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Customs

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3	52	"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of Gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitted in war, and ...	10
8	134	I then wondered if that might be due to the influence of my father, whose Earth ways sometimes seemed at variance with the rude customs of Gor.	10
19	250	Then, in accord with the rude bridal customs of Gor, as she furiously but playfully struggled, as she squirmed and protested and pretended to resist, I bound her bodily across the saddle of the tarn.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2	42	It is an entity with a history, as stones and rivers do not have history; it is an entity with a tradition, a heritage, customs, practices, character, intentions, hopes.	10
8	55	Slowly I let my eye wander the city, surely in its people and their customs one of the most unusual on Gor.	10
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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15	141	"Basic information, as you might expect, pertaining to language, mathematics, and the sciences, but he is also being taught the history and literature of Priest-Kings, Nest mores, social customs; mechanical, agricultural, and husbanding procedures, and other types of information".	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

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3	27	With them they would have brought their customs, their skills, their habits, their games, which, in time, would presumably have undergone considerable modification.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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11	96	With them had come certain articles, techniques and customs.	10
12	383	I did not know its subtleties and customs, its etiquette, anything.	10
13	988	A thousand customs and protocols define her, and in the order of nature.	10
14	433	Most Gorean free women, if they are not companioned, given the constraints of the culture and its customs, are virgins.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

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6	499	He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t...	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5	31	Each has its own history, customs and traditions.	10
9	1085	Indeed, good taste and aesthetic sense, abundantly and amply displayed, harmoniously manifested, in such areas as language, architecture, dress, culture and customs, seem innately Gorean.	10
9	1568	The rapes of Verr Tail and Radish, interestingly, had not counted as code breaches, though in neither case had explicit permission for their conquest been granted by Thurnus; such permission, in such cases, was implicit in the customs of the community; it did not constitute a "taking from" but a bri...	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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35	638	Its presence in her wardrobe was doubtless merely a function of the desire of her employers to assure its completeness and her adequate familiarity with Gorean customs, a familiarity she might have to develop in order to prosecute certain missions which might be expected of her on Gor.	10
35	782	I saw her training in Gorean customs had been thorough.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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14	16	The common denominator of these customs, of course, is that the slave must understand that force, either explicitly or implicitly, is involved, and that she will enter the stronghold of the master, and as a slave, whether she wills to do so or not.	10
26	55	"Thus," said Kisu, "if there are men in these countries and their customs resemble those of the Ngao villages, and Ukungu, we shall make clear to them our peaceful intentions.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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27	130	The Gorean customs then are not so different, except perhaps that in the case of slaves the woman is dressed, whether she wishes it or not, for the blatant pleasure of men.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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19	111	My mysterious master must, thus, be of Victoria, or of some other city in which are practiced the customs of the capture carry and the initiatory whipping!" The point of these customs, of course, is clear.	10
19	68	In my house I saw fit to honor the customs of Victoria.	10
19	114	To be sure, whether in Victoria or not, or in a city with comparable customs, new girls, in one way or another, are usually reminded, promptly and effectively, that their slavery is uncompromising and actual, and that they are fully at the disposition of their masters.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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1	781	They are permitted to live as they will, where they may, on Gor, following even their ancient laws and customs, providing these do not violate the Weapons Laws and Technology Restrictions.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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13	29	He will not violate the customs of the Kaiila".	10
47	520	And indeed this is not dissimilar to the customs of Gor as a whole.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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3	1089	"Lessons in our habits and customs.	10
4	365	Protocols and customs are apparently extremely significant to Goreans.	10
9	100	I, as earlier, apparently in accord with the public customs of Corcyrus, had been unveiled.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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2	767	To be sure, the game of Favors, like most games, customs and practices, was undoubtedly complex and multiply motivated.	10
12	7	Too, we had often set up outside mills, inns, granaries, customs posts and trade barns, wherever an audience might be found, even at the intersections of traveled roads and, on certain days, in the vicinity of rural markets.	10
12	161	In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4	433	Not identifying with the women, or being accepted by them, and perhaps coming to bitterly envy the men, their position and status, their nature and power, it seemed she may have turned toward trying to prove herself the same as them, turning then to mannish customs and garb, attempting thusly, despe...	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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5	198	Other lessons were almost, one might say, lessons in customs, manners and decorum.	10
6	337	In this culture it seemed that slavery, bondage such as mine, at least, was an essential ingredient, that it was unquestioned, or, if it had been questioned, that the questions had been resolved long ago, and in favor of the collar, that it was a matter of tradition, perhaps a tradition of thousands...	10
6	638	If she is enslaved, of course, then she is subject to, and covered by, the same customs, practices and laws as any other slave.	10
11	260	Perhaps those who had smote their goblets on the tables and called for me, had, as much as anything, been voicing a natural disgruntlement at the unwritten customs which seemed to govern such affairs, at the institution of a time to be set aside for the whetting of appetites.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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4	80	The same customs, of course, generalized even further, normally govern the use of pools, which, on Gor, are normally located at the baths, and, indeed, are usually considered a part of them.	10
15	88	Such customs, I supposed, would differ from city to city.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12	398	It occurred to me how much refuge women have in a civilized world, protected by customs, by artifices, by conventions, by arrangements, by laws.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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10	362	To a Gorean free woman, particularly to one of station, given Gorean customs, proprieties and traditions, having one's face bared in public, with respect to matters of shock, distress, embarrassment, and such, would be very much akin to a civilized woman of Earth's being put out naked on the streets...	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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2	121	This is not to deny that all civilizations, and cultures, have their customs and legalities.	10
8	644	Here, it was not the task of civilization to disparage, condemn, and fight nature, with all the pathological consequences of such an endeavor, but rather to fulfill and express her, in her richness and variety, to enhance her and bedeck her with the glories of customs, practices and institutions.	10
12	268	It was rather that in the full legalities of a world, in the full sanction of the totality of its customs, practices and institutions, in the fullness of its very reality, I was not free.	10
22	45	Is not acquiescence superior to inquiry? Is not cowardice, rather than simple discretion, the better part of valor? Is not conformity to prescribed falsehood less perilous than the seeking of truth? In any event, with respect to the enforcement of commands, customs, and such, the pit master was sele...	10

Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

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4	342	Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures.	10
9	88	And she was in a very different culture, one with different laws, customs, and values.	10
16	537	And I must admit that, as one becomes more enculturated here, more aware of the Gorean ethos, and Gorean customs, values and views on such matters, and comes to understand how one is viewed here, one tends to become more and more sensitive to such things.	10
22	149	In such a society, one might expect, accordingly, the pervasive dominance/submission ratios of nature to be recognized by, and reflected within, customs, laws, social arrangements, institutions, and such.	10
30	490	After all, he is looking for a free woman, not a slave, a proud, lofty, noble, free woman, one who will fulfill the customs of her station, and prove to be a suitable asset, particularly with respect to connections and career.	10
30	495	And what of the calculating free woman, as well, she, ensconced in veils and customs, despising men as weaklings, exploiting them, though sheltered and protected by them, viewing them as conveniences, as little more, at best, than sources of social and economic advantage, save, of course, for the gr...	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

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1	380	A hundred transparent, inhibitory wrappings swathed her about, constricting her; a culture's tendrils and trammels had been tightened about her; she had been shaped by frowns, images, propounded exemplars, small remarks, sneers, customs, and scoldings for years, subtly taught, by a multitude of cult...	10
1	952	To make this matter more clear, and to be fairer to the customs of Gor, it should be noted that any woman, any woman whatsoever with whom one does not share a Home Stone, is understood to be fair game for the capture loop.	10
8	107	Cabot supposed similar customs would obtain in the Steel Worlds.	10
55	146	And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".	10
79	225	The free woman at such entertainments, too, will usually have her customs and preferences.	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2	58	Many other possibilities enter into these things, but these remarks, hopefully, will give any who might chance to peruse these several sheets a sense of some of the prevailing customs in these matters.	10
9	458	But we are also an intelligent, adaptive people, and are always ready and eager to adopt useful devices, pleasant customs, and such".	10
10	708	That world was one in which women stood commonly within the shelters of civilized proprieties, within the fences of society, encircled by innumerable customs and laws, with their diverse enforcements and sanctions.	10
14	163	"There are expectations, customs, and such," he said, "but, yes, she would then be mine to do with as I wished".	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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3	668	I realized then, as I had never before, when I had been sheltered within the arrangements, laws, and customs of a civil order, which I had taken so much for granted, how thin, and possibly transitory, such things were, and what might lie at their elbow, or nigh, on the other side of that lovely curt...	10
12	180	Such small customs have, interestingly, historically, foiled a number of assassination attempts, in which a free woman, disguised as a slave, sought to obtain a proximity to, say, a general or Ubar, sufficient to bring a weapon into play.	10
12	500	But what was a free woman but a slave without a master? How stood the conventions of society, the habits, rules, customs, and such, against the biological facts of an uncontaminated nature? Surely he spoke to her in a way that went far beyond the trivia of tunics and collars, brands and chains.	10
37	931	"One lacking civilization, or derived from some civilization which is unnatural and inferior, perhaps one which is complex, selfish, polluted, crowded, and uncaring, one unfamiliar with suitable customs and proprieties, with codes and castes, with literature, music, and poetry".	10

Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

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5	70	In a natural order, a natural order refined and enhanced with the rituals, customs, and institutions of civilization, would there not be such as we? Is it not the natural right of a natural master, that he should have a slave, or slaves? And is it not the natural right of the natural, needful slave,...	10
8	1198	Had I been born on Gor and you on Earth, would I not, then, be the Gorean and you the barbarian? It is not our fault if we do not know what you know, your caste customs, your legends, your political arrangements, the histories of your cities, your holidays, your famous generals, musicians, poets, an...	10
10	658	I took this lapse, if lapse it be, on the part of the beast, as an indication of indulgence or weakness, or perhaps merely a lack of interest, and, on the part of the Lady Bina, to be a consequence of ignorance, of her lack of familiarity with Gorean customs, and the attitudes and behaviors expected...	10
10	1065	How uneasy that would make you! Presumably there are historical, political reasons for that, perhaps involving a blatant declaration of differences amongst states, different symbols, different currencies, different customs, different practices, different ways of doing things.	10
17	187	Much from the Lady Bina and from the translator I did not understand, that having to do with distant worlds, exotic engineerings, unusual weaponries, strange customs and holidays, diverse races and cultures, troubled histories, and such, and with mysterious projects, factions, and wars, seemingly cu...	10
21	29	The colors depend on the customs of cities, the whims of particular masters, and such.	10
52	330	I knew myself desired, and not as a free woman might be desired, in all her lofty, precious, august dignity, encircled with customs, codes, traditions, conventions, proprieties, and rights, but as a slave is desired, with all the raw, uncompromising, unmitigated lust with which a slave is desired, a...	10
52	451	One becomes familiar with routes and cities, with goods and markets, with customs and politics, with fears and rumors.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4	114	Gor has its laws, its customs, its principles, its conventions, its proprieties, and its sensitivity, sometimes acute, to points of honor; but, to a woman brought from the slave world, it is likely to appear, at first, little more than a lawless savagery, a chaos of will and mastery, an unpredictabl...	10
39	462	With the prisoners, however, I expected that this behavior was less to be attributed to the customs and decorum of the cotfle, instilled in coffle beasts, than an apprehension of the gauntlet through which they, cofifled, were passing.	10
46	47	Suppose I managed to cross the river, and make my way south, what then? Had I then escaped, truly? Could I escape? I was even a barbarian, who might still be betrayed by her accent, and doubtless, indefinitely, by her ignorance of any number of things, such as customs, sayings, legends, stories, his...	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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1	485	Miss Wentworth, and her subordinate, Gregory White, both English speakers, were brought to Gor and trained in the language and customs of Gor.	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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11	21	How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables, trees and fl...	10
51	200	You are recently from a steel world, and you know little or nothing of this world, its customs, habits, and politics.	10
60	137	Different cities, different worlds, different customs.	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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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...	10
11	401	I had the sense that he thought about what he was saying when he spoke, despite the trivial, hazy ambiance of the location, that of such a party, and the accepted customs of such gatherings.	10
14	33	Why not charge a native Gorean girl with such a task? She would know thousands of things I would not about this world, its culture, history, customs, and politics.	10
47	6	Certainly I had first encountered him on Earth, and he had seemed at ease on Earth, familiar with its habits and customs, and had spoken English with no trace of an accent.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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1	99	"He counted men, and huts, he assessed women, he ascertained goods, and locations, he identified strengths and weaknesses, he familiarized himself with habits and customs, studied the palisade, and marked the gates, the openings and closings".	10