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Book 1. (15 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	143	Do whatever you think is in your own best interest, but the fate is upon you, and you will not escape.	10
3	16	It seemed that Torm was always cold or, at best, never quite warm enough.	10
4	62	"That tarn," he said, "was bred for you, specially selected from the best broods of the finest of our war tarns.	10
7	36	Angrily she scrambled to her feet as best she could and, hopping and stumbling, regained the knoll.	10
8	27	She did her best to save the Home Stone of your city".	10
8	186	"At best, I would be picked up by slavers and sold in the Street of Brands".	10
8	192	"Then it is to my best interest to abandon you," I said.	10
9	19	She explained to me what, in her opinion, would give us our best chance to travel the plains of Gor in safety.	10
9	154	Rather, he suddenly launched a vicious attack, forcing me to defend myself as best I could.	10
10	24	One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan".	10
10	120	When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm.	10
11	55	Accordingly, the girls did their best to move the interest of the buyers.	10
12	7	I cleared my head as best I could, and into my uncertain field of vision moved a dark object, which became the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins.	10
16	18	Still, there was little doubt that Pa-Kur's men had the best of things.	10
19	191	I met the attack cleanly, and after a minute of fierce interplay both Pa-Kur and I realized I could withstand the best he had to give.	10

Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	36	Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.	10
8	30	The same maiden whom her father must harshly order into the presence of her suitor, the same shy girl who, her parents approvingly note, finds herself delicately unable to raise her eyes in his presence, is probably the same girl who slapped him with a fish yesterday and hurled such a stream of inve...	10
8	37	Buyer and seller part, each convinced that he has had by far the best of the bargain.	10
13	104	And so Kron and I began to circle one another, slightly bent so that the projections on the yoke might be used to best advantage.	10
14	7	Perhaps the Amusements of Tharna were not spoiled at all; perhaps the best was yet to come? Surely my death beneath the beak and talons of a tarn would provide a gratifying spectacle for the insatiable masks of Tharna, adequate compensation for the disappointments of the afternoon, for the disregard...	10
14	181	And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...	10
15	40	The man of Tharna, taught from birth to regard himself as an unworthy, ignoble and inferior creature, at best a dull-witted beast of burden, did not, on the whole, make a good tarnsman.	10
15	79	Haughtily she drew them about herself, covering herself as best she could.	10
19	56	Mine after mine was freed, and as each mine was freed, its slaves, forsaking their own best chance of safety, poured into the mines above to liberate their fellows.	10

Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	42	Moreover I have never been too clear as to the grounds on which the disputes of scribes are to be adjudicated, and it is not too infrequently that both disputants leave the field each fully convinced that he has had the best of the contest.	10
2	102	First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy.	10
2	116	I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target.	10
5	239	She had had the best of the exchange.	10
6	12	The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ...	10
7	89	If it were a matter of waiting I acknowledged that the Priest-King, if such it were, who followed me had had the best of things.	10
13	4	If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the Priest-Kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions of the oral syllabary of th...	10
14	56	"That is best," said one.	10
25	49	I was not certain whether, as a matter of fact, they would open the door or not, but I thought it best that both of them could honestly report that they had seen me enter the tunnels and had not seen me return.	10
25	56	I could now feel a bit of fresh air and, in the darkness, Vika in my arms, I walked until I could feel it best, and it seemed to be blowing directly down upon me.	10
25	94	I removed Vika's arms from my neck and shoulder and carried her in my arms down the shaft which led, to the best of my reckoning, in the general direction of the major complexes of the Nest.	10
27	33	I supposed my best way of serving Misk might be to abandon him to his death and try to protect the young male, but these were matters in which I had little interest.	10
28	223	I do not think force, or charge, or any of the other expressions which occur to one's mind is a good translation for Ur, and I prefer to regard it as an expression best left untranslated, though perhaps one could say that Ur is whatever it was that satisfied the gravitational equations of Misk.	10
34	203	But in spite of my best efforts I was unable to uncover the slightest clue to her fate.	10

Book 4. (21 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	12	It seemed, upon reflection, the best thing to do.	10
8	294	Tuchuk girls, Elizabeth and Tuka, would run for the Kassars; the two Kassar girls would run for Kamchak and myself; naturally each slave does her best for her master, attempting to evade his competitor.	10
8	325	Tuka, as best she could, squirmed in the bonds, fighting them.	10
8	359	One of the best among the wagons I had heard was a Kassar slave, a swift Turian wench whose name was Dina.	10
8	460	The best that we might have hoped for was a tie, had Kamchak beaten Conrad.	10
8	462	Albrecht and Conrad had come for a simple purpose, to best a Tuchuk and, in the process, pick up a girl or two; Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, was the only one we had on hand.	10
8	463	Even the Turian girl, Dina, perhaps the best slave among all the wagons in this sport, was laughing, hanging on the stirrup of Albrecht, looking up at him.	10
10	130	No, it was best that Elizabeth Cardwell believe I had callously sold the lovely Dina of Turia.	10
10	131	It was best that she understand herself for what she was, a barbarian slave girl in the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
12	25	And yet how could I succeed? I resolved that the best time to steal the egg would be during the days of the Omen Taking.	10
12	29	But, I reminded myself, such a choice, if choice there must be, might be best for the cities of Gor, for under Kutaituchik the Wagons would not be likely to move northward, nor even to the gates of Turia.	10
13	203	The "w" sound, incidentally, is a complex one, and, like many such sounds, is best learned only during the brief years of childhood when a child's linguistic flexibility is at its maximum—those years in which it might be trained to speak any of the languages of man with native fluency—...	10
15	2	The other Wagon Peoples regarded the problem of the slaying of Kutaituchik and the despoiling of his wagon as one best left to the resources of the people of the four bosk horns.	10
19	170	"The simplest plans," she remarked, "are often the best".	10
21	55	It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean city.	10
22	117	There were musicians present and they, to the best of their ability under the circumstances, attempted to provide music for the feast.	10
25	216	"A wall of heavy planks would be best, I think," she mused.	10
25	597	"And in his opinion, and perhaps yours, would that not be in my best interests?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
26	515	"Perhaps," said Kamchak, "but I shall be glad to be rid of it, and besides it is nearly the best time for hunting tumits with the bola".	10
26	529	"The tumits run best this time of year rather toward the Cartius," observed Kamchak.	10
27	1	The Sparing of the Home Stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.	10

Book 5. (17 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	156	Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...	10
2	353	"You had best call me Vella," said she, "for that is the name I am known by in the House of Cernus".	10
5	608	Then, whistling, Al-Ka would pull the wagon out of the grove and Elizabeth would be on her way to Thentis, for delivery to the House of Clark, only another slave girl, naked and chained, perhaps lovelier than most but yet scarcely to be noticed among the many others, each day, delivered to so large ...	10
9	32	"This is the best of our private auction rooms," said Ho-Tu.	10
12	104	This would swing some silver to Green surely, for men, though they have their factions, yet will purchase the tiles of the bird they feel has the best chance of winning.	10
12	281	"She is the best trainer in Ar," said Ho-Tu.	10
12	282	"I, Sura, am the best in Ar," said the girl, not pleasantly.	10
13	14	The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr...	10
14	63	"The best we can do," I said, "is to convey the materials which Caprus copies in portions to the Sardar.	10
15	194	At any rate, to my satisfaction, but Elizabeth's irritation, Flaminius commonly had the best of these exchanges, producing incredibly subtle, complex arguments, quoting supposedly objectively conducted studies by the Caste of Physicians, statistics, the results of tests, and what not.	10
15	341	"In Ar we are the best; we have the most ways to enter a room.	10
15	365	But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...	10
17	783	"I know!" "Your best alternative at this point," she explained, "would be, would it not, to attempt to free your position by exchanges?" I glared at her.	10
19	68	The men of Ar, like those of most other Gorean cities, regard themselves as being the best and finest on Gor, and the women of other cities as being worthy of being only the slave girls of such men.	10
19	180	The auctioneer, as though desperately, tried to do his best for the girl, but soon jeers were forthcoming from the crowd, hissings and shoutings; when her blanket was removed from her, gracefully by the auctioneer, as though removing an expensive wrap from a lady of pearls and sophistication, she sl...	10
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
24	215	"That you may be kept locked in a compartment of the Central Cylinder, not as slave but prisoner, a high-born woman, to be mated in the future as best accords with the politics of Ar, as I see fit?" There were tears in her eyes.	10

Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...	10
1	81	The best paper is on the outside of the roll, always, not to practice deceit in the quality of the roll but rather to have the most durable paper on the outside, which will take the most weathering, handling and general wear.	10
8	113	Having no large number of men at my disposal, it seemed best to me to let the men of Port Kar themselves do most of my fighting.	10
9	15	The dancing girls of Port Kar are said to be the best of all Gor.	10
9	164	The girls of Port Kar, I told myself, are the best on Gor.	10
9	318	Then we forced each of the girls, choking and sputtering, to themselves upturn a goblet, swilling down as best they could the fiery draught.	10
11	400	Moreover, I regarded them as presumably in my best interest.	10
15	400	The dancing girls of Port Kar, I told myself, are the best on all Gor.	10
18	632	Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate.	10
18	939	If you were not the highest, you would demand to be the lowest; if you were not the best, you would be nothing less than the worst; if there was not the myth there was to be nothing".	10

Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	622	Lana and I were the best, the very best! I was much pleased.	10
6	227	I had fallen in with them, however, and would have to make the best of it.	10
10	62	I thought that she might best have been marketed as an instructress in calligraphy.	10
10	585	I thought this best, for my use, though I had begged for it, had, to my surprise, my chagrin, my humiliation, been rejected.	10
11	137	It was the best known of the Gorean cities below the equator, sometimes called the Ar of the south.	10
11	453	"I would not be the best judge of that, Master," I said.	10
11	604	But I resolved to best her.	10
11	614	Try as I would I could never best her.	10
13	1167	The best I might hope for, I supposed, would be to be kept in the hut at night, on a slave mat, chained at my master's feet.	10
14	334	Indeed, the slave is expected, to the best of her ability, to be attractive to all men.	10
14	378	I wonder what your best color would be".	10
15	930	I was, I expect, one of Ute's best workers.	10
15	1092	"You had best hurry," said one of the girls.	10
17	96	I here, without option, choiceless, must set myself to obey men, and please them to the best of my ability.	10

Book 8. (21 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	164	Some free girls, without family, keep themselves, as best they can, in certain port cities.	10
2	390	"Verna, I have heard," volunteered Rim, "sells by far the best merchandise".	10
3	9	Some free girls, without family, I knew, kept themselves, as best they could, in certain port cities.	10
4	65	Then, in the Sardar, I had decided what was best for her.	10
4	73	I knew what was in her best interest, and I would see to that interest.	10
4	74	I knew what was best for her.	10
4	77	I had seen what was best for her.	10
4	82	I had seen what was best for Elizabeth Cardwell.	10
6	7	With her hands she covered herself, as best she could.	10
6	26	"Your best gamble," I informed her, "would be to flee to the south, but there there is little cover".	10
6	374	It was in her best interest, braceleted, to fall swiftly into the hands of Verna's band.	10
9	357	And I, a fool with my dreams, had come into the forest, to rescue her, to best Marlenus, and improve my fortunes, to rescue the beautiful Talena and improve the fortunes of the house of Bosk.	10
10	178	"You had best chain me heavily, Ubar," she warned Marlenus.	10
12	13	Human structures are group structures, and closed groups, with senses of their own best interest, yet open enough and intelligent enough to accept a certain amount, carefully selected, of new and driving blood, regulate society.	10
13	301	The warriors of Ar were among the best on Gor.	10
15	54	To be sure, many men of Gor, though this is seldom brought to the attention of the free women of Gor, hold similar views with respect to all women, including their own, regarding all women as natural slaves, and maintaining that all women belong in, and are complete, and at their best, only in a col...	10
15	222	To the best of their knowledge they were the only panther girls in the area.	10
16	314	A slave girl is best either when she is often used, or when she has been deliberately, for some time, deprived.	10
18	306	"You had best flee".	10
22	697	In such a situation, with no escape, a girl has no choice but to make the best of her bondage.	10
22	975	She had fled from the Sardar, when I, in her own best interest, would have returned her safe to Earth.	10

Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	169	Do we not learn to live by doing, as we learn to speak by speaking, to paint by painting, to build by building? Those who know best how to live, sometimes it seems to me, are those least likely to be articulate in such skills.	10
1	175	It is a morality in the best interest of slaves, who would be only too eager to be regarded as the equals of others.	10
4	131	The weapons you use best perhaps you should retain".	10
5	133	"That will encourage them to row their best," said Ivar Forkbeard.	10
8	56	"You insult me," said Hilda the Haughty, "to present me with such miserable merchandise! Is this the best that great Ar can offer?" Had I been of Ar I might have been angry.	10
9	432	"I am told," I told her, "that Olga is one of the best of the bondmaids".	10
10	77	Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo...	10
10	168	The clothes were not rich, but they were clean, and her best.	10
10	179	It was, accordingly, up to him to defend, as best he could, against such a challenge.	10
10	250	One is not supposed to slay the shield bearer but, as far as I knew, tripping, though perhaps not in the best form, was acceptable.	10
10	627	I was on my way to the shopping booths, those near the wharves, where the best merchandise is found, when I stopped to observe the shooting.	10
10	649	The gift of a female is sufficiently trivial that the honor of the Forkbeard as my host would not be in the least threatened; further, this was a desirable wench, whose cuddly slave body would be much relished by the Forkbeard and his crew; further, being trained, she would be a rare and exquisite t...	10
11	230	These terms were sometimes best translated as "meat animal" and sometimes "cattle" or, sometimes, simply "food".	10
13	224	"You are a guest," I told him, "it would not be seemly for you, by your talents, to shame the entertainers, and thereby perhaps reflect upon the honor of your host, who doubtless has provided the best he can".	10
18	542	She covered herself with her hands as best she could, her head down.	10

Book 10. (19 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	379	The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...	10
10	378	One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...	10
26	777	The point is not to hurt a slave, but rather to bring out the best in every girl, and to make her the best slave possible.	10
26	969	"If a woman is truly a slave," I said, "then it would seem best that she not deny this truth, this reality, but rather accept it, and then be joyfully the best slave she can be.	10
2	209	I was curious to see what measure of stride would best suit the slave in her.	10
2	469	I knew I would not obtain the best price from this office, for the municipal pens usually buy cheaply and sell cheaply.	10
5	130	"You had best hurry," said one of the fellows, "for Aya will wonder about where you are".	10
5	516	The true worth of the stones, which I had had appraised carefully in Tor, against their best information as to the date yields, was between sixty and eighty weights in pressed date bricks.	10
5	832	Had he been truly interested in bargaining and dates I suspected I would not have been permitted to deal with him at all, but rather, at best, with one of his commissary officers.	10
7	453	"Such make the best slaves," said Ibn Saran.	10
11	549	"Hassan!" One must watch, to see when the escape might best emerge from the yard, another must convey the signal.	10
23	295	"By what name should I address you?" "By the name by which you know me best," he said.	10
24	19	At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock.	10
24	285	"You betrayed Priest-Kings," I told her, "fully, and to the best of your ability".	10
24	582	"Ibn Saran does not wish his men to slip away, into the desert," I said, "so it may behoove him to be more generous with choice cutlets of the kasbah's best slave meat".	10
25	666	She extended her right leg, looking at him over her right shoulder; her toes were pointed; her leg was flexed, revealing to its best, delicious advantage, the curve of her calf.	10
26	552	"We must both do our best.	10
26	1013	"Do you crawl best on all fours," I asked, "or on your belly, or, as a she-sleen, in an intermediate position?" "I do not know," she said.	10
26	1117	"That would be in your best interest," I said.	10

Book 11. (27 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	954	If she is a former slave, her papers of manumission had best be in perfect order.	10
4	1139	I had done the best I could.	10
6	42	Tabuk's Ford is a rich village, but it is best known not for its agricultural bounty, a function of its dark, fertile fields in the southern basin of the Verl, but for its sleen breeding.	10
6	43	Thurnus, of the Peasants, of Tabuk's Ford, was one of the best known of the sleen breeders of Gor.	10
7	122	He was perhaps considering in what sort of collar it might look best.	10
7	619	"You had best cover this ankle, or you will be soon found, Slave Girl," I said, angrily, jerking the canvas over it.	10
7	771	She broke her fall, as best she could, with her hands.	10
8	298	And what could one hope for? Perhaps at best to be slept at night in a hut, shackled, hand and foot, on a coarse mat? Surely I did not belong in a peasant village! I was not that sort of slave! Surely I was more the sort who should be an urban slave, lovely in a silken tunic, attracting the attentio...	10
9	889	"I could get for her, at best," he conjectured, "only a handful of copper tarsks".	10
9	1418	How foolish of a slave girl to attempt to best a free man.	10
9	1434	Never again would I try to best free men.	10
9	2369	In her love for Thurnus, clearly, she was determined that he would have the best not only from herself, but from all his girls.	10
12	66	Then the slave girls, as best then can, by teeth and nails, must adjudicate their differences and establish a mode of governance for themselves.	10
12	376	Well pleased were we with ourselves, and I thought that I had been the best in this work.	10
12	378	Often had we spoken to him soothingly as though in deference and pity, as though he might not be kneeling chained in the fortress of enemies; sometimes, too, we had spoken to him in husky whispers, as though he had much aroused our feminine slave bloods; much had we pressed upon him our kisses, our ...	10
12	665	It is also said they make the best slaves.	10
12	668	In my view highly intelligent slaves make the best slaves, of course, it being hard to gainsay that, but intelligence, obviously, is not always associated with literacy, and on Gor, quite often, it is not so associated.	10
13	325	I had done my best to obey the auctioneer.	10
14	11	The best would perform later in the evening.	10
16	185	Telnus is the largest of these and has the best harbor.	10
18	136	Let each make what choice seems best to her.	10
20	69	There is little doubt in my view, nor, I suspect, in that of most masters, that intelligent women make the best slaves.	10
20	80	"Are you the best at the Chatka and Curla?" he asked.	10
22	456	"If Mistress would live," I said, "Mistress must do her best".	10
25	40	Our best mode of procedure appears to be to reconstruct the trigger behavior".	10
28	66	We would all do our best, or be punished terribly.	10
29	144	Let each choose which is best for her.	10

Book 12. (22 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	23	"And bring, too, the bravest and best of your hunters, who performed for our cause in this place the best and noblest works of war".	10
2	608	But their life, at best, was a precarious one.	10
3	156	I decided it would be best to search for a merchant who was on the fair's staff, or find one of their booths or praetor stations, where such information might be found.	10
3	593	It is well known that intelligent women make the best slaves.	10
3	724	Merchants usually exhibit their best merchandise only later in the evening.	10
9	83	Intelligent, beautiful, feminine women make the best slaves.	10
9	264	It was clear they did not know best how to respond to the question.	10
11	98	"Send forth your best swordsman," I said, "that my caste may be made clear to you".	10
11	401	"You had best flee," she said, "before they return".	10
12	23	The best harvests of grass for use in this way occur, naturally, at the foot of the bird cliffs.	10
12	580	The machine is designed with its own best interests in mind, not those of its human components".	10
14	187	It was clear that I had his best wishes for success in this endeavor.	10
15	89	She must serve me, and serve me to the best of her abilities, superbly and obediently.	10
21	201	She feared Thimble, whom she knew could easily best her.	10
27	37	The best that we could do, presumably, if caught in the open, would be to fight back to back, the girls, low, at our feet.	10
27	39	Our best chance, presumably, would be to have pack ice behind us.	10
29	173	It is all for the best".	10
31	153	"It is a food world," it said, "and the food is not of the best".	10
32	95	"Oh, I could have your mind torn open, and could break you, or kill you, as anything can be torn and broken, or killed, but, in the end I, at best, would know only what you believed to be true, and that may or may not be true".	10
33	71	"One must look out for one's own best interest".	10
35	1052	"I think it best that you and Ram, and the women, try to leave the compound, and make your way across the ice".	10
36	39	"Surely you can tell us which would be best at pulling sleds".	10

Book 13. (24 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	87	The woman who fears she cannot please men then sometimes tends to feel hostility toward them, perhaps turning her own rage and inward disappointment outward, laying the blame upon them, and developing the obvious defensive reactions of belittling sexuality and its significance, and attempting, inter...	10
4	296	If she is not sold in five Ehn then take her to the public market shelves and chain her there, taking the best offer which equals or exceeds the cost of her branding".	10
4	541	"If she is a slave," said one of the girls, "she had best learn Gorean quickly".	10
5	340	"Surely such a girl, a wench of only average beauty, a tense, tight girl, awkward and clumsy, one untrained, new to the collar, one who can hardly speak Gorean, a barbarian, is worth, at best, only two or three copper tarsks".	10
8	98	"I did not play my best game," I said.	10
9	43	"Perhaps I should best be quiet".	10
11	350	She was the sort of woman who is best greeted by throwing her upon her back and raping her.	10
12	529	Although the slave was ignorant she did her best, over and over, for Ehn, with tongue and lips, at the feet, and ankles, and toes.	10
12	552	I would, however, if I were you, attempt to do my best to justify Pembe's confidence in you.	10
12	587	"Indeed," said he, "as you are white, and thus inferior and despicable, you had best be a thousand times more submissively pleasing than your black betters in the collar".	10
12	593	Perhaps you should do your best to please him.	10
13	260	I will do my best, Master!" "You want to submit, do you not?" I asked.	10
13	342	"Do you think that chains such as these are those which will best hold you?" I asked.	10
15	63	"Have no fear," I said, "I will do my best to see that the ring reaches the proper authorities".	10
18	138	It was not in the best interest of Shaba, or myself, or Msaliti, for the power of the ring to come to the attention of the sovereign of this vast equatorial ubarate.	10
18	156	We now wish, as doubtless will other merchant holdings, such as our sisters, Schendi and Bazi, to accord you our best wishes and to sue for your favor, that our shipping and merchants may be permitted to prove themselves of service in your future ventures".	10
18	157	Msaliti did his best, not happily, to translate this for Bila Huruma.	10
23	342	"Surely you do agree that our best direction at the moment is west?" I asked.	10
32	1092	In his best, a slaver will usually wear blue and yellow robes, or robes in which these colors are prominent.	10
34	10	Such animals are best hunted from the back of kaiila with lances, in the open.	10
34	17	Even in the open, as I was, in a clearing among trees, it is hard to use one's spear to its best advantage, the animal stays so close to you and moves so quickly.	10
34	612	Such as you are best kept in collars.	10
35	85	I had had only her best interests at heart.	10
48	164	Gorean slave girls are, to the best of my knowledge, seldom whipped.	10

Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	20	She did her best, however, to conform to the standards in deportment, dress and assertiveness expected of her.	10
1	175	But such matters are perhaps best left to psychologists.	10
1	902	If the women, for some reason, wished us to be just like women then we would have to do our best to be just like women.	10
1	922	It seemed to me in his best interest to have an extra fare.	10
2	27	"You had best form the habit early, of addressing free men as 'Master,' Slave Girl," said the heavy man.	10
4	246	Masculinity may be best attacked by an attack on male sexuality, and the more pervasive and pernicious it is the better.	10
4	265	"It is the best way we know," she said, "to reduce a male's effectiveness in all socially competitive situations.	10
7	216	I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an in...	10
11	421	I think the best explanation for the Gorean political arrangements and attitudes is to be found in the institution of the Home Stone.	10
18	187	I decided I had best look away from the mistress.	10
19	48	Some small men, as is well known, are extremely fine fighters, though, of course, they do not have the size and weight to consistently best larger men, assuming that the distribution of skills is similar.	10
20	142	"We have patched up our differences, Jason," said the Lady Florence, "and we are now the best, and fastest, of friends".	10
22	492	Even Gort, of the stables of Miles, and Kaibar, of the stables of Shandu, had been unable to best me.	10
25	56	Miles is not pleased at having had you best Gort, his former champion.	10
25	108	"Does Master command me," I asked, "as the collared slave I am?" "I advise you," said Kenneth, "to adopt that course of action which is in your own best interest".	10

Book 15. (19 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	485	And it is doubtless best that they do not know.	10
4	508	Those who do not fear nature will perhaps best understand the Gorean culture, and its viability, stability, and fulfilling aspects.	10
5	4	"He wagers ten copper tarsks he can best any man in the house!" "It is true," I called, stepping to the sand, pulling off the tunic.	10
5	35	"Ten tarsks," cried another peasant, "that I can best you!" "Can you fight further, Jason!" anxiously asked the proprietor.	10
6	98	I had discovered, in various towns, that I was likely to get the best fares at the quays themselves.	10
6	105	The light in such structures is, at best, dim.	10
9	158	I recalled her doing her best to comply with their directives, to fulfill their implacable pathological stereotypes, in dress, in expression and carriage, in attitude and thought.	10
10	208	To be sure, I thought, if she were a slave, and put in such devices, and sent forth, she had best return with a jingling coin box.	10
22	122	I had not seen her, despite her best efforts, as a neuterized embodiment of a prescribed ideology.	10
24	313	I thought it best to let her speak.	10
25	116	I thought it best to keep my head clear until the conclusion of our evening's business.	10
25	234	"I shall do my best, Master," she whispered.	10
25	259	"It will be in her best interest to be so".	10
28	125	"He was the best qualified man to replace me," said Callimachus.	10
28	187	It would certainly be in her best interest for Aemilianus, Captain in Ar's Station, to have accepted her invitation to our meeting.	10
28	360	"That is best," admitted Tasdron, "for there are serious things of which to speak".	10
29	42	As a merchant I think a freer trade lies in our best interest.	10
29	188	"That is doubtless best," agreed Callisthenes.	10
31	179	This, I felt, was in the best interests of my plan.	10

Book 16. (15 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	216	"Ar knows what she does best," said a man.	10
8	115	He might put into shore when it would be best to remain at sea; he might run when he should fight; when he should be firm, he might vacillate; when he should be strong, he might be conciliatory and weak.	10
8	476	I clearly have the best of this".	10
16	159	With the small amount of play given to me by the ropes on that ankle I must manage as best I can.	10
18	467	Who shall say which is best? Perhaps discontentment and misery are superior to contentment and love.	10
18	469	Let each choose, perhaps, that which is best for him.	10
19	423	It is thus in his best interest to put up for sale the highest quality merchandise he can obtain.	10
19	505	I saw that she thought of turning from me, and covering with her hands, as best she could, her nakedness.	10
19	1007	She must do her best, now little different from thousands of others, many regarded as more beautiful than she, to make herself something special to a master, lest she prove less than fully pleasing, and be fed to sleen.	10
20	1887	The bondage relationship explicitly, in civil law, is perhaps best understood as the acknowledgment of nature's work and its elaboration and enhancement within a complex civilized framework.	10
21	579	Slavers seek out the best of women, those who are, at least potentially, the most appetitious, the most feminine, the most desirable, the most beautiful.	10
21	602	In any event, wealth seldom enters into the master/slave relationship, except that richer fellows, obviously, are able to bid more, if they wish, for the lovely nude animals—often exhibited writhing in the torchlit markets—who might best please them.	10
21	752	A judicious mixture of modalities may be best.	10
21	755	At one time, one might seem best, and, at another time, another.	10
21	822	"Certainly," she said, "and to the best of my ability".	10

Book 17. (31 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	585	She who writhes best under the lash, so say the Goreans, writhes best in the furs.	10
1	1133	"Even with the small bow," said Samos, "surely he cannot expect to best five men".	10
2	214	The name, then, is perhaps not best regarded as an item of purely scientific nomenclature but rather as something else, perhaps a warning.	10
4	199	"I think you are best advised to proceed to Fort Haskins as quickly as possible".	10
6	31	The four or five best-known herds, such as the Boswell herd, he for whom the Boswell Pass is named, and the Bento herd and the Hogarthe herd, named after the first white men who saw them, number, it is estimated, between two and three million beasts.	10
6	61	I had gathered, on the other hand, that much of the best merchandise was not exposed in the pits, but was in the stable or in the nearby sales barn.	10
8	928	Which chaining arrangement is best for a given set of girls depends, of course, on the particular intentions and purposes of their master.	10
11	89	"I mean," she said, "I understand that I am a slave, but does that mean that the master may do with me as he wishes, whatever it may be, and that I must strive to please him in any way he may wish, and to the best of my ability?" "Yes," said Ginger.	10
11	152	We have all noted, with embarrassment, her curiosity about delicate matters best left unmentioned.	10
13	43	I was pleased with her progress in the language, and it seemed to me the best of her chained peers.	10
13	338	"Your aunt was then, perhaps, trying to convey to you that your most congenial and appropriate destiny, what might be best for you, what might be most natural for you, would be for you to find yourself naked in the arms of a man".	10
13	874	And there is a consensus, interestingly, that intelligent women make the best slaves.	10
13	1322	My own theory is that if a girl is to have but one trainer, it is doubtless best for that trainer to be a man, for the girl, in her bondage, is almost certain to have to relate primarily to men, to please, placate and serve them, and so on.	10
13	1354	"It is in our best interest to fulfill our duties well," she said.	10
13	1355	"But the best trainers you will have," I said, "will be your particular masters, and yourself.	10
13	1381	"I would want to serve my love master, to the best of my ability, with whatever skills or talents I might have".	10
13	1497	The girls on a chain, once opened and made to serve, usually begin to compete among themselves, and soon, to see who can serve the masters best, and those who do not enter earnestly into this competition, it might be mentioned, are usually the first to be fed to sleen.	10
13	1811	"Do you know, ultimately," I asked, "who will prove to be your one best trainer?" "No, Master," she said.	10
14	176	"Cover yourselves, as best you can".	10
14	195	"Resist, to the best of your ability," said Grunt to Ulla.	10
14	198	Ulla tried to resist him, as best she could, but, in a moment, bruised and vomiting, he not having been gentle with her, she was on her belly in the grass, her hands being jerked behind her and tied.	10
14	206	On the other hand she knew she must obey, and to the best of her ability.	10
14	1131	I had been, of course, as best I could, reconstructing portions of the conversation which I had earlier seen take place between Corn Stalks and Grunt.	10
14	1239	"It is my understanding, gathered along the perimeter, that you are unusual among traders, that you, of all of them, have penetrated farthest into the Barrens, and know them the best of all white men".	10
16	120	Given their distance from the other wagons and their distribution in the grass I took it that they had broken their column and sped away, as best they might.	10
16	386	"It is always best when the Teaching can be given to the young," said another.	10
17	641	"You had best begin to think of yourself in such terms," I said.	10
17	677	"You had best pretend well to believe their Teaching," I said.	10
17	745	"That is the best sort of slave to be," she said, "one without a master".	10
19	319	"I do not think that would be in your best interest," said Grunt.	10
19	742	Such girls thrive best when kept under a strict discipline.	10

Book 18. (37 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	491	It seems to be the men, for example, who are best suited to be the warriors and the women who are best suited to be the lovely, desirable prizes of such warriors.	10
37	259	Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the...	10
1	485	Last year he had, in effect, put in an order for such a woman, an order which Grunt had agreed, to the best of his ability, to fill.	10
2	77	Women seem to have a gift for languages; this may have been selected for, over hundreds of generations, given wars, abductions, piracies, slave raids, and such, as it is clearly in their best interests to learn quickly the languages of their new masters.	10
2	447	'Cancega', here, I think, would be best translated as "Drum".	10
2	451	The translation "Drum," all things considered, seems to be best in this context.	10
3	279	Such dances, that such things could be, are doubtless best kept as the secrets of masters and slaves.	10
4	85	She lived now, free, but sequestered and dishonored, in the city of Ar, in the Central Cylinder itself, perhaps the most fortified, best-defended tower or keep in that huge city.	10
4	369	In such a case, of course, one must slash the travois straps, mount up, and make away as best one can.	10
5	225	It has consequences, at any rate, which seem to be in the best interests of the kailiauk as a species.	10
7	109	There was laughter, and joking, the sounds of playing children, the calls of women, the shouts of men, the bustle of people moving about, many in their best, conversing, parading, visiting, occasionally the squeals of kaiila.	10
7	507	The denial and frustration of nature, the betrayal and subversion of sexuality, it is possible, may not be in the long-term best interest of the human species.	10
7	523	At least that was one's best guess.	10
9	334	The best thing that ever happened to her was to be brought to Gor and put in chains".	10
12	76	"And the best," added another lad.	10
12	186	"She is pretty, but she is not the best choice," said the first lad.	10
14	560	If one must live with the Waniyanpi, perhaps it is best to be of the Waniyanpi.	10
17	123	I would have gone first to Cuwignaka, as I knew him best and had the highest regard for his perceptiveness and common sense, but that action I had rejected, of course, because at this time he would be, with other young men, dancing in the great lodge.	10
22	226	Many men, as they are of their own people, regardless of what would be in the best interest of the women, would fight to free them.	10
22	234	Once again, of course, the best interests of the women, and whatever might be their true nature, are not considered.	10
23	82	"I think you had best dispose of our friend there," I said, indicating the Yellow Knife.	10
23	146	"It would not be in a girl's best interest, then, to dissemble in such a matter," said Cuwignaka.	10
25	118	His remark was intended to be, and I think Cuwignaka understood it in this way, in our best interest.	10
26	110	Given the cultural milieu involved and the narrower understanding of that expression within that milieu perhaps the best translation, supplying connotations familiar to the red savages, might be 'Love Flute'.	10
26	116	"I think it would be in your best interest," I said, "to strive to be pleasing, fully".	10
28	123	They might then, under that interpretation, and held contractually enforceable on the woman, be that next best thing to her actual slavery.	10
29	7	"Run! Seek your safety!" I saw another free woman cutting at the hair of other kneeling beauties, freeing them from the cruel hair coffles, that they might flee as best they might.	10
30	45	On the other hand, it was certainly not in the best interests of his position to promote the plausibility of Yellow-Knife medicine.	10
32	193	I think this is in the best interests not only of Hci but of ourselves.	10
40	164	"To be sure," I said, "the universalization of slavery is its best concealment".	10
40	325	They were desirable and beautiful; this was not because of their mere nudity but rather, I think, because of something else, something which had taken place within them, something psychological; this might perhaps best be characterized as a surrender to their womanhood; in any event they were now no...	10
42	163	"I will do my best," said Hci.	10
43	133	Sometimes I think that the best thing to do with you would be to bind you and have you turned over to the remnants of your people, for their judgment.	10
44	259	But was she not only another female? By the red savages, you must understand, white women are regarded as slave stock, at best, suffered to live only as degraded, abused domestic beasts.	10
47	50	"I am doing it to improve your appearance," he said, "much as one might water an animal before its sale, that you will look your best for the Yellow Knives".	10
47	436	Clearly their best interests were involved in doing so.	10
54	280	The best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages.	10

Book 19. (34 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	359	"It is our best," I said.	10
4	472	I was, at best, something different.	10
5	294	The guards remained outside but that, of course, was an understandable precaution, one clearly in my own best interests, one pertinent to my personal security.	10
5	298	Best perhaps, I was allowed to leave the palace whenever I might please, provided I did so incognito and in the company of Drusus Rencius.	10
6	467	Sexually starved, and driven by their needs, they would then be forced to make do with whatever might be available, the best in such a case perhaps being the free woman.	10
6	652	"And how do men find such women?" "It is in the best interests of the woman," said he, "that the men find her pleasing, very pleasing".	10
6	749	I would do my best to be a diligent and apt pupil.	10
6	795	Then, finally, after much troubled thought, it seemed to me that perhaps it was best that I let myself accompany you here".	10
7	163	"To be sure," he said, "this method, for its best results, requires two men.	10
8	404	I thought she had best return quickly to her scrubbing.	10
11	182	I could no longer be so simple as to pretend to myself that my womanhood was best served by its own frustration, suppression and denial.	10
15	119	Certainly it would be in her best interests to be so.	10
15	278	The best that a slave can commonly hope for is that she might fall into the power of a new master.	10
19	127	I then realized that it was truly in the best interest of a female captive, or slave, to be pleasing.	10
21	20	Yet, of course, on it, I could make my best time.	10
22	42	"You had best flee," said another.	10
25	39	She was the best worker on the chain.	10
25	119	"These are the best of the current crop," said the young man.	10
26	358	"They are the two best that I found there".	10
27	164	"It is an excellent class, one of the best I have had," he said.	10
29	3	"You are one of our best girls.	10
30	688	"You had best hurry along and get something to eat," he told us.	10
31	504	No longer, now, was she, in the prerogatives of freedom, permitted to give men nothing, or frustration; now she must serve them with perfection and provide them, to the best of her ability, at their merest whim, with fantastic pleasures.	10
33	34	She had, doubtless, the largest and best-trained infantry in known Gor.	10
33	62	The best that I could hope for was to prepare the way for the victorious forces of Argentum, which I managed to do.	10
33	1027	In no way was it incumbent on you to risk your commission, your future, your honor, your life, on what must at best have been little more than a remote possibility".	10
35	58	The liqueurs of Turia are usually regarded as the best, but I think this is largely a matter of taste.	10
35	92	"Those of Turia are the best," he said to Drusus Rencius, smiling, almost apologetically.	10
36	75	"An illiterate slave!" "Some men think they are the best kind," I said, not a little irritated myself.	10
36	282	You hope for the best.	10
36	413	And she will do her best to see to it that she is fully pleasing.	10
36	744	"I will try my best, Master," I said.	10
36	888	And then they are well readied for their sale, each vying to best display her master's merchandise.	10
36	1406	"Those are the best sort," he said.	10

Book 20. (31 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	76	Indeed, at this time, there are even parades of costumes, and prizes are awarded, in various categories, for most ingenious or best costume.	10
2	432	Apparently the arsenal champion, one of the best twenty or thirty players in Port Kar, had been no match for him.	10
2	434	That seemed more likely than the fact that he, a fellow like him, associated with actors and carnival folk, and such, could best the arsenal champion.	10
2	769	"It also, of course, gives them a way of establishing rankings among themselves," said the officer, "which is probably about the best they can do until they find themselves enslaved, put naked on blocks and priced".	10
2	907	There is a theory that brunettes make the best slaves, are the most responsive and such, but it depends, of course, on the particular woman.	10
2	1148	I thought it best, finally, not to do so.	10
2	1273	Too, the best guarantee of the safety of Samos, it seemed to me, was my departure from the city.	10
2	1428	It is doubtless best that you never learn.	10
2	1430	Similarly, it is probably best that you learn nothing of helpless obedience, of submission and total surrender.	10
2	1432	All in all, you had best remain on the superficial levels of sexuality, those appropriate to a free woman, unaware that anything deeper and more profound exists".	10
4	267	"The entrapment might best take place in an alcove," she said, musingly, "wherein I might lie as bait".	10
6	499	"I had best not permit him more than the briefest of peeps," she said, to the audience, "lest he perhaps in rapture go out of his senses altogether".	10
6	1196	But I must bear them as best I can.	10
6	1247	We make up new ones, and sometimes we feel it best, temporarily or permanently, to drop out old ones, ones that do not then seem as good or which do not seem to play as well any longer.	10
10	188	Then she complied, as best she could, given that she had only recently been a free woman.	10
10	793	"I will do my best to please my masters!" "You will prove to be an apt pupil, will you not, Lady Telitsia?" I repeated.	10
10	912	A slave would be best, but the Lady Yanina would do.	10
12	508	At best I had, even in the past, served them or not, as my inclinations prompted.	10
13	118	It seemed the climb to favor in Brundisium would be, at best, a long and difficult one for the proud Lady Yanina.	10
16	191	"They are best with salt," said Lecchio.	10
16	312	The best simple translation of "bina" is "slave beads".	10
16	687	"Doubtless much depends upon definitions," said Chino, "but we must make do as best we can".	10
16	708	"I shall do my best," said Chino, "not to reflect the sun into your eyes with them, thereby blinding you, making you helpless, and thereby distracting you from your charge".	10
16	851	She was now an eager slave, at one with her deepest feelings and needs, one now apprised of, and welcoming, the revelations of her deepest femininity, its blossoming in exacting servitude, one who had now begun to understand that to which her sex entitled her, wondrous, ancient, inbred female fulfil...	10
16	1021	"I will not consider a match with such a fellow, not with a creature of such outrageous deformity, not with one such as he, one who is, by all reports, at best naught but a harrowingly disfigured monster".	10
16	1095	Perhaps it was just as well that the player had not tried to force her to become a player, an activity for which she was not naturally suited, and in which she would have, at best, after years of work, achieved only a hard-won and mediocre success, but had instead forced her to become that for which...	10
18	81	Clearly Belnar, the ubar of Brundisium, had expected Temenides to best the player, taken then to be a mere low player, a troupe's player, and this had not turned out as he had anticipated.	10
18	104	The best of the evening's entertainment is yet to come!" There was then a returning to places among the banqueters.	10
21	275	"'The Imperious General,'" said Publius Andronicus, "is one of my best roles".	10
21	444	"Yanina, the slave?" "Yes," she said, "Yanina the slave begs to please master!" "Again, and again, over a period of Ahn, to the best of your ability?" I asked.	10
22	348	"Do whatever you think best," I said.	10

Book 21. (37 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	212	"I trust you will do your best to prove yourself worthy of a slave collar," I said.	10
4	195	I decided that perhaps I had best be soon on my way.	10
4	493	It is worthy of the best things I have heard of Alars.	10
5	255	"You had best remain within the safety of the wagons," said Hurtha.	10
9	200	"But imposing on your hospitality could be at best a temporary expedient".	10
11	57	"To me," said the merchant, "it seems merely strange, or perhaps, at best, unmitigated trash, but then I am a simple man of business, and not a scribe.	10
12	88	Surely you are aware that a well-rested body and a clear mind are two among several of the soldier's best friends".	10
13	62	We did so, as best we could.	10
15	423	Too, in this fashion the matter may best be kept secret from her attendants.	10
15	432	It could have been done otherwise but this is best.	10
15	530	One has not seen a woman at her best until one has seen her in a collar at a man's feet.	10
16	242	I was at best an asset.	10
16	519	"But nature is the best breeder, and she has been breeding slaves for men for thousands of years.	10
16	546	"Of course! Yes!" I had anticipated such a response, and had thought it best to permit it to her.	10
16	751	"Who would be best?" I asked.	10
16	1441	I am not sure what would be the best way to approach Ar.	10
16	1476	It seemed to me probably best, all things considered, to take the Treasure Road.	10
19	359	I decided that I, as a simple soldier, an unpretentious fellow devoted to the profession of arms, had best reserve judgment on such things as poets and poetry.	10
20	49	In such places were perhaps the best and worst that man could do, his past and future, his pain and pleasure, his darkness and light, come together in a single focus.	10
21	110	"Any one of our lads could best a dozen Cosians".	10
22	279	Such a door, plus his own dagger, is the poor man's best insurance against theft.	10
24	227	"To the best of my knowledge," he said, "I do not have any daughters, long-lost or otherwise.	10
25	28	She does not own all the brothels on the street, incidentally, nor the best of them, in my opinion, nor even the majority of them.	10
25	30	Her brothels, if it is of interest are the Chains of Gold, supposedly her best, costing at any rate a copper tarsk for admission, and, all cheap tarsk-bit brothels, the Silken Cords, the Scarlet Whip, the Slave Racks, and the Tunnels.	10
25	162	Too, the secrets of slaves are perhaps best kept between themselves and their masters".	10
25	338	Auctions, like most business ventures, are gambles, and they are best left to those with experience in such matters and with the resources to gamble intelligently.	10
25	437	"You are one of our best girls, aren't you, Demet?" asked the woman with the whip, moving it on her belly as she danced.	10
25	955	"We want the Tunnels to be one of the best brothels on the entire Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla".	10
25	1236	Some girls thrive best with uncompromising barbarian masters who will put them on the oar or under the whip at the least sign of their being displeasing and others find that they did not truly understand helplessness and submission until they found their chain fastened to the couch ring of a gentlem...	10
25	1641	This was one of the major wines, and perhaps the best, served in Ar's public slave gardens; indeed, it had originally been commissioned for that market; hence the name.	10
25	2194	The child, for example, who is not raised with firmness but with a misguided "kindness," not in its own long-term best interest, grows into the conceited, spoiled, selfish, obnoxious, irresponsible, self-complacent, degenerate adult, the demanding, petulant adult, still basically a child, impatient ...	10
26	182	This works best, of course, when one can see what one is doing.	10
26	866	"But then you are not seeing it at its best.	10
26	868	It is hard to look one's best this early in the morning, I am sure you will agree.	10
26	1294	Otherwise, I suppose, it would be very difficult to explain their unusual success in deciding which women, even of women in crowds, and veiled and clad in the robes of concealment, are likely to be the most beautiful and make the best slaves, and those women, of course, are the ones most profitably ...	10
26	1346	Your decisions then might rather be concerned with such things as how to best please your master, within certain latitudes which he might permit you".	10
28	50	"I am not resistant! I am a slave! I shall do my best to be responsive, and pleasing.	10

Book 22. (34 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	71	I think I was the best in my classes.	10
4	235	I sensed, as I had long before, in the library, that he, in his power, intelligence, and maleness, was totally my superior, indeed, that I could at best be little more than an animal at his feet.	10
5	178	She was supposed to be one of the best of the instructresses.	10
6	79	It is best to assume, naturally, that one is always doing so.	10
6	266	She soon became one of the best of us.	10
6	303	I then decided that my best mode of action would be to pretend to be unsexual, and modest, before women such as she who had beaten on the side of the wagon but, when with men, and as they would undoubtedly require, kneel as I had been taught, placing myself shamelessly, vulnerably, deliciously, deli...	10
6	614	At best, we might hope, against all hopes, at great personal risk, even mortal risk, it seemed, to escape from the chains of one master into those of another, in which case, of course, we would be a "caught slave," a modality that would be almost certain to assure us of the cruelest of treatments an...	10
6	637	A free woman is entitled to try to escape a captor as best she can, and without penalty, even after her first night in his bonds, if she still chooses to do so.	10
7	114	"We are coming to the gate!" We pulled the canvas and silk down, as best we could, and then, very quietly, turned about and sat in the wagon.	10
7	125	The best translation is doubtless 'slave girl'.	10
8	7	It is best known, interestingly enough, ironically enough, as an important livestock market.	10
8	212	This particular complex was, it seemed, one of the best-known areas in Market of Semris for the sales of tarsks.	10
8	243	I wanted our lot, or our group, to be a good one, and I wanted, if possible, to be the best in it! I wanted that, if only for Teibar.	10
10	56	It seemed to me in my best interests to be conservative in my estimations.	10
10	818	Sometimes this occurs in heated discussions of the relative merits of different masters' girls, and the girls are ordered to disrobe on the spot, sometimes then being put through slave paces, there, on the very tiles of the squares and plazas, the matter being left to the acclamations or votes of th...	10
11	210	Many women are free, legally, whether it is in their best interest or not.	10
11	769	"And I think I can guarantee," said Mirus, "by all the whips in the house of Hendow, that she will do her best to please you".	10
11	772	Of course I would do my best to please them.	10
11	1343	He had simply taken me, as a slave might be taken! Did he not know I was from Earth? Did he think I was only another Gorean girl? But I realized, then, that here I was perhaps even less than a Gorean girl, and, at best, only another slut in a collar.	10
11	1506	I obeyed immediately, or did my best to obey.	10
13	301	She would then have to learn, from the beginning, so to speak, and perhaps lengthily and painfully, how to please men as best she can, within her imposed physical limitations.	10
13	721	Most masters, however, do not do this sort of thing for it is meretricious, and, at best, a joke.	10
14	241	He had once been betrayed, it seemed, and left for dead, by his best friend.	10
14	282	"You are a superb dancer," he said, "perhaps one of the best in Brundisium".	10
21	61	Perhaps, best, they would decide they did not want this man, after all.	10
22	72	"But you have been on the whole an excellent lure girl," he said, "one of the best I have ever had".	10
24	178	How astonishing it was that they bore me no ill will! How grateful I was to them for their understanding! Then I knelt before he who was last on the chain, he whom I most feared, and yet best knew, he who had been many times kind to me in Brundisium, and whom I had cleverly tricked in Argentum, brin...	10
24	334	Most placatory dances, however, are not fixed-form dances, but are "free" dances, in which the slave, exquisitely alert to the nuances of the situation, the particular master, the nature of his displeasure, the gravity of her offense, and such, improvises, doing her best to assuage his anger and beg...	10
27	46	It had not started well, for I had been hampered by terror, but soon, as I recalled my earlier beating by Aulus, and knew I might be again whipped if I did not do well, and as I reassured myself that within the camp I would presumably be safe, and as I saw the men, and I knew they wished pleasure, a...	10
33	9	I had tried to do my best to cook well for him.	10
34	253	"Master may be assured that I will do my best," I said.	10
34	531	They sell best in the markets.	10
34	556	"The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele...	10
34	793	Perhaps that is best.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	108	"Thus, it is not surprising," I said, "that he who best understands women, he who knows them best, he who loves them best, he who is most concerned with their fulfillment, is he who is most likely to put them in their place in nature, and keep them there, who is most likely to give them the attentio...	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	78	As nearly as I could determine from the reports of the silver merchant Lara's abdication was not forced, nor even the result of extreme political pressures brought on her, but a voluntary act, one apparently regarded by her as being not only in the best interests of the city but in her own best inte...	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	337	In the unnatural world, as all cannot be the best, there is no alternative, if all are to be the same, then to reduce the best to the level of the worst, at least in pretense.	10

Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	834	My best tactic for survival then would be to ignore the women, to disregard them, in effect, and set myself to please the men as best I could, letting the results fall out as they might.	10
14	1112	"And you would best concern yourself to do your best to be such," I said.	10

Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	300	What if what might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such...	10
24	469	Presumably, before Ellen's addition to the list, she had been the last dancer, and thus, putatively, the best, for the best is often saved for the last.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	924	It was not that he accepted uncritically the brunette's denials of bondage, of course, so much as that the supposition of her freedom seemed to best explain, and best cohere with, a hundred small details of her temperament and behavior.	10
1	1214	She would have done her best to assure her, cringing, terrified and pleading, not only that she constituted no threat to her but that she would try to avoid her to the best of her ability and, in any disputed matters, would instantly retire and yield her first place.	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	483	Many of the best forces of Ar, her finest troops, her best officers, by intent, to divert them from the defense of the city, had been earlier ordered to the vast delta of the Vosk, to engage there in an alleged punitive expedition against supposed incursions from Cos and Tyros.	10
43	147	But I think we may suppose that Rutilius of Ar will act in his best interests, as he sees them, and that he will understand that his best interests are identical with ours, and more than this what can one expect?" "Much," I said.	10

Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	231	We had done our best, of course, we of the occupation, to disarm the populace, pretending this to be in their own best interest, that in this way they would be better protected, that in this way they would be assuring their own safety, security, and welfare.	10
28	100	I tried to distribute the best dishes, or what I took to be the best dishes, evenly between them.	10
34	189	Knowing it is there, she will commonly do her best to avoid its stroke, will commonly do her best to be pleasing, fully pleasing.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	806	Is not our speech our delight, our pleasure, our joy, our recreation, our weapon, our instrument, our gift? Is it not that whereby we can make known our feelings, our hopes, and fears; that whereby we can express ourselves, plead our causes, make known our wants, needs, and desires, that by means of...	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
57	229	"There are ancient gates behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred.	10
59	81	Who, knowingly, would give paga to a larl? Who, knowingly, would break through the thin crust concealing a seething volcano? Lord Grendel had spoken of ancient gates, behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred.	10
62	88	Men, or common men, may be unaware of what is in their own best interests, but Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they may be, one supposes, are very much aware of what is in their own best interests.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	222	Under these circumstances it is clear that it is in the best interest of the slave to do her best, to be as pleasing as possible.	10