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Understanding

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	170	His supposition seemed plausible to me, for from the very beginning I had understood that in something or someone existed a force and clarity of understanding beside which the customary habits of rationality as I knew them were little more than the tropisms of the unicellular animal.	10
20	71	But if I am so summoned, they will do so with the understanding that I am resolved to be no pawn in their vast games.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	101	"For how then would the ranks of Field Slaves be replenished?" "I see," I said, now understanding for the first time something of the motivation behind the hospitality of Tharna.	10
16	123	The Tatrix stood as if stunned, not understanding.	10
21	94	When the iron is pulled away and she knows the pain and degradation and smells the odor of her burned flesh, she is supposed to tell herself, understanding its full and terrible import, I AM HIS.	10
21	147	Targo looked at me, not quite understanding.	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	50	I looked at her, not fully understanding.	10
7	102	Maddened beyond understanding I began to race down the passageway, retracing my steps to confront what might be in the passage.	10
23	29	And looking upon her I now realized too that somehow, not fully understanding, I had cared for her.	10
29	144	Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel...	10

Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	50	"Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".	10
12	485	She was gentle, not understanding, naive, in her way foolish—a girl of Earth but not on Earth—not a woman of Gor female on her own barbaric world—she would always be of Earth—the bright, pretty girl with the stenographer's pad—like many girls of Earth, not men but ...	10
21	275	Suddenly understanding, the officer cried out in rage and whipped his sword from his sheath but before he could raise his arm the young man had leaped to him and thrust a quiva into his heart.	10
27	41	Aphris looked at him, not understanding.	10
27	134	Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f...	10
28	54	I looked at him, not really understanding.	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	87	We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...	10
12	174	At last even Phyllis had asked again and again, irrationally, the guard not even understanding English, if they were truly to be trained.	10
13	57	I knew this game of bath girls, as though they, mere slaves, would dare to truly flee from one who pursued them, and I laughed, and she, too, sensing my understanding, laughed.	10
15	173	The conditioning, of course, was subtle, as well as gross, being a combination not simply of torment and reward, but including the intended inculcation of an image and understanding of themselves as well.	10
17	150	I knew myself involved in games of a dangerous sort, but I had agreed to play, not clearly understanding the object or the goal of what I did.	10
19	472	She cried out wildly, helplessly, a long screaming wail of misery and understanding.	10
20	90	The girl looked at him, not understanding.	10
21	232	The crowd cried out, confused, not understanding, then angry.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	291	Alone and slave, beaten and degraded, I found myself desperately in need of something, be it almost nothing, to indicate that I was a man, a human being, something that might, to some extent or degree, be worthy of respect or understanding.	10
8	155	She, an intelligent, and proud girl, understanding the intention of these precautions, neither questioned me nor protested them.	10
16	235	The men looked at one another, not understanding, but one went to fetch the boy.	10
17	81	I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	345	And what you may not understand, my dear, is that its meaning is quite clear on Earth, as well, for those capable of understanding it.	10
12	606	I am not precisely sure why this is, but I suppose it must have to do with the understanding of ourselves as animals, as properties, and such.	10
16	274	She expects, and hopes, of course, understanding that she is a slave, and desiring to be a pleasing slave, that he will use the whip on her if there are any laxities or imperfections in her service; this reassures her that she is still meaningful, if only in her small way, to him, that he is concern...	10

Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	204	I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp.	10
6	93	"Further," I said, "it is my understanding that Verna expects Marlenus of Ar to pursue her.	10
6	535	I nodded, understanding her.	10
10	133	"It is my understanding," he said, "that you hold a girl, once known to me, slave".	10
16	99	Her eyes wild over her gag, she nodded her understanding.	10
22	290	I had not thought, ever, to see the Ubar as he stood there, looming over this woman, whom he might, did he choose, seize and own, but standing there numb, not understanding.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	123	It tottered, eyes wild, not understanding, then understanding, the hilt protruding from its chest, stopped only by the guard, the blade fixed in the vast eight-valved heart.	10
1	39	Other captains, other merchants, seeing the waxing of my fortunes, and understanding the commercial complexities involved, had offered this scribe considerable emoluments to join their service.	10
1	308	"In the forest," I said, "it is my understanding that you sued for your freedom, begging in a missive that your father purchase you".	10
3	200	They looked at him with horror, understanding then what the nature of their life would be.	10
8	36	"I had no understanding," said she, "that the wares of Ar were so inferior".	10
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...	10
11	133	The Kurii, then, had some understanding of laughter.	10
11	170	The men in the field grunted their understanding.	10
13	239	After the entertainers had been driven from the hall and much food had been eaten, Svein Blue Tooth, who had showed much patience, said to Ivar Forkbeard, "It is my understanding that you believe yourself to have that wherewith your deed's wergild might be met".	10
21	141	New understanding, new recognition, figured in her eyes.	10

Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	555	Sometimes inert, esteemed Gorean free women cry out in rage, not understanding why their companions have forsaken them for the evening, to go to the paga tavern; there, of course, for the price of a cup of paga, he can get his hands on a silken, belled girl, a slave; the free woman must denounce her...	10
2	559	Miserably, Alyena, understanding what was required of her, fled to the threshold.	10
4	223	One does not, so to speak, train the girl to "look vital"; rather, one makes her vital; she then, perhaps without even understanding it, or thinking about it, looks vital.	10
7	433	"Investigating her further, understanding she accompanied you to the Sardar, with the last egg of Priest-Kings, we looked for further connections.	10
7	540	"It is their understanding, I take it, that all women are natural slaves?" "I think so," I said.	10
11	141	"Ah," said Hassan, understanding.	10
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".	10
18	116	"You will now, at least with understanding," said he, "enter the desert".	10
24	398	"It is my understanding," I said, "that you are a high slave".	10
24	442	"So you have come to an understanding of yourself on Gor?" "Yes," she whispered.	10
24	524	Ibn Saran, as I recalled, had informed me that Vella had changed, that she had, I gathered, come to some deeper understanding of her needs, her desires, herself.	10
24	690	One of the many pleasures of bondage from the point of view of the female, aside from such things as her pride in her master, her joy in serving, the ecstasies associated with her frequent and profound usage, and such, is understanding herself as, what she is, a feminine woman, a true woman, categor...	10
26	704	When a slave is introduced into a new house, often carried over the threshold bound and naked, she is commonly tied and whipped; the purpose of this is to leave her in no doubt as to what she is in the new domicile; in this way she is assisted in understanding that within the new walls, in the new c...	10
26	795	I think that the proud woman of Earth had now come to a new understanding of herself, that she now understood herself as what she now was, a mere slave.	10
26	1003	"It is my understanding," I said, "that you crawl well to a man".	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	1083	He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b...	10
5	194	Too, allaying my commiserations for the girl, for she had had no say in her companionship arrangements, was my understanding, conveyed by Eta, that she looked forward to the match and was much pleased by it.	10
5	524	Too, seeing the lust of men to discern your features, and understanding what face veiling and unveiling means to them, tends to influence one's views of these matters.	10
7	548	Perhaps you will then have a richer understanding of what it was, truly, that you did to her.	10
7	1012	But, in spite of the fact that my master, currently, seemed to be much taken with Marla, and that she was clearly the preferred bond girl in our camp, I did not feel that she had managed to negate the moments or the tacit understanding which I felt I shared with the man who owned me.	10
7	1091	"Too," said he, "an intelligent girl, a highly intelligent one, such as yourself, is capable of truly understanding her slavery.	10
7	1118	"But perhaps," said he, musing, "your understanding of your slavery, in virtue of your intelligence, your sensitivity, is much more intense, much deeper and richer than would be that of a duller woman?" "Perhaps, Master," I said.	10

Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	177	And yet I now stand alive beside your chair to explain this to you, who are incapable of understanding it".	10
9	211	The Earth girl, in her terror of the masters, at the feet of whom she knows herself truly enslaved, is likely to have a much more realistic understanding of the futility of such a ruse than her Gorean sister, who, after all, has probably once been a Gorean free woman.	10
9	269	—What are you?" I wondered if it was as clear to them as it was to me that they had little hope for understanding, pity, or succor from the stern, regal figure before whom they knelt, which regarded them with such ill-concealed disdain.	10
12	604	"No," I said, "but note, interestingly, in spite of the fact that you perhaps never in your life on Earth encountered such manhood, yet you were capable of understanding and conceiving it, and longing for its manifestation".	10
15	1161	Imnak lifted his head quickly, and then, understanding the nature of the noise, shook his head and reached over and seized Poalu.	10
23	331	Too, I did not think that the Kurii would permit minor minions, such as she had been, though not understanding herself so, to know more than was absolutely necessary to perform their parts in their complex plans.	10
24	320	And that, too, in a way you may have difficulty understanding, I find very meaningful, very thrilling".	10
26	97	"Yes," I said, understanding him.	10
26	329	I looked out, across the ice, understanding then the effectiveness, the hideous efficiency, of the sleen trap which Imnak had so swiftly constructed, the sleen pack nearing the shelter as he had worked.	10
28	183	I nodded, understanding.	10
31	138	"I know little of humans," it said, "but it is my understanding that most of them are liars and hypocrites.	10

Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	569	The soil of tropical areas, contrary to popular understanding, is not one of great agricultural fertility.	10
6	620	I saw the blond-haired barbarian, suspended at her ring, suddenly shudder with understanding.	10
6	783	She would lead me, too, not understanding it, to the Tahari ring.	10
14	135	"Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man.	10
15	116	"It is my understanding," said Shaba to me, "that you have brought the notes and the false ring".	10
23	196	I had little doubt but what, between his Gorean and my understanding of the Ushindi dialect spoken at the court of Bila Huruma, we could communicate.	10
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...	10
34	675	Then, perhaps scarcely understanding what is occurring within her, she sees the girl in the mirror has begun to dance.	10
53	365	I drove my dagger into the belly of one which was pressing past me, and in its rush, it hardly understanding that it was wounded, was carried, dragged, holding to the beast and dagger, for fifty feet among the Kurii.	10

Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	52	Earth, with its frigid, competitive, frustrated females, trying to be men, has not even prepared one for the understanding that such fantastic, owned beauties could exist.	10
4	326	This was not, then, weakness on my part, but evidence of my respect for them, my nobility, my understanding, my sweetness and tenderness.	10
5	185	"By doing so, you will prevent yourself from knowing them and understanding them.	10
7	287	I put my hands on her upper arms, good-naturedly, not understanding her shuddering, and lifted her to her feet.	10
8	33	Perhaps it is thus they protect themselves from understanding that they have, in effect, no manhood to deny".	10
10	69	The guards nodded, understanding.	10
12	114	"Are they all silk slaves?" "That is my understanding," said the Lady Tima.	10
12	290	He will be sweet, tender, solicitous, understanding, sympathetic and obedient.	10
18	71	Thank you again, my sweet and understanding friend, and generous friend, for your kindness in these matters.	10
25	164	In that squarish, hideously scarred countenance of Krondar there was, for a moment, a sudden understanding that though he were now in the vicinity of Vonda he with whom he shared that shallow pit of sand, collared and slave, too, might be one perhaps not unworthy to be called a fighter.	10
25	167	Again Krondar charged, as though maddened, but I had earlier seen his understanding that I might be dangerous.	10
32	48	"If you were an understanding, refined sort," she said, "and I more fully free, I might beg to attempt to earn my freedom, by the performance of intimate services for you".	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	239	"Yes," I said, for, somehow, suddenly, perhaps with the sudden understanding and acceptance of her nature and condition, it had become true.	10
4	496	Those who have owned one find little difficulty in understanding this saying.	10
9	164	I now suspected that that courage had had to do with a change in her, one consequent on her disturbing interlude with a heavy, large-handed, balding, virile man encountered in a Manhattan apartment, an interlude in which she had first found herself put as a female under a man's will, an experience w...	10
14	196	This understanding, of course, goes far beyond the mere pain of a particular episode.	10
21	283	A slave girl, on the other hand, whether Gorean or an embonded Earth girl, finding herself on Gor, once trained and understanding, fully, her condition, will often find herself on the brink of orgasm, simply finding her master's eyes casually upon her.	10
28	322	In looking to Callimachus, on the other hand, she had revealed, inadvertently, not even understanding what she had done, that he was in her heart her master, and that she was, in her heart, his slave.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	320	They have labored in a fruitless desert, often not even understanding the causes of their unhappiness, of their misery and frustration.	10
20	367	"We divided them among various wholesalers, with the understanding that no more than one of them will be sold in any given market, in any given city or town, or village or fair.	10
20	1641	Let them acquiesce nobly, with appropriate sensitivity, and understanding, to their own reduction and gelding.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	594	With a human translator sound is processed, and understood morphemically, which understanding is then reprocessed into the new phonemic structures.	10
1	595	With the machine the correlation is simply between sound structures, simpliciter, and it is the auditor who supplies the understanding.	10
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.	10
4	236	"That, too, would be my understanding of the matter," I said.	10
13	73	I might then, with the aid of the quirt, and caressing her, begin to induce in her some modicum of understanding concerning her condition.	10
13	591	"The unenslaved slave is adrift, lost, aimless, remote from herself, confused, understanding little or nothing, unhappy, unfulfilled.	10
14	601	In speaking to a slave I prefer expressions such as 'Slave' or 'Slave Girl', or the girl's name itself, she understanding clearly, of course, that it is only a slave name.	10
14	1239	"It is my understanding, gathered along the perimeter, that you are unusual among traders, that you, of all of them, have penetrated farthest into the Barrens, and know them the best of all white men".	10
17	460	A slave collar need not even lock, though it is better for the girl's understanding of herself, of course, if it does.	10

Book 18. (16 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	51	Perhaps two further remarks may be helpful in understanding these matters, one with respect to literacy, the other with respect to collars, and such.	10
2	97	Initially, then, these understandings may color each girl's understanding of her own bondage.	10
9	521	"I mean in my understanding of it," she said "I do not understand," I said "We are smaller, and weaker than you, and softer," she said.	10
9	594	I supposed women had some understanding of how beautiful they were.	10
10	46	"Thus," I said, "does she display her new understanding of her condition.	10
12	10	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
12	662	Free women, whose sexuality is usually, for most practical purposes, sluggish and inert, often have difficulty in understanding the desperation and intensity of these needs on the part of a female slave.	10
18	253	"Is it your understanding that Wopeton accompanied Mahpiyasapa?" "That is what I think," said the man, drawing the wet string, sand adhering to it, firmly and slowly, carefully, across the stone.	10
26	110	Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'.	10
37	316	If she is not conquered, authentically, and in her own understanding, and to the master's satisfaction, she is subjected to severe punishment, and may even be slain.	10
37	325	This understanding, and acknowledgment, openly made, is often the difference in a woman between joy and fulfillment, and egotism, hostility and frustration.	10
40	753	Perhaps it is the understanding on her part that he owns her.	10
40	777	She looked at me, pleadingly, for understanding.	10
41	98	These two things tend, then, in your understanding to merge into only one, in this case that your shield betrayed you".	10
44	179	"Is it my understanding," I asked, "that you wish to serve at the post, as a slave might, licking and kissing?" "Yes!" she said.	10
44	405	"Without understanding it," said Hci, "you have been as obedient and compliant as a slave".	10

Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
2	474	I was then again a simple, typical, naive young female of my culture, shaken, confused, and terrified, not understanding what was being done to her, or why, and fearing a looming, unfamiliar future, to which she might be destined, one doubtless quite other than those which she might have otherwise p...	10
3	396	I had tried to fight this understanding.	10
6	471	Perhaps he did not kiss me because I was free, or, I added, in my thinking, not truly understanding the qualification, because he thought I was free.	10
6	480	I got up and, almost as though in a trance, scarcely understanding what I was doing, went to the slave ring, that at the foot of the couch.	10
24	164	The historical explanation of this is that it was originally intended to make it difficult for male slaves to make contact with one another and to keep them from understanding how numerous they might be.	10
29	281	Afterwards he had me clean him, with my lips and tongue, and I, naively, did so, not understanding what he intended.	10
31	87	I shuddered, suddenly coming to a new understanding of my sex.	10
33	795	"Intermittently, it is my understanding, for generations, they have been involved in combat.	10
34	63	In kissing it, and licking it, deferentially, lingeringly, she expresses her understanding of it, and what it stands for.	10
36	77	I had not been taught to read in Corcyrus, probably in order to better keep the politics of the city from me, and in order to guard against my better understanding my position there.	10
36	851	I suppose it has to do with many things, but perhaps mostly with the arousing, enflaming condition of bondage itself, with knowing oneself now in one's place in nature, with knowing oneself wholly owned, with knowing oneself at the mercy of another, with being dependent on the other, with understand...	10
36	1270	"So," said he, "it seems you do have some understanding of the iron that kissed you".	10

Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	772	Few things so impress her bondage upon her then as the understanding that her very speech is contingent on the will of the master, and his permission, whether this be implicit, or explicit.	10
2	179	To be sure, this understanding, as obvious and straightforward as it is, if brought to the clear light of consciousness, is likely to come as a revelatory and somewhat scandalous shock to the female.	10
5	429	It could be, of course, that she, for all her beauty, was only a lowly counter in an intricate, complex game beyond her understanding.	10
5	484	"That, too, is my understanding," she said.	10
6	638	"How understanding you are," marveled Boots.	10
13	332	I had little difficulty, however, in understanding him.	10
14	413	They had then seemed provocatively, somehow significantly, but with no full significance which I had then grasped, lurking, prowling, at the borders of my understanding.	10
14	415	But had I not acted upon this understanding, immediately, almost instinctively, whose earlier significance only now came fully home to me? I had.	10
16	971	"It is my understanding that the cities of Brundisium and Ar stand leagued firmly in friendship, that the wine has been drunk between them, and the salt and fire shared, that they are pledged both in comity and alliance, military and political.	10
16	1084	Bina looked down upon it with a lack of understanding.	10
16	1098	She looked down at the board without understanding, but with misery.	10

Book 21. (16 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	167	"Thank you, thank you, Master!" In a slave there is doubtless an immediate, abstract, intellectual understanding of her condition, say, that of her legal status, that she is property, and beast, particularly if she is a Gorean girl, and is culturally familiar with the institution, but this intellect...	10
1	168	And the lash frequently expedites this understanding.	10
1	177	To be sure, with a new slave, this ceremony is sometimes enforced upon her, as it helps her to attain a clearer understanding of what she now is, and the nature of her new reality.	10
1	268	"I will try to be a good slave, Master," she whispered, frightened, understanding now perhaps somewhat better than before something of the categorical and absolute nature of her new condition.	10
4	617	In her eyes there was awe, understanding what a woman could be.	10
5	363	"You may count, of course," I said, "on his understanding and sympathy, and his respect for your wishes, as those of a free woman".	10
15	313	"I have no understanding with Ar".	10
16	960	I ask, rather, your understanding, and a little love".	10
16	1520	Sometimes these are taught as functions of arbitrary sounds, so that she must learn them as any animal might, without the benefit of an earlier understanding of the words used.	10
21	141	My question had not been prompted, of course, merely by the obvious consideration that the ubar's cloak might seem an attractive prize to a strong, ambitious man, but by the sober understanding that Ar was in a situation of crisis, whether she knew it or not.	10
25	364	One may then, after she has learned herself a slave, after she has been brought to this self-understanding, do what one wishes with her, say, keeping her or selling her, doubtless now making a profit on her, and putting her into the markets, where, eventually, if she is fortunate, she might eventual...	10
25	1180	"I have no understanding of it.	10
25	1287	Understanding this she understands that it is not only appropriate but entirely seemly that she should render deference.	10
25	1362	"You were drawn to me because something within you seemed to sense, and delicately, that I might prove to be a sympathetic interlocutor, an understanding fellow with whom you might, assuaging therein to some extent your loneliness and pain, hold gentle and kindly converse".	10
25	1517	"How understanding you are".	10
26	1162	I think she could not understand the emotions that had gone through her, as she had performed these overt actions, understanding and internalizing their meanings.	10

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	7	Nonetheless my life had changed, somehow, in perspective or understanding, if not greatly in overt deed or obvious fact, that night when I had seen myself as I was, or might be, in the mirror, when I had come to incontrovertibly learn my true nature, a nature which must be forever denied, thwarted a...	10
3	848	"But then," said Teibar, "I suppose that all females understand the whip, or if they are stupid, and do not, they may be brought swiftly enough to its proper understanding".	10
3	909	He thinks you may have an instinctive understanding of chain signals".	10
4	296	I shuddered, understanding the sorts of things that might be required of me, and even routinely, on this world.	10
5	167	We had learned that not only the quality and nature of our life on this world, but perhaps our very survival, could be contingent on our success in understanding and speaking this language.	10
6	419	The terrors of this situation were further impressed upon me by the understanding that it was most likely the beautiful, and the attractive, who would be sought out for impressment into helpless bondage.	10
8	401	Sometimes I knelt, and moved, and posed, almost without understanding or thinking about what was being done to me.	10
9	244	I listened to the fellow behind us, scarcely understanding him.	10
9	247	I would be capable, I heard, of understanding most simple commands put to me.	10
9	284	I did have a live body, some understanding of my womanhood, and a desire to please men.	10
9	522	Too, tonight, I had been, particularly in the last few minutes, almost numbed with misery, and terror, understanding myself being sold.	10
10	86	What more could anyone want? Then I swallowed hard, understanding him.	10
11	344	I looked at her, not even understanding her.	10
11	775	Too, these were not the men of Earth, so tolerant, so understanding, so considerate, so forgiving, so easily put off, so weak.	10
11	972	Rather I wanted his understanding.	10
11	1191	My ardor in this matter, and this explicit expression of my understanding of what I was, a slave, may, I suspect, have mollified him to some extent.	10
11	1436	That was perhaps yet another evidence of his kindness, or of his understanding and patience with me, his recognition that I was still naught but an ignorant and naive novice with respect to the rigors of my bondage.	10
11	1579	The first fellow had been, on the whole, very gentle and understanding with me.	10
11	1630	I still had no clear understanding as to how it was that a girl could bruise herself against the bars of her cage, trying to touch a guard, or crawl naked on her belly to a hated master, if only to feel the blow of his hand or foot.	10
11	1631	In short, though I had come a thousand miles from the naive girl in the library, I still had no understanding, really, of slave sex.	10
13	133	To be sure, I had no understanding, at that time, of what could become the fuller impact of these things.	10
13	473	I trembled, then, a bit, understanding then, a little more than before, what it might be, on this world, to have pierced ears.	10
13	1059	"Do you want the slave sent out on the floor, or to your quarters?" "It was my understanding that in the schedules she was not to go on the floor this evening".	10
14	46	Too, I had some understanding of the meaning of such devices to Gorean males, and the effects upon them of such things.	10
16	191	To be sure, this very understanding, in itself, knowing the discipline under which they served, its consistency and reality, encouraged them to attempt to achieve perfect pleasingness, with the result that the whip was seldom called for, unless perhaps for the amusement of masters.	10
19	9	"You are understanding," I whispered.	10
22	54	"It is my understanding that six days ago, on the streets," he said, "you exhibited a momentary hesitancy in carrying out a capture".	10
24	178	How astonishing it was that they bore me no ill will! How grateful I was to them for their understanding! Then I knelt before he who was last on the chain, he whom I most feared, and yet best knew, he who had been many times kind to me in Brundisium, and whom I had cleverly tricked in Argentum, brin...	10
25	85	This decision may have been motivated, in part, it seemed, by an understanding that the auspices were to be soon taken, and would be likely to be "favorable," as the councils in Venna were eager to get on with the repair of the walls.	10
30	93	It was he, I recalled, who had regarded me, more than once in the meadow, he before whom I had, with a slave's awareness, a slave's tact and wisdom, a slave's sensitivity and need, understanding herself to be looked upon by a male, twice widened my knees.	10

Book 23. (22 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	166	She will have felt it at some time, of course, so that her understanding in the matter will be more than theoretical.	10
1	169	It is my belief that women have an instinctual understanding of the whip.	10
2	311	"We expected men to be gentlemen, to be understanding, to take care of us!" "We counted on the kindness of men!" said the fourth woman.	10
5	697	"Sleen!" The slave now moaned and whimpered, and then cried out, suddenly, as though momentarily frightened, or alarmed, but then, again, in a moment, understanding what was going to be done to her, that to which she was relentlessly being brought, began to cry out softly, gladly, gratefully, eagerl...	10
5	780	Although she had, doubtless, some theoretical understanding that she was subject to discipline, she was not yet fully aware, as is a female slave, of how such realities might affect her situation.	10
8	471	She lifted her wrists before her, as if not understanding how they could be so suddenly clasped in steel.	10
8	653	In the case of the tarn one's very life can depend on such things as understanding its speed, its rate of climb, the sharpness of its turns, and so on.	10
9	182	To be sure, there is probably no fully adequate way for one to anticipate, or prepare for, psychologically, the actual transition to bondage, even if one eagerly seeks it, even if one welcomes it joyously, for with it comes a new and profoundly different understanding of one's self and nature; by it...	10
15	802	Lady Publia, in the hood, tied at our feet, made a small, wild noise, as of understanding, acknowledgment, dismay, regret, misery and pain.	10
15	1039	In any event, she, hooded, and helplessly bound, would have at best only a very imperfect understanding of what had occurred.	10
16	372	It can be shown by such things as her profound psychological dispositions to selflessly serve and love, her desire for, and response to, male domination, her understanding of chains and the whip, the quickening, deepening and intensification of her sexuality under conditions of bondage, her happines...	10
18	524	For example, when a woman has been slept naked on a hardwood floor without covers, she is likely to come to a much better understanding of the value of a slave blanket.	10
21	155	"I have only a very imperfect understanding of what occurred," she said.	10
21	324	"It is our understanding that your hair was shorn only yesterday, and against your will, in a cell in the citadel, by an escaping prisoner".	10
21	437	Usually, after a taste of an alternative bondage, and a dawning understanding of their femaleness, which invariably accompanies the fastening on of the collar, they are more than eager to serve as a man's personal slave.	10
21	793	The Lady Claudia shuddered, understanding what it might be to be at the mercy of men.	10
21	1129	It is my understanding that young free women, in playing ball and such, say, with their friends in private courts, segregated gymnasiums, and such, may wear light, white tunics, of modest cuts and lengths.	10
21	1277	But then she is put through ecstasies that obliterate in storms of passion all but his conquest of her, ecstasies in which she can scarcely think and can do little but cry out and feel, turbulences impossible to the free woman, scarcely endurable raptures that enforce upon her the understanding that...	10
24	95	I felt so small, like a particle adrift on a vast sea, beneath a vast sky, a particle taken here and there, at the mercy of the tides, the currents, the winds, not understanding.	10
24	501	Moving as she did, and being what she was, a slave, was the deepest and most wonderful thing in her being, and she reveled in it, and loved it! She had wanted only the clear understanding that she must now surrender to it, that she was now truly a slave.	10
24	948	The name, which I had soon determined, had done wonders for her new understanding of herself, and for her sexuality.	10
24	962	Indeed, some masters, even with the same girl, and not simply as a matter of discipline or reward, may change her name, to startle her, to impress their will upon her, and, perhaps, to freshen their relationship, she understanding, in effect, that she must now begin anew.	10

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	79	I had thought she would make an excellent first girl, to introduce her free sisters into some understanding of their womanhood.	10
19	141	Even the free women of Gor have some understanding of these things.	10
19	364	"To be sure," I said, "you might need a little training, perhaps a taste of the whip, perhaps some understanding that you must now be good for something, that all details of your life, including your clothing, if you are permitted any, are now in the control of another".	10
19	1269	Scarcely understanding what he is doing, he puts her to her belly on the floor, and, with a shoelace, ties her hands behind her.	10
19	1276	"Please, please!" Then, again scarcely understanding what has come over him, he removes his belt, loops it twice about her throat, and buckles it shut.	10
19	1549	"Your experience was not conditioned by the categoricality of bondage, by the reality of it, and the slave's knowledge of that reality, by the full belonging of the slave to her master, so to speak, and her understanding, legal, and personal, and such, of that full belonging.	10
25	64	These things had to do, I think, with male dominance, and its effects upon a woman, the finding of herself helplessly where she belongs, and her understanding this, in her true place in nature.	10
26	72	To be sure, she herself apparently had some understanding of what it was to be a female slave.	10
27	573	"But I assure you," I said, "you have on the whole as yet, being a free woman, very little understanding of what it might be to be subjected to slave use".	10
28	455	"It is my understanding that blond rencers are rare," he said.	10
28	696	Most masters, however, understanding the saying more generously, as referring to strictures which may be imposed upon occasion, at the master's will, rather than strictures which must obtain constantly, regardless of his will, enjoy permitting a slave girl a certain amount of modesty.	10
28	699	This, too, incidentally, is the legal understanding of the saying, as any other interpretation would be inconsistent with the master's absolute ownership of the slave.	10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	313	Dietrich, finally understanding the treason in Ar, in high places, had managed to effect a withdrawal from Torcadino.	10
9	70	This force then may later be disbanded, or even destroyed, to the delight of the other citizens, who then will see their conqueror as their protector, not even understanding his use of, and sacrifice of, such instrumentalities as the duped dregs of their own community, first making use of them, then...	10
12	21	Too, it soon, she understanding herself as a sexual suppliant, becomes sexually arousing to her.	10
14	649	It is a beautiful moment when a woman comes to learn, and love, what she is, when she comes to understand herself, and has the courage to accept this understanding, when in joy the ice breaks in the rivers, when the glaciers melt, when spring comes, when she loves and kneels.	10
19	755	I trembled, not understanding the immensity of his anger, the enormity of his response to my tiny, pathetic deed.	10
19	995	"Too," she said, "it is my understanding that information is sometimes furnished, for a fee, by some of the female proprietors of women's baths in Ar.	10
20	128	"I assure you that I had some understanding of this sort of thing when I was a free woman," she said.	10
20	129	"Anything like the understanding you have now?" I asked.	10
20	131	"Nothing like my understanding now!" "That is my point," I said.	10
20	470	Some of this may have to do with something as simple and obvious as the greater amount of exposed skin, which is then much more aware of variations and subtleties in the atmosphere, and such, but it is rather, and primarily, a matter of the awakening of the entire, beautiful psychophysiological natu...	10
24	171	In this way the average woman of Earth has little practical understanding of either freedom or bondage.	10
25	154	I now had some understanding of the jealousy of the retainers for the slave.	10
25	457	Interestingly this understanding, particularly on the part of a woman who has been the victim of an antibiological conditioning program, as some Earth females, can be received as a liberating and joyful revelation, permitting them then in good conscience to yield at last, as they have long wished, t...	10
26	464	"That, too, is my understanding," said Lavinia.	10
27	215	"Aii!" he said, understanding this.	10

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	703	But even had it not been for my understanding of what I was, an understanding going back even to my native world, one which I had achieved, but had scarcely admitted to myself, long before I had been brought here, and one which I now understood even in terms of actual, significant, pertinent legalit...	10
14	1306	Do you understand?" The Lady Constanzia, frightened, perhaps hardly understanding what she had done, what had been done to her, or perhaps understanding it only too well, her head turned to the left, nodded affirmatively, vigorously.	10
4	365	We knelt there, learning our unimportance, understanding more and more clearly our vulnerability and helplessness, and experiencing sensations, unusual and troubling sensations, sensations which were very deep and profound.	10
4	536	At other times, however, it is done from the beginning, particularly with individuals who realize clearly and fully what is going on, so that they may, in full specificity and anticipation, with full intellectual and emotional understanding, see it approach, one by one, and then find themselves, in ...	10
6	74	"That was my understanding," agreed the fellow from the house.	10
6	235	At times I had trembled, seeing what was revealed in the mirror, and understanding the only way in which such a thing could be understood by a man, and yet knowing, too, that that was I, that tasteless, brazen, garish, dramatic, provocative thing, in one of my authentic modalities.	10
7	137	We are to turn our eyes downward and to the left, and look upon it, seeing it once again, understanding it once again.	10
8	764	And what if they saw how willingly, how eagerly, how joyfully I did this! But I thought, rather, that they, somehow, if only after a moment or two, beneath the immediate, superficial crusts of their conditioning, on some deep level, would feel something quite different, not shock, not scandal, not d...	10
10	175	It was not necessary for one such as I, I thought then, to be leashed, perhaps for a free woman, or a new girl, or a naive girl, or an ignorant girl, but not for one such as I, who had some understanding of the world on which she found herself, and what she was upon it.	10
10	270	There had been straw in the cell, for my comfort and cleanliness! Even a vessel for wastes had been provided! Could it be that these men were weak, or, if not weak, that they were tolerant, understanding, and kindly? Then it would surely be easy to fool them.	10
10	553	This understanding did not ease my apprehensions.	10
11	120	"It is my understanding," said he, "that you can move in fashions which may not be entirely without interest".	10
11	228	Or perhaps she had been a high free woman, and her master, or masters, allowed her to act as she did, finding some amusement in the absurdity of it, she not understanding the joke, knowing they could in an instant bring her to her knees as a humbled, abject, servile, weeping slave.	10
12	289	So, if that is the case, and the Peasants is indeed the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, then it would seem, at least in my understanding, to be a very important caste.	10
13	700	Did they sense, tremblingly, how exciting they might seem to men if they were so adorned, how much this might increase the desire which they might provoke in masters? And were they not, all, slaves? Did they not want to be exciting, beautiful, and desirable? Did they dare to conceive of themselves, ...	10
13	857	This reinforced, too, my understanding of my condition, which was bond, and its obvious concomitant, that of being subject to masters, fully, in all things.	10
14	52	There were doubtless several causes for this, not to mention a certain ripening of her understanding, of how she was fully, truly, even though a prisoner, at the mercy of men.	10
14	59	It now emerged from her lips with sincerity, with understanding and respect.	10
14	156	That is the understanding, and the condition.	10
14	365	Was she concerned, I wondered, to make clear to us the authenticity of her new understanding, that she must obey.	10
14	1307	"I thank you, Lady," said the slaver to the free woman, she in the ornate robes, who had been muchly offended, "on behalf of all property holders, for your understanding in this matter, for the lenience you have shown in this instance".	10
14	1410	In her first glance she had grasped, with the immediate understanding a woman has of such things, the nature of his scrutiny.	10
17	19	"It was my understanding that I should so serve!" I said.	10
18	128	He locks it on the neck of the supplicant and conducts her to one of the alcoves, often dragging her, bent over, by the hair, that she may have some understanding as to how her life has now changed.	10
19	798	Some masters harvest the hair of their slaves every two or three years, understanding this, I suppose, as a part of the productivity of the slave.	10
24	899	The key to understanding these matters, of course, is to understand, simply, and clearly, that the female is an article of property, that she is owned.	10
29	360	"She who was the proud Lady Constanzia now has some understanding of her new condition, it seems".	10
29	732	And, too, once she had felt the whip, once it had made it clear to her what she was, once it had confirmed her bondage upon her, once it had imprinted upon her an understanding of what could be done to her, I did not think it likely that she would be eager to feel it soon again, even lightly, even i...	10
29	908	The free woman laughed merrily, understanding the pit master's decision as constituting for her some sort of victory, particularly given the disgruntlement of the guard.	10
40	344	Had the black-tunicked men been successful in the depths I suspected we might all have had our throats cut, even the other girls, whose understanding of these things must be even less than mine, which was negligible.	10

Book 27. (53 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	399	Gorean men seemed interested, as Earth men were not, in paying attention to their women, in spending time with them and listening to them, and, in virtue of delightfully prolonged intimacies, understanding them, learning them, knowing them, truly understanding them, learning them, knowing them.	10
25	525	So, thought Ellen, it seems that there may be yet another reason, other than time, and impatience, for rushing the chains forward, weeping, crying out, begging for mercy, stumbling, under blows, herding them so cruelly with jabs and blows to the block, to their sale, that we may show ourselves as fr...	10
25	527	So this understanding, if understanding it was, certainly did not diminish reality.	10
1	1	She Ponders How to Tell Her Story, and Attempts to Provide Some Understanding or Guidance for a Possible Reader I do not know how exactly to express these thoughts.	10
2	237	The fact that she might have bit a little shorter, and a little lighter, a little slimmer, than many women had given her from a very early age a deep, internal understanding, more than that of many other women, of the size and power of men.	10
3	10	She desired to return to the favoring, understanding, redemptive kindness, the supposed security, of sleep.	10
4	155	"Why am I here? What are you going to do with me?" "I shall explain a small number of things to you," he said, "a portion of what I think you are, at present, capable of understanding.	10
4	340	"With respect to understanding the cultures of such a world," he said, "it is helpful to keep various considerations in mind.	10
6	60	She now began to be instructed in what is known as the First Knowledge, which is that level of understanding common to most individuals on this world, a knowledge of myths, stories, and popular lore.	10
6	65	They also gave her some understanding of the social arrangements common in what were called the "high cities," in particular, the caste system, and the existence of codes of honor, and such, apparently taken seriously on this world.	10
7	35	When this had happened she had cried out, and had been alarmed, not understanding what had occurred, it had been so long, and so unexpected.	10
8	148	From one point of view, of course, though she must be forgiven for not understanding this at the time, she had lacked a name for months before she had even seen the young man again, after a hiatus of so many years, at the opera.	10
11	186	It impresses upon her that she is a slave, no more than a marked property, and this understanding profoundly affects her concept of herself, that she is only, but exactly, slave, giving it, perhaps to her terror and misery, structure, identity, depth, substance and meaning.	10
11	283	"It can give her many warm and delicious feelings, the honor of being permitted to approach and serve masters, the understanding that she is wanted, and desired, and owned, the gratification of being enabled to display herself, in the order of nature, as an acknowledged and total female before stron...	10
11	324	Obvious historical imperatives may dictate policy, at least to those capable of understanding them, and with the power to act upon them.	10
11	831	The intelligent woman, taken in hand, overwhelmed, subdued and mastered, taught her womanhood, wholly submitted, understanding now what she is, fully, makes an excellent slave.	10
15	394	The masters seemed capable of looking through a woman, of understanding her better even than she understood herself.	10
16	182	Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position.	10
16	340	"Not all men are as forgiving, as understanding, as patient, as long-suffering, as kind, as Targo the Benevolent," he said.	10
16	825	The accent of the man, Ellen noted, did not seem the same as those accents with which she was most familiar, but he did speak Gorean, and she had no difficulty in understanding him.	10
16	871	Here, again, it is the contrast, as well as the understanding on the master's part that he can exact this of the slave and on the part of the slave that it can be exacted from her, that is sexually stimulatory.	10
17	369	We mention it for its intrinsic interest, but also because it, in its way, assisted an Earth woman in attaining a somewhat richer understanding of the world on which she now found herself slave.	10
17	375	She heard, not really understanding them for a moment or two, so wild and frightened were her own responses, similar sounds of fear and dismay from Lydia, Cichek and Emris.	10
19	521	"When Portus addressed you," said Selius Arconious, "you merely shook your head in understanding, and affirmation".	10
22	351	Why should I not care about them? Why should I not, too, be vain? Yes, I am vain! I have the vanity of a female slave, who exists only for men! I do not care! I do not object! And I love it! I love it! I love it! This settled in her mind, and kissing the bracelets on her wrists, holding her to the u...	10
23	227	"You no longer kneel as an Earth woman embonded," he said, "but kneel now as a self-understanding, complete and total slave".	10
23	284	"I would be clumsy! They would be angry! I would be beaten!" "If a girl does not report to a circle," said Mirus, "it is my understanding that that constitutes not only disobedience, but a presumption of flight".	10
24	29	Had kaiila or verr the rationality to comprehend such matters they, too, would have such an understanding of themselves.	10
24	30	And Ellen, whom I think we may accept as intelligent, perhaps even quite intelligent, forgive me, Masters, given the selection criteria of Gorean slavers, of which we may take Mirus to be one, had this understanding of herself.	10
24	513	Such men would not rage in frustration on Gor; they would not starve on Gor; the civilization in its foresight, understanding, wisdom and benevolence had provided such as she for their service, satisfaction, and delectation.	10
25	579	The former free woman raised her eyes piteously to the attendant who held her left upper arm in a grip of iron, perhaps then understanding what it was to be a woman and a slave, but he was not even aware of this, keeping his gaze fixed on the attendant toward the top of the stairs.	10
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...	10
25	598	Indeed, why otherwise would the slave, when a free woman, have come alone to the festival camp, if she had not, on a profound subconscious level, scarcely understanding her own action, been seeking more, a more which she was sure must exist.	10
25	1115	Indeed, the average free woman of Earth would have very little understanding, at least initially, culturally, of the social station of a Gorean free woman.	10
25	1121	One might then have some understanding of the radical and traumatic transformation, with all its attendant mental and psychological anguish, which such a woman might undergo should she become a slave.	10
25	1122	She, at least, from her culture, has some understanding of what it is to be a slave.	10
26	329	It is my hope that some attention to these cultural matters may be found illuminating, and add, in their way, to your deeper understanding of this narrative, and, certainly, of the Gorean culture.	10
26	624	Perhaps somehow, without understanding it, she had seen too much.	10
26	810	Even chains, and the whip, were largely symbolic, the woman thusly understanding herself slave, and subject appropriately, as nature would have it, to the will of the dominant sex.	10
27	115	Doubtless there were subconscious depths and mysteries here which eluded superficial explanations, which eluded the facile, at-hand, convenient, shallow categories of the ideologically conditioned understanding, which defied political mockeries of human nature, a reference to realities which lay dee...	10
27	459	Ellen put her cheek against the spoke of the wagon wheel, better understanding her worth on this world.	10
27	941	Ellen thought for an instant that the eyes of he whom Selius Arconious had briefly held had opened for an agonized instant, the body understanding that it was being eaten, but this was doubtless merely a consequence of its subjection to the frenzied molestation.	10
27	1260	He pointed to the rug, before him and she, scarcely understanding what she was doing, shaking with emotion, trembling with sensations hitherto experienced only in her dreams, those exotic corridors of truth, knelt before him.	10
27	1450	Even a free woman, wrapped in her robes and veils, can experience enveloping, disturbing, penetrant sensations at understanding that she is wanted by a man, wanted as a woman is wanted by a man.	10
27	1872	"Yes, Master," whispered Ellen, in the full understanding of her condition and nature.	10
27	1884	Each cell in her body seemed to awaken and glow, to tremble with understanding.	10
27	2199	She nodded, pitifully, understanding, in acquiescence, her eyes wide over the weight and firmness of the oppressive hand by means of which she was denied access to articulate speech.	10
27	3400	She looked up at him, not understanding, uncertain.	10
28	211	Thus, should this not win me some concern, some understanding, some sympathy, some tenderness, some softening of his regard? Yet see how he looks upon me! I am seen merely as female and slave! Momentarily Ellen was angry.	10
29	77	To be sure, she did not wish to belong to another, though she was sure that another would not be as understanding, as patient, as kind, as boring, as neglectful, as trivial with her as Selius Arconious, but would see to it, firmly, severely, whip in hand if need be, that the finest and fullest of he...	10
30	56	In their joy they blossom, understanding that they are now owned, that the collar is truly on them.	10
30	480	She must have a clear understanding of what will be permitted to her companion and what will not be permitted to him.	10
30	593	I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that ...	10

Book 28. (23 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	98	Understanding themselves trapped, they are patient, and wait.	10
1	528	Too, it might be noted that some Gorean men, apprised of what is termed the "Second Knowledge," have some understanding of what is done to men on Earth and how they are commonly treated.	10
1	829	There is a time, of course, to show a woman kindliness, compassion, and understanding, and then a time to put her to her knees and remind her that she is only a slave.	10
1	1031	At the feet of a male who will have from her what he wishes, she understanding this and knowing herself choiceless in the matter, as she wishes to be, she finds her fulfillment.	10
1	1160	And so might a slave have been pleased, understanding that her beauty was such that it might meet with a man's favor.	10
2	269	Indeed, she probably overestimated it, somewhat, as she had never had any experience of the relevant markets, nor any understanding of how her beauty might rank with that of others, many of them doubtless her superiors.	10
7	29	"Nor do I," said Peisistratus, "but the words flicker in the darkness, affording to some an illusion of understanding, a measure of comfort".	10
18	201	To be sure, she had been used against them, willingly or not, and Kurii do not tend to be a benevolently disposed, understanding or forgiving species.	10
20	169	"That was my understanding".	10
20	316	"Do you think she will fight the understanding of herself as rightfully a slave?" asked Peisistratus.	10
26	110	The girl kneeling beside them, her head to the floor, her wrists bound behind her, trembled, understanding then that she was not unique, and that there was a familiar and established role for such as she on the Gorean world.	10
39	47	Although much depends on the city, and world, it is my understanding that many Gorean warriors, and certainly Kurii, do not, in field situations, exchange salutes or wear insignia.	10
45	73	After all, what beautiful woman, however sweet, gentle, tender and modest, does not want her beauty recognized, noted, honored, and admired, even celebrated? And what beautiful woman, too, however sweet, gentle, tender, and modest, does not want to be looked upon by males with interest, and avid, ke...	10
55	97	The female has always been regarded as goods, or booty, and energetic and powerful groups have always understood this, and seldom hesitated to act upon this understanding, bringing women, or at least the more attractive women, of weaker groups, or enemy groups, when raided or conquered, to the slave...	10
55	176	Her fear of the whip, and her understanding that it will be used on her if she is not pleasing, is usually all the motivation she requires to do her best to please".	10
64	62	"It is my understanding," said Archon, "that she has begged a sheet, a covering of some sort, with which to conceal her face and body".	10
73	189	"But she is to come to this understanding," said Cabot, "seemingly in a manner appropriate for a slave, a manner seemingly innocent of intention, as if none were interested in informing her.	10
73	191	Let her assemble this understanding then from seemingly inadvertent scraps, which she will zealously scrutinize, that she may put pieces together, as in a puzzle.	10
79	257	She had no understanding of his intent.	10
80	100	Lord Arcesilaus, whose translator had, of course, assisted him in understanding Cabot's response, shuddered.	10
80	300	"It is my understanding that you have had prepared a state breakfast".	10
81	113	"It is my understanding," said Cabot, "that the ship, if it eludes the blockade of Priest-Kings, will make more than one landfall on Gor".	10
81	152	"That is my understanding," said Grendel.	10

Book 29. (25 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	102	To be sure, a woman whose slave fires have not been ignited may have little understanding of this sort of thing, little understanding of the needs, sensations, miseries, and torments to which their embonded sisters are subject.	10
2	125	Unfortunately, too, several of these children will suffer confusing stress, as they lack the emotional maturation to relate comprehensibly to the needs and demands of their grown bodies, bodies hastened beyond the horizons of a child's understanding.	10
3	20	Indeed, few females of Earth, from their experiences on their native world, have any understanding of what it would be to be a female amongst men such as those of Gor; few such females would be prepared in the least for the possessiveness and power, the virility and lusts, of such men, natural men, ...	10
5	197	Given the presumed destruction of the "box," supposed to contain the original message, presumably on its scroll, the Kurii, or their minions, utilizing the "token," not understanding the nature of its imbedded message, and accommodating themselves to the situation as best they might, would deliver t...	10
9	42	She seemed to believe that since the slave and the free woman were both women that there would be a sympathy, an understanding, a rapport, between them.	10
9	146	The slave, like any animal, is to be governed with understanding, sympathy, and intelligence.	10
9	259	I suppose one could define the true tarn as one that does not fly, the true larl as one that does not hunt, and so on, but this does not seem helpful in understanding the world.	10
10	98	The female companion's complacency in this matter, or her understanding, or her tolerance, is, one gathers, quite different from what would be expected in the case of, say, a Gorean free companion, who, commonly, would find these arrangements outrageous and insufferable.	10
10	229	They come to a new understanding of their bodies, and are at peace with them, perhaps for the first time in their lives, and rejoice in them, and come to love them, and come to see them as delicious and lovely contrasts to the sternness and power, the rudeness and brutishness, of the male bodies, to...	10
10	465	Some others understood her game only too well, and played the game with her, she not understanding how the player was being played.	10
10	590	Now, in the light of the sympathetic understanding and thoughtful consideration of our mutual friend, the noble Lord Nishida, to whom I take it you are subordinate, we may shortly renegotiate our concerns.	10
10	690	I thought I saw a small movement of sudden comprehension, of profound understanding, pass through the slave's body.	10
10	709	In such a situation women take much for granted, not even understanding that it is being taken for granted.	10
13	30	Surely several of these were new to the mats, unfamiliar with being illuminated in the darkness by tapers, fearful of the chain on their necks, wary of the switches of masters, women who knew themselves no longer free but did not yet fully understand what it was to be a slave, an understanding which...	10
13	395	There was a rustle of chain as she trembled, understanding where she was and what she was doing, and then she, again, bent to her task.	10
15	103	I had every confidence in Cecily, that she would be a kind, understanding, tactful, fair first girl, that she would share the work, would not mistreat her subordinate and inferior, and so on.	10
15	402	Sometimes one understands things without understanding how one understands them.	10
15	414	"One who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding," said Pertinax.	10
19	105	Doubtless this was in part due to many things, perhaps to his unusual, imposing, even wretched, appearance, and in part to his reputation, an understanding of who this was, and what he had done, and what he could do, and perhaps, in part, too, to that sense of being in the presence of one who lives ...	10
27	124	This increases their sense of vulnerability and helplessness, which, in turn, given the pervasive natural ratios of dominance and submission, and the female's understanding of herself, that she is a slave, stimulates, enhances, and intensifies their slave reflexes, nicely readying them for their con...	10
33	59	Perhaps they thought that that would lead to harmony, peace, and understanding.	10
34	113	I made no pretense to understanding the Pani.	10
38	287	But I had seen nothing in the glance of Licinius which had suggested shame or pleaded for pity and understanding.	10
43	33	I observed lord Nishida closely, but he gave no sign of understanding me, of suspecting what might be the different language, or the far place.	10
44	47	Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav...	10

Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	357	In their care, days later, it is said that suddenly the long-suppressed memory of great Marlenus again came alive, in a howl of understanding and rage.	10
3	1310	"Perhaps you now have a better understanding of your worth," I said, "as compared to other women".	10
4	190	"It is my understanding," said Lord Nishida, "that Cos is imperialistic".	10
8	170	"It is my understanding that you claimed I had put you to use," I said.	10
9	394	It was my understanding that each lord had something like two hundred and fifty Pani in his command, that those of Lord Nishida had been housed at a place called Tarn Camp, north of the Alexandra, some pasangs from its headwaters, and that those of Lord Okimoto had been housed differently, but in th...	10
10	47	What hope had they for safety, understanding, and compassion, and happiness, save from males who would relish their beauty and master it, uncompromisingly, putting it to the purposes for which the slaves knew it had been formed by nature.	10
12	508	This is a moment of truth, of understanding and insight, of submission, which few women in a collar ever forget.	10
17	51	This sort of selection is apparently not as difficult as it might seem, for, at least according to my understanding, many women in barbarian lands, even free women, do not dress their faces, but leave them naked, as naked as those of slaves; that it is not unusual for their calves and ankles to be d...	10
20	101	I saw a sudden look of surprise, and then understanding, manifest itself in the features of Alcinoë.	10
21	197	It was my understanding that a dialect of Gorean was spoken at the World's End, that the Priest-Kings had seen to this.	10
23	79	"That is my understanding.	10
23	122	"That is my understanding, at least substantially," said Cabot.	10
25	221	"It is my understanding that women do not escape the chains of Rask of Treve," I said.	10
25	250	"It is my understanding," I said, "that you begged to be purchased".	10
26	193	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
33	88	She is also likely to be considerably more sensitive to her condition, and is likely to be far more prompt in understanding what is expected of her, the devoted and zealous service of the interests, inclinations, and pleasures of her master, than a less intelligent woman.	10
37	57	Many masters do, but, of course, with the understanding that that permission is revocable at any time.	10
37	229	"It is my understanding," he said, "from a cripple at the castle, a man named Rutilius of Ar, that the slave, Alcinoë, may have value in Ar".	10
37	495	She suddenly looked at me, with recognition, with understanding in her eyes.	10
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...	10
37	1331	"That is my understanding," she said.	10

Book 31. (27 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	122	And even if such efforts should prove overtly successful it is not unlikely that some copies will elude the insecure and bigoted, and will continue to circulate, as an underground literature, if nothing else, hidden here and there, and passed secretly from hand to hand, a badge of understanding and ...	10
4	207	Scarcely understanding what we were doing, almost numbly, we knelt before her.	10
4	212	Was I in my place? Were Eve and Jane? I almost fainted, with understanding, and uncontrollable, suffusing emotion.	10
4	274	"We thank you for your understanding," said Eve.	10
4	558	Given that understanding, much will come quite naturally.	10
8	217	I had some difficulty in even understanding the speech about me.	10
8	630	"It is my understanding that none here are virgins," I said.	10
8	1086	I smiled at her, timidly, bravely, wanting to be her friend, if only for a moment, hoping for some understanding, some small comfort, in our common plight.	10
8	1159	He then turned about, and strode away, and she rose to her feet, and, casting one look back at me, the look of a now-aware, frightened slave, who might now, I thought, welcome some small token of understanding or sympathy, hurried after him.	10
8	1279	So I stood there, naked, on the platform, only half understanding what was being done.	10
8	1309	Understanding its nature, I had imbibed it willingly enough, as disgusting and foul a brew as it was.	10
10	157	And how she had enjoyed the eyes of the men upon her, well understanding such appraisals as evidence of her value! The free woman is doubtless priceless, but the slave has an actual value, what men are willing to pay for her.	10
11	47	Despite his hirsute, ferocious, dangerous appearance, he was invariably kind to me, and was extraordinarily understanding, patient, and gentle with the Lady Bina, who seemed, if anything, to despise him for this indulgence.	10
17	166	As the newcomer to our domicile was incapable, for most purposes, of uttering intelligible Gorean, Lord Grendel taught me the use of the translator, so that I might have a means of understanding the newcomer, and communicating with him.	10
18	676	She is to address free persons always in the clear understanding that there is a collar on her neck, that she is subject to discipline, and that it will be inflicted upon her if he is found in any way displeasing.	10
18	773	Some typical petitionary formulas would be "I beg to speak," "I would speak," and "May I speak, Master?" The common understanding here is that the slave requires the master's permission to clothe herself and to speak.	10
20	278	This understanding brings about a radical transformation in a woman.	10
27	280	"It is my understanding," said Nora, "that you have been named Jane, Eve, and Allison".	10
35	239	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
37	1	"I have explained to you my understanding of things," said Desmond of Harfax.	10
37	27	"How, Desmond of Harfax," inquired Kleomenes, "have you arrived at your understanding of things?" "I prefer, at present," said Desmond, "to keep my source confidential".	10
43	11	It was thanks to him that we came to a clearer understanding of the card codes, though he was not then clear as to how the messages were conveyed.	10
48	12	"It is our understanding," said Agamemnon, "that you have discovered, and have come forward to reveal, a most heinous plot, disrespectful of our majesty, threatening to our person, and inimical to the welfare of worlds".	10
49	100	"That is my understanding," said Tiresias.	10
51	54	"It is my understanding," said the Lady Bina, "that she is a likely collar slut".	10
52	471	"That is my understanding," he said.	10
52	579	"Surely you will be understanding with me, and kind to me," I said.	10

Book 32. (16 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	18	All these things are indications of high intelligence in merchandise, and perhaps of something else, as well, something related, perhaps a welcoming, a readiness, a relief, an understanding, such things.	10
4	60	Perhaps months later, now understanding that she is a slave, and no more, she is permitted to crawl, begging, to the foot of his couch.	10
4	74	Such things are indicative of intelligence, and even more so, perhaps, of understanding.	10
5	262	How understanding he was, how kind! Then he grasped me by the hair, and held my head back.	10
8	91	"You are sweet, gentle, kind, sensitive, and understanding.	10
11	189	Certainly by the time I reached the block, I had some understanding of what I was, and what would be expected of me.	10
15	312	"It is my understanding that there are places on your world where women bare their faces, even on the streets".	10
17	78	How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl...	10
25	84	Had I been on my former world, I supposed one might conveniently petition aid from some worthy, understanding fellow, a kindly sort who would be sympathetic to my situation, and might be depended upon to assist a woman in need.	10
37	138	Who knew what her thoughts had been, and her dreams? Perhaps she did have something in her of the woman, the blood, the instincts, the hopes, the needs, the fears, the desires, the longings, of the woman, the secret understanding, however hysterically denied, of her true place in nature, out of whic...	10
40	12	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
43	376	She looked up at him, frightened, not understanding.	10
43	576	It was my understanding that she had been given the name 'Laura', either in Tarncamp or Shipcamp, presumably Tarncamp, perhaps named for the town on the Laurius, to the south, though, as I also understood it, that was a familiar barbarian female name, which might be bestowed on any barbarian slave, ...	10
49	65	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
51	10	"Of course," I said, "as might any rational individual, understanding what is involved, but I am prepared to do so".	10
53	92	"But I had no understanding of that," I said.	10

Book 33. (27 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	336	"Who know what he sees, or senses?" "It is my understanding," said Lord Okimoto, "that this Tajima, liaison between your command and the cavalry, was lost in the attack on the camp".	10
4	196	Too, it is my understanding that many escaped, and many returned to the wild".	10
6	12	How had they come to know that the designated site was not occupied? What would have prompted their curiosity? What would have been their motivation in conducting such an inquiry? It was my understanding that, better than two years ago, the forces of Lord Yamada had encroached upon, and intruded int...	10
10	137	"It is my understanding," I said, "that the major forces of General Yamada are committed to the siege".	10
10	166	"It is my understanding," said Lysander, "Lord Temmu has not authorized the use of the cavalry".	10
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.	10
12	6	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
12	40	"Faraway," he said, "across the shimmering breadth of Thassa, it is my understanding that slaves are dressed differently".	10
12	182	"It is my understanding that you wish to see me".	10
15	2	It was my understanding that Lord Yamada's daimyos, despite their own lands and holdings, were expected to attend on the shogun several months of each year.	10
17	141	"It is my understanding," I said, "that you wish to acquire the services of the tarn cavalry".	10
23	28	"On clear nights, in this time of year," I said, "it is my understanding that the garden is alive with the songs of the Night Singers, songs of demarcating territory, of courting, and nesting.	10
23	29	It is also my understanding that when these lovely guests are wary, uncertain, apprehensive, or frightened, they do not sing".	10
23	260	"That is my understanding," he said.	10
25	65	Lord Temmu would then attempt to find an informant capable of understanding the message.	10
27	169	"It is my understanding that such birds occasionally utter a loud, shrill cry," said Haruki.	10
27	189	"It is my understanding," I said, "that he arranges matters with care, and leaves little to chance".	10
27	190	"I am a humble one, of limited understanding," he said.	10
28	16	Officially the elders have no understanding that we are here".	10
42	60	A consequence of this arrangement, of course, was that the slaves had no clear understanding of what had occurred on the other side of the partition.	10
47	126	"It is my understanding," he said, "that you are keen of eye and quick of body".	10
47	174	"That, too, great lord," said Nodachi, "is my understanding".	10
49	29	What male does not want one or more? On Gor, many males have a clear understanding of what women are for, and how they may be uncompromisingly put to the purposes of their sex.	10
61	653	Accordingly, in contrast with the Gorean free woman, the Earth girl's understanding that she is going to be marked, collared, and sold is likely to take her very much unawares.	10
61	726	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
61	826	"That is my understanding," I said.	10
61	862	"You are a fool of Earth, as all the others of that smug, feeble orb! You have been nurtured into futility from the cradle! You are sweet, kind, sensitive, thoughtful, understanding, weak, stupid, and manipulable! Beware, lest I shed a tear, or reproach you for ambition, pride, vulgarity, bullying, ...	10

Book 34. (24 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	514	I was sure I could count on her to be compassionate and understanding.	10
9	265	"I am an honest fellow, and I endeavor to treat all with understanding, sympathy, and fairness".	10
9	312	I could not see her features, for the public veiling, the long street veil wrapped about her head and features, and extending to the golden cord low upon her waist, from which dangled an ample, embroidered purse, but I trusted they would be understanding, and kindly.	10
9	564	Be understanding, be noble, be kind.	10
12	6	What a total, radical, cataclysmic transformation this wreaks in one's being, in one's self, in one's heart, and understanding.	10
13	47	How marvelous to be the one slave of one master, particularly if he should be a kind, understanding master, a good master, sensible and thoughtful, who, nonetheless, with his whip, knows how to keep a girl on her knees.	10
13	114	Yet, despite my understanding of the appropriateness of, and, I confess, my happiness in, my collaring, I remained troubled, and far from content.	10
32	142	"That is my understanding," said Kurik.	10
34	269	"That is my understanding," he said.	10
42	48	I am sure you will find him understanding, sweet, and gentle.	10
42	98	"It is my understanding," I said, "that factions exist, some of which may be inimical to the interests of Lord Arcesilaus".	10
44	60	I was sure I had heard it somewhere, not as I heard it now, but otherwise, perhaps in a disguise, perhaps in gentler, kinder, more understanding, more solicitous tones, not as I had just heard it now, in a host's forward salutation, expressed in warm tones, blunt, sturdy, and forceful.	10
45	135	"And then," she said, "understanding nothing, it may find itself swept from the board".	10
46	38	"If I should perish, and you survive, I wish you to have some understanding of what may transpire.	10
46	174	Apparently he wished me to have some understanding of what might occur.	10
46	295	The slave tunic is designed not only to mark a woman as a slave, and distinguish her dramatically and unmistakably from a free woman, but to enforce upon its occupant the understanding that she is a slave and only a slave.	10
48	14	She regarded me, startled, reproachfully, not understanding.	10
49	158	"That is my understanding," said Kurik.	10
50	161	"It is my understanding," he said, "that the Lady Alexina was less than subtle in the House of a Hundred Corridors, in indicating her interest in your master".	10
52	32	I had always regarded Paula, sweet, understanding, kindly, shy, unadorned Paula, plain Paula, with her books, and such, as far inferior to myself.	10
52	335	I had not realized until then how much she had meant to me, and for so long, how understanding, devoted, and precious she was, how important she had been in my life.	10
56	5	"That is my understanding," said Master Drusus.	10
61	423	Could I have been so ignorant, so lacking in understanding? Did I not know that our only hope of survival lay in the blades of certain men, who might prize us as the goods we were? I was muchly uneasy.	10
62	32	"That is my understanding," said Kurik, of Victoria.	10