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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	93	I would not have Talena dance those cruel dances of Gor, which so humbled a woman.	10
12	8	Slowly, with a stylized movement, the helmet was lifted, and I found myself staring up into a gray, lean, cruel face, a face that might have been made of metal.	10
13	6	I had lost the girl I had loved, cruel and treacherous though she might have been.	10
14	17	There are various ways in which this cruel mode of execution can be accomplished, and, needless to say, some are more merciful than others.	10

Book 2. (24 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	58	One cruel courtesan in the great city of Ar, now little more than a toothless, wrinkled hag, boasted that more than four hundred men had died because of her beauty.	10
6	111	Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel.	10
11	212	"You are cruel," I said to the Tatrix.	10
11	213	"A Tatrix must be cruel," said Dorna.	10
12	38	"They are cruel," she said.	10
13	140	Everywhere I saw the silver masks, and heard the shrill command, "Slay him!" On every side I saw the merciless gesture, the extended right hand, palm turned inwards, the cruel, downward chopping motion.	10
14	11	Among warriors, the bite of an ost is thought to be one of the most cruel of all gates to the Cities of Dust; far preferable to them are the rending beak, the terrible talons of a tarn.	10
14	166	In the beginning I had refrained from using it often because I feared that the effect of the cruel stimulus might be diminished through overfrequent application, but eventually I had abandoned its use altogether, retaining it only to protect myself in case the bird, particularly when hungry, should ...	10
14	175	I saw the towers of Tharna, and the glittering oval of its arena, that cruel amphitheater, dropping away beneath the wings of the tarn.	10
15	178	Indeed, as I thought of the cruel Tatrix, of what she had done, I wondered if, in fact, I should not take her to Ar and dispose of her on the Street of Brands.	10
17	64	There was not much conversation in the cell, for the men perhaps had little to say, and their bodies were worn with the cruel labors of the day.	10
17	69	The riddle of the Priest-Kings, of their cruel, incomprehensible will, would not be solved.	10
20	13	The corpulent, cruel body was now rent in a hundred places.	10
21	264	Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being.	10
22	117	"It was a cruel dream," I said.	10
22	119	"No," she said, "it was not a cruel dream".	10
22	164	Over a period of time this cruel practice fell into disuse and the women of Tharna came to be more reasonably and humanely regarded.	10
23	95	"It is cruel what they have done," she said.	10
23	96	"It is also cruel what has been done to them," I said.	10
23	107	Certain portions of the city had been burned to exterminate the rebellious elements, and this cruel act of repression had only rallied confused and undecided men to the side of the rebels.	10
24	115	She has learned how cruel and miserable are the ways of Tharna.	10
24	120	"No," I said, "you fought against the cruel ways of Tharna.	10
25	117	I suddenly knew the answer, that Thorn somehow had loved this cruel woman, that his warrior's heart had been turned to her though he had never looked upon her face, though she had never given him a smile or the touch of her hand.	10
26	91	"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet".	10

Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	19	Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to Priest-Kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wretches who think to find the ...	10
2	101	This may seem cruel but in the long run it tends to be conservative of human life; it is better, as the Goreans say, for one man to die than many.	10
2	120	This ridge can be penetrated by the spear but anything less than a perfect cast will result in the weapon's being deflected through the cheek of the animal, inflicting a cruel but unimportant wound.	10
9	85	After a time she spoke, her words cruel with contempt.	10
9	163	Her voice had borne the cruel, icy, confident, passionate menace of a woman from Treve, accustomed to have what she wanted, who would not be denied.	10
9	213	I found myself tempted to break her head against the foot of the stone couch, for she was worthless, treacherous, seductive, cruel, vicious, worthy only of the collar, irons and the whip! She shook her head numbly as though denying charges I had not voiced.	10
16	187	They had been long, cruel, lonely years.	10
25	2	They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...	10
25	185	To my surprise I saw her lips gently kiss the cruel leather thong which so tightly bound her wrists.	10
26	294	Had I not known how vicious and deceitful she was, how cruel and treacherous, I might have permitted myself a word of kindness to her.	10
28	122	It was no longer in my heart to be cruel to Vika of Treve, no matter who or what she might be.	10

Book 4. (22 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	105	He is cruel, cruel, cruel".	10
25	925	"He is a cruel, cruel master," she said.	10
2	37	Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes...	10
7	155	I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...	10
8	254	I supposed that the young man would never be likely to wear the scar, without which, among the stern, cruel Tuchuks, he would be the continuous object of scorn, ridicule and contempt.	10
8	267	Tuka, in the matter of teaching Elizabeth the language, had been especially cruel.	10
8	356	She had perhaps observed the running of Tuka and the Kassar girl, trying to watch and learn, but she was of course utterly inexperienced in this cruel sport of the men of the wagons.	10
8	557	Needless to say many a slave girl has been injured in this cruel sport.	10
10	26	"Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city.	10
10	31	"Do not be cruel".	10
10	123	What good would that information do her? It might make her own bondage seem more cruel, or perhaps fill her with foolish hopes that Kamchak, her master, might someday bestow on her the same beautiful gift of freedom.	10
10	462	I thought, all things considered, that the stipulation of Kamras regarding weapons was cruel and shameful.	10
11	357	Suddenly Elizabeth Cardwell said, perhaps unwisely, "You are cruel".	10
13	96	"It's not true!" she whispered over and over, sobbing as she had not from the cruel strokes of the whip.	10
15	84	I suspected, though the girl would not have dreamed of making the admission, that her heart as well as her body might now rightfully have been claimed as his by the cruel Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
16	263	"You are cruel to show it to him," said Ha-Keel.	10
16	322	Tuchuks do not make good spies, for they tend to be, albeit fierce and cruel, intensely loyal; and there are few strangers allowed in the wagon of a Tuchuk Ubar.	10
24	47	He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though...	10
25	445	It would be cruel for me to remain".	10
25	745	My grip on her ankle was not cruel but in all her womanness she knew herself held.	10
25	910	"What a cruel beast he was," said the girl.	10
28	8	I recalled how cruel she had been to Elizabeth in the long months she had been with the Tuchuks, and how she had tormented her even when she was helpless in the cage of a sleen, mocking her and poking at her with the bosk stick.	10

Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	96	Then, after a cruel pause, the proprietor suddenly cried out.	10
2	124	Hup opened his eyes, startled at not yet having felt the deep, cruel movement of the steel.	10
2	360	I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of...	10
4	245	"Was he cruel to you?" "Yes," she cried, her eyes gleaming, "Yes!" Elizabeth, I had to admit, was a really remarkable actress.	10
5	343	"Both depend much on vision; they can breathe the same atmospheres; they have similar circulatory systems; both are vertebrates; both have not unlike prehensile appendages; further," and here Misk's antennae curled, "both are aggressive, competitive, selfish, cunning, greedy and cruel".	10
9	11	The largest number of slaves, however, far larger than the bred slaves considered as a group, are those who have been born free and have fallen into slavery, a not uncommon fate on this cruel, warlike world, particularly for women.	10
12	375	He claimed over six thousand wins and was, in Ar and certain of the northern cities generally, a quite popular hero; he was said in private life to be cruel and dissolute, venal and petty, but when he climbed to the saddle of a racing tarn there were few who did not thrill to the sight; it was said ...	10
13	85	The thought went through me, bubbling to the roar of water passing my ears, that tomorrow I would scarcely be able to move; each breath was a cruel explosion in my lungs.	10
15	58	Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ...	10
15	79	I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...	10
15	215	At last, after this cruel and almost interminable repetition, utilizing simple psychological principles, intended to brand into the girls' psyche the identity of a Pleasure Slave, the girls began the period of exercises, many of which would, for certain periods of the day, be carried through the nex...	10
17	154	Equaling and perhaps exceeding the fame of Gladius of Cos was that of the swordsman Murmillius, of the cruel games observed in the Stadium of Blades.	10
17	384	"I hate you!" "You are all cruel!" cried Virginia Kent, who was standing now a bit behind Ho-Tu.	10
17	458	Gor is harsh and cruel.	10
19	371	I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw...	10
22	372	His lean face was now calm; there was a cruel smile about his lips, his eyes.	10

Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	278	The question was cruel, but fair.	10
8	315	"And yet now," she said, "you are being cruel to a child, one who is bound and hungry, or thirsty".	10
8	443	Surely, of all, she had been the most cruel, the one before whom I had groveled most slave.	10
8	530	* * * * When I raised my head from my hands I felt hard and cruel.	10
9	58	He was pirate indeed, and slaver, and murderer and thief, a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar.	10
9	541	I knew him to be pirate; and I knew him to be slaver, and murderer, and thief; I knew him to be a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar and, as I looked upon him, the filth and rottenness, I felt nothing but disgust.	10
18	145	And then the sleet became only pelting rain, and the rain became only a cruel wind, and then the cruelty of the wind yielded to only the cold rushing air at the fringe of the storm's garment.	10
18	849	Samos was the predator, the cruel, insensitive larl of a man, the hunter, the killer.	10
18	858	"All men," said Samos, "and all women, have within themselves despicable elements, cruel things and cowardly things, things vicious, and greedy and selfish, things ugly that we hide from others, and most of all from ourselves".	10
18	918	"I have done cruel and despicable things," I told Samos.	10

Book 7. (24 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	426	Surely I am not beginning to find myself responsive to these handsome, virile, dominating, masterful brutes! And surely not when I am naught but a meaningless slave! No, I told myself, never, no, no, no! But I had already begun to sense, fearing the comprehension, how the slave girl sees men, how sh...	10
7	535	"Were you cruel to someone? Did you slight someone? Did you not grant someone the courtesy that was his due?" The woman looked terrified.	10
8	1055	They exploited us, they dominated us, they forced us to serve them, and do their bidding! They were cruel to us! They did not acknowledge our humanity! And mixed with my anger and terror were the instinctual fears of the white-silk girl, dreading to be made a woman.	10
10	593	How exposed this position makes a woman feel, how vulnerable, and yet, too, how it arouses her! How cruel he was! Tears sprang to my eyes.	10
11	40	"You captured me for another! Surely you will not do this to me! My master would surely object! Do not do this cruel thing to me! My master would not wish it!" "Your master," said Targo, "he who arranged for your capture and delivery, instructed that you be delivered to him with the pierced ears of ...	10
12	276	"Slaves are so cruel," said Ute.	10
12	287	I saw the lash fall across the back of the blond girl, she who had held my leash in the forest, who had been so cruel to me.	10
12	342	"That is being cruel to El-in-or," said Ute.	10
12	546	"Tell her not to be cruel to me".	10
13	203	The Goreans, often so cruel to one another, tend to have an affection for wildlife and growing things, which they regard as free, and thereby deserving of great respect.	10
13	331	They seemed rough, cruel men.	10
13	376	They were rough, cruel men, mercenaries, ruthless.	10
13	945	"Warrior," I said, "I was truly, I confess, the favored slave of Haakon of Skjern, but I fled from him, so do not be cruel to me!" "What is the fate of a slave girl who lies?" he asked me.	10
14	247	"Men are cruel," I said.	10
14	413	Might they not be redeemed, perhaps by so little as an act of will, a command, and a handful of thongs? This examination, while doubtless cruel in some respects, is a kindness in others.	10
15	137	* * * * Ute was not particularly cruel to me, as I had feared she would be.	10
15	254	You will not be cruel to her".	10
15	428	But she was not more cruel to me than to any other female slave assigned such servile duties.	10
15	819	My thigh burned terribly, from the branding, and my back and the back of my legs still screamed from the cruel flames of the leather lash.	10
15	957	"They are cruel," said Ute.	10
16	261	Indeed, I think, personally, that women tend to be far more cruel, and severe, with their female slaves than men.	10
16	313	Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, once of Earth, once rich, once spoiled, and cruel and selfish, now only a conquered Gorean slave girl, lay intimately, lovingly, in the arms of her absolute master.	10
17	62	Sometimes I would be a new girl, frightened, young, much fearing him, as Techne might have been; sometimes I would be as though of the scribes, much as Inge might have been, refined, dismayed at her fate; sometimes as a fine lady, of wealth and position, of high caste, as Rena had been, who now must...	10
17	102	I now understood how girls could weep and scratch at the walls of their kennels, how they could squirm, moaning, shackled in their pens, how they could press their face and flesh against the cruel bars that confined them in their tiny cages, moistening the obdurate, grasped steel with their tears.	10

Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	166	Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her...	10
6	489	She was lovely, but cruel looking.	10
7	211	I lifted her from the cruel pinion.	10
8	254	Another, futilely, weakly, was fighting slave snares, held like a trapped animal in the cruel, taut cords.	10
9	223	Do you not think so?" "You are cruel," I said.	10
10	156	"It would be cruel," said he, "to deny you your pleasures".	10
14	61	This night, I conjectured, was reserved for the cruel rites of the panther girls.	10
15	599	"Be cruel to them," she said, "but not to me.	10
15	904	She, with her switch, maintained a harsh and perfect discipline among her charges, but she was not more cruel to them than it was customary to be with Gorean slaves.	10
22	721	Similarly a woman who was particularly ugly, threatening, vicious, stupid, cruel, etc.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	385	"You are cruel," I said.	10
1	386	"Truth is cruel," said Samos.	10
2	260	How hard to me, and cruel, even, seemed the face of the High Initiate.	10
4	9	Torvaldsland is a cruel, harsh, rocky land.	10
6	502	Thorgard of Scagnar, vicious and cruel, one of the most powerful of the northern Jarls, was my enemy.	10
11	143	"No," it said, "once we were hunters, and our bodies still bear, as reminders, the stains of our cruel past".	10
15	350	Priest-Kings, I recalled, regarded Kurii and men as rather equivalent species, similar products of similar processes of evolution, similar products of similarly cruel selections, though on worlds remote from one another.	10
17	285	It seemed first a ghastly infection, a plague; then it seemed like a fire, invisible and consuming; then it seemed like the touching of these men by the hands of gods, but no gods I knew, none to whom a woman or child might dare pray, but the gods of men, and of the men of Torvaldsland, the dread, h...	10

Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	463	"But they can be cruel, very cruel.	10
1	288	They are then sent naked to the block to be sold, in this state of cruel frustration.	10
14	184	It is not a particularly cruel hood, like many, but utilitarian, and merciful.	10
14	646	Our bodies were cruel with cramps and weakness.	10
21	411	This Kur, of all, in the cruel selections of the steel ships, had survived.	10
21	414	This Kur, of all, in the cruel selections of the steel ships, had survived.	10
24	56	Such details are not only useful in discouraging a foolish girl from even thinking of escape, perhaps by lowering herself with knotted covers to the cruel desert below, where she would be almost sure to die, or be shortly recaptured, crazed and thirsting, but, I suspect, are even more useful in taci...	10
24	191	"I was cruel, and terrible," she said, "and petty".	10
24	326	"Then," she said, softly, "you will not even have the kindness to be cruel to me?" "I am not lenient," said I, "Girl, with certain other gratifications you permitted yourself, which were not commanded of you".	10
24	1029	Here, on the different, alien, exotic, perilous, primitive, cruel, beautiful world of Gor, she was no more than a collared slave, an item of lovely merchandise, at the mercy of the wealth and steel of powerful, lustful men.	10
25	643	We were harsh, and hard, and cruel.	10
26	259	Then he seized her by the hair and pulled her head up and flung her on her back to the depth of the luscious silk, and then, with the cruel exploitativeness of the Tahari master, he claimed her—as his own.	10
26	376	"I was cruel and petty, Tarl," she said.	10
26	654	I was cruel and petty.	10

Book 11. (38 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	180	How cruel men are sometimes, not to satisfy such a woman.	10
3	228	They were rough, strong men, who played cruel games.	10
4	477	I was a nameless slave girl on an alien world, at the mercy of primitive warriors in a barbarian camp, an object for their sport, a lovely, two-legged plaything, a mere prize, in their cruel games.	10
4	566	Four times I ran as quarry in the cruel games of that evening.	10
4	582	Did he not love me? I remembered his eyes on me, before the hood had been thrown over my head in preparation for my service in the cruel game.	10
4	598	I had not been permitted, following the cruel game, to slip the Ta-Teera, my slave rag, again upon my body.	10
4	656	It had been he who had first taken Eta, when, the night before I was branded, I had watched her perform, bound, belled and hooded, in the same cruel sport in which I this evening had been so humiliatingly victimized, treated as though I might be only a slave.	10
4	792	Then he placed the blanket over my head, and, with a length of cord, looping it several times about my throat, tied it tightly under my chin, so that again, as in the cruel game, I was hooded.	10
4	947	Afterwards, it might be mentioned, they are usually pleased with the piercing of their ears, and grow quite proud of this erotic dimension added to their beauty; not displeased are they either with the lovely adornments which their master may now order them to fix upon their body; free women, it is ...	10
4	1023	I had been confused, scandalized, outraged, miserable, when I had been put up as quarry and prize in the cruel game of the evening.	10
4	1043	But, in a moment, foolishly, painfully, I was enmeshed in the thorn brush, helpless and caught in its cruel compass.	10
4	1044	My master had then extricated me from my cruel prison and, with spear and rope, opened a path in the brush, through which I might, did I choose, take flight.	10
4	1079	Tonight I had run, belled, both quarry and prize, in a cruel game of barbarian men; insolent, I had been thrown to masters, who had impressed their dominance upon me; no longer had I doubt of their dominance, or of my complete subordination to their will; my master had, later, permitted me to run if...	10
5	189	Yet I did not feel sorry for her, for I had heard from Eta that she was a pretentious, haughty girl, one bold in speech and cruel to her slave maids.	10
5	357	Then I realized how foolish this was, to so personalize nature, to ascribe to the cruel, blind processes of the world deliberate intentions.	10
5	821	Was I first girl? Was I over her? Did I have switch rights upon her body, as Eta had upon mine? Would I be cruel to her? Would I make her suffer? Would she have to please the masters incredibly, and constantly attend them, that they might perhaps be moved to shield her to some tiny extent from my ve...	10
7	52	As the Margin of Desolation, no longer an artificially maintained cruel wilderness, has flowered, it has been said the eyes of Ar have been turning north.	10
7	331	Yet it is a terribly cruel command.	10
7	765	The ankle leash is cruel.	10
7	880	She was being half dragged, not merely perfectly controlled, as is customary, by the cruel grip.	10
7	1108	Could the peasant boys have been more cruel? "You do not think," he asked, "that the dull woman confuses slavery with the chains and the whip?" "No, Master," I said.	10
7	1263	"You were cruel," I said, "Master".	10
7	1264	"How can one be cruel to a slave?" he asked.	10
7	1266	"How can one be cruel to a slave?" "You're crying," he said.	10
7	1314	How cruel could he be.	10
8	61	I hoped she would not be cruel to me.	10
8	294	I did not doubt but what they would be cruel to me.	10
9	1378	Much sport had the cruel peasant boys with me.	10
9	1384	I was covered with sweat and dirt; I was gasping; I was trembling, shaken with muscular stress from the cruel march, as well as with fear, knowing myself fully in their hands, not knowing what fate they might choose to inflict upon me.	10
9	1410	Held against the tree, feeling its bark with the side of my cheek, weeping, shuddering under the blows of the coiled rope, I wondered what I had done to them that they should be so cruel to me.	10
12	182	He scarcely flinched, though the blows were cruel.	10
13	416	Free women are often cruel to beautiful female slaves.	10
16	169	This infamous port is the home port of the famed black slavers of Schendi, a league of slavers well known for their cruel depredations on shipping, but it is also a free port, administered by black merchants, and its fine harbor and its inland markets to the north and east attract much commerce.	10
22	433	It did not seem to me cruel, sardonic, disparaging.	10
23	10	He had been very cruel to me.	10
24	16	There was something like an animal about him, indefinable, unpredictable, tenacious, intelligent, cruel.	10
26	757	"Beast," she wept, "how long will you sport with me?" Many times he brought her to the verge of surrender, teeth clenched, eyes shut, and then let her subside, retaining yet, to her cruel disappointment, a shred of her Earth-girl dignity.	10
28	125	For one thing, it meant that the auctioneer would be in a good humor and that, thus, he would probably be less cruel with us on the block.	10

Book 12. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	28	Are they not harsh and cruel, to deny to men this pleasure? Perhaps.	10
2	400	I enjoyed sharing with them the cruel, mortal games of war.	10
3	26	This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement.	10
3	144	One of the most harsh and cruel slaveries on Gor, it is said, is that of the slave girls of Tharna.	10
4	197	His games, in recent years, had seemed less battles, less cruel, exact duels, than obscure attempts to achieve something on the Kaissa board which even many members of the caste of players did not profess to understand.	10
4	329	Guardsmen, with spear butts and cruel shield rims, forced back two more men from the stage's edge.	10
4	462	"It was a flawed and cruel game," Centius of Cos was reported as having said.	10
5	40	"But I sense that there is an honesty in this, as of the cruel sport of war.	10
9	213	Too, the whip is cruel, the teeth of sleen are sharp, and leech plants blossom.	10
9	219	Cavities are rare in Goreans, incidentally, because of their simple diet and the general absence of cruel emotional stress, with its physiological and chemical consequences, particularly during puberty.	10
9	222	In some respects the Goreans are, perhaps, cruel.	10
10	343	Angrily, then, they, too, set themselves to the work of drawing logs out of that cruel turf.	10
12	669	"You are cruel," she said.	10
14	194	It sped past me and struck Naartok a cruel blow on the forehead.	10
15	96	"You were cruel," she said.	10
15	98	It was not that he meant to be cruel.	10
15	111	It was not that Poalu, though she was first girl, and firm, was cruel to them, but rather simply that Imnak now had little time for them and paid them scant attention.	10
15	779	"How cruel Goreans are!" she said.	10
15	780	"Is this more cruel than making clear the color of her hair and eyes?" I asked.	10
15	1036	"No, that is like a man of Earth! How cruel you are! Do not insult the helpless womanhood of a poor slave.	10
21	193	Such cruel devices help to keep order among female slaves.	10
21	331	"They can often be terribly cruel to slave girls".	10
26	350	But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur.	10
27	79	After we had awakened after our most recent sleep and hitched the sleen to the sled Imnak had thrown out yet another of the cruel pieces of meat.	10
30	83	The training of the assassin is thorough and cruel.	10
35	446	How different such women are, I thought, hard, cruel, calculating, cunning, ambitious operatives, from the more typical women brought to Gor, soft, supine, vulnerable, unconscious, naked, in slave capsules, an identification anklet locked on their left ankle, women selected with different objectives...	10
38	256	"Do you sell us because you are cruel, or because you are kind?" she asked.	10

Book 13. (17 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	108	I was not unusually cruel to her, unless perhaps that was my way, interestingly, of being unusually cruel to her.	10
1	658	"The climate would be cruel upon Kurii," he said, "but it is not impossible".	10
5	38	First girls can be cruel and petty but, commonly, they attempt to govern with intelligence and justice.	10
5	510	Often she tries to dominate males in her vicinity, perhaps in an attempt to punish them for their inability or cruel refusal to understand or relieve her discomfort, perhaps, too, in an attempt to provoke them into an action which will restore her to her place in nature.	10
6	239	The lower portion of her face, the bars cruel against it, thrust toward me.	10
13	613	"How cruel that I should be put in a collar!" She looked up at me.	10
13	807	She had been a pawn in the cruel games of worlds.	10
29	160	"In your cruel way, are you not kind," she asked, "to a girl who is a slave?" "Do you wish to be whipped?" I asked.	10
32	606	I was then, as I wept and begged for mercy, fastened in that cruel position.	10
34	462	She trembled and sobbed, fearing to be the victim of some cruel trick.	10
34	723	The secret slave then knelt joyfully in the sunlit courtyard, on the cruel gravel.	10
34	810	Some masters may reward a hard-working girl with a lovely name; others may torment a slave who has been insufficiently pleasing with a cruel or ugly name.	10
34	1053	"Some cruel brute burned it into my flesh with a hot iron," she said.	10
35	103	I was not unusually cruel to her.	10
45	28	But how can they be women if men will not be men? How cruel a man is to deny to a woman the deepest need of her womanhood.	10
48	133	They are extremely cruel to slave girls, whom they regard as having betrayed their sex by surrendering as slaves to men.	10
57	159	"Will men be cruel to me in Port Kar?" she asked.	10

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	508	"What do you think it means?" "I think, obviously," I said, "it is a cruel joke, and it could have been a dangerous joke.	10
1	1076	How cruel I had been to her! How grievously I had demeaned her! Did I not know she was a person? "Forgive me, Miss Henderson," I wept.	10
3	455	"But I am not cruel," she said.	10
4	15	They are worthless, sensuous little beasts whose passions Gorean men have seen fit, as cruel masters, to ignite.	10
5	172	I am for all practical purposes a man, but one trapped by some cruel trick of nature in a woman's body.	10
5	190	You have had a difficult and cruel day.	10
7	76	Doubtless Gor is impatient, cruel and heartless, but yet, I think, too, it is innocent.	10
7	77	It is like the lion, impatient, cruel, heartless, and innocent.	10
7	153	I did not think that Lola, in her cruelties, or when she had played the cruel trick with the wine, and had prescribed the twenty blows of the snake, had anticipated that she would, one day, be braceleted in my cell, at my mercy as a naked slave girl.	10
7	465	How ambivalent may be their feelings, those of the subdued, helpless, utterly vulnerable slaves, properties only, resenting the chains that are locked unlovingly on their fair limbs, the cuffings and bruises that seem so unfair and unearned to them, the cruel and arduous labors assigned to them, the...	10
7	637	"It was a stupid and cruel thing to do.	10
7	648	"Do not be cruel to me," she begged.	10
7	660	"I am not trying to be cruel to you," I said.	10
7	753	"For what cruel treatment and punishment are you preparing me?" "None," I said.	10
7	785	"Why do you not just do what you are going to do and have done with it? Was I truly so cruel to you that you have seen fit to subject me to these agonies?" I did not know how to reassure her.	10
7	786	"Is there some cruel caprice you intend to practice upon me," she asked, "some humiliating and degrading performance you will exact from me for your pleasure?" "Do not be afraid," I said.	10
7	790	"How cruel and insidious are the men of your world," she wept.	10
10	8	I saw a woman, stern and cruel, in black leather, with leather wristlets, sign a paper.	10
10	216	I hoped, somehow, she had managed to escape the cruel fate of female slavery.	10
11	98	"How cruel Goreans are," I said.	10
11	328	"How cruel they are," she said.	10
11	357	"Men have been cruel to you, haven't they?" I asked, gently.	10
11	361	It had not been my intention to subject her mouth, her throat and breasts, her belly, the interior of her thighs, to the cruel, commanding, raping kisses of the Gorean master.	10
12	19	How cruel was their joke, to present me clad before buyers in garb which, though appropriate perhaps to my world, could appear only homely and foolish in comparison to the garments of Gor.	10
13	306	In a sense, given the cruel selections undergone by his forebears, he has been bred to his work.	10
25	143	Even the cruel cestae of the low pits might have cut away his lower jaw.	10
25	299	In such cases usually one side of the flat wagon bed is used as an auction platform, a small but suitable scaffolding on which may be well displayed the lineaments of the girl's beauty, and on which may be exacted from her the provocative performances demanded by cruel and merciless vendors of their...	10
27	230	"The brigands were cruel, and thorough," said another.	10
32	405	"Cruel laws," she said.	10
32	406	"The Gorean world, in many ways, is cruel," I said, "but its cruelties are unhypocritical and open.	10

Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	156	"Please do not be cruel to me on account of it," she said.	10
1	355	To be sure, sooner or later, this doom, or fate, or joy, is the lot of almost every slave girl, for slave fires, as it is said, are lit by cruel men in their bellies, fires which will rage frequently and may be quenched, if at all, by the kindness, and attentions, of the master.	10
11	115	"Master is cruel to tease a miserable slave," said the girl.	10
11	121	"You are cruel to a miserable slave," she said.	10
11	518	Free women, perhaps envying them their collars, are often extremely cruel to them.	10
23	286	"You are cruel," I said, smiling, "to give her an Earth-girl name".	10
24	122	He who denies a woman her right to serve man, and particularly in such small ways, denies to her a portion of herself; that man is not only a fool, for he is the natural recipient of such attentions, but he is cruel; such a denial, too, can make a woman ashamed to seek sexual gratification for such ...	10
24	682	In this time she does not know if she has been purchased by the man of her dreams, who will control her well, or by some harsh, cruel brute, before whom she must kneel in terror.	10
26	53	"Master is cruel," she smiled.	10
27	52	Besides such things the roughness of hemp, the weight of iron, the cruel, tight clasp of the closely encircling leather straps, are bonds as of gossamer.	10

Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	131	The clothing worn by the girls ranged from the long, classic gowns worn by the girls from the walk, who had welcomed us with song, flowers and dance, on our entry into the holding, to the cruel, heavy scantiness of the close chains, and their brands and collars, of the girls brought up from the lowe...	10
12	194	"Little would have been served by my burdening you with cruel and unproven conjectures".	10
17	652	"He is harsh and cruel, uncompromising and merciless," she said.	10
19	95	This is a discipline fastening, but it is not as cruel as that in which the girl is fastened on her toes.	10
19	642	"But that was surely a joke, a cruel jest," she said.	10
20	956	How long she has waited, in cruel frustration, unfulfilled and lonely, in her cell for just such a moment, that precious opportunity in which she, a mere slave, may be permitted to display and present herself for the consideration of her master.	10
20	1418	How cruel sometimes men can be to female slaves.	10
21	338	"Cruel Master," she said.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	100	"Some are dangerous and cruel," said another man.	10
8	34	Her wrists were crossed and bound before her, in cruel loops of rawhide, and, by a tight loop encircling her body, cutting into her flesh, held tightly before her.	10
12	112	In this way she fears all the men of the society for she does not know who it was who was the most cruel to her.	10
12	116	This will usually be either to he who was most cruel to her or to he who made her yield most abjectly, most rapturously.	10
13	983	"I will be gentle with you this time," I said, "but sometimes, you must understand, you will be used quite differently, for example, with contempt or scorn, or brutality, or cruel indifference, or, perhaps, with ruthless power".	10
13	987	"And sometimes, too," I said, "you may have to serve in bonds, even cruel bonds, such things as thongs, and cords and chains".	10
13	1747	"Masters are cruel," she said.	10
14	753	How almost incomprehensibly cruel it was, how horrifying, how brilliant and insidious.	10
19	797	How cruel could be the tortures of the red savages! She had been found with soldiers.	10

Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	437	"They are cruel!" "They are not cruel," I said.	10
1	141	He had become morose and cruel.	10
1	465	The difficulty of relating to the disfigurement had perhaps been particularly cruel in Hci's case because he had been, apparently, extremely good-looking before this.	10
13	212	"She was harsh and cruel.	10
13	214	"You are cruel," I said.	10
14	528	That cannot be concealed by all the lies and the coarse, cruel cloth in the world.	10
14	557	The memory of a man's touch, of any man's touch, I thought, would be a cruel souvenir for her to carry back to the compound.	10
29	7	"Run! Seek your safety!" I saw another free woman cutting at the hair of other kneeling beauties, freeing them from the cruel hair coffles, that they might flee as best they might.	10
37	320	How well her slave's body, hot and naked, yielding, felt in my arms! "Be cruel to me," she begged.	10
40	746	Were there not many unpleasant, cruel and heavy labors which needed to be performed? And are such not suitable for slaves? "Raise your head," said Seibar to his slave.	10
47	525	How content is the slave, once liberated from the lonely, cruel, externally imposed prison of the sexually inert, rigid, free woman.	10

Book 19. (16 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	137	"I was afraid," he said, "when you brought it in, that you were the victim of an expensive and cruel hoax.	10
4	446	She seemed merciless and cruel; she seemed arrogant, impatient, demanding, haughty, and imperious.	10
9	175	At other times the girl listens, so to speak, to the slave fires in her belly, and seems to become one with them and the dance, and then, soon, must beg the brutes, in her dance, and by her piteous expressions and gestures, to relieve the merciless tensions in her body, allowing her to complete the ...	10
9	221	Too, I know you would not be so cruel as to assign a girl to the whip dance.	10
16	238	He did not seem angry or cruel.	10
18	140	I saw that Speusippus had no intention of doing anything so cruel as putting a brand on me or anything as degrading as putting my neck in a collar.	10
31	111	It seemed to me that most of the women of my world were neither vicious nor cruel.	10
32	140	He had known a cold, supercilious, arrogant woman, one who had been petulant and harsh, one who had been cruel, severe and demanding, an imperious and haughty slut.	10
32	159	It is cruel to have sisters pitted miserably, competitively, against one another for a master's attention and affection.	10
33	40	"The villainess in this matter, the culprit, the instigator of these hostilities, was Sheila, the cruel and wicked Tatrix of Corcyrus".	10
33	239	"I think she can be nasty and cruel," she said, "but, in a collar, she will doubtless be kept well in her place".	10
33	297	I was stupid and cruel.	10
33	1024	"Your motivations were more complex," I said, "and deeper, and more painful and more cruel.	10
36	214	"I was cruel and petty," I said.	10
36	342	"But it seems such sensings did not deter you in your cruel sport!" "Certainly not," I said.	10
36	1638	Perhaps she had been cruel to him.	10

Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	313	"In any event," said Boots, "surely you would not be so cruel, so heartless, so insensitive, as to suggest that I even consider using the scissors, that cruel engine, those divisive knives, upon so wondrous an object".	10
1	512	"You are cruel, all of you!" cried out Linda, the blond Earth-girl slave of Samos, springing to her feet.	10
2	1598	But then, too, they could probably not understand a crowded, cruel, scratching, polluted world, a world without Home Stones.	10
13	359	Not being chained, and because of the table, I had been able to witness the cruel spectacle in the courtyard.	10
16	998	In its nature it would be a prank, a practical joke, perhaps a somewhat cruel one, at the least a broad Gorean jest.	10
16	1085	Once or twice, long ago when she had been haughty and cruel, before she had come to learn her slavery properly, the player would have been willing to teach her the moves of the game but after she had come into his use, his attitude towards her had significantly changed.	10
16	1197	Bina looked at him, startled, her hands twisting in the cruel thongs that confined them.	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1115	"Conceive of it touching your body," I said, "particularly as you might have to wait for it, expecting it, and knowing it was to come, and that you had to submit to it, the cool, cruel touch of it, the caress of it, and as you might be bound, or chained".	10
26	1850	Let him neglect me or be cruel to me.	10
27	74	The woman rejected for bondage, she returned in scorn to the lonely garbage of her freedom, is often inveterately impatient with, and unconscionably cruel toward, the female slave, even more so than is common with the ordinary querulous, contemptuous Gorean free woman.	10
28	35	"That is cruel," she protested.	10

Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	73	How many times I had awakened from sleep, moving against the coarse, narrow cords which had held me down, above and below my breasts and crossed between them, leaving their cruel marks on my body! How many times had I awakened, seeming still to feel the tight bite of cruel shackles on my wrists and ...	10
5	137	Then they put her in a tiny cage, where she could not exercise, and could scarcely move, and, heavily, abundantly, every two hours, using the tube and ball, and the cruel plunger, using rich foods and creams, which she could not taste because of the tube, force-fed her.	10
5	241	He was not being cruel to me.	10
6	271	We were then, in a minute or two, beyond the screaming of the woman and the intense, cruel beating of her stick.	10
6	331	Who knew? It might be easier, then, I supposed, to be cruel to us than to him.	10
6	539	Doubtless there were men here, too, if not as on Earth, men who might be fretful, petty and weak, men the very sight and smell of which I might find offensive, men whose appearance and least touch I might find literally sickening, men I might find unutterably disgusting, men who were unclean, who we...	10
8	145	Surely none of the girls could be as miserable as I! But I saw them, in their misery, in their cruel discomfort, regard me as well.	10
9	291	Were the men not being cruel to me? Could they not see I was naked, and helpless? "Category," I heard, "—Pleasure Slave".	10
9	493	Then, again, I strove to be cold and hard, to be cruel like stone and leather.	10
13	689	If he was so cruel as to deny me his touch, of course, I would, driven by my needs, have to make do elsewhere.	10
14	170	I supposed he knew how cruel Tupita had been to me, how we were enemies.	10
20	190	Sometimes, it is said, that cruel and unfair pressure is applied to farmers, or villages, such as threats, or the burning of crops, and such, but I would think that this would surely be the exception rather than the rule.	10
20	254	Indeed, for all I knew, he might be using others of his girls in these same cruel and delusory labors.	10
27	33	He had judged the distance with cruel exactness.	10
32	227	"How cruel of them," he said.	10

Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	601	"He bought me only to anger his companion, who is terribly cruel to me.	10
6	357	"So take me in your cruel arms like iron," she said.	10
8	542	Too, I recalled she had been contemptuous of me, and haughty and cruel to me, in Port Kar, scorning even the memory of my love, when I had been paralyzed, helpless to move from a chair, the victim of the poison of Sullius Maximus, once one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, before the Sovereignty of the...	10
11	63	It seems to me cruel to have her dwell for hours, perhaps for a day or more, on an impending punishment.	10
11	64	Too, I think it is cruel to hold the slave accountable for reminding the master of a discipline due.	10
11	71	I tend to think it is rather cruel, and unnecessary, and I suspect that any accruing benefits may be otherwise obtained, and as easily, by regimens more typical, regimens less expensive of the slave's misery.	10
16	13	She had been quite cruel to us, I recalled, as our warder, and had much mocked Lady Claudia in her distress, when Lady Claudia, rather than she, had worn the ropes.	10
18	513	I myself, thinking sometimes that thumb cuffs are perhaps a bit cruel, generally prefer, if slave bracelets are not available, a simple thong or a short length of binding fiber.	10
20	393	She struggled to her feet, and then, obedient to the leash, and trying to hurry before the cruel incitements of the stick, she ascended the plank.	10
21	1370	"Her slavery, thus," he said, "will presumably be either simple, and uncompromised, or excessively cruel, and uncompromised".	10
23	128	I could not deny to her that some masters are heartless, that some are inflexible and cruel.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	277	"Lady Ina is cruel," I observed.	10
12	308	"Beware," she said, "lest I be truly cruel to you, lest I truly torment you, lest I lower my veil and permit you to glimpse, ever so briefly, my beauty, a beauty which you will never possess, which you will never kiss or touch, a brief glimpse which you must then carry with you, recalled in frustrat...	10
19	1236	How pleasant it is to make women slaves! How pleasant it is to light the slave fires in their bellies! And how different they then are, so transformed! Or is it cruel to kindle such fire within them, to so enflame their delicious symmetries, to take them out of themselves and turn them into somethin...	10
28	600	Some are rather cruel.	10
31	212	"On behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, and the high council of Ar," said Labienus, "I, as their envoy de facto in the delta, express their regret for the misunderstandings between our states and peoples, and in particular for that resulting in a cruel and unprovoked attack upon an innocent villa...	10
37	106	"And when a woman is needful and ripe for bondage, is it not cruel to deny it to her?" I asked.	10
48	360	"Is this some mad, cruel joke?" "Do not be angry," I said.	10

Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	445	She understands that it may be difficult to please such a master, one likely to be harsh and demanding, who may despise her, who may think nothing of subjecting her to cruel punishments, and that she must accordingly, if she would even live, strive desperately to be pleasing to him.	10
12	83	The Gorean master, after a training period, is extremely unlikely to be cruel to a slave who is sincerely trying to serve and be pleasing.	10
12	403	They are often quite cruel to them, even to those whom they themselves own.	10
14	625	Perhaps this is cruel but it is good business, and it must be recalled that she is only a slave.	10
19	268	"He is the most wonderful of masters!' "But what if you had a harsh master, one cruel or unfeeling".	10
19	596	"But they need not have been so cruel!" she said.	10
19	1348	"Nothing so heartless, so cruel," he said.	10
19	1450	"Do you not think it was cruel not to put her to slave use?" asked Marcus.	10
19	1451	"Not nearly so cruel," I said, "as it might be a few months from now, when she will have been longer a slave".	10
21	121	"It seemed friendly, even kindly, and charming," she said, "but, somehow, underneath, cold, or cruel".	10
21	374	Why was she so cruel to me, only a slave?" "Continue," I said.	10
21	389	"Why are free women so cruel to us, Master?" "Continue," I said.	10
22	527	Indeed, sometimes female slaves are quite cruel to male slaves, taunting or mocking them, and such.	10
25	438	"It was I who, in effect, brought the cruel, burning iron to your thigh, I who in effect had you marked, who saw to it that your lovely neck would be ringed with the indisputable, locked circlet of bondage, who had you, a noble free woman, reduced to no more than meaningless goods, merchandise to be...	10

Book 26. (21 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	714	How could we possibly know what that meant? There was suddenly, from well behind me, yards back, back down the line, a sharp, cruel crack, almost as clear and terrible, in the narrow corridor, as the report of a rifle.	10
8	26	But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl me impatiently, sometimes in...	10
8	131	I felt a wave, cold and cruel, of misery, rising within me, a forlorn, agonizing cry of alienation, of anguish.	10
8	1014	I recalled the guard from the pen who had been, for some reason, unlike the others, so cruel to me, he whose whip I had first kissed.	10
9	16	I had also been warned by more than one guard that I should watch my step with particular care among such creatures, as they enjoyed being incredibly cruel, petty and vindictive towards those such as I, who, doubtless for reasons of their own, they regarded with utter contempt and hatred.	10
9	85	It was from such a man that a woman might beg the collar! Why was he so cruel to me? I wanted only to please him, and as the slave I was.	10
10	104	The men of this world are terribly strict with us, but few of them are cruel.	10
11	1498	Some hoods are cruel but this was a simple, common hood, one which did not even contain a gag, part of its structure.	10
12	484	The man who has everything from a woman is not likely to be dissatisfied, cruel and viciously ambitious.	10
13	574	Others, with coiled wire, with springs and steel teeth, generally designed for the capture of escaped male slaves can be quite cruel.	10
13	833	Yet he had not been cruel with me.	10
19	558	They seldom neglected an opportunity to be cruel to us.	10
19	1190	Too, children can be very cruel, running out with switches, pelting them with pebbles, and such.	10
24	782	She seemed to me one who might have been cruel to slaves.	10
40	26	Perhaps it was only offering its homage to the world, to the environing mystery, that immensity from which we derive, one which spawns us and then abandons us, the unfathomable, uncaring immensity, leaving us conscious in the loneliness, in the knowledge that our laughter and our tears are of no imp...	10
40	88	Our presence here, I feared, was cruel, and intrusive.	10
43	105	I thought the men were very cruel to her.	10
43	110	But, too, I think they were cruel to her because she had not kept properly the office of the first girl, because she had dishonored her trust, because she had entered into an intrigue, because she had coveted gold, because she had betrayed her master.	10
44	210	"I am sorry I was cruel to you!" said Aynur.	10
44	243	All that had seemed cruel and hard about her before was now gone.	10
45	8	Why should he be angry with me? Why should he be cruel to me? I thrust my head down, instantly, terrified.	10

Book 27. (35 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	3	Have we not all been upon occasion petulant, selfish, careless, arrogant, sometimes cruel? Have we not all upon occasion behaved disgracefully, unworthily? Have we not ignored others? Have we not, in lesser or larger ways, injured them, and enjoyed, if only briefly, the smug gratifications of doing ...	10
10	100	"Master is cruel to his slave," she said.	10
10	345	On Earth, she thought, a woman is never punished, no matter what she has done, no matter how cruel and nasty, how vicious and petty, she has been, no matter how much hurt she has brought about, no matter how much injury she has inflicted, no matter how much misery and pain she has caused, no matter ...	10
16	490	Would I yield to him? If this were not a cruel sport of Mirus, my master, pretending to abandon me, pretending to put me up for sale, such as he might buy me! I will not permit myself to yield to men, she thought.	10
16	517	How cruel the Masters, she thought.	10
16	869	Most upper-caste women, whereas they might be smug, haughty or cruel, are not vulgar, regarding vulgar language, allusions, gestures, and such as being incompatible with the dignity of their caste.	10
16	1087	Certainly she did not want to wear so cruel, high, thick, and heavy a collar, one in which she could scarcely lower her head, in effect, a punishment collar.	10
16	1119	The cruel security, the protection, the safety of the iron belt was gone.	10
17	279	Her predicament was not cruel, but Barzak's arrangement, doubtless by intent, did not allow her a great deal of latitude.	10
17	821	Too, Ellen would learn later that slaves were sometimes tied outside, exposed in cruel weather, that they might learn to better appreciate the warmth of a fire, the significance of a blanket, the snugness of a place at the foot of the master's couch.	10
18	95	"I fear them so!" Saying nothing he had dragged her to her feet, she half bent over, his hand in her hair, twisted there, painfully, cruelly, and she then, bent over, thus controlled, this being a common slave leading position, was hurried stumbling out onto the platform, to its very edge, where she...	10
18	618	I have felt their cruel pinches, darted away from their hands, and touches! And I know, too, that whatever I may be, and whatever may be my quality, or whatever price I might bring in a market, you, handsome master, desire me, and heatedly.	10
22	98	Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau...	10
22	114	But, in a moment, she had turned aside, and back, determined to kneel before the free woman and, risking the blows of masters, and risking punishment for speaking without permission, warn the cruel, harsh mistress of the risks she might be running.	10
22	321	This was far better, thought Ellen, than the cruel, cement shelf, boiling in the sunlight, on which Targo had exhibited her, a shelf to which buyers were free to ascend and handle the merchandise, and were even encouraged to do so.	10
22	380	How cruel they are to us! She wondered if her heat had been visible in the exhibition cage, when she had touched the warm bar, kissed it, pressed herself piteously against it.	10
22	651	Please do not bring me again and again to this point, so, cruelly, without permitting me to yield! Just one more touch, Master! Please, another touch, just the tiniest touch! It is all I need! I am your slave! Do not be so cruel! Show me mercy! You have conquered me a thousand times! I am hopelessly...	10
23	340	How cruel of him to tease her so! But he would not do that to her, not to her.	10
26	280	To be sure, it was perhaps a bit more severe, or cruel, than was necessary, and scarcely one in which one would be likely to place a beloved slave.	10
26	546	"Please do not be cruel to me, Master," she whimpered.	10
26	567	Why is he cruel to me, she asked herself.	10
26	1146	How lordlike they are to their slaves! How much we are at their mercy! Men have made us dependent upon them, not only for our food and drink, for even a rag to wear, but, too, in other ways, ways far more profound, dependent upon them for the assuagement of cruel and desperate needs, needs routinely...	10
26	1151	How cruel they are! How I need, want and love them! On Earth, I tried to hate them, as my sisters wished, but would not say, but even in my determination to conform to these sororal demands, and in the midst of my prescribed, routinely uttered critiques and denunciations, I found them fascinating.	10
26	1165	To be sure, how cruel these needs! With them and in them I suffer, well do I know their anguish, but I would not exchange them for the soporific quiescence, the quietude and repose, the numb and frosty serenity, of the unperturbed free woman.	10
26	1173	Imagine now, if you can, the concern, and hopes, of the slave that such needs, such cruel needs, will be recognized by the master, and that he will be moved to attend to them.	10
27	437	Why did she not rejoice? Was she not to be rescued from the grasp of he whom she feared and hated, her cruel master, Selius Arconious? She had little doubt then, though she could not yet see them, who followed them.	10
27	461	She recalled the steam and misery, the cruel labors, of the laundry in the house of Mirus.	10
27	1340	She remembered incidents in the house of Mirus, many in her training, her sometimes almost hysterical despair of ever being able to please her instructors, their impatience with her, her deferent and lengthy serving of formally clad diners, she naked and in a collar, her abuse at the hands of Mirus,...	10
27	1415	But the cruel plan of Mirus had failed of its realization! She had, it seems, done well! How frustrated, how furious, he must have been.	10
28	131	Cast but a glance upon me! Though I am only a slave and animal I exist! I am here! Do not be cruel! Be kind! I am yours, wholly yours! Do not ignore me!" "Rest," said he.	10
30	27	I think it is no secret that the free women, who so despise us, who hold us in such contempt, who hate us so, who are often so cruel to us, envy us our masters and our collars.	10
30	66	Sexuality, in its fullness, in its entirety, in its thousand strands and facets, in its thousand modalities and expressions, from almost unendurable, ruthlessly imposed sexual ecstasies, from which the slave may fear she will not survive, to the manner in which a meal is served, from the cruel, rapi...	10
30	111	A cruel punishment for slave girls is to shave the head or crop the hair.	10
30	734	Gorean men, while demanding and severe, are seldom cruel.	10
30	763	You should understand that these needs, as she is not a free woman, are acute and cruel.	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	295	How helplessly she would find herself his! Are the Priest-Kings not cruel? "May I call you 'Tarl'?" she inquired.	10
8	81	"How cruel are the Priest-Kings," said Agamemnon.	10
16	30	Could there have been calculated polarities involved? Might Priest-Kings have been so cruel? Surely not.	10
22	94	And, as the Priest-Kings, in their cruel wisdom, had chosen her for her desirability, and particularly to a man such as Cabot, indeed, had chosen her to be irresistible to him, so, too, in her way, she had been matched to Cabot, as slave to master, that he would be irresistible to her.	10
22	161	"The Priest-Kings are cruel," said Peisistratus.	10
30	158	"How cruel are the masters," she said.	10
40	92	"Do not be cruel! Do not deprive me! My needs are a thousand times beyond those of a free woman! My needs are not those of free woman, but of a slave!" "An aroused slave?" "Yes!" "The needs are different?" he asked.	10
46	65	"Agamemnon," said Cabot, "is cruel, arbitrary, unjust, a vain and murderous tyrant, perhaps even mad.	10
50	34	Does she not, eagerly and piteously, driven by her aroused needs, as before, crawl to his slave ring, soliciting his least touch? Even were he a cruel and hated master, even of an enemy city, she could not help but behave so.	10
73	57	They become cruel, and mean, and warlike, and will fight for roots, and will feed on, and kill, one another, and others".	10
73	201	Keeping her in ignorance then is one of many means, perhaps one somewhat cruel, by which she may the better be informed of her bondage.	10
78	108	"How cruel are the masters!" exclaimed Corinna.	10
79	426	If you were to touch me, I would cry out, and sob, and squirm in the dirt beside you! My belly is hot, and begs! Please touch me, Master! Give me the surcease my body pleads for! I am your slave! I knew I was your slave from the first moment I saw you, in that cruel container, in that terrible place...	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	68	"Sometimes the Priest-Kings," I said, "as a most cruel punishment, condemn an individual to Earth".	10
3	750	That, however, seems to me cruel.	10
4	184	"That is a cruel thing to do, and Pertinax, my master, has not had it done to me".	10
5	546	Eager to escape the toils of her cruel mistresses, and hoping that she might be returned to civilization, and even freed, she had begged him to buy her.	10
5	688	At this there was a coursing of rude, cruel, unfeeling mirth amongst the rough fellows on the beach.	10
7	366	She is so needful, and beautiful! Too, have not men been responsible for the tormenting acuity of those very needs which so distress her? Has it not been men who have seen to it, with an almost cruel intent, that slave fires will rage in her lovely belly? Should not those who have set such tinder al...	10
10	643	"Let this cruel jest proceed no further.	10
11	114	"I am sorry," she said, "that I was cruel to you".	10
22	558	Is it not amusing, an exercise in power, though one somewhat cruel? Let him see to it that she is distraught, confused, uncertain, and miserable.	10
23	151	I was sorry that Pertinax had been so cruel to the girl, Saru.	10
25	37	I thought him purposeful, and probably unscrupulous, and perhaps cruel.	10
25	267	And, too, when the slave fires, long ago ignited, and then never far from the surface, begin again to flame in her fair belly, as under the cruel and shameful imperatives of biology they frequently must, earning her the contempt of free women, her seductiveness is then, soon, far less than a matter ...	10
26	100	How often I had been ignoble, drunken, cruel, petty, and unworthy.	10
28	262	This is a cruel thing to do to a slave, of course.	10
28	391	She had been beautiful, but, too, she had been proud, ambitious, selfish, vain, and cruel.	10
35	67	"As implacable, relentless, cruel, single-minded, uncompromising, merciless," I said.	10

Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	463	Perhaps it seems cruel to light such fires in a woman's belly, which will eventually make her their helpless prisoner, but it is not.	10
2	20	The season was nearly over, the time when ships were taken from the water for their wintering, the time when rational mariners withdrew wisely from lashing, gleaming Thassa, leaving her, the mother, to her moods of violence, to her towering, rushing, lifting waves, higher than the masts of round shi...	10
3	601	And not all sandal slaves may be depended upon to identify a former mistress, given the looming of the impaling spear, not even one as imperious and cruel as a Lady Flavia.	10
3	1171	'You were very cruel,' she said.	10
3	1475	"You were a haughty she-sleen," I said, "a hypocrite, a false friend, greedy, insolent, self-seeking, cowardly, dishonest, cruel, and power hungry".	10
3	1484	"So in your supposed carelessness, that having to do with your veiling," I said, "I see more than the cruel delight of an ignoble and petty woman, little more than a she-sleen, protected by the transitory artificiality of station, to torment men.	10
7	5	Thassa grew more cruel each day.	10
19	171	If the master is cruel, earrings may be fastened in her ears.	10
20	260	How cruel I was to my own slaves, making them suffer in proxy for my own self-hatred.	10
21	376	"Do not be cruel to us," said a slave.	10
21	386	What fires men have set to burn in the bellies of slaves! Is it cruel, I wondered, to have done this to them, to make them the helpless victims of such powerful, frequently recurrent needs? I supposed not, as it makes them the richest and fullest of women, the most helpless and authentic of women, t...	10
28	248	"Whatever might be the truth in these matters," she said, "for those of us who are slaves, and know we are slaves, and would be slaves, and are complete only at the feet of men, do not be cruel, do not begrudge us our collars!" "You would be owned?" "Wholly, and helplessly!" I regarded her, not spea...	10
36	141	"He thought merely to inform us, too late, of his cruel scheme.	10
36	557	What then might compensate him for a loss so grievous? A valuable gift would have been, under the circumstances, cruel, or insulting.	10
37	871	It is cruel to deny to a woman her nature, and, as well, to a man his".	10

Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1179	The auctioneer was not cruel with me.	10
10	5	On the other hand, it was surely not the cruel farce of sul cloth which had been mentioned during the bargaining at the Tarsk Market.	10
10	367	I did not sense that she was angry, or cruel.	10
11	28	Neither the Lady Bina nor the beast were particularly cruel or demanding.	10
12	13	Some free women are cruel to slaves.	10
15	43	I suspected she might have done so, if I had failed to satisfy her curiosity in the matter, and not because she was thoughtless or cruel, but, rather, simply, because she was concerned with the matter.	10
17	340	He had been cruel, but had I been found wanting? Was I so poor a slave, so unattractive a slave? Had my lips not been formed, at his command, as a slave's lips, readied for attention? Had I not, eyes closed, waited, until I had been ignored or rejected, and my pursed lips put to a stone wall, agains...	10
20	64	How could I love him, truly? Had he not, on many occasions, treated me as what I was, a slave? Had he not been abrupt, cruel, not caring? Had he not cuffed me? Had he not, for no adequate reason, inflicted upon me the dreadful modality of the mute slave? Had he not, on many occasions, treated me wit...	10
28	35	How cruel she was! How helpless I was! Surely she must understand that I was trying to please her, and was striving desperately to do so.	10
33	116	I saw him now as he was, ruthless, cruel, treacherous, ambitious, and greedy.	10
49	114	Thus, while search party after search party left the Cave and scoured the icy, cruel terrain of the Voltai, he and Tiresias enjoyed the comforts of shelter.	10
52	596	"Men are cruel," I said.	10

Book 32. (21 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	138	Guilt is more cruel than the sword, for one turns the knife in one's own stomach.	10
5	48	Days I had spent, uneasy, distracted, ill at ease, remembering, struggling to brush aside the cruel insistencies of recollection; how often I censured myself for my misunderstandings, my foolishness.	10
7	286	Doubtless amongst the Merchants, as amongst other men, one will find the astute and honorable, the honest and diligent, the noble and loyal, as well as the corrupt and greedy, the cruel and callous, the venal and heartless.	10
14	285	This, I think, is cruel.	10
14	400	"Suppose that Priest-Kings, wise and powerful, or cruel and powerful, or arrogant and powerful, or exotic and powerful, were in their way mortal, and vulnerable, and concerned to protect their kind and world".	10
15	215	"It is cruel," I said.	10
15	588	Perhaps he, too, might have designed so cruel a jest, or even one more amusing.	10
15	685	These putative informants had entertained what I supposed to be not only a dim, but a radically distorted, and, I hoped, a certainly extreme view, of Gorean free women, regarding them to be haughty, short-tempered, impatient, supercilious, rigid, demanding, unbending, arrogant, boastful, pretentious...	10
17	72	How I hated him, and all men, the masterful beasts who would take us in hand, own us, and do with us as they pleased! I stared after him, angrily, the callous brute, so tall and strong, with that easy, unhurried walk, the proud, high gaze before which men might take pause, the broad back, the narrow...	10
17	116	Do they not have everything for which a woman might long, cultural elevation, standing, status, prestige, power, dignity, and respect, even awe? Why then are they so unhappy? And why are they so cruel to us, and hate us so? We are not interfering with their precious freedom.	10
21	208	Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in...	10
29	171	Whereas the Panther Woman, or Panther Girl, as other free women, commonly holds the slave in contempt, and is cruel to her, she seems to hate her less, on the whole, than she hates either the free male or the typical free female.	10
29	187	To be sure, they, like other free women, seem to be particularly cruel to attractive slaves, so much remains obscure.	10
35	29	Her switch was supple and cruel.	10
39	93	Men are cruel.	10
39	327	"Cruel slave!" said Tuza.	10
41	5	Free women, for whatever reason, are commonly cruel to slaves.	10
42	7	What if he were companioned? Might he buy me for his companion? Would she sense that I was his slave? How cruel she would be to me! Might he keep me to the side, in rented space, in a girl stable, to be used when convenient? Or would he want me, at all? Was I truly so inferior, such common stock? I ...	10
46	69	Why should that be? It is not our fault if men prefer us to women who are large, ill-tempered, cruel, belligerent, and gross, whose bodies might not interest a tharlarion.	10
50	648	"That is cruel," I said.	10
50	794	You may be beautiful, but you are small, petty, cruel, pretentious, self-centered, and a liar, and most obviously, now a slave".	10