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Book 1. (23 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 8 Let us say simply that it is not a common name, not common on this world of ours.
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2 56 We shook hands, on my part rather stiffly, yet this gesture of our common homeland somehow reassured me.
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2 157 The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone.
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3 39 The schedule that was forced upon me was meticulous and grueling, and except for rest and feeding, alternated between times of study and times of training, largely in arms, but partly in the use of various devices as common to the Goreans as adding machines and scales are to us.
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3 41 Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were ...
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3 71 Perhaps this was to discourage them from exploration or to develop in them a habit of relying on common-sense prejudices—something of a social control device.
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3 260 The most common tarn, however, is greenish brown.
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3 269 The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarion, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns.
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3 270 No one in the City of Cylinders, as far as I knew, maintained tharlarions, though they were supposedly quite common on Gor, particularly in the lower areas—in swampland and on the deserts.
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4 85 The second name, which would correspond to the use-name on Gor, is common property, a public sound not sacred or to be protected.
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7 92 "I wish you well," said Nar, using a common Gorean phrase of farewell.
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7 170 With both hands I wrenched the veil back from her face, thrusting my hand under it to fasten my fist in her hair, and then, as if she were a common tavern girl or a camp slut, I dragged the daughter of the Ubar of all Gor to the shelter of the Ka-la-na trees.
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7 195 The daughter of the Ubar feared that I would force her to serve my pleasure—I, a common soldier.
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7 202 Evidently she believed that I had been afraid to harm her and that she, the daughter of a Ubar, remained above the perils and obligations of the common captive.
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7 216 I turned slowly, my hands away from my body, and found myself facing two of the foot soldiers of Ar, one of them an officer, the other of common rank.
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8 2 The common soldier, setting the crossbow on the ground, strode to the daughter of the Ubar, who stood as though stunned, her face drained of color.
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8 48 Without glancing at the common soldier, he ordered him to leash me, to fasten around my throat the leading chain often used on Gor for slaves and prisoners.
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8 60 The common soldier was watching with delight, perhaps expecting that he, too, might take his turn.
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8 142 Of High Caste, it was natural that she was above the common superstitions connected with revealing one's name.
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9 53 "An Afflicted One," said Talena, gravely, using the expression common for such plagued wretches on Gor.
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14 128 "It is common knowledge in the camp of Pa-Kur," replied Marlenus.
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17 25 The tiny urt, a common rodent of Gorean cities, was bringing a silver tarn disk in the markets.
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20 17 The officers of Pa-Kur, instead of being impaled, were treated in the same manner as common soldiers, to their relief, if scandal.
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Book 2. (23 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 2 I awakened naked in the wind-swept grass, beneath that blazing star that is the common sun of my two worlds, my home planet, Earth, and its secret sister, the Counter-Earth, Gor.
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2 33 Tarl is a common name on Gor.
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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.
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3 47 "Tal," I said, lifting my right arm, palm inward, in a common Gorean greeting.
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3 116 I could not understand his fear, but I was proud to see him master it, for fear is the great common enemy of all living things, and his victory I felt somehow was also mine.
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4 24 I caught a strange, unpleasant scent, much like that of a common weasel or ferret, only stronger.
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5 26 There was nothing extraordinary about him, unless perhaps it was a brow somewhat more lofty than is common, eyes that might have looked on sights few men had seen.
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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.
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6 8 And I speculate that the fairs likewise do their bit toward stabilizing the dialects of Gor, which might otherwise in a few generations have diverged to the point of being mutually unintelligible—for the Goreans do have this in common, their mother tongue in all its hundred permutations, whic...
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6 30 There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity.
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8 12 I missed in the crowd the presence of slave girls, common in other cities, usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped slave livery of Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heavy, cumbersome ...
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8 21 Each of these women wore resplendent Robes of Concealment, rich in color and workmanship, standing out among the drab garments of the men, but instead of the veil common with such robes the features of each were hidden behind a mask of silver.
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8 28 Though on Gor the free maiden is by custom expected to see her future companion only after her parents have selected him, it is common knowledge that he is often a youth she has met in the marketplace.
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8 71 "Tal," I said to the man, lifting my arm in the common Gorean greeting.
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9 35 In Tharna, however, famed for its hospitality, I was confident that inns would be common.
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9 74 I descended three steps, and found myself in a warm, dimly lit, low-ceilinged room, cluttered with the low tables common on Gor, around which huddled groups of five or six of the gray-robed men of Tharna.
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9 123 "Do we not speak the Language?" I asked, referring to the beautiful mother tongue spoken in common by most of the Gorean cities.
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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...
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13 31 Several were armed warriors, perhaps stationed there to keep the peace, but many must have been common citizens of Tharna.
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14 182 "Tabuk!" The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka-la-na thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in search of berries and salt.
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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.
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24 32 "Gold is more common here than bread," said Andreas, sitting near us.
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26 64 Each silver mask would have six months in which she would be free to live within the city and be fed at the common tables, much as before the revolt.
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Book 3. (15 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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10 3 The slightly acrid odor I had noticed tends to be a common property of all such signals, much as there is a common property to the sound of a human voice, whether it be that of an Englishman, a Bushman, a Chinese or a Gorean, which sets it apart from, say, the growling of animals, the hiss of snakes...
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1 37 Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by accident among the silken pavilions.
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2 70 The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane.
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5 190 Apparently the rays which must emanate from the sensors, rays not within that portion of the spectrum visible to the human eye, must possess the power to penetrate at least common molecular structures, something like an X ray pierces flesh.
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6 7 Undoubtedly there is a common reason underlying these similar arrangements on Gor and Earth.
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6 11 First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field.
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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...
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7 42 This sweet, fierce, liquid speech is the common bond that tends to hold together the Gorean world.
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7 43 It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.
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10 26 The number of familiar, common English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of fifty.
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18 90 "The analogy, of course," said Sarm, "is incorrect, for there is no Home Stone as such in the Nest of Priest-Kings, the Home Stone being a barbarous artifact generally common to the cities and homes of Gorean humans".
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18 138 "You would not wish to see this beauty and this power pass from our common world, would you?" asked Sarm.
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27 110 But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the...
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33 37 Behind the Initiates, standing, as befits the men of other castes, I saw men of a hundred cities, joined here in their common fear and plea to the denizens of the Sardar.
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35 127 If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the Priest-Kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, until it had reached the matur...
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Book 4. (22 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 133 The Turian camisk, unlike the common camisk, will cover a girl's brand; on the other hand, unlike the common camisk, it leaves the back uncovered and can be tied, and is, snugly, the better to disclose the girl's beauty.
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2 106 * *The pasang, a common unit of Gorean land measurement, is approximately seven-tenths of a mile.
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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".
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5 14 I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...
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5 24 She wore the Turian collar, rather than the common slave collar.
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5 25 The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is a flat, snugly fitting steel band.
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5 44 Kajira is perhaps the most common expression for a female slave.
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8 108 I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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9 18 There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...
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9 129 The common camisk is a single piece of cloth, about eighteen inches wide, thrown over the girl's head and worn like a poncho.
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9 136 In any event, women in a camisk, whether a common camisk or a Turian camisk, well know themselves slave.
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9 139 A common light tunic, often of silk, because it moves easily on the body, fits loosely and has a single tie, at the left shoulder.
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10 449 In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities.
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10 453 The fact that the saber is not a common weapon of Wagon Peoples is a reflection of the style, nature and conditions of warfare to which they are accustomed, a matter of choice on their part rather than the result of either ignorance or technological limitation.
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11 329 "For what you have done," he said, "it is common to call for one of the Clan of Torturers".
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12 92 The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds.
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12 421 Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr...
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13 201 "E-liz-a-beth-card-vella" he would try to say, adding the "a" sound because it is a common ending of feminine names on Gor.
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20 114 It was a common name in Ar, whence many of the mercenaries had come.
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21 299 Moreover, his hair was red—like a larl from the sun—whereas yours is a rather common and, if I may say so, a rather uninspired black".
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23 13 I should have known that no four common warriors of the four peoples would have ridden together.
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25 844 She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from...
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Book 5. (61 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 292 On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...
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2 21 Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over...
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2 296 A caravan of common slave wagons would take a year to go beyond the cities and return".
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2 300 "Moreover," said Portus, "these are not common barbarian wenches".
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3 28 I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of ...
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3 35 They are made up of men from various castes who often have little in common but the game, but that is more than enough.
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4 239 I then began to suspect that my gamble, based on the often unpleasant sense of humor common among slavers, might begin to bear fruit.
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5 13 There are a number of other forms of lock also found upon occasion, a common variety being the disk lock in which moving disks, rather than pins, are used.
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5 17 In the most common variety there are two sets of matching pins, one fixed on a wooden spatula-like key and the other set, movable, falls into the bolt, securing it.
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5 22 Padlocks, it might be mentioned, are common on Gor.
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5 24 The most common combination lock consists of a set of lettered rings which conceal a bolt.
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5 342 "Humans and the Others have much in common," said Misk.
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5 612 Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, or En'var-Lar-Torvis; Se'Kar...
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5 654 "What you mistook for daintiness was mere neatness, simple, common everyday neatness".
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5 661 "No," I said, "simple knots, common Gorean knots".
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5 667 I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand.
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6 99 Indeed, such is a common and severe punishment for female slaves on Gor.
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6 100 It is less common to bind a girl during the day because then there is much work to be done.
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7 45 The basket of Cernus and my basket both had guidance attachments, similar to those of the common tarn saddle, a main basket ring corresponding to the main saddle ring, and six leather straps going to the throat-strap rings.
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7 48 Some, for example, are little more than flat cradles for carrying planking and such; others are long and cylindrical, lined with verrskin, for transporting beverages and such; most heavy hauling, of course, is done by tharlarion wagon; a common sort of tarn basket, of the sort in which I found mysel...
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7 162 I gathered that no such checking, common in legitimate exchanges, was felt desirable or necessary.
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7 172 This was more common.
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9 10 Often in these matters, conducted under supervision, both slaves are hooded, in order that they not know who it is with whom they are forced to mate, lest they might, in their moment of union, in their common degradation, care for one another, or fall in love.
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9 52 The common thread in these various matters was that the House of Cernus was involved, either in presenting the sale or in sponsoring the races or games.
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9 80 "It is common in slave houses, where one may wish to observe without being observed".
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9 109 "These are common wenches, though more beautiful than most".
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11 7 The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th...
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11 54 They had doubtless been watched, without their knowledge studied and investigated, their habits noted, their common movements and routines recorded, for months prior to the strike of the slaver at a predetermined place and time.
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12 81 Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...
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12 93 The tarns were, of course, racing tarns, a bird in many ways quite different from the common tarns of Gor, or the war tarns.
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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...
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12 100 Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...
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12 149 They were fastened together on a common chain, each by wrist rings, each by both wrists, each ring separated by about a yard of chain.
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13 43 Beneath the toweling Nela wore nothing; about her neck, rather than the common slave collar, she, like the other bath girls, wore a chain and plate.
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13 286 The racing harness, like the common tarn harness, works with two rings, the throat ring and the main saddle ring, and six straps.
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13 287 The major difference is the tautness of the reins between the two rings; the racing saddle, on the other hand, is only a slip of leather compared to the common tarn saddle, which is rather large, with saddle packs, weapon sheaths and paired slave rings.
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14 102 I had not known, for example, and I gathered it was not common knowledge, about the many sorties to the Voltai to find and slay Marlenus, sorties which had invariably failed.
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15 100 Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl...
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15 184 They were the women of inferior men who had been unable to protect them; such men would be conquered when one wished; their women belonged to those who could take them, who would be the victorious; hence they were of slave stock, by nature; that this sort of thing had occurred always, and would alwa...
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15 401 Yet, if one of them were to seek Caste Sanctuary, he would surely seek it from Slavers, and not from common Merchants.
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16 16 It had been a long, hard winter for me and I think I, as well as the common citizens of Ar, rejoiced in the coming of En'Kara.
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16 217 Further, it is common among older factions not to hire riders who have ridden for the new factions, though sometimes, in the case of a particularly excellent rider, this practice is waived.
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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...
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17 170 "I say," said the disguised guard, "Ar could do worse than have such a man as Cernus on the throne!" To my amazement, several about the table, who were undoubtedly common citizens of Ar, began to nod their heads.
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17 206 Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the Law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taurentians had gr...
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17 527 It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more; Sura's pride and her position in the House, though she was slave, had been resented by many of the men and staff; perhaps even Cernus felt she had overstepped herself; surely he seemed pleased that she would now be hum...
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17 569 "She is not a common slave," he said.
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20 272 "Players and fools," said he, "have much in common".
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20 297 He stood before the table of Cernus and though Cernus was Ubar of his city he merely lifted his hand in common Gorean greeting, palm inward.
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21 295 Indeed, the Torian Squares, which I have mentioned, common among Gorean infantries, with their superior mobility and regrouping capacities, had, long ago, made the phalanxes of such cities as Ar and, in the south, Turia, obsolete.
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21 378 Then to my surprise I saw, with us, fighting, a common Warrior, not a Taurentian, one whose helmet was not laced with gold nor his shield bound with silver, nor his shoulders covered with the purple of the Ubar's guard.
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21 382 In some places armed Warriors, of common rank, stood against the purple-clad Taurentians.
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21 413 He held the reins of a common saddle tarn.
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22 362 To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...
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22 400 It seemed to me that combat on kaiilaback, and combat on tarnback, had much in common; I suspected that the small bow, though it had never been proven in battle on tarnback, might prove that it had worth in the Gorean skies as well as on the dusty, southern plains; I had further, in many nights of t...
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24 106 At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...
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24 110 Only the day before their purple cloaks and helmets had been taken from them before the great gate; their swords had been broken and they had been conducted by common Warriors, to the music of flute girls, a pasang beyond the walls of Ar, and ordered from her environs.
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24 119 Save for the color it is identical with most common slave livery.
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24 121 Many years ago, in Ar and Ko-ro-ba, and several of the other northern cities, the common slave livery had been white but diagonally striped, in one color or another; gradually over the years this style had changed; the standard livery was also, now, commonly, slashed to the waist; as before, it rema...
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24 124 The hair of the female state slave of Ar, incidentally, is normally cut rather short and brushed back around the head; the common slave girl, on the other hand, normally has rather long hair, which is unbound.
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24 179 When the men had taken their pick the girls were released from the common chain and the key, that which served to unlock collar, bracelets and anklet, was given to he who had chosen his prize.
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Book 6. (28 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 12 It was the fourth day of the sixth passage hand, shortly before the Autumnal Equinox, which in the common Gorean calendar begins the month of Se'Kara.
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1 44 Small straight bows, of course, not the powerful long bow, are, on the other hand, reasonably common on Gor, and these are often used for hunting light game, such as the brush-maned, three-toed Qualae, the yellow-pelted, single-horned tabuk, and runaway slaves.
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2 33 This was a paraphrase of a saying common on Gor, given by passing strangers to those through whose territories they would travel: Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more, and that but for the time it takes to pass.
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3 106 The women of rence growers, when in their own marshes, do not veil themselves, as is common among Gorean women, particularly of the cities.
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4 140 "It would be useful to have similar standards for rence paper, to sometimes harvest in common, to sometimes, in times of need, share crops, and, of course, to obtain a better price for our paper than we might if we bargained as isolated islands with the rence merchants".
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7 108 Only when I had unbound her had I noticed, on her left thigh, the tiny mark, which had been burned into her flesh long ago, the small letter in cursive script which was the initial letter of Kajira, which is the most common Gorean word for a female slave.
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9 388 The Love Dance of the Newly Collared Slave Girl has many variations, in the different cities of Gor, but the common theme is that the girl dances her joy that she will soon lie in the arms of a strong master.
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9 460 Midice, Thura, Ula were all, as is common with rence girls, illiterate.
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10 26 The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
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10 126 The rumor was a persistent one, a common one.
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10 196 One of the most common of naval strategies, other than ramming, is oar shearing, in which one vessel, her oars suddenly shortened inboard, slides along the hull of another, whose oars are still outboard, splintering and breaking them off.
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10 199 Tersites had also, it might be mentioned, though he had not presented these ideas in his appearance before the council, argued for a rudder hung on the sternpost of the tarn ship, rather than the two side-hung rudders, and had championed a square rigging, as opposed to the beautiful lateen rigging c...
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10 272 I had made one innovation in practices common to Port Kar.
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11 155 To be sure, many of the ships of the Ubars were similarly at sea, but men pretending to the Ubarate of Port Kar commonly keep a far larger percentage of their power in port than would a common captain.
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13 130 There was some polite striking of the left shoulder with the right hand in the room, which is a common Gorean applause, though not of the warriors, who clash weapons.
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14 15 It is common among Gorean seamen to beach their craft in the evening, set watches, make camp, and launch again in the morning.
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15 20 Near me, chief among my prizes, exposed to the crowds, their hootings and jeerings, bound on the prow, ankles and wrists, neck and belly, like a common slave girl, was the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos.
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16 67 "But, in the meantime," she hissed, between clenched teeth, "I shall resist you with all my might!" I laughed again, and she laughed, and I permitted her to struggle until she had exhausted herself, and then, with lips and hands, and teeth and tongue, I touched her, until her body, caressed and love...
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16 238 The alarm had come in the night, and, at night, in a Gorean household, it is common for the slaves to be confined; certainly in my house, as a wise precaution, I kept my slaves well secured; even Midice, when she had snuggled against me in the love furs, when I had finished with her, was always chai...
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16 247 It was a common rock, not very large, and gray and heavy, granular in texture.
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17 59 Further, when the ships of Cos and Tyros turned upon these round ships I did not think they would find them common foes.
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17 70 The common strategy with a round ship is to shear and board, because, normally, one wishes not to sink the ship but take it as a prize.
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17 196 Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage.
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17 282 It was a reddish brown tarn, a fairly common coloring for the great birds.
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17 437 "Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a...
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18 412 These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.
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18 437 The common female slave collar on Gor has a seven-pin lock.
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18 438 There are, incidentally, seven letters in the most common Gorean expression for female slave, Kajira.
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Book 7. (39 results) Captive of Gor

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3 219 With the key from my purse I opened the elevator and descended to the hall below, where there was a bank of common elevators.
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7 124 Our camisks were brown, which is a common color.
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7 130 Whereas a woman's body may be swathed, from throat to ankle, in a heavy, coarse rope, usually as a punishment, or to inform a new girl as to what may be done with her, common rope is seldom used for binding the wrists or ankles.
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7 542 The most common brand site is the left thigh, high, under the hip.
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7 545 It was a common mark, placed in the usual place.
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8 311 Our compound shared a common wall of bars with another, that of Haakon of Skjern, whom Targo had traveled north to do business with.
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8 370 Even separated as I was by three walls of bars, that of their compound, that of the far wall of Haakon's compound, and that of our common wall, these birds terrified me.
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8 648 Targo consented, to our delight, and the small mountebank with the strange animal cleared a small space near the bars on the far side of the compound, away from the bars forming the common wall with the compound of Haakon of Skjern.
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10 19 He wore a common Gorean male house tunic, rough and brown, with leggings, such as are sometimes worn by woodsmen, who work in brush.
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10 222 Inge had told me that a modest coin would buy her use, and that the common paga slaves came with the price of a drink.
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10 239 It switches on and off, much like a common flashlight".
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11 392 But I did keep my ankles closely together, and flexed my knees slightly, and, of course, as I stood, the lineaments of my figure, happily somewhat concealed, if inadequately, in a common camisk, were his to survey.
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11 644 The other girls, common girls, might be beaten, but not I.
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11 650 But she would not have felt it as cruelly as I would have, for she was more common than I, less sensitive, less delicate.
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11 758 Odd, I thought, how Elinor Brinton, she who had been so rich, so elegant, so arrogant, she who had been of Park Avenue, she who had owned the Maserati, was now, on a distant world, only this, a common slave, naked, on her belly in straw, steel plating beneath it, behind heavy bars, caged, merchandis...
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11 866 It was longer than a common female slave tunic.
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12 28 It was a "common camisk," of course, as was the first one I had worn, not a Turian camisk.
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12 30 As I recollect I have already described the nature of the common camisk in some detail, its construction, design, belting, and such, but another remark or two might not be amiss.
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12 31 Given that the common camisk is, substantially, open on the sides, it is a provocative garment, presenting a delicious, substantially bared, vertical "stripe" of slave on each side, while, with charming reserve, as she faces toward you, it shelters the attractions of her bosom, or, away from you, th...
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12 32 To be sure, even so, given the common nature of the fabric, which is usually rep-cloth, it is seldom difficult to conjecture with some accuracy the lineaments of its lovely, half-naked occupant, or prisoner.
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12 37 There is no nether closure to the camisk, of course, but that is common in Gorean slave garments, diaphanous tunics and such.
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12 438 Still, these hostels, where they are to be found, are welcome, both to common merchants and to slavers, and even to travelers.
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12 442 These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims.
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13 683 She was different, higher, better, a woman of Earth! She was refined, educated, sensitive! She was too special, too delicate, to be beaten! Could he not see that? She was not a common slave! She should not be beaten! Could he not see that? But I felt the leather of the saddle beneath my arched back,...
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13 1114 Here I found I was, on the whole, rather a common girl.
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14 125 Strife is common among the Gorean cities, each tending to be belligerent and suspicious of others.
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14 362 "That is common, is it not?" I asked.
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14 392 Even the common slave tunic often had a disrobing loop at the left shoulder, that it would be convenient for a right-handed male.
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14 479 It is a common Gorean view that every woman in a collar belongs in one.
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14 545 "It is common for them to view us as mere women, and see us in terms of their sport and pleasure".
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14 665 In his belt I saw that he had thrust an eighteen-inch strip of black leather, binding leather; it was not jeweled; it was common leather; it was about three quarters of an inch in width; it was supple, that it might well encircle limbs; it was flat, that it might well fit against them; it was of a s...
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15 755 I was not a common girl.
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15 758 "Do not beat me! I cannot stand pain! You do not understand! I am not a common girl! It hurts me! I am too delicate to be beaten!" I heard the men and girls about laughing.
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15 1026 It is a common display position for a female slave.
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16 205 She had been put in a common work tunic.
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16 253 The snapping of the leash, jerking against itself, or the leash's collar ring, is a common preparatory signal.
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16 297 I had little doubt but what the magnificent Verna, leader of the panther girls, would bring her comely prize, apparently only another common slave, in a work tunic, successfully to the northern forests.
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17 94 On Earth I had been unpleasant, petulant, and irritable, the common symptoms of the woman who has not been mastered.
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17 166 Sometimes we were master and common slave, and sometimes we were something else, that I dare not speak, but I feared now, much, that he would sell me.
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Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 220 "Miserable wenches," said Rim, "common stock".
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2 226 "Common stock," said Rim.
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2 262 "Common stock," said Rim.
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2 542 Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...
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3 43 Green is the color common to pirates.
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3 230 He pulled her quickly, his hand twisted in her hair, her body bent over at the waist, her head at his hip, in a common leading position for a girl, to a low, sloping side of the room.
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3 437 The other girls, the common slaves, like Tendite, went with the price of a cup of paga.
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4 141 "Here I am only a common girl".
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4 272 It is a fairly common Gorean name, but not heard that often.
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4 394 When she was not dancing, Sarpedon, I gathered, used her as a common paga slave, not unlike the others.
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4 399 I nodded with my head toward the dancer, now serving as a common paga slave.
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4 402 "Since, when not dancing, she serves with the common slaves," said Thurnock, "she came, like the others, for the price of a cup of paga".
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6 199 "It is not impossible," said Thurnock, "they are concerned with common trade, panther hides and sleen fur, and such".
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11 117 But in some respects Marlenus had treated her differently from the others, as more of a slave, more of a common girl.
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11 119 She was to be treated more as a common wench, who might have been any slave girl.
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11 932 "Does it not seem to you too simple, too familiar, too common?" she asked.
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12 19 In the latter case, if the council member has a daughter, it is common to give her to the man who has captured her father.
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13 243 Thurnock, as a common seaman, was doubtless chained in the hold of the Tesephone.
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13 246 It is a reasonably common practice to separate officers and men, in order that prisoners have less unity and direction than might otherwise be the case.
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14 128 Its marking surface, its termination, soft and red in the night, was in the form of a large, block letter in Gorean script, the initial of Kajirus, a common Gorean expression for a male slave.
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14 129 A female's brand is smaller, and much more graceful, usually being the initial, in cursive script, of Kajira, the most common Gorean expression for a slave female.
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14 135 Another common expression for a female slave, incidentally, the initial of which, in cursive script, is sometimes used to mark a girl, is Sa-Fora, which means, rather literally, Chain Daughter.
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15 473 Their arrows, their bows being smaller, are not as long as the common sheaf arrow of the long bow, but they would be satisfactory.
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15 584 "Gorean girls," she hissed, "may be slaves! Not the women of Earth! Earth women are different! They are better, finer, nobler, more refined, more delicate! You cannot make them common slaves!" "You regard yourself as better than Gorean girls?" I asked.
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15 718 There was already, though before dawn, a dim filtering of light in the forest, the false dawn, the inchoate, fractionated light preceding the true dawn, when Tor-tu-Gor, the common star of two worlds, would, as a Gorean poet once said, fling its straight, warming, undeflected spears of the morning a...
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15 950 Changing a girl's name, or taking it away, are common modes of Gorean slave discipline.
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18 450 I would also, however, following common Gorean naval custom, have remained within sight of, or in clear relation to, the shore.
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19 295 The blindfold is a simple and common device of slave control.
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20 49 They were tied alternately, in a common manner for securing slave girls, the lashed ankles of one tied to the throat of the next.
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22 443 Ear notching and mutilation, common punishment on Gor for thieves, were not found in Port Kar.
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Book 9. (34 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 305 Here, in spite of my birth, I was placed in a pen with common girls".
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2 5 The High Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest, sat still in his white robes, in his tall hat, on the throne to the right, within the white rail that separated the sanctuary of Initiates from the common ground of the hall, where those not anointed by the grease of Priest-Kin...
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2 16 In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast, the women do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south.
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2 61 It towers far over the squalid huts of the common folk, and over the stabler homes of merchants, too, which crowd about it.
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2 91 It tends to bind Initiates together, making them interdependent, and muchly different from common men.
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2 104 He is also confronted with a socially and economically powerful caste that pretends to be able to intermediate between Priest-Kings and common folk.
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2 105 What if some of the claims of Initiates should be correct? What if they do have influence with Priest-Kings? The common Gorean tends to play it safe and honor the Initiates.
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2 116 Initiates, though often feared by the lower castes, are also regarded as being a bit odd, and often figure in common, derisive jokes.
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3 305 The sword, when carried, and it often is, is commonly supported in its own belt, looped over the left shoulder, which is, it might be mentioned, the common Gorean practice.
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4 44 It was a board made for play at sea, and such boards are common with the men of Torvaldsland.
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5 137 What marvelous beauties he saw, seventeen naked prizes, fettered and coffled, that might be his, could he but take them, and, dangling from the mast, perhaps the most exquisite of all, the slender, blond girl, perhaps herself worth five bondmaids of the more common sort.
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6 56 I surmised, as is common in Torvaldsland, most of the cattle had been driven higher into the mountains, to graze wild during the summer, to be fetched back to the shed only in the fall, with the coming of winter.
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6 310 The hall of Ivar Forkbeard, I learned, to my surprise, was of a type much more common.
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7 158 The snake is to be distinguished from the much more common Gorean slave whip, with its five broad striking surfaces.
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9 31 Pet sleen are taught to heel; so, too, sometimes, are bondmaids; I was familiar with this sort of thing, of course; in the south it was quite common for slave girls, in various fashions in various cities, to heel their masters.
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9 107 I had no objection to Hilda's ankles; I found them quite lovely; they would take a common girl-fetter nicely, with about a quarter of an inch tolerance.
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10 56 Shortly after the first "knock off," in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great...
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10 87 They wore them, always, as is common in Torvaldsland, in such a way that the right arm, the sword arm, is free.
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10 322 They feared the perfumed, silken slavery of the south; in the south the yoke of slavery is much heavier on a girl's neck; her bondage is much more abject; she is often little more than the pleasure plaything of her master; it is common for a southern master to care more for his pet sleen than his gi...
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10 323 In the north, of course, it is common for a master to care more for his ship than his girls.
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10 375 In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is...
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10 406 It is a common practice of free women, for some reason, to attempt to make the female slave ashamed of her body.
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10 546 The officer of Svein Blue Tooth, with a key at his belt, unlocked the padlock which held the girl's collar to the common chain.
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10 637 It was a southern brand, the first letter, in cursive script, of Kajira, the most common expression for a Gorean female slave.
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12 7 The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.
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13 33 It is common, however, for the entrance of the hall to be oriented toward the morning sun, and for the high seat to face the entrance.
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13 151 At places, too, there were bowls, with oil and wicks, with spikes on their bottoms, set in the dirt floor, some six inches from the floor, others as high as five feet; this mode of lamp, incidentally, is more common in the private chambers.
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13 153 This is common in the halls of Torvaldsland.
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13 343 Like a fish I was retrieved and made prisoner, forced to lie on my belly in the boat, like a common maid.
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18 535 It is a common leading position for a female slave.
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18 621 She was, after all, only a common bondmaid.
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20 162 I turned her about and, taking a pair of the rude iron slave bracelets of the north, black and common, with which bondmaids are commonly secured, locked her wrists behind her back.
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22 175 But it had taken longer to arouse her than is common in a slave girl.
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22 193 Whatever be the reasons, a common female slave, and one of no unusual heat for a slave, will be carried through a series of multiple yieldings, dozens, before the average free woman can be warmed.
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Book 10. (57 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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9 126 When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right leg; it is common for the slave to be placed...
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1 218 This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate...
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1 388 It is common for the girl to be given to the recipient of the message.
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1 576 With an eating prong, a utensil now more common in the northern latitudes than earlier, Samos tapped the table before him.
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1 642 Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
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1 673 This permits an arrangement similar to a common variety of "use chains" or "love chains," in which the left wrist is chained to the left ankle, and the right wrist to the right ankle.
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2 67 The short sword, now slung over my left shoulder, in the common fashion, would be of little use on kaiila back.
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2 98 These various establishments, and more than forty others, from the point of view of tenders and drovers, have one thing in common.
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2 107 At the end of this time, after a day or so of some physiological discomfort, usually violent nausea and blinding headaches, it is common to find the man again back at the tables, once more attempting to vend his services to the master of a caravan.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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2 527 The "l" sound in this name is rolled, one of two common "l" sounds in Gorean.
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3 176 These men were not common street thieves.
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4 202 A common problem with slave girls was petty thievery, as they attempted to steal pastries or sweets.
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5 228 Before Suleiman, now, there lay five stones, three sereem diamonds, red, sparkling, white flecked, and two opals, one a common sort, milky in color, and the other an unusual flame opal, reddish and blue.
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5 287 Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights.
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5 385 On Gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, boldly, with joy, ...
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7 50 Their language is Gorean, but they, like certain other groups, usually isolated groups, did not use the common Gorean script.
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8 226 It is the common instrument, if not the switch, used on girls.
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9 153 The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the Taharic character 'Kef', which, in Taharic, is the initial letter of the expression 'Kajira', the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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9 159 The initial printed letter of 'Kajira', rather than the cursive letter, as generally, is used as the common brand for women in the Tahari.
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9 160 Both the cursive letter in common Gorean and the printed letter in Taharic are rather lovely, both being somewhat floral in appearance.
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9 178 Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...
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10 8 At the oases, it is common for the local pashas to exact a protection tax from caravans, if they are of a certain length, normally of fifty kaiila or more.
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10 206 A gold tarn disk of Ar is more than many common laborers earn in a year.
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10 385 "I think," he said, "we have a common interest".
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11 188 The most common sort of mirage is simply the interpretation of heat waves, shimmering on the desert, as the ripples in water, as in a lake or pond.
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11 190 A second common sort of mirage, more private than the first, but quite normal, is the interpretation of a mixed terrain, usually rocks and scrub brush, mixed with rising heat waves, as an oasis with water, palms and buildings.
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11 298 Men regarded us with some curiosity, as is common when newcomers arrive at an oasis, but I detected neither apprehension nor hostility.
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11 436 It seemed to me clear that none here, at least of the common population, knew of it.
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11 697 We stood within a ring of mounted warriors, with purple and yellow burnooses, others behind them in more common desert garb.
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13 38 The walls in such a kasbah are several feet thick, formed of stones and mud brick; the walls in this kasbah, as in most, too, were covered with a sheen of plaster, whitish pink, which, in the years of exposure to the heat and sun, as is common, had flaked abundantly.
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13 370 "We two have much in common, for we both are mercenaries.
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13 411 A common punishment for a slave girl of Gorean origin is to give her an Earth-girl name, Jane, Audrey, Margaret, such names.
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14 29 Rocks on the desert, and the sheer walls of the Salt Ubar's kasbah, looming above us, shone with dew, common in the Tahari in the early morning, to be burned off in the first hour of the sun.
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14 382 Too, had not Ibn Saran said that she had her own quarters? More common slaves, but slaves higher than those kept in the lower depths of the kasbah, are usually kept in the general slave quarters, and are often entered into their alcoves, which are reached through the walls of the slave quarters.
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14 384 These two precautions, the prone posture and the locking gate, are common in female seraglios in the Tahari.
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14 387 Sometimes, for one reason or another, it is useful to separate or isolate given girls; too, it common to secure slaves at night, and the alcove makes this a simple matter; a single guard, with a lamp, can check a hundred girls in a few Ehn; too, if one is not in her place, it is easy to know instant...
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14 400 Though spared the indignities of the common quarters or an alcove, and the inconveniences and irritations of being housed with lesser slaves, and though her quarters might be sumptuous and well-appointed, I did not doubt but what she, actually only another slave, had been summarily desilked and lock...
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16 71 This system, common in the developing animal generally, is retained even by the adult salamanders, who are, in this environment, permanently gilled.
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16 72 The gills of the lelt are located at the lower sides of its jaw, not on the sides of its head, as is common in open-water fish.
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20 123 I think, Hassan, strange though it may seem, that we hold a cause in common".
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23 120 A result of this is that it is common for each left flank to be outflanked by the opponent's right flank.
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23 230 "We have a common enemy, who would put us at one another's throats," said Haroun.
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24 624 Accordingly I suspected that many of the higher slaves would be more than eager to escape the loneliness and deprivation of the slave quarters for the mats of even common soldiers.
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25 553 "But let us assure ourselves that this will be a common slave, one fit to sell north".
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25 558 At its tip, bright red, was the common Kajira slave mark of Gor.
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26 466 Resentments, jealousies, petty feuds, enemies, are common among female slaves.
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26 696 I had planned this interlude of discipline with some care, first, having in mind Klima, second, a simple instance of slave instruction, one fitted for a common, average girl, this to let her know how she would stand to me.
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26 698 The second portion of the discipline was no more than an introduction to a common bondage, appropriate for an unimportant girl.
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26 712 This would surely remind her of Klima, and, from my point of view, as she was a common slave, she should be treated as one; to be sure, I found gratification in this, a gratification to which I was entitled in virtue of Klima, and a gratification to which I was entitled, in any event, because it ple...
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26 821 It would be the common Gorean female slave mark, fitting for a low girl, such as she, one who had not been fully pleasing.
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26 826 "But we can put above it the common Kajira mark".
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26 827 "Not the common mark," she cried.
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26 835 It is, however, granted, a common mark, familiar, typical, customary, widely used, popular, that sort of thing.
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26 1074 "Of course," I said, "you are only a common slave".
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26 1078 "And yet," she said, "you have faced much peril, and undertaken much labor to acquire a common slave".
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26 1090 "And only a common slave," I said.
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Book 11. (71 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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8 189 The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu...
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26 624 The brand with which she had been marked was the common slave brand for the Gorean female; incised deeply in her thigh, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, was the initial letter, in cursive script, lovely, of the expression 'Kajira,' the most common expression in Gorean for...
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2 441 Suddenly, as though by common accord, each crying out, each uttering a savage cry, they hurled themselves at one another.
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2 1088 The beast had been on another scent, probably that of tabuk, a small, single-horned antelopelike creature, its common game, and, on its trail, we had constituted only a distraction.
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3 28 That this camp was sheltered and set as it was I took to be a matter of common camp practice among such men as he, and those who served him.
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3 401 It is common to let a girl scream, a Gorean kindness, while she is being marked with a white-hot iron.
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3 536 But perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
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3 539 Beyond this, there exists on Gor a variety of brands for women, though the Kajira brand, which Eta wore, is by far the most common.
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3 548 As it became more popular, it was becoming, simultaneously, of course, a fairly common brand.
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3 650 The ceremonial taking of food from the hand of the man, as it had been done this evening in the camp, would prove to be somewhat unusual, though it would be reasonably common to be handfed, when it amused him, or thrown scraps of food.
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4 82 The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w...
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4 99 "You may feed, Slave Girl," is a common way in which this permission is given.
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5 29 In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women.
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5 147 It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market.
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5 639 Dinas, such as I was, were relatively common girls.
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6 105 It was high, and conical, and floored with rough planks, set some six or seven feet on poles above the ground, that it might be drier and protected from common insects and vermin.
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6 109 In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar.
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6 143 It was a common weapon among peasants.
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6 145 The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width.
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7 6 She was barefoot, as is common among slave girls.
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7 138 "You are common bandits," she said.
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7 502 Her thigh, freshly branded, bore the common slave mark of Gor, the initial letter, in cursive script, of the Gorean expression 'Kajira,' which means Slave Girl.
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7 1156 "You are obviously only a common girl," he said.
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7 1161 "Only a common girl," he said.
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7 1162 "Only a common slave".
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7 1194 "The name," he said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you".
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7 1257 "That sort of thing is common among slave girls".
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7 1321 "The name," he had said, "for you are a common girl, and worthless, should be an unimportant name, one plain and simple, one fitting for a valueless girl, an ignorant, branded she-slave such as you".
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7 1331 It was a common brand.
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7 1333 For a low, common girl, one not to be distinguished from others, it was a suitable name.
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7 1337 I was common, and of little value.
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7 1338 The name, too, was common, and of little value.
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7 1360 "You are obviously only a common girl," he said.
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7 1363 "Only a common girl," he said.
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8 138 The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet.
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8 140 The sleen is a dangerous and fairly common animal on Gor, which has adapted itself to a variety of environments.
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8 143 They are common off the coast of Torvaldsland, and further north.
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8 190 Aside from these common uses, sleen are put to other uses, too.
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8 217 It is common on Gor for a girl emerging from a small cage, on her belly, or her hands and knees, depending on the size of the opening, at the feet of her master to remain, pending her master's instructions, on her belly or hands and knees.
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9 70 From the physical point of view, the most common coffles are left-wrist coffles, left-ankle coffles and throat coffles.
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9 386 "It is only that it is common".
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9 847 It is common to publicly examine slaves, their bodies, their teeth, and such.
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9 1083 They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm...
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9 1095 A common challenge to them is to take an apparently plain free woman, recently enslaved, and transform her into a ravishing, embonded beauty.
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9 1121 It is common to give the girl the candy while she is in a kneeling position, putting it in her mouth for her.
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9 1838 The plans, sharp alternatives, excluded one another; their common element was I, as payment.
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9 1858 "It is our common victory," said Thurnus.
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9 2111 It is a common and familiar part of their life.
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9 2134 Do you think Goreans do not know that? Have you not heard of the lamps of love, in the light of which it is common to ravish slaves? And the scent of flowers is surely not unknown in the chambers of love.
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9 2135 And is not it likely that it will waft in from the environing gardens? And it is common for the slave to serve her master wine, in the ritual fashion, and then, after he has first sipped, to be herself permitted its delights, though under his supervision.
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11 103 Her own brand was the customary Kajira brand, the initial letter in cursive Gorean script, about an inch and a half high, and a half inch wide, of the expression "Kajira," the most common Gorean expression for a female slave.
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11 147 It was fairly common Gorean custom.
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11 437 It is common in a Gorean fortress, if it is not under siege, for the evening to be a time of pleasure for the men.
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12 109 This is a common Gorean idiom.
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12 137 It is common in Gorean defenses.
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13 173 But how could I be sold? They could sell the others, of course, for they were only common slaves.
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13 446 He thrust me behind the last girl on the chain; she was kneeling, braceleted to the chain, facing away from me; her head was down; I wondered if she had been sold before; I did not speak to speak to her, of course; nor did I want to speak to her; what was there to say; and I was miserable; and, too,...
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17 124 Soon Narla and I, sharing a common neck leash, two collars, with a strap with center grip, stood outside the long, low room, in the corridor.
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18 50 The dress and costume of the paga girls, too, was intended to suggest the common garb worn by the enslaved beauties who well served the mounted, lance-bearing riders of the lofty, silken kaiila.
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22 57 Far more common, and dangerous, are certain fishlike marine saurians, with long, toothed snouts; they are silent and aggressive, and sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks.
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22 66 The men were fond of me, and they treated me well, with the rough camaraderie and friendship that is sometimes accorded an owned girl, one who is common to all, and must obey all.
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22 471 "What we have in common is that we are both women".
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24 299 Each was chained by the left ankle to a common ring.
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25 138 "The security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher.
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25 139 It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female s...
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25 184 The next most common sequence is orange and red.
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26 110 I saw, on the yellow paper, stamped upon it, in black ink, large, the common Kajira mark of Gor.
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26 536 "It is a common collar," she said.
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27 338 It is common, of course, for a master to have virginity rights to his slave, if she is white-silk.
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28 165 If a Ubara of a conquered city, for example, were to be sold, it would, customarily, be in such a special sale, unless the victorious Ubar, he who had conquered her city and captured her, chose to have her sold, for his amusement, in a common sale and from an unimportant block.
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29 11 Such rings are common in Gorean cities, in public places, and serve the convenience of masters in tethering their slaves.
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Book 12. (40 results) Beasts of Gor

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9 163 The girls were on a common tether, the throat of each tied at a different end of a long strap; it served as their common leash, a guard grasping it in the center.
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1 286 It is common to let the girl who is to spend the night at your feet tend your chamber the preceding day.
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2 147 "The common Kajira brand," he said.
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2 164 "Yes," said Samos, "the common brand".
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2 168 I thought the common Kajira mark would be exquisite in her thigh.
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2 607 Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
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3 32 Looped about her neck, locked, was a slender, common, gray-steel slave collar.
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3 61 More seriously there were now no "Spear Slaves" in common Kaissa, as there once had been, though there were distinctions among "Spearmen".
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3 490 That is common for transported slaves.
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3 492 Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l...
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3 535 It is common to permit a Gorean slave girl only one layer of clothing, if any.
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3 599 And of common utilizations, and applications, historically and culturally, of her sex.
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3 612 She wore pants, of course, for slacks are a form of pants, and her garments, in general, were body-concealing; these features they had in common with the male-imitation garb of the two girls on the end; on the other hand the slacks were not as body concealing as they might have been for they were cu...
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3 767 A common chain ran though rings on the loops.
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3 840 The four Earth girls, though they could not speak Gorean, watched, horrified, the enactment of a common Gorean episode, the attempt on the part of a slave to interest masters in her purchase.
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3 1281 He no longer wore the brown and black common to professional sleen trainers.
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4 177 Indeed, it is the most common single opening used among masters.
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7 130 "Is it common," I asked, "for the hides to be so plentiful in Lydius in the spring?" Normally hide hunters prefer the fall tabuk, for the coats are heavier.
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7 233 "You are not common robbers," I said.
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8 41 "It was clear quite early," she said, "that you were no common ruffian from the docks of Lydius".
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9 215 Interrogated, she is likely to be ignorant of many details of the Gorean world which are common knowledge to Goreans.
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12 132 It is an arrogance which is culturally common.
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12 148 The loan of furs, tools and women is common.
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13 15 A common conversation can be heard for better than half a pasang away.
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15 683 "A common arrangement, however, is to charge a prospective buyer, if he wishes it, a rent fee, which fee may then be, should he want the girl, applied to her purchase price".
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15 698 "Such sales are common on Gor," I said.
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15 699 "Common?" she gasped.
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15 985 "I have described only the most common to you".
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15 1069 "They are common girls.
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21 393 As female slaves are common on Gor their prices are usually within range.
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23 124 A common Kur then, I think, would have charged.
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23 460 I was confident, however, that it had been a ship Kur, and not a common ice beast.
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25 129 This was not only to consider the terrain as it might appear on a return journey, something I had learned from Imnak, but for another reason as well, one held in common by warriors and red hunters.
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31 211 "When it is born it does not need milk, but water and common protein".
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32 5 "Not unlike Tor-tu-Gor, or Sol," I said, "the common star of Earth and Gor".
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35 19 This would assure me, I hoped, that I would not be mistaken for a common ice beast.
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35 22 Ice beasts, or common ice beasts, of course, do not use sleds.
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35 649 I thought it would look well incised with the standard Kajira mark of Gor; it is the first letter, in cursive script, of the word 'Kajira', the most common word for a female slave in the Gorean lexicon; it is a simple, rather floral mark, simple, befitting a slave, lovely, befitting a woman.
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35 695 Her modesty had made it unlikely that many in the complex would recognize her body or features, which had, I gathered, been generally kept from view by the multitudinous robes and veils of concealment common to the Gorean free women of the high cities.
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35 916 The strange common project of two men, of diverse and antagonistic, yet strangely similar castes, an Assassin and a Warrior, had failed.
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Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 11 The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of the expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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5 105 "What is the common purpose of a collar?" "The collar has four common purposes, Master," she said.
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1 65 Although the brand was the first letter, in cursive Gorean script, of the most common Gorean expression for a slave girl, 'Kajira', its symbolism, I think, is much richer than this.
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1 66 For example, in the slave brand, the 'Kef', though clearly a Kef and in cursive script, is more floral, in the extended, upturned, frondlike curls, than would be the common cursive Kef.
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1 751 In spite of this she wore only the common house collar.
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2 28 It seemed a common, motley crowd for the house of Vart, where men came generally to buy cheap girls, sometimes in lots, at bargain prices.
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4 78 This is common, of course, among seamen anywhere.
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4 440 She did not wish to pass me, but yet, on the other hand, she did not wish to leave a vicinity where the she-urts were common.
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4 739 "I have five brands," said the metal worker, "the common Kajira brand, the Dina, the Palm, the mark of Treve, the mark of Port Kar".
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4 740 "We have a common girl to brand," said Ulafi.
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4 741 "Let it be the common Kajira brand".
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5 33 When more than one slave girl stands in a relationship of slave girls, as when they serve in the same shop or house, or adorn the same rich man's pleasure gardens, it is common for the master, or masters, to appoint a "first girl".
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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8 7 Kef, of course, is the initial letter not only of the Gorean expression 'Kajira', the most common Gorean expression for a female slave, but also 'Kajirus', the most common Gorean expression for a male slave.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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2 200 One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no...
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8 922 Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar.
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13 1013 I had also traced the common Kajira mark, the common slave-girl mark, that which was the same as her brand, on her thigh in the blood, and had then smeared its residue down and onto her left calf.
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15 11 Such signals are common on the plains, but perhaps not so common as mirror signals.
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17 459 A collar need not be as light and beautiful as the common, narrow, flat-band collars common in the high cities or the loose, light, rounded loops commonly referred to as Turian collars.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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38 64 She was a common slave, who, tonight, would serve as a slave in common.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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1 243 "Put the iron to her body, left thigh, common Kajira mark, and, I think, for the time, a common house collar will do for her".
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Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 46 Their most common mount is the medium-weight saddle tharlarion, a beast smaller and less powerful, but swifter and more agile, than the common high tharlarion.
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26 623 The common sulfur match, on the other hand, so common on Earth, I have never met with on Gor.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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21 743 Too, in the Vosk League, to which Port Cos is party, we have the nucleus of a vehicle for our alliance, a vehicle for common action if not common governance".
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21 976 The common camisk and ta-teeras are usually regarded as a bit seductive for common street wear.
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24 529 "Are they common slaves?" "They are as common as you will have them!" shouted back the keeper.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 1063 "That is Borton!" "As I understand the common rules of a paga tavern, under which governances I understand this enclosure to function, I have use of this slave until I see fit to relinquish her, or until the common hour of closing, or dawn, as the case may be, unless I pay overage.
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26 206 I knew a girl who wore the brand of the four bosk horns, and, above it, the cursive Kef, the common Kajira mark, for she was a common girl, put there when I had branded her in a kasbah in the Tahari.
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30 5 Trees, generally not common in the marshy delta, were more common now, as we were approaching its southern edge.
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39 111 Then, tricked and captured, she had been smuggled out of the Cosian camp, to a nearby city, to find herself there in common chains as a common girl.
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39 113 Later, emptied of all sensitive and pertinent military and political information, and retaining merely her values as a female, she was given away as might have been any other spoil of war, she in this instance, and by design, to one of the captain's lowest soldiers, a rude and common fellow of the l...
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 233 He was personally armed with the common gladius, the short sword, the most common infantry weapon on Ar, and a dagger.
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12 131 Indeed, such things, relations of affections amongst masters and slaves, however common they may be, and they are extremely common, are officially frowned upon.
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26 110 Other common garments, though usually used outside of cities, are the ta-teera, or slave rag, and the common camisk.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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29 447 And common kajira mark! Of course! Excellent, and superbly fitting! The former Lady Constanzia of Besnit—marked as a common slave!—Excellent!" The common kajira mark, of course, which I myself wore, is a lovely brand.
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Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

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11 104 Then she feared that it might be a common thing, or that it would be a common thing, at least for her.
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11 173 So, thought Ellen, I have been given a common brand, that appropriate for any low girl! So that is how he thinks of me! That is how he rates me! But it is beautiful! And it is doubtless, if it is indeed the most common brand, worn by thousands, at least, of girls on this world.
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21 45 She was, of course, well marked as bond, in virtue of the brand, in her case the common kef, the most common mark on Gor for a slave girl, that which Mirus, doubtless to his amusement, had had put on her.
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25 801 Mirus, of course, had seen to it that she would wear the common kef, which he regarded as fitting for her; he had seen to it that she should be marked as it pleased him, as a common slave.
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25 895 I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, are a hundred tarsk-bits to ...
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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1 846 The most common types are the staff and fronds, and the Dina, resembling a small and common flower of that world.
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Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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28 192 What Pertinax's Jane and Lord Nishida's Saru had in common, of course, was that they were both human females, and thus, from a common Gorean point of view, at least amongst Gorean males, they were both, and should be, natural slaves.
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30 167 This, I feared, was no common vessel, and intended no common voyage.
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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36 74 Of five groups what man had they all in common, and of those men held in common, who, in turn, had they all in common? Some seeming patterns began to emerge.
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21 203 The common wisdom on such matters is that the Priest-Kings favor a common language, as a means to more easily communicate their views to humans, for example, with respect to the technology and weapon laws.
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Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 104 I would learn, too, it is a common brand, marking common slaves.
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10 105 How one would long then for a common collar, and the simple exposure of a common tunic! "Yes," he said.
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10 194 Whereas chairs, benches, and higher tables are familiar to you, as in the public eating houses, and common in the north, such things are much more common on my former world.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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50 395 The joke is that it is the common brand for the common girl, but I knew that some of the highest, most expensive, and most beautiful girls wore it.
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50 510 It was a slave garment, but it was not a tunic, not the common, brief garment in which masters place their girls to remind them that they are slaves and which, to the pleasure of men, leaves little doubt as to their purchasable charms, or the far more scandalous common camisk, outlawed in public in ...
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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43 59 Too, I supposed few would expect the shogun's daughter to be in this position of prominence, or, indeed, harnessed to a wagon at all, as a common slave, to be sure, the common slave she now was.
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46 77 "No common soldiers are here," said Tajima, "no Ashigaru, no common warriors.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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11 131 The participants in these municipal contests, too, are almost always common citizens, volunteers, for on Gor the common citizen is as likely to be a participant as a spectator.
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Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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35 136 It is a common tunic, for a common slave.
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35 138 "A common brand for a common slave," he said.
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36 11 The Kef might be a common brand but that did not entail that the girl who wore it was a common slave.
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39 98 It reflected the fire light in a way unfamiliar to me, certainly not like common rep-cloth, a cheap, common material often used for the garmenting of slaves.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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48 116 "Too," said Thrasymedes, "who, mercenary or not, blames themselves for anything? What is more common than to blame others for one's own faults, failures, and lacks? Why assign blame to oneself when it is so easy to ascribe it to others?" "I fear it is common," I said.
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