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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 95 I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath.
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6 226 When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the Home Stone.
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8 27 She did her best to save the Home Stone of your city".
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10 176 "I suppose," she said, attempting to save face, "it would perhaps be appropriate for a tarnsman to place his collar on the captive daughter of a rich merchant".
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15 230 "Only to save her life," I said.
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17 86 "To save face before the citizens of Ar, they have demanded that Pa-Kur respect their decree and impale her".
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19 14 The men of Ar discard their weapons!" "Will you not try to save your daughter?" I asked.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 2 He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educational instit...
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5 89 "No," he said, "I was one of the guards of Ar, and I fought to save my city".
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6 162 "I do not know how to act, or what to do—save only that I know I must do whatever you wish".
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7 30 He was not bearded, save for the trace of a tiny wisp of hair that marked each side of his chin, almost like a streak of dirt.
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20 28 The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead.
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23 104 Perhaps in time, however, the undisciplined but courageous bands of slaves would have been scattered and destroyed by the units of Tharna, save that the very revolution which had begun in the mines and spread to the Great Farms now flamed in the city itself.
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23 196 Largely, the streets were deserted, save that here and there lay a body, sometimes that of a warrior of Tharna, more often one of its gray-clad citizens.
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Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 55 The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference.
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2 59 I encountered no animals, nor any growing thing, nothing save the endless black rocks, the black cliffs, and the path cut before me in the dark stone.
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2 67 The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig...
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3 59 If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a...
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4 19 In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone.
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8 109 The precise location of Treve was not known to me and was perhaps known to few save its citizens.
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8 111 There was said to be no access to Treve save on tarnback and this would suggest that it must be as much a mountain stronghold as a city.
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9 82 "He followed me into the Sardar, to try and save me," she said.
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11 3 The new Priest-King looked a great deal like Misk, save that he was larger.
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11 55 "None may see the Mother save her caste attendants and the High Priest-Kings," said Sarm, "the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Born".
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12 229 Nothing might have happened in the last few moments save that one was breathing heavily and the other's face was spattered with his own blood.
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14 87 There was not much save my name and city, that I was a Matok under the supervision of Misk, that I had no record-scars and that I might be dangerous.
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16 6 "You have come to the Sardar to save the race of Priest-Kings".
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17 54 If these tactics were calculated to have some effect on Sarm, I think they most miserably failed of that effect, for during the entire time I took, which was considerable, he stood motionless in the room, save for an occasional movement of his antennae, frozen in that maddening, immobile but alert p...
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20 62 In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder.
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20 64 "Save me!" she cried.
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20 116 She was now contained precisely as she had been originally save that she had exchanged the thick, multitudinous, ornate Robes of Concealment, the proud, cumbersome insignia of the free woman of Gor, for the simple garment of a Chamber Slave and a burning wound on her left thigh.
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20 193 And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom denied even by the citizens of the gi...
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22 91 Misk drew himself up to his proud, almost eighteen feet of height, save that he inclined slightly forward from the vertical, and fixed on us with his antennae what I had come to recognize in the last few weeks as a look of rather patient, gentle reproach.
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23 1 I Find Vika I gathered that I had arrived too late to save Vika of Treve.
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23 41 There was nothing I could do for her now, save perhaps hunt for the Golden Beetle.
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26 58 She wore the brief tunic of purple plastic allotted to female Muls in the nest and save for her eyelashes her hair had been completely removed.
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26 67 I felt that I might tell her that what I had done was perhaps to save her life, at least for a time, but I did not say this to her.
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27 8 The disk was of course, untended, for in the enclosed, regulated life of the Nest theft, save for an occasional handful of salt, was unknown.
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27 68 There were perhaps a thousand Priest-Kings in the Nest, and I supposed that this might be almost all the Priest-Kings in the Nest, save perhaps those that might be essentially placed at a few minimum posts, such as the guard at the steel barricade and perhaps some in the Scanning Chamber or, more li...
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27 120 I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the Priest-Kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.
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28 222 There were no propellers or jets or rockets and I find it difficult to understand or explain the drive save that it used the forces of gravity against themselves in such a way that the amount, if one may use so inept an expression, of gravitational Ur, which is the Gorean expression for the gravitat...
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33 2 It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl...
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34 196 So then why have I written them? I do not know, save that I thought these things worth recording, whether they are to be believed or not.
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35 13 There were gasps of astonishment and horror from all save myself.
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Book 4. (36 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 53 The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c...
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10 566 For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand.
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2 5 But later, shortly after the completion of their journey, in a war between their cities, each had in battle slain the other, and thus among men, save perhaps for some among the Wagon Peoples, the secret had been lost.
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2 26 Perhaps if I were successful I might save my race, by preserving the Priest-Kings that might shelter them from the annihilation that might otherwise be achieved if uncontrolled technological development were too soon permitted them; perhaps in time man would grow rational, and reason and love and to...
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2 131 The kaiila of these men were as tawny as the brown grass of the prairie, save for that of the man who faced me, whose mount was a silken, sable black, as black as the lacquer of the shield.
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5 21 I was startled by the sound of slave bells and saw a girl, stripped save for bells and collar, carrying a burden among the wagons.
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5 46 Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the...
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5 47 For a male slave, or Kajirus, of the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather.
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7 19 Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe...
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7 131 She had been dressed precisely as she had been the morning she had gone to work save that about her throat she had found sewn a high, thick leather collar.
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8 554 Save for armed combat, lance and tospit with the living wand is the most dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples.
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8 556 It is essentially the same sport as lancing the tospit from the wand, save that the fruit is held in the mouth of a girl, who is slain should she move or in any way withdraw from the lance.
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9 34 Saphrar was a pleasant, gracious fellow, a bit indolent perhaps, save for the eyes and rapid fingers.
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9 65 This would be impractical, naturally, save for the detestable device of the golden bowl and tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, by means of which the diner may, when he wishes, refresh himself and return with eagerness to the feast.
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9 90 Thus, unfortunately, save for an occasional furtive pair of dark eyes peering from behind a veil in a recessed casement, we saw in our journey from the gate of the city to the House of Saphrar none of the fabled, silken beauties of Turia.
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9 128 I do not know particularly why it is referred to as a camisk, save that it is a simple garment for a female slave.
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11 27 To them, of course, she was now no more than they, save perhaps that her flesh would not be used to bear the poles of palanquins, to carry boxes nor dig in the earth, but would be appointed its own tasks, lighter and more suitable, doubtless even more pleasing than theirs to a master.
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12 28 Once he might have been a great man and warrior but now, somnolent and fat, he thought of little save the contents of a golden kanda box.
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12 272 It is seldom done save by a master.
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12 421 Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr...
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16 71 The Turian wells, incidentally, have no raised wall, but are, save for a rim of about two inches in height, flat with the level.
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16 141 It was he who had hurled the quiva at me among the wagons, who would have been my assassin save for the sudden flicker of a shadow on a lacquered board.
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16 142 On the left of Saphrar there sat another warrior, in the leather of a tarnsman, save that he wore a jeweled belt, and about his neck, set with diamonds, there hung a worn tarn disk from the city of Ar.
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20 35 Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a Gorean keep.
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21 23 Rank by rank the warriors on the kaiila, dour, angry, silent, turned their mounts away from the city and slowly went to find their wagons, save for the Hundreds that would flank the withdrawal and form its rear guard.
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21 104 The street was deserted save for a girl, who was standing below, looking up toward the roof.
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21 283 The double gate had closed now save for the wagon wedged between the two parts of the gate.
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21 297 "There is a certain resemblance between yourself and my friend Tarl Cabot," Harold was saying, "save that your swordplay is decidedly inferior to his.
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22 10 Kamchak had taken up quarters in the palace of Phanius Turmus, which, save for the looting and the ripping down of tapestries, the wanton defacing of wall mosaics, was unharmed.
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23 97 Shortly after dawn we discovered the Paravaci forming in their Thousands away from the herd, preparing to strike the wagons from the north, pressing through, slaying all living things they might encounter, save women, slave or free.
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24 30 Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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26 175 "Save your gold, Tuchuk sleen," said the young man.
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26 378 For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia...
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26 438 He added, "It was wise of them, for the Wagon Peoples are among the farthest and most fierce of the Goreans, living free hundreds of pasangs from all cities, save Turia".
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27 12 The girls of the Wagon Peoples, of course, who had been enslaved, were freed; the others, however, save for some of Ko-ro-ba on whose behalf I spoke, would change their perfumed silks and their warmed, scented baths for the hardships of the trek, the care of bosk, and the arms of warrior masters.
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Book 5. (28 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 165 Every nerve in that old face seemed strained, as though trying to understand what might lie there beyond him in the darkness that was his world, save for the memory of the movement of pieces on a checkered board.
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5 218 Indeed, few of the Nest's humans were any longer slaves, save certain of the men and women who had betrayed us in the Nest War, certain men and women who had been reduced to such bondage because of transgressions, and certain others who had entered the Sardar to seek and acquire the riches of Priest...
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7 32 "So even the equanimity of an Assassin can be shaken! Yes, the Ubar of a city, and you may choose the city, any save Ar, on whose throne I, Cernus, will sit".
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7 51 We flew for perhaps an Ahn and then, following a lead tarnsman, dipped and, one at a time, the others circling, landed on a rocky shelf on the side of a steep cliff, apparently no different from dozens of other such shelves we had already passed, save that this shelf, due to an overhang of the cliff...
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10 11 It might have been the private compartment of a lady of High Caste save that, of course, in this house it was a cell.
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14 5 It is a rule in the House of Cernus that all slaves, save those who may be on house business, be secured by the eighteenth bar.
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15 58 Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ...
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15 116 She was commonly permitted to wear lavish and luxurious robes of concealment, save for hood and veil.
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15 117 The bracelets and chain on her wrists, during this time, save in dressing and in the bath, were never removed.
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15 120 These girls, under the instructions of Cernus, were extremely deferential, save that they were continually to amuse themselves at the prisoner's expense, making sport of her shaved head, laughing and joking about it among themselves.
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15 132 Sura's training room lay directly off her private compartment, which might have been that of a free woman, save that the heavy door locked only on the outside and, at the eighteenth bar, it became her cell.
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16 10 That he was now of the Caste of Warriors did not change much with Cernus, of course, save that a strip of red silk, with those of blue and yellow, now adorned his left sleeve.
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16 48 According to Ho-Tu, whom I had once asked about this, there were two main reasons for this; first, their training was peculiarly full and intensive; second, the prospect of being permitted to leave the house, particularly attractive to Virginia and Phyllis, who had known nothing of Gor save the Hous...
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17 20 But in a moment it was determined, to the rage of all save the girl, that she wore an iron belt.
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17 57 We were freed, save that two ropes apiece were kept on our throats, and a rope on each ankle, each rope in the care of one of the girls.
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17 142 People seemed to care little for anything save the races and the games.
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17 711 "Little save Sura," she admitted.
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18 364 They were dark, save that each, at intervals of some thirty yards, was lit with a small tharlarion-oil lamp.
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19 47 The girls, when brought to the Curulean, are braceleted and naked; they have been chained in slave wagons; they are brought to a large, heavy, barred gate in the rear of the large building, through which they are led; the bracelets are, of course, to secure them; the lack of clothing is simply to sa...
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19 218 Their black cloaks were rather like ponchos with hoods, save that there were slits through which their arms emerged.
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20 474 There was little sound in the room save the occasional noises of Hup.
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21 360 "Silence!" roared Murmillius and, obediently, we fought in silence, save for the crying of men, our breathing, the sparkling ring of blades tempered by wine and fire.
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22 216 Then all, save perhaps those closest to the noble Ubar of the city, began to cry out and cheer, and pound their fists on their left shoulder.
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22 534 Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit.
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23 7 I had walked through the largely deserted halls, empty save for a scurrying slave or a furtive man-at-arms, gathering his belongings, preparing to make away.
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24 36 The right eye was normal, save that it, unlike its fellow, was blue.
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24 119 Save for the color it is identical with most common slave livery.
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24 173 They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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5 120 Then I stood free at the pole, save that I wore the collar of marsh vine she had fastened on my neck, and a garland of rence flowers.
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5 140 I gathered it was seldom the rencers, save for those on a given island, met one another.
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9 40 Aside from this they were not, at the time we had entered the city, secured, save that a long length of binding fiber, knotted about the left ankle of each, tied them together.
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14 100 In about ten Ehn the decks of the treasure fleet, save for the paraphernalia of war, would be clear, and her hatches would be secured.
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14 246 The two tarn ships, the Dorna and the other, faced one another, motionless, save for their response to the swells of Thassa.
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15 124 Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the Council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him.
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15 663 "You have been a good man, Tab," said I, "so I will not save you for the torturers".
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16 198 Most sailing, save by round ships, is done in the spring and summer.
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18 19 "Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could.
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Book 7. (19 results) Captive of Gor

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4 155 Then I stood before them as I had, in the tan slacks, in the black, bare-midriff blouse, save that I now wore a steel anklet.
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5 128 It was empty, save for some cups.
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6 199 Here, however, a world away, I heard the same accent, or one similar, save that here it was not an accent.
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7 188 No one paid me attention, save that I, like the others, was always under the eye of a guard.
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9 305 I was bound, save that my hands were free.
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9 322 Then there were none who had not entered that savage circle, save Verna, the band's leader, proud and superb, armed and disdainful, and Elinor Brinton, a bound slave.
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10 635 It is long, sinuous; it resembles a lizard, save that it is furred and mammalian.
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11 593 One day seemed much like another, save that our lessons increased in length and complexity.
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11 829 I was like an animal without hands, a four-footed animal, save that I had no hide to protect me, but only the softness of my flesh, and I did not have the delicate senses, the smell and the hearing of such animals to protect me, and I did not have their swiftness, the fleetness of their flight.
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11 1107 No woman, it was said, could be brought to the city, save as a hooded, stripped slave girl, bound across the saddle of a tarn.
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11 1108 Indeed, even merchants and ambassadors were permitted to approach the city only under conduct, and then only when hooded and in bonds, as though none not of Treve might approach her save as slaves or captive supplicants.
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12 59 But now I was out and, save that I was tethered to Ute, could move as I wished.
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12 297 Beautiful, barbaric Verna! Nothing, save her weapons, had been taken from her.
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13 941 "Now you lie," he said, sternly, "to save your flesh from the irons and the whips".
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14 92 Scarcely anything would enter into the ceremony save that I was female, and he was male, and that I would wear his collar.
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15 158 When I could, of course, I managed to avoid tasks, or perform them in a hasty, slipshod manner, that I might save myself inconvenience and labor.
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15 267 They were naked, save for their collars.
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15 551 A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small, reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds.
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17 388 "We could not save Rask of Treve," said Bosk to me the next day.
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Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 30 Save for the strip that had been shaved, his hair was black, and shaggy.
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2 475 There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized.
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6 733 * * * * I and my men, save the posted guards, sat about the fire on the beach, within the wall, not far from the inclining hull of the Tesephone.
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11 563 The words that she had spoken stunned us, all save Marlenus.
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11 747 Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman...
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11 845 It was a brutal kiss, this first kiss that he placed upon the lips of his slave girl, a kiss in which she was, by intent, permitted no part, save to feel the bruising of it in her body.
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11 865 They could not be removed, save by a key in the keeping of Marlenus.
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11 887 Marlenus had told me that any of the women in the camp, save Verna, were free to me.
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12 14 Many people are unaware of such groups, for they are seldom identifiable save through lines of social relationships and connections.
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15 432 I saw Cara and Tina, still in their white wool slave tunics, save that they were now dirtied and torn.
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17 21 They would have responded to nothing, save perhaps with a twist of their bodies and an almost fevered moan.
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18 60 They could not be freed, save by tools, for they did not wear lock bonds.
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18 112 If necessary, all might have been, in a moment, abandoned, secured perhaps about trees or rocks, save Marlenus, their chief prize, the central object of their endeavors, their expedition of abduction.
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18 668 They had been long at sea, doubtless not putting into land, save for supplies and water, and that in lonely places.
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22 989 As a free man I had no interest in slave girls, save for the brief use of their bodies.
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Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 106 There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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1 151 It had burned, long and fiery in the Gorean night, on the stones of the beach, and then, in the morning it would have been ashes, and the winds and rains would have scattered them, and there would be little left, save the stones, the sand and the prints of the feet of sea birds, tiny, like the thief...
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3 280 "Save us!" cried the slender blond girl.
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3 281 "You are men! Save us!" At her cries many of the men seemed emboldened and rushed more closely about us, but swings of the great axes kept them back.
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10 79 Each man, generally, save he in the direct hire of the Jarl, is responsible for the existence and condition of his own equipment and weapons.
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10 280 "Save them," said I, "for your sister's dowry in her companionship".
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11 52 The speaker was not armed, save by the natural ferocity of his species.
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11 200 They and men seldom met, save to kill one another.
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13 306 There was no sound in the great hall, save the crackle of the fires and torches.
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14 130 There was silence, save for the crackling of flames.
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16 223 There are no spells, no gods, no heroes to save us.
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18 6 A sleen would no sooner mark out a girl for return to the pen than three or four others would constantly enter and disappear from his ken, often luring him into their pursuit, while the first slips free, in her turn later perhaps to save another similarly.
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18 302 That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co...
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21 54 Her pride is gone, like her clothing, save for brand and collar, stripped away.
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21 102 On his own worlds, in a sense, man had no natural enemies, save perhaps himself.
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Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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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...
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1 546 The point of this is that the senses and body of the slave, stripped save for brand and collar, and whatever perfumes, cosmetics or jewelries she may wear under the instruction of her trainer, are being taught to be alive, to sense and feel with great sensitivity; the senses and skins of many human ...
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1 656 I jerked her to her feet and, half turning her, ripping her silk from her, hurled her to the map floor, where she half lay, half crouched, one leg beneath her, looking at me, stripped save for her collar, the brand, the armlets, bells, the anklets, with fury.
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1 820 It is a vast area, and generally rocky, and hilly, save in the dune country.
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2 74 These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys.
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2 315 I wanted to keep her, save for some refinements, a free woman of Earth, wearing a collar, until she was sold.
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2 418 My own coins I kept in belt pockets, within my robes, save for a small wallet at my side.
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4 57 About the water, little more than muddy, shallow ponds, save for the flahdahs, nothing grew; only dried, cracked earth, whitish and buckled, for a radius of more than a quarter of a pasang, could be found; what vegetation there might have been had been grazed off, even to the roots; one could place ...
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4 177 "Surely, someday on Earth," said the man, "the males will dare to be men?" "I do not think so," I said, "save for rare individuals.
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4 523 In the kurdah, kneeling, frightened, naked save for collar and veil, the girl shrank back.
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5 842 Alyena stood on the scarlet tiles, head back, sweating, breathing heavily, nude save for her ornaments and collar, the bangles about her ankles and wrists, the armlets, the several chains and pendants looped about her neck.
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7 246 Men shrank back, "Save me!" cried the man.
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8 80 The camp was abandoned, save for her.
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11 17 We had scarcely moved, save to pass about a verrskin of water and a leather pouch of Sa-Tarna meal.
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11 54 Further, those who are foolish enough to do so, can usually, struggling and washed along, save themselves".
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11 598 "Save yourself," said he.
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14 513 How should one want more, save perhaps health and honor, and a woman, slave at one's feet? I marched onward again, brushing through feeding zads, once more toward Klima.
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15 57 In many respects Klima resembles a community, save that it differs in at least two significant respects.
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16 4 It was dark in the pit, save for our lamps, and those of other rafts.
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16 27 From the point of view of "harvesting," the arrangements are equivalent, save that the harvesters, naturally, to facilitate their work, position themselves differently in the two arrangements.
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16 89 In the pits there is no light, save that which men bring there.
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16 226 "Save yourselves!" he cried.
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16 237 I tried to save a second man, similarly, but he was taken from the pole, screaming, by the Old One.
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17 303 "You cannot save him," said Hassan.
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18 91 "Save yourself," said Hassan.
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19 118 The wind felt much the same as the constant, whipping Tahari wind to me, no different, save for its direction.
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24 701 We stood in darkness, save for the moonlight at the window.
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25 174 She wore the mannish garb of the Tahari, save that she did not wear the wind veil nor the kaffiyeh and agal.
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26 166 Of all the slave girls about, save one in a white kurdah, near the head of the march, she was the only one who was clothed.
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26 1201 A Kur had fought by my side to save the Gorean world.
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Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 207 Little had changed, save that I had been struck and beaten.
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2 308 Of course I had been terrified, but I felt, in my deepest heart, that I had not said what I had said merely to try and save my life.
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2 309 Of course I had been desperate to save my life.
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4 370 Bina, I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm.
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4 373 They were valueless, save for being a cheap adornment sometimes permitted embonded wenches.
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4 751 None in the camp save I myself understood my words, but, clearly, they were uttered in wildness, in hysteria, in rage; they were words, clearly, of protest, perhaps even of hysterical rebellion.
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4 841 Perhaps I would not have considered these matters save that I was unable to drive from my mind the recollection of an event which had occurred late in the sordid abuse to which I had been so brutally subjected.
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5 158 The women, on the whole, interestingly, save some verbally, do not seem to much mind.
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5 622 The other slave girls in the tent, save she who had been beaten, who lay miserably in a corner of the tent, looked angrily at me.
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5 633 Then the camp was empty, save for the wounded, and the slave girls, of which I was one.
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5 782 "Save me a place at your feet, Master," she said.
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7 356 No woman, even one who was free, would be permitted to relate to him save on his terms, and on his terms alone.
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9 207 "What is she good for?" asked another, "save to give pleasure to men?" "Nothing," said another.
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9 429 Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save man-haters, freaks, frustrates and Lesbians, and men who were not men? Truth and p...
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9 808 A girl is most beautiful when she is naked, save perhaps for a collar or chain.
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9 1473 It was silent, save for the crackle of the torches.
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9 1551 It is usually taken for granted and ignored, save perhaps by the abused girls, but they are only slaves.
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13 14 My hair was longer now, as it had not been cut on Gor, save to trim and shape it.
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13 183 All were fully clothed, save I, who wore only a light chain, locked, with its attached disk of sale.
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14 32 The customer could select any serving slave for his pleasure, providing he had paid the price of the paga; he could pick the girl of his interest, whether she had poured him the paga in question or not; to be sure, the customer usually commanded his paga from the wench who had caught his fancy, if h...
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15 22 I detected by her laughter that she was young, that she, too, was only a girl, save perhaps that she might be a bit older than I.
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15 336 "Slave girls," she said, "attract little attention, save by their flesh and person.
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18 103 Whereas the first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second one often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees; this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape.
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19 15 I was unclothed, save for the black, enameled, belled collar, and the black, enameled belled ankle ring, as I had been in the alcove of the Chatka and Curla.
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22 67 For all the restraints placed upon me I might have been a free woman, save that the distinction between us, apart from my tunic and collar, would have been clear when a man snapped his fingers and pointed to the deck at his feet, or whistled for me in the night, and I must run to him, as might a pet...
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27 380 Indeed, I was not to approach him too closely, save when necessary in my serving.
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27 449 She was still unconscious when Busebius removed his bells, and collar and silk from her, leaving her naked, save for her brand, lying on the tiles beside the table.
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28 71 We had all been exposed in the exhibition cages earlier, stark, save for perfume.
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28 95 Toward the end I would be spun almost free of them and then, in the end, I would be ordered, exposed save for the final silk, concealing my breasts and thighs, to lie supine at the auctioneer's feet.
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28 144 "Save your tears for the block, sleek little animal," he said.
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Book 12. (22 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 61 "Thus it was she came to us," said Samos, "save that she was clad in inexplicable, barbarous garments".
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3 518 The next girl, dark-haired, lovely, wore black, feminine slacks; these were apparently of some synthetic Earth material; the left leg of the slacks was torn from the knee downward; she also wore what had probably been a soft, red, turtle-necked pull-over; it, too, was rather feminine; perhaps that i...
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4 461 There seemed little that was discussed in the fair that night save the contest of the early afternoon.
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4 538 Indeed the market had been almost empty, save for the displayed wares and their merchants.
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4 556 I hoped the supplies I had had Samos send northward would save the red hunters from extinction.
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6 21 There is little scarcity of game on Gor, save in relatively populated areas.
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11 9 The men in the chain, of course, were not locked within, save for those at the end of the chain who had been former guards, now clad in the rags of laborers.
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11 303 There was nothing in sight, save clouds.
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11 314 Accordingly there is no particular point in clothing them, save, of course, to protect them from the cold or ornament them in such a way that they are more attractive to their masters.
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12 378 She was dressed, save for her bondage strings, in much the same way as most of the women of the red hunters, bare-breasted, with high boots and panties.
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13 29 I had originally supposed this was because of their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north.
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14 179 "Is there no one who will save me?" wailed Poalu.
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14 182 "Naartok," cried Poalu, "will you not save me?" A heavy fellow nearby shook his head vigorously.
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15 11 All now slept in the tent, save Thistle and myself.
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20 103 At the end of the summer these groups, loosely linked save in the spring or early summer, would make their ways back to their own camps.
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23 98 I sensed then it was not a simple beast, the degenerate and irrational descendant of survivors of a Kur ship perhaps crashed generations ago, descendants to whom the discipline and loyalty of the ship codes were meaningless, descendants who had for most practical purposes, save their cunning, revert...
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23 452 Not much was known of the mysterious Karjuk, even amongst the red hunters, save that he was one of them.
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28 44 It was all she wore, save for a slave collar, like Arlene, and some beads, an armlet, and a barbaric anklet.
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28 306 "I must save my strength," I said.
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35 1194 * * * * "The complex is secure," said Ram, "save for the chamber of Zarendargar, Half-Ear.
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35 1281 "No Kurii save myself," he said.
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37 16 Then the lights in the sky were gone and the polar night had returned, save for a long, shimmering volume of yellowish smoke that reared from the distant ice.
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Book 13. (20 results) Explorers of Gor

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43 46 "Save me! Save me! Take pity on me! I have been left here to die! Take pity on me! Save me! Please, save me!" "Have mercy on her, Master, please," begged Janice.
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51 135 The floor, save where it was cluttered, was generally smooth, save for certain drillings, through which chains might be passed.
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4 154 "It was all I could save," she said, lamely.
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4 348 The markets were, for the most part, save the wharf markets, deeper in the city.
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13 403 "Save for some veneers, some conventions, and veils, they are the same," I said.
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13 519 During the night I had unchained her, save for the steel and chain on her left ankle.
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18 270 Indeed, save for the length of the feathers and the intricate leather and beading, in which the feathers were mounted, it might have been such a headdress.
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19 49 In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.
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24 259 With a tiny, almost imperceptible movement, the tiniest motion of their short legs, the four tharlarion, almost ringing the girl, seemed to drift again toward her, like half-submerged, meaningless logs, save for the methodicality of their convergence.
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26 56 This may save us much trouble".
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32 832 I could almost feel and see the savages, those red men and women, in their ornate robes and feathers, in the midst of whom a white beauty, freshly enslaved, piteously strove to save her life by pleasing her stern red master.
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34 1044 "Often," said I, "slave girls are kept naked, save for their collar and brand".
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43 16 "Please save me!" she cried.
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43 20 "Save me, please, noble sirs!" she wept.
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48 50 "All in my party were killed save myself, who escaped.
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50 78 The gag, preventing her from acting in such a contingency, could well save her life.
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53 253 "Save yourselves".
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53 272 A human female who falls to a male conqueror may sometimes, by submitting herself totally to him as a slave, save her life, at least until he determines whether or not she is sufficiently pleasing.
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53 502 We fought to save Msaliti.
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55 12 And then it was quiet, save for the water lapping against the landing and the sides of the wooden vessels.
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Book 14. (17 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 48 She would have little to fear from them, save perhaps boredom.
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1 501 'Have no fear, Miss Henderson,' he said, 'we always save one or two capsules, aside from those allotted to our regular requisitions, in case something worthwhile shows up.
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3 139 They were dressed not unlike her, save for the halter and the leather band which bound back her hair.
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3 205 The animals were now much more frenzied, save for some, here and there in the enclosure, in small groups, snarling and scratching, tearing apart meat already lowered into the pit.
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5 49 She knelt there behind the table, almost naked save for the rag at her hips, the bit of cloth about her shoulders and, locked on her lovely neck, a steel collar.
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6 140 Lola was stark naked, save for her collar.
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7 548 Who could think such, save perhaps some who were not themselves men? "Would you like me to again serve you wine, Master," asked Lola.
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11 249 Then two guards, gigantic fellows, brawny, stripped to the waist, their heads shaven save for a knot of hair behind the crown, stood behind the barred gate to the cell.
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11 554 It was true that often, in slave pens, and in the houses of slavers, women were kept nude, save for their collars.
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12 424 I was stark naked on Gor, save that I wore a steel collar.
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18 178 The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, impoverished, ruined, had little now to pride herself on save the name of her family and the splendor of her lineage.
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22 24 All then drank, save the Lady Florence, who, smiling, did not lift her cup.
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22 33 All lifted their cups, save the Lady Melpomene.
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22 41 There was again laughter, and all drank, save the Lady Melpomene, who, embarrassed, smiling, was the object of the toast.
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26 65 "Save me from these men," moaned the Lady Florence.
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30 6 Indeed, it may save your life".
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34 24 At the feet of each, their heads down, stripped save for bonds of black leather, there knelt a girl.
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Book 15. (11 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 54 The girl was naked, save that she wore many strings of jewels and armlets.
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4 74 "You did well," I said, "to save the lives of your men, and yourself".
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10 465 The stairs were dark, save for small, trembling yellow pools of light, cast from flickering tharlarion-oil lamps.
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13 57 Later they searched all in the tavern, save those whom they remembered from outside, as having been previously examined".
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21 101 "We girls are warned away from their table, save when we are called forth to serve, and then they remain silent, except to give us our commands".
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22 52 "Protect me, save me, please," she begged.
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22 252 Is it not my right, then, to save yours?" "We are, then, even," said he, bitterly.
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23 112 The girls, too, with their vessels and trays, serving, many of them nude, save for their collars and bangles, stood or knelt quietly, not moving, watching.
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25 157 "I know nothing of him," said Callimachus, his voice slightly hardening, "save that he is from Ar".
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26 239 My major concern now was to save his life.
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31 44 There is little to amuse one in the chamber of the windlass, save, I suppose, eating and drinking, and dreams.
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Book 16. (14 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 122 "Save your fire.
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4 99 The point of the wedge, harmlessly, save for splinters and paint torn from our hull, was behind us.
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8 443 "Why did Artemidorus, the first officer, when he inquired as to your readiness, not attempt to enter the cabin, and check you by hand?" "None may touch me save Reginald, my master," she said, proudly, "unless I have displeased him".
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11 146 For example, although one may see a girl in the streets, naked save for, say, her brand and collar, or a bit of chain, this is not common.
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11 172 It is usually short, though seldom as short as a slave tunic or Ta-Teera, and it is always open on both sides, save where snugged at the waist, this emphasizing her figure; in it, her embonded beauty is well manifested, from her shoulders and waist, downward delightfully, though to her flanks, and c...
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16 285 There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves.
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18 687 I mean that I yielded to him as I had never before yielded to any man, save yourself, my Master.
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18 727 There had been little sound save that of our breathing and of her bells.
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19 969 Save then, dear ladies, your cleverness and assertiveness, your rudenesses and malicious wit, your threats and coldnesses, for the lame, intimidated men of Earth, who are trained to submit to such abuse with accommodating docility.
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19 1109 Not permitted the use of her hands, save as a means of locomotion, she must also eat and drink from pans set on the floor, or, sometimes, to satisfy her thirst, she must lap the water permitted to her from puddles or lick spillages from the tiles; too, it is not uncommon to chain her near her master...
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20 33 For this night Lola, who was first girl, had dressed Shirley much like the other slave, save that the gauze of Shirley's garment was yellow.
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20 44 One would scarcely know that they were slaves, save, of course, that they wore collars and danced their beauty for men.
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20 729 The men, save I, rose as one to their feet, for Gorean men commonly stand when a free woman enters a room.
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21 541 It is not unknown for female slaves to be seen naked, save for their collars, in Gorean streets.
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Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

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1 798 Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk.
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1 1018 Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long-winged, sharp-billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food.
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8 324 She then hung before us clad only, save for the ribbon binding back her hair, in her brassiere and panties.
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11 58 There is no one here to save you.
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13 1822 "That, too," I said, "will save you many bouts with the lash".
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14 449 Few girls desire to be sent into the streets naked, save for their collars.
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14 1190 If her captors found her of interest, perhaps they would give her a chance, albeit perhaps only a slim one, to strive to save her life, by absolute and total submission, and pleasingness, as a slave.
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17 339 This was a behavior suitable for a slave, even one who was not, at the moment, desperately striving to save her own life.
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17 346 No girl is regarded as having passed this test who has not, in her performances, made it clear to all, save perhaps herself, that it is truly a slave who lies at the paws of the kaiila.
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19 196 Then she looked up at him, and backed away, his, stripped save for the beaded collar knotted at her throat.
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19 654 To be sure, there is a controversy as to whether or not it is more humiliating for a woman to be put before masters in such a garment or merely stark naked, save, perhaps, for a brand and collar.
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19 793 She had, in spite of this, after having been stripped, to determine if there might be any interest in owning her, been given a slim chance to save her life, prostrating herself and performing intimate acts at the feet of a master's kaiila.
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Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 349 I knelt, naked, save for the collar of Canka, in the tall, dry grass.
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2 259 Goods would not be left behind, save occasionally in hidden caches.
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3 168 She now knelt absolutely naked, save for Canka's collar, among the men.
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4 14 I, too, was naked, save that I wore Canka's collar.
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6 58 "We could save some of it," I said, "gather it and wash it later, at the camp".
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6 84 He was naked save for the breechclout and moccasins.
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12 25 These youth were naked save for the breechclout and moccasins.
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12 414 They find themselves in a large room, usually empty, or rather empty, save for an imposing couch.
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14 365 "Save me from them," she wept.
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14 391 "Save me from them," she begged.
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16 3 She was naked, save for her beaded collar.
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29 212 "I wonder if Wasnapohdi will ever realize how Grunt was concerned to save her life".
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32 73 "Nothing, now, can save them".
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32 75 "What can save them?" asked Cuwignaka.
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33 239 The men too, their eyes cast down, save for furtive glances, seemed loath to leave.
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33 412 "Let us save those names," said Cuwignaka.
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33 418 "Is it all right with you," I asked the girl, "if we save those names?" "Yes, Master," she laughed.
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37 79 How maddeningly desirable are slaves! If, outside the pit, she should panic, and try to run, she might, by the rope on her ankle, be kept from doing so; that might save her life; similarly, if she should be paralyzed with fear and find herself unable to move, it might be used to drag her back into t...
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37 465 It seemed empty, save for the high, billowing clouds.
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39 433 "It will save time".
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40 890 Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of a dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide.
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44 260 They are held in contempt, save for the work which they may perform and the pleasures one may derive from them.
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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.
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44 815 He then thrust several pieces of pemmican at once, her meal, into her mouth, to save time.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 518 I was plunged into darkness, save for the tiny bits of light coming through the two small, round holes on my right, near my face.
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4 205 "I wish you no harm, Lady," said he, surlily, "save that you might get what you deserve, a collar in the lowest slave hole on Gor!" "It is treason," said Ligurious.
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13 48 She was absolutely naked, save that she still wore the collar of Ligurious.
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15 238 What are such women, I asked myself, but collar meat! What are they good for, save to serve the pleasure of callous, virile beasts? How pleased I was that I was different from them, that I was not as they! I then listened, with misery, while the two men, one after the other, in the narrow passageway...
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16 311 On the other hand, if you should prove to be a slave, as you doubtless will, this will save you some whippings for disrespect".
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28 13 I, and the rest of the class, was naked, save for our collars and strings of slave bells tied about our left ankles.
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31 514 Though he had not spoken to me, save to summon me imperiously to him, I had little doubt that he was still thinking of me in terms of Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus.
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33 726 She had no true power, save a pittance which we, for our purposes, were sometimes pleased to accord to her.
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36 146 * * * * I lay now naked, save for my collar, on the tiles of the quarters of Drusus Rencius, in the palace at Argentum.
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Book 20. (15 results) Players of Gor

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11 3 "I am free! Save me! Someone save me!" "Should we attempt to rescue her?" asked one stout youth of another.
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1 125 "I demand my immediate freedom!" One of the slave girls, one kneeling a few feet away, before us and to our right, at a table, one of those who was naked, save for her collar, laughed.
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1 1058 She was naked, save for her collar.
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2 932 One would not use this expression of the hair of a free woman, save in a context of vulgarity.
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2 1594 On Gor, there is very little sexual frustration, save, I suppose, in the case of free women, among whom, I gather, it is not uncommon, if not rampant.
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5 373 These weapons I carry, too, save for those I reserve for my own use, I shall give to skillful, worthy fellows.
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6 712 "Perhaps you are merely trying to save yourself from sleen," he mused.
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7 21 The girl was stripped, save for her ankle ring and collar.
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8 273 It was very quiet, save mostly for the rustling and clicking of insects.
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14 461 Again was the pack tranquil, save where some animals, here and there, fed on sleen.
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16 666 "Save us!" cried Rowena.
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18 366 "Save your Ubar!" I called to two confused, startled guards outside, still loyally at their posts, sweeping my arm toward the hall.
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18 370 The corridor was long and seemingly empty, on both sides of the door, save for such things as closed doors, presumably locked, slave rings, niches here and there, vases, and decorative plantings.
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19 165 In this fashion, he had doubtless managed to save his life.
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21 128 "Have you also considered how you might save your life, before I can reach you?" "Of course," he said.
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Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 36 None could take it from her, save a man, of course, who might have done it easily.
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16 1462 "To save time," I said.
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16 1748 "How often can one save a tarsk so adroitly? Had there been two fellows we might have saved two tarsks".
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18 113 "Too, such women are often marched naked to save their tunics, that they may not be soiled with dirt and sweat".
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20 32 These bridges, however, save for tiny glintings here and there, could not be well made out at this distance.
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24 296 "If you wait now, it will save you a trip back tomorrow".
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25 771 I was in the place in which I would have brought home the tabuk, save I would have had him on his belly, so bound.
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25 853 The beatings then must stop, save for those administered, and often harshly, by the captors.
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25 1428 I conjectured what she might look like, stark naked, save for chains, perhaps, holding her as a tight love bundle, for a master's pleasure, at a ring, and the locked, steel slave collar that belonged on her neck.
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25 1649 I considered giving her this option, this chance to save herself.
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26 311 With the sword and quiva, protecting myself first with one and then the other, and probing about, using them alternately, and generally keeping away from the source of the sound, I determined to my satisfaction that the alcove was empty save for myself and the source of the sound.
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26 1655 Some masters like to keep their girls nude in their own compartments, save for their collars.
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26 1664 It is generally understood, of course, save for ruffians, discourteous pranksters, and such, that the right to remove her last veil, so to speak, belongs to the master.
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26 2034 I had placed her in the common position for front leading, the girl behind you, whether she is on her feet, as it was my intention to lead this girl, if only to save time, or, say, on her belly or all fours.
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Book 22. (14 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 20 Then, not looking back to the mirror, I crept in the candlelight and shadows to the dresser and there, from beneath several layers of garments, where I had concealed it, I drew forth a small bit of scarlet cloth, tiny and silken, with shoulder straps, a garment I had myself sewn weeks ago, one in wh...
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3 452 I was naked, save for a leather thong on my left ankle, and bells.
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5 44 When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
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10 555 No longer was I absolutely and starkly naked, save for a metal collar.
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11 646 Beneath it, save for a steel collar and some beads, I was naked.
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11 859 I stood barefoot, naked, save for collar and adornments, on the dancing floor of a low-ceilinged Gorean tavern.
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13 747 That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...
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16 94 I saw that she wanted to save face, before me.
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20 156 They are taken for granted, usually, by all the citizens, and their remote origins, sometimes doubtless the outcome of internecine strife, of class war, of street fighting and riots, of bloody, house-to-house determinations in the past, and such, are seldom investigated, save perhaps by historians, ...
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20 185 Accordingly, for various reasons, such as lack of citizenship, an inability to properly exercise it, resulting in effective disenfranchisement, or, most often, a fierce independence, repudiating allegiance to anything save one's own village, the farmers, or peasantry, are more likely to suffer from ...
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20 197 Also, many cities, save those interested, for one reason or another, in increasing their population, for better or for worse, tend not be enthusiastic about accepting influxes of the indigent.
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24 340 I saw I did not need to fear him, save in the ways any slave must fear a master.
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24 401 How grateful I was to he whom I had most feared, he who was last upon the chain, he who had given me this eagerly embraced opportunity to save my slave's hide! But it was he, of all of them, who had refused to watch me dance.
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29 1159 Too, he had used it to save the life of his beloved friend, Mirus, though in doing the deed he must have understood, opening himself to the blade of his enemy as he had, that he had made his own life forfeit.
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Book 23. (22 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 755 Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w...
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1 97 It would be near the trap, to save time, and off the road, that traffic not be blocked.
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5 116 Men, some sorts of men, will save us.
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5 483 For example, it would save the posting of one employee, which was perhaps a calculated economy on the part of the proprietor.
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8 86 The effect was much like that of the curla and chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that the curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip, was of cloth and yellow, not of black leather.
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8 248 "Of course," I said, "save for her collar".
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8 603 I had done without breakfast this morning primarily to save time, but it could also have been done, and I think legitimately, in protest over the prices of the Crooked Tarn.
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12 108 The clever must save themselves.
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12 269 "You are lying! You are trying to save yourself! You, too, are a spy!" "Perhaps," I said.
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12 320 Perhaps it was her hope that if the city fell such a garment might save her life, sparing her for the collar.
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13 217 "And if you save her," I pointed out, "you can often keep her".
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15 154 "Save yourself! I am known! Do not concern yourself for me!" I removed the leash and collar from her.
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15 218 Commonly slaves do not wear gloves, save for utilitarian purposes, as in work, say, clearing brush, or for warmth, in inclement or freezing weather.
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15 277 By such means and many others do the luscious, loving, collared little brutes save themselves many a beating and drive their masters half mad with passion and desire.
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15 762 He wore a black hood, which, save for a narrow, rectangular opening for the eyes, covered his entire head.
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21 982 Some slavers bring the girls into the city naked, in coffle, as they would normally be kept outside the walls, to save the soiling of tunics, and such, and others sheet the girls, covering them substantially with a sheet thrown over the head, and fastened about the neck by the coffle collar.
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21 1120 Indeed, there is not much difference between a tunic and a short robe, save in the closures.
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21 1296 But all female slaves, save those bred for bondage, in a way that not all women are bred for bondage, it being ingredient in their biological nature and destiny, were once free.
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23 49 But sometimes a free woman will almost beg a slave, as though she might be a freshly branded collar-sister, for some little thing or another, psychological or otherwise, to delight or stimulate her companion, perhaps even to freshen or retain his interest, perhaps even to save a deteriorating relati...
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24 57 The refugees, save for some of the men, were glad enough, I think, to see the pharos, to know that the harbor of Port Cos was near.
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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.
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24 613 Oarsmen and sailors now, save for a watch, weapons and sea bags over their shoulders, entering upon their leaves, and other fellows, their service now discharged, passed down the gangplank.
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Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 173 "Save me! Save me! Save me!" she cried.
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1 100 Though this new girl, like the rest of us, save Liadne, was free, I think I had seldom seen a woman, so early in captivity, so ready, so ripe, for the truths of the collar".
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1 483 They were naked save for their collars.
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2 14 She was pretty there, now naked, save for her collar, inside the canvas.
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3 17 Teslit, a small village to the south, save for a family or two, had been abandoned.
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3 142 Sometimes a free woman, seeking to save her life, even at the expense of a slave, will remove the slave's collar and put it on her own throat, thinking thereby to pass for a slave.
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4 14 The body hung limp, save for tremors, contractions, the wild stare in the eyes.
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13 109 The cabin was, in effect, empty, save for some benches and other paraphernalia.
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19 189 Better, I thought, that she might have said, "Flee, save yourself!" That would have been advice well worth considering.
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19 569 "You risked your life to save me!" she said.
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19 1248 Many of the women of Earth, as I recall, seemed not to need sex, or to be much inclined to tolerate it, save as an instrument to be utilized, however reluctantly, in furthering their security or fortunes.
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27 259 "—whom I managed to save," I said.
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31 62 This seemed to me the most likely way to save the boy's life.
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32 84 "But surely you are distressed," I said, "that you have been garmented as you have, in such a manner that you might at a distance, save for the collar, be mistaken for a thigh-stripped, bare-breasted slave".
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36 41 It was, of course, save sandals, all she wore.
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43 40 "I had a very difficult night," he said, "and the morning, thus far, save for too few Ahn sleep, has not been much better".
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44 250 There had been no difficulty in making this determination as she was naked, save for her hood.
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47 251 The concourse was crowded, save for the open space in which I stood, Ina crouched behind me.
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48 478 I supposed I might use Phoebe once in a while, when my needs were much upon me, as she was a convenience, and a slave, but I suspected I should save her mostly for Marcus.
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Book 25. (26 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 361 "Save Ar!" wept a man, as they passed.
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1 362 "Save us, oh intercessors with Priest-Kings!" cried a woman.
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2 247 "I am not trained, save in so far as you, and before you, Master Tarl, have deigned to impart some understandings to me".
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3 249 "He will save us".
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3 709 Given the nature of its closure, it cannot be removed, save by its key or tools.
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6 153 "Save us, Seremides!" cried a man.
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6 174 "Perhaps Seremides can save us," said a man.
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7 533 It now seemed quiet at the park of the Central Cylinder, save for the sounds of the workmen, striking apart the boards of the platform.
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8 198 This may save them a cuffing or kick.
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8 374 "Perhaps Milo can save Ar," he said.
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9 54 "She, too, it might be recalled," said a man, "appeared in public barefoot, in the garb of a penitent, prepared to offer herself to save Ar".
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9 204 One we had had to tie and leash, almost like a rebellious slave girl, save that slave girls are seldom rebellious more than once.
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9 350 "I am better than at least one," said Claudia, "Talena, who would be tyranness of Ar, save only that her Cosian masters will not permit her such power!" "Treason!" cried men.
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9 428 "Perhaps they will even save your life".
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10 2 The city was subdued, save for some idealistic youths, who seemed to take pride in its downfall.
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16 53 "Save me!" cried the bearded fellow.
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16 54 "Do not let them take me! Save me, if there be true men of Ar here!" "Back, sleen of Ar!" cried the mercenary with the prisoner in hand.
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18 102 "This will quite possibly save me burning down the building".
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20 42 She was stripped, save for her collar and the ankle ring.
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21 96 That would save them putting her in their own bracelets, before conducting her into the presence of the Ubara.
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21 478 "'This will save time,' she said.
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25 201 He wanted to save both his honor and the life of the slave.
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25 202 As outraged as he might be, as angry, as terribly hurt as he was, even as sensitive of his honor as I supposed he might be, he was trying to save the slave.
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26 116 Sometimes a slave must go about naked in public, save for her collar.
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26 183 With Lavinia as go-between, under my instructions, matters had proceeded expeditiously, culminating apace, save for some delays on the part of the Ubara, presumably to increase the anxieties of, and torment, the poor slave, in the arrangements for this assignation.
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27 538 She was clothed now, save for her veiling, and the adjustment of the hood.
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Book 26. (29 results) Witness of Gor

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2 106 Save for the sounds of a bit of chain it had been silent.
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7 165 But surely he could not be interested in me, save as one such as he might be expected to be interested, if only as a passing whim, in one such as I.
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7 203 Never did he touch me, save to improve a posture, or to position me more appropriately.
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7 567 I was no different from thousands of others, save, perhaps, in being such that I might, in certain situations, bring a higher price than certain others.
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7 824 Indeed, I suspected that Aynur, had she been alone with him, had she not been before us, had she not had her talmit, had her hair been loose, had she been naked, save perhaps for her collar and some ornaments, might have begged prettily, and quite abjectly, upon her knees, for the permission to rend...
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8 26 But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl me impatiently, sometimes in...
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8 970 The slices of dried fruit I would save for later.
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8 979 The pieces of dried fruit I would save for later.
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10 988 They are naked, save for their collars.
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11 890 There is no interest in our origins, save that we are of Earth, nor in our history or background.
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11 1126 Perhaps then, eventually, you would be forgotten, save perhaps by a warden and some urts.
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13 162 Did I not know the differences between such as I and such as she? Was I not such that I would at best be privileged to serve her deferentially at table—briefly tunicked, were men present, were she a thoughtful hostess, for their pleasure—my head down, not meeting her eyes, not even dar...
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13 1003 The four sides, on the other hand, were open, save for the bars.
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13 1117 "He is actually a gentle creature," she said, "save when aroused.
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13 1346 Even if I screamed and cried out, and struggled, and wept, and pulled futilely against my chains, and beat on the bars of my cage, nothing would be changed, save that I would be whipped to silence.
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14 67 They were empty now, save for us.
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24 206 Save for the intruders the terrace was now mostly empty.
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29 127 She was then standing in the center of the circle, rather as she had before, save, of course, that she now wore not a temporary collar, a holding collar, but the collar of her master.
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29 152 What if she had been simply fed to sleen? But, we had heard rumors that her body might not be without interest, and so we speculated that her captors might see fit to save her for the collar.
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29 410 The color of her hair, on the other hand, as the veil was arranged, it swathing her head, enclosing it save for her eyes and the very top of the bridge of her nose, could not be determined.
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29 411 The veil was not pinned back, nor merely bound about her lower face, the hood concealing the hair, but enclosed it, as noted, save for the eyes and a bit of the bridge of the nose.
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31 33 The majority of the men in black tunics, incidentally, save for two who returned to the surface, to repair the fault in their papers, had remained overnight in the quarters of the pit master.
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31 484 The peasant, his legs free, save for the shackles and a length of chain on each, now turned about and grasped, with both hands, the chain on his neck.
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31 549 Save for the metal band, the bow, or spring, mounted crosswise, now drawn, and the cable, arched back, the devices, with their triggers and stocks, were not unlike stubby rifles.
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37 618 There were several urts in the pool area, I knew, and, save for their fellow, and what they had had of the man by the gate, they had not eaten for two days.
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37 793 We all, then, save the pit master, with his torch, brought our lamps or torches to the railing.
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37 1039 "Kill it! Kill it! Save your man!" "Do not be foolish," said the lieutenant, without taking his attention from the pool.
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37 1048 "Save him!" begged the officer of Treve.
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37 1093 "Had he chosen to save his man, by firing on what we took to be the beast, he would have killed the prisoner.
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Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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30 8 Its agriculture, save for gardening and floriculture, and its industry, save for some traditional smithies and shops, is removed to its auxiliary cylinders, in particular those for agriculture and that for industry.
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43 32 "Save me! Save me!" screamed the Lady Bina.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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27 65 In this way, when the rope is knotted about the neck of each girl, save for the first and last girl, there being no free end, there is no access, save perhaps by a knife, or such, to a means of undoing the knot.
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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4 197 Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl rules his domain; he does n...
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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30 28 "Surely you have no interest in this slave, save for the sport of the hunt, no more than in any other, save as prey?" he said.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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59 110 "Save me, save me, great lord!" she cried.
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