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Vain

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	275	Enough humanity remains in them, if they are human, for we have never seen them, to be vain; enough vanity remains in them to wish to inform you of their existence, if only in a way that you will not accept or be able to consider seriously.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	51	How vain is he? How skillful is he? He would be both skillful and vain; he was Tuchuk.	10
27	111	"Vain wench," I said.	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	24	"It is understood by me," said Cernus, evidently relaying certain reports which had reached him, "that Portus, of the House of Portus, sought to hire your sword in vain".	10
12	81	Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...	10
14	191	"I expect she is quite vain about it," speculated Cernus.	10
24	27	I thought of the magnificent Marlenus, swift, brilliant, decisive, stubborn, vain, proud, a master swordsman, a tarnsman, a leader like a larl among men, always to those of Ar the Ubar of Ubars.	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	681	You are small, and petty, and selfish, and vain! You cannot love!" "I do love him," she whispered.	10
16	114	They are selfish, and greedy, and vain and petty.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	258	The rich, clever, vain, insolent, proud Elinor Brinton, it was clear, had not escaped.	10
6	242	It then occurred to me that Targo had seemed haggard, apprehensive, and that, although he seemed to be the sort of man who might be vain about his appearance, judging from the earrings, the sandals, the robe, the rings, that he had not kept up his appearance.	10
13	1111	I was inordinately vain of my face and figure.	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	233	In vain we hunted.	10
13	115	"I frown upon you, and would not let you within the doors of my hall," said Svein Blue Tooth, "because you are the greatest scoundrel and rogue in Torvaldsland!" I could see that this compliment much pleased the Forkbeard, who, a vain fellow, was jealous of his reputation.	10
17	127	Kurii, generally, like men, seem vain beasts, but there appears to be an inverse correlation between height of rank and intricacy and variety of ornamentation.	10
21	201	Sullius Maximus was a handsome man, extremely vain, even foppish.	10
22	92	Once there had been a boy by this name, one with simple dreams, naive, vain, one shattered by a betrayal of his codes, the discovery of a weakness where he had thought there was only strength.	10

Book 10. (2 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	32	Many Kurii are vain beasts.	10
24	671	I saw Vella, the vain wench, lift her body, instinctually, beautifully, brazenly, as the eyes of each man fell upon her.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	562	I am quite vain of my beauty.	10
4	850	First, it seemed to me, incredibly, that this was fitting, what was being done to me; I had been proud and vain before men; what did I, truly, expect men, such men, men on a world such as this, to do about that? As his force struck me, I felt, strangely, "Be disciplined, Woman".	10
4	1025	I had been vain and proud.	10
5	15	Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils.	10
9	231	What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t...	10
26	56	Like many frigid women she was incredibly vain of her beauty.	10
28	259	I was too vain not to have been pleased.	10

Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	16	Willingness to perform such an act, I wager, fits in not well with the notion of vain, proud beasts".	10
2	17	"Strange that you should speak of vain, proud beasts," said Samos.	10
2	376	"We have sought them in vain.	10
15	1171	"Poor ignorant, vain free women," she whispered.	10
38	166	Let him then, if vain, congratulate himself on his astute eye, his unerring appraisal of exhibited, helpless, vended slave flesh, or, if more modest, let him simply thank the Priest-Kings for his unexpected good fortune.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	352	"They are far more irresistible and implacable than these dark, blunt impediments, these chains of heavy, linked iron, in which you are now held so helplessly, and against which you now struggle so in vain".	10
14	387	"I do not wish to sound vain," she said, "but I think that I must be as beautiful as almost any woman upon Earth".	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	57	He is not pleased, so to speak, to have had his stables lose to those of the Lady Florence, whom he once courted in vain.	10

Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	479	For example, how would that pretentious, annoying, young lady fare, should she find herself naked, bound hand and foot, at the foot of his couch? Would she not look well there? Might it not be pleasant to look upon the annoying little thing, yours in such straits? Would she then be so irritating, so...	10
9	182	She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...	10
10	198	All women are vain.	10
22	134	Could she have even understood it? Did she know how she was looked at, could she have suspected it, that she was looked at, despite her prescribed garmenture, despite her ideology and views, her smugness, her vaunted pride, as a woman is looked at by a man? Had I not a thousand times, in my mind, se...	10
22	243	I saw them intimidated by a handful of organized, ruthless fellows, strutting and vain as vulos.	10
24	251	I smiled, the vain little thing, but it was true that she did speak a liquid, fluent Gorean.	10
26	80	"Vain little she-sleen," I laughed.	10
32	173	He was a vain and arrogant man, but he was no fool.	10

Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	52	"At such a citadel the wedge must pound in vain".	10
4	132	Not again would the point of the wedge be lost fruitlessly behind our lines, spending itself in vain against emptiness and spray.	10
17	281	I recalled how vain, how bothersome, how supercilious, and troublesome she had been on Earth.	10
18	559	It seemed that I, who had been so vain of my beauty, must now learn to strive to please men".	10
19	760	"You seem not as vain and arrogant as you were before," I said.	10
19	956	Or perhaps she is haughty and vain, an affluent, prized darling of Earth, au courant with the latest fashions, familiar with magazines and shops, an exemplar of, and fulfiller of, prescribed stereotypes, seeming to be something out of a lavish advertisement, or commercial, and regards herself with u...	10
20	1847	From my point of view, I would prefer, lest she become vain, or think that she is now somehow important, that her discipline should be simply maintained.	10
20	2030	"I am eager to see how I look in it!" "Vain slave," I said.	10
21	730	"Are you vain?" "I suppose so.	10
21	731	Are not all slave girls vain?" "Perhaps," I said.	10

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	320	"Too," I said, "such things are proud, vain creatures.	10
1	465	"It is a vain beast," I said.	10
5	34	She was a vain woman.	10
13	1370	"But, do not fear," I said, "such modalities are not learned in vain.	10
16	115	These were the wagons for which I had earlier sought in vain, the smaller, squarish wagons, which had been with the mercenary column.	10
16	253	It is babble, twaddle as vacant as it is vain and inane".	10

Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	459	He, like not a few of the red savages, had been excessively vain about his appearance.	10
1	461	This perhaps somewhat vain but surely splendid sight is not unusual in a camp.	10
2	144	Slaves, incidentally, are often quite concerned about their appearance, and, occasionally, are quite vain about it.	10
4	112	Slave girls, of course, once they have begun to learn their collars, and once they have begun to learn that they are truly slaves, and what it might mean, become very vain and proud over the piercing of their ears.	10
7	171	"I was proud and vain.	10
7	777	I saw that she was very vain.	10
7	973	"They are pretentious, and vain," said Cuwignaka.	10
25	119	It seemed a new Hci with whom we spoke, one far less vain and arrogant than the one we had known.	10
35	167	Sometimes men wait in vain.	10
44	546	Iwoso struggled, in vain.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	260	This pleased me, as I am vain of my beauty.	10
31	482	A beautiful woman on a leash, to whom he seems to pay little attention, in a public promenade, or in the circuit of a plaza, for example, muchly enhances his public image, concerning which Goreans are often quite vain.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	765	"Luscious, vain creatures," I observed.	10
2	919	They tend to be vain of their hair, but one effects nothing critical in this regard.	10
6	227	"With your permission, Lady Telitsia?" inquired Boots, addressing himself politely to the haughty, rigid, proud, vain, heavily veiled, blue-clad free female standing in the front row below the stage.	10
9	287	She had suddenly sensed, doubtless, how provocative might appear to a male her vain struggles, those of a woman writhing helplessly, frustratedly, futilely, within the coils of secure bonds.	10
20	392	How vain it had been! How irritated I had even been with it, with its confounded supercilious arrogance.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	479	"She is vain, and shallow," he said.	10
29	61	Slave girls are so vain about their brands.	10

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	809	I did not wish to sound vain, nor was I sure, really, that I was pretty enough to count as being "pretty," so to speak.	10
10	400	"Ah," he said, "you vain little she-tarsk, you want to know if that is much money, do you not? You want to know how much you brought, really, on the block, as a stripped slave.	10
10	478	"Vain she-tarsk," he said.	10
24	640	"No, vain slave," she smiled.	10
34	544	"And you are a vain slut," he said.	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	205	"You seem vain, for a free woman," I said.	10
6	833	Too, it is difficult to use a sword in a professional manner in the darkness, and I tend to be vain about such things.	10
15	234	I was too vain.	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	109	"She was not then, in a normal sense, proud?" "Not in ways typical of a vain free woman, at any rate".	10
1	1188	And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that amongst free women might not be garnered with diamonds.	10
12	273	She was a vain wench.	10
12	316	"Look then," she said, reaching to the pin at the left of her veil, "on the face of your enemy!" Like all women she was vain.	10
14	156	"Your supposed conjectures," he said, "are the vain lies of a squirming spy, attempting to divert from himself the legitimate wrath of outraged captors.	10
19	1044	What a mendacious, vain thing she was.	10
24	170	"Such might mar your beauty," I said, "and slaves, like other women, are vain of their beauty".	10
40	105	"But someone must have set the fires in Torcadino," said a man, "on the night the tarns took flight, on the night Myron waited in vain to the north".	10
44	359	"You were a vain slave even then, were you not you, Ina?" I said.	10

Book 25. (12 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	143	I wondered if the fellows passing these notifications, and such, recounting, say, the charms of a certain Tania or Sylvia, of such-and-such a paga tavern, ever considered the possibility that these might be former free women of Ar, perhaps women thitherto unapproachable, once haughty, vain women, wo...	10
2	143	I thought of a woman, one now high in Ar, one for whom I had once mistakenly cared, a vain, proud woman who had once, thinking me helpless and crippled, mocked and scorned me.	10
9	69	A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and mercil...	10
9	702	And surely this, in its way, strikes a responsive chord in the heart of one of these vain, marvelous, luscious beasts.	10
12	277	Also, it has been my personal experience, for what it is worth, that slaves are almost always more intelligent and sensitive than free women, who often, at least until taken in hand, tend to be ignorant, smug, vain and stupid.	10
13	56	"In vain they chant their litanies to indifferent walls".	10
14	183	To be sure, it would be remiss not to remark also that, as one would expect, some of the pettiest of jealousies, the most absurd of resentments, the vilest of acrimonies and the most inveterate of hatreds can obtain among these beautiful, vain, vital creatures, who are, after all, only females.	10
18	587	He is a true magician!" "Perhaps he is a bit vain of his tricks," I said.	10
21	18	"Vain slave!" I laughed.	10
21	442	"'Is morning to be blamed that it should glow in the light of the sun, or the tides that they are drawn by the moons, or oil that it cannot help but burn at the touch of fire?' "'Perhaps not,' she said, the vain, haughty thing!" "Continue," I said.	10
21	550	"What a vain creature!" "She is a female," I said.	10
24	116	Gorean men tend to be vain of their slaves, and often take them with them, often braceleted and on their leashes, in their movements about the city.	10

Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	1072	Is it terrible?" "How vain you are!" she smiled.	10
13	1473	I had been petty, and vain, and selfish, and doubtless, to some extent, still was.	10
14	981	And you are also vain.	10
14	982	Quite vain".	10
16	99	Perhaps it was a vain gesture.	10
18	199	We are better, infinitely better! At the very least the free woman, once she is in a collar, and finds out what it is all about, will be much improved; she will soon be a thousand times, and more, better than she was when she was only another smug, vain, haughty, nuisance.	10
18	219	It was not that I minded this so much in itself, for I am not altogether unaware of my own possible charms, and, as a slave, doubtless a vain one, was not above displaying them, and even flaunting them upon occasion, shamelessly and joyously, as that I was somewhat irritated that the distinction bet...	10
19	530	She was probably vain of it.	10
23	67	Had I been a bit arrogant, a bit vain? Then let me be reminded that anything could be done to me, and that I was only a slave.	10
34	152	We are very curious to know, vain beasts that we are, what men might pay for us, if we were to be offered for sale.	10
46	597	Without wishing to sound vain, I thought, genuinely, I might attract attention.	10

Book 27. (25 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
9	117	And, too, what woman, in her heart, does not desire for her beauty to be displayed, does not desire to be seen, and understood, and openly relished, as the special and exquisite treasure she is? Are we not all forgivably vain? In any event, it was such as men would have for them.	10
11	252	Too, men, the vain beasts, enjoy showing off their possessions.	10
11	257	Conceive, if you will, the analogy of a once-haughty, once-vain princess, her armies now scattered and crushed, chained naked to the chariot of a general, being led in triumph through jubilant crowds.	10
11	1026	"The female agents, who are commonly egotistical, petty, vain, self-seeking and mercenary, need not be informed of their eventual disposition.	10
13	23	Nor would he know that Ellen, in Laura's opinion, was little more than a petty, vain, stupid, self-important, ignorant, scheming, meaningless little bit of slave fluff.	10
13	208	Men are so vain.	10
13	557	She knew that girls were often very vain, about the prices they would bring, and such.	10
18	503	At least I do not belong to Selius Arconious, that supercilious, handsome, vain, arrogant beast! How I detest Selius Arconious! And yet if he were to buy me, I would be his slave, and would have to render him perfections of service.	10
18	505	How I hate him, that young, handsome, vain beast, Selius Arconious, he thinking he is so good-looking, so clever and mighty! How I hold him in contempt, how I detest him! And yet it is hard for me to remain standing before him! I grow weak! He makes me feel helpless! His nearness makes me feel faint...	10
18	602	"Dare never again to take me in your arms! I will complain to my master! I hate you! You are a vain, arrogant beast! You are a brute! You are ignorant, stupid and homely! You think you are so grand! You are not! You are only a tarnster! You are an ugly tarnster! You are nothing! I loathe your touch!...	10
18	610	"Consider that, vain, handsome beast!" He regarded her, angrily.	10
19	219	He was no more than a vain, insensitive, arrogant brute.	10
20	923	"You are all vain she-urts," he said, turning away.	10
22	347	So why could I not compete with a Gorean woman, even with a Gorean slave girl? Am I not now, too, Gorean; and am I not now, too, no more than a slave girl, and a Gorean slave girl? How vain I am, she thought.	10
22	348	But then women are vain, she thought, and I am a woman, so why should I not, too, be concerned with such things? I do not care even if I am narcissistic, or frivolous and shallow.	10
22	355	"Yes," she admitted to herself, "I am a vain slave.	10
25	1120	Accordingly, as might be expected, she is often vain, petty, selfish, supercilious, and arrogant.	10
26	1005	They are not, after all, inert, vain, independent, quiescent, smug, bored, exalted, spoiled free women.	10
26	1294	Has not every woman wondered if she were attractive enough, or interesting enough, to be a slave? Even the most insolent and beautiful of women, one inordinately vain, one supremely confident of her worth and beauty, even inveterately, snobbishly so, in her customary interactions and relations with ...	10
26	1702	"They are nasty and small, petty and vain," he said.	10
27	1510	That is possible! It is said Tersius Major is with them! He may want me! Many times in the tarn loft have his eyes greedily roved me! A slave is not unaware of such things! If this should be true, if it is I whom they want, give me to them!" "Vain slave," said Selius Arconious.	10
29	276	And I found out! You are nasty, small, petty and vain!" "No, Master!" cried the slave.	10
29	374	"Weaker? Nastier? Pettier? More selfish?" "Master?" "A meaningless, vain, pretentious, worthless slut of Earth!" he said.	10
30	326	"Vain slave," he said.	10

Book 28. (18 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	340	She was a vain little thing, not unaware of her charms, and the pleasures of utilizing them to taunt and frustrate weak and helpless males, from whom she had nothing to fear.	10
1	345	She was an animal, of course, but a very clever animal, a sly, cunning, vain, shapely, little animal.	10
1	544	Most commonly this is done with a quarry which is unpleasant, smug, nasty, insolent and vain, and who has, too, say, an overweening sense of her own qualities, importance, and superiority.	10
1	629	She was quite pleased with her social station and irritatingly vain concerning what she took to be, mistakenly, as it turned out, the excellence of her breeding.	10
1	989	Sometimes a fellow, who was once a spurned suitor, discovers a woman whom he had earlier courted in vain is now a slave, and buys her.	10
4	150	How vain she is, thought Cabot.	10
5	184	"That I am a beauty, that I am beautiful, I do not know!" "You are vain, are you not?" "I do not know!" she wept.	10
11	144	Sometimes a fellow encounters in an alcove a woman earlier courted in vain, now a collared slave.	10
22	177	"She is a vain, cold, haughty bitch," said Cabot.	10
28	23	How vain they are, and how beautiful, thought Cabot.	10
28	37	How vain they are, thought Cabot.	10
34	182	"Females are such vain creatures," said Cabot.	10
36	113	Beautiful women tend to be vain of their beauty, and it is natural for them to nurse, guard, and enhance it, and slave girls, commonly the most beauteous of all, for commonly it is only the most beautiful of girls which are taken for collaring, are no exception.	10
36	215	"Vain little beast," he chided.	10
36	254	"You are quite vain," he said.	10
46	65	"Agamemnon," said Cabot, "is cruel, arbitrary, unjust, a vain and murderous tyrant, perhaps even mad.	10
51	132	"I gather she was superficial, unpleasant, troubled, confused, nasty, unhappy, insolent, vain, and petty on Earth".	10
52	30	"And so the mariners of the camps are to suffer for the miscalculations and mistakes, the reckless, vain ambition, the poorly laid plans, the rash, ill-fated, unjustified, personal adventure of a tyrant?" "Certainly," said Lord Grendel.	10

Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	785	Such women, vain and egotistical, self-serving, greedy and deceitful, dazzled by dreams of riches and power, would think little of betraying others, but it seldom occurred to them, for some reason, that they might, in their turn, be betrayed as easily.	10
7	311	"You are vain?" I asked.	10
9	38	The only free woman with whom she had had contact with on the Steel World had been the Lady Bina, a former Kur pet, who was less a Gorean free woman than a remarkably beautiful, ambitious, vain little animal.	10
11	47	It figures in children's stories as a cute, curious, mischievous little beast, but also one that is stupid, vain, and ignorant.	10
13	294	She was charming, vain, secure, and arrogant.	10
22	272	Slave girls, in their vanity, for they, as other women, are vain creatures, often compete on the slave block, each trying to bring a price higher than the others.	10
28	391	She had been beautiful, but, too, she had been proud, ambitious, selfish, vain, and cruel.	10
38	445	I have little doubt but what, sooner or later, I would have taken the proud, vain, selfish English girl in my arms, and she would learn what it would be to be used by a Gorean warrior, and as might be a mere slave.	10

Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	326	Indeed, it was said that Talena, vain of her beauty, which was considerable, used hypocritical pretexts of state to eliminate many of her actual or alleged rivals.	10
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.	10
7	93	Might that not instill terror in that now-collared, lovely thing? Why had she behaved in so perilously compromising a fashion? Was she perhaps so vain of her beauty that she could not resist its display? After all, what beautiful woman does not wish to be recognized as beautiful? But it seems she wa...	10
9	290	He was vain, and enjoyed such flourishes.	10
17	120	The female slave who is a female, and the most female of all females, is often a vain creature, and will do much to avoid her shearing.	10
21	471	"How vain you are!" "Have you ever been in the Venna keeping area?" she asked.	10
21	805	And soon a slave, the vain creature that she is, delights as shamelessly in the exhibition of her features as of her form.	10
25	354	"You were eager, and much with me, each hort of the way! We were arch traitresses, we two, so vain and proud, so ambitious, so ruthless, each abetting and urging on the other.	10
25	409	"You are vain, and pretentious, deceitful, treacherous!" "You used me!" said Adraste.	10
28	127	"Take that, haughty, vain, deceitful slut!" said Alcinoë.	10
37	250	I sensed then that his memory swept him back to Ar, and that, for a moment, he saw before him not a loving, eager, precious possession, who might be sought even at the World's End, but a traitress and fugitive, one vain and treacherous, one who, when free, had betrayed her Home Stone, abused power, ...	10
37	289	"It seems Master has recalled another woman," she said, "the vain, deceitful, greedy, traitress, Flavia of Ar".	10
37	516	What a vain thing she was, but are not they all? Surely, given their beauty, their desirability, they are entitled to a little vanity, or, indeed, I suppose, to a large measure of that sometimes annoying, but generally endearing, charming quality.	10

Book 31. (19 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	107	The girls of our sorority, or club, I might add, were not only rich, but, too, tended to be aloof, refined, aristocratic, spoiled, and vain.	10
5	43	Rawlinson was Gorean, or in league with Goreans, she had certainly been well placed to examine and assess a number of supercilious, vain, intelligent, highly cultured, beautiful young women, women conveniently gathered together, women nicely located and accessible, self-selected women, beauties all,...	10
5	373	"You, and your sisters, are shallow, petty, vain, spoiled, mercenary, meaningless, little bitches," he said.	10
7	41	How the fellow who had accompanied me in the van would have been amused, to see his prisoner, the vain, aristocratic young lady, indeed, the debutant, afflicted by need, slave need! As the reader, if reader there may be, may have gathered, I had been much troubled on Earth, not knowing who I might b...	10
7	301	"Vain slave!" laughed an instructress.	10
8	1282	How, in her mind's eye, she must have smiled, considering the fate she was arranging for her lovely, vain, shallow, spoiled charges, the markets of Gor! In the beginning, we had looked down on her, she merely a house mother, an employee, a servant of sorts, far beneath us, a woman hired to manage th...	10
10	220	In that small, beautiful body, slightly smaller than mine, there was a nature innocently prudential, vain, self-centered, independent, and calculating.	10
10	1211	"You are a vain slut," he said.	10
14	124	"As a collar girl, I know you are vain," he said.	10
15	334	Let him pine then in vain! I recalled how he had commanded me to my knees in the Sul Market, leaving me half-stripped and tied at his feet, how he had pressed himself upon me in the vicinity of Six Bridges, I unable to resist.	10
17	65	And how smug, and how vain, she was, how proud of her beauty, to be so displayed, camisked.	10
18	200	I had gathered, more than once, that I was fortunate to be owned by the Lady Bina, who, while often demanding, petty, and vain, entertained toward me, as far as I knew, not the least animus or hostility.	10
19	119	"Only to establish that you were vain, petty, and meaningless, and, of course, a true slave slut," he said.	10
19	120	"Perhaps this vain, petty, meaningless slave slut is of interest to Master," I said.	10
20	115	He thought me too vain, too petty, too shallow.	10
26	330	"You are stupid, vain, petty, selfish, deceitful, and, if the opportunity should present itself, I fear dishonest.	10
26	429	"Yes," he said, "and vain, and such".	10
27	343	"Were we all so different," I asked, "even Mistress?" "You were pretty," she said, "but petty, too, and empty, shallow, a nothing, a sly, selfish, cunning, opportunistic, calculating, vain, egotistical, little chit.	10
52	331	"You are a despicable, vain, pretentious, tormenting little she-sleen," he said, "but, little she-sleen, your time of tormenting is now over".	10

Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	Sometimes a rich man adjudges the performance of an arrogant, vain, marvelously beautiful item to be intrinsically meretricious, to be hollow, and hypocritical, even fraudulent.	10
5	77	Forgive my vain heart.	10
9	208	I suppose I am vain, but I never objected to the slave tunic.	10
12	9	Some are vain, pretty little things.	10
38	206	As slaves are commonly vain of their beauty, as other women, even extraordinarily so, a grievous discipline, which most girls will attempt to evade at almost any cost, is shaving their head.	10
41	439	"What a vain little piece of collar meat you are," he said.	10
41	451	Thus, small, vain kajira, you see there is nothing of particular interest or nothing special about you".	10
43	264	He has paid his gold, and I will see that it has not been paid in vain.	10
43	656	"Are you a vain slave?" I asked.	10
43	657	"Are not all slaves vain?" she asked.	10
43	659	And why should women not be vain, as they are so precious, desirable, and beautiful? How can men not lust for them, and make them slaves? What pallid, inert fool would not wish to own one? Whose blood would be so weak that he would not see them as the natural property of men? And what woman was more...	10
52	739	"May I inquire for what sum?" "You vain she-tarsk," he said.	10

Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	116	Not vain as are free women, arrogant in their freedom and smug in their supposed beauty, whom slave girls commonly look down on, though fear terribly, but vain as slaves.	10
1	482	He had come to Gor as the timid, docile, pathetically enamored subordinate of an aggressive, ambitious, petty, vain, clever, young blonde woman named Margaret Wentworth.	10
8	115	Slave girls are commonly quite vain.	10
8	121	So it is no wonder that the slave is vain, for she knows that she is a prize, that she is so desirable and exciting that men, in the way of nature, will be content with nothing less than her possession.	10
10	108	I saw wielded glaives below me, and men looking up wildly, scattered amongst the wagons, and daggers were brandished in vain.	10
21	121	Whereas I had little love for the vain, smug, supercilious Sumomo I certainly would have had no wish for her to be put to some prolonged, horrid death, of the sort which might be contrived by Lord Yamada's torturers and executioners.	10
22	83	"She is beautiful," he said, "but vain, and worthless".	10
42	267	"Margaret Wentworth," he said, "was a free woman, petty, vain, venal, ambitious, conniving, sly, hypocritical, dishonest, pretentious, lying, and arrogant, but free, one despicable in many ways, but free.	10
58	30	We had searched in vain for the trophy room, until Tajima, this morning, on the fourth level, had seen the tiny image of a sword scratched on a tile.	10
61	801	How soft you were, how forgiving you were, contemptible weakling! How like those of Earth! Have they no claws, no fangs, no blood, no heart? How far you were from the proud, severe, proportioned ways of Gor! And in the camp of Mintar the Merchant, when I pathetically petitioned the iron, when I impl...	10

Book 34. (18 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	93	I supposed I was vain, but are not all slaves vain, all women vain? "Surely I am not mysterious," I said.	10
1	263	"I tell you I am beautiful, very beautiful!" "Vain bitch," he said.	10
2	234	"You are vain and shallow, self-absorbed, pretentious, rootless, a shred of paper in a park, cast about pointlessly by the wind.	10
10	87	I thought, rather, they would be amused, even delighted, thinking it a well-deserved fate for their doubtless resented, smartly dressed, pretentious, vain, snobbish, shallow luncheon fellow.	10
16	89	"Vain slave," he said.	10
19	98	"Vain slut," he said.	10
20	112	"I think she is vain," said Lita.	10
26	163	"Vain slave," she said.	10
31	196	Doubtless I am vain, but what woman, free or slave, is not? I was quite angry.	10
35	92	"What a vain monster," I said.	10
50	163	Men, I supposed, the vain, pompous braggarts, might enjoy regaling disinterested bystanders with such details.	10
52	299	"I had not known until then what a vain, petty, worthless slut you were.	10
62	25	I was no longer ashamed of my body, but even vain, I fear, where it was concerned.	10
63	436	"How foolish we were, and how vain!" said Paula.	10
64	8	On my former world I had been too impatient or vain to concern myself with such things.	10
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 ...	10
67	73	She has always, doubtless, despite what I think is her profound and genuine affection for you, regarded you as weak, shallow, and vain".	10
67	77	"Perhaps I am less weak, shallow, and vain than I was," I said.	10

Book 35. (13 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	30	I would have been vain enough to make that decision.	10
5	69	"Struggle in vain, fool," said another.	10
6	89	How I had gloried in the exercise of such vain, petty powers, attracting and then dismissing and humiliating the weaklings of Earth, so little of the man in them, so little of the master! And now I was a slave on Gor! I had little doubt but what the men of Gor would know what to do with me, whatever...	10
6	313	I had been an arrogant, proud woman of Earth, selfish and vain, inpatient and demanding, one fond of exploiting and taunting men.	10
11	167	I was vain, doubtless, but I enjoyed his appraisal.	10
12	15	But little did he know how perfectly I was in my collar! Surely that became clear enough in the alcove! How amused he had been to see that the proud, vain, pretentious Margaret Henderson he had so properly disdained, if not despised, on Earth was now no more than a groveling, needful Gorean slave.	10
13	180	The Lady Julia Leta, cunning and vain, and fond of expensive raiment and jewelry, turned to peculation and the falsification of records.	10
33	263	I could not understand how the peculations of a larcenous clerk, petty and vain, could warrant such concern and attention.	10
39	68	"How vain you are.	10
40	313	How vain I had been! How satisfied, how proud, I had been of myself! How brightly I had sparkled amongst similarly worthless baubles! And then I was brought to Gor, and made a slave.	10
42	265	I particularly feared for vain, short-tempered Euphrosyne, for she was somewhat haughty and impatient for a slave, and had regarded even the former Adraste with small respect.	10
46	146	How rightfully he would look down upon me, I, who had been so vain, shallow, petty, and pretentious on Earth.	10
46	520	He had seen how small, vain, pretentious, shallow, superficial, petty, and worthless I was.	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	131	The predator, sought in vain, had left no trail.	10
1	133	Long had I cast about in vain.	10
14	9	I supposed that the search for us, which we had earlier evaded, it turning up nothing for the raiders, was unlikely to be resumed, at least at that place, no more than at dozens of other inlets and coves which had been examined in vain.	10
17	265	"You understand," I said, "that the local authorities have searched for him in vain".	10
19	109	"What a vain she-tarsk," said Thurnock.	10