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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 23 Yet, in spite of his incomparable eccentricities, his petulance and exasperation, I felt drawn to the man and sensed in him something I admired—a shrewd and kind spirit, a sense of humor, and a love of learning, which can be one of the deepest and most honest of loves.
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3 66 It was harsh, but with a certain gallantry, a sense of honor that I could respect.
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3 71 Perhaps this was to discourage them from exploration or to develop in them a habit of relying on common-sense prejudices—something of a social control device.
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4 54 "Har-ta! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" The great bird seemed to sense what I intended, or perhaps it was merely his sudden realization that the other tarn was in the lead, but a remarkable transformation swept over my sable, plumed steed.
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4 125 I shook the thought from my aching head, made an unsuccessful effort to muster a decent sense of shame, failed, and was belting my tunic when the Older Tarl entered the room.
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5 86 "I was," I laughed, recalling the excitement and the sense of danger.
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14 34 Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...
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14 129 I could sense him smiling in the darkness.
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Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 45 Accordingly, to be of a city is, in a sense, to have been a part of something less perishable than oneself, something divine in the sense of undying.
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2 5 I stood so for some minutes, to let each sense and nerve drink in the wonder of my return.
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3 6 The Gorean, having little idea of progress in our sense, takes great care in his building and workmanship.
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4 25 In that instant every sense was alert.
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20 93 I could sense nothing.
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20 104 Through the beast's back I could feel the straining of his muscles, sense the mad pounding of that unconquerable heart.
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24 80 "How can we expect him to make sense?" asked Andreas of Kron.
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24 168 And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart.
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24 251 My memory and sense of direction began to carry me unerringly from hall to hall, guiding me swiftly toward the Chamber of the Golden Mask.
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25 142 She looked once more at the rebels and soldiers and guardsmen and Lara with a loathing I could sense behind the impassive mask, and then that metal image turned once more upon me.
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26 10 They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
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Book 3. (19 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 81 He seemed to sense my puzzlement.
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4 13 At the entrance to this room, or chamber, I stopped, overcome with a certain sense of awe.
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5 159 If well done, the resulting plate would be more individual than her fingerprints; it would be as unique and personal as her own history; indeed, in a sense, it would be a physical model of that same history, an isomorphic analog of her past as she had experienced it.
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6 32 Perhaps if you can imagine yourself suddenly being forced to sit on rather high end tables you can sense the feeling.
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7 4 I could see her white garment and sense the pale beauty of her skin as she stood back from the portal in the semidarkened chamber.
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7 72 I had walked perhaps an Ahn and was deep inside one of the long, dimly lit passageways which led in the direction of her chamber when I seemed somehow to sense a presence behind me.
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7 84 Yet my awareness or sense that something followed me in the corridor might well have been occasioned by some tiny sound which my conscious mind had not even registered, but yet which had impinged on my senses, leaving as its only conscious trace a vague wind of suspicion.
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7 110 I had never much relied on this sense.
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7 111 Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ...
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10 39 The notion of friendship, it seems to me, has to do with a reliance and affection between two or more individuals; the notion of Nest Trust, as nearly as I can understand it, is more of a communal notion, a sense of relying on the practices and traditions of an institution, accepting them and living...
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13 6 In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the Priest-Kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled sce...
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14 83 The longer I stayed in the Nest the more acute became my sense of smell, and it was an embarrassing revelation to me to discover how unaware I had been of these varied, rich sensory cues so abundantly available in my environment.
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23 67 Inside it I could hear a persistent, ugly scratching, sense the movement of a tiny, energetic organism.
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24 28 It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a Priest-King, much depended on this sense.
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27 58 I glanced over my shoulder and I could see the Priest-King still straining to sense me.
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27 261 I could sense the intense, weird odors of pain uncarried by his translator which now filled the chamber.
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27 362 Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a Priest-King, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutching, trying to sense someth...
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29 152 There were numerous scent-needles and switches and buttons and dials, none of which made much sense to me.
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35 123 "Howsoever I spoke," said Misk, "words cannot diminish men or Priest-Kings—for who cares what we are—if we can act, decide, sense beauty, seek right, and have hopes for our people?" I swallowed hard, for I knew I had hopes for my race, and I sensed how Misk must have them for his, only...
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Book 4. (14 results) Nomads of Gor

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25 826 "I sense it," she said, "I sense it".
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5 14 I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...
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7 190 Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die.
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7 204 What Kamchak had said then seemed to make a great deal of sense to me.
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8 396 I wished that I had seen her run before, because most girls will have a running pattern, even in their dodging which, if you have seen it, several times, you can sense.
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9 177 I could sense that she had almost immediately seen myself and Kamchak, strangers at the tables.
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9 481 Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is asymmetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim whatsoever on the transferred assets.
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10 192 There was something of the sense of carnival in the air.
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11 295 "If you attempt to leave the wagons at night they will sense you out and rip my pretty little slave girl in pieces".
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14 14 Aphris had had the good sense to hitch up the bosk.
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16 305 The Others—those of power, not Priest-Kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of Priest-Kings, particularly not now, following the recent War of ...
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23 78 And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l...
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25 813 "You sense that it can be done?" I asked.
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26 160 I could sense him tremble.
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Book 5. (14 results) Assassin of Gor

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4 133 I was gambling on the unpleasant sense of humor not uncommonly found among slavers.
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4 239 I then began to suspect that my gamble, based on the often unpleasant sense of humor common among slavers, might begin to bear fruit.
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6 19 No one had objected, at least explicitly, though I did sense some disgruntlement at my action.
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7 55 Then I heard one of the men-at-arms say, "There!" The black disk approached, more slowly now, seeming to sense its way.
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11 313 "What in all your femaleness do you sense of the men of this world?" asked Flaminius.
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11 326 Moreover, the Gorean culture tends, for better or worse, to be male oriented and male dominated, and in such a culture men naturally look on women much differently than they do in a consumer-oriented, woman-dominated culture, one informed by an ethos of substantially feminine values; the women then,...
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11 327 "In the presence of such a man," said Flaminius, indicating the guard, "how do you sense yourself?" "Female," she said, looking down and away.
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13 34 I felt her hands hard about my spine, and could sense her thought.
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13 157 "No," she said, and I could sense her looking about.
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13 256 I could sense Mip a bit behind me, back in the shadows, yet also on the perch.
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13 292 On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...
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15 140 Sura encouraged males to observe, wanting the girls to sense their presence and interest.
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18 348 Always the thought burned through me, You, Killer, would never make a Player, and always I seemed driven by the black fear that would not speak itself but whose presence I could clearly sense.
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21 228 I saw the Taurentian step back, could sense his surprise.
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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18 961 Yet, in a sense, the Gorean world did end there, as it also, in a sense, ended with the Voltai ranges to the east.
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4 10 I could sense the rence craft move as the girl shifted her weight in it, balancing it and maintaining it in position.
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4 243 I could sense her lying near me, on her elbows, looking down at me.
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4 274 Then she drew back her head, and, in the darkness I could sense her, and her lips, but an inch from my own.
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15 209 And yet, in a sense, he had no true identity other than that of Fish, the slave boy, for he had been enslaved and a slave has no identity other than that which his master might care to give him.
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Book 7. (17 results) Captive of Gor

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2 116 I could sense the impatience in the sound.
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3 267 Did he know that there was a mark on my thigh? Did he sense that? Did that mark make me somehow subtly different than I had been? Did it, somehow, set me apart from other women on this world? Could I no longer drive men away? And if I could no longer drive them away, what did that mean? What had tha...
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4 245 I had lost all sense of direction, of what might be up or down, or even if, any longer, there were such things.
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7 27 A slave, of course, in one sense, has no caste.
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7 426 Surely I am not beginning to find myself responsive to these handsome, virile, dominating, masterful brutes! And surely not when I am naught but a meaningless slave! No, I told myself, never, no, no, no! But I had already begun to sense, fearing the comprehension, how the slave girl sees men, how sh...
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8 790 My sense of pleasure returned.
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8 901 But beyond this I had only the white-silk girl's dim sense of the changes they could bring about in my body, only the vague instinctual sensing, deep in my femaleness, of the fantastic pleasures to which a slave girl may be subjected by her master, pleasures by means of which he may, if it pleases h...
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10 192 She had been rejected! This made no sense! I had once been offered, on Earth, a hundred dollars, for a single kiss.
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10 471 I had begun to sense, in the coffle, on the sales chain, in the girl cage, how bondage might enflame the sexuality of a woman.
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10 491 I felt a certain sense of triumph now.
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11 1058 I turned about again, grasping the bars, filled with a sense of triumph, with vindictive victory.
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12 81 We could sense that there was a holiday atmosphere.
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12 609 In my case, when on a leash, for example in training, on all fours, or upright, struggling to resist the sense of sexual uneasiness which it enforced upon me, I was sometimes afflicted with an irrepressible thought of exquisite irony.
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13 130 And might not the captain simply make me his?" There seemed sense in what Ute had said.
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15 1076 The psychological impact of this, the sudden, fearful sense of vulnerability, of helplessness, of exposure, even for a slave, is considerable.
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16 211 But also, of course, this made a great deal of sense.
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17 464 I do not understand all of what I have written, in the sense of knowing its implications, or what knowledge others, better informed, may draw from it.
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Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 197 I could sense, again, that, in his manacles, behind his back, his fists were clenched.
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2 542 Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...
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6 998 She had, however, standing there, half concealed in the darkness, begun to sense its meaning.
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11 707 I could sense, in her breathing, and her carriage, that this excited her.
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11 734 "Do you sense in yourself a readiness," Marlenus asked her, "to serve as what you now are, as a slave girl?" "Yes," she said, "yes, Master!" "Clothe yourself," said Marlenus.
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14 231 They stood, scarcely moving, but I could sense the movement of the drum in their blood.
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15 923 Her identity, her very sense of self, from her earliest understandings had been fused with that name, inseparable from it.
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18 454 They ship a great deal more water than the southern carvel-built ships, but they are stronger, in the sense that they are more elastic.
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19 203 "They have no sense.
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22 705 It is certain, of course, that certain genetic endowments have been selected for by environmental considerations, and, in this sense, the environment is a significant factor.
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Book 9. (17 results) Marauders of Gor

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11 24 There was little doubt that the day vision of the Kurii was equivalent to that of men, if not superior, and the night vision, of course, was infinitely superior; their sense of smell, too, of course, was incomparably superior to that of men, and their sense of hearing as well.
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1 143 How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground.
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2 57 I could sense the triumph of the High Initiate on his throne, though his cold face betrayed little sign of his victory.
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2 120 For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
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2 315 In a sense it is counted an anointing, though an inferior one, and of temporary efficacy.
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5 263 Certain jarls, of course, in a sense, coined money, marking bars of iron or gold, usually small rectangular solids, with their mark.
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6 335 Thus, in a sense, the hall proper is about a foot below ground level, and the sleeping level, on each side, is at the ground level, where the walls begin.
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6 425 Svein Blue Tooth was the high jarl of Torvaldsland, in the sense that he was generally regarded as the most powerful.
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10 44 His sense of humor, I thought, might cost us all our lives.
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11 136 That the Kurii possessed a sense of humor did not much reassure me as to their nature.
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13 14 The seat is "high" in the sense of being a seat of great honor.
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15 189 He seemed to have an uncanny sense for locating tiny ledges and cuts in the stone which were almost invisible from even two or three feet below.
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16 63 He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader.
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17 113 The military Kur, in this sense a unit, is commanded by a "Blood".
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17 121 Twelve "Kurii," in the sense of military units, constitutes one "Band".
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17 331 One could sense their seething, the unbearable power, the tenseness.
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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. (19 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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13 353 In the historic sense, the planetary sense, there would have been only one likely "Abdul" in the Tahari at this time, the potent, powerful, dreaded Guard of the Dunes, the Salt Ubar.
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1 473 I made little sense of this.
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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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1 574 "There is much here that appears to make little sense," said Samos.
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1 724 "This makes little sense to me," I said.
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2 316 The delights of making her a true slave girl, completely, in the full sense of the word, I would accord to the fellow to whom I would give or sell her.
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3 89 In that sense, they move counterclockwise.
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4 168 "The distinction," I said, "makes little sense to a Gorean".
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7 553 "Many have no sense of their sex until they are brought to Gor," I said.
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11 327 It is fortunate that some such arrangement exists for the men of the Tahari, like Goreans generally, are extremely proud, high-strung, easily offended men, with a sense of honor that is highly touchy.
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14 101 Perhaps it is intrinsically more desirable in some obscure sense to deny biology and suffer from mental and physical disease, than accept biology and be strong and joyful, I do not know.
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14 192 It produces disorientation, a sense of dependence on the captor.
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17 78 Perhaps we can sense only its presence.
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17 79 Perhaps we can sense only its heat.
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21 230 It was water, in a sense, from his own tissues he gave me, releasing it now, not into his own system, but yielding it to me, that I might not die.
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21 450 Kurii, like men, are visually oriented organisms, but their hearing and their sense of smell is incomparably more acute.
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24 783 "Foolish female of Earth," I laughed, "do you still understand so little of your incredible desirability? Do you not yet know that it drives men mad with desire to look upon you? Have you no sense, foolish woman, of the madness of passion the very sight of you inspires in men?" She turned away.
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26 1107 Or what if, in time, your sense of vengeance for Klima is satisfied? I fear then that you might, if you wished, simply have me hooded and leashed, and led to the market, as any other girl".
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26 1222 Surely Kurii must, by now, sense the weakness of the Nest.
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Book 11. (44 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 25 Was I not in his power, so much so that perhaps I was even, in some sense, a sense I scarcely dared conjecture, "his"? Was I not physically attractive to him? Why had he not forced me to serve him as a woman? He kept me under his dominance, strictly, and then, when I obviously ached for his touch, h...
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4 853 There was, beyond its sense of fittingness, seeing that I, a woman, had displeased strong males, and must thus be punished, a sense of profound complementarity; the abuse, if he chose, was simply his to give, and mine to bear; he was a man, I was a woman; he was dominant; I was not; it was his to ru...
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5 365 We are, to a large extent, one supposes, the products of environments, but it is well to remember that the maximum, shaping environments in which our nature was stabilized and forged are ancient ones; the sense in which environment determines endowment is the sense in which it determines which endow...
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1 194 I knew then what must be the explanation for the difference in the feelings in my body, the explanation for the sense of subtle kinesthetic differences in my movements.
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2 50 So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophi...
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2 787 But, as I followed the man, trekking through the glorious grass, under the bright, marvelous moons, carrying his shield, literally heeling him, as might have an animal, his captive, nude and bound, I felt, paradoxically, a fantastic sense of freedom, of psychological liberation.
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2 987 Dimly I had begun to sense how it could be that a woman could give herself totally to a man.
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3 404 This makes sense.
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3 527 Eta and I were, in a profound sense, I realized, now the same; we were both branded women; no longer was I her superior; a mark had been put upon me by a hot iron at the pleasure of men; I was now exactly the same as Eta; whatever she was I, too, I knew, was now that, exactly that, and only that.
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4 23 A girl who has not been owned perhaps cannot grasp the feelings of one who is owned, truly owned; but perhaps such a girl, even if only dimly, can sense the joy of the slave girl.
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4 36 A good brand adds to a girl's sense of confidence, of comfort and security.
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4 189 It gave me pleasure to assume this posture before my master, who had full body rights to me; it gave me less pleasure, in the beginning, to assume it before free men generally; yet, eventually, I did it naturally, and pleasurably; it is a position that not only makes the girl more attractive to the ...
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4 388 It now made no sense to me whatsoever that the two men, so angrily and fiercely, should have sought for so trivial an object.
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4 1032 I, though helpless, hooded, in the arms of the beasts who ravished me, had experienced, exhilarated, an incredible sense of freedom, of liberation.
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5 522 Should not the face then, if one is concerned with concealment and privacy, be veiled? Is the face not more personal and revealing than the body? Does it not make sense then to consider it a proper object of concealment in a free person? Is one not entitled, so to speak, to privacy in the matter of ...
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6 59 Oddly enough, in learning my slavery, I was experiencing an incredible sense of psychological freedom and liberation.
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7 346 I did not know, in a sense, who I was or what I was supposed to do.
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7 402 Almost any woman, I suspected, looking on such a man, would sense herself his natural slave.
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9 296 I could sense their hostility.
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9 1057 There was thus a sense in which what pleased Thurnus pleased me.
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9 1084 In the matter of collars, as in all things, Goreans commonly exhibit good taste and aesthetic sense.
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9 1085 Indeed, good taste and aesthetic sense, abundantly and amply displayed, harmoniously manifested, in such areas as language, architecture, dress, culture and customs, seem innately Gorean.
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9 1105 In a sense I both desired and feared a true collar.
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9 1568 The rapes of Verr Tail and Radish, interestingly, had not counted as code breaches, though in neither case had explicit permission for their conquest been granted by Thurnus; such permission, in such cases, was implicit in the customs of the community; it did not constitute a "taking from" but a bri...
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9 1569 "Taking from," in the sense of the codes, implies the feature of being done against the presumed will of the master, of infringing his rights, more significantly, of offending his honor.
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9 1571 The Gorean peasant, like Goreans in general, has a fierce sense of honor.
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9 1996 There was a sense of moisture in the air.
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9 2116 In this sense one can understand the ceremony of chains, the rituals of braceleting, the symbolism of the blindfold, the gag, the whip.
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11 203 That the keep was under the banner of Turia designated it as a Turian keep, distinguishing it in this sense not only from keeps maintained by other cities but more importantly from the "free keeps" maintained by the merchant caste in its own right, keeps without specific municipal affiliations.
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11 244 I could sense their readiness, their eagerness, on the least provocation, to put me under slave-girl discipline.
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12 89 They are all, in a sense, our masters.
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13 418 Perhaps they sense in us something of greater interest to men than themselves, something which constitutes to them a threat, something which is subtly competitive, and successfully so, to them.
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17 70 His irritation made no sense to me.
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17 148 I could sense the air through the cutouts.
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18 91 I think some nonslaves can sense what is involved, what it might be to be such a slave.
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19 54 I wondered if it were in some odd sense a recollection or anticipation.
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20 38 Hooded, and captive in the slave sack, I had no sense of direction and very little of time.
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20 200 Though I now wore no chains on the wharves I was still, of course, in a sense, chained in my bondage.
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20 209 The impossibility of escape for the Gorean slave girl, interestingly, is in its way reassuring to her, and gives her a sense of security.
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22 571 I could not see what it was, but could sense its weight.
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24 87 That makes sense, I suppose.
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25 206 "It makes no sense," said he.
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27 162 It did not require a great deal of experience to sense that Thurnus must soon be quiet or there would be trouble.
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27 561 "I sense," she said, "that you are my true master, and I am your true slave".
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Book 12. (45 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 358 Some would see this as superstition; others sense that there is some sort of an inexplicable reality which is here involved, a difficult and subtle reality which the man of the sea can somehow sense, but which he cannot, and perhaps should not, attempt to explain to the satisfaction of men other tha...
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2 641 In a sense, English does, too, for the expression 'berg' is simple German for 'mountain', and the expression 'iceberg', then, is a composite word which, literally translated would yield 'ice mountain' or 'mountain of ice'.
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3 589 She, at least, seemed to have some sense, in the light of their present predicament, of their possible situation.
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4 258 Some games, in a sense, do not begin until the twentieth move.
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5 35 "It makes little sense to me," said I, "that Tersites would fire the ship".
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5 40 "But I sense that there is an honesty in this, as of the cruel sport of war.
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5 41 I think I sense the nature and being of this Zarendargar".
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8 184 I saw the sense of the Kurii enlisting such women.
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11 316 I was pleased to see that she was woman enough to have some sense of what she might be doing.
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12 52 Sometimes I read in her eyes a look that said, "I can resist you," and, at other times, a look that said, "I begin to sense and fear what you might do to me.
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12 134 War, in its full sense, is unknown to them.
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12 233 They are surely not a barrier, however, in the sense that the Voltai Mountains, or even the Thentis Mountains or Ta-Thassa Mountains, are barriers.
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12 287 This makes sense, as it is not their name, and it is not as if, in their speaking it, the name might somehow escape them.
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12 543 "Sometimes I sense," she said, "what it might be, to be a true slave".
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12 645 "I sense that, too," I said.
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12 675 "I begin to sense," said she, "what it might be like to be a true slave".
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15 399 I could sense the fumes in the cloth.
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15 414 It makes little sense to me.
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15 416 "I sense how it could be, Master," she said.
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15 421 "I sense," she said, "what my true master would be like".
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15 426 "Other girls, too," she said, "must sense this sort of thing".
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15 428 "Do not men have some sense of what sort of girl would be their perfect slave?" she asked.
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15 449 "But we both sense," she said, "that there would be a rightness, or rightnesses, about such matters".
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15 459 "But my point, Master, if I may be permitted to continue to speak, is that both of us would sense rightnesses, fittingnesses, matches, agreeabilities, complementarities, in such matters".
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15 472 In this sense, after the initial investment, provided one both sells and buys, girls are cheap.
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15 654 "Surely you see the sense of it?" I asked.
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15 1003 In that sense you are absolutely helpless".
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15 1088 "Do you begin to sense it?" "Yes," she whispered.
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15 1093 The others! The others!" "Sense it," I whispered.
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15 1094 "Sense it".
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15 1096 "Do you sense it?" I asked.
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15 1173 "Some free women sense them," I said, "and seek masters, that they may kneel and be collared".
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21 130 "I sense that it is so," she whispered.
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21 297 "There is a sense, of course," I said, "in which you are supposedly of less interest than a free woman".
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21 391 Indeed, beautiful objects, in the usual sense of the word, are often more expensive than a slave.
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22 89 Sometimes there is an affliction which affects those in kayaks though it is usually the case when it is clearly daylight and the rocking, the endless waiting, the reflections off the water, make one suddenly lose all sense of time and place, and one seems lost in nothingness, and then one must sing ...
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23 231 I have come north, in a sense, responding to an invitation.
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23 334 Naked, a woman is exposed not only physically to a man but, in a sense, psychologically, as well.
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24 194 Thus, when you find you simply will be given no alternative other than being a true woman, in the full sense of the word, designed by nature as a love slave for males strong enough to master you, you cannot help but be thrilled.
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25 108 The lay of the land, the winds, the stars, help him with directions, as well as, of course, his own keenly developed sense of orientation, probably selected for in the harsh environment.
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25 113 I suppose this makes sense.
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31 183 "Not in the human sense," it said.
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33 20 He seemed to think we were, in some sense, kindred, that despite alien evolutions, remote origins and diverse histories.
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38 80 "For there is in you, I sense, a superb love slave".
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38 229 "And then I would have to go to whom I am sold, and serve him—and as a complete slave, in the fullest sense of the word".
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Book 13. (45 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 337 "Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
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24 334 "Could I not see it in your looks, not sense it in words unspoken? Do you think a woman cannot sense the might, the lust, of a man?" He looked down upon her, supine before him.
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34 732 "In a sense you are free and in a sense you are not free," I said.
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34 733 "The sense, or one of the senses, in which you are free," I said, "is the sense of emotional freedom.
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1 743 Like most large-scale slaving operations they had the good sense to spare their own environs.
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5 215 In a sense there had been no reason.
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5 217 But in another sense, in the training situation, there had been a reason, that she was subject to discipline, and that it could be meted out by the master purely at his whim or caprice.
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5 351 It then made sense that provisions would be made to retrieve her in a Port Kar market should she be taken and enslaved.
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5 446 I sense it.
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5 492 This makes sense.
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5 773 "I hate you! I hate all of them! And yet something in me is beginning to sense happiness, joy, fulfillment.
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6 79 In that sense, I suppose, one might think of Schendi, though it has no real meaning of its own, as having an etiological relationship to a word meaning 'Victory'.
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6 207 He ran a clean, tight ship, but with common sense.
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6 502 Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...
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6 571 The farmers about Schendi are, in a sense, more gardeners than farmers.
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6 652 Perhaps for the first time she was beginning to sense how lovely she truly was.
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6 660 Perhaps it is only the slave girl, of all women, kneeling and owned, placed uncompromisingly at the mercy of men, who had some sense of her own desirability.
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6 743 Yes, she would be made to be a woman, and in the fullest sense of the word, that of a love slave to strong men.
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12 629 It permitted him to satisfy his sense of venality and yet not appear excessively mercenary.
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13 158 It indicated that she was beginning to have some sense of her condition.
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13 425 "Because," she said, "I sense, in my heart, that a woman is a slave".
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13 447 "I sense the thing in me," she said.
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14 314 "The sense in which passion makes you a slave," I said, "is that it puts you in what is in effect a slave's position, helpless, yielding, submitting to the master".
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14 554 Perhaps then, for the first time, I truly began to sense how the Gorean views such things.
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18 26 I had no doubt as to the courage of Kisu; I was less confident, however, that he had the common sense and wisdom expected of a Mfalme.
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19 18 Very slowly, inch by inch, every sense alert, I began to move toward the center of the room.
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20 68 This made good sense, of course, and made clear the generosity of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.
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27 202 For the first time then they begin to have some sense of the profound and explosive meaning of their beauty, biologically, socially, sexually, and its striking desirability, its latent value, things scarcely considered before.
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32 317 In a sense, given the rigors of evolution and selection, the human contains in itself not less animality than his brethren whom we choose to place lower on the phylogenetic scale than ourselves but more.
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32 319 In him there is, in a sense, that of complexity and sophistication, a greater animality than theirs".
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32 332 In the literal sense of 'animal' the human being is an animal.
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32 333 In a rather different sense of 'animal', we sometimes draw a distinction between human beings and animals, that is, we take the category of animals and divide it in two, calling one sort of animals, ourselves, human beings, and letting what is left over, the other sorts of animals, count as the anim...
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32 339 "In that sense, my dear," I said, "I am not an animal, and you are an animal.
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32 375 "Is it not almost like a memory, a kinesthetic and intellectual recollection? Are you not now getting in touch with certain feared basic and rudimentary feelings and reactions? Can you not, now, begin to sense the ancient truths, those of the female before the male?" "I am frightened," she whispered...
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32 417 She knows not only that she is a female, but a female in the most radical and profound sense, an owned female, one at the bidding of masters.
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32 830 I could sense almost the high, oblong stone, that rude, barbaric eminence, on which, cross-legged, sat her master.
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32 831 I could almost sense the torches, the pool of reptiles to one side, the rude altar, with its rings, in the background.
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34 261 "In one sense," I said, "no living human being, nor bird nor squirrel, can be an object.
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34 263 In another sense all living creatures are objects.
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34 349 "But I think, now," I said, "that you may be ready to understand the sense in which you are a slave object".
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34 373 "So you see, Master," she said, "though in some respects I am a slave object, an article of property that may be bought and sold, a thing whose desires, whose thoughts and feelings, need not be in the least respected, in another sense, that of feeling and emotion, I am so far removed from the notion...
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34 736 This produces a sense of emotional joy and fulfillment.
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34 739 The sense in which you are not free is an obvious one.
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51 120 This makes sense.
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54 79 I think it was in that sense, rather than in simply having brought you upon the river, that he felt he had wronged you".
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Book 14. (17 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 58 There is a sense in which you are a slave, and a sense in which you are not a slave.
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2 59 The sense in which you are a slave is the sense in which I am justified in addressing you as a slave, and referring to you as a slave.
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1 82 In a sense I thought this wise on their part.
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1 83 They had the good sense to recognize that the sexuality of human beings, and love, was the major obstacle to the success of their programs.
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1 932 His irritation made no sense to me.
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2 60 That is the sense of the natural slave.
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2 73 "The sense in which you are not a slave, of course," he said, "is a trivial one.
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3 195 I could sense the animals below me, their large size, the fetid smell, almost overwhelming, swirling upward, their energetic stirring, their twisting in and about one another.
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7 456 Freedom in some abstract, or political, sense is clearly not essential to the happiness of a woman.
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11 397 There is no Gorean expression for 'country' in the precise sense of a nation.
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12 123 Somewhere on Earth, here and there, I was certain, there were honestly strong men, in the historical and biological sense, men before women knelt as smaller and weaker creatures, and objects of intense desire.
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12 244 Too, I was not displeased to sense that certain of the women regarded me with considerable circumspection.
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13 306 In a sense, given the cruel selections undergone by his forebears, he has been bred to his work.
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19 11 The blows thus, in a sense, compress and pack the beam, causing it to last longer, until it finally, after a few finishing blows, shatters.
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32 139 Her dreams, her fantasies, her very sense of her life and being, make this clear to her.
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32 332 It was a sense of honor less germane to the accountant and merchant than to the peasant or warrior, less germane to the lamb than to the lion.
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34 57 It is better conducted in slavers' houses, on colorful, smooth-tiled floors, in spacious rooms, often encircled with mirrors, so that the girls may gather some sense of how lovely they are, and how beautiful and desirable they are becoming, in their training, and, indeed, must become.
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Book 15. (12 results) Rogue of Gor

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10 157 The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ...
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4 240 She must now sense that it was morning.
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4 584 "I sense what they might be," she whispered, "being fully owned, being fully and legally at the mercy of a master".
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6 21 Things, in this sense, had worked out well for the men of Ar, for the troops of Lara had, in consternation, hesitated in their march northward.
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6 29 In this sense, no honor, on either side, was sacrificed.
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6 33 In burning and sacking Vonda Ar had, for most practical purposes, satisfied its sense of military propriety.
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9 62 Perhaps even those who have never owned a woman can sense, dimly, what it might be like.
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10 196 Gor, it seems, had improved her sense of self-awareness or, at least, had freed her to be somewhat less circumspect about such matters.
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13 119 It is my fault, in a sense.
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28 308 I supposed that I was, though, in a sense, of Victoria.
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29 124 Do not permit it to lull you into a false sense of security".
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32 41 And, indeed, does that mark not tell us that they are all, in a sense, from the homeliest pot girl to the embonded treasure of a Ubar, only common kajirae? The pirate behind the girl, who had thrust her forward, unknotted the cord from her throat, that which held the cloth over her head and kept it ...
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Book 16. (26 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 1062 To be sure, strictly, a woman might find herself tied by a man who does not own her legally, but even in such a case, she will experience herself as being owned in a rather practical and significant sense, that sense, namely, in which she is completely at his mercy and under his control, that sense ...
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17 266 She, confused and fearful, as a consequence of that interview, it seemed, had begun to sense her femininity, had begun to sense that she had value of a sort, that she might be lusciously special in a way she scarcely dared to recognize, and feared to contemplate, that she might be such that men migh...
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19 375 Her sexuality, commanded of her by her master, by the whip, if necessary, is, in one sense, but one aspect and expression of her total bondage; she serves fully, and in all things; yet, in another sense, her entire condition is, in its way, an expression of the depth, complexity and beauty of her se...
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20 895 In one sense she is nothing, and is to be treated as such, but, in another sense, she is precious, and is everything.
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20 1030 To think of the embonded woman as a slave object is in one sense quite correct, but, in another sense, it is a perversion of, and a failure to understand, the intimate and beautiful relations which can exist between masters and slaves.
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20 1850 In one sense then everything has changed, but in another sense nothing has changed.
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10 116 It was impossible to pass beneath it without a sense of apprehension.
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11 189 It might be mentioned in passing that, given its construction, the Turian camisk is one of the few Gorean slave garments which has a nether closure, not that this affords one who is a slave a sense of much security.
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11 213 In this sense slave garments may be as resplendent and complex as the robes of an enslaved Ubara, to be removed by the general who has captured her upon a platform of public humiliation, or as simple as the cords on a girl's wrists and a piece of rope knotted on her throat.
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16 201 This made no sense to me, for the pirate ships, so closely packed, so struggling, could not, even by accident, have achieved the momentum for such an impact.
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17 38 His taxes, in this sense, in such matters, are applied directly, and by himself, to the affairs with which they are concerned.
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18 350 I will then remain silent until I sense that it may, again, be acceptable for me to speak.
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19 411 This makes sense.
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19 950 In a sense then the free woman, being priceless, is worthless, but the slave girl has a worth, what she will bring on the slave block.
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19 1227 "'Domestic services' in the Gorean sense," I said.
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20 20 It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo...
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20 624 In a sense, unbeknownst to them, they are already slaves.
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20 775 You acted, too, doubtless, in accordance with your conception of your duty as an officer and your sense of the obligations of citizenship, that the honor of the Home Stone of Port Cos not be compromised".
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20 1582 Many have the run of cities and fields; they meet with friends, who, too, of course, will be in tunics and collars; they enjoy wandering about, frequenting the parks, at least those in which they are allowed, and long, winding, colorful streets; too, they are frequently, as they are women, as one mi...
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20 1586 It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not f...
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20 1832 To be sure, both realize, or sense, one supposes, the feelings of the other.
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20 2154 Sometimes, perhaps, twisting on her couch at night in frustration, the free woman may dimly sense what it is to be an aroused slave, a woman so much at the mercy of men, and so precious and beautiful to them; the free woman clenches her fists and moans; the slave may throw herself to the feet of men...
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21 317 "Too, they would make little sense to our Gorean friends".
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21 440 "In a sense it was," she said, "even then".
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21 562 So let the well-curved beauty, formerly of Earth, now sense even more profoundly than before what it was to be under masculine domination, to be subject to a man's will, fully.
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21 656 I thought it time to restore a better sense in her of our relationship.
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Book 17. (37 results) Savages of Gor

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13 1075 "The second sense in which you might have intended your remark about betraying yourself, though I think it was not the sense in which you did intend it, would be the innocent sense, quite appropriate for a slave girl, of revealing or manifesting significant aspects of your nature.
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1 266 I did not think that they, in this sense, could ever grow old.
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1 309 I could sense my heart beating.
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1 324 "They, too," I said, "like all rational creatures, have their sense of propriety and etiquette".
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1 586 On the other hand, given the fact that I am conveying this material in English, at two removes from the original, I think that the above translation, and what follows, is not only reasonably adequate in a literal sense, but also conveys something, at least, of the flavor of the original.
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2 359 In the case of the bred female slave, of course, she has been legally and literally, in anyone's understanding, bred to the collar, and in a full commercial and economic sense, as a business speculation on the part of masters.
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6 43 The kailiauk is a migratory beast, thusly, but only in a rather special sense.
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8 212 Goreans have a rather primitive sense of honesty.
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8 239 The taste or business sense of their masters, I gathered, differed.
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9 27 One often thinks of a hunting economy representing a lower, in some sense, stage of cultural development than an agricultural economy.
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11 207 Surely they must have some sense on some level, at least, of the nature and meaning of the attitude in which they had been placed.
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11 213 You now, in a general sense, belong to men".
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11 219 "You would understand, or sense, at such times," said Ginger, "the meaning of your slightness, your beauty and your needs.
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13 350 "Because," she wept, "I sense that it is, ultimately, to be the slave of men".
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13 383 That agreement, of course, had been formed, in a sense, under duress.
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13 463 What had become of my clothing? Why was I stripped? Why was I chained? Where was I? Who had put me there? Why was I there? What would be done with me? What might I now be? Surely in some sense I was quite different now, the same, and yet different.
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13 483 ' I had the sense, as I knelt there, head down, chained, that from now on I would be understood and treated as was appropriate for me, as I should be understood and treated.
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13 509 Those men, of course, were all married, for women quickly sense their maleness, their virility and power.
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13 644 "Is that not, too, a form of slavery?" "In a sense, I suppose, " I said.
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13 816 "The only sense in which you are a new slave," I said, "is that it has not been long since your legal embondment" "Master?" she asked.
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13 966 "Do you think, then," she asked, "that men might be moved to show me mercy?" "You already begin to sense what you might become, don't you?" I asked.
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13 1053 A free woman might, possibly, feel that she had betrayed herself, in this sense, if she had so yielded to a man as to supply him with some perhaps subtle hint as to the latency of her slave reflexes.
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13 1054 A slave girl, on the other hand, cannot commit treason against herself in this sense, for she is a slave.
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13 1076 In this sense, of course, a slave girl has no alternative other than to betray herself.
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13 1183 A rational, informed civilization can even, in a sense, refine and improve upon nature; it can, so to speak, bring nature to fruition.
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13 1627 "Do you begin to sense now," I asked, "what it might be for a woman to be bound by a man?" "Yes, Master," she whispered.
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13 1755 "I sense," she said, bitterly, "that I may soon be ready to crawl to a man".
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14 448 In this sense, clothing, as several other things, such as food, and bonds, may be used in her discipline.
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14 1024 "That distinction makes sense to me," I said.
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15 13 The signals, incidentally, are not a substitution cipher, for the languages of the red savages, not being written languages, in any conventional sense, do not have a standardized alphabet or syllabary.
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17 214 In particular the placement and timing of the attacks showed a fine sense for what might be the likely directions and phases of a battle's development.
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17 453 This seemed to make sense to me.
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17 456 This is perhaps the deeper sense of the English expression that clothing makes the man.
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17 599 For example, an individual who believed in, say, magic, assuming that sense could be made of that concept, in a society which believed in magic, would not normally be accounted insane.
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19 131 Grunt, however, had the good sense not to charge them.
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19 292 It made no sense to me that he had acted as he had.
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19 508 This is perhaps because the "Pte" is regarded, in a sense, as the mother of the tribes.
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Book 18. (43 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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9 597 Perhaps only the slave has some sense of how she truly appears to men, in all her radiant, vital, vulnerable, feminine appeal, some sense of how men truly see her, some sense of the magnetism, the lightning, the joy, the electricity of human sexuality.
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37 138 In a sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds.
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39 169 "But we know," she said, "that though we are in one sense fully without power, that in another sense we may do much to control the happiness and quality of our lives.
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1 159 In a sense, the "Pte" may be considered the mother of the tribes, as it is through her that their nomadic life, in its richness and variety, becomes possible.
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1 383 What more did Hci want? I myself suspected that the matter went deeper than Hci's tribal pride and sense of propriety.
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2 141 The red savages have, in these matters, a developed aesthetic sense.
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2 420 "Yes," said Cuwignaka, "in a sense.
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2 450 'Cancega', then, in a sense, could be taken to mean such things as "Kettle Skin," or "Pot Skin".
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3 54 "In a sense, then, he is the high chief".
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3 103 To be sure, she had enough sense not to beg to rest.
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3 344 In one sense, of course, the slave has no freedom whatsoever.
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3 346 In another sense, of course, she is the most free of women.
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7 130 "Your sense of outrage is inappropriate," I said.
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7 492 Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble f...
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7 508 Sexism, thus, in a sense, may not be a vice, but the hope of a race.
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9 237 "But how," I asked, "in what other way, other than in possible attractiveness and desirability, could a slave have more power than a free woman?" "If one can do things another cannot, and if one is permitted to do things which another, in effect, could not, then, I suppose, one has, in a sense, powe...
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9 239 "Powers in the sense of capacities and permissions".
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9 246 The free woman, in a sense, is paradoxical.
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9 546 "Such things hurt," she said, "and certainly one does not like that, at all, but yet, afterward, and even in a sense before, we are reassured, and pleased, and grateful, for them.
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12 262 This made sense, of course.
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12 501 This is not unusual, incidentally, in a free woman, because deep womanhood, they sense, involves love, and love, for a woman, seems always to involve a bondage, if not of ropes and chains, of one sort or another".
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14 205 It made sense that they should be hooded in the vicinity of the camp, particularly a summer camp.
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14 266 The hood, of course, can increase the female's sense of vulnerability and sexual helplessness.
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17 123 I would have gone first to Cuwignaka, as I knew him best and had the highest regard for his perceptiveness and common sense, but that action I had rejected, of course, because at this time he would be, with other young men, dancing in the great lodge.
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18 276 That would make no sense.
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22 217 "I sense it".
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22 221 "I can sense it".
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22 302 In a sense it was a celebration of relief, of life, of victory, of jubilation and triumph.
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22 303 It did not make much sense to me where women or children were concerned.
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23 150 "And thus, in a sense," I said, "she sets herself the task of making herself all the more helplessly her master's slave".
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26 49 It made no sense to me that she should be loose on the field.
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33 320 How much they can sense.
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34 256 You must understand that in its full sense.
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37 259 Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the...
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37 446 I sense myself the center of that circle".
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40 657 This is much stronger, in that sense, than being the slave of Kaiila or Yellow Knives".
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44 227 And, if she is Gorean, she is under no misapprehension as to the primary utilities and duties of the female slave, which seem to have been puzzlingly and unwontedly neglected to this point, and even if she is one of the girls brought in from Earth, to whom the whip and chain, and her subjection to t...
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44 717 The slave, of course, has no power in the ordinary sense, as she is a domestic animal.
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47 251 I listened carefully, every sense alert.
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47 272 Ubar of the Skies, given his rein, began to circle, every sense in that great body tense and alert.
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47 363 But I could sense the ripple of muscle, the tingle of nerve, beneath the fur in those mighty bodies.
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54 21 The lad had something of Grunt's facility with languages and his father's shrewdness and good sense in trading.
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54 284 These he had given to Mahpiyasapa, as a gift, in a sense, but also, in a way, as a payment for his earlier acquisition of Winyela, whom Grunt had brought originally into the Barrens as a property for Mahpiyasapa.
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Book 19. (34 results) Kajira of Gor

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31 118 And what did the haters and controllers know of love, in its deepest sense, in its most profound expressions? "But then," said he, "what of other things, what of loneliness, of unhappiness, of confusion, of misery? What of a sense of being lost, of being unfulfilled, of wanting something and not see...
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1 79 "A roll of them might be almost inconceivable, particularly in the sense of having many such rolls".
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1 102 The coin, in a sense, is an object whose worth or weight, in standardized quantities, is certified upon it, and guaranteed, so to speak, by an issuing authority.
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1 259 For whatever object they wanted me I could sense that my beauty was not irrelevant to it.
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1 304 Too, I can sense that you lack her incisive intellect, her ferocity, her hardness, her cruelty".
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1 319 Perhaps that was what was so strange, my sudden disturbing sense of the radical difference between us, my sudden, alarming understanding of the momentous physical, psychological, and emotional dichotomy dividing us, dividing the sexes.
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1 325 I had the sense, oddly enough, too, that he was accustomed to having his way with women, and, indeed, that he might have ruled them, literally, and I did not doubt but what he would have done so with an iron hand.
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1 484 Too, the shorts and blouse in which I had been placed, for the pictures, left little doubt in my mind that my femaleness, at least in some sense or another, might well be pertinent to their interests.
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2 168 Their eyes, I could sense, were much on me.
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2 464 Were all women sluts, in some sense, I wondered.
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3 459 Thus, in a sense, we might all be owned.
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3 497 "How could someone approve of slavery," I asked, "or regard it as right, if he himself did not wish to be a slave?" "In a sense," she said, "one might approve of many things, and recognize their justifiability, without thereby wishing to become implicated personally in them.
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3 695 What woman's sexual responses are not aroused most profoundly by the vigorous, commanding, aggressive, uncompromising dominant male? What woman does not sense in him he whose role it is to rule? Better to kneel at the feet of one such man than manipulate a thousand indoctrinated, pusillanimous cowar...
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3 867 Surely I had a right to frustrate and deny my sex if I wished! If I was afraid to be a woman, truly and fundamentally, with all that it might entail, surely I should not be forced to become one! Yet I knew that in my heart I felt a sudden, marvelous surge of hope, a sense of possible liberation, tha...
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4 352 Does this make any sense? Is it not all madness? I could understand how women could be brought to this world to be put in collars and made slaves, like Susan, for example, and doubtless others.
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4 443 I could sense now that even if she seemed superficially much like me, at least in appearances, she was in actuality quite different.
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5 53 I myself had examined the scrolls only in a sense.
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6 426 Accordingly, I, too, in a sense, was a prize in such matters.
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7 236 I reminded myself that I was not really, in a sense, braceleted.
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7 240 Thus, in that sense, it was not truly on me.
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9 207 This made sense, of course, considering that, like the shameless, little slut, Susan, they were animals.
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11 130 "And yet," he said, "I sense that such disciplines and punishments, those suitable for free women, would not be suitable for you".
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11 140 "I sense," he said, "wherein your deepest fulfillments would lie.
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11 141 I sense what it is that you need and want, what it is that without it you will never achieve your most perfect and complete self".
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15 162 I made my way among tents, every sense alert, sometimes crawling on my hands and knees.
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17 280 I usually looked away from them, but, even so, it seemed I could sometimes sense their eyes on me, roving me with impunity.
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18 47 I wondered if, in some sense, I was a "Lita," or, say, a "Tuka," or a "Lana," other common names for slaves on Gor.
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19 197 I was uninformed in subtleties of technique and I had too simple a sense of pacings and rhythms, of when to make him, and me, wait, of when to be languorous, of when to be merciless.
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19 208 On the other hand, within my limitations, and within the ranges within which I was operating, I seemed to have an almost instinctual sense for what I was doing.
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19 209 I seemed to have a natural sense of timing and a capacity to anticipate, on many occasions, probably from subtle body cues, what he might desire, or what might please him.
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19 241 Too, I responded emotionally and psychologically, in a rather global sense, to what he had done to me.
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19 242 The last time, however, I had been frightened, for that time I had begun to sense, deep within me, terrifying me, something that began to hint at what might be the nature of a slave's yielding.
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21 69 We shared a common sisterhood in the sense that we were all ultimately helpless women on a world where men had never relinquished their sovereignty.
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23 148 It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced...
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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18 164 She was, after all, in a sense, one courtier among others, and thus, in a sense, was doubtless in rivalry with many of them, not just Flaminius.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 318 There was a sense, of course, in which the slave girl is meaningless, the sense in which she is nothing, the sense in which she is a mere property, a rightless object, fittingly to be scorned, to be treated as one pleases, to be made to serve, to be disciplined or whipped, to be kept or cast away, a...
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13 157 In a sense she was then, unbeknownst to herself, 908; in a sense, then, a sense of which she was ignorant, she was already a slave.
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22 405 But what was before her? She had learned, I think, to some extent, in some sense or other, in a sense that she herself perhaps did not yet fully understand, in a sense that she had not yet herself fully plumbed, not only that she was a female, but, more troublingly, more intriguingly, more luringly,...
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25 203 She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, though she is knee...
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25 207 But even they have doubtless some sense of its meaning and gather from this act some sense of how they are now viewed, and what, on this remarkable world, they shall soon be.
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26 48 I sense it! I sense it! Do so, then.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 104 Perhaps what I saw was not a real woman in some invented, artificial, contemptible, grotesque modern sense, but I thought she was a woman nonetheless and one in some even more profound sense, so small, so soft and curved, and desiring, and vulnerable, and helpless and needful, a sense not indexed to...
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3 746 "In one sense it is true that I, from your point of view, am an alien," he said, "the sense in which I have come from a different world.
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4 228 He had brought me to this place, at least in part, it seemed, out of just such a sense of fittingness, out of just such a sense of rightfulness, and justice.
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13 94 I felt briefly like a pet at his feet, and then I supposed that in a sense I was a pet, and that all we girls were, at least in a sense, pets, slave pets.
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14 98 "In a sense, Master," I said, "the sense in which I am a woman from Earth.
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22 77 I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...
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24 304 I began to sense, with timidity, and hope, and then a growing confidence, and with an increasing sense of elation, that many of them, perhaps even most, might be encouraged to find me of at least minimal interest.
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32 121 In a sense, then, I had the same name, 'Tuka,' but, in another sense, it was a new name, put on me afresh.
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34 37 My entire body was rich in the memory of what he had done to me, in one sense what he had made me beg for, in another sense what he had forced me to endure.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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21 1014 To be sure, there is a trivial sense of being owned which is largely a matter of legalities, and another sense in which, the legalities being firmly in place, the girl knows herself her master's slave in a sense which brooks no misunderstanding or compromise.
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2 470 These were women, I had gathered, who had made a practice of relying upon the generosity and nobility of men, or of some men, to obtain their way in life, in a sense resorting frequently to types of female fraud, regularly exploiting and, in a sense, making dupes of men.
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21 1388 Even if the same name, in one sense, should be put on her as a slave, it is not the same name in the crucial sense; it is not now a legal name to which one has title in one's own right.
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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 36 The concept of "earning one's keep," in one sense, a strict legal sense, is more appropriate to a free woman than a slave.
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1 38 To be sure, in another sense, a very practical sense, no one "earns her keep" like the female slave.
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27 311 "You sense perhaps the incipience of a mild submission orgasm," I said, "quite suitable for a captive, but do not delude yourself that you can even begin to sense the significance and totality of the slave orgasm, for that has a special informing ambiance, and takes place within a unique conditionin...
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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12 385 In this sense the whip does not oppress the woman but rather liberates her to be herself, wild, uninhibited, free in a sense, even though she may be bound in chains, and sexual.
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17 355 "I suppose that in one sense I saw what you saw," I said, "but in another sense I think it would be fair to say that I didn't.
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25 663 Women sense in men such as you, or can come suddenly to sense in men such as you, sometimes to their terror, their masters, and this makes you unbelievably exciting and attractive to them.
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26 483 "In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
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Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

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13 1450 "There is a sense," he said, "in which the opinion of a slave is worthless, and another sense in which it might not be worthless.
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13 1451 The sense in which it might not be worthless is the sense in which it might be true, or insightful, or helpful, such things.
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13 1454 The sense in which the opinion of a slave, or other form of animal, is worthless is the sense in which it is just that, the opinion of a slave, or animal.
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18 78 There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars.
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46 357 "In the biological sense," he said, "as opposed to some political sense or another, whatever is current".
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1059 Ellen could not deny that she was a girl, in at least two senses, first in the sense of her youth, the sense which Jasmine had undoubtedly conceded, and, secondly, in the sense that she, as the others, was a female slave.
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1 52 The question, then, is what is the age of the process, or, better, one supposes, what is the age of that which exhibits the process? Obviously, in one sense, the entity exhibiting the process continues to age according to the calendar, or any clock, just as, in a sense, the theorems of Euclid contin...
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1 54 In one sense, then, it is x years of age, and, in a more revealing, practical sense, setting aside calendars, which are now for all practical purposes pointless, and simply irrelevant to the facts of the case, it is B years of age, so to speak.
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2 148 When younger she had repelled the occasional advances of men, partly by habit, partly by disposition, sometimes because of a sense of the inferiority of the sort of men, professed male feminists, for example, who were most likely to approach her, plaintively assuring her of their profound sense of g...
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16 1069 Secondly, aside from her youth, as noted, she was a girl in the sense that she was a female slave, the sense in which all female slaves are girls.
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18 133 The collar gave her a sense of belonging, a sense of security; too, it was, in its way, a proclamation of her value; it testified that men wanted her, that she had been found fair enough to collar, that she was desired as a female, that she had been found worth enslaving; too, it made it clear, to h...
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22 160 And so, Ellen thought, perhaps there is a sense in which slave dance does lurk in the belly of every woman, a basic biological, genetic sense.
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22 201 In all ways is intensified my sense, and it is a welcome, delicious sense, of unimportance, dependence and helplessness, which, in turn, opens my sexuality to them, as a begging flower.
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22 493 How natural now were her carriage, her grace, her deferentiality! Was this the consequence of her training? In one sense, no, for her training had done little more than liberate the slave within her; in another sense, her training had, of course, improved, refined, and enhanced the slave self that h...
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26 184 How much tragedy there was on that barren world! Did the women there not understand the meaning of their anxieties, their depressions, their displacements, their projections, their confusions, their sense of futility, their anomie, their emotional starvation, their sense of loss, of estrangement, of...
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26 1164 What would they care for, or could they know of, the feelings of a slave? What could they know of the needs of slaves? Would such needs not be so alien to them that they must find them incomprehensible? Perhaps thought Ellen, but perhaps too, in their way, they have some sense of such things, for th...
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27 1410 She loves her sense of lowliness, her sense of being her master's slave.
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Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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3 130 Free women sense, perhaps to their rage, but cannot fully comprehend, the pervasive and profound sexuality of the slave, which irradiates and suffuses her entire existence, even in such small things as the touching of a collar, the feel of a tunic, the touch of tiles on her knees or belly, the leath...
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30 155 "There is a broad sense of the term 'slave rape', of course," said Cabot, "in which all usages of a slave, all uses of her, are in a sense slave rape, as her usages are not at her will but solely at the will of the master".
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Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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9 346 "Does the mastery not fill a man with power," I asked, "with zest, with vitality, with a sense of reality and identity, with a sense of fittingness, with a sense of being himself, with a sense at last of being a part of nature rather than a dislocated, lost, wandering fragment shorn from her?" "Why ...
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13 111 Was her body not enough? In a sense, one supposed, surely, but, so far beyond that, so far indeed, were the fluidities and graces, the appetitions, the performances, the subtleties, the movements, the needs, the readinesses, the petitions, of the female slave! "In one sense," I said, "your body is e...
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3 66 Although, as I have suggested, she was not unattractive, it must be understood that this was in an Earth sort of way, the way in which many Earth females may be accounted attractive, attractive more in the sense of what they might become, how perhaps they might be, rather than in the sense of what t...
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4 304 "Kurii, however one views them, have a sense of honor, a sense of what is appropriate, of what is proper.
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11 280 In the performance of even so simple an act, a woman, to her uneasiness and astonishment, so before a male, can sense herself in her proper place in nature, and can sense herself becoming irremediably aroused.
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22 279 Indeed, legal bondage is an institutionalization of, and an enhancement of, a natural relationship, the male who, in a very real sense, owns, and the female who, in a very real sense, is owned, as much as a bow or spear.
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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8 122 What male does not sense the vulnerable, inviting nakedness of a slave within a woman's assorted garmentures, no matter how contrived and pretentious? And do not even free women sense that men see them thusly, see them exposed beneath their robes, see them as they would be without them, as they migh...
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3 868 "Yes," I said, "any sense of weakness, of openness, of readiness, of hope, of desire, of a yearning to surrender, any inexplicable sense of warmth in your body, any heating or liquidity between your thighs?" "That is impossible," she said.
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Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 633 How small I seemed, how degraded and mocked, and how worthless, how helpless! And my sense was not just one of meaningfulness, as profound as that sense might be, and as comprehensible as such a sense would be, given the circumstances, but, rather, startling me, and frightening me, one of fittingnes...
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8 1303 You are a free woman, and here, on this world, as I had not on Earth, I have begun to sense what that might be, its unchallenged force, and pride, and power, and here I am a slave, only that, and here, naked on an auction block, being sold, I have begun to sense what that might be.
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8 1521 In one sense she is at peace with her sex, but, in another sense, periodically, if her slave fires burn, she is its helpless victim, a tormented slave, who will crawl even to a hated master, for his least touch.
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17 163 Perhaps, then, they were matched in some other sense, or, even, not really matched at all, save in the sense of each being undoubtedly of slave interest.
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17 531 On Gor, I had the sense that, in some natural sense, perhaps in the order of nature, we belonged to men.
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Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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6 61 Could it be, I wondered, that I belonged so? Could it be that I was a slave? I do not mean, of course, in some legal sense, but in some far more profound sense, a sense in which an explicit legal imposition of servitude would be little more than a technicality, however fearful a technicality, which ...
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7 398 One was a violent rage at what had been done to me, a rage rife with shame, degradation, humiliation, frustration, and an acute sense of a lack of recourse, a sense of an utter helplessness, and the other, even stronger, was a sense of its fittingness.
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6 481 How important clothing is to a woman! How much her sense of self, her sense of importance, of worth, of status, of what she is, depends on her garmenture! But we were naked now, stark naked, save for the tunics of slaves.
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 287 We must, too, become more aware of our surroundings, and their ambiences, of sunlight and shadow, of warmth and coolness, of air and moisture, of textures and surfaces, the feel of tiles or rugs to our knees, the feel of cloth on our bodies, however light or diaphanous, the sense of our body where i...
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39 117 Perhaps this was because of a greater sense of vulnerability, which sense enhances the fear of punishment.
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