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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 192 My father then explained to me something of the legends of the Priest-Kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the Priest-Kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effect, the divinities of this world.
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2 234 In effect, the planet would have functioned as a gigantic sealed spacecraft.
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4 6 The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.
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5 29 The girl on the saddle before me stirred, the effect of the drug wearing off.
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12 110 The sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird.
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13 40 Though I suppose this is purely instinctive on the larl's part, it does have the effect, over a series of generations, of weeding out animals which, if they survived, might transmit their intelligence, or perhaps their erratic running patterns, to their offspring.
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13 70 Their disease is so highly contagious, so invariably devastating in its effect, and so feared on the planet that even the boldest of outlaws gives them a wide berth.
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16 27 After some four days of bombardment, which probably had small effect, if any, the first assault was mounted.
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16 28 It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.
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18 134 I struck at him with the tarn-goad, but the instrument seemed to have no effect.
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Book 2. (14 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 40 For that matter, though I did not seriously consider the possibility, being without a city, in effect an outlaw, I was entitled in the Gorean way of thinking to take the bird or its purchase price in any way I saw fit.
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6 115 On the other hand, it is not too unusual a set of compartments on Gor where the master, in effect, willingly wears the collar, and his lovely slave, by the practice of the delightful wiles of her sex, with scandalous success wheedles her way triumphantly from the satisfaction of one whim to the next...
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7 69 The effect was electric.
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14 102 I know not what effect this cry may have had on the stands of the arena, for I had forgotten them.
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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 ...
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15 252 "A pillar on the borders of Tharna," she said, "where Tharna and her enemies effect the exchange of prisoners.
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20 89 There seemed to be a menace, an intangible fearful effect about those angular shapes in the distance.
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20 100 When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed.
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20 115 What had happened would have been regarded by the untrained Gorean mind, particularly that of a low-caste individual, as evidence of some supernatural force, as some magical effect of the will of the Priest-Kings.
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21 91 My conjecture, confirmed to some extent by the speculations of the Older Tarl, who had taught me the craft of arms in Ko-ro-ba years ago, is that the brand is used primarily, oddly enough, because of its reputed psychological effect.
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21 95 Actually I suppose the effect of the brand depends greatly on the girl.
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21 96 In many girls I would suppose the brand has little effect besides contributing to their shame, their misery and humiliation.
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21 99 But all in all I do not know if the brand is used primarily for its psychological effect or not.
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26 70 In effect, considering the temper of the men of Tharna, Lara's judgment gives the silver masks the opportunity, for a time, to choose a master, or after that time to be themselves chosen as a slave girl.
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Book 3. (16 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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17 54 If these tactics were calculated to have some effect on Sarm, I think they most miserably failed of that effect, for during the entire time I took, which was considerable, he stood motionless in the room, save for an occasional movement of his antennae, frozen in that maddening, immobile but alert p...
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1 80 Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw.
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8 138 In effect, I had probably merely scored a lucky hit.
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12 102 In effect these men had no names, but were simply known as Slave A and Slave B.
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14 18 I would learn later that practically the entire wall which faced me was such a device, being in effect a very large scent-reinforcer.
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15 139 "No," said Misk, "for his external sensors are now being bypassed, but he will understand that he has learned things in this fashion, for a mnemonic disk has been inscribed to that effect".
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16 42 "Of course," said Misk, "their serums are not as effective as ours and sometimes do not function, and sometimes the effect wears off after only a few hundred years".
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16 79 For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the Flame Death Mechanism".
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20 193 And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom denied even by the citizens of the gi...
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21 42 The refrain, almost constantly repeated, was something to the effect that We Have Come for Gur, On the Feast of Tola We Have Come for Gur, We Rejoice For on the Feast of Tola We Have Come for Gur.
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27 123 If Sarm were disturbed at finding Misk, whom he thought to have had killed, at his side, he gave no sign to this effect.
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28 172 Moreover, all former Muls who fought with us were clad in scent-free tunics which in effect supplied them with a most effective camouflage in the Nest.
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28 224 Most briefly, the combined drive and guidance system of the disk functioned by means of the focusing of gravitational sensors on material objects and using the gravitational attraction of these objects while in effect screening out the attraction of others.
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28 227 The flight of the disk itself is incredibly smooth and the effect is much as if the world and not yourself were moving.
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28 231 This is undoubtedly the effect of lacking the resistance of gravitational forces which normally account for the sometimes unpleasant, but reassuring, effects of acceleration and deceleration.
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30 72 The exudate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost...
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 146 They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages.
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2 174 The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...
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8 299 The object of the rider is to effect her capture, secure her and return her, in as little time as possible, to the circle of the whip.
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9 19 Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains.
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9 20 I say "in effect" because the fairs are nominally under the direction of a committee of the Caste of Initiates, which, however, largely contents itself with its ceremonies and sacrifices, and is only too happy to delegate the complex management of those vast, commercial phenomena, the Sardar Fairs, ...
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19 182 "I gather you intend to put your plan into effect," said Harold.
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19 190 "My plan," said Harold, "which I have now put into effect, was clearly superior to yours".
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Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 79 With some the effect lasts indefinitely, with others it wears off after but a few hundred years, with some the effect does not occur at all, with others, tragically, the effect is not to stabilize the pattern but to hasten its degeneration.
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2 109 If one, of course, finds oneself in effect without caste or clan, as was perhaps the case with the small fool named Hup, and one cannot work, one's life is likely to be miserable and not of great length.
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3 75 The Stabilization Serums, which are regarded as the right of all human beings, be they civilized or barbarian, friend or enemy, are administered in a series of injections, and the effect is, incredibly, an eventual, gradual transformation of certain genetic structures, resulting in indefinite cell r...
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5 51 I now had, in effect, a piece of boskhide cord.
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15 10 He would not inform me of the location of the maps and papers and I did not feel that any direct attempt to steal them and carry them away would be likely to be successful; further, if simply stolen, the Others, through Cernus, would doubtless be informed at the first opportunity and alternate plans...
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15 235 Elizabeth's accent was interesting, for it was, in effect, Tuchuk; the accent of the girls was that of Ar.
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16 5 This was hailed as generosity on his part by those of Ar, who were familiar with and had experienced to their sorrow, particularly since the deposition of Kazrak, the effect of a number of monopolies, in particular those in salt and tharlarion oil.
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16 20 Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect.
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17 153 After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp...
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18 496 "He was sent to Ko-ro-ba only to be slain, that you would be lured to this house, where in effect you have been my prisoner for more than a year".
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19 258 I knew that, in effect, this was a performance, each detail planned expertly, choreographed and rehearsed in the House of Cernus.
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22 376 I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings.
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22 480 The screams of the crowd were now deafening, though one could make out no words; the effect of the sound, as I flew through it, was, as I had often found it, a fascinating phenomenon, its pitch varying considerably, as one would expect, with my speed and position, particularly as I made the turns.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 34 For example, I had even heard arguments to the effect that peasants used the long bow only because they lacked the manufacturing capability to produce crossbows, as though they could not have traded their goods or sold animals to obtain crossbows, if they wished.
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5 180 The bantering of the young people in the morning, and the display of the girls in the evening, for in effect in the movements of the dance every woman is nude, have both, I expect, institutional roles to play in the life of the rence growers, significant roles analogous to the roles of dating, displ...
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8 108 This arrangement, in effect, transformed the formerly isolated barges into what was now, for all practical purposes, a long, single, narrow, wooden-walled fort.
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9 92 It is, in effect, walled, though it has few walls as one normally thinks of them.
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9 351 Further, I gathered, on the islands, Telima, with her beauty, her skills and arrogance, had not been popular, and it pleased them no little that she should be, in effect, slave for them as well as their masters.
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10 9 In the council, in effect, was vested the stability and administration of Port Kar.
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10 178 This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most...
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11 405 There were some abstentions, and some nays, perhaps from those who feared the power of one or another of the Ubars, but the decision on the whole was clear, a devastating of the claims of the Ubars and the, in effect, enthronement of the Council of Captains as sovereign in the city.
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11 411 Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsib...
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14 75 Accordingly I thus, in effect, recruited tacit allies in the rowing holds of round ships.
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14 88 Accordingly I began to put my plan into effect.
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14 437 To those of some cultures the significance of this may not be clear, but, without comment, let me remark that its effect in certain other cultures, such as that of Gor, is momentous.
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14 460 "Doubtless," smiled the Admiral, "I shall receive requests to that effect".
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15 117 For one thing, they had now formed a Council Guard, with its distinct livery, that was now recognized as a force of the Council, and, in effect, as the police of the city.
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15 121 Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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15 129 It was, in effect, the prison of those penned within.
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17 75 In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea.
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17 382 I did not expect a great deal of damage to be done by these shattering bombs of burning oil, but I was counting on the confluence of three factors: the psychological effect of such an attack, the fear of the outflanking fleets, whose numbers could not yet well have been ascertained, and, in the conf...
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Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

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11 393 I was well aware of the effect this would have upon him, and enjoyed producing this effect.
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14 536 But as important as the effect on men, and perhaps even more important, is the effect of such garmenture on the slave herself.
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3 96 "Interesting, the effect of binding and gagging on a woman," he said.
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6 410 I grunted a little, to add to the effect.
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8 983 It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female.
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10 68 "It is interesting," he mused, "the effect of slavery on a woman".
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10 365 "I confirmed your identity at the compound," said he, "during the performance of the mountebank, and, of course, surveyed the entire area and planned, in effect, the raid of the panther girls".
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11 378 How this thought angered me! I must struggle against it! Part of this was doubtless simply because I was in bondage and the effect of this on a female is no secret.
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11 609 She knew that she had already, in effect, been purchased, but she did not know who her master might be.
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11 1248 But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear moveme...
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12 174 But I did not need a collar! I did not belong in one! I was different! And so I confirmed myself in my resolution to reduce and subdue a master, to turn him, in effect, into a slave, into no more than a typical male of Earth.
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14 155 It was a double gate, with, in effect, log bars.
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14 462 She is, in effect, a work animal and a pleasure animal.
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17 285 I was thus, in effect, in part, a gift to the house of Bosk from the house of Samos.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 84 Sand may be added or removed, to effect the optimum conditions for either stability or speed.
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10 121 The forged document to that effect was a superb subterfuge".
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15 102 If the men of Tyros knew, as they would, that I might come and go as I pleased, this would have an unsettling effect upon them.
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15 160 The effect of raiment is extraordinary.
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15 277 They consist, in effect, of four portions.
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15 474 The bow need not be fully drawn to effect a considerable penetration.
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16 299 I did not know the duration of its effect in a woman.
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18 460 It might be mentioned, too, that their ships have, in effect a prow on each end.
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18 469 It is very difficult to take a ship in the side which, in effect, does not have to lose time in turning.
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19 165 Most Gorean cities are, in effect, governed by the influence, direct or indirect, of several important families.
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22 725 Accordingly, men have, in effect, bred a certain kind of woman.
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Book 9. (19 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 448 She would be in Ar, in effect, a prisoner.
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1 735 Its effect lasts for more than a Gorean month.
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2 122 So simple an adjustment as the promise of eternal life to women who behaved in accordance with their teachings, instructing the young, and so on, might have much effect.
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2 174 Another feature of the northern ships is that they have, in effect, a prow on each end.
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4 64 The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ...
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6 434 "And thus," said I, "that your outlawry would remain in effect until you were apprehended or slain?" "He hoped to drive me from Torvaldsland," said Ivar.
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6 521 If one thinks of the sleeping level, on each side, as constituting, in effect, a couch, almost the length of the hall, except for the cooking area, the logs lie at the foot of these two couches, and parallel to their foot.
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8 149 Anesthetic darts, too, are sometimes used in the taking of females; these may be flung, or entered into her body by hand; they take effect in about forty Ihn; she awakens often, stripped, in a slave kennel.
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10 80 A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod...
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10 315 If the thrall had been nothing in Torvaldsland before, he was now less than nothing; his status was now, in effect, that of the southern male work slave, found often in the quarries and mines, and, chained, on the great farms.
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11 60 It becomes, in running, what is, in effect, a four-footed animal.
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11 80 Too, it could be that, in summer, the Kurii shed white fur and developed, in effect, a summer coat.
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11 180 I, in this time, had come to understand that Torvaldsland stood, in effect, as a wall between the Kurii and the more southern regions of Gor.
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11 186 I supposed it quite probable this was, in effect, a probe, and yet one within the laws of the Priest-Kings.
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11 201 The Kurii, I gathered, did not wish to fight their way to more fertile lands south, but to reach them easily, thus conserving their numbers and, in effect, cutting Torvaldsland from the south.
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11 208 If the Priest-Kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the Priest-Kings might finally be isolated and destroyed.
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13 80 There were also considerations to the effect that the rune-priests would be distressed if the oaths were broken, and that the gods, too, might not look lightly upon such a violation of faith, and might, too, more seriously, evidence their displeasure by such tokens as blights, plagues, hurricanes an...
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21 203 "Within seconds," said Sarus, "the spiteful fluid took its effect.
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21 246 The plan of Tyros might thus, foiled upon the coast of Thassa, be in effect accomplished in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, at least with respect to he known as Bosk of Port Kar.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 543 The accouterments of the stimulation-cell are also calculated with respect to their effect on the slave.
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1 546 The point of this is that the senses and body of the slave, stripped save for brand and collar, and whatever perfumes, cosmetics or jewelries she may wear under the instruction of her trainer, are being taught to be alive, to sense and feel with great sensitivity; the senses and skins of many human ...
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4 348 Indeed it was in effect in one of the positions of obeisance, that in which the slave kneels with her head to the floor, with her hands held behind her, the wrists crossed, or the right wrist held in the left hand.
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5 76 Her more serious training had taken place over the last several days at the oasis, which is, in effect, a town in the desert, with a population of several thousand.
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11 46 Small animals, in effect, swim in it.
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11 311 The vassal tribe is, in effect, a military unit subordinate to the conquering tribe which it, then, may count among its forces.
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11 409 This was irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded dune country; there are oases in the dune country but ...
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14 390 That she must enter and leave it on her hands and knees is thought to have a desirable psychological effect on the girl, impressing on even a haughty girl that she is only slave.
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16 42 I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life.
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18 54 The object is to effect a complete exchange of original placements.
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24 41 To achieve a similar effect girls are sometimes, in markets, tied with their hands over their head.
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26 847 For example, when a woman is collared it is hard for her to conceive of herself as other than she is, a slave; similarly, when a woman is marked slave, either with an iron or by the tattoo needle, this has a useful psychological effect on her.
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Book 11. (18 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 511 The physical effect of the switch on a girl is not negligible, but, I think, its psychological effect, should the blows be placed on a certain portion of her body, thus cruelly humiliating her, may be even more bitter.
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1 118 So simply did a proper oxygenation of my system work its almost immediate effect in my feeling and awareness.
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3 101 I had, in effect, been spurned, rejected.
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3 166 Had I not been, in effect, "his"? Was I not physically attractive to him? I knew now I was no Eta, but surely I was better than nothing.
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3 783 The effect of the slave wine endures several cycles, or moons; it may be counteracted by another drink, a smooth, sweet beverage, which frees the girl's body for the act of the male slave, or, in unusual cases, should she be freed, to the act of the lover; slave girls, incidentally, are almost never...
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4 189 It gave me pleasure to assume this posture before my master, who had full body rights to me; it gave me less pleasure, in the beginning, to assume it before free men generally; yet, eventually, I did it naturally, and pleasurably; it is a position that not only makes the girl more attractive to the ...
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5 198 Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
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9 812 Too, my hands, tied as they were, contributed to the carefully calculated effect.
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9 2293 "The powder was used, though it did not have the effect that one in the village had intended.
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12 69 The distant menace of the master's displeasure has its influence and effect, naturally, on the social arrangements of the kennels.
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13 153 It made me, in effect, a gutter slave, a low slave, so to speak, one who is helplessly, degradingly arousing.
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16 73 Each girl, in effect, has her own meshed cage, separate from that of the others.
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17 60 Oddly enough some were immune to the pox, and with others it had only a temporary, debilitating effect.
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22 451 This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
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24 46 What woman is not pleased to know she is of interest to men? What woman is not pleased to realize, even shyly, that her beauty may have unsettled a fellow, even dazzled or astonished him, bewildered him, or awed him? Are we supposed to be upset that a fellow may turn about, perhaps disbelievingly, p...
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25 116 Codes, in effect, cannot be broken.
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28 175 The psychological effect of this, methodical and relentless, tends to produce anticipation and anxiety, even in an experienced girl.
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28 180 The effect of this, being for a time relatively at ease, and then being forced suddenly to move ten times closer to the block tends, suddenly, to whet one's fears and anticipations anew; when one, psychologically, in spite of herself, had begun to feel a little safe one is suddenly hurried even clos...
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Book 12. (16 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 361 Indeed, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that any woman who relishes a compliment is in her heart a slave girl.
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2 223 In effect, she had been told she did not exist, and had been foolish enough to believe it.
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2 705 Centius of Cos, on the other hand, was an older man; no one knew how old; it was said the stabilization serums had not taken their full effect with him until he had seen fifty winters; he was slight and gray-haired; he was quite different in personality and character from the young Scormus; he was q...
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3 325 I speculated on the effect which the draw for yellow might have on the odds in the match.
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3 627 They were still, in effect, almost imitation boys.
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9 184 The Fairs, in their diverse ways, tend to standardize the language, which might otherwise disintegrate into regional variations which, over centuries, might become mutually unintelligible linguistic modalities, in effect and practice, unfortunately, separate languages.
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9 255 Many, it seems, would rather submit to a strong man than dominate a weakling, or endure the boredom of a politically approved relationship, contractually associating with what is, in effect, a devirilized, neutered identical.
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15 259 Also it is sometimes not without its psychological effect".
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15 260 "I can well imagine its psychological effect," she said.
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15 484 First, as girls, natural slaves, they were in a relationship to which, in effect, they were bred by nature, that of the submitting organism in an ancient biological complementarity of male and female; female slavery is but the cultural institutionalization, the expression and perfection, to be expec...
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15 744 For many it is, in effect, their proudest possession.
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17 31 That carving had, in effect, brought me to the north.
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21 303 In no way would you in the slightest be permitted to detract from the impression or effect the free woman desires to create or compete with her in any way.
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25 99 It makes it easier to find his way back because he has already, in effect, seen what the return journey will look like.
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27 50 The sinew, of course, held the baleen together, in effect fastening a stout spring into a powerfully compressed position.
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35 608 I wondered if she realized that women of her paleness and beauty had, in effect, like certain other types, been sexually selected for, over generations, even on her native world, a world which seldom consciously thought of itself as a world breeding slaves.
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Book 13. (14 results) Explorers of Gor

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16 59 When one adds to this certain additional drum signals corresponding, in effect, to keys to the message or to certain consonantal ciphers, one has, in effect, a direct, effective, ingenious device at one's disposal, given the drum relays, for long-distance communication.
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24 250 This has the effect of minimizing the pressure waves projected before their bodies, an effect that might otherwise alert a wary, but unsuspecting prey.
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1 482 Whereas most towns on the river are, in effect, free states, few are strong enough to ignore powers such as Cos and its major rival in these territories, the city of Ar.
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2 47 On the other hand, doubtless, the dieting, exercise, instruction in cosmetics and adornment, and the various forms of slave training, are also not without their effect.
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6 538 Too, the two girls at the prow did not detract from the effect.
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12 280 "Wait," said Msaliti, "one more item is needed to complete the effect".
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14 31 The practice, too, is thought to have a good psychological effect on the slave, reminding her that she is owned, and, usually, by whom.
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14 314 "The sense in which passion makes you a slave," I said, "is that it puts you in what is in effect a slave's position, helpless, yielding, submitting to the master".
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15 217 I might have discerned this had he not appeared to be intent on misdirecting our attention, calling it to the simple warning system, that of the threads and peas, in the ceiling, presumably to effect a switch of the rings while our attention was diverted.
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16 58 Thus, on the drum it is possible to duplicate, in effect, the vowels and intonation contours of inland sentences.
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32 409 The freedoms of the Earth woman, in effect, are freedoms to conform, within rather narrow limits, to certain socially approved stereotypes.
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32 410 Females of Earth, not permitted to move as women, are expected to perform what are, in effect, male-imitation movements.
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47 15 Too, there may have been, mixed in that sound, the almost infinitesimal sound, audible only in its cumulative effect, of the rubbings and clickings of the joints of tiny limbs and the shiftings and adjustments of tiny, black, shiny exoskeletons, those stiff casings of the segments of their tiny bodi...
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53 327 They might be in proximity to one another, but each functioned, in effect, as an isolated unit.
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Book 14. (19 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 345 Could it not be that the Gorean books are, in effect, a way of preparing the Earth and its peoples for the revelation of the true existence of a Counter-Earth, should it sometime be expedient to make its presence known?" "Of course not," I said.
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7 565 Did this not, then, challenge me, in effect, to put my collar on her.
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8 33 Perhaps it is thus they protect themselves from understanding that they have, in effect, no manhood to deny".
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10 101 One man had, in effect, conducted me to this place.
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11 556 Too, it is sometimes thought to have a useful disciplinary effect on the girls.
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12 250 What if, truly, he should not be tame? Then how would they be treated? What would be done to them? Would they not, in effect, be made his slaves, in the way of nature? But, too, I was apprehensive, for, in looking out on the tiers, I realized that one of these women could buy me, and that I would th...
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12 373 I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
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13 44 The meadow of Salerius, thus, lies on the northern bank of the Olni, between Port Olni and Vonda; the area called Saleria, on the other hand, is, in effect, the lands controlled by the confederation.
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13 291 They are then, in effect, military highways.
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17 162 I knew that many of the men of Earth were, in effect, the property of their women.
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17 167 One must own, in effect, or be owned.
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17 168 The women of Earth, in effect, owned their men.
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18 154 She, in effect, flaunts herself in front of him, acting however as though no such thing is going on.
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18 170 As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races.
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19 271 "I see nothing in here to the effect that you are not a stable slut," he said.
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25 298 Sometimes, however, the girls are sold directly from such wagons, the wagons being in effect themselves traveling markets.
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28 68 "That I would be, in effect, your hired slave?" I asked.
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29 56 Such a camp, in effect, is a truce ground, where men of various allegiances may in safety bring what prizes may have fallen to their ropes and chains".
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32 42 It is interesting, the effect that a device such as a leash can have on a woman.
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Book 15. (14 results) Rogue of Gor

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24 129 The second major purpose with respect to the effect on the girl, of course, is that she is touching and, in effect, in the bathing, caressing a man's body.
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6 70 It also commands, in effect, the northern terminus of one of the great roads, the Viktel Aria, or Ar's Triumph, leading toward Ar.
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21 278 The effect of a chain, or a rope, on a woman's sexuality is sometimes incredible.
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21 280 With the older slave girl, one who has already learned something of the meaning of her collar, a mere snapping of the fingers or a small, imperious gesture can have a similarly devastating, triggering effect on her sexuality.
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21 352 It never loses its effect.
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23 128 Sometimes, though I had tried not to make this obvious, I had, in effect, beaten his blade to the side, rather than merely turned it away.
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24 114 It has two major purposes with respect to its effect on the girl.
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25 74 "Ar's Station is, in effect, an outpost of Ar," said Tasdron.
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28 331 He now realized that one of his girls, Peggy, was, in effect, the helpless love slave of Callimachus.
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29 54 The typical colonizing situation among Gorean polities tends to resemble classical colonization, and not the typical colonization of nation states, in which the colony, in effect, is held subject to alien domination.
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29 154 It signifies, in effect, the agreement of Ragnar Voskjard to join forces with Policrates.
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31 1 The Chamber of the Windlass; I Begin to Put my Plan into Effect "Cease your lying!" cried the pirate.
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33 203 Our defensive force, in effect, is the fleet of Port Cos".
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33 204 "It is then, you feel," I said, apprehensively, "in effect some thirty ships, those of Port Cos, against the fleet of the Voskjard?" "Substantially so," agreed Callimachus.
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Book 16. (28 results) Guardsman of Gor

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7 62 The tiny gnawings, the minuscule lacerations, the drops of blood extracted, must in their cumulative effect take their inevitable toll.
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8 123 They are, in effect, pets and mascots.
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8 312 It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with its hun...
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8 319 Briefly put, the second reason that Earth girls make such astoundingly desirable slaves is that they have been, in their Earth years, subjected, in effect, to sexual and emotional starvation.
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8 322 Translated to Gor, encountering true men in large numbers, in overwhelming numbers, so different from the crippled males of Earth, finding themselves in an exotic environment, and participating in a culture markedly different from their own, and in many respects both fearful and beautiful, and found...
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8 419 Doubtless this attack would be postponed until morning, that the slaughter might lose nothing of its effect, some survivors perhaps being enabled, in small boats or in the water, to slip away under the cover of darkness.
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18 92 The slave girl, subject to male domination, surrendered to service and love, branded and collared, serving and kneeling, is, under the institutional enhancements of a civilization, fixing her condition upon her with uncompromising clarity, in effect, the primitive woman, the biological woman, the se...
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18 94 The collar, in effect, has returned them to themselves.
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18 600 He then was ready to place, in effect, as a gift, a coin in my box.
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19 346 Few women object to this, though, to be sure, sometimes slaves fear the power of their collars, knowing, as they do, what effect the sight of them can have on men.
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19 348 Similarly, the collar often has an interesting "releasing effect" on the sexuality of the female.
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19 356 The "releasing effect" of the collar on female sexuality is interesting and complex.
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19 399 The "intensification effect" of the collar, incidentally, might also be briefly mentioned.
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19 425 It says, in effect, "Here is a woman whom men have wanted.
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19 557 Most of the admired civilizations of the past have, in effect, been founded on slavery.
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20 20 It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo...
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20 27 As a free woman she had been, in effect, without accomplishments.
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20 284 Slave girls know that to some men, and perhaps to any man some of the time, they are, in effect, and will be treated as, only meaningless, delicious desserts.
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20 295 For example, the girls are branded and collared, and their world is one in which the institution of slavery is accepted and respected; there is, in effect, no place for them to run, no place for them to go.
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20 324 Imagine, then, that a woman, falling slave, suddenly realized that she was now, in effect, subject to them! Consider her fears, her curiosity, her arousal! A woman, often, particularly if stripped, seeing a chain and knowing that it is to be placed upon her, will feel uncontrollable sexual desire, h...
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20 656 A standing permission, of course, may be in effect, particularly if the master is absent, but many masters are pleased to exact this lovely request each day.
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20 657 It is thought to have a salutary effect on the slave.
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20 1019 In these, the final portions of the Sa-eela, the slave, in effect, puts herself at the mercy of the master.
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20 1024 In the first case, where no true distinction exists, which is the authentic case, the girl, in effect, says, "I am for sale.
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20 1025 Buy me, and love me!" In the second case, the girl, in effect, says, "Here is a fine slave.
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20 1059 It is a joyful, meaningful way of demonstrating power over the slave, and showing that she, in effect, belongs to you.
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20 1262 When I returned to the vicinity of the table the house, in effect, had been transformed into a small fortress.
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20 2134 The slave girl, in effect, is the woman in her place in nature.
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Book 17. (37 results) Savages of Gor

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1 961 They may have some effect, of course, as I have suggested, at extremely close range.
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2 221 Similarly the absence of large bodies of water in the Barrens reduces rainfall which might be connected with large-scale evaporation and subsequent precipitation of this moisture over land areas, the moisture being carried inland on what are, in effect, sea breezes, flowing into low-pressure areas c...
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2 222 The absence of large bodies of water adjacent to or within the Barrens also has another significant effect on their climate.
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2 287 "Surely some must be," I said, "if only to effect the graces and utilities of trade".
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2 313 That we have, in effect, on the authority of one of the very beasts to whom we spoke this morning".
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8 71 Thus, in effect, each girl is marked with a new, fresh iron.
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8 558 I deemed now that I better understood why the two girls had not been at their respective taverns, why they, it seemed, in effect, under the pretense of soliciting business for the establishments of their masters, had been hiding in the sales barn of Ram Seibar.
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8 891 About every five feet a linear set of these boards was painted yellow, thus, in effect, making long, yellow lines, parallel to the sides of the structure, on the floor.
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10 8 Indeed, it was through the Dust Legs that most of the goods of the interior might reach civilization, the Dust Legs, in effect, acting as agents and intermediaries.
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10 102 "We could kill the kaiila and use them, in effect, as a fort and shelter, but, even so, we would be severely outnumbered".
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10 110 Let us put it immediately into effect".
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11 220 You would have understood that you were yearning women, in effect without men.
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13 280 "In family barterings," I said, "barterings concerned with alliances to consolidate or improve social position, the woman's utility, as I understand it, is substantially realized with the successful completion of the bartering process, when she is, in effect, exchanged for status and power.
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13 323 "This was the occasion, doubtless, in which your aunt expressed her view that such, in effect, was all you were good for".
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13 373 "I became, in effect, the secretary to a female executive, her 'girl' in the office.
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13 374 She took charge of me and, in effect, prescribed my mode of dress and behavior".
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13 649 "I assure you," I said, "some of the men would have, in effect, seen you in that way".
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13 819 "This is what, implicitly, in effect, your aunt was recognizing," I said, "though perhaps not fully consciously.
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13 821 She dressed you, and treated you, did she not, as, in effect, a slave?" "Yes," said the girl, angrily.
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13 884 She has longed for a master and, in effect, has prepared herself for him.
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13 901 Many feel that moonlight has an aphrodisiac effect on the female, this having to do subconscious symbolisms, associated with natural rhythms, waxings and wanings, biological cycles, and such.
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13 958 "The true wonder in these matters," I said, "and what seems most delightful to me, is the way, gradually, the girl's heat begins to develop from within, until she is transformed, in effect, into a needful slave.
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13 1187 "She was once a primitive, brutish female, innocent of legalities but, in effect, owned.
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13 1339 Your world has taught both sexes to strive for what are, in effect, masculine, or neuteristic, values.
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13 1341 Hormonally normal women find it difficult or impossible to achieve happiness through the adoption of, in effect, transvestite values.
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13 1436 She learns them far too swiftly and well not to be, in effect, a born slave.
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13 1555 "But the main thing, in my opinion," I said, "is the psychological effect on the woman, the bringing home to her, in clear, forcible and undeniable terms, the reality of her situation, that she is helpless, that she is at his mercy, that she, regardless of her will, is now his to do with as he pleas...
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14 62 Furthermore the collar is fastened by what is, in effect, a signature knot, a complex knot, within a given tribal style, whose tying is known only to the individual who has invented it.
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14 85 He becomes, in effect, a customer.
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14 186 Such a position, in its pathetic pretense to modesty, begs to be rudely terminated; it taunts the master, in effect, to the ensuing and uncompromising exposure of the slave.
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14 482 The whole thing was, in effect, a joke and a gamble.
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14 498 Similarly, since bids are almost always lower on an unseen commodity, he would be, in effect, making them a gift.
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17 212 Certainly the savages would have anticipated an attempted escape in the sector where they had appeared to position what, in effect, was their temporary infantry.
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17 335 She had then, in effect, petitioned that this second portion of her test be readministered to her.
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17 336 She had begged then, in effect, to be given a second chance to prove her suitability for slavery.
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18 181 "Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
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18 182 "There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
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Book 18. (57 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 258 He had also acquired two prisoners, two former enemies of his, Max and Kyle Hobart, in effect as gifts from Dust Legs.
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1 293 It means, in effect, "Red Bull".
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1 324 This is done, in effect, with a signature knot, in a given tribal style, known only to the tier.
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1 331 Hers was the collar of a true slave, in the fullness of that meaning, whereas mine, in effect, though identical, functioned almost as a badge of protection.
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1 378 In humiliating me, whom Canka treated with respect and honor, he was, in effect, demeaning Canka.
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1 460 Indeed, sometimes a young fellow will have his hair greased and braided, and will dress himself in finery and paint, and simply ride about the camp, parading, in effect, before his fellow villagers, and, in particular, the maidens.
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1 485 Last year he had, in effect, put in an order for such a woman, an order which Grunt had agreed, to the best of his ability, to fill.
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3 43 We then walked along with the group, some mounted and some, like ourselves, on foot, who, in effect, were following Cancega.
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3 49 "He is, then," I said, "at this time, in effect, the chief of all the Kaiila".
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4 105 This would, in effect, guarantee that she would remain always only a slave on Gor.
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4 157 They are used not only to lift the cover into place, to adjust it, and remove it, but also in the regulation of the flaps at the apex of the lodge, altering or adjusting the smoke hole, in effect, dependent on temperature and wind conditions.
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4 161 A wall of brush, as a snow fence, in effect, may also be used.
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4 162 In the summer the walls of the lodge, as I have mentioned, may be rolled up, transforming it, in effect, into a sun canopy.
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6 51 We were told to picket them, in effect, at hand".
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7 382 "Yes," she said, miserably, "it is superb!" "You will be, in effect," I said, "the slave of a slave".
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7 620 She has been, in effect, ordered to put a gag in her own mouth.
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9 70 If a free woman would assure herself of her man's love she could not do better than, in effect, become his slave.
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9 237 "But how," I asked, "in what other way, other than in possible attractiveness and desirability, could a slave have more power than a free woman?" "If one can do things another cannot, and if one is permitted to do things which another, in effect, could not, then, I suppose, one has, in a sense, powe...
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9 266 I could, on my back and belly, in effect, dance for you, my head never rising above the knee of a standing man.
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9 379 The collar has an interesting effect on female sexuality.
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9 627 Had he not examined her, she exhibited, kneeling, hands behind her head, head back, in a familiar posture of slave assessment? Had he not put her to the paws of his kaiila almost immediately, thus utilizing her as the animal of his animal, and thus, in effect, declaring her to be of interest, and cl...
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9 639 "What follows, I think," I said, "is that any woman deeply and truly in love is, in effect, a female slave".
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9 699 By means of them he can, in effect, map her beauty, guiding himself in his ownership of her, detecting the zones of her greatest sexual helplessness and seeing, by varying the nature of his rhythms and touches, how they can be most efficiently and brilliantly exploited, the end in view, of course, b...
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12 33 It was now, in effect, a small, relatively fixed, directionless, milling mass.
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12 416 Needless to say, the girl scurries to the couch, regards it, in effect, as a place of possible refuge, in spite of the fact that her sexual exploitation and domination will clearly take place upon it, and, for the time limits set, whatever they may be, fears to leave it.
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12 503 "Then, when you were, in effect, rejected as a woman, you were hurt and angry.
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13 148 It had been, in effect, a rich stew, crowded with vegetables and seasonings.
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14 250 They had been as I had expected, in effect, nothing.
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14 384 The transition, presumably, because of their conditioning and upbringing, having acclimated them to what, in effect, were Waniyanpi values, would doubtless have been much easier for a woman from Earth.
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15 45 Even so, he did not put his plan into effect until after Canka had refused to give her to his father, Mahpiyasapa, for the Yellow Knives.
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18 286 It was not that there was anything in particular about them that seemed to differentiate them from the Kaiila, but rather that there seemed something as a whole about them which was different, doubtless the cumulative effect of many tiny details, perhaps in the beading of their clothing, the manner ...
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27 45 This form of reticulation is calculated to have a confusing and distractive effect on swiftly moving, airborne archers.
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28 121 Most masters, incidentally, enjoy talking with their slaves, immensely; after all, the slave is not a mere contractual partner, in effect, a business associate; she is a prized possession; she is a treasure, and she is all one's own.
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28 168 She was the slave who, earlier, had been used by Yellow-Knives as, in effect, a lure girl, one used to distract or, say, entrap a warrior.
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28 271 One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself.
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29 14 "I am the slave of Cotanka! Where is Cotanka!" It was she who earlier, in effect, had functioned as a lure girl.
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29 23 It was not a capture net, of course, but a mesh designed, in effect, to provide a camouflage against, or a distraction for, overhead archers.
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35 178 I wondered if the smoke of sweet-brush and needles, if the rubbing with white clay, might not have its effect not so much in encouraging the approach of medicine helpers but in lessening the probability of the approach of sleen.
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37 25 I did not effect anything critical.
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37 254 She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and, indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons.
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37 255 In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser, as suggested, for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine".
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37 276 When one wishes to breed a white female slave in the Barrens usually one simply denies her sip root and waits for the effect of the root to wear off.
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43 17 They were probably administered to the bare skin, with the girl tied in such a way as to maximize their effect.
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43 401 "That will be sufficient, Lady Iwoso," I told her, in Kaiila, and then, with perhaps an overly dramatic gesture, but one whose effect was not lost on the Yellow Knives, I threw aside the robe I had worn.
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43 494 It was the first time, I supposed, that the Yellow-Knife beauty had been, in effect, exchanged for a kaiila.
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44 243 Do we not have their own assurance to that effect? "Here," said Hci, pointing to the hideous scarring at the left side of his mouth.
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44 496 Frenzied blasts on war whistles, relayed to the bottom of the trail, finally had their effect.
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44 641 "Their effect on the Yellow Knives is likely to be the more significant the more unfamiliar they are to them".
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47 161 It is thought that breathing may effect the concentration, perhaps altering or complicating the relationship with the target.
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47 162 The bird and the rider, in effect, are the projectile.
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47 227 I did not look back, for fear of spoiling the effect.
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54 181 This hypothesis is further confirmed by the fact that the Sleen, in trading with Grunt, Grunt making use of booties acquired from the Yellow Knives, offered him, in effect, the package containing both the Hobarts and their lovers.
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54 204 It was she who had functioned, in effect, as a "lure girl" in one of the actions at the summer camp.
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54 210 This, in effect, was a mixture of sign and Gorean convention.
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54 285 In taking these five hides Mahpiyasapa, in effect, forgave Canka for his exercise of the warrior rights which had brought Winyela's pretty neck into his beaded collar.
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54 291 Grunt, of course, received his five hides and Mahpiyasapa received the rare, red-haired woman he had, in effect, ordered from Grunt last year.
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54 300 The community was now, in effect, a small freehold in the Barrens, and yet, strictly, in the letter of the law, stood to the Kaiila as a leased tenancy.
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Book 19. (26 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 456 I dared not even think of the effect of such a posture upon a woman if she had been put in it by men who were truly in power over her.
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1 478 Women are no longer forced, in effect, to dress as females, in particular ways, with all the dynamic, attendant psychological effects for both sexes which might accrue to such a practice.
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2 274 "It is not every day," I said, smiling, "that a girl finds herself surprised in her own apartment and then, in effect, forced to present herself before unexpected guests clad only in a towel".
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4 26 Further, since the smithies of Ar, those authorized to use the various stamps of Ar, will not plate objects without using relevant variations on the seal of Ar to indicate this, the object was not only being misrepresented but was, in effect, a forged artifact.
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4 434 "Do you think I do not see that you, in stripping her, would be, in effect, and to your lust and amusement, stripping me, and before my very eyes?" "Forgive me," smiled Ligurious, first minister of Corcyrus.
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6 512 On Earth, in its pollutions, surrounded by its crippled males and frustrated women, exposed to its antibiological education and conditionings, subjected to the perversions of unisex, denying their sexuality in its fullness to both sexes, the nature of the emptiness in my life, and its causes, had be...
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7 129 Its effect is indefinite, but it is normally renewed annually, primarily for symbolic purposes".
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16 181 This arrangement is also favored for its psychological effect on the woman.
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20 112 I was to him, in effect, as his slave.
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23 203 I had not known what it would be like in its larger effect, let alone its resolution.
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26 54 Their presence, too, of course, tended to have an adverse effect on the satisfactions obtainable by the free men present.
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26 416 In few modalities is a woman's slavery made clearer or more manifest than when she must perform floor movements, than when she must, in effect, dance before men, never rising higher than her knees.
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27 54 The choice, thus, is, in effect, one of whether you choose to become a total slave, surrendered and obedient, in your mind as well as your behavior, or die".
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27 72 Again, in the matter of hair-dos as in all my instructions to you, whether having to do with perfumes, silks, cosmetics, ornamentation, or whatever, you are to consider the total effect, the entire ensemble".
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28 14 It was not thought necessary to soil slave silks in what, in effect, was a successive series of rehearsals.
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28 26 There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn and the Vosk gull, be free.
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31 294 This is reasonable, I suppose, at least in many instances, that one security should be kept in effect until it has been replaced by another.
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31 478 Sometimes so little is required to effect a cure for frigidity in a new capture, one not yet put under the iron, one not yet collared.
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31 686 He probably would have a distinctive tunic, in effect, a uniform, for his females.
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33 132 He could not very well inform the assemblage of the exchange he had attempted to effect earlier in the throne room.
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33 442 A letter to this effect, signed by Menicius, and bearing, too, the seal of Corcyrus, I also obtained.
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33 472 The specific signals between masters and sleen, signals which, in effect, convey such commands as "Attack," "Hunt," "Stop," "Back," and so on, are usually verbal and private.
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33 928 "I seem to recall something to that effect," he said.
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34 206 "No," he said, "for had you not escaped I would still be not as a master to a woman but as, in effect, her slave".
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36 665 The presence in the room of a curule chair designated the room, in effect, as one to be appropriately occupied by an individual of some importance, or official standing, which assuredly was Drusus Rencius, my master.
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36 900 To whom else might one yield, truly? Is it not of masters, powerful, lustful, demanding, indifferent, careless, magnificent, and overwhelming, that women dream? So the collar had freed me to be myself, and to recognize my desire for, and need of, men, and then men, whether I willed it or not, had br...
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Book 20. (33 results) Players of Gor

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1 75 It is in this time that the doors of many homes are sealed with pitch and have nailed to them branches of the brak bush, the leaves of which have a purgative effect.
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1 81 This, in effect, welcomes the New Year to the city.
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1 147 I could see that the beating of the female slave had had its effect on her.
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2 361 The physician, in departing, puzzled that the potion has not yet taken effect, assures the merchant, sitting on the great pot, that he should allow it a little more time, that doubtless he will soon feel its effects.
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2 459 It would, in effect, launch a second attack, and one which might force yellow to bring pieces to the Ubar's side of the board, thereby weakening the position of the Ubara's Builder's file, making it more vulnerable, then, of course, to the major attack.
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2 485 Thus I could, in effect, for most purposes, choose my preferred opening.
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2 618 "To what effect, may I inquire?" pressed Boots.
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2 700 Surely they know the effect they can have on men.
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2 701 Can fire not have a sense of its effect on straw? Are they not aware of the impact on a man of the mere sight of them.
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2 859 They were, in effect, good-will and promotional devices, donated to the festivities, for the pleasures of free men, by the houses of various slavers.
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2 1347 "I have never encountered a convincing proof to that effect," she said.
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3 102 For example, in our present situation, I could reach her and kill her or capture her and make use of her to effect a probable escape.
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3 327 "Yes! Yes!" I did not think it was necessary to remind her that I was not really according her the polite courtesies and gentle dignities appropriate to the pleasures of the free woman, but was, in effect, of my own will, by my own decision, subjecting her to attentions more commonly reserved for th...
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4 152 Then, when, in effect, I could twine him about my tiny finger, when I could do with him as I wished, I could drug or poison him".
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4 338 That will give me time to effect the capture, strip and chain the captive, and change into my prettiest clothes, ready to welcome Flaminius as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened".
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5 188 The Tassa powder which I had placed in the wine had already, mostly, taken its effect.
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5 238 Many of the things which she had said, incidentally, were not different from the genuine, heartfelt declarations of women in love, particularly those so much in love that they find themselves, in effect, the slaves of masters.
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6 33 It, in effect, is part of her.
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6 382 They collaborate, in effect, to produce the theatrical experience.
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6 459 Boots, in effect, in the context of the play, had tricked her into placing her clothing at his feet.
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10 316 I could always watch her feedings later, giving attention to their possible effect on her figure.
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10 677 The effect of most lasts several years, but the dose is commonly renewed annually, often on the evening before the master's birthday.
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12 59 Ubar's Initiate Nine, that square from which I might effect capture of Home Stone, was now protected by his Ubara.
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12 271 I needed only a respite of one move to effect capture of Home Stone.
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12 289 If he did this, however, it would give me the move I needed to effect capture of Home Stone, by advancing my Rider of the High Tharlarion to the coveted Ubar's Initiate Nine.
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12 310 Then he had swept down the opened file with his Builder, to Ubar's Builder Nine, to effect its capture.
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12 425 These tiny numbers, in effect, seemed to divide the moves into divisions.
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12 439 When you have done this, one board, in effect, has been completed".
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12 544 Thus, in effect, we had given her two mistresses to strive to please.
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13 181 I was then forced to the conclusion that it must be the Kurii who were active in Brundisium, that their subversions must be in effect in that city as once in Corcyrus.
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14 349 There must be, in effect, a pack odor.
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14 353 The hideous squeal which was so terrifying, so shrill and piercing, which had such an effect on the other animals, was presumably something like a stranger-in-our-midst signal, a stranger-recognition signal, so to speak.
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19 8 Many Gorean cities, in effect, are tiered cities.
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Book 21. (28 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 176 This is a simple ceremony in which she expresses her submission, acknowledges her servitude, and, in effect, thanks the master for deigning to dominate and possess her.
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3 196 It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.
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3 209 From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares.
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3 406 Too, with it, or its residue, she might be able to make her way to a distant village, far from the trekking of armies, where she could use it as a bride price, using it, in effect, to purchase herself a companion, a good fellow who could care for herself and her child.
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4 573 I then lifted her up, in effect kneeling her, and then bent her back, her head back to the dirt, that the warriors might assess the bow of her beauty.
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5 129 After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and tr...
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5 478 In effect, it said, "Behold, I am on a man's neck rope; I wear a slave tunic; I am branded; I am collared; my hands have been tied behind my back; I am desired; I am so beautiful that I have been made a slave; I am better than you, free woman; I am a thousand thousand times better than you!" Boabiss...
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15 446 It is tasteless and odorless, and takes effect quickly.
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15 650 The land between here and Ar, and the city itself, would be in effect without defense".
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15 707 "The seal of the silver tarn should effect that," he said.
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16 1107 This word, incidentally, is, in effect, the same word as 'Semnium', although in the western coastal dialects it is commonly pronounced as I have given the spelling here.
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18 207 Such whippings, occasionally administered, are thought by many to have a salutary effect on her".
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21 41 It was one of those looks which, in effect, undress a woman, exposing her lineaments, careless of her will, to his view.
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21 191 Who could one trust? Too, I surely had no wish to attempt to cut my way through the corridors of the Central Cylinder to effect a private audience with the regent.
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22 361 She was a long way now from the Alar camp in which, as a pseudomale, she must have been in effect, as such women are, little more than a laughing stock, little better than a joke.
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24 428 These women, in effect, breed for slaves.
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25 251 Why will you not give me a collar? You have made me, in effect, a slave.
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25 1093 She did this as though not giving it much thought, and as though modestly, but in such a way, with such a movement of her body, and with such an effect, that she called dramatic and inevitable attention to the marvelousness of her breasts.
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25 1143 It reminded me of the small lamps of love sometimes kindled in a fellow's compartments, the light from which has such an interesting effect on the skin of a slave chained to the couch ring.
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25 1372 Their effect upon conscious life, because of her conditioning, would normally be felt in such transformed and eccentric modalities as anxiety, uneasiness, misery, discomfort, ill temper, imaginary complaints, frustration and loneliness.
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25 1821 It was beginning, it seemed, to take effect.
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26 365 The thigh brand, for one, has this effect.
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26 378 My investigations concerning brand sites had, as a side effect, of course, informed me that she was unclothed, except for her shackles.
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26 697 She would be quite aware of its power, from its effect on her helpless charges.
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26 1941 They can be easily defended, and, if wished, broken away, this isolating the cylinder in such a way as to transform it, in effect, into an almost inaccessible, well-provisioned fortress or keep.
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26 2006 This tests the ring, but is done largely for its psychological effect on the female.
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27 47 Indeed, there is a Gorean saying to the effect that that only a fool buys a woman clothed.
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27 183 These bracelets, however, those now upon the blonde, were not the lovely, attractive, colorful devices, as much ornaments as restraints, which are designed for attractiveness as well as custodial efficiency, devices which may be matched to various slave silks, types of collars, and such, in effect, ...
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Book 22. (39 results) Dancer of Gor

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2 20 In that instant I had felt, in effect, naked before him.
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3 169 How startled my co-workers would have been if they could have seen me, Doreen, barefoot, half naked, belled and bangled, dancing, and such dancing, dancing almost as though she might be a slave! And so it was here, in this private, perfect place, that I presented, in effect, my secret performances, ...
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3 265 In effect, somehow it seemed welded shut.
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3 690 Indeed, your life, in effect, will be one of rape".
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3 860 I suppose that this might have been an effect only of the startling alarms of my imagination, they informing me with some vividness as to what it might be to feel its stroke, but I suspect, really, that there was more involved.
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4 245 I was then looking, in effect, at the beams and plaster of the ceiling.
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6 214 There would be doubtless a kind of war between women like that and women such as myself, I thought, a war in which women such as I, in effect, would be unarmed, and, perhaps despised and hated by them, fully at their mercy, totally helpless before them.
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6 329 My reflections were colored, in effect, by the pathologies of a far-off world.
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6 422 Teibar had told me that he was paid, in effect, for bringing in "first-class females".
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6 506 I could be, in effect, no more than a dog at their feet.
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6 622 We might then, like other animals or goods, be subject to theft! We might be stolen! Thus it made sense that, if for no other reason, we might occasionally find ourselves kept, in effect, under lock and key.
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8 163 Some of these platforms were flush with the walls, but others, by far the larger number, were arranged at regular intervals, about four feet apart, in rows, the effect being that of providing aisles between and about them.
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8 188 "Who loosens her hair?" is a way of asking, in effect, who owns her.
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10 120 Our choice then, in effect, was to be complete slaves, whole slaves, total slaves, or die.
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10 485 They had seen me the way most other Gorean men would see me, at first, or until they learned more about me, I supposed, as no more than another pretty girl in bondage, as, in effect, in a sense, no more than mere "slave meat".
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11 17 In the harshest adjustments of the sirik the girl, in effect, is in close chains; in the freer adjustments, she may move with considerable grace and beauty; indeed, in some siriks, it is possible for her to dance.
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11 126 I would be ready, in effect, simply to begin, to begin to become a female slave.
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11 174 That order would be in effect until it was explicitly rescinded, probably, depending on my behavior and progress, in a few weeks.
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11 441 This point seemed to have its effect with the crowd.
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11 902 Had it been merely a matter of face and figure I do not think the effect would have been the same.
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13 134 I was still, at that time, in effect, a new slave.
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13 597 Such perfume says to men, in effect, "This is a slave.
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13 659 I was still only, in effect, a new slave, and new to the rigors of my condition.
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14 166 "I have heard rumors to that effect," I admitted.
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19 45 It seems that in the distant past of Gor these kinship allegiances were, in effect, political allegiances, or generated political allegiances, which, later, interestingly, as life became more complex, and populations more mobile, became separated.
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20 188 It is not unknown for both sorts to receive offers from agents of the "Great Farms," sometimes owned by individuals, and sometimes by companies, whose capital has been generated by the investments of individuals who are, in effect, stockholders.
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20 217 They are, in effect, something like traveling construction crews.
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20 238 These fellows, incidentally, are in effect under "slave discipline," which means, on Gor, that they are as much at the mercy of the work master as if they were his slaves.
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24 82 He was not the agent of what was, in effect, an international company, with considerable funds, those of his employer, not his own, to expend! I was sure that I was more beautiful than she, or that at least some men, nay, many men, would regard me as so! Surely I had stood higher in several of the l...
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25 185 Indeed, they had done so on the Viktel Aria itself, which, in effect, is a military road.
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25 215 He had taken advantage of me, even warning me to silence! Was it not my master's fault, for letting me go out of the tent in what was little more, in effect, than a collar and a G-string? To be sure, I did yield well, but what was I to have done? What did Aulus expect? I was a slave! Surely in his o...
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25 227 I supposed the matter had to do with the effect he hoped to achieve, perhaps like the silver shield.
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27 160 He had used me as a display slave, to enhance his appearance, to add to the effect he might make when he came into the presence of mercenaries.
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28 85 The floor, in effect, is made of rock".
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28 94 Indeed, this place might be, in effect, its larder.
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28 186 Might it not be that the beast, not of our kind, was, in effect, utilizing the choices of Vacchi, as guaranteeing that his pickups would presumably be such that they would be attractive to human males?" "Yes!" I said.
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28 190 "Perhaps you were pointed out, by men, to the beast," I said, "in effect designated as suitable quarry".
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30 40 The slave wagon was little more in effect than a large iron box, secured on a wagon frame.
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34 688 Yet surely the masters knew the effect of bondage, and a collar, on a woman! Surely the masters well knew that thousands of their girls were love slaves, ready to die for their masters.
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Book 23. (27 results) Renegades of Gor

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16 352 They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally effect embondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and are not to be confused with the reality itself.
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1 114 Apparently they had been removed deliberately from the road, and might be replaced, thence to be removed again, at will, to again jeopardize the integrity of the road, their absence in the darkness in effect constituting a trap.
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1 217 In it the victim is fastened, by collars and shackles, on structures of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted on posts.
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1 362 This gives a reasonably smooth ride but the swaying, until one accommodates oneself to it, can induce nausea, in effect, seasickness.
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1 497 When the section was raised, pulled up against the gate, further protecting it, the inn would be, in effect, sealed off, an island in its small sea.
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1 581 Such things, incidentally, are not that unusual with female slaves, particularly if they are put out, without an iron belt, in effect for the taking.
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2 79 Taking Ar's Station would, in a stroke, diminish the major citadel of Ar's power in the area, and, in effect, drive a wedge between the Salerian Confederation and the Vosk League".
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2 109 This, in effect, insanely, or at least inexplicably, in my opinion, exposed Ar and her heartland to the Cosians.
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2 110 It also, in effect, seemed to negate the bold stroke of Dietrich, to slow the Cosian advance, and give Ar time to organize, to arm and march.
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2 135 Indeed, Ar's Station, in effect, secured the northern terminus of the Viktel Aria, or Vosk Road, at the Vosk.
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2 156 If this were the case, however, it seemed that we should, by now, have heard something to this effect.
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2 492 There is a Gorean saying to the effect that among women there are only slaves who have masters and slaves who do not have masters.
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4 51 By that time they will have been, in effect, "spoiled for freedom".
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6 550 You would, in effect, own me".
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8 56 This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky.
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8 86 The effect was much like that of the curla and chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that the curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip, was of cloth and yellow, not of black leather.
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8 596 This is not to deny that some outlying Gorean inns, particularly where female travelers are concerned, function as little more than slave traps, an arrangement usually being in effect with a local slaver.
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8 631 The togetherness of organic life, as in the relationship of man and mount, a symbiotic harmony, remains in effect on Gor.
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8 663 Too, now, clad as she was, in what was, in effect, no more than a curla and chatka, fit garments for a slave, not a free woman, she must be very cold.
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8 832 Too, that she has a name put on her by your power, and that she understands the meaning of this, has a good effect on her.
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8 876 Making a woman helpless, aside from a complex variety of purposes which this might serve, keeping her in place and such, has its effect on the psychology of the woman.
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8 881 This is easy to understand then, that the very condition of bondage itself would have a profound psychological effect on a woman, producing a sense of radical helplessness.
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9 37 The first portion of my plan had been to reach Ar's Station as swiftly as possible, which meant, in effect, to do so on tarnback, and in such a way as to gain immunity from the attentions of Cosian tarn patrols.
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9 40 Also, although I had not planned it, the presence of the blindfolded, braceleted girl before me, apparently a capture, presumably picked up en route, and doubtless soon to be collared, added to the effect.
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9 213 Too, escape, in effect, is impossible for the Gorean slave girl.
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9 372 "This garment you are wearing," I said, "what is, in effect, a chatka, I am shortening and transforming into two slave strips".
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10 122 "This woman, in effect," I said, "made her living in the same way as your Liomache".
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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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29 106 In this particular signal, one of several which, from city to city, might have similar import, the downward movement of the hand indicates that the girl is to kneel, the place where she is to kneel is indicated in effect by pointing, and the spreading of the fingers indicates how she is to kneel, in...
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 835 On the psychological approach the moons may have a profound subconscious effect on the female, an effect achieved through symbolism, a symbolism, in its waxings and wanings, clearly suggestive of feminine sexual cycles.
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22 695 It also has a considerable effect, an astounding effect, on the sexuality of the enslaved female, as well.
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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...
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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13 163 She would not wish to remove the collar, of course, but, too, she must know its effect on males, that it says that she who wears it is kajira, in effect, theirs.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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12 411 To be sure, Ellen supposed that she had not intended to have any particular effect on Gart, at least fully consciously, certainly not, and, indeed, she had been helpless in his grip, had she not, but she realized, even then, even when she was so new to the collar, that the sight of her beauty must h...
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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22 47 The effect of Tassa powder is not felt for a time, but when it takes effect, it does so swiftly.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 1267 This was partly an effect, I supposed, of the position of the arms, and its effect on the girl's body.
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45 224 Would one thank an animal? I had done, in effect, what I had been expected to do, what, in effect, I had been instructed to do.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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46 298 Certainly it has that effect on men, and, if it must be known, it has that effect on the woman, as well.
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