10
3	441	The examination position is more commonly required on a slave shelf or in a sales camp, where a given buyer, perhaps shopping, may be interested in a particular slave, one which he may wish to inspect more closely.	10
4	97	I heard the sales gong sound in the distance.	10
4	209	"I do not know why they hold sales this time of night," she said, "here, near the wharves.	10
7	127	I took it that he had not only been present at the sales last night, but was familiar with the practices of the house.	10
10	46	In the tavern merchants may conduct business over a drink; mariners may regale rapt auditors with accounts of fabulous voyages; slavers may confer on sales and projected raids; at another table, a scribe may sit, ready to write or read letters.	10
24	106	"Take off her clothes, fit her with a house collar, and put her in a pen with the others," said Samos, "those being readied for tomorrow's sales, that in the Lesser Al-ka Market".	10
24	187	A dealer can be severely reprimanded if he does not make such sales data clear to a prospective buyer.	10
29	55	And far more unlikely yet that such a stranger would be Addison Steele, who on Earth, as I understood it, contemptuous and displeased with me, had first called me to the attention of Gorean slavers, a possibly suitable prospect for the sales block.	10
38	287	As this gradual diminution of garmenture took place it became more and more evident that slavers would be likely to find her of more and more interest, if not for keeping for themselves, for a sales item on which they would be likely to realize a handsome profit.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	150	There are many festivities and exhibitions, dozens of markets and sales.	10