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Veils

Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	60	The girl, Sana, whom I carried on the saddle before me, would dress in the heavy robes and veils of the Ubar's daughter and return in her place to the interior of the cylinder.	10
16	138	She wore the concealing robes and veils, the full regalia of a Ubara.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	102	"Soon, when you have been properly prepared, you will be dressed in costly pleasure silk, given sandals perhaps, scarves, veils and jewels, garments to gladden the heart of a maiden".	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	92	The attendant who stood on the disk then, to her horror, pushed back the hood of her garment and the ornate, beautiful veils that masked her features, face-stripping her as casually as one might remove a scarf.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	122	The free women, shamelessly to the mind of the rather prudish Kamchak, lowered their veils and threw back the hoods of their Robes of Concealment, enjoying the feast, eating with much the same Gorean gusto as their men.	10
24	6	I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	53	Free women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath their veils.	10
12	54	Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices.	10
12	55	Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth.	10
12	372	There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...	10
19	353	In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth...	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	441	I gestured that the seamen should remove the veils from the two girls who stood behind her.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	396	It might be mentioned, in passing, that the Gorean free woman is commonly veiled, and that veils are denied to female slaves.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	308	From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl.	10
13	316	"May I present to my Jarl," he asked, "Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar?" The girl reached to her hoods and brushed them back, freeing her hair, and then, pin by pin, she unfastened the two veils, one after the other, and dropped them.	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	375	There were sellers of scarves and sashes, veils and haiks, chalwars and tobes, and slippers and kaftans, and cording for agals.	10
4	25	It reveals, as much as conceals, yet it adds a touch of subtlety, mystery; slave veils are made to be torn away, the lips of the master then crushing those of the slave.	10
13	332	The men removed the scarlet veils.	10
26	237	It contained a slave girl, an exquisitely feminine girl, blond-haired and blue-eyed; she was richly veiled and bejeweled; it was said she was the preferred slave of the great Haroun himself, high Pasha of the Kavars; it was said her name was Alyena; she was of high station; she wore silks, and veils...	10

Book 11. (28 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	16	In certain cities, in connection with the free companionship, the betrothed or pledged beauty may wear eight veils, several of which are ritualistically removed during various phases of the ceremony of companionship; the final veils, and robes, of course, are removed in private by the male who, foll...	10
2	1211	They did not wear veils.	10
2	1215	In this chair, in graceful lassitude, weary, sat another girl, though one whose features, as she wore sheaths of pinned veils, I could not well remark.	10
2	1217	About the robes and over the hood and veils of the garmenting were slung medallions and necklaces of wrought gold, pendant with gems.	10
5	6	Eta, from behind me, pinned the first of five veils about my face.	10
5	11	Veils are worn in various numbers and combinations by Gorean free women, this tending to vary by preference and caste.	10
5	13	Not all high-caste women wear a large number of veils.	10
5	14	A free woman, publicly, will commonly wear one or two veils; a frequent combination is the light veil, or last veil, and the house or street veil.	10
5	15	Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils.	10
5	21	Some low-caste, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear veils.	10
5	29	In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women.	10
5	33	Eta fastened the fourth of five veils upon me, the house veil.	10
5	34	Though Eta wore only the shameful, scandalous Ta-Teera, she pinned the veils expertly.	10
5	45	The robes, carefully draped, primarily white, in their richness and sheen, were resplendent; over the veils my eyes would appear very dark.	10
5	298	I felt, from the side, his knife slip beneath the veils at my face and throat.	10
5	420	The flesh of my face was now concealed from the direct vision of the strong males by only three veils, the pride veil, the veil of the citizeness and the sheer fifth, or last, veil.	10
5	523	Veils seem correct, and right, with the robes of concealment.	10
7	69	Her veils lay about her shoulders.	10
7	97	"Beware!" The veils, by a man behind her, were lifted from about her shoulders, and dropped to the ground.	10
7	98	"Return my veils," she said.	10
7	99	The veils lay fallen, gently, upon the ground.	10
7	119	She was, the veils gone, a delicately featured, beautiful girl.	10
7	143	But return to me now my veils, and my sandals, too, for my ransom surely will be less if it be understood my modesty has been so grievously compromised.	10
7	394	When he strode through the streets free women sometimes threw themselves before him, tearing away their veils and robes, begging for his collar.	10
13	161	A woman may wear earrings on the block early in the sale, or even ornate, expensive garments and veils, if one wishes, but before the conclusion of the sale she will be absolutely naked, that the buyers may see her without adornments, without the least enhancement, that they will see her then as she...	10
13	405	"Is there a higher bid?" I looked up, and, startled, saw the eyes of the various women, over their veils, upon me.	10
18	112	A free woman was found who thrust back her robe and veils.	10
18	126	Once, when a tarnsman snapped by, pursued by guardsmen, mounted, too, on tarns, she had torn the veils from her face and, boldly, supplicatingly, had lifted her robes, revealing her left thigh to the hip.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	427	She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescriptions, requireme...	10
6	249	"Remove your veils," said the free woman.	10
6	250	The two girls pulled away their veils.	10
6	257	One of the girls had lifted aside the first of the free woman's veils, and the other had brushed back the first of her hoods.	10
7	84	Who would recognize in her the former lofty lady of Lydius, the rich Lady Tina, who had often trod these streets aloof and hidden, probably escorted, in her several veils and multitudinous robes of concealment? Looking upon her, and look they would, they would see only a bond girl, only a lovely, ha...	10
35	441	The world from which they derive, of course, seems to the Kur eye one ripe for such recruitments; as they see it, it is a hypocritical world, one on which selflessness is praised while carefully and deliberately evaded, one in which greed is denounced while being frequently and often substantially r...	10
35	695	Her modesty had made it unlikely that many in the complex would recognize her body or features, which had, I gathered, been generally kept from view by the multitudinous robes and veils of concealment common to the Gorean free women of the high cities.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	403	"Save for some veneers, some conventions, and veils, they are the same," I said.	10

Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	16	The robes and veils the women wore were graceful and of silken sheens.	10
20	115	I saw even the eyes of free women bright and wild over their veils.	10
22	25	Free women, drinking, commonly lift their veil, or veils, with the left hand.	10
22	27	Sometimes, however, particularly if in public, they will drink through their veil, or veils.	10
22	768	The eyes of the Lady Leta and of the Lady Perimene shone above their veils.	10
25	212	I saw free women in the tiers, their eyes wild, half glazed, over their veils.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	116	Who would wish to risk his life, it is said, to carry off a woman who might, when roped to a tree and stripped, turn out to be as ugly as a tharlarion? Slave girls, by contrast, are almost never permitted veils.	10
4	477	Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their cumbersome robes and veils, that they are ...	10
10	203	It is interesting how a girl in a simple rag with steel on her neck will clean and brush herself, and pose and display herself, with the same zest and pleasure with which a free woman arranges ornate robes and a multitude of colorful veils.	10
30	26	It is not easy always, of course, to recognize a slave who wears the robes and veils of concealment; the identification becomes simple, of course, once she has been put in a collar and slave tunic.	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	57	Another feature of the robes and veils, of course, is to excite a fellow's curiosity as to what might lie beneath those several, subtly layered, troublesome, colorful, vision-impeding cloths.	10
9	221	He wanted me in veils and silk, and wished to serve me.	10
19	379	It would not do for her for them to know that she, that lofty creature—mysterious in her robes and veils, perhaps known to them only as a proud slut being regally borne in a curtained palanquin, or as a shy, gentle creature absorbed in perusing scrolls in a library, or as a mere figure attend...	10
20	612	So she begins to wear her veils loosely, her robes above her ankles, to frequent lonely streets, to traverse high bridges at night, or perhaps in a slave tunic she begins to loiter about markets where women are sold, or decides to satisfy her curiosity as to the interior of a paga tavern, and see fo...	10
20	740	"You!" she suddenly said, from behind her veils, seeing Calliodorus, of Port Cos, captain of the Tais.	10
20	742	He leaned forward, as though he might peer through the veils themselves.	10
20	746	"Gentlemen," said Calliodorus, huskily, "this is the free woman, Lola, of Port Cos!" Suddenly the girl, sobbing, wildly tore away her veils and the robes of concealment, revealing that she wore a slave tunic and collar.	10
20	1426	Too, it is not surprising that a guardsman may be in the vicinity, for he may have followed her, noting, under the stolen robes and veils, the body movements, the hesitant, uncertain steps, the tormented breathing, perhaps even the confused, trembling responses to civil inquiries, of a woman in the ...	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	1186	No doubt now, she no longer wore her veils.	10
17	280	They thrust back my veils and hood.	10

Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1083	I will teach her the proper garments, and their adjustments, and the veils, and their fastenings.	10
4	48	In my audiences, and public appearances, for example, and even in the court, I appeared without the veils common to the Gorean free woman.	10
4	49	I knew the veils, and Susan had instructed me in their meanings, arrangements and fastenings, but, publicly, at least, I seldom wore them.	10
6	6	I felt it move my veils back against my features.	10
7	10	I then began to remove the veils and robes of concealment.	10
8	396	Perhaps he remembered her from a former time, when she was free, from a time of robes, and veils, and refinements, and conventions, and distances.	10
12	31	Hitherto I had generally worn veils only when intending to travel incognito in the city, and I had never worn them on official occasions of state.	10
30	436	In a few moments the figure of a woman, in robes and veils, pushed from behind, appeared in the threshold.	10
30	449	Then, while she stood helplessly in this position, Hassan's knife stripped her, veils and all, as naked as a slave.	10
32	172	What true man does not want to hear this word from a beautiful woman, one from whom it emanates appropriately? What true man does not desire the mastery, and absolute power over a beautiful woman? What true man does not wish to own, and fully, the most exciting woman he has ever seen, to have her at...	10
36	309	Yet I supposed that most free women, beneath those cumbersome concealments, those manifold layers, and diverse veils, and stiff, unpleasant battlements of brocade, were not much different from slaves, except perhaps that they had not yet been dieted and exercised—that in such a manner as to m...	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	1494	These substitutes, misdirections, veils and subterfuges are not permitted to the female slave.	10
10	378	I have my gowns, my robes, even my veils, especially made for me by high cloth workers!" "I am not a high cloth worker," I said, "but I did make it especially for you".	10
16	364	In a moment they, too, had thrust back their hoods and removed their veils.	10

Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	10	She had unpinned her shimmering veils, permitting them to fall about her throat and shoulders.	10
1	76	She reached to the veils about her throat and shoulders and, taking them, dropped them softly to the grass.	10
3	1	Tula "Throw back your hoods, pull down your veils, females!" laughed the wagoner.	10
3	7	Similarly, most had already discarded or hidden their veils, even when not begging.	10
13	319	In the collar they find a world more real than they knew in their robes and veils.	10
16	1189	"Alar women do not wear veils," she said.	10
25	1343	The slave, on the other hand, is not permitted veils.	10
26	1361	"You call upon him, dressed in your finest veils and robes of concealment," I said, "probably first having made an appointment.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	70	It was not necessary for them to know that sometimes, when we utilized costumes, other than our leotards and scarves, that that quiet Doreen, barefoot, in anklets and bracelets, with whirling necklaces, with her midriff bared, sometimes with her thighs stripped, swirled in fringed halter and shimmer...	10
3	105	"And there would not be one man there, one real man," she said, "who, seeing you half naked in your jewelry and veils, would not want to put a chain on you, and own you".	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	136	"When our evasions failed to satisfy the attendants ropes were put on our necks, over our robes and veils, and we were brought to the keeper's desk.	10
6	84	Some veils are held not with pins but with hooks or cords, passing about the back of the head.	10
15	361	"In the south," I said, "the women of the Wagon Peoples, even the free women, do not wear veils".	10
16	81	Better these fellows had been running about the windy corners of the markets, looking for the veils to blow about the faces of free women or pursuing slave girls, pulling up their brief skirts, playing "brand guess," or busying themselves playing stones or hoops behind the shops.	10
18	274	I saw some looking up, in fear, at the ropes, still dangling there, and pull away their veils, thrust back their hoods and put their hands to the collars of their robes.	10
21	1073	"Be it only a camisk or slave strip!" "Perhaps you would like veils, and robes of concealment," said Calliodorus.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	135	"Where are your veils and fine robes now?" he called.	10

Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	394	She is not encumbered by robes and veils, and a thousand social constraints.	10
19	833	This is one of the reasons, I suppose, why the often sexually starved free women, enwrapped in respect and dignity, secure in their lofty status, resplendent in their robes and veils, even in their inertness, and cultivated coldness, are deeply troubled by the thoughts of what ensues amongst masters...	10
19	987	"In the first, the free woman puts herself in Milo's way, she compliments him, she calls herself to his attention, perhaps she lowers her veil a little, perhaps her tones to him are soft, and special, making clear to him that there is an eager lover awaiting him beneath her veils and robes, perhaps ...	10
19	1027	Then I took to having the curtains of the palanquin opened, that I might be seen within, in my most beautiful robes and veils, as though I might wish fresher air and greater light, paused there perhaps in the midst of some business, waiting for some acquaintance.	10
19	1057	"In my most beautiful robes and veils was I bedecked," she said.	10
21	344	Is he one of them? How does she understand that expression, that smile? Is it meaningful? Does he think she is a slave! Does she redden beneath her veils? Similarly, the young man, seeing her in public, will remember her, and well.	10
21	492	She was more beautiful than I had imagined! She was more beautiful than I could have dreamed! She was utterly beautiful!" "Much was doubtless a function of the context," I said, "she in the robes and veils, so colorful and resplendent, and silken, and being Ubara, and you on your knees before her, m...	10
22	39	Various veils, I thought, were not as carefully adjusted as they might have been.	10
26	431	Without her robes, her veils, the prestige of her position, guardsmen about her, the ceremonies and symbols of office, and such, she seemed small, slight, lovely, and beautifully curved, and much the same as any other woman, a delight to behold, a sweetness to put on her knees, a joy and softness de...	10

Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	25	Sometimes when men are to enter the garden, suddenly, or with little notice, such as guardsmen, say, in the line of duty, as in inspections or searches, a bar is rung, and we must find our body veils, and kneel, head down, and cover ourselves with them.	10
3	26	Such veils are opaque.	10
8	742	I recall wondering, however, as one passed me, and I saw the regal, swirling hem of that sparkling robe, if the concealed ankle within it would look well clasped in slave steel; I supposed that it would wear a shackle well; why not, was she not a woman? When they had passed, and I dared, I lifted my...	10
9	31	How serene and beautiful they seemed, in their veils and robes! I had briefly, once, inadvertently, met the eyes of one.	10
9	34	In that instant I saw her body stiffen with rage, and, over the colors of her veils, I saw her eyes were cold, and filled with hatred.	10
9	222	I wondered how many were women such as I and how many might, perhaps only days ago, have worn the heavy, complex, gorgeous, ornate robes and veils of the free women of this world.	10
10	480	One theory for the revealing garb in which kajirae are commonly kept is that in a primitive, warlike, barbarous world, a world in which slavery is common, and beautiful women are regarded as a familiar form of booty, such garb tends to make them the desiderated objects of capture, seizure and theft,...	10
12	203	"I was brought here, my features wrapped in my own veils!" I decided I should not dare to speak further to her, even in what seemed to be our common predicament.	10
12	365	I saw no harm in this, it being done, of course, over my robes and veils.	10
12	427	I then reclined within the palanquin, adjusting my robes and veils about me.	10
12	846	The arrangement of the veils suggested that they were merely tied about her features, and not pinned.	10
14	205	That is what I think of your condition, and what you really are, you free females! Take away your veils and robes, and we shall see what you are! There, see, you are no more than we, only more slaves! Yes, perhaps I had chanced to yield, to some extent, to the temptation to take a little vengeance o...	10
14	1089	I recalled that she had told me that she had been brought here hooded in her own veils.	10
16	85	This veil, like many of the veils on this world, was quite large.	10
16	92	There is an entire lore of veils, having to do with their nature, opacity, style, coverage, and such.	10
18	84	It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind.	10
18	121	She picks out a man, perhaps one she has noted earlier, and perhaps even followed, and finds irresistible, and kneels before his low table, unwinding her veils and parting her robes.	10
19	211	Women cried out and held their veils.	10
24	256	Her hood and veils had been disarrayed.	10
24	260	Her hood and veils were also disarrayed.	10

Book 27. (23 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10
12	12	She had little doubt, as the gigantic bundles, bulging with tunics, blankets, himations, veils, shawls, robes and scarves, were brought in that most of the work had its origins on the outside.	10
12	29	Perhaps this woman had fallen on hard times and had had to sell a slave, and must now send her robes and veils to a commercial laundry.	10
13	211	On the other hand, it is said that beneath all the clothing, the veils, the Robes of Concealment, and such, of a free woman there is still, after all, only the body of a naked slave".	10
13	323	"He has a free woman!" Clutched in the talons of the tarn, fearing to struggle lest she fall, but nonetheless helplessly held, held as though gripped with iron, was a human figure, though it seemed little more now than a pathetic bundle, trailing shreds of robes and veils.	10
16	527	Usually they had been house garments, garden robes, veils, hose, subrobes, and such.	10
16	531	Gorean free women, at least in the high cities, almost always wear veils in public, although some women of the lower castes are occasionally careless in this particular, permitting lax arrangements, and such, especially the maidens.	10
16	533	Veils can be used, if handled and arranged in certain ways, for flirting, much as were fans, once on Earth, in less androgynous times.	10
16	534	Slave girls, of course, being slaves, are not permitted veils.	10
16	554	Needless to say, veils are invariably, or almost invariably, a portion of the ensemble associated with the Robes of Concealment.	10
16	555	Robes, hoods, and veils, as might be expected, are coordinated and matched.	10
16	601	"There are no veils for you.	10
16	782	There were, of course, the pans, pots, utensils, lamps, pails, and such, which, on shelves and dangling from poles, she supposed might have suggested the name of the market, but there were also stalls, as well, specializing in many other forms of goods, for example, stalls of fruits and vegetables, ...	10
22	13	The light glinted off a necklace, and sparkled, reflected in jewels sewn onto her robes and veils.	10
22	26	But Ellen thought to herself, but men seem to like us, and you, proud free woman, beneath all your robes and veils, you are as naked as I! "You are young," said the woman.	10
22	85	Lower-class women sometimes drink through the veil, and their veils, subsequently, may be severally stained.	10
22	236	Then Ellen thought again of the free woman in her slippers, and veils, and cumbersome Robes of Concealment.	10
24	106	* * * * "Here are silks, and veils," said a whip master.	10
24	164	"I do not even know how to put on silks and veils," wept Ellen, red-eyed.	10
24	474	The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo...	10
25	584	She was marked only last night!" Ellen recalled the former free woman's rich necklace, the jewels of her veils and robes.	10
27	1450	Even a free woman, wrapped in her robes and veils, can experience enveloping, disturbing, penetrant sensations at understanding that she is wanted by a man, wanted as a woman is wanted by a man.	10
30	495	And what of the calculating free woman, as well, she, ensconced in veils and customs, despising men as weaklings, exploiting them, though sheltered and protected by them, viewing them as conveniences, as little more, at best, than sources of social and economic advantage, save, of course, for the gr...	10

Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	35	"What does that mean?" "The Nameless One," said Peisistratus, "is beyond human comprehension, but it speaks through many masks, conceals itself behind many veils, and manifests itself through a thousand faces.	10
15	3	Just as women of one world may use attire, perfume, cosmetics, and such, or another robes, and sandals, and veils, to call attention, while haughtily pretending not to do so, to the flesh she is offering to a man, or the slave she is dangling before him, so a slave, who is owned, may use her bells v...	10
31	29	Sometimes a slave, in attempting to flee a bondage of great cruelty, perhaps that of the laundries or mills, might don the garments of a free woman, hoping to elude recapture, but, to the alert, practiced eye, even beneath the cumbersome Robes of Concealment, and the veils, might be detected the bod...	10
45	72	How different it is from the gross, constricting, layered bundlings of the free woman's many robes and veils! And she surely cannot fail to be aware, and acutely, sometimes shyly, but surely happily, and soon even gratefully, though she might at first be reluctant to admit this, of the blatant publi...	10
47	221	"Even now," said Lord Grendel, "in robes and veils of beauty, she doubtless banquets with Agamemnon".	10
78	25	She has no real conception of the haughtiness and power of the Gorean free woman, in her pride, in her regalia, her robes and veils.	10
79	606	"You have little to fear there," said Cabot, "as you are ignorant of the intricacies of the free woman's toilette, the arrangements of robes, their foldings, drapings, and closures, the subtleties of various veils, the choice of scents, many things".	10
80	175	But beneath those robes and veils her body is there, embarrassing and troubling or not, in all its loveliness, as though waiting for its exposure or disrobing.	10
80	226	The small figure had lifted back her hood and lowered her veils, of which there were indeed two, a street veil, and a house veil.	10
80	285	Gorean free women commonly conceal their throat, which, of course, is easily done with the robes of concealment, the veils, and such.	10
80	435	"I do not too much care for this hood, and all these veils," she said.	10

Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	396	Do not even free women sometimes inadvertently disarrange their veils? So, many slaves, at least in the absence of free women, before whom they are likely to grovel and cower, and wisely, to avoid being beaten, luxuriate and rejoice in their beauty and its display.	10
5	669	The veils of anonymity are not easily donned in a closely-knit society.	10
5	844	"'Remove your veils,' ordered Torgus," said one of the men, indicating a large fellow nearby.	10
5	846	"We turned then to leave," said another fellow, "but we heard 'Wait! Please, wait!' When we looked back they begged that we remove their veils, even to the ripping of them from them, as might be done with the insolence, amusement, and scorn of a slaver.	10
5	848	'Remove your own veils,' we told them".	10
15	333	Let the free woman be concerned with her veils, and fear that an ankle might be glimpsed beneath layered robes.	10
22	19	She exercises her presumed beauty, seductive and mysterious within her robes and veils, to gratify her vanity, or even her dislike of males, such oafish, vile brutes.	10
22	527	Certainly it is a change from the stiff, heavy, ornate, cumbersome robes of concealment, and the multitudinous hoods and veils, of the high cities.	10
25	11	I did not care for the veils with which reality so frequently chose to clothe herself, nor for the thousand mirrors, with their ten thousand reflections and images, each claiming that the truth is here, the ten thousand reflections and images, mirages, betraying belief and hope.	10
38	131	One wonders if they suspect, within all those layerings, scarves, hoods, and veils, what the men are thinking.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	171	The silks of tavern girls, of course, are quite unlike the silks of free women, which are cumbersome and concealing, even to veils.	10
3	290	"I was in my fullness of regalia, in robes, hoods and veils.	10
3	295	Did she truly think I was her friend? When, to her shame she divested herself of her robes, hoods, veils, and sandals, and was slave clad, I called to the men, 'She is ready.	10
3	329	I reached for the mounting ladder of Seremides' tarn, but it was jerked away, and, in a moment, I was in the shadow of those great beating wings, the bird lifting itself, scarcely able to keep my footing, my robes and veils whipping about me, and then the monster was in flight, and Seremides, and hi...	10
3	345	I tore away my robes and veils and thrust them beneath the covers of the couch.	10
3	429	She could never manage even the secret interior fastenings of my robes of concealment, and a kaiila might have draped my veils more tastefully.	10
3	1477	"But you did, upon occasion, disarrange your veils," I said.	10
3	1482	What woman would not wish to be excitingly garbed, to be not only permitted, but to have no choice but to publicly exhibit her beauty? What woman would not wish to escape the inhibitions, the social demands, the conventions and pressures, the robes, veils, and proprieties which so control and confin...	10
3	1504	"In disarranging your veils in Ar," I said, "in your time of power, your features, as doubtless you intended, were well bared, though, could you have seen the future, you might have been more careful, more decorous.	10
7	145	It is a rare Gorean who does not speculate what even a free woman, bundled in her stiff, ornate robes, concealed within her layers of veils, would look like, stripped, collared, and at his feet, perhaps on all fours, looking up at him, frightened, the whip or switch between her teeth, hoping it will...	10
18	131	I fought this, I amused myself with you, I tormented you, but I wanted you to tear my veils and robes from me, to cast me to your feet, to lock me in your collar!" "Interesting," I said.	10
20	257	I used my sex, as I could, bestowing cordialities, hinting at favors, to influence men who, entrapped in the conventions of the cities, refrained from tearing away my veils and robes and putting me, as I deserved, in the bracelets of a slave.	10
21	329	Can she live with this? Is that fellow smiling? What is the meaning of that look, by another, or does it have a meaning? When any fellow's eyes are upon her she seizes her veils and holds them more closely about her face.	10
24	299	Her regalia had been complex and sumptuous, rich and colorful, the envy of every free woman in the city, each pleat and fold carefully arranged by slaves; her slippers had been laced with pearls, her veils had shimmered with jewels.	10

Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	151	Too, of course, it helps to draw a sharper distinction between us and free women, as though the scantiness of our tunics, and the obviousness of our lovely, slender, locked collars, compared to the richness of their robes, and veils, and half veils, were not enough! I saw a lovely-legged, long-haire...	10
5	58	Do we not serve in the paga taverns, sometimes nude and belled? Do we not, sedately tunicked, as serving slaves, assist free women with their complex ornaments, their perfumes, robes, and veils? Do we not gather gossip for them, and carry messages for them in their petty intrigues and assignations; ...	10
7	490	You do not know the drapings, the foldings, the layerings, and fastenings of the robes of concealment, the arrangement of the veils, and such".	10
8	1483	How clear then, without obfuscation, the pretenses put aside, the veils now removed, became the nature of reality, culturally, socially, and biologically.	10
9	145	I had, some days ago, when out of the gambling house on an errand, barefoot, in my short, purple tunic, with its lettering on the back, seen a seemingly free woman, in lovely robes and veils, seized and stripped by guardsmen.	10
9	161	I did not even know the subtle fastenings of the robes of concealment, the layerings and arrangements of veils, the order of a woman's bath, or such.	10
10	890	I supposed the Gorean free woman was entitled, as with her veils and concealing robes, to balance concealment with revelation, mystery with the hint of possible abandon, even rampant disclosure.	10
17	252	To be sure, there is no danger of mistaking the brief, slight, dramatically revealing tunic of a slave with the concealing robes and veils of a free woman.	10
41	11	Behind how many gleaming veils, emblazoned with rhetorical embroideries, lurk secret, unbespoken realities? Too, societal life, like organic life, I supposed, had its inertias and habits, and balances, emerging over generations, sustained over time, vindicated in practice.	10

Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	20	How many oppressions have been enforced, heresies persecuted, beliefs proscribed, truths denied, absurdities proclaimed! Behind the glistening veils may crouch an unnatural beast.	10
7	267	"Where are your robes and veils?" she was asked.	10
8	288	I jerked back their hoods, and tore away their veils.	10
9	201	It is said that a free woman might perish of shame if placed in a slave tunic, but, to a slave, such a garment, which she knows need not be accorded to her, may be a treasure, more precious to her than some assemblage of robes and veils to a free woman.	10
9	236	And surely our clothing, when we are permitted clothing, contrasts with that of free women, as a revealing tunic, or camisk, differs from colorful swirls of fine robes and veils.	10
9	248	This is sometimes effective, for a time, with a new slave, but, sooner or later, the slave, at least when no free women are present, comes to revel in the lightness and freedom of such a garment, and its flattering betrayal of her beauty, as opposed to the hobbling impediments of cumbersome robes an...	10
15	245	"How quickly," she said, scornfully, "they tear away their veils, and struggle to divest themselves of their robes, that they may kneel and, head deeply down between their lifted, extended arms, wrists crossed for binding, submit themselves!" I was silent.	10
29	57	There was nothing here of layered, shimmering veils, of golden sandals, of cloaks, hoods and scarves, of jeweled purses, of the rich, flowing, colorful, intricately draped robes of concealment, common to the Gorean tree woman.	10
39	308	"You would not dare to put us in such degrading garments, so enveloping, so cumbersome, so abundant, so hobbling, so layered, with hoods and veils, the garments of small, soft creatures of interest to men, educated, perfumed, pampered, and refined, meaningless, weak little animals, conforming little...	10
39	430	She throws back her hood and tears away her veils, and her mouth is exposed to the conqueror.	10
41	216	After all, beneath all their veils and robes, they, too, are women.	10
50	818	Amongst free women who may tear veils or lose slippers, or amongst slaves, who may rend or lose a tunic, not much is likely to take place which could not be reduced to unpleasantries such as insults, scratchings, bitings, and yanked hair.	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	309	Surely much could be done with the robes of concealment, with their layerings and drapings, their bright colors, so ingeniously arranged, with veils slack or disarranged, even diaphanous, the street veil brazenly neglected, with loose, casual hoods from which strands of hair might escape, as though ...	10
25	317	There are the robes of concealment, the veils, the gloves, the slippers, and such.	10
42	330	Is the political agenda here so difficult to determine? Can one not sense what lies concealed behind the veils of rhetoric? Is it so difficult to detect what the advertisements are out to sell, under a hundred false labels? But faraway, and never wholly forgotten, for it lies in the blood, and genes...	10
58	148	"She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone.	10

Book 34. (25 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
56	12	The Lady Bina, well robed, but unveiled, for she did not much care for veils, apparently suspecting they obscured her beauty, although, of course, some veils, in their way, suggest, and even enhance, beauty, knelt modestly near Lord Grendel, her knees closely together, as those of a free woman, and ...	10
8	50	Too, women such as I were not encased in proprieties and conventions, not hedged in by society, not permitted to hide ourselves behind veils, or within cumbersome robes, not permitted to bargain, to tease and taunt, to barter our favors for social or economic advancement.	10
9	303	How well they moved, so gracefully! There was no mistaking those movements, those of graceful forms, within those colorful, layered, beautifully draped robes, so flowing, so feminine, and it was easy to conjecture the exquisite features that, doubtless in many cases, might be concealed behind those ...	10
9	304	What man would not want to tear aside those veils, of either sort, to remove those flowing, concealing robes, to have such a thing naked, chained at his feet? Occasionally I saw slippers, not sandals, beneath the hem of those robes.	10
9	466	She does not yet know her robes and veils, let alone her embroidered slippers.	10
9	528	"And why do you think, on the other hand, veils are forbidden to slaves and slaves are scarcely clad, if clad at all?" "I do not know, Master," I said.	10
10	236	"You, lofty free women," I thought, "let them take away your robes and veils, burn a mark in your thigh, and fasten a collar on your neck, and see if you are any different from me! Kneel, and tremble, and lick and kiss a whip, thrust to your pretty lips, and see if you are any different from me!" Ab...	10
14	111	What do they care for but robes, veils, entertainments, perfumes, and gossip?" "But they would speak so openly before us?" I said.	10
17	32	How vulnerable we were, in our tiny tunics, our single garments, with no nether closure, our bodies so briefly and degradingly bared, before those fierce, looming beings in their resplendent robes and veils! I no longer saw the free woman.	10
17	61	There was a swirl of veils and robes, and I flung myself to my knees, my head to the stones.	10
17	63	"My robes are disarranged, my veils are awry!" she screamed.	10
20	94	But she is clad in the Robes of Concealment, save for veils.	10
20	110	"It is not unknown for some women of the lower castes to slacken, or omit, veils," said Lita.	10
24	131	One could well imagine the reaction of free women to that! In the latter aspect, diaphanous, it was rather like the yellow or red dancing silk in which the tavern dancers swirled amidst their veils, their shimmering jewelries, often to the sparkle of finger cymbals.	10
49	210	Free women, of course, play games with their veils, with their adjustings and slackenings, and raisings, and lowerings, much as might be done with fans, or even a parasol.	10
50	186	There was a small noise from within the swathing of hood and veils that completely covered her head.	10
50	190	"Let us undo the veils and hooding about her mouth," said Lord Grendel.	10
50	193	"Release me," she cried, "foul brigands! You do not know whom you have discomfited! I am Alexina, from the House of a Hundred Corridors, colleague of the mighty Decius Albus! You have judged unwisely, my fine fellows! Do not think you can hold one so important as I for ransom! Consider your error! T...	10
50	274	The Lady Alexina, with an angry movement of her head, freed herself of her hood and veils.	10
50	397	Kurik then gathered up the robes, the hoodings and veils, and put them to one side, and then returned, to gaze upon the Lady Alexina.	10
51	139	Her veils were lowered.	10
51	184	"Slave," said Lady Bina, "brush back your hood, sweep aside your veils".	10
68	66	Let them, in their fine robes and veils, fume and fret.	10
68	422	"Yes," she wept, "even in my robes and veils, I thought such things, and in countless dreams I found myself so".	10
69	149	I can buy you slippers, veils, robes, suitable raiment".	10

Book 35. (19 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	291	Imagine the contrast between us, in the streets, clad as we might be, in our brief tunics and collars, and the scorning free women, resplendent in their robes and veils.	10
4	31	Robes and veils are one thing; tunics and collars are another.	10
4	126	"One needs several slaves, some for the care of one's hair, some for the bath, for lotions and creams, some for the care of one's robes and veils, some for dressing one, and so on".	10
11	255	Free women, in their unwonted arrogance, in their unwarranted, unconscionable, preposterous vanity, in their well-recognized stupidity, commonly take themselves to be far more beautiful than slaves, but it is difficult to assess this claim, even if one were to take it seriously, given the common imp...	10
11	261	She could be in a hundred cities, or remote villas or strongholds, incognito, well secure within the robes of concealment and multitudinous veils befitting her lofty station, as a free woman.	10
11	331	How was I so different from she? Take away her abundant, colorful, glorious robes and veils, every last stitch and thread of her clothing, and brand and collar her, and own her! Would we not then be the same, nothing, only slaves? Yet what a mighty social chasm now separated us, the oceans and conti...	10
23	53	"Where are your veils?" asked the other.	10
23	137	"Where are your veils?" I was asked.	10
35	115	Slaves treasure their tunic, perhaps even more than the smug, jaded free women of the high cities their veils, hoods, and robes.	10
37	257	At that point the subordinate seized the Lady Dorna's veils, wadded them, and thrust them back, deeply into her mouth, and then secured them behind the back of her neck.	10
38	64	It had come as a great surprise to me when the hooding and veils of she whom I had taken to be the Lady Dorna of Tharna were torn aside, and her splendid robes drawn down to her shoulders, to discover that the beauty of her lovely neck was much set off and enhanced by the locked, close-fitting circl...	10
38	91	I was unfamiliar with the number and layering of robes, the arrangement of veils, even the mysterious hooks and fastenings which somehow managed to bring together and secure the often-sumptuous ensemble of the Gorean free woman.	10
38	133	As mentioned, it had come as a great surprise to me to discover that she whom I had taken to be the Lady Dorna of Tharna, when her hooding and veils were torn aside, and her robes pulled down to her shoulders, was collared.	10
38	134	She, in fury, standing amongst the men, lost no time in drawing her robes up, again, about her throat, and rearranging her hooding and veils.	10
38	145	Too, in the beginning, she was permitted the raiment in which she had been captured, the hood, veils, and robes.	10
38	200	"Removing your hood and veils," he said.	10
38	201	"The veils need only be lowered slightly, modestly, and delicately, for a slave, a female slave, to administer me food and drink," she said.	10
38	205	The removal of a veil or veils without the owner's consent is referred to as "face stripping".	10
46	376	"I have no silks, no bangles, no bracelets, no bells, no necklaces, no veils!" "To the floor," said Ho-Tosk.	10

Book 36. (9 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	223	Almost at the same moment there was a bright skirl of music and the dancer, in her swirling silks and veils, her ankle bells, and bracelets and necklaces, began to perform.	10
6	255	Then, in a flash of silks and veils, to the sparkle of bells, to the jangle of ornaments, the dancer was at the table, her beauty affronting and taunting the kneeling slave.	10
19	104	How troubling and tormenting must this be for the regal free woman! Is she, despite her robes and veils, a slave? And some do so kneel, freely, scorning the pressure of prescribed resistance, putting themselves at the feet of such a male, in effect, offering themselves to be his slave.	10
28	42	"Perhaps, in this lost desert of water, a ship will come close enough for you to call out and wave your veils," said an oarsman.	10
28	97	As a consequence, your robes and veils cling muchly to your bodies and features.	10
28	99	Accordingly, I suggest that you readjust your veils and pull your garments away from your bodies.	10
29	20	I had even managed, given the sorry condition of their original clothing, following their experiences at sea, to supply them with a fresh, ample wardrobe, footwear, robes and veils, purchased locally.	10
29	24	Given their robes and veils, I could see little but the eyes of the three.	10
29	147	Are they trying to present themselves for the perusal of Masters? Do they not know how stimulating and exciting their features are to men? The three slaves lowered the veils they had worn as free women.	10