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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 88 The Lower Castes, incidentally, commonly believe that the names of the High Castes are actually use-names and that the High Castes conceal their real names.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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20 56 More commonly, though never in the context of time, the sun is referred to as Tor-tu-Gor, or Light Upon the Home Stone.
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21 41 When an individual captures a girl for his own uses, he does not always mark her, though it is commonly done.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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17 130 The man from the Caste of Builders then sat cross-legged on the ground and took from the pouch slung at his waist a tiny, cylindrical Gorean fire-maker, a small silverish tube commonly used for igniting cooking fires.
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17 160 "And so too do we Priest-Kings commonly kill swiftly and yet you complain of our doing so".
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Book 4. (13 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 19 Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
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2 72 In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...
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5 40 The Gorean master, commonly, likes a spirited girl, one who fights the whip and collar, resisting until at last, perhaps months later, she is overwhelmed and must acknowledge herself his, utterly and without reservation, then fearing only that he might tire of her and sell her to another.
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7 156 I would have expected the message to have been written either on stout, glossy-surfaced linen paper, of the sort milled in Ar, or perhaps on vellum, or a grosser parchment, prepared in many cities and used commonly in scrolls, the process involving among other things the washing and liming of skins,...
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8 38 The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del...
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8 211 The first rider is, commonly, as one might expect, the more experienced, skilled rider.
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8 454 The Tuchuks were commonly called the Wily Ones.
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9 13 Most commonly, and doubtless unfortunately, it is only members of the five high castes who occupy positions on the High Councils of the cities.
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13 85 The Whip Caress is commonly used among Slavers to force a girl to betray herself.
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13 107 He would do no more to Elizabeth Cardwell than was commonly done to female slaves among the wagons, even those who had never dared to speak back or disobey in the least particular.
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13 142 Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r...
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25 44 A single ankle chain is commonly run to a girl's left ankle.
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25 47 If an ankle chain is used, it is commonly fastened on the left ankle.
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Book 5. (37 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 298 "True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".
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3 36 They are men who commonly have an extraordinary aptitude for the game but beyond this men who have become drunk on it, men lost in the subtle, abstract liquors of variation, pattern and victory, men who live for the game, who want it and need it as other men might want gold, or others power and wome...
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3 41 Those who play the game for money have a hard lot, for the market is a buyer's market, and commonly men will play with them only on terms much to their satisfaction.
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3 76 These genetic alterations, moreover, are commonly capable of being transmitted.
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3 84 The most startling thing to me about the man was not that he was older than one commonly sees in the streets of a Gorean city, but rather that he was clearly blind.
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4 82 "Unlikely," had said the Older Tarl, "for Assassins are commonly too proud for poison".
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5 15 In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
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5 28 Much more dangerous is the poison lock, because the opening through which the tiny pins, usually coated with a paste formed from kanda root, can emerge can be extremely small, almost invisible to the eye, easy to overlook in the crevices and grillwork of the commonly heavy, ornate Gorean lock.
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5 29 Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ...
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5 71 This trick was taught to me by Andreas of Tor, years ago, of the Caste of Singers, for doors in the city of Tor are commonly of this variety.
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5 83 "Sometimes," I added, "someone enters the compartment and has a confederate on the outside attempt to duplicate the knot, that the man inside may surprise the occupant on his return, but commonly this stratagem is unsuccessful, because of the difficulties of duplicating the knot".
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5 350 "He commonly has an inhibition against killing," said Misk, "and moreover he has, infrequently it may be, the capacities for loyalty and community and love".
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5 590 I almost did not recognize him, for the humans in the Nest commonly, both men and women, though not now always, shave themselves completely, in accord with traditional practices of sanitation in the Nest.
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5 617 I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu...
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8 138 Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes".
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9 131 She will be revived at the height of the Ubar's victory feast, commonly to find herself unclothed in a cage of male slaves set up among the tables".
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9 135 "Commonly," said Ho-Tu, "they will seek out a female slave, one who reminds them of the attendants in the garden, and this woman will comfort them, and explain to them what they are, that they are women, that they are slaves, that they must wear a collar and that they must serve men".
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10 120 "Do not be curious, Killer," said he, "for commonly those who look upon the beast do so only in death".
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11 58 Each of them I suspected would be intelligent, for Goreans, as the men of Earth commonly do not, celebrate quickness of mind and alertness in a girl.
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11 98 After that, to ensure prompt obedience, it is commonly enough to merely move one's hand toward the leather".
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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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12 161 The racing fan of Ar commonly remains to the last race, and sometimes even later, discussing the races and commenting on how he would have flown such and such a race better than the bird's rider.
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13 58 The girl commonly pretends to swim away but is outdistanced and captured.
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13 117 The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range; the walls, the columns, even the bottom of the pool, were decorated with representations of Veminium, and many of the plants themselves ...
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13 131 He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liq...
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15 116 She was commonly permitted to wear lavish and luxurious robes of concealment, save for hood and veil.
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15 194 At any rate, to my satisfaction, but Elizabeth's irritation, Flaminius commonly had the best of these exchanges, producing incredibly subtle, complex arguments, quoting supposedly objectively conducted studies by the Caste of Physicians, statistics, the results of tests, and what not.
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15 346 For example, the Pleasure Slave, if she is trained by a good house, must also be the master of those duties commonly assigned to Tower Slaves.
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16 223 Neither of them, incidentally, had ever seemed much taken aback by the fact that I commonly wore the black of the Assassin.
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18 123 Smiling at him she then returned to the center of the compartment and sat down, cross-legged, for the instrument is commonly played that way, and bent over it.
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18 168 Those afflicted with it, commonly spoken of simply as the Afflicted Ones, may not enter into normal society.
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19 146 Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...
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22 397 The small bow, interestingly, has never been used among tarnsmen; perhaps this is because the kaiila is almost unknown above the equator, and the lesson of kaiilaback fighting has not been much available to them; perhaps it is because of tradition, which weighs heavily in Gorean life, and even in mi...
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22 401 Commonly, the tarn responds only to one voice command, that of "Tabuk," which tends, roughly, to mean "Hunt and feed"; further, I would have liked to use the Tuchuk temwood thrusting lance from the saddle of a tarn.
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22 402 The tarnsman commonly carries, strapped to the saddle, a Gorean spear, a fearsome weapon, but primarily a missile weapon, and one more adapted to infantry.
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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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Book 6. (21 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 17 The bow is not commonly favored by Gorean warriors, but all must respect it.
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1 65 I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.
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2 19 Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular...
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4 170 The rence hut is commonly used for little else than sleeping.
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8 243 Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last.
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9 99 Commonly, on Gor, slaves are not permitted to build, that being regarded as a privilege to be reserved for free men.
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10 15 There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.
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10 121 Captains, commonly, do not eat with their men.
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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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11 264 These are commonly worn only outside the city.
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13 200 High-born ladies commonly sailed in cabins, located in the stern castle of the galleys.
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13 516 My round ships, as much as possible, I engaged in commerce, usually acting on the advice of Luma, the slave girl, my chief accountant; the ram-ships I sent against Cos and Tyros, usually in twos and threes; I myself commonly commanded a fleet of five ram-ships, and spent much time searching the seas...
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14 41 The length of those oars on a tarn ship commonly varies from twenty-seven to thirty foot Gorean.
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14 42 A thirty-foot Gorean oar, the most inboard oar, would commonly weigh thirty stone, or about one hundred and twenty pounds.
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14 249 Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades.
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14 307 Accordingly the ram-ship most commonly sails only with a fair wind.
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14 326 Vessel by vessel my men boarded the round ships, commonly meeting no resistance.
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15 57 High-born ladies commonly sail in cabins, located in the stern castles of either ram-ships or round ships.
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15 83 Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders.
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16 40 "Commonly," I said, "a Ubara wears more than a golden armlet".
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17 67 Commonly, of course, it is the round ship, with her normally small, free crews, which attempts to evade boarding.
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Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

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7 13 Considering the nature of the goods commonly found in Laura, rough goods for the most part, one might have supposed it strange that Targo was bound for that city.
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7 108 When chained in a wagon, to the ankle bar, girls are commonly unclothed.
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7 112 The edges are commonly folded and stitched to prevent raveling.
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7 122 The camisk, I am told, was at one time commonly belted with a chain.
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7 164 Ten girls, commonly, ride in such a wagon, five to a side.
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7 300 It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value...
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8 616 It is not only prestigious to be high on the chain, but, of course, then one's price is commonly higher as well, and, accordingly, one's master is somewhat more likely to be well fixed.
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10 66 I now, commonly, knelt immediately, naturally, appropriately, gracefully, pleasurably, not thinking about it, in the position of the pleasure slave, but I did not do so now, for I was terrified.
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11 157 We trained, during the day, commonly in private facilities, under the tutelage of pleasure slaves, but, in the evening, we would be returned to the long tiers of cages in the public pens.
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11 165 I did not care particularly for the wooden bowls of stew and bread we commonly had at the public pens, but I was hungry and ready to eat even such, and with enthusiasm.
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11 1259 They think commonly only in gross terms, such as her being trained in the dances of various cities, and in the arts of love, as practiced in various cities.
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12 259 In a hunting camp such a pole is commonly lashed in the branches of trees, and is used to dry skins, display catches and such.
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13 103 Such an exile, commonly for a Gorean, is equivalent to enslavement or death.
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13 674 In a peasant village the female slaves are commonly deferent and hard-working, and, as it is said, and as I have been told, are ardent to thrash well in the rude arms of their agrarian masters.
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13 860 With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...
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13 1125 In between shootings, we commonly wear a robe.
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13 1165 At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana...
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14 281 "If a girl is already branded," I said, casually, but frightened, "she would not be again branded, would she?" "Commonly not," said Ena.
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14 332 Our proposals, of course, were commonly motivated by our desire to please him.
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14 396 It might be mentioned, in passing, that the Gorean free woman is commonly veiled, and that veils are denied to female slaves.
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14 405 A Gorean master commonly will know every inch of his slave, every curve, every crease, every wen, every pimple, every hair.
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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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15 898 It could perhaps be mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high caste.
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15 900 Thus even families who cannot afford to own and feed a slave often have the use of several such unfortunate girls, commonly captured from hostile cities.
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15 1023 Girls are also kept naked, at least commonly, in slave cells, slave cages, in their kennels, and such.
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Book 8. (27 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 109 Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...
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1 229 "Commonly," said he, "I plundered beyond the forests".
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2 66 They are commonly used for patrols, and swift communication.
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2 68 Slaves serve commonly only in cargo galleys.
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2 79 It is commonly foul, and briny.
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2 86 The sand in the lower hold is usually quite cool, and, buried in it, are commonly certain perishables, such as eggs, and bottled wines.
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2 494 Most commonly, male slaves are utilized on the cargo galleys, and in the mines, and on the great farms.
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2 497 Males captured in war, or in the seizure of cylinders or villages, or in the pillaging of caravans, are commonly slain.
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2 539 Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm.
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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 50 Most ports and islands on Thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils.
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3 100 Such girls are commonly rare in the north.
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3 194 One was a Player, a master who makes his living, though commonly poorly, from the game, playing for a cup of paga perhaps and the right to sleep in the tavern at night.
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4 291 I had treated her no worse, or better, than such slaves are commonly treated.
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5 21 The girl commonly carries the coin, or coins, in her mouth, for slave tunics, like most Gorean garments, have no pockets.
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5 32 The talender, fixed in her hair, is a slave girl's wordless confession, which, commonly, she dares not speak, that she cares for her master.
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5 118 The penalty for attempted flight by a slave girl, for the first offense, is commonly a severe beating.
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5 158 The Tesephone, of course, being a light ship, an oared ship, a shallow-drafted ship, is commonly very little dependent on the tide.
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6 196 The only craft commonly seen in Laura were light galleys, and the ubiquitous barges, towed by tharlarion treading along the shore.
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6 807 We pay attention, commonly, to one thing at a time.
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8 175 "Panther girls," said one of Arn's men, "commonly return to their camp near dusk".
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11 205 Commonly the slave girl, when not facing her master, if she is right handed, as are most girls, will have her weight on the ball of her left foot.
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12 18 Subsequently, they are commonly awarded to high officers or men who have especially distinguished themselves in the taking of the city, perhaps an individual who has led a sortie which successfully stormed a gate, or the first man upon the enemy's walls, or one who has captured a member of the city'...
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13 202 The river shark, commonly, does not like to come into water this shallow, but it had been feeding, and it was aroused.
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14 282 The Gorean slave girl, if nothing else, is commonly no stranger to love.
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15 673 "For the first offense," I said, "the penalty is not usually severe, commonly only a whipping".
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18 447 Gorean galleys do not commonly sail at night, and, often, put into shore during darkness.
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Book 9. (28 results) Marauders of Gor

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16 53 Each year their paint is freshened, commonly on the vigil of the vernal equinox, which, in the north, as commonly in the south, marks the new year.
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2 17 Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward.
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2 106 He will, however, commonly, have as little to do with them as possible.
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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 38 It is commonly relied on, however, only in unfamiliar waters.
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4 108 The helmsman studies the sky and the waters ahead of the serpent; beneath clouds there is commonly wind; and he avoids, moving a point or more to port or starboard, areas where there is little wave activity, for they betoken spots in which the serpent might, for a time, find itself becalmed.
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5 165 The helmets of the north are commonly conical, with a nose-guard, that can slip up and down.
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6 520 Each log is ten to fifteen feet long, and commonly about eight inches to a foot thick.
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7 159 The latter whip, commonly used on females, punishes terribly; it has, however, the advantage of not marking the victim.
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7 161 A girl with an unmarked back, commonly, will bring a much higher price than a comparable wench, if her back be muchly scarred.
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7 162 Men commonly relish a smooth female, except for the brand scar.
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10 42 Immersion in the waters of the Ax Glacier country, unprotected, will commonly bring about death by shock, within a matter of Ihn.
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10 108 Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde...
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10 113 In the south the southern slave girl commonly regards her northern counterparts as bumpkins, dolts from the high farms on the slopes of the mountains of Torvaldsland; she thinks of them as doing little but swilling tarsk and dunging fields; she regards them as, essentially, nothing more than a form ...
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10 147 Such duels, commonly, are held on wave-struck skerries in Thassa.
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10 153 When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ...
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10 158 Commonly, of course, the formal duel is used for more reputable purposes, such as settling grievances over boundaries or permitting an opportunity where, in a case of insult, satisfaction might be obtained.
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10 383 At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt, too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair w...
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10 641 The southern collar, commonly, lacks such a ring; the southern ankle ring, however, has one, and sometimes two, one in the front and one in the back.
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11 32 One difference they do remark between the human and the Kur, and that is that the human, commonly, has an inhibition against killing.
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12 9 This sort of thing is done more effectively, in my opinion, in the south by means of flags, run commonly from the prow cleats to the height of the stem castle.
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13 28 Salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or from the burning of seaweed.
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13 38 Even those who sat commonly at the center tables, and were warriors, kept their shields and spears at the wall.
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13 336 It is she!" The women of the north, commonly, do not veil themselves.
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14 173 The eyes of many of them, commonly black-pupiled, yellowish in the cornea, seemed red, swollen, veined.
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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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22 178 Whereas it commonly takes a third of an Ahn to arouse a free woman, a female slave is often responsive from almost the first touch of the master.
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22 181 The collar itself, and the state of bondage, for no reason clear in my mind, commonly transforms even the tepid free woman into an orgasmic marvel of a slave.
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Book 10. (34 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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10 193 The rooms are seldom crossed directly, in order to prevent undue wear on the rugs; long strips of ruglike material line the edges of the room; these are commonly used in moving from room to room; children, servants, slaves, women, commonly negotiate the rooms by keeping on the runners, near the wall...
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1 391 Certain cities, like Tor, dealt in slaves, commonly buying unsold girls from caravans, and selling them at a profit to other caravan masters.
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1 826 Diurnal air temperatures in the shade are commonly in the range of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
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2 105 The wages for a caravan trip, which often takes months, commonly will last the fellow about ten days, or, if nursed out, some fifteen days.
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2 261 "Furthermore," I said, "commonly, in the presence of a free man, the girl kneels".
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2 319 I turned from the market streets into a street of shops and stalls, the bazaar, which, in Tor, is most commonly reached through the market gate.
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4 58 The nomads, when camping at a watering place, commonly pitch their tent near a tree; this affords them shade; also they place and hang goods in the branches of the tree, using it for storage.
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4 204 These are commonly kept from them.
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6 20 The testimony of slaves, in a Gorean court, is commonly taken under torture.
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7 312 I would have expected such work to be done by nude female slaves, in work collar, chain and ankle ring, to keep them on their knees with their brushes, but it had not been; one of the administrative penalties of he who is sent to the brine pits of Klima is commonly to be deprived of the sight of fem...
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7 536 The Gorean slave girl is commonly radiant in her collar, fulfilled deeply as what she is, a woman, in her mind, her heart and belly.
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10 5 Raider tribute, it might be noted, is no longer commonly levied in the Tahari.
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10 194 Men commonly do also, if guests are not present.
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11 15 Hassan, in his own burnoose, sheltered the girl, Alyena, commonly keeping her wrists braceleted behind her, that she not forget she was slave.
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11 286 The girl, Alyena, rode next to the last in our line, in the position of least status; she was followed by one of Hassan's men, the guard; such a guard is commonly posted; he, from time to time, watches the trail behind the caravan and, of course, prevents the escape of slave girls.
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11 387 In leaving an oasis, of course, similarly, as a courtesy to the inn, and its hospitality, the bags are commonly filled not at the cistern, but at the public well.
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11 411 Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi...
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11 553 Girls are not, commonly, permitted to speak the name of their master.
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13 107 When the men's feet were cleansed, they were fitted by the girls with soft, heelless slippers, of the sort commonly worn indoors in permanent residences in the Tahari, with extended, curling toes.
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14 96 Slave girls, commonly obsequious and docile with free males, who may in an instant put them under discipline, are often insolent and arrogant with males who are slave, whom they despise.
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14 98 The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty females; I have sometimes wond...
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16 61 The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length.
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17 48 It commonly swims slowly, smoothly, conserving energy in the black, saline world encompassing its existence.
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17 50 It swims slowly, conserving its energy, not alerting its prey, commonly flatworms and tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.
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18 48 The pieces are commonly pebbles, or bits of verr dung, and sticks.
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21 313 The Kur, commonly, emerges from its lair with the falling of darkness.
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21 316 It is then that the Kur, commonly, chooses to hunt.
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24 385 This was an allusion to the Gorean five-strap slave whip, commonly used on girls because of the softness and width of its lashes.
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24 623 In the bellies of slave girls there commonly burn "slave fires".
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24 661 Slave girls are utilized at any time of the day or night, and, commonly, though not always, in light, so the master can discern how beautiful is the object of his desire, of his lust and love.
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24 662 And the slave, of course, commonly, though not always, serves nude.
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26 312 Who but such a true slave would beg to be freed? Such individuals, of course, are never freed, but, commonly, their nature now being made undeniably clear, are put under heavier restraints and treated more harshly.
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26 420 Before women, however, she, even if a pleasure slave, will commonly kneel in the position of the tower slave, with her knees closely together.
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26 704 When a slave is introduced into a new house, often carried over the threshold bound and naked, she is commonly tied and whipped; the purpose of this is to leave her in no doubt as to what she is in the new domicile; in this way she is assisted in understanding that within the new walls, in the new c...
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Book 11. (65 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 469 She was commonly chained before Lehna in the coffle, and it was under Lehna's supervision that she commonly performed her tasks.
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9 998 Whereas caste membership is commonly connected with the practice of an occupation, such as agriculture, or commerce, or war, there can be, of course, caste members who are not engaged in caste work and individuals who do certain forms of work who are not members of that caste commonly associated wit...
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20 150 Warships commonly have free oarsmen; merchant ships commonly, but not always, use slaves.
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2 45 Closer than this we did not, commonly, in my culture, approach one another.
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2 721 If she is thusly placed it is commonly a sign she is in disfavor.
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2 1087 Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge.
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2 1091 Once it sets out upon a scent it commonly pursues it unwaveringly.
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3 111 As I would later learn, the value placed on girls such as we were, a Judy Thornton or an Elicia Nevins, girls of our quality, would commonly be a tiny sack of copper coins, a few more, a few less.
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3 531 That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
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3 543 When a girl is bought, of course, it is commonly because the man wants her, she, the female, and is willing to put down his hard-earned money for her and her alone, for she is alone; all she brings from the block is herself; she is a slave; she cannot bring wealth, power, or family connections; she ...
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3 653 These numerous anniversaries are deliciously celebrated, as they may be with a girl who is only a slave, and seldom forgotten; should such an anniversary be forgotten, should it be such that it is commonly celebrated, the girl redoubles her efforts to please, fearing she is to be soon sold.
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3 782 Female slaves, when bred, are commonly hooded and crossed with a male slave, similarly hooded, the breeding conducted under the supervision of their respective owners; a girl is seldom bred with a slave from her own house; personal relationships between male and female slaves are usually frowned upo...
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3 783 The effect of the slave wine endures several cycles, or moons; it may be counteracted by another drink, a smooth, sweet beverage, which frees the girl's body for the act of the male slave, or, in unusual cases, should she be freed, to the act of the lover; slave girls, incidentally, are almost never...
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4 95 We did not, commonly, however, provided it did not interfere with our service, wait until the men had completed their meal before commencing ours.
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4 127 Gorean masters commonly speak frankly and openly of the qualities of their girls, even before the girls themselves.
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4 945 Their pleas, those of slave girls, are commonly ignored.
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4 961 On Earth, where slavery is practiced, commonly only troublesome girls are branded.
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4 967 I did not know at that time what was commonly done to a girl who has attempted to escape, and has been recaptured.
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4 969 Much depends on the master but, commonly, the first time she is recaptured, she is treated with great lenience, as being only a foolish girl.
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4 970 Commonly, she is only tied and lashed.
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4 971 Should she attempt escape a second time, and be recaptured, she is commonly hamstrung, the tendons behind the knees being severed.
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4 979 In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein...
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5 14 A free woman, publicly, will commonly wear one or two veils; a frequent combination is the light veil, or last veil, and the house or street veil.
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5 26 Indeed, not only are they refused the dignity of the veil, but commonly they are placed in brief, exciting slave livery and may not even bind their hair.
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5 832 The quality of a slave girl's life is commonly a direct function of her pleasingness to her master.
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7 42 On the other hand, it is commonly suspected that the major threat of the Salerian Confederation is not to Ar's security, but to her ambitions, in the person of Marlenus.
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7 115 Commonly slaves go barefoot.
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7 332 "Kneel," is the command which, commonly, puts an end to her rebellion.
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7 386 Clitus Vitellius would commonly keep such a girl for a few days, and then discard her, usually giving her to a friend or selling her.
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7 634 Gorean males, commonly, regard the women of Earth as fit only to be their slaves.
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7 730 Permission to clothe oneself, of course, is commonly obtained from a master.
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8 142 Sea sleen are found commonly in northern waters.
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8 150 The young are commonly white furred at birth, the fur darkening by the following spring.
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8 188 Sleen are used for a multitude of purposes on Gor, but most commonly they are used for herding, tracking, guarding and patrolling.
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9 999 Caste, commonly, though not invariably, is a matter of birth.
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9 1001 Normally mating takes place among caste members, but if the mating is of mixed caste, the woman may elect to retain caste, which is commonly done, or be received into the caste of the male companion.
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9 1084 In the matter of collars, as in all things, Goreans commonly exhibit good taste and aesthetic sense.
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9 1091 Commonly he finds an apparently plain slave, discovers her latencies, and leaves a beauty.
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9 1118 Confections are commonly used by masters as rewards in the training and conditioning of their girls.
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9 1122 On the other hand, in training, candies are commonly thrown to the girls.
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9 1567 What Bran Loort and his fellows had done exceeded the normal rights of custom, the leniencies and tacit permissions of a peasant community; commonly the codes are invisible; they exist not to control human life, but to make it possible.
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10 60 Marlenus of Ar, and other Ubars, commonly employed such couriers.
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12 161 Male captives are commonly killed.
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12 226 I knew how Gorean men commonly thought of Earth women, on the basis, however, one must acknowledge, of a considerable body of evidence.
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12 227 Earth-girl slaves on Gor, incidentally, are commonly kept illiterate.
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12 664 Such girls must be regarded as quite valuable; on the block they commonly bring the highest prices.
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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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16 172 They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port.
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18 103 Whereas the first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second one often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees; this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape.
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20 63 Indeed, I suspected that intelligence figured into the criteria of acquisition commonly used by slavers.
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22 40 Part of each catch is commonly saved, to serve as bait for the next.
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22 126 They did not even take the time to lower the yard and drop the mast, which is commonly done in such vessels before an engagement.
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22 158 Round ships, I knew, commonly had two masts, fixed, and permanently rigged.
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22 245 Gorean slave girls are commonly not permitted brassieres or undergarments.
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22 356 The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo...
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22 365 And so, I thought, it is not strange the free woman and the female slave are seen differently, the one with respect, and commonly with indifference, the other with keen interest; the one with courtesy and esteem, the other with desire and passion; one as a citizen, the other as a delicious animal; o...
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22 452 The collar, too, commonly, will contain information as to whom the slave belongs.
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24 105 In some cities, however, there is a slave praetor, who will make inquiries where the doings of slaves may be involved, and will be in charge of resolving squabbles, for example, in the market, assigning punishments for offenses, and so on, functions commonly thought beneath the attention of the civi...
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25 89 Also, it was thought to have consequences for improved pedagogy, in teaching children to first recognize the most commonly occurring letters".
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25 114 "In a code, a given character, or set of characters, will commonly correlate with a word, as opposed to a letter.
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26 202 "You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
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26 544 A brand might be concealed by clothing, even the brief garb commonly allotted a female slave, but the collar, consistently and openly, proclaimed her girl property.
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27 369 A girl, after all, wishes to be a dream of pleasure to her master, and will commonly, and usually very subtly, go to great lengths to achieve this object.
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28 13 On Gor, animals are commonly sold on blocks which are strewn with sawdust.
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28 149 Men are, commonly, still entering the market at that point.
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Book 12. (20 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 78 Rep-cloth, commonly used in slave livery, is easily parted.
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2 303 When she is branded a girl is commonly permitted to scream, at least for a time.
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3 20 The young women, who are free, if the rules permit, as they sometimes do not, commonly wear masks, that their modesty be less grievously compromised by the brevity of their costume.
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3 459 Those platforms are commonly used for processing and organization.
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4 241 On the other hand, yellow commonly strikes obliquely, capturing the red Spearman.
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7 34 The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a Home Stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.
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10 209 When they cover their breasts it is commonly with a shirt of beaded lartskin.
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12 270 In a culture where the gracious exchange of mates is commonly practiced this device, a civilized courtesy, provides the husband's friends with information that may be pertinent to the timing of their visits.
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15 253 "A girl is commonly branded on the left or right thigh," I said, "sometimes on the lower left abdomen".
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15 300 "They are commonly kept barefoot," I said, "and are clad in brief tunics.
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15 846 Commonly only one woman in, say, forty or fifty is a slave.
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15 970 "Commonly not," I said.
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18 44 The other hunters in the boat, discarding their buckets, seized up their lances, slender hunting tools, with fixed heads, commonly used not in throwing but in thrusting.
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21 191 '" When one slave girl is beaten by another the loser commonly finds herself forced to call the winner 'Mistress'.
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22 139 Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle.
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24 389 Simply to look upon you, a beautiful slave, will commonly be enough to stimulate their lust.
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28 185 Its hunt, and its day, commonly begins with the fall of darkness.
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34 69 For example, it commonly digests at its leisure, but, if it anticipates proximate exertions, it can hurry the process.
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35 421 Kurii and their human servitors commonly make use of such.
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37 33 When more than one sleen, or girl, pulls the sled, they are commonly kept on a single trace.
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Book 13. (34 results) Explorers of Gor

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37 13 "I love you!" But he continued to treat her unremittingly with the discipline and harshness commonly accorded a fresh capture, not with the authority and rough affection commonly given to a girl who is so enamored of her master that she can scarcely be beaten from his feet with whips.
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1 73 The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the rig...
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1 123 The tile dance is commonly performed on red tiles, usually beneath the slave ring of the master's couch.
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1 319 These, usually criminals and debtors, or prisoners taken in wars, then enslaved, are commonly sold cheaply and used for heavy labor.
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1 742 It was also the home port of the League of Black Slavers but their predations were commonly restricted to the high seas and coastal towns well north and south of Schendi.
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2 16 The Vart is a small, sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks.
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2 41 The first word that a Gorean baby learns is commonly, "Yes".
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4 384 The larger canals in Port Kar, incidentally, have few bridges, and those they have are commonly swing bridges, which may be floated back against the canal's side.
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4 391 Along the sides of the major canals there are commonly hundreds of boats moored.
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4 762 Slave girls are commonly branded on the left thigh.
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4 816 The girl is commonly shown the iron, that she may understand its might, its heat and meaning.
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5 38 First girls can be cruel and petty but, commonly, they attempt to govern with intelligence and justice.
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5 582 It is commonly done only to the lowest of pleasure slaves.
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5 599 They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches.
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6 69 I have chosen, however, to retain the inland words, as they are those which are commonly used.
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6 348 This is commonly used only in moving east or upstream from Schendi.
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14 6 Gorean slaves, incidentally, are commonly carried over the threshold when they first enter a master's house or place of residence.
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14 10 The oafish male, commonly, does not even understand what is going on.
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14 28 The man commonly places the bond on the slave.
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14 34 Similarly the owner of kaiila or verr will commonly lock the stable or close the pen.
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14 545 For example, if she is somewhat farther away, it is easier for her to display herself in all her beauty; if she wishes to wheedle for his caress she may approach quite closely; if she is receiving instructions she may kneel a few feet away; if she is begging to serve his pleasure she may kneel at hi...
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18 148 Such sheaths are common in the Tahari but, in the equatorial interior, where men are commonly bare-armed, I gathered that they were an interesting novelty.
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24 182 The tharlarion, when it takes large prey, such as tabuk or tarsk, or men, commonly drags the victim beneath the surface, where it drowns.
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29 182 "But a man, commonly," she asked, "would not hurt me or abuse me without a reason, would he?" "He may do so, if he wishes," I said, "particularly in your training, but, of course, normally he would not do so.
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32 157 There are commonly two large rains during the day, one in the late afternoon and the other late in the evening, usually an Ahn or so before midnight, or the twentieth hour.
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32 224 This is just as well for the sleen, commonly, hunts on the first scent it takes upon emerging from its burrow after dark.
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32 405 An Earth woman who exhibits sensuous movement is commonly ostracized or in some other way socially punished.
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34 815 To be sure, the Gorean commonly alters the pronunciation somewhat, to conform with phonemic variations with which he is more familiar.
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43 73 One of the first things a captor commonly does with a woman is to take away her clothing.
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43 76 Also, of course, a captor commonly wishes to look upon the beauty of his capture.
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49 11 Commonly, however, only four or five of us, two men, and two or three women, paddled at a given time.
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51 106 Too, of course, commonly, they are collared, and "clad kajir," or limited to the revealing garments, if any, regarded as appropriate for slaves.
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56 16 On the Ukungu shield there is, commonly, a tuft of feathers.
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57 171 "What is done in Port Kar," asked Lana, "to a girl who is not found to be fully pleasing?" "Commonly," I said, "she is bound hand and foot and thrown to the urts in the canals".
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Book 14. (31 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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24 140 A free woman will commonly have her own bed; a slave will commonly be chained at the foot of her master's couch.
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1 571 The rules for conformance and the sanctions against difference are seldom explicit; indeed, it is commonly denied that there are such rules and sanctions.
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3 267 One purpose they are commonly used for is to hunt down and destroy slaves.
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3 312 "You will commonly," she said, not unkindly, "when kneeling before a free woman, keep your knees spread, unless your lady wishes otherwise".
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4 203 The hair of slave girls is commonly worn long and loose, unbound.
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4 234 In children, of course, the punishments are commonly forgotten, at least on conscious levels.
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7 309 I resisted the impulse to trace lightly in the palm of her left hand a small cursive "Kef," the staff and fronds, that letter used commonly in the branding of female slaves.
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7 431 The slave girl is commonly desired and prized by her master; she is one of his treasures.
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7 461 Indeed, the female slave is commonly the envy of free women.
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11 412 Such borders generally do not exist on Gor, though, to be sure, certain things are commonly understood, for example, that the influence of, say, the city of Ar, has not traditionally extended north of the Vosk River.
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11 558 Too, it might be mentioned, some masters commonly keep their girls nude in their own compartments.
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12 359 Commonly they are highly trained.
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12 363 For example, a captured, enslaved Ubara would commonly bring a very handsome price.
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13 122 The huge war tharlarion are commonly guided by voice signals and the blows of spears on the face and neck.
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13 210 In such a wagon the girls are commonly chained by the ankles to a metal bar which runs down the center of the wagon bed.
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13 305 The Gorean soldier is commonly a professional soldier, usually of the caste of Warriors.
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13 403 I then understood why Goreans commonly bind the hands of women behind their back.
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16 6 Though one is commonly born into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served.
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16 12 For example, a woman in the metal workers does not, commonly, work at the forge, nor is a woman of the builders likely to be found supervising the construction of fortifications.
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16 15 A notable exception to the generalization that women of a given caste normally do not engage in caste work is the caste of physicians, whose women are commonly trained, as are the boys, in the practice of medicine.
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17 79 Free women in Ar commonly use cosmetics, but, outside of Ar, usually it is only the bolder women who resort to them.
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19 402 Slaves are commonly kept illiterate.
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21 111 Commonly this is a pleasant time for the girls, kneeling on cloths on the wooden floor, sewing and chatting, but today they were quiet and, heads down, worked and did not speak.
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21 116 The wool of the hurt is usually used for male slave garments; it absorbs perspiration well; and rep-cloth is commonly used for female slave garments; it is quite thin and clings well to the curves of the female body.
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21 233 Men of Treve commonly disdain to conceal their identity.
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22 25 Free women, drinking, commonly lift their veil, or veils, with the left hand.
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22 351 Commonly, in a Gorean tethering or chaining situation, of this sort, where neither fastening has as yet been effected, that bond which is on, or near, a woman's body is the first to be placed; similarly, of course, it is the last to be removed.
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25 306 We had, thus, far less freedom of movement than is commonly accorded to females.
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27 390 It had indeed been a frank, bemused scrutiny to which Miles of Vonda had subjected the lofty Lady Florence, the sort of scrutiny commonly reserved for, and accorded to, slaves.
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34 185 And the girls themselves, of course, are well aware, those beauties in their collars, the luscious little beasts, that they are an important and precious, and valuable and beautiful, element in Gorean society, domestic animal or no, and accordingly they commonly walk with pride.
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34 188 The male fulfills himself in the mastery, and the girl, sheltered, and cared for and nurtured, and commonly loved, even madly, though masters usually attempt to conceal this from their slaves, receives the strict, uncompromising domination without which she cannot attain her full womanhood.
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Book 15. (28 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 87 The log warehouses for slaves are commonly double-walled and the girls are kept stripped within them, and commonly wear ankle chains, except when the guards wish otherwise.
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4 148 She is then commonly released.
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4 150 Such a woman commonly begins to take risks inappropriate for a free woman.
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4 465 Indeed, boys are commonly trained in these skills once they reach adolescence.
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4 475 This sort of thing, this sort of training, however, is commonly, as much as possible, kept outside the ken of free women, who might find the matter disturbing.
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6 104 Windows are commonly small and from eight to ten feet above a girl's head.
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6 106 The floor areas are commonly wood except for a central strip of dirt some twenty feet wide.
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6 111 The ground level is commonly reached by ascending a dirt ramp.
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9 133 And yet I knew that on Earth such women commonly languished, their beauty denied its meaning and fulfillment, their beauty not summoned forth, not commanded forth, for the pleasure, the sport and service of strong men.
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10 212 It was of interest to me that she did not show Miss Henderson the respect that a female slave commonly accords a free woman.
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10 281 "Too," I said, "it is commonly regarded as the name of a free man".
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12 27 Such rings are commonly used for chaining slave girls, generally by the neck, or left ankle, to the foot of their master's couch.
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14 45 Workers do not commonly carry pouches at their work.
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17 31 For a woman, remanded to a praetor, the penalty is commonly that she herself will then wear the collar".
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19 67 In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which is valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits.
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21 28 The third reason is a more Gorean reason; it is that many, perhaps most, slave raids, as opposed to major attacks on cities, have as their principal object not the acquisition of free women, who are commonly well protected, but rather of slaves.
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21 282 It commonly takes fifteen to twenty minutes to bring a free Earth female to orgasm.
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21 292 She must, for example, address free persons deferentially and, commonly, will kneel in their presence.
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21 293 Her garb, too, is commonly distinctive; it is usually inexpensive and brief; sometimes it is only a rag; it is designed to remind her of lowliness; it is designed, too, of course, generally, to leave little doubt as to her charms.
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21 351 Masters commonly use it, even with experienced girls.
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23 169 When the whip is cracked, however, the girl will commonly react as though she has been struck.
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24 65 It consists, commonly, of three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter, and the binding, which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head.
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24 522 Even then she commonly enters it not as a free person, directly, but as a slave, from the lower left, or bottom, after first kneeling and kissing its furs.
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25 228 Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently lucrative, it...
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26 34 She was barefoot, of course, as slaves are commonly kept.
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28 234 "I commonly work on the docks in Victoria".
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30 216 The collar was very beautiful on her throat, and her dark hair, loose and soft, as a slave's hair is commonly worn, was soft and lovely about her shoulders.
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32 18 It was he who was commonly in charge of the workers at the windlass.
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Book 16. (49 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 1436 It will be noted, in passing, though I suppose it has been clearly implicit in these remarks, that whereas on Earth the male is commonly the pursuer and is frequently frustrated by the flight, inaccessibility, aloofness, disinterest, and frigidity of his quarry, a quarry commonly not worth pursuing,...
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8 56 On the other hand, it must be admitted that Gorean free women commonly so robe and veil themselves, so colorfully, so exotically, and in such delicate and provocative arrangements, as to call, however inadvertently, and however contrary to their sincerest wishes, a fellow's attention to themselves.
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8 69 Such things commonly bring a storm of leather, the remedial rain of the lash.
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8 120 Similarly, they are commonly available to the crew, to content and please them.
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8 324 The Earth girl, commonly, did not know that such joys, truly, could exist.
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8 563 If he knocks it is usually only to make his presence known to the slave, and the knock is commonly authoritative and rude, often startling her, even though she expects it, signaling her in no unclear or ambiguous fashion that she is to prepare herself, and well, to greet him, her master, which she d...
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9 165 Beneath the first hold is the lower hold, but this is little more than a damp crawl space, containing the bilge, and sand, which, on Gorean vessels, commonly serves as ballast.
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9 252 "By what name have you commonly been known, Slave?" I inquired.
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9 257 "By what name have you commonly been known, Slave?" I asked.
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11 52 Scraps of food were commonly thrown to the girls through a window in the grillwork on the side of the room to our left.
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11 156 If a young man is giving a proper and refined dinner, his girl, modestly attired, will commonly serve it, shyly and deferentially, quietly and self-effacingly, as befits a slave.
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11 167 The garment is drawn on by the girl over her head and down upon her shoulders; it is worn, thus, like a poncho; it is commonly belted with binding fiber or a bit of light chain, something with which the girl may be secured, if the master wishes.
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11 169 The men of Tharna, incidentally, commonly give their girls little to wear, even by Gorean standards, and tend to take profound satisfaction in their near nudity.
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11 190 Needless to say, the camisk most commonly found in great Turia, the Ar of the south, as it is sometimes called, is that camisk which Goreans, generally, know as the "Turian camisk".
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16 285 There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves.
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17 242 "The levels of skill in the Coin Girl, of course," said the girl with the leash, "are commonly much lower".
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18 91 To be perfectly candid, however, the slave girl is a lovely, vulnerable, highly sensitive organism; the rational master commonly, unless she chooses to be troublesome, handles her with delicacy and affection; if she is displeasing, of course, even in small ways, she must expect to be shown little or...
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18 108 It was the sort of garment which, commonly, would be worn only by the most lascivious of dancing slaves writhing before strong, rude men in the lowest taverns on Gor.
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18 164 Two men, it seemed, she loved, he whom she had served in the holding of Policrates, he who had treated her with the insolence commonly accorded an Earth-girl slave by Gorean masters, and he whom she had served on the stones of the Street of the Writhing Slave, he who had treated her as a full and lo...
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18 399 If a magistrate should chance upon them in some alley he will commonly say, "Thigh," to them, and they will turn the girl, so that he may see if she is branded or not.
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18 400 If she is branded, he will commonly continue on his rounds.
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18 407 There is little difficulty, commonly, incidentally, in distinguishing between the free woman and the slave.
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18 408 The garment of the slave is usually brief, distinctive and sexually exciting; it is designed to show her to men; the garments of the free woman, on the other hand, are commonly multitudinous, concealing and cumbersome; they are designed to protect her modesty, and hide her from the eyes of men.
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18 416 She will not be recognized for, commonly, when she goes out, she is veiled.
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18 419 The excursions of such women, commonly, grow more bold.
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18 562 I was sufficiently objective, of course, to recognize that in the common appraisals of slave flesh, and its gradings, and in the prices commonly commanded by such flesh in the markets, she would count as only being somewhat above average.
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19 126 Commonly, if the master is home, and she is not under orders, as in, say, running an errand, or conducting regular business, such as shopping or gardening, she must, on her knees, beg his permission to leave the house, usually specifying her itinerary and when she expects to return.
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19 390 These girls may be exchanged among the men, but commonly they are not.
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19 1108 In this form of slavery, which is commonly used for disciplinary purposes, or for the amusement of the master, the woman is not permitted to rise from all fours; similarly she is not permitted human speech, though she may signify needs and desires by such means as cringing, and moaning and whimperin...
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20 430 Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars.
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20 545 To be sure, of course, the color of the garment, on Gor, would not be likely to be white, but, commonly, red or yellow.
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20 546 White, on Gor, is a color commonly associated with virginity.
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20 570 Such straps, incidentally, are commonly used to bind the hands and feet of women.
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20 575 Slave girls, it might be mentioned, commonly wear their hair long.
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20 579 Lastly, it might be mentioned that the Gorean slave girl is commonly barefoot, depending, of course, on the latitude, the weather, and such.
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20 580 In the house she commonly walks on tiles, rugs, smooth dark floors, and such.
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20 588 The footwear commonly consists of hose and slippers, both often quite ornate.
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20 601 This can, of course, be a source of great embarrassment to the woman as, commonly, it is only the legs of a slave which are bared.
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20 652 Too, commonly, it might be mentioned, in passing, that the Gorean slave girl may not clothe herself to any extent whatsoever without first having obtained permission to do so from the master, or his agent.
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20 729 The men, save I, rose as one to their feet, for Gorean men commonly stand when a free woman enters a room.
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20 863 It belongs, generally, to a genre of dances commonly known as the Lure Dances of the Love-Starved Slave Girl.
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20 983 The master commonly has a record of such measurements and many masters, using a tarsk scale, used for small livestock, and slave tapes, periodically check their lovely properties, making certain that they are maintaining the measurements.
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20 1439 Accordingly, on Gor, it is commonly the slave who is the needful petitioner, hinting, even kneeling and pleading, lips to feet, and the man he who decides if, and to what extent, her needs may be satisfied.
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20 1583 They commonly regard themselves, at least among themselves, as superior to free women.
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20 1816 This is not so much, of course, because she commonly sells for much less than a sleen or kaiila.
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21 341 "Earth girls are commonly regarded as being among the most desirable of slaves on Gor," I said.
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21 525 On Gor earrings are not worn by free women, and are commonly put upon only the lowest and most sensual of slaves.
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21 700 Masters are commonly indulgent of the uncontrollable spasms of their female slaves.
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21 869 Commonly she will kneel at its lower left side, or bottom, and then kiss its furs, or covers, after which she will crawl into it on her belly.
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Book 17. (49 results) Savages of Gor

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1 327 "It might interest you to know that, from their point of view, they commonly regard humans as subrational, as an inferior species, and, indeed, one they commonly think of in terms little other than of food".
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1 119 It is easy to see why free women on Gor do not wear them, and why they are, commonly, only put on low slaves.
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1 413 The claws, retractable, on the feet are commonly left unfiled.
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1 796 The Red Savages, as they are commonly called on Gor, are racially and culturally distinct from the Red Hunters of the north.
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1 833 The pigments, commonly mixed with hot water or glue, are usually applied by a chewed stick or a small brush, or pen, of porous bone, usually cut from the edge of the kailiauk's shoulder blade or the end of its hip bone.
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1 1017 Hunting lances are commonly longer, heavier and thicker than war lances.
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1 1094 It is only that they do not take pride, commonly, in doing so.
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1 1096 Accordingly the red savage will seldom go out of his way to slay a white person; he commonly sees little profit in doing so; in killing such a person, he is not entitled to count coup.
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2 148 Keeping a girl in ignorance is commonly thought useful in her control and management.
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2 202 The women were chained nude, of course, for that is the way that slave girls are commonly displayed for their sale, particularly in low markets, and, indeed, even in a private sale from one of the purple booths in the courtyard of a rich slaver there will come a time when the slave, even an exquisit...
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2 305 The urt, being an air-breathing mammal, commonly makes its strike at the surface itself, approaching the quarry with its snout and eyes above the water, its ears laid back against the sides of its long, triangular head.
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2 348 It is almost always the better looking women who are taken for slaves, and, of course, in breeding slaves, it is commonly only the most beautiful of female slaves who are used, these usually being crossed, hooded, with handsome male silk slaves, also hooded.
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2 361 It has been found that intelligence, of a feminine sort, as opposed to the pseudomasculine type of intelligence often found in women with large amounts of male hormones, is commonly linked, apparently genetically, with these two hitherto mentioned properties.
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3 33 Such tradesmen and artisans commonly included some five to ten towns in their territory.
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4 121 "Are these barbarians commonly shipped west over the Boswell Pass?" I asked.
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4 155 If the girls are not virgins such a teamster commonly has his pick of the load.
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8 485 It was almost as though he were purchasing them for some purpose other than that for which slave girls are commonly purchased.
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9 28 Perhaps this is because, commonly, agriculture provides a stabler cultural milieu and can, normally, support larger populations on less territory.
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12 99 These are commonly reserved by the red savages for their white female slaves.
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12 210 It commonly goes over the belt or cord in the back, and down and between the legs, and then comes up, drawn snugly tight, over the belt or cord in the front.
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13 658 Commonly only the finest, the most exquisite, the most feminine, the most desirable females are enslaved, for those are the ones that appeal most to men.
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13 900 Similarly, commonly, she may not speak without permission.
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13 948 She is dressed in a certain way, for example; she is commonly collared; she is subject to discipline; her performances are commanded, and subject to scrutiny and improvement, and so on.
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13 950 Too, you will commonly have a gauge of your progress; if your master is not pleased you will be beaten or whipped".
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13 953 "They commonly develop into the hottest of slaves".
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13 1188 She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
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13 1256 "You are doubtless familiar, from your former world, with arts such as sewing and cooking, commonly thought appropriate for women," I said.
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13 1263 "But beyond such arts as cooking and sewing, arts commonly thought appropriate for women, arts with which you are familiar, there are, obviously, many other arts.
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13 1279 The free woman deems it sufficient that she should exist, the slave girl, on the other hand, is expected not only to exist, but to excel; indeed, she fears only, commonly, that she may not be sufficiently marvelous for her master.
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13 1325 "Yes," I said, "for the slave girls who are not pleasing are commonly killed".
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13 1474 "Free persons do not commonly speak freely of them," I said.
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13 1502 "Such expressions," I said, "are commonly to be spoken of, and by, free persons.
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13 1552 Too, to be sure, there is, for physiological reasons also, commonly, some boosting of the female's responses, as the result of the binding, the restraint.
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14 272 The same frigidity which may be accounted a virtue among free women, figuring in their vanity competitions, how well they can resist men, is commonly among slaves an occasion for the imposition of severe discipline; it can even constitute a capital offense.
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14 318 Such saddles are not uncommon among the red savages, though they are commonly used for visiting, trading and ceremonial journeys.
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14 319 In hunting and war the red savage commonly rides bareback.
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14 613 Girls, thus, under the control of first girls, reporting to the masters, commonly keep a good order among themselves.
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14 830 Red masters commonly give such names to their white slaves, trivial names that seem fitting for slaves.
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14 1124 Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak.
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14 1192 The Memory, as it is called, and their hatred for the white man, had taken priority, as it commonly did, over their bloody and almost continuous intertribal differences.
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15 29 For example, a message which commonly means that kailiauk have been sighted may, by prearrangement, be understood to communicate an intention of attack to a collaborative force".
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15 104 What if he should interpret her gaze as suggesting the least insubordination or insolence? Are they truly prepared to have the soles of their feet lashed or to live on bread crusts for the next five days? But, on the other hand, there is, on Gor, in circles of the mastery, no discouragement, commonl...
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17 215 Tactical instructions in a melee, incidentally, are normally administered to the red savages, in their units, commonly warrior societies, or divisions of such societies, by blasts on a whistle, formed from the wing bone of the taloned Herlit, or movements of a long, feathered battle staff.
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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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17 632 Human motivation is commonly complex.
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17 634 Such folk commonly see things in terms of women, gold and power.
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17 685 The entrenchment of eccentric beliefs is commonly perpetrated most successfully on the innocent and defenseless, even more successfully than on the ignorant and desperate".
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19 80 The red horizontal bar, or bars, as the case is, is commonly associated with the Kaiila, the Cutthroat tribe.
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19 657 The girls, commonly, treasure even the tiniest rag which can afford them some shielding, however pathetic, from the imperious gaze of masters.
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 88 Individual kills on such animals, incidentally, are commonly made from distances where one can almost reach out and touch the beast.
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1 158 The expression 'Pte', literally, stands for the kailiauk cow, as 'Tatanka' stands for the kailiauk bull, but it is commonly used colloquially, more generally, to stand for the kailiauk in general.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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2 278 I have mentioned that masks are commonly worn in serious drama and sophisticated comedy, such as it is; I might also mention that they are not worn in most of the minor forms, such as mime or story dance, unless called for by the plot, as in the case of brigands, and so on; farce, on the other hand,...
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7 154 For example, a brown tag commonly signifies a low slave, such as a mere kettle-and-mat girl or a pot girl, little more than female work slaves, and so on, whereas a gold tag commonly signifies a much higher grade of slave, usually a trained pleasure slave or a dancer.
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13 281 This low gait commonly kept it inconspicuous among the large, migratory urt packs with which it commonly moved.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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5 455 To be sure, a female slave is commonly regarded as far more valuable than a tarsk, but, then, too, commonly, of considerably less value than a trained sleen.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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19 836 The slave is commonly put to her master's purposes, and, accordingly, is commonly sexually fulfilled, profoundly and richly.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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18 66 Most commonly, of course, they will be slaves, as they, often beautiful, are the commonly desiderated quarry of the net and rope, but, too, of course, doubtless, at least in part, because free women are more difficult to obtain, being more carefully sheltered, protected, and guarded.
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Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

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1 76 She, and those like her, are commonly little informed, commonly kept much in ignorance.
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13 184 The forest sleen commonly buries its dung, thereby tending to conceal its presence; the prairie sleen, running in packs, and more widely ranging, commonly, does not.
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19 704 There was nothing untoward in this, or unique to her condition, which was that of slave, for Gorean women in the high cities, and particularly those of high caste, commonly eat kneeling, or reclining, at low tables, as Gorean men in the high cities, particularly those of the higher castes, commonly ...
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25 1118 In any event, aware of her status and station the Gorean free woman, particularly if of high caste, commonly regards herself, and is culturally justified in doing so, as a very special and superior creature, one generally aloof and unapproachable, one commonly lofty and exalted.
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Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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1 506 She is not revived, commonly, unless they wish to enjoy her on the voyage, until she is on Gor, commonly in the house of a slaver.
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36 113 Beautiful women tend to be vain of their beauty, and it is natural for them to nurse, guard, and enhance it, and slave girls, commonly the most beauteous of all, for commonly it is only the most beautiful of girls which are taken for collaring, are no exception.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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38 291 Round ships, incidentally, commonly made use of slaves, fastened to the benches, but the long ships, ships of war, commonly relied on free oarsmen, for reasons which, I suppose, are obvious.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1191 Whereas free women commonly despise female slaves and treat them with great contempt and harshness, men commonly prize them.
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7 169 The long ships are commonly open to the weather, like the dragons of Torvaldsland, and the round ships, larger and slower, are commonly decked, this to shelter passengers, if there be passengers, and protect cargo.
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8 385 Commonly though, they, and barbarians, as well, come to revel in the lack of veiling, and, indeed, in the shame of their commonly brief and revealing garmenture, if allowed garmenture, become insolent in their shameful pride, so deplored by free women, of revealing their beauty, of both face and bod...
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34 189 Knowing it is there, she will commonly do her best to avoid its stroke, will commonly do her best to be pleasing, fully pleasing.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 731 I had gathered from the instructresses that such women, certainly those of high caste, of such exalted nobility, so taken with themselves, commonly prided themselves on their self-containment, their self-control, their freedom from many human weaknesses, their superiority to many of the elements com...
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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29 170 Panther Girls are commonly filled with hatred; they commonly resent and hate men, whom it seems, oddly enough, they appear to envy and attempt to emulate, but, interestingly, perhaps even more, they commonly resent and hate typical free women, perhaps because such women are too female, and too unlik...
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8 355 The proprietors and workers commonly live on the premises, above or behind the shop, and breakfast is commonly taken in the shop itself, while waiting for business.
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38 110 I was surprised at the remark of the leader, as a sleen, a trained sleen, is commonly worth several slaves, just as a tarn is commonly worth several more.
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41 234 Gorean males commonly sit cross-legged, whereas Gorean women commonly kneel.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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10 22 A tarnster commonly controls the tarn with reins from the basket, unless there is a line of tarns, tied together, which commonly follows a lead tarn, with its own tarnster and basket.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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41 71 The screen may have been folded back and the shop opened as early as the Fifth Ahn, for the shops of craftsmen commonly open early, and commonly close in the late afternoon, which economy conserves on candles and lamp oil.
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Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 350 Different-color ribbons are commonly indexed to one consideration or another, most commonly the asking price for a scroll, after which negotiations commonly begin.
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8 834 I understood that in Gorean warfare the free were commonly slain, whereas animals, amongst them slaves, would commonly be spared, as loot.
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11 132 There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...
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11 136 Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea...
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39 114 Tower slaves and free women commonly kneel with their knees together; pleasure slaves commonly kneel with their knees spread.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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26 104 The land catapult is commonly stationary and commonly has a stationary target.
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29 146 One reason Gorean men, apprised of the Second Knowledge, commonly regard the females of Earth as slaves is the thoughtlessness with which they commonly bare their features.
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46 46 Most tospits, I knew, commonly had an uneven number of seeds, except the long-stemmed tospit which commonly has an even number of seeds.
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