| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 232 |
"She would have brought a bride price of a thousand tarns," said Marlenus bitterly, "and now she is of less value than a trained slave girl". |
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| 16 | 6 |
Treated as a pleasure slave, she would have negligible political value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 39 |
The vendor would then hold up a higher number, sometimes bending his fingers at the knuckle to indicate a fraction of the value unit, which would be, presumably, the copper tarn disk. |
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| 20 | 22 |
Perhaps not of great value, but worth taking. |
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| 21 | 208 |
Actually I had no idea of the value of the stones, and didn't know if the offer was a sensible one or not. |
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| 21 | 209 |
In annoyance, looking over the rings of Targo and the sapphires which hung from his ears, I knew he would be a much better judge of their value than I. |
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| 21 | 211 |
I gathered that he was not bluffing, for how could he have known that I did not know the true value of the stones? How could he know that I had not purchased them and had them set in the scabbard myself? "You drive a hard bargain," I said. |
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| 21 | 263 |
But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 119 |
It is not of much scientific interest but it has considerable curiosity value. |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 26 | 497 |
"Sometimes," said Kamchak, "the way to conceal something is not to conceal it—it is thought that what is of value will be hidden, and so it is natural to suppose that what is not hidden will not be of value". |
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| 2 | 178 |
The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else. |
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| 7 | 230 |
In the affairs of state she was now without value. |
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| 9 | 186 |
"The sphere is actually not of much value," Saphrar was saying, "it is not truly of gold—but only appears so". |
10 |
| 9 | 279 |
I gathered he did not understand its true value, seeing that he had apparently discussed its exchange with some seriousness earlier in the evening—only that, apparently, he wanted more than Saphrar was offering, even though that might be Aphris of Turia herself. |
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| 12 | 13 |
It did not seem to me a worthy thing to betray the hospitality of Tuchuks by attempting to purloin an object which obviously they held to be of great value. |
10 |
| 12 | 14 |
I wondered if any in the camp of the Tuchuks realized how actually great indeed was the value of that golden sphere, containing undoubtedly the last hope of the people called Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
These bits of information were acquisitions not negligible in their value. |
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| 16 | 314 |
The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr... |
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| 16 | 325 |
On the other hand they may well not have understood its true value. |
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| 21 | 3 |
I had spent my last tarn disk to buy a couple of handfuls of tiny stones, many of them of little or no value; yet their weight in my pouch gave me some pretext for being in the city. |
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| 21 | 65 |
It took him only a few moments to discover the value of the stones and, when he did, with a cry of disgust, he hurled them away from the gate into the dust, and the two warriors, while I pretended fright and pain, belabored me with the hilts of their weapons. |
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| 21 | 139 |
In answer to her questions I told her the reason for which I had entered the city—to steal an object of value from Saphrar of Turia, which he himself had stolen from the Tuchuks. |
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| 24 | 109 |
"He does not know its value," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 139 |
At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl... |
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| 5 | 640 |
Further, having her own knot might have some occasional value, even in our present circumstances. |
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| 11 | 387 |
Excellent merchandise, some risk, but every likelihood of achieving a status of considerable value. |
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| 18 | 355 |
I gathered from what he said that the guard was intended to remain sober, and from this that he had valuable materials under his care, and gathered also that the guard, from his disgruntlement, was ignorant of their value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 102 |
The rence growers, in spite of the value of their product, and the value of articles taken in exchange for it, and the protection of the marshes, and the rence and fish which give them ample sustenance, do not have an easy life. |
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| 1 | 106 |
The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city. |
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| 10 | 219 |
I did not, however, in this early period, because of the cost, purchase cargoes of great value. |
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. |
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| 18 | 313 |
Why had he come to defend my holding? Was he so irrational, so mad, so contemptuous of the value of his life? He did not belong here. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 300 |
It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value... |
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| 10 | 569 |
Of what value, I wondered, is the virginity of a slave girl? Of what value is the virginity of a horse, or of a dog or cat, or pig? That I was a virgin, of course, that I was "white silk," was public knowledge. |
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| 1 | 68 |
They accepted me at the face value which I set upon myself, which was considerable. |
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| 3 | 77 |
"Even now, if you were properly warmed, I think you might have some value". |
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| 7 | 47 |
She would have been severely beaten, of course, if she had disfigured us, injured us, or in any way lowered our value. |
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| 10 | 568 |
"You are passable for a slave girl," said he, "but, at this time, it is not clear whether or not your virginity has value". |
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| 11 | 153 |
Indeed, even if a master does not leave the city, it is not unknown for him to send a girl to the private pens, that her value to him, and to others, if she be sold, might be improved. |
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| 15 | 580 |
"I am charged with the protection of my market value?" I asked, ironically. |
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| 15 | 790 |
"Count! The lash will not lower your value," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 477 |
When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting; sometimes slave chai... |
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| 5 | 215 |
Others, perhaps deemed of lesser value, in one area of the compound, to the left, as one entered, were simply tied or chained to poles and stakes, their knees in the mud. |
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| 9 | 200 |
"She is now without much value," said Verna. |
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| 15 | 340 |
There was much of some value, though mostly bulk goods. |
10 |
| 15 | 352 |
Such an exotically vintaged wine might prove of value. |
10 |
| 15 | 372 |
In this fashion the trail would be broken and clear and, if anything of value had been discarded in the flight, we might, if we wished, gather it up and, following, bring it with us. |
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| 15 | 762 |
But today lovely Ilene's value had considerably increased. |
10 |
| 15 | 781 |
Last night, I congratulated myself, I had raised her value. |
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| 22 | 895 |
"When Marlenus disowned her," said one, frightened, "and she was no longer of value, Verna, through Mira, instructed us to dispose of her, taking a price on her". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 90 |
Their education, generally, is of little obvious practical value, with its attention to authorized exegeses of dubious, difficult texts, purporting to be revelations of Priest-Kings, the details and observances of their own calendars, their interminable, involved rituals, and so on, but, paradoxical... |
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| 5 | 267 |
Indeed, the men of the north think little of breaking apart objects which, in the south, would be highly prized for their artistic value, simply to obtain pieces of negotiable precious metal. |
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| 6 | 498 |
I surmised to myself that the help of the Forkbeard might, in the bleak realities of Torvaldsland, be of incalculable value. |
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| 15 | 323 |
I had not conquered a mountain; the mountain, when I had paid its price, that I might understand the value of the gift, had lifted me to where I might see how insignificant I was and how beautiful and precious was reality and life, and the sun on a bleak, cold land. |
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| 18 | 655 |
The plan had been brilliant, though careless of the value, if any, placed on Kur life. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 39 |
The packs of kaiila were being slashed, to determine the value of the merchandise carried, and whether it would be of value to raiders. |
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| 1 | 156 |
Further, he has not been conditioned with counterinstinctual value sets, programmed with guilt, taught self-hatred; he has been taught pride and has, in the very air he breathes, imbibed the mastery of females. |
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| 2 | 47 |
The animals are too precious for their trade value, and their hair and milk, to be often slaughtered for food. |
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| 4 | 221 |
Certain of these changes, mostly in movements, and ways of holding the body, are, sometimes, unconscious concomitants of the training of the girl; they accompany, as pleasant consequences, a latent value, other forms of training which have rather different manifest objectives. |
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| 5 | 155 |
Then, after a time, she asked, "Should you not have defended your property?" "Perhaps if I thought it had any value," I said. |
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| 5 | 229 |
Opals are not particularly valuable stones on Earth, but they are much rarer on Gor; these were excellent specimens, cut and polished into luminescent ovoids; still, of course, they did not have the value of the diamonds. |
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| 5 | 234 |
The trick, of course, was to make the asking price high enough to arrive at some reasonable exchange value later on, and, at the same time, not insult a man of Suleiman's position and intelligence. |
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| 5 | 562 |
Her lessons, which had been intensive, once we had arrived at the Oasis of Nine Wells, had cost little, and had, in my opinion, much increased her value, doubling or tripling it. |
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| 5 | 564 |
My property had now increased, considerably, in value. |
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| 5 | 731 |
None but its master should it have permitted its saddle! Of what value is a tarn of war who permits a stranger, even a girl, a mere wench, to ascend to its saddle? I had driven it away. |
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| 15 | 44 |
The salt in the normal Tahari fresh water, incidentally, is not without its value, for, when drunk, it helps to some extent, though it is not in itself sufficient, to prevent salt loss in animals and men through sweating. |
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| 18 | 46 |
Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view. |
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| 26 | 868 |
It would improve the sleek little animal's value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 111 |
As I would later learn, the value placed on girls such as we were, a Judy Thornton or an Elicia Nevins, girls of our quality, would commonly be a tiny sack of copper coins, a few more, a few less. |
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| 4 | 170 |
Its purpose may be to humiliate or brazenly and publicly display the girl, to discipline her, to keep her humble, to remind her that she is nothing, only a wench in bondage; it may be to reveal her beauty, of which he is proud, for the eyes of all, or for his own pleasure and that of his peers; it m... |
10 |
| 4 | 359 |
The necklaces and beads which Eta produced for me were delights of color and appeal; yet they were simple and surely of little value. |
10 |
| 4 | 370 |
Bina, I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm. |
10 |
| 4 | 601 |
It is customary, following the game, that the prize remain nude, that the value of her captured beauty remain discernible to all, to the winners for their pleasure, to the loser for his chagrin, to the onlookers for their admiration, and, too, perhaps, to incite them in another contest, at some futu... |
10 |
| 4 | 790 |
In that instant I felt suffused with joy for I felt then that he would, in his kindness, cover me, protecting me from the eyes of his men; perhaps, too, he had been moved by my plight; perhaps he was now sorry for how cruelly he had treated me; perhaps now he would try to make amends; perhaps now I ... |
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| 5 | 162 |
The wagons of produce were not of great value but stood as token of the relation of the villages to Fortress of Saphronicus. |
10 |
| 5 | 853 |
On the other hand, they would not approve if one slave injured or marked, or reduced in value, another. |
10 |
| 7 | 147 |
"Ah, Lady," said my master, "there, you see, lies your true value". |
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| 7 | 1337 |
I was common, and of little value. |
10 |
| 7 | 1338 |
The name, too, was common, and of little value. |
10 |
| 7 | 1343 |
He had told me that I was without value, that I was worthless. |
10 |
| 8 | 186 |
I gathered that her leg would not be scarred, and that her value would not be lowered. |
10 |
| 8 | 187 |
If her leg did scar, with the result that her block value was diminished, it must be recalled that Clitus Vitellius, my former master, had had her for nothing. |
10 |
| 9 | 888 |
"What is her value?" demanded Melina. |
10 |
| 13 | 53 |
I had earlier been exposed in the exhibition cages, that prospective buyers might scan the merchandise at close hand, forming their suppositions as to its value, that their bids later, if they cared to make them, might be shrewd and realistic. |
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| 13 | 86 |
"Why are serums of such value given to slaves?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 87 |
"Are they of such value?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 |
"I think the Kurii are too clever, too shrewd, too determined," said I, "to be taken at their face value in this matter. |
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| 3 | 1128 |
The slaver's man appreciated its value. |
10 |
| 9 | 243 |
This is not to deny the value of freedom, which is surely precious. |
10 |
| 11 | 247 |
Interestingly he had also placed much wood on the sled, both boards and poles, for it is of great value in the north. |
10 |
| 12 | 577 |
"You have been programmed with value sets developed for competitive, territorial males. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
"Look, Imnak," I said, "I value your friendship but I have really had enough of this. |
10 |
| 27 | 153 |
Another value of the tunnel dimensions, of course, is that one may emerge from the shelter with a weapon at the ready. |
10 |
| 27 | 154 |
This can be of value in a country where there may be dangerous animals. |
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| 35 | 1269 |
"Is there so much of value here," I asked, "that you would be willing to destroy it?" "The supplies here, and the disposition maps, the schedules and codes, will not fall into the hands of Priest-Kings," it said. |
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| 38 | 163 |
One does not really know the value of a purchase until she is chained at your slave ring. |
10 |
| 38 | 241 |
"In so far as a girl has value," I said. |
10 |
| 38 | 242 |
"Yes," she said, "—in so far as a girl has value". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 200 |
For the first time then they begin to suspect that they are very different from men, truly different, radically different, and that they are somehow very special, and have a considerable value of a sort, indeed, a value of such a sort that they have been found worth bringing to this world. |
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| 12 | 13 |
"You do not, for you know of the ring's value and Bejar would know nothing of it". |
10 |
| 19 | 155 |
"I came to find something of value," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 165 |
"If you wished something of value you should have asked for it. |
10 |
| 26 | 54 |
What if the other fellow does not desire peace? As a warrior I knew the value of an eighth of an Ihn saved in turning the body. |
10 |
| 27 | 98 |
The shells and silk, interestingly, had been of considerable value to these fishermen. |
10 |
| 27 | 105 |
In civilization, of course, it had considerable value. |
10 |
| 27 | 106 |
Here we did not know if it would have more value than metal knives or coils of copper wire. |
10 |
| 27 | 196 |
What value could they possibly have on such a world? Is it so difficult to speculate, truly? They consider themselves. |
10 |
| 27 | 202 |
For the first time then they begin to have some sense of the profound and explosive meaning of their beauty, biologically, socially, sexually, and its striking desirability, its latent value, things scarcely considered before. |
10 |
| 28 | 15 |
The materials in the box, I was confident, would not be of great value. |
10 |
| 34 | 81 |
"Your value on the sales block has not been reduced". |
10 |
| 34 | 300 |
It seems to me it would even have limited propaganda value". |
10 |
| 34 | 593 |
You are an animal, a property, and one of little value. |
10 |
| 34 | 652 |
It seems reasonably likely that facility in acquiring speech, which would have enormous survival value, has been selected for. |
10 |
| 34 | 663 |
Perhaps human beings should, from the viewpoints of contemporary information and modern medicine, re-evaluate these perhaps anachronistic value structures. |
10 |
| 34 | 963 |
"You have a market value, however minimal. |
10 |
| 43 | 78 |
Also, of course, he may wish to form a conjecture as to its market value or the amount of pleasure he will force it to yield to him. |
10 |
| 46 | 39 |
I then suggest that the stockade be examined for any other slaves, or objects of interest or value. |
10 |
| 53 | 105 |
"Your records would doubtless be of value to geographers," I said. |
10 |
| 53 | 106 |
"They are," said Shaba, "of inestimable value to all civilized men". |
10 |
| 54 | 55 |
"Did he not inform you of something of great value which lay in the possession of Shaba?" "No," said Bila Huruma. |
10 |
| 57 | 319 |
I had little doubt but what Ayari had clarified to Bila Huruma the value of the friendship and facilities of the men of Schendi. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 71 |
"Men do not value women except for their bodies". |
10 |
| 1 | 73 |
"That sounds like something that would be said only by a woman whom it would be very difficult to value for her body". |
10 |
| 1 | 106 |
Similar expressions, once meaningful, now largely of value as rhetorical devices are 'chauvinist', 'sex object', 'person', 'conservative' and 'liberal'. |
10 |
| 1 | 108 |
It is little wonder men value them so highly". |
10 |
| 10 | 214 |
I supposed there must be some explanation for their economic value. |
10 |
| 12 | 324 |
"I will obtain the full value of my wages from her," said the Lady Tima, "even untrained as she is now. |
10 |
| 12 | 336 |
The next level of slaves, not generally thought to be of great value, tends to be male work slaves, usually used in cargo galleys, on the wharves, and in the fields or quarries. |
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| 19 | 3 |
The value of these devices is twofold. |
10 |
| 20 | 167 |
"And her hair had value," said Kenneth, "so, as she is merely a stable slut, I saw fit to shear it". |
10 |
| 22 | 48 |
Such men buy bills at discount and then set themselves to collect, as they can, their face value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 366 |
Lastly one might note, though one supposes this is of no interest to the slaver, who will have his eye on the market value of the girl, they seem to have a need for, and a capacity for, love. |
10 |
| 2 | 153 |
I then put her through a variety of positions, more experimenting with the possibilities of the apparatus than anything else, though the experiments had their aesthetic value, for the Lady Tima was a lovely woman. |
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| 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 |
| 11 | 372 |
I would make the human being the measure by which I judged the value of beds. |
10 |
| 15 | 127 |
Thinking you a slave he would presume you ignorant of the location of an item of such value". |
10 |
| 19 | 66 |
A silver tarsk is, to most Goreans, a coin of considerable value. |
10 |
| 21 | 25 |
She knows that she has value, and is admired by men, and even lusted for, and that she is envied, and even hated, by free women. |
10 |
| 27 | 83 |
"If I give it to you," I said, "of what value, then, would be my life to you?" "None," he said. |
10 |
| 27 | 177 |
"There is nothing of value there," said the second man. |
10 |
| 32 | 108 |
"Not much of great value is currently moving on the river," said the pirate. |
10 |
| 32 | 118 |
"The values of many things," he said, "seem patent, but not the value of a slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 395 |
It had immense value, if only it could be exploited. |
10 |
| 8 | 459 |
"I see that your value as a slave is not limited to your beauty," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 10 |
"A female slave," I said, "and something else, which is of value". |
10 |
| 9 | 40 |
"Not you, Pretty Slave," I told her, "that which was of value". |
10 |
| 17 | 266 |
She, confused and fearful, as a consequence of that interview, it seemed, had begun to sense her femininity, had begun to sense that she had value of a sort, that she might be lusciously special in a way she scarcely dared to recognize, and feared to contemplate, that she might be such that men migh... |
10 |
| 17 | 267 |
How frightening, for her, to realize that one has such value! And yet in its way how exciting, and thrilling! Few women object to their beauty, to their desirability, to their allure, to the knowledge that they are the sort of woman whom men want, really want, truly want. |
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| 18 | 227 |
To you, too, I am doubtless of far less value than a pet sleen. |
10 |
| 18 | 386 |
He does, however, value women, whole women, and this interest is richly documented in his sayings, his songs, his art, and his behavior. |
10 |
| 19 | 297 |
"Please give me your collar! I know I am of Earth, and am thus unworthy of a Gorean slave collar, but still I beg it! And are we not put in them, and kept in them? Is it not why we are brought here, to wear your collars? Is it not right for us? How fortunate we are, to be accepted by the men of Gor ... |
10 |
| 19 | 404 |
It, like a wired seal of quality, attests to the value of the merchandise upon which it is fastened. |
10 |
| 19 | 424 |
The collar, thus, particularly statistically, is a symbol of excellence and quality, of value, among women. |
10 |
| 19 | 690 |
If so, it would lower her value, considerably. |
10 |
| 19 | 820 |
If we do not protest and fight, of what value to a man, we ask ourselves, will be our conquest? But, of course, I should not have fought you. |
10 |
| 19 | 880 |
I might perhaps have some small value as a man's slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 949 |
The slave girl, on the other hand, knows that she has a particular value, what men will pay for her. |
10 |
| 19 | 1012 |
"I do not know my current market value". |
10 |
| 19 | 1013 |
I, too, did not know her current market value. |
10 |
| 20 | 1249 |
"Thus," said he, "should any of Victoria be abroad at this hour they may observe the value and the quality of the animal, this lovely gift, which I have been given". |
10 |
| 20 | 1650 |
What is the adaptive value of an enforced unanimity, a molding of the mind more hideous than the shapings of skulls, the distentions of lips, the bindings of feet?" "Strange thoughts," I said, "for she whom I knew on Earth". |
10 |
| 21 | 577 |
"Is this not a testimony to my value, to my attractiveness, to my desirability to men?" "I must answer such questions in the affirmative," I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 245 |
What is the value of choice when one must choose as one does not wish to choose? What is the value of choice when one must choose against one's own happiness, when one must choose self-denial, when one must choose what one hates? Better, choiceless, to be what one wants most to be. |
10 |
| 1 | 1299 |
Too, I suspected some of the council, even if they were not of the party of Zarendargar, would have recognized his value to the steel worlds. |
10 |
| 8 | 24 |
The girl usually hopes that her master will pay enough for her to convince him that she is of at least minimal value, and will not pay so much that he will be angry with the merchant, for in such a case he is almost certain to take his dissatisfaction out on her lovely hide. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
I see little of value". |
10 |
| 13 | 270 |
"I suspect that you will have some value in that modality". |
10 |
| 13 | 588 |
Then, for the first time in your life, you had an actual value". |
10 |
| 13 | 589 |
"I see," she said, "the unenslaved slave is nothing, but the enslaved slave has a value, and a meaning". |
10 |
| 13 | 616 |
How am I to understand these things? Am I to cry out with misery or throw my head back and howl with relief and pleasure?" "Be patient," I said, "and if you wish to cling to something specific, and objective, simply consider matters of monetary value". |
10 |
| 13 | 618 |
"Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles," I said, "in her freedom, had no monetary value. |
10 |
| 13 | 619 |
On the other hand the slave who was once she does have such a value". |
10 |
| 13 | 620 |
"Oh, yes," she said, "I have value! I cost 'seven nine', I am told, whatever that means". |
10 |
| 13 | 661 |
The collar, in its way, is a symbol of quality, a sign of merit, a mark of value, a badge of superiority, a lovely and distinguishing token of female excellence". |
10 |
| 14 | 189 |
Its primary value, and there is little other reason for permitting the slave to assume it, is to lead her to believe, and hope, that she may be accorded some tiny particle of dignity or respect, an illusion which then, to her shame and humiliation, may be totally shattered by the master. |
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| 17 | 496 |
"There is, thus, only one value, one virtue?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 334 |
His value as a trader, too, was clear to the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 1 | 335 |
They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads. |
10 |
| 4 | 79 |
It does not, thus, lower her value. |
10 |
| 12 | 352 |
"You have not failed to note, I suppose," I said, "that you have seemed to undergo a certain decrease in value". |
10 |
| 15 | 12 |
"You will not lose honor, as you know, if you return to me, in magnanimous reciprocity, something of comparable value". |
10 |
| 15 | 13 |
"But what might I have of comparable value?" protested Canka, angrily. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
Technically, of course, Hci should not have offered gifts to Canka of a value which Canka could not repay. |
10 |
| 15 | 20 |
"I will not give her up! She is mine!" "I have given you a gift of great value," said Hci, as though puzzled. |
10 |
| 28 | 103 |
The commercial value of long hair might also be mentioned. |
10 |
| 32 | 143 |
"That suggests that she, though red, is of even less value than a white female. |
10 |
| 37 | 107 |
To give you an idea of the value of Herlits, in some places two may be exchanged for a kaiila; in other places, it takes three to five to purchase a kaiila. |
10 |
| 37 | 258 |
Thus, if the offspring is female, she is likely to be attractive, and thus, eventually, she should prove to be of value on the auction block, and if the offspring is male he is likely to be powerful, and thus of greater utility in the performance of heavy tasks, for example, in haulage, in digging a... |
10 |
| 39 | 62 |
"How foolish of me, to think that one might care, in the least, for one who is only a slave!" "You are only a property," I told her, "and worthless, except that you might have some small monetary value". |
10 |
| 44 | 665 |
"Of what value is a trap from which what is trapped may withdraw?" "Without others," said Cuwignaka, "we cannot spring the trap". |
10 |
| 47 | 521 |
It is common for Goreans, and in particular for male Goreans, to be well aware of the value of beauty, and the many purposes to which it may be appropriately put, and, on Gor, is put. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 |
If this is done over a period of time, with many coins, of course, the individual could accumulate, in metal value, a value equivalent perhaps to one or more of the original objects". |
10 |
| 1 | 211 |
"It has metal value, or bullion value," he said. |
10 |
| 2 | 384 |
"But I have nothing of value here," I said, "or at least not of much value". |
10 |
| 2 | 532 |
If I were really of value, of much value, I did not think I would be fastened like this, strapped naked in a box. |
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| 1 | 96 |
In this fashion, if that is not noted, or the object is not weighed, it might be accepted for, say, a certain face value, the individual responsible for this meanwhile pocketing the clipped or shaved metal. |
10 |
| 1 | 98 |
"Metal value?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 207 |
I had thought that the object might have had some value. |
10 |
| 2 | 531 |
I doubted, frankly, that I could be of much value. |
10 |
| 4 | 40 |
Such a mistake could necessitate a shearing and a lowering of the market value of a girl for months. |
10 |
| 5 | 243 |
"Yes," I said, "as one whose value is determined only by herself". |
10 |
| 6 | 181 |
It was the sort of wagon whose contents are of so little value that it must yield the road in either direction to any vehicle that might care to pass it. |
10 |
| 6 | 318 |
Some are worn even long after the performance or event in question, perhaps to let people know that one was fortunate enough to have been the witness of a particular event or performance, or perhaps merely because of their intrinsic aesthetic value. |
10 |
| 17 | 72 |
Gorean men clearly relish women, and value them highly. |
10 |
| 21 | 40 |
Too, he had little of practical value in giving such beasts the initial scent. |
10 |
| 31 | 229 |
I recalled that he had conjectured in the great hall, much to the fury of many of my retainers, that that might be about my value in a slave market. |
10 |
| 36 | 85 |
For what it is worth, literacy commonly increases the value of a slave. |
10 |
| 36 | 86 |
It may usually be depended upon to add a few copper tarsks to her value, much like the ability to play a musical instrument or to dance, or to cook and sew. |
10 |
| 36 | 671 |
How unworthy I was to wear a collar of Gor, to have my limbs locked in her weighty, obdurate shackles! Yet, to my joy, I had learned that I was one who might not be found unfitting for the slave markets of this world! Had I not seen this in the eyes of masters? Had I not learned it in my helplessnes... |
10 |
| 36 | 1172 |
"Presumably it would add a few coins to your value". |
10 |
| 36 | 1671 |
"You are going to make your sales price up to me in value, aren't you?" "Yes," I said, "a thousand times!" "Is that all?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 908 |
Slave value, except possibly for collectors, is independent of hair color. |
10 |
| 2 | 1593 |
Certainly Gorean men relished them; and yet I wondered if they sufficiently appreciated the value and availability of such goods, if they realized how different things might be, if they realized how fortunate they were. |
10 |
| 5 | 281 |
"Accordingly, if your tongue were to be removed, it would considerably lower your value". |
10 |
| 6 | 416 |
They attested her value, which was considerable. |
10 |
| 6 | 594 |
How antibiological, petty, and self-serving were her value judgments. |
10 |
| 8 | 80 |
"I know of little else that might be of value to you," said Boots. |
10 |
| 9 | 300 |
"Gather up those boxes and packs, and that which might seem to be of any value here," said Boots to his fellows. |
10 |
| 9 | 436 |
"Lecchio, Chino, Andronicus, Petrucchio, if you would," said Boots, "bring along these other things, whatever seems of value". |
10 |
| 10 | 647 |
"I suspect," she said, "you do not realize the value and rarity of what you have obtained as a prize". |
10 |
| 11 | 113 |
Also, of course, slaves generally have some value, at least to the master, even if not much. |
10 |
| 11 | 115 |
Who would want to risk one in such a foolish manner? Free women, on the other hand, being priceless, have for most practical purposes no value whatsoever. |
10 |
| 16 | 1103 |
The major reason, however, for tying the slaves in this position is doubtless that the game's stakes and their value, so prominently displayed, may be properly considered and appreciated. |
10 |
| 18 | 364 |
Such gestures have their value, but too many fellows have been pierced by crossbow bolts while doing so. |
10 |
| 21 | 102 |
The true concealment of the papers, one assuredly calculated to deceive those individuals who might have some just notion of their value, one worthy of Belnar's brilliance, was to have them lying about, almost casually, mixed in, and seemingly belonging with, papers of no great importance. |
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| 21 | 105 |
Given their relative accessibility and their apparent lack of value common thieves would not be likely to find them of interest. |
10 |
| 21 | 315 |
"I had thought that perhaps such theory might one day prove its value". |
10 |
| 22 | 146 |
"I know you do not value my opinion in these matters," I said, "but I must disagree with Lecchio". |
10 |
| 22 | 149 |
"Your opinion, then," said Boots, "is not without value". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 184 |
Also, of what value would the lash be as a corrective device if it was somehow savored? It would fail as an instrument of discipline. |
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| 4 | 388 |
She had little alternative, it seemed, in her anger, other than to pretend to accept his remark at face value. |
10 |
| 5 | 454 |
The female slave, like the tarsk, has some value. |
10 |
| 5 | 455 |
To be sure, a female slave is commonly regarded as far more valuable than a tarsk, but, then, too, commonly, of considerably less value than a trained sleen. |
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| 13 | 164 |
Who knows where or when the eyes of the slavers are upon them? If they knew that would they flee behind locked doors, hoping vainly to escape their fate; would they crouch fearfully in closets, waiting for the doors to be opened; or would they stand differently and move ever more beautifully, hoping... |
10 |
| 13 | 297 |
Indeed, happiness for a human female often involves the willing surrender of freedom in order to achieve things which are of greater value and importance to her. |
10 |
| 16 | 277 |
"I would then have value?" asked the girl. |
10 |
| 16 | 562 |
In particular, the slave, who has value, is not to be in any way impaired or injured. |
10 |
| 16 | 563 |
Even punishment is not to be administered in such a way as to lower her value. |
10 |
| 16 | 900 |
Those who have felt such things know their value". |
10 |
| 19 | 310 |
But, from the tone of her voice, I suspected her compliment was not to be taken at face value. |
10 |
| 21 | 61 |
"Regardless of this free woman," he said, "you have something of value there". |
10 |
| 25 | 108 |
As the reader may have gathered, the tarsk bit is a coin of little value. |
10 |
| 25 | 932 |
And it is not unoften the case that such a common wench, of which little is expected, bought originally perhaps with the mere object of keeping her for a week or so and then reselling her, will be discovered to be an astounding value. |
10 |
| 25 | 937 |
What counts ultimately, in my opinion, is not the cost of the merchandise, but its value, its quality; it is not what one pays that is ultimately important, but what gets for one's money. |
10 |
| 25 | 1094 |
Such breasts, I thought, would probably increase her value as a slave. |
10 |
| 25 | 1174 |
"One who understands the value of a free woman," she said. |
10 |
| 25 | 1175 |
I supposed free women did have value. |
10 |
| 26 | 456 |
It is, thus, a comment on your value". |
10 |
| 26 | 1897 |
They would have been considered of value, they would have been desired, they may have been stalked, they may have been sought, they would have been captured, and stripped, and assessed, and kept. |
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| 27 | 155 |
You are now only one slave among others, and now, within certain limits, have a specific monetary value". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 192 |
In the sense in which a free person was priceless, she was worthless, but, too, in her way, I could see that she would have value, value as a pair of boots might have value or a dog. |
10 |
| 10 | 393 |
As a slave, on the other hand, I did have a value, a specific value, depending on what men were willing to pay for me. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
Clearly she did not wish to acknowledge that I might, objectively, be of value, particularly of a value so high as five silver tarsks. |
10 |
| 1 | 193 |
She was the sort of person who would have a finite, measurable value. |
10 |
| 3 | 515 |
He seemed unwilling to recognize that there might be some delicacy and authenticity in my interest in these things, for their own value and beauty. |
10 |
| 5 | 271 |
Strive constantly to improve your skills, and value". |
10 |
| 6 | 530 |
Our value, even if we were desirable and beautiful, on the other hand, would be finite, a function quite simply of fluctuations in the market, and what men were willing to pay for us. |
10 |
| 6 | 618 |
As properties we had value, like other properties! Suddenly I realized, this thought frightening me, as I contemplated myself the object of such considerations, there might be a further point in chaining and confining us. |
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| 6 | 635 |
Analogies are that it is not permitted to animals to challenge the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts within which they find themselves penned, that money must retain its value, and buying power, regardless of who has it in hand, and so on. |
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| 8 | 257 |
I could be terribly punished, perhaps even tortured and killed, if I, a mere property, seriously injured, or diminished the value of, another property. |
10 |
| 10 | 392 |
As a free woman I had been priceless, and thus, in a sense, without value, or worthless. |
10 |
| 10 | 401 |
You want to form an estimate as to your value. |
10 |
| 10 | 416 |
"But you would still be curious as to your comparative value," he speculated. |
10 |
| 10 | 421 |
I, semitrained, and a barbarian, had gone for more than twice that price! I did have value! "Let me put it in another way," he said, "in one that may be even more meaningful to you". |
10 |
| 10 | 436 |
"That is of value to me," he said, "for I am a tavern owner. |
10 |
| 10 | 440 |
I did realize, of course, and had realized this shortly after the beginning of my training, that my value might depend not simply on what I was, in myself, but even on the sort of woman I was, say, that I was a barbarian, and the relative abundance or scarcity of that commodity in the markets. |
10 |
| 10 | 443 |
My master, I noted, did not seem to be personally interested in my virginity, only in what it might mean to him in terms of its possible commercial value. |
10 |
| 10 | 487 |
How strange it then seemed to me that I, the former Doreen Williamson, of Earth, a shy librarian, should now be elated that she had some simple, independent value as a female, if only as slave meat! Then I realized how superficial was my view of this matter, even in so simple a business as vending a... |
10 |
| 10 | 498 |
Here, in this house, I then understood, though I might have some value in a commercial sense, I was only a slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 287 |
"I am pleased if I have been of value to my master," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 95 |
Too, a silver tarsk is, after all, when all is said and done, a coin of considerable value. |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
"Spill garbage, or refuse, upon the stones, for I am a slave and am worth less than even it, and have no value lest it be to serve a master, and put me upon it. |
10 |
| 20 | 204 |
The farmer likes to be appreciated, and to have the importance and value of his work recognized. |
10 |
| 24 | 641 |
Such marks, of course, if permanent, might reduce a girl's value on the slave block. |
10 |
| 28 | 112 |
"It has some sense of the value of money then," I said, "and perhaps some way of utilizing it". |
10 |
| 29 | 308 |
"They find me of value," said the small fellow. |
10 |
| 32 | 22 |
The wagon and tharlarion, too, would surely have value. |
10 |
| 33 | 357 |
Only to those who have been closest to death is the value of life most clear. |
10 |
| 34 | 325 |
"Keep clearly in mind that regardless of their value or benefits from your point of view, they have other consequences as well. |
10 |
| 34 | 447 |
"Too," he said, "we would not want you stolen for the value of your earrings". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 211 |
"Do you think you would prove to be of any value to them as a slave?" "I would strive desperately to be of value," she said. |
10 |
| 2 | 287 |
This is particularly true of the slave, of course, who, like other goods, or domestic animals, has an ascertainable, finite value, whatever free persons are willing to pay for her. |
10 |
| 5 | 30 |
To be sure, that perhaps overrated her value considerably, as she was only a free woman. |
10 |
| 8 | 718 |
Too, obviously, the use of such expressions has its value to the male, as well, as it informs him that the bothersome and inconvenient inhibitions, restrictions and civilities appropriate in relating to free women have happily no application here. |
10 |
| 8 | 774 |
He had gotten something of value from them, perhaps as a penalty fee, or as something in the way of compensation for the inconvenience they had caused him, over and above the amount of their unpaid bills. |
10 |
| 8 | 792 |
The shaving of their heads would doubtless lower their value, but I did not object, because I was not particularly concerned with whether I made a profit on them or not. |
10 |
| 10 | 35 |
I had redeemed her, by means of Ephialtes, at the Crooked Tarn, for thirty-five copper tarsks, the cost of her bill, but I had sold her for forty, a modest, almost irresistible price, considering the value of women here, at least prior to the city's fall. |
10 |
| 10 | 39 |
I had conveyed to the men, as though by inadvertence, that I suspected she might have little value as she had had her head shaved. |
10 |
| 11 | 70 |
I suppose it might, indeed, but I am uncertain of the general value of this sort of thing, at least if frequently resorted to. |
10 |
| 11 | 81 |
I personally, again, am uncertain of the value of this way of doing things. |
10 |
| 15 | 918 |
"Such shapeliness has slave value". |
10 |
| 18 | 311 |
On the other hand, the slave does have value and if one is in desperate need of coins, she may be sold. |
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 |
| 18 | 527 |
The slave, too, is a domestic animal, and like other domestic animals, has a specific value. |
10 |
| 21 | 281 |
"Then they have some value," said another. |
10 |
| 21 | 795 |
"What do those of Ar's Station value most highly," I asked, "their justice—or their honor?" Several of the men cried out, angrily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 133 |
"My reasons, of whatever value they might be, and I think their value may be slight, are my own". |
10 |
| 1 | 873 |
It is easy to speculate, in general terms, on such latencies having been selected for in a variety of ways, for example, in noting their affinity with movements of love and luring, their value in displaying the female, their capacity to stimulate the male, their utility in pleasing and placating men... |
10 |
| 3 | 116 |
I did not think he would have found it easy to do so, however, as her slave value, which was considerable, had been publicly manifested in the paga enclosure, in the parade of slaves, and in the utterly liberated licentiousness of her slave dance. |
10 |
| 3 | 140 |
The slave is a domestic animal, and has her value. |
10 |
| 3 | 503 |
I am no longer certain of the value of this information. |
10 |
| 3 | 504 |
A judgment on its value, however, should be made by Saphronicus. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
Prisoners can be of value, in the quarries, on the rowing benches of galleys, in such places. |
10 |
| 19 | 473 |
It interested me that she had put a specific value on a free woman. |
10 |
| 19 | 1082 |
"I am wondering of what possible value you could be," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1083 |
"'Value'?" she asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 1088 |
"But some men think women have value," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1089 |
"The value of slaves is clear," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1094 |
"I can demonstrate my value," she said, approaching me. |
10 |
| 19 | 1096 |
"You now sense that I have value, do you not?" she asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 1158 |
Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism. |
10 |
| 19 | 1568 |
"Perhaps you can imagine yourself naked on the slave block, in chains," I said, "this excellent feature of yours, considerably enhancing your value, being called to the attention of buyers, and you standing there, naked, in your chains, knowing it was true". |
10 |
| 24 | 166 |
"Presumably your master would not wish you to risk marking yourself, as that might lower your value". |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
"Do I have some value, just as a female?" she asked. |
10 |
| 36 | 112 |
The lots are sometimes of mixed value, some including women who are little more than free women, their slave fires not yet ignited, and others which may be captured, needful slaves. |
10 |
| 37 | 139 |
Much of this becomes obvious when it is kept in mind that the last thing a slaver wants to do is to diminish the beauty, and, thus, the sales value, of his merchandise. |
10 |
| 37 | 179 |
For example, what would be the value of such a creature? Do you think they would be easy to sell? Would you buy such a creature, would you want one around? On the whole men love and desire their slaves. |
10 |
| 44 | 343 |
She might not be important as a slave, I thought, but if someone were willing to give a hundred pieces of gold for her, she must have value to someone, in some dimension. |
10 |
| 47 | 81 |
A slave's value, of course, is in what men will pay for her. |
10 |
| 47 | 205 |
Had that been the case I would have attempted to cast doubt on the value of the note. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 157 |
"They have antiquarian value, as well as aesthetic value," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 942 |
Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ... |
10 |
| 21 | 523 |
"Remember," I said, "it is only she being sold, not her reputation, not her political importance, not her symbolic value as an acquisition, not her value as a trophy, not her possible historical interest as a collector's item, and such, but only she, only the girl, only another slave". |
10 |
| 1 | 401 |
Slave girls, as they are domestic animals, are, like other domestic animals, of obvious value to victors. |
10 |
| 3 | 408 |
Too, of course, economic considerations sometimes become paramount, these sometimes dictating the selling off of chattels, whose value, of course, unlike that of a free woman, constitutes a source of possible income. |
10 |
| 3 | 655 |
I did not know if a fellow such as this Teibar, who did not seem of the merchants, or rich, could have afforded a slave of such obvious value. |
10 |
| 3 | 892 |
The lowest value on a single die is the "urt". |
10 |
| 4 | 46 |
Also, it seemed to me, aside from the value of its effect of Phoebe, an excellent idea. |
10 |
| 8 | 288 |
Only she who is truly at the mercy of a male, and his slave, and under his discipline, can truly appreciate the value of such things. |
10 |
| 8 | 307 |
Private masters, for example, often relish the company of their slaves at such events, and public masters, so to speak, recognize the value of such outings for slaves, as stimulation and recreation. |
10 |
| 8 | 941 |
Of what value is it, I asked myself, to have certain talents. |
10 |
| 9 | 344 |
Gorean society tends to value tradition and is carefully structured. |
10 |
| 11 | 411 |
The board had a thousand sides, and surfaces and dimensions, the pieces were of an unknown number, and nature and value, the rules were uncertain, often you did not know whom you played, or where they were, often the moves must be made in darkness, in ignorance of your opponent's position, his piece... |
10 |
| 14 | 185 |
And there can be intense competitions, it might be mentioned, not only for such treasures as the master's attentions and affections but for articles as ordinary as combs and brushes and prizes which, whatever may be their symbolic value, are often as small in themselves as a sweet or pastry. |
10 |
| 17 | 351 |
"If I tell you, will you then value them less?" "'Done'?" he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 807 |
He is of great value to Appanius". |
10 |
| 19 | 1177 |
"Have no fear," I said, "you have been helpful and cooperative, and I have obtained much of value from our conversation, more doubtless than you understand. |
10 |
| 20 | 87 |
"Such responses will much improve your value," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 180 |
One of the advantages of that position, aside from its general suitability and its effect on the female, is that it commonly has placatory value. |
10 |
| 22 | 544 |
After all, she was not without value in a market, and one would not wish anything to happen to her which might lower her price. |
10 |
| 26 | 42 |
Doubtless he had been of great value to Appanius, in many ways. |
10 |
| 26 | 493 |
"Do you think we are fond of she who was once Talena," asked Tolnar, "of she who betrayed Ar, and collaborated with her enemies?" "Release me, if you value your lives!" she cried. |
10 |
| 27 | 271 |
Also, of course, it has symbolic value". |
10 |
| 27 | 309 |
It is designed for the female slave, to correct her behavior with great effectiveness while not leaving lasting traces, which might reduce her value. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 233 |
On this world, on the other hand, I knew that I had a value, a particular, practical value, based on what men would pay for me. |
10 |
| 12 | 646 |
'The value of a slave can only be adequately ascertained when she is utterly bared,' said my captor, 'but the value of a free woman, one for whom a ransom is requested, is often the better preserved the more her modesty is respected. |
10 |
| 2 | 6 |
I realized that I might have value, of course, in some sense or other, for I found myself, and in a certain fashion, in this place, but this is not the same sort of thing as being important. |
10 |
| 5 | 47 |
What the garden contains, you see, its contents, and their value, need not be for everyone to know. |
10 |
| 6 | 91 |
You must understand that, over the past few years, as their value has come to be more generally recognized, such items have become more popular". |
10 |
| 8 | 608 |
And Sally, plump, cuddly little Sally, so excitable, so talkative, so self-depreciating, so cynical with respect to the value of her own charms, let her wardrobe for the time be merely a collar, and her place only the tiles at a man's feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 226 |
Some perhaps might be humiliated to learn that their objective value was now less than that of some of the women whom they had previously despised, of which sort they were now only another specimen. |
10 |
| 9 | 227 |
And some, perhaps, might be disconcerted to find that they now actually possessed an objective value, and one exceeding, on the same terms, and in the same dimension, at least some of those whom they had formerly regarded with such contempt. |
10 |
| 9 | 228 |
But I did not think that they would object to learning that they might have value. |
10 |
| 9 | 234 |
This value, of course, as I recognized, would be likely to fluctuate with various market conditions. |
10 |
| 11 | 696 |
Indeed, it does not even mark the subject, which might reduce her value. |
10 |
| 11 | 1027 |
The last thing they would want to do would be to decrease the beauty or value of a woman. |
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| 11 | 1484 |
I was thinking in terms of the high slave, one of great value, one who might even expect sandals, to say nothing of costly, if revealing, silks, and perhaps even a golden collar. |
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| 11 | 1575 |
The point of the high bridges seems to be twofold, first, they are lovely in their traceries against the sky and between the cylinderlike buildings, and such things are important to these people, who seem to have an unusually developed aesthetic sense and, second, they have military value, inasmuch ... |
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| 12 | 20 |
Our prettiness, obviously, tends to figure in our value. |
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| 12 | 23 |
Such things may lower her value. |
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| 12 | 745 |
I thought it must be very pretty, and of great value. |
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| 13 | 544 |
The value of such training, of course, is easy to see in matters as obvious as that recently noted. |
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| 13 | 545 |
What may not be as immediately obvious is its similar value in avoiding what may be even greater dangers, such as displeasing the master. |
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| 13 | 1306 |
I did not doubt her value in a market. |
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| 13 | 1373 |
It is said that sometimes slavers enter the boudoir of a free woman and scrutinize her in her sleep, in this considering what value, if any, she might hold as a slave. |
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| 14 | 1267 |
She may have value on the block". |
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| 14 | 1275 |
"You might lower her value". |
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| 14 | 1525 |
It is nothing against the value of a classificatory scheme that it is not the only one possible. |
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| 15 | 139 |
He must have some unusual importance or value. |
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| 18 | 85 |
She then, so to speak, courts the collar, eager to reassure herself of her beauty, her desirability, her fittingness to be owned; she wants to prove to herself now that she does have some value, after all, as she had hitherto thought; had she been mistaken; had her arrogant surmise been no more than... |
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| 19 | 512 |
Wholesalers sometimes congregate outside such corridors, leading down into the pens, looking in through the bars, forming conjectures as to the value of the catch. |
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| 19 | 617 |
It would be stupid to damage her in such a way; as it would reduce her value. |
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| 24 | 276 |
Was a woman or two, a sack of plate, a handful of gems, worth their lives? Did they value their lives so lightly? It must be that, I thought, they must all be mad. |
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| 30 | 42 |
"If he is taken from us," said the officer, "Treve loses a counter of inestimable value". |
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| 34 | 150 |
This gives him some sense of her value. |
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| 34 | 161 |
In Gorean there is an expression which would rather literally translate as "display slave," and it seems that that is much the same idea, namely, that the woman's value is seen to lie more in the ranges of a decoration, an appointment, an appurtenance, or such things, than in herself, than in the he... |
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| 37 | 528 |
Many Earth women seem to think their kisses are of great value, whereas most of them do not know how to kiss. |
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| 43 | 23 |
The collar, even the filings, were of value. |
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| 44 | 96 |
But now I was frightened, for I feared my value to this newcomer, he who had been announced to me as my master, had little to do with whatever features or properties I might possess as a woman in bondage, with such things as beauty, intelligence, character, personality or talent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 548 |
In this sense a woman is without specific or actual value until she becomes a slave; it is then that she acquires specific or actual value. |
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| 18 | 361 |
Then she realized that her value on this world was not a function of her value elsewhere, under different conditions. |
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| 26 | 782 |
My value, if value I have, will be determined by men". |
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| 26 | 1705 |
"You obtain some value, some small value, once you are in collars". |
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| 2 | 11 |
It seems to considerably increase our value. |
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| 2 | 168 |
Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the... |
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| 4 | 96 |
Vaguely she recognized that it seemed to be an oriental rug, and might, she speculated, be of considerable value. |
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| 4 | 521 |
I thought of you with only one purpose in mind, the only purpose in terms of which you could possibly be of any value. |
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| 9 | 127 |
The collar, thus, in its way, is a visible acknowledgment of value. |
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| 10 | 239 |
She had no doubt that she was being appraised for her value as a naked slave. |
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| 11 | 338 |
They take from them what they desire, whatever seems of value. |
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| 11 | 430 |
"They were of great value to us". |
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| 11 | 946 |
I am of Earth! She decided that this would be the moment to convince him of her value, of her nobility, of her loftiness, of her worthiness, the moment to earn his respect. |
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| 12 | 288 |
Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way. |
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| 12 | 325 |
To speak as though absolute equality, save doubtless in merit, or value, each marvelous in their own very different way, could exist between absolute unequals, things as diverse as a male and a female, was at best an idle social ritual, and, at worst, a pathological lie which, if taken seriously, if... |
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| 13 | 283 |
Regardless of the interest or value of such speculations, the truth of which would in any event be veiled in the mysteries and darkness of the past, the fact of the matter was obvious, the fact of the congeniality of such bodies to the convenience of binding and tethering, as obvious as the perfecti... |
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| 13 | 543 |
Ellen did not know what her own value was. |
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| 13 | 545 |
That was an odd, but charming, in its way, thought, that she would now, in a sense, literally for the first time in her life, have value. |
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| 13 | 547 |
At one moment a woman is free and priceless, and then, in another moment, suddenly, she becomes a very practical, tangible commodity, something very real and very factual, something with a specific value, like any other piece of merchandise. |
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| 13 | 553 |
Ellen was curious as to her market value, and the thought that she must now have one charmed her. |
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| 13 | 555 |
She, earlier, being free, had never had such a value. |
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| 15 | 124 |
Men desire complete slaves, it seems, and this means total, vital, feeling, thinking females at their feet; that is apparently what one wants there; few if any men, it seems, desire a mere body, a puppet, a doll, an empty slave; who could be satisfied with such? Where would be the triumph, the pleas... |
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| 15 | 196 |
"I could, of course," he said, "have demeaned your beauty, disparaged it, caused you to doubt your own value, put you in consternation concerning your worth, and such, but I did not do so". |
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| 15 | 538 |
"Why not? Yes, what is a coin or two, measured against the pleasure of teaching you what you now are, a worthless slave, of instructively demeaning you even further, of reducing your value yet again, even in a market, and thus exacting an even sweeter, richer, more delicious vengeance upon you?" "Ma... |
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| 16 | 392 |
On Earth, of course, no deleterious consequences of such charades and antics are likely to occur; indeed, they may earn their practitioners commendations from pathological quarters in which it is not permitted to so much as whisper of nature and the biotruths of a species; indeed, further, such expo... |
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| 16 | 422 |
She recalled that her master had been amused and pleased that what he had done to her, red-silking her, opening her for the uses of men, would be likely to lower her value. |
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| 16 | 423 |
And she gathered that she was not of great value to begin with, a barbarian girl, ignorant, youthful, and scarcely trained. |
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| 16 | 670 |
But Barzak had already emerged from the building and, in his hand, he carried the five-stranded, broad-bladed Gorean slave whip, designed for use on females, to punish terribly but not to mark, or permanently mark, thus perhaps reducing the value of the errant, punished slave. |
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| 16 | 898 |
With the two girls who had called out derisively he was most demanding, until he had them in tears praising the beauty and value of his coffle and confessing their own comparative worthlessness, that they were unworthy to act even as the lowliest of serving slaves to such beauties, and so on. |
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| 16 | 975 |
Its instructive and admonitory value where slave girls are concerned is incalculable. |
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| 17 | 514 |
Surely not with no interest, value or recompense in mind. |
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| 17 | 516 |
It will improve our value in the markets. |
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| 17 | 922 |
But Targo did not know what the new serums had done, it seemed, and would take her at face value, as no more than a young, pretty barbarian. |
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| 18 | 107 |
Still, in empty cages, or in sparsely occupied cages, while a man stands watch, with a goad, you will have ample opportunity, during long hours, to prove your value as a work slave, removing masses of soiled straw, shoveling excrement, scraping and scrubbing floors, supplying and spreading bundles o... |
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| 18 | 133 |
The collar gave her a sense of belonging, a sense of security; too, it was, in its way, a proclamation of her value; it testified that men wanted her, that she had been found fair enough to collar, that she was desired as a female, that she had been found worth enslaving; too, it made it clear, to h... |
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| 18 | 350 |
How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar. |
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| 18 | 364 |
It occurred to her that she had perhaps been fortunate, given her unimportance and her lack of value here, to have been purchased by a tarnkeeper. |
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| 19 | 150 |
"And the little scars on the upper left arm do not, I have found, reduce their value in the markets". |
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| 19 | 472 |
It has its value, too, of course, among tarnsmen, tarnkeepers, tarnsters, and such, who must occasionally move from saddle to saddle, or from basket to basket, and such, while in flight. |
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| 19 | 745 |
It was only, she was sure, that her value was negligible, and perhaps so, too, was that of dozens of free men, compared to some end in view, some projected goal in the city. |
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| 19 | 761 |
Too, for the first time I have an actual value. |
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| 19 | 763 |
As what I am I now have a value and it will be determined by my beauty, which I have reason to believe is considerable, the desire of men, and the conditions of the market. |
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| 19 | 765 |
We have value. |
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| 19 | 780 |
I know that I have value, that I would bring a good price in a normal market. |
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| 20 | 917 |
"May I ask to what extent, Master?" "You wish a clue as to your value, do you not, collar slut?" he said. |
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| 20 | 946 |
What would be their monetary value, on a slave block? To be sure, it is hard to know about such things, as so many variables affect a price. |
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| 21 | 206 |
It would wish to enhance their sales value. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Goreans do not eschew emotion; eagerness, zeal, warmth, heat and passion are common with them; they tend to be vehement, hearty, cordial, enthusiastic, ardent, impetuous; they are quick to anger, quick to forget, quick to laugh; they do not pretend to subscribe to obvious falsehoods; they value trut... |
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| 23 | 80 |
"Do you think your life has value?" asked one of the men. |
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| 23 | 81 |
"It has value to me, Masters," wept Ellen. |
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| 23 | 84 |
"Surely the life of a slave," said Mirus, dryly, "may be of some value, however negligible, to masters". |
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| 24 | 403 |
Ellen realized, suddenly, that it had not occurred to them to take her clumsiness at its face value. |
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| 25 | 325 |
Do you not think they would be curious as to what might lie hidden beneath your veils? Do you not think they would speculate as to what delights might lie concealed within your cumbersome robes? And do you think they would fail to note the putative value of your necklace, the sparkle of your jeweled... |
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| 25 | 741 |
Would they have value? If so, how much? What would they bring? The sawdust was deep, about her ankles. |
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| 25 | 882 |
Such bids should be a good index to at least her wholesale value. |
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| 25 | 1004 |
Goreans respect wealth but tend to value other attributes more highly, and, indeed, to the credit of the Merchants, it should be noted that they usually do so, as well. |
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| 26 | 298 |
Behold, the collar is on her neck! The value of the collar extends far beyond the mere marking of its occupant as slave, and, usually, the identifying of her master. |
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| 26 | 340 |
Men follow her about, in her errands and peregrinations, and look upon her, and admire and value her, and speculate upon her lineaments and the coins that might bring them to their slave ring. |
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| 26 | 1319 |
A slave, you see, in her way, by her appearance, demeanor, and service, may exert a considerable influence on the value and quality of her life. |
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| 26 | 1706 |
"Then an Earth woman might have some value to you?" "Perhaps as an abject slave," he said. |
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| 27 | 1448 |
Will her hunter be satisfied with anything less than to lead her back to his camp, naked, back-braceleted, and leashed, and, now, of course, collared? What woman does not hope to inspire such lust? What woman does not wish to be so beautiful that she could inspire such tempestuous, raging desire? Wh... |
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| 28 | 408 |
She was now, at last, something societally meaningful, something actual, something understood, something accepted and real, something prized, something with an actual, clear value, a slave girl. |
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| 30 | 57 |
At last they have an identity and an actual value, a place in society. |
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| 30 | 317 |
The value of the whip, you see, is not so much in its being used, as in the slave's knowledge that it can be used and, under certain circumstances, will be used. |
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| 30 | 655 |
We have value. |
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| 30 | 676 |
Someone may be thoughtfully considering how you might look in sirik, that striking custodial device with its collar, the connecting chains, the wrist and ankle rings, or conjecturing, taking notes, on your likely value, as he watches you, what you might be expected to bring on the slave block, first... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 336 |
"I think you are more aware of the value of rubies," said Cabot, "than I am of the value of your coins". |
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| 27 | 173 |
"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu... |
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| 1 | 105 |
Individuals of this caste are of great value to their cities, their employers, their princes, so to speak. |
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| 1 | 126 |
The individual, Tarl Cabot, had, it seems, upon occasion proved to be of some value to Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 356 |
Her own womanhood insists on this, as does her pride, her self-image, her concern for her own desirability, her sense of her own worth and value as a female. |
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| 1 | 562 |
Now she begins to suspect that its value might substantially accrue to the benefit of others, that others, and not she, might have their profit upon it. |
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| 1 | 563 |
It would seem to have little value to herself now, save as it might procure her a better master or a lighter bondage. |
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| 22 | 41 |
"They are useful, to remind her that she is a slave, that she has economic value, that she can be bought and sold, and such. |
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| 27 | 133 |
"I can understand," she said, "why free persons might avail themselves of such achievements, but why would they be bestowed on slaves?" "Clearly," he said, "to keep up their value, in the case of a male slave, his strength, in the case of a female slave, her beauty". |
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| 27 | 144 |
Your value must be kept up, if only for the auction block". |
10 |
| 27 | 171 |
It is only now that you have any true value". |
10 |
| 32 | 439 |
"Think! We know much that would be of value to Lord Agamemnon. |
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| 36 | 219 |
"Perhaps you now better understand what you are, and your value," said Cabot. |
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| 43 | 347 |
"Suppose you were a slaver or raider," said Cabot, "and you had to choose between a woman so clad, an indisputable beauty, one with an obvious sales value, one who might go for several coins, and an unknown quantity, a woman heavily robed and veiled, who, stripped, might be of little interest even t... |
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| 44 | 31 |
Some beam devices, too, had proved of value, and flares, particularly in assisting humans to detect Kur patrols, Kur marches, the advance of raiding parties, and such. |
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| 44 | 40 |
It must be understood, of course, that the value of humans to the revolution was not as minimal or negligible as the hitherto-noted, disparaging assessment of Lord Grendel might suggest. |
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| 50 | 7 |
"It is highly unlikely you would be slain," he said, "as you are nicely curved, and would have value in the markets of Gor". |
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| 51 | 27 |
"He wishes to be of greater value to Agamemnon than that. |
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| 51 | 112 |
"And the prices reflect the discovered value of the goods". |
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| 56 | 203 |
"Were you not, in your way, proof that there might be amity betwixt allies, Kur and human? Too, you could make clear the value of human allies, and the nature of our common interests. |
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| 64 | 103 |
What an astonishing epiphany it is for them, then, to accept that they are females, and are profoundly different from males, that they are gloriously and wonderfully other than males, and come to understand the value, preciousness, and delicious specialness of their sex. |
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| 67 | 48 |
As a warrior, or as anyone actually, who might be concerned with such things, Cabot had some sense of the value of remaining both alert and undetected, while in certain milieus. |
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| 67 | 56 |
But the small streams which in a more equable time might have provided some trail's concealment were of little value now. |
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| 69 | 41 |
"I have been helping Cestiphon improve their value. |
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| 77 | 16 |
Such things add to a slave's value. |
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| 77 | 183 |
"Who would kill an animal, which has some value?" asked Flavion. |
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| 77 | 213 |
"But on Gor, you see, they will be unquestioned, and, on a street of coins, will have great value". |
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| 79 | 87 |
It punishes nicely, but does not mark, for that might lower the slave's sales value. |
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| 79 | 641 |
"You may then, later, if you wish," she said, "give me away, or, better, as I understand it, sell me, to get some better sense of my value, what I might bring on the sales block". |
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| 79 | 681 |
"I know enough of the history of Earth," she said, "to be well aware of the market value of my sex". |
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| 81 | 28 |
Indeed, it was speculated that Priest-Kings could use a planet as what, in effect, it was, a space ship, and shift it, if one wished, from one primary to another, a competence possibly of great value, should alterations or disturbances take place in its local primary. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 271 |
A slave, on the other hand, is not priceless, and thus has an actual value, a particular value, usually what men will pay for her. |
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| 38 | 449 |
Intuitively she sensed she might have that value, some value, however minimal, as a female slave. |
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| 1 | 182 |
"It seems I have an identity, and a value," she said. |
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| 1 | 394 |
The slave, on the other hand, as she grows accustomed to her status, and its remarkable value in the eyes of men, tends to revel in its enhancement of her charms, a pleasure which is likely to be seriously begrudged her by the more heavily clad free woman. |
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| 2 | 56 |
Too, there may be economic constraints, as well, for if the challenge is not accepted, one is sometimes expected, depending on the city, the castes, and circumstances, to pay for the slave, with a purse several times her value. |
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| 2 | 135 |
Slavers, too, who wish to buy and sell them, wish them to stay this way, as their value is maintained and, in many cases, improved. |
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| 2 | 139 |
Doubtless a value judgment is involved in such things. |
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| 4 | 37 |
Knowing a native language of Earth they might be of continuing value as agents. |
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| 5 | 191 |
Doubtless the agent of Priest-Kings would have resisted capture, and would have been quickly, brutally slain, it being presupposed that his life would be of small value, that he was the mere carrier of the message, a message presumably in the box, and the token, which they would have supposed was hi... |
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| 5 | 720 |
Too, the shorn hair is of value in a number of ways, not only for wigs, falls, and such, but, too, interestingly, because it makes the best cordage for catapults, far superior to common hemp, and such. |
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| 8 | 58 |
From his vantage point, he would not have been much aware of their quality as females, for example, their value as properties. |
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| 8 | 160 |
As free women are apparently seldom, if ever, in this locality, we were advised to conceal her identity, to pretend that she might be naught but a mere, degraded slave, a low-value slave, such as might be brought hither". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 87 |
I might have taken her in hand, but she would have little value as a hostage, as she was an animal, and not one of particular value. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
You value your lives, surely, and your Home Stones, and your fellows, but I wonder if you value your world, truly, or, perhaps better, value it enough. |
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| 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. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 199 |
"A girl of modest market value, not much market value". |
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| 7 | 344 |
It is done on behalf of the free, that their slaves will retain their vitality, passion, youth, beauty, and health, this serving to keep them more attractive and appealing, which, of course, aside from a number of obvious advantages to the master, personal and aesthetic, has a number of economic con... |
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| 19 | 100 |
"But you do have value, shapely barbarian slut," he said, "through no virtue, nor any fault, of your own, value unknown to you". |
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| 30 | 245 |
"You were worthless on Earth," he said, "utterly worthless, but now, here at least, you have some value, a modicum of value, the pittance that would take you off a slave block". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 135 |
A woman has no value until she is a slave and her value then is what the free will pay for her. |
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