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Book 1. (66 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	60	I sensed that a certain distrust existed between the Caste of Scribes and the Caste of Initiates.	10
3	84	But, similarly, if a child does not show the aptitude expected of his caste, whether it be, say, that of physician or warrior, he is lowered in caste".	10
3	121	I met many Goreans, other than Torm, in these weeks—free Goreans, mostly of the Caste of Scribes and the Caste of Warriors.	10
4	140	I was pleased to note that my own caste, that of the Warriors, was accorded the least status; if I had had my will, the warriors would not have been a High Caste.	10
5	53	In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W...	10
20	18	Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.	10
3	1	The Tarn "Ho!" cried Torm, that most improbable member of the Caste of Scribes, throwing his blue robes over his head as though he could not bear to see the light of day.	10
3	52	"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of Gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitted in war, and ...	10
3	57	Religious matters on this world tend to be rather carefully guarded by the Caste of Initiates, who allow members of other castes little participation in their sacrifices and ceremonies.	10
3	61	The ethical teachings of Gor, which are independent of the claims and propositions of the Initiates, amount to little more than the Caste Codes—collections of sayings whose origins are lost in antiquity.	10
3	62	I was specially drilled in the Code of the Warrior Caste.	10
3	77	"Rulers," he said, "are chosen from any High Caste".	10
3	78	"High Caste?" I asked.	10
3	80	"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin".	10
3	82	"The caste structure," said my father patiently, with perhaps the trace of a smile on his face, "is relatively immobile, but not frozen, and depends on more than birth.	10
3	83	For example, if a child in his schooling shows that he can raise caste, as the expression is, he is permitted to do so.	10
3	92	I had learned enough of Gor by now to know that one could not always count on the Caste Codes being observed.	10
3	109	Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.	10
3	123	I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.	10
3	140	The caste system was socially efficient, given its openness with respect to merit, but I regarded it as somehow ethically objectionable.	10
3	142	But far more deplorable than the caste system was the institution of slavery.	10
3	143	There were only three statuses conceivable to the Gorean mind outside of the caste system: slave, outlaw, and Priest-King.	10
3	265	They are trained by men of the Caste of Tarn Keepers to respond to it while still young, when they can be fastened by wires to the training perches.	10
4	94	"A member of the Caste of Assassins," said the Older Tarl, gazing at the retreating speck in the distance.	10
4	131	The ceiling was lit as if by stars, and the walls were of five colors, applied laterally, beginning from the bottom—white, blue, yellow, green, and red, caste colors.	10
4	133	These tiers shared the color of that portion of the wall behind them, the caste colors.	10
4	150	"I, Tarl, Swordsman of Ko-ro-ba, give my word that this man is fit to become a member of the High Caste of Warriors".	10
4	166	Aside from candidates for the status of Warrior, none of my caste was permitted to enter the Council armed.	10
4	167	Had they been armed, my caste brothers in the last tier would have struck their spear blades on their shields.	10
6	177	Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a Ubar's daughter.	10
8	31	In that moment I detested the Initiates of Ar, who, like other members of their caste throughout Gor, were only too eager to seize some particle of the political power they had supposedly renounced in choosing to wear the white robes of their calling.	10
8	131	High Caste daughters in Ar are raised in the Walled Gardens, like flowers, until some highborn suitor, preferably a Ubar or Administrator, will pay the bride price set by their fathers".	10
8	142	Of High Caste, it was natural that she was above the common superstitions connected with revealing one's name.	10
9	16	Theoretically, given the seclusion of the High Caste women of Ar, their gilded confinement in the Walled Gardens, it should be reasonably easy to conceal her identity.	10
9	102	"I am Kazrak of Port Kar," he said, "in the service of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste".	10
9	109	"You would have me believe that she is of High Caste," he said.	10
9	178	"It is the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste," said Kazrak.	10
10	6	It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones.	10
10	7	As I stood tensely, ringed by the lances of the caravan guards, the wall of tharlarions parted to allow the approach of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
10	44	"Tarl of Bristol," he said, "do you take service with Mintar, of the Merchant Caste?" "If I do not?" I asked.	10
10	49	He would have had a man killed rather than risk the loss of a tenth of a tarn disk, so well he knew the codes of his caste.	10
10	62	"Is she of High Caste?" asked Mintar, apparently puzzled at my lack of interest in his bargaining.	10
10	63	Perhaps his price was too low for a girl of High Caste.	10
11	24	I noted with satisfaction that Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, proud leader of perhaps the greatest horde ever assembled on the plains of Gor, had need of Mintar, who was only of the Merchant Caste.	10
11	52	She seemed to be pleased when her friends were bought by handsome tarnsmen, and laughed delightedly when one girl, to whom she had taken a dislike, was purchased by a fat, odious fellow, of the Caste of Tarn Keepers.	10
11	62	He wore the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins.	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
12	54	That I swear by the black helmet of my caste".	10
14	130	"I myself, as one of the Afflicted, learned it from Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
15	44	I stopped a hurrying slave girl and inquired the way to the compound of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, confident that he would have accompanied the horde back to the heartland of Ar.	10
15	110	"Will Kazrak and his guest, Tarl of Bristol, please accompany me to the tent of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste?" asked the man.	10
15	118	One was Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, his great bulk resting like a sack of meal on the cushions.	10
15	261	You will see the black banner of the Caste of Assassins".	10
15	263	"Though you are of the Merchant Caste, you are a brave man".	10
16	100	Above them, at several places, flew the black banner of the Caste of Assassins.	10
17	8	In these days I did not wear the garb of the Caste of Assassins, but dressed as a nondescript tarnsman, wearing the insignia of no city.	10
17	54	Officers in the Warrior Caste and their families were to be impaled, and in the population at large every tenth man would be executed.	10
17	61	Perhaps I alone of that vast horde, with the possible exception of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste, felt like weeping.	10
17	66	I was puzzled as the great procession halted and a palanquin was borne forward by eight members of the Caste of Assassins.	10
17	98	It was as a warrior of Gor that I arose and donned the black helmet and the garments of the Caste of Assassins.	10
18	21	I wore the garb of the Caste of Assassins, and on the left temple of the black helmet was the golden slash of the messenger.	10
18	26	He did not enjoy being summoned by an enemy of Ar, and in particular by one who wore the habiliments of the hated Caste of Assassins.	10
18	104	These bulbs, invented more than a century ago by the Caste of Builders, produce a clear, soft light for years without replacement.	10
19	36	And, dark among these shapes, like shadows, I could see the somber black of members of the Caste of Assassins.	10
20	35	To my delight, even Torm, of the Caste of Scribes, appeared at the tables.	10
20	69	Perhaps the serums of the Caste of Physicians, so skilled on Gor, have something to do with this, but I cannot tell.	10

Book 2. (80 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	34	His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the Caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the Caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel for the Gorean cities.	10
3	40	None of course would accept a lower caste, and there were lower castes, the Caste of Peasants, for example, the most basic caste of all Gor.	10
12	74	After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared.	10
8	109	Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the Caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no longer esteemed mercenaries ...	10
9	91	"You are of high caste, of the Caste of Warriors," said the proprietor.	10
24	16	I wondered at this, for the Caste of Musicians had been, like the Caste of Poets, exiled from Tharna.	10
24	17	Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the flame may spread.	10
2	36	In it I found the scarlet tunic, sandals and cloak which constitute the normal garb of a member of the Caste of Warriors.	10
2	37	This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own...	10
2	44	The Goreans generally, though there are exceptions, particularly the Caste of Initiates, do not believe in immortality.	10
2	75	There is nothing surprising in this inasmuch as each bird is trained, by the Caste of Tarn Keepers, to respond to a different note.	10
3	8	Yet this road, for all the loving craft of the Caste of Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly wide enough for two carts to pass.	10
3	37	I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task.	10
3	39	In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Castes to raise caste.	10
3	77	It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely Caste of Woodsmen do not often speak.	10
3	80	"Then, Warrior," said the man, issuing Gor's blunt invitation to a low-caste dinner, "share my kettle".	10
3	82	Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.	10
3	114	With the ax in his hands, suddenly he seemed to remember his caste, and he crouched in the road, there in the dusk, a few feet from me, like a gorilla clutching the broad-headed ax, breathing deeply, sucking in the air, mastering his fear.	10
4	4	Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain.	10
5	21	In the next flash of lightning I saw the white robes of an Initiate, the shaven head and the sad eyes of one of the Blessed Caste, servants it is said of the Priest-Kings themselves.	10
5	24	I could not place the difference, yet it seemed there was something in him or about him that set him apart from the other members of his caste.	10
5	43	It was common, of course, for Initiates to claim to speak for the Priest-Kings; indeed, it was presumably the calling of their caste to interpret the will of the Priest-Kings to men.	10
5	46	"Are you truly of the Caste of Initiates?" I asked.	10
5	74	I was now only in the presence of a man, a fellow human being even though he wore the sublime robes of the proud Caste of Initiates.	10
6	5	Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ...	10
6	33	To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case in Ko-ro-ba, women were permitted status within the caste system and had a relatively unrestricted existence.	10
8	7	On the shoulders of their gray tunics only a small band of color indicated caste.	10
8	8	Normally the caste colors of Gor would be in abundant evidence, enlivening the streets and bridges of the city, a glorious spectacle in Gor's bright, clear air.	10
8	10	Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per...	10
8	11	Even the Caste of Peasants regarded itself as the "Ox on which the Home Stone Rests" and could seldom be encouraged to leave their narrow strips of land, which they and their fathers before them had owned and made fruitful.	10
8	29	He who speaks for her hand, especially if she is of low caste, is seldom unknown to her, although the parents and the young people as well solemnly act as though this were the case.	10
8	110	Now many assassins roamed Gor, fearing to wear the somber black tunic of their caste, disguised as members of other castes, not infrequently as warriors.	10
8	113	"The Caste of Assassins no longer exists".	10
9	85	"This is not a place," said the man, "for one of High Caste".	10
9	87	In the light it was difficult to determine their caste, for they all wore the gray robes of Tharna and only a band of color on the shoulder indicated their station in the social fabric.	10
9	88	What struck me most about them had nothing to do with caste, but rather their lack of spirit.	10
9	101	"What caste is it?" I demanded.	10
9	103	"Money has no caste," he said.	10
12	1	Andreas of the Caste of Poets I had been hooded and driven through the streets, stumbling under the weight of the yoke.	10
12	72	"And worse than that," she laughed, clapping her hands, "he was of the Caste of Singers".	10
12	84	It had not occurred to him that he owed misery and torment to his profession, and, on the whole, the Caste of Poets was thought to be a most happy band of men.	10
12	85	"A handful of bread for a song," was a common Gorean invitation extended to members of the caste, and it might occur on the lips of a peasant or a Ubar, and the poet took great pride that he would sing the same song in both the hut of the peasant and the halls of the Ubar, though it won for him only...	10
12	86	Poets, on the whole, did not live well on Gor, but they never starved, were never forced to burn the robes of their caste.	10
12	89	"The Caste of Poets is not so bad," I said to Linna.	10
12	111	"The Caste of Physicians," she said, "under the direction of the High Council of Tharna, arranges these matters".	10
12	150	"What," cried a merry young voice, insolent and good-natured, "could a wench like you know of fools, of the Caste of Singers, of Poets?" Linna sprang to her feet.	10
13	85	My opponent was not Andreas, but a squat, powerful man with short-clipped yellow hair, Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers.	10
14	10	Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...	10
14	103	I addressed myself to the giant tarn, as though he had been a warrior, a member of my caste.	10
14	180	There was Andreas of Tor, of the Caste of Singers, young, valiant, irrepressible, his hair wild like the mane of a black larl, who would rather die than try to kill me, condemned to the Amusements or the mines of Tharna.	10
15	42	Her tarnsmen might be mercenaries, or perhaps men like Thorn, Captain of Tharna, who in spite of their city thought well of themselves and maintained at least the shreds of caste pride.	10
15	220	"She is a Degraded Woman," said the Tatrix, "and he a member of a caste outlawed in Tharna".	10
17	50	"You will inform against no one," said a voice, which I recognized as that of the bull-like Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, he whose life I had spared in the arena during the Battles of Oxen.	10
17	130	Wondering, he watched us, for one of the men, of the Caste of Peasants, had begun to hum a plowing song, and, one by one, the others joined him.	10
19	40	We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles.	10
19	90	"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles.	10
19	102	The squat giant of the Caste of Metal Workers stood with his feet planted wide.	10
19	129	"Hear, dull-witted scion of the Caste of Warriors," he said, "my friends are more important to me than even my songs".	10
19	132	"Are you truly of the Caste of Poets?" "Never more truly than now," said Andreas, "for how could my songs be more important than the things they celebrate?" I marveled that he had said this, for I knew that the young Andreas of Tor might have given his arm or years of his life for what might be a tr...	10
19	135	Andreas of the Caste of Poets stood in torment before me, agony in his eyes.	10
20	115	What had happened would have been regarded by the untrained Gorean mind, particularly that of a low-caste individual, as evidence of some supernatural force, as some magical effect of the will of the Priest-Kings.	10
21	12	It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste.	10
21	205	Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful.	10
21	206	An ordinary girl, of low caste, comely but untrained, might, depending on the market, sell for as little as five or as many as thirty tarn disks.	10
23	105	Not only slaves of the city raised the banner of defiance but men of low caste, whose brothers or friends had been sent to the mines or used in the Amusements, now dared at last to seize the instruments of their trade and turn on guardsmen and soldiers.	10
23	106	It was said the rebellion in the city was led by a short, powerful man with blue eyes and short-cropped hair, formerly of the Caste of Metal Workers.	10
23	148	I gathered that he had not enjoyed the performance of his duty, and that perhaps his heart lay with the rebels, but the pride of his caste had kept him at his post.	10
23	230	There, standing before the low doorway, I looked once more upon the squat, powerful figure of Kron, of the Caste of Metal Workers.	10
24	10	The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.	10
24	19	Almost as one they cried out, "Tal, Warrior!" "Tal, Warriors!" I responded, raising my arm, addressing them all by the title of my caste, for I knew that in their common cause each was a warrior.	10
24	30	"Free Kal-da for all!" cried Kron, and when the proprietor, who knew the codes of his caste, tried to object, Kron flung a golden tarn disk at him.	10
24	154	If Dorna the Proud had ruled upon that rampart rather than Thorn, a Captain, and a member of my own caste, I was certain that a bolt from some crossbow would have pierced my body without warning.	10
24	168	And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart.	10
25	11	Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors.	10
25	115	It did not seem it could have been a matter of caste obligation for this obligation had been owed not to Dorna but to Lara.	10
25	116	He had broken the codes of his caste to support the treachery of Dorna the Proud.	10
26	6	I shall deliver this manuscript to some member of the Caste of Scribes whom I shall find at the Fair of En'Kara at the base of the Sardar.	10
26	33	In the streets of Tharna shortly after the end of the revolt the caste colors of Gor began to appear openly in the garments of the citizens.	10
26	34	The marvelous glazing substances of the Caste of Builders, long prohibited as frivolous and expensive, began to appear on the walls of the cylinders, even on the walls of the city itself.	10
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...	10

Book 3. (57 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	120	I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another caste and the...	10
2	11	At the gate I was met by one of the Caste of Initiates, a dour, thin-lipped, drawn man with deep sunken eyes, clad in the pure white robes of his caste.	10
7	31	The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then it might be d...	10
1	14	I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events ...	10
1	38	Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques among Caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes, in spite of the fact that their respective cities may be hostile.	10
1	39	And, as might be expected, members of the Caste of Scribes gather here to enter into dispute and examine and trade manuscripts.	10
1	40	My small friend, Torm of Ko-ro-ba, of the Caste of Scribes, had been to the fairs four times in his life.	10
1	41	He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie...	10
1	43	In differences among members of my own caste, that of the Warriors, it is easier to tell who has carried the day, for the defeated one often lies wounded or slain at the victor's feet.	10
1	45	I do not hold this against the contests of scribes; rather I commend it to the members of my own caste.	10
1	64	Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the Caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between Priest-Kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as little about the Priest-Kings as...	10
1	66	It was not an action which was popular with the powerful Caste of Initiates.	10
1	70	I had a friend once, Andreas of the desert city of Tor, of the Caste of Poets, who had once sung at the fair and won a cap filled with gold.	10
1	77	This pilgrimage to the Sardar, enjoined by the Priest-Kings according to the Caste of Initiates, undoubtedly plays its role in the distribution of beauty among the hostile cities of Gor.	10
1	102	I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.	10
2	4	I knew his caste, and he knew mine, and it was enough.	10
4	5	There was nothing in the lighting of the passage, or its construction, to suggest that the Priest-Kings' Caste of Builders, if they had one, was any more advanced than that of the men below the mountains.	10
5	154	I listened intently, knowing that the girl could, even if of High Caste, understand little of what had happened to her.	10
6	78	Had I now become so much the Gorean warrior that I could disregard the feelings of a fellow creature, in particular those of a girl, who must be protected and cared for? Could it be that I had, as the codes of my caste recommended, not even considered her, but merely regarded her as a rightless anim...	10
7	35	Still wondering if she were of High Caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway.	10
7	37	My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High Caste Gorean though I could not place the city.	10
7	38	Probably her caste had been that of the Builders or Physicians, for had her people been Scribes I would have expected a greater subtlety of inflections, the use of less common grammatical cases; and had her people been of the Warriors I would have expected a blunter speech, rather belligerently simp...	10
8	135	"My father," she said, "was of the Caste of Physicians".	10
8	185	"Vika," I asked, "was your father truly of the Caste of Physicians?" "Yes," she said, "why do you ask?" "It does not matter," I said.	10
9	53	"But my father," said Vika, "whose slave she was, and who was of the Caste of Physicians of Treve, loved her very much and asked her to be his Free Companion".	10
9	118	"Oh how pleased I was when they beat him and he cried out," she said, "for I hated him—so much I hated him—for he was not a true man and even though of the Caste of Physicians could not stand pain.	10
9	121	"Perhaps," I suggested, "it was because he could not stand pain that he remained a member of the Caste of Physicians".	10
9	164	I turned to face Vika once more, and I no longer saw the girl to whom I had been speaking but a woman of High Caste, from the bandit kingdom of Treve, insolent and imperious, though collared.	10
11	12	I would learn later that in scent it wore its rank, caste and station as clearly on its body as an officer in one of the armies of Earth might wear his distinguishing braid and metal bars.	10
11	55	"None may see the Mother save her caste attendants and the High Priest-Kings," said Sarm, "the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Born".	10
12	150	Neither Priest-King however seemed in the least disturbed by this oath which might have brought tears to the eyes of a member of the Caste of Initiates.	10
13	14	Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate.	10
16	30	"So much the better," said Misk, "for the Men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more—but the members of the Caste of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed.	10
17	31	"You were of the Caste of Warriors," he said.	10
17	126	On a green field somewhere, I had no idea where, a man in the garments of the Caste of Builders, emerged from what was apparently an underground cave.	10
17	130	The man from the Caste of Builders then sat cross-legged on the ground and took from the pouch slung at his waist a tiny, cylindrical Gorean fire-maker, a small silverish tube commonly used for igniting cooking fires.	10
21	40	On the surface it is spoken by none but members of the Caste of Initiates, who use it primarily in their numerous and complex rituals.	10
26	90	"Cabot," she said, "—what if my request were on the lips of a woman of High Caste and of one of the high cities of all Gor—could you refuse it then?" "I don't understand," I said.	10
26	95	"Look, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba," she said, "a woman of High Caste of the lofty city of Treve kneels before you and begs of you that you will not leave her here".	10
30	26	"He is a member of the Caste of Physicians," said Kusk, "and his manual dexterity is superior even to that of Priest-Kings".	10
33	11	From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within.	10
33	35	I saw their shaven heads, their faces distraught in the bleak white of their robes, their eyes wide and filled with fear, their bodies trembling in the robes of their caste.	10
33	95	I would not reveal to him my name, my caste, nor city.	10
33	114	The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture.	10
33	119	Who would believe them? Who would take the word of scattered vagrants against the word of the mighty Caste of Initiates? And, if he did believe them, who would dare to speak out that he did so? The Initiates, it seemed, had conquered.	10
33	140	"With most," he said, "it is as you think, and they are simple, believing members of my caste, and there are others who suspect the truth and are tormented, or who suspect the truth and will pretend—but I, Om, High Initiate of Ar, and certain of the High Initiates are like none of these".	10
33	152	Thus, unknown to most members of my caste, we exist to be overcome, thus in our way pointing the way to man's greatness".	10
33	154	These were the strangest things I had heard from the lips of an Initiate, most of whom seemed interminably embroiled in the rituals of their caste, in the arrogance and archaic pedantry of their kind.	10
34	10	I swept him off his feet and spun him around and the robes flew from his head and Torm of the Caste of Scribes cried aloud in joy and that sandy hair wheeled in the wind and tears ran sideways down his face and he never lost hold of the scroll although he nearly batted the Older Tarl with it in one ...	10
34	28	"You must not tell other members of the Caste of Scribes," he cautioned.	10
34	30	How clearly Torm wished to keep caste lines and virtues demarcated.	10
34	31	"I will tell everyone," said the Older Tarl kindly, "that you are the bravest of the Caste of Scribes".	10
34	42	"Well," said Torm, thoughtfully, for it did not behoove a member of his caste to volunteer an opinion too rapidly on any matter, "it does not contradict any text with which I am familiar".	10
34	43	I laughed and seized the little fellow by the robes of his caste and swung him about.	10
34	57	He was, after all, a Scribe, and had the proprieties of his caste to observe.	10
34	102	"In Treve," I said, "you might be ordered slain by members of the Caste of Initiates".	10
34	199	I regret that among them was not the dour, magnificent, yellow-haired Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, who had been my friend.	10

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	20	I say "in effect" because the fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the Caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the Sardar Fairs, ...	10
9	32	I have heard, though, there is a Caste of Thieves in Port Kar, a strong caste which naturally protects its members from such indignities as ear notching.	10
21	164	The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...	10
21	298	Also he was of the Caste of Warriors and would not permit himself to be seen on his funeral pyre in the robes of so low a caste as that of the Bakers.	10
1	10	Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage.	10
1	33	These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.	10
2	31	It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.	10
3	105	"But I am of the Caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these".	10
3	107	"You dare to tempt me," I said, feigning anger, "as if I were of the Caste of Assassins or a common thief with his dagger in the night".	10
7	34	When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a Tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the Caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid.	10
8	37	From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap...	10
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...	10
9	8	His presence at the banquet was felt in the person of his plenipotentiary, Kamras, of the Caste of Warriors, a captain, said to be Champion of Turia.	10
9	12	It might be mentioned, for those unaware of the fact, that the Caste of Merchants is not considered one of the traditional five High Castes of Gor—the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders and Warriors.	10
9	15	There is a saying on Gor, "Gold has no caste".	10
9	17	Indeed, secretly among themselves, I have heard, they regard themselves as the highest caste on Gor, though they would not say so for fear of rousing the indignation of other castes.	10
9	33	In Saphrar's case, of course, he being of the Caste of Merchants, the notching of the ear would be a coincidence, albeit one that must have caused him some embarrassment.	10
9	42	"Gold has no caste," he said.	10
9	50	I glanced at Saphrar, who was now leaning on his yellow cushions, in his silken pleasure robes, white and gold, the colors of the Caste of Merchants.	10
9	82	I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrskin of his vintage.	10
9	165	Aphris of Turia, then, was of the Caste of Merchants.	10
9	428	"Send for one of the Caste of Metal Workers!" cried Saphrar.	10
9	441	"Now, gentle Aphris," Saphrar was purring, "you must be calm—soon one from the Caste of Metal Workers will appear to free you—all will be well—return to your own chambers".	10
10	220	The walls were crowded, and I supposed many upon them used the long glasses of the Caste of Builders to observe the field of the stakes.	10
10	297	The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing...	10
11	21	I turned to see, only a few feet away, on the shoulders of slaves standing on the bloodied sand, the open, bejeweled, cushioned palanquin of Saphrar of the Caste of Merchants.	10
21	112	There I dyed my hair black and exchanged the robes of the merchant for the yellow and brown tunic of the Bakers, to which caste her father and two brothers had belonged.	10
21	114	At one time, I gathered from Dina, her father's shop had been the most famed of the baking shops of Turia, most of which are owned by Saphrar of Turia, whose interests range widely, though operated naturally, as Gorean custom would require, by members of the Caste of Bakers.	10
21	163	In thinking of her I realized how foolish are certain of the Gorean prejudices with respect to the matter of caste.	10
22	100	I knew that while the Tuchuks remained in Turia there would be in all the city no woman more safe than lovely Dina, she only of the Caste of Bakers.	10

Book 5. (114 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	108	When charity is in order, as when a man cannot work or a woman is alone, usually such is arranged through the caste organization, but sometimes through the clan, which is not specifically caste oriented but depends on ties of blood through the fifth degree.	10
12	31	There were other favored areas, too, about the stands, in the front, each covered by awnings, in which there sat members of the numerous high families of the city; I noted that some of these areas were now occupied by Merchants; I had no objection to this for I have always thought higher of the Merc...	10
12	59	Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ...	10
15	421	"I give you the trade of Ar! I want only my life! Caste Sanctuary! Caste Sanctuary!" Cernus smiled at Caprus and then, unexpectedly, as though he had been teasing him, he placed his first tarnsman at Ubara's Scribe Two.	10
19	142	An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.	10
1	1	Kuurus Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, crouched on the crest of the small hill, leaning with both hands on the shaft of his spear, looking down into the shallow valley, waiting.	10
1	8	His was the Caste of Assassins.	10
1	20	He was surprised for, judging from the colors of the garments of those who marched, it contained men of many castes, perhaps all castes of the city, only that he did not see among them the white of the Caste of Initiates.	10
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its Home Stone survives.	10
1	35	There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad of back and s...	10
2	1	Ar Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, entered the great gate of Ar.	10
2	6	The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth.	10
2	11	When he of the Caste of Assassins has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, that he may enter whatever city he pleases, that none may interfere with his work.	10
2	20	Kuurus was apparently the first of the Caste of Assassins she had seen.	10
2	65	Scarcely a quarter of an Ahn had passed and the men who drank in that room had forgotten, as is the way of men, that a dark one sat with them in that room, one who wore the black tunic of the Caste of Assassins, who silently drank with them.	10
2	79	Hup's rag might once have been of the Caste of Potters, but it was difficult to tell.	10
2	99	The other three men, hired swords, perhaps once of the Caste of Warriors, laughed at the frantic efforts of the tiny, sniveling wad of flesh to free itself.	10
2	109	If one, of course, finds oneself in effect without caste or clan, as was perhaps the case with the small fool named Hup, and one cannot work, one's life is likely to be miserable and not of great length.	10
2	111	Indeed, some, particularly those of low caste, even have use names, concealing their true names, lest they be discovered by enemies and used to conjure spells against them.	10
2	122	But his laugh died in his throat as he looked into the eyes of Kuurus, he of the Caste of Assassins.	10
2	164	"Welcome, Killer," said the man, addressing the Assassin by what, for that caste, is a title of respect.	10
2	179	Kazrak had offended the Caste of Initiates primarily by levying taxes on their vast holdings throughout the city and upon occasion upholding the rulings of the administrative courts over the courts of the Initiates.	10
2	190	Whereas it is only the men of high caste who elect members to the Council of the City, the gold of merchants and the will of the general populace is seldom disregarded in their choices.	10
2	360	I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of...	10
3	8	I wore the habiliments of the Caste of Assassins.	10
3	30	Almost all civilized Goreans, of whatever caste, play.	10
3	34	The Players are not a caste, nor a clan, but they tend to be a group apart, living their own lives.	10
3	56	"Game!" I heard, an answering cry, and a fat fellow, of the Caste of Vintners, puffing and bright eyed, wearing a white tunic with a representation in green cloth of leaves about the collar and down the sleeves of the garment, stepped forth from a doorway.	10
3	61	The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the Physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs.	10
3	63	The fact that it seemed to be a universal disease did not dissuade the caste from considering how it might be combated.	10
3	68	At any rate, disease is now almost unknown among the Gorean cities, with the exception of the dreaded Dar-Kosis disease, or the Holy Disease, research on which is generally frowned upon by the Caste of Initiates, who insist the disease is a visitation of the displeasure of Priest-Kings on its recipi...	10
3	69	The fact that the disease tends to strike those who have maintained the observances recommended by the Caste of Initiates, and who regularly attend their numerous ceremonies, as well as those who do not, is seldom explained, though, when pressed, the Initiates speak of possible secret failures to ma...	10
3	228	"Can I help you to your home?" "You are surely of High Caste," said the Player, "to have such gold".	10
3	237	"Yes," I said, "it is my caste".	10
4	15	The room was innocent of the energy bulbs of the Caste of Builders.	10
4	81	"The Caste of Assassins?" I had asked.	10
5	71	This trick was taught to me by Andreas of Tor, years ago, of the Caste of Singers, for doors in the city of Tor are commonly of this variety.	10
5	139	At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...	10
5	503	My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...	10
5	719	"How could the knot of a mere girl, and one who is only slave, compare with the knot of a man, and one who is free, and even of the Caste of Warriors?" "Then you acknowledge my knots are superior to yours in all respects?" I asked.	10
5	740	It was, like the tarn goad, developed jointly by the Caste of Physicians and that of the Builders, the Physicians contributing knowledge of the pain fibers of human beings, the networks of nerve endings, and the Builders contributing certain principles and techniques developed in the construction an...	10
6	7	He scarcely glanced up from the game board at which he sat across from Caprus, of the Caste of Scribes, Chief Accountant of the House.	10
6	74	"He is of the black caste".	10
7	84	On his right cheek, over the cheekbone was the Thief brand of the Caste of Thieves of Port Kar, who use the small brand to identify their members.	10
8	138	Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes".	10
9	43	At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc...	10
10	11	It might have been the private compartment of a lady of High Caste save that, of course, in this house it was a cell.	10
11	36	There was also a man in the green of the Caste of Physicians, standing at one side, writing notes on a slip of record paper.	10
11	49	"May I introduce Kuurus, of the black caste, but of our employ?" Coldly Flaminius nodded his head, and I did the same.	10
11	269	"He is of the Caste of Assassins," said Flaminius.	10
12	55	Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth.	10
12	63	When I had left the House of Cernus I had removed the livery of the black caste and had washed the sign of the dagger from my forehead.	10
12	99	The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is narrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or a war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of the other tarns, permitting a swifter takeoff and providing a capacity for ex...	10
12	372	There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...	10
12	388	Facing me, clean-shaven, but with a massive, regal face concealed in the hood of a peasant, his gigantic body broad and powerful in the coarse rep-cloth garment of what is thought to be Gor's lowest caste, there stood a man whom I could not mistake, even though it had been years since I had looked u...	10
13	226	Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco...	10
13	343	"Those of the black caste often hunt," said Mip.	10
14	123	"I thought those of the black caste slept the soundest of all men," said Cernus.	10
15	90	Generally Warriors do not participate in these matches, but men of low caste, slaves, condemned criminals and such.	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	394	Though he wore the robe of the Metal Workers, though now without a hood, he was not of that caste.	10
15	397	"Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais on which sat the table of Cernus.	10
15	399	"Caste sanctuary!" screamed Portus.	10
15	400	The Slavers, incidentally, are of the Merchant Caste, though, in virtue of their merchandise and practices, their robes are different.	10
15	401	Yet, if one of them were to seek Caste Sanctuary, he would surely seek it from Slavers, and not from common Merchants.	10
15	402	Many Slavers think of themselves as an independent caste.	10
15	407	"Caste sanctuary!" again pleaded Portus, on his knees before the table of Cernus.	10
15	411	Surely to come to this place, the house of his enemy, must have been a last recourse in some fearful set of events, to throw himself on the mercies of Cernus, claiming Caste Sanctuary.	10
15	416	"Caste sanctuary!" whined Portus.	10
15	417	"Caste sanctuary, I beg of you.	10
15	426	Only a caste brother, nothing.	10
15	427	I beg of you Caste Sanctuary".	10
15	433	"Caste Sanctuary!" he pleaded.	10
16	6	Further, because of his services to the state, including the sponsorship of games and races, Cernus was, upon the petition of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, invested in the scarlet of the Warrior, thus honoring him with High Caste.	10
16	8	I do not suppose the Hinrabian Administrator much cared to approve this raising of caste in the case of Cernus, but he lacked the courage to go against the wishes of the Taurentians, and of the city generally.	10
16	10	That he was now of the Caste of Warriors did not change much with Cernus, of course, save that a strip of red silk, with those of blue and yellow, now adorned his left sleeve.	10
16	14	It perhaps need only be added that now being a Warrior, and thus of High Caste, he was now eligible for a seat on the High Council of the city, and even for the throne itself, whether it be that of Administrator or Ubar.	10
16	19	On the first day of the Waiting Hand, the last five days of the old year, the portals of Ar, including even that of the House of Cernus, had been painted white, and in many of the low-caste homes had been sealed with pitch, not to be opened until the first day of En'Kara.	10
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
17	157	Condemned criminals and men of low caste, fighting for gold or freedom in the arena, he treated with the harsh courtesies obtaining among sword brothers.	10
17	164	"He knows the business and needs of Ar," said the guard, "as would a Merchant, but he is yet of the Caste of Warriors".	10
17	204	He had shortly before expressed reservation concerning the investiture of Cernus in the Caste of Warriors.	10
17	397	Then everyone in the room, amazed at the audacity of the slave girl, to so affront one of the black caste, after a moment, began to roar with amusement, even the slave girls.	10
18	100	"He wears the black tunic," said Sura, "and I do not know who he is, but he is not of the black caste".	10
18	148	"I do not think Ho-Tu will bother Kuurus, of the black caste," said I, rising to my feet.	10
18	155	"In the fourth and fifth year of the reign of Marlenus," said he, regarding me evenly, "I was first in my caste in Ar".	10
18	164	"At one time," said he, "centuries ago, men of my caste claimed age was incurable.	10
18	184	The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the High Council of the Caste of Physicians put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed.	10
18	193	"It is seldom," he said, "that those of the black caste laugh".	10
18	204	He was drunk, and perhaps that is why he was willing to speak to me, only of the black caste.	10
18	209	Initiates, incidentally, are not permitted by their caste codes to bear arms; nor are they permitted to injure or kill; accordingly, they hire men for these purposes.	10
18	351	"It is I, Kuurus, of the black caste," said I, "on the orders of Cernus bringing paga to prisoners on Kajuralia!" "But there is only one prisoner here," said he, puzzled.	10
18	415	"You are of the black caste," he whispered.	10
19	106	It was now packed with the various caste colors of Gor.	10
19	122	Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab...	10
19	138	Prices of girls vary considerably with her caste, the supply of her general type and the trends of the market.	10
19	149	The third lot was a High Caste girl of Cos who stood before us clad in the complete robes of Concealment, which, piece by piece, were removed from her.	10
19	291	There were some cries of protest, perhaps from less-affluent bidders, that the girls were not of High Caste.	10
20	27	The Slaver who had been chief competitor to the House of Cernus was brought forward, doubtless from the dungeons of the Central Cylinder of Ar, on order of its Ubar, Cernus, once of the Merchants, now of the Caste of the Warriors.	10
20	33	"Please! Please! Caste Brother!" he cried, as the slave, swift, eager, laughing, struck him again and again, with impunity.	10
20	161	I heard someone ask, "Was she of High Caste?" "I was the daughter of a Cloth Worker," said Melanie.	10
20	173	"Since I am Ubar of Ar," said Cernus to me, "and of the Caste of Warriors—" There was mirth at the tables, but a look from Cernus silenced it in a moment.	10
21	190	The Ubar, of course, was not in the box, but an agent of his was, Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes.	10
22	239	"Fetch one of the Caste of Physicians," cried an onlooker.	10
22	291	The caste colors of Gor seemed turbulent in the high tiers.	10
23	19	"I will call one of the Caste of Physicians," I whispered to her.	10
23	72	The door burst open and five men entered, Cernus, wild-eyed, suddenly haggard, and behind him Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, the man who had commanded the fifty tarnsmen who had ridden against me in the Stadium of Tarns, and two Taurentian guardsmen.	10
23	82	Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, his eyes wide with fear, threw a look after the guards, and then he, too, turned and fled.	10
23	115	You are even, I hear, of the Caste of Warriors".	10
23	254	"You are Flaminius," I told him, "he who long ago loved men and chose to wear the green robes of the Caste of Physicians".	10
24	115	Most of the individuals in the Central Cylinder were men of lower caste, attending to their duties, with the exception of numerous Scribes.	10
24	220	"You will receive a pension from the state," said Marlenus, "ample to the needs of a woman of High Caste".	10
24	239	"And the first, who gave courage to them all," said he, "was a woman of the Caste of Physicians, once of Treve".	10
24	246	With the money remaining over from her purchase price, which was negligible, she, who had been of the Cloth Workers, could open a shop in Ar, purchase materials, and hire men of her caste to aid her in the work.	10

Book 6. (7 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
8	360	"What is your caste?" I asked.	10
8	684	The Rencers are often thought to be a higher caste than the Peasants.	10
8	686	"You are only a slave!" Slaves, of course, have no caste, no more than other forms of domestic animal.	10
9	105	There is even, in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor, which, in the lower canals and perimeters of the city, has much power, that of the threat and the knife.	10
9	106	They are recognized by the Thief's Scar, which they wear as caste mark, a tiny, three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone.	10
15	290	He wore the robes of his caste, the singers, and it was not known what city was his own.	10

Book 7. (27 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	7	At the mouth of the Laurius, where it empties into Thassa, is found the free port of Lydius, administered by the merchants, an important Gorean caste.	10
7	23	Unfortunately for Targo, village girls are not of high caste.	10
7	24	On the other hand, if worth a good deal less, they are much more easily acquired than a high-caste free woman.	10
7	25	When I was taken by Targo, he had only one high-caste girl on his chain, the tall girl, Inge, who was of the scribes.	10
7	27	A slave, of course, in one sense, has no caste.	10
7	28	In being enslaved, she is robbed of caste, as well as of her name.	10
7	55	Doubtless he would have received it many times, except that she had not been of high caste.	10
7	370	"I will speak high-caste Gorean," I told Inge.	10
7	454	One of the problems high-caste women had with such girls, I had heard from Ute, aside from finding one who was satisfactory, was their tendency to sneak away into the alleys, seeking furtive liaisons with male slaves.	10
8	363	She had been of high caste.	10
8	379	They were wild men, of the Caste of Warriors, who spent much of their time in the taverns of Laura, fighting and gambling and drinking, while slave girls, excited and with shining eyes, served them and pressed about them, begging to be noticed and ordered to the alcoves.	10
8	397	On the first day the physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his caste, examined me, thoroughly.	10
8	614	Inge was second, even though she had been of high caste, Fifteen.	10
11	44	"I am of the scribes," she said, "of high caste.	10
13	81	Her father had been of that caste.	10
13	88	They had adopted her as their daughter, and had seen that she was trained well in the work of the leather workers, that caste which, under any circumstances, had been hers by right of birth.	10
13	89	On her nineteenth birthday, members of the Caste of Initiates had appeared at the door of the leather-worker's hut.	10
13	90	It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year.	10
13	401	She was, I reminded myself, of low caste.	10
13	1185	"I am Rask," he said, "of the caste of warriors, of the city of Treve".	10
14	81	Ena, the high girl, who wore the garment of white, had not been much pleased that I did not have a caste, and could not claim a familiar city as my place of origin.	10
15	271	"I was of high caste!" cried the Lady Rena of Lydius.	10
15	898	It could perhaps be mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high caste.	10
15	1159	The music of those of the caste of musicians was heady, like the wine.	10
15	1467	"I am of the warriors," he told me, "which is a high caste.	10
16	208	Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar.	10
17	62	Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must...	10

Book 8. (24 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	327	She, even if freed, without family, and, by the same act, without caste, would have a status beneath the dignity of the meanest peasant wench, secure in the rights of her caste.	10
22	440	Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals.	10
2	499	A high price for a male is a silver tarsk, but even a plain wench, of low caste, provided she moves well to the touch of the auctioneer's coiled whip, will bring as much, or more.	10
3	12	I overheard an argument, between a seller of vegetables and two low-caste women, in simple robes of concealment.	10
6	297	She was of low caste.	10
9	350	Even if freed, she would have no caste, no family.	10
11	63	She is without caste.	10
11	660	Even if she were freed she would not, in virtue of the disownment, have a caste.	10
11	661	The lowest peasant wench on Gor, secure in her caste rights, would be far above her.	10
12	22	With the daughter of a Ubar as consort there would be few who would dare to recall that I was not of high caste.	10
12	23	And, surely, with such a woman at my side, many cities, vying for my good will, would beg me to accept investiture as a warrior, a high caste, in their rolls.	10
12	70	Companionship with such a person, an ex-slave, one without caste, one without family and position, would be, politically and socially, a gross and incomparable mistake.	10
12	85	He was not even of high caste.	10
12	89	I wanted a woman of high caste.	10
19	161	His accent bespoke a low caste.	10
19	437	"Long ago," I said, "I dishonored my caste, my Home Stone, my blade.	10
22	431	"In Port Kar," said I, "there is a caste of thieves.	10
22	432	It is the only known caste of thieves on Gor".	10
22	434	"You will have little difficulty," I said, "in earning entrance into that caste".	10
22	438	The caste of thieves was important in Port Kar, and even honored.	10
22	441	Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have been were there no caste of thieves in the city.	10
22	444	The caste was too powerful.	10
22	446	After an Ahn the thief, if apprehended and a caste member, was to be remanded to the police of the arsenal.	10
22	898	"It is a high price for a wench without caste or family," I said.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	56	I thought that Andreas of Tor, a friend, of the caste of Singers, might have been pleased to learn that his caste was represented, and honored, on the boards of the north.	10

Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	998	Whereas caste membership is commonly connected with the practice of an occupation, such as agriculture, or commerce, or war, there can be, of course, caste members who are not engaged in caste work and individuals who do certain forms of work who are not members of that caste commonly associated wit...	10
9	1001	Normally mating takes place among caste members, but if the mating is of mixed caste, the woman may elect to retain caste, which is commonly done, or be received into the caste of the male companion.	10
9	1008	The caste system is not inflexible and there are opportunities for altering caste, but men seldom avail themselves of them; they take great pride in their castes, often comparing others' castes unfavorably to their own; a Gorean's caste, by the time he reaches adulthood, seems to have become a part ...	10
8	192	They are sometimes, too, used by assassins, though the caste of assassins itself, by their caste codes, precludes their usage; the member of the caste of assassins must make his own kill; it is in their codes.	10
9	1005	Though there are doubtless difficulties involved with caste structure the caste situation lends an individual identity and pride, allies him with thousands of caste brothers, and provides him with various opportunities and services.	10
9	994	"My master is Thurnus," I said, "caste leader in Tabuk's Ford, of the caste of peasants, one who makes fields fruitful and is, too, a trainer of sleen".	10
9	1002	Caste membership of the children born of such a union is a function of the caste of the father.	10
9	1004	Caste is important to Goreans in a way that is difficult for members of a non-caste society to understand.	10
9	2008	"And, too, this night," said Ladletender, "I drink to one with whom I do not share caste but that which is stronger than caste, the blood of brotherhood, Thurnus, he of Tabuk's Ford".	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	420	The caste of physicians is a large, complex caste, and deals with a number of specialties which have to do with medicine and health.	10
30	85	Candidates for the caste are chosen with great care, and only one in ten, it is said, completes the course of instruction to the satisfaction of the caste masters.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	8	The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon whom he could count in desperate situations, caste broth...	10

Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	39	For example, some individuals have lost caste, or been deprived of caste; some individuals have been born outside of caste; certain occupations are not traditionally associated with caste, such as gardening, domestic service and herding; and, indeed, there are entire cultures and peoples on Gor to w...	10
16	10	Caste rights, of course, such as the right to caste support in time of need and caste sanctuary, when in flight, which are theirs by birth, remain theirs.	10
16	15	A notable exception to the generalization that women of a given caste normally do not engage in caste work is the caste of physicians, whose women are commonly trained, as are the boys, in the practice of medicine.	10
16	6	Though one is commonly born into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served.	10
16	8	It is possible, though it is seldom the case, that members of a caste are not permitted to practice specific caste skills, though they may be permitted to practice subsidiary skills.	10
16	11	The women of a given caste, it should be noted, often do not engage in caste work.	10
16	19	Concern for the future of the caste is thus evinced in this limitation by the physicians on the rights of their women to participate without delay in the caste craft.	10
16	30	Caste is important to the Gorean in ways that are difficult to make clear to one whose social structures do not include the relationships of caste.	10
20	69	The crowd, mostly, was an excited and motley assortment of low-caste males, but, here and there, there were veiled women amongst them, generally these, too, of low-caste.	10
20	70	There were, in favored seats, some upper-caste Goreans, recognizable by the colors and qualities of their robes, and among these, here and there, heavily veiled, erect and lovely, some upper-caste women.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	33	The only other caste on Gor which is generally considered, for most practical purposes, as immune from bondage is the caste of players.	10
31	65	"They have required a common language of us for their own purposes, that they may the more easily communicate with us, and, through the Initiates, a high caste, and those sleen think themselves the highest caste, make known to us their will".	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	29	A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tournaments, one of the attract...	10
9	412	"The very thought of it! The outrage! The indignity! How dare you even think of such a thing! I am of high caste! I am of the scribes! Wait until I bring this matter to the attention of magistrates!" "As I may remind you, my dear," said Boots, patiently, "you are no longer of high caste nor of the s...	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	36	There are various perquisites connected with membership in this caste, among them, if one is a professional thief, protection from being hunted down and killed by caste members, who tend to be quite jealous of their various territories and prerogatives.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	42	Caste is extremely important to most Goreans, even when they do not all practice the traditional crafts of their caste.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	372	Consider the glory of redeeming a woman of high caste!" "The slave," I said, "has no caste, no more than a verr or tarsk".	10
21	348	The Merchants often maintain that they are a high caste, and should, accordingly, be included in the councils of high caste.	10
24	7	It was yellow and red, in horizontal sections, the colors of the Builders and Warriors, the Builders the caste that had supervised its construction and the Warriors the caste that maintained its facilities.	10
24	574	A great deal, indeed, is expected in low-caste domiciles of slaves who were formerly of high caste.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	58	"But as a free woman of high caste," she exclaimed, "to be put in the garment of a free woman of low caste is unthinkable!" "I see your point," I said.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	475	The Gorean female, whether free or slave, whether of low caste or high caste, kneels.	10
8	506	"Many high-caste youths, on the other hand, work side by side with low-caste fellows, dismantling the wall".	10
8	675	Sometimes a ubar will even have his preferred slave serve in a low-caste hovel one day a year, under the command, and switch, of a low-caste free woman, performing her labors, and such, that she may be reminded that she is truly, when all is said and done, only a slave, as much as the lowest of the ...	10
10	364	Although there is some variance from caste to caste, and city to city, it is common for free women to veil themselves in public.	10
19	899	Whereas members of the caste of slavers are slavers, not all slavers are members of the caste of slavers.	10

Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	477	Why should she feel herself entitled to raise caste? What was special about her? Why should a Merchant's daughter aspire to a higher caste? With what justification? Why should she be permitted to raise caste? Why should she not look for love in her own caste, or in a lower caste? Why should she not ...	10
11	1619	Outlaws are thought to have relinquished caste, and, in a sense, thus, to be "out of caste," and slaves, of course, as animals, are "below caste," or, perhaps better, "aside from caste" or "apart from caste".	10
12	469	"So," said she, "whatever his caste, assuming it was high, of course, it would be practical for us to contemplate a companionship, and if his caste should be thought higher than mine, however mistakenly, I could, in such a relationship, be thought to raise caste.	10
11	1613	For example, some rank the Merchants as a high caste, and some do not; and some rank the Slavers with the Merchants, and some see them as a separate caste, and so on.	10
12	289	So, if that is the case, and the Peasants is indeed the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, then it would seem, at least in my understanding, to be a very important caste.	10
19	272	Why would the Priest-Kings, I wondered, if they really required intermediaries, and were unable to deal directly with men, and, indeed, if there was any point in them dealing with men at all, have chosen to achieve this end with so eccentric and improbable a caste? Why would they not have chosen som...	10
19	345	But perhaps he would leave the caste before it was too late, if it were not already too late, before, say, he took his final vows, or performed whatever act or acts it might be by means of which his entry into the caste might be effected.	10
29	147	Was she not, after all, an honored member of our caste? And so we decided to ransom her, if her brothers would not, as an act, if nothing else, of caste solidarity and benevolence.	10
29	195	Needless to say, caste members do not always wear the caste colors.	10
37	1145	"Accordingly," said the officer of Treve, "the blankets of the captain of those of the black caste and the prisoner might have been switched early the next morning, before those of the black caste arrived at the cell".	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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 ...	10
16	869	Most upper-caste women, whereas they might be smug, haughty or cruel, are not vulgar, regarding vulgar language, allusions, gestures, and such as being incompatible with the dignity of their caste.	10
18	743	Many caste members, as you know, do not concern themselves specifically with caste business.	10
26	825	The "scarlet caste" was a way of referring to the caste of Warriors, the expression being suggested by the usual color of their tunics.	10
27	686	"Few would deny that the caste of Initiates are parasites," said Portus Canio, who held no great brief for that caste.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1043	And one does not doubt but what a member of that other, though rarer, Gorean martial caste, though not held a high caste, the Assassins, might have done so.	10
79	619	"You are not a man," he said, "nor are you of my caste, the scarlet caste, nor are you Gorean".	10

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	190	And, indeed, there are few caste members who are not convinced that their caste, somehow, is especially important, even that it may be, in some way, the most essential or the most estimable of all.	10
23	207	I recalled that those of the dark caste, the caste of Assassins, were often sober fellows, often denying themselves much of what most prized as giving meaning to life.	10
27	20	He owed that duty to his daimyo, as I might owe similar duties to captains in whose commands I might serve, or to those codes which did so much to define and clarify my caste, the scarlet caste, that of the warriors.	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	121	When hunting, it is common for members of the black caste, the Caste of Assassins, to paint a black dagger on their forehead.	10
35	114	The Scribes is a high caste and the Merchants is the richest caste.	10
36	185	Many fellows, of course, do not wear their caste robes about, except when on caste business, and some don them only on formal occasions or holidays.	10
37	1404	"And," she said, "I think that Master may like me, forgive me, Master, as I could not help overhearing words which gave me such hopes, and surely he knows my antecedents and origins, my affinities, as he will have it, if he is correct, with the Caste of Scribes, so lofty a caste, and my former stati...	10

Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	435	Of what value, for example, was the Scarlet Caste, the caste of Warriors, if not to protect the gold, the wealth, of the Merchants? "None of you," said Mrs.	10
8	222	Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride.	10
8	230	The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women.	10
8	1068	Interestingly, to me at least, a slaver who misrepresents merchandise, for example, claiming former high caste for a girl who was actually formerly of low caste, or who tries to pass off a dyed blonde for a natural blonde, may be banished and ruined, his goods confiscated, his house burned to the gr...	10
10	602	Women of high caste seldom launder, but women of low caste often do.	10
18	183	I did not know the caste of Astrinax, but it seemed likely, if he had caste, that he was of the minor Merchants.	10
52	455	Some feared the prerogatives of our caste were being eroded, others that sources of gain were being ignored, or concealed from the caste, others that mysterious doings were afoot which might warrant some investigation.	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	284	If the Merchants are not a high caste, it is clear they are an important caste.	10
15	163	She had apparently once been of the Merchants, perhaps the high Merchants, and had even held herself to be of high caste, despite the fact that few Goreans accepted the Merchants as a high caste.	10
15	164	It was regarded as a rich caste, but that is not, in the eyes of many, the same as being a high caste.	10
25	142	Slave wine has been developed by the green caste, the caste of Physicians, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, the Builders, the Scribes, and the Warriors.	10
50	793	"You may or may not have been born to high caste," I said, "but I see little of high caste about you.	10

Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	127	In those days I could not even read the caste colors of Gor, not that all members of a caste could be depended on to appear only in caste robes, which, in many cases, were most likely to appear on caste holidays and city holidays.	10
26	4	The caste is sometimes spoken of, when men dare to speak of it, as the black caste, or the sable caste.	10
60	15	On his right was Drusus Andronicus, long-armed, handsome, and stalwart, in suitable scarlet, betokening his caste, who stood high in the house, and, on his left, clad openly, brazenly, unapologetically, in the hues of the night, was Tyrtaios, of the caste whose members acknowledge no Home Stone, the...	10
9	134	The caste structure apparently lends a great deal of stability to Gorean society, as most Goreans respect their caste and recognize the nature of, and the value of, its role in society.	10
10	172	"May I inquire your caste?" "The blue-and-yellow caste," he said.	10
16	142	Had he not been an unquestioned, accepted, and welcomed guest at the supper I had helped serve in the house of Lysander, Administrator of Market of Semris? Not all members of a caste, of course, are active in the crafts or professions associated with the caste.	10
25	78	"This is a chapter house," he said, "of the black caste, the caste of Assassins".	10
26	46	As I suppose is clear, the caste of Assassins is not a typical caste.	10
29	67	He is of the black caste!" "I thought," said he, "the black caste might be involved.	10
29	92	Do not loiter here! Run! He is of the dark caste! You are hunted! Neither dismiss nor ignore this threat! You are not dealing with an ordinary man! He is of the dark caste! He is one who has ascended the nine steps of blood".	10
31	158	Indeed, it is one of the occasional pleasures of a lower-caste male to obtain a slave who was once of a high caste, usually one who has been captured from another city, a prize in one of the many skirmishes, wars, and raids that characterize the municipalities of Gor.	10
49	76	Accordingly, many amongst the Merchants regard their caste as a high caste, and, it seems, with good reason.	10
49	79	For example, some regard the caste of Slavers as a subcaste of the Merchants, and others regard it as an independent caste.	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	506	I had heard of the sable caste, of the black caste, but, until this night, I had never knowingly met a representative of the caste.	10
37	123	This exchange will be better understood if it is understood that many Goreans cannot read, particularly in the lower castes, and, interestingly, in the scarlet caste, the caste of Warriors, as well, a high caste.	10
10	231	They might have belonged to any caste, or no caste.	10
10	233	Did they wish not to be identified by, or remembered by, caste? Did they seek, without apparent caste, to achieve a certain invisibility or anonymity? Then I castigated myself for my foolishness.	10
33	499	I am Pa-Kur, of the Black Caste, the Caste of Assassins, Master of a hundred Black Courts.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1	The Meeting in the Long Tent "Dear friends," said Aktis, "caste brothers, members of the first and greatest of castes, members of the mightiest of castes, members of the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, be welcome".	10
59	22	"You are of the white and yellow caste, the gold caste," he said.	10