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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 15 The tarn is guided by virtue of a throat strap, to which are attached, normally, six leather streamers, or reins, which are fixed in a metal ring on the forward portion of the saddle.
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4 163 "Then," said my father, placing his hands solemnly on my shoulders, "in virtue of my authority as Administrator of this city and in the presence of the Council of High Castes, I declare you to be a Warrior of Ko-ro-ba".
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17 4 But the answer, when I received an answer, whether by virtue of a golden tarn disk or mortal fear, was always the same—that she was kept in the tent of red and yellow silk.
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17 45 Although they alone, of all the men on Gor, claim to be immortal, in virtue of the mysteries, forbidden to the profane, which they practice, they are perhaps the most timid of Goreans.
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18 60 The areas of jurisdiction of these two types of courts are not well defined; the Initiates claim ultimate jurisdiction in all matters, in virtue of their supposed relation to the Priest-Kings, but this claim is challenged by civil jurists.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 57 "Because it was," said the man, "and there is nothing higher in virtue of which the will of the Priest-Kings may be determined or questioned".
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20 60 Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was Administrator of the city.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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31 51 Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born.
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Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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26 345 He was surrounded by the luminous, white spheres that floated under the surface about him, perhaps watching, perhaps somehow recording his position in virtue of pressure waves in the medium.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 185 He was further in danger by virtue of his controlling measures restricting certain monopolies important to certain factions among the Merchants, in particular those having to do with the manufacture of bricks, and the distribution of salt and tharlarion oil.
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5 385 And, we suppose, the Others would suspect that only humans whose brains had been disposed to believe certain things, in virtue of our science, would be permitted to fall into their hands, once again as a move intended to draw them into a trap".
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15 400 The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.
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24 114 The palace guard, I had learned from Hup, would be, on a staggered basis, rotated, in order that the honor of serving the Ubar would be more broadly distributed, and, further, presumably, that no given faction of men could come, in time, to dominate the guards; the pay of the guards, incidentally, w...
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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13 22 Separated as we had been from the wagons, and doubtless, too, in virtue of the confusion, it had been our fortune not to have been noticed in our flight.
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15 986 I became arrogant in my virtue, to the irritation of the other girls, but I did not care, for I was better than they.
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15 990 Virtue, I discovered, is one way in which a human being may attempt to diminish and insult others.
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15 991 I used the blade of cooperativeness, of virtue, of diligence, of punctuality to proclaim myself better than the others, all of them.
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Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 312 She, in virtue of her influences and associations, could bring me much.
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6 747 "Patience," I told him, "is a virtue of merchants".
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9 340 And there might, in time, have been an alliance, in virtue of the companionship, between Port Kar and Ar, and other cities.
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11 660 Even if she were freed she would not, in virtue of the disownment, have a caste.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 395 This seemed plausible, when one considered their ferocity and greed, and what might be its implementation in virtue of an advanced technology.
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21 99 The Kur, it seemed to me, in virtue of its distant, doubtless harsh evolution, was well fitted to be a dominant form of life.
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Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 53 It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them.
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4 172 In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his demasculinization.
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13 73 The Guard of the Dunes, however, does not obtain the title of the Salt Ubar by virtue of his complacent magistracy of the salt districts, subservient to the Tahari merchants.
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13 413 Too, some Goreans, those familiar with the Second Knowledge, occasionally have some inkling, though an imperfect one, of certain negativistic, antibiological cultural pathologies of Earth, in virtue of which they suspect that some of the Earth women may have formed incorrect views on certain matters...
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21 443 We see by virtue of light waves reflected from variously textured surfaces, which waves impinge on the visual sensors.
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21 444 We see by virtue of the patterns of these waves.
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21 446 The light by virtue of which I saw was shifted in its spectrum; it was, I suspect, originally in the nonvisible portion of the spectrum, perhaps in the infrared portion of the spectrum, which could penetrate the field, but was shifted in such a way by the diversion field that I, within the orbit of ...
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26 712 This would surely remind her of Klima, and, from my point of view, as she was a common slave, she should be treated as one; to be sure, I found gratification in this, a gratification to which I was entitled in virtue of Klima, and a gratification to which I was entitled, in any event, because it ple...
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Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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26 224 Citizenship in most Gorean communities is not something accrued in virtue of the accident of birth but earned by virtue of intent and application.
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5 190 Many of the daughters of merchants are proud sorts, for the merchants themselves, by virtue of their power, tend to vanity and pride, and agitate, justifiably or not, for the inclusion of their caste among the high castes of Gor.
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7 1118 "But perhaps," said he, musing, "your understanding of your slavery, in virtue of your intelligence, your sensitivity, is much more intense, much deeper and richer than would be that of a duller woman?" "Perhaps, Master," I said.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 685 "Perhaps he did not wish to be identified as he who had made the purchase," I said, "for then he might be traced by virtue of your recollection of the transaction".
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10 276 The coffle, in virtue of the arrangements of chains and ankle rings, could be broken up into smaller work units.
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15 730 He might use the girl for a month and then claim a refund in virtue of the guarantee.
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31 146 They mistake weakness for virtue.
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34 19 It would be located by the invasion fleet by virtue of its position.
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35 159 In the ceiling were the slave tracks, those steel guides determining, by virtue of the steel spheres and neck chains, the permissible movements of various girls.
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Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 264 "Turgus, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant outstanding upon you, you are sentenced to banishment.
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4 279 "The Lady Sasi, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant outstanding upon her, must come under sentence".
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16 154 "Bila Huruma, in virtue of the discoveries of Shaba," said Ayari, "has claimed all lands in the Lake Ngao region.
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23 51 In virtue of his strength, skill, and intelligence, he was rightfully first among them.
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35 96 She had sought to have a woman's vengeance on me, rendering false testimony in a court, in virtue of which I had been condemned to the brine pits of Klima.
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Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 215 I had discounted such matters in virtue of what I had conjectured were consequences of Gorean influence and a lack of practice, over years, in the language.
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18 171 She had thought herself, in virtue of the possession of significant and secret information, assured of certain winners in these races.
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34 324 Never! It was women such as she whom I might count on to restore my faith, shaken so on Gor, in the purity and virtue of womanhood.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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2 144 In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions, and the joints, braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions.
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4 694 "And," said the leader, "in virtue of your collar, and in anticipation of your impending enslavement, you will address us and behave towards us as a slave towards free men".
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11 398 They are, however, in virtue of this attitude, at the least, spared certain eccentric neuroses.
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27 117 In virtue of the temporary commercial inertness of the stone, and its weight and cheapness, it had seemed to me to provide an ideal hiding place for the topaz.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 71 At the least we would wish to garner a large force, one sufficient to exploit any possible advantage which might accrue to us in virtue of our possession of the documents stolen from the Tamira.
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20 1800 On Gor hypocrisy is regarded as a form of lying, unworthy of a man, not as a virtue on which it is prudent to rely.
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Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

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1 652 If such creatures should come to clearly understand the nature of the Priest-Kings, and the current restrictions on their power, in virtue of the catastrophic Nest War, I had little doubt but what the attack signals would be almost immediately transmitted to the steel worlds.
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1 675 Logical, and terrible, they would not be likely to find the fallacy of the single virtue, the hypothesis of social reductivism, alluring.
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1 770 "Analysis, in virtue of desiccation index and molecular disarrangement, suggests that this material, and its applied pigments, are less than two years old.
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1 806 These things are in virtue of what, among these peoples, is called the Memory.
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2 92 Thus, when the moving plank is slid back against the fixed plank, the device provides, in virtue of the matching semicircular openings, five sturdy, wooden enclosures for the small, lovely throats of women.
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2 107 They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant Law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
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14 272 The same frigidity which may be accounted a virtue among free women, figuring in their vanity competitions, how well they can resist men, is commonly among slaves an occasion for the imposition of severe discipline; it can even constitute a capital offense.
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14 626 This addition, I did not doubt, was in virtue of my presence.
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14 759 "If one is not strong it is natural to make a virtue of weakness".
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14 858 I bent down and kissed her on the side, on one of the long welts raised by the whip stroke, one of the blows in virtue of which she was assessed.
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14 1123 In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration.
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17 496 "There is, thus, only one value, one virtue?" I asked.
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Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 256 Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who, in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers.
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1 401 Despotism, then, in virtue of the institutions of the red savages, is impractical for them; this impracticality is a much surer guarantee of its absence in a society than the most fervid of negative rhetorics.
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2 251 This is perhaps because they can be decorated lavishly, adding to one's appearance, and may serve, in virtue of the pommel, primarily, as a support for provisions, gifts and trade articles.
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2 360 He was still furious with Canka, who had seen fit, in virtue of capture rights, muchly desiring her, to put his collar on the lovely Winyela.
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4 339 The Pte, in a herd of this size, moving as slowly as it must, and in virtue of the kaiila and travois, would be within reach for three or four days.
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7 643 Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them.
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9 627 Had he not examined her, she exhibited, kneeling, hands behind her head, head back, in a familiar posture of slave assessment? Had he not put her to the paws of his kaiila almost immediately, thus utilizing her as the animal of his animal, and thus, in effect, declaring her to be of interest, and cl...
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14 463 "A free woman may be valueless and, if she wishes, account this a virtue.
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26 19 They may also have a role to play in the intimidation, and consequent inhibition, of the enemy, perhaps in virtue of making one seem a more fearsome or terrible foe.
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28 337 Somehow they had come into league with the Kinyanpi and, perhaps through them, and in virtue of some special considerations, the nature of which I suspected I knew, been able to make contact with, and enlist the aid of, Yellow Knives.
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34 397 Their shape is very reminiscent of poplar trees on Earth, to which, perhaps, in virtue of seeds brought to the Counter-Earth, they may be related.
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43 311 I think then she fully realized, perhaps for the first time, that it might actually be possible for us to take her, with all the consequences which might then accrue to her in virtue of this, from the Yellow-Knife camp.
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48 28 No particular master is likely to have any special concern for her, nor can she, as such a slave, ameliorate or improve her condition, or even secure, to some extent, her possibilities of survival, by becoming, in virtue of deep, sweet, delicate, intimate and exquisite relationships, so fulfilling t...
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48 72 "In virtue of the power vested in me as a commander in the Sleen Soldiers, and in accordance with the wishes of my father, Mahpiyasapa, civil chieftain of the Isbu Kaiila," said Hci, "I pronounce you both free".
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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33 552 "Each woman, it would seem," said Claudius, "has been identified as such, one in virtue of the articles of Hassan and one in virtue of the articles with which you have furnished us".
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2 226 It appeared to me, indeed, that it might serve very well, in virtue of its strength and weight, for the securing of valuables.
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36 859 Self-betrayal is lauded as virtue.
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36 1635 I suppose it would be only fair to improve your price by a copper tarsk or so in virtue of such a consideration".
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 474 I do not think that they cared much for their new sister in bondage, the former Lady Rowena of Lydius, who perhaps in some subtle way, perhaps in virtue of her former background, held herself superior to them, but, too, I do not think they cared to have her thrown alive, screaming, to sleen.
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1 484 Automatically then, in virtue of the context, she became his.
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2 867 Thus, even though she was very beautiful, she would probably not, in virtue of her inexperience, even be considered for a private-booth showing for several months or a year.
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2 1219 Indeed, you yourself, in virtue of your response, may now be suspect to them".
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2 1444 The arrangement, thus, is not only such that the girl finds herself, when the straps are on her, held in perfect custody, but this custody, in virtue of the nature of the studs and eyelets, may be easily imposed or removed, a convenience to the handler.
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5 240 It is not difficult for a skilled master, incidentally, to discriminate between such declarations which are genuine and those which are not, usually in virtue of incontrovertible body cues.
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6 36 Usually, if she is playing the role of a free woman it is simply "not seen," so to speak, being ignored by the audience, in virtue of a Gorean theatrical convention.
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7 165 This provides not only the seller with a convenience, helping to make certain his records remain clear, but it can be helpful to the buyer also, who may then, presumably already having established his interests, perhaps in virtue of commands earlier addressed to the lovely chattels in the exhibition...
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12 161 In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents.
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16 440 Thus, in the context of the play, in virtue of these simple theatrical conventions, the slaves were understood as, and unhesitantly accepted as, free women.
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Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 40 Perhaps, in virtue of gifts of lands, they hoped to make them grateful, pledged allies.
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13 312 There is no single virtue.
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16 830 "Can you not see? In virtue of your presence, and in respect for the delicacy of our situation, he has permitted me to almost entirely subside".
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19 250 One does not gain admittance to their coveted ranks in virtue of mediocre skills or poor condition.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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10 411 Too, thousands of females from Torcadino alone, over the recent months, in virtue of one coup or another, have been put into the market.
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10 466 "And so," he said, "although the price I paid for you might have seemed high it was, from my point of view, in virtue of what you are, and will become, a splendid bargain".
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13 639 I have learned on this world that the insensitivity of tissue is not an indication of virtue but of physiological inferiority.
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14 362 How perceptive was this man! Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot.
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20 152 Any city in which free laborers tended to be systematically robbed of their employments in virtue of embonded competition would doubtless be inviting discontent, and perhaps, eventually, revolution.
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22 77 I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...
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27 144 Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s...
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32 49 "Only as much is left in me of the modern woman as you might wish," I said, "only as much as you might wish to recollect, and then, if it pleases you, in virtue of that little, making me pay, humbling or hurting me—to take from me the last vestige, even if it be only imagined, of it".
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33 334 The point had apparently entered the dirt behind it, but, too, in virtue of this resistance, the blade itself, pressed up, emerged slightly from the body.
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Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 160 To be sure, the device has its authority largely in virtue of what it genuinely stands for, and what it can do.
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2 80 To be sure, in virtue of their mutual distrust of Ar, Cos and the Salerian Confederation normally maintained close relations, and the Vosk League, a confederation of towns along the Vosk, originally formed, like the Salerian Confederation on the Olni, to control river piracy, was, at least in theory...
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4 14 For example, they were heated in the same room, and not in virtue of subterranean furnaces, heat from which would normally be conveyed upward through vents and pipes.
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5 485 Too, in virtue of this arrangement, one need not entrust coins to debtor sluts, slaves, and such.
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6 154 The same chain, in virtue of the links selected, may be worn by any woman.
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9 88 Another advantage of the body hood is that it is intriguing and attractive on a woman, baring her legs but usually, unless the arms are also intriguingly bared, concealing the rest of her, this sort of thing exciting male interest, and yet, in virtue of the predominant concealment afforded, making h...
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23 110 Receiving this reassurance, whether in virtue of the lash, or other disciplines, they are then content, and happy".
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24 9 At night, in virtue of fires and mirrors, it served as a beacon.
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24 77 I supposed that two pretty little kajirae, expecting to have an easy time of it, by means of their slave girl's wiles, in virtue of the youth of their masters, were in for quite a surprise.
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24 691 It is not merely that it would be, in virtue of its commonness, the most likely coin for such a purpose, but, rather, that custom prescribed its use in such contexts.
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Book 24. (21 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 147 To be sure, in one sense the names are different, as the free woman has the name in her own right as a legal person and the slave has the name in virtue of her master's right, to put it on her if he pleases, like an ankle ring or collar.
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3 485 "I charge you, in virtue of the authority of my commission in the forces of Ar's Station, colony to the state of Ar, to conduct us into the presence of Saphronicus, your commander, at Holmesk.
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5 24 The number and configuration of the sand bars, in virtue of the currents, is subject to frequent rearrangements, their materials being often swept away and redistributed.
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19 960 "Also," I said, "one may assure oneself, in virtue of the strictures of the mastership, that a slave will be little or no trouble".
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19 1553 "But perhaps you understand now," I said, "in virtue of this experience which you have had, as rudimentary, or merely indicative, as it may have been, that it may not be only the whip, and such, that explains the slave girl's desire to please".
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19 1849 "Perhaps you might meet one in the brothel," I said, "among the patrons, and attract him, perhaps influencing him in virtue of the excellence your services, to make an acceptable offer on you to the brothel master".
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19 1855 "By making his own compartments, in virtue of the diligence, delicacy and imagination of your services, more exciting than any public brothel".
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24 92 "There are chains about," I said, "but the usual security was in virtue of girl stocks.
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25 111 She looked up at me, her wrists still in the wrist stocks, these stocks keeping her, in virtue of the slots and fastenings, on the bench.
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25 126 In virtue of such devices, a slave, you see, helpless and vulnerable, may be forced to endure whatever ecstasies a master may be pleased to impose upon her.
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26 69 Afterwards, they are usually conducted home by one of the young men, often he whose cords have bound them, and who may be interested in their acquisition, on his leash, usually to the home of their mother's owner, usually their father, to whom, in virtue of such a ceremony, they now legally count as...
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26 191 Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values i...
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27 429 Her reflexes were almost as instantly activatable as those of a female slave, most of whom, in virtue of their condition and training, juice readily, often at so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers.
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27 540 These may have been selected for, considering the high mobility of women, in virtue of practices in exogamous mating, enslavements, sales, captures, and such, assisting them to placate, and accommodate themselves to, foreign masters.
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28 141 To be sure, the scrolls should be, at least among the high cities, in virtue of conventions held at the Sardar Fairs, particularly the Fair of En'Kara, much in agreement.
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36 161 It seemed he could barely resist such a female, and, of course, in virtue of this, he, who in my opinion tended to be too self-critical anyway, was often furious with himself.
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37 237 Naturally, the sacks are constructed in such a way as to have adequate ventilation, either in virtue of their porosity or, in the case of the leather sack, small, judiciously spaced apertures.
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40 59 They would permit the forces from Torcadino to emerge and then, in virtue of their superior strength, on open ground, annihilate them.
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44 204 I was hoping that in virtue of what I had had done to her in the slave camp, she might no longer be of interest to her pursuers.
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44 307 Now, in virtue of the observation of the stranger, she had been once again entered into a condition of acute distress, being once again emotionally overwrought at the thought of what had been done to her, the decisively humiliating indignity of it, that her ears had been pierced.
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48 69 And, too, after being in the collar for a time, in virtue of its attendant transformations in beauty, attitude and behavior, she might not, now as a lovely, obedient slave, even be recognizable to those who knew her in Ar.
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Book 25. (13 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 77 The nature of the ostraka, in virtue of such possibilities, was changed periodically, for example, taking different shapes, having different colors, being recoded, and so on.
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7 105 This happened so quickly, however, that it was doubtless accomplished not by the fellows at the bells apprehending that those most inward in the city had ceased to ring but rather in virtue of some signal, presumably conveyed from the Central Cylinder, a signal doubtless relayed immediately, success...
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8 547 Some ignorantly and sanctimoniously devote themselves to uncriticized abstractions; some strive merely to please their fellows; some, more ambitious, with their eye on power, seek to equal, or even outdo, their peers in lunacy; let civilization be inverted, if only they will then be on top; some, mo...
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9 345 Accordingly, it would never have occurred to her that she was not, in fact, in virtue of her position, entitled to customary privileges.
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9 386 "In virtue of them alone I would have disqualified you.
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13 172 Putatively this might be accomplished in virtue of extensive conditioning programs aimed at demasculinization, programs which, if successful, will lead the child to suspect and fear himself, to experience shame and guilt at the very promptings of his own body and nature.
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16 45 It is in virtue of that weapon that thousands of villages on Gor have their own Home Stones.
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19 1386 In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
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20 163 As she had come into the keeping of Appanius in virtue of the couching laws, she had had only one sale, that to me for a few copper tarsks.
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21 40 Official clocks are adjusted, of course, according to the announcements of scribes, in virtue of various astronomical measurements, having to do with the movements of the sun and stars.
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22 132 In virtue of it, I thought I might be able to defend Lavinia, if necessary, without calling too much attention to myself, in particular, without identifying myself as her likely master.
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23 317 "I shall not enter into the details of this," I said, "but in the north, last summer, in virtue of an unusual combination of circumstances, Marcus came into the possession of a large fortune, one hundred pieces of gold".
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28 87 And interestingly, it seemed that many of Ar, particularly the young, the less experienced, the more gullible, the more innocent, and, too, perhaps, the most fearful of hardship, responsibility and danger, and their attendant risks, those unaccustomed to such things, those who had always received an...
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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6 68 The new fellows, those who were strangers in the house, I gathered, were not to be shown more, not without having requested it, it seemed, not without having, in effect, committed themselves to some degree, in virtue of the expression of some explicit, rather more tangible, interest.
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7 155 But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to ...
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7 723 Another reason may have been in virtue of my origins.
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11 247 Some women of Earth, I suspect, owe their very presence on this world, their very brand and collar, to the fact that they happened to satisfy, unbeknownst to themselves, in virtue of some particular configuration of properties, features and such, to a greater or lesser degree, the requirements of su...
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11 1387 Yet I could not have been brought here except in virtue of an obviously advanced technology.
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12 470 Why should I not, in virtue of my beauty, attain to the highest of castes, assuming the Merchants was not already regarded, correctly, of course, as such—yes, to the very highest of castes, saving only that of the Initiates, of course".
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12 747 It was their joke, I think, that I should wear, for all to see, hung about my neck, when I arrived here, what I had sought so avidly, so greedily, that with which they had baited their trap, that by means of which I had been snared, that in virtue of which I had come so simply into their power! But,...
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16 242 This time, doubtless in virtue of some arrangement with, or signal conveyed to, the musicians, it was an extreme adagio melody to which I must move.
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18 24 In virtue of such a tunic a free man has little difficulty in conjecturing the delights of a slave's figure.
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19 314 Perhaps she would accept this in virtue of the supposed wisdom of Priest-Kings.
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24 251 In many the only access is in virtue of bridges which are often high above the ground level, bridges which may be easily defended, even destroyed.
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28 35 "In virtue of interrogations and such?" "Yes, your honor".
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31 355 They are also designed in such a way that they may, by a skillful swordsman, in virtue of their lightness, speed and flexibility, be worked within the guard of longer, heavier weapons.
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31 356 Their design is such, in short, as to overreach shorter weapons and yet, in virtue of the weights involved, penetrate the defenses of less wieldy blades.
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34 41 In virtue of this arrangement, that of the single chain, we could be quickly, conveniently, removed from the wall.
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Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

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25 112 But, as she walked, gradually, in this activity, in virtue of this gentle movement, in virtue of this concomitant stretching and exercising of her limbs, much of her body pain began to dissipate.
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25 1003 Although the caste of Mirus might be unclear from the particular nature of his garmenture, Ellen supposed him of the slavers, which would be a subcaste of the Merchants, which caste was doubtless the wealthiest on Gor, and one which was often wont to view itself, perhaps in virtue of its wealth, if ...
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1 45 This may be hard to understand but only, one supposes, because of a habit of mind, in virtue of which, because of natural associations, common experiences, general expectations, and such, one tends to link the thought of process and time together.
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2 12 In virtue of it they seem to relish us all the more, and then dominate us all the more imperiously and ruthlessly, making us all the more helpless and at their mercy.
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2 15 It gives them pleasure, and, of course, in virtue of it, as perhaps a not negligible pragmatic consequence, we train more swiftly and surely.
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6 53 She did not seem to have the same easy familiarity with them as with the others; they did not, for example, seem to see her in the role of a dignified older woman, one entitled to respect in virtue of her years, and weakness.
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11 797 Perhaps he wished her so, as he had suggested, as a part of his vengeance upon her, that in virtue of her youth she might be rendered negligible, inconsequential, and thus demeaned.
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15 399 Gorean men seemed interested, as Earth men were not, in paying attention to their women, in spending time with them and listening to them, and, in virtue of delightfully prolonged intimacies, understanding them, learning them, knowing them, truly understanding them, learning them, knowing them.
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15 706 Do you understand how devastating, how irresistible, how overwhelming this is to a woman? In you was manifested the very principle of masculinity to which all women, in virtue of their principle of femininity, long to succumb".
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16 466 No man would ever make her yield! In this way one might account an inadequacy or impoverishment, natural or willed, a mark of virtue or merit.
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16 853 It, in virtue of its contrasts, is the most sexually stimulatory environment possible.
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16 1079 At one time Ellen, in virtue of her ideology, was forced to denounce this, but she now understands it.
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17 908 Similarly, the female slave, in virtue of similar biological congruities, is the most lovely, vulnerable and needful of all women; she is the most female, the most feminine, and thus the most desirable and lovable, of all women.
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21 45 She was, of course, well marked as bond, in virtue of the brand, in her case the common kef, the most common mark on Gor for a slave girl, that which Mirus, doubtless to his amusement, had had put on her.
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23 184 Let us merely say that, in virtue of these personal reasons, I found it gratifying to have her enslaved, to get her neck in the collar, where it belongs".
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25 706 Free women, after all, if only in virtue of hushed, furtive, scandalous rumors, would not be all that unacquainted with at least the possibility of such a thing.
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26 229 But her wrists were also attached to her crossed, bound ankles, and thus, with respect to her ankles, she was limited to two options, first, to try to keep her ankles close to her body, which was uncomfortable, and did nothing to relieve the warm, creasing, implacable stress of the leash between her...
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27 1112 She has spoken of him hitherto by such expressions as "the first rider," in virtue of his having brought his tharlarion forward, in advance of his fellows.
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27 1120 The beasts, Ellen supposes, permitted, and doubtless even encouraged, this misapprehension, perhaps as a concession to human vanity, one acceptable in virtue of its utility in furthering their projects.
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27 2597 Frigidity may be a virtue of free women, but that dignity is not permitted to slaves.
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

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1 1255 In any event, whether in virtue of these species characteristics, or in virtue of her experiences in her Steel World, the blonde took instant umbrage at the brunette's expression, and bared her canines and hissed viciously at the brunette, who drew back, frightened.
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36 116 After all, it has been in virtue of that that she has been acquired, and it is in virtue of that that she will be bought and sold.
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1 22 How absurd, how repulsive, one supposes, that we are siblings in virtue of the parentage of stars.
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2 255 And recall, as well, that not only had she been selected out to be excruciatingly desirable to Cabot, as a slave, but that he would be to her, in virtue of the same matchings, excruciatingly desirable to her, as a master.
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2 262 To be sure, in a pleasure garden, in virtue of this lack of height and weight, as trifling as it might have been, she would have been subject to several of the other, larger girls, who might have beaten her when they wished, subject, of course, to the intervention of the attendants.
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35 27 In virtue of this hole, you see, the pendants might have been strung on a string or cord, for looping about the neck, or wrists, of their wearers.
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36 126 And she learns she has been designed in virtue of a binary sexual shaping, a complementary wholeness within which alone she can find her fulfillment, a wholeness within which there is one to command and one to submit, one to rule and one to obey.
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47 215 It was only after the escape of the Lady Bina, and shortly prior to our attack, that it seemed to change, as though Agamemnon had decided at last, in virtue of our weakness, that such precautions were no longer necessary".
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54 47 Concern was clear in his Kur, but this concern was not, of course, evident in the dispassionate account rendered in virtue of Cabot's translator.
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64 92 That motivation, too, we might speculate, might be particularly acute for a certain type of human female, perhaps one at war with herself, self-estranged, self-alienated, discontented with her sex, envying males, or such, as she often finds herself precluded in virtue of her slightness and body from...
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79 114 Only now was the purpose of that, in virtue of the remarks of her master, earlier and now, fully, consciously clear to her, as she might writhe and try to flee the whip, to protect her from forcible contact with a hard surface.
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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35 82 "I heard, long ago," I said, "from a female slave, though she did not then, amusingly, know herself slave, that there was to be a hold over me of some sort, in virtue of a woman—in virtue of which I must abet your projects".
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1 103 "Doubtless in virtue of an arrangement with Priest-Kings," I said.
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1 204 I had first seen Ramar in an arena on the Steel World, a milieu in which his ferocity, might, and cunning, in virtue of dozens of bloody victories, were renowned.
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1 217 Following the denouement of the insurrection on the Steel World in question and, seemingly, in virtue of some interaction or agreement between Priest-Kings and victorious Kurii, it was determined that I, and others, were to be returned to Gor.
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1 335 That title is given only to free women, unless it might be, in virtue of its inappropriateness, bestowed in such a way as to terrify one such as she.
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2 299 And so men, defeated and disarmed, must learn to rejoice in their weakness, and commend it as virtue.
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5 355 Let her, a proud, insolent free woman of Earth, used to the men of Earth, such as Pertinax, men whom she despised and might affront with impunity, and upon occasion, in virtue doubtless of wealth and authority, command, have to behave before me, and before Pertinax, as a mere slave.
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5 495 And many sang, and congratulated themselves on their newly found virtue, while dismantling their walls to the scornful music of flute girls.
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7 371 One of the controls a master has over a slave, as the control of her food, her clothing, and whether or not she is to be permitted clothing, and such, is the control he exercises over her in virtue of her sexual needs.
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10 286 It does, however, share one virtue with the common gag, of course, which is that it makes articulate speech impossible.
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22 110 A free woman might, of course, look upon the former Miss Wentworth and, in virtue of the brevity of a tunic, perhaps, or a brand, or a collar, easily see her as slave, but they might sense, too, to their jealous fury, that something less visible and far more profound was involved, that she now, supp...
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23 26 And I feared he had succeeded in this endeavor, given the lingering effects of her Earth conditioning, a conditioning in virtue of which she remained poignantly vulnerable to such assaults.
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28 389 But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...
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28 412 If then some thought to have a hold over me in virtue of a slut named Talena, doubtless even now somewhere in a collar and a slave's rag, if that, they were muchly, and profoundly, mistaken! I wondered where she might be.
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34 122 I had refrained hitherto from directly confronting either Lord Nishida or Lord Okimoto with the matter of the supposed hold over me, in virtue of some woman.
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35 98 "First," said Lord Nishida, "this is not a matter of our doing, this business of a 'hold', and of a woman; secondly, we do not know who might be the woman in question; thirdly, it is our surmise that the hold over you is one in virtue of which you are not to serve us, but betray us".
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38 5 Within this opening many men, some once of the scribes, sorted through these mountains of material and assigned its disposition, in virtue of preconceived arrangements, to various decks and holds.
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38 418 Secondly, bonds, in virtue of reinforcing the slave's sense of her lesser strength, her vulnerability, and helplessness, are sexually stimulatory.
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Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 420 Accordingly, I rigorously supervised their deportment, and saw to it that they did not stray from the paths of virtue.
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3 1194 Too, is it not easier for a woman, in virtue of her sex, to win her way with a male, subject, of course, to the limitations of her collar, to placate him, to evade his whip or switch, to divert his wrath by pleasing him, with her softness, her beauty, her intelligence, her wit, and vulnerability.
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9 200 Whereas the tarn, in virtue of its strength, can take flight directly, interestingly, almost vertically, from a horizontal surface, they would usually, on the ship, as from a cliff, launch themselves through an arranged opening in the bulwarks, spread their wings, catch the air, and then strike thei...
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12 667 What is her will compared to the weight of society? Too, is it not easy to make a virtue of necessity, that ice should commend cold, and the stone its lack of feeling? How natural then that she should, with all innocence and conviction, often with a raging earnestness, praise the treachery which has...
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23 22 Vulnerability is no virtue; it is peril for the vulnerable, and a fault for fools.
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1318 My estimation of my extraordinary beauty, I was pleased to note, was now well confirmed, confirmed objectively, in virtue of a block price, in virtue of a sober economic transaction.
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10 867 "The conqueror holds rights to all in virtue of the right of conquest, in virtue of war rights.
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5 32 And, as you might recall, if you would forgive me, the imports from Earth are not acquired randomly, say, in virtue of the fortunes of war or raiding.
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7 744 Indeed, it was often thought that lower-caste women, for all their jollity and looseness, or perhaps in virtue of it, commonly tended to live a more genuinely satisfactory life than their sisters of the higher, nobler castes.
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8 1193 The standardization of Gorean is accomplished largely in virtue of the meetings of Scribes four times a year on the neutral ground of the great seasonal fairs held in the vicinity of the Sardar itself.
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32 46 It had a generally crab-like look about it, a flattish, rounded, heavy, disk-like, metallic body, four jointed appendages in virtue of which it might move, and, most crab-like, emerging from the body on each side, two large, metallic arms, each terminating in giant bladed pincers.
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35 69 The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi...
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35 264 "In the case of the kaissa concealment," he said, "we were fortunate enough to obtain, and later copy, crucial sheets, materials in virtue of which the message might be concealed, and then, later, revealed.
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35 265 But we have nothing similar here, no such sheets, no materials in virtue of which the message might be concealed or revealed".
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49 170 It is not unusual that the Gorean free woman, in virtue of her freedom, is prominently advantaged.
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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25 352 A flaw, or virtue, of the sleen as a hunter is its single-mindedness.
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25 353 As a flaw, once fastened on a scent, and committed to it, it will ignore better, easier game for less desirable, more-difficult-to-obtain game; on the other hand, once committed to a scent, it is likely to pursue it relentlessly, which, if one is after a particular quarry, might be, I suppose, accou...
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39 75 Soon, in virtue of the keys surrendered by Tuza, Darla, now relieved of her impediments, and her ankles freed of the ankle shackling, lay beside her.
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41 262 I would have tried to lie well, but had little doubt that two or three judicious questions might elicit responses from me in virtue of which the entire fabrication I was trying to construct would collapse.
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49 57 "I suppose," I said, "that there are Pani kajirae, captures in war, and such, but the usual arrangement seems to be in virtue of contracts of some sort, which may be bought and sold, the woman accompanying the contract".
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50 600 Walked away! I was nothing! I was scorned! I was miserable, distraught, devastated, furious, helpless, my hopes vanished, my world collapsed! All the seething obstinacy my world had conditioned into me erupted; all the lies and falsities of my former world reasserted themselves, proclaiming nature a...
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 150 Those in the castle area, of those supposedly informed, would assume the camp was at the convergence of the two designated streams, at least until there was a reason to believe otherwise, perhaps in virtue of a fruitless raid, loosed upon unoccupied tents, pitched on an empty field.
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12 202 "Not in virtue of surprise," I said.
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13 179 One would need, of course, some sort of communication between the two houses, which would be easily enough supplied before the siege in virtue of strangers, wanderers, peddlers, merchants, and such, and, during the siege, by envoys, negotiators, messengers, and such, for example, Tyrtaios.
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19 8 Some villages, on the other hand, are under the rule of the shogun himself, so he profits both in virtue of a direct and an indirect tax.
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30 366 That makes it easier to control them, in virtue of their clothing or such".
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42 65 In virtue of this arrangement girls could be conveniently added to, or removed from, the chain.
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47 171 But, too, in virtue of your alleged skills, and my own curiosity pertaining to the accounts I have of you, we are putting aside the straw jacket, crucifixion, and such".
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49 86 Any Kur can instantly tell a male human from a female human, in virtue of the radical sexual dimorphism characterizing the human species.
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58 235 But was this in virtue of an agreement between Priest-Kings and Kurii? Tiny bits of evidence suggested one interpretation, and tiny bits of evidence suggested another.
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61 824 "The Pani," she said, "allegedly, in virtue of my presence, have some hold over you?" "That is their view," I said.
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61 962 Unknown to herself, aside from her brief role in meeting a tarnsman on the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the forest, and seeing that he was brought to Tarncamp, she had been preselected, in virtue of a standing order, for a Gorean collar, and would be delivering herself, as well, to Tarncamp.
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61 1068 "Here is the woman," he said, gesturing to the slave, "in virtue of which we were to command your loyalty and service".
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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49 51 Initiates do sometimes have, however, a certain political power in various municipalities, largely in virtue of their influence on the lower castes, in virtue of their hints, warnings, demands, exhortations, denunciations, and so on.
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6 79 You are being transmitted to Gor not because of your guilt, understand, though it might be deservedly so, not for your naive contributing to the desecration of a world, nor for your mindless participation in a pathology that mocks nature, but in virtue of the simple right of the stronger to acquire,...
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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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22 38 Too, to preserve her virtue, she is to be dealt with succinctly, this to avoid prolonging any possible embarrassment or humiliation.
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26 40 One who is slain in his work is regarded as having failed, and, in virtue of this, is denied any further consideration.
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44 52 In the dark history of the high ones I gathered that evolution, in virtue of whatever considerations, had tended to favor keenness of hearing.
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49 37 They regard themselves as the highest of the high castes, presumably in virtue of their claimed relationship, a very privileged relationship, apparently, to the Priest-Kings, the "gods" of Gor.
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69 20 If one were a warrior, one might even issue a challenge, a challenge in virtue of sword right, the right of beauty to be claimed by means of the sword.
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 411 How could he be here? It must be another who, in virtue of some strange coincidence, resembled him.
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13 153 "Their rental cost," I said, "being easily defrayed, that in virtue of the additional business their beauty might bring to an establishment".
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15 19 This lenience had been motivated, we gathered, in virtue of the opening of a new tavern on Palace Street, The Silken Rope, and, possibly, the renovation and enlargement of the Whip and Chain, which was not far from the scroll shop itself.
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18 78 In virtue of an unanticipated dock fire she, and others, suitably concealed, and suitably protected from hot ash and sparks, were removed for safety from the House of Anesidemus.
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30 130 "Houses" register swordsmen, accrediting them in virtue of tests of skills.
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33 664 It was one of these remnants in virtue of which I had managed to free myself.
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42 222 Who would be so stupid as to cast aside seized loot or destroy a snared, vendible animal, particularly one likely to be attractive? Now, however, in virtue of what I had heard, I feared that such common assurances, so often relied upon, might no longer obtain.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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50 69 The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of...
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13 86 "You would actually have me believe that the noble governor of Thera himself, Archelaos, he of undeniable virtue, is devious and corrupt?" I said, as though I found this hard to believe.
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51 9 If the Dorna had been detected, possibly in virtue of the activity of the Brigand Island, I did not think it could long elude its pursuers, given the numbers of rested oarsmen on which they could draw, heavily crewed as they were with large numbers of draftable, evacuated mercenaries.
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