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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 16 There was a savage dignity about it, with the shield and spears, all of them stable on the wall, as if ready, like the famous colonial rifle over the fireplace, for instant use; they were all polished and gleamed dully in the half light.
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17 78 The procession resumed to the beat of the tarn drums and Talena, bound in chains of gold, walked, slowly, with dignity, beside the tharlarion of her captor, Pa-Kur, the Assassin.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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11 24 On the throne itself there sat a woman, proud, lofty in haughty dignity, garbed regally in majestic robes of golden cloth, wearing a mask not of silver but of pure gold, carved like the others in the image of a beautiful woman.
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24 126 And Kron looked on the beautiful girl who stood before him with such grace and dignity, with no trace of pride or cruelty, or fear.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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32 144 "I wish to die with dignity," said Misk, gently pulling his foreleg away and recommencing his grooming.
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Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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24 189 "If it were not for your dignity," I remarked, "I would settle these matters by racing you to the main gate".
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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9 31 Then, stripped, chained by the throat, in a long chain of girls, each separated from the other by about ten feet, secured not even by the dignity of a collar but only by a loop of the communal chain bolted or padlocked about her neck, each is dragged up the steps of the minor block, bid upon while a...
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20 246 One retained a certain dignity, though he held his hands before him.
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24 499 The garments suggested the slave girl and yet insisted, almost demurely, on the reserve, the pride and dignity of the free woman.
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 24 At noon, in the marshes, with the sun burning at meridian, she had taken another handful of rence paste from a wallet worn at her waist and thrust it in my mouth, again not permitting me the dignity of feeding myself.
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14 414 I saw that even the thought of that acquiescence to my command shook her to the core, but that she hoped, doubtless, by even the suggestion that she, so refined and high-born, might consider such an extraordinary concession, to shame me into a withdrawal of my command, and to purchase therewith dign...
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18 265 Telima, dignity to the winds, turned and fled down the passageway, but, before she had managed to make ten yards, she had been stung twice, and roundly, by the flat of my blade.
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18 267 She drew herself up in her full, angry dignity.
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18 269 The dignity of the proud Telima, I gathered, could not endure another such blow.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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7 307 Moreover, he was a Gorean male, and would see me, Elinor Brinton, not in terms of my antecedents, background, education, sophistication, wealth, dignity and refinements, but in terms of the collar, and pleasure! Moreover, if he bought me, I would have to serve him, and perfectly, as what I would the...
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12 370 I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please...
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13 698 No dignity, no respect, no consideration would be accorded me.
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14 424 One justification, incidentally, aside from a greater splendor of garmenture, and a greater dignity, and such, for the discrepancy between the garmenture of the free woman and the slave is that the difference is designed to lessen the dangers of predation amongst free women, and divert the acquisiti...
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17 135 He would take every shred of dignity or pride from me, as though a slave girl might be permitted either, and turn me into a thrashing, begging, maddened animal, a woman in heat, the lowest sort of female, a slab of worthless, helpless, writhing, enflamed, kicking slave meat.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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9 327 She, even if freed, without family, and, by the same act, without caste, would have a status beneath the dignity of the meanest peasant wench, secure in the rights of her caste.
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15 939 It had been a proud, intimate possession, giving her pleasure and dignity.
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15 954 It carried no dignity nor civil significance.
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Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 298 Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...
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13 446 "Here," said he, "she is a high slave, respected, accorded dignity, esteemed and pampered.
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24 657 These precautions, I gather, are to ensure the dignity of the free woman and to impress upon the male that he is not dealing then with a cheap, amorous, worthless slave.
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26 435 I do not ask respect or dignity.
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Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 764 How hard it is for a girl, stripped, to stand before, and conduct herself with dignity before, as an equal, a man who is fully clothed.
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4 822 Suppose men, suspicious, would turn me over to free women, that my body might be, without compromise to my dignity lest I be free, examined by them.
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5 26 Indeed, not only are they refused the dignity of the veil, but commonly they are placed in brief, exciting slave livery and may not even bind their hair.
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5 237 "Have I not, Lehna," inquired the Lady Sabina, sternly, "taught you proper deportment? Have I not instructed you in dignity? Is this how you betray my trust?" "Forgive me, Mistress," wept the girl.
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5 279 "Have I not always set you an example of nobility, dignity and self-respect?" asked the Lady Sabina.
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5 543 "A wrist thong scarcely comports with the dignity of a free woman," said the captain to me.
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5 735 "I have dignity," she said.
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5 736 "But a slave girl is not permitted dignity," he said.
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7 1419 "Your feelings, then," he asked, "have been fully engaged, and you are now mine, at my complete mercy, fully and vulnerably, with no shred of pride or dignity left?" "Yes, Master," I whispered.
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12 810 No such dignity was mine.
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15 285 "You will comport yourself with dignity," she said.
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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.
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27 494 It is beneath the dignity of a free woman to please a man.
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Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 418 Then I thrust again and again into her, in the strong, increasingly intense rhythms of a savage master until the collared she of her, once that of a civilized girl, screamed and shuddered, and then lay mine, without dignity or pride, shattered, only a yielded, barbarian slave, in my arms.
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12 39 Let her retain for a time a shred of her pride and dignity.
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12 181 It was rather beneath the dignity of a man to show a girl how to sew.
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21 77 "You make her yield totally, leaving her no dignity".
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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2 165 The female slave, in the fullness of her womanhood, and helplessness, attains heights of passion from which the free woman, in her pride and dignity, is forever barred.
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25 105 "A woman must have dignity," she said.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 331 Did she truly think that I, a man of Earth, would treat her as a slave? Surely she must know that she had nothing to fear from one such as I who would treat her with dignity and respect.
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7 884 Surely she must know that she had nothing to fear from one such as I who would treat her with dignity and respect.
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7 984 "Our women are treated with total honor, and dignity and respect," I said.
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7 1028 I had failed to relate well to her, in spite of being solicitous and charming, courteous and attentive, in spite of treating her with honor, and with dignity and respect.
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22 367 "To be sure," said the Lady Florence, "to dance a naked slave in mixed company seems scarcely to comport with the dignity of a refined house, but remember, too, I am a hostess, and we have men present, and we all know what beasts they are".
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24 120 All honor to the free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensat...
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24 124 One must, you see, respect the status and dignity of the free woman.
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24 128 The slave is not permitted dignity; she is in a collar; you own her.
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28 48 "And as a reward for this great service which you have rendered me," she said, "I am prepared not only to overlook your occasional and somewhat casual disregard for my dignity but to offer you a handsome employment upon my estates".
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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5 76 The free woman has her dignity.
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10 94 You will be accorded all dignity and respect.
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Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

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9 230 I had little doubt that if I were but once taken into companionship by him I should be sequestered, and left untouched, that that would be my punishment for having shamed him; he would keep me as his official 'companion,' but he would not so much as put his hands on me; I would be forced to endure h...
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17 436 "But with dignity, and respect!" she begged.
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18 613 Too, though he knew that I had once been of Earth, he did not handle me as a woman of Earth, with respect and dignity, as I expected, but rather as what I now am, a Gorean slut, an embonded, rightless slave.
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19 29 This was the same house which we had earlier occupied together, when I had mistakenly permitted the slave the dignity and status of the free woman.
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19 698 "Freedom," she said, "respect, honor, dignity".
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20 48 This was not the type of party at which, say, the free women of the enemy, captives, stripped, not yet even given the dignity of the collar, clad only in their hair and beauty, are forced to wash and lick the feet of victors, to serve their viands and pour their drinks, to wait upon and clear tables...
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20 606 The dignity of free women is to be respected; they are not slaves.
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20 1630 Surely none but a cad would be unsolicitous of you, none but a cad would be unconcerned with your feelings, none but a cad would deny you dignity, and respect".
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20 1635 "Surely you understand that! Show me that you accept that, truly, and know it! Do you not understand? I am a slave, a slave! So do not speak to me of dignity and respect.
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20 1636 I am in a collar! Such things are not for me! Rather for me is the pitiless, proprietary caress of the master, the kissing of the whip! I am not entitled to dignity, so grant me none.
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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8 352 That she had been brought clothed into the hall surely argued that her dignity and pride would continue to be respected, at least to the degree that she was now concealed.
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13 1657 "The taking of a free woman," I asked, "in which, to some extent, her dignity, pride and status are respected, or the taking of a slave?" "I am a slave, Master," she said.
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14 189 Its primary value, and there is little other reason for permitting the slave to assume it, is to lead her to believe, and hope, that she may be accorded some tiny particle of dignity or respect, an illusion which then, to her shame and humiliation, may be totally shattered by the master.
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14 267 It is little wonder that the free woman, concerned with her putative identicality, her status, her image, her dignity and pride, is often inhibited and sexually inert in the furs.
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14 645 One might, in the case of a free woman, in deference to her modesty or dignity, avert one's gaze from her beauty.
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17 393 "You will be treated, at all times, with total dignity and respect".
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17 687 "They will treat you with dignity and respect," I said, "as a Same".
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17 776 "But I am to be respected and accorded dignity," she said, kneeling below me in the grass, in her yoke.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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5 200 Surely it would have been beneath his dignity to meddle in such a business.
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12 469 "I decided that I would permit them, certain ones of my careful choosing, of proper means and stations, to become acquainted with me, and that I might then, from among these, favor certain ones with the dignity and honor of my friendship.
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13 231 She had been sentenced to honor and dignity, and equality with the pathetic males of the compound.
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14 495 "You have been accorded honor and dignity.
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40 721 "You had your chance to go nobly into the Barrens, with the dignity of the free woman.
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43 183 "I am sorry, Lady Iwoso," I said, "but we did not have any sacks on hand which were appropriate for free women, sacks compatible with their dignity.
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49 20 "You will be treated with the dignity of free women," said Mahpiyasapa.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 927 I saw that, again, she was answering me in the fashion in which, doubtless, I wished to be answered, doubtless with deference to my dignity, status or freedom.
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4 62 I had done these things with graciousness and dignity, as I had been instructed to do by Ligurious.
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4 373 Ligurious, first minister of the city, even, had assured me of the reality of this dignity.
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11 126 "Suitable disciplines and punishments may be arranged for a free woman," he said, "suitable to her status and dignity".
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19 151 I then took smaller bites, bites perhaps somewhat more conformable to the dignity of a free woman, a lady and a Tatrix.
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19 152 Still, when one is naked and in a trunk, and half starved, it is difficult to eat with dignity.
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19 220 Certainly he had not permitted me to relate to him, in the least, in the inhibitory modalities of dignity and respect; accordingly, I had found myself relating to him in a deep, real, primitive, sexual, natural, biological manner, in a manner certainly not that of a free woman, but rather of a slave...
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31 430 I had not been granted the dignity of the couch's surface.
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34 143 I saw that, in his use of her, he would not permit Sheila the dignity of the couch.
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35 124 How I had disappointed him! How far I had fallen short of his expectations, of his hopes, of his ideal of womanhood! I did not deserve honor, prestige, respect, dignity, freedom, a throne! I was only a slut.
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36 348 "I was protected by my freedom, my dignity, my status, my position and power!" "And where are such things now?" "Gone, Master".
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36 694 How fortunate the fellow who has a free companion, one who, however reluctantly, and at whatever sacrifice to her self-esteem and dignity, deigns to share it with him, nobly, bravely permitting herself thereupon to be subjected to the embarrassing and brief unpleasantries of carnality.
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36 1377 Thus, it was important, though it tortured me to do so under the circumstances, to accord you respect and dignity".
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Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

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2 1336 "I have had respect and dignity for years," she said, "and they are empty! I have had my fill of respect and dignity! For years I have been betrayed and deluded by those trivializing, vacuous, negative verbalities! I do not want respect and dignity! Obviously they are not the answer.
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1 67 They are denied the dignity of the funeral pyre and other forms of honorable burial.
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1 295 "In spite of the fact that I am willing to accord you the dignity of a swift and honorable death, one fitting for a free woman, you would choose instead, and prefer, the degradation of slavery?" "Yes," she said.
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2 181 In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu...
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2 1334 "But what of respect and dignity?" I asked.
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2 1337 If they were, I should be happy, but I am not! I do not want respect and dignity! I want fulfillment, and truth!" I saw that her sexual drives were far too strong to be appropriate for those of a free woman.
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2 1346 "It would seem thus," I said, "at least according to some, that you are entitled to respect and dignity".
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2 1353 "Such as dignity and respect," she said.
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4 93 They were beneath his dignity.
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5 226 "Permit me, too, the dignity, as I am a free woman, of using your name in my doing so, before perhaps, if it pleases you, you impose upon me the discipline of a slave".
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7 361 What shall be our fate first, I wonder, to merely starve in simple dignity or to perish in shame from such humiliation?" "You are wrong about at least one thing, Boots," said Chino.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 11 The men with the wagons had not seen fit to permit the women the dignity of veiling.
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Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 95 How could she keep her dignity and respect in such a garment? She could not.
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7 70 I was sure that I, if I had set my mind to it, could have pleased a man, and myself, as well as she! To be sure, I reassured myself, quickly, assuaging a shred of the dignity of the frigid Earth female, still left in me at the time, I would have had no choice in the matter.
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13 893 I would not be permitted to retain a shred of dignity or pride.
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29 1493 "Let him have at least the dignity of dying on his feet, with a sword in his hand".
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 132 It is the difference between being a person and being a property, between being a respected, legally autonomous entity, entitled to dignity and pride, and being a domestic animal.
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5 763 "Thus, even though I must shamefully serve, I can still, ultimately, retain my pride and dignity".
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6 100 No longer had she the dignity of the veil.
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6 119 I did not think she would find that her dignity would be compromised unless, of course, foolishly, she chose to move.
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6 372 It is one thing for a free woman, tearfully, while in the dignity of robes and veil, to attempt to impose on a fellow's gullibility or good nature, and quite another for her to do so when she is unclothed.
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9 555 I must accord her dignity and respect! "Collar me!" she begged.
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10 79 "Sirs," cried Klio, "soldiers of Cos, warriors for truth and justice, redressers of wrongs, kinsmen from across the sea, I am Lady Klio, of Telnus, of Cos! I am a free woman! I beg your kindness, your indulgence, your protection! Rescue me from this barbarian! Clothe and honor me! Return me in digni...
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16 169 "And now," she cried, "that you have won from her her confession that she was slave, and she has said the words themselves, enacting embondment upon herself, you would put her, now, not even in the dignity of the free woman, but in the misery and degradation of a shamed slave, upon the spear!" "Do y...
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21 1079 On Gor, as slaves, not permitted the veil, they often, early in their bondage, long for veiling, not only because of the now-invidious comparison between their own bared features and those of modestly veiled free women, the differences in dignity, prestige, and such, but because they are overwhelmin...
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21 1105 "Surely not that, or only that," said Publia, "if only in deference to our dignity, our modesty, and our recent freedom, for we both recently were free, Master".
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21 1106 "Deference, modesty, dignity?" asked Calliodorus.
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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 515 His monetary fortunes, I gather, if not his dignity, have been apparently recouped, presumably from loot distributed to the command of Artemidorus, acquired in the fall of Ar's Station".
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19 973 "Only that I be treated with respect and dignity".
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31 442 "They are too much concerned with their status, dignity, freedom and independence to be any good in the furs".
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 39 Why would she want me to buy her? Certainly I had not accorded her dignity or respect, or such things.
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7 152 This behavior on her part seemed scarcely in keeping with the dignity of the putative daughter of a Ubar, not to mention her mien as a penitent or suppliant.
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10 373 Who would not relish getting his bracelets on such a shameless, lascivious slut, so natural a slave, one so meaningless and despicable, one so little deserving of respect or dignity, one so appropriately and perfectly destined for bondage, one belonging in the collar? And needless to say, the common...
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19 833 This is one of the reasons, I suppose, why the often sexually starved free women, enwrapped in respect and dignity, secure in their lofty status, resplendent in their robes and veils, even in their inertness, and cultivated coldness, are deeply troubled by the thoughts of what ensues amongst masters...
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20 393 No longer was she in the dignity of a garment.
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21 329 In the case of the free woman, it is an affront to her dignity; in the case of the slave it is a testimony to her desirability.
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22 137 Stayed, the small group awaited the arrival of the palanquin, which now approached them in a stately fashion, the bearers impressive in their lack of haste, befitting the undoubted dignity of the palanquin's occupant.
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25 336 Actually I thought Talena might bring that much, not as a common slave, of course, but perhaps in some situation of great dignity, as, say, a stripped, chained Ubara, being bid on in a private sale, perhaps by the agents of Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, Ubar of Tyros, and Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos.
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25 337 It was my intention, of course, to see to it that she would become such that it would be unfitting for her to be accorded this dignity.
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26 62 "Alas," she said, "sometimes I myself grow weary of the preciousness and dignity of my person.
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Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

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13 888 How absurd then suddenly seemed my earlier fear, when he had put me to my back! By what right might I have expected such a dignity! But how absurd even was this thought, for a slave! Is it likely that we would be thrown on our backs for our dignity? No.
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7 1074 We are not permitted, for example, dignity and inhibitions.
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8 211 What if someone should see? We have our modesty! I smoothed it down, with something like the dignity which, I seemed to recall from my training, we were not permitted.
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8 1013 One of the early lessons one learns in the pens is that one is not permitted dignity or privacy.
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10 255 Surely there was little dignity in my progress! I supposed, however, if I proved capable of sustaining a more rapid pace, that that would be expected of me.
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10 342 There was no dignity here.
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13 889 Slaves are not permitted dignity.
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13 938 He had permitted me to retain no particle of dignity.
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14 885 "In the robes of concealment, we must walk sedately, with carefully measured tread, with dignity".
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19 262 Did they never leap and run, and wrestle? Were they ashamed of having bodies, or of being alive? Had they somehow sought refuge in pathetic lies? Did they think that absurdities conferred dignity upon them? Such, I thought, might not function well in this demanding, hardy world.
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22 33 When I clutched him I must despair of the least shred of dignity.
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29 877 "I expect," she said to the clerk, "to be treated with honor, and with dignity and respect, such as comports with my condition and station".
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35 46 One respects wives; one lusts for slaves; wives are free, and are to be treated with dignity and circumspection; slaves are owned, and are suitable objects to be put to one's pleasure.
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Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

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25 855 It is difficult for a girl to retain her dignity in such a position, but then Ellen recalled that a slave is not permitted dignity.
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4 329 To be sure, the desperation, the eagerness, with which she ate seemed scarcely compatible with the dignity of a Ph.
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11 911 How could he then respect her? But how absurd was such a concern! Dignity, respect, and such, were not for slaves.
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15 578 But he could not be serious! What could he have in mind! Surely he could not be doing this to her, not to her, not to her! Had he no respect for her? What of her dignity? Was he not of Earth? Could he not remember Earth? "Please, Master!" she wept.
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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.
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17 286 Could any man, the brutal, massive, callous monsters, have done that to her? What had become of her, and her pride and dignity? Surely she could not become one of those worthless women who could not help themselves, who were sexually needful.
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17 644 You must be sensitive to my predicament! Accordingly, you must respect me! Accordingly, you must in no way compromise my dignity!" "Is she a slave?" asked the man.
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17 1162 But then, she thought, let them be on a chain on Gor! Let them be a chained, braceleted, squatting slave! Let them then preserve what they can of their vanity, dignity, and sophistication! To be sure, she had been forced to relieve herself publicly before men in her training.
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19 592 A free companion would presumably not show herself naked to her lover, for such would not comport with her dignity.
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20 879 It is not easy, as you may understand, to conduct a conversation, particularly one in which one retains any dignity, when one is fastened thusly.
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22 332 She found that, despite reservations lingering from her Earth conditioning, and her supposed dignity, and her supposed superiority to, and contempt for, such things, that she wanted to be attractive, desperately so; she wanted to be beautiful, and desirable; she wanted to be found pleasing by men.
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24 78 On the other hand, it is thought that following on the left is generally a position of less dignity, and thus appropriate for animals, including slaves.
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26 1196 The uses for which we petition, you see, as we are slaves, will be very different from the tamenesses which would be appropriately accorded to a free woman, uses conformable to her status and dignity.
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27 2382 "Next," called the officer, and then, again, "Next!" If ever, Ellen would have wished to resist, but her body betrayed her, with its secretions and spasms, and then, moments later, despite herself, every last pathetic psychological possibility of defense was gone; every last brittle barrier of reser...
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27 2597 Frigidity may be a virtue of free women, but that dignity is not permitted to slaves.
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30 133 Perhaps, someday, who knew, she might, if she served long enough, and deferentially enough, with sufficient perfection, be permitted sometimes the dignity of the surface of the couch, though still chained by neck or ankle, first kneeling beside it, kissing its furs, and then being permitted to ascen...
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30 476 The free woman must have her respect, her self-esteem, her dignity.
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

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1 366 What a dignity, to wear a man's collar! What a badge of selection and excellence is that insignia, proving that she is lovely enough and desirable enough to be a slave! How free women, pretending to despise her, and her radiance, and happiness, envy her that distinction! The anguish, the tumult, the...
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8 105 That is the way men prefer it and, too, of course, they must under no circumstances be confused with free women, who are of course infinitely beyond them in dignity and worth.
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21 649 "He is defeating Agamemnon by finding such a combat beneath his dignity, by demonstrating his mockery of such an absurd contest, by making it clear to the world that Agamemnon, in assuming this body and arrogating to himself its advantages, has abandoned all pretence to, or claim to, honor".
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40 83 "Please, Master!" "Would you not prefer to be treated with the dignity and respect due to a free woman?" he asked.
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43 101 "Perhaps you feel your dignity is compromised," said Cabot, "as you are, naked, upside down, a bell on your neck.
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43 366 It is difficult to see a woman with dignity and respect in such a garment.
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43 367 Indeed, is that not another purpose of such a garmenture, that in it a woman cannot be viewed with dignity or respect, that in it she can be viewed as only a slave.
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Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 192 It is difficult to convey the dignity, importance, and social standing of the Gorean free woman to one with no first-hand awareness of the matter.
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1 194 The analogy is imperfect but suppose a society of rigid status, of severe hierarchy, and the rank and dignity that might be attached to the daughter of, say, a royal or noble house.
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4 332 I am free, a free woman! I am not to be touched! I am to be treated with respect and dignity! I am not a slave! I am a free woman!" I removed my hands from her garment, and stepped back.
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12 345 "Allow him dignity!" begged Tajima.
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13 65 To be sure, much of this is done through male agents, as, in theory, such concerns are regarded as beneath the dignity and attention of a free woman.
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13 66 She is supposedly, in her dignity and nobility, above such crass concerns.
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16 198 The figure who had been in white, a white of dignity, and a color that stood out amongst the others on the platform, was lying on the platform, his head in the arms of one of the Ashigaru.
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22 86 "—I suppose it is better for her to be frigid," said Pertinax, "in order that she may remain her own woman, retain her self-respect and self-esteem, her dignity".
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22 91 And certainly she is not permitted dignity.
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22 92 She is a beautiful animal, and whereas she has far more attractions than, say, a she-tarsk, she has no more dignity than a she-tarsk".
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22 546 "What is wrong with you? You are of Earth! You are a woman of Earth! Where is your pride, your dignity! Be ashamed of yourself.
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23 106 The Physicians, I thought, would have regarded such research as beneath the dignity of their caste.
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27 146 I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free than merely not yet collared, would be though...
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28 190 In any event, from the Gorean point of view, chasms separate the free woman of Earth, in so far as she has not yet been legally embonded, from the dignity, nobility, and glory of the Gorean free woman.
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34 91 Free women need not be pleasing, and, commonly, are not so, as it is beneath their dignity to be pleasing, and to be pleasing is to be too much like a slave.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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5 177 Thus, she might not know that he, unbeknownst to herself, might have seen her, might have looked upon her now-bared face, a face now slave-bare, a face now denied the dignity and modesty of veiling, a face which must now be as exposed to public view as that of any other animal, a face recalled by hi...
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6 41 How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed within those cumbersome, ornate robes.
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6 85 They are taught to revere frigidity, like a free woman, to praise inertness as dignity, to fear the raptures of uncompromised submission.
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7 273 Did they not understand their station? Had they so little dignity? How could they expect to keep the respect of their men, if they so lowered themselves, if they so demeaned themselves, if they so compromised their position? But, too, I thought, would men not die for such officers? I saw Tyrtaios wa...
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28 42 Thus, your words may not comport with the dignity of ones who were once such".
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35 108 He was a personage of dignity, harbor master in Brundisium, perhaps the most important single person in Brundisium, or, at least, the best-known and most prominent.
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35 116 I would have been quite willing to retrieve the sack and deliver it to Demetrion, but Phillip, my superior, was in his party, and there is, of course, the dignity, and the prestige, of the caste to maintain.
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36 504 How can one be fully human without the dignity, glory, and power of the written word? Is it not to the world what memory is to the individual? By its means words spoken long ago and faraway may once more be heard.
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37 119 "Do not forget that this curvaceous little thing you have in your arms is not a free woman, nothing warranting respect and dignity, but a beast, a worthless slave, only that".
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37 1404 "And," she said, "I think that Master may like me, forgive me, Master, as I could not help overhearing words which gave me such hopes, and surely he knows my antecedents and origins, my affinities, as he will have it, if he is correct, with the Caste of Scribes, so lofty a caste, and my former stati...
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Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 105 Certainly we were expected to behave in such a manner as to, at all times, maintain the dignity, prestige, and reputation of the house.
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4 485 "I gather," I said, "that we are not then to be allowed the dignity of lengthy, concealing gowns".
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4 511 "No," she said, "you will not be allowed such dignity.
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7 270 You are a slave, not a free companion, lofty in her dignity, who may be as clumsy and inept as she wishes".
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7 354 These suspicions and promptings, such thoughts, were not only incompatible with my dignity and self-respect, but incompatible with the conventions and proprieties in terms of which my life was to be managed.
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7 726 I was not a proud creature of dignity and station.
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7 736 And how unfree then should she feel herself if she sensed what it might be, so held, to be owned and mastered? How she must resist her body, her dispositions, her inclinations, her desires, her emotions, her feelings, lest they betray her, lest they threaten treason to her dignity and personhood.
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8 235 What is so special about their terrified, groveling rival, licking and kissing at her master's feet, with her marked thigh, and band-encircled throat? What could she, a slave, an animal, possibly have, or offer, that might begin to compete with the accorded favor of a free woman, standing on her dig...
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8 492 This was surely not the Curulean, a market of which I had been apprised, a palace of an emporium with its statues, carvings, columns, fountains, tapestries, and cushioned tiers, with its exposition cages of silver bars, with its great, torch-lit, golden auditorium which might hold more than two thou...
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10 177 Yet, though I was carried in dignity, as though I might be free, I was tightly, helplessly bound, bound as a slave.
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10 263 It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world.
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31 140 "But one redounding to your dignity?" "In your small way," he said.
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49 444 "The free woman would be instantly freed, succored, and restored to dignity.
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51 90 He has not even had the dignity, and kindness, the courtesy and thoughtfulness, to attend this dinner.
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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...
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 302 You cannot know the freedom we have, the pride, the nobility, the splendor, the power, the raiment, the veiling, the dignity! Men defer to us.
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15 346 How could a man respect a woman who is no more than a helpless, spasmodic toy in his grasp, squirming and begging? Where was refinement, sophistication, self- control, dignity, pride, personhood, and respect? How could a woman respect herself when she reveals herself as no more than a helpless, unco...
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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.
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Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

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12 168 After all, she was not a Gorean free woman, as across the sea, veiled, hidden in the robes of concealment, a woman exalted and resplendent in status and dignity, a woman safe in her station and secure in her privileges, even one who possessed a Home Stone.
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21 346 'You will be carried before me, in honor, in dignity, well secured with the safety strap, sheltered in the folds of the blanket.
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25 165 She was not a slave! Let her be accorded the dignity due to a free woman! Might a fellow not be slain for such an impertinence on the continent? "Proceed," ordered one of the Ashigaru on the platform.
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25 260 Beside me, Lord Akio, the shogun, and nearby officers, rose up, ignoring what might be the compromise to their dignity, following my gaze.
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61 118 This arrangement is demanded by free women in order that the worthlessness and degradation of the slave be dramatically contrasted with their own freedom, dignity, and station, and required by men, as it is appropriate that slaves be collared.
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 12 He had kept me as I was even in the streets, in which I had heeled him, wrists bound behind me, without even the dignity of being leashed.
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26 213 Such attentions, coupled with the very clear knowledge that one is a property, and may be bought and sold, gives one a sense of self very different from that likely to be entertained by the free woman, protected by her robes and dignity.
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30 368 I strove to please him, and in many ways, many of which were conventionally forbidden to the free woman, for they were regarded as incompatible with her status and dignity, for I had been much instructed in the house of my training.
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39 181 "It is often used with naked free women, captured but not yet collared, which preserves their dignity as they are not yet slaves, but also, upon occasion, with slaves whom one wishes to relish in one's arms".
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46 134 Be it known I am keenly aware of the dignity he is willing to confer upon me.
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49 28 Interestingly, some Goreans of the upper castes, notably the Warriors, prided themselves on their lack of "letters," regarding reading and writing as scribes' work and beneath their dignity.
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61 531 Associated with freedom is standing, respect, dignity, prestige, status, privileges, and power, and acknowledged claims and rights.
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 283 No longer did I have dignity, prestige, respect, or independence.
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3 479 Was I, as a slave, I thought, permitted to retain no shred of dignity? No, I thought, I was not.
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8 387 It comports with their authority, their dignity, and status.
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23 96 I took their pace to be a consideration, a thoughtful concession to the dignity, ease, and comfort of a putative free woman.
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37 100 Such garmenture attests to importance, dignity, station, honor, and display; too, it may intrigue the curious, appraising male to speculate about the wonders and treasures it may conceal; but it does little for freedom of movement, say, on occasions in which a fleet departure might be advisable.
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42 231 This garment he draped carefully about the head and shoulders of Talena, with ceremonial dignity, almost reverently.
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46 564 The dance of the free woman states her dignity and worth; the dance of a slave is quite different; it exhibits an incredibly desirable domestic animal, one which may be bought and sold.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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29 106 Rather, we accord to you the privilege of drinking of your own free will, of drinking with honor, with stately dignity, which you may now do".
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