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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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16 21 But gradually the tarnsmen of Ar were diminished, overwhelmed by the superior forces which Pa-Kur could, with ruthless liberality, throw against them.
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19 126 Pa-Kur approached warily, confident in his superior swordsmanship, but, as I expected, determined to take no chances.
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Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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7 36 Both of the girls had in their way been beautiful but I found Vika superior to both.
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16 59 Man had not proved himself worthy of a superior technology to the Priest-Kings.
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28 171 Our intelligence was vastly superior to theirs and the networks of ventilation shafts provided the quick nimble men of the Fungus Chambers and the uncanny Gur Carriers access to almost anywhere in the Nest they cared to go.
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30 26 "He is a member of the Caste of Physicians," said Kusk, "and his manual dexterity is superior even to that of Priest-Kings".
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30 192 Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops.
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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10 296 "I, Hereena of the First Wagon, am superior," she was crying, "to those two Kassar she-kaiila!" But the judge was already four stakes below her.
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19 190 "My plan," said Harold, "which I have now put into effect, was clearly superior to yours".
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19 193 "Yes," said Harold, "clearly superior".
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Book 5. (12 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 348 "I do, however," said Misk, "count the human, for all his faults, superior to those whom you call the Others".
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5 353 We have noted that among the Others who have been settled on Gor there has been, once out of the ship, a degeneration of interrelated roles, resulting in anarchy until the institution of authority resting on superior strength and fear".
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5 366 "Yet, for twenty thousand years we have stood them off, because of superior power".
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5 719 "How could the knot of a mere girl, and one who is only slave, compare with the knot of a man, and one who is free, and even of the Caste of Warriors?" "Then you acknowledge my knots are superior to yours in all respects?" I asked.
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7 50 The spires of Ar, depending on the weather, can normally be seen quite clearly from the nearer ranges of the Voltai, or the Red Mountains, the greatest mountain range of known Gor, superior to both those of Thentis and the Sardar itself.
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11 293 "You are upset," said Flaminius, "because you deemed yourself superior.
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11 323 I do think, of course, that the Gorean population tends to be more physically fit and mentally acute than that of Earth, but I would rate them provisionally rather than essentially superior in these respects; for example, Goreans live much out of doors and, as a very natural thing, celebrate the bea...
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12 100 Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...
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15 141 And, though I do not think I would have told Elizabeth, her performances with men clearly present, and she knowing it, were almost invariably superior to those in which she did not know herself observed.
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17 776 "Yes," she said, "it is clearly superior".
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17 777 It was indeed a superior move but, as it turned out, it did not do me a great deal of good.
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21 295 Indeed, the Torian Squares, which I have mentioned, common among Gorean infantries, with their superior mobility and regrouping capacities, had, long ago, made the phalanxes of such cities as Ar and, in the south, Turia, obsolete.
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Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 749 "Nonetheless," said Telima, "I am surely, in all respects, superior to Midice".
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14 53 From this account it may perhaps be conjectured why the oar power of a single-banked ram-ship is often comparable or superior to that of a doubly- or trebly-banked ship.
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17 39 Once more it would not be so much a question of absolute numbers of ships as concentrating superior numbers at strategic points.
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17 222 I saw now that the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros were, where possible, not engaging the round ships, but concentrating their superior numbers on my tarn ships.
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17 227 He would use his superior numbers on my tarn ships, leaving the round ships for later, when they might be struck by as many as four or five tarn ships simultaneously.
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18 412 These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.
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Book 7. (16 results) Captive of Gor

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6 267 They regarded me curiously, I could see, but more importantly, I had seen, to my fury, that when I received their instantaneous appraisal, that which one woman gives always to another when first they meet, as natural and unconscious as a glance, that they had, at least to their own satisfaction, fou...
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6 256 On Earth I had never met a woman, personally, whom I had regarded as my superior in beauty.
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6 436 But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...
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7 367 I then felt superior to Ute.
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7 416 I was better! I was their superior! But now I was taken from my world.
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9 208 It seemed they were of a sex, or breed, other than, and superior to my own.
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9 353 "Slaves!" I then knew myself better than they! I was superior! I was above them! Though I was bound and branded I was a thousand times greater and finer than they.
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9 365 I now knew myself superior to such women, to such despicable things, as these.
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11 1189 I did not like the way Inge had said "me," as though to contrast herself with me, and my failure! Did she think herself superior to me? Further, I was furious with how she had approached the bars.
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12 333 How arrogant and superior she seemed! How I hated her, and hated her! A spear butt struck at the wood of the wagon, near where we peeped out.
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13 230 Besides, she acted superior to me.
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13 231 I was an Earth girl, superior to Gorean girls! She acted like she was our leader.
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13 491 It was far superior to what I had been able to snare.
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14 619 It was superior to any I had ever worn on Earth, when I had been wealthy and could command the customized attentions of the finest continental perfumers, and yet here, on this barbaric planet, it was used without thought to adorn the body of Elinor Brinton, a mere slave girl.
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15 154 Yet we did not much like her, for she was our superior.
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15 984 In spite of my brands, I would be superior to them all.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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11 23 I had tried to play frequently with players of strength superior to my own.
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15 8 They were superb athletes, far superior to the inept, clumsy Earth girl who, terrified, fled before them.
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15 594 I am not a slave! I am a free woman of Earth, different from them, and superior to them! I am better than they!" "And so," I said, "I should show you special consideration?" "Certainly," she said.
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Book 9. (3 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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10 365 Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men...
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14 144 I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life.
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Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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10 378 One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...
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16 26 The lateral arrangement is more convenient in unloading; the square arrangement provides a more convenient distribution of deck space, supplying superior crew areas at stem and stern.
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24 73 Too, from her mien I gathered that she would hold herself far superior to such as they.
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Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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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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5 484 The men of my master had been outnumbered, surely, by the many soldiers of the camp, but at the point of attack their numbers were superior, overwhelming.
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5 828 Doubtless she considered herself, and quite possibly correctly, my superior in beauty, and thus planned to soon stand higher in the relationships of bondage than I, a lesser girl.
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7 740 It was the intent of the master, it seems, that her garment or "gown" be considerably and obviously superior in quality, opacity and coverage to the scrap of silk permitted to Slave beads.
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7 1051 Of my master's girls, I felt that only Eta was my superior.
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9 277 I was clearly their superior in beauty.
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9 980 A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great.
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15 272 Elicia Nevins, who had been my beauty rival, I saw, was truly my superior in beauty.
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18 29 I thought that I, when my hair was again dark and glossy, would surely be her equal or superior in beauty; and I had little doubt that I could bring a master more pleasure.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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24 177 Often the superior woman searches, lonely and frustrated, for a man superior to herself, who can be a full man to the hidden woman in her.
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24 179 When the superior woman does meet a man superior to herself, who will also, simply because he is a true man, put her in the authentic biological male/female relationship where she belongs, at his feet, she will generally, unless there are mitigating psychological reservations, functions of her own c...
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3 26 This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement.
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7 33 Each deems himself the superior of, and the natural foe, of the other.
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23 320 I thought myself then the superior of Drusus.
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24 173 "Her intelligence," I said, "is fully comparable to yours, and may be superior," I said.
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35 936 "Our training is superior to yours," he said.
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 107 Since I, from my lower elevation, a few feet above the deck, by the mainmast, could see their canvas, I knew that their lookouts, from their superior elevations, could see the Palms of Schendi.
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16 62 As a communication device it was clearly superior to the smoke and beacon ciphers of the north.
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19 196 That way we may continue to be comfortable with them, and, to some extent, feel ourselves their superior.
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33 44 "His askaris were superior to my villagers.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 418 She was totally superior to me.
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4 251 Women can then assume their place as his equal, or superior".
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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32 314 Their rate of fire, of course, is much superior to that of the crossbow, either of the draw or windlass variety.
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32 316 It is superior in this respect even to the peasant bow, or long bow, which excels it in impact, range and accuracy.
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33 169 Accordingly in an engagement of fleets Port Cos and Ar's Station, acting together, would bring to bear the superior forces".
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 282 What a superior, snobbish little bitch she had been! How I had wanted her! And how distant, how remote, she then was from me.
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18 467 Who shall say which is best? Perhaps discontentment and misery are superior to contentment and love.
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19 429 But who, truly, is the superior woman? Many Goreans believe that it is the girl who kneels on the stones.
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20 1583 They commonly regard themselves, at least among themselves, as superior to free women.
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20 1693 She held herself superior to male scrutiny.
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Book 17. (13 results) Savages of Gor

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1 401 Their night vision is far superior to that of the human.
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6 62 It must indeed be fine stuff, I thought, if it were superior to the girls in the pits for several were extraordinarily attractive.
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6 87 In my opinion, if the crossbow, of the lighter, more quickly loading type, had proved to be a superior missile weapon in the typical combats practiced in the Barrens the red savages would have had recourse either to it, or to something analogous to it.
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12 67 "Let us not, then, feel so superior to these gentle and kindly folk," he said.
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13 396 "Doubtless she enjoyed having me do this," she said, bitterly, "my station in society having been so superior to hers".
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13 641 "But, too," she said, angrily, "my superior prescribed what I should wear".
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13 820 It seems to have been recognized even more clearly by your former superior, the female executive.
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14 720 "Except," she smiled, "that women are regarded as somewhat superior".
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14 738 "I think I also understand why, in such a society, the women are regarded as somewhat superior, as you put it".
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14 739 "It is only that they are implicitly regarded as superior," she said.
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14 741 "But why are the women regarded, implicitly, as superior?" I asked.
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18 175 "They have superior advantages in numbers and arms," said Grunt.
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19 470 As a red savage I had little doubt but what he regarded himself as the superior or equal of any white man in single combat.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 65 Some highly intelligent men who hold reading and writing in contempt, however unreasonably, enjoy buying a sophisticated, beautiful, literate slave girl, once of high caste, and take great pleasure in ruthlessly mastering every cell in her beautiful body; though literate, and doubtless initially con...
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44 240 To be sure, perhaps a world of guilt, anxiety, self-denial, misery, pain, confusion, scratching, clawing, scrambling, bickering, neurosis, and hatred is superior to a world of victory, confidence, health and fulfillment.
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44 444 No more was she superior to Cuwignaka.
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Book 19. (12 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 506 This risk he would presumably regard as being a portion of the price he is willing to pay for the benefits of living in this type of society, which he regards, usually by far, as being a society superior to its alternatives.
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4 468 The contrast, I realized, had been clear, I helpless, sobbing under the domination of Ligurious, little better than a slave, and she above me, far superior to me, haughty, decisive, imperious, cold and powerful.
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5 39 "Indeed," said he, "I have had many women far superior to your Tatrix in just such taverns.
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5 101 Though I have had many women far superior to you, and even in the alcoves of taverns, I am not insensitive to your beauty.
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5 148 I wondered if I might become as beautiful, someday, as the women cited by Miles of Argentum as being so superior to me.
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5 150 I wondered if I might not, one day, even be their superior! But then I put such thoughts from my mind.
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11 102 She is superior, lofty, noble, regal and fine.
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16 358 Could not anyone, looking upon me, see clearly that I was a free woman? How could anyone conceive that I might be so lowly and degraded a creature as a slave? It was not my fault if I had what some brutes, in their superior, mannish vulgarity, referred to as "slave curves".
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21 68 Even though I was far superior to them, as I was free and they were mere slaves, it was my hope that they would be kind to me in my need.
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25 89 He who had fetched me from the slave sack, Borkon's immediate superior, cast him a glowering look.
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25 142 "Come along, Girls," said the fellow who had fetched me forth from the slave sack, he who was Borkon's immediate superior.
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33 35 The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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1 474 I do not think that they cared much for their new sister in bondage, the former Lady Rowena of Lydius, who perhaps in some subtle way, perhaps in virtue of her former background, held herself superior to them, but, too, I do not think they cared to have her thrown alive, screaming, to sleen.
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2 181 In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu...
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2 778 "Slaves are incomparably superior," he said.
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4 79 I conjectured that they were theoretically on the same level, or nearly on the same level, perhaps reporting to the same superior, or superiors, presumably Priest-Kings.
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4 140 Belnar, I supposed, might be their common superior.
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10 657 "Thousands of slaves," said I, "are your superior in beauty".
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12 70 Then with my superior, even overwhelming, advantage in material, it would be easy to bring about the conclusion of the game in short order.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 220 This may account, to some degree, for the great hatred felt by free women toward slaves, women who have proved beautiful enough to mark and collar, women who might then be thought superior in their sex to themselves.
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2 152 Doubtless many times she would have held herself a thousand times superior to the poor peasant women, coming in from the villages, in their bleached woolen robes, bringing their sacks and baskets of grain and produce to the city's markets.
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2 181 "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Mistress!" wept Feiqa, her head down, doing obeisance to one who was a thousand times, nay, infinitely, her superior, the free woman of the peasants.
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24 551 "She held herself immeasurably superior to them," I said.
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25 1284 Free persons are immeasurably her superior in status and power.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 31 I had no doubt that he was totally my superior.
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4 235 I sensed, as I had long before, in the library, that he, in his power, intelligence, and maleness, was totally my superior, indeed, that I could at best be little more than an animal at his feet.
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5 52 To be sure, the girls here from this world regarded themselves as immeasurably superior to us, those of Earth, and perhaps the men did, too, in some sense, but, as far as I could tell, that made their chains no lighter, nor the blows they received any the less severe.
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6 502 He, and men like him, were unutterably superior to me.
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9 266 In both terms, 'glana' and 'profalarina', incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, states to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of "metaglana" or "falarina".
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10 433 I had regarded them both as far superior to myself.
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10 446 "Most Gorean men," he said, "would regard you, exhibited on the block, knowing only that much about you, as superior slave meat".
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11 711 The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts th...
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11 1025 "But she is only one of several lovely dancers," said Hendow, "any one of whom is her superior or equal!" I doubted that that was true.
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29 581 "I find this," he said to me, "an acceptable and suitable vengeance, superior even to the sword, or to the thousand cuts, that you, my dear Doreen, or Tuka, or whatever masters now choose to call you, you stinking, worthless, curvaceous, treacherous slave slut, should be torn to pieces by a sleen!" ...
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29 791 Armed only with their own teeth and jaws they regarded themselves as superior to it.
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29 855 How superior he was to me! How right it was that I should in the order of nature be only the slave of such a man! "You fellows are some sort of urts, are you not?" asked Hendow.
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 742 "I am infinitely superior," she said.
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5 744 "Infinitely superior!" she said.
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5 772 I saw that she was terribly jealous of the attention which men might bestow upon the slave, but how could that be, for she was, by her own account, infinitely superior to the slave, and she was free? Too, she was, according to her own account, not interested in such things.
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6 746 It is far superior, for example, to vegetable fibers.
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6 747 It is also superior, in length and texture, to the hair of sleen and kaiila.
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10 210 "But perhaps the women of Tyros," I said, "are superior to those of Cos?" "I think not," said a man, rather angrily.
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10 215 "Thus," I said, "it seems that it is not, really, that the women of Tyros are superior to the women of Cos, but merely that, in your particular case, you are inferior to the Lady Elene".
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10 217 "But that is only to be expected, upon occasion, I suppose," I said, "that some woman of Tyros would be superior to some woman of Cos.
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11 113 What pleasure can a man know superior to owning a slave? What pleasure can a woman know more fulfilling than serving her master? The whip, in my view, is to be used but sparingly.
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 274 In this way, they will usually prove superior to isolated interlopers and, if need be, one may be dispatched to report or summon aid, while the other, or others, may attend to other duties, perhaps those of a pursuit or search, or maintaining a distant contact with the enemy.
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3 342 In small groups, it is often superior swordplay which determines that distinction.
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40 59 They would permit the forces from Torcadino to emerge and then, in virtue of their superior strength, on open ground, annihilate them.
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44 200 I was hoping that we would be the subject of no further inquiries, that the fellows whom I had encountered earlier would report to their superior, or superiors, that Ina was not in our keeping.
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44 319 "But doubtless your superior, or superiors," I said, "would disapprove".
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44 369 "As she is now a slave," I said, "I presume your superior, or superiors, are no longer interested in her".
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47 147 "Will it not be amusing," called he to her, "to deliver your head to my superior, with its ears pierced".
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47 229 "I gather that you have already put an end to some of my men," he said, "and among them two or three who were presumably my superior in swordsmanship".
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 50 The keeping her in a box or locker seemed to me superior, too, incidentally, to renting a tenement room, even though these were now cheaper and more available than when I had been last in Ar, because of the new egress of refugees, now from Ar herself.
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9 667 Similarly the instrument would undoubtedly be far superior, in both range and tone, to those likely to be at the disposal of flute girls.
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16 89 "We yield to superior force," said the first mercenary.
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16 103 "We are yielding to superior force," he said.
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19 86 It is a tribute to her desirability, and a badge proclaiming her delicious, superior womanness.
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Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

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8 723 How superior we felt to the new girls being brought in, and how frightened we were, too, fearing the time when we, like the more thoroughly trained girls, might be removed from the security of the pens, to what fates we could scarcely conjecture, in an unfamiliar, foreign world.
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8 742 I recall wondering, however, as one passed me, and I saw the regal, swirling hem of that sparkling robe, if the concealed ankle within it would look well clasped in slave steel; I supposed that it would wear a shackle well; why not, was she not a woman? When they had passed, and I dared, I lifted my...
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11 250 I did think that my figure might be superior to hers, at least from the point of view of what seemed to be the common preferences of men of this world.
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13 359 Our "pelting," as it is sometimes referred to in the trade, is apparently considerably superior to hempen strands for use as catapult cordage.
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17 90 But I was frightened, too, because I now realized that the depth master was in direct violation of the orders of his superior.
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18 180 But I think, too, free women enjoy ruling women who are superior to themselves in beauty.
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22 45 Is not acquiescence superior to inquiry? Is not cowardice, rather than simple discretion, the better part of valor? Is not conformity to prescribed falsehood less perilous than the seeking of truth? In any event, with respect to the enforcement of commands, customs, and such, the pit master was sele...
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23 42 And, if that was so, why should it be I who would be always permitted to act as her arrogant superior, when there was, in effect, little, if anything, to choose between us.
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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6 54 Clearly they did not regard her as obviously superior to them.
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8 56 Her figure now, she was sure, was superior even to what it had been so long ago.
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8 59 She was sure that her figure was superior now even to what it had been so long ago.
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9 60 "And how I was forced to serve you, and you acting so superior to me," exclaimed Tutina angrily, "you treating me with such contempt, and you then only an ignorant, nameless slave!" "Forgive me!" begged the frightened, kneeling charge.
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11 314 "In certain parts of the world it still is," he said, "but, more to the point, the intelligence of the ancients and medievals, and such, was not inferior to our own, and, in many respects, most would grant, many of them, perhaps the majority, were morally superior to large numbers of our lying, chea...
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11 492 But, happily, the utterance had been no more than a casually generous, almost thoughtless, unbegrudged gift from a superior to an inferior.
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13 558 She thought that that was silly, but she hoped that she would bring a good price, and, certainly, one superior to that which might have been garnered by Nelsa.
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23 177 Ellen then began to grasp how easily a woman of Earth, and with so little awareness, thinking herself superior and safe, might court the collar of a slave.
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24 474 The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo...
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25 495 She saw that Ellen, too, was watching her, very frankly, with a lofty, superior mien, with an almost malicious pleasure.
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25 586 Then Ellen recalled the haughtiness of the former free woman, her former superciliousness, her almost intolerable arrogance, how she had treated Ellen, though she, too, beneath her robes was no more than another female, and thus a fit slave for men! Had she no understanding of herself? Had she never...
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25 1118 In any event, aware of her status and station the Gorean free woman, particularly if of high caste, commonly regards herself, and is culturally justified in doing so, as a very special and superior creature, one generally aloof and unapproachable, one commonly lofty and exalted.
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Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

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1 333 She had been, after all, the grooming pet of a Kur master, and held herself, accordingly, superior to others of her species.
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1 622 The brunette was, of course, too, a female, but, aside from her dreams, in which she was often well and callously handled, and as a female, and in some of which she even wore a slave collar, she chose, on the whole, save for certain gratifying, manipulative ambivalences, some of which may be noted l...
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1 765 She felt him a thousand times her superior.
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1 1106 In no way is she to be confused with her glorious superior, the free woman.
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1 1300 How would the males she had hitherto known react to this, those she had treated with such coolness, with such contempt and condescension, whom she had routinely disdained, belittled, and spurned, whom she had treated as so much beneath her, to whom she had postured herself as their lofty, haughty su...
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2 140 The strength of a human is small, compared to that of a superior species, such as that of the Kur.
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10 178 "On Gor there are doubtless hundreds of thousands who are her superior".
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16 15 As a complacent and arrogant pet of Kurii, and priding herself as such, a species so superior on the Steel World, she was inclined on the whole to be contemptuous of her own species, which she understood, perhaps appropriately, as an inferior life form.
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19 62 There is amongst some species, including Kurii, a common belief that the wild animal is somehow superior to the domestic animal, but this is usually false.
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19 63 The domestic animal has been bred from the wild animal to be its superior.
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26 103 "There are risks involved, of course," said Peisistratus, "once we have landed the cargo, our selections, the slaves, and have forgone the use of superior weapons".
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32 161 "It gives me much pleasure to see you so," said the Lady Bina to the prostrate slave, "for in the container, on the Prison Moon, it seemed to me that you dared to compare yourself with me, and might even have dared to regard yourself as my superior".
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36 25 It has a remarkable rapidity of fire, far superior to its common Gorean competitor, the shoulder bow, or crossbow.
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53 171 "The Kur, you see, is superior to the human," said Lord Grendel, "for the human is usually quite helpless at birth, and for some time afterward".
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55 131 "A civilization," said Lord Grendel, "is far superior to barbarism.
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55 163 "Surely far superior to a rude stick," said Lord Grendel, "is an article devised to fulfill a similar purpose, and far more effectively, say, a lovely, sturdy, pliant, attractively beaded, well-crafted slave whip".
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56 66 In this respect the Kur is clearly superior to the human, at least.
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64 142 Their leader danced and posed before her, exhibiting her superior attractions, and lifted and flung her hair about, indicating its sheen and length.
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66 83 "Whereas they, like Goreans, tend to think of all females as slaves, particularly as they consider their bodies in comparison with those of men, they do recognize that some females, however unaccountably, or irrationally, have a far superior status than themselves, that of the free woman".
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79 183 To be sure, much of the conversation was far more prosaic, involving matters of trade, commensurabilities of currencies, tharlarion versus kaiila races, pen procedures for acclimating new girls to their collars, the best seasons and cities for the marketing of women, whether or not the slave girls o...
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80 280 In no case is the female slave, goods, an animal, to be confused with her incomparably exalted superior, the free woman.
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80 371 The sandal slave might then be lashed, and informed that the beauty of a free woman is far superior to that of a slave, any slave, to which she had best reply, "Yes, Mistress," one of the few lies which a slave might safely utter.
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Book 29. (27 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 20 This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning.
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1 261 She who had become the Lady Bina had been, at that time, long ago, in the container, no more than a Kur pet, a human pet of a superior life form, the Kurii, one at that time not even speeched, one at that time no more than a simple, naive, luscious, appetitious little animal.
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1 263 I do not think that she was objectively superior to the Kur pet, and might even have brought a lower price than the Kur pet in most markets, but she was somehow very special to me.
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3 616 "She is my superior.
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4 8 Yet if they did not inhabit her would such a world not have been something of a waste, for who, then, would know how beautiful she was? The Gorean, incidentally, is not a soiling and a plague upon his world, nor is he so arrogant as to deem himself superior to it, its guardian or steward.
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4 54 It interested me that Pertinax had identified Constantina as his superior.
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5 140 Had it not been for the governance of Priest-Kings, and their surveillance, and the enforcement of their prohibitions on technology and weaponry, I had little doubt that the suspicions, fears, and simian ingenuity of my species on Gor would have by now produced lethalities equivalent to, if not supe...
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5 720 Too, the shorn hair is of value in a number of ways, not only for wigs, falls, and such, but, too, interestingly, because it makes the best cordage for catapults, far superior to common hemp, and such.
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5 1020 "My superior will supply it.
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5 1027 "No, my superior," I said.
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5 1040 "I shall enter the forest," I said, "and seek out my superior".
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8 134 "Conduct us to your superior".
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8 227 "Take us to your superior!" said Miss Wentworth.
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8 275 "Then we can explain matters to his superior".
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9 52 "Bring me some decent clothing, now, and arrange an audience, immediately, with your superior.
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10 88 Indeed, they regarded themselves, without arrogance, and with much justification, as far superior to collar-girls.
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10 193 Gregory White, introduced his superior and colleague, Miss Margaret Wentworth".
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16 110 In this respect, obviously, the smooth flight of the tarn, particularly in its soaring, wings-spread approach, is far superior to the gallop of the racing kaiila.
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23 123 She knows that, in a sense, she is superior to all other women.
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23 143 On the other hand, as we have suggested, far from feeling inferior, the slave is likely to feel, as a woman, far superior to her free sister.
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27 137 Did he truly think the women of Earth, I wondered, were different from, or superior to, the women of Gor? That seemed to me absurd.
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28 181 His Jane had been a Gorean free woman, with all that that entailed, and thus, on Gor, until her collaring, she would have been regarded as immeasurably superior to a mere barbarian female, an Earth female, such as the former Miss Margaret Wentworth, who would have been regarded as far beneath her as...
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29 78 How she is pressed! How all hang upon her superior, sly glances, her least, carefully rationed word! How pleasant it is sometimes to frustrate them, and see them pout and squirm in ignorance, tears in their eyes.
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38 396 It was far superior to the pens, kennels, cages, chaining rings, and such, which were the lot of several of their collar-sisters.
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38 397 To be sure, even such accommodations were likely to be far superior to those afforded on typical slave ships, in which the slaves were often supine and tiered, chained, wrists over head, ankles together, on pallets of slatted wood, enclosed by mesh, to keep away the urts.
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40 79 The average slave, accordingly, is likely to be intellectually superior to the average free woman.
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40 81 She suspects, in fury then, on some level, at least, that the frightened, half-naked creature kneeling before her, collared, cringing, hoping not to be struck, is quite possibly her intellectual superior.
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Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

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37 1113 I wondered what her fellow students, from her own world, those supposedly so superior to beauty, its naturalness, and purpose, might think of her now, she to whom they had regarded themselves so superior, on the grounds of ignorant doctrines, labored concealments, and falsifications of nature, as sh...
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1 221 "I think," said another, "it is even more delicious to take a Gorean woman, one of those haughty she-sleen, so arrogant and lofty in their pride, so pretentiously superior, and strip them and teach them the collar".
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3 497 Now let me pass!' 'You high slaves,' she said, 'think you are better than the rest of us!' 'We are superior,' I informed her.
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3 742 On one scent it will often pass by, even ignore, more ample or superior prey.
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3 1139 In no way was she to be deemed superior to Talena.
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3 1468 Should that be all you knew? Why should you not have been given a hint, at least, of true beauty, the incomparably superior beauty of a free woman?" I laughed.
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6 41 How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed within those cumbersome, ornate robes.
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12 201 Did she think it demeaning, rather than utterly appropriate, that she should be serving men? Did she still think of herself as she had in Ar, a woman of power and station, far superior to, say, a mere guard, a soldier, she still a fine lady who was now, inexplicably and unconscionably, set to menial...
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14 292 He was much my superior.
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16 217 Lord Okimoto, on the other hand, was well aware of the sizable complement of fighting men on board, a small army, who would, in any likely contest, as on an open field, far outnumber the enemy Pani in the small boats and on the warning ship, perhaps by as many as four or five to one; and was, accord...
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19 46 How luscious are such nicely curved, worthless, meaningless, degraded objects! How men desire them! How different they are from free women, a thousand times inferior, a thousand times superior.
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20 93 Both slaves, in the presence of the other, tried to spread their knees as little as possible, while still maintaining position, as though each might thereby seem superior to the other, as being closer to the position of a free woman.
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20 208 "Each wished to appear superior to the other," she said.
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21 499 I myself wondered if the slaves who had been hooded could be much her superior.
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21 500 Certainly I did not think that those of the Venna keeping area who had been brought unhooded to the deck had been much her superior, if at all.
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21 616 Given their plainness, and grossness, they had something of the hatred of the free woman for the exquisitely feminine, muchly desired female slave, smaller and weaker, but so much their superior.
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24 14 Whereas all natural societies are characterized by rank, distance, and hierarchy, acknowledged or not, I think there is no Gorean caste, from the highest to the lowest, which does not regard itself as the equal or superior, in one way or another, to that of every other.
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30 5 "Lord Okimoto is generous," said Tyrtaios to the superior with whom he was liaison, Lord Okimoto.
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35 62 With Demetrion were his aides, also of the Merchants, and two Scribes, one of which was Phillip, my superior in the registry.
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35 115 Each therefore regards itself as superior to the other, and each, then, would be reluctant to seem to lower itself before the other.
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35 116 I would have been quite willing to retrieve the sack and deliver it to Demetrion, but Phillip, my superior, was in his party, and there is, of course, the dignity, and the prestige, of the caste to maintain.
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Book 31. (25 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 1060 How superior they felt to me! How superior they were to me! Too, you tread roads, paths, and bridges to the left.
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4 112 To date one of us was a coup for the lucky fellow, and one of our common pleasures was to disdainfully refuse such dates, unless, of course, requested by young men whose wealth and social position was superior to ours.
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4 140 What of the simple test of life consequences? Is it obvious that an unnatural culture which produces vehemence, confusion, hysteria, sickness, treachery, hypocrisy, mass murder, and hatred is obviously superior to a culture compatible with nature, and her kinds and differences, a culture in which na...
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7 274 "Yes, Mistress," I said, and then addressed myself diligently to those tasks to which I had hitherto regarded myself as superior.
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7 358 Surely they were superior to such embarrassing weaknesses.
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7 734 Many, I gathered, particularly of high caste, held themselves superior to sex, which they professed to find demeaning.
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7 735 It is difficult, I supposed, to regard oneself as an equal to, or a superior of, a male when one is smaller, softer, and weaker, and finds oneself clasped in the arms of such a beast, helpless, unable to free oneself, its prisoner, one's softness clasped forcibly, mercilessly, to its hardness, the b...
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8 221 Each Gorean caste, interestingly, regards itself as equal to, or superior to, all other castes.
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8 288 Usually a girl is sold in-house when the price offered seems clearly superior to what might be expected from vending her off an open block.
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8 714 Perhaps some lowly clerk once in her employ, mistreated, despised, scorned, and overworked, had saved some money and thought it might be pleasant to have her, once so socially and economically superior to him, chained at the foot of his couch.
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8 1269 I wondered if some of the young men I had known might have wondered how I, so aloof, so superior, so unapproachable, might have appeared on an auction block, reduced, rightless, stripped, a slave displayed for the perusal of buyers.
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8 2104 I felt so superior to her in that moment.
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10 265 No longer is she a man's equal, or superior, the haughty, protected possessor of a Home Stone, but a master's property.
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10 642 And so it came about that the former Allison Ashton-Baker, once of the upper classes of her world, once so superior and haughty, once so special and important in her own eyes, once one of the beauties of an exclusive sorority, at one of her country's most selective and expensive schools, now tunicke...
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10 1278 "That makes you more interesting, once of superior station, now a reduced, meaningless chain slut".
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11 68 It is no wonder free women thought themselves so superior to us.
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11 69 Or were they so superior? Perhaps they just had not yet been awakened.
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16 145 I lacked no confidence in my own excellencies, in my own qualities, and such, which I had deemed considerable, certainly for my former world, but I sensed, too, to my fury, that he, this brute, like so many Gorean men, was in many ways, and by far, my superior.
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16 148 What had been done, I wondered, to the men of my former world? How superior to me, in so many ways, were these brutes of Gor! How slave I felt before them! Were such as I not fittingly owned by such as they, as the females of so many species of my former world were, in effect, owned by their males? ...
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16 153 But if one were a slave, why should one not be a slave? Is there not a freedom, a liberation, a relief, in such an acknowledgement? Are the miseries of a free woman so superior to the joys of a mastered, loving slave? Let each consider the matter for herself.
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17 517 Some are superior at short distances, others at longer distances.
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18 219 "I would think so, too," he said, "as The Kneeling Slave, as I understand it, is a large, clean, expensive, well-appointed, superior sort of establishment, one catering to an elegant, elite sort of clientele.
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27 354 "I was always, by far, your superior".
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31 112 Humans are a weak and inferior species, a vermin species, appropriately to be supplanted by a superior life form.
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48 261 "I was in the chamber," said Lucius, "when you falsely informed on your superior, and won thereby a silver chain.
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Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 347 "My superior entrusted it to me, and, I gather, his superior to him," said Tyrtaios.
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2 39 In education and quickness she was clearly superior.
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5 234 Or more, what woman would? How pathetic that would be, how one would despise such a man, such a betrayer of his nature, or one lacking the nature of man, but rather to one who is incomparably superior to myself, naturally powerful, commanding, and virile, one who would see me as I am, and do with me...
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6 20 I was thinking of reserving to myself, temporarily, one who had been meticulously, expensively, overbearingly, and pretentiously dressed, as is sometimes the case with slave stock, who had presented herself as aloof, superior, haughty, and frigid, but I did not do so.
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9 283 "And so," said the newcomer, "women who once would not have consented to speak to you through the curtains of their palanquins, women who would have scorned you in Ar, who held themselves so superior, who would have regarded you as less than the dust beneath their slippers, now, if sufficiently beau...
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9 291 Why, I wondered, should they be so superior? I supposed they might well have been brought to the beach, earlier, as we, in no more than collars and chains.
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14 169 "My superior," he said, "is troubled by one matter".
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14 170 "Who is your superior?" I asked.
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14 175 "My superior," he said, "has had you watched".
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14 257 "My superior," he said, "would not consider seriously that your frequenting of the perimeters might be so generously and eccentrically motivated".
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14 299 "So," said he, "you understand the concern of my superior".
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17 114 How horrifying it must be for one of these lofty free women, hitherto so exalted, privileged, and superior, hitherto so smug, petulant, arrogant, and demanding, hitherto so incomparably, so insufferably proud, if she should, to her horror, undergo a catastrophic reversal of fortune, if she should fi...
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21 393 "Doubtless the messenger, he who delivered it to your superior, would know," I said.
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21 480 "Should the cargo reach the World's End," I said, "who will know to whom it is to be delivered?" "My superior," said Tyrtaios.
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21 481 "It is hard for me to think of one such as you having a superior," I said.
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40 19 "Of the Slavers, yes," he said, "but surely you did not deal with barbarians, but with superior stock, Gorean girls, civilized, intelligent, lovely creatures to be captured, marked, and collared".
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48 33 How bright, how clever, how superior, I was! I had eluded the masters.
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50 118 "Yes," I said, "for you are superior to me.
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Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

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4 149 The Pani keep slaves, but the cultural status of the contract woman is superior to that of the slave, and considerably inferior, naturally, to that of the free woman.
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8 59 He had been ordered away, and thus, in the light of discipline, had had no choice other than to obey his superior, Tajima.
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11 201 The common understanding of its debacle was the superior intelligence of the enemy, an intelligence which, it was suspected, had its origin in the holding of Temmu itself.
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11 202 "But now," I said, "with tarns at our disposal, our intelligence should be at least equivalent to, if not superior to, that of the enemy".
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12 24 Two free women may each regard themselves as the superior of the other, each thinking herself more beautiful, more desirable, more exciting, than the other, but, if both were to be collared and placed on the block, well bared to buyers, as is appropriate for such goods, it is unlikely they would go ...
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21 71 Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into t...
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30 686 His articulation was not much superior to that of his fellow.
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32 173 The chain affords superior security.
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46 34 "We are here to determine that," said the other, who, I took it, was his superior.
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58 67 So, I thought, that high lady, so superior, distant, and frosty, must now begin to cope with a possibly dismaying realization, that she has the belly of a slave.
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Book 34. (16 results) Plunder of Gor

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8 399 To be sure, one or two of the girls might have thought themselves, mistakenly, my equal, or superior.
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10 230 How contemptuous had been their words, their tones! "You think you are so lofty, so unmoved, so superior, so immune to everything concealed within your robes," I thought.
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11 58 What male is not likely to be favorably inclined toward a product that he associates with a beautiful woman? I thought myself obviously superior to them.
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13 100 How helpless we were on Gor! How much here, on Gor, were we at the mercy of men, our masters! How cool and superior to us were the exalted, refined, proud, serene, aloof free women! How they despised us for our needs! But did they not know we were collared? Would they be different, stripped and chai...
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15 221 A pursuer, realizing a pursuit would take place, would presumably supply himself with strong, agile beasts, beasts of superior quality, a lighter wagon, and such.
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19 137 On Earth I had dismissed her, even pitied her, poor, plain Paula, and considered myself far superior to her in beauty.
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33 347 You are thus superior to them.
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34 77 It was a common joke, amongst the men of Gor, that the men of Earth thought some women beautiful merely because they had seen no better, as though, say, Gorean women might be superior to those of Earth.
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48 15 How dared she protest or object? Surely she understood that, in this situation, I was her superior.
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52 148 Was this not another thing to hold against her? Was she so superior that she would wish me well! How concerned, how solicitous, how condescending! Did she think I was pitiful? How dared she speak of me to a master? Was I not a thousand times the woman, a thousand times the beauty she was? Was this n...
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52 231 "And thus prove yourself superior to her, by winning and then lightly discarding a prize for which she, herself, might scarcely dare hope?" "Too, Master Drusus once tricked me, made me seem a fool.
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61 260 Surtak now moved to his right, his eyes on the Kurii, and I, and the cloud of kajirae, behind that shield, running, would, in a moment, attain that precarious haven for which we strove, a refuge little superior, I feared, to none at all.
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61 737 "Dear lady," said Kurik, "with your permission, might you not be less distractive? We are about to be set upon by superior numbers".
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64 244 It will be a good lesson for her, that she serve inferiors, that she, once a superior, must now serve inferiors, and that she is now a slave, and now immeasurably inferior to inferiors".
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66 7 Is that not to the advantage of those who fear nature, who regard it as threatening their ambitions? But why should the goals of one be imposed as demands on others? Why is prescription superior to need and desire? If one desires to submit, to kneel, to serve, and love, why should one not do so? Who...
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67 11 "I betrayed our friendship! I was vain, foolish, jealous! You sold for more than I! You were found of much greater interest than I, by many masters! I wanted to prove myself your equal, indeed, your superior! If you could interest a master such as Master Drusus, could I not do so, as well? I sought ...
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Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

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4 228 "We call her that because her bearing is so haughty, so superior, and offensive.
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5 8 I was startled, because Adraste had seemed, earlier, so cool, so self-assured, so superior and precise.
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11 305 She thought herself so beautiful, so superior! Perhaps she could even read.
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12 84 I thought of Adraste and others, so arrogant, so superior, in their contempt of barbarians, who were themselves, as slaves, no better than the barbarians they scorned.
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29 7 Who cares if a Centius of Cos or a Scormus of Ar can push tiny pieces of wood about on a hundred-squared, red-and-yellow board better than ten hundred thousand others? Is it really so superior to the planting of suls and the harvesting of Tur-Pah, the fishing for eels or parsit, the shaping and smoo...
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Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

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7 180 I had no wish to pit my two ships, with their crews, against an enemy far superior in ships and men.
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8 70 Surely it would be unwise to risk being trapped in port, blockaded by superior forces.
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27 154 I was pleased to see, given the contrived texture of the veiling, both were equal to her, if not superior to her, in beauty.
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36 84 I held myself superior to such things!" "The collar releases the female, which you are," I said.
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59 94 And as for beauty, I know at least four, locally, who are your superior".
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